Well, that's as may be, but if you say "free" to the vast majority of people, they think "no cost" rather than "unrestricted", unless he context clearly dictates the meaning. Therefore, for the majority of people, "free software" means "no cost software".
How is that the same thing? To correct your analogy, these competitors would have to actually alter the files on the webserver.
What WhenU is doing doesn't affect anything that the online store owns. Everything takes place on the user's own PC. Unless WhenU has installed the software against the user's wishes, there really isn't anything anyone can do to stop them. The alternative - that website operators *can* dictate how their content is viewed in the browser - has implications for adblocking, usability (eg screen readers, text magnifiers), even changing default colours and style sheets.
When the police find something "suspicious", you don't just say "oh, I have this perfectly plausible excuse which sounds highly improbable to technical incompetents like you" and walk away.
That'll be because the first thing the bad guys do in that situation is either claim ignorance, or trott out a prepared excuse.
The police can't take everything they're told at face value, or they'd let everyone go. Yes, it sucks when you're on the receiving end of it, but what's the alternative?
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Hosting the servers that tell other DNS servers what server knows how to resolve your domain, presumably.
You've not used ASP.NET have you? All of the generated HTML and Javascript is guaranteed to work in all major modern browsers. True, some of the cooler DHTML stuff only works in IE, but other browsers get less cool but still functional equivalents.
Or, you know, you could just mindlessly bash MS, it's your choice.
Well, to be fair GPUs are only "so much more powerful than CPUs" if your task is suitable for running on a GPU. If not, then you're better off using the CPU.
Kind of like how a bulldozer is much more powerful than a hammer, but totally unsuitable to banging a nail in a bit of wood. If you want something torn down or moved about, though...
This site would be nothing without the discussions that the articles generate. Anyone who posts comments (or submits articles) is making a material contribution to the site, regardless of whether they pay money or not.
I think that gives us all the right to complain when we see things that we perceive to be problems.
I suspect you missed the point - I have zero knowledge of sizes/scales as far as air conditioning units go, and on reading the summary my immediate thought was "3 tons of AC unit doesn't *sound* cheap..."
I suspect that that's what the OP meant - that 3 tons is actually very little, despite sounding (to the uninitiated) like an awful lot.
How many recent patents have you read? IBM alone was granted over 3000 last year...
Slashdot only ever reports on the patents that it sees as beinog frivolous, and even then that's generally only judged from the abstract, which is a dangerous thing to do.
Well, the average user could just right-click on a shortcut to cmd.exe and choose "Run as..." from the menu.
You're forgetting, though, that the average user will only ever use a command prompt under strict instruction of someone else who is walking them through the process. The same is true of an "average user" that runs Linux. (That's "average user", not "average Linux user" - the two are very different)
Actually, in the case of a lot of games, the reason a non-admin account can't install or execute it is because of the moronic copy prevention scheme used, not because of the moronic game devs. (The scheme is also generally insisted upon by the publisher, not the game studio, so it's not even their boss's fault a lot of the time)
Show me one major company who routinely stands up with a new product and says "Yeah, we were beaten to it, we're just playing catch-up, but hey, it'll be great anyway!"
There won't have been a single person there who didn't know that MS didn't invent the new features, but they'll all have been forbidden (explicitly or implicitly) from giving that impression.
Every time RBLs are discussed here, there are a great many comments (quite a lot at +5) to the effect of "they're my mail servers, I can drop any mail I want to" from those defending their use of the various RBLs.
That's not quite what the OP meant, which was that IE accepts a double-click, but only makes a single request to the server. That is, the second click doesn't make it back to the webserver.
I've no idea if that's actually the case, but it's not the same as the ondoubleclick event, which is purely client-side and applies to all elements, not just links and buttons.
It's our tribal past encroaching on our modern society. People (in general) have a deep-seated need to feel that they belong, that they're part of a group. You see it everywhere, from video cards, CPUs, operating systems, right through to music, sportswear brands, and especially sports teams.
There may well have been something that started it off; a dodgy card, crappy shoe, particularly good match, whatever - the reason becomes irrelevant over time.
Why else would you have people deriding each other over their choice of GPU manufacturer? (Or, sometimes, in the case of sports teams, beating the living shit out of each other because of their chosen team allegiance) Because something primitive whispers in our mind's ear that yours is the One True Choice, and everyone else is stupid and wrong.
Yeah, but at that res Doom 3 looks like arse. Of course, if you don't particularly enjoy it, then there's certainly no point in spending hundreds on a card just to play it...
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Copyright infringement has been commonly known as "piracy" for pretty much as long as there have been copyright laws.
No, it's not the correct legal term, but does it really matter?
Well, that's as may be, but if you say "free" to the vast majority of people, they think "no cost" rather than "unrestricted", unless he context clearly dictates the meaning. Therefore, for the majority of people, "free software" means "no cost software".
How is that the same thing? To correct your analogy, these competitors would have to actually alter the files on the webserver.
What WhenU is doing doesn't affect anything that the online store owns. Everything takes place on the user's own PC. Unless WhenU has installed the software against the user's wishes, there really isn't anything anyone can do to stop them. The alternative - that website operators *can* dictate how their content is viewed in the browser - has implications for adblocking, usability (eg screen readers, text magnifiers), even changing default colours and style sheets.
When the police find something "suspicious", you don't just say "oh, I have this perfectly plausible excuse which sounds highly improbable to technical incompetents like you" and walk away.
That'll be because the first thing the bad guys do in that situation is either claim ignorance, or trott out a prepared excuse.
The police can't take everything they're told at face value, or they'd let everyone go. Yes, it sucks when you're on the receiving end of it, but what's the alternative?
Hosting the servers that tell other DNS servers what server knows how to resolve your domain, presumably.
You've not used ASP.NET have you? All of the generated HTML and Javascript is guaranteed to work in all major modern browsers. True, some of the cooler DHTML stuff only works in IE, but other browsers get less cool but still functional equivalents.
Or, you know, you could just mindlessly bash MS, it's your choice.
Like, awesome presentation, dude! I mean, like, wow!
(That's the worst presentation I've ever seen, and I too work in a corp.)
Well, to be fair GPUs are only "so much more powerful than CPUs" if your task is suitable for running on a GPU. If not, then you're better off using the CPU.
Kind of like how a bulldozer is much more powerful than a hammer, but totally unsuitable to banging a nail in a bit of wood. If you want something torn down or moved about, though...
Besides, Morse isn't a code, it's a cipher.
True, but I've never heard anyone refer to it as anything other than "Morse code".
is better at spotting dupes than the "editors".
This site would be nothing without the discussions that the articles generate. Anyone who posts comments (or submits articles) is making a material contribution to the site, regardless of whether they pay money or not.
I think that gives us all the right to complain when we see things that we perceive to be problems.
(I know, IHBT, IHL, IWHAND)
You can choose not to watch the BBC too; since when was a TV legally required?
I suspect you missed the point - I have zero knowledge of sizes/scales as far as air conditioning units go, and on reading the summary my immediate thought was "3 tons of AC unit doesn't *sound* cheap..."
I suspect that that's what the OP meant - that 3 tons is actually very little, despite sounding (to the uninitiated) like an awful lot.
Information isn't free, it costs whatever the person who knows it sees fit to charge others.
Reproduction of information can be essentially free, but the information itself certainly doesn't have to be.
How many recent patents have you read? IBM alone was granted over 3000 last year...
Slashdot only ever reports on the patents that it sees as beinog frivolous, and even then that's generally only judged from the abstract, which is a dangerous thing to do.
Well, the average user could just right-click on a shortcut to cmd.exe and choose "Run as..." from the menu.
You're forgetting, though, that the average user will only ever use a command prompt under strict instruction of someone else who is walking them through the process. The same is true of an "average user" that runs Linux. (That's "average user", not "average Linux user" - the two are very different)
Actually, in the case of a lot of games, the reason a non-admin account can't install or execute it is because of the moronic copy prevention scheme used, not because of the moronic game devs. (The scheme is also generally insisted upon by the publisher, not the game studio, so it's not even their boss's fault a lot of the time)
It's marketing.
Show me one major company who routinely stands up with a new product and says "Yeah, we were beaten to it, we're just playing catch-up, but hey, it'll be great anyway!"
There won't have been a single person there who didn't know that MS didn't invent the new features, but they'll all have been forbidden (explicitly or implicitly) from giving that impression.
But those LinkSys/Dlink routers typically *are* Linux and iptables; the only difference is the processor and the bus.
Both of which differences would affect throughput, which is exactly what the OP was talking about...
Actually, most people
a) don't appreciate how much it costs to produce these things in the first place, and consider only replication and distribution costs
b) given a choice, will generally choose to spend as little as possible on something, all other factors being equal
Every time RBLs are discussed here, there are a great many comments (quite a lot at +5) to the effect of "they're my mail servers, I can drop any mail I want to" from those defending their use of the various RBLs.
How is this any different?
Don't you go bringing physics into this:
X distance / 0 time = infinite speed
infinite speed / 0 time = infinite acceleration
infinite acceleration * finite mass = infinite force
infinite force = thin smear of Nightcrawler molecules coating the target location
That's not quite what the OP meant, which was that IE accepts a double-click, but only makes a single request to the server. That is, the second click doesn't make it back to the webserver.
I've no idea if that's actually the case, but it's not the same as the ondoubleclick event, which is purely client-side and applies to all elements, not just links and buttons.
It's our tribal past encroaching on our modern society. People (in general) have a deep-seated need to feel that they belong, that they're part of a group. You see it everywhere, from video cards, CPUs, operating systems, right through to music, sportswear brands, and especially sports teams.
There may well have been something that started it off; a dodgy card, crappy shoe, particularly good match, whatever - the reason becomes irrelevant over time.
Why else would you have people deriding each other over their choice of GPU manufacturer? (Or, sometimes, in the case of sports teams, beating the living shit out of each other because of their chosen team allegiance) Because something primitive whispers in our mind's ear that yours is the One True Choice, and everyone else is stupid and wrong.
Yeah, but at that res Doom 3 looks like arse. Of course, if you don't particularly enjoy it, then there's certainly no point in spending hundreds on a card just to play it...