But the three movies do not have separate storylines. Each of the original Star Wars movies had complete plots, and could stand on their own (especially since you don't really need to see episode IV in order to understand V, because of the descriptive intro). The individual LotR movies make no sense individually, and to understand the second you must see the first, and so on (ok, you could understand some of it, but you'd miss some key events that build up to what you're watching).
It is a common misconception that LotR is a trilogy. It is not. It is a single novel, composed of six books, commonly published in three volumes. From this, the movies are really more like the first, second and third discs in a really really long movie.
Well, if you're the type of person who has "6,800 lithium-ion laptop batteries lying around", you probably don't concern yourself with how your car looks.
Yes--there aren't many webpages with links to music files. However, when a webpage like that is found by the RIAA, they sue the person who put the webpage up--not that person's ISP, not the engineers of the HTTP spec, and not the writers of the HTML spec. I'm actually glad they're going after users instead of the people hosting servers (though I think they should send C&D letters first).
You mention some good points, but there are many companies making a profit off of open source software other than Linux. MySQL, IBM, Trolltech, Intel, and Dell are just a few (yes, I realize some of these companies make money in other ways as well, but they all report their open source-related activities to be profitable).
Well, I would like to hope Kucinich can win Ohio. He's certainly got a better chance than the other Democrats. And as somebody who lives south of I-70 (albeit by a mere quarter mile), I consider Cleveland to be on the same planet.
It would be nice if I could convince my ISP to offer a Jabber server, explaining that it would take a minimal amount of resources, and that they could market it as their own IM system. If they didn't want to market it, they could merely implement it and all of a sudden have a following from the/.-like crowd.
Of course, I wouldn't waste my breath trying to get AOL to add this to their pseudo-internet.
You can still sell them the rights to use it under an alternative license so that they don't have to worry about the restrictions of the GPL when distributing the program to customers.
Contact the manufacturer of the pendrive--ask them to place it on their website. If someone had the same problem you had, they would go to the manufacturer. They might even put your code on one of those mini-cds that the put the Windows 98 USB drivers on.
where is the economic incentive to provide an IM service that everybody in the world can use? Servers do cost money... any ideas on how one could fund this?
Don't.
Develop a distributed IM network so that anybody can set up their own server and connect to anybody else using the same protocol, regardless of what server they are connected to (like email, but faster). And there is no requirement to open your server to anybody but yourself. That would be a good IM system.
Make the switch to StarOffice at first. Then, after StarOffice and OpenOffice have had new releases, show your boss how the programs look exactly alike, and that one is free, while the other costs $80.
I'd be busy being repressed, and I'd understand that if my government tried to accept ballots from where I was that the ballots would have surely been filled out by the occupying army anyway.
Well, historically candidates are generally able to win their own state. If Kucinich looks like he is in trouble on this front, I will vote for him (in November, not the primaries).
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But the three movies do not have separate storylines. Each of the original Star Wars movies had complete plots, and could stand on their own (especially since you don't really need to see episode IV in order to understand V, because of the descriptive intro). The individual LotR movies make no sense individually, and to understand the second you must see the first, and so on (ok, you could understand some of it, but you'd miss some key events that build up to what you're watching).
Sorry. I misspelled it.
It is a common misconception that LotR is a trilogy. It is not. It is a single novel, composed of six books, commonly published in three volumes. From this, the movies are really more like the first, second and third discs in a really really long movie.
(Sorry. Just one of my pet peeves.)
Yes--there aren't many webpages with links to music files. However, when a webpage like that is found by the RIAA, they sue the person who put the webpage up--not that person's ISP, not the engineers of the HTTP spec, and not the writers of the HTML spec. I'm actually glad they're going after users instead of the people hosting servers (though I think they should send C&D letters first).
But OOo doesn't have an email client, so you at least have to make a conscience decision to open a malicious attachment.
You mention some good points, but there are many companies making a profit off of open source software other than Linux. MySQL, IBM, Trolltech, Intel, and Dell are just a few (yes, I realize some of these companies make money in other ways as well, but they all report their open source-related activities to be profitable).
Well, I would like to hope Kucinich can win Ohio. He's certainly got a better chance than the other Democrats. And as somebody who lives south of I-70 (albeit by a mere quarter mile), I consider Cleveland to be on the same planet.
It would be nice if I could convince my ISP to offer a Jabber server, explaining that it would take a minimal amount of resources, and that they could market it as their own IM system. If they didn't want to market it, they could merely implement it and all of a sudden have a following from the /.-like crowd.
Of course, I wouldn't waste my breath trying to get AOL to add this to their pseudo-internet.
See this. A gigabyte is exactly 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.
You can still sell them the rights to use it under an alternative license so that they don't have to worry about the restrictions of the GPL when distributing the program to customers.
Contact the manufacturer of the pendrive--ask them to place it on their website. If someone had the same problem you had, they would go to the manufacturer. They might even put your code on one of those mini-cds that the put the Windows 98 USB drivers on.
Develop a distributed IM network so that anybody can set up their own server and connect to anybody else using the same protocol, regardless of what server they are connected to (like email, but faster). And there is no requirement to open your server to anybody but yourself. That would be a good IM system.
Oh wait--it seems someone beat us to it.
In other news, the only reason to have a car is to drive somewhere.
Impress--duh. I hadn't seen the option in Writer. I feel kinda stupid.
Make the switch to StarOffice at first. Then, after StarOffice and OpenOffice have had new releases, show your boss how the programs look exactly alike, and that one is free, while the other costs $80.
My brother had a cold last week. I have a cold this week that I got from him. Can I sue him?
I'd be busy being repressed, and I'd understand that if my government tried to accept ballots from where I was that the ballots would have surely been filled out by the occupying army anyway.
Candidates are generally able to win their home states. There are some exceptions.
I had problems reading "ceehiro", but part of that is that I wasn't expecting that word--I'm not eating cereal, and I'm not British.
Well, historically candidates are generally able to win their own state. If Kucinich looks like he is in trouble on this front, I will vote for him (in November, not the primaries).
Point taken, but Dean is hardly a "private" citizen. I may oppose the USA PATRIOT Act, but it hardly makes the news.
I guess there is a possibility that Dean may have voted for the Act, but I'm going to vote as if he would have challenged it.