Looks like a moderator has had a sense-of-humour bypass... (or a sense-of-humor bypass, depending upon which side of the pond they happen to be at the time).
"Why do I have turn 5 knobs and push 4 buttons to make my home theater receiver/tv switch from dss to ps2?
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Because you are exaggerating? It takes me ONE button press on my system at home. Doesn'tget much simpler than that!
"Why do 90% of VCR functions only come on the remote, especially important stuff, like switch to the aux video source"
'cos you bought a cheap crap VCR that didn't meet your requirements - i.e. you didn't bother to look at what you were buying.
FWIW, my VCR at home allows such switching from both the remote (where it is more useful anyway) and from teh front panel. Nexttime, THINKabout what you are buying before you spend your money!
"why does every piece of software come with crappy default settings"
Because no matter WHAT default settings arechosen, not everyone will agree with them. All they can do is chose suitably safe ones which will annoy the fewest people.
"why are we stuck with crappy interoperatability between anything"
Eh?
"i have a pda, cell phone, pager, email, etc... but for some reason, getting them all to work together in a synchronous, efficient manner is impossible"
Then either you are being deliberately obteuse, or you have, once again, not made sure your purchases meet your needs.
FWIW, my mobile/pager (seeing as how I needed both facilities, I took the radical step of buying a phone that can be paged - neat, huh?), computer and PDA all work together nicely, thank you.
Perhaps, rather than venting your spleen at random and irrelevant targets, you could spend your time more productivly by looking at what you buy BEFORE you buy it to make sure it meets your needs. Or not. It's your choice.
It is not unreasonable for your employer to argue that you could have reasonably known about the possible requirement for such a product (anyone who has THAT LITTLE of an idea of what products they may have to develop for their employer really ought to clue themselves in a little more about their job!).
*Ping*
Conflict of interest.
Ideally, you should discuss the situation with your employer. They may understand and move you to a different project, or even be prepared to come to some licensing arrangement.
Or they may not be so reasonable, in which case you may want to look for another job.
Of course, if you signed one of those "everything you develop that is related to our line of business" clauses, then youare stuffed anyway (and should have thought about that before you started).
Problem with your contrived example is that the files will not pass through any servers, they will pass along cable, via routers (which do not storre any info) possibly (although almost certainly not in your example) and back down some cable again.
No, it doesn't sound like a good deal when you think about it.
OK, so HP could charge for support.
HOWEVER, there are two problems which can arise there -
(1) As it is all open source, there is nothing to stop others muscling in on this so-called "lucrative" support deal, undercutting HP and generally significantly reducing HP's income from support.
(2) HP would no longer have control over the source per se, nor would they directly know what was happening to it unless the spend time (and hence money) to keep looking at what's going on - makes supporting a product bloody difficult when you have no control over it and don't know what's being done to it - the only way to know is to pay lots of people to watch the development, and if you are going to invest thatsort of time, money and manpower then you may as well just develop it inhouse for less cost anyway.
First, sorry for the misquote - I didn't mean to imply you meant anything other than you said, I just typed rather than cut'n'pasting and got it wrong...
Second, I would dispute that it is just "a few" home units that can do region free.
Over here in the UK, the vast majority of units either come as region-free or can have a very simple mod done to make them region-free, often without even opening the unit.
Gee, let's take a wild stab in the dark on this one, shall we?
Ever considered the possibility that the lander taking off from the moon was filmed by a CAMERA LEFT BEHIND ON THE MOON SPECIFICALLY TO FILM THE TAKEOFF?
For one trivial but important example, they do not always use quotes to contain attributes, which they should if they are "following the latest standards".
But hey, I guess they are just one in a long line of groups who demand "Don't do as I do, do as I say"...
On the one hand everyone here blasts M$ for "bloat", and on teh other hand they then tell people to use bloat to get round needless bugs in the glibc fiasco! Smart one!
"And - try to search for 100% binary compatibility between say Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0"
Bzzzzzzt! Wrong answer, thanks for playing.
Here's a clue for you - Win95 and NT4 are two TOTALLY SEPERATE PRODUCTS from seperate code bases, whereas glibc is glibc - the same (ha ha!) library, just different versions.
Of course, what you OUGHT to have written was try to search for 100% binary compatibility between say Windows 95 and Windows 98 or try to search for 100% binary compatibility between say Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 which is extremely easy to do. But then why let trivial things like facts get in the way of a good troll, eh?:(
"Professors or other state employees must get written permission from their agency heads before accessing sexually explicit material"
Get the idea? If a professor needs access to pr0n for his studies, then he can GETaccess- he just has to get written permission first, which will be easy to get if his request is legitimate.
That's called the tide. Hang on for 6 hours then it'll start falling again.
Seriously, what adverse affect on the world's weather patterns do you see arising from this? None.
How much more effect would it have if the USA (mainly, although there were other guilty parties) had NOT demanded a relaxing of the already lax new emissions levels? A hell of a lot more of a positive effect.
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Oh really?
Just goes to prove that you have not actually LOOKED at the CD or what is on it.
Clue - the CD is nowhere near full of AmigaOS, compressed or otherwise.
Looks like a moderator has had a sense-of-humour bypass... (or a sense-of-humor bypass, depending upon which side of the pond they happen to be at the time).
Ho hum.
Well, given that "information wants to be free" (as many here keep claiming, usually in Napster-related threads), I don't see that you have a problem.
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I can tell that you have never spent $100,000 on software then, if THAT is what you think will happen when the inevitable bugs appear.
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Because you are exaggerating? It takes me ONE button press on my system at home. Doesn'tget much simpler than that!
"Why do 90% of VCR functions only come on the remote, especially important stuff, like switch to the aux video source"
'cos you bought a cheap crap VCR that didn't meet your requirements - i.e. you didn't bother to look at what you were buying.
FWIW, my VCR at home allows such switching from both the remote (where it is more useful anyway) and from teh front panel. Nexttime, THINKabout what you are buying before you spend your money!
"why does every piece of software come with crappy default settings"
Because no matter WHAT default settings arechosen, not everyone will agree with them. All they can do is chose suitably safe ones which will annoy the fewest people.
"why are we stuck with crappy interoperatability between anything"
Eh?
"i have a pda, cell phone, pager, email, etc. .. but for some reason, getting them all to work together in a synchronous, efficient manner is impossible"
Then either you are being deliberately obteuse, or you have, once again, not made sure your purchases meet your needs.
FWIW, my mobile/pager (seeing as how I needed both facilities, I took the radical step of buying a phone that can be paged - neat, huh?), computer and PDA all work together nicely, thank you.
Perhaps, rather than venting your spleen at random and irrelevant targets, you could spend your time more productivly by looking at what you buy BEFORE you buy it to make sure it meets your needs.
Or not.
It's your choice.
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Strictly speaking, that is also incorrect - said computer can achieve said task if it is allowed to run unhinder for an infinite time :)
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It is not unreasonable for your employer to argue that you could have reasonably known about the possible requirement for such a product (anyone who has THAT LITTLE of an idea of what products they may have to develop for their employer really ought to clue themselves in a little more about their job!).
*Ping*
Conflict of interest.
Ideally, you should discuss the situation with your employer. They may understand and move you to a different project, or even be prepared to come to some licensing arrangement.
Or they may not be so reasonable, in which case you may want to look for another job.
Of course, if you signed one of those "everything you develop that is related to our line of business" clauses, then youare stuffed anyway (and should have thought about that before you started).
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Problem with your contrived example is that the files will not pass through any servers, they will pass along cable, via routers (which do not storre any info) possibly (although almost certainly not in your example) and back down some cable again.
No servers in sight.
No storage of files, however temporary.
No, it doesn't sound like a good deal when you think about it.
OK, so HP could charge for support.
HOWEVER, there are two problems which can arise there -
(1) As it is all open source, there is nothing to stop others muscling in on this so-called "lucrative" support deal, undercutting HP and generally significantly reducing HP's income from support.
(2) HP would no longer have control over the source per se, nor would they directly know what was happening to it unless the spend time (and hence money) to keep looking at what's going on - makes supporting a product bloody difficult when you have no control over it and don't know what's being done to it - the only way to know is to pay lots of people to watch the development, and if you are going to invest thatsort of time, money and manpower then you may as well just develop it inhouse for less cost anyway.
I am become dyslexic, destroyer of words.
Uh-hu, and do you have any documentary proof of your prior art dating from BEFORE April 1997?
For that is when the patent application was submitted, so unless you DO have such documented proof, there's nothing you can do about it.
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First, sorry for the misquote - I didn't mean to imply you meant anything other than you said, I just typed rather than cut'n'pasting and got it wrong...
Second, I would dispute that it is just "a few" home units that can do region free.
Over here in the UK, the vast majority of units either come as region-free or can have a very simple mod done to make them region-free, often without even opening the unit.
"Something you can't do at home"?
Really?
That probably explains why my Pioneer DVD at home plays DVDs from any and all regions quite happily without me even having to change regions on it.
In fact, come to think of it, both my normal DVD player and the DVD drive in my PC are both 100% region-free...
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Gee, let's take a wild stab in the dark on this one, shall we?
Ever considered the possibility that the lander taking off from the moon was filmed by a CAMERA LEFT BEHIND ON THE MOON SPECIFICALLY TO FILM THE TAKEOFF?
No?
I guess not then.
Their web pages are not fully compliant.
For one trivial but important example, they do not always use quotes to contain attributes, which they should if they are "following the latest standards".
But hey, I guess they are just one in a long line of groups who demand "Don't do as I do, do as I say"...
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Well DUH!!!
That's the entire POINT of the slogan - it is called humour (or humor, depending upon which side of the Atlantic you may be).
You might want to look it up in a dictionary sometime...
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You didn't mean patent, you meant trademark, so why did you say patent?
*Sigh*
Is it REALLY too much trouble for you to use the correct terminology when launching into your rants?
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Smart!
On the one hand everyone here blasts M$ for "bloat", and on teh other hand they then tell people to use bloat to get round needless bugs in the glibc fiasco! Smart one!
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Bzzzzzzt! Wrong answer, thanks for playing.
Here's a clue for you - Win95 and NT4 are two TOTALLY SEPERATE PRODUCTS from seperate code bases, whereas glibc is glibc - the same (ha ha!) library, just different versions.
Of course, what you OUGHT to have written was try to search for 100% binary compatibility between say Windows 95 and Windows 98 or try to search for 100% binary compatibility between say Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 which is extremely easy to do. But then why let trivial things like facts get in the way of a good troll, eh? :(
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Erm,calm down dude!
Take a deep breath.
Now THINK.
No-one is snooping round your stuff.
They aresimply looking at what YOU have placed PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE via Napster.
There is no problem - if you don't want people to see it, don't share it.
It really is that simple!
Oh, and you can let that deep breath out again, you are starting to turn blue...
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- Runs X11 applications
"Could they call it XBox? :-)
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Spot who didn't READthe article (or even the summary)...
It doesn't matter if YOUR email client is javascript enabled or disabled, if the person you are emailing has theirs enabled.
Nex ttime, read the article before commenting, huh?
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i.e., the 2nd ammendment guarantees your right to wear T-Shirts and TankTops and not to be required to cover up your bare arms in public places.
HTH.
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"Professors or other state employees must get written permission from their agency heads before accessing sexually explicit material"
Get the idea? If a professor needs access to pr0n for his studies, then he can GETaccess- he just has to get written permission first, which will be easy to get if his request is legitimate.
No "censorship" there, matey.
That's called the tide. Hang on for 6 hours then it'll start falling again.
Seriously, what adverse affect on the world's weather patterns do you see arising from this? None.
How much more effect would it have if the USA (mainly, although there were other guilty parties) had NOT demanded a relaxing of the already lax new emissions levels? A hell of a lot more of a positive effect.
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