What purpose the exercise was to serve is not mentioned, but one would assume either someone wants more money to beef up defense or someone is looking for a new scare tactic for the next election.
Yeah, god forbid we would want to actually plan ahead for somthing like that... damn, what an asshole.
7) That your rights under the License end automatically if you breach it in any way.
* Very different from the GPL! That your rights "Suddenly end" if you breach it in any way. GPL is designed to maintain rights, this one is designed to take them away.
My understanding of contract law is that you forfeit your rights under the contract if you are found in breach of it. This is true for the GPL, BSD, MPL, etc... they just don't state it explicitly. Maybe MS pays their lawyers by the KLOL (1000 lines of leagalese) or something.
Perhaps some of those companies would be interested in the new KDE 2.2.beta1 -- at least KDE and GNOME don't seem likely to institute monthly subscription fees.
Yeah, I bet they are fighting with each other to make all of their investment in software and training worthless...
Come on people... YOu can trun off this feature with a simple check box. Hey, look, copies of IE and Netscape have let the user decide on a page background color, text color and link color, overriding those settings you put hours of time into figuring out in order to achive that perfect look for your site... I don't see how this is any different.
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Speaking of The Prisoner, anyone know of a sci-fi representation of Virtual Reality - or even any discussion of it - that predates The Prisoner?
Weren't most of those drug induced hallucinations?
I've read at last count, 14 of his books. I mean, they are amusing in their own way (or I wouldn't have read so many of them), but people seem to think he's this great Swiftian satirist, while I just don't see it. When his satire come on the page, its a subtle as a brick to the head.
And his characters while somewhat enjoyable as well, with a few exceptions, are just cardboard cut outs. I mean Carrot - oh he's devoted to the service, and he's tall, but was raised by Dwarves, pretty much tells you everything. Vimes -- he loves his work, but is grouchy! I mean, these are stereotypical characters at best.
Now that I've slagged off on him, I have to say he has a great way of turning a phrase... its like the Taco Bell of fantasy/comedy writing.
I did love Good Omens though.... maybe he should write everything with Gaiman.
Douglas Adams only writes a handful of books and is taken far too soon. This hack Pratchett turns out at least one a year and goes unpunished for his crimes.
You can sue 'em until the cows come home, but if they don't have any money, there really isn't much point.
I guess you might get some priority treatment when they go through bankruptcy, but its not like they are going to have any assets that are worth anything anyway.
Save your time and money and cosider it a (painfull) lesson learned.
...of some light jazz music, followed by two soft voiced announcers saying something like "Today, on News of the World, ++31337 D00D++, in the words of Shakespeare, slipped off this mortal coil, after riding DeathUrges boomstick."
...throw some money at some writers. You know, good writers. Hell, Ellison wrote for ST:TOS. I know you've saved a lot of money by having some sort of Eliza-esque computer program throw out scripts for Voyager for the past 6 years, so you should have plenty of cash sitting around from that.
Who wouldn't want to see some episodes written by say, Bear, or Stephenson, or Orsen Scott Card. Let them go nuts... you've got a whole universe to play with that people like (well, those people you haven't alienated away permanently). Let the writers in to play with it and leave them alone. Yes, it may cost you, and yes, they may actually come up with some scripts that don't fall in the normal 5 standard Star Trek plots, but hell, given what you all have churned out for the past few years, what do you have to lose (except your remaining fans?)
1) Document their problems
2) Date the documents and get them notarized by a public notary
3) Send them a copy and offer to do some work for them for a reasonable price
4) When they get broken into or h4x0r3d, send them your documents again and offer to do some work for them for a much less reasonable price.
IT Unions... hahahahaha..
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I can see the IT union forming the day after..
The signing of the treaty ending the vi/Emacs wars
Gates and Ellison bury the hatchet and go camping together
"EFF's public music license strikes a new deal between creators and the public, granting more freedoms to the public to experience music while ensuring the artist is compensated."
That's a strange definition of compensated. Does compensated usually mean, "People get your stuff, and you get jack shit?"
Then again, this is similar to the bastardization of the word "free", I suppose....
I have read somewhere, that when this fact was pointed out to Orson Welles, he got very upset, said "You are never to speak of this to anyone, ever", and stormed out of the room.
Slashdot Mirror
What purpose the exercise was to serve is not mentioned, but one would assume either someone wants more money to beef up defense or someone is looking for a new scare tactic for the next election.
Yeah, god forbid we would want to actually plan ahead for somthing like that... damn, what an asshole.
7) That your rights under the License end automatically if you breach it in any way.
* Very different from the GPL! That your rights "Suddenly end" if you breach it in any way. GPL is designed to maintain rights, this one is designed to take them away.
My understanding of contract law is that you forfeit your rights under the contract if you are found in breach of it. This is true for the GPL, BSD, MPL, etc... they just don't state it explicitly. Maybe MS pays their lawyers by the KLOL (1000 lines of leagalese) or something.
Perhaps some of those companies would be interested in the new KDE 2.2.beta1 -- at least KDE and GNOME don't seem likely to institute monthly subscription fees.
Yeah, I bet they are fighting with each other to make all of their investment in software and training worthless...
Come on people... YOu can trun off this feature with a simple check box. Hey, look, copies of IE and Netscape have let the user decide on a page background color, text color and link color, overriding those settings you put hours of time into figuring out in order to achive that perfect look for your site... I don't see how this is any different.
Speaking of The Prisoner, anyone know of a sci-fi representation of Virtual Reality - or even any discussion of it - that predates The Prisoner?
Weren't most of those drug induced hallucinations?
I've read at last count, 14 of his books. I mean, they are amusing in their own way (or I wouldn't have read so many of them), but people seem to think he's this great Swiftian satirist, while I just don't see it. When his satire come on the page, its a subtle as a brick to the head.
And his characters while somewhat enjoyable as well, with a few exceptions, are just cardboard cut outs. I mean Carrot - oh he's devoted to the service, and he's tall, but was raised by Dwarves, pretty much tells you everything. Vimes -- he loves his work, but is grouchy! I mean, these are stereotypical characters at best.
Now that I've slagged off on him, I have to say he has a great way of turning a phrase... its like the Taco Bell of fantasy/comedy writing.
I did love Good Omens though.... maybe he should write everything with Gaiman.
Douglas Adams only writes a handful of books and is taken far too soon. This hack Pratchett turns out at least one a year and goes unpunished for his crimes.
Sigh.
I mean if a hacker could track my mouse movements he could.. um, he could.. well...
...damn, I can't think of anything. Sounds like a big waste of effort.
Hey, we're a private automobile company; it's our right to refuse to put seatbelts in our cars, even if our customers demand it!"
or
"Hey we're a private bottled water company; it's our right to ignore all those safety standards!"
or
"Hey we're a private trucking campany! It's our right to deny goods and services to the state of Montana!"
You see, none of the above campanies above actually have those "rights".
Well, they should.
What do you think?
I think private companies can carry or drop whatever internet traffic they want to for any reason they want.
Pretty simple, actually.
You can sue 'em until the cows come home, but if they don't have any money, there really isn't much point.
I guess you might get some priority treatment when they go through bankruptcy, but its not like they are going to have any assets that are worth anything anyway.
Save your time and money and cosider it a (painfull) lesson learned.
...of some light jazz music, followed by two soft voiced announcers saying something like "Today, on News of the World, ++31337 D00D++, in the words of Shakespeare, slipped off this mortal coil, after riding DeathUrges boomstick."
And now, back to All Things Considered....
(I'm still looking for a robust .doc reader that doesn't suck)
I hear that Microsoft Word is good for that sort of thing.
...throw some money at some writers. You know, good writers. Hell, Ellison wrote for ST:TOS. I know you've saved a lot of money by having some sort of Eliza-esque computer program throw out scripts for Voyager for the past 6 years, so you should have plenty of cash sitting around from that.
Who wouldn't want to see some episodes written by say, Bear, or Stephenson, or Orsen Scott Card. Let them go nuts... you've got a whole universe to play with that people like (well, those people you haven't alienated away permanently). Let the writers in to play with it and leave them alone. Yes, it may cost you, and yes, they may actually come up with some scripts that don't fall in the normal 5 standard Star Trek plots, but hell, given what you all have churned out for the past few years, what do you have to lose (except your remaining fans?)
Meanwhile, it's high time for a Dr. Who revival...
Can I get an Amen? AMEN!
1) Document their problems
2) Date the documents and get them notarized by a public notary
3) Send them a copy and offer to do some work for them for a reasonable price
4) When they get broken into or h4x0r3d, send them your documents again and offer to do some work for them for a much less reasonable price.
The signing of the treaty ending the vi/Emacs wars
Gates and Ellison bury the hatchet and go camping together
RMS decides to switch to Solaris
So they want to teach kids how to steal in school now...
"EFF's public music license strikes a new deal between creators and the public, granting more freedoms to the public to experience music while ensuring the artist is compensated."
That's a strange definition of compensated. Does compensated usually mean, "People get your stuff, and you get jack shit?"
Then again, this is similar to the bastardization of the word "free", I suppose....
I say keep 'em around just for nostalgia's sake
Yeah, I guess that's pretty easy to say if you aren't paying for them.
I have read somewhere, that when this fact was pointed out to Orson Welles, he got very upset, said "You are never to speak of this to anyone, ever", and stormed out of the room.
Rosebud is a sled.
Hope I didn't ruin Citizen Kane for any on you.
No, Science Fiction is ghettoized because most of it is not very good.
They're intelligence tests. Enjoying Dogma and detesting Clippy are prerequisites for intimate relations.
Do you really have so many potential dates that you felt the need to create an elaborate filtering system?
The Free Software movement seeks to end the quaint fallacy of "intellectual property".
Right... that's why they really don't care what you do with their code.
Oh, no, really they bitch and moan unless you release stuff under the GPL.
They don't really care about getting rid of IP, or they wouldn't harp on their rediculous, freedom-limiting license.