If it comes down to your word against theirs, whose word do you think the judge is going to believe? Look what happened to the guy who tried to pay with $2 bills -- who did the cops believe then?
You're mixing up two different things here. A judge's job is figure out what happened. The police officer's job is to assess the situation and act on what he believes is going on. After he has done what he believes is the right thing, it's up to the judge to call in the witnesses and get it all sorted out.
Pardon my bluntness, but you're rationalizing NOT putting a feature in that some people need. That's bullshit.
That's what you have to do with any project. If you can find a rational reason not to do something, and it outweighs the reasons to do it, then you make the decision to not. In this case it seems the developers have considered platform neutrality to be more important that implementing ActiveX.
That's even more interesting, because depending on the font, it may be have to be transformed into Postscript first. At this point, you're no longer redistributing the font at all, just a series of vectors that make text LOOK like that font. From earlier posts, I've gathered that you can't actually copyright the typeface itself. Where are we now?
ISPs know that widespread consumer adoption of high speed internet is ONLY fueled by three things: video, music, and games.
Many years back when we first got DSL in town, the ISP had a huge launch party. They had a computer hooked up to a projector, and showed off a few demos to show how fast the service was (180Kb/s was really fast in the 56kbit days). After the demos, one of the presenters got up and said "Now, check out how fast we can get stuff from Napster!" Loads up Napster and starts pulling down PILES of music at the same time.
Funny you say that. I was at a strip club in Calgary and they actually made up a really neat game with coins. Basically, after the show, the strippers would stick "prizes" to her and then if you could knock it off with a loonie or a twonie, you got to keep it. Plus, if you got it, she's come around afterwards and give you an autographed poster and stuff.
Oh, come on! The original poster might have been overzealous when pointing out the shortcomings of Linux permissions-wise, but the statement above is blatently untrue. You can set up groups in Windows just the same as in Linux, and you can most certainly give each group whatever strange unique permissions you want to-- both in the filesystem and in the registry.
Yes, this is true. However, it's practiced considerably less often in Windows environments. If everyone properly configured these fine-grained permissions, then things would probably run a lot smoother.
PS, our school seems doomed to place 3rd or 4th every year, foiled by those pesky canadians yet again:) Some day, when you aren't paying attention though we'll get you. Some day. Or maybe I should just go to canada when I finally decide to go back to grad school
What school/region? We also do it pretty much in spare time. It's a fun way to hone the skills.
Still you only need two recievers to triangulate a position, the third point is the source.
Not true. Grab a piece of paper. Draw three dots on it, preferably in a triangle and not in a straight line. Pick one of them to be the source, and the other two to be the APs. Grab a compass (or just do it by hand) and draw a circle who's centre is at one of the access points, and who's radius touches the source. Do the same for the other AP. You'll notice that these two circles intersect in two places, resulting in an ambiguity.
If you throw a third AP into the mix though, you'll see that all three of them intersect at the same spot, the signal source.
For getting a measurement in n-dimensions, you need n+1 sources. That's why GPS needs to see at least 4 satellites to figure out your position in 3D.
Perhaps Shaw down east offers similar services to compete with the Bell Naked DSL? I know SaskTel and Shaw are constantly mirroring each others service types here
This story actually shocked me that it's even an issue. In Canada it's pretty much a given that since your DSL comes over the phone line, you'd have to have an active phone line to get it.
Where I live (smaller area), there's two broadband providers. The phone company, SaskTel, who requires you to have a voice line, and Shaw, who requires you to have basic cable.
Sounds like you haven't put an unpatched windows XP machine on the internet. Generally, you get blaster or a variant within the first 20 minutes, unless your ISP is actively blocking inbound connections on those ports.
I noticed that I had much better colour (indicating that before I was suffering from signal degradation), and the lines displayed by my TV were sharper.
My empirical observations have proven your physics theory to be false;
Do you have those plots handy? What device were you using to measure colour and sharpness? Without hard numbers, it's really difficult to show that you weren't actually just really excited about the really expensive cables you just bought and tricked yourself into thinking that they were better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the cables might not have a better picture.
There is also capacitance and inductance to take into account. Video sits around 4MHz (off the top of my head). At frequencies like that you can definitely have cable effects too, which essentially results in a low-pass filter. This would attenuate the more subtle details (edge sharpness for example).
Failure to accept the GPL in the first place and then using the software without a license would probably constitute a copyright violation.
This is a point that many people mess up. The nature of GPL software is that you can use it for whatever you want, whether or not you accept the license. It's been distributed to you free of charge by the copyright holder (or an authorized redistributor).
What you can't do is redistribute it (with or without changes) without following the GPL. This is also the nature of copyright. The GPL is a redistribution license, granting you an option that you don't have under normal copyright law. If you choose to not accept it, that's fine, except you no longer have any right to redistribute the software.
GP: But Alcohol is probably more responsible than marijuana is
P: What?? I have no idea what you mean by that. Have you ever seen anyone get violent after smoking too many joints? I've seen it plenty of times with booze.
I think the GP meant that Alcohol is more responsible for societal problems than marijuana is.
GP: the problem is, alcohol has been legal too long, they can't make it illegal... but I bet if they could, they would.
P: You need a lesson in history I think. They tried that once already you know..
And when they did it in the past, it was a huge failure. Either way, alcohol is a huge cash cow in Canada (as far as I understand). In Saskatchewan, for example, most liquor sales are handled through government-run liquor board stores. Provincially it would be suicide for a party to close all of these stores.
That ignored the premise. The premise was the case, under which the vast majority of file sharing falls, that the person who downloads the file would *not* have purchased it otherwise. I asked for who is the victim in such a situation.
You have to consider the basis of copyright. In order to create incentive for a person to make an artistic work, they are given the exclusive right to distribute it (or not distribute it) for a length of time, after which the work enters the public domain. If you accept that the creator of a given work should have this exclusive privelege, then they are the victim in the situation you are describing.
Whether or not there's any loss of revenue involved is irrelevant; my rights as a creator have been violated.
Do I think that the current timespan for this exclusive right are valid? No. I believe that works should enter the public domain sooner. This would put more incentive on content creators to make more works, which would eventually end up in the public domain for everyone's benefit.
For future reference, the proper name for the computer you are using is an eMac,
Given that he said it was a laptop, I have a distinct feeling that you are in fact the one who is mistaken. Also, the fact that it has a keyboard port is a sure indication that it's not an Apple product.
I'm asking this as an honest question: don't switching power supplies do AC->DC conversion? I think the inversion process is considerably less efficient. I could be wrong though.
Transformers have inherent losses, and require AC. Solar cells AFAIK put out out DC. The net result is a huge loss of efficiency (inverting DC to AC, stepping up through transformers).
You don't really need to setup MS passport , but most people seeing it thought it was, or were to indifferent to ignore it.
It really helped how it popped up every 20 minutes, "HEY! You could be the proud owner of a FREE passport account!!!" in those little speech bubbles. Makes it hard to ignore, especially when you know that if you go through the process that damn bubble will go away.
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If it comes down to your word against theirs, whose word do you think the judge is going to believe? Look what happened to the guy who tried to pay with $2 bills -- who did the cops believe then?
You're mixing up two different things here. A judge's job is figure out what happened. The police officer's job is to assess the situation and act on what he believes is going on. After he has done what he believes is the right thing, it's up to the judge to call in the witnesses and get it all sorted out.
Pardon my bluntness, but you're rationalizing NOT putting a feature in that some people need. That's bullshit.
That's what you have to do with any project. If you can find a rational reason not to do something, and it outweighs the reasons to do it, then you make the decision to not. In this case it seems the developers have considered platform neutrality to be more important that implementing ActiveX.
That's even more interesting, because depending on the font, it may be have to be transformed into Postscript first. At this point, you're no longer redistributing the font at all, just a series of vectors that make text LOOK like that font. From earlier posts, I've gathered that you can't actually copyright the typeface itself. Where are we now?
Since all the other replies to this have been useless...
Apparently he was figuring out how it all worked based solely on the file formats that it wrote, without using the software himself.
ISPs know that widespread consumer adoption of high speed internet is ONLY fueled by three things: video, music, and games.
Many years back when we first got DSL in town, the ISP had a huge launch party. They had a computer hooked up to a projector, and showed off a few demos to show how fast the service was (180Kb/s was really fast in the 56kbit days). After the demos, one of the presenters got up and said "Now, check out how fast we can get stuff from Napster!" Loads up Napster and starts pulling down PILES of music at the same time.
Good thing they didn't add the word 'INDUSTRIAL' or it would be an extra $2000...
:)
Like... Cisco
No, because strippers don't like coins.
Funny you say that. I was at a strip club in Calgary and they actually made up a really neat game with coins. Basically, after the show, the strippers would stick "prizes" to her and then if you could knock it off with a loonie or a twonie, you got to keep it. Plus, if you got it, she's come around afterwards and give you an autographed poster and stuff.
Oh, come on! The original poster might have been overzealous when pointing out the shortcomings of Linux permissions-wise, but the statement above is blatently untrue. You can set up groups in Windows just the same as in Linux, and you can most certainly give each group whatever strange unique permissions you want to-- both in the filesystem and in the registry.
Yes, this is true. However, it's practiced considerably less often in Windows environments. If everyone properly configured these fine-grained permissions, then things would probably run a lot smoother.
PS, our school seems doomed to place 3rd or 4th every year, foiled by those pesky canadians yet again :) Some day, when you aren't paying attention though we'll get you. Some day. Or maybe I should just go to canada when I finally decide to go back to grad school
What school/region? We also do it pretty much in spare time. It's a fun way to hone the skills.
Still you only need two recievers to triangulate a position, the third point is the source.
Not true. Grab a piece of paper. Draw three dots on it, preferably in a triangle and not in a straight line. Pick one of them to be the source, and the other two to be the APs. Grab a compass (or just do it by hand) and draw a circle who's centre is at one of the access points, and who's radius touches the source. Do the same for the other AP. You'll notice that these two circles intersect in two places, resulting in an ambiguity.
If you throw a third AP into the mix though, you'll see that all three of them intersect at the same spot, the signal source.
For getting a measurement in n-dimensions, you need n+1 sources. That's why GPS needs to see at least 4 satellites to figure out your position in 3D.
Perhaps Shaw down east offers similar services to compete with the Bell Naked DSL? I know SaskTel and Shaw are constantly mirroring each others service types here
This story actually shocked me that it's even an issue. In Canada it's pretty much a given that since your DSL comes over the phone line, you'd have to have an active phone line to get it.
Where I live (smaller area), there's two broadband providers. The phone company, SaskTel, who requires you to have a voice line, and Shaw, who requires you to have basic cable.
Sounds like you haven't put an unpatched windows XP machine on the internet. Generally, you get blaster or a variant within the first 20 minutes, unless your ISP is actively blocking inbound connections on those ports.
I noticed that I had much better colour (indicating that before I was suffering from signal degradation), and the lines displayed by my TV were sharper.
My empirical observations have proven your physics theory to be false;
Do you have those plots handy? What device were you using to measure colour and sharpness? Without hard numbers, it's really difficult to show that you weren't actually just really excited about the really expensive cables you just bought and tricked yourself into thinking that they were better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the cables might not have a better picture.
There is also capacitance and inductance to take into account. Video sits around 4MHz (off the top of my head). At frequencies like that you can definitely have cable effects too, which essentially results in a low-pass filter. This would attenuate the more subtle details (edge sharpness for example).
Failure to accept the GPL in the first place and then using the software without a license would probably constitute a copyright violation.
This is a point that many people mess up. The nature of GPL software is that you can use it for whatever you want, whether or not you accept the license. It's been distributed to you free of charge by the copyright holder (or an authorized redistributor).
What you can't do is redistribute it (with or without changes) without following the GPL. This is also the nature of copyright. The GPL is a redistribution license, granting you an option that you don't have under normal copyright law. If you choose to not accept it, that's fine, except you no longer have any right to redistribute the software.
GP: But Alcohol is probably more responsible than marijuana is
P: What?? I have no idea what you mean by that. Have you ever seen anyone get violent after smoking too many joints? I've seen it plenty of times with booze.
I think the GP meant that Alcohol is more responsible for societal problems than marijuana is.
GP: the problem is, alcohol has been legal too long, they can't make it illegal... but I bet if they could, they would.
P: You need a lesson in history I think. They tried that once already you know..
And when they did it in the past, it was a huge failure. Either way, alcohol is a huge cash cow in Canada (as far as I understand). In Saskatchewan, for example, most liquor sales are handled through government-run liquor board stores. Provincially it would be suicide for a party to close all of these stores.
Well that's really good to hear
Crap. Forgot to preview. Sorry about the formatting.
That ignored the premise. The premise was the case, under which the vast majority of file sharing falls, that the person who downloads the file would *not* have purchased it otherwise. I asked for who is the victim in such a situation. You have to consider the basis of copyright. In order to create incentive for a person to make an artistic work, they are given the exclusive right to distribute it (or not distribute it) for a length of time, after which the work enters the public domain. If you accept that the creator of a given work should have this exclusive privelege, then they are the victim in the situation you are describing. Whether or not there's any loss of revenue involved is irrelevant; my rights as a creator have been violated. Do I think that the current timespan for this exclusive right are valid? No. I believe that works should enter the public domain sooner. This would put more incentive on content creators to make more works, which would eventually end up in the public domain for everyone's benefit.
For future reference, the proper name for the computer you are using is an eMac,
Given that he said it was a laptop, I have a distinct feeling that you are in fact the one who is mistaken. Also, the fact that it has a keyboard port is a sure indication that it's not an Apple product.
Thanks a bunch for that clarification
I'm asking this as an honest question: don't switching power supplies do AC->DC conversion? I think the inversion process is considerably less efficient. I could be wrong though.
Transformers have inherent losses, and require AC. Solar cells AFAIK put out out DC. The net result is a huge loss of efficiency (inverting DC to AC, stepping up through transformers).
In ten years, fiberoptics may be cheap and all copper networking obsolete. What then?
:)
Then you tie the fibre to the Cat5 lines, and pull it through for an easy upgrade
You don't really need to setup MS passport , but most people seeing it thought it was, or were to indifferent to ignore it.
It really helped how it popped up every 20 minutes, "HEY! You could be the proud owner of a FREE passport account!!!" in those little speech bubbles. Makes it hard to ignore, especially when you know that if you go through the process that damn bubble will go away.