Silence can never be a means of contract acceptance.
Yet this is the exact principle upon which the EULA is based. I've never contacted MS to confirm that I accept the EULA and I've never seen a signed and completed agreement from them.
So, which is it? Are EULA's void because no one ever signs or formally agrees to them or is it allowable to send a modified version back to MS and tell them that it's up to them to reject it? If the latter is not allowed then what is the technical difference between you sending MS an EULA and them sending you one?
Linux, while having made great strides, is NOT ready for mainstream yet.
Sad but true.
Linux is more than ready, and has been for years. What is not yet ready is Linux applications, especially for architects and similar low-volume target markets. This is mainly because there is no incentive to write such software.
Low volume areas by definition don't have very many users, so the number of users that are also competant programmers AND have enough spare time to work on a Linux replacement for their Windows-only software approaches zero. So the "scratch an itch" argument fails.
Professional programmers, on the other hand, are caught in the GPL dilemma. Most of us like the idea of the GPL but the reality is that nice ideas don't pay the mortgage off so we can't justify spending development time on software which is neither for our own use (it's for fashion designers, and typographers and so on) nor can be sold for a profit (because the GPL increases the supply of a program to infinity, instantly sating demand and reducing the market value to zero) without betraying ideals which we generally admire.
I personally would like to see a licence that allows (nay, forces) source code to be given for free use but not distribution to the purchaser. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to frame a set of enforceable words that do this in a corporate setting. In the end we have to decide whether it is more important to free the code or to make a living and so far, in the Linux/BSD world, the former is the generally prefered option, but it results in a vastly smaller range of professional-level programs once you look outside the sort of stuff that is used by masses of users.
In fact most Americans seem to think that socialism is the same as communism and that they're both Stalinism. The AC that replied to you earlier is a good example of this sort of retarded world-view.
The troops will have to stay for a few months of course,
They won't ever be going home. The WHOLE point of this exercise has been to establish a permenant US military base in the region that is not beholden to any local government for permission to fly etc. This means that the oil fields can be protected and when Saudi implodes under the weight of it's anti-American fundamentalist movements, it can be invaded/liberated too. The new American Empire is all about ensuring that no one's hand is on any switch or tap that America wouldn't want turned off in a moment of crisis.
the war could have dragged on another 5, 10, 15 years of jungle fighting followed by street fighting on the Japanese mainland gutting the economies of both Japan and the US. In essense by dropping those bombs the US military traded a few thousand lives for several hundred thousand or even millions.
In fact the Japanese would have given up within a year and the 150000+ killed with the nukes would have been replaced with about half that in numbers starved.
Where did I get those figures? Same place you got yours: I made them up. But I made them up based on what I know of the state of the Japanese people from accounts by Japanese people, not bogus statistics made up by the military to justify any and every action they wish to undertake.
As to your previous "if you blame the US for dropping the nukes then you have to hang the entire Luftwaffe.": suits me fine.
So lemme get this straight, you believe he doesn't understand the books because there were some wargs where there shouldn't be?
No, Jackson doesn't understand film-making because of the Wargs; he doesn't understand LotR because of his mangling of characters like Elrond and indeed the other elves. Of the many things you could claim the point of LotT to be, the elves are high on the list.
I would included PDF in that list however writing to PDF can be hard for people in M$ where they have to by Adobe distiller
Apparently OO v 1.1 (now in beta) is going to have PDF as an output format. This is something MS has always avoided because they want Word's.doc to be the universal format and can't afford to promote PDF. If they have to then users will really have a win on their hands and it'll be due to competition.
Um, if Mozilla doesn't cut it, what is "good software" in your opinion?
How about a browser that doesn't noticably pause to think about it when you click on a menu item (or anything else for that matter) on a 650MHz/450MB machine?
If you would watch the director's commentary footage on the LOTR DVD, you will find that Jackson and the two other writers have thoroughly read the Tolkein cannon for many, many years and, in fact, are very well versed in Middle Earth.
Well, all I can say is Jackson hides it well. After seeing the first two films I genuinely doubted that he had even read LotR from cover to cover. If he has, then he didn't understand it or something because he's screwed the films up very, very badly. I mean, the second film was just rubbish with the silly plot twists and Elrond's continuing mental break down ("I've waited thousands of years to see Sauron overthrown and now the time is at hand. I'm off! we're all doomed! DOOMED, I tells ye!"), 3-hit-point wargs (wargs at all!) and that total shite about Aragorn falling over the cliff, and the embarassing charge at the end of Helms Deep. The list could fill a page.
Everything you say is true for small shareholders. Big shareholders are a totally different ballgame. Part of the problem being that the really big shareholders all know each other and look after each other's interests in the old boys' network and are often interrelated with the members of the boards of companies like TW and Disney.
Do companies ever go "we dont care what the investors want. We will do what pleases us, not them."
It's illegal; companies have to act in the interests of the shareholders and the shareholders get to vote on what that interest is. If they vote that Google needs to break into the pork-belly market then the management have to do it. If they don't and they can't show that it would have harmed the shareholders to try then they can be prosecuted. Regardless, they are likely to get sacked at the next AGM for defying the shareholders.
As for commercial aircraft, I've never heard of an accident investigation being hampered because of destruction/tampering/loss of the black box.
When the A320 crashed at the Farnbourgh airshow, Air France tampered with the boxes and then had a court order taken out to certify the crew as insane when they complained. Unfortunately it turned out that Channel 4 had filmed them with the boxes.
I've been a programmer for 25 years and I've never met another programmer that could even be compared to the real engineers of the 18th century, let alone today's. Software is nowhere close to the rigor needed in engineering and anyone that seriously calls themselves a "Software Engineer" should be spanked and sent to bed until they grow up a bit.
The point is that there needs to be an agreed upon dictionary.
I seem to remember that, before the OSPD etc. appeared, the rules actually stated that players should use the Oxford Concise Dictionary, which is available in every bookshop and large newsagents in the UK for about 8 pounds in hardback. I assume there is an equivilent dictionary in the US.
Version 1.0 of our anti-cold virus virus has developed an error whereby it instead shuts down the customer's nerve system. The company acknowledges that more debugging of the genetic code should have been done and assures any surviving members of the human race that these issues have been addressed in version 1.1. This is a pre-recorded message as I'm afraid we're all dead at the moment.
That's a bonus; OSPD sucks big time. The game was designed for a normal concise dictionary of normal word usage. The OSPD allows hundreds of words that are not in common usage and are not even English, making a mockery of the letter distributions and scores; it's just a marketing gimmick.
Seems to me that Plain Text is a pretty good document type. Seems that XML is a way of structuring some of that data. Seems that something else has to be layered over that - specifically, the tags that you create,
Or just document your plain text (or your binary) format. XML does not magically enable you to do anything that documentation doesn't. What it does do is magically increase the size of you documents by a factor of 10.
I have two 26MB XML files on my machine here that contain vector map data from the OS. I'm parsing them with regexs in PHP. It took half an hour to get the first map displayed. If I'd used XML parsers I'd still be at it today.
I have yet to see any good reason to use XML (other than there's no choice in some cases), and I've been looking for several years.
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it doesn't change the fact that the war will save children.
Just because that's true doesn't mean Bush isn't using it as an excuse to establish a very dangerous world where many more people will be at risk.
You're just anti-Bush
Well, it's hard to be pro-Bush when he's such a useless, lying toerag.
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Yet this is the exact principle upon which the EULA is based. I've never contacted MS to confirm that I accept the EULA and I've never seen a signed and completed agreement from them.
So, which is it? Are EULA's void because no one ever signs or formally agrees to them or is it allowable to send a modified version back to MS and tell them that it's up to them to reject it? If the latter is not allowed then what is the technical difference between you sending MS an EULA and them sending you one?
TWW
Sad but true.
Linux is more than ready, and has been for years. What is not yet ready is Linux applications, especially for architects and similar low-volume target markets. This is mainly because there is no incentive to write such software.
Low volume areas by definition don't have very many users, so the number of users that are also competant programmers AND have enough spare time to work on a Linux replacement for their Windows-only software approaches zero. So the "scratch an itch" argument fails.
Professional programmers, on the other hand, are caught in the GPL dilemma. Most of us like the idea of the GPL but the reality is that nice ideas don't pay the mortgage off so we can't justify spending development time on software which is neither for our own use (it's for fashion designers, and typographers and so on) nor can be sold for a profit (because the GPL increases the supply of a program to infinity, instantly sating demand and reducing the market value to zero) without betraying ideals which we generally admire.
I personally would like to see a licence that allows (nay, forces) source code to be given for free use but not distribution to the purchaser. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to frame a set of enforceable words that do this in a corporate setting. In the end we have to decide whether it is more important to free the code or to make a living and so far, in the Linux/BSD world, the former is the generally prefered option, but it results in a vastly smaller range of professional-level programs once you look outside the sort of stuff that is used by masses of users.
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In fact most Americans seem to think that socialism is the same as communism and that they're both Stalinism. The AC that replied to you earlier is a good example of this sort of retarded world-view.
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They won't ever be going home. The WHOLE point of this exercise has been to establish a permenant US military base in the region that is not beholden to any local government for permission to fly etc. This means that the oil fields can be protected and when Saudi implodes under the weight of it's anti-American fundamentalist movements, it can be invaded/liberated too. The new American Empire is all about ensuring that no one's hand is on any switch or tap that America wouldn't want turned off in a moment of crisis.
TWW
In fact the Japanese would have given up within a year and the 150000+ killed with the nukes would have been replaced with about half that in numbers starved.
Where did I get those figures? Same place you got yours: I made them up. But I made them up based on what I know of the state of the Japanese people from accounts by Japanese people, not bogus statistics made up by the military to justify any and every action they wish to undertake.
As to your previous "if you blame the US for dropping the nukes then you have to hang the entire Luftwaffe.": suits me fine.
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Not outside of the *nix versions, AFAIK.
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No, Jackson doesn't understand film-making because of the Wargs; he doesn't understand LotR because of his mangling of characters like Elrond and indeed the other elves. Of the many things you could claim the point of LotT to be, the elves are high on the list.
TWW
Apparently OO v 1.1 (now in beta) is going to have PDF as an output format. This is something MS has always avoided because they want Word's .doc to be the universal format and can't afford to promote PDF. If they have to then users will really have a win on their hands and it'll be due to competition.
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How about a browser that doesn't noticably pause to think about it when you click on a menu item (or anything else for that matter) on a 650MHz/450MB machine?
TWW
Well, all I can say is Jackson hides it well. After seeing the first two films I genuinely doubted that he had even read LotR from cover to cover. If he has, then he didn't understand it or something because he's screwed the films up very, very badly. I mean, the second film was just rubbish with the silly plot twists and Elrond's continuing mental break down ("I've waited thousands of years to see Sauron overthrown and now the time is at hand. I'm off! we're all doomed! DOOMED, I tells ye!"), 3-hit-point wargs (wargs at all!) and that total shite about Aragorn falling over the cliff, and the embarassing charge at the end of Helms Deep. The list could fill a page.
Total, utter, crap.
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It's illegal; companies have to act in the interests of the shareholders and the shareholders get to vote on what that interest is. If they vote that Google needs to break into the pork-belly market then the management have to do it. If they don't and they can't show that it would have harmed the shareholders to try then they can be prosecuted. Regardless, they are likely to get sacked at the next AGM for defying the shareholders.
TWW
Doesn't seem to have worked for Donald Rumsfeld or Dick "Les" Cheney.
Well, unless you consider "getting away with murder" to be a liberty.
See above.
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When the A320 crashed at the Farnbourgh airshow, Air France tampered with the boxes and then had a court order taken out to certify the crew as insane when they complained. Unfortunately it turned out that Channel 4 had filmed them with the boxes.
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That'll be the Magrathea (sp?) reference at the end.
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I seem to remember that, before the OSPD etc. appeared, the rules actually stated that players should use the Oxford Concise Dictionary, which is available in every bookshop and large newsagents in the UK for about 8 pounds in hardback. I assume there is an equivilent dictionary in the US.
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That's a bonus; OSPD sucks big time. The game was designed for a normal concise dictionary of normal word usage. The OSPD allows hundreds of words that are not in common usage and are not even English, making a mockery of the letter distributions and scores; it's just a marketing gimmick.
TWW
What!? They're all going to catch fire? That's what happened to my ST. It's an Iraqi plot! Printers (of) mass destruct(ion).
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Or just document your plain text (or your binary) format. XML does not magically enable you to do anything that documentation doesn't. What it does do is magically increase the size of you documents by a factor of 10.
I have two 26MB XML files on my machine here that contain vector map data from the OS. I'm parsing them with regexs in PHP. It took half an hour to get the first map displayed. If I'd used XML parsers I'd still be at it today.
I have yet to see any good reason to use XML (other than there's no choice in some cases), and I've been looking for several years.
TWW
Just because that's true doesn't mean Bush isn't using it as an excuse to establish a very dangerous world where many more people will be at risk.
You're just anti-Bush
Well, it's hard to be pro-Bush when he's such a useless, lying toerag.
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Yep, two perfect films. Iw ouldn't have called them forgotten, though.
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