Your still agreed to a contract which prohibits this when you purchased the music. I do believe that most copyright lawyers will tell you that this contract supersedes any fair use rights you might claim too
Many such laws (at least here in Norway) contains right you can't negotiate away. No matter what the record company prints on its CDs, fair use rights still apply. And companies can't disclaim all responsibility for everything either.
Whether they agreed that Saddam was a bad man, or that he posed a threat, France, Germany, and Russia saw that it was in their best interests to oppose the war
In retrospect, they were also right. No links to terror have been found, no weapons of mass destruction. The US lied, because Bush had an agenda... being a bad man isn't a valid reason to go to war. I think Bush is a bad man in many ways, but I don't think anyone has the right to attack the US even so.
Do I think Iraq is a better place without Saddam? Certainly. Do I think Cuba would be a better place without Castro? Yes. Do I think the US would be a better place without Bush? Yes. Do I think war is the answer when something happens you don't like? No.
Firstly, Anandtech uses flash for its images so that people w/o the plugin can't see the data. This forces you to install it, so that you can see their OTHER Flash pieces... ads.
Get flashclick.
You can then install the flash plugin, and you'll have to click on the flash areas to download/run it. Now you can look at the sites which really need it, while still avoiding the flash ads. Very, very nice.
One of the reasons why the XBox supposedly has a hard drive installed is so that Microsoft could use it's failed Ultimate TV product to make an XBox that in addition to play games could also have DVR capabilites simply by dropping in a few extra chips and a bigger HD.
I know I'm hoping for them to do that (well, obviously with a much bigger hard drive). While I'd rather have a Tivo, getting similar functionality in an X-box is better than nothing (Tivo doesn't sell outside US, unfortunately... I'd buy one in a heartbeat).
I know I could build a small media PC myself, but it would require lots of power (current PC architecture isn't terribly power efficient), time , cost a lot more and be noisier (than a Tivo, anyway... I loved mine when I lived in the US).
According to most MS-bashers IE is not part of the OS either (in order to blame Netscape's demise on monopolistic product tying)
Part of the OS? Yes. A necesarry part? No. Microsoft chose to implement a tie between them.
It wasn't necesarry, of course, but it was a way which made it easier to enforce usage and make sure it couldn't be removed.
It only accelerated the process, though... when you can put far more resources into development, give it away for "free" (just take the resources from the mandatory OS charge) and make sure it's installed and the default, it was only a question of time anyway.
I can not think of a single wholy selfless use of US military might, ever.
Somalia. That stopped quickly, though, because there was no other purpose and there were losses.
That said, sending people to die just to save others is a position which is hard to defend. Why should your own kids die to kill and save people you've never heard of?
1. Debian Stable is a long standing distro with support best measured in multiple years. Fedora Core says 6 months of support.
That's because Debian releases a year or more after the technology was available. When a new release is out, the old one is dropped like a hot potato. It's nothing like the old Red Hat Linux policy of supporting a release for 3 years or the 5 year life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux... it's just what happens when supporting only the current release and taking too long to release a new one.
It's not about the product in that case, it's that Microsoft used illegal tactics to force its success rather than just competing fairly. Effectively, SCO is whining to Congress because the product is superior, that's all.
Competing fairly with a competitor giving out a product for "free" (taking money from the pile they get from the OS from all users) is pretty hard, though. Microsoft has the power to ruin pretty much any Windows-based software company if the software becomes too popular... just bundle it in Windows as part of the OS, or perhaps in Office.
the thing with these stupid and anticompetitive named origin rules is that in general they stifle competition by preventing the SAME products from different regions from competing against each other.
No, they don't. You'll just have to call your sparkling wine something else than champagne, and your processed milk w/cellulose something else than parmesan, and it's fine. The same way you can't call something 'Coca-Cola' on a whim either.
if competitor from a different region's cannot be differentiated by experts in a blind test, then it IS the same product.
That's not consistent with how trademarks work. Some say it's from a company, others that it is from a region.
and americans love to laugh at europeans (EU) with their stupid and blatantly anticompetitive "named origin" rules that tolerate such bullshit.
That's not anti-competetive and stupid... the names have been built up through hard work during a long time. It's not a company, like Coca-Cola, but an area, and it should still apply.
People elsewhere aren't forbidden to use those methods, but I'm perfectly fine with Kraft not being able to call its cheese with sawdust (cellulose) for Parmesan.
Do you think that the court can be made to understand that the only reason SCO doesn't want anyone to know what code is infringing is that two hours later, nobody is going to be using that particular code any more and therefore won't owe SCO anything?
The code used now is available publically, so evidence can't disappear
Not telling what is wrong so the damages increase can't be legal, even in the US.
If they had a case, they'd have used CnD to stop people from infringing.
The people at debian caught on, but what about at other distros? Have they made sure that their machines havn't been exploited and no trojan type code was introduced?
Security is more than just patching the systems, have a secure internal network and a good security policy to live by, and the risk of exploits happening inside goes down. If you can't connect to any machine (and thus not log on to it), you won't have the ability to exploit the vulnerability either.
You could look at this the other way, 10% of businesses abandoned RHEL. The way the RHEL license/contract reads, if you decide not to renew, you have to remove RHEL.
No, you just don't get support, updates and new releases.
What I really wanted to say was that RedHat always struck me as about 95% OSS becuase they used things like commercial OSS drivers... ok that's it, I'm going to lie down!
Red Hat has never shipped the commercial OSS drivers with Red Hat Linux, and has been pure open source since mozilla was mature enough to throw netscape out. And no special license on the installer like SuSE either.
I have enjoyed using Red Hat for years. I'm glad they are making money in the Corporate world. However the recent statement that Red Hat made that Linux wasn't ready for the home user is a self fulfulling prophecy in their case.
And still, Fedora is the best distro there is for home systems... for enthusiasts, developers and others who want to get their fingers dirty, it's great at home too. But for people who expect that every snazzy gadget or other piece of hardware bought at CompUSA, bestbuy etc just works, want to play games, do their taxes (the obvious alternative is to do it on the web, which works), it's not there yet. And while it is steadily getting better, being honest to oneself about what's good and what's not, isn't bad... only by knowing where you have potential for improvement can you get better.
Open source, closed source, it does not matter. Open source is not a cure for solid software development practices, and open source is not a synonym for solid software development practices. Likewise "closed-source" does not equate to poor practices.
Of course. One argument for open source is the ability to trust the system, that there's no attempts to swing the vote in any way in the code. Would you trust companies buying politicians already to run the election on a system you can't check?
That said, even with source code available, you'd still have the problem of how to trust that the code being run is what you see... Also, these standards need to be applied to the rest of the system, from CPU and up if you want to be completely paranoid...
In the end, paper is just simpler, and you can keep physical evidence of how the election happened.
Note that the good things that Redhat does with its distro do not conflict with having a Debian-foundation, and the fact that Redhat has decided to fracture the internet community because it refuses to have Fedora Core 1 be a customized Debian is just plain silly!
Why would Red Hat do this? Red Hat already had a great foundation to build on, Red Hat Linux. It's far ahead of Debian in most areas... so regress a couple of years to build on Debian? Why? The opposite would make far more sense.
How, exactly, is this even an issue? Sure, they'll come up with some nasty crap that takes over your broswer and most broswers will come up with a fix in very shiort order and MS will take three years to fix it.
Browsers would have a hard time of working around schemes where you see a big ad first and have to click on a link for the real content. You could also add pages like that inbetween other pages in a multi page story.
How does killing off your major product make this a "good thing" for everyone?
Red Hat is not killing off a major product, they are repositioning it as a free product, more open than before (open development process) - easier to redistribute as well.
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Your still agreed to a contract which prohibits this when you purchased the music. I do believe that most copyright lawyers will tell you that this contract supersedes any fair use rights you might claim too
Many such laws (at least here in Norway) contains right you can't negotiate away. No matter what the record company prints on its CDs, fair use rights still apply. And companies can't disclaim all responsibility for everything either.
Whether they agreed that Saddam was a bad man, or that he posed a threat, France, Germany, and Russia saw that it was in their best interests to oppose the war
In retrospect, they were also right. No links to terror have been found, no weapons of mass destruction. The US lied, because Bush had an agenda... being a bad man isn't a valid reason to go to war. I think Bush is a bad man in many ways, but I don't think anyone has the right to attack the US even so.
Do I think Iraq is a better place without Saddam? Certainly. Do I think Cuba would be a better place without Castro? Yes. Do I think the US would be a better place without Bush? Yes. Do I think war is the answer when something happens you don't like? No.
Firstly, Anandtech uses flash for its images so that people w/o the plugin can't see the data. This forces you to install it, so that you can see their OTHER Flash pieces... ads.
Get flashclick. You can then install the flash plugin, and you'll have to click on the flash areas to download/run it. Now you can look at the sites which really need it, while still avoiding the flash ads. Very, very nice.
One of the reasons why the XBox supposedly has a hard drive installed is so that Microsoft could use it's failed Ultimate TV product to make an XBox that in addition to play games could also have DVR capabilites simply by dropping in a few extra chips and a bigger HD.
I know I'm hoping for them to do that (well, obviously with a much bigger hard drive). While I'd rather have a Tivo, getting similar functionality in an X-box is better than nothing (Tivo doesn't sell outside US, unfortunately... I'd buy one in a heartbeat).
I know I could build a small media PC myself, but it would require lots of power (current PC architecture isn't terribly power efficient), time , cost a lot more and be noisier (than a Tivo, anyway... I loved mine when I lived in the US).
According to most MS-bashers IE is not part of the OS either (in order to blame Netscape's demise on monopolistic product tying)
Part of the OS? Yes. A necesarry part? No. Microsoft chose to implement a tie between them. It wasn't necesarry, of course, but it was a way which made it easier to enforce usage and make sure it couldn't be removed.
It only accelerated the process, though... when you can put far more resources into development, give it away for "free" (just take the resources from the mandatory OS charge) and make sure it's installed and the default, it was only a question of time anyway.
They discarded worms that acquire remote root without any user interaction. You can't chalk that up to user stupidity.
Sure you can:
I don't see Canada going around toppling dictators to "make the world a better place". Why should the US be expected to do so??
On the other side, Canada doesn't have a history of creating them and supporting them either. The US certainly do....
I can not think of a single wholy selfless use of US military might, ever.
Somalia. That stopped quickly, though, because there was no other purpose and there were losses.
That said, sending people to die just to save others is a position which is hard to defend. Why should your own kids die to kill and save people you've never heard of?
1. Debian Stable is a long standing distro with support best measured in multiple years. Fedora Core says 6 months of support.
That's because Debian releases a year or more after the technology was available. When a new release is out, the old one is dropped like a hot potato. It's nothing like the old Red Hat Linux policy of supporting a release for 3 years or the 5 year life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux... it's just what happens when supporting only the current release and taking too long to release a new one.
From the Slashdot article:
Over at Overclockers.com they have a review of several thermal compounds that claim to have 99% pure silver content.
The claim is that the silver content is 70% by weight, and that the silver used is 99.9% pure. Not that the compounds have 99% silver content,
If you want 99% silver on top of your CPU, try spreading some silverware on top of it.
It's not about the product in that case, it's that Microsoft used illegal tactics to force its success rather than just competing fairly. Effectively, SCO is whining to Congress because the product is superior, that's all.
Competing fairly with a competitor giving out a product for "free" (taking money from the pile they get from the OS from all users) is pretty hard, though. Microsoft has the power to ruin pretty much any Windows-based software company if the software becomes too popular... just bundle it in Windows as part of the OS, or perhaps in Office.
From what I remember, MySQL isn't GPL'd and requires a commercial license.
You can get it with a GPL license, or pay for another one.
the thing with these stupid and anticompetitive named origin rules is that in general they stifle competition by preventing the SAME products from different regions from competing against each other. No, they don't. You'll just have to call your sparkling wine something else than champagne, and your processed milk w/cellulose something else than parmesan, and it's fine. The same way you can't call something 'Coca-Cola' on a whim either.
if competitor from a different region's cannot be differentiated by experts in a blind test, then it IS the same product.
That's not consistent with how trademarks work. Some say it's from a company, others that it is from a region.
and americans love to laugh at europeans (EU) with their stupid and blatantly anticompetitive "named origin" rules that tolerate such bullshit.
That's not anti-competetive and stupid... the names have been built up through hard work during a long time. It's not a company, like Coca-Cola, but an area, and it should still apply.
People elsewhere aren't forbidden to use those methods, but I'm perfectly fine with Kraft not being able to call its cheese with sawdust (cellulose) for Parmesan.
Bob Young is the FOUNDER and CEO of REDHAT...
Founder, yes. But he's not the CEO, Matthew Szulik is. Bob Young also left the board some time ago, although he still is the largest shareholder.
Do you think that the court can be made to understand that the only reason SCO doesn't want anyone to know what code is infringing is that two hours later, nobody is going to be using that particular code any more and therefore won't owe SCO anything?
If they had a case, they'd have used CnD to stop people from infringing.
The people at debian caught on, but what about at other distros? Have they made sure that their machines havn't been exploited and no trojan type code was introduced?
Security is more than just patching the systems, have a secure internal network and a good security policy to live by, and the risk of exploits happening inside goes down. If you can't connect to any machine (and thus not log on to it), you won't have the ability to exploit the vulnerability either.
Just wondering if they will still support us lowly 7.3 and 8.0 users anymore with a fix for this.
Red Hat is supporting these releases until the end of this year, so I'd expect them to.
You could look at this the other way, 10% of businesses abandoned RHEL. The way the RHEL license/contract reads, if you decide not to renew, you have to remove RHEL.
No, you just don't get support, updates and new releases.
What I really wanted to say was that RedHat always struck me as about 95% OSS becuase they used things like commercial OSS drivers ... ok that's it, I'm going to lie down!
Red Hat has never shipped the commercial OSS drivers with Red Hat Linux, and has been pure open source since mozilla was mature enough to throw netscape out. And no special license on the installer like SuSE either.
I have enjoyed using Red Hat for years. I'm glad they are making money in the Corporate world. However the recent statement that Red Hat made that Linux wasn't ready for the home user is a self fulfulling prophecy in their case.
And still, Fedora is the best distro there is for home systems... for enthusiasts, developers and others who want to get their fingers dirty, it's great at home too. But for people who expect that every snazzy gadget or other piece of hardware bought at CompUSA, bestbuy etc just works, want to play games, do their taxes (the obvious alternative is to do it on the web, which works), it's not there yet. And while it is steadily getting better, being honest to oneself about what's good and what's not, isn't bad... only by knowing where you have potential for improvement can you get better.
Open source, closed source, it does not matter. Open source is not a cure for solid software development practices, and open source is not a synonym for solid software development practices. Likewise "closed-source" does not equate to poor practices.
Of course. One argument for open source is the ability to trust the system, that there's no attempts to swing the vote in any way in the code. Would you trust companies buying politicians already to run the election on a system you can't check?
That said, even with source code available, you'd still have the problem of how to trust that the code being run is what you see... Also, these standards need to be applied to the rest of the system, from CPU and up if you want to be completely paranoid...
In the end, paper is just simpler, and you can keep physical evidence of how the election happened.
Note that the good things that Redhat does with its distro do not conflict with having a Debian-foundation, and the fact that Redhat has decided to fracture the internet community because it refuses to have Fedora Core 1 be a customized Debian is just plain silly!
Why would Red Hat do this? Red Hat already had a great foundation to build on, Red Hat Linux. It's far ahead of Debian in most areas... so regress a couple of years to build on Debian? Why? The opposite would make far more sense.
How, exactly, is this even an issue? Sure, they'll come up with some nasty crap that takes over your broswer and most broswers will come up with a fix in very shiort order and MS will take three years to fix it.
Browsers would have a hard time of working around schemes where you see a big ad first and have to click on a link for the real content. You could also add pages like that inbetween other pages in a multi page story.
How does killing off your major product make this a "good thing" for everyone?
Red Hat is not killing off a major product, they are repositioning it as a free product, more open than before (open development process) - easier to redistribute as well.