I don't know about speed cameras, but its been proven that red-light cameras actually increase the number of accidents as people slam on the brakes if there's any doubt about making it through the intersection, and then get rear-ended.
Linux's incompatibility with NTFS is a known issue. The standard procedure for dual booting is to create an NTFS partition for Windows, and leave some space for a Linux partition and possibly a FAT32 shared partition. As you've found out, though there are tools that will claim to resize an NTFS partition, they are a "hit or miss" proposition due to the proprietary nature of NTFS.
Given Norway's proximity to Sweden, I'm sure that the PiratPartiet (Pirate Party) would be interested in offering their paid-for proxy service there if this law ever goes through.
Your stance is that you own a copy of the work.... which you don't... unless you agree to the EULA...
No, that's not what he's saying at all. He's saying that the law allows you to make copies, if the act of making a copy is essential to the utilization of the software. Because the act of copying the operating system to the hard drive is essential to utilization, you are allowed to perform that sort of copying, even if the EULA says "No Copying Allowed."
The fact that no sane person would define the copy on the hard drive and the copy on the disk as separate doesn't matter.
Ah, good point. I was unaware that there was no x86_64 or PPC version of Flash 9. As for Solaris, that's understandable as its not really a mature desktop platform yet.
close, but no. it was stable until we pulled out. when the US pulls its troops out of an area, it destabilizes.
Close, but no. America has a history of poking its nose into others' affairs, destabilizing things further, and generally leaving the place in a worse mess than we found it. We did this in Vietnam/Cambodia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Iran, Chile, and are in the process of doing the same thing in Iraq.
None of these places (save Afghanistan perhaps) was ever a threat to us. Yet we stuck our nose in them, got stung, and pulled out after a period ranging from months to decades, after which point those places collapse.
You can make the argument that these battles would have been victories if only we had stayed to finish the job. My response is, "How can you finish a job when you don't even know what the job is?"
What is the win condition in Iraq? What was the win condition in Vietnam?
Are the concepts behind the document equally worthless in your opinion?
The concepts aren't worthless. Of course everyone should have the right to food, clothing, and other necessary goods. However, the methods used to enforce those rights usually lead to excessive centralization on the part of the government.
Not to say that it always happens (just look at Scandinavia), but the methods used to enforce those rights must be carefully monitored to make sure that the system doesn't collapse into totalitarianism.
Which do you THINK parents are going to buy? Parents aside, what do you think MOST people are going to go with.
The parents are going to buy the Mac, because it is more durable, both in terms of hardware and software. Apple generally has a higher build quality, even on their entry-level machines. In other words, what a parent thinks is, "Will I buy a $500 notebook that I or my child will have to replace in three years (due to hardware failure), or will I buy a $900 Mac that'll last the entire span of my kid's college education?"
Once you put the choice in those terms, the choice suddenly isn't so clear anymore.
As another poster stated, we have to make a distinction between ignorance of the law and ignorance of the facts. If this schoolteacher acquired his software from a dealer who sold pirated copies, then he ought not face punishment. If he pirated the software himself, then perhaps he should be held liable (depending on the laws in the country).
In any case, doesn't it seem somewhat farcical that this is a criminal case at all? By all rights this should be in civil court IMO.
But in doing that the courts would be affirmatively establishing a contract violation. That is the Novell claimed to be distributing all patent rights they had when the distributed the software under the GPL.
Not necessarily. If you read what the grandparent said about the XVid codecs, you'd see that the Novell agreement is similar. Novell can acknowledge that they don't have the full rights, but as long as they're distributing the rights the do have, they can stay in compliance regarding the GPL.
As for any monies owed by a non-customer also being owed by Novell, Microsoft can selectively choose to apply their patent agreement. The fact that Microsoft has agreed not to enforce against Novell says nothing about Microsoft choosing or not choosing to enforce against you. As the grandparent states, trademark is the only thing that has to be actively defended. Selective enforcement of copyright and patent is OK.
Sony also needs to quit trying to use its consoles to push their other technologies. The main reason for the PS3's expense is that its pushing the Blu-Ray drive technology. In essence, the PS3 is subsidizing Sony's Blu-Ray technology.
The big worry with Sony isn't that people wait longer to buy PS3s, its that people look at the PS3 and buy an XBox 360 because the PS3 costs too much and has a lot of features that people aren't going to use.
The University of Minnesota just moved to the PIC because of its ease of programming as compared to the Motorola 6800 series microcontrollers that were in use before. The PIC comes in 8 and 16-bit varieties and has a range of available memory sizes. I'm not sure about pricing, but they are somewhat of a standard "learning" microcontroller, so your students will have a leg-up when they get to college.
How long has said team lead been with the company? Usually, when a company is young, they'll hire anyone who's competent, regardless of their formal education. The real question is: If this team lead were to get fired tomorrow, how easily would he find another position similar to the one he currently has?
If you already have a stable job, getting a degree doesn't do you much good unless your employer has some kind of education incentive. The "piece of paper" really proves its worth when you try to change jobs. Many employers have degree requirements, regardless of the fact that a veteran without a degree may be more competent than a fresh graduate with one.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but at my school (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) we have large outdoor area with wifi, and almost all of the buildings have wireless internet as well.
However, the building wireless networks are controlled by the departments that reside in the buildings, so, while there is internet, you may not be able to access it.
I'm not sure what kind of abuse-of-monopoly provisions there are in patent law, but I haven't heard of any company getting in trouble for failing to license a patented product to a competitor.
Why not? A patent grants me a legal monopoly on the production and distribution of a good. I can use my monopoly powers to stop others from challenging my market. I don't see anything irrational or morally outrageous about the matter.
Its not evil to say nothing. He has no moral obligation to help his competition with their hiring practices, which he would be doing if he spread the word about this guy.
Reread my post. I believe that you and I are saying the same thing. Linux and OSX are inherently more secure because they have more secure default settings.
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I don't know about speed cameras, but its been proven that red-light cameras actually increase the number of accidents as people slam on the brakes if there's any doubt about making it through the intersection, and then get rear-ended.
Linux's incompatibility with NTFS is a known issue. The standard procedure for dual booting is to create an NTFS partition for Windows, and leave some space for a Linux partition and possibly a FAT32 shared partition. As you've found out, though there are tools that will claim to resize an NTFS partition, they are a "hit or miss" proposition due to the proprietary nature of NTFS.
I think someone already has.
Given Norway's proximity to Sweden, I'm sure that the PiratPartiet (Pirate Party) would be interested in offering their paid-for proxy service there if this law ever goes through.
No, that's not what he's saying at all. He's saying that the law allows you to make copies, if the act of making a copy is essential to the utilization of the software. Because the act of copying the operating system to the hard drive is essential to utilization, you are allowed to perform that sort of copying, even if the EULA says "No Copying Allowed."
The fact that no sane person would define the copy on the hard drive and the copy on the disk as separate doesn't matter.
Hey, BSD is dead, remember? ;-)
Ah, good point. I was unaware that there was no x86_64 or PPC version of Flash 9. As for Solaris, that's understandable as its not really a mature desktop platform yet.
Close, but no. America has a history of poking its nose into others' affairs, destabilizing things further, and generally leaving the place in a worse mess than we found it. We did this in Vietnam/Cambodia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Iran, Chile, and are in the process of doing the same thing in Iraq.
None of these places (save Afghanistan perhaps) was ever a threat to us. Yet we stuck our nose in them, got stung, and pulled out after a period ranging from months to decades, after which point those places collapse.
You can make the argument that these battles would have been victories if only we had stayed to finish the job. My response is, "How can you finish a job when you don't even know what the job is?"
What is the win condition in Iraq? What was the win condition in Vietnam?
The concepts aren't worthless. Of course everyone should have the right to food, clothing, and other necessary goods. However, the methods used to enforce those rights usually lead to excessive centralization on the part of the government.
Not to say that it always happens (just look at Scandinavia), but the methods used to enforce those rights must be carefully monitored to make sure that the system doesn't collapse into totalitarianism.
Ummm, Flash Player 9 has versions supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux. Its not like they're being especially unfriendly towards alternate platforms...
The parents are going to buy the Mac, because it is more durable, both in terms of hardware and software. Apple generally has a higher build quality, even on their entry-level machines. In other words, what a parent thinks is, "Will I buy a $500 notebook that I or my child will have to replace in three years (due to hardware failure), or will I buy a $900 Mac that'll last the entire span of my kid's college education?"
Once you put the choice in those terms, the choice suddenly isn't so clear anymore.
Not to nitpick too much but he did mention MiracleGro, which is "enhanced dirt" with fertilizer and pesticide premixed.
As another poster stated, we have to make a distinction between ignorance of the law and ignorance of the facts. If this schoolteacher acquired his software from a dealer who sold pirated copies, then he ought not face punishment. If he pirated the software himself, then perhaps he should be held liable (depending on the laws in the country).
In any case, doesn't it seem somewhat farcical that this is a criminal case at all? By all rights this should be in civil court IMO.
Perhaps UE3 requires a certain level of performance that can only be provided by the hardware implementations present in the PS3/XBox360?
Not necessarily. If you read what the grandparent said about the XVid codecs, you'd see that the Novell agreement is similar. Novell can acknowledge that they don't have the full rights, but as long as they're distributing the rights the do have, they can stay in compliance regarding the GPL.
As for any monies owed by a non-customer also being owed by Novell, Microsoft can selectively choose to apply their patent agreement. The fact that Microsoft has agreed not to enforce against Novell says nothing about Microsoft choosing or not choosing to enforce against you. As the grandparent states, trademark is the only thing that has to be actively defended. Selective enforcement of copyright and patent is OK.
Sony also needs to quit trying to use its consoles to push their other technologies. The main reason for the PS3's expense is that its pushing the Blu-Ray drive technology. In essence, the PS3 is subsidizing Sony's Blu-Ray technology.
The big worry with Sony isn't that people wait longer to buy PS3s, its that people look at the PS3 and buy an XBox 360 because the PS3 costs too much and has a lot of features that people aren't going to use.
The University of Minnesota just moved to the PIC because of its ease of programming as compared to the Motorola 6800 series microcontrollers that were in use before. The PIC comes in 8 and 16-bit varieties and has a range of available memory sizes. I'm not sure about pricing, but they are somewhat of a standard "learning" microcontroller, so your students will have a leg-up when they get to college.
How long has said team lead been with the company? Usually, when a company is young, they'll hire anyone who's competent, regardless of their formal education. The real question is: If this team lead were to get fired tomorrow, how easily would he find another position similar to the one he currently has?
If you already have a stable job, getting a degree doesn't do you much good unless your employer has some kind of education incentive. The "piece of paper" really proves its worth when you try to change jobs. Many employers have degree requirements, regardless of the fact that a veteran without a degree may be more competent than a fresh graduate with one.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but at my school (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) we have large outdoor area with wifi, and almost all of the buildings have wireless internet as well.
However, the building wireless networks are controlled by the departments that reside in the buildings, so, while there is internet, you may not be able to access it.
The Quake engines, perhaps?
I'm not sure what kind of abuse-of-monopoly provisions there are in patent law, but I haven't heard of any company getting in trouble for failing to license a patented product to a competitor.
Why not? A patent grants me a legal monopoly on the production and distribution of a good. I can use my monopoly powers to stop others from challenging my market. I don't see anything irrational or morally outrageous about the matter.
Its not evil to say nothing. He has no moral obligation to help his competition with their hiring practices, which he would be doing if he spread the word about this guy.
Reread my post. I believe that you and I are saying the same thing. Linux and OSX are inherently more secure because they have more secure default settings.
Sorry if I was unclear.