I have no reason to doubt that Arrington is being screwed here, and that he does in fact have intellectual property rights that are being trampled on, but how much hard work did he actually do on this thing? My understanding is that he mostly said, "I want this thing with these specs at this price, make it happen" and his manufacturing partner is the one that actually built it.
This needs to be propped up as a shining example of what will happen to all U.S.A. IP companies in the next century unless they get manufacturing back in the US again. It's just the start of the rest of the world realizing: "Hey, we're making this stuff; you're just the guys who gave us the ephemeral part." (well, not really, China's realized it for a long time now, but they just make off-branded copies)
I mean I know our politicians are bought and paid for, but wouldn't 3-strikes and you're cut off violate due-process?
It's better than that: over time, people will adopt a rabbinical "fenced-in" "kosher" law to prevent themselves from violating the 3-strikes law. The *AA would like to believe the fence-law would be "never copy once", but that's too close to "never copy three times". Heck, the real kosher law of "never boil a kid in its mother's milk" has a fenced-in law of "never eat dairy and meat in the same meal". So the IP fence law would be "Never consume *AA material". Some are already doing this. Huzzah for our orthodox media non-consuming friends!
I'd love to see this turkey spend some time trying to get rid of a seriously nasty infection where he can NOT wipe the thing because they have data shotgunned all over the damned drive
Or figure out how to use a GPO to make Windows reboot one minute after non-admin-user logout if no one else has logged back in (it's harder than it seems at first glance).
I just can't help the feeling that in many cases for the HR department everyone from the scientific supercomputing guy to the one switching out the graphics card they are all "computer guys"
And HR is populated with headhunters, insurance specialists, accountants, grim reapers, arbitrators, etc, but all I see are HR people. They do their HR mojo in their department. About the only department in a business where everyone does the same thing (and people outside the group sort of know what they do) is Legal.
If you are a racist, then you cannot, by definition, be a democrat
I assume you used the little "d" democrat on purpose (an advocate of democracy), considering that big "D" Democrats (members of the party) tend to be fairly racist both historically and today.
I think kids are generally off-limit no? I certainly don't remember any comments about Bush's daughters (at least they didn't make it across the pond afaik).
Bush's daughters were (are still) subjected to comments about being drunken whores.
I don't. Once it's a public company, it has a fiduciary responsibility to bend its users over to try and get as much money for its shareholders as it can.
faster than light means time travel (&, thus, causality violations)
Or causality support. What if the time traveling foo-fighters from 40750 never shot down the Nazi planes, killed Hitler in his bunker, or performed a few experiments on cows (which are now extinct in 40750)? What if they never gave the secret of the transistor to Shockley? We'd not have the internet yet (or it would be telephone lines connecting the 10 or so ENIACs worldwide), and Midwestern farmers would have larger livestock herds (and cows wouldn't be extinct in 40750).
"But he abandoned his model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light."
I'd call that a feature, not a bug!
Exactly! "Oh no, my theory doesn't match the theory it's replacing!" Well, experiment, dummy! Did Einstein say "oh no, my theory allows light rays to bend and makes C the absolute speed!"? No! He got together with other scientists in 1919 and watched starshine bend around an eclipse.
i'm thinking a Mac just because he can learn some UNIX on it and it's usable unlike most of the linux distro's i've tried. I do think Ubuntu sucks as a home PC
So you give UNIX a ++, but think that Linux is unusable. Then you attack Ubuntu specifically. Strange.
Oh, and by the way, Chromium is released under the BSD license, which is free-as-in-speech. I don't know what the license terms will be if such a hypothetical netbook were released, but at least the OS running on it would be open source.
IIRC, chromium =/= chrome OS. It's like saying BSD is released under the BSD license, so Mac OS X and Windows (both use different amounts of BSD code) are open source. Since Chromium is released under BSD, Google can make any number of changes they want to it before they distribute it as Chrome OS.
i kwno what you men. i nevrr ook ay my ketboared while tyoiung thingd either.
Obviously faked because rje iPhone xirrwrvts all spelling ettots as you type. (purposefully mistyped every character in that sentence, and it almost got it. Of course even more annoying is when it changes things that are already correct)
I HATE experts exchange. I program for a living and often when I come across odd bugs I'll do a quick google to see if someone else has had the same problem. Sure enough, experts exchange ranks near the top. You can actually see what the 'expert' answer is by scrolling right to the bottom of the page (I was told google threatened to take them off their search if they didn't have the answer) but now that I can see the answer, it's still usually complete rubbish.
Whereas with sysadmin questions, in just about any OS, the answers about obscure things are usually spot-on.
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I have no reason to doubt that Arrington is being screwed here, and that he does in fact have intellectual property rights that are being trampled on, but how much hard work did he actually do on this thing? My understanding is that he mostly said, "I want this thing with these specs at this price, make it happen" and his manufacturing partner is the one that actually built it.
This needs to be propped up as a shining example of what will happen to all U.S.A. IP companies in the next century unless they get manufacturing back in the US again. It's just the start of the rest of the world realizing: "Hey, we're making this stuff; you're just the guys who gave us the ephemeral part." (well, not really, China's realized it for a long time now, but they just make off-branded copies)
gathering tomorrow at D.C. 18:00 in front of WH.
Black tie and red dress with silk scarf for admittance.
progressive
I don't think that word means the same to you and to them.
I mean I know our politicians are bought and paid for, but wouldn't 3-strikes and you're cut off violate due-process?
It's better than that: over time, people will adopt a rabbinical "fenced-in" "kosher" law to prevent themselves from violating the 3-strikes law. The *AA would like to believe the fence-law would be "never copy once", but that's too close to "never copy three times". Heck, the real kosher law of "never boil a kid in its mother's milk" has a fenced-in law of "never eat dairy and meat in the same meal". So the IP fence law would be "Never consume *AA material". Some are already doing this. Huzzah for our orthodox media non-consuming friends!
Each American produces over 4 times the CO2 emissions of each Chinese person.
So we're 4 times as big? We all knew that.
I feel like I've read this story before -- have you posted it on Slashdot in the past?
I don't have my copy of UNIX System Administration Handbook (Nemeth, Seebass) handy, but I'm almost certain it's part of the intro.
I'd expect to find a circular saw in the garage, and only yard-tools and lawnmowers in the tool-shed. Sorry, couldn't help heaping it on.
I'd love to see this turkey spend some time trying to get rid of a seriously nasty infection where he can NOT wipe the thing because they have data shotgunned all over the damned drive
Or figure out how to use a GPO to make Windows reboot one minute after non-admin-user logout if no one else has logged back in (it's harder than it seems at first glance).
I use to
used to
/grammarnazi
I just can't help the feeling that in many cases for the HR department everyone from the scientific supercomputing guy to the one switching out the graphics card they are all "computer guys"
And HR is populated with headhunters, insurance specialists, accountants, grim reapers, arbitrators, etc, but all I see are HR people. They do their HR mojo in their department. About the only department in a business where everyone does the same thing (and people outside the group sort of know what they do) is Legal.
Isn't that supernova really in the past if we see it go kablooie soon?
Look at all the bullshit you have to go through just to fix some spelling mistakes. That's why people leave Wikipedia and why it sucks.
And why the level of spelling errors will increase geometrically as less-experienced editors and contributors fill the empty seats.
Men are from mars- not bacteria. Yeah, and some bacteria are definitely venereal.
If you are a racist, then you cannot, by definition, be a democrat
I assume you used the little "d" democrat on purpose (an advocate of democracy), considering that big "D" Democrats (members of the party) tend to be fairly racist both historically and today.
I think kids are generally off-limit no? I certainly don't remember any comments about Bush's daughters (at least they didn't make it across the pond afaik).
Bush's daughters were (are still) subjected to comments about being drunken whores.
I don't. Once it's a public company, it has a fiduciary responsibility to bend its users over to try and get as much money for its shareholders as it can.
And you forgot your link for your subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikified Oops, it was deleted.
Also, it seems that this would encourage people to use the panic button for stupid reasons.
I ordered pizza online with my credit card two hours ago, and the delivery guy isn't here yet.
faster than light means time travel (&, thus, causality violations)
Or causality support. What if the time traveling foo-fighters from 40750 never shot down the Nazi planes, killed Hitler in his bunker, or performed a few experiments on cows (which are now extinct in 40750)? What if they never gave the secret of the transistor to Shockley? We'd not have the internet yet (or it would be telephone lines connecting the 10 or so ENIACs worldwide), and Midwestern farmers would have larger livestock herds (and cows wouldn't be extinct in 40750).
"But he abandoned his model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light."
I'd call that a feature, not a bug!
Exactly! "Oh no, my theory doesn't match the theory it's replacing!" Well, experiment, dummy! Did Einstein say "oh no, my theory allows light rays to bend and makes C the absolute speed!"? No! He got together with other scientists in 1919 and watched starshine bend around an eclipse.
i'm thinking a Mac just because he can learn some UNIX on it and it's usable unlike most of the linux distro's i've tried. I do think Ubuntu sucks as a home PC
So you give UNIX a ++, but think that Linux is unusable. Then you attack Ubuntu specifically. Strange.
Oh, and by the way, Chromium is released under the BSD license, which is free-as-in-speech. I don't know what the license terms will be if such a hypothetical netbook were released, but at least the OS running on it would be open source.
IIRC, chromium =/= chrome OS. It's like saying BSD is released under the BSD license, so Mac OS X and Windows (both use different amounts of BSD code) are open source. Since Chromium is released under BSD, Google can make any number of changes they want to it before they distribute it as Chrome OS.
At least try to sell us motherboards and shit...
yeah no shit. [...]
I concur. Just motherboards. I don't create my own motherboards.
i kwno what you men. i nevrr ook ay my ketboared while tyoiung thingd either.
Obviously faked because rje iPhone xirrwrvts all spelling ettots as you type. (purposefully mistyped every character in that sentence, and it almost got it. Of course even more annoying is when it changes things that are already correct)
I HATE experts exchange. I program for a living and often when I come across odd bugs I'll do a quick google to see if someone else has had the same problem. Sure enough, experts exchange ranks near the top. You can actually see what the 'expert' answer is by scrolling right to the bottom of the page (I was told google threatened to take them off their search if they didn't have the answer) but now that I can see the answer, it's still usually complete rubbish.
Whereas with sysadmin questions, in just about any OS, the answers about obscure things are usually spot-on.