You got it. Its pure economics. Illegal copies are in fact competing with legal copies. And if you cripple the legal copies, you're shifting the economical incentives even more towards illegal copies.
It used to be C bigots that irritated me the most (the "if you can't do it in C it isn't worth doing" mindset), but now it seems that most of them have moved to C# and have finally realized the benefits of a decent GUI development system.
I really like the benefits of an IDE; but I still don't program any screwed up version of C with non-alnums attached to its name; especially not that C-Octothorpe-thingie from Microsoft.
Well, its actually not the largest pirate nation, the largest would probably be malaysia. But its true, only too often a freightship attacked and taken over in the malacca strait or south china sea finds its way into chinese ports.
Classical? Come on. Some 40 albums or something. Whereas on Emusic, there would be 42 from Boccherini alone -- if those buggers would sell subscriptions to the world and not only the US of A.
The source of (the vast majority of) botnets is Microsoft's security failures in the late 90's/early 00s.
Yes, so what am I supposed to do? Shoot every Windows-salesman, electrocute all PCs running windows and blow up the Microsoft-campus. I'm pretty sure I could increase security in the long term by doing that... Would give nice headlines too: "Security professionals blow up Microsoft campus".
(you shouldn't download exe's from people you don't know, a firewall is a good thing to have, ActiveX controls aren't safe and your default response shouldn't be to install them no matter what IE says)
And what braindead operating system will let normal users install software or tell it that executing those ActiveX controls are safe?
The point ist what is stopping identity-theft isn't that ID-Cards. It is.. Tadaaa!
Strong privacy protection laws
Which, by the way, the president of the country with the biggest identify-theft problem in the world does not like to have enacted; he'd rather does not want to interfere with companies selling and doing otherwise bollocks with your personal data. We say "sälber gschuld" to something like that here in switzerland.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that it's the patent system that was the mistake.
When it was first established, there was a great debate, concerns were voiced, and in the end, they agreed to "try it out" -- when it turned out to be a bad idea, the monopolists of course had every incentive to not abolish it again.
I dare say, the founders of the patent-system would declare it a mistake now.
The excuse for all of this is "the rise in global terrorism", well if that were really the reason then the terrorists have won, they have fundamentally changed our societies.
Right. The only thing I can see is a "rise in global totalitarianism" in our very countries. Australia is not alone; in just about every western country (including here in switzerland) the fascist buggers in government increase in numbers and get more and more of a problem. It's not only the usual suspects (the right wing patriots, racists and such), but also a lot of of politicians from the so-called "center" or "left", which are really fascists unscrupulously working on the abolishing of rights and the enactment of a state of total surveillance.
So may on Slashdot these days have become Microsoft apologists - they aren't that bad... their UI is far superior... I have to use them at the office... all the good games are only written for Windows... ad nauseam.
What do you expect? This was developed windows-only, so they missed the chance to find all those bugs which they would have found if they ported it to linux/mac in the first place.
They've been on drugs, were they? If anything, Microsoft is scrambling to keep up with MacOS X; and not the other way round. Besides; who would trade in his shiny ferrari for a trabant?
Alright, this looks like an orgy; however, its not explicit in any way, and the people in it sure don't look like teens, I'd say they're in their early twenties.
But: What kind of crack does your government smoke to put up a law against "indecency" and regulators who think this is "indecent"?
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You mostly forgot RuneQuest (1977) which was completely skill-based. Call Of Cthulhu was only the adaption of RQ to a horror-scenario.
You got it. Its pure economics. Illegal copies are in fact competing with legal copies. And if you cripple the legal copies, you're shifting the economical incentives even more towards illegal copies.
many climate experts are stepping forward and pointing out that there is no conclusive evidence to support global warming as a phenomenon
These "scientists" are proponents of what we call now the "intelligent climate theory".
Perfect. Now what is lacking is that Microsoft revokes the WHQL status for its own products when enough bug-reports arrive. Like for IE7...
It used to be C bigots that irritated me the most (the "if you can't do it in C it isn't worth doing" mindset), but now it seems that most of them have moved to C# and have finally realized the benefits of a decent GUI development system.
I really like the benefits of an IDE; but I still don't program any screwed up version of C with non-alnums attached to its name; especially not that C-Octothorpe-thingie from Microsoft.
Well, its actually not the largest pirate nation, the largest would probably be malaysia. But its true, only too often a freightship attacked and taken over in the malacca strait or south china sea finds its way into chinese ports.
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http://www.imo.org/Legal/mainframe.asp?topic_id=3
Classical? Come on. Some 40 albums or something. Whereas on Emusic, there would be 42 from Boccherini alone -- if those buggers would sell subscriptions to the world and not only the US of A.
The short answer is we didn't
*Cough*. Please get our sources straight. The BBC thinks you're wrong, too.
This one is even better:
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My Konqueror 3.5.2 passes it. my Opera 8.5 not.
The source of (the vast majority of) botnets is Microsoft's security failures in the late 90's/early 00s.
Yes, so what am I supposed to do? Shoot every Windows-salesman, electrocute all PCs running windows and blow up the Microsoft-campus. I'm pretty sure I could increase security in the long term by doing that... Would give nice headlines too: "Security professionals blow up Microsoft campus".
(you shouldn't download exe's from people you don't know, a firewall is a good thing to have, ActiveX controls aren't safe and your default response shouldn't be to install them no matter what IE says)
And what braindead operating system will let normal users install software or tell it that executing those ActiveX controls are safe?
I'm also swiss, that's why I addd this here.
.. Tadaaa!
The point ist what is stopping identity-theft isn't that ID-Cards. It is
Strong privacy protection laws
Which, by the way, the president of the country with the biggest identify-theft problem in the world does not like to have enacted; he'd rather does not want to interfere with companies selling and doing otherwise bollocks with your personal data. We say "sälber gschuld" to something like that here in switzerland.
Yes, pretty incompeteable:
Box1:
reboot ~ Mon Apr 24 22:15
reboot ~ Mon Apr 24 00:34
reboot ~ Thu Apr 20 17:41
reboot ~ Tue Apr 18 00:33
reboot ~ Sun Apr 16 19:52
reboot ~ Wed Apr 12 16:26
reboot ~ Mon Apr 10 05:55
reboot ~ Sun Apr 9 19:40
reboot ~ Mon Apr 3 13:05
Box2: (won't turn up anything in the last two months so I give the uptime):
4:07pm up 106 days, 22 min, 2 users, load average: 1.76, 1.82, 2.09
Both are home to 1000 webservers, both running at a normal load of 2. Guess which is which?
Yes, you most probably guessed wrong; the constantly crashing upper one is the FreeBSD; and its not the hardware which has a problem...
Then we may expect Pres. Bush to apologize for Britney Spears soon?
*snicker*
Well, what kind of a name should that be anyway? Xena is not a roman god or goddess, not even a small one like Luna, Nike or Pluto.
So if this object should be called a planet, here's the proper list of names to choose from:
Acca Larentia, Alemonia, Anna Perenna, Carmenta, Carna, Consus, Dea Dia, Feronia, Flora, Fons, Furrina, Maia, Nike, Ops, Pales, Pomona, Portunus, Robigus, Silvanus, Veiovis, Vertumnus, Volturnus
everything else is not acceptable.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that it's the patent system that was the mistake.
When it was first established, there was a great debate, concerns were voiced, and in the end, they agreed to "try it out" -- when it turned out to be a bad idea, the monopolists of course had every incentive to not abolish it again.
I dare say, the founders of the patent-system would declare it a mistake now.
Swim with the 100ton-Pliosaur, and you'll be eaten. So don't try to deal with Microsoft, you'll loose, no matter how.
The excuse for all of this is "the rise in global terrorism", well if that were really the reason then the terrorists have won, they have fundamentally changed our societies.
Right. The only thing I can see is a "rise in global totalitarianism" in our very countries. Australia is not alone; in just about every western country (including here in switzerland) the fascist buggers in government increase in numbers and get more and more of a problem. It's not only the usual suspects (the right wing patriots, racists and such), but also a lot of of politicians from the so-called "center" or "left", which are really fascists unscrupulously working on the abolishing of rights and the enactment of a state of total surveillance.
My taste is probably a bit different to most readers, but the fact that Magnatune includes material from the Dufay Collective is impressive.
Ah, nice! I probably prefer "before 1600"; but that's interesting nevertheless, they really have some nice medieval/renaissance stuff.
So may on Slashdot these days have become Microsoft apologists - they aren't that bad... their UI is far superior... I have to use them at the office... all the good games are only written for Windows... ad nauseam.
Amen.
What do you expect? This was developed windows-only, so they missed the chance to find all those bugs which they would have found if they ported it to linux/mac in the first place.
They've been on drugs, were they? If anything, Microsoft is scrambling to keep up with MacOS X; and not the other way round. Besides; who would trade in his shiny ferrari for a trabant?
Interesting. But why does Microsoft still produce that crap of software, full of design-faults, when they have this wonderful collaboration-tools?
Alright, this looks like an orgy; however, its not explicit in any way, and the people in it sure don't look like teens, I'd say they're in their early twenties.
But: What kind of crack does your government smoke to put up a law against "indecency" and regulators who think this is "indecent"?
Grow up. Overthrow your government.