use Linux. Heck, it's why the Fremont neighborhood - where I live - is a place where anyone can get free wireless just by sitting on your balcony or front porch - we have more free wireless coffee shops than even Capitol Hill.
And those of us who don't work there have been asking for this for years. We're not against buying software - just last year, I bought $4000 of commercial software for my own use alone - we just don't want to be slaves to Microsoft.
Does this help in any way to keep IT talent in Canada, versus the current draining of much of that talent to the US?
My guess would be yes, since both myself and another Canuck in my office were both going "Hmmm, maybe I should move back..." when we heard this. But we're in biotech...
I have a cottage, why can't I have a copy of the DVD's I own at my cottage and a copy at my house? Why should I pay twice for this privilege or lug around DVD's all the time?
IANAL, but my reading is that you can do this, provided it isn't for resale and you only play it one place at a time. In other words, lock up the CDs when you're not there. However, whatever you do, don't make copies of Fahrenheit 9/11 or they'll probably lock you up in GITMO anyway.
OK, so I read it, and it seems MP3 ripping is fine
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So long as you own the original CD and are just using it to play the music you bought.
However, does this also apply to songs ripped from a game CD as played on a PS2? My reading is that it does, and if I just buy the Canadian version of the game and play it on my Canadian MP3 player, as a Canadian citizen (and a US citizen, but that's no help) residing in the USA, I should be free to do that.
Hmm, well since music is still cheaper in Canada, guess it's time to drive up for the half-yearly music sale in Vancouver!
Buy a Red Dwarf CD (produced in Canada on a British label), and then copy it for personal use?
Is that ok? Or will the Scutters come to take us away to GITMO?
And how about if we buy music from Canadian artiste Sarah McLachlan, in the US, but are Canadian citizens and the CD was manufactured in Canada.
What then?
Is it ok to drive south and buy Mariachi music in Mexico and ignore the US DRM? What if I'm on vacation and using a US MP3 player ripped from a Canadian CD of the Mexican band?
Actually, we use color and print out six copies of our status reports here at work, with different colors and shading indicating priority and importance, so, yes, I could print it out in color and triplicate.
But we mostly use the color printer for printing out Protein Structures and DNA sequences, where color is very very useful. You ever tried to read a DNA sequence in black and white? Great, now do that 5000 times in a single day...
So, while some of our files may now be electronic, we still use paper, just as we still are promised AI in ten more years every five years or so, and commercial cheap fusion power in twenty more years every ten years or so. But tomorrow never comes.
I remember also hearing that by the turn of the century (last century) the digital office would replace paper.
It did, didn't you get the memo? Here, let me print you a copy. Now if I can just get past the giant bag for paper recycling we keep in our office, I can get to the printer...
However, considering that IPv6 is by virtue of creation a Government-owned (and hence Public) Patent, it would only be possible for MSFT to have an enforceable patent on a particular application or device that uses IPv6. Naturally, all this assumes (incorrectly) that the government will take action to enforce its rights and patents, which appears not to be the case in the USA.
I'm presuming you're referring to Plasmids, correct?
We also frequently find that single genes are duplicated by themselves, or that entire segments of a chromosome may be duplicated by the process of 'segmental duplication'. The interesting thing here is that the scientist believe that a second copy of the gene does not exist as a DNA copy, but as an RNA copy.
Not all genes are in the chromosomes, sometimes they're in Plasmids, especially with plants - or in humans, some of your DNA isn't in your chromosomes, they're in your Mitochondrial structures, hence you inherit them from your mother.
However, a good controlled experiment should be able to rule this out, and I'm sure we'll all be talking about this in Biochem labs here at the UW this week.
all others are merely bacteria trying to degrade the environment.
So, just as I buy my music and videos from local stores that give the artists a higher cut, the only DRMs I'm buying into are artist-derived, not the intermediaries.
For me, it was Red Dwarf. Bill Nye does a lot of demonstrations and speeches for local environmental and political groups, so I usually got to see him perform or judge chocolate or beer or somesuch about 4-6 times a year, here in Seattle. Now he's only around 2-3 times a year, so I guess he must be busier.
Well, yes, Speed Walker Bill Nye was good, but not as good as Capable Woman (of course).
However, the parts I miss were people like Bill Gates and members of local bands that were famous just popping up in the middle of a sketch. That was really fun.
Especially when Capable Woman helped out Bill Gates.
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Version 7 does not have that slow plugin loader anymore!
Good to know. I tend to turn off Adobe and other plug-ins while using Opera at home because it is so slow, so maybe I should just get the new version.
Vancouver is a growing hub of biotech companies like QLT. My wife works in that field and she makes an excellent living.
Good to know. I'll keep that in mind next time, if our grants don't come thru.
use Linux. Heck, it's why the Fremont neighborhood - where I live - is a place where anyone can get free wireless just by sitting on your balcony or front porch - we have more free wireless coffee shops than even Capitol Hill.
And those of us who don't work there have been asking for this for years. We're not against buying software - just last year, I bought $4000 of commercial software for my own use alone - we just don't want to be slaves to Microsoft.
Maybe someone should do a giant float celebrating Open Source or Adobe offering Reader 7.0 for Linux at the upcoming Fremont Arts Council's Fremont Solstice Parade?
Does this help in any way to keep IT talent in Canada, versus the current draining of much of that talent to the US?
..." when we heard this. But we're in biotech ...
My guess would be yes, since both myself and another Canuck in my office were both going "Hmmm, maybe I should move back
I have a cottage, why can't I have a copy of the DVD's I own at my cottage and a copy at my house? Why should I pay twice for this privilege or lug around DVD's all the time?
IANAL, but my reading is that you can do this, provided it isn't for resale and you only play it one place at a time. In other words, lock up the CDs when you're not there. However, whatever you do, don't make copies of Fahrenheit 9/11 or they'll probably lock you up in GITMO anyway.
So long as you own the original CD and are just using it to play the music you bought.
However, does this also apply to songs ripped from a game CD as played on a PS2? My reading is that it does, and if I just buy the Canadian version of the game and play it on my Canadian MP3 player, as a Canadian citizen (and a US citizen, but that's no help) residing in the USA, I should be free to do that.
Hmm, well since music is still cheaper in Canada, guess it's time to drive up for the half-yearly music sale in Vancouver!
Buy a Red Dwarf CD (produced in Canada on a British label), and then copy it for personal use?
Is that ok? Or will the Scutters come to take us away to GITMO?
And how about if we buy music from Canadian artiste Sarah McLachlan, in the US, but are Canadian citizens and the CD was manufactured in Canada.
What then?
Is it ok to drive south and buy Mariachi music in Mexico and ignore the US DRM? What if I'm on vacation and using a US MP3 player ripped from a Canadian CD of the Mexican band?
Who rules then?
I wonder if this means I can ignore DCMA in my daily life under Free Trade?
Heck, if we can send in the Navy whenever a US tourist forgets where he left his watch, it makes sense that the FTAA would give me that right, eh?
Military speak.
CYA is originally a military acronym, for example, as are many of the "new" Netspeak acronyms.
So STFU and GWTP already.
Actually, we use color and print out six copies of our status reports here at work, with different colors and shading indicating priority and importance, so, yes, I could print it out in color and triplicate.
...
But we mostly use the color printer for printing out Protein Structures and DNA sequences, where color is very very useful. You ever tried to read a DNA sequence in black and white? Great, now do that 5000 times in a single day
So, while some of our files may now be electronic, we still use paper, just as we still are promised AI in ten more years every five years or so, and commercial cheap fusion power in twenty more years every ten years or so. But tomorrow never comes.
Here, let me download you a copy.
I remember also hearing that by the turn of the century (last century) the digital office would replace paper.
...
It did, didn't you get the memo? Here, let me print you a copy. Now if I can just get past the giant bag for paper recycling we keep in our office, I can get to the printer
And fusion power is just 20 years away
Just pointing this out.
How do we know that the DOD isn't funding this as yet another excuse to reduce our privacy levels to those of Russia?
doesn't mean you're paranoid.
After all, who do you think employs most of my friends at Seattle law firms.
Hint: it's not the Justice Department.
You can! just use "\servername" instead of "\\servername". Works for IP addresses too: "\192.168.0.1" instead of "\\192.168.0.1".
"Firefox" - not just secure, it also saves you typing an extra backslash!"
But if we don't spend useless hours typing double backslashes, how will we ever become insane enough to buy MSFT products?
Oops, I let the cat out of the bag
[caveat: I own MSFT shares directly]
Doesn't mean you're paranoid.
It just means you're paying attention.
[caveat - I own MSFT shares directly]
for acting against the common interest.
Their charters were revoked.
Nowadays, this no longer happens, sadly.
However, considering that IPv6 is by virtue of creation a Government-owned (and hence Public) Patent, it would only be possible for MSFT to have an enforceable patent on a particular application or device that uses IPv6. Naturally, all this assumes (incorrectly) that the government will take action to enforce its rights and patents, which appears not to be the case in the USA.
The prior article on the research they did on this is at PubMed Article, or you can look up the current article at PubMed yourself.
New Scientist has coverage. No registration required.
I should point out that link will only work for a couple of days, even if you are registered.
I'm presuming you're referring to Plasmids, correct?
We also frequently find that single genes are duplicated by themselves, or that entire segments of a chromosome may be duplicated by the process of 'segmental duplication'. The interesting thing here is that the scientist believe that a second copy of the gene does not exist as a DNA copy, but as an RNA copy.
Not all genes are in the chromosomes, sometimes they're in Plasmids, especially with plants - or in humans, some of your DNA isn't in your chromosomes, they're in your Mitochondrial structures, hence you inherit them from your mother.
However, a good controlled experiment should be able to rule this out, and I'm sure we'll all be talking about this in Biochem labs here at the UW this week.
all others are merely bacteria trying to degrade the environment.
So, just as I buy my music and videos from local stores that give the artists a higher cut, the only DRMs I'm buying into are artist-derived, not the intermediaries.
...that I donated $50 to my local PBS station.
For me, it was Red Dwarf. Bill Nye does a lot of demonstrations and speeches for local environmental and political groups, so I usually got to see him perform or judge chocolate or beer or somesuch about 4-6 times a year, here in Seattle. Now he's only around 2-3 times a year, so I guess he must be busier.
Well, yes, Speed Walker Bill Nye was good, but not as good as Capable Woman (of course).
However, the parts I miss were people like Bill Gates and members of local bands that were famous just popping up in the middle of a sketch. That was really fun.
Especially when Capable Woman helped out Bill Gates.