There is no recall and no punishment for doing wrong, so these "representatives" do whatever they think is good for them. Not for me.
But that's irrelevant anyway, as most of the ruling is done by the unelected and uncontrolled bunch of bureaucrats. They will like powerpoint presentations of extreme damage caused by the lack of patents on software, processes, science discoveries, etc. And as you see, presentations and presents were delivered and results were obtained. And bonuses for caring for the advancement of something or other will be paid.
Remember, these are the people that declared carrot to be fruit.
It's not always that simple. That company might have had licensed dozen pieces of code, some patents and other assorted intellectual "property" to get the thing to work, each with it's own licensing terms. They may by unable to provide source drivers and comply with licences. Whether we like current I"P" laws (we don't), they are the reality.
On the other hand, Linus' crusade against binary drivers is somewhat unreasonable.
What I meant was if you broke the law tuesday and got caught, just because what you did became leagle wednessday doesen't eleminate your crime tuesday or get you out of the fine and/or time in jail.
Actually in many places the case is reverse. The accused get the "softer" of the law at the time of their deed and law at the time in court.
A lot is wrong with d20, as soon as you try to use it for anything except [A]D&D style game - and it's promoted as universal system.
The system itself, and when used for heroic fantasy game, isn't really that bad (I've seen much worse). I'd even say it's a big improvement over AD&D 2nd Ed, much simpler and more logical.
I simply fail to see it's alleged greatness. Sure it's not bad for it's primary purpose, but great?
Not to mention the fact, that you need to know what particular image means in particular context. A "magnifying glass" image may (and does) mean "enlarge object", "get a 'closer' view" or "search" depending on program. This inconsistency is not the fault of the medium itself, but it still frequently makes textual command simpler: "search" means search, not enlarge, rescale or change a view.
And then you get that little difference in approach, where in GUI you can only do what the programmers intended but in CLI you can typically do more if you really want to. That's what I really hate in Windows, theoretically so friendly and easy to use, but take a little step off the beaten path and everything becomes impossible.
If it's that important to your company, they should pay for it, period.
Exactly. If they don't provide phone or pager, it means that from their POV you don't have one. Since you don't have one, you can't be expected to be always reachable, esp. out of hours.
Another interesting thing is, why such policy? Are they afraid someone is going to steal their "valuable" company secrets?
You have all the information. Organization created by the big media corporations is attacking a small corporation about DRM technology. Rather disgusting topic.
What is more insteresting however, is that little detail: once upon a time, CSS was supposed to be trade secret, now it's patent. It can't be both.
This means that eihter a) this lawsuit is pure rubbish or (more interesting) b) lawsuits against people publishing DeCSS were brought under false pretense. This may have very interesing legal effects. For the extremely large values of "very".
You know, some people (like me - but I'm not alone) like to see their name on the stuff they write. That doesn't mean we are against sharing it or giving it away. We frequently write stuff with the intention of sharing/giving.
Hell, if you look in the Linux kernel docs you'll find a contributors list, some modules also print similar things when loaded/activated. Did it hurt anyone? I don't think so. Did it make some people feel appreciated? I'm sure it did.
And not everyone's work will necessarily be so famous that everyone will know who wrote it. EMACS, vi, kernel, they are quite exceptional in their fame, compared to hundreds of other popular packages and thousands of less popular ones.
Get Nokia 5100 (or it's US equivalent version). It has actually built in LED flashlight (2 white-bluish) high power LEDs. Comes in very handy sometimes. Though it looks more like a toy than a serious phone (anyway when I show the flashlight it makes a big impression (not on the chicks, alas)).
Now, maybe someone, anyone, can tell me what's wrong with the "advertising clause"? I can't see any problems with it.
That RMS doesn't want anyone to know that his code is inside, well, that's his choice. Strange, but not my problem. I can see however that many coders would like to have their work and names seen clearly, even if the code is to be used freely by 3rd parties. That's good thing IMAO.
A month ago I was joking to the guy installing Xerox printer/copier in the office about printing some nice shiny notes for Xmas shopping. He said that it's no problem (it won't shut down) but instead it will put hidden markers based on serial number of the machine. It might be because where I live it's only illegal to pass the fake money as real...
Of course! Deny everything to that bunch of thieves and no-gooders, formerly known as "the users".
And next, the feature we're all waiting for: word processor detecting suspicious language and disabling printing of non-approved words. For good measure it will also insert some doubleplusgood slogans here and there.
You should change the name of your country to "United States of Authoritarianism" and be done with pretense of freedoms. It'll be cheaper theis way.
You must be living in some alternate reality Europe then. It's rather dying quietly, even with efforts of phone companies.
It was braindead design from the start and I don't see anything that could make it even moderately popular. Where are services for it? Content? Don't even get me started on usability of the thing...
It will probably be supported for many years to come, just like PSTN still supports pulse dialing, yet it's time is over before it began.
If your definition of "sensible" means that I should suffer, of my own choice, just because someone spent all the budget on marketing and none on technical consultation - then yes, I'm not sensible. Bad me...
If someone sells me "unlimited access" that's what I bought. If someone thinks that "unlimited" means "sometimes when we like it", that's their problem. If they don't deliver unlimited access having sold it, it's fraud. It's very simple.
And if that someone can't get their business plan right, why should this be MY problem? I didn't write it. I don't even work there.
Again, I paid for unlimited, they owe me unlimited. Like in "having no limits".
Just a little while more, until they get all these derived works like Linux, AIX or Solaris. You know, SMP derived from their rock-solid uniprocessor technology, journaling FS derived from their UFS or state-of-the-art TCP/IP stack derived from their BSD technology.
'coz I own the Sun and you're receiving the energy from my property.
On the serious note, what I can't understand at all about this (and other similar) claims to ownership of planets, asteroids and whatever else they want to grab is the basis of the title. How do these people claim to become owners?
It's because these are the worst. A classic, stamp-cd-cheaply-and-sell-on-the-corner guys are well understood by the *AA. They all are in for the money, like *AA and the industry.
But these non-commercial ones... they must be breaking holy copyright law out of the sheer evilness of their hearts. Why else would they do such thing without any attempt of making money on it?
Them, and those pinko commie hippies of the "open sores" crowd are the prime danger to the American Way of Life(R).
Yes, you (and the manufacturers) are technically correct. However, think about this: If for some time Store B has 90% of the market, their measurement (however wrong it may be) becomes de facto standard. This way I came to expect a megabyte to be 1024*1024.
I don't care if they measure disk capacity in SI megabytes, traditional megabytes, "standard text pages" or nibbles. What I don't like is that to learn what they mean by "megabyte" I have to grab magnifying glass and search for a small print. 3 point text on the edge of the label is not "clearly marked" to me.
And I don't know where you were buying disks, where I live this trend of "standarization" became visible only few yars ago. In case of smaller drives it wasn't obvious where the missing space was - it might be used by the filesystem structures or stuff like that. With current, larger drives the difference is clearly visible.
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Elected - yes. Accountable - you must be joking.
There is no recall and no punishment for doing wrong, so these "representatives" do whatever they think is good for them. Not for me.
But that's irrelevant anyway, as most of the ruling is done by the unelected and uncontrolled bunch of bureaucrats. They will like powerpoint presentations of extreme damage caused by the lack of patents on software, processes, science discoveries, etc. And as you see, presentations and presents were delivered and results were obtained. And bonuses for caring for the advancement of something or other will be paid.
Remember, these are the people that declared carrot to be fruit.
This definitely confirms ties between MS and SCO. They are smoking the same ultra-powerful crack, that it must come from the same dealer.
It's not always that simple. That company might have had licensed dozen pieces of code, some patents and other assorted intellectual "property" to get the thing to work, each with it's own licensing terms. They may by unable to provide source drivers and comply with licences. Whether we like current I"P" laws (we don't), they are the reality.
On the other hand, Linus' crusade against binary drivers is somewhat unreasonable.
What I meant was if you broke the law tuesday and got caught, just because what you did became leagle wednessday doesen't eleminate your crime tuesday or get you out of the fine and/or time in jail.
Actually in many places the case is reverse. The accused get the "softer" of the law at the time of their deed and law at the time in court.
Though I don't know if that's applicable in US.
A lot is wrong with d20, as soon as you try to use it for anything except [A]D&D style game - and it's promoted as universal system.
The system itself, and when used for heroic fantasy game, isn't really that bad (I've seen much worse). I'd even say it's a big improvement over AD&D 2nd Ed, much simpler and more logical.
I simply fail to see it's alleged greatness. Sure it's not bad for it's primary purpose, but great?
Not to mention the fact, that you need to know what particular image means in particular context. A "magnifying glass" image may (and does) mean "enlarge object", "get a 'closer' view" or "search" depending on program. This inconsistency is not the fault of the medium itself, but it still frequently makes textual command simpler: "search" means search, not enlarge, rescale or change a view.
And then you get that little difference in approach, where in GUI you can only do what the programmers intended but in CLI you can typically do more if you really want to. That's what I really hate in Windows, theoretically so friendly and easy to use, but take a little step off the beaten path and everything becomes impossible.
Let's go another step and call it "avoiding monopoly rent" or "paying fair price for the crap delivered".
If it's that important to your company, they should pay for it, period.
Exactly. If they don't provide phone or pager, it means that from their POV you don't have one. Since you don't have one, you can't be expected to be always reachable, esp. out of hours.
Another interesting thing is, why such policy? Are they afraid someone is going to steal their "valuable" company secrets?
So is it open or not? Say it clearly. Either anyone can use or everyone have to pay.
Open standard is e.g. SMTP. Anyone can use it. If something requires payment to use, it's not open anymore.
BTW, I don't think MS is doing this to hurt OSS. They are doing it for money, and "Linux Lockout" is just a bonus.
You have all the information. Organization created by the big media corporations is attacking a small corporation about DRM technology. Rather disgusting topic.
What is more insteresting however, is that little detail: once upon a time, CSS was supposed to be trade secret, now it's patent. It can't be both.
This means that eihter a) this lawsuit is pure rubbish or (more interesting) b) lawsuits against people publishing DeCSS were brought under false pretense. This may have very interesing legal effects. For the extremely large values of "very".
Now let's see what happens...
You know, some people (like me - but I'm not alone) like to see their name on the stuff they write. That doesn't mean we are against sharing it or giving it away. We frequently write stuff with the intention of sharing/giving.
Hell, if you look in the Linux kernel docs you'll find a contributors list, some modules also print similar things when loaded/activated. Did it hurt anyone? I don't think so. Did it make some people feel appreciated? I'm sure it did.
And not everyone's work will necessarily be so famous that everyone will know who wrote it. EMACS, vi, kernel, they are quite exceptional in their fame, compared to hundreds of other popular packages and thousands of less popular ones.
A flashlight would be cool, though.
Get Nokia 5100 (or it's US equivalent version). It has actually built in LED flashlight (2 white-bluish) high power LEDs. Comes in very handy sometimes. Though it looks more like a toy than a serious phone (anyway when I show the flashlight it makes a big impression (not on the chicks, alas)).
Now, maybe someone, anyone, can tell me what's wrong with the "advertising clause"? I can't see any problems with it.
That RMS doesn't want anyone to know that his code is inside, well, that's his choice. Strange, but not my problem. I can see however that many coders would like to have their work and names seen clearly, even if the code is to be used freely by 3rd parties. That's good thing IMAO.
A month ago I was joking to the guy installing Xerox printer/copier in the office about printing some nice shiny notes for Xmas shopping. He said that it's no problem (it won't shut down) but instead it will put hidden markers based on serial number of the machine. It might be because where I live it's only illegal to pass the fake money as real...
Of course! Deny everything to that bunch of thieves and no-gooders, formerly known as "the users".
And next, the feature we're all waiting for: word processor detecting suspicious language and disabling printing of non-approved words. For good measure it will also insert some doubleplusgood slogans here and there.
You should change the name of your country to "United States of Authoritarianism" and be done with pretense of freedoms. It'll be cheaper theis way.
You must be living in some alternate reality Europe then. It's rather dying quietly, even with efforts of phone companies.
It was braindead design from the start and I don't see anything that could make it even moderately popular. Where are services for it? Content? Don't even get me started on usability of the thing...
It will probably be supported for many years to come, just like PSTN still supports pulse dialing, yet it's time is over before it began.
And what has your e-mail to do with that?
If your definition of "sensible" means that I should suffer, of my own choice, just because someone spent all the budget on marketing and none on technical consultation - then yes, I'm not sensible. Bad me...
No, I didn't.
Why should I?
If someone sells me "unlimited access" that's what I bought. If someone thinks that "unlimited" means "sometimes when we like it", that's their problem. If they don't deliver unlimited access having sold it, it's fraud. It's very simple.
And if that someone can't get their business plan right, why should this be MY problem? I didn't write it. I don't even work there.
Again, I paid for unlimited, they owe me unlimited. Like in "having no limits".
They will soon be!
Just a little while more, until they get all these derived works like Linux, AIX or Solaris. You know, SMP derived from their rock-solid uniprocessor technology, journaling FS derived from their UFS or state-of-the-art TCP/IP stack derived from their BSD technology.
Right! Let's DDoS these IRS bastards! That'll teach them!
'coz I own the Sun and you're receiving the energy from my property.
On the serious note, what I can't understand at all about this (and other similar) claims to ownership of planets, asteroids and whatever else they want to grab is the basis of the title. How do these people claim to become owners?
In that case will one be not only able to claim bounty for *self but also get an employment offer?
Soon the sources for ramen worm will be most sought wares on the net...
It's because these are the worst. A classic, stamp-cd-cheaply-and-sell-on-the-corner guys are well understood by the *AA. They all are in for the money, like *AA and the industry.
But these non-commercial ones... they must be breaking holy copyright law out of the sheer evilness of their hearts. Why else would they do such thing without any attempt of making money on it?
Them, and those pinko commie hippies of the "open sores" crowd are the prime danger to the American Way of Life(R).
Don't worry, it'll be some time before they learn all those 16-hit combos...
Yes, you (and the manufacturers) are technically correct. However, think about this: If for some time Store B has 90% of the market, their measurement (however wrong it may be) becomes de facto standard. This way I came to expect a megabyte to be 1024*1024.
I don't care if they measure disk capacity in SI megabytes, traditional megabytes, "standard text pages" or nibbles. What I don't like is that to learn what they mean by "megabyte" I have to grab magnifying glass and search for a small print. 3 point text on the edge of the label is not "clearly marked" to me.
And I don't know where you were buying disks, where I live this trend of "standarization" became visible only few yars ago. In case of smaller drives it wasn't obvious where the missing space was - it might be used by the filesystem structures or stuff like that. With current, larger drives the difference is clearly visible.