The problem with Enron was that it matched 401(k) contributions in stock instead of cash
Agreed.
and they made it extremely difficult to get that money out of Enron stock.
They didn't make it that difficult, the period where employees were specifically prohibited from selling was actually fairly brief.
The issue with Enron and employee ownership in general is that individual employees really have little influence on the success or failure of good-sized corporations. So effectively it's gambling on your executives not being lying thieving scum. Given that your present is already tied up in that (working for them), you really don't want much of your future bet on one company as well.
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a type of tax-qualified employee benefit plan in which most or all of the assets are invested in stock of the employer.
The thing is, it's all flat, and black and white. Not very good for a flight sim type app.
Height maps of the world are available. It should be possible to build a Bryce-like application that takes the coarse height resolution and builds a more detailed (if not truly accurate) topographic model. You could even imagine having a distributed file system a la Morpheus or Napster where it would automagically get scenery as needed, and your system would itself save a piece of the world (redundantly with many other machines.)
IIRC back when I owned nintendo games before I got scammed by sega, I noticed in the fine print that Nintendo claims you are not allowed to make backups of their software.
No, it is Tighening. Reclassifying documents was an idea suggested by actor Kevin Tighe, who (among other roles) played paramedic Roy DeSoto on "Emergency!" So they named the process after him.
I know that I am very proud of my works (in this case, software), and it would irk me to no end to have to fork that over to the masses and watch as they alter my works as they see fit and spread it around.
Good thing for us Stallman, Torvalds, and co. do not believe their sensitivies need to be so protected.
I really don't have any problem with fingerprints or scratches (we've had CDs for how long? You'd think people would learn to pick them up by the edges...)
I think we can say with near certainty that you don't have kids.
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I also wonder about the unfair competition argument which MS and any other proprietary developer might raise. If governments mandate -- and contribute code to -- free software, is that government unlawfully competing with private enterprise?
Don't forget that the NSA has already released a prototype of its more secure Linux, without a whole lot of complaint along these lines.
Movie studios want digital movie theatres because it will drastically reduce the cost of distribution. [...] But it is not one that is going to give one theatre a competitive advantage over another.
If digital distribution saves them money, the studios could charge the theaters less, or it would be worth it to them to subsidize the digital installation cost. It really depends on the economics, the installation cost versus the distribution savings.
How soon before Nintendo, who just dropped the gba price to $80, starts marketing a new model, with a light like this one
Nintendo is brain-damaged when it comes to providing lights. They could have sold millions of Gameboy Colors with a built-in light for $50 more than the base GC, but never did. Likewise, they could have made a killing selling a deluxe unit with better speakers and a larger screen, but nope.
Also, the PM guys may be trying to patent their lighting system just to discourage Nintendo from taking their design and selling it themselves. (Although I doubt PM would discourage a nice profitable licensing arrangement.)
BTW, why didn't you just buy a region-free code DVD player?
Because he's in the U.S. I was able to get a region-free player only because it had a secret menu for doing so, and that particular model is no longer available. It's possible to mail/web-order region-free ones, but not to buy one in any of the electronics stores I know of.
Sure. I'm all for IP. I think being able to own ideas is a *good* thing.
I think if you polled the Slashdot crowd, you would find that the majority are not opposed to all forms of IP. Instead, the issue is the consumer/producer balance. If the duration of copyright shrank to 10 years (or 15 or 20), how many producers of new content would stop producing? If the answer is effectively zero, then copyright lasts an unnecessarily long time.
"Can", as in "is able to", or "can", as in is allowed to? C++ has the "as if" rule, which allows compilers to implement the code however it chooses, as long as the code yields the same results. In this case, for example, it might be possible for a compiler to see the allocations are of specific size and only used temporarily, and allocate room on the stack.
I certainly don't promise any C++ compiler does this, however.
It generates temporary objects that are created and deleted behind the scenes.
Note that if your operator is inlined and the compiler is reasonably smart, these temporaries are often optimized away. Usually when they aren't, the cost of the copy is low compared to the overall cost of the operation.
According to Gartner, the only IT-sector that is currently booming, and that will continue to do so with almost absolute certainty, is the anti-virus sector.
And now that accursed Microsoft is planning to improve Windows security. Those bastards! They're trying to put me out of a job!
I would also like to see some biathlon coverage, but knowing nbc, they're pretty much with the anti-gun crowd.
According to nbc.com, they'll be having biathlon coverage on four different days, on NBC and MSNBC. it helps having three different channels covering the Olympics.
The point is when you frame an image on your own site, you are blatantly stealing from me.
It isn't "on my site", it's in someone's browser. Now, if I am representing it as mine, that's fraud. In this case, however, it was a search engine showing online images, presumably with information about the original domain. As such, for many sites that would be considered a good thing, as someone finding the image on the search site may then go to my site and use my services.
It seems to me (maybe I'm wrong) your real complaint isn't about images specifically, it's about misrepresentation of content, that I might represent your image as something of mine. But that's not what's going on here.
The key is whether the customer had both a reasonable opportunity to inspect the terms of the contract (the EULA) and a reasonable opportunity to rescind the contract after that inspection.
No, the key is that the customer sees the EULA *before* ever making the purchase.
Suppose I buy your house. All paperwork is signed, etc. As I start to move in, I find a sign on the front door that says that I can't cut down the Japanese maple on the corner of the lot (or perhaps that I can't resell the house or sublet it), and if I don't agree we can just cancel the whole house sale. You think that should be binding?
But if you had a page full of copyrighted images with your specific byline and (C), it's probably only legal if someone links to that.
So I have to spider your whole site and parse the HTML to see if you're using the image? What if you have dynamic content? What if your images come from a different domain? A rule that requires checking something not explicitly linked to a given URL is unworkable.
What you cannot do is link the content below that.html page into your own page and representing that (copyrighted) information without evidence of ownership or copyright by another person.
What makes a file "below" an HTML file? I have.jpgs on my website with no html, I just send people the URL. If it has a URL, it already is top-level.
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The problem with Enron was that it matched 401(k) contributions in stock instead of cash
Agreed.
and they made it extremely difficult to get that money out of Enron stock.
They didn't make it that difficult, the period where employees were specifically prohibited from selling was actually fairly brief.
The issue with Enron and employee ownership in general is that individual employees really have little influence on the success or failure of good-sized corporations. So effectively it's gambling on your executives not being lying thieving scum. Given that your present is already tied up in that (working for them), you really don't want much of your future bet on one company as well.
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a type of tax-qualified employee benefit plan in which most or all of the assets are invested in stock of the employer.
I.e., Enron?
The thing is, it's all flat, and black and white. Not very good for a flight sim type app.
Height maps of the world are available. It should be possible to build a Bryce-like application that takes the coarse height resolution and builds a more detailed (if not truly accurate) topographic model. You could even imagine having a distributed file system a la Morpheus or Napster where it would automagically get scenery as needed, and your system would itself save a piece of the world (redundantly with many other machines.)
Large File Access The file you have selected is approximately 410.41 MB
They ought to put it on Morpheus. I downloaded a 200 MB file surprisingly quickly the other night.
Standard disclaimers aside, you agree to it by your purchase of their product AFAIK.
Except I wrote on the money I paid with that I'm free to make as many copies of the product as I like. I still have a photocopy.
IIRC back when I owned nintendo games before I got scammed by sega, I noticed in the fine print that Nintendo claims you are not allowed to make backups of their software.
And this is legally binding on me because...?
Tighening^H^H^H^H^Htening
No, it is Tighening. Reclassifying documents was an idea suggested by actor Kevin Tighe, who (among other roles) played paramedic Roy DeSoto on "Emergency!" So they named the process after him.
I know that I am very proud of my works (in this case, software), and it would irk me to no end to have to fork that over to the masses and watch as they alter my works as they see fit and spread it around.
Good thing for us Stallman, Torvalds, and co. do not believe their sensitivies need to be so protected.
I really don't have any problem with fingerprints or scratches (we've had CDs for how long? You'd think people would learn to pick them up by the edges...)
I think we can say with near certainty that you don't have kids.
I also wonder about the unfair competition argument which MS and any other proprietary developer might raise. If governments mandate -- and contribute code to -- free software, is that government unlawfully competing with private enterprise?
Don't forget that the NSA has already released a prototype of its more secure Linux, without a whole lot of complaint along these lines.
Movie studios want digital movie theatres because it will drastically reduce the cost of distribution. [...] But it is not one that is going to give one theatre a competitive advantage over another.
If digital distribution saves them money, the studios could charge the theaters less, or it would be worth it to them to subsidize the digital installation cost. It really depends on the economics, the installation cost versus the distribution savings.
How soon before Nintendo, who just dropped the gba price to $80, starts marketing a new model, with a light like this one
Nintendo is brain-damaged when it comes to providing lights. They could have sold millions of Gameboy Colors with a built-in light for $50 more than the base GC, but never did. Likewise, they could have made a killing selling a deluxe unit with better speakers and a larger screen, but nope.
Also, the PM guys may be trying to patent their lighting system just to discourage Nintendo from taking their design and selling it themselves. (Although I doubt PM would discourage a nice profitable licensing arrangement.)
BTW, why didn't you just buy a region-free code DVD player?
Because he's in the U.S. I was able to get a region-free player only because it had a secret menu for doing so, and that particular model is no longer available. It's possible to mail/web-order region-free ones, but not to buy one in any of the electronics stores I know of.
Whoops, didn't scroll down far enough to see that someone had answered it correctly.
I believe it's a reference to Sheridan's torture in Babylon 5.
Sure. I'm all for IP. I think being able to own ideas is a *good* thing.
I think if you polled the Slashdot crowd, you would find that the majority are not opposed to all forms of IP. Instead, the issue is the consumer/producer balance. If the duration of copyright shrank to 10 years (or 15 or 20), how many producers of new content would stop producing? If the answer is effectively zero, then copyright lasts an unnecessarily long time.
No c++ compiler can optimize the temporaries out.
"Can", as in "is able to", or "can", as in is allowed to? C++ has the "as if" rule, which allows compilers to implement the code however it chooses, as long as the code yields the same results. In this case, for example, it might be possible for a compiler to see the allocations are of specific size and only used temporarily, and allocate room on the stack.
I certainly don't promise any C++ compiler does this, however.
It generates temporary objects that are created and deleted behind the scenes.
Note that if your operator is inlined and the compiler is reasonably smart, these temporaries are often optimized away. Usually when they aren't, the cost of the copy is low compared to the overall cost of the operation.
According to Gartner, the only IT-sector that is currently booming, and that will continue to do so with almost absolute certainty, is the anti-virus sector.
And now that accursed Microsoft is planning to improve Windows security. Those bastards! They're trying to put me out of a job!
I would also like to see some biathlon coverage, but knowing nbc, they're pretty much with the anti-gun crowd.
According to nbc.com, they'll be having biathlon coverage on four different days, on NBC and MSNBC. it helps having three different channels covering the Olympics.
Myth was the official point where video games degenerated from being fun to movies on computer.
I think you're confusing Myth with Myst.
The point is when you frame an image on your own site, you are blatantly stealing from me.
It isn't "on my site", it's in someone's browser. Now, if I am representing it as mine, that's fraud. In this case, however, it was a search engine showing online images, presumably with information about the original domain. As such, for many sites that would be considered a good thing, as someone finding the image on the search site may then go to my site and use my services.
It seems to me (maybe I'm wrong) your real complaint isn't about images specifically, it's about misrepresentation of content, that I might represent your image as something of mine. But that's not what's going on here.
The key is whether the customer had both a reasonable opportunity to inspect the terms of the contract (the EULA) and a reasonable opportunity to rescind the contract after that inspection.
No, the key is that the customer sees the EULA *before* ever making the purchase.
Suppose I buy your house. All paperwork is signed, etc. As I start to move in, I find a sign on the front door that says that I can't cut down the Japanese maple on the corner of the lot (or perhaps that I can't resell the house or sublet it), and if I don't agree we can just cancel the whole house sale. You think that should be binding?
But if you had a page full of copyrighted images with your specific byline and (C), it's probably only legal if someone links to that.
So I have to spider your whole site and parse the HTML to see if you're using the image? What if you have dynamic content? What if your images come from a different domain? A rule that requires checking something not explicitly linked to a given URL is unworkable.
What you cannot do is link the content below that .html page into your own page and representing that (copyrighted) information without evidence of ownership or copyright by another person.
.jpgs on my website with no html, I just send people the URL. If it has a URL, it already is top-level.
What makes a file "below" an HTML file? I have