An address and data compatible card would be an option, but I still don't see the benefit. You'd have a card that uses the same driver. You have no idea how the data is handled internally, how state information was sent to the various stages. The driver and interface are really quite simple parts of the hardware.
Their software would have to be largely rewritten to work with thier competitors' cards. If their competitors made a pin compatible card (which they could probably do anyway without the driver), it would take a year or two to design and debug it. They're not going to get a lot of information from the driver for this. Anything that's particulalry worth copying is going to be covered by a patent.
True, but a lot of hardware companies hoard their IP as though it has intrinsic value. They seem to assume that since it cost something to produce, it must be worth something.
Hopefully this will result in an improvement in the drivers and a detectable increase in sales for this hardware.
Sensible, but they do need to provide a couple of tools to help disinfect your machine as well. A lot of people get most of their software from the internet.
It does seem rather non-competitive. The only way it could be useful is running on a virtual PC for Windows compatibility.
Compared with this, Linux supports several Gigabytes of memory, thousands of applications, support for very high resolutions. Lindows (or whatever its called these days) offers all these features with Windows compatibility included. I can't see Michael Robertson turning down this opportunity to try to stick one to Microsoft.
With the global media a nation isn't going to get away with the atrocities that Hitler could.
China seems to get away with some pretty nasty stuff. So do parts of Africa.
If the US started to commit genocide against a certain race, who would stop them? It was only the threat of invasion that rallied people against them.
But that wasn't the only atrocity the Nazis committed. They arrested and imprisoned people who spoke against the government - much like many nations still manage to do today. They censered the news, rewrote history, and tried to make sure that everyone saw the future of the Nazi philosophy.
And this doesn't explain how ID cards would protect anyone from anything.
How about also demanding that the record industry stop threatening to sue people for disproportionate amounts of money, and stops seeking extensions to copyright length.
That's hardly fair. He did. And clearly got the link you got. But since it isn't immediately apparent what medicine and hard drives have to do with each other, he assumed it wasn't that right link.
Far-fetched? Think about it: With MySQL, the People's Army will now be able to do multiple queries on their tables of democratic activists in Olog(n) time instead of lengthy searches in card catalogs.
Don't know what you're doing, but mycard indexes can be searched this efficiently anyway.
The bureaucratic overhead previously allowed activists enough time to flee the country. How about building cheap firewalls so the people can't get the unbiased reporting that CNN provides?
But cheap firewalls can be bypassed with cheap proxy routing software.
Which throws into question Mr. Stallman's motives. A known proponent of socialism, the Chinese government and RMS are natural allies.
Not the case. RMS is a proponent of hippy style socialism. A socialism where academics get paid to academe, and workers toil for a tech meritocracy. China offers totalitarian socialism.
The editors. It's always been a site where the editors post what they think is interesting rather than what the editors think the readers will find interesting.
However, it did stop Great Britain's other colonies revolting after the refusal to appease caused the American revolution, removed a turkish uprising, and allowed Great Britain to reach a peaceful accord with escaped slaves.
More recently, it put an end to the Cuban Missile crisis.
It also tells us that if you could keep the number of viewers, and distribution costs the same, by charging on a per episode basis, you would only need to charge 24c per person per episode. Which actually sounds quite cheap.
Lots of fans like Robert Rankin. He may not appeal to some since his stories sometimes seem to be little more than a premise to hang jokes and weird ideas off, but give him a try.
MJ is well known as a big fan of HitchHikers. It disappointed him. This is not to say it's a bad film. It just means that MJ Simpson thought it was a bad film.
It's possible that many people will disagree with him. At the end of the day, it's an opinion, and opinions often differ.
But the cashier was suspicious of the money. So she delegated to the police. Since the police offcier was also suspicious, it is not unreasonable to refuse to accept them as payment until such time as the authenticity of the bills could be verified.
harder to recognize as counterfeit (not being handled very often by your typical cashier).
The counter to this is that they're more likely to be closely inspected.
Apparently the most commonly forged British note is the 20 pound note, since it is large enough to be worth the effort, but not so uncommon as to be treated as unusual.
By this logic, the most commonly forged US currency should be the equal value $36 bill;)
Sequential numbers is indeed quire common. Last time I went to the US, I bought US dollars and received sets of sequential numbers for various denominations.
In my experience, most people who talk about double opt-in mean confirmed opt-in.
Many Rabid anti-spammers seem to home in on this as a sign of a spammer, which is strage since most peopel I know who use the term are quite severely oppsed to spam.
Can't talk for myself. I'm occasionally pro-spam. Where else can I get a consistent stream of nigerian scammers to torment?
Personally, I'm fairly neutral over CherryOS now they're at least vaguely doing the right thing, but sympathetic towards the bnetd guys (although I can't remember the details).
Ultimately, it depends on what a court says. A legal opinion is just an opinion.
If the pearPC guys do decide to sue, then they could prevent CherryOS from distributing under the GPL, but I don't think it's certain that they'll win.
That may be the point of the clause, but whether its a valid clause is a matter of legal opinion. I don't think Eben Moglen is going to be totally objective in this case.
But I'd guess since the licence is granted implicetely with code rather explicitely handed out by someone, renewing the licence is simply a matter of downloading the software again.
This probably doesn't absolve them of guilt for past transgressions, but I suspect the copyright owners are willing to let that slide since they can't get anything from it.
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ITYM address compatible card. HTH HAND
I meant pin compatible chip.
An address and data compatible card would be an option, but I still don't see the benefit. You'd have a card that uses the same driver. You have no idea how the data is handled internally, how state information was sent to the various stages. The driver and interface are really quite simple parts of the hardware.
Not really. Device drivers are not that complex.
Their software would have to be largely rewritten to work with thier competitors' cards. If their competitors made a pin compatible card (which they could probably do anyway without the driver), it would take a year or two to design and debug it. They're not going to get a lot of information from the driver for this. Anything that's particulalry worth copying is going to be covered by a patent.
True, but a lot of hardware companies hoard their IP as though it has intrinsic value. They seem to assume that since it cost something to produce, it must be worth something.
Hopefully this will result in an improvement in the drivers and a detectable increase in sales for this hardware.
Sensible, but they do need to provide a couple of tools to help disinfect your machine as well. A lot of people get most of their software from the internet.
It does seem rather non-competitive. The only way it could be useful is running on a virtual PC for Windows compatibility.
Compared with this, Linux supports several Gigabytes of memory, thousands of applications, support for very high resolutions. Lindows (or whatever its called these days) offers all these features with Windows compatibility included. I can't see Michael Robertson turning down this opportunity to try to stick one to Microsoft.
With the global media a nation isn't going to get away with the atrocities that Hitler could.
China seems to get away with some pretty nasty stuff. So do parts of Africa.
If the US started to commit genocide against a certain race, who would stop them? It was only the threat of invasion that rallied people against them.
But that wasn't the only atrocity the Nazis committed. They arrested and imprisoned people who spoke against the government - much like many nations still manage to do today. They censered the news, rewrote history, and tried to make sure that everyone saw the future of the Nazi philosophy.
And this doesn't explain how ID cards would protect anyone from anything.
It goes against my libertarian leanings to support something like a biometric card
Hmmm....
but I do think it would help make the world safer in the long run.
In what way?
but it's a much different world now.
In what way?
Good thinking.
How about also demanding that the record industry stop threatening to sue people for disproportionate amounts of money, and stops seeking extensions to copyright length.
That's hardly fair. He did. And clearly got the link you got. But since it isn't immediately apparent what medicine and hard drives have to do with each other, he assumed it wasn't that right link.
He was mistaken. He asked. He was corrected.
Far-fetched? Think about it: With MySQL, the People's Army will now be able to do multiple queries on their tables of democratic activists in Olog(n) time instead of lengthy searches in card catalogs.
Don't know what you're doing, but mycard indexes can be searched this efficiently anyway.
The bureaucratic overhead previously allowed activists enough time to flee the country. How about building cheap firewalls so the people can't get the unbiased reporting that CNN provides?
But cheap firewalls can be bypassed with cheap proxy routing software.
Which throws into question Mr. Stallman's motives. A known proponent of socialism, the Chinese government and RMS are natural allies.
Not the case. RMS is a proponent of hippy style socialism. A socialism where academics get paid to academe, and workers toil for a tech meritocracy. China offers totalitarian socialism.
who really cares about this show?
The editors. It's always been a site where the editors post what they think is interesting rather than what the editors think the readers will find interesting.
Floppy disk icon on a mac appears as soon as you put a disk in. On Windows, it's always there.
Appeasement failed once. See World War 2.
However, it did stop Great Britain's other colonies revolting after the refusal to appease caused the American revolution, removed a turkish uprising, and allowed Great Britain to reach a peaceful accord with escaped slaves.
More recently, it put an end to the Cuban Missile crisis.
But appeasement failed once, so it never works.
That's an interesting way to look at it.
It also tells us that if you could keep the number of viewers, and distribution costs the same, by charging on a per episode basis, you would only need to charge 24c per person per episode. Which actually sounds quite cheap.
Lots of fans like Robert Rankin. He may not appeal to some since his stories sometimes seem to be little more than a premise to hang jokes and weird ideas off, but give him a try.
The review is not true or false. It's an opinion.
MJ is well known as a big fan of HitchHikers. It disappointed him. This is not to say it's a bad film. It just means that MJ Simpson thought it was a bad film.
It's possible that many people will disagree with him. At the end of the day, it's an opinion, and opinions often differ.
But the cashier was suspicious of the money. So she delegated to the police. Since the police offcier was also suspicious, it is not unreasonable to refuse to accept them as payment until such time as the authenticity of the bills could be verified.
harder to recognize as counterfeit (not being handled very often by your typical cashier).
The counter to this is that they're more likely to be closely inspected.
Apparently the most commonly forged British note is the 20 pound note, since it is large enough to be worth the effort, but not so uncommon as to be treated as unusual.
By this logic, the most commonly forged US currency should be the equal value $36 bill;)
Or simply shuffling them.
Sequential numbers is indeed quire common. Last time I went to the US, I bought US dollars and received sets of sequential numbers for various denominations.
In my experience, most people who talk about double opt-in mean confirmed opt-in.
Many Rabid anti-spammers seem to home in on this as a sign of a spammer, which is strage since most peopel I know who use the term are quite severely oppsed to spam.
Can't talk for myself. I'm occasionally pro-spam. Where else can I get a consistent stream of nigerian scammers to torment?
True. But my point is really that this is just an opinion. A judge may disagree with him.
Not exactly the same situation though.
Personally, I'm fairly neutral over CherryOS now they're at least vaguely doing the right thing, but sympathetic towards the bnetd guys (although I can't remember the details).
Ultimately, it depends on what a court says. A legal opinion is just an opinion.
If the pearPC guys do decide to sue, then they could prevent CherryOS from distributing under the GPL, but I don't think it's certain that they'll win.
That may be the point of the clause, but whether its a valid clause is a matter of legal opinion. I don't think Eben Moglen is going to be totally objective in this case.
Hard to say. Ask a lawyer.
But I'd guess since the licence is granted implicetely with code rather explicitely handed out by someone, renewing the licence is simply a matter of downloading the software again.
This probably doesn't absolve them of guilt for past transgressions, but I suspect the copyright owners are willing to let that slide since they can't get anything from it.