Although it's not a really popular sentiment these days, I think patents, trademarks and copyrights are simply fantastic and a primary, necessary driver of the world economy. Without them, the rapid pace of technological innovation around the world would slow to a crawl. And frankly, without them, most open-source projects would rapidly wither away: without an intellectual property behemoth like Microsoft to fight, what would be the point?
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to slice the first 10 seconds of ads out, prepend the magic bits / id3 tags, and stuff? That'd be legal too, seeing as we7.com is paying the copyright trolls.
Don't you think you're being a little harsh? I hate the whole "search consultants" business, along with a lot of the web design businesses, but the company made a mistake. Hiring a consultant for this kinda thing would seem the logical thing to do, but they didn't calculate the risk.
This showed up on the home page as one of the stories without a summary. I thought to myself "DDR... hmm... probably some kind of RAM/kernel module/bash.org engine" I thought I'd make a witty comment about how it could also stand for dance dance revolution. Well I got here, and now I'm disappointed. What use is an editor if they can't create ambiguous headlines?
You got screwed over too? onlinedegrees.com promised so many job openings with this license, and yet I've yet to save a single elevator inspector's life!
I thought the whole fact that you run as non-root under vista made this impossible? User applications should never crash the whole OS should they? o.O I don't think I could do this in ubuntu if I tried. Please, correct me if I'm wrong...
The other beautiful thing about vinyl is that, one you one a record (which might cost $5), you have the moral if not legal right to download the album via mp3 - after all, you've paid for a copy of the music, the mp3 is just another format.
Uh, sure thing amigo. You bought a car, so that means you can just steal as many more as you like.
See if you'd put that on a wikipedia article, someone would add the {{Original research}} tag, because the link between being a "pedantic, literal-minded little shit" and being a wikipedia fan hasn't been proven, yet. How about {{NPOV}}? But seriously, stop trolling.
Oh, and in answer to your question, you aren't surprised because you were all too happy to find a coincidental link.
Ah, that bit is a tad unclear. The reasoning "as it has four right angles and parallel sides." is the reason it is a rectangle, not a special case of a rectangle.
I have a question. Is this allowed under the DVD spec? If so, I think the spec is very loosely defined. If not, maybe we could talk to the outlets about not stocking these discs under the "DVDs" section? IANAL, but wouldn't consumer protection laws prohibit that kinda thing?
And I don't see why it is worthless. imho it is completely relevant, on face value. No, I didn't RTFA. I was only saying that calling a square a rectangle isn't confusing if you look at it from a geometric perspective. The other replier cleared up the difference.
Sir, you remind me of myself a year and a half ago.
I always thought 2000 was the cream of the crop, and that XP was just nasty useless eyecandy that slowed things down.
I can't remember how, but I screwed up my 2000. I ended up upgrading to XP, something I was hugely worried about. Well, it took me about a week to get all the service packs, etc, but I had my custom shell up in a few minutes and it does run a lot faster than 2000. You just disable all the blue slime.
And when I say it runs faster than 2000, I'm comparing a tortoise to a slug if you bring linux into the picture
The proof here is definitely in the pudding. If they can offer some real alternative without making existing datacenters/other infrastructure redundant, they might be in with a chance. However, I put the chance of this at 0.
Something of a community-spread movement might gain success and momentum, for example an anonymity drive, organised by a central website that gives ISPs/websites stickers... etc. Yes, this is prior art.
In an entirely functional world, what you are saying would be true. I designed in XHTML 1.1 / CSS frequently, and what you are saying is the direction that the W3C are taking (X)HTML
The whole point of XHTML is that it is accessible. There isn't any styling in it, none at all. That means that if a user chooses, then they can apply whatever markup they like. That is the whole basis of csszengarden. Accessible doesn't only mean for odd devices, it means for odd browsers and custom(ised) browsers
Getting onto what you were saying about the use of the designs. A few points:
Users associate a design, like they would a logo, with a company. Familiarity
A visually attractive website does increase sales / whatever it is for.
Do you honestly trust IE and FF to get along if the styling was left to them?
Oh, and read up on RSS. Every website should have RSS imho. It is basically what you are getting at.
Still is. Some friends of mine set up a myspace for my head teacher. Guess what action he took? None. Its still up, but the novelty has completely faded away. No one cares any more. It was just a jab at him that he can take.
I'll take the bait. I don't like replying to cowards but I will anyway
I dual boot WinXP and Ubuntu. When people are wondering whether or not to switch, I always ask them what they use their computer for. Hardware is always a second consideration. The whole operating systems wars isn't as black and white as you think. For some, FOSS suits their needs best. For others, windows does. There is a lot more too it than that, but as soon as you dogmatically say that Windows is better that Linux, or indeed vice-versa, you're trying to make both operating systems into some sort of solve-all-your-problems...thing... that just isn't possible
My second argument is supply and demand. If people didn't actively want an alternative to their old operating system, why would there be one available? You can't develop something with the expectation that no people will use it.
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How about having to pay to be a member? Scientology is a manipulative business, and that is put mildly.
Someone needs to download firefox
The title talks about Open Source, while the summary talks about Web 2.0. Mutually exclusive I would have thought?
Mod me troll all you like, ladies. You still know it's true.
That's the thing, it isn't. You're simply wrong. Go check the marvelous replies your comment has generated.
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to slice the first 10 seconds of ads out, prepend the magic bits / id3 tags, and stuff? That'd be legal too, seeing as we7.com is paying the copyright trolls.
Don't you think you're being a little harsh? I hate the whole "search consultants" business, along with a lot of the web design businesses, but the company made a mistake. Hiring a consultant for this kinda thing would seem the logical thing to do, but they didn't calculate the risk.
This showed up on the home page as one of the stories without a summary. I thought to myself "DDR... hmm... probably some kind of RAM/kernel module/bash.org engine" I thought I'd make a witty comment about how it could also stand for dance dance revolution. Well I got here, and now I'm disappointed. What use is an editor if they can't create ambiguous headlines?
Two a half years. Why?
Can you guys stop arguing about syrup? Not all of us live in canada you know...
I thought the whole fact that you run as non-root under vista made this impossible? User applications should never crash the whole OS should they? o.O I don't think I could do this in ubuntu if I tried. Please, correct me if I'm wrong...
This whole thing just reaks of New Coke
See if you'd put that on a wikipedia article, someone would add the {{Original research}} tag, because the link between being a "pedantic, literal-minded little shit" and being a wikipedia fan hasn't been proven, yet. How about {{NPOV}}? But seriously, stop trolling.
Oh, and in answer to your question, you aren't surprised because you were all too happy to find a coincidental link.
Ah, that bit is a tad unclear. The reasoning "as it has four right angles and parallel sides." is the reason it is a rectangle, not a special case of a rectangle.
I have a question. Is this allowed under the DVD spec? If so, I think the spec is very loosely defined. If not, maybe we could talk to the outlets about not stocking these discs under the "DVDs" section? IANAL, but wouldn't consumer protection laws prohibit that kinda thing?
Seems like you didn't get the point.
And I don't see why it is worthless. imho it is completely relevant, on face value. No, I didn't RTFA. I was only saying that calling a square a rectangle isn't confusing if you look at it from a geometric perspective. The other replier cleared up the difference.
Sir, you remind me of myself a year and a half ago.
I always thought 2000 was the cream of the crop, and that XP was just nasty useless eyecandy that slowed things down.
I can't remember how, but I screwed up my 2000. I ended up upgrading to XP, something I was hugely worried about. Well, it took me about a week to get all the service packs, etc, but I had my custom shell up in a few minutes and it does run a lot faster than 2000. You just disable all the blue slime.
And when I say it runs faster than 2000, I'm comparing a tortoise to a slug if you bring linux into the picture
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The proof here is definitely in the pudding. If they can offer some real alternative without making existing datacenters/other infrastructure redundant, they might be in with a chance. However, I put the chance of this at 0.
Something of a community-spread movement might gain success and momentum, for example an anonymity drive, organised by a central website that gives ISPs/websites stickers... etc. Yes, this is prior art.
The whole point of XHTML is that it is accessible. There isn't any styling in it, none at all. That means that if a user chooses, then they can apply whatever markup they like. That is the whole basis of csszengarden. Accessible doesn't only mean for odd devices, it means for odd browsers and custom(ised) browsers
Getting onto what you were saying about the use of the designs. A few points:
Oh, and read up on RSS. Every website should have RSS imho. It is basically what you are getting at.
Still is. Some friends of mine set up a myspace for my head teacher. Guess what action he took? None. Its still up, but the novelty has completely faded away. No one cares any more. It was just a jab at him that he can take.
Does it run linux?
I'll take the bait. I don't like replying to cowards but I will anyway
...thing... that just isn't possible
I dual boot WinXP and Ubuntu. When people are wondering whether or not to switch, I always ask them what they use their computer for. Hardware is always a second consideration. The whole operating systems wars isn't as black and white as you think. For some, FOSS suits their needs best. For others, windows does. There is a lot more too it than that, but as soon as you dogmatically say that Windows is better that Linux, or indeed vice-versa, you're trying to make both operating systems into some sort of solve-all-your-problems
My second argument is supply and demand. If people didn't actively want an alternative to their old operating system, why would there be one available? You can't develop something with the expectation that no people will use it.