For additionional fun, in the UK books are exempt from VAT (sales tax) but CDs aren't. So the "Free" CD adds 17.5% to the price of the book automatically.
Yes, yes. Obviously in the land of dreams that you inhabit unsolicited email advertisments are not spam. Back in the real world that's one of the most basic forms of spam.
The "I have changed my address" function is a feature; the "why not use our shitty products" bit is spam.
I don't know why I even bother typing things like this to MS zealots.
You have mis-read the article. There was no undertaking to not develop for Linux and none was requested by MS, the licence was for general development. MS's legal dept seems to simply changed its mind about being so liberal. Being as big and rich as MS is, they can rewrite contracts after they're signed and that's what they've done here.
I should have said "it's for playing DVDs", I admit. The point is that DeCSS is a (very) crap way of copying DVDs and that is not its purpose. No one would be stupid enough to use it for copying, it's only real use is for (ie, facilitating) playing.
A CD player is a vital piece of equipment for copying CDs, much moreso than DeCSS is for DVDs, but no one is trying to make them illegal, because they are for playing CDs.
I know you're a troll, but I'm bored./. has been minimizing the role of Inetlectual Property in business and in open source.
IP is the cornerstone of the GPL, in the form of copyright which it is based on. The abuse of IP is a real issue, probably too complex for you.
But, it is their right to control the flow of media from the game
Why? From what ethical basis does this right derive? What has media control to do with the organisation's legitimate role of organising the events? How do you, oh fuckwit, know that by posting your comment you are not in breach of some other imaginary "right" that the IOC has decided to claim?
It makes a copy of copyrighted material.
If you knew anything, shit for brains, you would know that it plays DVDs. It is of no more use for making a copy than a record player is for making tapes of records. But then, Trollus maximus, you knew that.
(i.e. only possibly going through virtual memory)
Ah, so you, the great arbiter, has decided that when your system copies the data to the HD as part of the playing process it's okay, but when DeCSS does it it's bad. Great logic, or at least as good as the rest of your drivel.
one must respect others IP rights by not taking illegal actions because one thinks it's okay.
So it's okay to depend on rights, but it's not okay to complain if anyone tries to take those rights away? Welcome to Nazi America.
On the one hand we have free software/information/systems. That includes most programming languages, the Net, Unix, TeX, the Web (and all its forerunners like Gopher etc.), and the output of the ACM and IEEE's publishing departments.
On the other hand the closed/secret side has MS Office and most computer games.
Much as I like playing Railroad Tycoon, I don't think its enough to outweigh the rest. Other people do not agree. The problem is that they, like lawyers, charge such large amounts for information that was free to them (lawyers and programmers are trained with library books and Journals, IME) that they can "pull the ladder up after themselves". Gates (or his money) has been instrumental in spreading the cloak of IP over the industry. While using the net, the web, the published algorithms of people interested in spreading ideas and all the rest of the "free software" movement to help the great Satan^H^H^H^H^H programmer along, of course.
Then you have fallen for the lawyer's line and you only have yourself to blame. Why should programmers be as big a bunch of assholes as lawyers?
The whole point of lawyers' "I even charge my friends" routine is to keep their information restricted; surely we want more people to know how to program and understand their computers, not less?
real prayer, which by definition is the most difficult thing a human being can set himself to.
Whose definitions? Not mine! Prayer, especially real prayer, is the ultimate cop-out.
The point that Gen3:22 makes is that god is concerned with keeping man a slave, rather than with sharing the universe with rivals. On that point, actually, the following 65 books frequently come back to this theme. Once we get to the writtings of Paul (who was clearly not a Christian in the sense that Jesus was) things become obsessive on man knowing his place (and with Paul, woman's place is always several steps below that).
The fact that I'm even writing this means that I've fallen into the classic theological trap: talking as if any of this was real. It's like discussing the character motivations of Lost in Space as if they explained current NASA policy.
we humans are manipulative, stupid, shortsighted, and with no innate sense of morals.
But we (or rather, you) are able to work our which of the world's "one true" religions is the real one? I think it's time some people grew a spine, faced the fact that there is no god and got on with their lives with their faces out of the dirt. It's a lot easier to see what's going on that way.
TWW
PS Gen3:22 sums up your god's morality quite well, I think.
Prayer works--you might need to take more time than you are used to waiting for an answer, but it's worth the wait. To actually answer your question here just leaves you a simpering idiot who has no spine, relying on others to make your decisions.
Are you taking the piss? Asking real people for help is simpering but asking an imaginary sky-spirit isn't?!?
Where's the camera? This must be a joke, right? RIGHT?
Gods are symbols of things, most computer users don't believe in gods, but it suits me, at least, to think of Thoth as a guiding light in the search for truth, Anubis as a protector, and Horus as a spirit of justice. Zeus, apart from paradoxically being the basis for Jesus, represents a wild, free, nature, Athena wisdom with strength, Ares/Mars strength without wisdom, Cuchulain the strength of the individual, Ishtar (from whom we get Easter) for love, etc. etc. The various demons (Abraxus, Asmodeous, Legion, and so forth) creep inmostly via RPG's and stand for the occult in general (which is why they crop up as passwords so regularly).
But, useful as these are as symbols, which is why there are so many references to them in the abstract world of computing, the difference between geeks and (for example) christians, is that most are aware of their status as symbols, rather than confusing them with something which exists.
Of course, there is the human temptation to wish they were more than symbols (that's how religions get started, after all), because then the responsibility is shifted to the god in question - "I don't need to be wise, I can just prey to Athena for guidance and if I blow the exam then it's not all my fault, the gods just didn't hear my prayer". The christian's most common error is to assume that everyone will be "found out" in the end, and to let evil slip by on the grounds that "they'll get their punishment in the next world". But all religions do this in some form; it is the basis of Karma, too.
As long as people remember that the gods are our children and not the other way around then there's nothing to worry about and they can be useful in thinking about otherwise abstract notions. But as soon as we think that our lives are the symbols (eg a great chess-game between supernatural forces) then things rapidly fall apart and people get killed with alarming frequency.
If that's the case there is something wrong with your setup. WindowMaker is very fast; I used it originally on my old P100 because it's the only manager I could find which ran as fast as I wanted. I still use it today on that P100 and on all my other machines because, speed aside, I think it's the best one out there. But that's subjective; the speed is a simple fact.
Seriously, how many people really use KDE/Gnome/Windows (never quite sure of the differences) for their day-to-day work? 100% of all the linux users I know (which is dozens) use WindowMaker, and love it. As do I. I have yet to meet a Linux user that has used either of the windows-clones for more than a day ("just to see what this version's like"). Time for a Slashdot poll, methinks
Perhaps we could have a panel of judges (I vote for Tim O'Reilly for one), and then to rub salt in the wound we could have part of the sponsorship money put into paying for the actual application for a patent for the winner. The saterical intent, of course, is to force the PO either to allow the patent under the basis of it's current lax system or to admit that the system needs moderation.
So, yes the patent would have to be carefully picked. But the bottom line is that the resulting patent, if accepted, would have to outlaw some basic facet of computing, such as hexadecimal or using the internet to communicate with another computer etc.
How about someone starts a competition to come up with something the USPO wouldn't allow. The funnier the better. If the word got out to the mainstream media as a filler item, it might even make a useful point to the masses and their masters on The Hill.
"In other news, a Computer Firm is offering $10,000 of hardware to anyone who can come up with an idea that the Patent Office would not pass. A spokesperson said `It's going to be tough but there must be SOMETHING they won't pass'"
Of course, we'd have to have a prize worth noting, so it would need some rich sponsor with an interest in the topic (Hello, RedHat; VA Linux?).
Rational debate isn't working with the PO, so maybe it's time to make fun of them in public.
If the athletes just wanted to see who was best they could find out without the IOC. But most really want to be famous and for that they sell their souls and take their drugs, and thank God that the IOC has sold the TV rights to anyone and everyone. The conditions placed on them don't matter. After all, most of them are incapable of any useful work (due to time spent training) so this is their only way to make it.
What sort of idiot would give Opera extra marks for including an email client in their browser, as a balancing feature to pushing the download size over a floppy?
The ability to carry Opera around on a floppy was great, I never had to worry about it not being available, and now its gone. But, oh goody, I can use it to send and receive email. What the hell is the point of that? If I want email I use an email program. Are they going to add an art package next in case I need to illustrate my email? What a waste of memory/coding time.
Whoever wrote these reviews was a total arse-wipe.
Unicode is a complete pile of crap, it is poorly designed and the 16bit character size is too small to support the world's character sets; it's too small to even support Chinese. Who cares if it's supported or not? It should be ditched in favour of a 32bit (or at least 24bit) system.
According to HP this thing does not work with Unix clients. They may be wrong, especially given how far downhill HP has gone in the last 10mths, but how many people are going to persist in the face of the manufacturer's flat out denial of the product's usability?
I've never heard of HP supporting Unix except insofar that PCL is used in some of their printers, and the idea that ALL networked HP's can be used is a surprise to me, and will come as a surprise to many HP sales staff and even engineers, in my experience. How sure are you of this?
If.US is revitalised and.com shut down for further registrations things could be a whole lot easier. The entire world attempting to use the same namespace (.com) is not working and everyone knows it. Of course,.org,.net, and the rest would have to be administered intelligently as well (or shut down too).
Slashdot Mirror
TWW
It tags an ad on to the emails.
The recipient did not say they wanted ads for MS products (neither does the sender say they want to send them).
The advert is spam.
Read it over a few times until you understand.
The "I have changed my address" function is a feature; the "why not use our shitty products" bit is spam.
I don't know why I even bother typing things like this to MS zealots.
TWW
The best money can buy.
TWW
A CD player is a vital piece of equipment for copying CDs, much moreso than DeCSS is for DVDs, but no one is trying to make them illegal, because they are for playing CDs.
TWW
IP is the cornerstone of the GPL, in the form of copyright which it is based on. The abuse of IP is a real issue, probably too complex for you.
But, it is their right to control the flow of media from the game
Why? From what ethical basis does this right derive? What has media control to do with the organisation's legitimate role of organising the events? How do you, oh fuckwit, know that by posting your comment you are not in breach of some other imaginary "right" that the IOC has decided to claim?
It makes a copy of copyrighted material.
If you knew anything, shit for brains, you would know that it plays DVDs. It is of no more use for making a copy than a record player is for making tapes of records. But then, Trollus maximus, you knew that.
(i.e. only possibly going through virtual memory)
Ah, so you, the great arbiter, has decided that when your system copies the data to the HD as part of the playing process it's okay, but when DeCSS does it it's bad. Great logic, or at least as good as the rest of your drivel.
one must respect others IP rights by not taking illegal actions because one thinks it's okay.
So it's okay to depend on rights, but it's not okay to complain if anyone tries to take those rights away? Welcome to Nazi America.
Just go away.
TWW
On the other hand the closed/secret side has MS Office and most computer games.
Much as I like playing Railroad Tycoon, I don't think its enough to outweigh the rest. Other people do not agree. The problem is that they, like lawyers, charge such large amounts for information that was free to them (lawyers and programmers are trained with library books and Journals, IME) that they can "pull the ladder up after themselves". Gates (or his money) has been instrumental in spreading the cloak of IP over the industry. While using the net, the web, the published algorithms of people interested in spreading ideas and all the rest of the "free software" movement to help the great Satan^H^H^H^H^H programmer along, of course.
TWW
The whole point of lawyers' "I even charge my friends" routine is to keep their information restricted; surely we want more people to know how to program and understand their computers, not less?
TWW
Whose definitions? Not mine! Prayer, especially real prayer, is the ultimate cop-out.
The point that Gen3:22 makes is that god is concerned with keeping man a slave, rather than with sharing the universe with rivals. On that point, actually, the following 65 books frequently come back to this theme. Once we get to the writtings of Paul (who was clearly not a Christian in the sense that Jesus was) things become obsessive on man knowing his place (and with Paul, woman's place is always several steps below that).
The fact that I'm even writing this means that I've fallen into the classic theological trap: talking as if any of this was real. It's like discussing the character motivations of Lost in Space as if they explained current NASA policy.
TWW
But we (or rather, you) are able to work our which of the world's "one true" religions is the real one? I think it's time some people grew a spine, faced the fact that there is no god and got on with their lives with their faces out of the dirt. It's a lot easier to see what's going on that way.
TWW
PS Gen3:22 sums up your god's morality quite well, I think.
I think Taco is suggesting that not all Napster use is illegal, otherwise it would be having some effect on the sales figures.
Are you taking the piss? Asking real people for help is simpering but asking an imaginary sky-spirit isn't?!?
Where's the camera? This must be a joke, right? RIGHT?
TWW
But, useful as these are as symbols, which is why there are so many references to them in the abstract world of computing, the difference between geeks and (for example) christians, is that most are aware of their status as symbols, rather than confusing them with something which exists.
Of course, there is the human temptation to wish they were more than symbols (that's how religions get started, after all), because then the responsibility is shifted to the god in question - "I don't need to be wise, I can just prey to Athena for guidance and if I blow the exam then it's not all my fault, the gods just didn't hear my prayer". The christian's most common error is to assume that everyone will be "found out" in the end, and to let evil slip by on the grounds that "they'll get their punishment in the next world". But all religions do this in some form; it is the basis of Karma, too.
As long as people remember that the gods are our children and not the other way around then there's nothing to worry about and they can be useful in thinking about otherwise abstract notions. But as soon as we think that our lives are the symbols (eg a great chess-game between supernatural forces) then things rapidly fall apart and people get killed with alarming frequency.
TWW
If that's the case there is something wrong with your setup. WindowMaker is very fast; I used it originally on my old P100 because it's the only manager I could find which ran as fast as I wanted. I still use it today on that P100 and on all my other machines because, speed aside, I think it's the best one out there. But that's subjective; the speed is a simple fact.
TWW
Seriously, how many people really use KDE/Gnome/Windows (never quite sure of the differences) for their day-to-day work? 100% of all the linux users I know (which is dozens) use WindowMaker, and love it. As do I. I have yet to meet a Linux user that has used either of the windows-clones for more than a day ("just to see what this version's like"). Time for a Slashdot poll, methinks
TWW
So, yes the patent would have to be carefully picked. But the bottom line is that the resulting patent, if accepted, would have to outlaw some basic facet of computing, such as hexadecimal or using the internet to communicate with another computer etc.
TWW
How about someone starts a competition to come up with something the USPO wouldn't allow. The funnier the better. If the word got out to the mainstream media as a filler item, it might even make a useful point to the masses and their masters on The Hill.
Of course, we'd have to have a prize worth noting, so it would need some rich sponsor with an interest in the topic (Hello, RedHat; VA Linux?).
Rational debate isn't working with the PO, so maybe it's time to make fun of them in public.
TWW
TWW
The ability to carry Opera around on a floppy was great, I never had to worry about it not being available, and now its gone. But, oh goody, I can use it to send and receive email. What the hell is the point of that? If I want email I use an email program. Are they going to add an art package next in case I need to illustrate my email? What a waste of memory/coding time.
Whoever wrote these reviews was a total arse-wipe.
TWW
Unicode is a complete pile of crap, it is poorly designed and the 16bit character size is too small to support the world's character sets; it's too small to even support Chinese. Who cares if it's supported or not? It should be ditched in favour of a 32bit (or at least 24bit) system.
I had some, but it died.
TWW
TWW
I've never heard of HP supporting Unix except insofar that PCL is used in some of their printers, and the idea that ALL networked HP's can be used is a surprise to me, and will come as a surprise to many HP sales staff and even engineers, in my experience. How sure are you of this?
TWW
TWW