That's just stupid, besides the asshole has done quite a lot of good things, harmed nobody and while he indeed has many opinions that I consider too strong/extreme the basics of his thoughts have value which can be seen in success of FOSS for example.
I have no idea what is it written as in Finnish law, let alone the translation to english...
Starwreck was made in Finland. Many know that in making the film they had to consult US lawyers about "Fair Use", but they also had to take same precautions in Finland too.
You are wrong, we are very different (I'm talking about EU, I suppose you were too) from your system, maybe you should dig harder into EU System. From our country, Finland, to EU contries other to other countries outside accept that EU countries are EU *countries* and the claim of EU being country, like yours would not be taken seriously by many.
It would be nice to know WHAT part of Europe you are referring to.
Is he from Germany? And all these claims absolutely true, both of those things are banned totally and no matter of how it's done. Anyway, you talk about Europe (EU? All countries in europa?...) either "in general" or you talk about the countries separately, aye?
I live in Finland and no such restrictions are in place - still, imagining a situation that I'd have to, with no other way, select to move either in USA or in Germany... Well, I wouldn't have to even think, obviously Germany.
No I don't know about sanity (some about lack of it I do know) of US patent law, but in "laws are sane" world where (US or outside) the prior art can be found should not matter - Finland has had dozens already way before FaceBook and I suspect most western countries have as well, and plenty of eastern too have had them before also - and I'd be willing to bet that such have been around in USA also for long time...
Yup, no more Gorillas - or nibbles modified to make the worm insanely long for laughs after smoking some.... Though I dont run Windows myself anyway and if I wanted I could copy QBasic files from old MS DOS disks I still have into virtual C:\ directory for dosbox:)
Different program... but same purpose. I would guess that the "write.exe proxy to wordpad" is for compatibility as I remember some Win3.x programs launching write to show documentation... Just a guess though but I dont know any other reasonable explanation.
I thought that Write was a rewritten as Wordpad, much like Paintbrush was replaced by Paint in Win 95. Yes, I know that Win 1.x came with Paint but 3.0 that we had in early 90's came with Paintbrush windows version - I hated Win95's Paint because it was literally worth nothing while Paintbrush you could actually use for some simple stuff (I even copied it from our old 286 with DOS 5.0 + Win 3.0 to Win95). I recall that Wordpad also lacked some functionality Write had provided.
Gnome seems to also have calculator wth basic, advanced, scientifical, financial and programming modes - have not tried them though, I like bc on command line...
The fact that with those early machines they were able to squeeze so much into an OS that was that primitive, no memory protection and everything having bare metal access, was a miracle.
I would not say so, there were others doing better already then - not everyone of them on PC hardware though but equivalent.
I have both and no Opera (actually I have Swiftfox *and* Iceweasel but no Firefox to be exact). I also have IE's 5, 5.5, 6 & 7, Galeon, Epiphany, Konqueror, w3, w3m, links2, elinks and some others on my Debian - nothing weird in this although most I use only for testing.
The only way to do so will involve miles of red tape to procure rights of way, etc, and leaving your wifi open is already illegal in some places.
Sick, but not surprising... Meanwhile here in Finland, where some things still make sense a law was written that it is legal to use any open wifi you find without separate permission.
Why would you ever choose an inferior technology like rar?
Citation needed. Google searches seem to conclude that RARv3 is bested only by 7-zip and then only enough to make the difference completely irrelevant in the real world.
Not sure if it's RARv3 that I've tested against tar+gzip/bzip2 but I remember that at least bzip2 compression won rar when I last have tried it...
Even that would not bother me if they would also leak the information to the public un-delayed - if they would sell and delay leaking for a day or two so the buyer could get into news with it before them it would start to bother me a bit but still only so slightly... but once started such policy might well escalate further.
I could agree with everything else but am not financially conservative, which alone would not be a problem for me but I do dislike people who "dislike welfare spending". Well, coming from a country with proper health care system this is not an issue for me personally (yet anyway, what I'm afraid of is the increasing aping of america as companies sell themselves and people with american business morals lobby their ways) and I feel sad for america and good about my country when it comes to health care - what you call werfare spending is what I have grown to consider the right way - but for many americans our way are alien, free health care, free education system, etc. seem to make many americans mumble about communism:D
Naturally, I don't cherish an absurd thought that I am the enbodiment of rationalism and but I have to trust my rationality and believe that anyone thought rationally about the role of government would of course agree - but if I were fundamentally certain of that then I would not be a person who is willing to listen other peoples arguments and sometimes end up changing his views (as an example I used to be a communist but nowdays would call myself left-wing democrat - though many americans would call what that means in Finland probably as "far-lef communists, lol. It amuses me how ignorant one has to be to actually know that little about communism and have such strong beliefs about it - of course strong beliefs are often accompanied by little actual knowledge).
Perhaps C/C++ is "laughable at security" because as far as languages and security go security is not an issue of low level languages to deal with - unless a low level language (or rather a compiler in this case) has bugs that cause it to compile code that does not do what the language is documented to do with the piece of code in question the language/compiler is secure.
Even with high level languages the security is lesser issue and while I can agree that some languages have implemented things in ways that need extra care to make sure that your code is secure (ie. PHP which has no modules but just files to include in same namespace versus Perl which has modules with their own namespace) the security issue is mostly an issue for coders, not for the language to take care of. However with these languages you would have some kind of point (I have myself criticized PHP for many things when compared to Perl and in fact one is of security, ie. when I install plugins for wordpress I can't be sure that some of them wont overlap different variables, function names, etc. in same namespace while if it were written in perl this would me way smaller issue if done properly, that is plugins would be implemented as modules with each of them in their own namespace).
However this security claim is PURE NONSENSE when talking about low level languages - you could just as well criticize GNU Assembler for being insecure "language" (yes, assembler is not a language which is why I put it in quotes, replace with machine code of your preference if it bothers).
Well, since pip seems to be meant for installing *python* packages I will assume that it's to python something alike CPAN is to Perl - and I doubt that any linux repository out there will provide access to all that is available on CPAN... I would assume that, provided that I'm correct about pip, that it too will provide for python a wider set of packages than existing repositories (even though CPAN is simply humongous archive and PyPI likely much smaller) - and does that distro or even OS independently.
Oh dear god, how stupid is man I can never understand?...and by "man" I do not speak of individual(s) but of mankind...
Pardon me, I is not very familiar with american TV history, but do you actually mean that these series were completely lost!? Sounds just so amazingly incredibly stoopid...
IP, as in software patents, did not give birth to software innovations either, the industry did fine before software patents were used (and still does, I believe that in most countries software patents are in fact *not* used - that's still the way at least here in Finland [and I fear the day when our legislators will accept SW patents *shudder*]).
Which religion(s) use this type of description? I have to admit that I know quite little about many religions but this description does not feel familiar to me, not from any religion anyway - and while I am probably mistaken on some religions I very much doubt that it is so with all...
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Except we're clearly from this planet.
Not according to Hitchickers Guide To The Galaxy.
That's just stupid, besides the asshole has done quite a lot of good things, harmed nobody and while he indeed has many opinions that I consider too strong/extreme the basics of his thoughts have value which can be seen in success of FOSS for example.
I have no idea what is it written as in Finnish law, let alone the translation to english...
Starwreck was made in Finland. Many know that in making the film they had to consult US lawyers about "Fair Use", but they also had to take same precautions in Finland too.
First, $Europe NOT "EU".
You are wrong, we are very different (I'm talking about EU, I suppose you were too) from your system, maybe you should dig harder into EU System. From our country, Finland, to EU contries other to other countries outside accept that EU countries are EU *countries* and the claim of EU being country, like yours would not be taken seriously by many.
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Is he from Germany? And all these claims absolutely true, both of those things are banned totally and no matter of how it's done. Anyway, you talk about Europe (EU? All countries in europa?...) either "in general" or you talk about the countries separately, aye?
I live in Finland and no such restrictions are in place - still, imagining a situation that I'd have to, with no other way, select to move either in USA or in Germany... Well, I wouldn't have to even think, obviously Germany.
No I don't know about sanity (some about lack of it I do know) of US patent law, but in "laws are sane" world where (US or outside) the prior art can be found should not matter - Finland has had dozens already way before FaceBook and I suspect most western countries have as well, and plenty of eastern too have had them before also - and I'd be willing to bet that such have been around in USA also for long time...
Too bad QBasic is no longer there.
Yup, no more Gorillas - or nibbles modified to make the worm insanely long for laughs after smoking some.... Though I dont run Windows myself anyway and if I wanted I could copy QBasic files from old MS DOS disks I still have into virtual C:\ directory for dosbox :)
Different program... but same purpose. I would guess that the "write.exe proxy to wordpad" is for compatibility as I remember some Win3.x programs launching write to show documentation... Just a guess though but I dont know any other reasonable explanation.
I thought that Write was a rewritten as Wordpad, much like Paintbrush was replaced by Paint in Win 95. Yes, I know that Win 1.x came with Paint but 3.0 that we had in early 90's came with Paintbrush windows version - I hated Win95's Paint because it was literally worth nothing while Paintbrush you could actually use for some simple stuff (I even copied it from our old 286 with DOS 5.0 + Win 3.0 to Win95). I recall that Wordpad also lacked some functionality Write had provided.
Gnome seems to also have calculator wth basic, advanced, scientifical, financial and programming modes - have not tried them though, I like bc on command line...
The fact that with those early machines they were able to squeeze so much into an OS that was that primitive, no memory protection and everything having bare metal access, was a miracle.
I would not say so, there were others doing better already then - not everyone of them on PC hardware though but equivalent.
I have both and no Opera (actually I have Swiftfox *and* Iceweasel but no Firefox to be exact). I also have IE's 5, 5.5, 6 & 7, Galeon, Epiphany, Konqueror, w3, w3m, links2, elinks and some others on my Debian - nothing weird in this although most I use only for testing.
The only way to do so will involve miles of red tape to procure rights of way, etc, and leaving your wifi open is already illegal in some places.
Sick, but not surprising... Meanwhile here in Finland, where some things still make sense a law was written that it is legal to use any open wifi you find without separate permission.
Why would you ever choose an inferior technology like rar?
Citation needed. Google searches seem to conclude that RARv3 is bested only by 7-zip and then only enough to make the difference completely irrelevant in the real world.
Not sure if it's RARv3 that I've tested against tar+gzip/bzip2 but I remember that at least bzip2 compression won rar when I last have tried it...
Even that would not bother me if they would also leak the information to the public un-delayed - if they would sell and delay leaking for a day or two so the buyer could get into news with it before them it would start to bother me a bit but still only so slightly... but once started such policy might well escalate further.
There is HDMI *and* composite for video so HDMI capable monitor or TV not required.
I could agree with everything else but am not financially conservative, which alone would not be a problem for me but I do dislike people who "dislike welfare spending". Well, coming from a country with proper health care system this is not an issue for me personally (yet anyway, what I'm afraid of is the increasing aping of america as companies sell themselves and people with american business morals lobby their ways) and I feel sad for america and good about my country when it comes to health care - what you call werfare spending is what I have grown to consider the right way - but for many americans our way are alien, free health care, free education system, etc. seem to make many americans mumble about communism :D
Naturally, I don't cherish an absurd thought that I am the enbodiment of rationalism and but I have to trust my rationality and believe that anyone thought rationally about the role of government would of course agree - but if I were fundamentally certain of that then I would not be a person who is willing to listen other peoples arguments and sometimes end up changing his views (as an example I used to be a communist but nowdays would call myself left-wing democrat - though many americans would call what that means in Finland probably as "far-lef communists, lol. It amuses me how ignorant one has to be to actually know that little about communism and have such strong beliefs about it - of course strong beliefs are often accompanied by little actual knowledge).
Perhaps C/C++ is "laughable at security" because as far as languages and security go security is not an issue of low level languages to deal with - unless a low level language (or rather a compiler in this case) has bugs that cause it to compile code that does not do what the language is documented to do with the piece of code in question the language/compiler is secure. Even with high level languages the security is lesser issue and while I can agree that some languages have implemented things in ways that need extra care to make sure that your code is secure (ie. PHP which has no modules but just files to include in same namespace versus Perl which has modules with their own namespace) the security issue is mostly an issue for coders, not for the language to take care of. However with these languages you would have some kind of point (I have myself criticized PHP for many things when compared to Perl and in fact one is of security, ie. when I install plugins for wordpress I can't be sure that some of them wont overlap different variables, function names, etc. in same namespace while if it were written in perl this would me way smaller issue if done properly, that is plugins would be implemented as modules with each of them in their own namespace). However this security claim is PURE NONSENSE when talking about low level languages - you could just as well criticize GNU Assembler for being insecure "language" (yes, assembler is not a language which is why I put it in quotes, replace with machine code of your preference if it bothers).
Well, since pip seems to be meant for installing *python* packages I will assume that it's to python something alike CPAN is to Perl - and I doubt that any linux repository out there will provide access to all that is available on CPAN... I would assume that, provided that I'm correct about pip, that it too will provide for python a wider set of packages than existing repositories (even though CPAN is simply humongous archive and PyPI likely much smaller) - and does that distro or even OS independently.
Oh dear god, how stupid is man I can never understand? ...and by "man" I do not speak of individual(s) but of mankind...
Pardon me, I is not very familiar with american TV history, but do you actually mean that these series were completely lost!? Sounds just so amazingly incredibly stoopid...
IP, as in software patents, did not give birth to software innovations either, the industry did fine before software patents were used (and still does, I believe that in most countries software patents are in fact *not* used - that's still the way at least here in Finland [and I fear the day when our legislators will accept SW patents *shudder*]).
And neither does owning a cell phone mean that you have to carry it with you all the times.
I can respect that!
Well, then they may fsck off as far as I'm concerned...
Which religion(s) use this type of description? I have to admit that I know quite little about many religions but this description does not feel familiar to me, not from any religion anyway - and while I am probably mistaken on some religions I very much doubt that it is so with all...