I really don't care about carrying around any personl data or very much anything else other than my life.
In reality you're perfectly right, however, you can pretty much count on the fact that when you get to wherever you're going there's going to some officious asshole sitting at a Rubbermaid(tm)folding table who won't give you the tunafish sandwhich you need to maintain your life unless you can produce your papers and you are yourself fulling willing to be a prick about asserting your rights as a citizen.
and a mea culpa. A combination of a brain fart and a database fart has somehow resulted in three drafts actually getting posted, all of which are at least mildly embaressing, and are hugely embaressing en toto, and I'm not particularyly easy to embaress. Where's an edit function when you really need one?
I think I'll go watch the Packer's game, have a glass of wine and play some fiddle.
Maybe I'll be willing to show my "face" again in a week or two as well.
. ..how many of us would be able to earn a living without them?
All of you? Although some of you might have to turn to something known as "work." This may be hard to believe but there are many ways to earn a living other than writing code.
Remember, jobs are not there as a means for you to fulfill your fantasys. They are there because someone else finds you useful in acheiving their ends.
. ..a free interface while keeping their proprietary software on the back end.
. ..how many of us would be able to earn a living without them?
Pretty much all of you. This may come as a shock, but the majority of people in the world manage to get by without ever writing a single line of code.
This may also come as a shock to you, but the world doesn't give a flying you know what about what you wish to be paid to do. In fact, it works the other way around, you either have to take care of yourself or be willing to do whatever other people are willing to pay you for.
I do not owe you a living. I have a hard enough time scraping up my own.
If the price is right this could be a 'killer app,' allowing companies to hire one Super Redundant Engineer to replace that 90% of their current engineering staff who are redundant already.
Jeezum Crow! Took long enough for someone to show up with that question. I expected you ages ago.
By being large enough to notice the medium. Everything is relative, including a medium. They also don't work like a boat's sails, as there is no medium for a keel to work against. They can only run before the wind, until it becomes rare enough that they can no longer notice it.
then why do planets orbit the sun?
You needed to think about that one a bit harder before posing the question. They orbit the sun because space is not a gravity free zone, otherwise instead of following a ballistic path around the sun their inertial motion would carry them in a straight line.
The Sun's gravity accelerates them toward the Sun.
Why would you need a ship with airlift (i.e. wing) if there was no gravity?
Good question.
Now coming back is where some preparation is required.
Good answer. Think about the forces on an airplane when it executes a turn. Some of the "lift" is being directed tangent to the ground. See my comment about penguins above. Think about what that could mean to submersible vehicles.
Space travel is not flight. The term is a misnomer born of inapplicable earth based intuitive concepts. Space is not, despite dictionary.com, a medium. The space shuttle only flies when it lands. In space it simply falls and has some inertial motion.
Going to Mars, or Pluto, is no different and unless you burn three axis thrusters the whole way the path taken is ballistic, because. ..space is not a gravity free zone.
The medium the thrusters work against are the spacecraft itself, not a medium the spacecraft is moving through.
As an aside, penguins are not flightless, they simply require a denser medium than air in which to fly.
No gravity, no air. No air, no airplanes, no airships. I don't think we'll be free of gravity for awhile. Ironically it is gravity that makes flight possible.
Too many "libertarians" are woefully ignorant of libertarianism and socialism mean.
Yeah, but that doesn't get me half as much as "conservatives" who don't know what they mean. Come to think of it, they're a bit shakey on "conservative" as well.
Great game, but AOE gets me where my ancient history geek lives.
KFG
Re:how many people actually _like_ windows?
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I use Windows as a gaming platform as well, especially since I game on rather "dated" hardware by ummmm... "industry standards"
My "hot" system is an Athlon 900 with a V5 video card. It suffices and it's paid for. My "low end" system is a Tandy Color Micro. I still use it as a Breakout console, just for shits and giggles. In the middle I've got a couple of 486s and older Macs for specialized tasks. It really doesn't require a lot of computer to run vi at the console.
. ..most of my games are run with a batch file that does/taskill on a number of processes. ..
I get lazy on Windows and just use EndItAll v.1
I know you personally have an issue with subscription games. ..
Well, I don't see myself subscribing to one, but I don't really have an issue with subscription games, per se. Rather with the forced use of company servers when this has nothing to do with the playability of the game, whether for subscription or not. However, if a company is going to adopt the razor business model I do think they should be as free with the "razors" as the razor people are. I just got a lovely Quad, unsolicted, in the mail (not that I'm ever actually going to buy blades for it). I've recieved my share of AOL disks too (not that I'd ever subscribe). That's the way Evercrack disks should arrive. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay full retail for a razor and buy overpriced blades to "make up the loss" as well.
Still bad analogy. A publisher in either field publishes a completed work. With literature, the publisher is simply providing a service to the author.
Some software and some literature is written as a work for hire by the publisher (Dummies books, for example, or newspaper stories). Some software publication is done as a service to that author.
To make the analogy the liable party has to be the one that submits the product to the publisher.
In other words, authors held liable. The contract between a publisher and an author is not analogy. It is presented as an example, an effect of authors having liability and he is arguing that the two situations should share identity.
Even in software this entity is liable.
The entire raison d'etre of the article is that authors attempt to indemnify themselves with their licenses.
I bet his wife gives away her books for free, too.
Giving a book away for free does not indemnify the author of accountability for its content. Were I to claim you like whipped cream and underage barnyard animals in an unnatural manner that might well be actionalbe as libel (assuming the claim were false), depsite this post being distributed freely.
Nothing is ever our fault, we muyst always find someone else to hold responsible for problems that we should be tough enough and capable enough to not get into or to solve ourselves.
Yeah. Those goddam irresponsible Pinto drivers are really to blame. They should have know those cars were particularly libel to blow up.
BSOD's are not like coffee being hot or Jarts being pointy. Heat and pointyness are not flaws in their design and construction and injuries resulting from them are based on carelessness, events the user could have avoided while still taking full advantage of coffee and Jarts.
BSODs happen because someone else was careless, nor is there anything the user can do about them and they prevent the user from taking full advantage of the system.
"Yes, ladies and gentlmen of the jury, my client mugged Mr. Smith, but Mr. Smith was fully aware of the risks he was taking when he left his house. Mr. Smith is only a "victim" because he was not tough enough to resist my client. He should take responsibility for his own actions."
Well, then it's a damned good thing he didn't use that analogy, isn't it.
In fact, he didn't use an analogy at all, since author is to author isn't an analogy. He merely brought up the indemnification of the publisher to illustrate that in fields other than software authors can be held accountable for what they write and publishers do not wish to be the "deep pockets" target of the accountability.
And software has publishers too.
KFG
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I tinker with Windows because I'm always fascinated about learing other things. I also use it as a gaming platform because "my" games do not run properly under WINE (AOE, for instance, actually detects WINE use and sends you a nastygram about trying to run a decompiler on it. Interesting, no?).
However, just because I use Windows for an application doesn't mean I like it, which is the point of the article, that Windows users don't like it and are extremely discontent.
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I really don't care about carrying around any personl data or very much anything else other than my life.
In reality you're perfectly right, however, you can pretty much count on the fact that when you get to wherever you're going there's going to some officious asshole sitting at a Rubbermaid(tm)folding table who won't give you the tunafish sandwhich you need to maintain your life unless you can produce your papers and you are yourself fulling willing to be a prick about asserting your rights as a citizen.
The best prepared endure and survive the best.
KFG
how would you protect the drive itself in case you did have to "swim for it"?
Which you should put in something commonly refered to as a "Baggie."
KFG
and a mea culpa. A combination of a brain fart and a database fart has somehow resulted in three drafts actually getting posted, all of which are at least mildly embaressing, and are hugely embaressing en toto, and I'm not particularyly easy to embaress. Where's an edit function when you really need one?
I think I'll go watch the Packer's game, have a glass of wine and play some fiddle.
Maybe I'll be willing to show my "face" again in a week or two as well.
KFG
. . .how many of us would be able to earn a living without them?
.a free interface while keeping their proprietary software on the back end.
All of you? Although some of you might have to turn to something known as "work." This may be hard to believe but there are many ways to earn a living other than writing code.
Remember, jobs are not there as a means for you to fulfill your fantasys. They are there because someone else finds you useful in acheiving their ends.
. .
Which somebody has to write, no?
KFG
. . .how many of us would be able to earn a living without them?
Most of you. We've invented this stuff called "Work."
KFG
. . .how many of us would be able to earn a living without them?
Pretty much all of you. This may come as a shock, but the majority of people in the world manage to get by without ever writing a single line of code.
This may also come as a shock to you, but the world doesn't give a flying you know what about what you wish to be paid to do. In fact, it works the other way around, you either have to take care of yourself or be willing to do whatever other people are willing to pay you for.
I do not owe you a living. I have a hard enough time scraping up my own.
KFG
As my brother once noted while watching his cat, " Life would be so much simpler if we could be satisfied with a styrofoam peanut."
And much to the dismay of many parents on Christmas morning, very young children often are.
KFG
If the price is right this could be a 'killer app,' allowing companies to hire one Super Redundant Engineer to replace that 90% of their current engineering staff who are redundant already.
KFG
"Many companies even state that it MUST be in word format."
Well I'd tell OO to save it in Word format then, lest I fail to get the job for failing the following simple directions test.
KFG
Then how do solar sails work?
Jeezum Crow! Took long enough for someone to show up with that question. I expected you ages ago.
By being large enough to notice the medium. Everything is relative, including a medium. They also don't work like a boat's sails, as there is no medium for a keel to work against. They can only run before the wind, until it becomes rare enough that they can no longer notice it.
then why do planets orbit the sun?
You needed to think about that one a bit harder before posing the question. They orbit the sun because space is not a gravity free zone, otherwise instead of following a ballistic path around the sun their inertial motion would carry them in a straight line.
The Sun's gravity accelerates them toward the Sun.
KFG
Actually, the first thing I thought when saw I the headline was, "Hey, who's been poking around behind my refridgerator when I wasn't looking?"
But, yeah, now that you mention it, my life pretty much has been a horror sci-fi sort of deal.
KFG
Indeed, I think they should sue the bastard and that the judge should award civil damages totaling the full retail value of every download.
KFG
Why would you need a ship with airlift (i.e. wing) if there was no gravity?
Good question.
Now coming back is where some preparation is required.
Good answer. Think about the forces on an airplane when it executes a turn. Some of the "lift" is being directed tangent to the ground. See my comment about penguins above. Think about what that could mean to submersible vehicles.
KFG
Like space flights?
.space is not a gravity free zone.
Like when you jump off the top of a skyscraper?
Space travel is not flight. The term is a misnomer born of inapplicable earth based intuitive concepts. Space is not, despite dictionary.com, a medium. The space shuttle only flies when it lands. In space it simply falls and has some inertial motion.
Going to Mars, or Pluto, is no different and unless you burn three axis thrusters the whole way the path taken is ballistic, because. .
The medium the thrusters work against are the spacecraft itself, not a medium the spacecraft is moving through.
As an aside, penguins are not flightless, they simply require a denser medium than air in which to fly.
KFG
No gravity, no air. No air, no airplanes, no airships. I don't think we'll be free of gravity for awhile. Ironically it is gravity that makes flight possible.
KFG
Persse O'Reilly has a TV show?
KFG
Too many "libertarians" are woefully ignorant of libertarianism and socialism mean.
Yeah, but that doesn't get me half as much as "conservatives" who don't know what they mean. Come to think of it, they're a bit shakey on "conservative" as well.
KFG
But did you ever play Total Annihilation?
Great game, but AOE gets me where my ancient history geek lives.
KFG
I use Windows as a gaming platform as well, especially since I game on rather "dated" hardware by ummmm... "industry standards"
.most of my games are run with a batch file that does /taskill on a number of processes. . .
.
My "hot" system is an Athlon 900 with a V5 video card. It suffices and it's paid for. My "low end" system is a Tandy Color Micro. I still use it as a Breakout console, just for shits and giggles. In the middle I've got a couple of 486s and older Macs for specialized tasks. It really doesn't require a lot of computer to run vi at the console.
. .
I get lazy on Windows and just use EndItAll v.1
I know you personally have an issue with subscription games. .
Well, I don't see myself subscribing to one, but I don't really have an issue with subscription games, per se. Rather with the forced use of company servers when this has nothing to do with the playability of the game, whether for subscription or not. However, if a company is going to adopt the razor business model I do think they should be as free with the "razors" as the razor people are. I just got a lovely Quad, unsolicted, in the mail (not that I'm ever actually going to buy blades for it). I've recieved my share of AOL disks too (not that I'd ever subscribe). That's the way Evercrack disks should arrive. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay full retail for a razor and buy overpriced blades to "make up the loss" as well.
KFG
Please CTFA.
KFG
Still bad analogy. A publisher in either field publishes a completed work. With literature, the publisher is simply providing a service to the author.
Some software and some literature is written as a work for hire by the publisher (Dummies books, for example, or newspaper stories). Some software publication is done as a service to that author.
To make the analogy the liable party has to be the one that submits the product to the publisher.
In other words, authors held liable. The contract between a publisher and an author is not analogy. It is presented as an example, an effect of authors having liability and he is arguing that the two situations should share identity.
Even in software this entity is liable.
The entire raison d'etre of the article is that authors attempt to indemnify themselves with their licenses.
KFG
Because the article, including the bit about the publishers, is about the relation of authors to lawsuits.
When you understand that you will be able to write your own criticism of your first sentence.
KFG
I bet his wife gives away her books for free, too.
Giving a book away for free does not indemnify the author of accountability for its content. Were I to claim you like whipped cream and underage barnyard animals in an unnatural manner that might well be actionalbe as libel (assuming the claim were false), depsite this post being distributed freely.
Nothing is ever our fault, we muyst always find someone else to hold responsible for problems that we should be tough enough and capable enough to not get into or to solve ourselves.
Yeah. Those goddam irresponsible Pinto drivers are really to blame. They should have know those cars were particularly libel to blow up.
BSOD's are not like coffee being hot or Jarts being pointy. Heat and pointyness are not flaws in their design and construction and injuries resulting from them are based on carelessness, events the user could have avoided while still taking full advantage of coffee and Jarts.
BSODs happen because someone else was careless, nor is there anything the user can do about them and they prevent the user from taking full advantage of the system.
"Yes, ladies and gentlmen of the jury, my client mugged Mr. Smith, but Mr. Smith was fully aware of the risks he was taking when he left his house. Mr.
Smith is only a "victim" because he was not tough enough to resist my client. He should take responsibility for his own actions."
That dog won't hunt.
KFG
Well, then it's a damned good thing he didn't use that analogy, isn't it.
In fact, he didn't use an analogy at all, since author is to author isn't an analogy. He merely brought up the indemnification of the publisher to illustrate that in fields other than software authors can be held accountable for what they write and publishers do not wish to be the "deep pockets" target of the accountability.
And software has publishers too.
KFG
I tinker with Windows because I'm always fascinated about learing other things. I also use it as a gaming platform because "my" games do not run properly under WINE (AOE, for instance, actually detects WINE use and sends you a nastygram about trying to run a decompiler on it. Interesting, no?).
However, just because I use Windows for an application doesn't mean I like it, which is the point of the article, that Windows users don't like it and are extremely discontent.
KFG