The other big (bigger?) difference was that IBM tried its hardest to comply to the antitrust findings. This was one reason that they went to an outside company for the OS for their new PC. MS is different than most other companies in totally thumbing their noses at the legal system.
Most users are not geeks. Most don't even know Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V. Most geeks don't remember that the Windows key strokes are ctrl-insert, shift-insert. They just added the ctrl-c etc to cater to ex Apple customers. (good to have choices about which hand you use as well.) Try it, these even work on Linux (at least Gnome)
Its not the bundling, in 1994 OS/2 came bundled with a Web Browser (even called Explorer) mostly in the form of a large DLL so other apps could use the integrated browser. Thing was it was just a standard HTML 1.0 browser and could be replaced. Same with the bundled media player, pretty simple, played all the common formats, was extensible which is why it happily plays oggs now. And the included high performance video player had its format and example code available so you could write your own implementation with no strings attached. Even the desktop search was just a class that could be extended. MS adds a browser but makes it so tied in the system that it can not be replaced and invents all new kinds of HTML so pretty soon it is hard to even browse the web with any other browser. Adds a media player which by default uses codecs that are closed and hidden and pushed everywhere else so pretty soon sound files and video is unwatchable without using their media player. Its not the bundling,its the tie in where you can't easily replace the components and every one else is bribed, threatened etc to use the proprietary formats so pretty soon it is hard to even use an alternative system.
I'm in a similar situation. The next question is how far from the house can the satellite antenna be? At this time of year it is 200-300 ft to where the sun shines.
Around here they grind a groove into the road and place the reflector in the groove. Snowploughs go right over them though they still do disappear under the snow in winter.
Actually on most cars the oil light is connected to a pressure sensor and the light should come on with the key on but engine not running. Also a good chance the low coolant light is actually hooked up to a temperature sensor. When idling you don't have enough air movement through the radiator and the engine temperature goes up, especially if the rad is partially blocked (old vehicle)
Not sure about the States but in Canada the other consideration is the punishment. eg we won't extradite to a country with the death penalty for the crime excepting an agreement that the death penalty won't be used.
The DDT ban in Africa is, IMO, the biggest tragedy in the world. All others are measured against that.
OT I know, that is why the karma bonus is off. I'm just wondering how the DDT ban in Africa is the biggest tragedy in the world? Is it because it is not allowed on food? Or perhaps you wish it was totally banned instead of used to control malaria infested mosquitoes?
The Americans are beheading people now? I know all my life they have been blowing up and shooting (as well as occasionally burning alive) innocent people but never heard much about beheading.
Thats exactly what they are, scare stories. Usually with very little fact in reality. (Some truth as non-vital things are put off more so the vital things are done. I had to wait 6 months for a vasectomy, half an hour to get patched up from a run in with a chain saw).
Actually as far as I know Gnome was partially inspired by OS/2's WorkplaceShell. Thing is Windows was also a direct ripoff of OS/2. Win 3.x looked just like OS/2 ver 1.x and Win95 just added a start button to the OS/2 ver 2+ desktop. Also DOS was just a CPM clone as well. So I guess Windows is just like communism.
Actually global warming will kill us off if we live long enough. The Sun has been increasing its output since the beginning and at the rate it is going the Earth will be too hot to support most life in only a billion or two years. On top of that Andromeda is coming down our throats and will collide with our galaxy in only a couple of billion years setting of lots of star formation increasing the odds of super novas getting us or just radiation from blue giant stars. On top of that there is always a chance of the Sun having a close encounter with another star which quite likely will alter the Earths orbit. Also there is a chance that the Suns orbit around the galaxy could be perturbed into a more elliptical orbit that takes us close to the galactic core which would also kill us due to the extreme radioactivity. All in all I doubt that we have 5 billion years of safely living on the Earth.
Actually there are quite a few people born with out a well functioning brain. One example is being born to an alcoholic. Add to that all the people who don't get enough nutrition for their brain to develop and you have quite a few people without a well functioning brain. Of course I guess it is their fault for choosing to be born to drunk parents who would rather buy alcohol then food.
I thought he was talking about the rich. Nowadays being a millionaire is just basically upper middle class and your million dollars is tied up in your home etc.
If WIN95 found an OS/2 install it wouldn't even need a key. It would also make the WIN95 partition the active one and inform you that you could never use OS/2 again. Fix was simple, use fdisk to change the active partition but MS wouldn't tell you that.
Try flashing a (female) breast at the super bowl on TV and report your findings. Remember in most free countries equality includes that everyone can dress or undress equally.
Actually it is questionable about it being legal to give your friend a copy. It is definitely legal to lend them the original so they can copy it. In other words copying is legal but not distributing.
The key words are blank media. My son got a mp3 player (not Ipod) for christmas last year. It came with one song (in WMF format so I've never listened to it yet) Seems the mp3 player would not qualify for the levy. Also seems like a great way for small indie bands to get exposure.
What about if you live in a country where peer to peer file sharing is perfectly legal? Seems MS is taking a legal act and making out that it is illegal and profiting from it. Not all countries (yet) are as unfree as the US of A. And the rest of the world really doesn't need American morality pushed on us.
If RMS only wanted all software released with source code that would be fine but he gets pretty anal about the source code being released under a license that he likes. One example is OpenSSl released under the OpenSSL license. Seems that you have to mention the authours in the documentation or in the program (maybe in the about?). Other then that you can do whatever you like with the source though you might have to rename it to a different name. Sounds pretty free to me. Yet it is incompatible to the GPL. This really pissed me off because I was compiling glinks for somebody. Did not change any source code, just ran configure --various options, make and made a dist out of it. Configure found my stock openssl as well as zlib, jpeg, gif, png etc and linked them. I include the DLLs with the dist as there are a few different versions floating around of these DLLs. Later I read here about openssl not being compatible with the GPL so I broke the GPL. All source code was freely available and built with no modifications. I included some source in the dist and pointed to the rest and the glinks authours had written their software to use openssl yet I was not free to distribute the software with source. This is when I realized just how limiting the GPL is. Freedom is not defined by limits. I really think that the GPL is an excellent license for many situations but to equate it with freedom? Lets be honest the idea is to spread a philosophy ( a pretty good one at that) but it is not freedom.
Well the Supreme Court of Canada seems to think that peer to peer file sharing networks do not infringe copyright. Even having your shared folder accessible is not infringement. One good summery is found here http://www.bereskinparr.com/English/publications/u pdate/update-mar-31-2003.html. Also in Canada there is a levy on blank recording media such as CDRs where money is collected and divided up amongst the artists so every time I back up to CDR or copy my digital pictures they get a cut. Seems to be pretty good for the copyright holders as they seem to be making more money than ever. And very good for our culture as more things are shared. Culture should be spread.
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The other big (bigger?) difference was that IBM tried its hardest to comply to the antitrust findings. This was one reason that they went to an outside company for the OS for their new PC.
MS is different than most other companies in totally thumbing their noses at the legal system.
Most users are not geeks. Most don't even know Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
Most geeks don't remember that the Windows key strokes are ctrl-insert, shift-insert. They just added the ctrl-c etc to cater to ex Apple customers. (good to have choices about which hand you use as well.)
Try it, these even work on Linux (at least Gnome)
Its not the bundling, in 1994 OS/2 came bundled with a Web Browser (even called Explorer) mostly in the form of a large DLL so other apps could use the integrated browser. Thing was it was just a standard HTML 1.0 browser and could be replaced.
Same with the bundled media player, pretty simple, played all the common formats, was extensible which is why it happily plays oggs now. And the included high performance video player had its format and example code available so you could write your own implementation with no strings attached.
Even the desktop search was just a class that could be extended.
MS adds a browser but makes it so tied in the system that it can not be replaced and invents all new kinds of HTML so pretty soon it is hard to even browse the web with any other browser. Adds a media player which by default uses codecs that are closed and hidden and pushed everywhere else so pretty soon sound files and video is unwatchable without using their media player.
Its not the bundling,its the tie in where you can't easily replace the components and every one else is bribed, threatened etc to use the proprietary formats so pretty soon it is hard to even use an alternative system.
I'm in a similar situation. The next question is how far from the house can the satellite antenna be? At this time of year it is 200-300 ft to where the sun shines.
Around here they grind a groove into the road and place the reflector in the groove. Snowploughs go right over them though they still do disappear under the snow in winter.
Actually on most cars the oil light is connected to a pressure sensor and the light should come on with the key on but engine not running.
Also a good chance the low coolant light is actually hooked up to a temperature sensor. When idling you don't have enough air movement through the radiator and the engine temperature goes up, especially if the rad is partially blocked (old vehicle)
Not sure about the States but in Canada the other consideration is the punishment. eg we won't extradite to a country with the death penalty for the crime excepting an agreement that the death penalty won't be used.
The DDT ban in Africa is, IMO, the biggest tragedy in the world. All others are measured against that.
OT I know, that is why the karma bonus is off. I'm just wondering how the DDT ban in Africa is the biggest tragedy in the world? Is it because it is not allowed on food? Or perhaps you wish it was totally banned instead of used to control malaria infested mosquitoes?
The Americans are beheading people now? I know all my life they have been blowing up and shooting (as well as occasionally burning alive) innocent people but never heard much about beheading.
Thats exactly what they are, scare stories. Usually with very little fact in reality. (Some truth as non-vital things are put off more so the vital things are done. I had to wait 6 months for a vasectomy, half an hour to get patched up from a run in with a chain saw).
Actually as far as I know Gnome was partially inspired by OS/2's WorkplaceShell. Thing is Windows was also a direct ripoff of OS/2.
Win 3.x looked just like OS/2 ver 1.x and Win95 just added a start button to the OS/2 ver 2+ desktop. Also DOS was just a CPM clone as well. So I guess Windows is just like communism.
Actually global warming will kill us off if we live long enough.
The Sun has been increasing its output since the beginning and at the rate it is going the Earth will be too hot to support most life in only a billion or two years.
On top of that Andromeda is coming down our throats and will collide with our galaxy in only a couple of billion years setting of lots of star formation increasing the odds of super novas getting us or just radiation from blue giant stars.
On top of that there is always a chance of the Sun having a close encounter with another star which quite likely will alter the Earths orbit. Also there is a chance that the Suns orbit around the galaxy could be perturbed into a more elliptical orbit that takes us close to the galactic core which would also kill us due to the extreme radioactivity.
All in all I doubt that we have 5 billion years of safely living on the Earth.
Haven't heard that one in quite a while :) Funny how a song can bring back memories
Actually there are quite a few people born with out a well functioning brain. One example is being born to an alcoholic.
Add to that all the people who don't get enough nutrition for their brain to develop and you have quite a few people without a well functioning brain.
Of course I guess it is their fault for choosing to be born to drunk parents who would rather buy alcohol then food.
I thought he was talking about the rich. Nowadays being a millionaire is just basically upper middle class and your million dollars is tied up in your home etc.
Run wires to speakers in another room and there is no charge.
Sh, or next thing will be extra fees for having more than one set of speakers.
If WIN95 found an OS/2 install it wouldn't even need a key.
It would also make the WIN95 partition the active one and inform you that you could never use OS/2 again.
Fix was simple, use fdisk to change the active partition but MS wouldn't tell you that.
Try flashing a (female) breast at the super bowl on TV and report your findings.
Remember in most free countries equality includes that everyone can dress or undress equally.
Actually it is questionable about it being legal to give your friend a copy. It is definitely legal to lend them the original so they can copy it. In other words copying is legal but not distributing.
Well according to various federal courts of Canada (including rulings by the Supreme Court) it is legal to download music and it is also to make your shared music folder available over the internet. Sounds to me like sharing is legal though purposely sending music to someone would still be illegal.0 5.html or for the text of the Supreme Court decision http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2004/2004scc45 /2004scc45.html
See for example http://www.michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bkup/may3020
The key words are blank media. My son got a mp3 player (not Ipod) for christmas last year. It came with one song (in WMF format so I've never listened to it yet) Seems the mp3 player would not qualify for the levy.
Also seems like a great way for small indie bands to get exposure.
What about if you live in a country where peer to peer file sharing is perfectly legal? Seems MS is taking a legal act and making out that it is illegal and profiting from it.
Not all countries (yet) are as unfree as the US of A. And the rest of the world really doesn't need American morality pushed on us.
If RMS only wanted all software released with source code that would be fine but he gets pretty anal about the source code being released under a license that he likes.
One example is OpenSSl released under the OpenSSL license. Seems that you have to mention the authours in the documentation or in the program (maybe in the about?). Other then that you can do whatever you like with the source though you might have to rename it to a different name. Sounds pretty free to me. Yet it is incompatible to the GPL.
This really pissed me off because I was compiling glinks for somebody. Did not change any source code, just ran configure --various options, make and made a dist out of it. Configure found my stock openssl as well as zlib, jpeg, gif, png etc and linked them. I include the DLLs with the dist as there are a few different versions floating around of these DLLs.
Later I read here about openssl not being compatible with the GPL so I broke the GPL. All source code was freely available and built with no modifications. I included some source in the dist and pointed to the rest and the glinks authours had written their software to use openssl yet I was not free to distribute the software with source.
This is when I realized just how limiting the GPL is.
Freedom is not defined by limits. I really think that the GPL is an excellent license for many situations but to equate it with freedom? Lets be honest the idea is to spread a philosophy ( a pretty good one at that) but it is not freedom.
Well the Supreme Court of Canada seems to think that peer to peer file sharing networks do not infringe copyright. Even having your shared folder accessible is not infringement. One good summery is found here http://www.bereskinparr.com/English/publications/u pdate/update-mar-31-2003.html.
Also in Canada there is a levy on blank recording media such as CDRs where money is collected and divided up amongst the artists so every time I back up to CDR or copy my digital pictures they get a cut.
Seems to be pretty good for the copyright holders as they seem to be making more money than ever. And very good for our culture as more things are shared.
Culture should be spread.
Well genocide was an official American policy for about as long as the USSR existed. Of course they weren't citizens, just born in the same country.