And yes, I am deathly afraid of Zombie Steve Jobs. That guy was a Sith when he was alive, and I suspect, like what I learned playing SWKOTOR and SWKOTORII, that his powers and his presence exist somewhere, attached to some holocube.
Clearly The Woz should sue for trademark infringement on his name.
The Woz would do no such thing. Steve Jobs, on the other hand, I wouldn't put it past him since he's sued people for trademark/patent infringement for less, but Steve Wozniak doesn't use his powers for evil.
Yes, I meant the 14+14, and the extension is not an automatic renewal. This will help prevent orphan works and will bring back the original intent of inspiring others. I mean, you don't allow patents to be renewed for hundreds of years, so why should media be different?
I agree whole-heartedly. At least with patents, we have a very short (though very long for innovation and creativity,) period of time in which the trolls can do their evil. With copyrights, the trolls last forever.
Of course, using copyrights to inspire others doesn't seem to be the reason for copyrights, since derivative works are outlawed (with very little play for "fair-use" except when you have a lot of money or own a lot of lawyers.)
I'm fine with the original copyright terms (pre-Sonny Bono extensions) applying to all media, so that things like Mickey Mouse should now be in public domain.
If by original, you mean 14+14, then I can agree with you. 14 years with one 14 year extension sounds perfectly fair to me. If you cannot monetize a work in 28 years, then maybe it should be left to the professionals.
How does that even work? VoIP should just work fine on any sort of TCP/IP connection... I bet they're (Cisco) are just blocking VoIP traffic on purpose to make you/them pay more ('s funny since they were already paying way too much) and if they encrypted their traffic it would work without a problem.
I believe the specific modules they are talking about are the gateway modules between the voip/ethernet network and the PSTN (Public-Switched Telephone Networks). They usually have 1 or more T1/E1 connections with the PSTN and allow for folks to access the phone network outside of their voip network if they need to. They also have modules that allow you to connect existing phone networks to VOIP.
Why every router would need one is beyond me. They should have a gateway to get out to the PSTN somewhere local, but they don't need 7 routers within .44 mi with the same requirement.
A $20,000 router? What? Is this one of those scenarios where companies force you to pay more JUST because you have more money to spend?
Yeah. And I thought our 2821 was overkill for what we use it for.
Re: Re: Re: You go from "DOJ Admits" to "impression" and "suggests".
The power company disagrees.
The power company routinely disagrees with the laws of physics, but when has that stopped them?
Here, they are upset with all the folks switching over to solar that they have been trying to lobby the government to allow them to collect money from all the folks using solar for not using their electricity. I don't have a problem with capitalism (I love capitalism,) but this isn't capitalism...it is cronyism. They blew up a perfectly working power-plant in order to increase the cost of electricity, and now they are complaining to the government that they aren't getting enough money from the folks setting up solar.
Just because the power company disagrees doesn't make it wrong.
Or what you did for a living. All those guys named Schmidt, Metzger, Schaefer, Schneider, etc. (and their Anglicized equivalents).
That didn't actually start until later (~13/14 Century, AD, though China did start using some titles as last names back before Jesus, and of course, Julius Cesar, where Cesar isn't a last name but a title,) but yes, that is true. Thatcher, Smith, and Baker are all from around the ~13/14 Century, and those names pretty much meant you were not going to be part of the ruling class. Also, there were some societies which followed the matriarch too...where you were named after your mother. However, that was more rare (China before 1600BC, many New World tribes.) However, most "last names" of the time were based on your father or your birthplace.
It would have been pretty interesting though, if Jesus's last name was Carpenter.
Anyway, since Jesus' last name was not actually Christ, ever wonder what it was?
Middle and Last names are a recent occurrence in history. They came from one of two customs, depending on the region, either your father's name or the place you were born or were from. So Jesus was really Jesus of Nazareth (or Jesus of Bethlehem.)
If Libre/Open managed to deal with the new file types (docx, xlsx etc) then I might as well as not even pirate it.
Libre/Open Office have no problem opening docx/xlsx files. I do it all the time at work (the only reason I run Windows on a virtual machine tends to be because of IE only web-apps, and LibreOffice cracked the docx/xlsx nut a while ago. I haven't had any problems with people complaining about me corrupting their documents lately (with doc, every once in a while someone would complain.)
I just had the misfortune of running Visual Studio 2012 for the first time. I know why your coworker is buying a Mint box.
I believe for him, it was Windows Server 2012 with touchscreen support on a Server. "Touchscreens do not belong on a server." I, of course, agree...though I'd go one step further and say that any GUI doesn't belong on a server. My servers use a serial interface at home...
I read a blog from one of their testers, and he was conviced that Microsoft was doing the right thing: after all, Henry Ford only offered his cars in black, right?
I don't have a problem with Microsoft consolidating their builds to a single build. My problem is that they don't give you the option of turning off the parts of their UI which aren't necessary and get in the way. The original UI is still there, and pressing a key gets you to them (and a registry change disables the new UI entirely.) It should be an option in control panel. Same with the darn ribbon, which added far more workload to my job since I was used to using the Alt-keys to bring up the menus I wanted. Of course, have none of those problems under Linux/LibreOffice.
I like the car analogy as well, though I'd go one step further and say it wasn't Ford only offering cars in black, but modifying the car design so that the driver faced backwards when driving on an ejection seat that would trigger whenever anyone other than the driver tried to start the car.
Maybe this is good news, in that it might ultimately educate the "public" that Microsoft Office sucks so very very very much in so many many many ways
Good thing I haven't been running Windoze in a couple years (except, unfortunately as a virtual machine at work, but they paid for it.) I still have a couple virtual XP machines for the games that won't run under Wine, but that is becoming much less of an issue since most of the GoG games have Wine profiles. I'd fix this to say Microsoft sucks so very very much in so many many many ways. When I was running Windows, it seemed like I was always running into trouble with activation...I'd replace a couple parts and the OS would have me call Microsoft for a code to activate the system, even though it was running on the same processor. The tech support guys from India would usually chastise me about running it on another machine, but they'd usually give me the code. After switching to virtualization, never had a problem with activation again even when it was running on different hardware.
I actually had a coworker looking into buying a Mint Box because he wants to move away from Windows. This is a die-hard MCSE.
It is nice to see that Microsoft is continuing their drug dealer model...the first hit is free, but then you'll pay more and more for it each time.
Here's a guy nobody's noticed in years. So he spends $100.00 on a cheap lawyer (gotta be with a name like Willie)and maybe another hundred to file a lawsuit - BOOM - let the Streisand Effect do the rest. No harm to anyone and untold amounts of free publicity.
I agree. However, I suspect $500 million won't be enough to pull his name out of the mud.
"Your honor, we want $1 billion because my client suffered major damage to his name and image as a result of filing this lawsuit."
Strictly speaking, you can go to jail for misdemeanors. The jail time just can't exceed 1 year, and you won't be going to prison.
Yes, you can go to jail for misdemeanors. It is pretty rare though for petty theft/shoplifting, unless you are a repeat offender or there are other circumstances. Usually it is cite-and-release after they spend a couple hours in the detention area (if they aren't cited at the store.) That is if the store keeps working cameras and the crime is caught on video or the store is willing to have their loss prevention officer testify in court and is willing to do the citizen's arrest (as with misdemeanors, officers cannot arrest unless they witness the crime, unlike felonies.)
I hear its even worse now here in California with the move of less-violent felons into the county jail system to reduce overcrowding in the state prisons. Which has caused more overcrowding in the jails, resulting in more releases of the petty crimes.
Re: Re: Torchlight/Torchlight II, and now Anodyne...
It is online only, doesn't encourage modding and is only in beta. However, it is and will always be Free to Play, they promise not to make content of Pay to Win (and have delivered well on that account so far), they are very fast at correcting issues and generally listen a lot to the players.
Ich...not a fan of MMOs any more (I know, they don't call it an MMO, but it is pretty darn close.) Way too much drama, though that may have just been EVE (I've seen the same when watching others play WoW, so I am pretty sure it wasn't just EVE.) But I will check it out.
I am pretty sure this is how I found Torchlight. I was hearing all sorts of great things about Torchlight, and most of it from word of mouth from folks here and elsewhere, talking about how you could download it for free and there was a huge modding community behind it. Since then I've bought Torchlight, and waited anxiously for Torchlight II, bought it after they released it.
Another game to add to my list of GoG purchases. I agree though, my biggest problem with games is that there are so many of them that are DRM'd to death and I've bought quite a few that I hated, so now I just buy off GoG or by word of mouth. Will need to look at Desura to see what they have.
Lately I've been playing Nexus - The Jupiter Incident, which has a definite EVE Online feel to it (haven't played EVE in a couple years and there are some things I miss about that game, but I certainly don't miss the drama.) Would never have known about or touched the game had it not been for GoG.
You can get a YEAR in JAIL for stealing 2 CDs. It's just music.
Actually, you can't. In most states, stealing a CD is considered a petty theft charge. Unless there was some burglary involved (at which case it does become a felony,) you are likely to be released with a commercial trespass warning and a misdemeanor ticket within a couple hours of your arrest. If you serve any time, it will likely be less than a month, though some judges may elect for higher if you are a repeat offender.
Of course, burglary charges are possible, but that is only if you entered the store with the intent to commit theft or a felony...which is often harder to prove, especially in shoplifting cases where it is usually a crime of opportunity/spur of the moment thing. Usually if you have money on you or the means to buy the item you stole, you won't get charged with burglary because the intent to steal isn't there (except if you confess that you went in the store to steal something.)
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And yes, I am deathly afraid of Zombie Steve Jobs. That guy was a Sith when he was alive, and I suspect, like what I learned playing SWKOTOR and SWKOTORII, that his powers and his presence exist somewhere, attached to some holocube.
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The Woz would do no such thing. Steve Jobs, on the other hand, I wouldn't put it past him since he's sued people for trademark/patent infringement for less, but Steve Wozniak doesn't use his powers for evil.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: No, no...
Deep Packet Inspection? Probably.
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I agree whole-heartedly. At least with patents, we have a very short (though very long for innovation and creativity,) period of time in which the trolls can do their evil. With copyrights, the trolls last forever.
Of course, using copyrights to inspire others doesn't seem to be the reason for copyrights, since derivative works are outlawed (with very little play for "fair-use" except when you have a lot of money or own a lot of lawyers.)
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If by original, you mean 14+14, then I can agree with you. 14 years with one 14 year extension sounds perfectly fair to me. If you cannot monetize a work in 28 years, then maybe it should be left to the professionals.
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Re: Re: So... To all pirates who think 6 Strikes can't work...
No, I am Spartacus.
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I believe the specific modules they are talking about are the gateway modules between the voip/ethernet network and the PSTN (Public-Switched Telephone Networks). They usually have 1 or more T1/E1 connections with the PSTN and allow for folks to access the phone network outside of their voip network if they need to. They also have modules that allow you to connect existing phone networks to VOIP.
Why every router would need one is beyond me. They should have a gateway to get out to the PSTN somewhere local, but they don't need 7 routers within .44 mi with the same requirement.
A $20,000 router? What? Is this one of those scenarios where companies force you to pay more JUST because you have more money to spend?
Yeah. And I thought our 2821 was overkill for what we use it for.
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Re: Re: Re: You go from "DOJ Admits" to "impression" and "suggests".
The power company routinely disagrees with the laws of physics, but when has that stopped them?
Here, they are upset with all the folks switching over to solar that they have been trying to lobby the government to allow them to collect money from all the folks using solar for not using their electricity. I don't have a problem with capitalism (I love capitalism,) but this isn't capitalism...it is cronyism. They blew up a perfectly working power-plant in order to increase the cost of electricity, and now they are complaining to the government that they aren't getting enough money from the folks setting up solar.
Just because the power company disagrees doesn't make it wrong.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: My contribution
That didn't actually start until later (~13/14 Century, AD, though China did start using some titles as last names back before Jesus, and of course, Julius Cesar, where Cesar isn't a last name but a title,) but yes, that is true. Thatcher, Smith, and Baker are all from around the ~13/14 Century, and those names pretty much meant you were not going to be part of the ruling class. Also, there were some societies which followed the matriarch too...where you were named after your mother. However, that was more rare (China before 1600BC, many New World tribes.) However, most "last names" of the time were based on your father or your birthplace.
It would have been pretty interesting though, if Jesus's last name was Carpenter.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: My contribution
Middle and Last names are a recent occurrence in history. They came from one of two customs, depending on the region, either your father's name or the place you were born or were from. So Jesus was really Jesus of Nazareth (or Jesus of Bethlehem.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Won't Impact Companies
Sorry sir, but I believe you have him mistaken for someone else.
I do believe, however, that he has a problem with people jamming up his radar and sending him the raspberries.
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Libre/Open Office have no problem opening docx/xlsx files. I do it all the time at work (the only reason I run Windows on a virtual machine tends to be because of IE only web-apps, and LibreOffice cracked the docx/xlsx nut a while ago. I haven't had any problems with people complaining about me corrupting their documents lately (with doc, every once in a while someone would complain.)
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Re: Re: Re: Silver lining?...
I believe for him, it was Windows Server 2012 with touchscreen support on a Server. "Touchscreens do not belong on a server." I, of course, agree...though I'd go one step further and say that any GUI doesn't belong on a server. My servers use a serial interface at home...
I read a blog from one of their testers, and he was conviced that Microsoft was doing the right thing: after all, Henry Ford only offered his cars in black, right?
I don't have a problem with Microsoft consolidating their builds to a single build. My problem is that they don't give you the option of turning off the parts of their UI which aren't necessary and get in the way. The original UI is still there, and pressing a key gets you to them (and a registry change disables the new UI entirely.) It should be an option in control panel. Same with the darn ribbon, which added far more workload to my job since I was used to using the Alt-keys to bring up the menus I wanted. Of course, have none of those problems under Linux/LibreOffice.
I like the car analogy as well, though I'd go one step further and say it wasn't Ford only offering cars in black, but modifying the car design so that the driver faced backwards when driving on an ejection seat that would trigger whenever anyone other than the driver tried to start the car.
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Re: Silver lining?...
Good thing I haven't been running Windoze in a couple years (except, unfortunately as a virtual machine at work, but they paid for it.) I still have a couple virtual XP machines for the games that won't run under Wine, but that is becoming much less of an issue since most of the GoG games have Wine profiles. I'd fix this to say Microsoft sucks so very very much in so many many many ways. When I was running Windows, it seemed like I was always running into trouble with activation...I'd replace a couple parts and the OS would have me call Microsoft for a code to activate the system, even though it was running on the same processor. The tech support guys from India would usually chastise me about running it on another machine, but they'd usually give me the code. After switching to virtualization, never had a problem with activation again even when it was running on different hardware.
I actually had a coworker looking into buying a Mint Box because he wants to move away from Windows. This is a die-hard MCSE.
It is nice to see that Microsoft is continuing their drug dealer model...the first hit is free, but then you'll pay more and more for it each time.
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Re: Not Dumb - Brilliant
I agree. However, I suspect $500 million won't be enough to pull his name out of the mud.
"Your honor, we want $1 billion because my client suffered major damage to his name and image as a result of filing this lawsuit."
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Uh, that's why it's called punishment
Yes, you can go to jail for misdemeanors. It is pretty rare though for petty theft/shoplifting, unless you are a repeat offender or there are other circumstances. Usually it is cite-and-release after they spend a couple hours in the detention area (if they aren't cited at the store.) That is if the store keeps working cameras and the crime is caught on video or the store is willing to have their loss prevention officer testify in court and is willing to do the citizen's arrest (as with misdemeanors, officers cannot arrest unless they witness the crime, unlike felonies.)
I hear its even worse now here in California with the move of less-violent felons into the county jail system to reduce overcrowding in the state prisons. Which has caused more overcrowding in the jails, resulting in more releases of the petty crimes.
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Re: Re: Torchlight/Torchlight II, and now Anodyne...
Ich...not a fan of MMOs any more (I know, they don't call it an MMO, but it is pretty darn close.) Way too much drama, though that may have just been EVE (I've seen the same when watching others play WoW, so I am pretty sure it wasn't just EVE.) But I will check it out.
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Torchlight/Torchlight II, and now Anodyne...
Another game to add to my list of GoG purchases. I agree though, my biggest problem with games is that there are so many of them that are DRM'd to death and I've bought quite a few that I hated, so now I just buy off GoG or by word of mouth. Will need to look at Desura to see what they have.
Lately I've been playing Nexus - The Jupiter Incident, which has a definite EVE Online feel to it (haven't played EVE in a couple years and there are some things I miss about that game, but I certainly don't miss the drama.) Would never have known about or touched the game had it not been for GoG.
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Re: Re: Re: Uh, that's why it's called punishment
Actually, you can't. In most states, stealing a CD is considered a petty theft charge. Unless there was some burglary involved (at which case it does become a felony,) you are likely to be released with a commercial trespass warning and a misdemeanor ticket within a couple hours of your arrest. If you serve any time, it will likely be less than a month, though some judges may elect for higher if you are a repeat offender.
Of course, burglary charges are possible, but that is only if you entered the store with the intent to commit theft or a felony...which is often harder to prove, especially in shoplifting cases where it is usually a crime of opportunity/spur of the moment thing. Usually if you have money on you or the means to buy the item you stole, you won't get charged with burglary because the intent to steal isn't there (except if you confess that you went in the store to steal something.)
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Re: Re: Re: As usual, a loaded question...
As usual, John, it takes me a bunch of paragraphs to say what you say in two sentences. I bow to your succinct articulation.
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