Sadly, enforcement comprises a good percentage of the law. If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't be so concerned with the 'precidents' that certain court cases set.
The simple fact of the matter is that unless small and GPL developers start suing and winning court cases, Large developers (Microsoft, as well as this other guy) can do anything they want to with GPL code without fear of reprisal.
It seems like this would be a pretty simple feature to add to most, if not all listserv software. Set the rot13 flag to scramble the body of every message sentto you. The last time I looked, every mail and news client except Outlook would also automatically decode Rot13 as well.
One of the Amiga's driving factors that kept it alive through the 90's despite a complete lack of support was its incredible multimedia capabilities.
If all hangs on this statement: "Amiga based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The Amiga OS can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4."
If this is true, it will help eliminate the last reason I have to use Win32 over Linux for multimedia and graphics. I truly beleive that Amiga will score mulitimedia apps like BeOS and Linux just haven't managed to do up until now.
Founder of Microsoft Corproation, Bill Gates, announced today the release of a new compression engine for use in Microsoft Windows compressed volumes based on the popular Open Source LZip compression format.
"ActiveLZip will enable Windows users to achieve the kind of file compression they've always wanted and needed. Also, we've added several new features to the compression format you won't find in that low-end Open Source crap," Gates Said in an interview.
Gates went on to list the new featuers of ActiveLZip, including MicrosoftShred, a feature designed to encrypt documents before they are compressed, and MicrosoftIPRights, a feature designed to allow music distributors to designate rights on whate files can and cannot be compressed using ActiveLZip.
Initial usage reports from industry critics indicate that ActiveLZip doesn't quite compare to the open source products. Exhaustive testing on the lossy compression algorithm indicates that it is not capable of reproducing the 0% file-reduction size offered by the Open Source application. When questioned about this discrepancy, Microsoft Chairman, Steve Ballmer responded, "Leave me alone, Damnit! I'm trying to make sure that the Sate of New York is paying for all their Windows 2000 licenses".
Use to be, you heard everybody talk about the 'Blind Eye' at Microsoft, i.e.: the attitude that yes, there is going to be some OS piracy, and no we're never going to get rid of it all, but that's okay, because it means that more people are using Microsoft than Mac0S or Linux.
I guess with a company that is as large as the one mentioned, with as many Win32 desktops, Microsoft values extracting as many dollars as they can through extortion tacticts rather than turning the other cheek and increasing their good karma with 'Microsoft Shops'.
When I attended UT, I had dinner from time to time with an Iranian exchange student who couldn't beleive that Americans got away with so much in the way of criticising our leaders and the rich and powerful. I had to explain to him the difference between a threat and criticism, but he still couldn't beleive how liberal we were and how public we could be with our speech.
He did see, however, how important it was for us to keep hold of these freedoms, even if it meant sacrificing some safety. (I'm certain that the abortion doctors don't agree with me, but...)
For every Klan site and every kill the abortion doctor site, there's a cryptome.org or a peacefire.org who couldn't function without basic freedom of speech laws. For every nutcase redneck who promotes white power, there's a rainbow coalition website who would have been edged out by our republican, white congress, some of whom were in office and voted against civil-rights legislation in the 60's.
It is important to watch for threats and illegal behavior, but to be truly fair, free speech decisions must almost always come down in favor of the speaker.
These words are as true today as they were 50, 100 and 200 years ago: 'If it doesn't work for everybody, it doesn't work for anybody.'
Because, like Microsoft, Apple cares about getting their software and other accessories into as many hands as possible. To this end, they've spent decades worth of man-hours on usability, testing, usability testing, and even more testing. Since their GUI and applications are written to be sold to people who need them rather to 'scratch an itch', the applications are often, but not always, powerful *and* intuitive.
Apple as a company, however, has fallen into the trap of thinking that it has to control every single aspect of its business to remain sucessfull. Steve has forgotten that (Control != Profit). This means that despite the fact that MacOS X is probably the best user-oriented *nix we'll ever see, it will never gain the kind of marketshare that the major Linux Distros currently occupy.
If only it would run on x86 hardware, Windows users would flock away from the evil empire.
After using a Mac professionally for quite a while, and lusting after all the cool hardware and software, I cannot in good concience, buy Apple products or reccomend them for purchase because of Apple's punitive busines practices.
It's truly sad, because Linux hackers don't get the importance of a usuable, intuitive interace and M$ and its legion of MSDN coders will never get the point of a powerful user-controlled subsytem.
*sigh*.
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The 'Mir Tracker' application page refreshes once a minute. First time it was fine. The second time, CODE 500 - INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Most chips manufactured are created to work at a certain maximum tolerance. If a chip won't test reliably at 1.5 Ghz, it's thrown in a pile of identical chips labeled and sold as 1.4 Ghz.
If these advances allow for reliable on-chip cooling, then you can bet that both AMD and Intel will keep these chips clocked as absolutely high as they'll go, thus eliminating the practice of user overclocking altogether.
Analyst: Due to the fed's refusal to cut the rate down to.002%, no one should invest in the market until they do. The entire country's financial wellbeing depends entirely on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ, so you should listen to everything I say and take it as god given blah blah blah blah blah blah....
Me: Welcome to the real world, Chester, where the stock market is a reflection of the current economy and not its primary driving factor as has been widely seen as the case due to all the dot.com millionaires. You don't think these guys got rich by making and selling a product or service, do you?
It's GOOD that they've decided to pull their IPO and concentrate on building their business through what could end up being a rough economy. This indicates sound thinking and a desire for their business to survive rather than a hot-headed lust for bottom-line profit.
If you're really interested in making money off of a privately-held Linux company, approach them privately and not through a broker. Tell them that you've been watching their company and are impressed by their performance. Tell them that you'd like to become and investor. Sink some money into them and sit back for a while that money is wisely spent, in the case of a company like TurboLinux, who is actually turning a profit.
Down the line, you'll see the long-term benifits over trading public stock.
Yeah, hah ha, it's real funny to make jokes at Texans' expense, but the simple fact of the matter is that there are over a DOZEN of us who live in this state who disagree with this legislation and have been doing our damndest to keep hold of our freedoms in the overwhelming face of the religious right, corporate doublespeak and BLATANT STUPIDITY.
Despite the insanely high cost of jet-fuel, what I am really concerned about here is the eventual strain on the environment should this prove popular.
Think about it. Most of the fuel in jet engines burns away. Most of the exhaust is in the form of water and CO2, but there is a small amount of hydrocarbon exhaust.
I would think that multiple 'around the clock' flights would start putting out non-negligable amounts of greenhouse-gas and hyrdrocarbon pollution. This is not a good thing, because there are better, cheaper ways to do this.
Microsoftie Jim Allchin has recently stated that he sees the need to 'educate' the federal legislature about what he feels like are the 'dangers' of open source and free software.
Do the majority of legislators have an opinion on open source or free software? If so is this opinion negative or positive. What's the best way advocates of open source software can get their opinions heard when the 'closed source' companies such as Microsoft have so much 'Soft Money' to throw around?
It will keep corporations away from 'serious' websites.
Instead of people who are whoring their sites to the first corporation who comes along with a nice big check, individuals will start to think a little bit before they hand over their content to a big site network like IGN or *gasp* V.A. Linux.
Despite the fact that not all of these networks are evil, I would rather see people keep their sites to themselves and free of corporate content and control. If there are fewer Excite's and Go Networks out there, it can only benefit the rest of us.
Hmmm... I don't even have to change a name to get a full 100 item listing of metallica tracks.
Search for something a little less esoteric and not on the charts, but something that the RIAA should be banning if they're trying to stay on top of things. Tracks from Phil Collins's 'No Jacket Required'.
Hmmm... A full 100 item listing of Phil Collins tracks.
Scary.... You'd think the RIAA would be doing something to stop this travesty!
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Sadly, enforcement comprises a good percentage of the law. If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't be so concerned with the 'precidents' that certain court cases set.
The simple fact of the matter is that unless small and GPL developers start suing and winning court cases, Large developers (Microsoft, as well as this other guy) can do anything they want to with GPL code without fear of reprisal.
It seems like this would be a pretty simple feature to add to most, if not all listserv software. Set the rot13 flag to scramble the body of every message sentto you. The last time I looked, every mail and news client except Outlook would also automatically decode Rot13 as well.
One of the Amiga's driving factors that kept it alive through the 90's despite a complete lack of support was its incredible multimedia capabilities.
If all hangs on this statement: "Amiga based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The Amiga OS can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4."
If this is true, it will help eliminate the last reason I have to use Win32 over Linux for multimedia and graphics. I truly beleive that Amiga will score mulitimedia apps like BeOS and Linux just haven't managed to do up until now.
Here's to hope...
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Founder of Microsoft Corproation, Bill Gates, announced today the release of a new compression engine for use in Microsoft Windows compressed volumes based on the popular Open Source LZip compression format.
"ActiveLZip will enable Windows users to achieve the kind of file compression they've always wanted and needed. Also, we've added several new features to the compression format you won't find in that low-end Open Source crap," Gates Said in an interview.
Gates went on to list the new featuers of ActiveLZip, including MicrosoftShred, a feature designed to encrypt documents before they are compressed, and MicrosoftIPRights, a feature designed to allow music distributors to designate rights on whate files can and cannot be compressed using ActiveLZip.
Initial usage reports from industry critics indicate that ActiveLZip doesn't quite compare to the open source products. Exhaustive testing on the lossy compression algorithm indicates that it is not capable of reproducing the 0% file-reduction size offered by the Open Source application. When questioned about this discrepancy, Microsoft Chairman, Steve Ballmer responded, "Leave me alone, Damnit! I'm trying to make sure that the Sate of New York is paying for all their Windows 2000 licenses".
But I keep getting these festering lesions on my arms and chest when I try play EQ or Q3A. Must be 'line noise'.
"I pray that I never suffer an internal burn" - Nicolai Tesla
Microsoft is using its monopoly power to extort arbitrary 'fines' and 'settlements' from its users.
Use to be, you heard everybody talk about the 'Blind Eye' at Microsoft, i.e.: the attitude that yes, there is going to be some OS piracy, and no we're never going to get rid of it all, but that's okay, because it means that more people are using Microsoft than Mac0S or Linux.
I guess with a company that is as large as the one mentioned, with as many Win32 desktops, Microsoft values extracting as many dollars as they can through extortion tacticts rather than turning the other cheek and increasing their good karma with 'Microsoft Shops'.
When I attended UT, I had dinner from time to time with an Iranian exchange student who couldn't beleive that Americans got away with so much in the way of criticising our leaders and the rich and powerful. I had to explain to him the difference between a threat and criticism, but he still couldn't beleive how liberal we were and how public we could be with our speech.
He did see, however, how important it was for us to keep hold of these freedoms, even if it meant sacrificing some safety. (I'm certain that the abortion doctors don't agree with me, but...)
For every Klan site and every kill the abortion doctor site, there's a cryptome.org or a peacefire.org who couldn't function without basic freedom of speech laws. For every nutcase redneck who promotes white power, there's a rainbow coalition website who would have been edged out by our republican, white congress, some of whom were in office and voted against civil-rights legislation in the 60's.
It is important to watch for threats and illegal behavior, but to be truly fair, free speech decisions must almost always come down in favor of the speaker.
These words are as true today as they were 50, 100 and 200 years ago: 'If it doesn't work for everybody, it doesn't work for anybody.'
Mod this up! This is, IMHO, the single most important question that a Linux professional can ask of MS.
The chances of that happening are insignifi.... Hey, did you see that guy in the suit?
The title of this Salon article pretty much says it all. Ashcroft on school shootings: Video games are part of the problem.
I'm glad I voted for Gore....
Boy, I must have pissed of some Appleites. I got modded up to 5 and then back down to 2 when I was at lunch.
Because, like Microsoft, Apple cares about getting their software and other accessories into as many hands as possible. To this end, they've spent decades worth of man-hours on usability, testing, usability testing, and even more testing. Since their GUI and applications are written to be sold to people who need them rather to 'scratch an itch', the applications are often, but not always, powerful *and* intuitive.
Apple as a company, however, has fallen into the trap of thinking that it has to control every single aspect of its business to remain sucessfull. Steve has forgotten that (Control != Profit). This means that despite the fact that MacOS X is probably the best user-oriented *nix we'll ever see, it will never gain the kind of marketshare that the major Linux Distros currently occupy.
If only it would run on x86 hardware, Windows users would flock away from the evil empire.
After using a Mac professionally for quite a while, and lusting after all the cool hardware and software, I cannot in good concience, buy Apple products or reccomend them for purchase because of Apple's punitive busines practices.
It's truly sad, because Linux hackers don't get the importance of a usuable, intuitive interace and M$ and its legion of MSDN coders will never get the point of a powerful user-controlled subsytem.
*sigh*.
How can a post be 'overrated' when it wasn't modded at all?
The 'Mir Tracker' application page refreshes once a minute. First time it was fine. The second time, CODE 500 - INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Has been doing this for some time now. Harry has whored himself out so often that he's even getting cameos in movies now.
Most chips manufactured are created to work at a certain maximum tolerance. If a chip won't test reliably at 1.5 Ghz, it's thrown in a pile of identical chips labeled and sold as 1.4 Ghz.
If these advances allow for reliable on-chip cooling, then you can bet that both AMD and Intel will keep these chips clocked as absolutely high as they'll go, thus eliminating the practice of user overclocking altogether.
Analyst: Due to the fed's refusal to cut the rate down to .002%, no one should invest in the market until they do. The entire country's financial wellbeing depends entirely on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ, so you should listen to everything I say and take it as god given blah blah blah blah blah blah....
Me: Welcome to the real world, Chester, where the stock market is a reflection of the current economy and not its primary driving factor as has been widely seen as the case due to all the dot.com millionaires. You don't think these guys got rich by making and selling a product or service, do you?
It's GOOD that they've decided to pull their IPO and concentrate on building their business through what could end up being a rough economy. This indicates sound thinking and a desire for their business to survive rather than a hot-headed lust for bottom-line profit.
If you're really interested in making money off of a privately-held Linux company, approach them privately and not through a broker. Tell them that you've been watching their company and are impressed by their performance. Tell them that you'd like to become and investor. Sink some money into them and sit back for a while that money is wisely spent, in the case of a company like TurboLinux, who is actually turning a profit.
Down the line, you'll see the long-term benifits over trading public stock.
IANAA (I am not an accountant.)
Yeah, hah ha, it's real funny to make jokes at Texans' expense, but the simple fact of the matter is that there are over a DOZEN of us who live in this state who disagree with this legislation and have been doing our damndest to keep hold of our freedoms in the overwhelming face of the religious right, corporate doublespeak and BLATANT STUPIDITY.
Despite the insanely high cost of jet-fuel, what I am really concerned about here is the eventual strain on the environment should this prove popular.
Think about it. Most of the fuel in jet engines burns away. Most of the exhaust is in the form of water and CO2, but there is a small amount of hydrocarbon exhaust.
I would think that multiple 'around the clock' flights would start putting out non-negligable amounts of greenhouse-gas and hyrdrocarbon pollution. This is not a good thing, because there are better, cheaper ways to do this.
Microsoftie Jim Allchin has recently stated that he sees the need to 'educate' the federal legislature about what he feels like are the 'dangers' of open source and free software.
Do the majority of legislators have an opinion on open source or free software? If so is this opinion negative or positive. What's the best way advocates of open source software can get their opinions heard when the 'closed source' companies such as Microsoft have so much 'Soft Money' to throw around?
If I had a dollar for every crash, hiccup, and burp that Windows or Windows software had given me, I could swim in my money like Scrooge McDuck!
Under/Around/Near Denver is also a suspect spot for Area 51's replacement base and development center.
It will keep corporations away from 'serious' websites.
Instead of people who are whoring their sites to the first corporation who comes along with a nice big check, individuals will start to think a little bit before they hand over their content to a big site network like IGN or *gasp* V.A. Linux.
Despite the fact that not all of these networks are evil, I would rather see people keep their sites to themselves and free of corporate content and control. If there are fewer Excite's and Go Networks out there, it can only benefit the rest of us.
http://www.furinkan.net - Never had ads, never will.
Hmmm... I don't even have to change a name to get a full 100 item listing of metallica tracks.
Search for something a little less esoteric and not on the charts, but something that the RIAA should be banning if they're trying to stay on top of things. Tracks from Phil Collins's 'No Jacket Required'.
Hmmm... A full 100 item listing of Phil Collins tracks.
Scary.... You'd think the RIAA would be doing something to stop this travesty!