In other news, the CEO of Buggy Whips, Inc. just stated that he sees "nothing useful" from the development of the automobile. "People just want to go wherever they want whenever they want!"
Anyways, Sony is right. We couldn't have had the Renaissance if it weren't for the large, multi-national corporations dictating the tastes and boundaries of acceptable art and commerce. How will our culture survive if corporations aren't free to restrict our freedoms?
I hate "me too" posts, but I can add that FBReader is available for the N810 and can read all sorts of e-book formats. I migrated from a Palm T|X, so keeping my Plucker and pdb docs was a nice. Plus there's the Garnet VM (Palm Emulator), so you could use any of the Palm book readers if you'd rather.
I've loaded my N810 with tons of applications and haven't spent a nickel on software.
The PIM software, I'll admit, is marginal. I still use Datebk6 under GVM for my calendar. Also the GPS is kinda slow to lock on. But as an e-book reader (or for music, video, internet, notes, x-term, and more) it's great. If you're a linux geek, you'll love it. If not, you probably won't even realize it runs linux.
> 'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system purchaser.'
If the functionality is beyond the purchaser's need or desire, why do you need to lock it away from them? If they have to pay you extra for that functionality, doesn't that imply that they really did need and desire those rights or functionality.
Beyond that, if people have a problem with somethign in Linux (and they OFTEN do), they can solve the problems themselves. What is Debian if not a criticism of the commercial aspects of Red Hat and complaints about the RPM system. What is Ubuntu if not a criticism of Debian's slow release cycle and a lack of end-user polish? Almost every distribution was created because someone didn't like something about the way the others did it.
I'd say Linux users are some of the most critical users out there. Sure, they can be dismissive dicks to newbies, but critical people are just... critical. It's nothing personal (well, sometimes maybe it is, but sticks and stones and all that).
I don't think you'll find a single developer who thinks Linux is perfect. It just sucks less. If it were perfect, why continue to develop?
Linux is like Democracy: it's the worst OS in the world... except for all the others.
In my old apartment in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC, there was a sign that said you could not park beyond that sign. If you assumed that you could park on the OTHER side of the sign, you would be wrong. The other side of the sign was a cross walk.
Half a block from that spot, there is another sign indicating where you can and cannot park. If you park where the sign indicates it is legal, you will get a ticket for parking too close to a fire hydrant. My friend took photos showing that the sign itself was 9 feet from the hydrant. He went to court in person. The judge said it doesn't matter where the sign is, the law says you have to be 10 feet from the hydrant.
The Washington Post has a column called Dr. Gridlock. I recall a few years back where they ran stories of tickets in DC. One person got a ticket for parking at an expired meter. He appealed by mail (which you can't even do anymore) and included a photograph showing that there were, in fact, no parking meters on the street where he was parked. His appeal was denied.
Wait, are you claiming that the decision in DC vs Heller held that the 2nd amendment did NOT protect the right of individuals (outside of the militia) the right to bear arms? The decision says:
Held: 1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.Pp. 2-53.
. . . for any citizen to conspire, support, or engage in activities whose sole purpose is the violent overthrow of the Constitution?
Since December 15, 1791.
The first amendment allows freedom of expression, even if the idea being expressed is to abolish the existing government.
The second amendment was not passed to protect the rights of hunters. It was passed so that common citizens could, in the inevitable instance that their government becomes tyrannical, can be overthrown. In 1791, "well-regulated" did not mean that the militia would be "regulated" or licensed by the government (you didn't need a license for anything in 1791). "Well-regulated" meant a militia that could shoot straight.
These ideas were not outrageous to the founding fathers. They themselves had just violently overthrown their government. While not law, these ideas are expressed clearly in the opening of the Declaration of Independence:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Don't feel like you're being abused because you're Canadian. The US Government is doing the exact same thing to US citizens within the US and up to 100 miles from any border.
The record of SCO also includes press coverage, lawyer biographies, etc. It also spans across multiple litigants and across multiple courts in multiple jurisdictions. No single court will have a complete archive of SCO filings, and none will have press coverage and commentary. So yes, groklaw is the ONLY archive that includes the complete story.
In the video, he selects "straight Republican" and Nader's name gets highlighted. It would be one thing if no presidential candidate got selected, but don't you think it a little odd to have a third party candidate selected. It's really funny. He first shows how a miscalibrated machine will pick the wrong candidate and then shows how easy it is to fix. He fixes it. To prove it was just miscalibrated, he then selects "straight Republican" on the just calibrated machine. It picks Nader. He says "Oh, that machine is miscalibrated" (as if he hadn't just "fixed" it).
To be fair, the people supporting the machines have done a pretty good job of showing how bad they are. Here's a guy "debunking" the myth that the machines are nefariously changing your vote. He shows that it's just miscalibrated, shows how easy it is to recalibrate, then shows how well it works after that (except that selecting "Republican Ticket" selects Ralph Nader).
Well it would, wouldn't it. They can come in on their own or they can physically search you for they key and remove it from your person, but they can't throw you in jail if you don't give them the key. Let's assume that you've hidden the key. You can't be compelled to lead the police to where you hid it. If you did, you would be admitting that you had access to the lab and you would be incriminating yourself.
As long as we're being pedantic, it should be an "em dash" (two words).
Some style guides do allow the use of the en dash surrounded by space, although the predominant english guides suggest using em dash without surround spaces.
It also hasn't been completely fixed, it's still missing the semicolon in the title element.
> If it's not reruns of old stuff from the US, It's knock-offs...
I know, it's unbelievable how many American shows were stolen by the Brits! The Office, Coupling, The Weakest Link (they even stole the host), Whose Line is it Anyway?, and on and on.
Like you mentioned, they even stole American Idol and called it Pop Idol! In fact, they took a bunch of American shows and just changed the names so we wouldn't know. Instead of Three's Company, they called it Man About the House. And when they made a spin-off of Three's Company (Three's a Crowd), they copied that too (Robin's Nest).
Nothing is stopping me from competing against google either, but I won't get any users...
Despite its flaws, slashdot does actually have some decent discussions. I protest because I care about this place. They have made some improvements over the years. I can't recall the last time I saw 3 dupes on the same day, but years ago it was pretty common. Some things never change, some changes are for the better, and then there's idle...
I frequently read slashdot.org/palm from my blackberry and this idle crap keeps appearing there. It's just horrible, not to mention that very little of the content in idle is mobile friendly. The only comments are things like "is this Digg now?" Please, don't do this. Create a whole new site if you feel like this is really what you want to do with your time, but don't associate with slashdot.
I never would have thought it possible to make slashdot appear any less credible, but you may have just found a way.
Don't do it. We've all had grand ideas that got abandoned and I know it feels bad, but you should cut your losses now before it's too late. Really. Stop.
There was a lot more than quality improvements that drove people to DVDs. I think if people were given a choice between VHS quality video with random access versus DVD quality video that still had to be rewound, people would go for the lower quality.
Now if Blu Ray eliminated all the mandatory warnings, commercials, etc and let you skip anything at anytime, they might see an uptake over DVDs. Otherwise, other than an improved image quality (that only matters if you ALSO buy a new TV), what's the point?
How could a judge who smokes judge tobacco-related issues?
Or, conversely, how could a judge who does not smoke judge a tobacco-related case? A judge that looks at porn is no more unqualified to judge this case than a judge who has never looked at porn.
> I've suspected for quite sometime that Microsoft basically gives away XP & MS Works with Dell computers...
Microsoft doesn't "give." Here's what they did prior to their conviction as a monopolist (from the United States vs Microsoft findings of facts):
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One of the ways Microsoft combats piracy is by advising OEMs that they
will be charged a higher price for Windows unless they drastically
limit the number of PCs that they sell without an operating system
pre-installed.
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An aspect of Microsoft's pricing behavior that, while not tending
to prove monopoly power, is consistent with it is the fact that the
firm charges different OEMs different prices for Windows, depending
on the degree to which the individual OEMs comply with Microsoft's
wishes. Among the five largest OEMs, Gateway and IBM, which in various
ways have resisted Microsoft's efforts to enlist them in its efforts
to preserve the applications barrier to entry, pay higher prices than
Compaq, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, which have pursued less contentious
relationships with Microsoft.
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For example, Microsoft attaches to a Windows license conditions that
restrict the ability of OEMs to promote software that Microsoft believes
could weaken the applications barrier to entry.... In addition,
Microsoft charges a lower price to OEMs who agree to ship all but a
minute fraction of their machines with an operating system preinstalled.
I don't know how much has changed since their conviction, but I would assume that, even if they aren't allowed to do exactly that anymore, they've just found workarounds to achieve the same results (as evidenced here).
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, that is the correct everyone follows. In this case, they simply forgot to pretend to open the bidding process...
In other news, the CEO of Buggy Whips, Inc. just stated that he sees "nothing useful" from the development of the automobile. "People just want to go wherever they want whenever they want!"
Anyways, Sony is right. We couldn't have had the Renaissance if it weren't for the large, multi-national corporations dictating the tastes and boundaries of acceptable art and commerce. How will our culture survive if corporations aren't free to restrict our freedoms?
I hate "me too" posts, but I can add that FBReader is available for the N810 and can read all sorts of e-book formats. I migrated from a Palm T|X, so keeping my Plucker and pdb docs was a nice. Plus there's the Garnet VM (Palm Emulator), so you could use any of the Palm book readers if you'd rather.
I've loaded my N810 with tons of applications and haven't spent a nickel on software.
The PIM software, I'll admit, is marginal. I still use Datebk6 under GVM for my calendar. Also the GPS is kinda slow to lock on. But as an e-book reader (or for music, video, internet, notes, x-term, and more) it's great. If you're a linux geek, you'll love it. If not, you probably won't even realize it runs linux.
> 'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system purchaser.'
If the functionality is beyond the purchaser's need or desire, why do you need to lock it away from them? If they have to pay you extra for that functionality, doesn't that imply that they really did need and desire those rights or functionality.
> black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.
Alt-Enter in a cmd window will get you this in Windows...
Beyond that, if people have a problem with somethign in Linux (and they OFTEN do), they can solve the problems themselves. What is Debian if not a criticism of the commercial aspects of Red Hat and complaints about the RPM system. What is Ubuntu if not a criticism of Debian's slow release cycle and a lack of end-user polish? Almost every distribution was created because someone didn't like something about the way the others did it.
I'd say Linux users are some of the most critical users out there. Sure, they can be dismissive dicks to newbies, but critical people are just... critical. It's nothing personal (well, sometimes maybe it is, but sticks and stones and all that).
I don't think you'll find a single developer who thinks Linux is perfect. It just sucks less. If it were perfect, why continue to develop?
Linux is like Democracy: it's the worst OS in the world... except for all the others.
In my old apartment in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC, there was a sign that said you could not park beyond that sign. If you assumed that you could park on the OTHER side of the sign, you would be wrong. The other side of the sign was a cross walk.
Half a block from that spot, there is another sign indicating where you can and cannot park. If you park where the sign indicates it is legal, you will get a ticket for parking too close to a fire hydrant. My friend took photos showing that the sign itself was 9 feet from the hydrant. He went to court in person. The judge said it doesn't matter where the sign is, the law says you have to be 10 feet from the hydrant.
The Washington Post has a column called Dr. Gridlock. I recall a few years back where they ran stories of tickets in DC. One person got a ticket for parking at an expired meter. He appealed by mail (which you can't even do anymore) and included a photograph showing that there were, in fact, no parking meters on the street where he was parked. His appeal was denied.
Wait, are you claiming that the decision in DC vs Heller held that the 2nd amendment did NOT protect the right of individuals (outside of the militia) the right to bear arms? The decision says:
Since December 15, 1791.
The first amendment allows freedom of expression, even if the idea being expressed is to abolish the existing government.
The second amendment was not passed to protect the rights of hunters. It was passed so that common citizens could, in the inevitable instance that their government becomes tyrannical, can be overthrown. In 1791, "well-regulated" did not mean that the militia would be "regulated" or licensed by the government (you didn't need a license for anything in 1791). "Well-regulated" meant a militia that could shoot straight.
These ideas were not outrageous to the founding fathers. They themselves had just violently overthrown their government. While not law, these ideas are expressed clearly in the opening of the Declaration of Independence:
Don't feel like you're being abused because you're Canadian. The US Government is doing the exact same thing to US citizens within the US and up to 100 miles from any border.
The record of SCO also includes press coverage, lawyer biographies, etc. It also spans across multiple litigants and across multiple courts in multiple jurisdictions. No single court will have a complete archive of SCO filings, and none will have press coverage and commentary. So yes, groklaw is the ONLY archive that includes the complete story.
In the video, he selects "straight Republican" and Nader's name gets highlighted. It would be one thing if no presidential candidate got selected, but don't you think it a little odd to have a third party candidate selected. It's really funny. He first shows how a miscalibrated machine will pick the wrong candidate and then shows how easy it is to fix. He fixes it. To prove it was just miscalibrated, he then selects "straight Republican" on the just calibrated machine. It picks Nader. He says "Oh, that machine is miscalibrated" (as if he hadn't just "fixed" it).
To be fair, the people supporting the machines have done a pretty good job of showing how bad they are. Here's a guy "debunking" the myth that the machines are nefariously changing your vote. He shows that it's just miscalibrated, shows how easy it is to recalibrate, then shows how well it works after that (except that selecting "Republican Ticket" selects Ralph Nader).
> Me letting you in would be self incrimination!
Well it would, wouldn't it. They can come in on their own or they can physically search you for they key and remove it from your person, but they can't throw you in jail if you don't give them the key. Let's assume that you've hidden the key. You can't be compelled to lead the police to where you hid it. If you did, you would be admitting that you had access to the lab and you would be incriminating yourself.
> Finally a digital copy of Pac-Man Fever!
You could have just downloaded that off one of many podcasts at the Mad Music Archive.
Some style guides do allow the use of the en dash surrounded by space, although the predominant english guides suggest using em dash without surround spaces.
It also hasn't been completely fixed, it's still missing the semicolon in the title element.
> If it's not reruns of old stuff from the US, It's knock-offs...
I know, it's unbelievable how many American shows were stolen by the Brits! The Office, Coupling, The Weakest Link (they even stole the host), Whose Line is it Anyway?, and on and on.
Like you mentioned, they even stole American Idol and called it Pop Idol! In fact, they took a bunch of American shows and just changed the names so we wouldn't know. Instead of Three's Company, they called it Man About the House. And when they made a spin-off of Three's Company (Three's a Crowd), they copied that too (Robin's Nest).
Is nothing they do original?
Watch the commercial in youtube. They clearly say "internet" when they demo the web.
Nothing is stopping me from competing against google either, but I won't get any users...
Despite its flaws, slashdot does actually have some decent discussions. I protest because I care about this place. They have made some improvements over the years. I can't recall the last time I saw 3 dupes on the same day, but years ago it was pretty common. Some things never change, some changes are for the better, and then there's idle...
I frequently read slashdot.org/palm from my blackberry and this idle crap keeps appearing there. It's just horrible, not to mention that very little of the content in idle is mobile friendly. The only comments are things like "is this Digg now?" Please, don't do this. Create a whole new site if you feel like this is really what you want to do with your time, but don't associate with slashdot.
I never would have thought it possible to make slashdot appear any less credible, but you may have just found a way.
Don't do it. We've all had grand ideas that got abandoned and I know it feels bad, but you should cut your losses now before it's too late. Really. Stop.
There was a lot more than quality improvements that drove people to DVDs. I think if people were given a choice between VHS quality video with random access versus DVD quality video that still had to be rewound, people would go for the lower quality.
Now if Blu Ray eliminated all the mandatory warnings, commercials, etc and let you skip anything at anytime, they might see an uptake over DVDs. Otherwise, other than an improved image quality (that only matters if you ALSO buy a new TV), what's the point?
Small business owners file 1040 Schedule C. Pari I, line 1 is "Gross receipts or sales."
Make it available as a premium service and charge for CPU usage. If they write a screwy runaway query, you can retire early!
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