...will make it much harder as you have to filter through all the non-CC content that isn't even labelled as to what licence it is under. The first option does the filtering for you allowing you to easily find CC material.
I generally hate racism as people don't have a choice about what colour skin they were born with. I generally don't mind when people discriminate against a mindset as people have a choice about that. There's something seriously wrong with the stereotypical American, but it isn't fair to assume any given American falls under that stereotype.
Dude, you missed my point. I wasn't trying to imply that KDE 4 is a clone of Windows. I was pointing out that
It's the Unix GUI LEAST like Windows.
is blatantly untrue as there are other GUIs that differ a great deal more than KDE. Extreme examples include ion3, wmii, awesome, dwm. Less extreme examples include Enlightenment. KDE (and Gnome) are a lot closer to resembling Windows than many of the alternatives.
How on earth is this modded flamebait? It is entirely accurate and represents what is wrong with the majority of slashdot moderators these days... are we advocating intentionally breaking the law for financial gain?
And so does any GUI.. they all have icons, some sort of "OK" buttons, a close button, etc.
Not exactly. My previous examples of ion3 and wmii don't have much of a concept of that.
KDE 4 is probably more different then Windows then Gnome.
Some could argue that, and they might be right. My point was that KDE 4 isn't as different as the OP was implying, and certainly nowhere near the least like Windows.
That's not true. Something like ion3 or wmii is far more different than Windows. Also, what about KDE 4 is so radically different about Windows? Plasma is sort of similar (but a lot more elaborate) to Vista's Gadgets in that they can dock on the panel or be dragged out and float around on the desktop. Some of the compositing effects are similar to what Aero do. The new launcher menu has moved away from the start menu replacement from Windows, but it still feels natural to someone familiar with Windows.
Face it, KDE 4 does have a lot of similarities to Windows (and that isn't necessarily a bad thing).
Technically, if they break the use of the product it is THEM that broke it. For example, if you take a car to a dealership for an oil change, and they break your transmission, the auto company/dealership is NOT immune to a lawsuit because "hey, you got usage out of the transmission".
In fact, they will have to get you the FULL value of the transmission / replace it with a fully working one.
Note that the transmission is worth considerably less than the total value of the car. Also note that they actually broke your car, a better analogy would be if the gas station broke down and you weren't able to get petrol to fill the tank.
See the whole issue is that a remedy to a broken contract is supposed to set you off AS WELL OR BETTER THAN BEFORE THE DAMAGE WAS INCURRED!
What contract did you and Microsoft sign when you purchased the software? What contract did you and Microsoft sign when you instigated the use of the activation service? If you actually did sign such a contract, please post an excerpt from the contract where they agree to set you off as well as or better than before.
Seems that companies that deal in software are permitted to break the product and the client is to blame. Strange that. Nowhere nearly as strange as the fact that you seem to think that such things are perfectly fine. Amazing.
First of all, the product itself hasn't changed. It is the server side support that has ceased. Also, I never said that it was acceptable to cut off the support in a transparent fashion, just that you wouldn't be entitled to a refund of greater value than the purchase price. You may be entitled to an equal value refund depending on when it was purchased and when the activation problems surfaced.
I honestly don't see the difference between IE7 and IE6 on either XP or Vista.
It is pretty easy to notice the difference between IE 6 and IE 7 on Vista. One runs, one does not. Also, how do you not notice the tab support in IE 7?
Yes, congratulations is in order for Microsoft's IE team: they've finally reached nearly the same level as Firefox+NoScript.
Funnily enough, even Firefox without NoScript isn't at the same level. These comparisons should really only be done at default settings without 3rd party addons. It is fairly easy to lock down any of the browsers out there, but the majority of people don't do it.
You paid $300 for use of software, I assume you got some use out of it, and later on after the shelf life of the product you want a refund not only for the full amount, but an amount higher than you initially paid for it? That's some serious optimism there. For the sake of argument, let's assume you are entitled to a refund. If you got any use out of the product at all, you are not entitled to a full refund, as you would be getting something for nothing. Even if you never were successfully able to activate (thus being entitled to a full refund), you made a conscious decision to buy the software at that price at that time, forgoing any interest you might have made on the money. If the software did work, you still wouldn't have got that interest.
In when you tell someone what the "Minimum Bid" is, people understand you to mean "Minimum VALID Bid".
Nowhere was it stated or implied that "Minimum Bid" means the lowest valid bid. If that's what you inferred, you misinterpreted. Misinterpretation on the receiving end does not constitute intentional distribution of false information.
I don't see them doing something advanced like adding a hypervisor in 2 years.
They essentially have a hypervisor now in Server 2008. Windows 7 shares a code base with Server 2008 so it isn't too farfetched for them to add it. Chances are, they might hold it for server only, so people have a reason to pay more money.
The people using reserves can tell themselves how they are not lying about what the real minimum bid is...
They aren't lying. There is a difference between lying (intentionally giving false information) and choosing not to disclose information. Every auction I have seen states that there are reserves, but that they will not be disclosed until the end. That is in no way lying, it is up front telling them they choose not to disclose the information. The potential bidders can then choose what to do in that situation.
I don't know of any examples, but it isn't unheard of where Linux developers sign an NDA with a company to get documentation in order to write an open driver. The company allows the code to be disclosed, but not the documents that were used to develop the code.
Well, if someone steals the secret designs for the new Widget(tm) that a company has then they should get jail time
I disagree. If they are in jail they are costing society money. If they are given a massive fine that won't go away with bankruptcy then their life will be dedicated to contributing money back into society in one way or another. They might not like it, but it sure beats jail time, and it's not like they are at a high risk of hurting anyone.
A paid Usenet account is the way to go. alt.binaries.* gives you what you want.
If I was going to pay for the content that I download, I would want my money going to the people who made it, not people who maintain a network of stolen goods. But that's just me, I guess...
P2P is going to die unless it can be made more secure.
Illegal P2P may die if it isn't made more secure. Legal P2P doesn't need to do anything. I wouldn't be too worried if the illegal P2P scene died anyway...
what the fuck do you expect to be going on? Stealing cars. Grand theft auto as a crime does not inherently cover unthinkable acts of clothed dry humping. Or murder, for that matter.
where it'd be "just another" piece of malware with a tiny market share You seem to be under the impression that a Windows box can only have one piece of malware installed at a time. This is simply not true.
Our freedom, our privacy, our health and our dignity is being taken from us and all we can do is complain on the Internet? Says the one complaining on the internet... do something about it if you have a problem with inaction.
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With about 10 music files they are a long way from reaching that goal.
You have to start somewhere.
...will make it much harder as you have to filter through all the non-CC content that isn't even labelled as to what licence it is under. The first option does the filtering for you allowing you to easily find CC material.
I generally hate racism as people don't have a choice about what colour skin they were born with. I generally don't mind when people discriminate against a mindset as people have a choice about that. There's something seriously wrong with the stereotypical American, but it isn't fair to assume any given American falls under that stereotype.
It's the Unix GUI LEAST like Windows.
is blatantly untrue as there are other GUIs that differ a great deal more than KDE. Extreme examples include ion3, wmii, awesome, dwm. Less extreme examples include Enlightenment. KDE (and Gnome) are a lot closer to resembling Windows than many of the alternatives.
How on earth is this modded flamebait? It is entirely accurate and represents what is wrong with the majority of slashdot moderators these days... are we advocating intentionally breaking the law for financial gain?
I've found older builds of ion3 with xinerama support work reasonably well, but for some reason they pulled that feature.
And so does any GUI.. they all have icons, some sort of "OK" buttons, a close button, etc.
Not exactly. My previous examples of ion3 and wmii don't have much of a concept of that.
KDE 4 is probably more different then Windows then Gnome.
Some could argue that, and they might be right. My point was that KDE 4 isn't as different as the OP was implying, and certainly nowhere near the least like Windows.
Well, that was different, I'll give you that.
It's the Unix GUI LEAST like Windows.
That's not true. Something like ion3 or wmii is far more different than Windows. Also, what about KDE 4 is so radically different about Windows? Plasma is sort of similar (but a lot more elaborate) to Vista's Gadgets in that they can dock on the panel or be dragged out and float around on the desktop. Some of the compositing effects are similar to what Aero do. The new launcher menu has moved away from the start menu replacement from Windows, but it still feels natural to someone familiar with Windows.
Face it, KDE 4 does have a lot of similarities to Windows (and that isn't necessarily a bad thing).
Technically, if they break the use of the product it is THEM that broke it. For example, if you take a car to a dealership for an oil change, and they break your transmission, the auto company/dealership is NOT immune to a lawsuit because "hey, you got usage out of the transmission".
In fact, they will have to get you the FULL value of the transmission / replace it with a fully working one.
Note that the transmission is worth considerably less than the total value of the car. Also note that they actually broke your car, a better analogy would be if the gas station broke down and you weren't able to get petrol to fill the tank.
See the whole issue is that a remedy to a broken contract is supposed to set you off AS WELL OR BETTER THAN BEFORE THE DAMAGE WAS INCURRED!
What contract did you and Microsoft sign when you purchased the software? What contract did you and Microsoft sign when you instigated the use of the activation service? If you actually did sign such a contract, please post an excerpt from the contract where they agree to set you off as well as or better than before.
Seems that companies that deal in software are permitted to break the product and the client is to blame. Strange that. Nowhere nearly as strange as the fact that you seem to think that such things are perfectly fine. Amazing.
First of all, the product itself hasn't changed. It is the server side support that has ceased. Also, I never said that it was acceptable to cut off the support in a transparent fashion, just that you wouldn't be entitled to a refund of greater value than the purchase price. You may be entitled to an equal value refund depending on when it was purchased and when the activation problems surfaced.
I honestly don't see the difference between IE7 and IE6 on either XP or Vista.
It is pretty easy to notice the difference between IE 6 and IE 7 on Vista. One runs, one does not. Also, how do you not notice the tab support in IE 7?
Yes, congratulations is in order for Microsoft's IE team: they've finally reached nearly the same level as Firefox+NoScript.
Funnily enough, even Firefox without NoScript isn't at the same level. These comparisons should really only be done at default settings without 3rd party addons. It is fairly easy to lock down any of the browsers out there, but the majority of people don't do it.
You paid $300 for use of software, I assume you got some use out of it, and later on after the shelf life of the product you want a refund not only for the full amount, but an amount higher than you initially paid for it? That's some serious optimism there. For the sake of argument, let's assume you are entitled to a refund. If you got any use out of the product at all, you are not entitled to a full refund, as you would be getting something for nothing. Even if you never were successfully able to activate (thus being entitled to a full refund), you made a conscious decision to buy the software at that price at that time, forgoing any interest you might have made on the money. If the software did work, you still wouldn't have got that interest.
And a separate core for each combination of pixel pairs as many pixels display stuff related to other pixels...
In when you tell someone what the "Minimum Bid" is, people understand you to mean "Minimum VALID Bid".
Nowhere was it stated or implied that "Minimum Bid" means the lowest valid bid. If that's what you inferred, you misinterpreted. Misinterpretation on the receiving end does not constitute intentional distribution of false information.
I don't see them doing something advanced like adding a hypervisor in 2 years.
They essentially have a hypervisor now in Server 2008. Windows 7 shares a code base with Server 2008 so it isn't too farfetched for them to add it. Chances are, they might hold it for server only, so people have a reason to pay more money.
The people using reserves can tell themselves how they are not lying about what the real minimum bid is...
They aren't lying. There is a difference between lying (intentionally giving false information) and choosing not to disclose information. Every auction I have seen states that there are reserves, but that they will not be disclosed until the end. That is in no way lying, it is up front telling them they choose not to disclose the information. The potential bidders can then choose what to do in that situation.
I don't know of any examples, but it isn't unheard of where Linux developers sign an NDA with a company to get documentation in order to write an open driver. The company allows the code to be disclosed, but not the documents that were used to develop the code.
It worked for Radiohead. Also, online music stores like iTunes does give *some* of the proceeds to the artist, which is better than nothing.
Well, if someone steals the secret designs for the new Widget(tm) that a company has then they should get jail time
I disagree. If they are in jail they are costing society money. If they are given a massive fine that won't go away with bankruptcy then their life will be dedicated to contributing money back into society in one way or another. They might not like it, but it sure beats jail time, and it's not like they are at a high risk of hurting anyone.
A paid Usenet account is the way to go. alt.binaries.* gives you what you want.
If I was going to pay for the content that I download, I would want my money going to the people who made it, not people who maintain a network of stolen goods. But that's just me, I guess...
P2P is going to die unless it can be made more secure.
Illegal P2P may die if it isn't made more secure. Legal P2P doesn't need to do anything. I wouldn't be too worried if the illegal P2P scene died anyway...
Actually 5 percent is already a _lot_. The network should never be utiliced to more than 50%, even at peak times.
Care to explain where you get that info from? Using at most 50% of a resource at any given time is a waste of the other 50%.
what the fuck do you expect to be going on? Stealing cars. Grand theft auto as a crime does not inherently cover unthinkable acts of clothed dry humping. Or murder, for that matter.