It's a shame that KDE and Gnome do not both use Qt.
Well, not everyone likes C++. I'm an Ansi-C programmer, and when I need to do something with a GUI, I'm going to use GTK. It's not that I don't like to use Qt from a users perspective, but programming C++ gives me the creeps.
I have always had the impression that, when in France, French people are typically rude and snotty toward Americans. Actually, they are -- to anyone who doesn't speak french. I'm pretty sure the french-speaking canadians get along with the french quite well.
But if you're trying, just trying to speak french with them, they'll be quite friendly and helpful. It goes somewhere along the line of either "what the hell does that guy want? He comes to a foreign country and doesn't even try to speak our language?" or "ah, he is trying to speak french, he must be helped."
Being swiss, I've got a lot to do with french people, they're our neighbours, so I think this impression is correct.
1943, a hare came to the swiss-german borders. The swiss customs-officer asked "well, why do you want the seek asylum in switzerland?" "Well, you see, Hitler started going after cangaroos", the hare replied. "Well, you're not a cangaroo, so you have nothing to worry about", the officer said. The hare: "Well, prove that to Hitler!"
Its a bit a stretch, but the bottom line is of course that you may have something to worry about even if you're innocent. Because your governement or your police officers might not be innocent..
Providing their own implementation? You're kidding, right?
I'm inclined to admit that the AC is right...
- First off, rules for games are NOT copyrightable. Your very implementation, your very wording is, but anyone may write down these rules in his own words and draw a board with the same board-layout. Of course, Hasbro is deliberately and wrongly bringing in "copyright".
- Second, its about a trademark, namely "scrabble". And here, Hasbro has a point. The only one.
- Third, Hasbro argues that e-scrabble "could be confused with" scrabble. IMHO also bogus.
I am sure a lot of agnostics/atheists even enjoyed "Passion of the Christ" as good (or so I heard) historical fiction, like Troy.
Actually no. Being an amateur-historian, both made me cry because of historical inaccuracies. And from the point of view of a movie spectator, Troy was some fantasy-action-movie, whereas the "Passion of Christ" was just incredibly boring. If you're doing a movie on one of the best known stories of the world, you better get better actors and don't stretch scenes.
Yeah, what a moron: "Boser defines search engine spam as any site that ranks above his". Unbelieveable.
I don't look for shopping sites on the internet. If I do shop, I know the sites very well, tuxgames for instance, or my favourite armourers (jep, plate armour); so any shop that turns up when I search for something is basically irrelevant.
I want information, content, nothing else. As reliable and scientific/technical as possible.
However. If those 10 people instead of buying your game buy any other game, or just download an open-source game, the maths in terms of money remain the same.
Illegal copies are, from a purely economic point of view, nothing more than "the same product, but cheaper". And if they're stripped of copyprotection, they're "the same product, but cheaper and without ugly restrictions". Or put the other way, the original is "the same product but more expensive and with restrictions"... Go guess what the market will do?
This of course, is a terrible problem. With all these non-scarce goods, the market works always against you. I don't have a working solution for the dilemma that the writer/producer/whatever would like to be paid, but economics work against him. Still, it is clear that contemporary techniques (copyright-law, copy-protection, digital restriction management) don't really work.
At least, the Mac is a step in the right direction. It means there won't be any kernels released not working on a G5. And I doubt x86 will suffer by this.
Now, I only wish he would be running a Sparc, so that the kernel for Sparc wouldn't get fucked-up neither..
Windows really is the worst platform one can get: - click to focus and rise - windows-1252 or something charsets - cut & paste with the mouse does not work - case-insensitive filesystem - slashes in directory-delimiters go the wrong way - broken shell for me, certainly.
We actually had an enlightening visit to CERN with our physics-professor with explanations done by the chief-engineer (was luck, because this guy had an idea about everything) and a researcher (not so much luck, he only knew about some of his favourite beta-particles, a classical example of a "fachidiot").
Probably the first time somebody played the blues harp down in those accelerator-tunnels (me);)
Spread in just about every interview with Gates. And this is what it look like.
Of course its absulutely within their rights to do that, but its definitly going against "interoperability".
Some network-staff will not be amused "we can't download your servicepacks" - "you need a licensed Microsoft OS" - "We've got 2000 of them, but they're all firewalled off, policy, we can't use those".
"Ritterburg und Fürstenschloss" - Excavation-report from the Oberveste Passau (mainly 15th up to some some 18th century). It's a bit dry, but it has a lot of nice pictures;))
"The Medieval Horse" - Excavations from London. Same style as above, hundreds of pictures and descriptions of finds.
And then of course, "Ensel und Kretel" from Walter Moers. A Fairy Tale.
Yes, here we go again, you've been brainwashed by the music-industry.
If you know that by downloading a work that falls under copyright terms which disallow copying, that you are actually making a copy of that work in the process of downloading it, then you ARE INFRINGING COPYRIGHT and you ARE BREAKING A LAW.
No. You can copy all you want for yourself. You can go to the library and photocopy everything. It's legal. In most of the nations anyway. Copyright isn't actually the right to make copies, but the right to publish them.
If you're so heavy on citing the "LAW", I'd suggest you read it first.
The ITU???? While I really think the UN would not do a bad job in managing the Internet, the ITU specifically would do a horrible job.
The ITU consists mostly of Telcos who would have done everything to stop "packet-oriented" (as opposed to "connection-oriented") networking back in the 80ies, if they hadn't underestimated it.
The ITU is als _the_ body for enacting patent-ridden so-called standards. All "design by commitee", so every company can bring in their patents.
from a practical, hey it's 20 degrees C below today in Miami FL. type of perspective
And one more thing: You didn't happen to be hit by tornadoes thrice last year? Could very well be an effect of global warming (Main effect until a stable new tmeperature-level is reached: chaotic behaviour). So don't be so sure that you're not affected.
Most of us living in the US are NOT living in high-population density areas. The weather has not changed significantly in 30+ years (lifespan or more for many of us), and there is little evidence that it will.
Oh yeah? Ask your own people living in Alaska whether THEY think the climate isn't changing. Actually, Alaska is the first place on earth to really suffer from global warming. And its not just a personal problem, it's an economical problem too, if your trucks are having more and more problems finding a route in the not-anymore permafrost.
I think we should keep those who seek to destroy our infrastructure in check by restricting their ability to use technology.
Please? Like disallowing them to use a computer and put their abilities to good use? Do you think some computer crack which is disallowed to use computers will get a good member of the society? Dream on. You'll be creating *real bad* criminals that way.
There is one thing that really helps: catch the criminals. Punishment is not as important. If they get 3 weeks prison for defacing a webpage, that's enough if you get 50% of the perpetrators. It's not about increasing the punishment (which is largely ineffective) but about the likeliness of being caught.
I just don't see the merit in letting anarchists run rampant either.
Like we've ever run rampant. Oh well, we did, it was in spain, and it was against that tyrant Franco.
Actually, I would not let religious wackos run rampant within the government...
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It's a shame that KDE and Gnome do not both use Qt.
Well, not everyone likes C++. I'm an Ansi-C programmer, and when I need to do something with a GUI, I'm going to use GTK. It's not that I don't like to use Qt from a users perspective, but programming C++ gives me the creeps.
I have always had the impression that, when in France, French people are typically rude and snotty toward Americans.
Actually, they are -- to anyone who doesn't speak french. I'm pretty sure the french-speaking canadians get along with the french quite well.
But if you're trying, just trying to speak french with them, they'll be quite friendly and helpful. It goes somewhere along the line of either "what the hell does that guy want? He comes to a foreign country and doesn't even try to speak our language?" or "ah, he is trying to speak french, he must be helped."
Being swiss, I've got a lot to do with french people, they're our neighbours, so I think this impression is correct.
Speaking of crimes, the actual topic would have been something about piracy or so?
No, the original topic was something with illegal copying, nothing with naval robbery.
1943, a hare came to the swiss-german borders. The swiss customs-officer asked "well, why do you want the seek asylum in switzerland?" "Well, you see, Hitler started going after cangaroos", the hare replied. "Well, you're not a cangaroo, so you have nothing to worry about", the officer said. The hare: "Well, prove that to Hitler!"
Its a bit a stretch, but the bottom line is of course that you may have something to worry about even if you're innocent. Because your governement or your police officers might not be innocent..
Providing their own implementation? You're kidding, right?
I'm inclined to admit that the AC is right...
- First off, rules for games are NOT copyrightable. Your very implementation, your very wording is, but anyone may write down these rules in his own words and draw a board with the same board-layout. Of course, Hasbro is deliberately and wrongly bringing in "copyright".
- Second, its about a trademark, namely "scrabble". And here, Hasbro has a point. The only one.
- Third, Hasbro argues that e-scrabble "could be confused with" scrabble. IMHO also bogus.
I am sure a lot of agnostics/atheists even enjoyed "Passion of the Christ" as good (or so I heard) historical fiction, like Troy.
Actually no. Being an amateur-historian, both made me cry because of historical inaccuracies. And from the point of view of a movie spectator, Troy was some fantasy-action-movie, whereas the "Passion of Christ" was just incredibly boring. If you're doing a movie on one of the best known stories of the world, you better get better actors and don't stretch scenes.
Yeah, what a moron: "Boser defines search engine spam as any site that ranks above his". Unbelieveable.
I don't look for shopping sites on the internet. If I do shop, I know the sites very well, tuxgames for instance, or my favourite armourers (jep, plate armour); so any shop that turns up when I search for something is basically irrelevant.
I want information, content, nothing else. As reliable and scientific/technical as possible.
However. If those 10 people instead of buying your game buy any other game, or just download an open-source game, the maths in terms of money remain the same.
Illegal copies are, from a purely economic point of view, nothing more than "the same product, but cheaper". And if they're stripped of copyprotection, they're "the same product, but cheaper and without ugly restrictions". Or put the other way, the original is "the same product but more expensive and with restrictions"... Go guess what the market will do?
This of course, is a terrible problem. With all these non-scarce goods, the market works always against you. I don't have a working solution for the dilemma that the writer/producer/whatever would like to be paid, but economics work against him. Still, it is clear that contemporary techniques (copyright-law, copy-protection, digital restriction management) don't really work.
Google has a long history of putting up special Logos for Holidays and special events. This is most probably one of them.
Though they are a bit early this time: "Mac OS X was released on March 24th, 2001".
It completely prevents the merging of kernel patches that malfunction on non-x86 platforms.
No it doesn't. It still allows the merging of kernel patches that break mips, arm, 68k, alpha and so on, and of course and especially Sparc.
At least, the Mac is a step in the right direction. It means there won't be any kernels released not working on a G5. And I doubt x86 will suffer by this.
Now, I only wish he would be running a Sparc, so that the kernel for Sparc wouldn't get fucked-up neither..
"Now, it could be argued that the first computer viruses were for Macs. But that would pretty much kill your political rant, wouldn't it?"
You could argue that, but it would be false. 1981 was the first Virus in the wild, on an Apple II. But an Apple II is not a Mac.
Yay, there really are reasons NOT to include anything above 2.6.8 into a distribution. Most notable of them that somebody broke it on Sparc.
And another one:
;).
I don't like my slashes backwards
Windows really is the worst platform one can get:
- click to focus and rise
- windows-1252 or something charsets
- cut & paste with the mouse does not work
- case-insensitive filesystem
- slashes in directory-delimiters go the wrong way
- broken shell
for me, certainly.
Ah yes, and theres another thing that I absolutely *hate* when a machine does not do it properly:
Case-sensitive filenames. I want them, and I don't want them fucked-up.
I second that. There just are some things that I need to be able to enable to feel productive.
- Cut & Paste with the mouse-buttons only. And of course 3 mouse buttons.
- focuse-follows mouse (sloppy focus).
- And in my case, even worse. Auto-rise on focus.
- Multiple screens.
Without these, any environment feels clumsy, and if I can't change those settings, I do consider the Desktop to be broken. Kaputt.
What I like also:
- Doubleclick on titlebar draws the window into the titlebar.
- Icon to the left of titlebar: minimize; icon to the right: close.
And also turning out to be a pain in the ass are some other "features":
- CR/LF. Or CR only. Get the fuck out with that, it was LF only for more than 10 years until those idiots started putting in surplus CRs.
- Wrong charset. I want ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8, and nothing else. And certainly not windows-1252 or some similar breakage.
And the Shell must be able to do some things also:
- history with cursor up
- autocompletion with tab
- Midnight commander must not look broken in it or have non-working keys. On remote machines too.
What is LHC.
;)
We actually had an enlightening visit to CERN with our physics-professor with explanations done by the chief-engineer (was luck, because this guy had an idea about everything) and a researcher (not so much luck, he only knew about some of his favourite beta-particles, a classical example of a "fachidiot").
Probably the first time somebody played the blues harp down in those accelerator-tunnels (me)
Spread in just about every interview with Gates. And this is what it look like.
Of course its absulutely within their rights to do that, but its definitly going against "interoperability".
Some network-staff will not be amused "we can't download your servicepacks" - "you need a licensed Microsoft OS" - "We've got 2000 of them, but they're all firewalled off, policy, we can't use those".
Sounds a bit like me.
;))
"Ritterburg und Fürstenschloss" - Excavation-report from the Oberveste Passau (mainly 15th up to some some 18th century). It's a bit dry, but it has a lot of nice pictures
"The Medieval Horse" - Excavations from London. Same style as above, hundreds of pictures and descriptions of finds.
And then of course, "Ensel und Kretel" from Walter Moers. A Fairy Tale.
Simply.
Piracy : robbery on the high seas; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it
Copy : an imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work (as a letter, a painting, a table, or a dress)
So I guess it should read "Ships" instead of "Shows", since this makes no sense whatsoever otherwise.
Oh boy, here we go again...
Yes, here we go again, you've been brainwashed by the music-industry.
If you know that by downloading a work that falls under copyright terms which disallow copying, that you are actually making a copy of that work in the process of downloading it, then you ARE INFRINGING COPYRIGHT and you ARE BREAKING A LAW.
No. You can copy all you want for yourself. You can go to the library and photocopy everything. It's legal. In most of the nations anyway. Copyright isn't actually the right to make copies, but the right to publish them.
If you're so heavy on citing the "LAW", I'd suggest you read it first.
The ITU???? While I really think the UN would not do a bad job in managing the Internet, the ITU specifically would do a horrible job.
The ITU consists mostly of Telcos who would have done everything to stop "packet-oriented" (as opposed to "connection-oriented") networking back in the 80ies, if they hadn't underestimated it.
The ITU is als _the_ body for enacting patent-ridden so-called standards. All "design by commitee", so every company can bring in their patents.
The ITU _is_ Evil.
from a practical, hey it's 20 degrees C below today in Miami FL. type of perspective
And one more thing: You didn't happen to be hit by tornadoes thrice last year? Could very well be an effect of global warming (Main effect until a stable new tmeperature-level is reached: chaotic behaviour). So don't be so sure that you're not affected.
Most of us living in the US are NOT living in high-population density areas. The weather has not changed significantly in 30+ years (lifespan or more for many of us), and there is little evidence that it will.
Oh yeah? Ask your own people living in Alaska whether THEY think the climate isn't changing. Actually, Alaska is the first place on earth to really suffer from global warming. And its not just a personal problem, it's an economical problem too, if your trucks are having more and more problems finding a route in the not-anymore permafrost.
I think we should keep those who seek to destroy our infrastructure in check by restricting their ability to use technology.
Please? Like disallowing them to use a computer and put their abilities to good use? Do you think some computer crack which is disallowed to use computers will get a good member of the society? Dream on. You'll be creating *real bad* criminals that way.
There is one thing that really helps: catch the criminals. Punishment is not as important. If they get 3 weeks prison for defacing a webpage, that's enough if you get 50% of the perpetrators. It's not about increasing the punishment (which is largely ineffective) but about the likeliness of being caught.
I just don't see the merit in letting anarchists run rampant either.
Like we've ever run rampant. Oh well, we did, it was in spain, and it was against that tyrant Franco.
Actually, I would not let religious wackos run rampant within the government...