seeing as how over $25M was given by a single contributor (Geogre Soros) to a obviously Kerry campaign media outlet, how could you assume that anything else would happen?
you know the worst part? Rush Limbaugh, as tired as he is, was 100% right on this one. (i agree with Rush ~50% of the time - I'm libertarian)
Get ready for "See, i told you so" from Rush Limbaugh... he was on George Soros' side on this one - but NOOOOO you had to follow McCain down the road of fscking the 1st Amendment.
I will by a PSP the moment i find out how the hell i can play ripped DVDs on it.
1. Can the optical drive in it read/play mini-DVDs/mini-CDs? 2. Can you use the craptacular cheap Memory Sticks (not the Memory MG Sitck Duo Extra Gate Super WHAT THE FSCK?!!/Denis Leary) ones?
if i can drop two or three lowly compressed DiVX movies on a 1 Gig stick, i'm in.
Seriously, i hate fscking Sony and their stupid ass memory cards... i have a $90 2GB microdrive i'd love to use as a movie hard drive to watch on a protable player of some kind.
Price for iLife 05 on Dell Dimension 4700....uh.. there is no price for iLife 05 on theDell Dimension 4700.
No, instead you get years of heartache with driver issues with your camera and a corn-you-fscking-copia of bastard-ass photo organization applications that do fsck-all for you actually organizing, printing, and making books from your pictures.
Why do you think that they finally came out with printers with CF cards and fscking monitors on them? I'm sure easy to use software on windows was the reason!
I'm so sick of this debate, i'm not even going to go into trying to use Pinnicle's sucky DVD-put-together software. That has to be the most grabtastic pile of poo i've ever used.
Every time i hear this Cheaper Dell thing.. i aske people if they had to buy two cars - and one was twice as expenive as the other, but the cheaper one meant you needed to run your own cables to the throttle and brake lines and steering box, and they you had to drive-by-wire with bicycle handbrakes - would the car that was 1/2 as much still be worth anything?
btw: did i mention spyware, adware, viruses and trying to setup wireless networks without a CCIE on Windows vs. the more expensive Mac mini?
When H.264 becomes widespread - read - when Quicktime 7 comes out - you'll be in the pink.
It scales very well, and looks more better than anything else at any rate. Its quite the codec.
I've seen first hand files and worked with betas on QT7. It hands down pimp slaps Sorenson and WMP 9 files.
Plus, anyone can watch it on anyplatform.
Until then, I suggest you use DivX or 3ivX - and provide download links to both. 3viX is great quality and its every platform compatible and its free for the playback component.
Windows users are happy - your 3ivX files play in WMP, Mac users are happy, your 3ivX files play in Quicktime, and Linux users are happy because it plays in XAnim
those under 18 cannot enter into binding contractual agreements... so if my nephew buys a program in the store, and by virtue of installation enters a contract with the software company, isn't that illegal?
that someone's cell phone or WiFi card could bring it down?
i know i wouldn't.
the signal strength of the cell phones is far far less than the signal strength of the cell towers outside the airplane. It doesn't matter which direction the RF is travelling, you know.
If Cell phone frequencies caused problems, we'd see the problem when airports put in a ton more towers to handle the traffic.... and we didn't.
the whole concept of banning cell phones was a Nanny State Program trying to make the uneducated and stupid feel better, and to give the Mrs. Kravits/HOA-types the ability to be pissy at you on the airplane if you leave your cell phone on.
there's no technical reason to prevent users from using cell phones... if the towers can make the connection, then they can. If they can't, they can't.
i bet, more than anything else, that it won't matter a ton because most of the time, people won't be able to make calls at altitude.
When i was far younger - Democrats were made up mostly REASONABLE and RATIONAL people. They had different ideas, but no one believed that they had hate as a core belief... there was nothing to make anyone believe that.
The problem is that people like JFK (the first one), Truman, and other reasonable but passionate Democrats have ceded their power in the party to Michael Moore, Linda Sanchez, Charlie Wrangel, et al. These people are hate-filled scream machines which have done NOTHING to help the average every-day Democrats.
I, a staunch right-wing Constitutional libertarian - yern for the days of the reasonable, thoughtful, and learned Democrats who held our feet to the fire and made us think.
The worst part is that now, Democrat leadership does not stand for anything other than "we hate Republicans and Christians".
For the love of God - the party - on the whole has given a PASS to a man who, by all rights RAPED a woman when he was an Attorney General! My God! Bob Packwood was nearly lynched for grabbing ass!
Democrats - send Daschle (oh, heh), Charlie Wrangle, Carol Mosley-Braun, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy and the rest of the hate-filled Democrat leaders packing - save your party. Bring sanity and lucid thought back to your party.
Throw out hate - it makes you ugly and lose elections.
Mac OS X is a rock solid server for the non-geeks.
Mac OS X is the best os for a small business server because after a 30 minute tutorial, a small business person, who is non technical, could handle doing many basic tasks like adding/removing users, adding additional storage space, replacing failed hard drives (with XServes).
Linux is probably faster and cheaper for setup, but would in most small business cases befuddle and scare the shit out of the average small office/buisness, while OS X, while more expensive up front, could be set up "By My Mom", and for most simple operations, run by her as well.
its become a rather alien concept because us in the U.S. have had it beaten over our heads that thinking America is a good country is a bad way to think. We've been taught that we suck, and that if we want to be good people, we should hate ourselves and be like the Euros.
honestly, i don't seem to understand why, but whatever.
if they removed any of the copyright information from the souce code files, and if they don't release the source code or make it available to the public, then they are in violation of the GPL.
you're incorrect about naming provisions... GPL is a license, and to use copyrighted GPL code, you need to attribute the copyright holder. You may distribute/use/modify, etc... however, the original code must still be attributed to the copyright holder.
Once again -.... THE GPL USES COPYRIGHT, IT DOES NOT IGNORE COPYRIGHT.
i was a system engineer for a very large military contractor/airplane maker - and i insist on at least two monitors, even if that means buying the parts myself... which i had to.
in any case - when doing documentation review, action item lists, and various document comparison tasks - the bulk of systems engineering for a big contractor - having two monitors should be a requirement. otherwise, one needs to keep switching between two documents, and you can never actually look at both at the same time.. so missing things is quite easy.
most people in my office would print documents so that they could work on the other document that they were doing the comparison work to...
before i left - 4 people had badgered the IT geeks to give them dual monitor setups, and from what i hear, its up to 7 now - because for the MS Office drones, dual monitors is the greatest thing on the planet.
The worst part is that the IT geeks - who could also have benefited from dual monitors by setting up status screens 100% of the time on one monitor, and their daily tasks like email on the other - would bitch like John Stweart on Crossfire about how it was a waste and an over the top luxury...
but they never concidered how much time and paper it saved me... and if everyone had one, how the paper would go down tremendously.
oh well, most major corp IT drones are asshole MSCE singles with bad skin and worse interpersonal skillz anyhow.
The developer's release at that time was the version Jobs used on stage. I know this because my best friend's email address is ______@apple.com, and works on a fundamental portion of Mac OS X.
I used the same DP version a few days later (the one that was given out to the developers) - and on 80 gigs of data (videos, files, documents, etc) - it worked exactly as steve showed.
i don't know whether to laugh or be scared of someone that has opinions on software that one has not used personally.
The courts say that you are not buying the software - but only a license to the software.
great - then according to that logic, there is no inherent value in the Final Cut Pro HD box at Frys so far as the installation CD is concerned....
so as long as you tear open the box, remove the DVD, and leave the license agreement (all Apple software has full paper versions of the license agreement in each box of software) according to the court, you haven't actually stolen anything.
they clearly state that the CD has no value, there is only value in the license agreement. So, don't take the license agreement. You should be in no deeper poop legally than if you downloaded it off kazza - because you didn't take anything of value.
If you take that CD and put it on your wall or use it as a coaster, and never stick it in your computer - then would you technically be in any legal trouble at all? I can't see how.
I can do that with this, because otherwise, i cannot listen to the radio while at work.
there are tons of people - esp. TiVo owners - that often move their hand toward the radio knob in their car wanting to jump back and hear what was said... but then realize that they can't.
Now, if the radio shark makes the "ga-bluck, ga-bluck" TiVo button sound - i'll pay even more for it.
in light of IBM's use of the GPL to shutdown a major copyright infringer, SCO...
and in light that this author decided to publish an outdated article - he continues to talk about how IBM is being sued for copyright infringement, while the hunter is now the hunted in the SCO vs IBM case with IBM arguing (very well) for partial summary judgement that IBM is 100% in the clear on Linux while its SCO who is now clearly in violation of copyright law...
but mostly because his very first premise is utterly false - "How does software owned by everyone and by no one survive in a world where copyrights and patents shape the legal landscape?"..
this article is lame...
Dear Mr. Wildstrom.
The GPL has NOTHING to do with your precious IP or ownership of software. The GPL is ONLY about two simple things - distribution and use. Just like EVERY SINGLE OTHER software license.
It is obvious you do not understand this. I suggest you read the twolatest court documents from IBM, who are doing two things you claim the GPL does not allow...
1. claiming ownership of their GPL licensed software and 2. are asking the courts to prevent a copyright infringer from reditributing their software without their permission.
The easiest way to understand how the GPL works and why it works is to read those court documents - because its heart is exactly what the GPL is about - controlled distribution of owned software by the copyright holder.
As my history teacher was fond of saying to the kids that wrote their papers the night before as they watched The A-Team - "please grasp the concept, then rewrite your paper".
Because of security reasons, there are plently of us that will NEVER be on the internet - ever.
There are plenty of us out here that must work in a realm where anonymity and the ability to purchase items with 100% zero strings attached is a first order requirement.
We pay for cash for all hardware and software, and we CAN NOT EVER "register" software because if we did, we'd go to jail. We can get updates from the internet, but its a 1-way street via sneakernet and a lot of shredded CD-Rs.
If/when Microsoft requires access and knowledge and subscriptions to software is the day we'll all switch to Linux and OpenOffice.
What kills me is, like always, instead of looking ahead proactively and seeing the path ahead, they will probably be forced to make a radical change at the end, and we'll be running on Windows 2000 until 2010. (NSA has NOT approved XP for desktop use, even though its being installed all over the place).
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seeing as how over $25M was given by a single contributor (Geogre Soros) to a obviously Kerry campaign media outlet, how could you assume that anything else would happen?
you know the worst part? Rush Limbaugh, as tired as he is, was 100% right on this one. (i agree with Rush ~50% of the time - I'm libertarian)
Get ready for "See, i told you so" from Rush Limbaugh... he was on George Soros' side on this one - but NOOOOO you had to follow McCain down the road of fscking the 1st Amendment.
nice job.
I will by a PSP the moment i find out how the hell i can play ripped DVDs on it.
1. Can the optical drive in it read/play mini-DVDs/mini-CDs?
2. Can you use the craptacular cheap Memory Sticks (not the Memory MG Sitck Duo Extra Gate Super WHAT THE FSCK?!!/Denis Leary) ones?
if i can drop two or three lowly compressed DiVX movies on a 1 Gig stick, i'm in.
Seriously, i hate fscking Sony and their stupid ass memory cards... i have a $90 2GB microdrive i'd love to use as a movie hard drive to watch on a protable player of some kind.
You seem to be some right wing extremeist...
its obvious that George Bush lied and all the damage because of the tsunami is his fault.
Price for iLife 05 on Dell Dimension 4700....uh.. there is no price for iLife 05 on theDell Dimension 4700.
No, instead you get years of heartache with driver issues with your camera and a corn-you-fscking-copia of bastard-ass photo organization applications that do fsck-all for you actually organizing, printing, and making books from your pictures.
Why do you think that they finally came out with printers with CF cards and fscking monitors on them? I'm sure easy to use software on windows was the reason!
I'm so sick of this debate, i'm not even going to go into trying to use Pinnicle's sucky DVD-put-together software. That has to be the most grabtastic pile of poo i've ever used.
Every time i hear this Cheaper Dell thing.. i aske people if they had to buy two cars - and one was twice as expenive as the other, but the cheaper one meant you needed to run your own cables to the throttle and brake lines and steering box, and they you had to drive-by-wire with bicycle handbrakes - would the car that was 1/2 as much still be worth anything?
btw: did i mention spyware, adware, viruses and trying to setup wireless networks without a CCIE on Windows vs. the more expensive Mac mini?
When H.264 becomes widespread - read - when Quicktime 7 comes out - you'll be in the pink.
It scales very well, and looks more better than anything else at any rate. Its quite the codec.
I've seen first hand files and worked with betas on QT7. It hands down pimp slaps Sorenson and WMP 9 files.
Plus, anyone can watch it on anyplatform.
Until then, I suggest you use DivX or 3ivX - and provide download links to both. 3viX is great quality and its every platform compatible and its free for the playback component.
Windows users are happy - your 3ivX files play in WMP, Mac users are happy, your 3ivX files play in Quicktime, and Linux users are happy because it plays in XAnim
Why is it when Americans make big vehicles, we're fscking taken behind the woodshed and mocked and slapped....
but when the Euros do it - its the greatest thing evar?
oh wait... its kinda like getting your ass saved in a world war, then spitting on the graves of those that saved your ass a scant 40 years later.
wankers.
those under 18 cannot enter into binding contractual agreements... so if my nephew buys a program in the store, and by virtue of installation enters a contract with the software company, isn't that illegal?
that someone's cell phone or WiFi card could bring it down?
i know i wouldn't.
the signal strength of the cell phones is far far less than the signal strength of the cell towers outside the airplane. It doesn't matter which direction the RF is travelling, you know.
If Cell phone frequencies caused problems, we'd see the problem when airports put in a ton more towers to handle the traffic.... and we didn't.
the whole concept of banning cell phones was a Nanny State Program trying to make the uneducated and stupid feel better, and to give the Mrs. Kravits/HOA-types the ability to be pissy at you on the airplane if you leave your cell phone on.
there's no technical reason to prevent users from using cell phones... if the towers can make the connection, then they can. If they can't, they can't.
i bet, more than anything else, that it won't matter a ton because most of the time, people won't be able to make calls at altitude.
That's my story, and i'm fscking sticking to it.
i'll rent an apartment with 10 other friends, and we'll all just register our cars at that location.... and get our Driver's licenses out there too.
everything you try to do to fsck us over, we WILL work around it, assholes.
Earp - thank you.
When i was far younger - Democrats were made up mostly REASONABLE and RATIONAL people. They had different ideas, but no one believed that they had hate as a core belief... there was nothing to make anyone believe that.
The problem is that people like JFK (the first one), Truman, and other reasonable but passionate Democrats have ceded their power in the party to Michael Moore, Linda Sanchez, Charlie Wrangel, et al. These people are hate-filled scream machines which have done NOTHING to help the average every-day Democrats.
I, a staunch right-wing Constitutional libertarian - yern for the days of the reasonable, thoughtful, and learned Democrats who held our feet to the fire and made us think.
The worst part is that now, Democrat leadership does not stand for anything other than "we hate Republicans and Christians".
For the love of God - the party - on the whole has given a PASS to a man who, by all rights RAPED a woman when he was an Attorney General! My God! Bob Packwood was nearly lynched for grabbing ass!
Democrats - send Daschle (oh, heh), Charlie Wrangle, Carol Mosley-Braun, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy and the rest of the hate-filled Democrat leaders packing - save your party. Bring sanity and lucid thought back to your party.
Throw out hate - it makes you ugly and lose elections.
you wanna know the scary part of the rest of that song?
it includes the word "God".
EEEEK!
Mac OS X is a rock solid server for the non-geeks.
Mac OS X is the best os for a small business server because after a 30 minute tutorial, a small business person, who is non technical, could handle doing many basic tasks like adding/removing users, adding additional storage space, replacing failed hard drives (with XServes).
Linux is probably faster and cheaper for setup, but would in most small business cases befuddle and scare the shit out of the average small office/buisness, while OS X, while more expensive up front, could be set up "By My Mom", and for most simple operations, run by her as well.
don't forget
"Christian" and "right wing child-eating extremeists"
its become a rather alien concept because us in the U.S. have had it beaten over our heads that thinking America is a good country is a bad way to think. We've been taught that we suck, and that if we want to be good people, we should hate ourselves and be like the Euros.
honestly, i don't seem to understand why, but whatever.
if they removed any of the copyright information from the souce code files, and if they don't release the source code or make it available to the public, then they are in violation of the GPL.
.... THE GPL USES COPYRIGHT, IT DOES NOT IGNORE COPYRIGHT.
you're incorrect about naming provisions... GPL is a license, and to use copyrighted GPL code, you need to attribute the copyright holder. You may distribute/use/modify, etc... however, the original code must still be attributed to the copyright holder.
Once again -
i was a system engineer for a very large military contractor/airplane maker - and i insist on at least two monitors, even if that means buying the parts myself... which i had to.
in any case - when doing documentation review, action item lists, and various document comparison tasks - the bulk of systems engineering for a big contractor - having two monitors should be a requirement. otherwise, one needs to keep switching between two documents, and you can never actually look at both at the same time.. so missing things is quite easy.
most people in my office would print documents so that they could work on the other document that they were doing the comparison work to...
before i left - 4 people had badgered the IT geeks to give them dual monitor setups, and from what i hear, its up to 7 now - because for the MS Office drones, dual monitors is the greatest thing on the planet.
The worst part is that the IT geeks - who could also have benefited from dual monitors by setting up status screens 100% of the time on one monitor, and their daily tasks like email on the other - would bitch like John Stweart on Crossfire about how it was a waste and an over the top luxury...
but they never concidered how much time and paper it saved me... and if everyone had one, how the paper would go down tremendously.
oh well, most major corp IT drones are asshole MSCE singles with bad skin and worse interpersonal skillz anyhow.
well, if we can't do that, at least if we can get Kerry into office, then we'll have outsourced the US government to the UN.
The developer's release at that time was the version Jobs used on stage. I know this because my best friend's email address is ______@apple.com, and works on a fundamental portion of Mac OS X.
I used the same DP version a few days later (the one that was given out to the developers) - and on 80 gigs of data (videos, files, documents, etc) - it worked exactly as steve showed.
i don't know whether to laugh or be scared of someone that has opinions on software that one has not used personally.
maybe if we didn't let people from terrorist states come to and live in the US, maybe they'd have a hell of a lot harder time bombing the US.
then all we'd have to worry about were the Timothy McVeighs... who have done far far less damage than people from terrorist states...
fix the hole in the boat, then fix up the tiny leaks... prioritization can fix terrorism.
we just all have to get over the whole "racism" bullshit.
Yeah.
the first car crash really did in the car industry.
the first bus crash ended children's transportation to school.
the only way you could be right is for space travel to remain in the confines of government only trip[s
why blow up what you can hack?
The courts say that you are not buying the software - but only a license to the software.
great - then according to that logic, there is no inherent value in the Final Cut Pro HD box at Frys so far as the installation CD is concerned....
so as long as you tear open the box, remove the DVD, and leave the license agreement (all Apple software has full paper versions of the license agreement in each box of software) according to the court, you haven't actually stolen anything.
they clearly state that the CD has no value, there is only value in the license agreement. So, don't take the license agreement. You should be in no deeper poop legally than if you downloaded it off kazza - because you didn't take anything of value.
If you take that CD and put it on your wall or use it as a coaster, and never stick it in your computer - then would you technically be in any legal trouble at all? I can't see how.
I want to listen to Jim Rome.
I want to listen to John and Ken in Los Angeles.
I can do that with this, because otherwise, i cannot listen to the radio while at work.
there are tons of people - esp. TiVo owners - that often move their hand toward the radio knob in their car wanting to jump back and hear what was said... but then realize that they can't.
Now, if the radio shark makes the "ga-bluck, ga-bluck" TiVo button sound - i'll pay even more for it.
in light of IBM's use of the GPL to shutdown a major copyright infringer, SCO...
and in light that this author decided to publish an outdated article - he continues to talk about how IBM is being sued for copyright infringement, while the hunter is now the hunted in the SCO vs IBM case with IBM arguing (very well) for partial summary judgement that IBM is 100% in the clear on Linux while its SCO who is now clearly in violation of copyright law...
but mostly because his very first premise is utterly false - "How does software owned by everyone and by no one survive in a world where copyrights and patents shape the legal landscape?"..
this article is lame...
Dear Mr. Wildstrom.
The GPL has NOTHING to do with your precious IP or ownership of software. The GPL is ONLY about two simple things - distribution and use. Just like EVERY SINGLE OTHER software license.
It is obvious you do not understand this. I suggest you read the two latest court documents from IBM, who are doing two things you claim the GPL does not allow...
1. claiming ownership of their GPL licensed software and
2. are asking the courts to prevent a copyright infringer from reditributing their software without their permission.
The easiest way to understand how the GPL works and why it works is to read those court documents - because its heart is exactly what the GPL is about - controlled distribution of owned software by the copyright holder.
As my history teacher was fond of saying to the kids that wrote their papers the night before as they watched The A-Team - "please grasp the concept, then rewrite your paper".
Because of security reasons, there are plently of us that will NEVER be on the internet - ever.
There are plenty of us out here that must work in a realm where anonymity and the ability to purchase items with 100% zero strings attached is a first order requirement.
We pay for cash for all hardware and software, and we CAN NOT EVER "register" software because if we did, we'd go to jail. We can get updates from the internet, but its a 1-way street via sneakernet and a lot of shredded CD-Rs.
If/when Microsoft requires access and knowledge and subscriptions to software is the day we'll all switch to Linux and OpenOffice.
What kills me is, like always, instead of looking ahead proactively and seeing the path ahead, they will probably be forced to make a radical change at the end, and we'll be running on Windows 2000 until 2010. (NSA has NOT approved XP for desktop use, even though its being installed all over the place).