It's bad enough when versions of the same software breaks backward compatibilty, but when you loose access to a rented service, you can wave your data goodbye too. I find it hard to credit anyone buying into the subscription model, no matter how much the suppliers like it.
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as a current resident of the RoI I can think of many things I would call the government, but "environmentalist" would not be very high on that list, although "wacko" certainly would!
Karl Marx called it the opium of the masses. Judging by the rabid speech of some U.S. proponents of Christianity, I suspect PCP (horse tranquilizer) may be closer to the mark.
No, when I had cable I usually ended up watching parts of two or three different programs! Yeah, Tivo is a great idea, but since I left the US I haven't bothered with cable, and and happy watching alot less TV - I find other ways to rot my brane:)
If we get organised enough, it would be interesting if Americans could buy the annual British TV license, and recieve the BBC channels via their cable provider - the commercial free version, as opposed to BBC America, which is kinda BBC lite + commercials.
I hate commercials, I always channel surf when they come on.
Republicans are "conservatives" (in the United States sense - in Europe they would be referred to as "liberals")
Easy on the crack pipe there buddy - in Europe, Republicans would be defined somewhere between conservative and fascist. Democrats would fall between liberal and conservative. You don't have any socialists since they all fled to Canada a long time ago.
in "Homeland Security" America, culture controls you!
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You can let people see the postcard. I doubt the artist would object if you scan onto your desktop, diapers, whatever - although he may. Mostly this would fall under fair-use.
If you post it on a website and encourage people to retain local copies, print on diapers etc. you are depriving the artist of potential income. This is where the CD analogy came in.
By the way, you are free to retain local copies of the artwork on my homepage. Although I never made much money out of them, I will be irritated if you repost them on your own page, or start selling or distributing them in postcard form.
The Open Source issue is whole different kettle of fish. Remember not all Open Source is free, or publicly available. I'd like to release a tool into the wild that I wrote to make my own job easier, but first I have to persuade my employers, even though I wrote most of it in my own time.
Yeah, although I'm not anti-Microsoft, I do think forcing them to split into a OS division and a Software division, with the Software division only having the same access rights to the API as any other software vendor would have been the best result for consumers, instead of all the BS about unbundling.
The unbundling would have naturally followed, without the requirement for oversight of the next OS build.
In the UK, where there is a first past the post system & three parties, the party with the largest portion (the Republicans in your example) attempt to forge a coalition with either of the other two parties by toning down their own policies, and adopting some of their partner's policies. This only happens occasionally.
Under proportional representation, as in much of the rest of Europe, the same principle applies, but it occurs most of the time.
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CCR -- except the fact that Credence
Damn, I thought for a moment you meant the Dandy Warhols' "Crack Cocaine Ranger", which may or may not refer to Credence...
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Publicly displayed art was purchased by someone, and hung for people to view.
Sure, that sounds WAY different from purchasing a CD and sharing it for public download
It is, because usually when you buy a painting you usually also buy the reproduction rights too, unless the artists chooses to retain the copyright. When you buy the postcard of the image, you do not buy the reproduction rights.
Microsoft is considering eliminating the Win32 API from Longhorn
Highly unlikely. While the.NET framework is not backward compatible, they would be suicidal to tell their customers "sorry, you are going to have to rebuy all your old software because we don't support it any more" - provided that the developers of that software are still in business and have already migrated to.NET. Apple already made that mistake with OSX not supporting OS9, and ending up with a horrible kludge. If they really take that approach, sales would be abysmal for at least a couple of years, and I don't think Bill would tolerate that.
uh, no. If you want to reverse engineer the movie on that DVD you would require a film studio, alot of actors and studio engineers, and an editing suite for a few months. Then you can burn the results of this process to your DVD. The screen-writer might be a bit pissed though, so you ought to re-write the script from scrath too.
Well the boat was the star in Waterworld. Shame they killed it off half way thru the movie. If Costner had died half way thru, I wouldn't of minded, but not the boat!
of course in Ireland it's all bass ackwards: the distances on road signs are given in kilometres, while the speed limits are in miles per hour. They are think of switching the speed limit signs too, but are worried that everybody will assume they are mph...
The worst though is that while we use the Imperial pint for beer, unlike in England it includes the head:(
The problem isn't that the government need to buy things, its that a politician needs to sell his soul to corporate interests in order to run for office. If instead of running expensive expensive advertising campaigns, the parties had guaranteed access to TV (like party political broadcasts in the UK), and government funding to run their campaign, with a ban on capaign contibutions from private & corporate sources, you might stand a better chance of honest politicians. Just a chance, mind you;)
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you might want to change your homepage link to: http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz/ the one you gave disnae work...
but apparently having a (self-depracating) sense of humour is...
people who'd say, "I'm completely computer illiterate." Most of them would say it not in shame but in pride.
I believe it's code for "I have a social life".
Mine too - but I dont think there's a market.
It's bad enough when versions of the same software breaks backward compatibilty, but when you loose access to a rented service, you can wave your data goodbye too. I find it hard to credit anyone buying into the subscription model, no matter how much the suppliers like it.
as a current resident of the RoI I can think of many things I would call the government, but "environmentalist" would not be very high on that list, although "wacko" certainly would!
Karl Marx called it the opium of the masses. Judging by the rabid speech of some U.S. proponents of Christianity, I suspect PCP (horse tranquilizer) may be closer to the mark.
But you always go back to that same channel?!
:)
No, when I had cable I usually ended up watching parts of two or three different programs! Yeah, Tivo is a great idea, but since I left the US I haven't bothered with cable, and and happy watching alot less TV - I find other ways to rot my brane
If we get organised enough, it would be interesting if Americans could buy the annual British TV license, and recieve the BBC channels via their cable provider - the commercial free version, as opposed to BBC America, which is kinda BBC lite + commercials.
I hate commercials, I always channel surf when they come on.
I don't think spreading irrelevant, reputation-damaging, information is something that should be allowed.
What are you thinking? That's the business model of the entire tabloid press!
XMHTL is HTML redendered unreadable by humans - i.e. the normal pseudo-mystification apparent in all braches of IT.
Don't be silly. God was created in man's image, because we're the coolest, right?
Republicans are "conservatives" (in the United States sense - in Europe they would be referred to as "liberals")
Easy on the crack pipe there buddy - in Europe, Republicans would be defined somewhere between conservative and fascist. Democrats would fall between liberal and conservative. You don't have any socialists since they all fled to Canada a long time ago.
in "Homeland Security" America, culture controls you!
You can let people see the postcard. I doubt the artist would object if you scan onto your desktop, diapers, whatever - although he may. Mostly this would fall under fair-use.
If you post it on a website and encourage people to retain local copies, print on diapers etc. you are depriving the artist of potential income. This is where the CD analogy came in.
By the way, you are free to retain local copies of the artwork on my homepage. Although I never made much money out of them, I will be irritated if you repost them on your own page, or start selling or distributing them in postcard form.
The Open Source issue is whole different kettle of fish. Remember not all Open Source is free, or publicly available. I'd like to release a tool into the wild that I wrote to make my own job easier, but first I have to persuade my employers, even though I wrote most of it in my own time.
Yeah, although I'm not anti-Microsoft, I do think forcing them to split into a OS division and a Software division, with the Software division only having the same access rights to the API as any other software vendor would have been the best result for consumers, instead of all the BS about unbundling.
The unbundling would have naturally followed, without the requirement for oversight of the next OS build.
In the UK, where there is a first past the post system & three parties, the party with the largest portion (the Republicans in your example) attempt to forge a coalition with either of the other two parties by toning down their own policies, and adopting some of their partner's policies. This only happens occasionally.
Under proportional representation, as in much of the rest of Europe, the same principle applies, but it occurs most of the time.
CCR -- except the fact that Credence
Damn, I thought for a moment you meant the Dandy Warhols' "Crack Cocaine Ranger", which may or may not refer to Credence...
Publicly displayed art was purchased by someone, and hung for people to view.
Sure, that sounds WAY different from purchasing a CD and sharing it for public download
It is, because usually when you buy a painting you usually also buy the reproduction rights too, unless the artists chooses to retain the copyright. When you buy the postcard of the image, you do not buy the reproduction rights.
Microsoft is considering eliminating the Win32 API from Longhorn
.NET framework is not backward compatible, they would be suicidal to tell their customers "sorry, you are going to have to rebuy all your old software because we don't support it any more" - provided that the developers of that software are still in business and have already migrated to .NET. Apple already made that mistake with OSX not supporting OS9, and ending up with a horrible kludge. If they really take that approach, sales would be abysmal for at least a couple of years, and I don't think Bill would tolerate that.
Highly unlikely. While the
uh, no. If you want to reverse engineer the movie on that DVD you would require a film studio, alot of actors and studio engineers, and an editing suite for a few months. Then you can burn the results of this process to your DVD. The screen-writer might be a bit pissed though, so you ought to re-write the script from scrath too.
Well the boat was the star in Waterworld. Shame they killed it off half way thru the movie. If Costner had died half way thru, I wouldn't of minded, but not the boat!
what, you want Mozilla, FireFox, Opera, et-al to become so popular that they become targets for exploits? Are you crazy?
of course in Ireland it's all bass ackwards: the distances on road signs are given in kilometres, while the speed limits are in miles per hour. They are think of switching the speed limit signs too, but are worried that everybody will assume they are mph...
:(
The worst though is that while we use the Imperial pint for beer, unlike in England it includes the head
The problem isn't that the government need to buy things, its that a politician needs to sell his soul to corporate interests in order to run for office. If instead of running expensive expensive advertising campaigns, the parties had guaranteed access to TV (like party political broadcasts in the UK), and government funding to run their campaign, with a ban on capaign contibutions from private & corporate sources, you might stand a better chance of honest politicians. ;)
Just a chance, mind you
White text on a lilac background? I gave up trying to read the damned thing because it was giving me eyestrain! What were they thinking?