The problem isn't just that his movies suck. It's that his movies suck and he just destroyed any chance of there being a good movie made from whichever game he raped this time. If that weren't the case, then yes, it would be simple to just ignore him and his movies.
If you would like to review history, you would notice that it was discovered that the anthrax used came from US bioweapon labs. That was pretty much the last piece of information reported on the subject - either the investigation got silently terminated at that point or it's been going on since then without any results. Now, there's not really any way the investigation can have been going on for this long without any results - assuming they are trying at all - if only a report that evidence was destroyed / is missing / their access to it is being blocked. In any case, all that implies that someone at or near the top has an interest in the attackers not being found. Your choice of whether they are involved or just covering up atrocious incompetence.
It would be a sane assumption that there was a patent license. Of course, we are talking about corporations and contracts here, so sane assumptions need not apply.
Actually, this would be a pretty neat* business model: Acquire a patent on something, make products covered by the patent, sell the products. Just forget to include a patent license along with the product and then sue your customers for patent violation a while later.
It's assuming that a monopoly will always be evil, essentially. This has shown several times to be the case, but are we saying this is always the case?
It's more like a monopoly that even just acts like a normal business will in effect abuse their monopoly position. And expecting a corporation to voluntarily limit their actions in order to preserve a free market just leads to disappointment, which is why those special rules exist.
The very high Finnish share is probably explained by the government IT security office making a public recommendation that people switch away from IE a while ago when there was yet another major exploit for it going around. IIRC, Firefox was explicitly mentioned as a good alternative to migrate to.
First of all, manufacturing drugs from a known recipe and getting spacecraft out of the gravity well are quite different. Launches cost piles of money, drug manufacturing not so much. Second, the spaceflight company would not have a monopoly on all commercial spaceflight due to patents, while the drug company is the only one who gets to manufacture the drug for the next few decades. Third, it's about people's health, which is IMO more important than getting to look at the pretty blue sphere from way above.
Of course, the drug manufacturer should be compensated for their manufacturing costs, but they shouldn't have the right to set an arbitrary price on the drug for hundreds of percent of profit. Especially when they didn't make the initial investment in developing the drug.
While one does not have to be a "hardcore math geek" to do programming, one should have a solid grasp of formal logic. A programmer who does not understand logic is worse than no programmer at all, because they will waste the time of whomever ends up cleaning up their buggy mess - it would have taken less effort to do it right in the first place. However, logic is the bare minimum. For example, getting the most out of relational databases will require an understanding of set theory and relational algebra.
Second, the reason we start at the beginning (or maybe somewhere in the middle and eventually visit the beginning) is to know what has been done before and *why* is was done so and why it is or isn't a good idea in the current environment. This is why a decent CS curriculum will have a course or two on the basics of hardware - everyone except maybe some of the algorithm people will at least occasionally be working within the constraints of real hardware.
P.S. While C++ might not be particularly usefull to you, an assembly language would certainly provide insight into how those languages you do use ultimately work. The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs might also be a worthwhile read.
They don't pay. See "domain tasting". So starting from the good stuff might be a better choice, since that will turn the issue from an annoyance to bad. Which would hopefully mean there would be enough pressure to do something about it.
Infringe copyright -> you can't distribute. This applies regardless of whose copyright you went and violated.
The difference comes when you start begging the copyright owner to let you distribute anyway. If the original license was GPL, based on prior evidence, you just need to obey the license, which, yes, means you have to distribute your sources to the violating work. But the demands could range anywhere from the original authore getting credit to having to pay them (large piles of) money to just not being given a license. Which means that Microsoft could, if they felt like it, demand that you make your source code public.
It's way worse. At least as far as MSDN vs. Java APIdocs goes. I haven't used MSDN much, but those few times I have had to take a look in it, I've found all kinds of fun problems, ranging just clumsy navigation to totally incoherent content, such as having a listing with categories "Classes" and "Methods" and not having any links from the classes to the methods those classes have (some of the methods did say which classes they belong to. Still, some, not all).
No, you don't need root to install stuff in Linux. You can quite well install software under your home directory instead of the system directories. Which could of course put your data at risk, so if you suspect that a piece of software is bad or comes with a bad installer, you can create a dedicated user account for it. As for (commercial) games, UT2k4 was installable and runs quite OK without root having ever gotten involved in the process.
There's a standard for menu items - file format, storage location and some behaviour - which is I think is used by both KDE and Gnome menus already. Incidentally, the KDE menu & menu editor already do something like what you're proposing (KDE 3.5.8): Altering a system entry creates a local copy, which is then displayed in favour of the system one. I did not test to see if it handles the target program being removed gracefully, though.
It also seems you're ignoring a lot of votes in favor of keeping the webcomic articles. An example from the aforementioned comments: Checkerboard Nightmare's (though it didn't end up deleted since even after deleting over half of the keep votes, the keeps were still in majority). What the fuck is up with that?
A random guess would be that you don't have the updated package files yet. It could be that the mirror you're using hasn't been updated yet. Or it could be currently in the form of a molten puddle of metal on the floor. There might be a real problem somewhere if it's still not offering distro version upgrade after a day or two.
The "first to market" risk is what the Finnish "utility model" (hyödyllisyysmalli) attempts to solve. Instead of requiring inventiveness, it requires only that the thing being patented is different from what is already known and has not been done before by anyone else. Max term is 10 years (4 base + 4 extension + 2 extension).
Gnome - Registry hacking is no longer just for Windows users
This is the among the greatest reasons why I ditched Gnome. The GUI configurability is being reduced to toddler-proof levels, with no "Advanced" button or tab or equivalent. So the next step is direct conf file editing. Except it's not exactly conf files, but a bloody registry clone.
The first priority of a company should be providing something of value to the society. Money is merely the incentive for that. A group of people being more efficient at providing that value as one unit instead of separately is the whole point of the legal construct that is a company.
Kind of offtopic, but, if you want pretty realistic physics in a space sim, try the I-War games. The second one is pretty free-from, especially after you add some mods. Vega Strike and some of it's derivatives also use a Newtonian flight model, but they are still somewhat work-in-progress.
Incidentally, why didn't they leave it home if it were going to be off the whole time? Afraid it would be stolen in a home robbery? A random guess, but in case they did end up needing the phones for some reason (say, an accident).
Well, there's the little thing that Israel started the whole mess by driving the Palestinians from their homes. Not all of them directly, of course. Just making examples of a few villages works wonders in convincing people to leave. Examples like killing everyone and then bulldozing the place to ground. So if Israel wanted peace, they might start by apologizing for that. Another good step would be to stop using settlers to grab more land from outside their official borders and force the current settlers to move back into Israel's proper territory.
Of course, the Palestinians are not exactly innocent anymore, having gone over certain ethical boundaries while resisting Israeli aggression. But yes, Israel is the aggressor there.
Thing is, the time does make a difference. A lot of the people who were driven away are still alive. So are those who drove them away. It is not yet fully a matter of punishing the N:th generation descendants of the violators for the crimes of their ancestors. As such, having the Israeli settlers move back in to Israel's proper territory is merely forcing the very people who illegitimately took the land from Palestinians to relinquish it.
Incidentally, this part of the reason for the settlements - if they can remain in place for several generations, it will become an injustice against the descendants of the initial Israeli settlers then living there (who could possibly be innocent of any offense committed against the Palestinians) to force them to move away.
Driver on monolithic kernel -> processor is in privileged mode while the driver is being executed -> driver can read/write any memory address it likes and can execute any processor instruction it likes. Thus, it can either just write into the network card's address space or mess with the buses, leaving them in an inconsistent state that miraculously only manages to kill one attached device instead of stopping everything.
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By Microprose. A lot of the things that changed between MOO and MOO2 came from MOM.
The problem isn't just that his movies suck. It's that his movies suck and he just destroyed any chance of there being a good movie made from whichever game he raped this time.
If that weren't the case, then yes, it would be simple to just ignore him and his movies.
If you would like to review history, you would notice that it was discovered that the anthrax used came from US bioweapon labs. That was pretty much the last piece of information reported on the subject - either the investigation got silently terminated at that point or it's been going on since then without any results. Now, there's not really any way the investigation can have been going on for this long without any results - assuming they are trying at all - if only a report that evidence was destroyed / is missing / their access to it is being blocked.
In any case, all that implies that someone at or near the top has an interest in the attackers not being found. Your choice of whether they are involved or just covering up atrocious incompetence.
It would be a sane assumption that there was a patent license. Of course, we are talking about corporations and contracts here, so sane assumptions need not apply.
Actually, this would be a pretty neat* business model: Acquire a patent on something, make products covered by the patent, sell the products. Just forget to include a patent license along with the product and then sue your customers for patent violation a while later.
(* and utterly despicable)
It's more like a monopoly that even just acts like a normal business will in effect abuse their monopoly position. And expecting a corporation to voluntarily limit their actions in order to preserve a free market just leads to disappointment, which is why those special rules exist.
The very high Finnish share is probably explained by the government IT security office making a public recommendation that people switch away from IE a while ago when there was yet another major exploit for it going around. IIRC, Firefox was explicitly mentioned as a good alternative to migrate to.
You could. You could also be an idiot.
First of all, manufacturing drugs from a known recipe and getting spacecraft out of the gravity well are quite different. Launches cost piles of money, drug manufacturing not so much.
Second, the spaceflight company would not have a monopoly on all commercial spaceflight due to patents, while the drug company is the only one who gets to manufacture the drug for the next few decades.
Third, it's about people's health, which is IMO more important than getting to look at the pretty blue sphere from way above.
Of course, the drug manufacturer should be compensated for their manufacturing costs, but they shouldn't have the right to set an arbitrary price on the drug for hundreds of percent of profit. Especially when they didn't make the initial investment in developing the drug.
While one does not have to be a "hardcore math geek" to do programming, one should have a solid grasp of formal logic. A programmer who does not understand logic is worse than no programmer at all, because they will waste the time of whomever ends up cleaning up their buggy mess - it would have taken less effort to do it right in the first place.
However, logic is the bare minimum. For example, getting the most out of relational databases will require an understanding of set theory and relational algebra.
Second, the reason we start at the beginning (or maybe somewhere in the middle and eventually visit the beginning) is to know what has been done before and *why* is was done so and why it is or isn't a good idea in the current environment. This is why a decent CS curriculum will have a course or two on the basics of hardware - everyone except maybe some of the algorithm people will at least occasionally be working within the constraints of real hardware.
P.S. While C++ might not be particularly usefull to you, an assembly language would certainly provide insight into how those languages you do use ultimately work. The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs might also be a worthwhile read.
They don't pay. See "domain tasting".
So starting from the good stuff might be a better choice, since that will turn the issue from an annoyance to bad. Which would hopefully mean there would be enough pressure to do something about it.
Wrong.
Infringe copyright -> you can't distribute. This applies regardless of whose copyright you went and violated.
The difference comes when you start begging the copyright owner to let you distribute anyway. If the original license was GPL, based on prior evidence, you just need to obey the license, which, yes, means you have to distribute your sources to the violating work.
But the demands could range anywhere from the original authore getting credit to having to pay them (large piles of) money to just not being given a license.
Which means that Microsoft could, if they felt like it, demand that you make your source code public.
It's way worse. At least as far as MSDN vs. Java APIdocs goes. I haven't used MSDN much, but those few times I have had to take a look in it, I've found all kinds of fun problems, ranging just clumsy navigation to totally incoherent content, such as having a listing with categories "Classes" and "Methods" and not having any links from the classes to the methods those classes have (some of the methods did say which classes they belong to. Still, some, not all).
No, you don't need root to install stuff in Linux. You can quite well install software under your home directory instead of the system directories. Which could of course put your data at risk, so if you suspect that a piece of software is bad or comes with a bad installer, you can create a dedicated user account for it.
As for (commercial) games, UT2k4 was installable and runs quite OK without root having ever gotten involved in the process.
And do you tell those friends of yours that you made that music and those movies?
There's a standard for menu items - file format, storage location and some behaviour - which is I think is used by both KDE and Gnome menus already. Incidentally, the KDE menu & menu editor already do something like what you're proposing (KDE 3.5.8): Altering a system entry creates a local copy, which is then displayed in favour of the system one. I did not test to see if it handles the target program being removed gracefully, though.
Looks like it finally got Slashdotted, then. Google cache: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:sqmddMByRAAJ:comixtalk.com/terrence_markswikipedia_and_you+http://comixtalk.com/terrence_markswikipedia_and_you
And ooh, whomever it might be that deletes those votes? I guess it must be the vote deletion fairy, since it clearly isn't an admin.
RTFA. And the comments, too.
It also seems you're ignoring a lot of votes in favor of keeping the webcomic articles. An example from the aforementioned comments: Checkerboard Nightmare's (though it didn't end up deleted since even after deleting over half of the keep votes, the keeps were still in majority). What the fuck is up with that?
A random guess would be that you don't have the updated package files yet. It could be that the mirror you're using hasn't been updated yet. Or it could be currently in the form of a molten puddle of metal on the floor.
There might be a real problem somewhere if it's still not offering distro version upgrade after a day or two.
The "first to market" risk is what the Finnish "utility model" (hyödyllisyysmalli) attempts to solve. Instead of requiring inventiveness, it requires only that the thing being patented is different from what is already known and has not been done before by anyone else. Max term is 10 years (4 base + 4 extension + 2 extension).
Gnome - Registry hacking is no longer just for Windows users
This is the among the greatest reasons why I ditched Gnome. The GUI configurability is being reduced to toddler-proof levels, with no "Advanced" button or tab or equivalent. So the next step is direct conf file editing. Except it's not exactly conf files, but a bloody registry clone.
The first priority of a company should be providing something of value to the society. Money is merely the incentive for that. A group of people being more efficient at providing that value as one unit instead of separately is the whole point of the legal construct that is a company.
Kind of offtopic, but, if you want pretty realistic physics in a space sim, try the I-War games. The second one is pretty free-from, especially after you add some mods. Vega Strike and some of it's derivatives also use a Newtonian flight model, but they are still somewhat work-in-progress.
http://www.i-war2.com/
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Well, there's the little thing that Israel started the whole mess by driving the Palestinians from their homes. Not all of them directly, of course. Just making examples of a few villages works wonders in convincing people to leave. Examples like killing everyone and then bulldozing the place to ground.
So if Israel wanted peace, they might start by apologizing for that. Another good step would be to stop using settlers to grab more land from outside their official borders and force the current settlers to move back into Israel's proper territory.
Of course, the Palestinians are not exactly innocent anymore, having gone over certain ethical boundaries while resisting Israeli aggression. But yes, Israel is the aggressor there.
Thing is, the time does make a difference. A lot of the people who were driven away are still alive. So are those who drove them away. It is not yet fully a matter of punishing the N:th generation descendants of the violators for the crimes of their ancestors. As such, having the Israeli settlers move back in to Israel's proper territory is merely forcing the very people who illegitimately took the land from Palestinians to relinquish it.
Incidentally, this part of the reason for the settlements - if they can remain in place for several generations, it will become an injustice against the descendants of the initial Israeli settlers then living there (who could possibly be innocent of any offense committed against the Palestinians) to force them to move away.
Driver on monolithic kernel -> processor is in privileged mode while the driver is being executed -> driver can read/write any memory address it likes and can execute any processor instruction it likes.
Thus, it can either just write into the network card's address space or mess with the buses, leaving them in an inconsistent state that miraculously only manages to kill one attached device instead of stopping everything.