And this is exactly the problem we're going to keep running into. People like this who want the Internet to return to a simplistic, centrally controlled few producers - many consumers model, rather than the distributed P2P model it's rapidly moving towards. P2P might be mostly about questionably-legal content distribution now, but the technology's going to be used for more and more "legitimate" purposes in years to come... If ISPs and "old media" advocates don't manage to kill it first.
But of course, American companies that hand over information about their customers to domestic governments that suppress online dissent are just doing their patriotic duty, and do not in any way, shape, or form need to be investigated or prosecuted. In fact, let's give them explicit legal protection!
Romney's part of the party that is responsible for supporting and enlarging the outsourcing wave. The Other Guys were the ones who wanted to institute measures against it during the last presidential election. This is just posturing on Romney's part for his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008.
Damn fucking right you should thank FDR. Without him, you'd be slaving away 7 days a week, 10 hours a day, in horrible conditions in the guts of some factory, and wouldn't live past 30. FDR gave America the workplace protections that allowed her to thrive through the middle of this century. Now that those protections are being rolled back again, everything is, of course, going all to hell.
Here's news for you: there's nothing outside of science and useful arts. Business is a useful art. Economics is a science.
A better argument against business method patents is that they do not serve the common good.
Nope. Note that this only applies if the patch explicitly says "GPL v3". The normal case is for contributions to be under the same license as the original codebase - in this hypothetical case, GPL v2. Someone submitting code licensed under GPLv3 to a GPLv2 project would be just as unlikely as someone submitting GPL'd code to a BSDL project, or vice-versa.
It's no different from the already-present clause that says that any commands in the program to display the license to the user must be preserved. Remember, this only applies to GPL'd webapps that already include such a feature. If you want to remove it you can, of course, either negotiate with the author or write your own fucking code.
To me, it looks very good in that respect. Most of the movement seems to come from the elbow, upper arm and, to a smaller degree, the lower arm. The wrist seems to be involved very little, if at all, other than just holding the controller straight.
Left, right, up, and down are all elbow. Forwards and backwards is upper arm and elbow. Turning is wrist, true. Twisting is lower arm. So we've got one wrist operation, and it's likely to be the least used, as it's hard to differentiate from "left/right/up/down".
And that just marks the Gamecube as a commercial failure. We moved a month ago. So far, the Gamecube's the only console that we've bothered to unpack. Why? Because it's a load of fun to play in a way that the others just aren't. So the Gamecube was a massive success as a console. It was, really, the perfection of the last generation. Now Nintendo's introduced the next generation, and Sony and Microsoft are caught flat-footed, with massive amounts of cash sunk into minor improvements on last-generation consoles.
You want to know why we don't have a space program like the one you're imagining? Because you and the idiot businessmen you write for decided it was too expensive, and pushed your pet politicians to cut funding for it and dump productive space programs in exchange for pork, business pay-offs, tax cuts, and other corrupt practices. Now you've realized that to expand, your economy needs to go into orbit, and that you needed to fund these things 20 years ago for them to be ready now, and are trying to find someone else to blame for the predicament your greed caused, so as not to risk your grossly overinflated salary.
Of course, I doubt you'll learn anything from this, as you and said businessmen have, as a collective, the recall and adaptation ability of the average peanut. But on the off-chance that you do, in fact, remember something, I'd like it to include the phrase:
For the Apple/x86 stuff, the company was saying it was "baseless rumours" up until the actual announcement. So even "absolutely no truth in it" doesn't really mean anything these days.
if patents are assigned to OSDL, they are not bound by any licensing agreements donators may have made to others.
I seriously doubt that's true. That would place a large number of these companies - which have "non-agression treaty" contracts with others - in violation of contracts they've already signed. Thus, these companies would not donate any patents to the pool.
More likely, all that most of the patent licenses say is "you won't sue us if we violate these patents".
Well, yes, you can handle a small army of Indian programmers... If you don't mind getting code that falls apart the instant you look at it funny. Because, of course, all the good Indian programmers immediately work out that they're worth much more than the salaries they get offered for outsourcing.
And it still hasn't. Wow. Really pre-emptive... Either these guys have some real muscle behind their servers, or Slashdotters don't download music unless it's illegal.
No, the reason your medical costs are so high is because the Republicans keep working as hard as they can to prevent any form of collective bargaining. This means drug companies are free to charge as much as the market will bear - which, for necessary drugs, is a hell of a lot. Outside of America, saner societies not only allow but require collective bargaining, resulting in much lower costs and more available drugs. Yes, the profit margins are reduced, but they're still there, and the companies haven't closed up shop as many of the Right-wing Lunatics keep claiming they will.
All DRM is a case of direct industrial price-fixing. It's primary purpose is to eliminate competition - both from unauthorized copying and from other hardware manufacturers.
But here's the problem: unless your technology explicitly precludes the possibility of freely redistributed content, it doesn't matter that only a few people will break the DRM. They just find the right off-shore host to upload it to and suddenly anyone in the world can download it and play it without having to repeat the process themselves.
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And this is exactly the problem we're going to keep running into. People like this who want the Internet to return to a simplistic, centrally controlled few producers - many consumers model, rather than the distributed P2P model it's rapidly moving towards. P2P might be mostly about questionably-legal content distribution now, but the technology's going to be used for more and more "legitimate" purposes in years to come... If ISPs and "old media" advocates don't manage to kill it first.
But of course, American companies that hand over information about their customers to domestic governments that suppress online dissent are just doing their patriotic duty, and do not in any way, shape, or form need to be investigated or prosecuted. In fact, let's give them explicit legal protection!
I can has "double standard"?
Of course not. There's no exploit. If there was, he'd be walking away with a free Macbook.
Real standup guy... That supports Executive mandated indefinite detainment and torture without oversight.
So in other words, about as much a real standup guy as Dubya or Stalin.
Actually, Adium has excellent Address Book integration.
Took the words out of my mouth. Best IM client I've ever used, bar none.
So, you'll be buying a Nintendo Revolution, then?
Romney's part of the party that is responsible for supporting and enlarging the outsourcing wave. The Other Guys were the ones who wanted to institute measures against it during the last presidential election. This is just posturing on Romney's part for his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008.
No surprise he's against patents. As of about a year ago, Lulu was getting sued by some loon who claimed to hold a patent on print on demand systems.
Yes, you read that right. His patent is sufficiently broad that it covers all print on demand systems.
What a wonderful America the last 30 years of relatively uninterrupted Republican rule in either the Presidency, Congress, or both has created.
Damn fucking right you should thank FDR. Without him, you'd be slaving away 7 days a week, 10 hours a day, in horrible conditions in the guts of some factory, and wouldn't live past 30. FDR gave America the workplace protections that allowed her to thrive through the middle of this century. Now that those protections are being rolled back again, everything is, of course, going all to hell.
Here's news for you: there's nothing outside of science and useful arts. Business is a useful art. Economics is a science.
A better argument against business method patents is that they do not serve the common good.
Nope. Note that this only applies if the patch explicitly says "GPL v3". The normal case is for contributions to be under the same license as the original codebase - in this hypothetical case, GPL v2. Someone submitting code licensed under GPLv3 to a GPLv2 project would be just as unlikely as someone submitting GPL'd code to a BSDL project, or vice-versa.
It's no different from the already-present clause that says that any commands in the program to display the license to the user must be preserved. Remember, this only applies to GPL'd webapps that already include such a feature. If you want to remove it you can, of course, either negotiate with the author or write your own fucking code.
To me, it looks very good in that respect. Most of the movement seems to come from the elbow, upper arm and, to a smaller degree, the lower arm. The wrist seems to be involved very little, if at all, other than just holding the controller straight.
Left, right, up, and down are all elbow. Forwards and backwards is upper arm and elbow. Turning is wrist, true. Twisting is lower arm. So we've got one wrist operation, and it's likely to be the least used, as it's hard to differentiate from "left/right/up/down".
And that just marks the Gamecube as a commercial failure. We moved a month ago. So far, the Gamecube's the only console that we've bothered to unpack. Why? Because it's a load of fun to play in a way that the others just aren't. So the Gamecube was a massive success as a console. It was, really, the perfection of the last generation. Now Nintendo's introduced the next generation, and Sony and Microsoft are caught flat-footed, with massive amounts of cash sunk into minor improvements on last-generation consoles.
If they change the XServes at all. They have left the door open for a mixed line if they need it.
MySQL? That's pretty much all you need to see to know that these guys don't know what they're doing.
You want to know why we don't have a space program like the one you're imagining? Because you and the idiot businessmen you write for decided it was too expensive, and pushed your pet politicians to cut funding for it and dump productive space programs in exchange for pork, business pay-offs, tax cuts, and other corrupt practices. Now you've realized that to expand, your economy needs to go into orbit, and that you needed to fund these things 20 years ago for them to be ready now, and are trying to find someone else to blame for the predicament your greed caused, so as not to risk your grossly overinflated salary.
Of course, I doubt you'll learn anything from this, as you and said businessmen have, as a collective, the recall and adaptation ability of the average peanut. But on the off-chance that you do, in fact, remember something, I'd like it to include the phrase:
"Payback's a bitch, ain't it?"
For the Apple/x86 stuff, the company was saying it was "baseless rumours" up until the actual announcement. So even "absolutely no truth in it" doesn't really mean anything these days.
if patents are assigned to OSDL, they are not bound by any licensing agreements donators may have made to others.
I seriously doubt that's true. That would place a large number of these companies - which have "non-agression treaty" contracts with others - in violation of contracts they've already signed. Thus, these companies would not donate any patents to the pool.
More likely, all that most of the patent licenses say is "you won't sue us if we violate these patents".
Well, yes, you can handle a small army of Indian programmers... If you don't mind getting code that falls apart the instant you look at it funny. Because, of course, all the good Indian programmers immediately work out that they're worth much more than the salaries they get offered for outsourcing.
And it still hasn't. Wow. Really pre-emptive... Either these guys have some real muscle behind their servers, or Slashdotters don't download music unless it's illegal.
Unfortunately, their web server is now a melted mass of carbon and silicon. I hope Slashdotters buy a load of CDs to replace that bugger!
No, the reason your medical costs are so high is because the Republicans keep working as hard as they can to prevent any form of collective bargaining. This means drug companies are free to charge as much as the market will bear - which, for necessary drugs, is a hell of a lot. Outside of America, saner societies not only allow but require collective bargaining, resulting in much lower costs and more available drugs. Yes, the profit margins are reduced, but they're still there, and the companies haven't closed up shop as many of the Right-wing Lunatics keep claiming they will.
All DRM is a case of direct industrial price-fixing. It's primary purpose is to eliminate competition - both from unauthorized copying and from other hardware manufacturers.
But here's the problem: unless your technology explicitly precludes the possibility of freely redistributed content, it doesn't matter that only a few people will break the DRM. They just find the right off-shore host to upload it to and suddenly anyone in the world can download it and play it without having to repeat the process themselves.