Pure pacifism is extremely rare. I'd esitmate that at a protest against something like the Iraq war only about one in a hundred people would be pure pacifists, if that.
Agreed. In many cases, objections to a war are just that: objections to that war. What people on the right tend to forget these days is that there was a lot less objection in October 2001 to the US invasion of Afghanistan than there was in March 2003 to the US invasion of Iraq, or than there is today to the ongoing occupation.
It's not just peaceniks and hippies: there's a large contingent of people who believe that the US presence in Iraq was either a mistake from the beginning or has become a liability. The "problem" is that those are arguable issues. Idealistic pacifists can be dismissed out of hand, their objections ignored without actually thinking about them.
If they're reusing GPL'ed code, then I believe you're right, they can't further restrict it.
However, if they're distributing their own code, then the GPL doesn't apply. In that case, they're distributing their own code under a license that's very similar to the GPL, and can include whatever restrictions they want.
I seem to recall that WarFTP (an FTP server for Windows) was licensed such that it was free for personal or commercial use, but forbidden for government use.
Admit it, which one of you never googled their own name?
But if you've googled yourself and other people, it's a little trickier to determine from the list which one is you.
Though if the list of names contains 25 celebrities and "Joe Smith," it might not be hard to narrow down. At that point, you're the guy in the red shirt who beamed down to the hostile planet with Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty. Yeah, the monsters could kill anyone in the party, but it doesn't take much effort to guess who it'll be.
These days it's more likely to be Sierra Mist if the restaurant's preferred cola is Pepsi.
IIRC, Coca-Cola owns Sprite and Mr. Pibb. Pepsi owns Sierra Mist. Dr. Pepper/7UP has deals with other companies for bottling and distribution. For instance, in some states, Dr. Pepper is actually bottled in Coca-Cola facilities. In those states (California, for instance), you'll never see Mr. Pibb in a can or bottle (unless someone's made an effort to bring it in from another state), because Coke is already making money on bottles of Dr. Pepper. But when you go to a restaurant that serves Coke, they'll generally have Mr. Pibb in their drink machine. Since Pepsi doesn't have an equivalent to Mr. Pibb, restaurants that serve (or are owned by) Pepsi will generally offer Dr. Pepper.
I'm not sure where this leaves 7UP in restaurants.
Simple fact is that WGA is utterly transparent and utterly irrelevant to most legitimate users, and even those it isn't, it isn't an issue for very long.
I can't speak for "most legitimate users," but I can describe my own brief run-in with a WGA malfunction.
A few weeks ago, when the updated version of WGA was pushed out, my Dell-with-the-original-OS booted with a notice claiming that Windows was not genuine (despite the previous version of WGA reporting no problems). I grumbled about Microsoft's lying sack of *ahem* I mean, POS anti-piracy crap that couldn't tell a real copy of Windows from a fake one, then logged in, fired up a web browser, went to the Knowledge base, mucked around until I found a link that said something like, "Validate here"... and it said, "Oh, yeah, you're genuine. No problem, pal." (Actually, it's a Dell, so that would be "No problem, Dude.")
I spouted some variation of "WTF?" Then I rebooted the machine, just to check, and sure enough it said absolutely nothing about being a pirated copy of Windows.
I eventually concluded that Norton In(ternet)Security had probably blocked the initial validation attempt. With no desktop shell, I didn't have the chance to say "yes, let the damn packet through."
The whole process took maybe 10 minutes, but it was an annoying 10 minutes. I've had my share of frustrations with Linux,* but it's never told me I was ripping off RedSuMandrivuntu.
*My main PC is a Fedora Core box. My wife's main PC is a Mac. We share this Windows box, mainly for gaming.
It's funny... this is the second place I've seen today where someone linked to that idealog article and seemed to think that Thurrott's "Boycott IE" post was new. I seem to recall something similar happening a few months ago, where someone posted a link to some article that had been posted a year and a week earlier, and people reacted as if it were only a week old.
Seriously, how hard is it to look at the date and notice the year is different?
It's worth noting that Thurrott backed off somewhat on his "boycott" stance just two days later, saying:
If you simply must use IE for some reason, you would be crazy not to upgrade to IE 7 when it comes out.
Hardly praise for the beast, but not the full-on condemnation of the original article.
The summary makes it sound like virtual desktops are some new and exciting idea. As the linked Wikipedia article shows, most X window managers have had this feature for at least 20 years.
*whoosh!*
That's the sound of the summary's sarcasm going over your head.
You forgot to mention the forthcoming suits against Sun for NFS and Microsoft for Windows File Sharing (both of which work just fine over the public internet, if your firewall permits it.)
Anyone else remember Scour? When it first launched, it was basically a search engine for public SMB shares.
They disappeared a few years ago. Three guesses why.
the record companies contend LimeWire's operators are "actively facilitating, encouraging and enticing" computer users to steal music by failing to block access to copyright works (emphasis added)
Based on that complaint, it sounds more like they're passively encouraging people, at best.
Either that or the fact that I've never held up a stop sign in the middle of the street means that I'm actively encouraging people to run red lights.
Double-click instead of single-click. It'll highlight the URL much faster than selecting the whole thing manually, and it should still be easy with a trackpad.
I've lost count of the number of times I've downloaded Firefox, but I can also say that each Windows download has gotten installed on roughly 10 different computers. So you subtract some, and you add some, and eventually you lose any hope of having a useful estimate.
The downloaded count is a simple metric that tells you that there's still a lot of interest int he product. It's easier to determine than the number of times it's been installed, the number of copies in use, or the number of users.
The number means what it means. Trying to translate from #Downloaded to #InUse is pointless.
(Incidentally: no, automatic updates are not included in the total. And IIRC there was some effort made to avoid double-counting manual updates, like not counting downloads made using Firefox. I don't remember exactly.)
The radius at the equator is slightly longer than the radius at the poles. It's not quite a perfect sphere.* Sort of like if you took a rubber ball, set it on the floor, then pushed down slightly.
The same is true of the Earth, though I believe it's generally attributed to the Earth's rotation.
* Yes, I know that craters and such interfere with it being a perfect sphere too. No need to get pedantic, people of Slashdot. Well, no more than usual.
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Wait, Google has their own satellites now?
Space... oats? Space wheat? Corn? Space corn?
I'm just beginning to think that space oats isn't the answer.
If nothing else, the upkeep on their cloaking devices has got to keep them busy.
Sure, anyone can flood a field with water!
I remember seeing a 500GB drive at Fry's a few months ago. As soon as I saw it, I knew that terabyte drives weren't far off.
Looks like the typical user is going to have to learn some more terminology soon.
"In ancient Egypt, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have not forgotten this." -- feline proverb.
Apparently, early bloggers wanted to blog like an Egyptian.
Agreed. In many cases, objections to a war are just that: objections to that war. What people on the right tend to forget these days is that there was a lot less objection in October 2001 to the US invasion of Afghanistan than there was in March 2003 to the US invasion of Iraq, or than there is today to the ongoing occupation.
It's not just peaceniks and hippies: there's a large contingent of people who believe that the US presence in Iraq was either a mistake from the beginning or has become a liability. The "problem" is that those are arguable issues. Idealistic pacifists can be dismissed out of hand, their objections ignored without actually thinking about them.
If they're reusing GPL'ed code, then I believe you're right, they can't further restrict it.
However, if they're distributing their own code, then the GPL doesn't apply. In that case, they're distributing their own code under a license that's very similar to the GPL, and can include whatever restrictions they want.
I seem to recall that WarFTP (an FTP server for Windows) was licensed such that it was free for personal or commercial use, but forbidden for government use.
But if you've googled yourself and other people, it's a little trickier to determine from the list which one is you.
Though if the list of names contains 25 celebrities and "Joe Smith," it might not be hard to narrow down. At that point, you're the guy in the red shirt who beamed down to the hostile planet with Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty. Yeah, the monsters could kill anyone in the party, but it doesn't take much effort to guess who it'll be.
These days it's more likely to be Sierra Mist if the restaurant's preferred cola is Pepsi.
IIRC, Coca-Cola owns Sprite and Mr. Pibb. Pepsi owns Sierra Mist. Dr. Pepper/7UP has deals with other companies for bottling and distribution. For instance, in some states, Dr. Pepper is actually bottled in Coca-Cola facilities. In those states (California, for instance), you'll never see Mr. Pibb in a can or bottle (unless someone's made an effort to bring it in from another state), because Coke is already making money on bottles of Dr. Pepper. But when you go to a restaurant that serves Coke, they'll generally have Mr. Pibb in their drink machine. Since Pepsi doesn't have an equivalent to Mr. Pibb, restaurants that serve (or are owned by) Pepsi will generally offer Dr. Pepper.
I'm not sure where this leaves 7UP in restaurants.
So true. DNA hates it when you do that.
Um... "Goo goo gajoob?"
Alas, I just used up my last mod point this morning.
I can't speak for "most legitimate users," but I can describe my own brief run-in with a WGA malfunction.
A few weeks ago, when the updated version of WGA was pushed out, my Dell-with-the-original-OS booted with a notice claiming that Windows was not genuine (despite the previous version of WGA reporting no problems). I grumbled about Microsoft's lying sack of *ahem* I mean, POS anti-piracy crap that couldn't tell a real copy of Windows from a fake one, then logged in, fired up a web browser, went to the Knowledge base, mucked around until I found a link that said something like, "Validate here"... and it said, "Oh, yeah, you're genuine. No problem, pal." (Actually, it's a Dell, so that would be "No problem, Dude.")
I spouted some variation of "WTF?" Then I rebooted the machine, just to check, and sure enough it said absolutely nothing about being a pirated copy of Windows.
I eventually concluded that Norton In(ternet)Security had probably blocked the initial validation attempt. With no desktop shell, I didn't have the chance to say "yes, let the damn packet through."
The whole process took maybe 10 minutes, but it was an annoying 10 minutes. I've had my share of frustrations with Linux,* but it's never told me I was ripping off RedSuMandrivuntu.
*My main PC is a Fedora Core box. My wife's main PC is a Mac. We share this Windows box, mainly for gaming.
It's funny... this is the second place I've seen today where someone linked to that idealog article and seemed to think that Thurrott's "Boycott IE" post was new. I seem to recall something similar happening a few months ago, where someone posted a link to some article that had been posted a year and a week earlier, and people reacted as if it were only a week old.
Seriously, how hard is it to look at the date and notice the year is different?
It's worth noting that Thurrott backed off somewhat on his "boycott" stance just two days later, saying:
Hardly praise for the beast, but not the full-on condemnation of the original article.*whoosh!*
That's the sound of the summary's sarcasm going over your head.
Anyone else remember Scour? When it first launched, it was basically a search engine for public SMB shares.
They disappeared a few years ago. Three guesses why.
Based on that complaint, it sounds more like they're passively encouraging people, at best.
Either that or the fact that I've never held up a stop sign in the middle of the street means that I'm actively encouraging people to run red lights.
Double-click instead of single-click. It'll highlight the URL much faster than selecting the whole thing manually, and it should still be easy with a trackpad.
I've lost count of the number of times I've downloaded Firefox, but I can also say that each Windows download has gotten installed on roughly 10 different computers. So you subtract some, and you add some, and eventually you lose any hope of having a useful estimate.
The downloaded count is a simple metric that tells you that there's still a lot of interest int he product. It's easier to determine than the number of times it's been installed, the number of copies in use, or the number of users.
The number means what it means. Trying to translate from #Downloaded to #InUse is pointless.
(Incidentally: no, automatic updates are not included in the total. And IIRC there was some effort made to avoid double-counting manual updates, like not counting downloads made using Firefox. I don't remember exactly.)
From context, I think the GP was trying to say, "we not only know for certain that Firefox 3.0 is in the works..."
It's the only way the rest of the post makes sense.
Actually, there was a time a few years ago that you could brew up a cup of Mozilla to keep yourself going through that coding session. Sadly, the company that used to do it (and contributed a percentage of his profits to Mozilla) has long since closed up shop.
It's a big-a pizza pie!
The radius at the equator is slightly longer than the radius at the poles. It's not quite a perfect sphere.* Sort of like if you took a rubber ball, set it on the floor, then pushed down slightly.
The same is true of the Earth, though I believe it's generally attributed to the Earth's rotation.
* Yes, I know that craters and such interfere with it being a perfect sphere too. No need to get pedantic, people of Slashdot. Well, no more than usual.