If it ever happens it is a real pain. A colleague of mine had a car reverse into him when the lights changed, and the other driver claimed he drove into him. My colleague's insurance company ended up paying - the company said that because he hadn't got witnesses they would not even contest it.
An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."
That says it all really. They have managed a disinformation campaign to make people think that file sharing is illegal. No mention of the fact that it is perfectly legal if you have rights to the work, it is public domain, or you are using it under "fair use" terms, or a number of other more obscure legal circumstances.
Think of it this way, nobody bats an eyelid when you say "filesharing is illegal", but you would get some surprised looks if you said "video recording is illegal" or "photocopying is illegal" - they have managed to taint the technology with a possible illegal use.
Windows isn't going to die no matter what people say.
... The driver for the "reactor temperature regulator" is not compatible with this live update. To ensure stability of your system the "reactor temperature regulator" driver has not been loaded. Please consult your hardware manufacturer to see if an updated driver is available.
In general you are correct, but where I have seen staff associations be useful is where there is unfair treatment of an individual. In this case the unfair treatment has not been in the interest of the company but due to either stupidity or vindictiveness of a manager.
An example I can think of is someone who wasn't put forward for a pay increase, despite it being agreed that he was being underpaid for his skills. Basically the manager lost the paperwork and found it after the deadline - then tried to cover his error by saying that the guy did not deserver the increase! A decent HR department would have sorted this out but we don't have a decent HR department - I have since found that this is very common. They said "your manager says you don't deserver it, anyway its too late, you missed the deadline"
Anyway the staff association put the case forward, which instantly got the case heard at a higher level. The association is affiliated with a large union, and they let the company know that this could be pursued legally by the union's solicitors.
Instantly, the manager involved got a ticking off and the HR department discovered that they could make changes to salaries past the deadline and the whole thing was sorted.
You could ship it overseas with a trivial outlay of hardware.
In instances when they can do that they probably will at some point anyway. Most high tech workers have skills that are difficult to replace, or are needed at a particular location.
That's one of the problems with unions, some of them don't know where to stop. Unions did a lot of good getting working conditions, etc. and then went on to make unrealistic demands that would leave employers uncompetitive and eventually bankrupt.
I don't think this is so much of a problem in high tech industries because the members understand the way things work. I belong to a staff association (high tech union) and I have seen it be useful to individuals with genuine grievances. They also negotiate a "base" pay increase, which is modified anyway depending on individual circumstances so I am not sure that they make any real difference there.
In a British station you would need a way of knowing whether the passengers were looking at the advert, reading the grafitti, or looking through the hundreds of "high class escort agency" adds that had been stuck on.
No this is not the way things should work. The "roaming disabled" should be like a firewall. It should be possible to add exceptions for explicit applications, and those apps could recommend you did this during install - but it should be up to you.
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Unless the car in front is moving backwards :).
If it ever happens it is a real pain. A colleague of mine had a car reverse into him when the lights changed, and the other driver claimed he drove into him. My colleague's insurance company ended up paying - the company said that because he hadn't got witnesses they would not even contest it.
An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."
That says it all really. They have managed a disinformation campaign to make people think that file sharing is illegal. No mention of the fact that it is perfectly legal if you have rights to the work, it is public domain, or you are using it under "fair use" terms, or a number of other more obscure legal circumstances.
Think of it this way, nobody bats an eyelid when you say "filesharing is illegal", but you would get some surprised looks if you said "video recording is illegal" or "photocopying is illegal" - they have managed to taint the technology with a possible illegal use.
Thanks, that's interesting
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Now I am going to be worried every time I get one of those adverts for penis enlargement
....who told them?
Windows isn't going to die no matter what people say.
... The driver for the "reactor temperature regulator" is not compatible with this live update. To ensure stability of your system the "reactor temperature regulator" driver has not been loaded. Please consult your hardware manufacturer to see if an updated driver is available.
Not yet ... could you have the entire SCO executive team visiting too?
This is probably a silly question but why/how are they running PPC Linux (which is presumably for the Power PC) on PS/3s which have cell processors?
I guess that either the PS3 has a PPC chip as well, or it runs some sort of emulation mode. I can't find either documented.
or bank reclaimed assets from a sunken business?
What type of processor do Woolworth's POS tills use?
IAll that talk of programming languages is just the socially awkward trying to develop some kind of relevance for themselves.
Shhhhhhh ... it's supposed to be a secret.
In general you are correct, but where I have seen staff associations be useful is where there is unfair treatment of an individual. In this case the unfair treatment has not been in the interest of the company but due to either stupidity or vindictiveness of a manager.
An example I can think of is someone who wasn't put forward for a pay increase, despite it being agreed that he was being underpaid for his skills. Basically the manager lost the paperwork and found it after the deadline - then tried to cover his error by saying that the guy did not deserver the increase! A decent HR department would have sorted this out but we don't have a decent HR department - I have since found that this is very common. They said "your manager says you don't deserver it, anyway its too late, you missed the deadline"
Anyway the staff association put the case forward, which instantly got the case heard at a higher level. The association is affiliated with a large union, and they let the company know that this could be pursued legally by the union's solicitors.
Instantly, the manager involved got a ticking off and the HR department discovered that they could make changes to salaries past the deadline and the whole thing was sorted.
You could ship it overseas with a trivial outlay of hardware.
In instances when they can do that they probably will at some point anyway. Most high tech workers have skills that are difficult to replace, or are needed at a particular location.
Eifel would be extreme atheism. You can't say anything without defining your predicates and defining the context in which it is valid.
I don't think this is so much of a problem in high tech industries because the members understand the way things work. I belong to a staff association (high tech union) and I have seen it be useful to individuals with genuine grievances. They also negotiate a "base" pay increase, which is modified anyway depending on individual circumstances so I am not sure that they make any real difference there.
I think that this is ethically questionable and in any case unlikely to be economically feasible for some time.
Who'd go up to check. Just send the bill and say you have, you could charge thousands of people for one container of ashes.
You could visit a phishing site and a bank site in one session.
That is a very good point. Isolation from the underlying operating system is obviously good but it is not sufficient to protect against hackers.
What your saying is that McCain has an outside shot?
Judging by some red-neck rants on Christian blogs he is not the only person who might have a shot at the president elect.
In a British station you would need a way of knowing whether the passengers were looking at the advert, reading the grafitti, or looking through the hundreds of "high class escort agency" adds that had been stuck on.
I know a long term Unix Hack. He says. "Fuck Sun. Fuck IBM. Fuck SCO. Fuck Microsoft..... come to think of it Sun aint too bad"
KDE just feels like Windows too much.
But you can'r really blame KDE for being copied in Vista.
No this is not the way things should work. The "roaming disabled" should be like a firewall. It should be possible to add exceptions for explicit applications, and those apps could recommend you did this during install - but it should be up to you.
This looks like a platform flaw to me.
May be true, but that's got nothing to do with trademarks.