That's not a simple list of names it's a specific selection of names. So long as you didn't pick names with say the same hair colour and they were truley creative you could copyright the list.
My mobile phone takes are replacable Lion battery and is of an equivilent form factor to the IPod. If mobile phone manufacturers seem to have no problem in fitting replacable batteries then why do Apple?
Funny the things us sighted people take for granted.
I hate it that ATM's all have different interfaces, you'd have thought they would have aggreed on some standard one (just for getting your money out, not for all the other features) so that blind people could use them and everyone else doesn't have to look to use an ATM.
- iPod: almost 4 years. Battery is shot, but that's a physics issue, not a quality issue.
My mp3 player takes standard rechargable AAA battries, I can even replace the battery in my mobile. I think having the battery build in is a clasic quality issue ment to force people to upgrade their ipods every few years
Next you'll be complaining that Vista is so much slower than windows 3.1.
There's nothing stopping you from applying the patches that fix bugs yourself. Ciro should use hardware acceleration so it shouldn't be so much of a problem if you had a decient PC.
Did Cliff write any of the words in the song? No. Did Cliff write a single note of the music? No. Did Cliff even change his voice when singing the song? Probably not.
So why the hell should he expect any royalties when he didn't make any form of artistic contribution to the work. Cliff needs to stop whining and start producting something creative if he wants royalties.
An outright "No Software Patents" stance would say that any company could then duplicate the oil company's unique software, leaving them no protection for their massive investment and intellectual property.
Not if they only use the software inhouse, how are you going to replicate something you can't see?
I'm in the no Software Patents camp, but there is one good argument for software patents. Say this was a truly novel datastructure and it was only used inhouse by the company, without software patents no one would ever know about the invention and eventually the knowlage could be lost.
It depends where your sitting, and from where I'm sitting all Religious people are at fault, especially those that follow Abrahamic religions.
Bush and Blairs christian? views are certianly as bad as anything the muslims have come up with, and there's nothing that needs to be said about Isreal s policies.
If Howard's party is the liberal one then maybe the competition is even worse. From the looks of Howards policies the only thing liberal about the party is their definition of liberal.
All of them. Large companies are almost becomming part of "the authorities" too, and they all seem to want to limit our freedome, just look at the RIAA, Microsoft, Sony, Car manufactureres, those people who don't want us to skip adverts (FOX?) etc....
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That's not a simple list of names it's a specific selection of names. So long as you didn't pick names with say the same hair colour and they were truley creative you could copyright the list.
They also have a habbit of taking something decent and making it pretty crap.
What happens if you need to draw 10 years worth of money from your fund when you only been saving a week?
Copyright doesn't protect you if it's one of the simplest way of aranging the data.
e.g. If I put up a alphabetically sorted list of names in a phone book I won't be protected by copyright if someone else does the same.
You forgot always wear a condom
Not 8 cores 80 cores
In the UK every bank has a different layout.
My mobile phone takes are replacable Lion battery and is of an equivilent form factor to the IPod. If mobile phone manufacturers seem to have no problem in fitting replacable batteries then why do Apple?
Funny the things us sighted people take for granted.
I hate it that ATM's all have different interfaces, you'd have thought they would have aggreed on some standard one (just for getting your money out, not for all the other features) so that blind people could use them and everyone else doesn't have to look to use an ATM.
- iPod: almost 4 years. Battery is shot, but that's a physics issue, not a quality issue.
My mp3 player takes standard rechargable AAA battries, I can even replace the battery in my mobile. I think having the battery build in is a clasic quality issue ment to force people to upgrade their ipods every few years
1. GTK 2.8 was no great jump over GTK 2.6 -- unlike Vista over win 3.1.
So you find it acceptable in some cases then.
2. There's nothing stopping you from applying the patches that fix bugs yourself. - the war cry of the moron whenever FOSS fucks up really badly.
If your shipping a few million PCs then I'm sure it's not going to be too much overhead for you.
3. Cairo should use hardware acceleration so it shouldn't be so much of a problem if you had a decient PC. -- Cairo doesn't use hardware acceleration.
Yes it does it's called glitz
4. The OLPC isn't a decent PC... fuckwit
see 2
5. Wasn't one of the selling points of FOSS the fact that older machines don't get left behind and put on forced upgrade treadmills.
see 2
You're a fucking idiot, mate.
and your a ludite.
Next you'll be complaining that Vista is so much slower than windows 3.1.
There's nothing stopping you from applying the patches that fix bugs yourself. Ciro should use hardware acceleration so it shouldn't be so much of a problem if you had a decient PC.
Did Cliff write any of the words in the song? No.
Did Cliff write a single note of the music? No.
Did Cliff even change his voice when singing the song? Probably not.
So why the hell should he expect any royalties when he didn't make any form of artistic contribution to the work. Cliff needs to stop whining and start producting something creative if he wants royalties.
There's nothing stopping you from using the 2.6 version of GTK
Have you tried webmin? You'll find it make Linux boxes much easier to manage, possibly as easy as Windows
An outright "No Software Patents" stance would say that any company could then duplicate the oil company's unique software, leaving them no protection for their massive investment and intellectual property.
Not if they only use the software inhouse, how are you going to replicate something you can't see?
I'm in the no Software Patents camp, but there is one good argument for software patents.
Say this was a truly novel datastructure and it was only used inhouse by the company, without software patents no one would ever know about the invention and eventually the knowlage could be lost.
What about Radia Perlman, she invented the spanning tree protocol and even has Perl in her name!
Unfortunatally it seems to be just the kind of humans you wouldn't want running around the place that are having lots of children nowadays.
Does this mean that bittorrent sites are no longer liable for what people post on them?
It depends where your sitting, and from where I'm sitting all Religious people are at fault, especially those that follow Abrahamic religions.
Bush and Blairs christian? views are certianly as bad as anything the muslims have come up with, and there's nothing that needs to be said about Isreal s policies.
Did you miss DRM, Windows Genuine Advantage (that prevents you running IE 7 under wine), The patriot act, the DMCA etc....
If Howard's party is the liberal one then maybe the competition is even worse. From the looks of Howards policies the only thing liberal about the party is their definition of liberal.
All of them. Large companies are almost becomming part of "the authorities" too, and they all seem to want to limit our freedome, just look at the RIAA, Microsoft, Sony, Car manufactureres, those people who don't want us to skip adverts (FOX?) etc....
making it pretty unmarketable as a pain medication
Hey, if it make you hallucinate your balls off I'd buy some just to save on contraception.