Probably vi + latex are a lot better for a blind/almost blind person than winword, because they are not visual at all, and you can perform lots of functions without looking at the text. But we don't see anyone making accesible extensions. Probably blind people and their advisors feel better buying the easy word processor that everybody uses, from a well-known software company, with some accesibility enhancement, than using a tool that probably adapts better to them, but isn't "easy to use". If they have trouble with easy to use software, software that s hard should be harder, right?
(Don't get me wrong, I hate vi myself, and I don't use latex, but it seems to me it's much more logical for a blind person to have a language where he tells the software to do what he wants than a visual language where the page is build graphically.
And since when does nerds opinion matter to Sony Corporation ? It's a tradition in/. the idea that nobody in RL cares what/. nerds think, if windows is hard to maintain, if ubuntu is a C00l desktop, if apple is good or bad.
Of course, maybe we have some weight in other peoples choices. But I don't think Sony executives care about/. users opinion about their console, I don't picture them crying with hurt feelings, because we say they are stupid trying to sell a game console for 500+ dollars. And I don't think the failure of PS3 (as in : failure to be as succesful as PS2) will be due to nerds being too harsh on these companies, but because of wrong bussiness decisions. They are spending lots of money behind yet another braindead Sony proprietary media format, killing their otherwise great console bussiness, I don't think our bitching will be the cause of their failure.
If we ever get to the point when our spaceships stop the rotation of the earth, then we will have big spaceships in enough quantities to get out of this non-spinning rock, and go somewhere else.
scenario a) bogota, incividual security scenario b) safe place
It works great, if you have a big secured building, and armored cars, and already hired security guards, and have a good chunk of the bussiness available in Bogota. The barrier to entry for other [smaller] companies is high. All that armor and guns and security would be a big cost overhead for them, but you managed to pay your investment and come out with profit. More public security would kill a part of your investment, even if everybody benefits with it. Plus, in lots of cases, you are in the gun and armor selling bussiness, or you can rent your guns, sell security services and all that.
Because patents are a big part of the income of big corporations, and a tool that they can use to stay at the top. There's no way they would refuse to keep that leverage. As big corporations are the one that make the rules, there you have it. It will be a cold day in hell the day patents are abolished.
There are people that make the case against patents overall, and it's quite interesting. The whole idea is that the interest for innovation doesn't dissapear when you take patents away, and you get as a reward, more opportunities to easily use other people knowledge to develop better stuff.
It's true that current big pharmaceutical companies would have lots of difficulties adapting to a world without patents, but a world without big pharma companies doesn't have to be a world without drugs or vaccines.
First you have to understand that a patent is not an inherent right of the inventor. Patents are supposed to be an incentive for innovation.
Quicksort is a great example. It's not a product of software patents. The fact is that patents didn't encourage the creator of quicksort, so qs _could_ be invented without the incentive of patents. On the other hand, had it been patented, you would have 20 years of slow sorting algorithms and superfluous legal costs because of it.
The case must be made for software patents, that's why it's just dismissed, because there are a lot of drawbacks, and not a single tangible advantage.
Piracy is punishable by death in many places, unless you get to become a corsair. Infringing of Microsoft copyrights, though, is probably a civil issue. Some people say that the nights and weekend you will need to work while reboo^H^H^H^H^Hadministering windows2003 server is enough of a punishment, but I think it's too harsh.
It seems to me that all these arguments are really week and that this guy just wants to complain about Apple. I really think he could've used his time more productively.
You missed the fact that this is an interview, you are supposed to ask the guy whatever you want to know about the drection of Fedora. I am happy with Dapper, myself, so I don't actually care a lot about the future of fedora, but some people might have their questions.
First: piracy is robbery in high seas. So, it _is_ theft.
Copyright infringement is not theft, because you are taking stuff, and the original owner can still use the copyrighted stuff. Theft involves the victim losing the stuff that was stolen.
In the case of Cedega, it wasn't theft either, but it was a ripoff, because they promised to give stuff back to the community, and they didn't.
Great, you have a girlfriend!! Admirable. And you got some last week!! She is probably getting a lot more than you are, even as we speak, so don't brag about it.
It's much more important than democracy!! These bastards are using Rock Music, for Brian's sake!!! Copyrighted Rock Music!!!! They are using the hard work of artists, and not paying anything to the RIAA!! I only hope they get sued into oblivion for that atrocity. Killing people, laughing at it, or trying to censor some videos has nothing to do with the awful crime against humanity that is piracy . Remember, when you distribute illegal tunes with your killing spree videos, you are supporting COMMUNISM!!
Cards would be DirectX compliant, or OpenGL compliant, then, and anything outside the scope of the standard chosen would not be possible to use. Of course, commercially, DirectX makes more sense, although it would be a problem with ID engines, and some of the people who use these cards for actual 3d work. CDs are way cheaper than flash memory, also, and they give you an easy way to include the last driver with your card. Also, the NVidia utilities have to come somewhere, that's added value that they wouldn't want to lose. Then there is the issue that some card have additional functionality, like tv out, and some special features that can be standardized for current cards, but not for whatever they want to do tomorrow.
Computers and routers simply CANNOT give "permission" in any legal or moral sense.
Computers CANNOT give permission, in the same sense that a "welcome" sign CANNOT give permission, because they are means we use to do what we want. When a person puts a welcome sign, they are inviting other people, whether they actually know what the sign read, or not.
If you set up a free acess point, that is what you are doing, setting up a free access point. You might know or not that you are inviting people to connect, but that's your problem, you are actually making an invitation because you set up some equipment that specifically does that. There's no analogy that could turn that into a lie. Free access is free access.
I spell it "liters", and I am from Uruguay, South America. The US has schools throughout the world in order to get people to learn their english, and I did.
Stop it! Please, that snippet should trigger the lameness filter! Saying that you will get modded down is plain trolling, and should be punished, not rewarded.
Aside from that, I do like Backslashs, they give you a chance to read interesating stories under a new light.
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Probably vi + latex are a lot better for a blind/almost blind person than winword, because they are not visual at all, and you can perform lots of functions without looking at the text.
But we don't see anyone making accesible extensions.
Probably blind people and their advisors feel better buying the easy word processor that everybody uses, from a well-known software company, with some accesibility enhancement, than using a tool that probably adapts better to them, but isn't "easy to use". If they have trouble with easy to use software, software that s hard should be harder, right?
(Don't get me wrong, I hate vi myself, and I don't use latex, but it seems to me it's much more logical for a blind person to have a language where he tells the software to do what he wants than a visual language where the page is build graphically.
And since when does nerds opinion matter to Sony Corporation ? /. the idea that nobody in RL cares what /. nerds think, if windows is hard to maintain, if ubuntu is a C00l desktop, if apple is good or bad.
/. users opinion about their console, I don't picture them crying with hurt feelings, because we say they are stupid trying to sell a game console for 500+ dollars.
It's a tradition in
Of course, maybe we have some weight in other peoples choices. But I don't think Sony executives care about
And I don't think the failure of PS3 (as in : failure to be as succesful as PS2) will be due to nerds being too harsh on these companies, but because of wrong bussiness decisions.
They are spending lots of money behind yet another braindead Sony proprietary media format, killing their otherwise great console bussiness, I don't think our bitching will be the cause of their failure.
There is something about them that refuses to be satisfied. I think it may be some sort of mental defect.
Maybe it's more of a physical defect. And maybe those "3nl/\rg3 Yr P3n1s" spams are actually coming from her.
If we ever get to the point when our spaceships stop the rotation of the earth, then we will have big spaceships in enough quantities to get out of this non-spinning rock, and go somewhere else.
scenario a) bogota, incividual security
scenario b) safe place
It works great, if you have a big secured building, and armored cars, and already hired security guards, and have a good chunk of the bussiness available in Bogota.
The barrier to entry for other [smaller] companies is high. All that armor and guns and security would be a big cost overhead for them, but you managed to pay your investment and come out with profit.
More public security would kill a part of your investment, even if everybody benefits with it.
Plus, in lots of cases, you are in the gun and armor selling bussiness, or you can rent your guns, sell security services and all that.
Me too
Because patents are a big part of the income of big corporations, and a tool that they can use to stay at the top. There's no way they would refuse to keep that leverage.
As big corporations are the one that make the rules, there you have it. It will be a cold day in hell the day patents are abolished.
There are people that make the case against patents overall, and it's quite interesting.
The whole idea is that the interest for innovation doesn't dissapear when you take patents away, and you get as a reward, more opportunities to easily use other people knowledge to develop better stuff.
It's true that current big pharmaceutical companies would have lots of difficulties adapting to a world without patents, but a world without big pharma companies doesn't have to be a world without drugs or vaccines.
First you have to understand that a patent is not an inherent right of the inventor.
Patents are supposed to be an incentive for innovation.
Quicksort is a great example. It's not a product of software patents.
The fact is that patents didn't encourage the creator of quicksort, so qs _could_ be invented without the incentive of patents.
On the other hand, had it been patented, you would have 20 years of slow sorting algorithms and superfluous legal costs because of it.
The case must be made for software patents, that's why it's just dismissed, because there are a lot of drawbacks, and not a single tangible advantage.
Swedish nurses. Jan and Bjorn.
Piracy is punishable by death in many places, unless you get to become a corsair.
Infringing of Microsoft copyrights, though, is probably a civil issue. Some people say that the nights and weekend you will need to work while reboo^H^H^H^H^Hadministering windows2003 server is enough of a punishment, but I think it's too harsh.
I wasn't aware that people who have a computer in the living room were allowed to have wives.
Only if your computer is silent. Women try to avoid high pitch sounds.
Troll.
BSD is exactly that: GNU + Linux, but without the GPL.
And it didn't kill propfejjklfdjkldfry software yet.
It seems to me that all these arguments are really week and that this guy just wants to complain about Apple. I really think he could've used his time more productively.
Probably not.
This is probably his job.
You are wrong. Lots of people know them.
For instance, Romero made me his bitch, there's no way I did't know who he was.
You missed the fact that this is an interview, you are supposed to ask the guy whatever you want to know about the drection of Fedora.
I am happy with Dapper, myself, so I don't actually care a lot about the future of fedora, but some people might have their questions.
First: piracy is robbery in high seas. So, it _is_ theft.
Copyright infringement is not theft, because you are taking stuff, and the original owner can still use the copyrighted stuff. Theft involves the victim losing the stuff that was stolen.
In the case of Cedega, it wasn't theft either, but it was a ripoff, because they promised to give stuff back to the community, and they didn't.
Her suit was invisible in the movie.
Great, you have a girlfriend!! Admirable.
And you got some last week!!
She is probably getting a lot more than you are, even as we speak, so don't brag about it.
It's much more important than democracy!!
These bastards are using Rock Music, for Brian's sake!!!
Copyrighted Rock Music!!!!
They are using the hard work of artists, and not paying anything to the RIAA!!
I only hope they get sued into oblivion for that atrocity.
Killing people, laughing at it, or trying to censor some videos has nothing to do with the awful crime against humanity that is piracy . Remember, when you distribute illegal tunes with your killing spree videos, you are supporting COMMUNISM!!
It's not the size of the IQ, is how you use it that matters.
Cards would be DirectX compliant, or OpenGL compliant, then, and anything outside the scope of the standard chosen would not be possible to use.
Of course, commercially, DirectX makes more sense, although it would be a problem with ID engines, and some of the people who use these cards for actual 3d work.
CDs are way cheaper than flash memory, also, and they give you an easy way to include the last driver with your card.
Also, the NVidia utilities have to come somewhere, that's added value that they wouldn't want to lose.
Then there is the issue that some card have additional functionality, like tv out, and some special features that can be standardized for current cards, but not for whatever they want to do tomorrow.
Computers and routers simply CANNOT give "permission" in any legal or moral sense.
Computers CANNOT give permission, in the same sense that a "welcome" sign CANNOT give permission, because they are means we use to do what we want. When a person puts a welcome sign, they are inviting other people, whether they actually know what the sign read, or not.
If you set up a free acess point, that is what you are doing, setting up a free access point. You might know or not that you are inviting people to connect, but that's your problem, you are actually making an invitation because you set up some equipment that specifically does that. There's no analogy that could turn that into a lie. Free access is free access.
He kind of lost his concentration.
I guess it's back to level 1 zenity.
I spell it "liters", and I am from Uruguay, South America.
The US has schools throughout the world in order to get people to learn their english, and I did.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this,
Stop it!
Please, that snippet should trigger the lameness filter!
Saying that you will get modded down is plain trolling, and should be punished, not rewarded.
Aside from that, I do like Backslashs, they give you a chance to read interesating stories under a new light.