Because if the MPAA or any major Hollywood studio was involved people would all have to boycott the film. Assuming, of course, those folks on/. complaining about Jack "I worry about the future" Valenti and the DRM death rays have the balls to stand behind their ideals.
Minority Report looks like it might be good. Same with Spider-man. Solaris will probably be good, too. But fuck 'em. Me and my money are staying home until the MPAA changes its tune.
Which CD's? I've bought more CD's since using AG than in the year before. Radio out by me sucks. I never get to hear enough new odd stuff. AG let me try out all sorts of bands I would enver have heard otehrwise. (Actually, epitonic.com also turned ne on to many good groups).
There are some groups whose albums I can't find. File sharing is the only way I'd gotten to listen to this music.
How about based on technical merits, does that count anymore?
I live in Maricopa Co. and I'm curious to see if this will reduce cost or increase productivity. Will I get better services for my taxes? Will my taxes go down? If using OSS achieves these things, then, I wonder, why wasn't it used earlier?
When something goes wrong (and it will), who gets the support call, and at what cost? When the county hires new people who don't know how to use KDE/OpenOffice/whatever, who will train them, and at what cost?
Besides, I wonder if these PLUG folks really understand the software involved. "SQL Server is replaceable with mySQL". Er, no. Philosophical choices a side, SQL Server can do an awful lot that mySQL cannot. PostgreSQL would be a better substute, but even there you have to watch for variations in tasks.
"IIS & ASP is replaceable with Apache & PHP" Well, if you're not loading COM DLLs to do servers-de processing. Besides, even in the simple cases you still have to rewrite all your ASP code as PHP, or rely on a conversion/emulator. It's one thing to say you'll edit all exisiting and new docs using OpenOffice instead of Word, quite another to insist on rewriting all web server apps.
Finally, wasn't a good chunk of the antitrust conviction overturned? Of what antitrust statute do the courts still consider Microsoft guilty?
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The W3C issues recommendations. They are not a standards organization, such as ISO, ECMA, or ANSI. Many companies, particularly those doing government business, are required to follow specs issued from standards bodies. HTML is OK, becasue of ISO/IEC 15445:1998(E). XHTML is not a standard; neither is XML, except as particular applications of SGML.
I tried creating a web page that used the ISO HTML DOCTYPE declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "ISO/IEC 15445:1998//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN">
The W3C validator page complained about it:
Fatal Error: unrecognized {{DOCTYPE}}; unable to check document
It seems standards are not so standard.
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The W3C is here to design standards.
The W3C designs recommendations. They are not a standards organization (such as ISO or ANSI).
I wrote an user manual for a software company, and every chapter had to end on an even page (to make it easier to swap in upgraded chapters). A blank page could be troublesome because (as pointed out) the absence of something is not a reliable indication of anything. So I was instructed to add the "This page intentionally left blank" bit.
I got tired of seeing the same thing over 6 or 8 chapters, so each was a variation on the wording.
The question, though, is whether your right to profit outweighs society's interest in being able to exchange data without paying outrageous prices for software, the most obvious example being Word doc files.
First, nobody has a *right* to profit, merely the right to own and profit from one's work if other people freely choose to pay for it. Second, nothing I do as an inventor of a file format blocks "society's interest" in being able to exchange data. All that's required is that "society" invent an alternative format.
The proprietary file format is what keeps people locked into Word...
Word comes with various data export formats, and you or anybody else can convert all of your Word files to plain text, HTML, or several other data formats *right now*.
If the government has the ability to support people who are furthering the minds of the people/state, then art, music, and software can be free to us, even if we are not free oursleves.
Free? Just where does the money to pay for this software come from? Trees? It may be free for certain individuals, but it sure ain't free to others.
In this model, the government funds artists, music costs are virtually non-existant (you would still have to pay "cost" for physical media, and a "artist tax") and we can get all the music and software for nothing.
Again, in "this model", *somebody* has to pay for all this. Shifting costs doesn't make anything free; all this means is some people can make other people pay for things.
Sort of like if I rob you so I can buy new clothing. From my point of view it's free, but you, of course, may think otherwise....
Exactly. For example, the Java spec is not secret ( e.g., it's available for public inspection) but it is proprietary: it's fully owned and controlled by Sun Microsystems, Inc®.
Oh, and before I get sued:
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, iForce, Java, Netra, Solaris, Sun Cobalt, Sun Fire, Sun Ray, SunSpectrum, Sun StorEdge, SunTone, The Network is the Computer, all trademarks and logos that contain Sun, Solaris, or Java, and certain other trademarks and logos appearing in this post, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
... somehow would manage to sabotage the integrity of the design.
That's has to be the funniest thing I've heard all week.
Java has some very nice featues, but design integrity is not one of them. It's supposedly an OO langanguage, but not everything is an object. Nor can you extend many basic types (such as String or Integer). You are often forced into a declarative programming style where an OO-style would be more natural (e.g., try getting the absolute value of an Integer). You can't iterate over collections without explicitly creating a superfluous, temporary Iterator object. There are numerous inconsistencies among class methods named 'add' and 'put'.
Anyway, the bloated Java class collection couldn't do much worse under ECMA than the JCP.
Think about that: 30 billion dollars that used to belong to stockholders has EVAPORATED in the last 14 days.
Hmm, not quite. There was potentially 30 billion dollars that stockholders might have has, iff they sold the stock to a willing buyer. The opportunity evaporated, not any actual dollars.
Of course, that's still a good reason to be pissed.
Before basic editing:The main reason behind this belief is simply the fact that the reason most people don't adopt secondary office suites is because of the different standards.
After: Most people don't adopt secondary office suites because of the different standards.
I think that in order to protect everyone from having to ever think again, we should take this to its natural conclusion.
Which is what? Is anyone trying to sell modified construction tools or materials under a specific brand name? No.
How about this: Some company decides that Black & Decker makes a nice set of tools, and millions of people buy them, but this company wants to sell modfied verions of Black & Decker tools. Maybe they want to put the on/off switch right where the plug goes into the wall socket. Or make the drill bits rotate the opposite way. However, they still want to call it a Black & Decker tool, since that's the brand name people are looking for.
So, people go buy a "mostly Black & Decker" tool, and find that it acts different from they previous Black & Decker tools they've used. They complain to Black & Decker (since, as far they're concerned it's a Black & Decker tool) and complain about Black & Decker to friends.
"e-Cycling"? Wouldn't that be electronic cycling, like cybernetic bikes, or bicycles with web cams, or remote rebooting, or something to do with, you know, cycling of some sort?
Yet Another Confusing Buzzword, from people too lazy to do more than stick "e" or "web" in front of some mangled, ambigious collection of syllables. Here's the real definition
"E-cycling: the inevitable, cyclical, occurance of ill-defined buzzwords formed by mindlessly attaching the letter "e" to some word or pseudo word. See websturbation."
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Minority Report looks like it might be good. Same with Spider-man. Solaris will probably be good, too. But fuck 'em. Me and my money are staying home until the MPAA changes its tune.
When? The web has been "propertized" for some time now.
And if that is true, will the name change as well, or will the Lindows folks work harder on FUD than on having the OS run Microsoft apps?
There are some groups whose albums I can't find. File sharing is the only way I'd gotten to listen to this music.
I live in Maricopa Co. and I'm curious to see if this will reduce cost or increase productivity. Will I get better services for my taxes? Will my taxes go down? If using OSS achieves these things, then, I wonder, why wasn't it used earlier?
When something goes wrong (and it will), who gets the support call, and at what cost? When the county hires new people who don't know how to use KDE/OpenOffice/whatever, who will train them, and at what cost?
Besides, I wonder if these PLUG folks really understand the software involved. "SQL Server is replaceable with mySQL". Er, no. Philosophical choices a side, SQL Server can do an awful lot that mySQL cannot. PostgreSQL would be a better substute, but even there you have to watch for variations in tasks.
"IIS & ASP is replaceable with Apache & PHP" Well, if you're not loading COM DLLs to do servers-de processing. Besides, even in the simple cases you still have to rewrite all your ASP code as PHP, or rely on a conversion/emulator. It's one thing to say you'll edit all exisiting and new docs using OpenOffice instead of Word, quite another to insist on rewriting all web server apps.
Finally, wasn't a good chunk of the antitrust conviction overturned? Of what antitrust statute do the courts still consider Microsoft guilty?
I tried creating a web page that used the ISO HTML DOCTYPE declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "ISO/IEC 15445:1998//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN">
The W3C validator page complained about it: Fatal Error: unrecognized {{DOCTYPE}}; unable to check documentIt seems standards are not so standard.
The W3C designs recommendations. They are not a standards organization (such as ISO or ANSI).
Bowie laughs, says, "Because they're crazy. I don't care about any format; I download it from the Internet."
I got tired of seeing the same thing over 6 or 8 chapters, so each was a variation on the wording.
And so on.
Of course, I'll have to find a way to read it for free ...
First, nobody has a *right* to profit, merely the right to own and profit from one's work if other people freely choose to pay for it. Second, nothing I do as an inventor of a file format blocks "society's interest" in being able to exchange data. All that's required is that "society" invent an alternative format.
The proprietary file format is what keeps people locked into Word ...
Word comes with various data export formats, and you or anybody else can convert all of your Word files to plain text, HTML, or several other data formats *right now*.
Where? Do you have any links?
Free? Just where does the money to pay for this software come from? Trees? It may be free for certain individuals, but it sure ain't free to others.
In this model, the government funds artists, music costs are virtually non-existant (you would still have to pay "cost" for physical media, and a "artist tax") and we can get all the music and software for nothing.
Again, in "this model", *somebody* has to pay for all this. Shifting costs doesn't make anything free; all this means is some people can make other people pay for things.
Sort of like if I rob you so I can buy new clothing. From my point of view it's free, but you, of course, may think otherwise ....
Or a shorter one-liner in Ruby.
Like 2 peas in a pod ...
Getting them ready for the Ministry of Java, I suppose.
Oh, and before I get sued:
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, iForce, Java, Netra, Solaris, Sun Cobalt, Sun Fire, Sun Ray, SunSpectrum, Sun StorEdge, SunTone, The Network is the Computer, all trademarks and logos that contain Sun, Solaris, or Java, and certain other trademarks and logos appearing in this post, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
From now on, they get all of their "renewal" forms back, torn into little pieces. Thoughtful of them to provide a postage-paid return envelope.
That made my day. Now I *know* I'm on the right track.
That's has to be the funniest thing I've heard all week.
Java has some very nice featues, but design integrity is not one of them. It's supposedly an OO langanguage, but not everything is an object. Nor can you extend many basic types (such as String or Integer). You are often forced into a declarative programming style where an OO-style would be more natural (e.g., try getting the absolute value of an Integer). You can't iterate over collections without explicitly creating a superfluous, temporary Iterator object. There are numerous inconsistencies among class methods named 'add' and 'put'.
Anyway, the bloated Java class collection couldn't do much worse under ECMA than the JCP.
Hmm, not quite. There was potentially 30 billion dollars that stockholders might have has, iff they sold the stock to a willing buyer. The opportunity evaporated, not any actual dollars.
Of course, that's still a good reason to be pissed.
After: Most people don't adopt secondary office suites because of the different standards.
Which is what? Is anyone trying to sell modified construction tools or materials under a specific brand name? No.
How about this: Some company decides that Black & Decker makes a nice set of tools, and millions of people buy them, but this company wants to sell modfied verions of Black & Decker tools. Maybe they want to put the on/off switch right where the plug goes into the wall socket. Or make the drill bits rotate the opposite way. However, they still want to call it a Black & Decker tool, since that's the brand name people are looking for.
So, people go buy a "mostly Black & Decker" tool, and find that it acts different from they previous Black & Decker tools they've used. They complain to Black & Decker (since, as far they're concerned it's a Black & Decker tool) and complain about Black & Decker to friends.
Now, why should Black & Decker put up with this?
Yet Another Confusing Buzzword, from people too lazy to do more than stick "e" or "web" in front of some mangled, ambigious collection of syllables. Here's the real definition
"E-cycling: the inevitable, cyclical, occurance of ill-defined buzzwords formed by mindlessly attaching the letter "e" to some word or pseudo word. See websturbation."
You are so right. This should stop.
Oh, but then Africa wouldn't have *any* ISP service. Well, that's OK because at least they won't be exploited!
Viva Marx!
"Selling used cars harms manufacturers and therefore should be prohibited - right? Sure - get real!"
No. Nobody has said the sale of used books should be prohibited. The guild is asking authors to stop encouraging a particular Amazon practice.