Oh - and if they can't buy software (games) for it at Best Buy you're screwed too.
I can buy games for Linux at Best Buy: just install a $50 TV tuner card from Best Buy, hook up your $100 GameCube from Best Buy, and you can play hundreds of games bought at Best Buy.
I can buy games for Linux at Best Buy: buy a GBA and games at Best Buy, connect the GBA to your PC with the MBV2 cable ($20 at lik-sang.com), dump your own carts (as is a cart owner's right under 17 USC 117), and emulate them in VisualBoyAdvance.
In addition, many (but not all) Windows games work in Wine.
"Just get a copy of the DDK"? Does the DDK work with compilers other than Microsoft Visual $1000++? I am between graduation and my first job; I neither qualify for student discounts nor earn a fat paycheck. Many Windows programmers, such as myself, use MinGW as their primary C++ compiler because they can't afford to pay a thousand dollars for a compiler. And the file system development headers are an extra $1000 on top of that.
What other nation is as technologically developed as the United States, the European Union nations, Canada, Japan, or South Korea? The United States has a DMCA, and the EU has its own DMCA-alike called the EUCD. I don't know what's happening with respect copy-control legislation in Canada or the East.
So the guy from Red Hat says that most home users are better off with Windows XP than with Fedora Linux or RHEL Workstation. But there's another GNU/Linux OS for workstations with inexperienced admins, and it's called Mandrake Linux. What did the Mandrake people say?
The firmware on a multisession capable drive reading a non-conforming disc may not be able to find the audio tracks, which is the entire point of Corrupt Disc copy prevention measures. Some drives, as Man Eating Duck pointed out below, do come with utilities to tell the firmware not to look at subsequent sessions.
if you use a free QT license, you 'taint' your codebase and can not later buy commercial QT and 'relicense' it.
Where did you hear this? The owner of copyright in a work (such as an application that uses Qt) is the author of the work. There's no reason why he can't publish a GPL version of the work linked to a GPL library and a proprietary version of the work linked to a proprietary library. And there's no reason why the GPL version of Qt shouldn't run under Cygwin.
Are you suggesting then that it is illegal to, for example, record a CD that you have purchased onto a Minidisc for personal use? Or to rip it to MP3 for personal use?
According to this paper published by the Australian copyright office, that's correct: "There is no exception in the Copyright Act that allows copyright material to be reproduced for private purposes
without permission from the copyright owner."
I am well aware of the fact that Combs's publisher usually licenses the original musical works, but I can think of one exception: "It's All About the Benjamins (rock remix)", which some claim contains an interpolation from "I Don't Like the Drugs" by Marilyn Manson. I can find no evidence that Combs's publisher licensed that from Manson's publisher.
There's a version of Virtual PC that's an emulator (Virtual PC for Mac OS X), and there's a version of Virtual PC that's a VMware clone (Virtual PC for Windows).
The real thing to be worried about is if they stop selling the standalone Vrtual PC, and only sell it bundled with Windows
Not at the price point at which Microsoft is aiming according to the article: "the software will be available by the end of the year, through Microsoft's existing retail and volume licensing channels, for an estimated retail price of $129." If Microsoft were to bundle Windows into Virtual PC for that price, we'd just get really cheap Windows, and by Adobe v. Softman (EULA cannot tie bundled products together), we might be able to resell really cheap Windows separate from VPC.
4. Some songwriter who had a hit several decades ago pops up out of nowhere and sues everybody who contributed, claiming that their song is "substantially similar" to his song and that subconscious copying is no excuse (Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs).
Do you merely question the lack of parallelism (a noun being compared to an adjective), or are you trying to make a point? What does "smart" mean other than "having knowledge"?
Why anyone feels sorry for someone who knowingly and willingly breaks the law so that they can save themselves from buying a $15 CD
Problem is, some CDs are sold for as high as $32 in the United States. That's 32 U.S. dollars, not 32 Canadian dollars, not 32 Australian dollars. Explain that.
Australian fair use is much more narrow than American fair use. Australian copyright law does not grant a broad exception for private copying of audio or time-shifting of television programs the way USA copyright law does (section 1008 for private copying of audio; Sony v. Universal for time-shifting of TV). While the "such as" in the first sentence of 17 USC 107 is interpreted to be illustrative and not limitative, Australian fair use's corresponding language is limitative.
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Currently I get away with playing Quake3 and Wolfenstien.
What about those gamers who aren't fans of first-person shooters? What about platform games, RTS, console style RPGs, or MMORPGs?
Oh - and if they can't buy software (games) for it at Best Buy you're screwed too.
I can buy games for Linux at Best Buy: just install a $50 TV tuner card from Best Buy, hook up your $100 GameCube from Best Buy, and you can play hundreds of games bought at Best Buy.
I can buy games for Linux at Best Buy: buy a GBA and games at Best Buy, connect the GBA to your PC with the MBV2 cable ($20 at lik-sang.com), dump your own carts (as is a cart owner's right under 17 USC 117), and emulate them in VisualBoyAdvance.
In addition, many (but not all) Windows games work in Wine.
Tried GnuCash? What features does it lack? If your current financial software can output OFX or QIF, GnuCash can import them.
Children are curious, and curiosity is a major part of that thing called 'intelligence'.
Small children are also destructive, either by accident or on purpose.
Its the fourty years old grown-ups that are not able to handle Debian.
Unfortunately, it's the forty-year-old grown-ups that make purchasing decisions.
"Just get a copy of the DDK"? Does the DDK work with compilers other than Microsoft Visual $1000++? I am between graduation and my first job; I neither qualify for student discounts nor earn a fat paycheck. Many Windows programmers, such as myself, use MinGW as their primary C++ compiler because they can't afford to pay a thousand dollars for a compiler. And the file system development headers are an extra $1000 on top of that.
My kids would lynch me if they had to deal with stuff Tux Racer and others of that ilk.
Would you consider StepMania, a GPL rhythm game, to fall into "others of that ilk"?
Reports tell me that Sonic Advance is far better on GBA than on N-Gage, largely because of GBA's larger display.
What other nation is as technologically developed as the United States, the European Union nations, Canada, Japan, or South Korea? The United States has a DMCA, and the EU has its own DMCA-alike called the EUCD. I don't know what's happening with respect copy-control legislation in Canada or the East.
I wrote an NES ROM for Nibbles because Windows 2000 and XP likes FCE Ultra better than it likes QBasic.
So the guy from Red Hat says that most home users are better off with Windows XP than with Fedora Linux or RHEL Workstation. But there's another GNU/Linux OS for workstations with inexperienced admins, and it's called Mandrake Linux. What did the Mandrake people say?
The firmware on a multisession capable drive reading a non-conforming disc may not be able to find the audio tracks, which is the entire point of Corrupt Disc copy prevention measures. Some drives, as Man Eating Duck pointed out below, do come with utilities to tell the firmware not to look at subsequent sessions.
if you use a free QT license, you 'taint' your codebase and can not later buy commercial QT and 'relicense' it.
Where did you hear this? The owner of copyright in a work (such as an application that uses Qt) is the author of the work. There's no reason why he can't publish a GPL version of the work linked to a GPL library and a proprietary version of the work linked to a proprietary library. And there's no reason why the GPL version of Qt shouldn't run under Cygwin.
I just don't buy 'em until they get cheaper
Have you ever had experience with albums that get more expensive over time in stores?
Those Mercades are just too expensive so it's OK to steal them?
Copyright infringement is not stealing. If anything, it's more like trespass.
Are you suggesting then that it is illegal to, for example, record a CD that you have purchased onto a Minidisc for personal use? Or to rip it to MP3 for personal use?
According to this paper published by the Australian copyright office, that's correct: "There is no exception in the Copyright Act that allows copyright material to be reproduced for private purposes without permission from the copyright owner."
that is to say they'd have to break things, which would not only stop Linux from running, but also potentially a wide variety of Windows based apps.
Microsoft could make Virtual PC for Windows into some sort of "user mode Windows" analogous to User Mode Linux or the new Plex86.
At what point does sampling stop and piracy begin?
When the DJs stop paying royalties. Even P.Diddy pays royalties most of the time.
I am well aware of the fact that Combs's publisher usually licenses the original musical works, but I can think of one exception: "It's All About the Benjamins (rock remix)", which some claim contains an interpolation from "I Don't Like the Drugs" by Marilyn Manson. I can find no evidence that Combs's publisher licensed that from Manson's publisher.
Where the hell did you get that idea?
There's a version of Virtual PC that's an emulator (Virtual PC for Mac OS X), and there's a version of Virtual PC that's a VMware clone (Virtual PC for Windows).
The real thing to be worried about is if they stop selling the standalone Vrtual PC, and only sell it bundled with Windows
Not at the price point at which Microsoft is aiming according to the article: "the software will be available by the end of the year, through Microsoft's existing retail and volume licensing channels, for an estimated retail price of $129." If Microsoft were to bundle Windows into Virtual PC for that price, we'd just get really cheap Windows, and by Adobe v. Softman (EULA cannot tie bundled products together), we might be able to resell really cheap Windows separate from VPC.
4. Some songwriter who had a hit several decades ago pops up out of nowhere and sues everybody who contributed, claiming that their song is "substantially similar" to his song and that subconscious copying is no excuse (Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs).
How is including spyware on the data session of hybrid Corrupt Discs not an anti-privacy measure?
Smart is not the opposite of ignorance
Do you merely question the lack of parallelism (a noun being compared to an adjective), or are you trying to make a point? What does "smart" mean other than "having knowledge"?
Why anyone feels sorry for someone who knowingly and willingly breaks the law so that they can save themselves from buying a $15 CD
Problem is, some CDs are sold for as high as $32 in the United States. That's 32 U.S. dollars, not 32 Canadian dollars, not 32 Australian dollars. Explain that.
17 USC 107
Australian fair use is much more narrow than American fair use. Australian copyright law does not grant a broad exception for private copying of audio or time-shifting of television programs the way USA copyright law does (section 1008 for private copying of audio; Sony v. Universal for time-shifting of TV). While the "such as" in the first sentence of 17 USC 107 is interpreted to be illustrative and not limitative, Australian fair use's corresponding language is limitative.
there should be no reason whatsoever to see 6 or 7 year old children in explicit images anywhere on the Internet.
Depends on the definition of "explicit." What about health-related web sites that include diagrams of a child's genitourinary system?