If I want to know the name of some actor or something like that then I use Google. There is no real sense of authority on the Web so even dates of films, let alone battles or other historical events, can't really be trusted. Never rely on the 'Net for any information which might be important to you.
I'd never consider getting rid of my O'Reilly collection and just trawling through HOWTOs or newsgroups for the same information.
I had no choice but to support this war, because I understood this.
Did you also understand that you were supporting arbitary intervention in countries at the whim of people with no interest in the human rights they used to bring you on-board? Do you think you will ever see Bush act against people like Mugabie or the Chinese government?
Did you also understand that there was a hope that the removal of Saddam, who was installed by the US and armed with WMD by a certain Mr D. Rumsfeld, could have been done in a way that would have made re-building Iraq a lot easier on the people of Iraq but that Bush's determination to get it all over with before the next election sacrificed that hope?
I don't get it. Are you saying that you don't think self-proclaimed President Bush and his "cabinet" are a bunch of crooks and liars?!! I mean, we are talking about people like Rumsfeld here, a man that happily sold Saddam WMD while he was know to be using them on the Iranians? Or Dick "Dick" Chaney, who's being paid by Halliburton 1 million dollars a year to be VP! Let alone the rest of the half-crazed ultra-rightwing nut cases from the Project for the New American Century.
I know what you mean and I actually have only ever released software under a BSD-style licence but that was for small projects. When it comes to major items, like OpenOffice or Linux itself, for example I don't feel that it is fair to the programmers that they might see absolutely nothing returned by a large company that publishes that work and makes large sums of money off of it.
Another example is when companies like MS use open source (ie, BSD) code as a foundation of important parts of their product while at the same time pushing large piles of cash at politicians to prevent the very people that wrote their code from getting recognition/credit/adoption in governmental projects. That's not just not giving anything back, that's biting the hand that feeds you. I don't feel happy with any code, no matter how small, being used for free by people that would happily see me (or you, or anyone) put out of work smply because I use someone else's OS. This too is philosophy, the philosophy of co-operation and equality which is also what BSD is about; it's simply less trusting than the BSD philosophy and, I think, more realistic and reasonable.
In other words, you like the GPL but don't think it should be enforcable. Not much point, then, is there?
What you are really getting at, I think, is that most corporations will happily take IP from other people without paying but don't want the same thing done to them. Well, that's human greed and all, but it doesn't make it right.
By the same token you could say that it shows why developers should shy away from BSD and to the GPL: why let Lynksys use your code if they won't let you use theirs? Why not just get "WELCOME" tattooed on your forehead, unlock your front door and lay down on the step?
Given how early most pirated DVD's are out it's hard to see that the MPAA's members couldn't be the main source, whether from screeners or, more likely, simply illicitly copied from the editing room or the master copies during duplication pre distribution.
So you could argue there are three classes: J, S, N+U. Let's just stick to 1, then we can have fun when we discover a brown dwarf orbiting out past the Oort Cloud.
I wish! The forst two were turkies, and unless they've sacked Peter "Some day I may read the book" Jackson then the only thing going for ROTK is that it'll be out in time for Christmas.
could you see your mother or even your grandmother using a PC if it were not for Windows.
Um, you mean if Gates hadn't copied the Mac/Xerox system? EVERYONE could use the Mac when it came out; it had an ease-of-use that Windows XP can't touch. It was also a pig to do "real" programming on which is why I've never owned one, but I've used plenty.
The Mac made computers what they are today, in fact Gates dropped the ball on a lot of the good things in the Mac OS like networking. The only reason MS is where it is today is that Apple were, and are, totally shit at marketing insofaras they believe that marketing will overcome a huge price difference when you are selling something abstract like ease of use or even computing in general.
There's not a single feature of Windows that MS is responsible for inventing or even that they were first to market with.
It's been mentioned before, but it's worth repeating that if you have copyright on any of the code SCO are stealing you need to be seen to be doing something about it; at least sending them a legal letter notifying them of the breach. Otherwise, you're telling a judge and jury you've yet to meet that your copyright is worthless to you, so why should they care if it's broken?
Or, are they now claiming that they own copytights to ALL Linux code?
If you mean "copyrights" then, actually, yes that is really what they are claiming. If on the other hand, you really did mean "copytights" then I don't know and I don't think I want to know.
IBM, like all large corporations, is simply using its patents to attack others.
What patents are you talking about? This is a copyright case.
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How was SCO able to do that?
Well, SCO just told Ren that and, since it would be illegal to knowingly lie while making a pitch for investment, perhaps Ren just assumed it must be true. After all, "We own this thing here" is hardly a subjective phrase, is it?
Well, you can already protect combintation of tones.
No you can't. You can protect a sequence of tones but not a combination. I think Stallman is asking the question "How many tunes would be written if chords could be copyrighted?" The answer, of course, is "very few".
Yes. The idea of patents is to help the little person that comes up with a new invention by preventing a rich person from simply duplicating that invention and using their vast resources to establish market dominance before the little guy has time to.
Unfortunatly, mainly as a result of companies being treated as people who can own a patent, this also allows the big guys to patent all sorts of obvious shit and then use it to ring-fense an entire area of technology.
As is often the case, simply not allowing companies to be treated as legal entities would fix the majority of problems in the patent system
This makes SCO's moronic statements seem to make more sense (to mainstream media): now every Linux seller/distro will be asked to do the same thing while MS have a good laugh at the idea that the OS with the least resources has to have indemnification while the one that can afford it (and needs it most) gets off free!
Of course, you'd be best off if you knew how to use LaTeX
You'd be even better off dumping LaTeX and using plain TeX which is much, much, much more flexible and easier to get started with. I generally combine TeX and Emacs but vi would do too.
I don't run a spellchecker. Any Cocoa application can check my spelling as I type
So you have a program which checks your spelling but you don't have a spellchecker. That's an interesting viewpoint. You'd never catch me using that crappy unleaded petrol; I much prefer the petrol with the lead taken out.
Why is no one complaining this much about Adobe Acrobat?
Maybe because its not a closed format, hence all the open-source pdf generation programs.
Frankly, I'd rather see more PDF generation than XML. If I sit down and spend hours designing a book or report it's more important to know that it will appear as designed than that it can be converted into a mass of raw data and presented in any half-arsed way by someone so primative that they still think PowerPoint is a pretty good idea.
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I'd never consider getting rid of my O'Reilly collection and just trawling through HOWTOs or newsgroups for the same information.
TWW
Did you also understand that you were supporting arbitary intervention in countries at the whim of people with no interest in the human rights they used to bring you on-board? Do you think you will ever see Bush act against people like Mugabie or the Chinese government?
Did you also understand that there was a hope that the removal of Saddam, who was installed by the US and armed with WMD by a certain Mr D. Rumsfeld, could have been done in a way that would have made re-building Iraq a lot easier on the people of Iraq but that Bush's determination to get it all over with before the next election sacrificed that hope?
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Since it was invalid, no debate is needed.
Disliking very bad people is not the same as being "blatently partisan", surely?
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I don't get it. Are you saying that you don't think self-proclaimed President Bush and his "cabinet" are a bunch of crooks and liars?!! I mean, we are talking about people like Rumsfeld here, a man that happily sold Saddam WMD while he was know to be using them on the Iranians? Or Dick "Dick" Chaney, who's being paid by Halliburton 1 million dollars a year to be VP! Let alone the rest of the half-crazed ultra-rightwing nut cases from the Project for the New American Century.
Or have I mis-understood?
TWW
Another example is when companies like MS use open source (ie, BSD) code as a foundation of important parts of their product while at the same time pushing large piles of cash at politicians to prevent the very people that wrote their code from getting recognition/credit/adoption in governmental projects. That's not just not giving anything back, that's biting the hand that feeds you. I don't feel happy with any code, no matter how small, being used for free by people that would happily see me (or you, or anyone) put out of work smply because I use someone else's OS. This too is philosophy, the philosophy of co-operation and equality which is also what BSD is about; it's simply less trusting than the BSD philosophy and, I think, more realistic and reasonable.
TWW
What you are really getting at, I think, is that most corporations will happily take IP from other people without paying but don't want the same thing done to them. Well, that's human greed and all, but it doesn't make it right.
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I assume it should have been "heavy blows"
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I wish! The forst two were turkies, and unless they've sacked Peter "Some day I may read the book" Jackson then the only thing going for ROTK is that it'll be out in time for Christmas.
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True, but Jupiter is more massive than the rest put together.
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No, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are classed as gas giants. I've never heard of the first two being distinguished from the other two.
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Um, you mean if Gates hadn't copied the Mac/Xerox system? EVERYONE could use the Mac when it came out; it had an ease-of-use that Windows XP can't touch. It was also a pig to do "real" programming on which is why I've never owned one, but I've used plenty.
The Mac made computers what they are today, in fact Gates dropped the ball on a lot of the good things in the Mac OS like networking. The only reason MS is where it is today is that Apple were, and are, totally shit at marketing insofaras they believe that marketing will overcome a huge price difference when you are selling something abstract like ease of use or even computing in general.
There's not a single feature of Windows that MS is responsible for inventing or even that they were first to market with.
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If you mean "copyrights" then, actually, yes that is really what they are claiming. If on the other hand, you really did mean "copytights" then I don't know and I don't think I want to know.
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It's a long, long time since Big Business told the US Government to butt out of trying to run their country for them.
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What patents are you talking about? This is a copyright case.
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Well, SCO just told Ren that and, since it would be illegal to knowingly lie while making a pitch for investment, perhaps Ren just assumed it must be true. After all, "We own this thing here" is hardly a subjective phrase, is it?
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No you can't. You can protect a sequence of tones but not a combination. I think Stallman is asking the question "How many tunes would be written if chords could be copyrighted?" The answer, of course, is "very few".
TWW
Yes. The idea of patents is to help the little person that comes up with a new invention by preventing a rich person from simply duplicating that invention and using their vast resources to establish market dominance before the little guy has time to.
Unfortunatly, mainly as a result of companies being treated as people who can own a patent, this also allows the big guys to patent all sorts of obvious shit and then use it to ring-fense an entire area of technology.
As is often the case, simply not allowing companies to be treated as legal entities would fix the majority of problems in the patent system
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You'd be even better off dumping LaTeX and using plain TeX which is much, much, much more flexible and easier to get started with. I generally combine TeX and Emacs but vi would do too.
TWW
So you have a program which checks your spelling but you don't have a spellchecker. That's an interesting viewpoint. You'd never catch me using that crappy unleaded petrol; I much prefer the petrol with the lead taken out.
TWW
Maybe because its not a closed format, hence all the open-source pdf generation programs.
Frankly, I'd rather see more PDF generation than XML. If I sit down and spend hours designing a book or report it's more important to know that it will appear as designed than that it can be converted into a mass of raw data and presented in any half-arsed way by someone so primative that they still think PowerPoint is a pretty good idea.
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