If I buy ad space in the newspaper opposite a full-page Honda ad, or on the same page as a story about GM opening a new plant
No, this is more like opening a used car lot that sells Mazdas, and buying a spot under the Used Cars - Honda category, possibly without mentioning that you actually only sell Mazdas.
Rampant italicism aside, there are other issues with "creationism" in a GPL license, web-app or not: If I never distribute it, how would anyone know? If I slap some GPL'd database onto the backend of my webserver, and used GPL'd modules, and then made damn sure that no error revealing this would ever leak to the users, it would be impossible to enforce. If I made a 5 line change to the joystick driver, how would anyone know?
The distribution trigger remains an obvious choice because that involves interaction with other people.
I agree, the U.S. should have ceded control a long time ago. Are you happy?
Yes, I am happy. But you missed the point of that. You (assuming you're the same AC) said US occupation of Panama was "news", so I posted several links for you to peruse to show that its "old news". I'm glad you found credibility problems with one or two of my links, it means the time I spent looking for three was worthwhile.
And so what if Iraq had a democracy 50 years ago.
It makes your original statement about voting for the first time wrong, assuming you can find a 65 year old Iraqi. Thats all.
HOW YOU FEEL SUPERCEDES THE FEELING OF THOSE IRAQIS VOTING IN IRAQ.
Thanks for the caps, I had no idea that my feelings superceded the feelings of those in Iraq. I know that for the most part they're happy, and at this point in time all I can do is hope Bush's experiment works and that Iraq becomes a peaceful secular democracy.
You mention that the U.S. is going to slap Iraq with a bill.
The people of Okinawa have protested several times since the end of the war, the largest such protest after a 12 year old girl was raped. The Japanese government usually ignores it, mostly because of American threats of economic ruin in the event that the bases have to "suddenly go away".
I'm so sorry that I didn't spend the time to look up more cites for you to ignore last time, and I know you ignored them because you ignored my next cite:
IN-TER-NA-TION-AL community tried sanctions to affect change. I would think you would approve?
Hell yeah, I approved. Shame that both Clinton and Bush apparently didn't, since their administrations knew about the violations and did nothing about it. You'd know that if you had read the link I gave you. Or hell, if you had read your newspaper instead of using it to wipe your ass.
The Iraqi that voted did not come out of polling places raging against America or the election process. (For now we'll ignore the fact that two major political parties boycotted the election because of their belief that the US could not run a fair election)
Just wait until the US slaps them with the bill. How pissed off will they be then when America siphons off what little money they have over a $100billion bill? Until then, as one of the people who paid for this big experiment at the cost of $12(at least, since the initial 72% turnout estimate has already slipped to 60%... nobody really knows how many people showed up, and of those how many were turned away due to typical American election oopsies like lack of ballots)billion per vote, I have the right to be upset about how my money was spent.
for the first time is exercising his freedom
wrong, wrong, wrong. Scroll down to the bottom, and note how this weekend was the first election in 50 years. Thats right, folks, Iraq used to have elections! They used to be a democracy!
is an aspiration with real meaning to a people who have suffered from decades of dictatorship.
Who needs dictatorship when we can suffer from your ignorance (and that of others like you). Tell you what, save up a few pennies every day and go buy yourself a nice set of Encyclopedias. Get the ones with the big colorful pictures, they're easier to read.
So why shouldn't I be allowed to voluntarily enter into a contract that restricts my own speech? Should I not be allowed that freedom?
When was the last time you personally knew what exactly it was you were signing away? Do you retain a laywer to translate all your contracts for you? Did the lawyer really know what it said? Should companies be permitted to penalize people who cannot afford a lawyer by requiring employees to sign contracts that are designed to be incomprehensible without years of training?
I suspect that a vast majority of the work force in the united states signed contracts that they don't even have a chance of understanding, with terms that could possibly be entirely illegal but would require the employee's money to combat if the company chose to enforce them (such as vaguely worded post-employment non-compete clauses).
Pray tell, in what country does the U.S. have a military base where the local government seeks the base removed.
Every time an American soldier rapes someone in Japan theres a pretty big push to kick the Americans out. Panama was a pretty risky occupation there for a while when the canal ownership transfer didn't look like it was going too smoothly.
Pray tell, oh enlightened one, about trade barriers.
Very well, lets talk about Iraq, and the oil embargo, and how the US ignores barriers whenever it feels like it. Or how America (and other countries, America isn't alone in this) backs such barriers only when it benefits corporations, not consumers or laborers.
God, please do do tell me just what those 8 million Iraqi's were doing last weekend
Wait, were we there for the election last week? Only months ago it seemed we were there to depose Saddam, and months before that to protect the United States from WMDs, and months before that to protect the United States from Al Quaeda terrorists, all the time using battle maps drawn up before 9/11 when the plan was to go to war for oil.
I'm glad Bush finally got his story in synch with reality. Those votes only cost us about $12 billion each... At that expense you'd think that we could spare the $200 to fly Iraqis in America to one of the 8 voting places set aside for them. With the names of the campaigners not revealed until days before the election, and very few of those even campainging, confusion was rampant, and voters had no choice but to vote randomly. This is the democracy we died for? At least women's rights will be restored to pre-american-interference levels. Who knows, maybe in a decade or two being publically Christian will be non-fatal again.
Oh, and BTW, you people know very little about the Patriot Act
And what do YOU know about it, other than what you've read in the law itself and what little your government admitted to you?
But hey, cowards like you just like to spout off nonsense and run, thinking "gee I showed that guy" when all you really showed is that you can spout off a lot of stuff.
What makes you think they'll require it? Seriously, what do they get out of it, other than wasting bandwidth signing your damn OS?
And thats totally aisde from the point that there are multimillions of dollars of sparcs, powerpcs, Irix machines, IBM mainframes, and more out there that will still need internet connections.
In programming, abstraction generally means "call a function" though when you're talking about abstracting a group of functions it means "make a class".
in dbfuncs.php or something, then using require_once("dbfuncs.php"); $handle=connect_to_the_damn_database(); in all the other files.
This way when your password changes you change dbfuncs.php. (btw, you end it in.php so the webserver won't show the password to anyone who guesses the location of the file and tries going there directly. By default,.inc files are treated as plaintext by the webserver.)
No, not really. At least not in software. You think these people popped open the top of a tivo, looked inside for a few minutes, and just bought off the shelf software and a few chips that had the same numbers as tivo's and a harddrive to build their copycat?
No, they had to write their own software, route and manufacture their own boards, either from scratch or through the long, hard, and not at all inexpensive task of reverse-engineering Tivo's hardware and software.
You can't fork if it won't run, and it won't run if you don't have the key. The only way to fork would be if you could use the GPL to coerce the signers to give you that
Did you even read the article? IBM pretty much stated that for at least their implementation, there are only two layers: bios space (starting the TCPA engine) and kernel space (key transactions to the TCPA engine). You could write foobarOS and boot it on there, and all you'd need to do is read IBM's documentation and use it, and it would work just fine and do any encryption you'd want it to do.
Who knows, maybe the future goal of TCPA is to kill Linux? Maybe They really are out to get you and every last processor out there. Whether its a Sparc, PPC, x86*, MIPS, or one of the other dozen or so platforms it runs on, they'll replace every last CPU with encrypted crap and kill linux off. What are you going to do about it now other than ranting and raving on the corner of 5th and Main with a "The End is Near!!oneone1" sign?
When you install software you first check it, then sign it, then push updates to your servers.
In the end, it depends on who gets to sign the software, and how this software is distributed once signed. In our corner of the court, we have the admin signing software for 100 boxes (does he have to sign each separately? Can you sign software for every box out there at once? If its not a specific-to-that-machine signature, how do you keep the attacker for signing software too?) for the purpose of protecting the servers from software you don't want to run.
In the other corner of the court, it appears that we have big business interests who want to have all software signed, who would charge hundreds to sign software for other authors (verisign, et al will certainly be in the business), MPAA and RIAA will be wanting to make sure signed software obeys their rules (and will probably charge for this too), all to make sure your computers are protected from software they don't want you to run.
Things like this IBM article help make the first scenario a reality, and I'm grateful for it. Now, who wants to be the first to be sued by Microsoft for some TCPA submarine patent that nobody knows about?
The Trusted CPU will not execute binaries that weren't signed with that key.
wrong. They'll still execute, they just won't be trusted.
Trust itself is a feature at the OS level! Do you think the BIOS knows whether some data you read off the disk is an application? Does the CPU know the difference between a current application and the one that just executed just because of a context switch (which happens all the time just during timesharing between all the different applications you already have running)?
An OS could be written so that everything you try to run is verified through whatever TCPA hardware and then deny you the right to run untrusted software, but I can pretty much assure you that Linux wouldn't bother with this and if it did that someone would fork it. Microsoft probably wouldn't even bother with this (outside of the corporate empire where they could sell the admins keys to encrypt all of the software they allow on the computer to prevent users from installing other stuff), unless they really think that their monopoly is so strong it'd survive being the only company making windows software anymore, or give away the signing keys for free.
Big O's a unique example, it was much more popular in the US than in Japan. The popularity of it here in the US finally led to more of it being produced, but it was produced mainly for the US market.
Big O is not a unique example, its not even the first. Bubble Gum Crisis 2040 is another, as are any number of Pioneer USA (now Geneon USA) funded/supported titles, ADV funded titles (Kaleidostar, BGC2040), Manga Ent's Dead Leaves, etc.
Rather, I was talking about good series that aren't as mainstream. Nobody cares if the latest "magic girl with giant vampire robots" series tanks.
Dammit, as a fan of all things magical girl, I care. Hell, I rejoiced when Bandai released Fancy Lala despite it not even reaching 1000 votes on Animeigo's "what should we license next" poll.
However, the danger, especially with American viewers forming a larger and more essential part of the market, is that those less-popular gems will be shoved aside for more of big stuff. Remember when anime was a fringe thing? Fansubs may start killing off the fringes.
In all seriousness, I think this is true. Take for instance Kokoro Toshokan, despite the fact that its a colorful, cute show (despite the fact that "nothing happens" for the first three episodes, its a good show with a great ending, and a really great manga to boot), the US companies probably have it in the "all 5 people who cared probably downloaded it already" do-not-license it pile.
That's a pretty extreme example (apparently lots of people couldn't make it past the first three episodes). There are lots of other shows that have some appeal but the industry appears to believe that everyone who wants it has downloaded it and won't buy it (and who can blame them).
I'll just continue to sit here and wish for someone to release R1 dvds of Kanon, Kokoro Toshokan, and Kingyo chuuihou.
It only restricts what the federal Congress can do, and has no effect on state or local government officials:
Wow, I guess when Bush talks about no child left behind, he meant they were all left in Texas.
Oh wait Congress sends federal funds to local schools.
I don't know where exactly you got your ideas from since it has very little to do with any interpretation of the first amendment in any recent history by the SCOTUS. In your view, the police department could walk in to the local newspaper without a court order and demand that they not print any stories about the chief of police's bribery case, since the police department isn't the US congress.
Once you talk elected, you talk government. Once you talk government, you talk first amendment.
The first amendment and freedom from censorship exists to combat the exact situation you propose: the majority silencing the minority. If the minority offends the majority... well, thats why we have things like the NRA, the EFF, the ACLU, the CBLDF, and so on...
Probably a better way to put it (in terms of moving boxes) would be:
The RISC architecture would need to look at the box, grasp the box, pick up the box, then move to where the box goes, look at the spot where the box goes, then set the box down, then release the box, finally returning to the first pile of boxes. It would look somewhat awkward as it went about its task, especially since it always seemed like no matter what step it was doing, it always took the same amount of time: 15 seconds (a total of 120 seconds).
The CISC architecture would scoff, and say "thats silly! I can do all that in a single, graceful motion." And it would do so, flowing back and forth as it moved the boxes, as if each trip were a single but complex operation, yet each trip would take a total of 130 seconds.
Instead, I had to purchase third party software and integrate that into our distribution. It is not the cost of the third party software that's the problem, but that each third party dependency destabilizes our software product and increases maintenance complexity.
Tough. Thats the cost of being a multimillion dollar proprietary software developer: paying for proprietary solutions. Don't like it? Find something else to do or some other way to license your product.
I signed up for a kroger card with a completely fake name and address, but used it with my credit card. 6 months later, I started getting packages of kroger coupons in the mail with my name and my address.
Coincidence?
(As a side note, it seems that someone else is using my account somehow... the "promotions" they run always seem to be inflated, like recently they offered a gift certificate if you spent something like $400 in a month, and when I went for the first time that month, my receipt told me that I had already spent over $200.)
The HD/network part was the same, however a drive formatted for the linux distro would not work with games, and vice versa.
GP's "intangible" is that they could have presold 12, made 11, then announced that it was "so popular we can't fill all the orders"... Preorders are intangible until they actually build the units to sell.
The biggest problem with bit torrent is the lack of drm. It's a neccesity now, not an option.
Yeah right. As a user of legal torrents like distribution CD ISOs, how much will I have to pay to have a key to get my ISO? How much will Redhat have to pay to have their ISO verified as legal and obtain a certificate for the DRM just to let their users download it?
DRM only works if EVERYTHING is encrypted and locked down. Otherwise, how long would it take for people to start torrenting "redhat" ISOs full of mp3s?
My question is, is it common practice for MGM to do #2? Why then, it must be asked, did MGM shoot over 300 films without the use of a scope or anamorphic lens? Was it just that much cheaper to matte them to letterbox for theater presentation?
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If I buy ad space in the newspaper opposite a full-page Honda ad, or on the same page as a story about GM opening a new plant
No, this is more like opening a used car lot that sells Mazdas, and buying a spot under the Used Cars - Honda category, possibly without mentioning that you actually only sell Mazdas.
Rampant italicism aside, there are other issues with "creationism" in a GPL license, web-app or not: If I never distribute it, how would anyone know? If I slap some GPL'd database onto the backend of my webserver, and used GPL'd modules, and then made damn sure that no error revealing this would ever leak to the users, it would be impossible to enforce. If I made a 5 line change to the joystick driver, how would anyone know?
The distribution trigger remains an obvious choice because that involves interaction with other people.
I agree, the U.S. should have ceded control a long time ago. Are you happy?
Yes, I am happy. But you missed the point of that. You (assuming you're the same AC) said US occupation of Panama was "news", so I posted several links for you to peruse to show that its "old news". I'm glad you found credibility problems with one or two of my links, it means the time I spent looking for three was worthwhile.
And so what if Iraq had a democracy 50 years ago.
It makes your original statement about voting for the first time wrong, assuming you can find a 65 year old Iraqi. Thats all.
HOW YOU FEEL SUPERCEDES THE FEELING OF THOSE IRAQIS VOTING IN IRAQ.
Thanks for the caps, I had no idea that my feelings superceded the feelings of those in Iraq. I know that for the most part they're happy, and at this point in time all I can do is hope Bush's experiment works and that Iraq becomes a peaceful secular democracy.
You mention that the U.S. is going to slap Iraq with a bill.
Aww, you got me there. Bush promised it would come from Iraqi oil money. Then he "retracted" that promise. Of course, Bush has other ways of getting money out of Iraq.
Here's to hoping that History will prove me wrong and I am missing the signs, and we won't be doomed to repeat it.
This is news to me.
Start of Panama Canal Transfer problems. End of the transfer problems when the US finally fulfills its treaty obligation 22 years late. And since this is "news" to highschool history failures like you, the end of the US military occupation of Panama that went along with that transfer.
The people of Okinawa have protested several times since the end of the war, the largest such protest after a 12 year old girl was raped. The Japanese government usually ignores it, mostly because of American threats of economic ruin in the event that the bases have to "suddenly go away".
I'm so sorry that I didn't spend the time to look up more cites for you to ignore last time, and I know you ignored them because you ignored my next cite:
IN-TER-NA-TION-AL community tried sanctions to affect change. I would think you would approve?
Hell yeah, I approved. Shame that both Clinton and Bush apparently didn't, since their administrations knew about the violations and did nothing about it. You'd know that if you had read the link I gave you. Or hell, if you had read your newspaper instead of using it to wipe your ass.
The Iraqi that voted did not come out of polling places raging against America or the election process. (For now we'll ignore the fact that two major political parties boycotted the election because of their belief that the US could not run a fair election)
Just wait until the US slaps them with the bill. How pissed off will they be then when America siphons off what little money they have over a $100billion bill? Until then, as one of the people who paid for this big experiment at the cost of $12(at least, since the initial 72% turnout estimate has already slipped to 60%... nobody really knows how many people showed up, and of those how many were turned away due to typical American election oopsies like lack of ballots)billion per vote, I have the right to be upset about how my money was spent.
for the first time is exercising his freedom
wrong, wrong, wrong. Scroll down to the bottom, and note how this weekend was the first election in 50 years. Thats right, folks, Iraq used to have elections! They used to be a democracy!
is an aspiration with real meaning to a people who have suffered from decades of dictatorship.
Who needs dictatorship when we can suffer from your ignorance (and that of others like you). Tell you what, save up a few pennies every day and go buy yourself a nice set of Encyclopedias. Get the ones with the big colorful pictures, they're easier to read.
So why shouldn't I be allowed to voluntarily enter into a contract that restricts my own speech? Should I not be allowed that freedom?
When was the last time you personally knew what exactly it was you were signing away? Do you retain a laywer to translate all your contracts for you? Did the lawyer really know what it said? Should companies be permitted to penalize people who cannot afford a lawyer by requiring employees to sign contracts that are designed to be incomprehensible without years of training?
I suspect that a vast majority of the work force in the united states signed contracts that they don't even have a chance of understanding, with terms that could possibly be entirely illegal but would require the employee's money to combat if the company chose to enforce them (such as vaguely worded post-employment non-compete clauses).
And that should be illegal.
Tedious twaddle says the coward.
Pray tell, in what country does the U.S. have a military base where the local government seeks the base removed.
Every time an American soldier rapes someone in Japan theres a pretty big push to kick the Americans out. Panama was a pretty risky occupation there for a while when the canal ownership transfer didn't look like it was going too smoothly.
Pray tell, oh enlightened one, about trade barriers.
Very well, lets talk about Iraq, and the oil embargo, and how the US ignores barriers whenever it feels like it. Or how America (and other countries, America isn't alone in this) backs such barriers only when it benefits corporations, not consumers or laborers.
God, please do do tell me just what those 8 million Iraqi's were doing last weekend
Wait, were we there for the election last week? Only months ago it seemed we were there to depose Saddam, and months before that to protect the United States from WMDs, and months before that to protect the United States from Al Quaeda terrorists, all the time using battle maps drawn up before 9/11 when the plan was to go to war for oil.
I'm glad Bush finally got his story in synch with reality. Those votes only cost us about $12 billion each... At that expense you'd think that we could spare the $200 to fly Iraqis in America to one of the 8 voting places set aside for them. With the names of the campaigners not revealed until days before the election, and very few of those even campainging, confusion was rampant, and voters had no choice but to vote randomly. This is the democracy we died for? At least women's rights will be restored to pre-american-interference levels. Who knows, maybe in a decade or two being publically Christian will be non-fatal again.
Oh, and BTW, you people know very little about the Patriot Act
And what do YOU know about it, other than what you've read in the law itself and what little your government admitted to you?
But hey, cowards like you just like to spout off nonsense and run, thinking "gee I showed that guy" when all you really showed is that you can spout off a lot of stuff.
What makes you think they'll require it? Seriously, what do they get out of it, other than wasting bandwidth signing your damn OS?
And thats totally aisde from the point that there are multimillions of dollars of sparcs, powerpcs, Irix machines, IBM mainframes, and more out there that will still need internet connections.
In this case, he's saying writein dbfuncs.php or something, then using require_once("dbfuncs.php"); $handle=connect_to_the_damn_database(); in all the other files.
This way when your password changes you change dbfuncs.php. (btw, you end it in
No, not really. At least not in software. You think these people popped open the top of a tivo, looked inside for a few minutes, and just bought off the shelf software and a few chips that had the same numbers as tivo's and a harddrive to build their copycat?
No, they had to write their own software, route and manufacture their own boards, either from scratch or through the long, hard, and not at all inexpensive task of reverse-engineering Tivo's hardware and software.
You can't fork if it won't run, and it won't run if you don't have the key. The only way to fork would be if you could use the GPL to coerce the signers to give you that
Did you even read the article? IBM pretty much stated that for at least their implementation, there are only two layers: bios space (starting the TCPA engine) and kernel space (key transactions to the TCPA engine). You could write foobarOS and boot it on there, and all you'd need to do is read IBM's documentation and use it, and it would work just fine and do any encryption you'd want it to do.
Who knows, maybe the future goal of TCPA is to kill Linux? Maybe They really are out to get you and every last processor out there. Whether its a Sparc, PPC, x86*, MIPS, or one of the other dozen or so platforms it runs on, they'll replace every last CPU with encrypted crap and kill linux off. What are you going to do about it now other than ranting and raving on the corner of 5th and Main with a "The End is Near!!oneone1" sign?
When you install software you first check it, then sign it, then push updates to your servers.
In the end, it depends on who gets to sign the software, and how this software is distributed once signed. In our corner of the court, we have the admin signing software for 100 boxes (does he have to sign each separately? Can you sign software for every box out there at once? If its not a specific-to-that-machine signature, how do you keep the attacker for signing software too?) for the purpose of protecting the servers from software you don't want to run.
In the other corner of the court, it appears that we have big business interests who want to have all software signed, who would charge hundreds to sign software for other authors (verisign, et al will certainly be in the business), MPAA and RIAA will be wanting to make sure signed software obeys their rules (and will probably charge for this too), all to make sure your computers are protected from software they don't want you to run.
Things like this IBM article help make the first scenario a reality, and I'm grateful for it. Now, who wants to be the first to be sued by Microsoft for some TCPA submarine patent that nobody knows about?
The Trusted CPU will not execute binaries that weren't signed with that key.
wrong. They'll still execute, they just won't be trusted.
Trust itself is a feature at the OS level! Do you think the BIOS knows whether some data you read off the disk is an application? Does the CPU know the difference between a current application and the one that just executed just because of a context switch (which happens all the time just during timesharing between all the different applications you already have running)?
An OS could be written so that everything you try to run is verified through whatever TCPA hardware and then deny you the right to run untrusted software, but I can pretty much assure you that Linux wouldn't bother with this and if it did that someone would fork it. Microsoft probably wouldn't even bother with this (outside of the corporate empire where they could sell the admins keys to encrypt all of the software they allow on the computer to prevent users from installing other stuff), unless they really think that their monopoly is so strong it'd survive being the only company making windows software anymore, or give away the signing keys for free.
Big O's a unique example, it was much more popular in the US than in Japan. The popularity of it here in the US finally led to more of it being produced, but it was produced mainly for the US market.
;)
Big O is not a unique example, its not even the first. Bubble Gum Crisis 2040 is another, as are any number of Pioneer USA (now Geneon USA) funded/supported titles, ADV funded titles (Kaleidostar, BGC2040), Manga Ent's Dead Leaves, etc.
Carry on
Rather, I was talking about good series that aren't as mainstream. Nobody cares if the latest "magic girl with giant vampire robots" series tanks.
Dammit, as a fan of all things magical girl, I care. Hell, I rejoiced when Bandai released Fancy Lala despite it not even reaching 1000 votes on Animeigo's "what should we license next" poll.
However, the danger, especially with American viewers forming a larger and more essential part of the market, is that those less-popular gems will be shoved aside for more of big stuff. Remember when anime was a fringe thing? Fansubs may start killing off the fringes.
In all seriousness, I think this is true. Take for instance Kokoro Toshokan, despite the fact that its a colorful, cute show (despite the fact that "nothing happens" for the first three episodes, its a good show with a great ending, and a really great manga to boot), the US companies probably have it in the "all 5 people who cared probably downloaded it already" do-not-license it pile.
That's a pretty extreme example (apparently lots of people couldn't make it past the first three episodes). There are lots of other shows that have some appeal but the industry appears to believe that everyone who wants it has downloaded it and won't buy it (and who can blame them).
I'll just continue to sit here and wish for someone to release R1 dvds of Kanon, Kokoro Toshokan, and Kingyo chuuihou.
It only restricts what the federal Congress can do, and has no effect on state or local government officials:
Wow, I guess when Bush talks about no child left behind, he meant they were all left in Texas.
Oh wait Congress sends federal funds to local schools.
I don't know where exactly you got your ideas from since it has very little to do with any interpretation of the first amendment in any recent history by the SCOTUS. In your view, the police department could walk in to the local newspaper without a court order and demand that they not print any stories about the chief of police's bribery case, since the police department isn't the US congress.
Once you talk elected, you talk government. Once you talk government, you talk first amendment.
The first amendment and freedom from censorship exists to combat the exact situation you propose: the majority silencing the minority. If the minority offends the majority... well, thats why we have things like the NRA, the EFF, the ACLU, the CBLDF, and so on...
Probably a better way to put it (in terms of moving boxes) would be:
The RISC architecture would need to look at the box, grasp the box, pick up the box, then move to where the box goes, look at the spot where the box goes, then set the box down, then release the box, finally returning to the first pile of boxes. It would look somewhat awkward as it went about its task, especially since it always seemed like no matter what step it was doing, it always took the same amount of time: 15 seconds (a total of 120 seconds).
The CISC architecture would scoff, and say "thats silly! I can do all that in a single, graceful motion." And it would do so, flowing back and forth as it moved the boxes, as if each trip were a single but complex operation, yet each trip would take a total of 130 seconds.
Instead, I had to purchase third party software and integrate that into our distribution. It is not the cost of the third party software that's the problem, but that each third party dependency destabilizes our software product and increases maintenance complexity.
Tough. Thats the cost of being a multimillion dollar proprietary software developer: paying for proprietary solutions. Don't like it? Find something else to do or some other way to license your product.
You've got that right.
I signed up for a kroger card with a completely fake name and address, but used it with my credit card. 6 months later, I started getting packages of kroger coupons in the mail with my name and my address.
Coincidence?
(As a side note, it seems that someone else is using my account somehow... the "promotions" they run always seem to be inflated, like recently they offered a gift certificate if you spent something like $400 in a month, and when I went for the first time that month, my receipt told me that I had already spent over $200.)
The HD/network part was the same, however a drive formatted for the linux distro would not work with games, and vice versa.
GP's "intangible" is that they could have presold 12, made 11, then announced that it was "so popular we can't fill all the orders"... Preorders are intangible until they actually build the units to sell.
The biggest problem with bit torrent is the lack of drm. It's a neccesity now, not an option.
Yeah right. As a user of legal torrents like distribution CD ISOs, how much will I have to pay to have a key to get my ISO? How much will Redhat have to pay to have their ISO verified as legal and obtain a certificate for the DRM just to let their users download it?
DRM only works if EVERYTHING is encrypted and locked down. Otherwise, how long would it take for people to start torrenting "redhat" ISOs full of mp3s?
You win. There could be special headers to indicate that a given object is a mysql extension.
Now to find a mysql developer that cares enough to implement that in the next version.
My question is, is it common practice for MGM to do #2? Why then, it must be asked, did MGM shoot over 300 films without the use of a scope or anamorphic lens? Was it just that much cheaper to matte them to letterbox for theater presentation?
Then explain how you intend to provide the same service in a cleverer way? It can't be "dumbest" if there are no better ways to do it.