But the software, they just sold you a license to use it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Bullshit again. Where's their signature? Where's mine? What is the term of the license and how do I renew it or cancel it? Which company appointed agent negotiated the terms of the license with me?
When you buy a copy of Windows, that exactly what you do under the law as it stands. Software vendors have not quite managed to change that yet so they just pretend they have in the worthless EULA's that they produce.
no doubt some aren't, but they've not been tested in court any more than the GPL ever has been
The GPL's been tested millions of times in courts: it's called copyright. That's the crucial difference between, for example, MS's EULA and the GPL - the GPL gives you MORE rights while MS is trying to get you to sign AWAY rights (without signing). That's a huge difference when it comes to court. You don't have to sign something to agree to having more rights!
If you don't understand the license and click "I agree" anyway, that's your problem.
No it's not. If I have to yodel to get MY software to install then that's what I'll do. If I have to press a button marked "I Agree" then I'll do that too. Makes no odds: I still own the program just as much as I own my toaster. If the seller thinks that their pseudo-legal claptrap binds me any tighter than copyright law, then that's their problem.
If you mean being proud of knowing that "architecting" was not even close to being the right word, then I'm proud, sure.
Language does evolve over time and new words do come into usage, but how does that mean that just picking words at random and using them instead of already existing, perfectly adequate, words is not pointless, unclear, and pretentious?
To deny this fact makes you just another prescriptivist language maven, completely disconnected from reality and any sense of the advancement of human language.
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Did you not understand that I meant "I totally agree with what you said"? How very prescriptive of you!
You will have noticed by now that any attempt to express what you mean clearly is regarded as fascism by the/. crowd. In this case you were 100% right: "architect" was not even close to being the right word for the job. I can't imagine the trouble this guy gets into if he tries programming: "I know I typed 'print', but I meant 'close'!"
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Why is it that America refuses to change to a simpler system
Maybe because it's not inherently easier. If you are brought up in the Imperial/US systems they are not in fact hard - my parents can do percentage changes in Imperial measurements in their heads - and their frequent use of fractions is in fact less prone to rounding errors in many cases and is therefore more accurate.
12inches=1foot, 3feet=1 yard, 1760 yards=mile; that's good enough for me. I know the metre is slightly longer than a yard because Napy wanted his measuring stick to be longer than the one the English used but that's egotistical fascist dictators for you.
If someone has an open relay box because of some Trojan horse program surely their ISP are in the best place to notice the traffic patterns in and out of their port 25. Cut them off and when they call to complain tell them to sort their machine out or find another ISP.
But, of course, that might cost the ISP's money. So instead we get a "best practice" document which preaches to the converted and achieves nothing.
But the idea of Rachael and Pris being the same model (in the book) was brilliant.
all a movies adapted from a book owes is to be a good movie;
No, it that were the case there would be no reason to adapt the book at all. If you're going to trade on the good name of a book to draw an audience you have some duty to repay that by giving them something based on what they came to see.
Surely every fine this size will affect their profits.
Only if you count interest gained on saving as part of profit (which you might well do). If you're talking about profit=sales-costs then the cost of these fines is absorbed by their bank balance.
They won't be bankrupted, but the bad publicity can only knock sales.
They've had years of atrocious publicity from buggy software, viriiii, monopolistic tactics, theft of code, and price gouging. Hasn't made much difference so far. They only thing they fear is competition, which is why they bribed the Irish Prime Minister to force the American Patent system through the EU this month.
You'll have to work long and hard to find an organisation of less value and ability than the EU so basically, this decision is totally meaningless; it will never take effect. Even if MS pays the fine they can ignore the other requirements and just keep the EU going back to court and charging insignifcent fines like this one until the sun goes cold. Remember that MS can afford 100 fines this size without it even affecting their profits. After two or three iterations the technology will have changed so much that it wouldn't matter if MS did fall into line.
Do you think Joe User will blame Ogg's inefficiences or "the iPod" OR "Apple" for short battery life?
Firstly, doing more work in order to achieve a better result with the same amount of storage requirements is hardly being "inefficient". Secondly, if Joe User actually learns enough about the reasons he might want to use OGG he's likely to also find out why he gets less battery life.
I still prefer it with its flaws to the Windows/Mac method. Put simply, I use it the way it was designed much more than I need it to work the way you are proposing. I do mainly use my machine for writing and programming so perhaps when you go outside text c&p it goes awry but it doesn't affect me if it does.
why in the world would anyone choose to get 75% performance with a negligable increase in sound quality (from headphones)?
For one thing my entire CD collection is now in OGG format on my main machine and I'm not about to re-encode for the benefit of Apple's decision to add yet another music format. So, until OGG is an option I'm not interested in an iPod. With it, on the other hand, I can live with 25% less battery life.
What's wrong with cut and paste? Highlight then middle button (or shift-insert) and you're done is the best cut and paste I've seen so far. Linux is ahead of the game in this area; using Windows drives me nuts with its four-key C&P, especially since Windows makes it hard to map the control key to where the caps-lock is, so every use of it really kicks the old RSI risk up.
Python is at least as portable for all practical needs,
I'm not really a fan of either language but I would say that I've yet to see a Windows machine with Python installed on it while it's been years since I saw one without Java. For web-based applications I would imagine this is a big deal.
Yeah, in this respect, it's perhaps not as "powerful" as PS, but I've mostly seen PS's "power" being used only in gimmicky situations
I'd have to say at this point that I've yet to see a non-gimmicky use of XML - probably the most pointless invention in computing in 60 years. But that's a different flame...
If the 'feel' of the camera isn't right, this gets in the way and the photographer is not as effective. Yeah right, the camera is 'just froth'.
What utter, utter wank. You get used to the camera you have. Photography magazines are full of this sort of "camera feel" bullshit. Good lens, decent set of manual controls and Bob's your uncle. Everything else is marketing.
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Bullshit again. Where's their signature? Where's mine? What is the term of the license and how do I renew it or cancel it? Which company appointed agent negotiated the terms of the license with me?
When you buy a copy of Windows, that exactly what you do under the law as it stands. Software vendors have not quite managed to change that yet so they just pretend they have in the worthless EULA's that they produce.
no doubt some aren't, but they've not been tested in court any more than the GPL ever has been
The GPL's been tested millions of times in courts: it's called copyright. That's the crucial difference between, for example, MS's EULA and the GPL - the GPL gives you MORE rights while MS is trying to get you to sign AWAY rights (without signing). That's a huge difference when it comes to court. You don't have to sign something to agree to having more rights!
If you don't understand the license and click "I agree" anyway, that's your problem.
No it's not. If I have to yodel to get MY software to install then that's what I'll do. If I have to press a button marked "I Agree" then I'll do that too. Makes no odds: I still own the program just as much as I own my toaster. If the seller thinks that their pseudo-legal claptrap binds me any tighter than copyright law, then that's their problem.
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Alright, genius: did he mean "write" or "design"? And why was not using one of those an appropriate choice?
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If you mean being proud of knowing that "architecting" was not even close to being the right word, then I'm proud, sure.
Language does evolve over time and new words do come into usage, but how does that mean that just picking words at random and using them instead of already existing, perfectly adequate, words is not pointless, unclear, and pretentious?
To deny this fact makes you just another prescriptivist language maven, completely disconnected from reality and any sense of the advancement of human language.
Toggle bus area salty Jehovah wash ribbed.
Did you not understand that I meant "I totally agree with what you said"? How very prescriptive of you!
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Maybe because it's not inherently easier. If you are brought up in the Imperial/US systems they are not in fact hard - my parents can do percentage changes in Imperial measurements in their heads - and their frequent use of fractions is in fact less prone to rounding errors in many cases and is therefore more accurate.
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No: Imperial is more accurate: 2thou of an inch is about .01mm.
you dont have worry about things like 11/32, 54/64 and just see 23.44 ect.
Pity you can't handle 1/3, or 2/3 etc. Ah, well: just round it. Accurately, of course.
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But, of course, that might cost the ISP's money. So instead we get a "best practice" document which preaches to the converted and achieves nothing.
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But the idea of Rachael and Pris being the same model (in the book) was brilliant.
all a movies adapted from a book owes is to be a good movie;
No, it that were the case there would be no reason to adapt the book at all. If you're going to trade on the good name of a book to draw an audience you have some duty to repay that by giving them something based on what they came to see.
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Only if you count interest gained on saving as part of profit (which you might well do). If you're talking about profit=sales-costs then the cost of these fines is absorbed by their bank balance.
They won't be bankrupted, but the bad publicity can only knock sales.
They've had years of atrocious publicity from buggy software, viriiii, monopolistic tactics, theft of code, and price gouging. Hasn't made much difference so far. They only thing they fear is competition, which is why they bribed the Irish Prime Minister to force the American Patent system through the EU this month.
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Firstly, doing more work in order to achieve a better result with the same amount of storage requirements is hardly being "inefficient". Secondly, if Joe User actually learns enough about the reasons he might want to use OGG he's likely to also find out why he gets less battery life.
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So what's the problem with supporting both?
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That drives me nuts.
It would! I'm glad it doesn't happen on my machine. What WM are you using?
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For one thing my entire CD collection is now in OGG format on my main machine and I'm not about to re-encode for the benefit of Apple's decision to add yet another music format. So, until OGG is an option I'm not interested in an iPod. With it, on the other hand, I can live with 25% less battery life.
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What's wrong with cut and paste? Highlight then middle button (or shift-insert) and you're done is the best cut and paste I've seen so far. Linux is ahead of the game in this area; using Windows drives me nuts with its four-key C&P, especially since Windows makes it hard to map the control key to where the caps-lock is, so every use of it really kicks the old RSI risk up.
Python is at least as portable for all practical needs,
I'm not really a fan of either language but I would say that I've yet to see a Windows machine with Python installed on it while it's been years since I saw one without Java. For web-based applications I would imagine this is a big deal.
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I'd have to say at this point that I've yet to see a non-gimmicky use of XML - probably the most pointless invention in computing in 60 years. But that's a different flame...
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What utter, utter wank. You get used to the camera you have. Photography magazines are full of this sort of "camera feel" bullshit. Good lens, decent set of manual controls and Bob's your uncle. Everything else is marketing.
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