OK, that's good to know! I guess some of the capitalization subtleties of French doesn't translate in English. My bad.
Having said that, I still think the original poster meant "from France" and not "in French". Just like most people would probably say American comics rather than English comics when they're talking about Superman, etc. But hey! Your point (that technically, the original poster might inadvertantly still be correct) is well taken...
Stop me if I am wrong (and I could, english is not my native language), but when you put a "French" adjective (with a capital letter) you mean "from France" and not "in french".
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Here is a complete list of "insults" (in french). He has quite a collection of them, each more entertaining than the other, and none are even remotely like f*ck, *ss, etc. All banal words from the dictionary, used creatively:)
Ahhh... I love Tintin. Being Belgian I grew up on these "comics" (a term that really doesn't do justice to the art, at least not the Begian/French kind of "comics"). Aside from owning the whole collection, I have several older copies with my dad's dedication in them (got them for birthday gifts, etc) which makes them even more valuable to me.
I am also a fairly big fan of Spielberg - with E.T. being the first major movie I have ever seen, and I still remember going to see it (in Belgium) when I was 11 like it was yesterday! I just hope he doesn't screw this up!
Tintin et le Lac aux Requins. (no idea on the english name is any)
This movie made it back into a book. Not a comic book strictly speaking (although the size and format of the book is the same) since it looks like pictures from the movie with the bubbles on top.
Ever heard of restocking fees? Not that I am advocating them, but that's what merchants that feel they can't absorb the cost of returns do. I personally feel that returns are part of doing retail business - and many stores seem to be surviving quite nicely without the invasion of privacy and the restocking fees - in spite of the abusers. Wonder how they do it!
I personally refuse to shop at any store that charge these fees, eventhough I rarely return anything. But I'd take the chance of having to pay the restocking fees BEFORE giving up my name and address to a store.
I guess following your logic Intel should probably be the only company writing operating systems or something. Otherwise Intel would go immediately bankrupt. Oh Wait...
I don't think that there is much that NVidia doesn't know about Radeon (or ATI about GEForceX) and it doesn't matter much really. There are many ways to protect hardware designs including patents, etc. Like I said, very little valid reason not to open source a driver...
Lookup advocate in a dictionary. It's not the same as fanatic, regardless as what you may think. There ARE people with moderate views, and while we can dream about Oracle opensourcing their database, most of us don't expect them to do it - and probably wouldn't even ask.
That's right... Nvidia is a hardware company and that's how they make their money.
So what was your arguments about programmers going hungry if Nvidia's drivers were open sourced?
I think most reasonable open source advocates don't expect Oracle to release the source code to their database. However, there is little (valid) justification for hardware companies (such as Nvidia) not to open source their drivers.
And yet somehow Europe is MORE dependant on middle-east oil than the US is! Don't worry, I am not claiming that Bush and Iraq is un-selfish, or not oil related. If European lacks the oil they need their economy will be affected. And THAT will screw with US' economy as well.
You wouldn't pay $120 for two systems. RedHat Network gives one free to each user (email address). As far as I can tell there is nothing preventing you from having multiple RHN accounts (each gets a free subscription) but you know, I personally don't do that. As a stockholder of RHAT I'd like them to make some money soon:)
Oh crap. Now all the MS zealots will continue to claim that Gnu/linux and "open source" is communist...
Having said all that, my wife is Taiwanese and I have yet to get her to switch to Linux. While Chinese seems to display just fine, the input system is a bit clunky. Of course, that may be because I don't know how to set it up - everytime I try all I can find is documentation which my wife doesn't understand because she is not a technical type, and I don't understand because it's in chinese. So moral of the story, not sure it will be missed that much.
They won't charge your credit card until the first issue. So, if they don't come alive, you haven't lost any money. I suppose there is the risk that they go dead before you got your 12 issues, not sure if you'd get a refund or not.
Well, he has the right to sue you. He just (most likely) would not win. And that's the problem really, just by suing, people will settle to avoid legal fees and/or inconvienience.
I love KDE 3 - I used to be a gnome user before KDE3, I have made the switch and I am unimpressed with Gnome2 so I am not switching back. I used Konqeror (the web browser, not the file manager) for a few hour and decided to forget about it and use Mozilla. Let's be honest, Konq is not much of a web browser, the rendering simply does not work on many many website that both Mozilla and IE have NO problems with.
I think the "slap in the face" you mantion should really be a wake up call to the konq developers: use Gecko. Contribute to Gecko. There simply is not reason for you to have yet another buggy html rendering engine...
Having said all that, they can and probably will continue on work konq. Fine I wish them luck. But don't bitch about RH using mozilla.
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Freedom of speech has little to do with badmouthing your own employer (indirectly, maybe, in this case) or divulging confidential information. Freedom of speech simply does not apply here, and any company is in their right to fire you for it. Depending on the circumstances, and contracts you signed, you could even get sued for talking too much...
iexplore.exe does not reside in memory, however, ieexplore.exe is just a shell for the rendering dlls (and other dlls that that make web browsing on windows possible). It's not that hard to figure out really, explorer.exe relies on those components also and it is always running. Ever tried typing a URL in the My Computer address bar?
But theft of physical goods and software IS different (and both wrong). Someone stole the software you spend a lot of time (and money) to write, you might have lost a sale (assuming the thief would have ever bought it otherwise). Someone stole some physical good you manufactured, you're out the physical cost of the good AND the loss of sale.
Let's approach the problem from a different angle. Let's think about "gifts" instead of "thefts". When Bill Gates or MS announces that they've donated $1 billion to xyz charity/school/government (and probably take a tax write off accordingly), what did this $1 billion gift really cost them? Arguably a fraction of the $1 billion in lost sales. Most likely, nothing, since we're talking about charities that could never afford the software in the first place.
He's talking about software. Obviously software that is specifically tied to hardware is a bit different as it require owning the hardware in the first place.
The point he is making is that "stealing" software, is AT BEST a loss of sale. And even that is arguable, because most likely the person "stealing" this software would probably go without it rather than buying it.
Stealing a $25,000 car is more than a loss of sale. It will cost the manufacturer/dealer $20,000 in raw material (or whatever number, I just made it up).
I am not saying that pirating/stealing software is right. It most definetely is not, but it IS different than stealing a physical good.
Oh yes, he does have a law degree and makes a good living - no question about it. It is nevertheless a bit shocking that these judges get credit for writing these brilliant opinions...
You know that most judgements are really "ghost-written" by others (legal clerks)? I know one of these assistants over here. I was really rather shocked when he described his job to me. I asked him is the judge even told him the gist of his thoughts on a decision so that he can write something along those same lines. His response was rarely. He has to find the legal arguments to justify the judges decisions. Forgot to ask if the judge even reads his brief at the end...
The release are staggered for promotional purpose as well. It's a bit hard to get the movie stars to go out to "permiere" and do interviews in the whole world at the same time.
Last but not least, a movie that completely flops in the US may in fact never make it abroad.
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OK, that's good to know! I guess some of the capitalization subtleties of French doesn't translate in English. My bad.
Having said that, I still think the original poster meant "from France" and not "in French". Just like most people would probably say American comics rather than English comics when they're talking about Superman, etc. But hey! Your point (that technically, the original poster might inadvertantly still be correct) is well taken...
I guess I should have guessed :)
Stop me if I am wrong (and I could, english is not my native language), but when you put a "French" adjective (with a capital letter) you mean "from France" and not "in french".
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Here is a complete list of "insults" (in french). He has quite a collection of them, each more entertaining than the other, and none are even remotely like f*ck, *ss, etc. All banal words from the dictionary, used creatively
Ahhh... I love Tintin. Being Belgian I grew up on these "comics" (a term that really doesn't do justice to the art, at least not the Begian/French kind of "comics"). Aside from owning the whole collection, I have several older copies with my dad's dedication in them (got them for birthday gifts, etc) which makes them even more valuable to me.
I am also a fairly big fan of Spielberg - with E.T. being the first major movie I have ever seen, and I still remember going to see it (in Belgium) when I was 11 like it was yesterday! I just hope he doesn't screw this up!
Tintin et le Lac aux Requins. (no idea on the english name is any)
This movie made it back into a book. Not a comic book strictly speaking (although the size and format of the book is the same) since it looks like pictures from the movie with the bubbles on top.
Ever heard of restocking fees? Not that I am advocating them, but that's what merchants that feel they can't absorb the cost of returns do. I personally feel that returns are part of doing retail business - and many stores seem to be surviving quite nicely without the invasion of privacy and the restocking fees - in spite of the abusers. Wonder how they do it!
I personally refuse to shop at any store that charge these fees, eventhough I rarely return anything. But I'd take the chance of having to pay the restocking fees BEFORE giving up my name and address to a store.
Call it a matter of principle I guess.
I guess following your logic Intel should probably be the only company writing operating systems or something. Otherwise Intel would go immediately bankrupt. Oh Wait...
I don't think that there is much that NVidia doesn't know about Radeon (or ATI about GEForceX) and it doesn't matter much really. There are many ways to protect hardware designs including patents, etc. Like I said, very little valid reason not to open source a driver...
Lookup advocate in a dictionary. It's not the same as fanatic, regardless as what you may think. There ARE people with moderate views, and while we can dream about Oracle opensourcing their database, most of us don't expect them to do it - and probably wouldn't even ask.
That's right... Nvidia is a hardware company and that's how they make their money.
So what was your arguments about programmers going hungry if Nvidia's drivers were open sourced?
I think most reasonable open source advocates don't expect Oracle to release the source code to their database. However, there is little (valid) justification for hardware companies (such as Nvidia) not to open source their drivers.
And yet somehow Europe is MORE dependant on middle-east oil than the US is! Don't worry, I am not claiming that Bush and Iraq is un-selfish, or not oil related. If European lacks the oil they need their economy will be affected. And THAT will screw with US' economy as well.
You wouldn't pay $120 for two systems. RedHat Network gives one free to each user (email address). As far as I can tell there is nothing preventing you from having multiple RHN accounts (each gets a free subscription) but you know, I personally don't do that. As a stockholder of RHAT I'd like them to make some money soon :)
There is actually a handful of countries that do. Mostly small and not very powerful countries though. I think Senegal is one of them.
Oh crap. Now all the MS zealots will continue to claim that Gnu/linux and "open source" is communist...
Having said all that, my wife is Taiwanese and I have yet to get her to switch to Linux. While Chinese seems to display just fine, the input system is a bit clunky. Of course, that may be because I don't know how to set it up - everytime I try all I can find is documentation which my wife doesn't understand because she is not a technical type, and I don't understand because it's in chinese. So moral of the story, not sure it will be missed that much.
They won't charge your credit card until the first issue. So, if they don't come alive, you haven't lost any money. I suppose there is the risk that they go dead before you got your 12 issues, not sure if you'd get a refund or not.
Well, he has the right to sue you. He just (most likely) would not win. And that's the problem really, just by suing, people will settle to avoid legal fees and/or inconvienience.
I understand what you're saying, but disagree.
I love KDE 3 - I used to be a gnome user before KDE3, I have made the switch and I am unimpressed with Gnome2 so I am not switching back. I used Konqeror (the web browser, not the file manager) for a few hour and decided to forget about it and use Mozilla. Let's be honest, Konq is not much of a web browser, the rendering simply does not work on many many website that both Mozilla and IE have NO problems with.
I think the "slap in the face" you mantion should really be a wake up call to the konq developers: use Gecko. Contribute to Gecko. There simply is not reason for you to have yet another buggy html rendering engine...
Having said all that, they can and probably will continue on work konq. Fine I wish them luck. But don't bitch about RH using mozilla.
Freedom of speech has little to do with badmouthing your own employer (indirectly, maybe, in this case) or divulging confidential information. Freedom of speech simply does not apply here, and any company is in their right to fire you for it. Depending on the circumstances, and contracts you signed, you could even get sued for talking too much...
iexplore.exe does not reside in memory, however, ieexplore.exe is just a shell for the rendering dlls (and other dlls that that make web browsing on windows possible). It's not that hard to figure out really, explorer.exe relies on those components also and it is always running. Ever tried typing a URL in the My Computer address bar?
Nobody is justyfing theft, of any kind.
But theft of physical goods and software IS different (and both wrong). Someone stole the software you spend a lot of time (and money) to write, you might have lost a sale (assuming the thief would have ever bought it otherwise). Someone stole some physical good you manufactured, you're out the physical cost of the good AND the loss of sale.
Let's approach the problem from a different angle. Let's think about "gifts" instead of "thefts". When Bill Gates or MS announces that they've donated $1 billion to xyz charity/school/government (and probably take a tax write off accordingly), what did this $1 billion gift really cost them? Arguably a fraction of the $1 billion in lost sales. Most likely, nothing, since we're talking about charities that could never afford the software in the first place.
He's talking about software. Obviously software that is specifically tied to hardware is a bit different as it require owning the hardware in the first place.
The point he is making is that "stealing" software, is AT BEST a loss of sale. And even that is arguable, because most likely the person "stealing" this software would probably go without it rather than buying it.
Stealing a $25,000 car is more than a loss of sale. It will cost the manufacturer/dealer $20,000 in raw material (or whatever number, I just made it up).
I am not saying that pirating/stealing software is right. It most definetely is not, but it IS different than stealing a physical good.
Oh yes, he does have a law degree and makes a good living - no question about it. It is nevertheless a bit shocking that these judges get credit for writing these brilliant opinions...
You know that most judgements are really "ghost-written" by others (legal clerks)? I know one of these assistants over here. I was really rather shocked when he described his job to me. I asked him is the judge even told him the gist of his thoughts on a decision so that he can write something along those same lines. His response was rarely. He has to find the legal arguments to justify the judges decisions. Forgot to ask if the judge even reads his brief at the end...
The release are staggered for promotional purpose as well. It's a bit hard to get the movie stars to go out to "permiere" and do interviews in the whole world at the same time.
Last but not least, a movie that completely flops in the US may in fact never make it abroad.
Except you got it backwards... At least in this case. The cheap version is first, the $80 version will be next...
And as the article itself points out, Linux runs on all kinds of hardware including proprietary unix-type hardware and mainframes.
I am not really defending the original post mind you, just correcting yours.