I agree. A professor here teaches it on one of her classes. Everytime it's not working correctly, others in my cube farm have to listen to me work on it. "Delete that" "Scratch that" "Go to the beginning of the line". They've never used it, and they hate it. I'm not fond of it myself.
I never said the paparazzi has consent. The issue isn't that the photo was taken, the issue is that it was published for a profit. Tabloids do just this, and have been sued multiple times for it. That is why they have hordes of Lawyers to protect them, and they claim freedom of the press because their content is "news". A calendar isn't going to be classified as "news".
Selling a photo to a tabloid is not the same thing.
If you followed Jessica around (without her consent) for a couple weeks and took a few pictures of her each day. Then you took your favorite 12 pictures and made a calendar. You decided to sell the calendar as "An Actress who once played Daisy Duke".
Craftsmen is owned by Sears. So even if you buy the brand from another outlet you are still putting money into the same pocket. If you find another brand you like that's great! I've been hosed on the "lifetime warranty" from other brands, but not *yet* from Sears.
I agree with the grandparent. The tools from sears are much too valuable to me to boycott the company as a whole. You can opt to not join the community online that contains the spyware, you can educate users and complain to the company without boycotting all products and services. I have yet to see a product boycott ever truly work. The bad press generated by awareness or suggestion of a boycott often makes companies back off.
Punishing a merchant by boycotting even the methods of business that they do right as well as the wrong ones does not send the right message. Walking into the store, picking up a wrench, and paying cash for it does not have more of a privacy cost then any other merchant. If you pay by credit or check, you're spinning the same wheel at sears as you do at any other stores. How is Sears to know that the message is we don't want your spyware? Refusing to walk into a retail store isn't sending that message, declining their EULA does.
USPS: Hey Netflix can you change your envelopes so they won't jam our machines? Netflix: Why should we? USPS: We'll charge your $0.17 per envelope to process them manually? Netflix: We'll change our envelope.
Is there really more to this? I would think Netflix would want the post office to be able to more efficiently process the mail. The faster it's processed, the faster it can be loaded on a truck and heads out. If the mail is delayed due to manual processing, Netflix customers are going to be less satisfied.
People actually thought all those dot com companies were worth something, and had a chance of selling some kind of product, otherwise, they would have never bought the stock in the first place. You give people way to much credit. I agree that people thought the dot com companies were worth something.
There are at least 2 groups of people here though:
The first group though the company they were investing in had a product they would be able to sell and be profitable.
The second group simply saw the value of the company as being the rising stock value. The second group didn't have any idea what the product they would sell might be, or how viable it was. The second group most likely caused the bubble by driving up the price beyond it's reasonable market value.
The mentality that: This stock is similar to that stock that went way up. I'll buy some and get rich.
EVERY OTHER FIELD OF STUDY uses kilo- to signify one thousand and mega- to mean one million. When one industry uses a term one way and thousands of other industries all use a term in a consistent but different way, what justification can you give for the single inconsistency. I believe every other field of study you refer to uses as base10 numbering system. When you use a base2 numbering system, you've changed the rules. Whomever originally decided to adopt the SI unit names into binary measurement probably wishes they did something else at this point to eliminate the confusion.
I'm no lawyer, but I believe you can copyright something without registering it. You must register and defend a trademark. Unless he provides documention of his registration, I would just ignore him. Actually, I'd ask him why he's whining about you making him money. By blogging on a name similar to his, you essentially made his domain into a more profitable typo squat domain.
In the old days we learned: 1 Byte = 8 bits 1 kilobyte = 1024 Bytes 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes 1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
Which means that:
1 gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes
This isn't a strange "Microsoft" scale. If you've ever watched your memory count on boot it uses the same scale.
Harddrive manufacturers for as long as I can remember have not used the correct scale, but the hardware and OS's do. They've also had a notice on the packaging that states the scale they measure by, and probably on their website too. I never liked that they didn't follow the correct scale, but its a stupid lawsuit.
I don't disagree at all. There may be very little source code that would be of value to the community, however just because it's old doesn't make it bad. The SCO Unix product would have very little value, if any to Novell. Releasing the source would be a nice finishing touch on the SCO battle that Novell could use as good PR. SCO Unix is a pretty mature product, so if there are any gems of solid and usable logic within the code it's just gravy.
Novell likely doesn't ever expect to collect the debt owed to it by SCO. They've been using it as a tool to put an end to SCO's bully tactics. Novell may not have any desire to take over the actually business, but they could make a business from taking over the product and transitioning the customer base to their SuSE offering. In turn they could release the product source (as they would own it now) to the community. Linux developers could then benifit from any code that might be worth a damn within the product. I think it would be ironic that the very code SCO swears was stolen for the linux kernel, would be completely fair game for the kernel developers.
I flew about a year ago on United from Omaha to Orlando. One of the Gals in my party was told her carry on was too big, she is a diabetic and can't afford for her insulin to be lost. They forced her to check her bag at the gate. I was shocked, but they had an attendant waiting for us at the gate as we got off with her bag.
>If you're rebooting windows2000+ "several times per year", you either haven't figured out how to use a firewall, or you shouldn't be administrating anything.
Or it's patch Tuesday. We run a mixed shop. Fairly balanced too. I have 12 Windows servers, 15 Netware servers, and 8 Linux servers. Netware and Linux both issue patches, but I find myself rebooting those servers far less then once a month. When I hear about Netware or Linux servers running for years on end, I think.. Wow don't these people patch? Even Linux has kernel updates that require a reboot. Firewall or not, you shouldn't be skipping security updates just to keep the uptime clock going.
You were sold exactly what you paid for a box and a CD or DVD. The contents of that CD/DVD are governed by a license. If you agree to the terms, and those terms are not violating some law, then you are bound to those terms. If the license you've agreed to expired in a year, the software company isn't going to ask for the Box and DVD/CD back.
The fact that some rentals are prorated doesn't matter. In the case of software the license agreement is your rental agreement. Are they fair? Maybe not, but your choice comes in whether or not you choose to use that product.
As far as playing back "whereever you want", I don't believe copyright law gives you the right install software on as many devices as you want. That would make pretty much all license agreements void.
Maybe a video store wasn't the best comparison, but my point was that just because you have paid money for something doesn't mean you own it. You have to know what rights you are purchasing when your hand them your cash.
It didn't take any time at all. Yesterday my Windows Server Update Services server asked me to approve all that crap. It's even listed as Beta. I declined, but it appears it's already in the windows update pipeline.
When you go into a store and purchase a copy of Windows, it's more like going to the video store to rent a video. While you may play it in your home, it's not legal for you to reproduce it (FBI warning), or broadcast it publicly. Example - A movie theater can't rent a video from the video store and then charge you admission to view it. When Star Wars Episode I came out there were several warnings telling people not to show the Original Star Wars in the parking lots. Usage restrictions are not new, and didn't start with software.
I don't like being restricted anymore then you. You have 4 options: accept the agreement, violate the agreement (take the risk), get it declared legally invalid (expensive), or simply do not purchase/use the product.
I work for a college, and we jumped off the gateway ship less then 2 years ago. We feared they wouldn't survive long enough to service our warranty. We still have some 2 year+ old gateway machines around here, still under warranty. We just fill out a form they gave us and email it in. Parts arrive usually within 2 business days. I can't complain about that.
But I'm not Joe HomeComputer either, different markets get different results.
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I agree. A professor here teaches it on one of her classes. Everytime it's not working correctly, others in my cube farm have to listen to me work on it. "Delete that" "Scratch that" "Go to the beginning of the line". They've never used it, and they hate it. I'm not fond of it myself.
I never said the paparazzi has consent. The issue isn't that the photo was taken, the issue is that it was published for a profit. Tabloids do just this, and have been sued multiple times for it. That is why they have hordes of Lawyers to protect them, and they claim freedom of the press because their content is "news". A calendar isn't going to be classified as "news".
Selling a photo to a tabloid is not the same thing.
If you followed Jessica around (without her consent) for a couple weeks and took a few pictures of her each day. Then you took your favorite 12 pictures and made a calendar. You decided to sell the calendar as "An Actress who once played Daisy Duke".
You can bet Jessica would sue the pants off you.
"I couldn't come up with 3000 pages of new ways to spend other people's money."
You must not have a wife to help you with that. I couldn't do it alone..
It's so terribly sad that the parent is right.
and it's discontinued.
Craftsmen is owned by Sears. So even if you buy the brand from another outlet you are still putting money into the same pocket. If you find another brand you like that's great! I've been hosed on the "lifetime warranty" from other brands, but not *yet* from Sears.
I agree with the grandparent. The tools from sears are much too valuable to me to boycott the company as a whole. You can opt to not join the community online that contains the spyware, you can educate users and complain to the company without boycotting all products and services. I have yet to see a product boycott ever truly work. The bad press generated by awareness or suggestion of a boycott often makes companies back off.
Punishing a merchant by boycotting even the methods of business that they do right as well as the wrong ones does not send the right message. Walking into the store, picking up a wrench, and paying cash for it does not have more of a privacy cost then any other merchant. If you pay by credit or check, you're spinning the same wheel at sears as you do at any other stores. How is Sears to know that the message is we don't want your spyware? Refusing to walk into a retail store isn't sending that message, declining their EULA does.
USPS: Hey Netflix can you change your envelopes so they won't jam our machines?
Netflix: Why should we?
USPS: We'll charge your $0.17 per envelope to process them manually?
Netflix: We'll change our envelope.
Is there really more to this? I would think Netflix would want the post office to be able to more efficiently process the mail. The faster it's processed, the faster it can be loaded on a truck and heads out. If the mail is delayed due to manual processing, Netflix customers are going to be less satisfied.
There are at least 2 groups of people here though:
The first group though the company they were investing in had a product they would be able to sell and be profitable.
The second group simply saw the value of the company as being the rising stock value. The second group didn't have any idea what the product they would sell might be, or how viable it was. The second group most likely caused the bubble by driving up the price beyond it's reasonable market value.
The mentality that: This stock is similar to that stock that went way up. I'll buy some and get rich.
I'm no lawyer, but I believe you can copyright something without registering it. You must register and defend a trademark. Unless he provides documention of his registration, I would just ignore him. Actually, I'd ask him why he's whining about you making him money. By blogging on a name similar to his, you essentially made his domain into a more profitable typo squat domain.
In the old days we learned:
1 Byte = 8 bits
1 kilobyte = 1024 Bytes
1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes
1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
Which means that: 1 gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes This isn't a strange "Microsoft" scale. If you've ever watched your memory count on boot it uses the same scale. Harddrive manufacturers for as long as I can remember have not used the correct scale, but the hardware and OS's do. They've also had a notice on the packaging that states the scale they measure by, and probably on their website too. I never liked that they didn't follow the correct scale, but its a stupid lawsuit.
Interesting. College Parties are exactly the reason most of my friends aren't able to fit into sizes smaller then XL.
I don't disagree at all. There may be very little source code that would be of value to the community, however just because it's old doesn't make it bad. The SCO Unix product would have very little value, if any to Novell. Releasing the source would be a nice finishing touch on the SCO battle that Novell could use as good PR. SCO Unix is a pretty mature product, so if there are any gems of solid and usable logic within the code it's just gravy.
Novell likely doesn't ever expect to collect the debt owed to it by SCO. They've been using it as a tool to put an end to SCO's bully tactics. Novell may not have any desire to take over the actually business, but they could make a business from taking over the product and transitioning the customer base to their SuSE offering. In turn they could release the product source (as they would own it now) to the community. Linux developers could then benifit from any code that might be worth a damn within the product. I think it would be ironic that the very code SCO swears was stolen for the linux kernel, would be completely fair game for the kernel developers.
I flew about a year ago on United from Omaha to Orlando. One of the Gals in my party was told her carry on was too big, she is a diabetic and can't afford for her insulin to be lost. They forced her to check her bag at the gate. I was shocked, but they had an attendant waiting for us at the gate as we got off with her bag.
Except that in a month, or 6 months it won't be funny :)
> Using openSUSE instead of Windows since 9th of October, 2007 and loving it.
1 day? Now that should be modded funny!
Do brief stories usually come in several parts? What's funny about that is each part is longer then most articles we comment on every day.
>If you're rebooting windows2000+ "several times per year", you either haven't figured out how to use a firewall, or you shouldn't be administrating anything.
Or it's patch Tuesday. We run a mixed shop. Fairly balanced too. I have 12 Windows servers, 15 Netware servers, and 8 Linux servers. Netware and Linux both issue patches, but I find myself rebooting those servers far less then once a month. When I hear about Netware or Linux servers running for years on end, I think.. Wow don't these people patch? Even Linux has kernel updates that require a reboot. Firewall or not, you shouldn't be skipping security updates just to keep the uptime clock going.
You were sold exactly what you paid for a box and a CD or DVD. The contents of that CD/DVD are governed by a license. If you agree to the terms, and those terms are not violating some law, then you are bound to those terms. If the license you've agreed to expired in a year, the software company isn't going to ask for the Box and DVD/CD back.
The fact that some rentals are prorated doesn't matter. In the case of software the license agreement is your rental agreement. Are they fair? Maybe not, but your choice comes in whether or not you choose to use that product.
As far as playing back "whereever you want", I don't believe copyright law gives you the right install software on as many devices as you want. That would make pretty much all license agreements void.
Maybe a video store wasn't the best comparison, but my point was that just because you have paid money for something doesn't mean you own it. You have to know what rights you are purchasing when your hand them your cash.
It didn't take any time at all. Yesterday my Windows Server Update Services server asked me to approve all that crap. It's even listed as Beta. I declined, but it appears it's already in the windows update pipeline.
When you go into a store and purchase a copy of Windows, it's more like going to the video store to rent a video. While you may play it in your home, it's not legal for you to reproduce it (FBI warning), or broadcast it publicly. Example - A movie theater can't rent a video from the video store and then charge you admission to view it. When Star Wars Episode I came out there were several warnings telling people not to show the Original Star Wars in the parking lots. Usage restrictions are not new, and didn't start with software.
I don't like being restricted anymore then you. You have 4 options: accept the agreement, violate the agreement (take the risk), get it declared legally invalid (expensive), or simply do not purchase/use the product.
I work for a college, and we jumped off the gateway ship less then 2 years ago. We feared they wouldn't survive long enough to service our warranty. We still have some 2 year+ old gateway machines around here, still under warranty. We just fill out a form they gave us and email it in. Parts arrive usually within 2 business days. I can't complain about that.
But I'm not Joe HomeComputer either, different markets get different results.