Well, they kind of have to do so. In many states like WA, in order to win a lawsuit you just have to prove that the law was violated, but if you also want compensation you have to demonstrate that you took all reasonable steps to limit the damage.
If you don't have a robots.txt file at all that's on you, if it's broken, that's on you, but possible to win the first half and possibly some money. Really the only way that you can win and get money is if you demonstrate that the aggregator ignored the file.
You do realize that both the NPR and BBC use AP sources, right? Yes they do a lot of it on their own, but they frequently use licensed content. Content that they pay for. Or in those cases the people pay for. The BBC via tax and NPR via government grants and user donations.
But in both cases somebody is paying for the content.It is stupid to point that out. The free sources are just not as good as sources that are paid for in some form. Yes you don't have to donate to NPR, but if you live in a nation with a government news outlet you do have to pay. And ultimately if nobody donates to NPR it's not going to be there very long, content is expensive.
It's fanciful to imply that bloggers have the time to spend each day hanging out on a beat. Things may only happen a few times a month at the local city hall, but you still need somebody to hang out there for the scoop. I cannot imagine bloggers having that sort of time, at least not ones that expect to eat or have an apartment.
Sigh, I wish people would stop implying that XP is better than vista, and definitely stop implying that it's better than 7. 7 isn't even out for God's sake.
XP is pretty decent, but Vista is a better OS in pretty much every way imaginable. The number of times that my parents have bothered me about either or their computers over the last 6 months is less than the number of times that they bothered me in an average month with any of the predecessors.
I'm not suggesting that my experience alone is sufficient, but let's be a tad honest here, the vast majority of the people have no issues with Vista this is basically just pound on MS for the sake of it.
And this is coming from somebody that has a distinct dislike for MS software.
It's not reasonable at all. I saw a balance of ~8.6M and thought what kind of bug is this. A few moments later it was down to ~6.9M clearly a bug. The other columns were correct.
In other words, there's no way that it could have been legit while still staying within regulations.
Plus just because it's 4/1, doesn't mean that people are obligated to put up a joke. Some things are sufficiently serious that you just don't joke about them. The people that were saying that it was a prank are the same ones that have been creating conspiracy theories and generally bashing the company for their own mistakes.
I doubt that they'll get in too much trouble over this, the buying power they display is a guideline for the convenience of the consumer. It's a best guess approximation for how much a person could buy. Due to things like market conditions and volatility it's not meant to be authoritative in that respect. And no amount of screw ups on the broker's part are going to forgive what is fraudulent abuse of a bug.
Zecco is righting the people that were acting in good faith, the people who may have gone over a few shares because of the bug, I don't think that the people that were going to buy a majority stake in GM will be let off that easily.
I understand the problem, but which would you rather be dishonest or greedy? Ultimately, 15 years is a long time even for a well cared for machine to last. Realistically you're not likely to have somebody paying you to do it for them that could do that kind of work.
Best case you get really lucky, you put the machine together and the hardware lasts for time. Likelihood of it happening without a lot of maintenance, negligible. Likelihood of somebody having to be paid to keep the ancient pile of crud going from years 10-15 almost certain.
Yes, you do run a very high risk of looking greedy. But at the same time if you don't he'll likely pay through the nose in the short term, pay too much for maintenance later, and probably pay way too much when the system abruptly dies and can't be resuscitated.
So yes, it's a hard sell and it makes you look kind of bad, tactifully pointing out the extra costs involved with the demand over just replacing the hardware is probably the best bet. With the upside being that you don't have to spend as much time setting it up or charge as much as you would otherwise.
Or something from Soekris engineering, it's really low processing power, but if a text prompt is fine, there's no need to go with anything much more powerful. With the benefit of not having to worry a whole lot about.
I know some of the newer versions come in a 500mhz speed. Plus it runs both Linux and FreeBSD so you don't have to worry much about which version of Debian to use.;) If the application is that low powered, there really isn't any reason to get a 1ghz based computer.
I disagree, the point was putting the rocket up. The sanctions were for attempting it, so they'll end up with sanctions, the missed the successful launch and they're missing the PR victory that a successful launch would have provided.
They may end up getting some PR by claiming that it was sabotaged or shot down, but I wouldn't count on getting anything from that. And they're not going to learn much without getting one into orbit. Which coincidentally will probably won't be possible with the increase in cooperation that this is likely to result in between the surrounding nations.
If they manage to salvage a little bit of information it's unlikely to be worth the problems.
But, is the Intel architecture really worth maintaining? The only reason I can see keeping the current IA32 around is that there's such a huge code base, and realistically if we cut the cord now, it wouldn't be too long before we could just use emulation for the old non-portable code.
I'm really not sure that it's a good idea to keep it around just because. A more or less fresh start with more modern assumptions isn't really a bad idea. Both technology as well as usage patterns have changed drastically over the decades.
That doesn't necessarily mean that Intel should be cut out, but more that keeping processors just because isn't a great idea.
Why exactly is it an either or? ARM isn't exactly a single thing, there are multiple related architectures which are tied up in it. Having one that's more appropriate for desktops is hardly unreasonable without disturbing the more traditional market.
I'd say that it's far more likely that ARM would make an impact in the desktop market than intel make a significant impact in the mobile market.
Yes, that would require something other than the current Windows, but most of those people buying those sorts of PCs would be savvy enough to run Linux or something else anyways.
I think that depends largely upon how custom the OP's talking. I know that the openpandora.org project got some introductions through TI to find an engineer. With most of the chips and goobins being somewhat standard OMAP3.
But from what I understand it had a lot to do with somebody at TI wanting it as a bit of a pet project to show off the technology.
You misunderstood. I was saying that you couldn't do it for that reason. I thought that it was a service to show things like the office a bit early. Which now that I think of it would be brilliant.
But I guess they were pranking about seeing things before they happen.
Historically it definitely was something that you could do. My dad knew somebody way back that would cheat in a similar fashion.
I doubt this would be so useful as a wagering aid. For one thing most sports are broadcast live and for another thing should you actually do so successfully and somebody caught you, that'd be illegal.
Perhaps I'll stop with my anti-Republicanism when they stop actively fighting my self interest.
If they want me to stop hating them perhaps they should stop fighting hate crimes legislation and preventing me from having all of my rights. Perhaps they should acknowledge that as a citizen, one that pays taxes no less, that I should have an equal amount of freedom.
But then again, we could just pretend like the party doesn't have some incredibly anti-American policies. Perhaps we could then force it into a dogma because clearly people's own self interest must be dogma.
I think it's vaguely ironic that you can't comprehend that people might hate the Republican party on it's merits without being strict partisans.
Actually a ruling may take a few hours or many hours, it depends upon how much case law is involved and how complicated the issues are.
In this case, I'm surprised it took that long to rule. Much of this was already tried previously in other contexts, had this been a ruling on something that's new, that might have taken a while.
Sure there is, I'm guessing that it's a federal judge sitting on a bench in New Jersey. It's not any different than referring to somebody as a Tallahassee lawyer or an East Bristol painter.
Just because you can't separate the two bits doesn't mean that it's wrong.
Um, what, the GP said that the work hard to get Google to publish as much content as possible. It's something that's a part of their business model and apparently works in the interest of all involved.
I'd say the bigger question is how many journalists are going to be able to afford working for weeks on end to bring a large story to the web. Or even still to be at city hall day in and day out in case there's something important going on.
Those are the real issues, you can do things like wiki leaks for whistleblowers, but the current system doesn't work when people cave in under threat of jail.
You sir are correct. Basically what they're doing is requiring individuals in countries that enforce copyright legislation subsidize the prices for individuals in nations that don't enforce it. Remind me again why exactly we're better off with the sort of thuggish protectionism that characterizes US IP policy.
That's flawed reasoning. Just because you can construct a corner case does not demonstrate the point you're making.
There's also the issue of something like that being a loophole which could be used by pedophiles with patience and would after a period lead to a large amount of material being released without the ability of the courts to intervene. And it doesn't address the problem of distribution against the wishes of the parties involved.
Sometimes things are banned because it's nigh impossible to sort out the less dangerous and there's no incentive for bothering to do so.
If you've read the articles on this, there's multiple issues one is the creation another is distribution and the last is possession. What will most likely come of this is creating child porn of yourself without distributing would be legal. But if you do any of those with somebody else, that would be criminal. But if you were to create and possess child porn of yourself, it's unlikely that any court would be able to get a jury to convict on that.
The problem is that gradualism does work, it's just a matter of deciding when to make larger changes and how to do it.
The biggest thing is not screwing with the configuration or menu layout without a good reason for doing so, and keeping an eye on it regularly. Minor changes that make logical sense aren't a bad thing, but making huge changes like the folks at MS do, is just going to alienate users.
Anything that the user doesn't see or notice can be tweaked an incredibly amount without trouble as long as it's done carefully and integrates right afterwards.
It's really that last bit that tends to cause the most trouble in many projects. It's why FreeBSD has included the Compat4x and such for so long, it helps with integration of older programs.
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Well, they kind of have to do so. In many states like WA, in order to win a lawsuit you just have to prove that the law was violated, but if you also want compensation you have to demonstrate that you took all reasonable steps to limit the damage.
If you don't have a robots.txt file at all that's on you, if it's broken, that's on you, but possible to win the first half and possibly some money. Really the only way that you can win and get money is if you demonstrate that the aggregator ignored the file.
You do realize that both the NPR and BBC use AP sources, right? Yes they do a lot of it on their own, but they frequently use licensed content. Content that they pay for. Or in those cases the people pay for. The BBC via tax and NPR via government grants and user donations.
But in both cases somebody is paying for the content.It is stupid to point that out. The free sources are just not as good as sources that are paid for in some form. Yes you don't have to donate to NPR, but if you live in a nation with a government news outlet you do have to pay. And ultimately if nobody donates to NPR it's not going to be there very long, content is expensive.
It's fanciful to imply that bloggers have the time to spend each day hanging out on a beat. Things may only happen a few times a month at the local city hall, but you still need somebody to hang out there for the scoop. I cannot imagine bloggers having that sort of time, at least not ones that expect to eat or have an apartment.
Sigh, I wish people would stop implying that XP is better than vista, and definitely stop implying that it's better than 7. 7 isn't even out for God's sake.
XP is pretty decent, but Vista is a better OS in pretty much every way imaginable. The number of times that my parents have bothered me about either or their computers over the last 6 months is less than the number of times that they bothered me in an average month with any of the predecessors.
I'm not suggesting that my experience alone is sufficient, but let's be a tad honest here, the vast majority of the people have no issues with Vista this is basically just pound on MS for the sake of it.
And this is coming from somebody that has a distinct dislike for MS software.
It's not reasonable at all. I saw a balance of ~8.6M and thought what kind of bug is this. A few moments later it was down to ~6.9M clearly a bug. The other columns were correct.
In other words, there's no way that it could have been legit while still staying within regulations.
Plus just because it's 4/1, doesn't mean that people are obligated to put up a joke. Some things are sufficiently serious that you just don't joke about them. The people that were saying that it was a prank are the same ones that have been creating conspiracy theories and generally bashing the company for their own mistakes.
I doubt that they'll get in too much trouble over this, the buying power they display is a guideline for the convenience of the consumer. It's a best guess approximation for how much a person could buy. Due to things like market conditions and volatility it's not meant to be authoritative in that respect. And no amount of screw ups on the broker's part are going to forgive what is fraudulent abuse of a bug.
Zecco is righting the people that were acting in good faith, the people who may have gone over a few shares because of the bug, I don't think that the people that were going to buy a majority stake in GM will be let off that easily.
I understand the problem, but which would you rather be dishonest or greedy? Ultimately, 15 years is a long time even for a well cared for machine to last. Realistically you're not likely to have somebody paying you to do it for them that could do that kind of work.
Best case you get really lucky, you put the machine together and the hardware lasts for time. Likelihood of it happening without a lot of maintenance, negligible. Likelihood of somebody having to be paid to keep the ancient pile of crud going from years 10-15 almost certain.
Yes, you do run a very high risk of looking greedy. But at the same time if you don't he'll likely pay through the nose in the short term, pay too much for maintenance later, and probably pay way too much when the system abruptly dies and can't be resuscitated.
So yes, it's a hard sell and it makes you look kind of bad, tactifully pointing out the extra costs involved with the demand over just replacing the hardware is probably the best bet. With the upside being that you don't have to spend as much time setting it up or charge as much as you would otherwise.
Or something from Soekris engineering, it's really low processing power, but if a text prompt is fine, there's no need to go with anything much more powerful. With the benefit of not having to worry a whole lot about.
I know some of the newer versions come in a 500mhz speed. Plus it runs both Linux and FreeBSD so you don't have to worry much about which version of Debian to use. ;)
If the application is that low powered, there really isn't any reason to get a 1ghz based computer.
I disagree, the point was putting the rocket up. The sanctions were for attempting it, so they'll end up with sanctions, the missed the successful launch and they're missing the PR victory that a successful launch would have provided.
They may end up getting some PR by claiming that it was sabotaged or shot down, but I wouldn't count on getting anything from that. And they're not going to learn much without getting one into orbit. Which coincidentally will probably won't be possible with the increase in cooperation that this is likely to result in between the surrounding nations.
If they manage to salvage a little bit of information it's unlikely to be worth the problems.
Debian is dead. Netcraft confirms it.
But, is the Intel architecture really worth maintaining? The only reason I can see keeping the current IA32 around is that there's such a huge code base, and realistically if we cut the cord now, it wouldn't be too long before we could just use emulation for the old non-portable code.
I'm really not sure that it's a good idea to keep it around just because. A more or less fresh start with more modern assumptions isn't really a bad idea. Both technology as well as usage patterns have changed drastically over the decades.
That doesn't necessarily mean that Intel should be cut out, but more that keeping processors just because isn't a great idea.
Why exactly is it an either or? ARM isn't exactly a single thing, there are multiple related architectures which are tied up in it. Having one that's more appropriate for desktops is hardly unreasonable without disturbing the more traditional market.
I'd say that it's far more likely that ARM would make an impact in the desktop market than intel make a significant impact in the mobile market.
Yes, that would require something other than the current Windows, but most of those people buying those sorts of PCs would be savvy enough to run Linux or something else anyways.
Indeed, and don't forget about the toxic byproducts from common antibacterial soaps and the tendency of MRSA to be spread via sanitizing products.
I think that depends largely upon how custom the OP's talking. I know that the openpandora.org project got some introductions through TI to find an engineer. With most of the chips and goobins being somewhat standard OMAP3.
But from what I understand it had a lot to do with somebody at TI wanting it as a bit of a pet project to show off the technology.
You misunderstood. I was saying that you couldn't do it for that reason. I thought that it was a service to show things like the office a bit early. Which now that I think of it would be brilliant.
But I guess they were pranking about seeing things before they happen.
Historically it definitely was something that you could do. My dad knew somebody way back that would cheat in a similar fashion.
Of course if I read further down it would be obvious that this wasn't talking about a net attachment.
I doubt this would be so useful as a wagering aid. For one thing most sports are broadcast live and for another thing should you actually do so successfully and somebody caught you, that'd be illegal.
We need a site that caters to the ultra short messages of light.
2009/4/1 12:00 pm: Dude ;-)
2009/4/1 11:23 am: Dude
2009/4/1 11:04 am: D-Ude
See, now isn't that a whole lot of self indulgent crap we don't have to ignore?
Perhaps I'll stop with my anti-Republicanism when they stop actively fighting my self interest.
If they want me to stop hating them perhaps they should stop fighting hate crimes legislation and preventing me from having all of my rights. Perhaps they should acknowledge that as a citizen, one that pays taxes no less, that I should have an equal amount of freedom.
But then again, we could just pretend like the party doesn't have some incredibly anti-American policies. Perhaps we could then force it into a dogma because clearly people's own self interest must be dogma.
I think it's vaguely ironic that you can't comprehend that people might hate the Republican party on it's merits without being strict partisans.
Actually a ruling may take a few hours or many hours, it depends upon how much case law is involved and how complicated the issues are.
In this case, I'm surprised it took that long to rule. Much of this was already tried previously in other contexts, had this been a ruling on something that's new, that might have taken a while.
Sure there is, I'm guessing that it's a federal judge sitting on a bench in New Jersey. It's not any different than referring to somebody as a Tallahassee lawyer or an East Bristol painter.
Just because you can't separate the two bits doesn't mean that it's wrong.
Well, obviously, you haven't played the expansion which includes a "special controller."
Um, what, the GP said that the work hard to get Google to publish as much content as possible. It's something that's a part of their business model and apparently works in the interest of all involved.
I'd say the bigger question is how many journalists are going to be able to afford working for weeks on end to bring a large story to the web. Or even still to be at city hall day in and day out in case there's something important going on.
Those are the real issues, you can do things like wiki leaks for whistleblowers, but the current system doesn't work when people cave in under threat of jail.
You sir are correct. Basically what they're doing is requiring individuals in countries that enforce copyright legislation subsidize the prices for individuals in nations that don't enforce it. Remind me again why exactly we're better off with the sort of thuggish protectionism that characterizes US IP policy.
That's flawed reasoning. Just because you can construct a corner case does not demonstrate the point you're making.
There's also the issue of something like that being a loophole which could be used by pedophiles with patience and would after a period lead to a large amount of material being released without the ability of the courts to intervene. And it doesn't address the problem of distribution against the wishes of the parties involved.
Sometimes things are banned because it's nigh impossible to sort out the less dangerous and there's no incentive for bothering to do so.
If you've read the articles on this, there's multiple issues one is the creation another is distribution and the last is possession. What will most likely come of this is creating child porn of yourself without distributing would be legal. But if you do any of those with somebody else, that would be criminal. But if you were to create and possess child porn of yourself, it's unlikely that any court would be able to get a jury to convict on that.
The problem is that gradualism does work, it's just a matter of deciding when to make larger changes and how to do it.
The biggest thing is not screwing with the configuration or menu layout without a good reason for doing so, and keeping an eye on it regularly. Minor changes that make logical sense aren't a bad thing, but making huge changes like the folks at MS do, is just going to alienate users.
Anything that the user doesn't see or notice can be tweaked an incredibly amount without trouble as long as it's done carefully and integrates right afterwards.
It's really that last bit that tends to cause the most trouble in many projects. It's why FreeBSD has included the Compat4x and such for so long, it helps with integration of older programs.