...and another reality is the it's good enough approach; "...it might not be as good as others when wrestling with [your favourite rarely-used feature here], but what the fsck we don't need that anyway"
I even scaled down to SQLite which is good enough for 80 percent of what I need a DB for...
...You can still sue them for indecent exposure.;-)
Or if you find evidence of 'creative accounting' (if you don't know what that is, ask Arthur Andersen LLP), even better.
Here [Switzerland] the 'law of the day' sez if it doesn't need special knowledge/skills to break into a network, it is regarded equivalent to an accidental glimpse just like you see someone hackin' in his PIN at an ATM.
You could also use some of the sids (sudden infant death syndrome) preventing devices. A good baby shop might even lend you one for a test drive. [Thanking to The Great Nerd Up There I haven't been struck with either fate]
Basically the best bet for a hybrid car would be a diesel engine operating at best efficiency (power/consumption ratio, fixed at xxxx rpm) which drives a generator which loads the batteries and feeds the motor. Once the batteries are fully loaded, the diesel stops until they need recharging again.
Seems that only Distributions that spent their energy and money on IPO instead of developing and testing are in the game right now. Which says a lot about the industry deciding on a 'standard'. It's about money, not about users let alone about solutions.
This way, you can take another piece of paper that has a barcode on it and use that as a password. For instance, keep your library card in your wallet and use the barcode on that as your password by scanning
So you expect me to have my bottle of Jameson with me all the time just because I had nothing else at hand when the password chose to expire? But wait - did you mean to enter ThickLineThinLineThinLineNothingThickLineNothingTh inLineThinLineNothingThickLine as the password?
Okay. Now every puts his, er, finger onto that device. I mean, it's like kissing the pope's ring after a lepra colony's audience [seriously, no offense meant].
Will it matter whether I place my Butterfinger or my Buttfinger onto that thingie? What did the lady behind me in that queue say? (seem to get wax in my ears - lemme see, I'll pry it out...)
Here in Switzerland that ridiculous patent wouldn't have been granted. Things that are of 'obvious' or 'trivial' or 'common sense' nature usually cannot be patented here.
I guess TV commercial use this system with 'text and images' plus a 1-800-call-foo number since eons. And vending machines are a tad older too... Oh my.
If you were paid for your *time* developing some solution, this piece of code/intellectual property still belongs to you. This would entitle you to do with that code whatever you want.
If the contract with the client states that all the IP you create belongs to the customer for whatever he wanted to do with it, then there's little point forcing the customer to do something specific with it.
Either way, the customer will face the problem of later support and evolution. If he cannot get hands on you, he either has to hire someone for hard bucks, or he donates the stuff to the public and crosses his fingers that someone will take care of it. Which does not necessarily mean the necessary work is done then - this depends on how 'hot' that piece of software actually is. You might have problems making some 08-15 applet Open Source in the hope of getting volunteers.
So 18th century pirates just boarded your ship, copied everything, and left?
What Lawyers argue about is whether they left with the originals or the copies. If they left with the originals, they are just thieves while when they sacked the copies they're pirates in the stricter sense [MS' sense, that is].
What is still unclear is whether the victim is allowed to peruse the copied incarnations of his/her former belongings or whether that was to be considered second degree piracy.
BTW: AFAIK pirates only looted those who previously ripped off some civilization. Just to prove that w/o MS' (and others such as CA) rip-off there weren't any piracy...
Sell your software at decent prices and that problem will go away.
--Ben
So, what's MSFT gonna do...
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...with all the 'CowboyNeal' search terms? Open up a website with that name which redirects all visitors to here ?
I understand this whole subject is rather delicate and in no way I want to convey the impression I am not all with the victims.
That said I sometimes sense a faint smelling of "put that catastrophe on the patriot's bandwagon too, even if it's completely unrelated".
(Is there a short term for this, besides 'manipulation' or 'propaganda' ?)
Anyhow, I recently stumbled over a rather interesting puzzle. Again, this is not meant to laugh over victims, but -
The more I ponder over all this the more I believe it was not the smart terrorists that made the buildings collapse - it was our ignorance [who possibly would have a reason to...], cost consciousness (saving at the wrong places [firehose turned off]) and sheer arrogance that finally knocked the towers down. Sad, very sad for all that suffer now. And very, as not to say extremely, useful for those making political|financial profit of it.
I reckon MS was extremely happy to find an excuse to force XBox's worst enemy out of the field.
Having a game console that is demonstrated by employees is like demonstrating a can of beer at a booze show w/o letting people taste it. This might be the cBit rules which help manufacturers demonstrate beta/not-contained-in-retail-product features. This certainly won't help buyers make up their minds.
If MS really was showing only retail stuff, they might have as well let the people play. Seems they didn't, as on every other exhibition...
...because I recently installed NetLED on my Linux box.
Unlike commonly recommended by ergonomics people you should always work in a windowless (sic!) room...
...you'll not only get a charge report but also a calories/sodium/fat report. Your doctor will be automatically alerted if your visit frequency exceeds 5/day or if you're likely to get RSI (aka tennis elbow or nowadays JWS (jedi wave syndrome). Your undertaker will be informed when he has to rent a crane. You mom will know you already had your share of of caffeine when you show up that sunday for coffe and cookies.
The funny thing is the same people start hyperventilating when something about an ID card is pondered upon...
...demand that each can sold is bundled with a big yellow 'caution slippery surface' safety sign. Clever resellers bundle a trolley with the above kit to ensure freedom of movement, as stipulated by the gazillionth amendment.
Okay, so the bartender might be liable because he was there when the patron prepared to get drunk.
But the original thread more or less suggested to go after the *Manufacturer*, not the *dealer*...
...so if some DUI dork kills my [mother-in-law,lawyer,CowboyNeal] in a car accident, I go after Seagram and Toyota, right? That's ridiculous! Well, in California maybe not...
I think the best bet would be to use opt-in lists. Unless you're on this list, spamming you would be illegal then.
I already envision cell phone carriers giving away free minutes if you're opting in to 'these messages'.
And I already envision cell phone manufacturers putting that extra display in for the ad banners...
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Maybe we finally see the OS/2 Presentation Manager going Open Source and be ported to *X?
Hmm, okay, yet another GUI framework. I guess IBM should've done this five years ago.
[I just noticed that my 1.7GHz Celery runs at about 40C in both WinXP and Linux; under WinNT4, the temperature goes up to about 50C. ???]
I even scaled down to SQLite which is good enough for 80 percent of what I need a DB for...
Or if you find evidence of 'creative accounting' (if you don't know what that is, ask Arthur Andersen LLP), even better.
Here [Switzerland] the 'law of the day' sez if it doesn't need special knowledge/skills to break into a network, it is regarded equivalent to an accidental glimpse just like you see someone hackin' in his PIN at an ATM.
There's a cheaper version, but that one only refills (insanely outpriced) ink into DorkJet cartridges.
You could also use some of the sids (sudden infant death syndrome) preventing devices. A good baby shop might even lend you one for a test drive.
[Thanking to The Great Nerd Up There I haven't been struck with either fate]
--Ben
Submarine technology, some 60 years old...
Seems that only Distributions that spent their energy and money on IPO instead of developing and testing are in the game right now. Which says a lot about the industry deciding on a 'standard'. It's about money, not about users let alone about solutions.
So you expect me to have my bottle of Jameson with me all the time just because I had nothing else at hand when the password chose to expire?h inLineThinLineNothingThickLine as the password?
But wait - did you mean to enter
ThickLineThinLineThinLineNothingThickLineNothingT
Will it matter whether I place my Butterfinger or my Buttfinger onto that thingie? What did the lady behind me in that queue say? (seem to get wax in my ears - lemme see, I'll pry it out...)
...anyone out there who knows how to save the page settings (fonts etc.) into a style sheet that can then be used? Hand? Yeuch! --Ben
Here in Switzerland that ridiculous patent wouldn't have been granted. Things that are of 'obvious' or 'trivial' or 'common sense' nature usually cannot be patented here.
I guess TV commercial use this system with 'text and images' plus a 1-800-call-foo number since eons. And vending machines are a tad older too...
Oh my.
If the contract with the client states that all the IP you create belongs to the customer for whatever he wanted to do with it, then there's little point forcing the customer to do something specific with it.
Either way, the customer will face the problem of later support and evolution. If he cannot get hands on you, he either has to hire someone for hard bucks, or he donates the stuff to the public and crosses his fingers that someone will take care of it. Which does not necessarily mean the necessary work is done then - this depends on how 'hot' that piece of software actually is. You might have problems making some 08-15 applet Open Source in the hope of getting volunteers.
--Ben
What Lawyers argue about is whether they left with the originals or the copies. If they left with the originals, they are just thieves while when they sacked the copies they're pirates in the stricter sense [MS' sense, that is].
What is still unclear is whether the victim is allowed to peruse the copied incarnations of his/her former belongings or whether that was to be considered second degree piracy.
BTW: AFAIK pirates only looted those who previously ripped off some civilization. Just to prove that w/o MS' (and others such as CA) rip-off there weren't any piracy...
Sell your software at decent prices and that problem will go away.
--Ben
...with all the 'CowboyNeal' search terms? Open up a website with that name which redirects all visitors to here ?
I understand this whole subject is rather delicate and in no way I want to convey the impression I am not all with the victims.
That said I sometimes sense a faint smelling of "put that catastrophe on the patriot's bandwagon too, even if it's completely unrelated". (Is there a short term for this, besides 'manipulation' or 'propaganda' ?)
Anyhow, I recently stumbled over a rather interesting puzzle. Again, this is not meant to laugh over victims, but -
The more I ponder over all this the more I believe it was not the smart terrorists that made the buildings collapse - it was our ignorance [who possibly would have a reason to...], cost consciousness (saving at the wrong places [firehose turned off]) and sheer arrogance that finally knocked the towers down. Sad, very sad for all that suffer now. And very, as not to say extremely, useful for those making political|financial profit of it.
Only the taliban soldiers are singin' "Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera..."
I put muchos brainos in this and I expect some kinda recompensation. Should I've copyrighted it?
(Using this very /. sig since Idunnowhen), Ben
I reckon MS was extremely happy to find an excuse to force XBox's worst enemy out of the field.
Having a game console that is demonstrated by employees is like demonstrating a can of beer at a booze show w/o letting people taste it. This might be the cBit rules which help manufacturers demonstrate beta/not-contained-in-retail-product features. This certainly won't help buyers make up their minds.
If MS really was showing only retail stuff, they might have as well let the people play. Seems they didn't, as on every other exhibition...
...because I recently installed NetLED on my Linux box.
Unlike commonly recommended by ergonomics people you should always work in a windowless (sic!) room...
...you'll not only get a charge report but also a calories/sodium/fat report. Your doctor will be automatically alerted if your visit frequency exceeds 5/day or if you're likely to get RSI (aka tennis elbow or nowadays JWS (jedi wave syndrome). Your undertaker will be informed when he has to rent a crane. You mom will know you already had your share of of caffeine when you show up that sunday for coffe and cookies.
The funny thing is the same people start hyperventilating when something about an ID card is pondered upon...
...demand that each can sold is bundled with a big yellow 'caution slippery surface' safety sign. Clever resellers bundle a trolley with the above kit to ensure freedom of movement, as stipulated by the gazillionth amendment.
Okay, so the bartender might be liable because he was there when the patron prepared to get drunk.
But the original thread more or less suggested to go after the *Manufacturer*, not the *dealer*...
...so if some DUI dork kills my [mother-in-law,lawyer,CowboyNeal] in a car accident, I go after Seagram and Toyota, right? That's ridiculous! Well, in California maybe not...
I think the best bet would be to use opt-in lists. Unless you're on this list, spamming you would be illegal then.
I already envision cell phone carriers giving away free minutes if you're opting in to 'these messages'.
And I already envision cell phone manufacturers putting that extra display in for the ad banners...