Columbus' map was horribly inaccurate. It gave the circumference of the earth as 15k miles. That's why he thought it was feasible to cross the Atlantic/Pacific to the east indies - he thought it was only 3k miles.
On a planet with only solar tides, the intertidal region where all the interesting sea-land evolution is happening is much smaller. I don't think it's necessarily *too* small, but it might take longer.
This really isn't true. I frequently see (in meta-mod) posts like "W2K is stable, I run it at work with these applications" modded up, whereas posts like "W2K is stable, Linux sucks ass" and "Linux r00lz, W2K sucks ass" are modded down.
When karma whoring becomes big business, the Karma Johns will have to be more selective.
Something feels wrong here. I know it costs a lot of money to run/.. I know we don't have a right to the forum that Taco et al are providing for us. We post our thoughts here freely, and get back more ideas than we give, also for free. And if ads, subscriptions or whatever are needed to cover the costs, so be it.
I think three main things are behind my unease. One is that my cheese is being moved. Secondly, VA/OSDN are for-profit. If subscriptions are successful, and they get more than they need, will the subscriptions be extended? Or will Taco, Hemos, ESR & Larry Augustin pocket the money? Thirdly, the posters are being asked to pay more than the lurkers. Hello? The people that make the site what it is have to pay more than those who merely use it? That seems wrong. If I could trade in 25 of my 50 karma for a hundred page views I think I would. Then I could keep posting witty and insightful comments, and/. would remain a great site.
Ricochet and Iridium spent lots of money on their communications infrastructure. They never made a profit. Lots of.bombs spent a lot of money. Where's the law that guarantees them a profit? I'm not saying it's OK to copy the games - it's not - but having sold me the game, Blizzard have no right to tell me what to do with it.
Unless you live in Maryland or $OTHER_UCITA_STATE, EULAs are not binding. That's why I don't read them.
When Microsoft set their minds to something, they do it well. Monopolising the computer desktop - check. Defend that monopoly by buying or eliminating any companies with disruptive technologies - check. Buying off the DoJ - check.
ObSlashdot: Too bad writing a desktop OS was never on that list.
The senior Justice official declined to say whether the government believes Microsoft was obligated to disclose its congressional discussions. "It's their obligation, not ours," the official said.
So the DoJ has no interest in enforcing the law? I love this country.
I don't read EULAs. If you sell me software, I will use it as I see fit, within the constraints of copyright law.
Blizzard apparently is selling the razors and giving away the blades. This reversal of the traditional business model is interesting, but just because they have spent a lot of money doing it does not give them a legal right to a profit.
Blizzard spent the money to develop a product with a reasonable expectation of security, they provide the servers and bandwith for the BattleNet system and they have an expectation that people using this system will have paid for the software. To attempt to prevent piracy (albeit not very succesfully if Diablo and Starcraft are any example) they use a CD key system.
You have it backwards. bnetd does not allow you to use battle.net servers with a cracked copy. bnetd allows you to use software that you bought without going through battle.net. It also allows you to use software that you didn't buy, but there's a substantial non-infringing use.
I may be misremembering, but I thought what led to rebel.coms demise was paying a ludicrous figure for a domain name, and being run by idiots that didn't realize that that was a bad idea.
*Only* C# can access the whole feature set of the CLR. Other languages get close to varying degrees. So the C# developer reigns supreme in the.NET universe.
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The code can only tell you what the original programmer was trying to do. A good comment can tell you why.
Most comments are not good, but neither is most code.
Columbus' map was horribly inaccurate. It gave the circumference of the earth as 15k miles. That's why he thought it was feasible to cross the Atlantic/Pacific to the east indies - he thought it was only 3k miles.
Ghanaians
GahNayAns
I never learned to spell phonetically. Sorry.
If I burned my personal data onto a CD and sold it to you for $20, I would probably have a hard time complaining if you decided to read it.
As the poster above says, published vs. unpublished.
I believe he's talking about tides.
On a planet with only solar tides, the intertidal region where all the interesting sea-land evolution is happening is much smaller. I don't think it's necessarily *too* small, but it might take longer.
Quite possibly blackholed, too.
And many, many more of us develop in-house software that is never distributed at all.
What we have done with PCs so far is not natural
Microsoft exec admits to unnatural act with computer. Police hold goatse guy for questioning.
For a Java programmer, your sig:
/.
for i = 1 to 22:print chr$((asc(right$(left$("jkhunlqCxnvkhoov1fr1xn", i), 1))) - 3);:next
looks extremely basic-ish. I for one would not have had the nerve to post this to the computer-language Middle East that is
Of course they should reap the fruits of their labours. I just have misgivings about them reaping the fruits of my labours too.
Gives a new meaning to "Here's my two cents"
Yes. It was in the 3-digit range, and had over 100 karma points.
This really isn't true. I frequently see (in meta-mod) posts like "W2K is stable, I run it at work with these applications" modded up, whereas posts like "W2K is stable, Linux sucks ass" and "Linux r00lz, W2K sucks ass" are modded down.
When karma whoring becomes big business, the Karma Johns will have to be more selective.
Droit de segnieur?
User #1 goes first either way.
"Comments are owned by the Poster."
/. worth reading.
/.. I know we don't have a right to the forum that Taco et al are providing for us. We post our thoughts here freely, and get back more ideas than we give, also for free. And if ads, subscriptions or whatever are needed to cover the costs, so be it.
/. would remain a great site.
And the comments are what make
Something feels wrong here. I know it costs a lot of money to run
I think three main things are behind my unease. One is that my cheese is being moved. Secondly, VA/OSDN are for-profit. If subscriptions are successful, and they get more than they need, will the subscriptions be extended? Or will Taco, Hemos, ESR & Larry Augustin pocket the money? Thirdly, the posters are being asked to pay more than the lurkers. Hello? The people that make the site what it is have to pay more than those who merely use it? That seems wrong. If I could trade in 25 of my 50 karma for a hundred page views I think I would. Then I could keep posting witty and insightful comments, and
Ricochet and Iridium spent lots of money on their communications infrastructure. They never made a profit. Lots of .bombs spent a lot of money. Where's the law that guarantees them a profit? I'm not saying it's OK to copy the games - it's not - but having sold me the game, Blizzard have no right to tell me what to do with it.
Unless you live in Maryland or $OTHER_UCITA_STATE, EULAs are not binding. That's why I don't read them.
When Microsoft set their minds to something, they do it well. Monopolising the computer desktop - check. Defend that monopoly by buying or eliminating any companies with disruptive technologies - check. Buying off the DoJ - check.
ObSlashdot:
Too bad writing a desktop OS was never on that list.
Microsoft is using these arguments as stall tactics to:
- Wear the DoJ down
- Waste our tax monies
- Tire the states
- Prevent the release of the windows source code
You forgot:
- Cowboy Neal
The senior Justice official declined to say whether the government believes Microsoft was obligated to disclose its congressional discussions. "It's their obligation, not ours," the official said.
So the DoJ has no interest in enforcing the law? I love this country.
I don't read EULAs. If you sell me software, I will use it as I see fit, within the constraints of copyright law.
Blizzard apparently is selling the razors and giving away the blades. This reversal of the traditional business model is interesting, but just because they have spent a lot of money doing it does not give them a legal right to a profit.
Blizzard spent the money to develop a product with a reasonable expectation of security, they provide the servers and bandwith for the BattleNet system and they have an expectation that people using this system will have paid for the software. To attempt to prevent piracy (albeit not very succesfully if Diablo and Starcraft are any example) they use a CD key system.
You have it backwards. bnetd does not allow you to use battle.net servers with a cracked copy. bnetd allows you to use software that you bought without going through battle.net. It also allows you to use software that you didn't buy, but there's a substantial non-infringing use.
I invoke Godwins Law.
Slashdot is now dead.
I would guess at Western(?) Square/Social(?) Dance. But that wouldn't explain why the young women in your group like techno.
Hmm. Group of young women who like techno. Can I join? Good job my wife doesn't read Slashdot.
I may be misremembering, but I thought what led to rebel.coms demise was paying a ludicrous figure for a domain name, and being run by idiots that didn't realize that that was a bad idea.
*Only* C# can access the whole feature set of the CLR. Other languages get close to varying degrees. So the C# developer reigns supreme in the .NET universe.