Tell that to the major phamaceutical companies. US companies produce AIDs and cancer drugs at 30$ a day to the patient, and then Indian companies such as Cipla under cut them by making the same drugs for less than 1$ per day. Indian patent law states that drug patents only cover the production method, not the actual drug, so long as the Indian company figures out a new way of making it then its ok.
But...
If countries buy these generic drugs rather than the US equivalent they get threatened with trade sanctions. Its happened in Thailand, South Korea, Brazil, and many others. I doubt its a coincidence that Rumsfeld used to head up.. ooo.. a pharmaceutical company! There was a global treaty for cheap drugs put around by the WHO a little while ago. Every single country wanted to sign up... expect the USA, who veto'd it.
Nice troll. Updates and service packs don't only fix bugs and holes. They add functionality. Cherry is saying that a dodgy version of W2K3S will not be able to get that extra functionality. Frankly, MSFT do a very good job of adding nicities even after you've bought the product. I don't see Ford sending me a shiny new Air-con unit 18 months after I bought my new car.
Fortunately though, the locks on my Ford work from Day 1.
Apache doesn't violate it. Apache is good, and it works.
Note, this little saying is about writing software, not buying it. If someone sat down and added up the time has taken to write Apache, and the cost of those man-hours, it would be neither fast nor cheap.
I doubt that many people prefer to click through pages 1 to 5 rather than just scrolling through the whole article.
I don't understand why we don't all buy books and magazines printed on fan-fold paper. Oh, no, wait.. I do understand.. huge pages are a fan in the arse..
Yes. And while you remain doing it for fun, I'm not going to risk my business on it. Noone is going to use an application that isn't either finished and final, or beta but likely to stick around. 95% of OSS projects are neither. So don't expect people to ditch Windows and its range of associated finished software anytime soon.
Microsoft buys some (more) politicians and gets a law passed saying that emulated gaming is illegal. This means that people who write emulators are criminals, and those associated with them ought to be 'watched'.
You get an FBI phone tap.
Why? In your slashdot 'fans' list is one 'rtaylor', who has links to WineX on his website.
You see, you've done nothing wrong, and yet 'they're watching you'! This is sounds like a pretty extreme example, but this sort of thing is entirely possible once as soon as a less trustworthy government (or civil servant) gets any power. Stopping privacy violations now might save a whole lot of grief in the future. Of course, it might never happen. Personally I'd like to hedge my bets.
This could be a good thing, since subscribers (hopefully!) provide more worthwhile reading.
Yeah. Rich people always have been the most insightful.
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Yahoo recently started using PHP to run their site. PHP is not just another toy language to tinker with, its a very capable tool. Don't confuse 'easy to use' with 'not powerful'.
When you make a complete enterprise site, you use the language that will give you the most advantage for maintainability and design.
More interesting would be something like searching Google for 'Eminem +URL:".kids.us"'. As all of his media is parent advisory and/or rated 18 and over, it should return nothing. Of course, most of the 13 year olds I know are hoodie-wearing skate punks who listen to little else... It won't be a popular domain with the kids.
Once that happens, Microsoft will pretty much HAVE to Open Source Windows to have a chance. Everyone will realize the benefits of OSS and they won't want to lock themselves into a proprietary platform.
You're assuming that the users would judge the OSS factor in their decision in choosing bewteen Linux and Windows. I doubt that, for 90% of people, the source being OSS would even enter into the choice. People decide on their OS by the price, availability of software, hardware requirements, and what their friends/clients use. If Linux does make a serious challenge to Windows then MSFT are much more likely to just try to compete on these factors rather than the ethics of software engineering. They may well make Windows free, but thats certainly not the same thing as OSS.
This has nothing to do with Kazaa, WinMX, Limewire or any other P2P network. Its got nothing to do with pirates, or filesharing, or DivX. Its not the fault of DeCSS, or broadband, or the cost of cinema tickets and videos. It is totally, entirely, and completely the fault of poor security at the film distributor. There is blame on the part of people using filesharing, and no law will ever make that the case.
Send your CD player back. The entire thing. Send it back to Sony/Philips/whoever and say that your new BMG CD won't play in it, and that you want them to fix it. Tell all your friends that the BMG CD doesn't work in Sony's CD players. To be honest, no matter what we do as individuals will affect BMG. Sony, on the other hand, have very big legal teams, and wouldn't particularly like BMG telling people that their products are broken.
Every major store in the UK gives you a 10-day 'no hassle' guarantee. If you decide you don't want a CD within 10 days of buying it you can take it back and get a full refund, no questions asked. Its very handy.
The percentile figures are not the point. Simple fact, more Europeans surf the net than Americans. Sure, you can make the stats say whatever you like, but, at crunch time, theres more of us (I'm in England).
This was not the case until recently, evidently Europe is increasing net usage faster than the US (The US may be approaching saturation.. good for you guys). All in all, this is a good thing for European internet businesses.
Its not a competition. The US doesn't _have_ to work the stats in their favour.
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Tell that to the major phamaceutical companies. US companies produce AIDs and cancer drugs at 30$ a day to the patient, and then Indian companies such as Cipla under cut them by making the same drugs for less than 1$ per day. Indian patent law states that drug patents only cover the production method, not the actual drug, so long as the Indian company figures out a new way of making it then its ok.
But...
If countries buy these generic drugs rather than the US equivalent they get threatened with trade sanctions. Its happened in Thailand, South Korea, Brazil, and many others. I doubt its a coincidence that Rumsfeld used to head up.. ooo.. a pharmaceutical company! There was a global treaty for cheap drugs put around by the WHO a little while ago. Every single country wanted to sign up... expect the USA, who veto'd it.
America has too much power.
Nice troll. Updates and service packs don't only fix bugs and holes. They add functionality. Cherry is saying that a dodgy version of W2K3S will not be able to get that extra functionality.
Frankly, MSFT do a very good job of adding nicities even after you've bought the product. I don't see Ford sending me a shiny new Air-con unit 18 months after I bought my new car.
Fortunately though, the locks on my Ford work from Day 1.
Apache doesn't violate it. Apache is good, and it works.
Note, this little saying is about writing software, not buying it. If someone sat down and added up the time has taken to write Apache, and the cost of those man-hours, it would be neither fast nor cheap.
I doubt that many people prefer to click through pages 1 to 5 rather than just scrolling through the whole article.
I don't understand why we don't all buy books and magazines printed on fan-fold paper. Oh, no, wait.. I do understand.. huge pages are a fan in the arse..
We do it for fun, don't we?
Yes. And while you remain doing it for fun, I'm not going to risk my business on it. Noone is going to use an application that isn't either finished and final, or beta but likely to stick around. 95% of OSS projects are neither. So don't expect people to ditch Windows and its range of associated finished software anytime soon.
Do you leave your door open when you're not there? When you're asleep? Having sex?
You're forgetting where you are. This is Slashdot.
So I added an account for her on my workstation.
What? She couldn't do that herself just by reading the documentation? I'm pretty sure my mother could do in Outlook.
Fact is, just because one person who you think is less technical than you can manage to use Linux, that doesn't mean that everyone can.
Ok. Imagine the situation:
Microsoft buys some (more) politicians and gets a law passed saying that emulated gaming is illegal. This means that people who write emulators are criminals, and those associated with them ought to be 'watched'.
You get an FBI phone tap.
Why? In your slashdot 'fans' list is one 'rtaylor', who has links to WineX on his website.
You see, you've done nothing wrong, and yet 'they're watching you'! This is sounds like a pretty extreme example, but this sort of thing is entirely possible once as soon as a less trustworthy government (or civil servant) gets any power. Stopping privacy violations now might save a whole lot of grief in the future. Of course, it might never happen. Personally I'd like to hedge my bets.
Its a question of trust. Do you, honestly, trust this government, or any future government, not to misuse the data they collect right now?
The time MS comes to an end is when your average server admin MCSE moves over to OpenBSD, not your average slashdot reader. So that'll be about never.
You sure you don't mean aisle? Although...
This could be a good thing, since subscribers (hopefully!) provide more worthwhile reading.
Yeah. Rich people always have been the most insightful.
Yahoo recently started using PHP to run their site. PHP is not just another toy language to tinker with, its a very capable tool. Don't confuse 'easy to use' with 'not powerful'.
When you make a complete enterprise site, you use the language that will give you the most advantage for maintainability and design.
Exactly. PHP often fulfills that need.
More interesting would be something like searching Google for 'Eminem +URL:".kids.us"'. As all of his media is parent advisory and/or rated 18 and over, it should return nothing. Of course, most of the 13 year olds I know are hoodie-wearing skate punks who listen to little else... It won't be a popular domain with the kids.
Once that happens, Microsoft will pretty much HAVE to Open Source Windows to have a chance. Everyone will realize the benefits of OSS and they won't want to lock themselves into a proprietary platform.
You're assuming that the users would judge the OSS factor in their decision in choosing bewteen Linux and Windows. I doubt that, for 90% of people, the source being OSS would even enter into the choice. People decide on their OS by the price, availability of software, hardware requirements, and what their friends/clients use. If Linux does make a serious challenge to Windows then MSFT are much more likely to just try to compete on these factors rather than the ethics of software engineering. They may well make Windows free, but thats certainly not the same thing as OSS.
This has nothing to do with Kazaa, WinMX, Limewire or any other P2P network. Its got nothing to do with pirates, or filesharing, or DivX. Its not the fault of DeCSS, or broadband, or the cost of cinema tickets and videos. It is totally, entirely, and completely the fault of poor security at the film distributor. There is blame on the part of people using filesharing, and no law will ever make that the case.
You have a 3rd option.
Send it back.
And I don't mean the CD.
Send your CD player back. The entire thing. Send it back to Sony/Philips/whoever and say that your new BMG CD won't play in it, and that you want them to fix it. Tell all your friends that the BMG CD doesn't work in Sony's CD players. To be honest, no matter what we do as individuals will affect BMG. Sony, on the other hand, have very big legal teams, and wouldn't particularly like BMG telling people that their products are broken.
Every major store in the UK gives you a 10-day 'no hassle' guarantee. If you decide you don't want a CD within 10 days of buying it you can take it back and get a full refund, no questions asked. Its very handy.
Its not ironic in the slightest. Recordable media does actually have uses aside from backing up Kazaa. Even Sony realise this.
If poor spelling and grammar is ever made a crime, I suggest you bin your phone.
Its easy to avoid.. just stand very, very still.
Most OSs can be made secure. Even windows. By a good sysadmin.
Unfortunately this doesn't say much for your dad.
According to NetCraft, there are more PHP web sites than ASP.
The percentile figures are not the point. Simple fact, more Europeans surf the net than Americans. Sure, you can make the stats say whatever you like, but, at crunch time, theres more of us (I'm in England).
This was not the case until recently, evidently Europe is increasing net usage faster than the US (The US may be approaching saturation.. good for you guys). All in all, this is a good thing for European internet businesses.
Its not a competition. The US doesn't _have_ to work the stats in their favour.
I have a kid, a dog, and a cat. One throws random stuff, one eats various turds, and one (or more) is virtually untrainable, with or without a leash.
Which is which?