Besides, I'm not sure it really counts if you really have bought the damned thing three times already before Men in Black even came out.
(Then there's the fact that we all know it's from Men in Black and his intent wasn't to take credit. Just as I didn't attribute "Voobah,voobah, voobah, ping!" to Bill Cosby. Everyone already knows that. If I tried to take credit I wouldn't be a plagiarist. I'd be a public doofball. Oh, wait. Nevermind)
Well sure, but you're using "hacker" tools and a "hacker" OS. The skills and tools of piratical "hackers" like you don't count.
The fact is that every computer DVD drive has a DVD Consortium mandated flash chip in it that scans for the CSS code, and if it finds it will refuse to copy it, and your so called "dd" tool is obviously an illegal copyright circumvention device (either that or the software you use to play the files has a DeCSS module installed).
It's just a strange delusion of a few of the rich guys who think that little island might be considered the "sole legimate government of all Chinese territories".
The same is true of the government of Beijing, and the government of Washington.
Do you not suppose that certain elements of the American government might get a bit perturbed by a game that lists Hawaii, Texas and the Nez Perce as independant nations, implying a challenge to the legitimacy of America Federal rule in those territories?
Because there is an American Constitution they couldn't do much of anything it but raise a fuss, but raise a fuss they would.
China does not have an American Constitution, so the people who raise a fuss can do something about it.
And for what it's worth, Taiwan isn't all that happy about China being listed as an idependent nation either, since the antagonistic relationship is symetrical, "Taiwan" claiming to be the sole legitimate government of all Chinese territories.
They don't want to be "independent." They want to be China.
AvenueMedia is suing Direct Revenue for removing their software, not for telling users about it first, then doing it.
No, the terms of the EULA are the very core of the defense, since Direct Revenue will claim that the removal was done by the users consent when they clicked "I Agree." In other words, from the legal point of view, that it is the users who have uninstalled the software and not themselves.
It's about the EULA, the whole EULA and nothing but the EULA. Telling people first is a critical legal point.
Not all Africans are Tanzanian or Kenyan either. Swahili is the lingua franca of southern and western Africa and is generally at least understood in northern Africa as well (if only because of it's strong Arabic content). Despite the preponderance of English it is the one language that everyone speaks at least well enough to get by in.
Is it a really, really big deal that OO is now available in Swahili? Well, no, probably not. Most Africans know at least a smattering of English, French or Arabic.
Is it significant?
Why yes, yes it is.
Just like it's significant that it supports Hebrew, even though most Israelis speak English, Russian or Arabic.
A few years back, we thought the desktop PC would die off. ..
Who's we whitey? I've been pointing out all along that that idea is utter nonsense, just as is the idea that portable music players might kill off the home stereo rig.
. ..laptops would become so inexpensive and so powerful that there would be no reason to purchase a desktop.
They way they are used are rather different and each has it's strength's in it's, ummmmmmm, "home" market A laptop with a docking station isn't quite the same beasty as a desktop really, and a desktop isn't very portable.
And if the price of laptops came down dramtically that would be less reason to to ditch the desktop in favor of one, as it becomes far more finanically viable to own one of each instead of having to choose between them.
Just like with stereos and portable music players.
The only evolutionary componant is that men are physically stronger than women and as a result were more able to physically control women.
I was with you right up to here (my mom was once denied a library card because she wasn't married and thus didn't have a man to guaruntee her penny a fucking day library fines).
Physical force only rarely, even in the bad old days, plays a role in the interaction between the sexes, and women are just as likely to apply it as men, to the extent that the shrew weilding a rolling pin is just as much a stereotype as a wifebeater.
My welder wife will also take me 10 out of 10 in arm wrestling and my aunt worked loading dock at the Post Office, one of the most back breaking jobs in existence.
Your statement is sexist. There is too much variation in individuals for it to be true, and thus also quite a bit of variation in the composition of tribal members/partners. There are also any number of examples of matriarchial societies.
It also cuts both ways. It's just as easy to say that men are stronger for the benefit of women as it is the other way around.
"Yo, Harry, go fetch me that mastadon!"
Squish!
"Oh, bummer. Oh, Thoooooooomas!"
Among the higher order animals the men may fight for mates, but it is the rule that women make the choice.
Leading to the inexorable conclusion that women have, over the millenia, bred men to be big, strong, stupid and pliable.
Every plan can backfire now and again. Be careful what you wish for.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have my knitting and spinning (seriously) to get back to. Go catch your own damned mastadon.
Let's weed out the technological throwbacks, alright?
I don't need an Apache attack helicopter to go to the corner store, and you can have my Z80s when you pry them from my cold, dead motherboards.
Sometimes technological "throwbacks" are simply the right tool for the job and commercial availability and/or price is a seperate issue from applicability.
The price of a cpu is often determined by marketing concerns (we want people to buy the latest and greatest stuff, so we keep the price high on the older stuff, because the people who don't need them will then buy the new stuff and the people who need the old stuff will pay the exorbitant price). This has nothing to do with what they could be sold for and still turn a profit on the piece.
All that said, I'm not sure where the PII would fit into that. What we really need are 486 and PII bs. The old chips redsigned with modern manufacturing techniques and improvements. That would be sweet.
It'll also happen when monkeys fly out of my butt. In the meantime, there's always VIA. The Asian manufacturers are going to eat that market alive while Intel focuses on high end flash.
That's because upstate NY does look a lot like Canada.
I went out for a walk a couple of hours ago. It was pretty nice, for December. I just looked out my window and sometime in the interval my world has turned into an arctic wasteland, so you've got a point.:)
However, you may or may not have noticed, upstate NY does not look like USA.
And to the extent that that is true I bless it every day. Hell, in various isolated little nooks and crannies of the Adirondacks we've even got entire villages where people will still pretend they don't understand you if you don't at least try to speak French to them.
I tend to prefer Vermont though, which looks almost, but not entirely, unlike the USA. It's a little bit of alternate universe, and since I can't stop this one and get off it's the best I can do. Bummer that they caved and joined the Union, innit?
And I can get there a bit faster than I can get to Cananda, being a bit south of the lake.
. ..shouldn't you be "The Stars and Stripes province"?
Well, you guys have already conquered the Northway (Ironic, considering that it was built as a conduit for the American invasion of Canada. One favor though, could you, maybe, stop driving 90 in the slow lane, or at least put down your paper and steer with your hands? Thank you), and I admit the scenario does have certain attractions, but I wouldn't bet that that's the way things are going to go.
I don't know how to break this to you, but here in upstate NY we've been calling you "The Maple Leaf State" for decades already.
Wouldn't know what to do without you either, it's handy having the only state with legal Cuban cigars so close by and we're really happy sucking on your hydroelectric tit too.
It's not like you need your own power anyway, you guys are used to being cold and sitting in the dark, right?
While I am far from "above" that ( like word games), in this case, I am most certainly not.
. ..you can only trust individual people.
Oh, you poor, poor bastard. If I catch the obit I'll send flowers.
Well, even as CEO, you then apparently never grasped the concept that the corporation is a legal person separate from its employees.
No, what I grasped was that the corporation's identity as a legal person has certain limits. The designation is real only when interacting with the legal system.
People who take the legal fiction too seriously often end up in jail.
Every person in the corporation is still a person, and the process of making decisions rather resembles a dysfunctional family fighting over who gets to carve the Thanksgiving turkey.
The idea that corporations make "cold" and "calculated" decisions is a lot of hooey, as is the idea that the legal fiction of being a person strictly motivated by profit absolves that fictional person from the ethical and moral consquences of its actions.
Taken literally that would viturally guarantee that corporate acts are evil.
Fortunately there are least seven or eight members of corporations who actually like to sleep nights.
This is an example the Schroedinbug, a bug defined as one that doesn't exist until someone reads the code and proves that it can't run, and then everyone's system crashes, even though they were all running fine until then.
Some programs die, but some programs live, I guess.
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That's why you purchase incense from him, dude.
KFG
Plagiarist!
Hey, you plagiarized that line yourself.
This is lifted from "Men in Black".
Besides, I'm not sure it really counts if you really have bought the damned thing three times already before Men in Black even came out.
(Then there's the fact that we all know it's from Men in Black and his intent wasn't to take credit. Just as I didn't attribute "Voobah,voobah, voobah, ping!" to Bill Cosby. Everyone already knows that. If I tried to take credit I wouldn't be a plagiarist. I'd be a public doofball. Oh, wait. Nevermind)
KFG
Well sure, but you're using "hacker" tools and a "hacker" OS. The skills and tools of piratical "hackers" like you don't count.
The fact is that every computer DVD drive has a DVD Consortium mandated flash chip in it that scans for the CSS code, and if it finds it will refuse to copy it, and your so called "dd" tool is obviously an illegal copyright circumvention device (either that or the software you use to play the files has a DeCSS module installed).
Expect the helicopters shortly.
KFG
Risk is popular here in spite of the fact that everything west of the great plains is a different country.
When the hell did that happen? (For reference, my Risk pieces are made of wood)
KFG
It's just a strange delusion of a few of the rich guys who think that little island might be considered the "sole legimate government of all Chinese territories".
The same is true of the government of Beijing, and the government of Washington.
KFG
Do you not suppose that certain elements of the American government might get a bit perturbed by a game that lists Hawaii, Texas and the Nez Perce as independant nations, implying a challenge to the legitimacy of America Federal rule in those territories?
Because there is an American Constitution they couldn't do much of anything it but raise a fuss, but raise a fuss they would.
China does not have an American Constitution, so the people who raise a fuss can do something about it.
And for what it's worth, Taiwan isn't all that happy about China being listed as an idependent nation either, since the antagonistic relationship is symetrical, "Taiwan" claiming to be the sole legitimate government of all Chinese territories.
They don't want to be "independent." They want to be China.
KFG
AvenueMedia is suing Direct Revenue for removing their software, not for telling users about it first, then doing it.
No, the terms of the EULA are the very core of the defense, since Direct Revenue will claim that the removal was done by the users consent when they clicked "I Agree." In other words, from the legal point of view, that it is the users who have uninstalled the software and not themselves.
It's about the EULA, the whole EULA and nothing but the EULA. Telling people first is a critical legal point.
KFG
All Tanzanians and Kenyans speak English.
Not all Africans are Tanzanian or Kenyan either. Swahili is the lingua franca of southern and western Africa and is generally at least understood in northern Africa as well (if only because of it's strong Arabic content). Despite the preponderance of English it is the one language that everyone speaks at least well enough to get by in.
Is it a really, really big deal that OO is now available in Swahili? Well, no, probably not. Most Africans know at least a smattering of English, French or Arabic.
Is it significant?
Why yes, yes it is.
Just like it's significant that it supports Hebrew, even though most Israelis speak English, Russian or Arabic.
KFG
A few years back, we thought the desktop PC would die off. . .
.laptops would become so inexpensive and so powerful that there would be no reason to purchase a desktop.
Who's we whitey? I've been pointing out all along that that idea is utter nonsense, just as is the idea that portable music players might kill off the home stereo rig.
. .
They way they are used are rather different and each has it's strength's in it's, ummmmmmm, "home" market A laptop with a docking station isn't quite the same beasty as a desktop really, and a desktop isn't very portable.
And if the price of laptops came down dramtically that would be less reason to to ditch the desktop in favor of one, as it becomes far more finanically viable to own one of each instead of having to choose between them.
Just like with stereos and portable music players.
KFG
Hey, I write in Ogham, you insensitive clod. Now IIII I III > off.
Top posting is just wrong.
KFG
Maybe it's too complicated for a grandfather to use?
I'll fucking cope.
KFG
The only evolutionary componant is that men are physically stronger than women and as a result were more able to physically control women.
I was with you right up to here (my mom was once denied a library card because she wasn't married and thus didn't have a man to guaruntee her penny a fucking day library fines).
Physical force only rarely, even in the bad old days, plays a role in the interaction between the sexes, and women are just as likely to apply it as men, to the extent that the shrew weilding a rolling pin is just as much a stereotype as a wifebeater.
My welder wife will also take me 10 out of 10 in arm wrestling and my aunt worked loading dock at the Post Office, one of the most back breaking jobs in existence.
Your statement is sexist. There is too much variation in individuals for it to be true, and thus also quite a bit of variation in the composition of tribal members/partners. There are also any number of examples of matriarchial societies.
It also cuts both ways. It's just as easy to say that men are stronger for the benefit of women as it is the other way around.
"Yo, Harry, go fetch me that mastadon!"
Squish!
"Oh, bummer. Oh, Thoooooooomas!"
Among the higher order animals the men may fight for mates, but it is the rule that women make the choice.
Leading to the inexorable conclusion that women have, over the millenia, bred men to be big, strong, stupid and pliable.
Every plan can backfire now and again. Be careful what you wish for.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have my knitting and spinning (seriously) to get back to. Go catch your own damned mastadon.
KFG
Let's weed out the technological throwbacks, alright?
I don't need an Apache attack helicopter to go to the corner store, and you can have my Z80s when you pry them from my cold, dead motherboards.
Sometimes technological "throwbacks" are simply the right tool for the job and commercial availability and/or price is a seperate issue from applicability.
The price of a cpu is often determined by marketing concerns (we want people to buy the latest and greatest stuff, so we keep the price high on the older stuff, because the people who don't need them will then buy the new stuff and the people who need the old stuff will pay the exorbitant price). This has nothing to do with what they could be sold for and still turn a profit on the piece.
All that said, I'm not sure where the PII would fit into that. What we really need are 486 and PII bs. The old chips redsigned with modern manufacturing techniques and improvements. That would be sweet.
It'll also happen when monkeys fly out of my butt. In the meantime, there's always VIA. The Asian manufacturers are going to eat that market alive while Intel focuses on high end flash.
There may come a day when they rue that decision.
KFG
KFG
What if they wanted to create a video game?
1. Develop solid math skills
2. Develop solid physics skills
3. Profit!!!
KFG
That's because upstate NY does look a lot like Canada.
:)
.shouldn't you be "The Stars and Stripes province"?
I went out for a walk a couple of hours ago. It was pretty nice, for December. I just looked out my window and sometime in the interval my world has turned into an arctic wasteland, so you've got a point.
However, you may or may not have noticed, upstate NY does not look like USA.
And to the extent that that is true I bless it every day. Hell, in various isolated little nooks and crannies of the Adirondacks we've even got entire villages where people will still pretend they don't understand you if you don't at least try to speak French to them.
I tend to prefer Vermont though, which looks almost, but not entirely, unlike the USA. It's a little bit of alternate universe, and since I can't stop this one and get off it's the best I can do. Bummer that they caved and joined the Union, innit?
And I can get there a bit faster than I can get to Cananda, being a bit south of the lake.
. .
Well, you guys have already conquered the Northway (Ironic, considering that it was built as a conduit for the American invasion of Canada. One favor though, could you, maybe, stop driving 90 in the slow lane, or at least put down your paper and steer with your hands? Thank you), and I admit the scenario does have certain attractions, but I wouldn't bet that that's the way things are going to go.
KFG
Oh great, we get to become the 52nd State!
I don't know how to break this to you, but here in upstate NY we've been calling you "The Maple Leaf State" for decades already.
Wouldn't know what to do without you either, it's handy having the only state with legal Cuban cigars so close by and we're really happy sucking on your hydroelectric tit too.
It's not like you need your own power anyway, you guys are used to being cold and sitting in the dark, right?
KFG
Why do I see more bureaucracy and less action?
Because they can write checks against your accounts.
KFG
But I, for one, will NEVER bow to DRM mandated by government and/or pushed by monopoly interests.
Die Gedanken sind frei!
KFG
I hate when that happens.
KFG
But there are no bacteria in Mars. . .
Because Matians sprang full grown from the head of Zeus.
KFG
You are playing word games. . .
.you can only trust individual people.
While I am far from "above" that ( like word games), in this case, I am most certainly not.
. .
Oh, you poor, poor bastard. If I catch the obit I'll send flowers.
Well, even as CEO, you then apparently never grasped the concept that the corporation is a legal person separate from its employees.
No, what I grasped was that the corporation's identity as a legal person has certain limits. The designation is real only when interacting with the legal system.
People who take the legal fiction too seriously often end up in jail.
Every person in the corporation is still a person, and the process of making decisions rather resembles a dysfunctional family fighting over who gets to carve the Thanksgiving turkey.
The idea that corporations make "cold" and "calculated" decisions is a lot of hooey, as is the idea that the legal fiction of being a person strictly motivated by profit absolves that fictional person from the ethical and moral consquences of its actions.
Taken literally that would viturally guarantee that corporate acts are evil.
Fortunately there are least seven or eight members of corporations who actually like to sleep nights.
KFG
They make cold, calculating decisions based on the business environment. . .
As a business owner and someone who has served as a corporation Chief Operating Officer and Director, let me state, catagorically, from experience:
Businesses do not make decisions. People do.
KFG
This is an example the Schroedinbug, a bug defined as one that doesn't exist until someone reads the code and proves that it can't run, and then everyone's system crashes, even though they were all running fine until then.
Some programs die, but some programs live, I guess.
KFG
. . .alot of people are going to get frightened and panic before it noticed and removed.
Flash! Aging Yippies have invaded Fort Knox. They claim they can turn gold into strawberry jam.
Authorities say there is nothing they can do.
KFG
It looks completely foreing to me. . .
That's because it's written in a dead language.
English.
KFG