I really doubt a compromise couldn't be reached and I'm not too sure which party here is to blame, but I'd be putting my bets on the pharmaceutical company wanted more than the government can offer. i mean, it's really not that hard for a government to provide extra resources to this company other than just money, such as labs and equipment and etc.
in cases where a genuine acceptable offer has been made in times of emergencies, I personally feel that if the pharmaceutical company doesn't attempt to compromise, then the patent should be violated to respond to the emergency first, and pay for the repercussions afterwards, which is what I believe the government is planning to do.
I agree whole-heartedly with what you said. It's always about choice. Why are there different flavors of linux? If we replace the word license with the word linux in the previous parent's post, you'd get something quite interesting:
Why is it necessary for every podunk company to create their own freakin' 'open source' linux. There are already many to choose from, just use an existing one? Why reinvent the wheel and make it even more confusing for people to use your lame-ass software.
For those, or maybe it's just me, that didn't know the definition (for some reason I thought it had to do with digestion)
Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. The results are invariably fatal. It has historically been used as a form of capital punishment.
So, I'm guessing from that post and the definition, disembowelment is when the velociraptor sliced you in the stomach, so your guts spill out, which they're claiming here is untrue.
So, Apple chose not to put a scratch-resistant surface on the screens of their low-budget flash-based iPod. Big fucking surprise. Can the nano still function if it's scratched? Hell yes. Can scratches be avoided if you are careful with it? Hell yes.
first of all, it's not low budget mp3 player. considering the fact it's more expensive than both the mini and the shuffle. 2nd, scratches can be avoided if you leave the nano in the box and not use it at all. I've taken great care of my nano and I've still got scratches on it. I finally ended up buying a skin.
not that I say I'm agreeing with the lawsuit, but you made some comments which were too extreme, just as the lawyer you're arguing against did.
I was wondering just where the interception may occur. Is it within the internet or is it within the regular phone lines? I'm not too familiar with how the transition from internet -> phone works, but I'm guessing VoIP companies have these major nodes that allow to make many phone calls from just 1 node. And these nodes are where they're connected to the internet.
So if I was a phone company, I can block at 2 possible points:
* 1. If someone is using dialup or dsl, then I'd be able to stop any VoIP packets from going out or coming into the modem. However, if I use cable internet or some other form of connection (such as direct connection to the backbone), then I can bypass this block.
* 2. It blocks at the point when the data is already voice on the phone lines. If they're blocking at this point, where you can't physically connect to a telephone, I'm curious on how they can tell the difference between digital cell phone calls and voip calls. Both are digital and have lower quality. I guess you can tell by the phone # that's making the call, but if you can do that already, why not just stop the serivice of these VoIP nodes?
It's funny how we seem to get most upset when it's people who have almost nothing doing the scamming. Yet when rich folk do scamming, like the Savings & Loan scandal, Enron, Worldcom, and so on, people don't get so upset.
Do you know how many people lost their jobs, lost their entire retirement savings account, and had to start from scratch from the Enron scandal? If you not, I'd recommend you to watch: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
I don't know about others, but I've always felt these nigerian scandals as a joke and anyone that falls for it is an idiot. But I've truly felt sick to the stomach at what some of these corporate scandals involved. There were hardly any signs for any of the employees or anyone affected by the scandal to see it coming, especially for the lower level guys.
But here's a fact of life, most people just won't care until they've been affected by it too, thinking that'll never happen to them.
I guess you've never had a job as a troubleshooter or helpdesk. I was the part of the helpdesk for the Finance and Administrative department of my University. You'd be surprise with the questions I get. You assume that given enough time, they'll figure out how to do something.
My question is, how did you figure out the commands for MS-DOS? Did you brute force by trying random sequences of letters? Or did someone tell you or teach you? This doesn't have to be in person either. if you look for instructions online or someone emailed you, you were basically taught. You could probably have gotten a book or looked at the manual, but either way, you had to learn it. Persistance might've helped, but there's really no way unless you have some sort of guide, which can be the internet, a book, a teacher, a class, etc.
You also mention things are so much easier for a novice. I can also say they've gotten extremely complex with all these new features and functions. In MS-DOS, who really had to worry about security settings, firewall, antivirus software? But now a machine that doesn't have that setup properly will be hacked.
I find this statement incredibly arrogant: If I could do it as a kid back then anyone can do it now... It's like saying, if I could run a mile under 5 minutes back when I was 10, then everyone should be able to do it now. Just because it was easy for you to pick up, doesn't mean it's easy for everyone. If it WAS this easy, then there wouldn't really be any need for tech support. You've probably heard of people calling in for tech support and all they had to tell the person to do was push the power button or plug in the power. These are REAL stories.
On a side note, because I knew how to use Office applications, it was easy for me to learn how to adapt to other office applications. Learning one skillset for one particular software DOES NOT lock you into that software, because there area always going to be software with similar interfaces. However, skills must be acquired, either through self-taught or taught by someone else.
What I'd like to see besides complaining about how Microsoft is teaching to lock these people into using their software, is an open initiative to teach these people how to use open source software.
Secondly, I'm sure many of us on/. were first exposed to PC's sometime around the mid 80's. We didn't need some damn course on how to use a computer - we picked it up as we went along - troubleshot problems through trial and error, and came up with often inovative ideas. To suggest that the poorer parts of Africa are unable to learn without being shown is insulting. Fact is they are able to pick things up just as we did a few decades ago; and given that fact, how is Open source useless??
You're confusing the general public with/.ers. How much of the general public even in America do you think will figure out how to use linux on their own? My dad took a class in programming back when they had "card punch", but today, he needs help in even burning a CD or sending an email with an attachment. You can throw a bucnh of open source software at them, but with no training, it's practically useless. I never said open source was uselss. I said having software that you do not know how to use is useless.
I also didn't say everyone wasn't able to learn on their own. There's always those few that can and will pick up immediately, but how often had even a teacher come up to you for computer help? Just because you hang around people who knows computer in and out, doesn't mean everyone does. Why else do you think those technical schools which teach you how to use spreadsheets and word processors make money if everyone can just open a software and magically learn how to use it.
If you read the article, you can clearly see the comment was taken out of context.
Neil Holloway, the president of Microsoft for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said that training in IT skills is the most important issue in emerging markets. Microsoft is involved in a number of training activities in Africa, including the Partners in Learning programme, which helps train teachers in computer skills, and the Nepad eSchools project, which supplies schools across Africa with computers, software, training, networking, connectivity, maintenance and support.
What Microsoft is trying to say is that what people in Africa need are more IT skills, not free software and they are there to help train them along with other companies according to the article. In other words, you can give people linux, firefox, or any other free software you can think of, but if they don't know how to use it, it's useless.
IBM Laptops, the most renowned in the industry, have already been using carbon fiber, but not for their entire cover. The top portion of the X41 Tablet is cased in a magnesium composite, while the bottom is cased in titanium reinforced carbon fiber.
I actually had friend do investigation work at a company to find out which laptops can sustain a drop of 'x' feet, and the top 2 laptops were IBMs (i think a T-series and an X-series). Other contestants included Panasonic's Toughbook, Sony, Dell, Apple, etc.
However, it seems that Sony's laptops are completely made with carbon fiber, and I was curious if anyone knows the differences between magnesium composite and carbon fiber. What's the pros/cons of using either.
Toyota may be just a car company here in the states, but in Japan, they're into many different industries, like Toyota Home: http://www.toyotahome.co.jp/
RTFA? I can't believe they modded the parent as "insightful". It's as insightful as not reading the f-ing article can get.
Using your analogy, people are currently paying for the x cuts already. But not all x cuts are needed simultaneously, and they are only charging for the maximum # of cuts that you need simultaneously at any given time.
Microsoft announced today that they are changing their licensing policy for running Windows server operating systems inside a virtual machine (VM). The old licensing system required that every copy of a Windows server product stored on a server was required to be licensed, either individually or through a bulk licensing program. With the new system, only running instances of operating systems must be licensed. The server operator can legally store as many different copies and installations of the OS as desired, including copies for backup and recovery, without these copies adding to the license total. Licenses need only be purchased for the maximum number of operating systems that will be running at any one time. In addition, restrictions on moving instances between servers have been lessened, and some products that are currently licensed per physical processor can now be licensed for the number of virtual processors being used.
not true. credit cards companies relinquish most liabilities from the user. they have that clause where you'll be responsible for upto $50, but that clause is hardly ever utilized.
in my opinion, credit card companies are already liable for phishing and identity theft. when they notice unusual activity on your accounts, they will immediately stop payment and try to contact you to verify the if transaction was actually done by you. if identity theft or invalid transactions do occur, the consumer is only liable for up to $50 and not a penny more. if someone did buy a yahct with my credit card, i can be certain that i would not have to pay for the damages.
if i was a new startup bank, this would be one of the features i would advertise. remember how wamu was one of the early pioneers with free checking? i still remember their commercials 5 or 6 years back. nowadays, it's become difficult to not find a bank without free checking!
so don't say it's impossible. it just takes one bank to really make the difference by offering this service. with such a service, you'll immediately see a tightening of their online login/security. no more short passwords and maybe even multiple levels of authentication.
I don't really think what Google and Yahoo are doing is exactly the same. Yahoo seems to be only digitizing specific books and text (probably the ones that Open Content Alliance has licenses to). In fact, it clearly says so in the article:
Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers -- something that rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve.
The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors, said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president of search content.
So this isn't really shielding Google from anything and Google Print's project is trying to index ALL books and will only remove you from the list if you specifically request so.
I'm guessing the parent was trying to be funny since a9 uses google results, just with a more presonalized interface. i've been using a9 because amazon gives me the pi/2% off all amazon products.
I always thought the PDF format was a free format (hence Apple has preview) and there's also tons of other PDF editors and printers besides Adobe. The format that is licensed to Adobe is the PS (post-script). That's why printers that support PS are so expensive because each printer with PS support sold needs to pay royalty to Adobe.
These documents can be one page or thousands of pages, very simple or extremely complex with a rich use of fonts, graphics, colour, and images. PDF is an open standard, and anyone may write applications that can read or write PDFs royalty-free.
on the other hand, how do you know if your iPod screen if faulty. mine is a bit scratched and i would love to get it replaced, but before using it this time, i'm going to invest in some rubber (hopefully a not too expensive alternative to iSkin)
the victims are the advertisers and Microsoft in this situation would actually be making more money. if they do catch you, MS still has nothing to lose besides helping advertisers gain confidence in MSN click fraud detection.
being a tech guy, jargon is fine, but my company uses so many 3 letter or 6 letter acronyms, i learn at least a few each day. before, i could just type acro "abc" (firefox keyword acro links to acronymfinder.com) and i'd get the definition easily. but now, these acronyms my colleagues are using arent even on there!
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I wonder if you get fined for having sex in the back of your car...
I really doubt a compromise couldn't be reached and I'm not too sure which party here is to blame, but I'd be putting my bets on the pharmaceutical company wanted more than the government can offer. i mean, it's really not that hard for a government to provide extra resources to this company other than just money, such as labs and equipment and etc.
in cases where a genuine acceptable offer has been made in times of emergencies, I personally feel that if the pharmaceutical company doesn't attempt to compromise, then the patent should be violated to respond to the emergency first, and pay for the repercussions afterwards, which is what I believe the government is planning to do.
I agree whole-heartedly with what you said. It's always about choice. Why are there different flavors of linux? If we replace the word license with the word linux in the previous parent's post, you'd get something quite interesting:
For those, or maybe it's just me, that didn't know the definition (for some reason I thought it had to do with digestion)
Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. The results are invariably fatal. It has historically been used as a form of capital punishment.
So, I'm guessing from that post and the definition, disembowelment is when the velociraptor sliced you in the stomach, so your guts spill out, which they're claiming here is untrue.
So, Apple chose not to put a scratch-resistant surface on the screens of their low-budget flash-based iPod. Big fucking surprise. Can the nano still function if it's scratched? Hell yes. Can scratches be avoided if you are careful with it? Hell yes.
first of all, it's not low budget mp3 player. considering the fact it's more expensive than both the mini and the shuffle. 2nd, scratches can be avoided if you leave the nano in the box and not use it at all. I've taken great care of my nano and I've still got scratches on it. I finally ended up buying a skin.
not that I say I'm agreeing with the lawsuit, but you made some comments which were too extreme, just as the lawyer you're arguing against did.
I was wondering just where the interception may occur. Is it within the internet or is it within the regular phone lines? I'm not too familiar with how the transition from internet -> phone works, but I'm guessing VoIP companies have these major nodes that allow to make many phone calls from just 1 node. And these nodes are where they're connected to the internet.
So if I was a phone company, I can block at 2 possible points:
* 1. If someone is using dialup or dsl, then I'd be able to stop any VoIP packets from going out or coming into the modem. However, if I use cable internet or some other form of connection (such as direct connection to the backbone), then I can bypass this block.
* 2. It blocks at the point when the data is already voice on the phone lines. If they're blocking at this point, where you can't physically connect to a telephone, I'm curious on how they can tell the difference between digital cell phone calls and voip calls. Both are digital and have lower quality. I guess you can tell by the phone # that's making the call, but if you can do that already, why not just stop the serivice of these VoIP nodes?
I disagree with your following statement:
It's funny how we seem to get most upset when it's people who have almost nothing doing the scamming. Yet when rich folk do scamming, like the Savings & Loan scandal, Enron, Worldcom, and so on, people don't get so upset.
Do you know how many people lost their jobs, lost their entire retirement savings account, and had to start from scratch from the Enron scandal? If you not, I'd recommend you to watch: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
I don't know about others, but I've always felt these nigerian scandals as a joke and anyone that falls for it is an idiot. But I've truly felt sick to the stomach at what some of these corporate scandals involved. There were hardly any signs for any of the employees or anyone affected by the scandal to see it coming, especially for the lower level guys.
But here's a fact of life, most people just won't care until they've been affected by it too, thinking that'll never happen to them.
I guess you've never had a job as a troubleshooter or helpdesk. I was the part of the helpdesk for the Finance and Administrative department of my University. You'd be surprise with the questions I get. You assume that given enough time, they'll figure out how to do something. My question is, how did you figure out the commands for MS-DOS? Did you brute force by trying random sequences of letters? Or did someone tell you or teach you? This doesn't have to be in person either. if you look for instructions online or someone emailed you, you were basically taught. You could probably have gotten a book or looked at the manual, but either way, you had to learn it. Persistance might've helped, but there's really no way unless you have some sort of guide, which can be the internet, a book, a teacher, a class, etc. You also mention things are so much easier for a novice. I can also say they've gotten extremely complex with all these new features and functions. In MS-DOS, who really had to worry about security settings, firewall, antivirus software? But now a machine that doesn't have that setup properly will be hacked. I find this statement incredibly arrogant: If I could do it as a kid back then anyone can do it now... It's like saying, if I could run a mile under 5 minutes back when I was 10, then everyone should be able to do it now. Just because it was easy for you to pick up, doesn't mean it's easy for everyone. If it WAS this easy, then there wouldn't really be any need for tech support. You've probably heard of people calling in for tech support and all they had to tell the person to do was push the power button or plug in the power. These are REAL stories.
On a side note, because I knew how to use Office applications, it was easy for me to learn how to adapt to other office applications. Learning one skillset for one particular software DOES NOT lock you into that software, because there area always going to be software with similar interfaces. However, skills must be acquired, either through self-taught or taught by someone else.
What I'd like to see besides complaining about how Microsoft is teaching to lock these people into using their software, is an open initiative to teach these people how to use open source software.
You're confusing the general public with
I also didn't say everyone wasn't able to learn on their own. There's always those few that can and will pick up immediately, but how often had even a teacher come up to you for computer help? Just because you hang around people who knows computer in and out, doesn't mean everyone does. Why else do you think those technical schools which teach you how to use spreadsheets and word processors make money if everyone can just open a software and magically learn how to use it.
What Microsoft is trying to say is that what people in Africa need are more IT skills, not free software and they are there to help train them along with other companies according to the article. In other words, you can give people linux, firefox, or any other free software you can think of, but if they don't know how to use it, it's useless.
IBM Laptops, the most renowned in the industry, have already been using carbon fiber, but not for their entire cover. The top portion of the X41 Tablet is cased in a magnesium composite, while the bottom is cased in titanium reinforced carbon fiber.
I actually had friend do investigation work at a company to find out which laptops can sustain a drop of 'x' feet, and the top 2 laptops were IBMs (i think a T-series and an X-series). Other contestants included Panasonic's Toughbook, Sony, Dell, Apple, etc.
However, it seems that Sony's laptops are completely made with carbon fiber, and I was curious if anyone knows the differences between magnesium composite and carbon fiber. What's the pros/cons of using either.
Toyota may be just a car company here in the states, but in Japan, they're into many different industries, like Toyota Home: http://www.toyotahome.co.jp/
I thought all food was bio-degradable. Can something humans digest really last 4000 years?
RTFA? I can't believe they modded the parent as "insightful". It's as insightful as not reading the f-ing article can get.
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Using your analogy, people are currently paying for the x cuts already. But not all x cuts are needed simultaneously, and they are only charging for the maximum # of cuts that you need simultaneously at any given time.
from http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051010-541
Microsoft announced today that they are changing their licensing policy for running Windows server operating systems inside a virtual machine (VM). The old licensing system required that every copy of a Windows server product stored on a server was required to be licensed, either individually or through a bulk licensing program. With the new system, only running instances of operating systems must be licensed. The server operator can legally store as many different copies and installations of the OS as desired, including copies for backup and recovery, without these copies adding to the license total. Licenses need only be purchased for the maximum number of operating systems that will be running at any one time. In addition, restrictions on moving instances between servers have been lessened, and some products that are currently licensed per physical processor can now be licensed for the number of virtual processors being used.
not true. credit cards companies relinquish most liabilities from the user. they have that clause where you'll be responsible for upto $50, but that clause is hardly ever utilized.
in my opinion, credit card companies are already liable for phishing and identity theft. when they notice unusual activity on your accounts, they will immediately stop payment and try to contact you to verify the if transaction was actually done by you. if identity theft or invalid transactions do occur, the consumer is only liable for up to $50 and not a penny more. if someone did buy a yahct with my credit card, i can be certain that i would not have to pay for the damages.
if i was a new startup bank, this would be one of the features i would advertise. remember how wamu was one of the early pioneers with free checking? i still remember their commercials 5 or 6 years back. nowadays, it's become difficult to not find a bank without free checking!
so don't say it's impossible. it just takes one bank to really make the difference by offering this service. with such a service, you'll immediately see a tightening of their online login/security. no more short passwords and maybe even multiple levels of authentication.
or did anyone else read the topic as:
Fingerprint Payment System Gets Fingering
i need new glasses.
I don't really think what Google and Yahoo are doing is exactly the same. Yahoo seems to be only digitizing specific books and text (probably the ones that Open Content Alliance has licenses to). In fact, it clearly says so in the article:
Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers -- something that rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve.
The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors, said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president of search content.
So this isn't really shielding Google from anything and Google Print's project is trying to index ALL books and will only remove you from the list if you specifically request so.
I'm guessing the parent was trying to be funny since a9 uses google results, just with a more presonalized interface. i've been using a9 because amazon gives me the pi/2% off all amazon products.
I always thought the PDF format was a free format (hence Apple has preview) and there's also tons of other PDF editors and printers besides Adobe. The format that is licensed to Adobe is the PS (post-script). That's why printers that support PS are so expensive because each printer with PS support sold needs to pay royalty to Adobe.
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from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Fo
These documents can be one page or thousands of pages, very simple or extremely complex with a rich use of fonts, graphics, colour, and images. PDF is an open standard, and anyone may write applications that can read or write PDFs royalty-free.
what's wrong with saying 0.1%?
on the other hand, how do you know if your iPod screen if faulty. mine is a bit scratched and i would love to get it replaced, but before using it this time, i'm going to invest in some rubber (hopefully a not too expensive alternative to iSkin)
or are they not planning to make that public?
i thought this article written by Kim Cameron addresses some of the issues mentioned here:e laws.html
http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/th
the victims are the advertisers and Microsoft in this situation would actually be making more money. if they do catch you, MS still has nothing to lose besides helping advertisers gain confidence in MSN click fraud detection.
being a tech guy, jargon is fine, but my company uses so many 3 letter or 6 letter acronyms, i learn at least a few each day. before, i could just type acro "abc" (firefox keyword acro links to acronymfinder.com) and i'd get the definition easily. but now, these acronyms my colleagues are using arent even on there!