The software company didn't lose the time and money having the programmers write the software (unless you're talking about contractors writing custom software). The software downloaded was already written, it was a copy of a complete work. In order for your argument to stand up, they would need to have been working on something for you instead of working on something for someone else who was going to pay.
There is still a concrete loss, the time of the employees who balanced your tires. Those employees could have been working on the car of someone who was paying.
Copying software doesn't cost the company anything. The software is already written, they aren't paying the employees to write it anymore. What's lost is a potential sale, some money that they might have received if certain conditions were met. They also might not have received that money. Some 15 year old pirating Photoshop to make a 1337 image for his HL2 clan is not a lost sale to Adobe. He wouldn't have bought the software if it was not available to be pirated.
Your argument holds no water.
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It's not going to cover use. Displaying the application over the Internet (which is what you do with all web applications) could be construed as a public performance of the work which does fall under copyright law.
You don't have to do anything particularly stupid to get pulled over for a DUI check. A friend of mine got pulled over because he hit a bump and his soda spilled. It suprised him so he swerved a little (where a little means he didn't actually leave his lane). He then spent the next 2 hours on the side of the road hopping on one foot and touching his nose to convince the cop that he wasn't drunk (the breathalizer came back at 0, but the cop wouldn't let him go "just in case it was broken").
They did compare Darwin to Linux. There is even a giant picture of the Darwin mascot a few pages in. The problem is that it's Darwins shitty threading system which is making everything slow.
MySQL uses threading, PostgreSQL uses multiple processes. Given that the MySQL performance was so bad, I don't think Apache 2 would have helped. And, if anything, PostgreSQL would have run even slower than MySQL.
The RSX is supposed to be exaxtly that, faster then 2 G70 cards in SLI. Whether or not it will be is yet to be seen, but that's what nVidia and Sony are saying.
Writing the VM is easy, there are several VMs that seem (it's hard to prove since they don't have the TCK) compliant. It's the class library that is nearly impossible to clone. And, to the best of my knowledge, there is no Java implementation available that doesn't use Sun's class library right now. So, for all intents and purposes, Sun is the only vendor who can supply a compliant Java today.
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But if I ask many questions, or discuss many topics, then it makes sense to indicate which part you are referring to.
Sure, and in that case I inline reply. Top reply still makes more sense for that.
It also often makes sense to re-read what I wrote, since I have been dealing with many other things since I wrote you.
Again, makes sense, but I'd say that isn't the common case. And nothing is stopping you from re-reading what you wrote if you need to.
I also often get copied into the middle of a thread, so I have to read from the bottom up to figure out what is going on.
Still not the common case.
Software should be written for the common case and top reply makes sense for that.
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Which is great when I'm the one who asked the question and don't feel the need to re-read what I already wrote to get to the important bit. And I would argue that the vast majority of email replies are going to a single recipient and that recipient doesn't want to re-read what they wrote.
Usage of a program is not restricted by copyright law. So use is permitted just fine without the GPL. The GPL even specifically says:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
So, no, running the program is not covered by the GPL, it doesn't apply to use at all. It goes so far as to explicitly exclude it from the terms.
You really don't know what you're talking about. If you wanted to read and write the files directly there is nothing in the world stopping. Modifying the settings through the gconf API allows gconf to send notifications to apps that their settings changed. This way the application can modify it's behavior immediately even if you don't modify the setting through it's own configuration panel. It's called a convenience library. You can, for all intents and purposes, treat the gconf XML files exactly like any normal config file and everything will work just like normal. Editing it by hand, copying it to another system... all of that works.
According to your specs anything which doesn't read and write config files by directly doing low level file manipulations uses a registry.
This has been gone over repeatedly and I really don't understand why people like you can't get it through their heads that it's not a registry, it doesn't work like the registry, it doesn't have the problems the registry has.
Then you'll be happy to know that gconf keeps everything in config files and you can copy those files from machine to machine. And it doesn't look anything like the Windows registry. gconf-editor might look like regedit, but they are both front ends to completely 100% different configuration implementations.
Then don't use a full blown desktop environment. And, if you really dig into them, Windows, Mac, BeOS, etc all have more or less the same background programs running. Their process managers just normally either don't display them or they have strange names that don't describe what they're doing.
Except it isn't a registry, it's a bunch of XML files. You'd think the number of times people have been told that people would stop saying it's like the registry. But no.
The only reason there is less trolling there is because most of the articles are written in unreadably bad english. The only things people can comment on his how they can't understand what the author is trying to say.
Revealing upcoming products messes with the release schedule, gives competitors a heads-up, and basically screws things up for Apple.
Then Apple should keep a tighter rein on their employees. But there is nothing wrong with telling the entire world about a trade secret you discovered without being party to an NDA.
I was actually on the phone with DirecTV asking them about upgrading my Tivo today and they have an 80 hour Series 2 system. It's $99 + $14 shipping. You may also be able to find it at your local Best Buy.
You can repeat that argument all you want, but walking out of the store with the items you purchased is not "reasonable grounds" for searching you. Them asking your permission and you saying no does not suddenly change that. If the detain you and you have no stolen items on you then you have a great false imprisonment lawsuit.
Problem with that is that Apple changes the width of the iPod with every release. For example, the JBL on stage speaker system doesn't handle iPod Photo correctly. The iPod photo is about 2mm thicker than the 40GB iPod so it doesn't fit in the slot. You're going to end up experiencing the exact same problem with your dock.
I don't know of many machines in the 15k's class. The big Itanium and Power5 machines I've seen have all been one-off machines or clusters. I'm not going to argue about the merits of large single machine vs cluster, but they are clearly not the same thing.
Obviously you haven't been looking. The eServer 595 is a 64 way Power 5 based system that is a standard configuration on IBM's website. And the HP Integrity Superdome is a 128 way IA64 based system this is a standard configuration on HP's website. Neither of those are one offs or clusters and I would say that both of them are in the 15k's class.
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The software company didn't lose the time and money having the programmers write the software (unless you're talking about contractors writing custom software). The software downloaded was already written, it was a copy of a complete work. In order for your argument to stand up, they would need to have been working on something for you instead of working on something for someone else who was going to pay.
There is still a concrete loss, the time of the employees who balanced your tires. Those employees could have been working on the car of someone who was paying.
Copying software doesn't cost the company anything. The software is already written, they aren't paying the employees to write it anymore. What's lost is a potential sale, some money that they might have received if certain conditions were met. They also might not have received that money. Some 15 year old pirating Photoshop to make a 1337 image for his HL2 clan is not a lost sale to Adobe. He wouldn't have bought the software if it was not available to be pirated.
Your argument holds no water.
It's not going to cover use. Displaying the application over the Internet (which is what you do with all web applications) could be construed as a public performance of the work which does fall under copyright law.
You don't have to do anything particularly stupid to get pulled over for a DUI check. A friend of mine got pulled over because he hit a bump and his soda spilled. It suprised him so he swerved a little (where a little means he didn't actually leave his lane). He then spent the next 2 hours on the side of the road hopping on one foot and touching his nose to convince the cop that he wasn't drunk (the breathalizer came back at 0, but the cop wouldn't let him go "just in case it was broken").
They did compare Darwin to Linux. There is even a giant picture of the Darwin mascot a few pages in. The problem is that it's Darwins shitty threading system which is making everything slow.
MySQL uses threading, PostgreSQL uses multiple processes. Given that the MySQL performance was so bad, I don't think Apache 2 would have helped. And, if anything, PostgreSQL would have run even slower than MySQL.
The RSX is supposed to be exaxtly that, faster then 2 G70 cards in SLI. Whether or not it will be is yet to be seen, but that's what nVidia and Sony are saying.
Haven't all the GIF patents expired now?
Writing the VM is easy, there are several VMs that seem (it's hard to prove since they don't have the TCK) compliant. It's the class library that is nearly impossible to clone. And, to the best of my knowledge, there is no Java implementation available that doesn't use Sun's class library right now. So, for all intents and purposes, Sun is the only vendor who can supply a compliant Java today.
But if I ask many questions, or discuss many topics, then it makes sense to indicate which part you are referring to.
Sure, and in that case I inline reply. Top reply still makes more sense for that.
It also often makes sense to re-read what I wrote, since I have been dealing with many other things since I wrote you.
Again, makes sense, but I'd say that isn't the common case. And nothing is stopping you from re-reading what you wrote if you need to.
I also often get copied into the middle of a thread, so I have to read from the bottom up to figure out what is going on.
Still not the common case.
Software should be written for the common case and top reply makes sense for that.
Which is great when I'm the one who asked the question and don't feel the need to re-read what I already wrote to get to the important bit. And I would argue that the vast majority of email replies are going to a single recipient and that recipient doesn't want to re-read what they wrote.
Usage of a program is not restricted by copyright law. So use is permitted just fine without the GPL. The GPL even specifically says:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
So, no, running the program is not covered by the GPL, it doesn't apply to use at all. It goes so far as to explicitly exclude it from the terms.
You really don't know what you're talking about. If you wanted to read and write the files directly there is nothing in the world stopping. Modifying the settings through the gconf API allows gconf to send notifications to apps that their settings changed. This way the application can modify it's behavior immediately even if you don't modify the setting through it's own configuration panel. It's called a convenience library. You can, for all intents and purposes, treat the gconf XML files exactly like any normal config file and everything will work just like normal. Editing it by hand, copying it to another system ... all of that works.
According to your specs anything which doesn't read and write config files by directly doing low level file manipulations uses a registry.
This has been gone over repeatedly and I really don't understand why people like you can't get it through their heads that it's not a registry, it doesn't work like the registry, it doesn't have the problems the registry has.
How is a single typing error ironic compared to the shoddy articles on OSNews?
Then you'll be happy to know that gconf keeps everything in config files and you can copy those files from machine to machine. And it doesn't look anything like the Windows registry. gconf-editor might look like regedit, but they are both front ends to completely 100% different configuration implementations.
Then don't use a full blown desktop environment. And, if you really dig into them, Windows, Mac, BeOS, etc all have more or less the same background programs running. Their process managers just normally either don't display them or they have strange names that don't describe what they're doing.
Except it isn't a registry, it's a bunch of XML files. You'd think the number of times people have been told that people would stop saying it's like the registry. But no.
The only reason there is less trolling there is because most of the articles are written in unreadably bad english. The only things people can comment on his how they can't understand what the author is trying to say.
Revealing upcoming products messes with the release schedule, gives competitors a heads-up, and basically screws things up for Apple.
Then Apple should keep a tighter rein on their employees. But there is nothing wrong with telling the entire world about a trade secret you discovered without being party to an NDA.
But, as of right now, the DirecTV DVR is a Tivo. Are you sure the new ones won't also be based on the Tivo platform?
I was actually on the phone with DirecTV asking them about upgrading my Tivo today and they have an 80 hour Series 2 system. It's $99 + $14 shipping. You may also be able to find it at your local Best Buy.
You can repeat that argument all you want, but walking out of the store with the items you purchased is not "reasonable grounds" for searching you. Them asking your permission and you saying no does not suddenly change that. If the detain you and you have no stolen items on you then you have a great false imprisonment lawsuit.
Problem with that is that Apple changes the width of the iPod with every release. For example, the JBL on stage speaker system doesn't handle iPod Photo correctly. The iPod photo is about 2mm thicker than the 40GB iPod so it doesn't fit in the slot. You're going to end up experiencing the exact same problem with your dock.
Except the DS isn't a GameBoy. So how does your argument apply to it?
I don't know of many machines in the 15k's class. The big Itanium and Power5 machines I've seen have all been one-off machines or clusters. I'm not going to argue about the merits of large single machine vs cluster, but they are clearly not the same thing.
Obviously you haven't been looking. The eServer 595 is a 64 way Power 5 based system that is a standard configuration on IBM's website. And the HP Integrity Superdome is a 128 way IA64 based system this is a standard configuration on HP's website. Neither of those are one offs or clusters and I would say that both of them are in the 15k's class.