I'm probably the wrong person to ask, as I believe that the patent system is a substantial net drag on technical and societal progress--period. So, yes, as I would prefer that we lived in a world without patents, I would prefer that no one ever had to pay license fees.
I'll up you one. I think that if anyone files a patent suit after the technology has been widely adopted, they should lose all of their rights with respect to the patent, and be assessed a big, fat fine.
If we tolerate these parasites, we'll eventually be eaten alive.
Users don't really even understand their own domain, and finally
Programmers don't really understand their own domain either.
The first two are obvious enough, and programmers eventually see instances of the third. As for the fourth, most programmers do not even know of the critical insights of the field (e.g., The Mythical Man-Month, Dijkstra's essays), let alone accept them (or knowledgeably deny them).
A Very Large Telecom Corp(TM) had let a contract for a hardware subsystem that was to be connected to their very expensive network monitoring system (probably HP Openview). Anyway, the vendor couldn't quit make this work. So, to satisfy the contract, they had a tape monkey with a laptop in the NOC. Whenever an event happened on the subsystem, he'd manually copy the message into a dialog box on the master monitoring system, at which point it'd pop up on the regular NOC alarm system...
That's the false dilemma. Everyone seems to think the choice is protected content or unprotected content, but it's not - it's protected content or NO content. Fighting the protected content is not going to get you what you want. You have to let the providers make their stupid DRM plans and try them, so they'll see for themselves that it's stupid.
For me, it's unprotected content or NO content. My media purchases are now less than ten percent of what they were a decade ago, specifically for this reason. (Yeah, I'm still 10% a hypocrite.) Copyright is being used to wreak a lot of havoc, and I'm not going to pay those who are doing it.
What possible explanatory purpose is served by adding or removing free will?
Seen from your subjective point of view, nothing is added by positing that you yourself have or don't have free will. Seen from from an objective point of view, or outside of the system, whatever that might ultimately mean, there is certainly a real difference.
One argument is that it's cheaper to share the maintenance cost of all of these deltas, which the poster suggests is significant. (And any company that wants to use the shared code but doesn't want to share back will find itself in the same bind your's is in now.)
Non-spam ads actually help pay for the media you are using. Spam ads do not.
This would be my first reaction, too, but is it really true? Far be it from me to stick up for spammers, but they probably are paying some microscopic cost for connecting to the Internet. As for traditional ads, I seem to be paying quite a bit to view them (I pay for my TV set, radio, gas to get to movies, magazine subs, annoyance value for irrelevant ads, etc.).
It's not even, I'm sure, but I'm not sure I'm that far off to just view them as variations on the same theme.
This is what I use, too, but they still seem inadequate. In particular, if I'm not careful, I still end up stabbing myself with the sharp plastic points of cut packaging.
A more ideal tool would be about the size of a pair of (large) bolt cutters and have some of those hand guards that you sometimes see on swords (not sure what they're called).
The problem with all of these ideas is that they're all fairly dangerous--not the kind of thing you'd want to let your kid use, or take on an airplane if you value your freedom.
Clearly the marketplace simply isn't going to do the right thing here. This is a job for government regulation. (Yes, I'm quite serious.)
Hmm. 'a' and 'A' are not distinguished in hostnames, and '.' is a special character. '_' didn't used to be valid, even though a lot of people used it anyway. Maybe it's now RFC?
By my count, that gives 37 or 38 unique characters.
I don't think you will do this intentionally, no. But the fact that the agreement was signed in the first place, and the fact that you're denying that anything bad could possibly come of it, suggests that you're wide open to being tricked--big-time--by Microsoft. And in a way that may cause a lot of collateral damage in the wider Linux community.
Your subsequent apologies, should this happen, won't really help anything. The time to fix things is now.
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If you just put this off for a few months, the problem will probably just go away...
you either, because you'd have just blown the money on booze and hookers anyway.
I'm probably the wrong person to ask, as I believe that the patent system is a substantial net drag on technical and societal progress--period. So, yes, as I would prefer that we lived in a world without patents, I would prefer that no one ever had to pay license fees.
If we tolerate these parasites, we'll eventually be eaten alive.
- Programmers don't really understand users' domain,
- Users don't really understand programmers' domain,
- Users don't really even understand their own domain, and finally
- Programmers don't really understand their own domain either.
The first two are obvious enough, and programmers eventually see instances of the third. As for the fourth, most programmers do not even know of the critical insights of the field (e.g., The Mythical Man-Month, Dijkstra's essays), let alone accept them (or knowledgeably deny them).A Very Large Telecom Corp(TM) had let a contract for a hardware subsystem that was to be connected to their very expensive network monitoring system (probably HP Openview). Anyway, the vendor couldn't quit make this work. So, to satisfy the contract, they had a tape monkey with a laptop in the NOC. Whenever an event happened on the subsystem, he'd manually copy the message into a dialog box on the master monitoring system, at which point it'd pop up on the regular NOC alarm system...
If so, it's essentially irrelevant for my purposes...
Here sure called that one wrong...
On the flipside, this "diversity" will increase the incidence of intermittent bugs. But hey, with Windows, who'll notice the difference anyway?
It had to be said... :-)
I predict they will profit from it, but only briefly. :-)
One argument is that it's cheaper to share the maintenance cost of all of these deltas, which the poster suggests is significant. (And any company that wants to use the shared code but doesn't want to share back will find itself in the same bind your's is in now.)
This would be my first reaction, too, but is it really true? Far be it from me to stick up for spammers, but they probably are paying some microscopic cost for connecting to the Internet. As for traditional ads, I seem to be paying quite a bit to view them (I pay for my TV set, radio, gas to get to movies, magazine subs, annoyance value for irrelevant ads, etc.).
It's not even, I'm sure, but I'm not sure I'm that far off to just view them as variations on the same theme.
I dunno. For me, and I suspect many people, there's very little difference between spam and non-spam advertising.
He who moderates first, doesn't get the joke. :-)
nyuk nyuk nyuk
I know it hardly seems worth mentioning, but the Iraq war has also cost about a million (Iraqi) civilian lives so far...
(google for the Lancet study, if you're curious)
Microsoft is using Perforce for source code control? Why aren't they using their own product--Visual Source Safe? Does it suck or something?
This is what I use, too, but they still seem inadequate. In particular, if I'm not careful, I still end up stabbing myself with the sharp plastic points of cut packaging.
A more ideal tool would be about the size of a pair of (large) bolt cutters and have some of those hand guards that you sometimes see on swords (not sure what they're called).
The problem with all of these ideas is that they're all fairly dangerous--not the kind of thing you'd want to let your kid use, or take on an airplane if you value your freedom.
Clearly the marketplace simply isn't going to do the right thing here. This is a job for government regulation. (Yes, I'm quite serious.)
I think you misspelled Linux .
By my count, that gives 37 or 38 unique characters.
Your subsequent apologies, should this happen, won't really help anything. The time to fix things is now.
If we're going to be forced to choose between Perl and .NET, we ought to be issued cyanide pills...