Witness the number of embedded devices (particularly routers) where you can't get the source code to the GPL parts, and where you can, they're hard linked to closed source binaries with 'no unauthorised distribution' clauses (Yes I mean you Broadcom!).
So it's perfectly legal to modify the GPL bits, but illegal to distribute the resultant code... thus the GPL is defeated by apathy because nobody cares.
Gotta love the way that was modded insightful. Either the mods have a humour bypass today or they're so right wing that anything that sounds vaguely like it supports GWB gets insightful automatically..
I've seen malware get past MS Antispyware & Spybot (the worst being Spy Sherrif, which actually deletes MS Antispyware if it sees it), but it's usually caught on the next scan if it doesn't make itself obvious immediately.
What does Ewido do that's different to the others?
Using CVS or SVN with XML is far from straightforward, since they're structured documents (I suspect this is true of most structured formats).
I've spent some time looking at the problem as part of my job, and it's not an easy thing to do... to do it properly you have to parse the DOM and merge the XML elements correctly (eg. some attributes can be repeated, some can't... the merge has to know what to do in each case and when to start asking the user for help).
For a trivial example:
v1.1
Hello
Goodbye
v1.2
Goodbye!
Hello
You need to analyse the structure to know that there's only one change (the contents of Baz), and the DOM to know that the order of these elements is not significant.
I'm curious what the collaboration features actually *are*. Please don't say Outlook...
Having worked for numerous tech companies in the last 10 years I've never seen any of them in use, and although slashdot occasionally mentions them there's no button for 'wizzy new collaboration features' on any version of office that I've used...
'the market' is often very short sighted, and will frequently lead to a monopoly, to the long term detriment of consumers.. especially where standards don't exist.
We need an open document format to allow WP/Office designers to compete on a level playing field - then you get real competition. For example, we have an open web format... which means that firefox can exist, forcing MS to get off their arses and actually do something for IE7. You can bet if MS had managed to pull off a proprietary web they'd not have to do anything of the sort (in fact we'd probably be years behind where we are now, and almost certainly linux wouldn't have a browser available...)
.. and apple have no problem charging you $10-$15 for the same CD *minus* the cost of the physical media, which is what this investigation is all about.
lol. Nothing to do with the russian mafia, and they do pay their dues. It's more to do with the difference in exchange rates/sales prices - allofmp3 prices are *high* compared to the street price of CDs in russia.
One place I worked the CEO would send things like pictures of coke cans being stored places they were never designed to, etc... The only unwritten rule was don't get caught with anything really dodgy.
The occasional breast etc. was normal - some even had that as their background (in fact I've never been anywhere where a bit of breast caused offence, but then I never worked in the US - they're a lot more prudish over there).
That used to be true a couple of years back, but the endless and constant repeats have basically killed most of its support... you can hardly switch onto sky one without a 'simpsons marathon' blighting your day.
If google are copying the hard drives of millions of computer users, how many warezed copies of software do they actually own? Many terrabytes of it I'd guess..
First spammers will fake/spoof the goodmail system - that's what made habeas an unmitigated disaster (it became a near 100% spam sign very quickly.. of course it's just as useful for that - I automatically bounce anything with a habeas haiku in it).
Secondly, spammers are *always* claiming their lists are 'opt in' when they clearly aren't.
Amazon still try to spam me regularly - I haven't bought anything from them in years.. After giving up trying to stop the spam (tried *everything*) I eventually made a rule that forwarded their junk direct to spamcop.
There's a certain amount of accountability but not a huge amount... they can still throw a hissy fit if they want to. In *theory* as they're all nominated by member states (who are elected governments) they're accountable - in practice there's too much distance between the voters and their nomination for that accountability to be meaningful.
The parliament can throw a spanner in the works but there's no appetite for giving them more power (ironically those most against this are those that often complain that the EU is undemocratic..) - they for example killed the software patent bill in the teeth of commission opposition.
More to the point, the design will answer the question for you (as it does for the 'what programming language' question).
You design the application *then* you start making technical decisions about implementation - not the other way around.. there's already too much crap produced by people who *must* use the latest wizzy 'framework' and then design an app to use it regardless of the functional requirements.
OK make that 6. All of the above, multiplied by 10.3.x and 10.4.x (and they are different enough that you need to make the choice... eg. I've still got 10.4 on a shelf).
Just like schools that run Linux boxes have to buy licenses for them even if they never even saw a Windows disk (the schools price is calculated on the number of PCs Owned *not* the number of PCs that run Windows. Not sure if they count Macs too but it wouldn't surprise me).
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In practice though GPL stuff isn't enforced...
Witness the number of embedded devices (particularly routers) where you can't get the source code to the GPL parts, and where you can, they're hard linked to closed source binaries with 'no unauthorised distribution' clauses (Yes I mean you Broadcom!).
So it's perfectly legal to modify the GPL bits, but illegal to distribute the resultant code... thus the GPL is defeated by apathy because nobody cares.
And who didn't see *that* coming.
Right when the war started we were joking that we could recycle all the 'don't attack iraq' posters by crossing out the Q and writing an N.
Surprised it took them that long actually..
Gotta love the way that was modded insightful. Either the mods have a humour bypass today or they're so right wing that anything that sounds vaguely like it supports GWB gets insightful automatically..
Or you can install openwrt and do the same for free...
I've seen malware get past MS Antispyware & Spybot (the worst being Spy Sherrif, which actually deletes MS Antispyware if it sees it), but it's usually caught on the next scan if it doesn't make itself obvious immediately.
What does Ewido do that's different to the others?
Damn slashdot! I posted as *text* not HTML.
Try again:
1.1:
<Foo>
<Bar>Hello</Bar>
<Baz>Goodbye</Baz>
</Foo>
1.2:
<Foo>
<Baz>Goodbye!</Baz>
<Bar>Hello</Bar>
</Foo>
Using CVS or SVN with XML is far from straightforward, since they're structured documents (I suspect this is true of most structured formats).
I've spent some time looking at the problem as part of my job, and it's not an easy thing to do... to do it properly you have to parse the DOM and merge the XML elements correctly (eg. some attributes can be repeated, some can't... the merge has to know what to do in each case and when to start asking the user for help).
For a trivial example:
v1.1
Hello
Goodbye
v1.2
Goodbye!
Hello
You need to analyse the structure to know that there's only one change (the contents of Baz), and the DOM to know that the order of these elements is not significant.
The ads are just saying:
"Office 97 was buggy and crap - look, it can't even tell the difference between a time and a date!!"
"Office 2003/5 is better. Honest. Really. Trust us this time. And don't go near that openoffice thing... Noooo..."
Damn your machine must be fast... On a dual core AMD with a gig of ram it takes >5 seconds. What are you running it on... a Cray??
I'm curious what the collaboration features actually *are*. Please don't say Outlook...
Having worked for numerous tech companies in the last 10 years I've never seen any of them in use, and although slashdot occasionally mentions them there's no button for 'wizzy new collaboration features' on any version of office that I've used...
'the market' is often very short sighted, and will frequently lead to a monopoly, to the long term detriment of consumers.. especially where standards don't exist.
We need an open document format to allow WP/Office designers to compete on a level playing field - then you get real competition. For example, we have an open web format... which means that firefox can exist, forcing MS to get off their arses and actually do something for IE7. You can bet if MS had managed to pull off a proprietary web they'd not have to do anything of the sort (in fact we'd probably be years behind where we are now, and almost certainly linux wouldn't have a browser available...)
.. and apple have no problem charging you $10-$15 for the same CD *minus* the cost of the physical media, which is what this investigation is all about.
lol. Nothing to do with the russian mafia, and they do pay their dues. It's more to do with the difference in exchange rates/sales prices - allofmp3 prices are *high* compared to the street price of CDs in russia.
Depends on where you work.
One place I worked the CEO would send things like pictures of coke cans being stored places they were never designed to, etc... The only unwritten rule was don't get caught with anything really dodgy.
The occasional breast etc. was normal - some even had that as their background (in fact I've never been anywhere where a bit of breast caused offence, but then I never worked in the US - they're a lot more prudish over there).
That used to be true a couple of years back, but the endless and constant repeats have basically killed most of its support... you can hardly switch onto sky one without a 'simpsons marathon' blighting your day.
..which of course is an interesting sidepoint.
If google are copying the hard drives of millions of computer users, how many warezed copies of software do they actually own? Many terrabytes of it I'd guess..
First spammers will fake/spoof the goodmail system - that's what made habeas an unmitigated disaster (it became a near 100% spam sign very quickly.. of course it's just as useful for that - I automatically bounce anything with a habeas haiku in it).
Secondly, spammers are *always* claiming their lists are 'opt in' when they clearly aren't.
Amazon still try to spam me regularly - I haven't bought anything from them in years.. After giving up trying to stop the spam (tried *everything*) I eventually made a rule that forwarded their junk direct to spamcop.
There's a certain amount of accountability but not a huge amount... they can still throw a hissy fit if they want to. In *theory* as they're all nominated by member states (who are elected governments) they're accountable - in practice there's too much distance between the voters and their nomination for that accountability to be meaningful.
The parliament can throw a spanner in the works but there's no appetite for giving them more power (ironically those most against this are those that often complain that the EU is undemocratic..) - they for example killed the software patent bill in the teeth of commission opposition.
You don't??
Technocrat is OK.. a bit quiet (but that's a good thing IMO).
More to the point, the design will answer the question for you (as it does for the 'what programming language' question).
You design the application *then* you start making technical decisions about implementation - not the other way around.. there's already too much crap produced by people who *must* use the latest wizzy 'framework' and then design an app to use it regardless of the functional requirements.
OK make that 6. All of the above, multiplied by 10.3.x and 10.4.x (and they are different enough that you need to make the choice... eg. I've still got 10.4 on a shelf).
Add another 3 for the x86 versions...
No, It's a EULA breach to do filesharing or run Apache* on XP Home.
Just because they don't physically stop you (yet) doesn't mean you can do it.
* OK well technically you could *run* it, but you'd have to make damned sure port 80 was firewalled to stay legal..
Yes I think.
Just like schools that run Linux boxes have to buy licenses for them even if they never even saw a Windows disk (the schools price is calculated on the number of PCs Owned *not* the number of PCs that run Windows. Not sure if they count Macs too but it wouldn't surprise me).