I wonder how secure this device actually is... how far down this list could they get?
How can it be bypassed: [ ] Fingers - using them to remove it or scratch it [ ] Pen - Colouring over the item to disturb the signal, and possibly also scratching it off [ ] Foil - Wrapping it in Foil so it can't communicate to anything [ ] Magnet - Ruining the chips ability to function [ ] Electromagnet - Putting too much energy through any RFID circuitry to ruin it [ ] Firmware - Upgrading the firmware of any devices that would use this signal [ ] Oldware - Using old hardware [ ] ?
Just because a project is open source, does not imply GPL. I for one abhor copyright and patents, and applaud open source software.
The problem people seem to have in saying that it's a contradiction, is implying that if a company took your work and sold it, then that would be wrong.
No regulation will be able to accurately compare one work to another, to find out whether it is a copy or not and as such will leave it open to abuse by anyone.
Now given that a company is profitable, wouldn't they have more power to use copyright laws to suppress the open solution than the open solution would have to suppress the business?
Protectionism such as this, is sold to people under some weird "moral" guise, and will only ever benefit the large companies that produce the works, and never the end user of the works, and as such should not be regulated.
Think of it this way... if someone else is able to sell a good or service for less price than you are able to, and sustain their business, then this implies that more end users (the people who count) are receiving benefit from it, and therefore shouldn't that be the moral high ground? That one company is benefiting people more than another.
I adopted DVORAK and a few of my mates followed suite. I have noticed it is becoming a lot more prominent. However, I am still forced to use QWERTY at work. But now, I can switch between both, reasonably seamlessly.
In Australia that industry, is an oligopoly and is heavily regulated. This allows the primary networks to negotiate the cost down more, since competing networks are in cahoots and how "relatively profitable" our market is. This means that the only time you actually see something, is 6+ months later or on Pay-TV, and Pay-TV isn't much better.
So i'd say the time taken, is a product of the Australian Television oligopoly, the American Copyright owners both penny pinching.
For instance, if your customers were used to receiving things 6 months later, and 6 months later that meant the cost would be half of what it is at that moment in time, wouldn't you want to just wait? And wouldn't the original copyright holder want you to wait, as it makes his product more valueable the longer he holds out on you?
Yeah, I am much the same, confident and spontaneous.
However I'm 6ft 5in and if I'm introducing myself to a group of smaller people (usually a group of girls) I go with the old: "Hi! *Put hand out to shake hands in a conventional manner* I'm big." It also has a hint of suggestiveness!
Or something like "Hey, this guy said your mothers a fucking crack whore!" at which point my friend plays along, the other guy gets defensive, but then we show him that it's all a joke.
Or quote a reference (it's the nerd thing to do) to shows that you like, such as: *casually say* "Hey, ever had a fat man in a trench coat lick your ass hole?" (I don't have a trench coat but that would make this one all the better)
Or the old overly cliche "Hey, my name is I enjoy water sports, long walks by the beach and reading a good book in a candle light bath. How about you?" this has two good outcomes, they just play along, or they question "water sports" as to what kind of water sports? (alluding to the sexual term... luckily I've never come across someone later who wanted "to piss"/"be pissed on")
Oh well. That's my $0.002 or 0.002 cents, since they are the same.
I wonder if Microsoft realizes that this could be a valuable metric on showing the supply and demand curves. If they see that 1 out of 5 (Ignoring the fact that WGA fails sometimes), that means 1 fifth of their customers want their product, however the price point is too high for them. Perhaps they will see that if they lower the price point they could increase sales, and more importantly if they manage these well they could increase sales without decreasing profitability.
I'm sure someone is looking at this, and this has most likely resulted in the 6 different flavors of windows vista.
This doesn't seem like a viable alternative. 10% in the year 2005. Is that including forecast increases in power usage (as per population and ignoring other technological impacts). Additionally 10% isn't much overall, how can this be a viable alternative.
If the education of engineers was not regulated the market would make this decision for you. It's a balance of both. If the course isn't directed at providing the training needed to perform a job, then the money they are paying for this education will not provide the benefits required and you should see a decline in people undertaking it.
I believe this is part of a large common problem in the United States, where people pay too much money for something which is not going to pay off, and isn't economical for them. In this case people are paying to undertake more theoretical study which they most likely wont experience in real life, and not on what the job would entail. Which isn't to say that you need to have 1000 courses tailored to 1000 jobs.
If I purchase it online, will the pricing only reflect Online Marketing costs, Online Packaging costs, Online Distribution costs, and the same development costs as are associated with the physical product? Or will it be more like traditional vendors where we are in effect paying the whole amount, and therefor paying for part of the physical product?
I highly doubt Microsoft will take into account activity based costing in respect to the product pricing. Especially since it would benefit them to charge the same amount or close to it, and improve the overall profitability of the physical product.
Obviously you weren't around in the great Duke Nukem 3D, Shrapnel City incident in 1995.
It was devastating, people could neither kick ass, nor chew bubble gum, which was somewhat fortunate as they were all... out... of bubble gum!
On a more serious note, if you start thinking rationally with issues such as security, then almost all measures that have been put in place in America since the World Trade Center attack are ludicrous.
...I think it gets a lot of unneeded bad press because of things like child stalkers and bad page design.
I am just glad that (apparently) bad page design is being taken as a serious as child stalkers. It's about time those FrontPage no talent hacks got their just deserts!
If I were a judge (IANAJ) I would not differentiate between child stalkers and people who can't properly close their elements and create non-intuitive layouts and controls.
Couldn't this be done as an extension/plugin for OO? It would seem that would be more reasonable than a fork.
Does anyone know if this changes the license for the entire product? Would they then be able to package proprietary code with it? If so this might be an attempt to not only "embrace and extend" but to gain market share from a competitor using a competitors software. (Eg. It doesn't matter if there is a free alternative, if there is a free alternative which is under their control)
Although I generally support your comment about wanting a manager with a CS degree, you also need a manager with a business degree, since managers who deal with both who don't have both, or at least a business degree and extensive CS knowledge, will generally fall short in one or more facets of their management tasks.
If you were only talking about project management, it wouldn't be so bad only having a CS degree, given it covered project management and they were only in charge of the code/etc. If they were in charge of business level decisions without a business degree they could easily find them selves too product or production driven.
Has Mozilla considered developing a website similar to a cross between W3C.Org and PHP.Net for web development?
This way people developing could just go to one resource for a DOM/HTML/CSS/JavaScript/etc reference and post comments/suggestions, so this could be used as the definitive reference of what is implemented and how it is implemented in FireFox. This would be an invaluable reference for developers, might help you gain a bit of market share with them and remove dependencies on external standards organizations which do not seem to accurately reflect what the development community want now a days.
Have you considered creating a website which allows people to vote on features?
For instance: You could build it into FireFox where people are notified about up coming votes, and you could select if you want to vote (so most people don't get hassled with notifications) on new code features to be put into the engine and new UI features/integrating extensions. This way it could be put to a vote on whether or not to build AdBlock and AdBlock Filterset.G Updater into FireFox, how the tabs are handled, etc.
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I wonder how secure this device actually is... how far down this list could they get?
How can it be bypassed:
[ ] Fingers - using them to remove it or scratch it
[ ] Pen - Colouring over the item to disturb the signal, and possibly also scratching it off
[ ] Foil - Wrapping it in Foil so it can't communicate to anything
[ ] Magnet - Ruining the chips ability to function
[ ] Electromagnet - Putting too much energy through any RFID circuitry to ruin it
[ ] Firmware - Upgrading the firmware of any devices that would use this signal
[ ] Oldware - Using old hardware
[ ] ?
Just because a project is open source, does not imply GPL. I for one abhor copyright and patents, and applaud open source software.
The problem people seem to have in saying that it's a contradiction, is implying that if a company took your work and sold it, then that would be wrong.
No regulation will be able to accurately compare one work to another, to find out whether it is a copy or not and as such will leave it open to abuse by anyone.
Now given that a company is profitable, wouldn't they have more power to use copyright laws to suppress the open solution than the open solution would have to suppress the business?
Protectionism such as this, is sold to people under some weird "moral" guise, and will only ever benefit the large companies that produce the works, and never the end user of the works, and as such should not be regulated.
Think of it this way... if someone else is able to sell a good or service for less price than you are able to, and sustain their business, then this implies that more end users (the people who count) are receiving benefit from it, and therefore shouldn't that be the moral high ground? That one company is benefiting people more than another.
I adopted DVORAK and a few of my mates followed suite. I have noticed it is becoming a lot more prominent. However, I am still forced to use QWERTY at work. But now, I can switch between both, reasonably seamlessly.
Actually, there was no confirmation email (from memory). So you could potentially fake it, and hope your details don't actually get sent to someone.
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In Australia that industry, is an oligopoly and is heavily regulated. This allows the primary networks to negotiate the cost down more, since competing networks are in cahoots and how "relatively profitable" our market is. This means that the only time you actually see something, is 6+ months later or on Pay-TV, and Pay-TV isn't much better.
So i'd say the time taken, is a product of the Australian Television oligopoly, the American Copyright owners both penny pinching.
For instance, if your customers were used to receiving things 6 months later, and 6 months later that meant the cost would be half of what it is at that moment in time, wouldn't you want to just wait? And wouldn't the original copyright holder want you to wait, as it makes his product more valueable the longer he holds out on you?
I wish someone named Charles could have cracked Blue-Ray so we could have Blue-Ray Charles.
Yeah, I am much the same, confident and spontaneous.
However I'm 6ft 5in and if I'm introducing myself to a group of smaller people (usually a group of girls) I go with the old:
"Hi! *Put hand out to shake hands in a conventional manner* I'm big."
It also has a hint of suggestiveness!
Or something like "Hey, this guy said your mothers a fucking crack whore!" at which point my friend plays along, the other guy gets defensive, but then we show him that it's all a joke.
Or quote a reference (it's the nerd thing to do) to shows that you like, such as: *casually say* "Hey, ever had a fat man in a trench coat lick your ass hole?" (I don't have a trench coat but that would make this one all the better)
Or the old overly cliche "Hey, my name is I enjoy water sports, long walks by the beach and reading a good book in a candle light bath. How about you?" this has two good outcomes, they just play along, or they question "water sports" as to what kind of water sports? (alluding to the sexual term... luckily I've never come across someone later who wanted "to piss"/"be pissed on")
Oh well. That's my $0.002 or 0.002 cents, since they are the same.
I wonder if Microsoft realizes that this could be a valuable metric on showing the supply and demand curves. If they see that 1 out of 5 (Ignoring the fact that WGA fails sometimes), that means 1 fifth of their customers want their product, however the price point is too high for them. Perhaps they will see that if they lower the price point they could increase sales, and more importantly if they manage these well they could increase sales without decreasing profitability.
I'm sure someone is looking at this, and this has most likely resulted in the 6 different flavors of windows vista.
This doesn't seem like a viable alternative. 10% in the year 2005. Is that including forecast increases in power usage (as per population and ignoring other technological impacts). Additionally 10% isn't much overall, how can this be a viable alternative.
Coopers hey? Well, you're most likely Australian, and even more likely South Australian.
Secondly... Coopers for breakfast?!?!?!
LOL. I was just joking, I fully support your statement. I just found that one line to be funny. I was going for funny, not serious. :-)
If the education of engineers was not regulated the market would make this decision for you. It's a balance of both. If the course isn't directed at providing the training needed to perform a job, then the money they are paying for this education will not provide the benefits required and you should see a decline in people undertaking it.
I believe this is part of a large common problem in the United States, where people pay too much money for something which is not going to pay off, and isn't economical for them. In this case people are paying to undertake more theoretical study which they most likely wont experience in real life, and not on what the job would entail. Which isn't to say that you need to have 1000 courses tailored to 1000 jobs.
If I purchase it online, will the pricing only reflect Online Marketing costs, Online Packaging costs, Online Distribution costs, and the same development costs as are associated with the physical product? Or will it be more like traditional vendors where we are in effect paying the whole amount, and therefor paying for part of the physical product?
I highly doubt Microsoft will take into account activity based costing in respect to the product pricing. Especially since it would benefit them to charge the same amount or close to it, and improve the overall profitability of the physical product.
Obviously you weren't around in the great Duke Nukem 3D, Shrapnel City incident in 1995.
It was devastating, people could neither kick ass, nor chew bubble gum, which was somewhat fortunate as they were all... out... of bubble gum!
On a more serious note, if you start thinking rationally with issues such as security, then almost all measures that have been put in place in America since the World Trade Center attack are ludicrous.
If bloggers are lobbyists then it is assumed they are petitioning the government for some sort of changes.
In this case if congress undertook the changes (In traditional lobbyists fashion) they would want to send them an invoice.
Congress does not pay the lobbyists, they get paid by the lobbyists.
I am just glad that (apparently) bad page design is being taken as a serious as child stalkers. It's about time those FrontPage no talent hacks got their just deserts!
If I were a judge (IANAJ) I would not differentiate between child stalkers and people who can't properly close their elements and create non-intuitive layouts and controls.
If you don't know these references you aren't allowed to call yourself a nerd and sure as hell don't belong here!
Couldn't this be done as an extension/plugin for OO? It would seem that would be more reasonable than a fork.
Does anyone know if this changes the license for the entire product? Would they then be able to package proprietary code with it? If so this might be an attempt to not only "embrace and extend" but to gain market share from a competitor using a competitors software. (Eg. It doesn't matter if there is a free alternative, if there is a free alternative which is under their control)
Although I generally support your comment about wanting a manager with a CS degree, you also need a manager with a business degree, since managers who deal with both who don't have both, or at least a business degree and extensive CS knowledge, will generally fall short in one or more facets of their management tasks.
If you were only talking about project management, it wouldn't be so bad only having a CS degree, given it covered project management and they were only in charge of the code/etc. If they were in charge of business level decisions without a business degree they could easily find them selves too product or production driven.
...someone has filed a complaint against Microsoft. News at 11.
Has Mozilla considered developing a website similar to a cross between W3C.Org and PHP.Net for web development?
This way people developing could just go to one resource for a DOM/HTML/CSS/JavaScript/etc reference and post comments/suggestions, so this could be used as the definitive reference of what is implemented and how it is implemented in FireFox. This would be an invaluable reference for developers, might help you gain a bit of market share with them and remove dependencies on external standards organizations which do not seem to accurately reflect what the development community want now a days.
Have you considered creating a website which allows people to vote on features?
For instance: You could build it into FireFox where people are notified about up coming votes, and you could select if you want to vote (so most people don't get hassled with notifications) on new code features to be put into the engine and new UI features/integrating extensions. This way it could be put to a vote on whether or not to build AdBlock and AdBlock Filterset.G Updater into FireFox, how the tabs are handled, etc.
You sir, are a literary genius!
Are you trying to tell me you end up smelling like fish?
*ba boom cha* Thank you ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all evening. Be sure to tip your waiter.