Re:This would be in America. right?
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Cell-Phone Wars
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Most cell phones (my P800, for instance) allow you to dial alarm numbers such as 911 or 112 even when it's not connected to an allowed network, and even when the phone's keypad is locked or when it's just been turned on and the PIN has not yet been entered. This is so you can grab for instance an accident victim's phone if you don't have one yourself and use it to call for an ambulance, even when it was turned off and you don't know the PIN.
On the Services for UNIX homepage it says prominently in the upper right corner: "SFU 3.0 captures Open Source Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld", complete with a LinuxWorld logo. This must surely win the irony of the year award...
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Couples are gay. People who want to be "together" should be shot "together."
What's that all about?
What has that got to do with it?
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Wikipedia Needs $20K
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... one of the ways that I've always understood it is that it truly is "free" as in beer.
You understood wrong then, and you can't have paid much attention since it's always made clear that open source doesn't have to be free as in beer. The reason that it often is is that one of the consequences of software being open source is that you're allowed to freely distribute it, so it doesn't make sense to charge for it if your clients can then legally give it to all their friends for free.
None of this has any bearing on Wikipedia however, since that's a web site and the concept of "open source" doesn't even apply. A web site isn't a program which has source code and which you can copy or distribute. Even if this "fundamental problem with open source" of yours really existed, it would have nothing to do with Wikipedia.
Wouldn't it be more profitable for Wiki to (...) call itself a collective...
What on earth does it matter what they call themselves? In what way would it solve their problem if they said: "hey guys, we're a collective now, now could you please give us some money?"
They are providing a very valuable service to us all for free and personally I think we (that is to say, we who use it) owe them some help in hard times at the least...
It's getting to where any moron can write an "open letter to SCO" and get on Slashdot's frontpage.
The CEO of Red Hat, the company which is right now sueing SCO, is "any moron"? It would seem to me that whoever modded this "insightful" is the moron in this case...
You passed between milepost 1 and 15 in under 6 minutes, here's your speeding ticket.
That's how a stretch of road in Rotterdam is actually being speedchecked now. The maximum speed there is 80 km/h, and this is enforced by a battery of camera's at the beginning and end (and all the entries and exits) that register when you drive past. They don't use RFID tags though, they OCR your numberplates.
Imagine if Microsoft added some copyrighted code to Windows and they didn't license the use of that code from the owner. Would the code owner be able to sue end users of Windows for license payments?
The situation is different with Linux. <SIMPLIFICATION>It is illegal to make copies of copyrighted code</SIMPLIFICATION>, and with Linux, end users are copying it, which would be illegal if there were indeed any code in it to which SCO owns the copyright! Copying Windows is already illegal, so the situation doesn't arise there.
Also, downloading Linux probably also counts as "copying" it, so only people who bought Linux in a box would probably be safe from the claim that they copied copyrighted code. I'm not sure if using copyrighted code is illegal, but I think it probably isn't.
If you're gonna tax everyone, then you can't complain when they take what they paid for.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? However, that is exactly what they're already doing. Here in the Netherlands, the price of empty CD-R's, tapes, etc. includes a royalty to compensate for copying copyrighted works, yet the copying is still illegal. I'm pretty sure it's the same in the US.
From the standpoint of the movies, the Saruman plot is finished, over, and done with.
I agree, but only because we already know that the Scouring of the Shire is out. If that were in they'd be in a lot more trouble leaving Saruman out...
Peter Jackson has said that The Two Towers deviated by far the most from the book of the three films. We already knew that the Scouring was out, and given that, the removal of Saruman isn't such a big deal. Leaving out the Scouring is already a pretty big departure from the book, so I anticipate that the rest will be pretty close...
Why would Apple do that? They give away iTunes away for free, so why should they have a problem if you access it over the network with a different program instead of with another copy of iTunes, as long as you don't hack iTunes or otherwise encroach on their business model?
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Most cell phones (my P800, for instance) allow you to dial alarm numbers such as 911 or 112 even when it's not connected to an allowed network, and even when the phone's keypad is locked or when it's just been turned on and the PIN has not yet been entered. This is so you can grab for instance an accident victim's phone if you don't have one yourself and use it to call for an ambulance, even when it was turned off and you don't know the PIN.
By the way, if you haven't yet, if you use mozilla, you need to check out about:mozilla
Now it'll be slashdotted in no time...
On the Services for UNIX homepage it says prominently in the upper right corner: "SFU 3.0 captures Open Source Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld", complete with a LinuxWorld logo. This must surely win the irony of the year award...
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Couples are gay. People who want to be "together" should be shot "together."
What's that all about?
You understood wrong then, and you can't have paid much attention since it's always made clear that open source doesn't have to be free as in beer. The reason that it often is is that one of the consequences of software being open source is that you're allowed to freely distribute it, so it doesn't make sense to charge for it if your clients can then legally give it to all their friends for free.
None of this has any bearing on Wikipedia however, since that's a web site and the concept of "open source" doesn't even apply. A web site isn't a program which has source code and which you can copy or distribute. Even if this "fundamental problem with open source" of yours really existed, it would have nothing to do with Wikipedia.
Wouldn't it be more profitable for Wiki to (...) call itself a collective...
What on earth does it matter what they call themselves? In what way would it solve their problem if they said: "hey guys, we're a collective now, now could you please give us some money?"
They are providing a very valuable service to us all for free and personally I think we (that is to say, we who use it) owe them some help in hard times at the least...
It's getting to where any moron can write an "open letter to SCO" and get on Slashdot's frontpage.
The CEO of Red Hat, the company which is right now sueing SCO, is "any moron"? It would seem to me that whoever modded this "insightful" is the moron in this case...
How soon before:
You passed between milepost 1 and 15 in under 6 minutes, here's your speeding ticket.
That's how a stretch of road in Rotterdam is actually being speedchecked now. The maximum speed there is 80 km/h, and this is enforced by a battery of camera's at the beginning and end (and all the entries and exits) that register when you drive past. They don't use RFID tags though, they OCR your numberplates.
It's just an XML file that says where you can download the content, what software/hardware you need to view it, and how much it costs.
So that you can then download said content and share it over Kazaa, Web pages, email, etc...
Why does an average NHS worker have to install her own hardware and software?
Imagine if Microsoft added some copyrighted code to Windows and they didn't license the use of that code from the owner. Would the code owner be able to sue end users of Windows for license payments?
The situation is different with Linux. <SIMPLIFICATION>It is illegal to make copies of copyrighted code</SIMPLIFICATION>, and with Linux, end users are copying it, which would be illegal if there were indeed any code in it to which SCO owns the copyright! Copying Windows is already illegal, so the situation doesn't arise there.
Also, downloading Linux probably also counts as "copying" it, so only people who bought Linux in a box would probably be safe from the claim that they copied copyrighted code. I'm not sure if using copyrighted code is illegal, but I think it probably isn't.
If you're gonna tax everyone, then you can't complain when they take what they paid for.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? However, that is exactly what they're already doing. Here in the Netherlands, the price of empty CD-R's, tapes, etc. includes a royalty to compensate for copying copyrighted works, yet the copying is still illegal. I'm pretty sure it's the same in the US.
Do you honestly think they create a new Oscar screener DVD from the film transfer?
Do you honestly think that when the Oscar screener DVD was sent out (January? February?), the regular DVD (August) was already done?
OK, which asshole modded me down? You're the same guy who spelled Saruman's name as Sauruman, aren't you?
From the standpoint of the movies, the Saruman plot is finished, over, and done with.
I agree, but only because we already know that the Scouring of the Shire is out. If that were in they'd be in a lot more trouble leaving Saruman out...
Hook, line and sinker... :-)
You might have quoted the (seven year old) source of this. Anonymous Coward indeed.
...Saruman, for crying out loud! What's with you people?
Peter Jackson has said that The Two Towers deviated by far the most from the book of the three films. We already knew that the Scouring was out, and given that, the removal of Saruman isn't such a big deal. Leaving out the Scouring is already a pretty big departure from the book, so I anticipate that the rest will be pretty close...
God forbid a UNIX user should install IE
Could you please point me to the UNIX version of IE? I'd love to have it!
Perhaps the next version of NFS will be better in this regard...
It is.
No one uses it.
Then what do they use, since StarOffice is presumably all that's installed on the laptops? Illegal copies of Word?
I wonder if it will suck as bad compared to iTunes Music Store as their DVD rental service does compared to NetFlix.
Just read a few of the newsgroup postings about that: Google Groups on Wal-Mart/NetFlix
In other words, it should be much better?
You mean either:
Is it just me or does anyone else think this is an oxymoron?
Or:
Am I the only one who thinks this is an oxymoron?
Sorry about that, I just think it's ironic when people make language mistakes when commenting on someone else's language...
Why would Apple do that? They give away iTunes away for free, so why should they have a problem if you access it over the network with a different program instead of with another copy of iTunes, as long as you don't hack iTunes or otherwise encroach on their business model?
Since when is the copyright symbol allowable in Java syntax?
<PEDANTIC>Since forever. Java source code is in unicode, so it can contain pretty much anything, including 0x00A9, the copyright sign...</PEDANTIC>