In a sense, HTML used to "own" PHP just as it effectively owns EcmaScript. Go to OSDN SourceForge and follow any of the Show Source links at the bottom of the pages.
It'd be possible to fix the icon with a GTK+-based (but not PHP) paint program called GIMP. It even runs on Windows. All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Because you logged onto the wrong web site. Nest time, instead of typing slashdot.org into your browser, try www.kuro5hin.org instead. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to moderate stories.
There is also the not minor factor of very different code bases at the root of each system. One has its roots in DOS while the other derives from VMS.
What's so important about that? Let me rephrase: "The biggest reason that the Windows OS sold to consumers in fall 1995 was built around DOS and not Microsoft's VMS clone is because of marketing." That sound better?
The US domain should have.com,.net and whatever the hell else we want under it.
Are you talking.co.us? If so, register your domain in Colorado. Equivalents for.net,.org, and.edu can be found in Nebraska (.ne.us), Oregon (.or.us), and Alaska (.ak.us like.ac.uk). Other states have potential for pronounceable names (Indiana best.in.us; Ohio who.oh.us; Connecticut re.ct.us).
And yes, it is possible to get the standard changed so as to drop any mandatory city name that your state may impose.
Granted, but under the Sherman Act, a monopoly that practices anticompetition and harms the consumer is illegal. Consumers are harmed every time a Windows 9x box BSODs and no other pre-installed options (not even Windows 2000) are available at Wal-Mart or Best Buy because of Microsoft's exclusive contracts with all the major computer manufacturers.
the software equivalent of the FDA might be necessary
That would completely destroy the free software movement, as software would become a controlled substance. Pretty much everything would be patented, and you would need to wait 20 years for a generic, and even then your favorite software may be "by prescription only," with Microsoft colluding with licensed IT practitioners to get them to prescribe Microsoft software instead of its competitors'.
I need file compatibility with the maximum number of people
If that's your biggest reason for choosing Office, have you considered HTML or LaTeX? HTML can be viewed or printed using any Web browser, and LaTeX can be edited on any machine with Emacs (includes Windows), compiled into a PDF, and viewed or printed on any platform that has an Acrobat Reader.
If click-and-drool was the reason for going to Windows, then they went the wrong way. They should be in Mac OS
Blame it on Lotus. People wanted to run Lotus 1-2-3 (and other software from the office) at home but also run a click-and-drool desktop on the same box (back then, boxen were expensive). At that time, PC emulation on Macintosh computers (then called SoftPC) was not usably fast.
Using that key sequence to bring up a login dialog effectively prevents the "false login screen" style of password sniffers.
Control+Alt+Del only pulls up a login screen in GUI mode. Recent versions of Windows NT (4.03 and later including 5.x) include a technology called DirectInput that lets programs easily read the keyboard as a set of 104 buttons (which is how games prefer to read the keyboard). For example, if Control and Insert are player 1's and 2's fire buttons, and Alt and Delete are jump buttons, you don't want to put up a login screen when player 1 is firing and both players are jumping. Thus, a program that uses DirectInput can spoof a login screen.
"But NT isn't designed for games. Use Windows 9x instead."
Games are just another application. The only reason Windows 9x wasn't a version of NT is because of marketing.
Computer tampering is a crime, at least in the United States.
Incompatible file formats... breaks what law?
The Sherman Antitrust Act. The fact that important data cannot be read because it's under a layer of (weak) encryption (i.e. an undocumented file format) harms both competition and consumers.
What about the many thousands of parody tracks available? (e.g. "Lasagne", a take-off of "La Bamba")
"Lasagna" by Weird Al Yankovic appeared on the album "Even Worse" which is under Bono Act perpetual copyright. Most parodies came off either some comedy album, SNL, MADtv, Howard Stern, or the like and are copyrighted by their producers.
I'd say that Al Yankovic performed less than one-third of the songs attributed to him on Napster, but that's another node.
12k GIF... Perhaps we should report these guys to themselves (for infringing Terminal Reality's trademark)
I'd report you to copyright.net for posting a GIF, but copyright.net handles only copyrights, not patents (on GIF's LZW compression) or trademarks (on the Terminal Reality logo).
Point of terminology: Don't use the word "crime," copyright infringement cases are generally tried under civil law (standard is 51% of evidence; damages and injunctions are at stake) rather than criminal law (beyond reasonable doubt; you can go to jail).
Since when is it a copyright violation to possess mp3's of cd's I own?
It's not a copyright violation under 17 USC 107, as you mention. But it is a patent violation under United States law unless the encoder publisher has paid THOMSON multimedia $15K/year or $2.50/unit sold (whichever is greater). That means you, LAME users.
Slashdot Mirror
And anyway, vinyl sounds better.
No it doesn't. Click here then click Myths (can't link directly as it uses a JS redirect to the frames page).
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
What language used to own it?
In a sense, HTML used to "own" PHP just as it effectively owns EcmaScript. Go to OSDN SourceForge and follow any of the Show Source links at the bottom of the pages.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
It'd be possible to fix the icon with a GTK+-based (but not PHP) paint program called GIMP. It even runs on Windows.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Now, I'm not supporting Microsoft on it, but I haven't seen a better implementation of Java support yet.
Not even Sun's J2SE? What about IBM's extremely fast recompiler? I guess you haven't seen them because you aren't looking.
"Like any trademark, Java is an adjective."All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
-It will not allow you to trap Ctrl+Alt+Del
Then how does the Worms demo trap it? (It traps C-M-Del so that you have to view the advertising at the end.)
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Why can't we moderate stories?
Because you logged onto the wrong web site. Nest time, instead of typing slashdot.org into your browser, try www.kuro5hin.org instead. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to moderate stories.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Is "One dollar == one vote" the future of American democracy?
No. It's the present. Otherwise, we wouldn't have laws such as the Bono Act and the DMCA.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
There is also the not minor factor of very different code bases at the root of each system. One has its roots in DOS while the other derives from VMS.
What's so important about that? Let me rephrase: "The biggest reason that the Windows OS sold to consumers in fall 1995 was built around DOS and not Microsoft's VMS clone is because of marketing." That sound better?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
something for personal and family domains
ummm... how about .8m.com?
something for software projects
umm... how about .sourceforge.net?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
The US domain should have .com, .net and whatever the hell else we want under it.
Are you talking .co.us? If so, register your domain in Colorado. Equivalents for .net, .org, and .edu can be found in Nebraska (.ne.us), Oregon (.or.us), and Alaska (.ak.us like .ac.uk). Other states have potential for pronounceable names (Indiana best.in.us; Ohio who.oh.us; Connecticut re.ct.us).
And yes, it is possible to get the standard changed so as to drop any mandatory city name that your state may impose.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
there would be a strong need for .sucks, .tm, and yadda yadda yadda
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
How is it Microsoft's fault that Quicken 2000 or TurboTax 2001 won't run on thier P100 with 16 megs of ram and Windows 95?
Not Microsoft's fault. It's Intuit's fault for not targeting the machines that the target audience (consumers with hand-me-down computers) uses.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
a monopoly itself IS NOT ILLEGAL
Granted, but under the Sherman Act, a monopoly that practices anticompetition and harms the consumer is illegal. Consumers are harmed every time a Windows 9x box BSODs and no other pre-installed options (not even Windows 2000) are available at Wal-Mart or Best Buy because of Microsoft's exclusive contracts with all the major computer manufacturers.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
the software equivalent of the FDA might be necessary
That would completely destroy the free software movement, as software would become a controlled substance. Pretty much everything would be patented, and you would need to wait 20 years for a generic, and even then your favorite software may be "by prescription only," with Microsoft colluding with licensed IT practitioners to get them to prescribe Microsoft software instead of its competitors'.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
I need file compatibility with the maximum number of people
If that's your biggest reason for choosing Office, have you considered HTML or LaTeX? HTML can be viewed or printed using any Web browser, and LaTeX can be edited on any machine with Emacs (includes Windows), compiled into a PDF, and viewed or printed on any platform that has an Acrobat Reader.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
If click-and-drool was the reason for going to Windows, then they went the wrong way. They should be in Mac OS
Blame it on Lotus. People wanted to run Lotus 1-2-3 (and other software from the office) at home but also run a click-and-drool desktop on the same box (back then, boxen were expensive). At that time, PC emulation on Macintosh computers (then called SoftPC) was not usably fast.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Using that key sequence to bring up a login dialog effectively prevents the "false login screen" style of password sniffers.
Control+Alt+Del only pulls up a login screen in GUI mode. Recent versions of Windows NT (4.03 and later including 5.x) include a technology called DirectInput that lets programs easily read the keyboard as a set of 104 buttons (which is how games prefer to read the keyboard). For example, if Control and Insert are player 1's and 2's fire buttons, and Alt and Delete are jump buttons, you don't want to put up a login screen when player 1 is firing and both players are jumping. Thus, a program that uses DirectInput can spoof a login screen.
"But NT isn't designed for games. Use Windows 9x instead."
Games are just another application. The only reason Windows 9x wasn't a version of NT is because of marketing.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
The ILOVEYOU virus ... breaks what law?
Computer tampering is a crime, at least in the United States.
Incompatible file formats ... breaks what law?
The Sherman Antitrust Act. The fact that important data cannot be read because it's under a layer of (weak) encryption (i.e. an undocumented file format) harms both competition and consumers.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
To an extent, Microsoft (the first major closed-source provider) did inspire the so-called "Open Source" movement. But the movement for free software explicitly for freedom's sake has been around since the early 1980s when Microsoft's influence on the industry was already great.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
There's no way that Megacorp or Ultra-rich are the norm (*the majority*) in our country.
They hold the majority of the dollars, the capital.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Don't agree. AIX is as standard as it gets
Sorry, bad example. I haven't followed AIX recently.
Fix it, don't invent excuses
That's a bit hard when you don't have $10,000 on hand to purchase the target system that somebody is bitching to you about in an email.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
What about the many thousands of parody tracks available? (e.g. "Lasagne", a take-off of "La Bamba")
"Lasagna" by Weird Al Yankovic appeared on the album "Even Worse" which is under Bono Act perpetual copyright. Most parodies came off either some comedy album, SNL, MADtv, Howard Stern, or the like and are copyrighted by their producers.
I'd say that Al Yankovic performed less than one-third of the songs attributed to him on Napster, but that's another node.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
12k GIF ... Perhaps we should report these guys to themselves (for infringing Terminal Reality's trademark)
I'd report you to copyright.net for posting a GIF, but copyright.net handles only copyrights, not patents (on GIF's LZW compression) or trademarks (on the Terminal Reality logo).
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
renaming text files does not work
Have you ever used Wrapster?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Since when is it a copyright violation to possess mp3's of cd's I own?
It's not a copyright violation under 17 USC 107, as you mention. But it is a patent violation under United States law unless the encoder publisher has paid THOMSON multimedia $15K/year or $2.50/unit sold (whichever is greater). That means you, LAME users.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.