The point he was trying to make was that even though the student may win in court, he likely won't have the resources to go up against a large company in court.
Yes, but you can't sue someone for $0 plus your lawyer's fees. If liability is limited to the purchase price, those who distribute for free should be safe from strict liability lawsuits.
Exactly. I moved to 0.9, and lost all those stored name/password thingies, and "click to run flash" isn't 0.9 compatible yet. I think the image blocking/click to flash/etc should all be combined into one smart media blocker and be built-in, with whitelists and blacklists.
Our use of namespaces is limited, but I haven't seen a problem. As for the editor, I'd pay money to have bookmarks in CodeWarrior (the Mac dev tool I use)... There are some clunky bits, and its ability to resolve like names in the "go to definition/declaration" command seems to have gone backwards in.NET compared to VC6, but it's certainly a tolerable tool.
Incidentally, this is why it is a wise dating technique, when sitting down at a restaurant, to try to choose the seat that faces the wall, not the one that allows you to ogle the other women...
One of the better ways to convince people of this is to take it to the extreme; say 1 million doors, and I'll open all but one other door than the one you chose.
Even then you still get some people thinking that suddenly they had a 50/50 shot of picking the right door on the first go...
Leo Schwab created and distributed his version of Pixar's "Red's Dream" back in 1987, followed shortly by a replacement (after Pixar objected to the original) that was a ball juggling three unicycles.
Except that slashdot generally displays the hostname to the right of any link anyway. Firefox users can add the plain text url extension, and right-click after selection to travel to the link, but I'm not sure that always works when slashdot puts spaces in the links.
It's half-assed because basically they didn't integrate it, they just reused the CD changer controls that already existed in the car.
If you put an iPod Mini in a Mini, I guess you have an iPod Mini Mini.
I suppose the ultimate system would have optional voice control (for the driver), as well as multiple output streams, so the kids can choose to listen to something else on wireless headphones. Plus it should have 802.11(?) support, so it can connect to your home network and sync to the latest playlists you have set up there.
Feh. A Fox News vice president was on air recently with some of their talking heads, saying how the whole Abu Ghraib uproar was just a scheme to embarrass Bush.
That was my last attempt to see if Fox actually could be anything like unbiased...
I wasn't blaming schools for this at all, it's the city/county/state and/or their contracter buddies I suspect of scamming here. It's just a more dramatic example of gov't scamming. (Sometimes the gov't gets taken, sometimes members of the gov't are in on the scam.)
This is by no means limited to schools or computers, of course. (And heck, at least they were upgrading facilities that the county might not otherwise budget for.)
They're doing road construction near where I work. At one point, they put in part of the new road, connected it to the old, and then tore up the old road. Less than six months later, they put road back where the old road used to be, and closed the new section while they extended it. In other words, they tore up road they knew they were going to need again shortly thereafter, but undoubtedly they get paid more this way.
Silica comes from sand, which the world has in abundance. Glass is heavy and broken glass is somewhat hazardous. Also, it breaks relatively easily and into small pieces, so the various colors mix together. You would have to remove existing dyes and add new ones to recycle glass. The only reason to recycle glass is to minimize landfill usage.
I handle recycling aluminum at my office, but don't bother with anything else.
Remember that recycling is the least effective of the trio of "reduce, reuse, recycle." Focus on the first two before the third.
The entire city of Washington, D.C. is contained within a 10 mile box. You're talking 9 times the size of that city (plus Arlington, Alexandria, etc.) filled to approximately the height of the White House, as not much?
Talk about using a similar amount of land for solar power collection, and the oil-addicted will tell you how horrible it is to use that much land...
In a Spinal Tap interview on NPR, back when CDs came in elongated cardboard boxes, Nigel said that they'd had the manufacturer put the CD in an extra long box just so there was that much extra cardboard for recycling...
No, the can of worms isn't that big. Absent the EULA, you're still not legally entitled to distribute someone else's copyrighted work. Likewise, the GPL grants rights, and thus if voided you're still not entitled to copy the code and put it in a proprietary product.
What it does imply that EULAs themselves can be invalidated by not reading them. Given that EULAs shatter traditional contract law, invalidating them en masse is a good thing, and will have trivial impact on software companies that employ them anyway.
Yep, my price is less if I have the basic cable/broadband that if i have just broadband. Isn't that illegal monopolist bundling?
Not if they're not a monopolist. You have multiple choices of satellite providers in most of the U.S., so cable has competition, and DSL competes with the internet service.
Seems to me Linus has a pretty good libel case against him regardless, should he choose to sue. Malicious disregard for the truth about an individual can have consequences.
Because work does not necessarily mean physical activity.
But then just because you're not doing physical exertion, it doesn't mean you're lazy either. By the time I've gotten the kids ready for school, worked a full day, helped with dinner, helped with homework, and gotten the kids to bed, I'm pretty exhausted. My "laziness" is my weekly indoor soccer game.
Americans aren't so much lazy as in an environment where it is difficult to get in physical exertion while still working a normal job, caring for kids, etc.
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The point he was trying to make was that even though the student may win in court, he likely won't have the resources to go up against a large company in court.
Yes, but you can't sue someone for $0 plus your lawyer's fees. If liability is limited to the purchase price, those who distribute for free should be safe from strict liability lawsuits.
Exactly. I moved to 0.9, and lost all those stored name/password thingies, and "click to run flash" isn't 0.9 compatible yet. I think the image blocking/click to flash/etc should all be combined into one smart media blocker and be built-in, with whitelists and blacklists.
Our use of namespaces is limited, but I haven't seen a problem. As for the editor, I'd pay money to have bookmarks in CodeWarrior (the Mac dev tool I use)... There are some clunky bits, and its ability to resolve like names in the "go to definition/declaration" command seems to have gone backwards in .NET compared to VC6, but it's certainly a tolerable tool.
He got $10 million. I'd take that short end...
Incidentally, this is why it is a wise dating technique, when sitting down at a restaurant, to try to choose the seat that faces the wall, not the one that allows you to ogle the other women...
One of the better ways to convince people of this is to take it to the extreme; say 1 million doors, and I'll open all but one other door than the one you chose.
Even then you still get some people thinking that suddenly they had a 50/50 shot of picking the right door on the first go...
I still say a free software geek mass emigration to New Zealand is a good idea. Also, think of the massive LOTR reenactments we could do!
Leo Schwab created and distributed his version of Pixar's "Red's Dream" back in 1987, followed shortly by a replacement (after Pixar objected to the original) that was a ball juggling three unicycles.
I wonder, has anyone ever computed SETI cycles/KWh for various machines? It would be interesting to see how they compare.
Even if you're under 18? They have no proof of age of the consenters.
Except that slashdot generally displays the hostname to the right of any link anyway. Firefox users can add the plain text url extension, and right-click after selection to travel to the link, but I'm not sure that always works when slashdot puts spaces in the links.
It's half-assed because basically they didn't integrate it, they just reused the CD changer controls that already existed in the car.
If you put an iPod Mini in a Mini, I guess you have an iPod Mini Mini.
I suppose the ultimate system would have optional voice control (for the driver), as well as multiple output streams, so the kids can choose to listen to something else on wireless headphones. Plus it should have 802.11(?) support, so it can connect to your home network and sync to the latest playlists you have set up there.
Feh. A Fox News vice president was on air recently with some of their talking heads, saying how the whole Abu Ghraib uproar was just a scheme to embarrass Bush.
That was my last attempt to see if Fox actually could be anything like unbiased...
I wasn't blaming schools for this at all, it's the city/county/state and/or their contracter buddies I suspect of scamming here. It's just a more dramatic example of gov't scamming. (Sometimes the gov't gets taken, sometimes members of the gov't are in on the scam.)
This is by no means limited to schools or computers, of course. (And heck, at least they were upgrading facilities that the county might not otherwise budget for.)
They're doing road construction near where I work. At one point, they put in part of the new road, connected it to the old, and then tore up the old road. Less than six months later, they put road back where the old road used to be, and closed the new section while they extended it. In other words, they tore up road they knew they were going to need again shortly thereafter, but undoubtedly they get paid more this way.
Oops, make that the top of the dome of the Capitol. The White House is a lot shorter.
Silica comes from sand, which the world has in abundance. Glass is heavy and broken glass is somewhat hazardous. Also, it breaks relatively easily and into small pieces, so the various colors mix together. You would have to remove existing dyes and add new ones to recycle glass. The only reason to recycle glass is to minimize landfill usage.
I handle recycling aluminum at my office, but don't bother with anything else.
Remember that recycling is the least effective of the trio of "reduce, reuse, recycle." Focus on the first two before the third.
The entire city of Washington, D.C. is contained within a 10 mile box. You're talking 9 times the size of that city (plus Arlington, Alexandria, etc.) filled to approximately the height of the White House, as not much?
Talk about using a similar amount of land for solar power collection, and the oil-addicted will tell you how horrible it is to use that much land...
In a Spinal Tap interview on NPR, back when CDs came in elongated cardboard boxes, Nigel said that they'd had the manufacturer put the CD in an extra long box just so there was that much extra cardboard for recycling...
No, the can of worms isn't that big. Absent the EULA, you're still not legally entitled to distribute someone else's copyrighted work. Likewise, the GPL grants rights, and thus if voided you're still not entitled to copy the code and put it in a proprietary product.
What it does imply that EULAs themselves can be invalidated by not reading them. Given that EULAs shatter traditional contract law, invalidating them en masse is a good thing, and will have trivial impact on software companies that employ them anyway.
Yep, my price is less if I have the basic cable/broadband that if i have just broadband. Isn't that illegal monopolist bundling?
Not if they're not a monopolist. You have multiple choices of satellite providers in most of the U.S., so cable has competition, and DSL competes with the internet service.
...whereas I'd be getting laid.
Really? I thought she said "Not even if you were the last man on earth."
That's what she said to me, anyway...
Seems to me Linus has a pretty good libel case against him regardless, should he choose to sue. Malicious disregard for the truth about an individual can have consequences.
Because work does not necessarily mean physical activity.
But then just because you're not doing physical exertion, it doesn't mean you're lazy either. By the time I've gotten the kids ready for school, worked a full day, helped with dinner, helped with homework, and gotten the kids to bed, I'm pretty exhausted. My "laziness" is my weekly indoor soccer game.
Americans aren't so much lazy as in an environment where it is difficult to get in physical exertion while still working a normal job, caring for kids, etc.
That's funny. I thought Americans were lard asses because we're fucking lazy.
Lazy, yet we work longer hours than those hard-working Japanese. If we're so lazy, why don't we have a minimum six weeks of vacation like the Germans?