Ahhhh, but that is not the question. The question is: is this the right thing to do, or are they being stupid? Legally they can do this, however, that I am not arguing.
I think that this is pretty crazy, as I have sold opened, legal software on ebay. And as another poster mentioned, it is legal to transfer your license to someone else.
This is not a flame, but just a clarification of what I think the other posters are commenting on.
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I believe that "no wonder people hate the French" is a joke. It probably has roots back to when England and France were always fighting. That, at least, is how I took it. I laughed out loud when I read that post, although some people probably take it seriously. Oh well, not eveyone received their sense of humor when God created them.
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I too think Mozilla is currently too slow (but I believe that will change in the future), but how exactly low-end is your machine? I remember running windows 95 w/ IE 4 on a 486 dx 66.... I was running a small webserver from it, and the only way to configure it was through the web browser. It was as slow as hell! Needless to say, that box became a linux box as soon as I found out how to do NAT in linux. So, just wondering if you are suffering from the same situation.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
I have recently been experimenting with different window managers, and to test them, you have to use them a bit. It takes very little time to learn the buttons for the manager. And most of them share similar features/indicators with other managers and graphical shells.
I understand what the original poster is typing, it makes sense, but I wouldn't consider it worth even mentioning as an example of bad design for the new mac OS interface. Things which are worth mentioning are things which become annoying. Like in GTK the menus require you to select a submenu, and move your mouse horizontally to the submenu's menu rather than moving it diagonally to the submenu (doing this causes the mouse to select the menuitme below the submenu.) But since GTK+ is open source I am not going to complain lest I get the "code it yourself" reply:)
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Exactly, a bunch of wealthy celebrities get up behind a podium, and tell everyone that they're arm-free, well, that's fine and dandy, you don't have to live somewhere where OTHER people are armed with ILLEGAL guns which more laws will not eliminate. Anyways, the second ammendment is supposed to be for protection against tyrranical governments which anyone who has read one or two pages out of a grammar shool student's history book knows is a common problem that has deep roots in history (in fact, I would probably say as far back as the first organized government). Oh, just how many murders a year are committed by assult rifles anyways? I believe it is less than one percent. Tralfamadorian-the-responsibly-armed-citizen
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This is simply not true. A lot of windows programs follow a guideline, but many do not. Think of even MS's programs. Bookshelf 97 (98?) looks COMPLETELY different from any other windows program I have seen. Look at programs like quicktime, and winamp, and others (that really funkily shaped mp3 player). The UI is only as good (or compliant) as the programmer makes it. Sure, there are more toolkits in use for X than I care to name (compared to windows), but most new programs are being developed in QT or GTK+ (I believe).
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Spam comes to your mail box, usually is large quantities. Jon Katz stories, on the other hand, are posted infrequently, and on slashdot which YOU choose to frequent. There is a large difference. It's like going to freerepublic and complaining about all of the right-wing slanted articles.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Hmm, I had a GeOS for the Commadore 64/128. It had an amazing 80 column resolution (if my memory serves), but included a spread sheet, and word processor, and was networkable though a modem. I wonder if it is the same company.
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I believe that the binary only module refered to is a module to XFree86 4.0, and the kernel module includes the sourcecode (kinda like the old 3dfx drivers, with the 3dfx.o src.rpm)
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I purchased Visual C++ 1.5 (windows 3.11), and it came with a complete MFC reference. The box was huge and heavy, and it also came with online manuals. The manuals were nice and convenient. A while ago I bought Visual C++ 5.0 which came with practically no printed material. I do like the online manuals, but I also like the printed ones.
Version 5 wasn't any cheaper despite the lack of printed manuals (It might have been more expensive for the same product class (professional)).
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Uhm, that's evil! Some of those are worth tons of money on eBay! I sold mine for a mere 50 dollars to someone, I regret doing so now:-(
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People pay more money for better video cards so that they can run the newest games at a high FPS (and high resolutions)... a Voodoo1 was adequite for Quake, but not so for Quake3. I have a TNT2 that runs Quake2 very smoothly at 1600x1200, but I run Quake3 at 1024x768 to get the same results, and the next generation of 3D games will require me to run at an even lower resolution, with more options turned off.
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I don't see the reason why so many people like DVDs for movies. I can see why they would be excellent for computers, because things like FreeBSD, and Baldur's Gate, and other multi CD programs could be released on one disc (no swapping). As zCyl typed, movies are watched linearly. I don't yet see the justification for spending hundreds of dollars on a DVD player, when you would need (maybe, if you recorded things off of the television) a VHS player as well.
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A Similar thing happened to me. Although the computers were running windows 95, I installed linux on a couple of them, and we played network hunt for the duration of the class. I knew the sysadmin, so he didn't care about the systems having linux on them.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Those are the best kind! I visit my local Thrift Store and buy up each and every one of the Model M keyboards that I can find. It's a shame that they don't make them anymore (a removable cord on a PC keyboard, come on, that is sweet). They are durable, and easily cleanable.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
This is excellent. I wonder if there is NVidia DRI, or if DRI still only works w/ Matrox/3DFx cards. Does anyone know if DRI will work under FreeBSD as well as Linux? Or is that kind of low level hardware access kernel specific?
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
American freedom is partly a farce. While on one hand our Federal Constitution allowing practically anything (it is very vague), we also have our federal government violating it whenever they wish. The United States has absolutely never allowed complete personal freedom. For example, we have to right to own firearms, although we can not own certain types of firearms. We can use drugs (coffee, tobacco, alcohol), but not others (pot, cocaine, LSD) (I believe it depends on who is giving the most money:))
We still have freedom of speech (for the most part), and I can, for example, put up a Nazi website claiming that Hitler helped the German economy, and was an all around nice guy, and the Government cannot take it down (my ISP can, however).
I am, for the most part a libertarian, and I believe in more social freedom (with regard to drugs etc).
Excuse me? Article #59 reads nothing of the sort, and is a perfectly legitimate statement (save the remark specifying the Germans). The fact is that the United States doesn't "rule," and is just as fascist in certain areas.
The United States is better with regard to freedom of speech, and has not yet made illegal Nazism, Scientology, and other "questionable" beliefs.
It is ironic that a government which bans ideas such as Nazism, or Scientology etc. would do so under the guise of "Protecting the country from totalitarianism." They are only becoming what they are trying to prevent. (IE National Socialism prevented free thought, modern day Germany prevents free thought)
I have read of similar things about France (regarding Scientology).
Unfortunately the United States (I believe) is heading in that direction too (under the guise of "protecting the people from 'hate'"). It will not be too long
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Ahhhh, but that is not the question. The question is: is this the right thing to do, or are they being stupid? Legally they can do this, however, that I am not arguing.
I think that this is pretty crazy, as I have sold opened, legal software on ebay. And as another poster mentioned, it is legal to transfer your license to someone else.
This is not a flame, but just a clarification of what I think the other posters are commenting on.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
I believe my TI86 has 128 K of memory, and I think it runs at 6 MHz, but I overclocked it, so it runs about 4 times faster :)
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I believe that "no wonder people hate the French" is a joke. It probably has roots back to when England and France were always fighting. That, at least, is how I took it. I laughed out loud when I read that post, although some people probably take it seriously. Oh well, not eveyone received their sense of humor when God created them.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
I too think Mozilla is currently too slow (but I believe that will change in the future), but how exactly low-end is your machine? I remember running windows 95 w/ IE 4 on a 486 dx 66.... I was running a small webserver from it, and the only way to configure it was through the web browser. It was as slow as hell! Needless to say, that box became a linux box as soon as I found out how to do NAT in linux. So, just wondering if you are suffering from the same situation.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Thank you!
:)
I have recently been experimenting with different window managers, and to test them, you have to use them a bit. It takes very little time to learn the buttons for the manager. And most of them share similar features/indicators with other managers and graphical shells.
I understand what the original poster is typing, it makes sense, but I wouldn't consider it worth even mentioning as an example of bad design for the new mac OS interface. Things which are worth mentioning are things which become annoying. Like in GTK the menus require you to select a submenu, and move your mouse horizontally to the submenu's menu rather than moving it diagonally to the submenu (doing this causes the mouse to select the menuitme below the submenu.) But since GTK+ is open source I am not going to complain lest I get the "code it yourself" reply
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Exactly, a bunch of wealthy celebrities get up behind a podium, and tell everyone that they're arm-free, well, that's fine and dandy, you don't have to live somewhere where OTHER people are armed with ILLEGAL guns which more laws will not eliminate. Anyways, the second ammendment is supposed to be for protection against tyrranical governments which anyone who has read one or two pages out of a grammar shool student's history book knows is a common problem that has deep roots in history (in fact, I would probably say as far back as the first organized government). Oh, just how many murders a year are committed by assult rifles anyways? I believe it is less than one percent. Tralfamadorian-the-responsibly-armed-citizen
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
This is simply not true. A lot of windows programs follow a guideline, but many do not. Think of even MS's programs. Bookshelf 97 (98?) looks COMPLETELY different from any other windows program I have seen. Look at programs like quicktime, and winamp, and others (that really funkily shaped mp3 player).
The UI is only as good (or compliant) as the programmer makes it. Sure, there are more toolkits in use for X than I care to name (compared to windows), but most new programs are being developed in QT or GTK+ (I believe).
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Spam comes to your mail box, usually is large quantities. Jon Katz stories, on the other hand, are posted infrequently, and on slashdot which YOU choose to frequent. There is a large difference. It's like going to freerepublic and complaining about all of the right-wing slanted articles.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
GTK+ doesn't come with any corporate support, but I sure hope that QT does with that kind of price tag.
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I don't know about grub, but the FreeBSD boot loader has the 1024 problem.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Hmm, I had a GeOS for the Commadore 64/128. It had an amazing 80 column resolution (if my memory serves), but included a spread sheet, and word processor, and was networkable though a modem. I wonder if it is the same company.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
I believe that the binary only module refered to is a module to XFree86 4.0, and the kernel module includes the sourcecode (kinda like the old 3dfx drivers, with the 3dfx.o src.rpm)
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
I purchased Visual C++ 1.5 (windows 3.11), and it came with a complete MFC reference. The box was huge and heavy, and it also came with online manuals. The manuals were nice and convenient. A while ago I bought Visual C++ 5.0 which came with practically no printed material. I do like the online manuals, but I also like the printed ones.
Version 5 wasn't any cheaper despite the lack of printed manuals (It might have been more expensive for the same product class (professional)).
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Uhm, that's evil! Some of those are worth tons of money on eBay! I sold mine for a mere 50 dollars to someone, I regret doing so now :-(
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
People pay more money for better video cards so that they can run the newest games at a high FPS (and high resolutions)... a Voodoo1 was adequite for Quake, but not so for Quake3. I have a TNT2 that runs Quake2 very smoothly at 1600x1200, but I run Quake3 at 1024x768 to get the same results, and the next generation of 3D games will require me to run at an even lower resolution, with more options turned off.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
I don't see the reason why so many people like DVDs for movies. I can see why they would be excellent for computers, because things like FreeBSD, and Baldur's Gate, and other multi CD programs could be released on one disc (no swapping).
As zCyl typed, movies are watched linearly. I don't yet see the justification for spending hundreds of dollars on a DVD player, when you would need (maybe, if you recorded things off of the television) a VHS player as well.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
A Similar thing happened to me. Although the computers were running windows 95, I installed linux on a couple of them, and we played network hunt for the duration of the class. I knew the sysadmin, so he didn't care about the systems having linux on them.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Those are the best kind!
I visit my local Thrift Store and buy up each and every one of the Model M keyboards that I can find. It's a shame that they don't make them anymore (a removable cord on a PC keyboard, come on, that is sweet). They are durable, and easily cleanable.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
This is excellent. I wonder if there is NVidia DRI, or if DRI still only works w/ Matrox/3DFx cards.
Does anyone know if DRI will work under FreeBSD as well as Linux? Or is that kind of low level hardware access kernel specific?
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
Well, it goes like this:
:))
American freedom is partly a farce. While on one hand our Federal Constitution allowing practically anything (it is very vague), we also have our federal government violating it whenever they wish. The United States has absolutely never allowed complete personal freedom.
For example, we have to right to own firearms, although we can not own certain types of firearms. We can use drugs (coffee, tobacco, alcohol), but not others (pot, cocaine, LSD) (I believe it depends on who is giving the most money
We still have freedom of speech (for the most part), and I can, for example, put up a Nazi website claiming that Hitler helped the German economy, and was an all around nice guy, and the Government cannot take it down (my ISP can, however).
I am, for the most part a libertarian, and I believe in more social freedom (with regard to drugs etc).
Excuse me? Article #59 reads nothing of the sort, and is a perfectly legitimate statement (save the remark specifying the Germans).
The fact is that the United States doesn't "rule," and is just as fascist in certain areas.
The United States is better with regard to freedom of speech, and has not yet made illegal Nazism, Scientology, and other "questionable" beliefs.
It is ironic that a government which bans ideas such as Nazism, or Scientology etc. would do so under the guise of "Protecting the country from totalitarianism." They are only becoming what they are trying to prevent. (IE National Socialism prevented free thought, modern day Germany prevents free thought)
I have read of similar things about France (regarding Scientology).
Unfortunately the United States (I believe) is heading in that direction too (under the guise of "protecting the people from 'hate'"). It will not be too long
Well, I can see where the confusion might come from... How often do you use the "auto" keyword?