The label fronts the money to cover the production of your album. If you are going to cut them out and go directly to the aggregating site with your record, then you and your fellow bandmembers are going to need to pay out of pocket for studio time, etc., in hopes that you will make it back.
If MS is interested in becoming part of the OSS scene and playing nice with everyone else, why can't they use an existing license? What makes their new licenses better than the established ones?
I think this is what they need to address in order to be trusted because it looks to me like the only reasons they would need to create a new license are to try to get away with something the existing licenses wouldn't allow or (more likely) to try to cast a shadow of doubt on the appropriateness and safety of the licenses everyone else in the community uses.
Mozilla is leading because they have a bug in their bug database? So the summary is claiming that MS does not have a bug in their bug database? How would you know this?
it certainly takes a lot of courage to break the law when you are almost certain that you'll never get caught. Not a lot of person would dare to click on "I agree". The fact that it doesn't take courage is exactly the AC's point. The submitter isn't willing to do it even though it requires essentially no courage. Thus, by definition, he is a pussy. The AC you are insulting is completely right here.
saying things like "format the text the way Word 95 does it," which would require somebody wanting to implement the standard to reverse-engineer Word 95! Bullshit. The standard has things like that Word 95 tag but it explicitly states that they are optional and you are not required to support them to be compliant.
I've heard several of my colleagues say that they will get their iPhones in two years when they are $50. I've explained to these colleagues that there is no way this will happen. I guess you've never heard of eBay? Or you think that all he early adopters who bought a $600 phone the day it came out aren't going to be buying a newer phone sometime in the next few years?
There's no difference between healthcare insurance and anything else. The only difference is that you want someone else to pay for the results of your lifestyle. No, there is a massive difference. The difference is that with healthcare, the rest of us are already forced to pay already.
If someone can't afford a car, then the car salesman won't sell it to them. Medical bills don't work that way. If you go to the hospital, they aren't allowed to deny you treatment because you can't pay for it. They help you first and then the money is sorted out after. If you don't have insurance or money, then you are just going to have to declare bankruptcy since you can't pay your medical bills.
When uninsured people do that, where do you think the money ultimately comes from to pay the doctors who helped them? Do you think magical fairies come down from the sky to sign their paychecks? No! The rest of society ends up footing the bill for the uninsured because they can't pay it. I live in MA and I am glad that everyone else will now be forced to have insurance so that they can actually pay for their medical expenses rather than me.
THEN apply all the hundreds of patches - each of which also requires a reboot Can you name a single large company that actually does this on each machine rather than using a ghost image? Why would anyone manage their IT this way?
Microsoft isn't calling Vista the most secure OS ever; they are calling it the most secure Windows ever. It's not hyperbole. Each of the ones you mentioned was slightly more secure than the one before it when it came out, so it is accurate to say each time that the new one is the "most secure Windows ever".
he company that was issued the patent should have to pay a massive fine. How quickly do you think patent trolls will suddenly start disappearing if this occured? By "patent trolls", you mean the large companies that have the money to hire tons of patent lawyers and win these court cases? In that case, no I don't see them disappearing. Your new system--where filing patents to protect your inventions can lead to people taking you to court and trying to get tons of money out of you for having a patent they don't like--will only hurt the small inventors that patents are supposed to protect. They won't be able to take the risk that that Microsoft or whoever will take them to court for filing a patent and try to extort massive fines out of them.
My figure was for a low resolution human. If you're tracking molecules, then it would be in the thousands of yottabytes (based on a 70kg human and the MW of water). It compresses really well though.
I think IBM is as big a fan of their own patent stash as of linux and they would not do something that seriously jeopardizes their ability to hoard patents in order to help linux.
IE is safe in Vista because it runs in a super locked-down "protected mode". Windows Mail (aka Outlook Express) doesn't, so it makes sense that IE7 in Vista is immune to this but Mail isn't.
Nerds generally love beer, caffeine and pot. It is part of the culture and slashdot often talks about geek culture, even when it includes things that don't directly relate to technology (e.g., anime and monty python).
There are lots of reasons pot goes well with geeks. The most obvious is how well it complements a long coding or gaming session. I would say that another reason is that geek culture, or at least the unix culture that affects a lot of people here, came of age in California during the 1970s. Look also at the stoners who founded Apple and the American video game industry (supposedly, back in the day at Atari, the security guards' main role was to warn the programmers if any cops were coming so they could hide their stash).
Also, geeks tend to like decentralization of power and free choice. As a whole, they have a much stronger libertarian bent than the general populace, and as people who make a living using their minds, they are obviously unhappy about the government trying to dictate what they can do with them.
"Personal computers and recreational computers, personal drugs and recreational drugs, are simply two ways in which individuals have learned to take power back from the state". -Timothy Leary
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That's about half what a movie theater charges for a bucket of popcorn, so maybe it's not too far off.
The label fronts the money to cover the production of your album. If you are going to cut them out and go directly to the aggregating site with your record, then you and your fellow bandmembers are going to need to pay out of pocket for studio time, etc., in hopes that you will make it back.
I guess we can expect "Nine Inch Nails' Greatest Hits" sometime soon.
Nothing Records wasn't really "his own label". It was just a vanity label of Interscope.
...Now, watch this drive.
There was a Unix version, but I don't think it ran on Linux.
If MS is interested in becoming part of the OSS scene and playing nice with everyone else, why can't they use an existing license? What makes their new licenses better than the established ones?
I think this is what they need to address in order to be trusted because it looks to me like the only reasons they would need to create a new license are to try to get away with something the existing licenses wouldn't allow or (more likely) to try to cast a shadow of doubt on the appropriateness and safety of the licenses everyone else in the community uses.
Mozilla is leading because they have a bug in their bug database? So the summary is claiming that MS does not have a bug in their bug database? How would you know this?
OMG PONIES
It's only supposed to work if you don't already have firefox open (and then you click the link in IE).
If someone can't afford a car, then the car salesman won't sell it to them. Medical bills don't work that way. If you go to the hospital, they aren't allowed to deny you treatment because you can't pay for it. They help you first and then the money is sorted out after. If you don't have insurance or money, then you are just going to have to declare bankruptcy since you can't pay your medical bills.
When uninsured people do that, where do you think the money ultimately comes from to pay the doctors who helped them? Do you think magical fairies come down from the sky to sign their paychecks? No! The rest of society ends up footing the bill for the uninsured because they can't pay it. I live in MA and I am glad that everyone else will now be forced to have insurance so that they can actually pay for their medical expenses rather than me.
Microsoft isn't calling Vista the most secure OS ever; they are calling it the most secure Windows ever. It's not hyperbole. Each of the ones you mentioned was slightly more secure than the one before it when it came out, so it is accurate to say each time that the new one is the "most secure Windows ever".
Yeah, the US is pretty much the only country left who doesn't choose its leaders with a voting system based on open source software. Wait, what?
I think IBM is as big a fan of their own patent stash as of linux and they would not do something that seriously jeopardizes their ability to hoard patents in order to help linux.
The omission of zombo.com is glaring.
IE is safe in Vista because it runs in a super locked-down "protected mode". Windows Mail (aka Outlook Express) doesn't, so it makes sense that IE7 in Vista is immune to this but Mail isn't.
Nerds generally love beer, caffeine and pot. It is part of the culture and slashdot often talks about geek culture, even when it includes things that don't directly relate to technology (e.g., anime and monty python).
There are lots of reasons pot goes well with geeks. The most obvious is how well it complements a long coding or gaming session. I would say that another reason is that geek culture, or at least the unix culture that affects a lot of people here, came of age in California during the 1970s. Look also at the stoners who founded Apple and the American video game industry (supposedly, back in the day at Atari, the security guards' main role was to warn the programmers if any cops were coming so they could hide their stash).
Also, geeks tend to like decentralization of power and free choice. As a whole, they have a much stronger libertarian bent than the general populace, and as people who make a living using their minds, they are obviously unhappy about the government trying to dictate what they can do with them.
"Personal computers and recreational computers, personal drugs and recreational drugs, are simply two ways in which individuals have learned to take power back from the state".
-Timothy Leary