They shouldn't accept responsibility. But in this day and age of friviolous lawsuits, ignorant word-of-mouth slagging (take a look at the responses to this article; how many are knee-jerk 'GPL VIOLATION!' responses, when TiVo's been in full compliance for years?) and so on, who can blame them?
There's a difference between a supported upgrade path, and Joe. L. Usr downloading the first thing he finds, like a trusting little sheep, then calling up Tivo and screaming at them because it didn't work.
Also, one would assume that the people selling it are getting goods from Tivo, and thus are known to be good and proper, and not full of nasties. Random 'user created' images, on the other hand, might just be un-kosher.
Dr. Stern calculated that the solar cells of a satellite passing through the inner Van Allen belt, shielded by only 1 mm of glass, would receive about 25 rad of radiation per pass. Particles in the outer belt are less penetrating. Anything over about 200 rad is dangerous to humans and about 500 rad can be lethal. Fortunately, it doesn't take much shielding to deter the particles, and the shielding doesn't need to be constructed of rare or exotic metals.
Email leaves a nice trail; when you sent it, when it was received, when it was read (if you're using a central server that logs such things,) exactly what was said, who it was said to, and so on.
Phone messages, on the other hand, are easly ignored or denied.
Hee hee. I remember reading a story where some military folks run into some aliens. They decide to start strobing prime numbers, as they read somewhere that it's a good idea in first contact situations to prive intelligence.
It almost backfires, though, when the guy enters in a non prime number, due to being nervous and not that good at math....
But is it better, from a business/revenue point of view?
If ATI comes up with a whiz-bang way of doing surface culling, how is turning around and giving that information to all of their competitors going to do ATI any good?
Something similar happens in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
As I recall, the con artist puts on a frumpy 'rent a cop' outfit, prints up some appropriate business cards to a nearby payphone, goes to a night-deposit slot, puts up a 'out of order' sign, and stands, shivering in the cold, with a clipboard.
He then takes people's deposits, gives them a receipt, and looks miserable. When a cop comes by, he calls the payphone, being the number on the card, and the accomplice does an impersonation of a crufty shift boss. "Joe? Yeah, he's at so and so bank..at least, he should be! Did you find him drunk somewhere? Dammit, I told him...."
After they get a good amount, take down the sign, and drive away.
So, if I understand, it's not that the GPL allows binary-only kernal mods, it's that Linus, as holder of the copyright for the Kernel, has stated on public record that he, personally, won't take action against that particular violation of the GPL.
OpenGL = portable, and for some people, easier to wrap their heads around than DirectX (the famous battle between Carmack and Microsoft was in the DX *3* era; things have improved vastly, since then, and Carmack agrees.)
DX = everything in one package (graphics, sound, networking, input, and so on,) and it all works on a windows PC. Oh, and less headaches for the developer in terms of drivers; I remember GLSetup.exe so you could get just the right combo of drivers, OpenGL release and so on.
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They shouldn't accept responsibility. But in this day and age of friviolous lawsuits, ignorant word-of-mouth slagging (take a look at the responses to this article; how many are knee-jerk 'GPL VIOLATION!' responses, when TiVo's been in full compliance for years?) and so on, who can blame them?
You'd be surprised. You really would.
There's a difference between a supported upgrade path, and Joe. L. Usr downloading the first thing he finds, like a trusting little sheep, then calling up Tivo and screaming at them because it didn't work.
Also, one would assume that the people selling it are getting goods from Tivo, and thus are known to be good and proper, and not full of nasties. Random 'user created' images, on the other hand, might just be un-kosher.
DosBox.
Windows 2000 with SP4 and DirectX 9b is decent enough. I have just such a box as a media server.
True, I should have said, I believe, pVVn3d, as opposed to r00t3d.
So, the submission should read 'a PHP programmer allowed a variable to be set by an HTTP GET response, and got pVVn3d.'
No, and apache didn't get rooted, either. A poorly written PHP script did.
Are you being serious? Those fine folks went through said radiation belt just fine.
Assuming you are, learn from your betters.
Sorry, I thought we were talking about Microsoft's email offerings, not offerings available on Windows in general.
Considering that the Open Source movement is, itself, based on copyright law, how is it bullshit?
Without copyright law, the GPL has no teeth.
Yup. If *you choose*, as copyright holder, to grant people additional rights, great.
Claiming that the GPL is unconstitutional the way Darl is would also make licensing of patents unconstitutional, amoung other similar things.
Outlook and Outlook Express..what's left? Outlook Web Access? I'd be surprised if it couldn't do it too.
Substandard? Maybe; seems to work more by subject line than by reference or anything, but...
Outlook 2000: View->Current View->By Converation Topic.
Outlook Express 6: View->Current View->Group Messages By Conversation.
Email leaves a nice trail; when you sent it, when it was received, when it was read (if you're using a central server that logs such things,) exactly what was said, who it was said to, and so on.
Phone messages, on the other hand, are easly ignored or denied.
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You just never know when a game is going to try to corrupt the youth of today...
Aye, and I've also read a few other versions in the comments since.
Never underestimate the ability of humans to do obviously stupid things.
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Hee hee. I remember reading a story where some military folks run into some aliens. They decide to start strobing prime numbers, as they read somewhere that it's a good idea in first contact situations to prive intelligence.
It almost backfires, though, when the guy enters in a non prime number, due to being nervous and not that good at math....
But is it better, from a business/revenue point of view?
If ATI comes up with a whiz-bang way of doing surface culling, how is turning around and giving that information to all of their competitors going to do ATI any good?
Something similar happens in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
As I recall, the con artist puts on a frumpy 'rent a cop' outfit, prints up some appropriate business cards to a nearby payphone, goes to a night-deposit slot, puts up a 'out of order' sign, and stands, shivering in the cold, with a clipboard.
He then takes people's deposits, gives them a receipt, and looks miserable. When a cop comes by, he calls the payphone, being the number on the card, and the accomplice does an impersonation of a crufty shift boss. "Joe? Yeah, he's at so and so bank..at least, he should be! Did you find him drunk somewhere? Dammit, I told him...."
After they get a good amount, take down the sign, and drive away.
The methods rarely change; only the props.
You assume that the only reason they don't embrace Open Source is personal reluctance, not business realities.
So, if I understand, it's not that the GPL allows binary-only kernal mods, it's that Linus, as holder of the copyright for the Kernel, has stated on public record that he, personally, won't take action against that particular violation of the GPL.
OpenGL = portable, and for some people, easier to wrap their heads around than DirectX (the famous battle between Carmack and Microsoft was in the DX *3* era; things have improved vastly, since then, and Carmack agrees.)
DX = everything in one package (graphics, sound, networking, input, and so on,) and it all works on a windows PC. Oh, and less headaches for the developer in terms of drivers; I remember GLSetup.exe so you could get just the right combo of drivers, OpenGL release and so on.
How the hell is a password 'proof of voluntary cooperation?'
Or do you think that nobody holds guns on people and says 'gimmie your pin number and your bank card?'