I'm not sure if English is your primary language, but it's not that hard to parse this sentence - actually, it must require a tremendous amount of dedication to misparse it in that way as you did.
Almost all miniDV cameras come with a single USB cable (and no FireWire cable). Does it mean that they are backing away from FW? Hell, no. I just guess that USB cables are cheaper:)
You missed it. Casual users still do not rip DVDs in these regions - they just copy their friend's copy. So, the original posters point (casual users do not rip DVDs) still stands.
Check again To quote Nokia's spec: "Music player for MP3 and AAC files" "Possibility to get additional memory with MMC." "Voice recording up to 3 min" (And these specs are for real, of course - I have one)
Yeah, no one will buy these as noone has bought the Nokia 6230 that has an MP3 player and can be extended with MMC cards. Oh no, wait, it sells like hot cakes. And, of course, you can record phone calls and ambient noise (that's called "dictaphone") with it. And I, for one, find it a lot more easy to deal with the management of only one battery. I don't get your point with regards to pausing the mp3 during a phonecall - I guess that's a feature that shows why convergence is good: if I receive (or make) a call, the mp3 is automatically paused and resumed after the call.
It may be nice, but it only proves that you own a nice shiny disc, nothing else. Possessing such a disc does not give you any additional right to the music that is on that disc.
No, SCO, as a legitimate company, is already dead. My current project is a SCO OpenUnix -> Linux migration for, perhaps, the last major customer of SCO.
Non-obvious? Novel? Look at uuencoding or base64 encoding, they use a very similar concept, but they are case-sensitive and include other symbols besides letters and digits.
No one in their right minds would want to buy a space telescope. The trade only hung on by its fingernails because there was always a significant number of people in the Galaxy who were not in their right minds. (with apologies to Douglas Adams)
You are missing one important detail: the people who were about to make a decision and the people who restarted the process were not the same. The decision would have been done by the Council of the European Union while the JURI (who restarted the process) is part of the European Parliament (which is pretty much against SW patents).
You know, it's interesting that Americans have thought the exact same thing about Japan before WWII - and they were shocked when faced with Mitsubishi Zeros that outperformed their aircrafts.
Leaving out S/PDIF is silly, it should not have costed more than $2 or $3 (there are soundcards based on the CMI8738 chipset both with optical and coaxial inputs and outputs (and analog inputs/outputs as well) costing something like $10)
No, it does not restrict your existing rights. It gives additional rights. You are right that the BSD license gives more rigths, but that's not the point. If you get $10 as a gift from A, and you get $20 from B, that does not mean, that A has taken $10 from you, does it?
Please, stop this nonsense. Your numbers are way off and your knowledge on diesel engines seems to be outdated.
(Using data from the Citroen C4, which, I guess, is in the same size class as the Prius)
"You might be able to save 400lbs using a vehicle with a manual transmission"
The automatic version weighs only 74 kg (163 lbs) more.
"Oh, and your precious diesel cars? They weigh more than their gasoline counterparts because diesel engines need stronger components (much higher compression)."
The difference between the 1.6 gas and the 1.6 HDI is 57 kg (126 lbs).
In the end, the Prius and the C4 weigh about the same.
"Even "clean" diesel engines rank horribly on particulate, NOx, and other nasty emissions."
That's why the particle filter and the catalytic converter is used in diesel cars.
If you think that calculators have anything to do with mathematics, you misunderstood something. Executing calculations - well, that's more of the work of a bank accountant. Mathematicians needs to understand concepts (and 129x32=4128 isn't much of a concept) and create solutions for problems (again, 143/23=? isn't much of a problem). When I was a kid, I used to go to math competitions, and believe me, my calculator wasn't much help to me (perhaps it would have allowed me to brute-force some problems, but I doubt that I would have gotten any points for it).
It is a non-existent bug, anyway. Files and directory names can have spaces in them, so URL-s referring to them also may have spaces (in fact, %20 is an escape code for space), "http://qwe.com/there are a lot/of spaces.html" actually works (or at least, it would work:)
"but why should we take away the right of non-GPL giants to collect some fees for their work?"
Perhaps you have missed that little thing called "copyright". That's what makes it possible for me, a Europian software developer, to collect some money for my work - and in fact, that's the source of the wealth of Bill Gates, too. So, it may seem, there is a way to compensate the authors of software even when you don't have SW patents.
SW patents are explicitly forbidden right now in the EU. Some succesful attempts to sneak some SW patents (which are not enforcable - and are not enforced) into the EU patent office (while well knowing that they should not be able to do so) does not change this fact. In fact, I suspect, these were moves done out of fear that someone else patents something before them - having an explicit decision that there should not be software patents alleviates that fear most efficiently.
Just like all software written in the past 50 years. Perhaps you also heard about "standing upon the shoulders of giants". That's how development works in general: you take an existing thing, add your own ideas and wow: there's an improved version (which someone will take and add his own ideas to make something even better).
The idea of the evolution is of a scientific one. It is continously checked against new findings, modified, refined and is open to scientific rebate. Creationism is something that some people dreamt up and is pretty much based on only two thing: "because the Bible says so" and "it is highly unlikely" (well, try telling a lottery winner, that because it was utterly unlikely to win, he, in fact, did not win), and it is unlikely, because they think it is). Yeah, no difference, right?
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I'm not sure if English is your primary language, but it's not that hard to parse this sentence - actually, it must require a tremendous amount of dedication to misparse it in that way as you did.
"LOOK EVERYONE! I HAVE A CELLPHONE AND I'M AN *ASSHOLE*!"
You know, it's funny to see Americans to have the same attitude towards cell phones that we had in the early nineties.
Of course, since that, everyone got a cell phone here and custom ringtones are popular (and understandably so)
Almost all miniDV cameras come with a single USB cable (and no FireWire cable). Does it mean that they are backing away from FW? Hell, no. I just guess that USB cables are cheaper :)
You missed it. Casual users still do not rip DVDs in these regions - they just copy their friend's copy.
So, the original posters point (casual users do not rip DVDs) still stands.
Check again
To quote Nokia's spec:
"Music player for MP3 and AAC files"
"Possibility to get additional memory with MMC."
"Voice recording up to 3 min"
(And these specs are for real, of course - I have one)
Yeah, no one will buy these as noone has bought the Nokia 6230 that has an MP3 player and can be extended with MMC cards.
Oh no, wait, it sells like hot cakes.
And, of course, you can record phone calls and ambient noise (that's called "dictaphone") with it. And I, for one, find it a lot more easy to deal with the management of only one battery.
I don't get your point with regards to pausing the mp3 during a phonecall - I guess that's a feature that shows why convergence is good: if I receive (or make) a call, the mp3 is automatically paused and resumed after the call.
It may be nice, but it only proves that you own a nice shiny disc, nothing else. Possessing such a disc does not give you any additional right to the music that is on that disc.
No, SCO, as a legitimate company, is already dead. My current project is a SCO OpenUnix -> Linux migration for, perhaps, the last major customer of SCO.
Non-obvious? Novel? Look at uuencoding or base64 encoding, they use a very similar concept, but they are case-sensitive and include other symbols besides letters and digits.
No one in their right minds would want to buy a space telescope. The trade only hung on by its fingernails because there was always a significant
number of people in the Galaxy who were not in their right minds.
(with apologies to Douglas Adams)
You are missing one important detail: the people who were about to make a decision and the people who restarted the process were not the same.
The decision would have been done by the Council of the European Union while the JURI (who restarted the process) is part of the European Parliament (which is pretty much against SW patents).
You know, it's interesting that Americans have thought the exact same thing about Japan before WWII - and they were shocked when faced with Mitsubishi Zeros that outperformed their aircrafts.
Leaving out S/PDIF is silly, it should not have costed more than $2 or $3 (there are soundcards based on the CMI8738 chipset both with optical and coaxial inputs and outputs (and analog inputs/outputs as well) costing something like $10)
No, it does not restrict your existing rights. It gives additional rights. You are right that the BSD license gives more rigths, but that's not the point.
If you get $10 as a gift from A, and you get $20 from B, that does not mean, that A has taken $10 from you, does it?
Please, stop this nonsense. Your numbers are way off and your knowledge on diesel engines seems to be outdated.
(Using data from the Citroen C4, which, I guess, is in the same size class as the Prius)
"You might be able to save 400lbs using a vehicle with a manual transmission"
The automatic version weighs only 74 kg (163 lbs) more.
"Oh, and your precious diesel cars? They weigh more than their gasoline counterparts because diesel engines need stronger components (much higher compression)."
The difference between the 1.6 gas and the 1.6 HDI is 57 kg (126 lbs).
In the end, the Prius and the C4 weigh about the same.
"Even "clean" diesel engines rank horribly on particulate, NOx, and other nasty emissions."
That's why the particle filter and the catalytic converter is used in diesel cars.
If you think that calculators have anything to do with mathematics, you misunderstood something.
Executing calculations - well, that's more of the work of a bank accountant. Mathematicians needs to understand concepts (and 129x32=4128 isn't much of a concept) and create solutions for problems (again, 143/23=? isn't much of a problem).
When I was a kid, I used to go to math competitions, and believe me, my calculator wasn't much help to me (perhaps it would have allowed me to brute-force some problems, but I doubt that I would have gotten any points for it).
"they'll probably use WMA instead if they want surround music"
Ogg Voribs is not limited to two channels, so it is capable of delivering surround sound - you don't need WMA.
It is a non-existent bug, anyway. :)
Files and directory names can have spaces in them, so URL-s referring to them also may have spaces (in fact, %20 is an escape code for space), "http://qwe.com/there are a lot/of spaces.html" actually works (or at least, it would work
"but why should we take away the right of non-GPL giants to collect some fees for their work?"
Perhaps you have missed that little thing called "copyright". That's what makes it possible for me, a Europian software developer, to collect some money for my work - and in fact, that's the source of the wealth of Bill Gates, too. So, it may seem, there is a way to compensate the authors of software even when you don't have SW patents.
SW patents are explicitly forbidden right now in the EU.
Some succesful attempts to sneak some SW patents (which are not enforcable - and are not enforced) into the EU patent office (while well knowing that they should not be able to do so) does not change this fact.
In fact, I suspect, these were moves done out of fear that someone else patents something before them - having an explicit decision that there should not be software patents alleviates that fear most efficiently.
"[i]rely heavily on imitating prior art.[/i]"
Just like all software written in the past 50 years. Perhaps you also heard about "standing upon
the shoulders of giants". That's how development works in general: you take an existing thing, add your own ideas and wow: there's an improved version (which someone will take and add his own ideas to make something even better).
"[i]if the RPM/deb has unmet dependencies, for instance, then the package manager should automatically download and install those as well[/i]"
That's precisely what apt does since the end of the last century.
"everyone who wasn't Red Hat"
Or Debian, or Slackware, or...
United Linux would be better described as a group of smaller commercial Linux distros.
"[i]Since pagerank was switched off[/i]"
Since when is Pagerank switched off?
How got this rated "Insightful"?
The idea of the evolution is of a scientific one. It is continously checked against new findings, modified, refined and is open to scientific rebate.
Creationism is something that some people dreamt up and is pretty much based on only two thing: "because the Bible says so" and "it is highly unlikely" (well, try telling a lottery winner, that because it was utterly unlikely to win, he, in fact, did not win), and it is unlikely, because they think it is).
Yeah, no difference, right?