Most vendors are confusing the term UPS. It once meant a power supply with your computer _always_ receiving power from the batteries, while the batteries were being recharged from the mains.
Nowadays a lot of vendors use the term UPS to mean that power is taken directly from the power lines to both the computer and the batteries when availiable. When the power goes out a relay drops out and switches the computer from the mains to the batteries.
Basically the first type always provides perfect power (assuming the inverters generate a sine wave -- many do not), whereas the second type provides nothing more than power filtering unless there's no mains.
While filtering is usually better in a UPS than in a $5 power strip, it doesn't filter everything. To prove this, hook up an intercom that uses the AC to transceive to your UPS and see if you can communicate with another at the wall plug.
Unless your UPS uses some form of solid state relay (not likely) you can test if its the "real thing" or not by pulling the power and listening for a click inside the UPS. If it clicks, you have a standby power supply.
Not that the noise from the one lamp should _really_ affect the other, but hey, I don't own one.:-)
>I wasn't aware that using someone else's hard work, and mind was a fundamental freedom.
It is. That's the fundamental idea of copyright law. Just because the RIAA and MPAA think they can pervert it is a separate problem, but the intent is to protect the right of others to build and expand using someone else's hard work.
Wonder why?
Here's some examples:
The Lion King, Snow White, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid.
By merging and using content from others' older material, a new idea is created.
This is the way the creative process works. Companies like Disney (ironic, isn't it?) strive to reduce the effectiveness of their own process by extending copyright to such unbelieveable lengths we probably won't see an official remake of the Disney movies in our lifetimes, even though movies like Snow White were made well before I was born.
Imagine if Shakespeare had said what you've just said. I can promise you we wouldn't be living in the same culture right now if everyone thought that same thought.
Thank God we all think differently!
>Not to mention taking away someone's chance to make a living based on your "fundamental freedom"
Someone else's chance to make a living based on my fundamental freedoms (both of which are guaranteed by the Berne Convention) should not come at the cost of those freedoms.
A happy compromise was struck decades ago, but the balance has been eroded by a few bad corporations and wimpy governments.
As long as there is no balance, there will be strife. And part of all strife is hurting the other party, which, in the case of copyright, happens to be either getting something for free legally, or, in some cases (such as with much online music) getting something for free illegally.
>said bouncer then threw you out for unsuitable attire.
Said bouncer wouldn't be working there anymore if they weren't stopping people who don't belong in the club from entering.:)
If you ask me, something as serious as censorship should be talked over in person before the person is to sign the contract. Burying it in the contract with non-specific language (I don't know what it is, but I'll bet it goes "We do not guarantee a minimum service level and may discontinue or defer service at any time as we see necessary") is just not acceptable.
I'm not certain since IANAL, but I always thought one had to be very specific in a contract when you were going to sign away a major constitutional right... I'm guessing Cingular wasn't so specific...
No, I don't mean at the same quality level, or innovative level, or that underground music is new. Sorry I wasn't clear!
I'm really meaning that they are at the same level of visibility. "Joe indie band" was no harder to find on Napster than "Britney Speers" with Napster (assuming someone else had it). Whereas if I want to buy a "underground" CD now I'm looking at searching for it on the web or seeing what a local CD shop can do for me, or seeing if I can get it on vynil at the local DJ shop (too bad I don't have a record player:( ). Napster was one of the great equalizers, IMHO. It let the small frys play with the big guys, just like the web lets you put up a webpage (like slashdot) for fun in your dorm and next thing you know you're on TV and in Magazines.
I know there was decent underground music before Aphex Twin/Orbital/whatever-you-name-it. Heck, I do a radio show of underground electronica (no, I'm not a pro by any means, but I'm the only one in my area broadcasting at 4000 Watts;-). Its just plain hard to find. Just like many pop bands burn out after their one-hit wonder and are forever forgotten, indie groups are gone even quicker. Which, again, brings me to another point I liked about Napster. If people were to keep their files online (and many more would if they didn't think they'd be in jail for it) older good music would be simple to find. As it stands now, if you are an indie group and quit selling CDs, you're pretty much gone for good.
>Saying napster had legitimate uses? Such as what? It only indexed music.
Exactly. Napster never put in a filter until they were forced to in an effort to stop you from putting non-pirate music online, just as HP never put a filter in their CD Recorders to stop you from recording tracks without the copyright bit set.
>If I want to look for a good non-signed local band I certainly wouldn't use P2P.
Just because you don't want to doesn't mean no one else would. I enjoyed the surprise of finding quality indie bands on Napster. For once they were at the same level as "pop" music, and this is what is really freaking out the RIAA. That an indie band with no label could become popular just by sounding better than Britney (shouldn't be too hard, really).
Napster was the great leveler, and I appreciated it for that.
>If Napster was truly altruistic they would have banned IPs from those who sent/got copyrighted material.
They did. Many times and in many ways.
And if Napster were truly altruistic, in my opinion, they wouldn't have tried to turn it into a pay service and wouldn't ban anyone at any time.
Either way, Napster is as much a front for piracy as a company that makes CD Burners.
Both can be used for bad and good. And, to tell you the truth from what I've seen, more CD Burners are used for warez than for backing up hard drives.
>A distortion filter would be something that removes distortion.
Then what's a low-pass filter, or a high-pass filter (and please don't say the wrong definition for high-cut and low-cut because when I took EET most people called 'em low/high pass)?
Back in the "bad old days" you leased the phone from Bell. You still lease phone lines from the phone company.
Did/does Bell block you from phoning 900 numbers?
Did/does Bell block you from phoning _any_ numbers?
If Bell did block you from certain phone numbers, was it because you were breaking the law in some way?
If not, did you sue?
Now you see where we're heading with this.
Heck, does the airline say how you have to sit in their seats on the plane?
Does the bus driver tell you not to stand up on your leased seat on the bus?
Does a nightclub owner tell you how to dance?
Apart from safety/legal restrictions, no. If there's any other restrictions (like no torn jeans at a club) you are politely informed prior to entering the club that it isn't acceptable.
>If you don't like it, get another ISP, but ultimately that's the way it works.
Normally when you are discriminated against due to your thoughts clashing with those of another without prior warning or them having a good solid legal reason to stop you from accesing/doing certain things, the lessor may be on the hook for a lawsuit.
Depends where you are and how severely they decide to restrict you.
EG: If you leased an apartment and decide to bring a leather sofa in it and the landlord stopped you, it had either better be in the lease agreements (specifically) or be a fire hazard, because otherwise its expected you can put furniture in an apartment.
Now, if you decided to bring a box of bongs in the apartment the landlord would have good reason to stop you.
Since most pornography is legal in the USA I don't see how the phone/cable company has a right to censor unless they wrote "We will censor anything we want, such as pornography, at any time" into your agreement.
In come to daddy, the TVs had the "Aphex" face. So did the kids chasing the old lady.
I don't remember if that semi-human form that exited the TV had an Aphex face, and I'd rather not re-watch that video. Not that it wasn't good and all...
>I'm reminded of the old C-64 1541 floppy drive, which could be wrecked by malicious boot-sector code that caused it to ram the head repeatedly against the stop until it misaligned itself...
Most of the misalignments were done by the copy protection code loaded onto the drive itself. The constant realignments to get the drive a 1/2 sector off (or so I recall reading as such) to get at the protected data were really nasty on the drive [feel free to correct me on that]. That's when you heard that clattering noise coming from your drive when playing the "original" disks (it was more than just "fastloader" code). This was just part of the reason people (at the time) legitimately autohacked their originals with hack-'em fast parameter files (among other utilities). Without using copy protected disks your drive would last longer.
My personal favourite were the disks that slammed the head hard enough that you could feel it through the desk.
Of course, this was all so easily possible because the 1541 disk drive had its own CPU (ever had your PC disk drive return an easter egg string before?;-) which was reprogrammable by the computer. Of course, in this case you had to choose to run the program -- the 1541 didn't automatically boot your disks for you.
As usual, history repeats itself. In another 5-10 years we'll probably be past all this copy protection (again) once the copy protection industries realise the truth (again): Copy protection increases copying.
>I don't know if a video capture device would be affected by Macrovision
It is if it's been built in the past while. The only video capture board I own unaffected by macrovision (and completely unable to be affected -- thanks ATI for cheaping out and buying the shitty chip!) is an old ATI-ISA TV card with the Bt819 chip. It can't record the VBI signals (where the macrovision colour burst is stored) so they can't be checked.
Macrovision does nothing to a video capture card, however modern cards and software record the VBI signal and will check to see if Macrovision is present. If it is, you can watch it on a monitor, but you can't record it or output it to a TV (unless your output supports Macrovision generation, like most do nowadays in support of the MPAA).
The solution today? Find an old card that either can't support checking for Macrovision / find an old card that has hacked drivers (Matrox Rainbow Runner!) / run an OS that doesn't care (Linux) / or, as mentioned, buy the $50 Macrovision stripper (this might not work for DVD players, though, since they support a stronger version of Macrovision output. If the $50 "video stabilizer" won't do the trick, buy a $200 Time Base Corrector -- this removes ALL forms of Macrovision, isn't patented or in any way illegal, and, as a side benefit are reported to improve video capture synch a LOT).
>eg. if you've downloaded 20Gb this month, and joe has downloaded 10Gb, and the isp's bandwidth is maxed out, then joe's traffic will get twice the priority thaty ours does
Just look at how popular that strategy has made DirecPC.
If you're doing this, its basically suicide for your service. That local fellow would be a top notch worker for DirecPC though -- if I were you I'd suggest he applies there for a job!
>You sign a contract promising to pay the remaining $1500 within 6 months (I'm being very hypothetical here).
Have you ever signed an EULA? I don't mean clicked on agree, but signed?
Would you buy that car if the company told you that they are allowed to search your house at any time for non-approved car parts? What if that contract said that replacing the stereo was illegal? And if the contract said that dismantling the engine was a breach of contract? What if the contract said that carrying passengers of a certain type voided the warranty?
As you can see, EULAs and car contracts are very different. Nobody would sign a car contract that had those restrictions, and contract law doesn't provide for companies to take away your basic rights like EULAs try to do all the time.
>Software is a product or service such as anything else, why is it so hard for people to understand this.
Because most other products in the world don't need laws to protect the companies from the consumer. ie: CBDTPA, DMCA, 100-year copyrights, you name it.
Normally its the other way around, the laws protect the consumer from the company (safe food handling, product liability, protection from being required to be on a spam list for sending in your warranty card, etc, etc).
Re:I suggest "sceptical", not "cynical"
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Your definition of cynical is off.
Courtesy of dictionary.com:
cynical Pronunciation Key (sn-kl) adj. 1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others: a cynical dismissal of the politician's promise to reform the campaign finance system. 2. Selfishly or callously calculating: showed a cynical disregard for the safety of his troops in his efforts to advance his reputation. 3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness: a cynical view of the average voter's intelligence. 4. Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity: cynical laughter.
Definition 4 fits, and so does the latter half of definition 1. Also definition 3 fits. One could even work it so definition 2 fits.
I've been called cynical before, by a teacher of all people. I've never once cursed the teacher or anything like that. I only explained the reason I was missing at an awards ceremony (where I was awarded one) was because my past experience had shown me that the awards weren't given for superiority in their separate categories, but due to classism.
I don't think about rape as normal (however coitus doesn't seem at all abnormal... it seems to me without that none of us would exist, no?). I'm just a little more jaded towards the motives of society than others.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details.
Emacs is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies of Emacs and modify it; type C-h C-c to see the conditions. Type C-h C-d for information on getting the latest version.
Just modify it for the name of your software and adapt the control sequences to whatever suits your software (like clicks, or command line arguments).
>Yes, the GPL grants permissions, but it also takes away rights, such as the right to first sale of binary-only copies.
No, the GPL gives you the right to resell the software as you please, with a small exception. If you chose to receive the software in an incomplete manner (ie: Without the sourcecode) this does render your copy unsaleable. However, in the real world (tm), it is also a hard sale to sell an incomplete item (try selling books missing their cover and see how fast you get in trouble).
If you do have the complete sofware the GPL grants you the freedom to resell it as you choose.
The limited circumstance mentioned above is rendered moot by the fact that there is no purpose in accepting the GPL unless the source has been included with the software, unless you wish to make copies, in which case you have moved beyond your first-sale rights anyways. You can still use the software with the full rights copyright grants you by default without accepting the license, thereby enabling you to sell the software in an original, unmodified, binary only, first sale fashion, like books.
Nebulink works with linux and supports most any DVB card (USB, PCI, ISA, whatever you want). If you are looking for an open solution (hey, this is slashdot!), that would fit the bill.
Also, unlike most other satellite internet services, Nebulink is upfront with their limitations. You'll get 8 gigs transfer maximum for $55 US/month at whatever speed is available on their satellite, whereas most other satellite services randomly throttle your speed. Not to mention the hardware costs are generally significantly lower (used take-away BUD $FREE, DVB adapter $199).
Your return trip times (read: web browsing) on Nebulink are faster since a modem uplink is lower latency than a satellite uplink.
I'm not advertising (well, maybe I am indirectly), I'm just a satisfied customer who wrote an onofficial (and badly in need of fixing) how-to!
[That might have been a little incorrect, I don't send mail that way too often since you have to type everything perfectly the first time! No backspaces!]
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Or a standby power supply?
:-)
Most vendors are confusing the term UPS. It once meant a power supply with your computer _always_ receiving power from the batteries, while the batteries were being recharged from the mains.
Nowadays a lot of vendors use the term UPS to mean that power is taken directly from the power lines to both the computer and the batteries when availiable. When the power goes out a relay drops out and switches the computer from the mains to the batteries.
Basically the first type always provides perfect power (assuming the inverters generate a sine wave -- many do not), whereas the second type provides nothing more than power filtering unless there's no mains.
While filtering is usually better in a UPS than in a $5 power strip, it doesn't filter everything. To prove this, hook up an intercom that uses the AC to transceive to your UPS and see if you can communicate with another at the wall plug.
Unless your UPS uses some form of solid state relay (not likely) you can test if its the "real thing" or not by pulling the power and listening for a click inside the UPS. If it clicks, you have a standby power supply.
Not that the noise from the one lamp should _really_ affect the other, but hey, I don't own one.
>I wasn't aware that using someone else's hard work, and mind was a fundamental freedom.
It is. That's the fundamental idea of copyright law. Just because the RIAA and MPAA think they can pervert it is a separate problem, but the intent is to protect the right of others to build and expand using someone else's hard work.
Wonder why?
Here's some examples:
The Lion King, Snow White, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid.
By merging and using content from others' older material, a new idea is created.
This is the way the creative process works. Companies like Disney (ironic, isn't it?) strive to reduce the effectiveness of their own process by extending copyright to such unbelieveable lengths we probably won't see an official remake of the Disney movies in our lifetimes, even though movies like Snow White were made well before I was born.
Imagine if Shakespeare had said what you've just said. I can promise you we wouldn't be living in the same culture right now if everyone thought that same thought.
Thank God we all think differently!
>Not to mention taking away someone's chance to make a living based on your "fundamental freedom"
Someone else's chance to make a living based on my fundamental freedoms (both of which are guaranteed by the Berne Convention) should not come at the cost of those freedoms.
A happy compromise was struck decades ago, but the balance has been eroded by a few bad corporations and wimpy governments.
As long as there is no balance, there will be strife. And part of all strife is hurting the other party, which, in the case of copyright, happens to be either getting something for free legally, or, in some cases (such as with much online music) getting something for free illegally.
>said bouncer then threw you out for unsuitable attire.
:)
Said bouncer wouldn't be working there anymore if they weren't stopping people who don't belong in the club from entering.
If you ask me, something as serious as censorship should be talked over in person before the person is to sign the contract. Burying it in the contract with non-specific language (I don't know what it is, but I'll bet it goes "We do not guarantee a minimum service level and may discontinue or defer service at any time as we see necessary") is just not acceptable.
I'm not certain since IANAL, but I always thought one had to be very specific in a contract when you were going to sign away a major constitutional right... I'm guessing Cingular wasn't so specific...
No, I don't mean at the same quality level, or innovative level, or that underground music is new. Sorry I wasn't clear!
:( ). Napster was one of the great equalizers, IMHO. It let the small frys play with the big guys, just like the web lets you put up a webpage (like slashdot) for fun in your dorm and next thing you know you're on TV and in Magazines.
;-). Its just plain hard to find. Just like many pop bands burn out after their one-hit wonder and are forever forgotten, indie groups are gone even quicker. Which, again, brings me to another point I liked about Napster. If people were to keep their files online (and many more would if they didn't think they'd be in jail for it) older good music would be simple to find. As it stands now, if you are an indie group and quit selling CDs, you're pretty much gone for good.
I'm really meaning that they are at the same level of visibility. "Joe indie band" was no harder to find on Napster than "Britney Speers" with Napster (assuming someone else had it). Whereas if I want to buy a "underground" CD now I'm looking at searching for it on the web or seeing what a local CD shop can do for me, or seeing if I can get it on vynil at the local DJ shop (too bad I don't have a record player
I know there was decent underground music before Aphex Twin/Orbital/whatever-you-name-it. Heck, I do a radio show of underground electronica (no, I'm not a pro by any means, but I'm the only one in my area broadcasting at 4000 Watts
>Saying napster had legitimate uses? Such as what? It only indexed music.
Exactly. Napster never put in a filter until they were forced to in an effort to stop you from putting non-pirate music online, just as HP never put a filter in their CD Recorders to stop you from recording tracks without the copyright bit set.
>If I want to look for a good non-signed local band I certainly wouldn't use P2P.
Just because you don't want to doesn't mean no one else would. I enjoyed the surprise of finding quality indie bands on Napster. For once they were at the same level as "pop" music, and this is what is really freaking out the RIAA. That an indie band with no label could become popular just by sounding better than Britney (shouldn't be too hard, really).
Napster was the great leveler, and I appreciated it for that.
>If Napster was truly altruistic they would have banned IPs from those who sent/got copyrighted material.
They did. Many times and in many ways.
And if Napster were truly altruistic, in my opinion, they wouldn't have tried to turn it into a pay service and wouldn't ban anyone at any time.
Either way, Napster is as much a front for piracy as a company that makes CD Burners.
Both can be used for bad and good. And, to tell you the truth from what I've seen, more CD Burners are used for warez than for backing up hard drives.
>A distortion filter would be something that removes distortion.
Then what's a low-pass filter, or a high-pass filter (and please don't say the wrong definition for high-cut and low-cut because when I took EET most people called 'em low/high pass)?
Brain... exploding...
POOF!
>Leaders of the worlds largest pirate network are resigning [hopefully to go find a real job....] big deal.
I suppose you would say the same things about Yamaha, HP, LG, and Philips if they go out of business.
I mean, they are all piracy boosters. They make CD Recording drives, right?
Or perhaps you should just stop being so... generic?
>You LEASE access to the ISP's equipment
Back in the "bad old days" you leased the phone from Bell. You still lease phone lines from the phone company.
Did/does Bell block you from phoning 900 numbers?
Did/does Bell block you from phoning _any_ numbers?
If Bell did block you from certain phone numbers, was it because you were breaking the law in some way?
If not, did you sue?
Now you see where we're heading with this.
Heck, does the airline say how you have to sit in their seats on the plane?
Does the bus driver tell you not to stand up on your leased seat on the bus?
Does a nightclub owner tell you how to dance?
Apart from safety/legal restrictions, no. If there's any other restrictions (like no torn jeans at a club) you are politely informed prior to entering the club that it isn't acceptable.
>If you don't like it, get another ISP, but ultimately that's the way it works.
Normally when you are discriminated against due to your thoughts clashing with those of another without prior warning or them having a good solid legal reason to stop you from accesing/doing certain things, the lessor may be on the hook for a lawsuit.
Depends where you are and how severely they decide to restrict you.
EG: If you leased an apartment and decide to bring a leather sofa in it and the landlord stopped you, it had either better be in the lease agreements (specifically) or be a fire hazard, because otherwise its expected you can put furniture in an apartment.
Now, if you decided to bring a box of bongs in the apartment the landlord would have good reason to stop you.
Since most pornography is legal in the USA I don't see how the phone/cable company has a right to censor unless they wrote "We will censor anything we want, such as pornography, at any time" into your agreement.
>You're thinking of Windowlicker.
In come to daddy, the TVs had the "Aphex" face. So did the kids chasing the old lady.
I don't remember if that semi-human form that exited the TV had an Aphex face, and I'd rather not re-watch that video. Not that it wasn't good and all...
>I'm reminded of the old C-64 1541 floppy drive, which could be wrecked by malicious boot-sector code that caused it to ram the head repeatedly against the stop until it misaligned itself...
;-) which was reprogrammable by the computer. Of course, in this case you had to choose to run the program -- the 1541 didn't automatically boot your disks for you.
Most of the misalignments were done by the copy protection code loaded onto the drive itself. The constant realignments to get the drive a 1/2 sector off (or so I recall reading as such) to get at the protected data were really nasty on the drive [feel free to correct me on that]. That's when you heard that clattering noise coming from your drive when playing the "original" disks (it was more than just "fastloader" code). This was just part of the reason people (at the time) legitimately autohacked their originals with hack-'em fast parameter files (among other utilities). Without using copy protected disks your drive would last longer.
My personal favourite were the disks that slammed the head hard enough that you could feel it through the desk.
Of course, this was all so easily possible because the 1541 disk drive had its own CPU (ever had your PC disk drive return an easter egg string before?
As usual, history repeats itself. In another 5-10 years we'll probably be past all this copy protection (again) once the copy protection industries realise the truth (again): Copy protection increases copying.
>a search on Google for 'unexplained explosion' comes up with over 14,000 items...
A google search for "sandwich explosion" gives me 24,800 hits.
What I want to know is why, with this many exploding sandwiches, I've never come across one...
>I don't know if a video capture device would be affected by Macrovision
It is if it's been built in the past while. The only video capture board I own unaffected by macrovision (and completely unable to be affected -- thanks ATI for cheaping out and buying the shitty chip!) is an old ATI-ISA TV card with the Bt819 chip. It can't record the VBI signals (where the macrovision colour burst is stored) so they can't be checked.
Macrovision does nothing to a video capture card, however modern cards and software record the VBI signal and will check to see if Macrovision is present. If it is, you can watch it on a monitor, but you can't record it or output it to a TV (unless your output supports Macrovision generation, like most do nowadays in support of the MPAA).
The solution today? Find an old card that either can't support checking for Macrovision / find an old card that has hacked drivers (Matrox Rainbow Runner!) / run an OS that doesn't care (Linux) / or, as mentioned, buy the $50 Macrovision stripper (this might not work for DVD players, though, since they support a stronger version of Macrovision output. If the $50 "video stabilizer" won't do the trick, buy a $200 Time Base Corrector -- this removes ALL forms of Macrovision, isn't patented or in any way illegal, and, as a side benefit are reported to improve video capture synch a LOT).
:-)
>eg. if you've downloaded 20Gb this month, and joe has downloaded 10Gb, and the isp's bandwidth is maxed out, then joe's traffic will get twice the priority thaty ours does
Just look at how popular that strategy has made DirecPC.
If you're doing this, its basically suicide for your service. That local fellow would be a top notch worker for DirecPC though -- if I were you I'd suggest he applies there for a job!
>You sign a contract promising to pay the remaining $1500 within 6 months (I'm being very hypothetical here).
Have you ever signed an EULA? I don't mean clicked on agree, but signed?
Would you buy that car if the company told you that they are allowed to search your house at any time for non-approved car parts? What if that contract said that replacing the stereo was illegal? And if the contract said that dismantling the engine was a breach of contract? What if the contract said that carrying passengers of a certain type voided the warranty?
As you can see, EULAs and car contracts are very different. Nobody would sign a car contract that had those restrictions, and contract law doesn't provide for companies to take away your basic rights like EULAs try to do all the time.
>Software is a product or service such as anything else, why is it so hard for people to understand this.
Because most other products in the world don't need laws to protect the companies from the consumer. ie: CBDTPA, DMCA, 100-year copyrights, you name it.
Normally its the other way around, the laws protect the consumer from the company (safe food handling, product liability, protection from being required to be on a spam list for sending in your warranty card, etc, etc).
Your definition of cynical is off.
Courtesy of dictionary.com:
cynical Pronunciation Key (sn-kl)
adj.
1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others: a cynical dismissal of the politician's promise to reform the campaign finance system.
2. Selfishly or callously calculating: showed a cynical disregard for the safety of his troops in his efforts to advance his reputation.
3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness: a cynical view of the average voter's intelligence.
4. Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity: cynical laughter.
Definition 4 fits, and so does the latter half of definition 1. Also definition 3 fits. One could even work it so definition 2 fits.
I've been called cynical before, by a teacher of all people. I've never once cursed the teacher or anything like that. I only explained the reason I was missing at an awards ceremony (where I was awarded one) was because my past experience had shown me that the awards weren't given for superiority in their separate categories, but due to classism.
I don't think about rape as normal (however coitus doesn't seem at all abnormal... it seems to me without that none of us would exist, no?). I'm just a little more jaded towards the motives of society than others.
Mayabe the examinator havening been named George problem ??
Or maybe too bee probeleme off brain workening not correct?
:-)
Just modify it for the name of your software and adapt the control sequences to whatever suits your software (like clicks, or command line arguments).
>Yes, the GPL grants permissions, but it also takes away rights, such as the right to first sale of binary-only copies.
No, the GPL gives you the right to resell the software as you please, with a small exception. If you chose to receive the software in an incomplete manner (ie: Without the sourcecode) this does render your copy unsaleable. However, in the real world (tm), it is also a hard sale to sell an incomplete item (try selling books missing their cover and see how fast you get in trouble).
If you do have the complete sofware the GPL grants you the freedom to resell it as you choose.
The limited circumstance mentioned above is rendered moot by the fact that there is no purpose in accepting the GPL unless the source has been included with the software, unless you wish to make copies, in which case you have moved beyond your first-sale rights anyways. You can still use the software with the full rights copyright grants you by default without accepting the license, thereby enabling you to sell the software in an original, unmodified, binary only, first sale fashion, like books.
Just my two cents.
>and nothing is wrong with it except for Microsoft did it
And we wouldn't complain if they would simply stop lieing and tell the government that you can strip windows of Internet Explorer.
Since when did a KDE zealot tell you that you had to run KDE to boot linux?
>What if he never uses them??
Then does he really have any place talking about them?
I don't know anything about building bridges, but then again, I don't tell people how to build them.
If I said you could build a bridge with toothpicks and expect cars to run on it, would you not call me a fool?
That's www.nebulink.net. :-(
Nebulink works with linux and supports most any DVB card (USB, PCI, ISA, whatever you want). If you are looking for an open solution (hey, this is slashdot!), that would fit the bill.
Also, unlike most other satellite internet services, Nebulink is upfront with their limitations. You'll get 8 gigs transfer maximum for $55 US/month at whatever speed is available on their satellite, whereas most other satellite services randomly throttle your speed. Not to mention the hardware costs are generally significantly lower (used take-away BUD $FREE, DVB adapter $199).
Your return trip times (read: web browsing) on Nebulink are faster since a modem uplink is lower latency than a satellite uplink.
I'm not advertising (well, maybe I am indirectly), I'm just a satisfied customer who wrote an onofficial (and badly in need of fixing) how-to!
>you've still gotta fire up a mail client if you want to reply (which I usually do).
If you're desperate try this:
telnet mail.xyz.com 25
helo
mail from: blah@xyz.com
rcpt to: foo@xyz.com
data
This is my test mail!
Signed,
George
.
quit
[That might have been a little incorrect, I don't send mail that way too often since you have to type everything perfectly the first time! No backspaces!]
Non-Parity memory outlawed due to the risk of alpha particles bit flipping true-type fonts!