Does Dell own AutoCAD? No, it's just something they offer in a particular bundle on particular workstations.
Does AutoCAD require a cad/cam tablet? No, and in my opinion they aren't particularly useful, especially considering AutoCAD's powerful and flexible command line system.
In contrast, Apple does own Shake, and Shake does require a 3-button mouse.
Personally, Apple would only have to add one button to the iBook to get me to buy one...
they have no real abilities outside of having a fleet of overpaid lawyers and a buttload of money to blackmail or assult a company with.
Not true. They also have the EULA which you agreed to when you installed the software that gives them the right to perform an audit.
If you are certain that you have no BSA software installed on any of your systems, then by all means tell them to go to hell, and the burden of proof then falls on them to get the court order (which you can then fight). If you have even one piece of BSA software on one of your systems, you have agreed to the audit.
If you don't like it, don't use BSA software. Don't buy it, don't pirate it, don't install it, don't let it stay on your machine if it came preinstalled. Otherwise you have no legal leg to stand on when refusing to allow an audit.
And what about in third world countries. It sounds like they can not even install a proprietary operating system, simply because the price is not adjusted to their economy. No wonder piracy is such a large problem there. I see no ethical problem here, either.
Many third world countries have no copyright law, and so discussions of piracy are totally inappropriate there. Without copyright there is no piracy, regardless of what is actually happening. This is another way that the BSA, et al, distort the truth of piracy. They list all this activity going on in countries that have no copyright law and call it piracy.
Anyway, just a thought I figured I should throw into the mix.
Yeah, the US-Mexico border is probably one of the least secure in the world. Your friend should have tried that on an overseas flight, he probably would have gotten more of a response. Of course, he'd also have the expense of an overseas flight, which is considerably more, I suspect, than spending an afternoon in TJ...
From my (very limited) experience with ACLs on HP-UX I thought they were wonderful. You could totally ignore them and function just fine in every way that you can function in the default Linux permissions model. Basically, the only time you needed to deal with ACLs at all was when you wanted to specifically (dis)allow access for certain individuals. Doing that through groups is a pain, since then the user has to change groups to access certain stuff, etc.
ACLs made it really easy to give permission to only the people you wanted to, and you could totally ignore them if you didn't want to use them. I would be really happy about a similar implementation being a part of Linux and not just a patch.
I don't boycott, but I do steal legally. I buy only used DVDs and CDs, and I get free passes to all the movies I see in the theater from my various friends who work there. I do have super basic $13/month cable, which I pretty much only use to watch the TV classes from the local Community College (they have a really great history teacher whose classes are broadcast. Even my 2-year-old is totally captivated by his lecture skills.)
Anyway, I guess my point is that you don't have to change your life that much in order to keep your money from going to these groups.
I would think that if that happened enough times a judge would eventually notice and not allow the charges to be dropped, sort of like what happened with Rambus. Some judges really don't like having their powers circumvented, especially through that sort of "judge shopping".
So do something about it. As many famous thinkers have pointed out; whoever wishes to change the world must start with themselves. I don't see you standing up and fighting for your rights. If you were, you'd be proclaiming it to the world and not posting as AC.
Until you have the balls to stand up and do something yourself, like Tom7, Bruce Perens, Felten, etc, you should shut the hell up.
I'm paying $625 for a spacious 2-bedroom appartment with a laundry room. Back when I did the roommate thing my rent was never over $300. $1200 would get me a 2- to 4-bedroom house, depending on location. I'm in California, so even that is a bit inflated compared to other parts of the country.
$1200 for a 1-bedroom sounds like Bay Area prices to me. You do know that most of the rest of the country is significantly cheaper, don't you?
It is my understanding that you are the one who is wrong, because you are proscribing to Linux the limitations of DOS.
DOS uses the BIOS for disk access during normal operation, hence the limitations you describe. Linux uses the BIOS only to load/boot, which should be easily accessable by the BIOS as long as it is a small primary partition in the first cylinders of the drive.
The hard part will be setting the partitions, which may have to be done on a motherboard that doesn't suffer those limitations.
Old enough, by the sound of things, that running X would likely be painful. You should be able to squeeze a non-GUI install into 500M without too much difficulty. Check out TinyApps for so small distros.
Did you read the article I linked. Are you honestly suggesting that a 50% performance hit doesn't adversely affect productivity?
For general office work and such, you're right, it isn't going to matter that much. For Photoshop and AfterEffects, commonly used apps in fields traditionally dominated by Macs, it obviously will make a difference.
That you feel more productive in the environment you are most familiar working in is something I can't argue with, but perhaps you should ask yourself how much of that productivity increase is simply due to familiarity?
ISO is doing this to make a statement, not because they are under any delusion that there will will be any real world effect of removing the JPEG standard. I applaud them for doing this. ISO is a well respected organization with global visibility, and I hope this will be a wake-up call to countries considering following the US' path into software patent foolishness.
Apple has had the advantage in video ever since Amiga died. There are a lot of video hardware manufacturers that only make hardware for Mac because the QuickTime framework makes it so easy to do so.
That said, though, I think that this move with Shake is an indication that Apple is coming to the realization that it may not matter given the fact that Apple is currently losing the hardware race.
I'm not writing Apple off, but I think it's time to recognize that IBM/Motorola aren't supporting them. PPC, despite being superior on a clock-for-clock basis, is now so far behind on clock speed that said superiority is no longer enough. My advice would be to start porting OS X to a 64-bit arch now. Naturally, I'd love to see OS X on Hammer, and it seems like that is the more likely choice, but considering that Apple has no legacy x86 code to support, maybe Itanium would be a better choice for them?
...that my old silver top-loader is going to care about this just as much as it cares about macrovision: not at all.
Now that I think about it, my camcorder probably won't care either...
These Chicken Littles need to quit wasting their time. The VCR didn't kill them off, the digital equivalent isn't going to either, and for the same reason: most people are not theives. They just want a decent value for the price they pay, and if you're unwilling to provide that, they won't buiy your product.
Actually, having the word "God" in the official pledge of allegience is unconstitutional; unless, of course, you can point out where the Constitution provides exceptions to Seperation of Church and State...
Interesting. I was under the impression from the articles I've read that Compaq killed Alpha off and sold everything except the engineers who defected to AMD to Intel.
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Does Dell own AutoCAD? No, it's just something they offer in a particular bundle on particular workstations.
Does AutoCAD require a cad/cam tablet? No, and in my opinion they aren't particularly useful, especially considering AutoCAD's powerful and flexible command line system.
In contrast, Apple does own Shake, and Shake does require a 3-button mouse.
Personally, Apple would only have to add one button to the iBook to get me to buy one...
What was that lossy compression scheme mentioned a while back? lzip, I think? Sounds like that's what you need here...
they have no real abilities outside of having a fleet of overpaid lawyers and a buttload of money to blackmail or assult a company with.
Not true. They also have the EULA which you agreed to when you installed the software that gives them the right to perform an audit.
If you are certain that you have no BSA software installed on any of your systems, then by all means tell them to go to hell, and the burden of proof then falls on them to get the court order (which you can then fight). If you have even one piece of BSA software on one of your systems, you have agreed to the audit.
If you don't like it, don't use BSA software. Don't buy it, don't pirate it, don't install it, don't let it stay on your machine if it came preinstalled. Otherwise you have no legal leg to stand on when refusing to allow an audit.
And what about in third world countries. It sounds like they can not even install a proprietary operating system, simply because the price is not adjusted to their economy. No wonder piracy is such a large problem there. I see no ethical problem here, either.
Many third world countries have no copyright law, and so discussions of piracy are totally inappropriate there. Without copyright there is no piracy, regardless of what is actually happening. This is another way that the BSA, et al, distort the truth of piracy. They list all this activity going on in countries that have no copyright law and call it piracy.
Anyway, just a thought I figured I should throw into the mix.
Yeah, the US-Mexico border is probably one of the least secure in the world. Your friend should have tried that on an overseas flight, he probably would have gotten more of a response. Of course, he'd also have the expense of an overseas flight, which is considerably more, I suspect, than spending an afternoon in TJ...
From my (very limited) experience with ACLs on HP-UX I thought they were wonderful. You could totally ignore them and function just fine in every way that you can function in the default Linux permissions model. Basically, the only time you needed to deal with ACLs at all was when you wanted to specifically (dis)allow access for certain individuals. Doing that through groups is a pain, since then the user has to change groups to access certain stuff, etc.
ACLs made it really easy to give permission to only the people you wanted to, and you could totally ignore them if you didn't want to use them. I would be really happy about a similar implementation being a part of Linux and not just a patch.
I don't boycott, but I do steal legally. I buy only used DVDs and CDs, and I get free passes to all the movies I see in the theater from my various friends who work there. I do have super basic $13/month cable, which I pretty much only use to watch the TV classes from the local Community College (they have a really great history teacher whose classes are broadcast. Even my 2-year-old is totally captivated by his lecture skills.)
Anyway, I guess my point is that you don't have to change your life that much in order to keep your money from going to these groups.
I would think that if that happened enough times a judge would eventually notice and not allow the charges to be dropped, sort of like what happened with Rambus. Some judges really don't like having their powers circumvented, especially through that sort of "judge shopping".
So, how do you plan to deal with the Garnishment issue, should it come up?
So do something about it. As many famous thinkers have pointed out; whoever wishes to change the world must start with themselves. I don't see you standing up and fighting for your rights. If you were, you'd be proclaiming it to the world and not posting as AC.
Until you have the balls to stand up and do something yourself, like Tom7, Bruce Perens, Felten, etc, you should shut the hell up.
Not true in this case. The law prohibited export only. Importing encryption was perfectly legal.
Posession of a circumvention device is illegal under the DMCA.
IIRC, IANAL.
Where are you living that rent is so high?
I'm paying $625 for a spacious 2-bedroom appartment with a laundry room. Back when I did the roommate thing my rent was never over $300. $1200 would get me a 2- to 4-bedroom house, depending on location. I'm in California, so even that is a bit inflated compared to other parts of the country.
$1200 for a 1-bedroom sounds like Bay Area prices to me. You do know that most of the rest of the country is significantly cheaper, don't you?
It is my understanding that you are the one who is wrong, because you are proscribing to Linux the limitations of DOS.
/boot, which should be easily accessable by the BIOS as long as it is a small primary partition in the first cylinders of the drive.
DOS uses the BIOS for disk access during normal operation, hence the limitations you describe. Linux uses the BIOS only to load
The hard part will be setting the partitions, which may have to be done on a motherboard that doesn't suffer those limitations.
You are correct. I remembered TinyApps having links to some Tiny Linux distros, but apparently I remembered wrong.
Thanks for the real links.
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
That's one of my dad's favorites.
Old enough, by the sound of things, that running X would likely be painful. You should be able to squeeze a non-GUI install into 500M without too much difficulty. Check out TinyApps for so small distros.
Well, it couldn't possibly be any worse than Act, could it? Perhaps it would be easier to train people on an app that isn't a big pile of shit?
For the record, I have used Act, and it is in fact a big pile of shit. Most OSS designed with a GUI in mind compares quite favorably, IMO.
Did you read the article I linked. Are you honestly suggesting that a 50% performance hit doesn't adversely affect productivity?
For general office work and such, you're right, it isn't going to matter that much. For Photoshop and AfterEffects, commonly used apps in fields traditionally dominated by Macs, it obviously will make a difference.
That you feel more productive in the environment you are most familiar working in is something I can't argue with, but perhaps you should ask yourself how much of that productivity increase is simply due to familiarity?
Opteron == Hammer
Opteron is the product name for the core which has been refered to as Hammer for the last year or so.
ISO is doing this to make a statement, not because they are under any delusion that there will will be any real world effect of removing the JPEG standard. I applaud them for doing this. ISO is a well respected organization with global visibility, and I hope this will be a wake-up call to countries considering following the US' path into software patent foolishness.
Apple has had the advantage in video ever since Amiga died. There are a lot of video hardware manufacturers that only make hardware for Mac because the QuickTime framework makes it so easy to do so.
That said, though, I think that this move with Shake is an indication that Apple is coming to the realization that it may not matter given the fact that Apple is currently losing the hardware race.
I'm not writing Apple off, but I think it's time to recognize that IBM/Motorola aren't supporting them. PPC, despite being superior on a clock-for-clock basis, is now so far behind on clock speed that said superiority is no longer enough. My advice would be to start porting OS X to a 64-bit arch now. Naturally, I'd love to see OS X on Hammer, and it seems like that is the more likely choice, but considering that Apple has no legacy x86 code to support, maybe Itanium would be a better choice for them?
...that my old silver top-loader is going to care about this just as much as it cares about macrovision: not at all.
Now that I think about it, my camcorder probably won't care either...
These Chicken Littles need to quit wasting their time. The VCR didn't kill them off, the digital equivalent isn't going to either, and for the same reason: most people are not theives. They just want a decent value for the price they pay, and if you're unwilling to provide that, they won't buiy your product.
Actually, having the word "God" in the official pledge of allegience is unconstitutional; unless, of course, you can point out where the Constitution provides exceptions to Seperation of Church and State...
Interesting. I was under the impression from the articles I've read that Compaq killed Alpha off and sold everything except the engineers who defected to AMD to Intel.