With 4096 colours we're talking about the A500 here so most games did not run in 256 colours. Street Fighter 2 on the amiga was in 32 colours, and that was pushing it. They used the copper chip to provide gradients and guff but one can hardly count that.
Look, it's quite simple, and abstract, and you obviously don't understand monopoly law or the basics of the Microsoft Antitrust case.
When you are a monopoly you gain certain abilities that The Law says you can't use. You wouldn't have these abilities if you had to compete in the market. A monopoly has to pretend as if it still has competition, even though it doesn't. If you get nothing else out of my post get that it's about forcing the public's concepts of a free market onto a market that is no longer a free market.
A hungry young company wouldn't be able to tie all its products together and then raise prices 80% . People would go elsewhere. A monpoly can, so a monopoly can't do that.
Now the American justice system has done an awful job of protecting the market from Microsoft. Ignore open source for the moment and consider the bloated boring industry that computers have become. Whatever microsoft brings out becomes semi-popular through interia, not innovation (and I hear microsoft say that a lot, but I don't think they know what it means - what microsoft have going for them is inertia).
You can't sign away basic rights. You can't sign away to become a slave, or your rights against racism or sexism.
If this guy didn't involve himself in this in work hours, and if all they totaled in work hours were thoughts then that is a concept that shouldn't be owned.
Open source only laws are the embodiment of reduction in choice - you legislate in a solution and in doing so remove an entire segment of the market.
Ever read a government tender? They require equality in the workplace, no criminal records in CEOs, or one number of constraints that to achieve social responsibility.
This is what happens now, so I you'd have the same arguments here? Regardless of whether a company can do the job, they have to be good citizens, and they have to perform the job in a way that satisfies elements of transparency and openness required of a public sector agency. Yes, this does mean that they might not always choose the best raw quality of getting the job done - but this is expected when you weigh up government needs. Geting the job done is part of it, but they have satisfy the needs of the public sector too. They have to keep bookwork of their expenses despite not being directly related to the completion of the job. This is because of auditing, and transparency. We generally regard government's keeping track of their spending to be a good thing.
I like this law, because functions that were once open and performed by people are now closed and performed by software, and I shouldn't have less freedom because of it.
Can an XML database generate XML dynamically from other documents?
Sure, and this is the way that many RDBMS vendors have tacked on XML support. This is just a wrapper though, and it wouldn't have the speed or usefulness of a proper XML database.
One forms data relationships in the same way as before. Just mark part of one tree as relating to part of another. That hasn't really changed (from what I've read).
(don't get too much into my implementation, this is just an example)
If you have students belonging to many classes then you might have a STUDENT tag with many CLASS tags with CLASSID attributes. An XML document for these students would contain many STUDENTs. And if later you decide those students should be broken up in dormatorys then you might arrange STUDENTS under DORMATORY tags.
RDBMS aren't good at the later idea... Taking data and moving it around in a tree. RDBMS's can't deal with tree's very well at all. Often one you get back to a tree you'll find that what took many tables is really just a way of representing many flat parts of tree.
It doesn't suit everything, and I'd imagine that for databases they'd be RDBMS too - the XML document would be a table-type.
You'd use XPATH to select a node on the XML tree. But this is a lightweight method, and it only suits simple situations. XQuery is for anything more complex.
For an XPATH query if you wanted a student who had an attribute of studentID="4" then the query might look like "student/@studentID=4".
I don't think 'trading' is a good distinction to make either as traditionally there has been legal trading (this other person owns a licence), and there's been illegal trading (I'll give a copy to anyone who asks regardless of licence).
Unlicenced and use not covered by olden-day fair-use should be illegal.
Arbitrary limits enforced by DRM shouldn't be illegal to break, so long as it's for fair-use.
Basically, we can't expect DRM to understand whether the use is breaking the law - only a person can decide that. That person should be a judge, or a cop, or the usual people who enforce law. Not a black box.
By decoding the DVD video it enables reencoding at a filesize that's easier to download and trade online. The popular 400 meg ASF movie files are the result of this, and I doubt if they would be so popular if it were a 4 GIG download for quality that most people don't care about.
Read up on DR DOS. Their monopoly was not legally obtained.
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You don't even know what a troll is. A troll isn't someone who links to Goatse or talks about GNU smelly hippies. That's a highly odd slashdot cult evolved from Petrified Portman Grits If I Ever See You I Will Kick Your Penis Bird and other key words. A troll on the other hand isn't so obvious. They toe the fine-line between a reasonable personality and one that inflames and exposes the shallowness of others. Trolling is all about being believable. This, on the other hand, is not believable. It's a formulaic "open sores" post that HiLaRiOuSlY binds sexual inferiority and unwashed masses of GPL programmers living in their m0ms basement playing AD&D. There's no attempt whatsoever to adapt to the story at hand - it's another tired cut'n'paste job. What kind of a moron would even consider that creation a troll? No one was ever taken in by something that obvious...
My girlfriend did the same thing. Then I installed Linux and our relationship is on the rocks. Is there a Linux equivilent? (it just looks like Puzzle Bobble to me)
That your first sentence isn't based in anyones reality makes responding rather difficult. However, I was quite careful to state that - like the original poster - there aren't details about this instance of GE corn.
Any speculation is just that, and will only be vomiting up whatever opionion one had when they entered this discussion.
Being hasty to condemn "GE Corn" itself is unreasonable. It's like saying that cars are bad. In this specific instance we know nothing and yet here we have a poster saying what will happen - the how and why.
Do not be so hasty to have an opinion. It's OK to learn more before rushing in with a Slashdot post.
Most starvation isn't solved by more food, it's more an issue of distribution. There's also an issue of diet - and that it's scientifically proven that a vegetarian diet make more food for effort and land (I'm lucky not to have to worry about this, but for a poor country it's something to consider).
The distribution argument has been thoroughly proven now through wor by Sen:
""Sen's best-known work in this area is his book from 1981: Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. Here, he challenges the common view that a shortage of food is the most important (sometimes the only) explanation for famine. On the basis of a careful study of a number of such catastrophes in India, Bangladesh, and Saharan countries, from the 1940s onwards, he found other explanatory factors. He argues that several observed phenomena cannot in fact be explained by a shortage of food alone, e.g. that famines have occurred even when the supply of food was not significantly lower than during previous years (without famines), or that faminestricken areas have sometimes exported food.""
Making comments on "GE Corn" itself is ridiculous and you're setting the argument in a way that GE can't possibly win. Your second point is the main one. GE Corn can't be proved to be safe anymore than cars can be - some are good, some are bad.
So without knowledge you go on your decision that you already formed months ago. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not reasonable.
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With 4096 colours we're talking about the A500 here so most games did not run in 256 colours. Street Fighter 2 on the amiga was in 32 colours, and that was pushing it. They used the copper chip to provide gradients and guff but one can hardly count that.
When you are a monopoly you gain certain abilities that The Law says you can't use. You wouldn't have these abilities if you had to compete in the market. A monopoly has to pretend as if it still has competition, even though it doesn't. If you get nothing else out of my post get that it's about forcing the public's concepts of a free market onto a market that is no longer a free market.
A hungry young company wouldn't be able to tie all its products together and then raise prices 80% . People would go elsewhere. A monpoly can, so a monopoly can't do that.
Now the American justice system has done an awful job of protecting the market from Microsoft. Ignore open source for the moment and consider the bloated boring industry that computers have become. Whatever microsoft brings out becomes semi-popular through interia, not innovation (and I hear microsoft say that a lot, but I don't think they know what it means - what microsoft have going for them is inertia).
and it's a popular opinion
That data doesn't go on the Zeitgeiest thingy though, Yahoo just bought the Google engine and they apply it to their own data.
Imagine if Bainbow Bright spent more time combing her horsey rather than fighting bad guys. That horsey is so pretty!
images.google.com of wil
If this guy didn't involve himself in this in work hours, and if all they totaled in work hours were thoughts then that is a concept that shouldn't be owned.
This is what happens now, so I you'd have the same arguments here? Regardless of whether a company can do the job, they have to be good citizens, and they have to perform the job in a way that satisfies elements of transparency and openness required of a public sector agency. Yes, this does mean that they might not always choose the best raw quality of getting the job done - but this is expected when you weigh up government needs. Geting the job done is part of it, but they have satisfy the needs of the public sector too. They have to keep bookwork of their expenses despite not being directly related to the completion of the job. This is because of auditing, and transparency. We generally regard government's keeping track of their spending to be a good thing.
I like this law, because functions that were once open and performed by people are now closed and performed by software, and I shouldn't have less freedom because of it.
I think part of the argument against is the programmer within... who wants to squeeze every bit of resolution out of the filesystem ;)
It's also a fix required at the application level because if you search for "lEtter.txt" you need to also be able to handle results from "letter.txt"
Hell. Yes.
One forms data relationships in the same way as before. Just mark part of one tree as relating to part of another. That hasn't really changed (from what I've read).
(don't get too much into my implementation, this is just an example)
If you have students belonging to many classes then you might have a STUDENT tag with many CLASS tags with CLASSID attributes. An XML document for these students would contain many STUDENTs. And if later you decide those students should be broken up in dormatorys then you might arrange STUDENTS under DORMATORY tags.
RDBMS aren't good at the later idea... Taking data and moving it around in a tree. RDBMS's can't deal with tree's very well at all. Often one you get back to a tree you'll find that what took many tables is really just a way of representing many flat parts of tree.
It doesn't suit everything, and I'd imagine that for databases they'd be RDBMS too - the XML document would be a table-type.
You'd use XPATH to select a node on the XML tree. But this is a lightweight method, and it only suits simple situations. XQuery is for anything more complex.
For an XPATH query if you wanted a student who had an attribute of studentID="4" then the query might look like "student/@studentID=4".
Yes, with CSS-P you can have a percentage based layout which will scale with browser window size.
Unlicenced and use not covered by olden-day fair-use should be illegal.
Arbitrary limits enforced by DRM shouldn't be illegal to break, so long as it's for fair-use.
Basically, we can't expect DRM to understand whether the use is breaking the law - only a person can decide that. That person should be a judge, or a cop, or the usual people who enforce law. Not a black box.
By decoding the DVD video it enables reencoding at a filesize that's easier to download and trade online. The popular 400 meg ASF movie files are the result of this, and I doubt if they would be so popular if it were a 4 GIG download for quality that most people don't care about.
Read up on DR DOS. Their monopoly was not legally obtained.
Oh, waitaminute... ;)
Yeah - I know, trolled, hardy har har.
My girlfriend did the same thing. Then I installed Linux and our relationship is on the rocks. Is there a Linux equivilent? (it just looks like Puzzle Bobble to me)
Agreed.
That your first sentence isn't based in anyones reality makes responding rather difficult. However, I was quite careful to state that - like the original poster - there aren't details about this instance of GE corn.
Any speculation is just that, and will only be vomiting up whatever opionion one had when they entered this discussion.
Being hasty to condemn "GE Corn" itself is unreasonable. It's like saying that cars are bad. In this specific instance we know nothing and yet here we have a poster saying what will happen - the how and why.
Do not be so hasty to have an opinion. It's OK to learn more before rushing in with a Slashdot post.
The distribution argument has been thoroughly proven now through wor by Sen:
So without knowledge you go on your decision that you already formed months ago. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not reasonable.