...something like: "if you purchase a Ford vehicle, you agree to purchase all accessory and or replacement parts from Ford Directly" ?
Or worse! What if printer companies said something like: "If you purchase a Lexmark printer you agree to purchase all replacement ink cartridges from Lexmark or we'll sue your ass!!"? Oh, wait...
If all the code SCO is complaining about is only in the 2.4 and up kernels, then why are they going after Tivo? I thought the Tivo kernels were 2.0 and 2.2..? Then again I have a history of not knowing what I'm talking about.
I follow you on everything you're saying except for the bit about scanning a book in and reading it on your pda. Why does music have a special clause for something like that while you would need to purchase both a paper copy and an ebook of the same work?
One of the opinions often put forward on Slashdot is that if you 'own' a song in any format (record, cd, what have you), then you have a license to use that song on any media you desire (mp3, ogg vorbis, heaven-forbid... real audio). This stems from the argument that what you're purchasing is a license to use the intellectual property. The physical object (the disk or media) is actually incidental.
So, what is language? Is the language part of the abstract that forms the intellectual property? Or is it just another medium between the story and the physical pages the story is placed on?
If I purchase the book in English, do I have a right to an electronic copy of the book in Japanese? What about if I bought the American version of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone? Can I download a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, or is that a distinct work?
I'm not sure what the legal situation is with fansubbed anime, but I suspect it's pretty similar to what's going on here. At least with honest fansubbers/traders I think the convention is to stop distributing if an 'official' copy becomes available and go out and purchase that 'official' copy.
Anyone know anything about this? Have there been lawsuits about people adding subtitles to anime and redistributing it? I notice that a lot of subbed anime has a disclaimer about not being valid for sale or resale. Does this make the situation closer to fair use? Or is it just mumbo jumbo like it being okay to download copyrighted mp3s as long as you delete them within 24 hours. =)
...and its nose should pant, and its lips should curl, its cheeks should flame, and its brow should furl. Its bosom should heave, and its heart should glow, and its fist be ever-ready for a knock-down blooooooooow.
Not a lot of people know this, but in Sunset Home, the zone in EverQuest reserved for customer service personnel to enjoy between answering petitions, there are a few memorials to guides (players who volunteer their time to help with the customer service) who have passed away while in the program.
During the training session a senior guide takes you around sunset home showing you the sights, but they're always very serious and sombre around the avatars that exist in memoriam...
On the server where I was a guide for a brief time one of the guides had recently passed away so they made a special point of telling us about him and his avatar. When they would passed by they would always find time for a quick/salute and/hug.
"Take your PC to your garage or a gas station and use an air compressor on it to clean it."
Definitely check on the quality of air they've got coming out of the nozzle before you do this... Otherwise you may end up spraying a nice amount of rusty water all over your computer along with the air.:)
From what I understand, they were about how to sabotage the railway system, and were put up to protest the transportation of radioactive materials using said railway system.
"Deutsche Bahn will file suit in Germany, where all three search engine companies have subsidiaries, because it feels it would not stand a chance in a U.S. court because of freedom of speech allowed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
Have these people not been paying attention lately?
Well, so then, if the stem cells are placed next to a Shakey's Pizza, they would become another Shakey's Pizza! And you'd have your own Shakey's Pizza where you didn't have to charge yourself to eat!
MSN Messenger ships with WIndows XP and likes bothering you to register a passport account. This is a pain in the ass, and it doesn't appear in the add/remove programs list. Luckily if you edit the sysoc.inf files you can find the msmsgs line and remove the 'hidden' option from it. Then you CAN remove it through add/remove programs. It seems to me that Microsoft is being intentionally misleading about what parts of their operating system can be safely removed and which can't.
If it's discovered that they've lied in court I think the company should be dissolved for a period of time not less than what an individual caught lying in court would be sentenced to. It's time that corporations enjoyed some of the responsibilities of being considered 'individuals' as well as the rights and priveleges.
As I'm sure you know, I meant free as in free to use as you see fit. You must follow the terms of the license or you have have no right to use the code at all. You're rather contentious, aren't you?
I'm sure it will be pointed out by others, but really - no one is forcing you to use GPL code in your program. Therefore, if you can't find code with a less restrictive license, or you don't want to cough up the money to get some commercially licensed code, and you don't want to submit to the terms of the GPL, then guess what? You have to write your own code. That GPL code is *not* free. It's there for use in other GPL'ed works and if you don't want to follow the terms of that license, than you just don't use GPL code anywhere.:)
Did you hear the one about the guy that got caught by one of these and was mailed a picture of his car along with a ticket. So he mailed back a picture of a twenty dollar bill. The police replied with a picture of a pair of handcuffs. The offender paid the ticket.
...usually require a warrant? Now granted, Microsoft themselves aren't breaking into your place of work or residence and rummaging around there, but it's the next best thing. Do they have the authority to order something like this? I mean granted, it's not really an official thing - it's Microsoft saying 'do this, or we unleash our formidable lawyers and robotic Richard Simmons', but even so... Issuing such ultimatums is pretty heavy handed and kind of scary when you think about the kind of power Microsoft thinks it is wielding.
How soon till we can expect hired goons in Microsoft uniforms breaking into our homes, scanning our hard drives and then requesting licenses for all our software at the risk of unspecified injury? </PARANOID>
I don't know if it's totally secure - but traditionally Slackware 'out of the box' has been a lot more secure than other distributions like RedHat 'out of the box', simply because where RedHat wants to be user friendly and comes with all the options turned on, Slackware is aimed at a more experienced audience and it is expected that they will turn the same options on if and when they need them.
Don't pull a Microsoft and group all the Linux distributions together. 'Linux out of the box' indeed. =)
A virus that exploits a device like this... Parents are just browsing that 'interweb' thing to see what child molestors were after their kids today when all of a sudden fifty thousand volts get passed through their soccer mom flesh. Har har!
Why perhaps some mechanism could be engineered where those using l33t-speak would be fried upon typing the word d00d. =P
I'm not sure about the mail... But I think both Outlook and some of the Linux calendar apps (like the KDE one) can import/export to a Palm. I might be wrong here but it could be possible to export everything from Outlook into a Palm and then import it from the Palm to a Linux app.
Good luck, friend. The only thing still keeping ME with Windows is EverQuest. =)
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Biff?
"If you are interested in attending the awards you need to register at UKBBA@privacy.org"
:)
I wonder if you have to give them your real name.
...something like: "if you purchase a Ford vehicle, you agree to purchase all accessory and or replacement parts from Ford Directly" ?
Or worse! What if printer companies said something like: "If you purchase a Lexmark printer you agree to purchase all replacement ink cartridges from Lexmark or we'll sue your ass!!"? Oh, wait...
Microsoft killed the windowsupdate.com domain.
Did anyone else read this with the tune of "video killed the radio star" playing in their head?
If all the code SCO is complaining about is only in the 2.4 and up kernels, then why are they going after Tivo? I thought the Tivo kernels were 2.0 and 2.2..? Then again I have a history of not knowing what I'm talking about.
I follow you on everything you're saying except for the bit about scanning a book in and reading it on your pda. Why does music have a special clause for something like that while you would need to purchase both a paper copy and an ebook of the same work?
That's an interesting question.
One of the opinions often put forward on Slashdot is that if you 'own' a song in any format (record, cd, what have you), then you have a license to use that song on any media you desire (mp3, ogg vorbis, heaven-forbid... real audio). This stems from the argument that what you're purchasing is a license to use the intellectual property. The physical object (the disk or media) is actually incidental.
So, what is language? Is the language part of the abstract that forms the intellectual property? Or is it just another medium between the story and the physical pages the story is placed on?
If I purchase the book in English, do I have a right to an electronic copy of the book in Japanese? What about if I bought the American version of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone? Can I download a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, or is that a distinct work?
I'm not sure what the legal situation is with fansubbed anime, but I suspect it's pretty similar to what's going on here. At least with honest fansubbers/traders I think the convention is to stop distributing if an 'official' copy becomes available and go out and purchase that 'official' copy.
Anyone know anything about this? Have there been lawsuits about people adding subtitles to anime and redistributing it? I notice that a lot of subbed anime has a disclaimer about not being valid for sale or resale. Does this make the situation closer to fair use? Or is it just mumbo jumbo like it being okay to download copyrighted mp3s as long as you delete them within 24 hours. =)
"onboard m/b sound is not as bad as it sounds"
Oh, and buy this monitor too... I know it's scratched and can't seem to show the colour blue... But trust me, the picture's not as bad as it looks.
...and its nose should pant, and its lips should curl, its cheeks should flame, and its brow should furl. Its bosom should heave, and its heart should glow, and its fist be ever-ready for a knock-down blooooooooow.
That's right, H.G. Wells.
The Nintendo Power Glove. The Wizard lied to me.
I thought he mentioned it was "so bad".
Not a lot of people know this, but in Sunset Home, the zone in EverQuest reserved for customer service personnel to enjoy between answering petitions, there are a few memorials to guides (players who volunteer their time to help with the customer service) who have passed away while in the program.
/salute and /hug.
During the training session a senior guide takes you around sunset home showing you the sights, but they're always very serious and sombre around the avatars that exist in memoriam...
On the server where I was a guide for a brief time one of the guides had recently passed away so they made a special point of telling us about him and his avatar. When they would passed by they would always find time for a quick
"Take your PC to your garage or a gas station and use an air compressor on it to clean it."
:)
Definitely check on the quality of air they've got coming out of the nozzle before you do this... Otherwise you may end up spraying a nice amount of rusty water all over your computer along with the air.
From what I understand, they were about how to sabotage the railway system, and were put up to protest the transportation of radioactive materials using said railway system.
"Deutsche Bahn will file suit in Germany, where all three search engine companies have subsidiaries, because it feels it would not stand a chance in a U.S. court because of freedom of speech allowed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
Have these people not been paying attention lately?
Well, so then, if the stem cells are placed next to a Shakey's Pizza, they would become another Shakey's Pizza! And you'd have your own Shakey's Pizza where you didn't have to charge yourself to eat!
MSN Messenger ships with WIndows XP and likes bothering you to register a passport account. This is a pain in the ass, and it doesn't appear in the add/remove programs list. Luckily if you edit the sysoc.inf files you can find the msmsgs line and remove the 'hidden' option from it. Then you CAN remove it through add/remove programs. It seems to me that Microsoft is being intentionally misleading about what parts of their operating system can be safely removed and which can't.
If it's discovered that they've lied in court I think the company should be dissolved for a period of time not less than what an individual caught lying in court would be sentenced to. It's time that corporations enjoyed some of the responsibilities of being considered 'individuals' as well as the rights and priveleges.
As I'm sure you know, I meant free as in free to use as you see fit. You must follow the terms of the license or you have have no right to use the code at all. You're rather contentious, aren't you?
I'm sure it will be pointed out by others, but really - no one is forcing you to use GPL code in your program. Therefore, if you can't find code with a less restrictive license, or you don't want to cough up the money to get some commercially licensed code, and you don't want to submit to the terms of the GPL, then guess what? You have to write your own code. That GPL code is *not* free. It's there for use in other GPL'ed works and if you don't want to follow the terms of that license, than you just don't use GPL code anywhere. :)
Did you hear the one about the guy that got caught by one of these and was mailed a picture of his car along with a ticket. So he mailed back a picture of a twenty dollar bill. The police replied with a picture of a pair of handcuffs. The offender paid the ticket.
:)
Haha... That cracks me up!
...usually require a warrant? Now granted, Microsoft themselves aren't breaking into your place of work or residence and rummaging around there, but it's the next best thing. Do they have the authority to order something like this? I mean granted, it's not really an official thing - it's Microsoft saying 'do this, or we unleash our formidable lawyers and robotic Richard Simmons', but even so... Issuing such ultimatums is pretty heavy handed and kind of scary when you think about the kind of power Microsoft thinks it is wielding.
How soon till we can expect hired goons in Microsoft uniforms breaking into our homes, scanning our hard drives and then requesting licenses for all our software at the risk of unspecified injury? </PARANOID>
I don't know if it's totally secure - but traditionally Slackware 'out of the box' has been a lot more secure than other distributions like RedHat 'out of the box', simply because where RedHat wants to be user friendly and comes with all the options turned on, Slackware is aimed at a more experienced audience and it is expected that they will turn the same options on if and when they need them.
Don't pull a Microsoft and group all the Linux distributions together. 'Linux out of the box' indeed. =)
A virus that exploits a device like this... Parents are just browsing that 'interweb' thing to see what child molestors were after their kids today when all of a sudden fifty thousand volts get passed through their soccer mom flesh. Har har! Why perhaps some mechanism could be engineered where those using l33t-speak would be fried upon typing the word d00d. =P
I'm not sure about the mail... But I think both Outlook and some of the Linux calendar apps (like the KDE one) can import/export to a Palm. I might be wrong here but it could be possible to export everything from Outlook into a Palm and then import it from the Palm to a Linux app.
Good luck, friend. The only thing still keeping ME with Windows is EverQuest. =)