Uh, this doesn't make any sense. Either it is GPLed, or you cannot sell the product. But if it is GPLed, then it's still GPLed for commercial products. *All* GPL apps can be sold by any license holder. They just have to license it under the GPL. That is the point. That is why people call it "viral." I realize that their answers are confusing... but "The Free Edition is intended for free software" does not mean free of charge. It means GPLed software. You can use the free edition and release things under the GPL.
The point to the commercial license is that you can distribute your product without releasing source code. Two different issues.
Yes, yes he can be very clueless about how other people think. He doesn't understand why people are upset with his company. He doesn't understand why people might not like his product. Some people have suggested that he seems a little autistic.
Fortunately for him, he has done a number of things to overcome these issues. He's usually burried the people that don't like his company, and improved his product so that most people like it.
Sure,.biz sounds sleazy... but so does Neulevel. Clearly sleaze is not a barrier of entry for these people. I'm sure the CRM and spam folks will dig it too.
Gee, well, that's why I don't actually do that with my laptop. I don't even have a laptop. I was kidding. And I'm not in an airport, so that's ok. Relax.
And I guess I might be wrong about the window blow out downing the plane. I thought there was a plane that went down in the mid nineties due to a slightly ajar baggage door that came off and tore the pressure tube. You couldn't get as much mileage from the collateral damage from the window?
In my many... uh... months of using Bearshare, I don't think I ever once saw a query list that was as clean as the one in their screenshot. I only count four porn searches, and none of them have anything obscene in the query. Nice job, guys.
Daft Punk was *always* about being the thing that they parody. Read this review. He seems to get it. Also, "One More Time" is more subversive than anything else they've done. It's *fantastic*. Sure, it sounds silly at first. So listen again, watch the four videos, and read this review.
Gosh, you've gotten 11 replies so far, and no one has mentioned the few things that I like about XP. There are a couple UI improvements that make my life *so* much better. First off, if you have a million windows open, it consolidates them on the taskbar into menus by application. If you have a cluttered task bar, this is great.
Also, most common contextual menu options are visible as a sidebar in explorer windows. This can be handy.
But best of all! You can switch users! It's excellent! I don't mean you can log out and log in as someone else, but rather you can log in a second time, and the first user's applications are still running in the background. I can't tell you how annoying it used to be to have to stop listening to music, log off of IM, and lose all my IE windows if I wanted to muck around as administrator. I realize, this feature could have/should have been here since NT4, but it wasn't.
But I'm not going to kid you. I run it in "Windows Classic" mode 'cause the flat theme just isn't done right in all applications. Aside from these few things (and the driver rollback that I haven't used yet) there's not much improvement. It's definitely still the same OS. Do what you like.
This has got to be a troll. Congress is off the entertainment industry's back because anything like that would be unconstitutional. What they do is make vague threats whenever they don't like violence in movies or cursing in rap lyrics, and the entertainment industry jumps in line. The motion picture ratings people rate things in a much more restrictive manner than the government could ever imagine. Just ask Britain. When "Eyes Wide Shut" came out in the US, they digitally altered the footage to make it R, rather than NC17. In Britain, they released it as it was, and they have a government censor. I really would have liked to see Eyes Wide Shut the way that Kubrik had planned. This ability was taken away by the MPRB. I *hate* our ratings system.
I knew that Mozilla was a fantastic project, and I always understood how it might have huge value for whomever wanted to adopt it. The one thing that I didn't see was how AOL was going to make money off of it. Seeing as how they're the ones bankrolling the developement right now.This seems to make it all clear. They wanted Mozilla available as an alternative to IE if they ever needed to part ways with MS.
This is a variant of the famous Turing Test, proposed by the eponymous researcher, which says that we can consider machines intelligent when they can converse convincingly.
Uh, no. That is exactly not the Turing Test. The whole "critical observer" part of the Turing Test makes it a little more strenuous than "can talk about the weather."
No, no it won't. The Crusoe chip will only go places that we need x86 instructions. There is no reason that we need x86 instructions on a cell phone, PDA, or car stereo. All of those can use strongARMs, DSPs, and other cheaper solutions.
Okay guys, how come the parent got modded down as offtopic, but all of the children are +5 interesting? If the parent is offtopic, and the children are in response to the parent, what can we deduct from the situation? Are you modding down because of a difference in opinion?
I can't imagine that the RIAA would ever let someone make a hardware MP3 player that's reprogrammable. They were upset enough that you could download the MP3s back off the RIO device, even when it wasn't supported by RIO. Imagine what those Free Software wackos will do if they can reprogram the whole unit. It'd be anarchy.
Uh, keep in mind that "Support from Nullsoft" != "Support from AOL." Of course, Nullsoft is a little part of AOL. Nullsoft has definitely done things that AOL would never do. Even while it's been a part of AOL.
It reminds me a little of Miramax, although Nullsoft never did anything like this: "We made this movie called 'Kids' but we can't release it because it's NC-17. Oh, what shall we do? Such is the plight of an artist owned by Disney. Oh me, oh my." And then finally selling it for twice what it was worth after hyping it for long enough.
- 2) Over the past year, several of us received explicit permission from Lutris to use InstantDB without payment. We have proceeded on that assurance. I don't believe Lutris can unilaterally and arbitrarily rescind that. Nor do I think Lutris can limit that approval to those to whom it was explicitly extended.
Uh, can we get a lawyer in here? If I'm not completely insane, it sounds like *any* venture that was operating under the understanding that InstantDB would be available free of charge could absolutely sue Lutris for the cost of migration? I imagine that this will not happen, just because the cost of migration will probably be a lot less than the cost of legal action. Isn't Lutris responsible for these sorts of assurances? Hell, is there a case for fraud?
I realize that the answer to all of these questions might be "no" but I don't see why.
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Uh, this doesn't make any sense. Either it is GPLed, or you cannot sell the product. But if it is GPLed, then it's still GPLed for commercial products. *All* GPL apps can be sold by any license holder. They just have to license it under the GPL. That is the point. That is why people call it "viral." I realize that their answers are confusing... but "The Free Edition is intended for free software" does not mean free of charge. It means GPLed software. You can use the free edition and release things under the GPL.
The point to the commercial license is that you can distribute your product without releasing source code. Two different issues.
Gee, were you trolling?
If, by "US" you mean "North and South America, Europe, Australia, most of Asia and Africa," then yes, that's funny parallel.
Yes, yes he can be very clueless about how other people think. He doesn't understand why people are upset with his company. He doesn't understand why people might not like his product. Some people have suggested that he seems a little autistic.
Fortunately for him, he has done a number of things to overcome these issues. He's usually burried the people that don't like his company, and improved his product so that most people like it.
Sure, .biz sounds sleazy... but so does Neulevel. Clearly sleaze is not a barrier of entry for these people. I'm sure the CRM and spam folks will dig it too.
Well, it's convenient that we don't have to compare PPCs and x86s at the same clock speed.
Gee, well, that's why I don't actually do that with my laptop. I don't even have a laptop. I was kidding. And I'm not in an airport, so that's ok. Relax.
And I guess I might be wrong about the window blow out downing the plane. I thought there was a plane that went down in the mid nineties due to a slightly ajar baggage door that came off and tore the pressure tube. You couldn't get as much mileage from the collateral damage from the window?
In my many... uh... months of using Bearshare, I don't think I ever once saw a query list that was as clean as the one in their screenshot. I only count four porn searches, and none of them have anything obscene in the query. Nice job, guys.
This is why I use Active Desktop to make my computer boot up and look like a bomb timer.
You can hold enough plastique in your shirt pocket to blow out a window and crash a plane. All this shiznit is a waste of our time.
Who's to blame for not being able to play QuickTime Movies in Linux?
Apple's answer: Sorenson
Sorenson's answer: Apple
Sorenson would be happy to make a Linux codec, but they done sold an exclusive license to Apple. So. Talk to Apple.
Daft Punk was *always* about being the thing that they parody. Read this review. He seems to get it. Also, "One More Time" is more subversive than anything else they've done. It's *fantastic*. Sure, it sounds silly at first. So listen again, watch the four videos, and read this review.
GI Joe. Some have accused them of trying to make the villains have arab features. Iduno.
Gosh, you've gotten 11 replies so far, and no one has mentioned the few things that I like about XP. There are a couple UI improvements that make my life *so* much better. First off, if you have a million windows open, it consolidates them on the taskbar into menus by application. If you have a cluttered task bar, this is great.
Also, most common contextual menu options are visible as a sidebar in explorer windows. This can be handy.
But best of all! You can switch users! It's excellent! I don't mean you can log out and log in as someone else, but rather you can log in a second time, and the first user's applications are still running in the background. I can't tell you how annoying it used to be to have to stop listening to music, log off of IM, and lose all my IE windows if I wanted to muck around as administrator. I realize, this feature could have/should have been here since NT4, but it wasn't.
But I'm not going to kid you. I run it in "Windows Classic" mode 'cause the flat theme just isn't done right in all applications. Aside from these few things (and the driver rollback that I haven't used yet) there's not much improvement. It's definitely still the same OS. Do what you like.
This has got to be a troll. Congress is off the entertainment industry's back because anything like that would be unconstitutional. What they do is make vague threats whenever they don't like violence in movies or cursing in rap lyrics, and the entertainment industry jumps in line. The motion picture ratings people rate things in a much more restrictive manner than the government could ever imagine. Just ask Britain. When "Eyes Wide Shut" came out in the US, they digitally altered the footage to make it R, rather than NC17. In Britain, they released it as it was, and they have a government censor. I really would have liked to see Eyes Wide Shut the way that Kubrik had planned. This ability was taken away by the MPRB. I *hate* our ratings system.
Mod parent up? Even if it's +1, No soul. It's still interesting.
I knew that Mozilla was a fantastic project, and I always understood how it might have huge value for whomever wanted to adopt it. The one thing that I didn't see was how AOL was going to make money off of it. Seeing as how they're the ones bankrolling the developement right now.This seems to make it all clear. They wanted Mozilla available as an alternative to IE if they ever needed to part ways with MS.
Interesting.
Just to nitpick, most Slashdot users:
1) Don't post to forums
2) View Slashdot with Internet Explorer
This is a variant of the famous Turing Test, proposed by the eponymous researcher, which says that we can consider machines intelligent when they can converse convincingly.
Uh, no. That is exactly not the Turing Test. The whole "critical observer" part of the Turing Test makes it a little more strenuous than "can talk about the weather."
*More* impressed? Wouldn't telling them that they might be interacting with a computer make them more critical and thus harder to fool?
Why would this make you more impressed? Maybe I just don't follow...
Especially since we're now allowed to patent business models...
Yeah, I know, -1 Redundant
No, no it won't. The Crusoe chip will only go places that we need x86 instructions. There is no reason that we need x86 instructions on a cell phone, PDA, or car stereo. All of those can use strongARMs, DSPs, and other cheaper solutions.
Okay guys, how come the parent got modded down as offtopic, but all of the children are +5 interesting? If the parent is offtopic, and the children are in response to the parent, what can we deduct from the situation? Are you modding down because of a difference in opinion?
I can't imagine that the RIAA would ever let someone make a hardware MP3 player that's reprogrammable. They were upset enough that you could download the MP3s back off the RIO device, even when it wasn't supported by RIO. Imagine what those Free Software wackos will do if they can reprogram the whole unit. It'd be anarchy.
Uh, keep in mind that "Support from Nullsoft" != "Support from AOL." Of course, Nullsoft is a little part of AOL. Nullsoft has definitely done things that AOL would never do. Even while it's been a part of AOL.
It reminds me a little of Miramax, although Nullsoft never did anything like this: "We made this movie called 'Kids' but we can't release it because it's NC-17. Oh, what shall we do? Such is the plight of an artist owned by Disney. Oh me, oh my." And then finally selling it for twice what it was worth after hyping it for long enough.
One quote from one of the emails:
- 2) Over the past year, several of us received explicit permission from Lutris to use InstantDB without payment. We have proceeded on that assurance. I don't believe Lutris can unilaterally and arbitrarily rescind that. Nor do I think Lutris can limit that approval to those to whom it was explicitly extended.
Uh, can we get a lawyer in here? If I'm not completely insane, it sounds like *any* venture that was operating under the understanding that InstantDB would be available free of charge could absolutely sue Lutris for the cost of migration? I imagine that this will not happen, just because the cost of migration will probably be a lot less than the cost of legal action. Isn't Lutris responsible for these sorts of assurances? Hell, is there a case for fraud?
I realize that the answer to all of these questions might be "no" but I don't see why.