After hearing their response, he acknowledged that there is no consensus on this question and that from his perspective, "it appears to be equal. Windows has more patches, but Microsoft releases them more frequently and fixes things more quickly," said Moskowitz.
They've tried to be the "ms" of document publishing, they don't deserve any sympathy. Sure, they're nervous MS's new (rather fucked) document format will render their own proprietry efforts irrelevent. So they should - it probably will for enough people - eventually.
The concept of patents full-stop doesn't make sense.
It's an out-dated concept which only serves large corporations, and even then, not in a particularly effective way. It reduces information sharing, which means it increases the cost of innovation - which clearly causes harm to the greater good.
Yeah great, millions are starving in the world, so what do we do, lets convert FOOD into PETROL for those fat AMERICANS (and AUSTRALIANS) to burn up in their car driving to the shop to feed their fat arses.
I think you're wrong here. The legal argument has nothing to do with region coding, which is another issue.
The bit about 'running a copy in ram doesn't require copyright' is the important one. The 'technical measures' can only prevent copyright INFRINGEMENT. But you don't need to go anywhere near the console to infringe the copyright, you just need a pc+dvd burner and a blank dvd.
Hence, the technical measures, apart from illegal restricting trade through vendor 'region coding', only prevent an unauthorised copy executing - but that has nothing to do with copyright infringement which has already taken place. So circumventing it likewise has nothing to do with copyright law.
The implication is that sunshine = outdoor activities = excercise == better health. About time some of the fat lazy shits lost some weight too.
But even without that, everyone is so scared about sunshine these days there is a reasonably significant problem of vitamin D deficiancy from covering up too well all the time.
The guy sounds like one of these OCD guys who need everything 'just right' to get any work done at all - and then come up with copious amounts of stuff which isn't well engineered anyway.
Besides - get over it mate. You're a graudate (the author). That means you don't know anywhere near as much as you think you do, and whatever your ego says, you're still a shit-kicker, grade C. Everyone starts their career at the bottom, even if that bottom level isn't the same for everyone.
Working in cubicles with the right people is a lot of fun; I would do that any day than have an office to myself. It's a lot more fun than working at home too.
i don't think anybody's personal utopia involves spending all day out in the sun building roads, but we require that a whole lot of people do that, and other crappy jobs, because it's the only way we have to get it done.
A bit of fresh air and sunlight and some physical work and the possibility of a completely working, finished product, vs sitting behind a desk bathed in artificial light getting a fat arse working on a moving target that never ends?
It may not be for everybody but i'm sure plenty of people don't mind it at all; and the body is designed to be used, not just sit around getting fat.
I'm not sure which is the 'crappy' job really. (there are far worse jobs than building roads).
Australia still has unfair dismissal laws, although the current government is trying to remove them to make it similar to the use and abuse US system.
So I wouldn't be suprised if these girls have some legal come-backs in this case. Certainly a reprimand may be appropriate, but sacking with no notice seems rather extreme.
Who says they were less intelligent? Their brains were bigger.
Maybe they just didn't adapt to changing conditions very well, although perhaps the hate for anything different comes from that age, and they were just murdered.
It's important because it forces an extra fixed cost (a 'tax' if you will) to everyone who might want to access it.
The driving factor of using an online tax system is that it saves the cost of having to go through an accountant and/or the time required to post a physical letter (let alone actually pick up the tax forms from somewhere, which seems to change every year).
This route is closed to those not already using a platform based on a convicted illegal monopoly (well, in other places, Australia seems to have no such laws, or refuses to enforce them).
Art seems to become not art, in many cases, when it is done properly.
e.g. a fancy chair done by an artist looks nice but is probably composed of shoddy joints and shitty welds. Whereas an industrial designer has to make sure it will also practically support the weight it was intended to, etc.
They may both me as asthetic, but one is designed properly, based on mathematics and the other is just thrown together.
So like industrial design, all programming involves art - but good programming involves more too, i.e. a deeper understanding of what you're doing and how you're doing it.
(this applies to physical things more than pictures, obviously).
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It's Adobeee.
They've tried to be the "ms" of document publishing, they don't deserve any sympathy. Sure, they're nervous MS's new (rather fucked) document format will render their own proprietry efforts irrelevent. So they should - it probably will for enough people - eventually.
Their time is over, and it's about time at that.
Because everyone in the world is just "totally" dying to get into the greatest country in the world.
HAHAHAHHAHAA. If only you fuckwits knew the truth.
Good riddence to bad rubbish, and it's about time everyone else followed suit and dumped that steaming pile of shit.
It is sad to see such an obviously sane comment being marked as a troll.
It's an out-dated concept which only serves large corporations, and even then, not in a particularly effective way. It reduces information sharing, which means it increases the cost of innovation - which clearly causes harm to the greater good.
Yeah great, millions are starving in the world, so what do we do, lets convert FOOD into PETROL for those fat AMERICANS (and AUSTRALIANS) to burn up in their car driving to the shop to feed their fat arses.
Smart stuff.
Or do you mean autumn?
Or do you really mean, around November?
International site you know.
Stupid yanks.
Despite comment being erased.
Stupid yanks.
Considering Woomera's entire existance was based on it being a test firing-range for rockets, it is almost certainly not a coincidence :)
I think you're wrong here. The legal argument has nothing to do with region coding, which is another issue.
The bit about 'running a copy in ram doesn't require copyright' is the important one. The 'technical measures' can only prevent copyright INFRINGEMENT. But you don't need to go anywhere near the console to infringe the copyright, you just need a pc+dvd burner and a blank dvd.
Hence, the technical measures, apart from illegal restricting trade through vendor 'region coding', only prevent an unauthorised copy executing - but that has nothing to do with copyright infringement which has already taken place. So circumventing it likewise has nothing to do with copyright law.
But even without that, everyone is so scared about sunshine these days there is a reasonably significant problem of vitamin D deficiancy from covering up too well all the time.
So even taken literally it may have some weight.
Besides - get over it mate. You're a graudate (the author). That means you don't know anywhere near as much as you think you do, and whatever your ego says, you're still a shit-kicker, grade C. Everyone starts their career at the bottom, even if that bottom level isn't the same for everyone.
Working in cubicles with the right people is a lot of fun; I would do that any day than have an office to myself. It's a lot more fun than working at home too.
A bit of fresh air and sunlight and some physical work and the possibility of a completely working, finished product, vs sitting behind a desk bathed in artificial light getting a fat arse working on a moving target that never ends?
It may not be for everybody but i'm sure plenty of people don't mind it at all; and the body is designed to be used, not just sit around getting fat.
I'm not sure which is the 'crappy' job really. (there are far worse jobs than building roads).
'Cause it sure looked fucking solid.
Not some dust-ball. Use your fucking eyes, idiots.
Australia still has unfair dismissal laws, although the current government is trying to remove them to make it similar to the use and abuse US system.
So I wouldn't be suprised if these girls have some legal come-backs in this case. Certainly a reprimand may be appropriate, but sacking with no notice seems rather extreme.
Ahh so, like with the conventional model; there isn't enough matter in the galaxy to explain how it moves based on gravity.
Oh wait, no, they just created a fanciful magical dark matter and dark energy to make up the short-fall.
Yep, that's solid science that is.
Or maybe they just didn't fuck like rabbits and decimate their natural environment and keep moving on like an uncontrollable scourge?
Who says they were less intelligent? Their brains were bigger.
Maybe they just didn't adapt to changing conditions very well, although perhaps the hate for anything different comes from that age, and they were just murdered.
It's the games ... stupid.
Too many kiddies games, and not enough games overall.
It's important because it forces an extra fixed cost (a 'tax' if you will) to everyone who might want to access it.
The driving factor of using an online tax system is that it saves the cost of having to go through an accountant and/or the time required to post a physical letter (let alone actually pick up the tax forms from somewhere, which seems to change every year).
This route is closed to those not already using a platform based on a convicted illegal monopoly (well, in other places, Australia seems to have no such laws, or refuses to enforce them).
Art seems to become not art, in many cases, when it is done properly.
e.g. a fancy chair done by an artist looks nice but is probably composed of shoddy joints and shitty welds. Whereas an industrial designer has to make sure it will also practically support the weight it was intended to, etc.
They may both me as asthetic, but one is designed properly, based on mathematics and the other is just thrown together.
So like industrial design, all programming involves art - but good programming involves more too, i.e. a deeper understanding of what you're doing and how you're doing it.
(this applies to physical things more than pictures, obviously).
HAHAHA oh boy, this is funny!
He's just spouting the same crap as he always has, no real-world involved here.
Wasn't that 3 ways? Fast, good, cheap; but you can only choose 2?
I can't believe i'm spending my Friday night reading dumb comments about another rubbish article that tosspot ESR wrote.
And which core libraries would these be?
Or are you just lying to make the impression that writing proprietary applications for linux is not possible?
Core libraries, libc, libX11, a few other little things. None of those are GPL.