However, it costs money to produce software, if only to feed the authors, and GPL explicitly denies the software itself as a source of revenue.
Twice wrong. Most obviously, the GPL does not prevent you from selling the software. It prevents you from charging anybody else for the right to sell the software. This distinction is crucial; the fact that you cannot seem to grasp it alone proves that you are not fit to discuss the subject. Read the actual GPL, then come back.
This bit, however, betrays your cluelessness even more:
it costs money to produce software
No. Producing software costs time. You will find out, once you have escaped immaturity, that time is far, far more valuable than money.
This bug is also in Navigator 4.x - the earliest version I noticed it in was 4.04, I think. There appears to be no workaround except flushing the disk cache. Swearing a lot is also recommended.
If you're on Windows, there's also Utumno, an isometric roguelike based on Angband. Unfortunately, the project has been dead for exactly three years today (how's that for coincidence?); fortunately, the source appears to be available and it's looking for a new maintainer...
Lessee, when did I lose my respect for Be, Inc. ? It must have been right when I read this:
Why shouldn't I use open source software for my appliance project?
If time to market is a critical consideration for an Internet appliance project, BeIA makes far more sense than using open source software. Also note that open source licensing conditions often require the release of improvements to the community as a whole-in other words, to one's competitors.
Yep, that was pretty much it.
BeOS is a pretty sleek, well-executed OS. It got everything right that could be gotten right. Be, Inc is MSFT without the market cap.
Have one machine that connects to RHN. Roll out the updates to the other 49 machines from the first one. Costs only 20 bucks and is a lot faster than having each machine suck from RHN individually
My knowledge of print media is slight, but: AFAIK, reporters have to earn some in-house cred before they even rate a byline. And web/new-media related reporting is very much the domain of cub reporters. (Interestingly enough, the local newspaper's Web News section reads like Slashdot with a six-hour delay.)
Actually, I think the RIAA is fighting Napster purely as a gut-level reaction - the equation of "X downloads == X lost sales" is just so seductively intuitive that they probably didn't do a lot of research and charged right in. However, if it could be shown that Napster increased sales, then the component companies of the RIAA might be open to lawsuits by their stockholders on grounds of fiduciary responsibility.
Perhaps it's time for the EFF to buy Disney stocks...
But still not bulletproof: A proper haiku must incorporate some kind of seasonal reference.
(Of course it would be ludicrous for Valenti to try and have fair use protection thrown out for this reason. But no more ludicrous than calling DeCSS a piracy tool in the first place.)
Erm. Have you actually played the Avalon Hill games? They have almost nothing in common with the Microprose Civs. Microprose bought the franchise, but that is where the similarity ends. Compare the Advanced Civilization Demo to the Microprose versions. It's almost like saying Diablo is based on Talisman.
Meatspace auction houses have been publishing catalogues with small pictures of their stock for decades now - possibly since Daguerre invented the photograph. But hey, this involves computers, so it automagically becomes a brilliant innovation. Excellent.
The first link you post is about a proposed Planet X that lies 30,000 AU from the Sun (Pluto's at about 40 AU). That puts it well outside the Solar System.
I may be missing something painfully obvious here (and not for the first time either), but if this Planet X orbits the sun as the BBC article behind the first link says, wouldn't that make it make it part of the Solar System?
I love bizarre laws like this. Such as that in The Isle of Man, if you find a Scotsman on your land on a Sunday, it's legal to shoot him. I won't be going there!
Actually (at least this is how I heard it) you're allowed to shoot them through the heart with a bow and arrow. Use a gun or miss by a couple of inches and you're fucked.
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Congratulations, dude.
Twice wrong. Most obviously, the GPL does not prevent you from selling the software. It prevents you from charging anybody else for the right to sell the software. This distinction is crucial; the fact that you cannot seem to grasp it alone proves that you are not fit to discuss the subject. Read the actual GPL, then come back.
This bit, however, betrays your cluelessness even more:
No. Producing software costs time. You will find out, once you have escaped immaturity, that time is far, far more valuable than money.
This bug is also in Navigator 4.x - the earliest version I noticed it in was 4.04, I think. There appears to be no workaround except flushing the disk cache. Swearing a lot is also recommended.
The Indians demand royalties on every chess set ever sold!
If you're on Windows, there's also Utumno, an isometric roguelike based on Angband. Unfortunately, the project has been dead for exactly three years today (how's that for coincidence?); fortunately, the source appears to be available and it's looking for a new maintainer ...
Lessee, when did I lose my respect for Be, Inc. ? It must have been right when I read this:
Yep, that was pretty much it.
BeOS is a pretty sleek, well-executed OS. It got everything right that could be gotten right. Be, Inc is MSFT without the market cap.
Well put, man.
Much as it pains me to admit this, I may have vectored an urban legend. Shame on me for not doing my research.
Good point, but just a minor nitpick: IIRC it costs slightly more than a dollar to produce a $1 note. That's why you'll never see a forged one.
Have one machine that connects to RHN. Roll out the updates to the other 49 machines from the first one. Costs only 20 bucks and is a lot faster than having each machine suck from RHN individually
Not so, my friend. The main office of the UKPO is in Newport, Gwent (South Wales). There is, however, a London branch office.
Ah, but if it's your own code that you want to render nonfree, you can always grant yourself an exemption, GPL or no. This is what CDDB did, IIRC.
My knowledge of print media is slight, but: AFAIK, reporters have to earn some in-house cred before they even rate a byline. And web/new-media related reporting is very much the domain of cub reporters. (Interestingly enough, the local newspaper's Web News section reads like Slashdot with a six-hour delay.)
Actually, I think the RIAA is fighting Napster purely as a gut-level reaction - the equation of "X downloads == X lost sales" is just so seductively intuitive that they probably didn't do a lot of research and charged right in. However, if it could be shown that Napster increased sales, then the component companies of the RIAA might be open to lawsuits by their stockholders on grounds of fiduciary responsibility.
Perhaps it's time for the EFF to buy Disney stocks...
You're right, I was thinking of free speech, but lack of coffee scrambled my brain. Erk.
But still not bulletproof: A proper haiku must incorporate some kind of seasonal reference.
(Of course it would be ludicrous for Valenti to try and have fair use protection thrown out for this reason. But no more ludicrous than calling DeCSS a piracy tool in the first place.)
QA Confidential has to be one of the greatest things I've ever read, on the web or off.
There's also some pretty funky stuff on Weird Ass Comics.
HTH.
I may be missing something painfully obvious here (and not for the first time either), but if this Planet X orbits the sun as the BBC article behind the first link says, wouldn't that make it make it part of the Solar System?
The theater you "usually go to" lists all of its shows as digital. Duh.
Actually (at least this is how I heard it) you're allowed to shoot them through the heart with a bow and arrow. Use a gun or miss by a couple of inches and you're fucked.