VOTE IN NOVEMBER AND PUT AN END TO THIS HORSESHIT.
this is going slightly off topic, but what makes you think that electing Kerry will put a stop to this? his faction is just as interested in what you're discussing with your friends as Bush's. only difference is that Ashcroft will bust you for being nice to Muslims, while Kerry will bust you for NOT being nice to Muslims.
The current "debate" system is worse than flawed. It is nothing more than a joint campaign appearance. Preapproved questions, no talking to each other (!), no followups; no reason to watch.
Still, I'll watch, if only in the hopes that Bush will stumble badly over a fact or two.
Actually, as I read the quote, this "sharp" guy is being EXTRA-paranoid, by using dynamic linking in a program that he is developing and using internally. It seems that his interpretation of the GPL is that it would require him to give his program away, so he is trying to avoid that.
Many people believe this particular fallacy, which is why the GPL, and open source in general, gets laughed at in many businesses (including mine, unfortunately).
I was there. It was Excel, not Word. No one had Windows yet, so Microsoft shipped a runtime version of Windows with Excel. I spent many hours installing it for corporate clients. When other people saw Excel they wanted to dump 123 and get a copy for themselves. Word sucked in its initial implementation. Most of my users kept WP-DOS on their systems and ran it and Excel.
It wasn't until they started bundling them as Office, and bundling THAT with PCs, that Word took off. Why buy another word processor when you got one with your computer?
I agree with the article in that had Apple tried to go head to head with Microsoft in the OS arena they would have lost badly. GEM, OS/2 and New Wave were all attempts to outdo Microsoft in the graphic OS department, and all were arguably better; but Gates was a better businessperson than the rest.
This kind of thing amazes me; not that it can be done, but that someone would do it.
"Attempts to bring up the PDP-15 ADSS (Advanced System Software) were stymied by lack of the proper paper-tape bootstrap. Eventually, a PDP-9 bootstrap turned up in France, but no paper-tape reader was available to transcribe it. The collector in France scanned the tape in sections on a flatbed scanner and then wrote a program to recognize and transcribe the holes and splice the transcribed sections together. The PDP-15 simulator writer then discovered, through debugging the boot process of ADSS, what changes had occurred between the PDP-9 and PDP-15."
I know many people whose phones can play mp3s, and none of those people listen to mp3s on their phones. Similarly I know many people whose phones can take pictures, and once the novelty wore off (and it did, quickly) they stopped taking pictures with their phones.
Give me a game machine that plays good games, a phone that makes good connections and a camera that takes good pictures and I'll be happy. A hybrid device that does all three poorly is useless.
This coming from the "I bought it, I own it" crowd?
As long as there is no redistribution of the edited content, where is the harm? There are a number of movies I'd like to watch with my kids, if the language alone was cleaned up (and I don't mean the occasional "fuckin' A", but consistent gratuitous and lazy profanity.
...and it wasn't pretty. The original show sucked; ANY changes they are making now will be an improvement, even if they bring in Alf and Suzanne Somers.
I respectfully disagree. The movie was not entertaining. There was MORE than enough cheese ("I didn't finish my training", "The war is over!).
Fuck the special effects. Nobody said Gone With The Wind was great because the backdrops were awesome. Try writing a damn story BEFORE you try to make a movie. These guys, as George Lucas before them, made it up as they went along, and failed miserably. Too bad they'll make a ton of money from doing so.
This is another example of government's "good" intentions about to go awry. If cell carriers can't count on a consistent base of customers, some of which consistency was predicated on people not switching due to losing their phone number, then the only logical result is that the cost of the service will rise. I hereby predict that a year from now we will be paying more for the same service we have now.
Don't tell me that you post on Usenet and expect those posts to be "private"! Give me a break. If ANYONE wants to read and study how people interact on this most public of forums, I fail to see how anyone can object.
What happened in CA was REregulation. They merely replaced one set of poorly developed governmental rules with another. Not allowing electricity suppliers to buy forward contracts, FORCING them to rely on the spot market, is what caused their problems.
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this is going slightly off topic, but what makes you think that electing Kerry will put a stop to this? his faction is just as interested in what you're discussing with your friends as Bush's. only difference is that Ashcroft will bust you for being nice to Muslims, while Kerry will bust you for NOT being nice to Muslims.
The current "debate" system is worse than flawed. It is nothing more than a joint campaign appearance. Preapproved questions, no talking to each other (!), no followups; no reason to watch.
Still, I'll watch, if only in the hopes that Bush will stumble badly over a fact or two.
Actually, as I read the quote, this "sharp" guy is being EXTRA-paranoid, by using dynamic linking in a program that he is developing and using internally. It seems that his interpretation of the GPL is that it would require him to give his program away, so he is trying to avoid that.
Many people believe this particular fallacy, which is why the GPL, and open source in general, gets laughed at in many businesses (including mine, unfortunately).
this isn't about replacing links on the internet as a whole... it's about replacing links on your company website, or at least reviewing those links.
not everything that happens in the world is an attempt by big brother to steer internet traffic to verisign or microsoft.
I was there. It was Excel, not Word. No one had Windows yet, so Microsoft shipped a runtime version of Windows with Excel. I spent many hours installing it for corporate clients. When other people saw Excel they wanted to dump 123 and get a copy for themselves. Word sucked in its initial implementation. Most of my users kept WP-DOS on their systems and ran it and Excel.
It wasn't until they started bundling them as Office, and bundling THAT with PCs, that Word took off. Why buy another word processor when you got one with your computer?
I agree with the article in that had Apple tried to go head to head with Microsoft in the OS arena they would have lost badly. GEM, OS/2 and New Wave were all attempts to outdo Microsoft in the graphic OS department, and all were arguably better; but Gates was a better businessperson than the rest.
This kind of thing amazes me; not that it can be done, but that someone would do it.
"Attempts to bring up the PDP-15 ADSS (Advanced System Software) were stymied by lack of the proper paper-tape bootstrap. Eventually, a PDP-9 bootstrap turned up in France, but no paper-tape reader was available to transcribe it. The collector in France scanned the tape in sections on a flatbed scanner and then wrote a program to recognize and transcribe the holes and splice the transcribed sections together. The PDP-15 simulator writer then discovered, through debugging the boot process of ADSS, what changes had occurred between the PDP-9 and PDP-15."
I know many people whose phones can play mp3s, and none of those people listen to mp3s on their phones. Similarly I know many people whose phones can take pictures, and once the novelty wore off (and it did, quickly) they stopped taking pictures with their phones.
Give me a game machine that plays good games, a phone that makes good connections and a camera that takes good pictures and I'll be happy. A hybrid device that does all three poorly is useless.
For desktop use XP is as reliable as Linux. Comparing it to OS 9 is off base.
MS controls 100% of the market that they want to, the businesses that pay for software. Why change?
Does this not however mean that Microsoft will have plenty of time to break Mono's compatability as well?
Not that they've ever done that..... ("DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run")
This coming from the "I bought it, I own it" crowd?
As long as there is no redistribution of the edited content, where is the harm? There are a number of movies I'd like to watch with my kids, if the language alone was cleaned up (and I don't mean the occasional "fuckin' A", but consistent gratuitous and lazy profanity.
Pay Cisco lots of money, and let them do it for you. It's worked for China.
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if Liv Tyler lives in Laketown and is given credit for killing Smaug I'm out of there.....
do people even use these anymore? I haven't seen one in a long time.
'nuff said.
Prodigy, 1994.
sad, really.
...and it wasn't pretty. The original show sucked; ANY changes they are making now will be an improvement, even if they bring in Alf and Suzanne Somers.
...but what if you like the audio CD? what if you prefer lossless music, with coverart, booklet and printed media you can hold in your hand?
If you prefer lossless music you aren't listening to CDs either. Maybe pristine vinyl if you're lucky.
I respectfully disagree. The movie was not entertaining. There was MORE than enough cheese ("I didn't finish my training", "The war is over!).
Fuck the special effects. Nobody said Gone With The Wind was great because the backdrops were awesome. Try writing a damn story BEFORE you try to make a movie. These guys, as George Lucas before them, made it up as they went along, and failed miserably. Too bad they'll make a ton of money from doing so.
A requirement for IP address portability?
This is another example of government's "good" intentions about to go awry. If cell carriers can't count on a consistent base of customers, some of which consistency was predicated on people not switching due to losing their phone number, then the only logical result is that the cost of the service will rise. I hereby predict that a year from now we will be paying more for the same service we have now.
However, wouldn't it be nice if we (the US, if you can forgive my inclusive pronoun) were a democracy instead of a republic?
Absolutely not. The kind of democracy to which you refer is also known as "mob rule".
Don't tell me that you post on Usenet and expect those posts to be "private"! Give me a break. If ANYONE wants to read and study how people interact on this most public of forums, I fail to see how anyone can object.
What happened in CA was REregulation. They merely replaced one set of poorly developed governmental rules with another. Not allowing electricity suppliers to buy forward contracts, FORCING them to rely on the spot market, is what caused their problems.
"attempting to sell a device that would decrypt the satellite signals sent into everyone's homes."
I never gave them permission to send those signals into my home. Once they're here I should be allowed to do whatever I damn please with them.