In quite a few of those countries, you can take your phone almost everywhere and get some reception. That may be hard for Americans to imagine.
In addition, I don't think anyone's going to listen to lecturing from someone from a country that has as much blood on it's hands as the US.
I'd just like to get in a supportive post for France. They may have tried to hide the true extent of BSE in their cattle, but I truly respect their determination to say "screw you!" to anyone who messes with their own laws/culture.
Here in the UK, we have a tendency to roll over whenever the US make their demands. The American way is not the only way, it's not necessarily the right way either.
That's not to say that this particular case is right though. I think removing the auction from yahoo.fr should be enough.
No, because they're already locked into a virtual subscription service with the constant upgrade cycle. A subscription service kind of implies that you'll get patches/updates as soon as they're available too, but we'll see... I doubt ordinary home/small business users will like it though.
As someone who doesn't have a problem with closed source software, I think that I would still recommend free solutions to any large organisation, wherever feasible.
Tack the administrative costs of any potential BSA audits on to the initial cost of any non-free software, and you have a potentially HUGE cost on your hands. Certainly greater than supporting an open-source alternative.
This seems to have developed in recent years, the BSA or the companies that back it are getting greedier and chasing potential customers away.
I noticed that on the side of the box for my Diamond Rio it said something along the lines of "Under UK law, it is illegal to make copies of CDs, even for personal use."
I'm sure we're allowed some copying under vague "fair dealing" provisions, I think there is a bit of a grey area here.
I agree. The only difference is that the Amiga VP never interprets the "byte code" in real time. The first time it tries to execute something, it compiles it to native machine code. From then on it runs as fast as any native program, because it is. Since Java VMs can already do this, I think the Amiga guys are trying to push towards the multimedia area, somewhere Java is quite lousy.
There should also be the option of writing Amiga code in a number of different languages, something Java VMs lack.
I still can't help but think that it's all a bit doomed. That's without taking into consideration MS's.NET.
He just said that MS was a large super powerful organisation (any company with that much money has to be) which uses it's power to promote it's point of view.
Microsoft does that. It doesn't share many views with the Nazis, but then the post didn't say that.
Well obviously they never said it then.
The PC isn't viewed as being a competitor to the consoles, just complementary. As far as consoles go, Square's a Sony shop for the time being.
Mr Hoffman is either extremely lucky in life or a fantasist. Check out the parallel thread! He has the far right-wing views of someone who has managed to live for 43 years without ever having life kick him in the face for no apparent reason.
Oi, Hoffers, sometimes things happen over which you have NO CONTROL, OK? People fall through the net. It happens.
He seems to think that anyone who doesn't yet appreciate the difference between "free software" and "open source" is mentally defective, when in fact it's an easy mistake to make.
He also seems painfully unaware of the world outside of the FSF. He doesn't know what a console is, for instance.
Then his opinion that nothing proprietary is worth supporting seems to be contradicted by the fact that much of his own software is available on proprietary systems.
Previously I've found much of RMS's writing to be fairly inspirational and convincing, but the more I hear from the man himself outside of prepared essays, the more I come to fear that he's a latter-day Don Quixote.
Insightful? Eh?
And why should we believe this person when they're posting as AC?
Oh, hang on, I've just realised that I'm probably replying to a very cunning troll. Please forgive me.
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In quite a few of those countries, you can take your phone almost everywhere and get some reception. That may be hard for Americans to imagine.
In addition, I don't think anyone's going to listen to lecturing from someone from a country that has as much blood on it's hands as the US.
Eh? Since when have Nokia and Ericsson made phones in the US?
I'd just like to get in a supportive post for France. They may have tried to hide the true extent of BSE in their cattle, but I truly respect their determination to say "screw you!" to anyone who messes with their own laws/culture.
Here in the UK, we have a tendency to roll over whenever the US make their demands. The American way is not the only way, it's not necessarily the right way either.
That's not to say that this particular case is right though. I think removing the auction from yahoo.fr should be enough.
Just like the Americans are inferior to the Vietnamese.
No, because they're already locked into a virtual subscription service with the constant upgrade cycle.
A subscription service kind of implies that you'll get patches/updates as soon as they're available too, but we'll see...
I doubt ordinary home/small business users will like it though.
Hmmm. Q: How many countries could push buttons and nuke the States? A: Quite a few.
I'm running a special clinic on the central reservation of the M4, pop over on foot and we'll discuss it.
As someone who doesn't have a problem with closed source software, I think that I would still recommend free solutions to any large organisation, wherever feasible.
Tack the administrative costs of any potential BSA audits on to the initial cost of any non-free software, and you have a potentially HUGE cost on your hands. Certainly greater than supporting an open-source alternative.
This seems to have developed in recent years, the BSA or the companies that back it are getting greedier and chasing potential customers away.
Gaaaaah, I've read the books and you're right. How could I have been so blind?
Mouldy bread is bad.
Genocide is bad.
Mouldy bread is as bad as genocide.
It's so clear to me now.
p.s. I am aware you never said mouldy bread was as bad as genocide, so there's no need to point that out.
Bush doesn't need to screw up in office - he has enough skeletons in his closet to keep the US in scandals for the next four years at least.
He hasn't won yet - it's gone to a recount.
I noticed that on the side of the box for my Diamond Rio it said something along the lines of "Under UK law, it is illegal to make copies of CDs, even for personal use."
I'm sure we're allowed some copying under vague "fair dealing" provisions, I think there is a bit of a grey area here.
I agree. The only difference is that the Amiga VP never interprets the "byte code" in real time. .NET.
The first time it tries to execute something, it compiles it to native machine code. From then on it runs as fast as any native program, because it is.
Since Java VMs can already do this, I think the Amiga guys are trying to push towards the multimedia area, somewhere Java is quite lousy.
There should also be the option of writing Amiga code in a number of different languages, something Java VMs lack.
I still can't help but think that it's all a bit doomed. That's without taking into consideration MS's
He just said that MS was a large super powerful organisation (any company with that much money has to be) which uses it's power to promote it's point of view.
Microsoft does that. It doesn't share many views with the Nazis, but then the post didn't say that.
I do not recall Square saying that
Well obviously they never said it then.
The PC isn't viewed as being a competitor to the consoles, just complementary. As far as consoles go, Square's a Sony shop for the time being.
You really don't know anything about compilers, do you?
Judging from the tone of your post, you've never had a woman either.
Read his first book, The Wasp Factory. Not SF, but definitely a sign of what was to come. Great book.
Because the richest 16% of us have more than 80% of the money.
Your argument would only hold up if wealth were distributed more evenly.
Mr Hoffman is either extremely lucky in life or a fantasist. Check out the parallel thread!
He has the far right-wing views of someone who has managed to live for 43 years without ever having life kick him in the face for no apparent reason.
Oi, Hoffers, sometimes things happen over which you have NO CONTROL, OK? People fall through the net. It happens.
He seems to think that anyone who doesn't yet appreciate the difference between "free software" and "open source" is mentally defective, when in fact it's an easy mistake to make.
He also seems painfully unaware of the world outside of the FSF. He doesn't know what a console is, for instance.
Then his opinion that nothing proprietary is worth supporting seems to be contradicted by the fact that much of his own software is available on proprietary systems.
Previously I've found much of RMS's writing to be fairly inspirational and convincing, but the more I hear from the man himself outside of prepared essays, the more I come to fear that he's a latter-day Don Quixote.
It's nice to see a troll with a sense of humour, keep it up!
Insightful? Eh?
And why should we believe this person when they're posting as AC?
Oh, hang on, I've just realised that I'm probably replying to a very cunning troll. Please forgive me.
Surely that's one of the reasons why it could succeed?
Inheritance tax in the UK is 40% on assets over £231,000, which is some way below the $1 million that is allowed in the US!
If it's random as well as infinite, it will.
But we don't know for certain if it is.