I really get annoyed when long distance companies spam or call me up to sell services to me when I already have it. For example, MCI called me not once, twice or three times but a total of 5 times trying to sell me long distance service. At that time I already had long distance service with them. Now of course I do not:)
and the system crashes it's the engineer who takes the blame for shoddy workmanship, and not the customer, manager, etc. who demands the product before it's ready.
Well I believe that the company should take responsibility. If Marketing wants product Backup Exec to ship on Friday and the engineer insists that it isnt ready and at the present all it does is erase your HDD the instant you put the cd in, thats Marketing's fault and in all truth the companie's fault. The Engineer shouldnt have to take the blame, but the mohership (the company) should understand its mistake.
Have you ever built a bridge ?
I have 2 uncles whoe are civil engineers and yes they have to do a LOT of calculations anticipating every possible situation. For example, like no more than 'x' tonnage on the bridge at a certain time. If a bridge is rated for 200tons of traffic, its built to handle 300 or even higher.
If a programmer makes an installer which deletes the file and in their instructions they say double click this file to install and it deletes all your data, then yes the programmer is at fault. If the instructions clearly say Select/tmp for temp and then install and the user doesnt follow that, then yes its the fault of the user.
We should make software companies liable for the bugs THEY put in and stop blaming the user for everything.
"The only way to make money from a game is to have copyright and controlled code - how would that jib with your GPL and Free code sensibilities ? "
GPL software is also copyrighted/copylefted by the author. If one says GPL is the only license and violates another copyright, thats not what the GPL advocates stand for. What we say is that if you dont agree with a license then DONT USE that product. I use Linux, OpenOffice, Mozilla for the same reasons. Not to warez it out. Even RMS says about MPAA, DeCSS etc is that unless you are sure that the movie is really worth the $8 you pay to see it, dont go to see it. He doesnt say try to sneak in through the service door and see the movie for free because the $8 ticket price doesnt justify the crappy movie.
Thats because id makes a lot of money licensing their engine. Which is also fine by me. If you license their engine, you can make and sell as many games as you like which are based on that engine.
But once the life term of the engine is over, id releases it as free software and look at the Quake 1 engine. Still getting enhancements and more programmers willing to keep breathing new life into that engine.
All older versions are covered. If you have an Office XP license you can install Office2k or 97 as long as you dont exceed the # of seats you have purchased.
Anything illegal off the Internet shall be illegal on the Internet. So since different states in the US have different laws concerning obscenity and pornography and other countries differ to a large extent in defining the same, who has the last say?
If I wasnt doing a license audit this month I wouldnt have known, but having an Office XP license does allow you to run Office2k. For example, if a machine has OfficeXP and I want to run Office2k instead of Office XP on that machine, its legal to do so, as long as I dont have more installations than total licenses. I can not however run Office XP on an Office2k license. Or at least thats what I was told by M$.
From what I read India is also willing to let US use Indian territory as a staging ground for a ground assault if needed. India is the 3rd country after US and ISrael which Bin Laden has declared a jehad on.
As for Pakistan, they are between a rock and a hard place in this situation. If they agree to let US stage on their land and help US in catching Osama Bin Laden, then the hundreds of terrorist factions who are in Pakisan will destroy that country. If they refuse, they will be ostracised by the rest of the global community.
China is ready to help as well since the terrorists from Bin Laden's camps also cause mischief in their south western provinces.
... is one of the 3 countries wihch recognise the govt of Afghanistan as legitimate. Lets also not forget that the ruling power in Afghanistan the army also actively trains and supports the Taleban and provides them with weapons and intelligence.
They want to stay in power and if they try to go against their 'Muslim brothers' the hundreds of terrorist groups within these 2 countries will tear the remaining parts of it to shreds and we could end up having 2 countries in total anarchy.
There ARE people who dont buy CDs at all and only download music, but there are more people who have bought more music after the advent of Napster.
This is what I think believe: The RIAA feels that they should make money off each song which is downloaded or is in electronic form. They dont really care if you have the CD or not. You pay $20 for a CD fine. You rip a song, they want a cut. YOu have a friend rip a song and give it to you from the CD that you bought, they want cuts for the ripping and passing it on.
The RIAA is like a cannibal, devouring its own customers in high prices and the deprivation of fair use.
After the above comment, yes I do buy CDs. I have bought maybe 50 cds since Jan 2001. And none of them are RIAA labels, all indies or certain DJ mixes. I dont listen to popular music and henceforth I wont buy the unnecessarily high priced junk music..
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I really get annoyed when long distance companies spam or call me up to sell services to me when I already have it. For example, MCI called me not once, twice or three times but a total of 5 times trying to sell me long distance service. At that time I already had long distance service with them. Now of course I do not :)
dvNull
Is this why Quicktime likes to be the default viewer for png images when installed on Windows ?
.. Yes ... the flame wars start again .. with a vengeance ..
No shit ...
.con story last week?
Didnt segfault have a new TLD
and the system crashes it's the engineer who takes the blame for shoddy workmanship, and not the customer, manager, etc. who demands the product before it's ready.
Well I believe that the company should take responsibility. If Marketing wants product Backup Exec to ship on Friday and the engineer insists that it isnt ready and at the present all it does is erase your HDD the instant you put the cd in, thats Marketing's fault and in all truth the companie's fault. The Engineer shouldnt have to take the blame, but the mohership (the company) should understand its mistake.
dvNull
Have you ever built a bridge ? I have 2 uncles whoe are civil engineers and yes they have to do a LOT of calculations anticipating every possible situation. For example, like no more than 'x' tonnage on the bridge at a certain time. If a bridge is rated for 200tons of traffic, its built to handle 300 or even higher.
/tmp for temp and then install and the user doesnt follow that, then yes its the fault of the user.
If a programmer makes an installer which deletes the file and in their instructions they say double click this file to install and it deletes all your data, then yes the programmer is at fault. If the instructions clearly say Select
We should make software companies liable for the bugs THEY put in and stop blaming the user for everything.
"The only way to make money from a game is to have copyright and controlled code - how would that jib with your GPL and Free code sensibilities ? "
GPL software is also copyrighted/copylefted by the author. If one says GPL is the only license and violates another copyright, thats not what the GPL advocates stand for. What we say is that if you dont agree with a license then DONT USE that product. I use Linux, OpenOffice, Mozilla for the same reasons. Not to warez it out. Even RMS says about MPAA, DeCSS etc is that unless you are sure that the movie is really worth the $8 you pay to see it, dont go to see it. He doesnt say try to sneak in through the service door and see the movie for free because the $8 ticket price doesnt justify the crappy movie.
Thats because id makes a lot of money licensing their engine. Which is also fine by me. If you license their engine, you can make and sell as many games as you like which are based on that engine.
But once the life term of the engine is over, id releases it as free software and look at the Quake 1 engine. Still getting enhancements and more programmers willing to keep breathing new life into that engine.
The game was space travel and i believe you can get the source to the game somewhere ...
All older versions are covered. If you have an Office XP license you can install Office2k or 97 as long as you dont exceed the # of seats you have purchased.
dvNull
I especially like this off their site:
Anything illegal off the Internet shall be illegal on the Internet.
So since different states in the US have different laws concerning obscenity and pornography and other countries differ to a large extent in defining the same, who has the last say?
Uhmmm
If I wasnt doing a license audit this month I wouldnt have known, but having an Office XP license does allow you to run Office2k. For example, if a machine has OfficeXP and I want to run Office2k instead of Office XP on that machine, its legal to do so, as long as I dont have more installations than total licenses. I can not however run Office XP on an Office2k license. Or at least thats what I was told by M$.
Did you patch rogue spear?
Cause I just finished playing a quick game about 20 minutes ago. The machine runs Win2k SP2
And you'll have fun turning away the stupid apple followers .. no this is the Church of -EMACS- not church of iMacs ..
I had posted this before, but when I run the latest builds the fonts appear anti-aliased.
Here is a shot:
http://www.dvnull.org/screenshots/shot_oo.jpg
Same in the other apps as well.
and 638 has anti-aliasing as well
http://www.dvnull.org/screenshots/shot_oo.jpg
MS gets targeted cause of their wide open security holes as well ...
Is this a first post ?
I admin 3 NT boxes, 3 Linux boxes and 2 FreeBSD boxes. I check for security updates and patches every day .
;)
Have done this ever since I joined up as sysadmin. Never had a problem
OpenOffice has anti-aliasing from build 638
Check out the sshot:
Open Office build 638
From what I read India is also willing to let US use Indian territory as a staging ground for a ground assault if needed. India is the 3rd country after US and ISrael which Bin Laden has declared a jehad on.
As for Pakistan, they are between a rock and a hard place in this situation. If they agree to let US stage on their land and help US in catching Osama Bin Laden, then the hundreds of terrorist factions who are in Pakisan will destroy that country. If they refuse, they will be ostracised by the rest of the global community.
China is ready to help as well since the terrorists from Bin Laden's camps also cause mischief in their south western provinces.
... is one of the 3 countries wihch recognise the govt of Afghanistan as legitimate. Lets also not forget that the ruling power in Afghanistan the army also actively trains and supports the Taleban and provides them with weapons and intelligence.
They want to stay in power and if they try to go against their 'Muslim brothers' the hundreds of terrorist groups within these 2 countries will tear the remaining parts of it to shreds and we could end up having 2 countries in total anarchy.
From the Mesa site (http://www.mesa3d.org) :
Please do not refer to the library as MesaGL (for legal reasons). It's just
Mesa or The Mesa 3-D graphics library.
It was the SB Live drivers ... I have 2 machines .. one with an AWE64 card and one with the Live!
.. The other kernel works fine and I play Quake 3 every night =)
The 2.4.8 kernel compile died on the emu10k1 driver
Who said I run a stock kernel ?
... 7.x just plain blows ..
On another note I havent used RH in the longest time
There ARE people who dont buy CDs at all and only download music, but there are more people who have bought more music after the advent of Napster.
..
This is what I think believe: The RIAA feels that they should make money off each song which is downloaded or is in electronic form. They dont really care if you have the CD or not. You pay $20 for a CD fine. You rip a song, they want a cut. YOu have a friend rip a song and give it to you from the CD that you bought, they want cuts for the ripping and passing it on.
The RIAA is like a cannibal, devouring its own customers in high prices and the deprivation of fair use.
After the above comment, yes I do buy CDs. I have bought maybe 50 cds since Jan 2001. And none of them are RIAA labels, all indies or certain DJ mixes. I dont listen to popular music and henceforth I wont buy the unnecessarily high priced junk music