I'm not sure how this concepts get defined around the world, as I live in a single country, but shouldn't a political compass include *more* than 2 axes? I mean, it probably has much more dimensions, since human behavior, IMHO, is much more complex than just "left/right, up/down" or whatever you want to call this "axes".
Maybe instead of a "political compass" we can call it a "political OLAP cube"?, with many many dimensions, including the time dimension, and many different ways of presenting this cube. No?
My argument wasn't about the license agreement, but about your point on how Apple would "look bad" when viruses strike the iPhone.
I wanted to point out that your car manufacturer should not care about the usage of the product after purchase, even if it is not used as intended originally. Like using a car to build a sculpture that the manufacturer wouldn't aprove of or something along those lines.
Much like Apple should not care if I use my brand-new MacBook Pro as toilet paper, even if it gives them bad publicity because people are using their product to wipe their asses.
So you would be okay if the manufacturer of your car *forced* you to buy certain high-priced tires because the cheap-o ones will easily get torn at high-speeds, so you would crash AND as a result give Ford bad publicity?
I think we *should* read all EULAs but I also agree most of them are incomprehensible, specially when they all start the same, so you just think "ok, it's the same as the last time, where's the OK button?".
It does a pretty good job at spotting suspicious wording, without having to read the whole thing. Agreed, the best option would be to have a lawyer read the entire text and explain it to you, but since I'm guessing that's not an option for 99.99% of users, this little tool might help you be a bit smarter about this whoel thing.
Disclaimer: I'm in no way related to the company, developers or anything else around the tool....I just like it very much.
Ahhh...Bullfrog! I had forgotten about those guys. I loved the Syndicate series...which by the way, I've never seen a game similar to it. And how about Theme Hospital? Childish...but so much fun for casual gaming.....the good ol' days..
A bit offtopic, I know, but, it's curious that you mention it, because on a recent trip to Japan, on my way back by AirCanada the movie system crashed at some point in the flight and it showed some MySQL errors. It was really a surprise for me to see this, since I would have thought they used a propietary system or something.
Apparently they don't.
Is there a way for the researchers to use the sinkhole to clean the worm?
Maybe they can inject instructions to the worm so it shutsdown but not before it spreads the "fix" to other computers? So along counting the number of PC's infected they also help in cleaning the worm. Impossible?
Maybe people like *some* parts of violent conflict but not others.
People might like the tactics challenge, strategic challenge, precision challenge (aiming), and generally the challenge to solve some problem/situation someone else has designed, without the urge or desire to do real harm.
It's probably the same as the shooting gallery at some circus or fair. You like the challenge of shooting metal animals, but not necesarily like to shoot live animals.
I for one like the strategic side of, say, Starcraft, where you have to decide maybe to rush the oponent with zerglings or wait until you get Ultralisks/Mutalisks/whatever and then kill my opponent. That doesn't mean I would love to send thousands of soldiers to "rush" some enemy base and get 90% of them killed in the process.
So maybe people like being able to play as something they sure as hell won't be able/like to do in real life as the GTA franchise success has taught us. You might like mafia movies but that doesn't mean you *should* also like real life mafias.
And that's the beauty of games I guess. To have the ability to do something you wouldn't/couldn't do in real life.
Then shouldn't it be "illegal" instead of "unofficial"?
If Atari still has the copyright on some of those games, then it would be illegal to do so, isn't it? Even when they probably won't sue or anything, how can I "unofficially" release the source code to, say, MS-DOS without MS suing (suEing? sp?) me?
My thoughts too. What does "unofficially released source code means" exactly?
After some thinking I came to the conclusion that it means you can download the code, but without an open source license applied to it, such that if someone tries to buy the code from them (or the company), they can just stop giving away the files, state that it's still propietary and then still have the ability to sue someone who develops something based on those files. That's the only logical explanation I can come up with.
Like saying "here, I'll give you my car as a gift" but not transfering the ownership via legal papers. If at some point someone wanted to buy my car I can just tell you "hey, that car I gave you for free....it's no longer yours, it's mine to sell now" and you would have (I presume...IANAL) no legal way of claiming otherwise.
I believe the worrying comes not from "destroying the world" per se, but destroyig human life.
I also believe, as yourself, that we can't *destroy* this world completely, i.e. blowing it apart or shifting it's orbit to collide the Sun (just yet...). What people mean when they say "we will destroy the earth" is "we will destroy all human (and possibly most of the other lifeforms as well) life". So the problem is not really "fixing the planet" as much as "fixing the planet for human life to continue being possible and/or comfortable".
Maybe some of the rant is not valid nowadays, but I have to agree that it's not as easy to work things out with Linux as some people say it is.
My own personal example is Ubuntu 9.04. I did the upgrade after using 8.04 and working (somewhat) fine, to find it very fast and everything, but now I can't save my sessions (so the panel icons keep moving around and won't stay where I want them) and sound from Flash won't work (so no YouTube, etc). I go to forums and stuff but still, no one has been able to help me with it. And sound is one of the recurring issues I've had with all distros tested. The prime example? Only one app can use the sound card at a time...
Granted, I've read somewhere about how sound depends a lot on the app developer, but for whatever obscure reasons, this shouldn't be, now should it? And frankly, the problem is the time needed to properly set a Linux box to your preferences. And as much as I love to get down and dirty with the terminal and forums and stuff, even most of my friends from university (CS majors) are too lazy to do research and solve the problems because most of the times involves a lot of time/effort/errors, etc.
So until this issues are solved for the majority of computer setups with Linux (maybe even *only* with Ubuntu) then casual customers are going to be stuck to Windows, specially when games drive a lot of sales by themselves alone (and don't tell me Wine is the silver bullet because it's not, and there are plenty of examples in WineHQ).
Uhmm....I don't want to sound like a troll but...are you even a Mexican living in Mexico City?
I am and I really don't think air quality has improved in any measurable rate, let alone "significant advances".
Also, while I agree with you on stopping racist memes, Mexico really does have a VERY poor health care system. Those modern, well-equipped hospitals with well-trained personnel are mostly private ones, and the few of them who are actually public ones are not enough to take care of millions of patients. Sure, you might have a surgery with the best equipment in a public hospital, but that's going to happen after a VERY restrictive screening process. There's just not enough money to build a health care system efficient enough to combat a possible pandemic like the one we might be facing.
Hell, our public health care system is in bankruptcy, quickly driving towards the cliff in part because we have more administrative personnel than actual doctors and nurses....go figure... (I can't find the link right now, but it's a well-known statistic down here)
There's this service I found (maybe even here in/.?) which is pretty nice for 90% of non-serious website registrations.
You just get a dispossable address which you can check online from the same page, and every 20 minutes or so the addresses are cleaned up, so you only use it to receive your login/password info and forget about it. There's even a Firefox tool bar to make things easier
So it basically does what gp says he does by hand, but automatically. You should try it sometime.
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Is this a better analogy?
No, since it's not a car analogy. QED.
*head asplodes*
There, fixed that for you.
Patenting spam are you? Sounds interesting...actually, I wonder if anyone has tried to file a patent for a spam-like business model like yours.
I'm not sure how this concepts get defined around the world, as I live in a single country, but shouldn't a political compass include *more* than 2 axes? I mean, it probably has much more dimensions, since human behavior, IMHO, is much more complex than just "left/right, up/down" or whatever you want to call this "axes".
Maybe instead of a "political compass" we can call it a "political OLAP cube"?, with many many dimensions, including the time dimension, and many different ways of presenting this cube. No?
Now, if you find the Syntax in Java scary - you should take a look at some Lisp.
Or perl...?
My argument wasn't about the license agreement, but about your point on how Apple would "look bad" when viruses strike the iPhone.
I wanted to point out that your car manufacturer should not care about the usage of the product after purchase, even if it is not used as intended originally. Like using a car to build a sculpture that the manufacturer wouldn't aprove of or something along those lines.
Much like Apple should not care if I use my brand-new MacBook Pro as toilet paper, even if it gives them bad publicity because people are using their product to wipe their asses.
To use a car analogy for once...
So you would be okay if the manufacturer of your car *forced* you to buy certain high-priced tires because the cheap-o ones will easily get torn at high-speeds, so you would crash AND as a result give Ford bad publicity?
By your reasoning this would be okay...no?
>>Corporations exist for us not the other way 'round.
I think corporations exists for the shareholders not us...no?
"legally owned copy" I think...
I think we *should* read all EULAs but I also agree most of them are incomprehensible, specially when they all start the same, so you just think "ok, it's the same as the last time, where's the OK button?".
The solution I found? EULAlyzer
It does a pretty good job at spotting suspicious wording, without having to read the whole thing. Agreed, the best option would be to have a lawyer read the entire text and explain it to you, but since I'm guessing that's not an option for 99.99% of users, this little tool might help you be a bit smarter about this whoel thing.
Disclaimer: I'm in no way related to the company, developers or anything else around the tool....I just like it very much.
Ahhh...Bullfrog! I had forgotten about those guys. I loved the Syndicate series...which by the way, I've never seen a game similar to it. And how about Theme Hospital? Childish...but so much fun for casual gaming.....the good ol' days..
A bit offtopic, I know, but, it's curious that you mention it, because on a recent trip to Japan, on my way back by AirCanada the movie system crashed at some point in the flight and it showed some MySQL errors. It was really a surprise for me to see this, since I would have thought they used a propietary system or something. Apparently they don't.
Wow. I didn't know that.
So apparently the creators did a good job with it. Impressive.
Is there a way for the researchers to use the sinkhole to clean the worm?
Maybe they can inject instructions to the worm so it shutsdown but not before it spreads the "fix" to other computers? So along counting the number of PC's infected they also help in cleaning the worm. Impossible?
Sounds impressively similar to the Aura Interactor which by the way is *very* old.
Maybe people like *some* parts of violent conflict but not others.
People might like the tactics challenge, strategic challenge, precision challenge (aiming), and generally the challenge to solve some problem/situation someone else has designed, without the urge or desire to do real harm.
It's probably the same as the shooting gallery at some circus or fair. You like the challenge of shooting metal animals, but not necesarily like to shoot live animals.
I for one like the strategic side of, say, Starcraft, where you have to decide maybe to rush the oponent with zerglings or wait until you get Ultralisks/Mutalisks/whatever and then kill my opponent. That doesn't mean I would love to send thousands of soldiers to "rush" some enemy base and get 90% of them killed in the process.
So maybe people like being able to play as something they sure as hell won't be able/like to do in real life as the GTA franchise success has taught us. You might like mafia movies but that doesn't mean you *should* also like real life mafias.
And that's the beauty of games I guess. To have the ability to do something you wouldn't/couldn't do in real life.
No?
I'm interested in Wii homebrew games...when can I download a playable demo?
:)
Then shouldn't it be "illegal" instead of "unofficial"?
If Atari still has the copyright on some of those games, then it would be illegal to do so, isn't it? Even when they probably won't sue or anything, how can I "unofficially" release the source code to, say, MS-DOS without MS suing (suEing? sp?) me?
My thoughts too. What does "unofficially released source code means" exactly?
After some thinking I came to the conclusion that it means you can download the code, but without an open source license applied to it, such that if someone tries to buy the code from them (or the company), they can just stop giving away the files, state that it's still propietary and then still have the ability to sue someone who develops something based on those files. That's the only logical explanation I can come up with.
Like saying "here, I'll give you my car as a gift" but not transfering the ownership via legal papers. If at some point someone wanted to buy my car I can just tell you "hey, that car I gave you for free....it's no longer yours, it's mine to sell now" and you would have (I presume...IANAL) no legal way of claiming otherwise.
No?
Purity
I believe the worrying comes not from "destroying the world" per se, but destroyig human life.
I also believe, as yourself, that we can't *destroy* this world completely, i.e. blowing it apart or shifting it's orbit to collide the Sun (just yet...). What people mean when they say "we will destroy the earth" is "we will destroy all human (and possibly most of the other lifeforms as well) life". So the problem is not really "fixing the planet" as much as "fixing the planet for human life to continue being possible and/or comfortable".
Does anyone know who actually uses SCO products if any?
Who buys something that no one (or mostly no one) uses?
Maybe lots of people use it that I'm unaware of. Care to enlighten me?
Maybe some of the rant is not valid nowadays, but I have to agree that it's not as easy to work things out with Linux as some people say it is.
My own personal example is Ubuntu 9.04. I did the upgrade after using 8.04 and working (somewhat) fine, to find it very fast and everything, but now I can't save my sessions (so the panel icons keep moving around and won't stay where I want them) and sound from Flash won't work (so no YouTube, etc). I go to forums and stuff but still, no one has been able to help me with it. And sound is one of the recurring issues I've had with all distros tested. The prime example? Only one app can use the sound card at a time...
Granted, I've read somewhere about how sound depends a lot on the app developer, but for whatever obscure reasons, this shouldn't be, now should it? And frankly, the problem is the time needed to properly set a Linux box to your preferences. And as much as I love to get down and dirty with the terminal and forums and stuff, even most of my friends from university (CS majors) are too lazy to do research and solve the problems because most of the times involves a lot of time/effort/errors, etc.
So until this issues are solved for the majority of computer setups with Linux (maybe even *only* with Ubuntu) then casual customers are going to be stuck to Windows, specially when games drive a lot of sales by themselves alone (and don't tell me Wine is the silver bullet because it's not, and there are plenty of examples in WineHQ).
Uhmm....I don't want to sound like a troll but...are you even a Mexican living in Mexico City?
I am and I really don't think air quality has improved in any measurable rate, let alone "significant advances".
Also, while I agree with you on stopping racist memes, Mexico really does have a VERY poor health care system. Those modern, well-equipped hospitals with well-trained personnel are mostly private ones, and the few of them who are actually public ones are not enough to take care of millions of patients. Sure, you might have a surgery with the best equipment in a public hospital, but that's going to happen after a VERY restrictive screening process. There's just not enough money to build a health care system efficient enough to combat a possible pandemic like the one we might be facing.
Hell, our public health care system is in bankruptcy, quickly driving towards the cliff in part because we have more administrative personnel than actual doctors and nurses....go figure... (I can't find the link right now, but it's a well-known statistic down here)
There's this service I found (maybe even here in /.?) which is pretty nice for 90% of non-serious website registrations.
You just get a dispossable address which you can check online from the same page, and every 20 minutes or so the addresses are cleaned up, so you only use it to receive your login/password info and forget about it. There's even a Firefox tool bar to make things easier
So it basically does what gp says he does by hand, but automatically. You should try it sometime.