Few other competitors to Microsoft have anything like as god as 25% market penetration. It's still competition. Netscape is in a very good position to gain ground if MS rest on their laurels.
Unless gimp is very clever about it, jpegs are still slightly lossy at zero compression due to the conversion between RGB and YUV, and general quantisation losses.
Dammit, I was going to write the same thing only less eloquently and then the phone rang
This is quite correct. Its an argument for open source, rather than free software.
The problem is Free software is being shoehorned into an environment where people are used to proprietry software needing an the vendors to correct bugs. The culture of software distribution means it doesn't occur to them to fix it themselves.
Well, of course thats selling, I think the point was that if One of the authors of Gimp decided that he wanted to sell it, he wouldn't be able to sell a single copy. If he decided to sell a brand new improved version and decided to charge $10 for it, he would only sell any copies until it made it to a distro. RedHat could then sell lots of copies without Gimpguy making any money.
The only way to prove the point is to get the site banned. The blithering idiot had to remove it to make the point. We shouldn't complain too much. In fact we should be thankful.
But Civil disobedience is traditionally just a way to get media attention. This didn't work. The first email was dated 17th May. The Slashdot story took 3 days to appear. The only people who are going to be interested are those who are already interested.
I suppose I can't comment on UK free speech laws, but in the US, parodies are protected
According to a friend of mine who studied law, legal precedent is a lot more protective of parody in the UK than the US. Anything that had to be copied to make the joke is protected.
Most fighters are designed to be unstable. It makes them more manouverable. typically they have wings pointing down towards the wingtips to allow faster banking. Computer assistance allows them to fly in a straight line when the pilot wants to.
I don't think it would be hard to sell open source software. If its on a CD (or any physical medium) then copyright laws are the same for source as they are for any other data. You can't use it without permission with a few exceptions regarding fair use. It would be helpful to have a document explaining this, and actively encouraging users to write patches.
To rehash an old argument... Cars let you access the engine. Nobody would even consider stopping you from making modifications apart from for safety reasons.
If source code was always included, I would be a lot more open minded about software patents as well.
Clerk: How good is your monitor at 640x480? Woman: Nobody uses that surely! Its too blocky. Clerk: DVD's do. Your TV is designed to soften low resolution natural images Woman: Um.... Clerk: Where do you keep your computer? Woman: In our study Clerk: Where do you keep the comfy sofas? Woman: In the living room Clerk: So are you going to move your computer to the living room? Woman: Um... no
I've heard that fighter aircraft have inherently unreliable software with a very low restart time. Next to the trigger there's a hardware reset button. Typically the software will go down 2 or 3 times in a flight.
Simple. Buy the CD. It then costs money, but not as much as another system.
Make up something about the firewall boxes being more suitable for small businesses with no permanent technical support, (Or if that isn't likely to work, pick a type of company that the one you work for doesn't want to be like).
You might be able to find some statistics that support your choice as well, but only use this approach if they actually ask for figures.
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Few other competitors to Microsoft have anything like as god as 25% market penetration. It's still competition. Netscape is in a very good position to gain ground if MS rest on their laurels.
Unless gimp is very clever about it, jpegs are still slightly lossy at zero compression due to the conversion between RGB and YUV, and general quantisation losses.
There was a fact in there somewhere? Must have missed it.
I mean, what can Mozilla do that IE doesn't do already?
Offer sufficient competition to MS to ensure that they bother to keep improving IE.
Dammit, I was going to write the same thing only less eloquently and then the phone rang
This is quite correct. Its an argument for open source, rather than free software.
The problem is Free software is being shoehorned into an environment where people are used to proprietry software needing an the vendors to correct bugs. The culture of software distribution means it doesn't occur to them to fix it themselves.
Well, of course thats selling, I think the point was that if One of the authors of Gimp decided that he wanted to sell it, he wouldn't be able to sell a single copy. If he decided to sell a brand new improved version and decided to charge $10 for it, he would only sell any copies until it made it to a distro. RedHat could then sell lots of copies without Gimpguy making any money.
This didn't go to court though. The publishers were just being excessively paranoid.
Well, if he's really the average, he would be half one of those and half the other. Assuming we're talking means here rather than modes or medians.
Well, the Criminal Justice Act's item about infering guilt from silence could be considered guilty until proved innocent.
I believe that in a Libel case in the US, its up to the person accused to prove that the allegations are lies, but I could be wrong there.
The only way to prove the point is to get the site banned. The blithering idiot had to remove it to make the point. We shouldn't complain too much. In fact we should be thankful.
But Civil disobedience is traditionally just a way to get media attention. This didn't work. The first email was dated 17th May. The Slashdot story took 3 days to appear. The only people who are going to be interested are those who are already interested.
They are ranked no. 1 in The Times listings of universities for this year, and Oxford are 2nd.
translation: More Times jounrnalists went to Cambridge.
The Cambridge Comp. Sci department is funded by microsoft.
Ummm.......
I got an offer to go there, and not to oxford...
Well they rejected me!
Anything that had to be copied to make the joke is protected.
I mean fair use. Not protected
I suppose I can't comment on UK free speech laws, but in the US, parodies are protected
According to a friend of mine who studied law, legal precedent is a lot more protective of parody in the UK than the US. Anything that had to be copied to make the joke is protected.
If you don't know what you're talking about shut up
Erm. Sorry am I in the worng place?
No, the contract is with the Solarian photographers who spy on us with their cameras. The sun is simply a mass of very powerful camera flashes.
In Finland!? Penguin was a bit lost wasn't it?
If a system was designed so that no process could read its own executable file, would this prevent viruses from working?
Okay, I've got no idea about whether this would break other applications, or whether there wouldbe a way around it. Might work though.
I would debate this point with you. First, can you give me your name, address, email address, and age.
Naturally I'm not going to give you more information than I feel like giving about myself to you because my privacy means something to me.
Most fighters are designed to be unstable. It makes them more manouverable. typically they have wings pointing down towards the wingtips to allow faster banking. Computer assistance allows them to fly in a straight line when the pilot wants to.
I don't think it would be hard to sell open source software. If its on a CD (or any physical medium) then copyright laws are the same for source as they are for any other data. You can't use it without permission with a few exceptions regarding fair use. It would be helpful to have a document explaining this, and actively encouraging users to write patches.
To rehash an old argument... Cars let you access the engine. Nobody would even consider stopping you from making modifications apart from for safety reasons.
If source code was always included, I would be a lot more open minded about software patents as well.
Clerk: How good is your monitor at 640x480?
Woman: Nobody uses that surely! Its too blocky.
Clerk: DVD's do. Your TV is designed to soften low resolution natural images
Woman: Um....
Clerk: Where do you keep your computer?
Woman: In our study
Clerk: Where do you keep the comfy sofas?
Woman: In the living room
Clerk: So are you going to move your computer to the living room?
Woman: Um... no
I've heard that fighter aircraft have inherently unreliable software with a very low restart time. Next to the trigger there's a hardware reset button. Typically the software will go down 2 or 3 times in a flight.
And you though Windows was bad.
This is essentially it. A couple of words were changed to be appropriate to the Union Society. I couldn't find an actual transcript elsewhere.
Simple. Buy the CD. It then costs money, but not as much as another system.
Make up something about the firewall boxes being more suitable for small businesses with no permanent technical support, (Or if that isn't likely to work, pick a type of company that the one you work for doesn't want to be like).
You might be able to find some statistics that support your choice as well, but only use this approach if they actually ask for figures.
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