They got the contact information from an ISP, so even if they did not own a computer, they were responsible (paying for) an internet account.
So if I decide that since you have done so much work for me taking such good care of my lawn this past summer and shovelling snow out of my driveway in the winter, that I will pay your water bill. Or I'm your grandfather and want to "do something for you", so I'll cover that water bill. Am I now responsible for any illegal activities that you may or may not carry out in your house or yard?
I am entitled to payment for my labour only, and therefore him copying me is fine, because now he is doing the labour. Problem is, every time i write a new song this other guy performs it, and i eventually go broke and give up. Do my ideas have no value at all?
I open a restaurant and serve reasonably decent food and folks come to eat at my restaurant. Someone else notices this and says, "Gosh, that corner must be a good location for a restaurant business" and he proceeds to open a restaurant across the street from mine. All of the customers move across the street and nobody comes to my restaurant any more because he serves better food.
Does my hard work in creating and building my restaurant have no value at all?
See the parallel? And see the problem with your argument?
Does anybody think that it's a BAD idea for software to easily enable dumb 15 year olds to go to prison for 10-15?
Does anyone else think it's a BAD idea for judges to be appointed who lack either the common sense or the discretion to take individual circumstances into account when passing sentence in respect of a criminal act?
Or should we just save the judges' salaries and automate the process. "Guilty." "10 years." "Next!" "Hit return to continue."
but don't tell me electronic voting isn't needed when general election results can be final sometimes only after a week or more! (imagine a recount in a constituency with 12+ iterations (counts))
And what's the all-fired rush?
In something as important as the national government of a country, I think accuracy and trustworthiness trumps speed-to-goalpost.
That's weird. I plug my vacuum cleaner into an outlet by the sink in one of my bathrooms. Vacuum cleaners are assuredly not "low voltage"
Is it a GFI plug then? One with one or two buttons in the middle between the top and bottom sockets? If it is just a regular plug, then it's possible that it's gang-wired to another GFI plug somewhere else in your house. Otherwise, I suspect that your wiring doesn't meet the national electrical code in respect of that particular installation. You might want to check that out.
"Uh, hello, NVidia? Remember how we whined to you to make drivers for XFree86? Well forget that, now we need you to do it all over again for this new implementation."
"Hello, Nvidia? Would you like to continue to sell graphics cards to the growing numbers of people who use Linux?" If the answer is no, there are other manufacturers who will take up the slack. It's the nature of a truly competetive marketplace.
Because when I test, I first and foremost just try to go through the events that SHOULD happen, whereas he seem to go through all other impossible events.
In my experience it is practically impossible for the same person who wrote a particular program to test it adequately. I can spend what I figure is a lot of time checking what I think is most trivial functionality in a program, then give it to a user and have him on the horn five minutes later telling me that he just got an error message.
As you say, I think the reason is because the chap who writes the program knows what it's supposed to do, so to test it he goes through the program and says, "Yup, it does what it should." The end-user, though, says, "Am I supposed to push X or Y here?", presses Y, and blammo! Well, who the hell would press a Y there? Obviously, the end user.... Oops. I'll fix that and get it right back to you.
Joe's Plumbing won't ever grow. Joe does the plumbing and Joe's wife sends out the invoices. And when Joe retires, Joe's Plumbing shuts down.
Why invest thousands of dollars in a solution to replace ledger cards in a shoebox when something like Access can do the same job (and make Joe's wife's job easier) for a lot less money.
but in a business, the users are not the ones that are ultimately responsible for the data that they use. The IT staff is.
You're thinking of the wrong kind of business. Consider Joe's Plumbing, where Joe does the plumbing and Joe's wife sends out the invoices. There ain't no IT staff other than Joe's wife. And Joe and his wife are indeed "utimately responsible for the data they use"; the ain't nobody else.
If Joe, Joe's wife, or his Joe's brother's cousin who "knows something about computers" can't create the application that Joe needs for his plumbing business, then it just doesn't happen and Joe continues to do whatever it is using ledger cards in a shoebox.
I'm not sure I've seen a bathroom without power sockets. Maybe some public bathrooms, but I doubt it. It's not illegal in any way in the United States.
It's my understanding that most North American electrical codes require that power outlets in "wet locations", i.e. bathrooms, are either GFI (ground fault interrupt) sockets or low-voltage "razor-only" type plugs.
I have seen FreeDos, and installed it. Wasn't that impressed to be honest.
Really?
Then I suspect you've not tried dosemu; I use it for my DOS development environment and couldn't be more pleased with its performance and utility.
Of course, that's just me and I suppose it depends on what you want to do with DOS and what your expectations are. But for text-based DOS application development, dosemu is the cat's pajamas.
MS-DOS should be next, Then Windows 3.1. They are not usable for OSes today except in very limited circumstances,
I beg to differ, at least to a degree. Win3.1 is indeed obsolete, and MS-DOS, yeah that train left the station too. But DOS itself is in use in a great many dedicated control/monitoring and other industrial setups and won't be going away any time soon. It works, and it doesn't crash. See freedos for one example of a freely distributable DOS that's under active development and does the job. I'm sure I'm not unique in stating that my DOS compilers (PowerBASIC and Turbo C) still see fairly regular use.
What about trades? Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, drywallers, bricklayers -- all of those guys get paid good money and are in demand. And you can't off-shore hands-on work like that.
The "custom computer cable tube" is called split loom. You can find it at most electronics stores, car/home stereo shops, auto parts stores,
And probably in your (or your buddy's) garage in a pile of junk. It's called an old garden hose, and you can just cut to length and split that down one side and away you go. For larger cable runs, use an old vacuum cleaner hose. Same idea, same price. Probably free out of a junk pile, as I said.
There are several reasons that the Open Source community should not be lulled into taking SCO's actions lightly, as the bigger picture that is being presented by this lobbying effort is that this dispute is not simply about a "breach of contract", nor is it simply a licensing dispute, but is more about a group of people that extends far beyond SCO and Microsoft that view the GPL and other Free Software licensing as a threat to thier way of life and thier controll over sections of the ecconomy.
On the other hand, there is a big wide world outside of the United States of America... and it's not full of stupid or technologically-illiterate people.
I learned programming by typing in code from books like "100 BASIC Computer Games" and so on. David Ahl's books, Compute!, and the like.
I don't see why a kid today can't type in a page of BASIC code out of a book. Once he sees the structure and gets the idea of how things fit together in a logical flow, the next steps should fall into place naturally.
poloticians are probably having the same problems with spam that we are, so maybe they are just more motivated to get rid of annoying spam because it affects them directly and personally?
No.
They have staff to deal with it for them. It doesn't affect them personally at all.
Same goes for situations where the lighting is questionable (clubs and bars) or you're just damn tired.
And when it's very busy. I own a movie theatre; when it's close to showtime people come in the door and literally throw money at me and basically keep on walking. I don't really have time to put the money into the drawer sometimes -- I just stack it until the rush slows down. Who's got time to examine a bill in detail under those conditions?
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They got the contact information from an ISP, so even if they did not own a computer, they were responsible (paying for) an internet account.
So if I decide that since you have done so much work for me taking such good care of my lawn this past summer and shovelling snow out of my driveway in the winter, that I will pay your water bill. Or I'm your grandfather and want to "do something for you", so I'll cover that water bill. Am I now responsible for any illegal activities that you may or may not carry out in your house or yard?
I am entitled to payment for my labour only, and therefore him copying me is fine, because now he is doing the labour. Problem is, every time i write a new song this other guy performs it, and i eventually go broke and give up. Do my ideas have no value at all?
I open a restaurant and serve reasonably decent food and folks come to eat at my restaurant. Someone else notices this and says, "Gosh, that corner must be a good location for a restaurant business" and he proceeds to open a restaurant across the street from mine. All of the customers move across the street and nobody comes to my restaurant any more because he serves better food.
Does my hard work in creating and building my restaurant have no value at all?
See the parallel? And see the problem with your argument?
Does anybody think that it's a BAD idea for software to easily enable dumb 15 year olds to go to prison for 10-15?
Does anyone else think it's a BAD idea for judges to be appointed who lack either the common sense or the discretion to take individual circumstances into account when passing sentence in respect of a criminal act?
Or should we just save the judges' salaries and automate the process. "Guilty." "10 years." "Next!" "Hit return to continue."
So all that I have to do to prevent anyone from ripping off a copy of my latest masterpiece is to incorporate those dots into my painting....
A whole new method of copyright enforcement, without having to do anything (much) for "complete copy protection".
Why don't they just put RFID in it?
So I, your friendly neighbourhood mugger, need only obtain a RFID scanner and I can instantly tell if you're worth my while to accost.
but don't tell me electronic voting isn't needed when general election results can be final sometimes only after a week or more! (imagine a recount in a constituency with 12+ iterations (counts))
And what's the all-fired rush?
In something as important as the national government of a country, I think accuracy and trustworthiness trumps speed-to-goalpost.
Maybe that's just me...
What about this?
That's weird. I plug my vacuum cleaner into an outlet by the sink in one of my bathrooms. Vacuum cleaners are assuredly not "low voltage"
Is it a GFI plug then? One with one or two buttons in the middle between the top and bottom sockets? If it is just a regular plug, then it's possible that it's gang-wired to another GFI plug somewhere else in your house. Otherwise, I suspect that your wiring doesn't meet the national electrical code in respect of that particular installation. You might want to check that out.
"Uh, hello, NVidia? Remember how we whined to you to make drivers for XFree86? Well forget that, now we need you to do it all over again for this new implementation."
"Hello, Nvidia? Would you like to continue to sell graphics cards to the growing numbers of people who use Linux?" If the answer is no, there are other manufacturers who will take up the slack. It's the nature of a truly competetive marketplace.
Because when I test, I first and foremost just try to go through the events that SHOULD happen, whereas he seem to go through all other impossible events.
In my experience it is practically impossible for the same person who wrote a particular program to test it adequately. I can spend what I figure is a lot of time checking what I think is most trivial functionality in a program, then give it to a user and have him on the horn five minutes later telling me that he just got an error message.
As you say, I think the reason is because the chap who writes the program knows what it's supposed to do, so to test it he goes through the program and says, "Yup, it does what it should." The end-user, though, says, "Am I supposed to push X or Y here?", presses Y, and blammo! Well, who the hell would press a Y there? Obviously, the end user.... Oops. I'll fix that and get it right back to you.
Joe's Plumbing won't ever grow. Joe does the plumbing and Joe's wife sends out the invoices. And when Joe retires, Joe's Plumbing shuts down.
Why invest thousands of dollars in a solution to replace ledger cards in a shoebox when something like Access can do the same job (and make Joe's wife's job easier) for a lot less money.
but in a business, the users are not the ones that are ultimately responsible for the data that they use. The IT staff is.
You're thinking of the wrong kind of business. Consider Joe's Plumbing, where Joe does the plumbing and Joe's wife sends out the invoices. There ain't no IT staff other than Joe's wife. And Joe and his wife are indeed "utimately responsible for the data they use"; the ain't nobody else.
If Joe, Joe's wife, or his Joe's brother's cousin who "knows something about computers" can't create the application that Joe needs for his plumbing business, then it just doesn't happen and Joe continues to do whatever it is using ledger cards in a shoebox.
what I love about it is what's not built in - CD, floppy, some of the usual ports like the serial port.
At risk of sounding stupid, how do you boot it to install something like, say.. Linux?
Please dump Ask Slashdot. It's a waste of everyone's time
And yet, here you are...
I'm not sure I've seen a bathroom without power sockets. Maybe some public bathrooms, but I doubt it. It's not illegal in any way in the United States.
It's my understanding that most North American electrical codes require that power outlets in "wet locations", i.e. bathrooms, are either GFI (ground fault interrupt) sockets or low-voltage "razor-only" type plugs.
I have seen FreeDos, and installed it. Wasn't that impressed to be honest.
Really?
Then I suspect you've not tried dosemu; I use it for my DOS development environment and couldn't be more pleased with its performance and utility.
Of course, that's just me and I suppose it depends on what you want to do with DOS and what your expectations are. But for text-based DOS application development, dosemu is the cat's pajamas.
fsv
MS-DOS should be next, Then Windows 3.1. They are not usable for OSes today except in very limited circumstances,
I beg to differ, at least to a degree. Win3.1 is indeed obsolete, and MS-DOS, yeah that train left the station too. But DOS itself is in use in a great many dedicated control/monitoring and other industrial setups and won't be going away any time soon. It works, and it doesn't crash. See freedos for one example of a freely distributable DOS that's under active development and does the job. I'm sure I'm not unique in stating that my DOS compilers (PowerBASIC and Turbo C) still see fairly regular use.
I already know what I need to know to do my job.
You know everything that you need to know to do you job. But "your job" doesn't exist, because you're unemployed. I see a disconnect here...
I would recommend either ME, or nursing.
What about trades? Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, drywallers, bricklayers -- all of those guys get paid good money and are in demand. And you can't off-shore hands-on work like that.
The "custom computer cable tube" is called split loom. You can find it at most electronics stores, car/home stereo shops, auto parts stores,
And probably in your (or your buddy's) garage in a pile of junk. It's called an old garden hose, and you can just cut to length and split that down one side and away you go. For larger cable runs, use an old vacuum cleaner hose. Same idea, same price. Probably free out of a junk pile, as I said.
There are several reasons that the Open Source community should not be lulled into taking SCO's actions lightly, as the bigger picture that is being presented by this lobbying effort is that this dispute is not simply about a "breach of contract", nor is it simply a licensing dispute, but is more about a group of people that extends far beyond SCO and Microsoft that view the GPL and other Free Software licensing as a threat to thier way of life and thier controll over sections of the ecconomy.
On the other hand, there is a big wide world outside of the United States of America... and it's not full of stupid or technologically-illiterate people.
I learned programming by typing in code from books like "100 BASIC Computer Games" and so on. David Ahl's books, Compute!, and the like.
I don't see why a kid today can't type in a page of BASIC code out of a book. Once he sees the structure and gets the idea of how things fit together in a logical flow, the next steps should fall into place naturally.
poloticians are probably having the same problems with spam that we are, so maybe they are just more motivated to get rid of annoying spam because it affects them directly and personally?
No.
They have staff to deal with it for them. It doesn't affect them personally at all.
Same goes for situations where the lighting is questionable (clubs and bars) or you're just damn tired.
And when it's very busy. I own a movie theatre; when it's close to showtime people come in the door and literally throw money at me and basically keep on walking. I don't really have time to put the money into the drawer sometimes -- I just stack it until the rush slows down. Who's got time to examine a bill in detail under those conditions?