You can't have it both ways -- I'm either paying for the software license (in which case I have the right to make a backup or archival copy and they don't have the right to include technology that stops me from doing this) or I'm paying for the CD itself. And if I'm paying for the CD itself then it ought to cost a few bucks -- not $50. Actually you can. What if what they are sellling you is a package deal-- one cd with the license to use the CD. You can't buy the CD outside of the package, and you can't buy the software outside of the package. Fair use laws would probably allow backups even in this case, however, they would be in no obligation to sell you another CD without the license (because you already own the license, from your scratched copy). So you are partially right, you are legally allowed to make a backup. However, legally, they are under no obligation to make it easy. Standard disclaimers apply-- IANAL
I think it is even easier than that. For every configuration item, come up with a good guess. Then in the dialog to change it, present a simple list of the options which joe-user can be expected to understand (hm, do i want big icon or small icons?). Then, down in the corner, put a little checkbox labeled 'advanced'. If they click it, they get the 'tweaker' box.
It should be possible to make a run anywhere application on linux that will run on windows-- for the most part. Of course, details like file path formats are different between the platforms, so in certain cases a little mojo might be needed to work. Actually, it is mostly a case of 'best practices' and assuming nothing about the user's configuration (i.e. don't guess whether they have windows installed on C:\, find out. Don't guess that their home directory is/home/blah, use the objects given to you and find out).
As far as the UI libs go, a lot of the time, they are going to have bindings into native code-- but that is something the libraries handle for you. So assuming your qt library or whatever has linux and windows support, it should work on both platform. Obviously, if a coder screws up one side or the other, there will be issues, but that can be said of any kind of multiplatform development-- or any development at all.
I'm sorry for the moderation, really, but it is out of my control. I dug around and actually found the speech (google wasn't helpful, but someone I know actually had a link to speech-- the title indicated that it was about homeownership, but that was only the first half or so), and you're right, it does specifically mention broadband (specifically, not taxing broadband, and providing stimulus to the broadband sector [which I guess would mean subsidies to companies to provide broadband in traditionally unprofitable markets]).
Well, even though the article title and the/. write up say broadband, the only actual statement they provide from GWB is for 'high speed internet' (unless I missed something). Keep in mind that earthlink considers themselves high speed internet. Heck, I think even some aol commercials boast being high speed.
I haven't read the actual speech, so I could be wrong, but I think he called for something even more loosely defined than 'broadband'. He could just be talking about some kind of nationwide 56k dialup scheme. It is unlikely he actually knows, or that any of the people adivising him actually know (and I'm not just saying that because it is Bush-- there are very few technically saavy politicians at all). They probably just took a poll and said, "Gee, people want faster internet. I wonder how we can make this work for us."
This may seem like the typical knee jerk pro linux reponse, but I'll let you in on why I use linux.
I don't play games anymore, I'm too busy. I'm sure if I did, I could find some that played on linux (I used to be a halflife fiend, and I know lots of people who run that under WineX; or maybe UT2004).
My linux system is stable, and is a great development platform for the kind of work I do.
When I need a program to do something, I type one line, wait a bit, and it is installed. In order to uninstall it, I type one more line.
It has everything I need-- development tools, internet utilities (browsers, ftp, IM, ssh, etc), word processors, lots of scientic tools.
I like KDE and GNOME both more than I like the windows ui, but slightly less than I like the ui in os x.
As far as hardware support, I don't own anything that isn't supported. This isn't because I don't buy things linux doesn't support, it is because I built the machine, booted it up and everything "just worked." My friend has the same sound card as me (a sound blaster variant) and couldn't find drivers for it for anything less than windows XP.
That's another thing. When linux upgrades, it doesn't cost me $200s to upgrade with it.
A certain popular open source unix operating system. The one that is way more secure than Windows, much lighter on resources, but has a few usability issues to hammer out.
I've observed that any thread long enough will eventually include a comment about Bush. Really, how is this relevant? Microsoft didn't learn this from Bush-- microsoft has been doing this for a long, long time. Furthermore, do you really think whoever happens to be president at any given moment has anything to do with how marketing departments behave?
It isn't that the program only produced pictures. It is that it went through a complete design phase, plus the construction of several major components for testing, before the project got killed. A large part of why it was killed was that they couldn't get the components they built to perform to the tolerances they needed with current technology.
OMG. How long until Kerry commercials are ruled obscene and banned from the airwaves? Everything is propaganda! Run for it. The cheerios commercials have subliminal ads in them! RRRRAAAAAAAASSSSKKKKKK!!!~~1
In general, you are right. However, in the context of ecma standards, they have to declare their patent and intent to license in the draft if they intend to do so. It isn't the law in general that would nullify their patent, it is their agreement (think contract law) with the ecma.
Having read significant parts of ecma 334 & 335, I see no notification of patent retention. However, it should be noted that HP, Intel and Microsoft (which implies that HP and Intel also own some of the associated patents-- generally, only the IP owners are creditied as inventors in these standards) jointly submitted 334 and that if a judge construed the lack of a patent declaration in the standard to be misleading to people using the standard, then their patent could be ruled effectively void.
Bytecode is a _very_ old concept (well, by CS standards). I have a textbook which contains the source to a bytecode interpreter for a PDP11. I agree that the downfall of C has been/is incorrectly forecasted-- a language like C doesn't die, though within another few eons, it will probably at least fade away:P. And of course, VMs are as old as the first legacy support breaking big iron upgrades.
especially since there are already superior non-MS systems out there that puts.net to shame. I mistrust anyone who makes such sweeping generalities about anything. Superior? Superior for what?
And I think a lot of people really would be interested in what these systems are. We've all made the.NET to java comparision, I think. Are you suggesting something more esoteric or just something that is much different than.NET?
MS has given everyone license to implement every part of C# and.NET except for the Microsoft namespace of the class library. They have given up their right to sue people who use.NET or make.NET compatible implementations. The evidence isn't on their side.
All audio equipment-- analog or digital-- loses information/quality when capturing/reproducing a signal. In vinyl, it is lost due to mechanical processes in the lathe and in the turntable, as well as in the electronic equipment used to record and master the audio. Also, any professional mastering to tape, vinyl or cd is going to include a filtering process, because even higher/lower frequencies than can be heard can still interact with the waveforms you are actually trying to get (i.e. in the audible range).
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to be on topic though, wouldn't intercal have been a better choice for comedic value?
You can't have it both ways -- I'm either paying for the software license (in which case I have the right to make a backup or archival copy and they don't have the right to include technology that stops me from doing this) or I'm paying for the CD itself. And if I'm paying for the CD itself then it ought to cost a few bucks -- not $50.
Actually you can. What if what they are sellling you is a package deal-- one cd with the license to use the CD. You can't buy the CD outside of the package, and you can't buy the software outside of the package. Fair use laws would probably allow backups even in this case, however, they would be in no obligation to sell you another CD without the license (because you already own the license, from your scratched copy). So you are partially right, you are legally allowed to make a backup. However, legally, they are under no obligation to make it easy. Standard disclaimers apply-- IANAL
it'll be safe to say it isn't the segway... :P
I think that's all I need to say.
I think it is even easier than that. For every configuration item, come up with a good guess. Then in the dialog to change it, present a simple list of the options which joe-user can be expected to understand (hm, do i want big icon or small icons?). Then, down in the corner, put a little checkbox labeled 'advanced'. If they click it, they get the 'tweaker' box.
It should be possible to make a run anywhere application on linux that will run on windows-- for the most part. Of course, details like file path formats are different between the platforms, so in certain cases a little mojo might be needed to work. Actually, it is mostly a case of 'best practices' and assuming nothing about the user's configuration (i.e. don't guess whether they have windows installed on C:\, find out. Don't guess that their home directory is /home/blah, use the objects given to you and find out).
As far as the UI libs go, a lot of the time, they are going to have bindings into native code-- but that is something the libraries handle for you. So assuming your qt library or whatever has linux and windows support, it should work on both platform. Obviously, if a coder screws up one side or the other, there will be issues, but that can be said of any kind of multiplatform development-- or any development at all.
I'm sorry for the moderation, really, but it is out of my control. I dug around and actually found the speech (google wasn't helpful, but someone I know actually had a link to speech-- the title indicated that it was about homeownership, but that was only the first half or so), and you're right, it does specifically mention broadband (specifically, not taxing broadband, and providing stimulus to the broadband sector [which I guess would mean subsidies to companies to provide broadband in traditionally unprofitable markets]).
Can I donate my karma to charity?
Well, even though the article title and the /. write up say broadband, the only actual statement they provide from GWB is for 'high speed internet' (unless I missed something). Keep in mind that earthlink considers themselves high speed internet. Heck, I think even some aol commercials boast being high speed.
I haven't read the actual speech, so I could be wrong, but I think he called for something even more loosely defined than 'broadband'. He could just be talking about some kind of nationwide 56k dialup scheme. It is unlikely he actually knows, or that any of the people adivising him actually know (and I'm not just saying that because it is Bush-- there are very few technically saavy politicians at all). They probably just took a poll and said, "Gee, people want faster internet. I wonder how we can make this work for us."
Well, you know what they say. Vote with your packets.
This may seem like the typical knee jerk pro linux reponse, but I'll let you in on why I use linux.
I don't play games anymore, I'm too busy. I'm sure if I did, I could find some that played on linux (I used to be a halflife fiend, and I know lots of people who run that under WineX; or maybe UT2004).
My linux system is stable, and is a great development platform for the kind of work I do.
When I need a program to do something, I type one line, wait a bit, and it is installed. In order to uninstall it, I type one more line.
It has everything I need-- development tools, internet utilities (browsers, ftp, IM, ssh, etc), word processors, lots of scientic tools.
I like KDE and GNOME both more than I like the windows ui, but slightly less than I like the ui in os x.
As far as hardware support, I don't own anything that isn't supported. This isn't because I don't buy things linux doesn't support, it is because I built the machine, booted it up and everything "just worked." My friend has the same sound card as me (a sound blaster variant) and couldn't find drivers for it for anything less than windows XP.
That's another thing. When linux upgrades, it doesn't cost me $200s to upgrade with it.
A certain popular open source unix operating system. The one that is way more secure than Windows, much lighter on resources, but has a few usability issues to hammer out.
That's right...
OpenBSD!!
I've observed that any thread long enough will eventually include a comment about Bush. Really, how is this relevant? Microsoft didn't learn this from Bush-- microsoft has been doing this for a long, long time. Furthermore, do you really think whoever happens to be president at any given moment has anything to do with how marketing departments behave?
Yeah, there's totally no market for consoles that are pcs at heart.
It isn't that the program only produced pictures. It is that it went through a complete design phase, plus the construction of several major components for testing, before the project got killed. A large part of why it was killed was that they couldn't get the components they built to perform to the tolerances they needed with current technology.
so you're the guy who bought the minidisc player...
OMG. How long until Kerry commercials are ruled obscene and banned from the airwaves? Everything is propaganda! Run for it. The cheerios commercials have subliminal ads in them! RRRRAAAAAAAASSSSKKKKKK!!!~~1
And one of these days they'll fix the buggy capslock support too, eh?
In general, you are right. However, in the context of ecma standards, they have to declare their patent and intent to license in the draft if they intend to do so. It isn't the law in general that would nullify their patent, it is their agreement (think contract law) with the ecma.
Having read significant parts of ecma 334 & 335, I see no notification of patent retention. However, it should be noted that HP, Intel and Microsoft (which implies that HP and Intel also own some of the associated patents-- generally, only the IP owners are creditied as inventors in these standards) jointly submitted 334 and that if a judge construed the lack of a patent declaration in the standard to be misleading to people using the standard, then their patent could be ruled effectively void.
Bytecode is a _very_ old concept (well, by CS standards). I have a textbook which contains the source to a bytecode interpreter for a PDP11. I agree that the downfall of C has been/is incorrectly forecasted-- a language like C doesn't die, though within another few eons, it will probably at least fade away :P. And of course, VMs are as old as the first legacy support breaking big iron upgrades.
especially since there are already superior non-MS systems out there that puts .net to shame.
.NET to java comparision, I think. Are you suggesting something more esoteric or just something that is much different than .NET?
I mistrust anyone who makes such sweeping generalities about anything. Superior? Superior for what?
And I think a lot of people really would be interested in what these systems are. We've all made the
How?
.NET except for the Microsoft namespace of the class library. They have given up their right to sue people who use .NET or make .NET compatible implementations. The evidence isn't on their side.
MS has given everyone license to implement every part of C# and
Hint: ECMA.
All audio equipment-- analog or digital-- loses information/quality when capturing/reproducing a signal. In vinyl, it is lost due to mechanical processes in the lathe and in the turntable, as well as in the electronic equipment used to record and master the audio. Also, any professional mastering to tape, vinyl or cd is going to include a filtering process, because even higher/lower frequencies than can be heard can still interact with the waveforms you are actually trying to get (i.e. in the audible range).
people not on angel dust are pretty damn dangerous too, in case you haven't been paying attention...
Generally, RC planes don't have to navigate around rocks.
If yours does, you are probably flying it wrong.