Look at all the bootleg NES and Atari "controller plug into your TV" systems out there. They still have value and Nintendo could (and may have) re-released these 10+ year old games at a later date.
Look at Square, they re-released some of the early NES final fantasies on playstation.
Look at Sierra (this is going way back) they re-released Quest for Glory 1 as a VGA game (and it was cool too!).
I understand that it's frustrating not having the opportunity to purchase something and at that point it feels justified to copy it and I'm not completely against it either but I do think that it would be nice to have some rules that covered the situation a bit better.
I guess I was thinking more of the situation where a one man "company" shuts the doors. For instance, maybe the company isn't bringing in enough money so this guy decides to shut down the shop for now and get corporate employment and then 5 years later he's built up enough reserve cash and possibly been working on his former product during his free time.
I personally have a situation not exactly like that but similar. In all honesty it probably would be better if the software had gone public domain because I have no idea if I'll ever have time to get back to it.
Seems to me this would turn into a situation where the phone gets wet or moist and then suddenly you've got a flower growing out of the phone you're trying to use causing you to disgard it early or at least the case.
"What if a user has an open file, and yanks the drive? How does Windows "gracefully" deal with that? Answer: it can't."
Last time I checked it asks me where I want to save the file. At that point I can save it on the local drive, a network share or any other form of writable media including plugging back in the drive that was pulled.
Being that some of epson's latest printers don't smear and you can literally run them under water immediately after printing. I bet if there is an identifier on the page it stays put for the long haul.
I haven't read the article yet (-1 Karma) but I have read most of the comments below (-2 Karma) and I think everyone is missing the point.
The idea is to give the consumer choice. If the customer wants to be notified of updates, notify them. If the customer wants the updates automagically installed, install them. If the customer wants no notification and will manually install updates, let them do that.
Windows installer is not beautiful but it works well for the average user. You can pop a CD in and the autorun installer pops up and most users and capable of hitting next several times and then finish with icons in their menus.
I haven't yet seen this process in any form of linux. Granted I really only use debian and knoppix. Have any distros really perfected this process?
If you're not an artist you're not an artist and you aren't going to crank out beautiful work regardless of how well you learn any software package.
Here are my tips... 1. Keep designs simple. 2. Keep designs consistent. 3. Don't mix serif and sans-serif fonts. (Debian.org is a great example of what not to do... All the titles are sans-serif and all the text is serif. Download a copy of the page and edit the CSS file to use Verdana for the body text and look at how much better it makes it look.) 4. Don't do things for the sake of doing them, make sure any layout decisions have some reason behind them. 5. Find an artist and barter services if you can't afford to hire them.
What about those of us that do want other features?
Up until SP2 we had to install pop up blockers for IE.
In firefox I LOVE my tabs and I also love the free gestures plugin. Gestures were the one of the big things that made me like opera. Now firefox has them. IE doesn't as far as I'm aware.
As a developer IE is simply broken when it comes to supporting intricate details of some of the standards that have been around. Search google for IE box model bug.
According to Article 4, Section A of the POW Convention, you must satisfy the following criteria to be considered an enemy combatant subject to the rules governing prisoners of war:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
1. That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
2. That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
3. That of carrying arms openly;
4. That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
I'm not saying it's unamerican to disagree with government policies but Kyoto specifically would *screw* us beyond all recognition. So many people are making a big deal out of nothing. I would think Slashdot of all places would see how bad Kyoto would mess us up.
Instead of the freaking X-prize, why don't we setup prizes that combat some of the problems Kyoto attempts to solve?
Slashdot Mirror
That's an interesting idea.
I guess it could turn into an administrative/legal headache but not any more than taxes or anything else.
Maybe if the fee was very small.
Look at all the bootleg NES and Atari "controller plug into your TV" systems out there. They still have value and Nintendo could (and may have) re-released these 10+ year old games at a later date.
Look at Square, they re-released some of the early NES final fantasies on playstation.
Look at Sierra (this is going way back) they re-released Quest for Glory 1 as a VGA game (and it was cool too!).
I understand that it's frustrating not having the opportunity to purchase something and at that point it feels justified to copy it and I'm not completely against it either but I do think that it would be nice to have some rules that covered the situation a bit better.
Wow I really got a lot of responses on this one.
I guess I was thinking more of the situation where a one man "company" shuts the doors. For instance, maybe the company isn't bringing in enough money so this guy decides to shut down the shop for now and get corporate employment and then 5 years later he's built up enough reserve cash and possibly been working on his former product during his free time.
I personally have a situation not exactly like that but similar. In all honesty it probably would be better if the software had gone public domain because I have no idea if I'll ever have time to get back to it.
What matters more than the degree is experience 9 times out of 10. Not to everyone but to almost everyone.
I create some software.
My company collapses thus the software is no longer sold or supported.
1 year later I create a new company and I want to sell my software again.
Zombie bots generally don't know the difference between dialup and broadband.
Perhaps you don't "have" any spyware or viruses is because your line is too slow to update your scanners?
Seriously, install a squid proxy so you can download the patches on one machine and all the other machines can just use the cache.
I bet if you let it go overnight it would be done in the morning.
Seems to me this would turn into a situation where the phone gets wet or moist and then suddenly you've got a flower growing out of the phone you're trying to use causing you to disgard it early or at least the case.
"What if a user has an open file, and yanks the drive? How does Windows "gracefully" deal with that? Answer: it can't."
Last time I checked it asks me where I want to save the file. At that point I can save it on the local drive, a network share or any other form of writable media including plugging back in the drive that was pulled.
r...
I'm an average consumer and I can tell that DVD quality while better than VHS is not as good as I would like it.
A lot of "average consumers" I know, know more about the upcoming standards than I do and they don't read slashdot. haha.
I'm waiting to invest in any sort of widescreen/hd television until some form of video uses it to it's full potential.
Being that some of epson's latest printers don't smear and you can literally run them under water immediately after printing. I bet if there is an identifier on the page it stays put for the long haul.
I haven't read the article yet (-1 Karma) but I have read most of the comments below (-2 Karma) and I think everyone is missing the point.
The idea is to give the consumer choice. If the customer wants to be notified of updates, notify them. If the customer wants the updates automagically installed, install them. If the customer wants no notification and will manually install updates, let them do that.
Windows installer is not beautiful but it works well for the average user. You can pop a CD in and the autorun installer pops up and most users and capable of hitting next several times and then finish with icons in their menus.
I haven't yet seen this process in any form of linux. Granted I really only use debian and knoppix. Have any distros really perfected this process?
If you're not an artist you're not an artist and you aren't going to crank out beautiful work regardless of how well you learn any software package.
Here are my tips...
1. Keep designs simple.
2. Keep designs consistent.
3. Don't mix serif and sans-serif fonts. (Debian.org is a great example of what not to do... All the titles are sans-serif and all the text is serif. Download a copy of the page and edit the CSS file to use Verdana for the body text and look at how much better it makes it look.)
4. Don't do things for the sake of doing them, make sure any layout decisions have some reason behind them.
5. Find an artist and barter services if you can't afford to hire them.
I don't know if it's any indicator, but Intel and AMD are within $3 USD of each other.
I bought AMD long long ago and they split. I'm really glad I went that route!
I don't know how old legos are but they are classics to me.
Most of us dumped a bazillion dollars into nes games back then. Did you happen to own all the games that were on that device?
What about those of us that do want other features?
Up until SP2 we had to install pop up blockers for IE.
In firefox I LOVE my tabs and I also love the free gestures plugin. Gestures were the one of the big things that made me like opera. Now firefox has them. IE doesn't as far as I'm aware.
As a developer IE is simply broken when it comes to supporting intricate details of some of the standards that have been around. Search google for IE box model bug.
Well maybe not all of them, but most of them right?
1. Create Gmail
2. Allow POP3
3. Sell all of your email content to those that want to know what you're up to.
4. PROFIT!
Towards the end of installation it crashed and now when I launch firefox I get:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Line Number 910, Column 33:
chromedir="&locale.dir;">
I used the internal auto update feature. I guess I'll uninstall and reinstall.
My bad! Didn't realize you were a lawyer. :)
They seemed pretty organized to me. It wasn't like we were fighting all Afghan's. We even had the assistance of some Afghans.
I'm not saying you're right or wrong, just that I don't think it's as simple as that.
According to Article 4, Section A of the POW Convention, you must satisfy the following criteria to be considered an enemy combatant subject to the rules governing prisoners of war:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
1. That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
2. That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
3. That of carrying arms openly;
4. That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
I'm not saying it's unamerican to disagree with government policies but Kyoto specifically would *screw* us beyond all recognition. So many people are making a big deal out of nothing. I would think Slashdot of all places would see how bad Kyoto would mess us up.
Instead of the freaking X-prize, why don't we setup prizes that combat some of the problems Kyoto attempts to solve?
I'd really like you to back that statement up.
If you like the Kyoto so much, why don't you move to a country that supports it?
Is there a solution to stopping this madness?
Someone is going to patent the process of eating food with one's mouth and then we're all screwed.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=128204&cid=107 08775
Is this the one you're referring to? There's not a single detail there.