Spam is unsolicited *commercial* email, as in, I'm trying to sell you something to make a profit. What this guy was doing was not commercial in the least and therefore it is not spam.
The point is, if you have a server on a public network accepting connections from the public at large then you have authorized the public at large to connect to it. Just like a webserver, if you want to block certain IP's go ahead, if you want to filter on subject, be my guest. If this guys actions are found to be illegal or damaging in any way than ANYONE can be found the same way just because someone says "no, you're not allowed to access my server" after the fact!
These should be dealt with technically, not litigously.
The DVD itself isn't $15, that's just the SHIPPING cost. The DVD is $25, of which I would gladly pay, but I will not pay 60% of that cost in shipping fees!
If he wants to get paid, he should have more than one retailer for it, one that perhaps doesn't charge 60% of the cost of the actual product just to ship it across one land shared border (of which it really only costs about $5 to do).
Only a fool would like MS-Vanilla over GNU/Butterscotch when there are so many reasons to eat butterscotch! It has enhanced flavor functionality as well as color functionality which distance itself so far from vanilla it's not funny. It's like comparing apples to oranges!
It doesn't give you the option, this would have been really cool with Mechassault but everyone hears everything in Mechassault. Perhaps games in the future will allow it.
Not necessarily. There is nowhere in the GPL that forces you to give away your source to the world - it only forces you to distribute (or make easily available) the source to those that you are selling/giving the binaries.
Quoth the GPL section 3b (emphasis mine):
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
If Boeing distributes GPL'd code to the US Army it also must give any third party the source if they ask for it.
I own an iPaq H3870 and I have used many palms. The ipaq is great for what I use it for: mp3/ogg listening, book reading (for which I use the Palm Reader even because the MS Reader is crap!), game playing, bluetooth to the internet. Re: laptop replacement.
As for information management it's not as good as a Palm PDA - plain and simple. Activesync is horrible, you DO have to reset it constantly, you DO have to recharge it *every day*, it's bigger than the biggest Palm handheld, the PPC OS gets in the way a lot, etc.
Like I said, you and I would rather laptop replacements, but WE ARE NOT PALMS TARGET MARKET. Just because you don't use something does not make it a sinking ship.
The last straw for me was when Palm pretended they hadn't heard of the problem my IIIc had
This actually is not a known issue with the IIIc, just because some random people that you personally know have it doesn't make it widespread enough for palm to have known about it.
-- iCEBaLM
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Slashdot readers like myself may not like Palm PDA's because they don't cram a whole lot of whiz-bang features into the PDA's, they aren't laptop replacements in your hand, but that's NOT what Palm is gunning for. They're electronic organizers made for business professionals, and at this they excel. They are better at this job than PocketPCs. They are simple, elegant and trustworthy. You normally do not have to reset a Palm handheld 5 times a day like you do with a PocketPC unless something is horribly wrong with it or an application you have on it was coded by a 3 year old monkey.
Palm is not a sinking ship, they just don't target you as a user.
You're completely braindamaged. Nevermind the convenience of netfile ALONE to get a speedier return but archiving digitally on CD-RW or instead of wasting space in a shoebox for everything. It took me all of 10 minutes to do my taxes last year and I got a sizable refund. How long did it take you with all your doing it by hand and reading about the millions of tax changes since last year?
Spare me the luddite crap and go take your rabbies shot will you?
yeah, we don't need toasters to make toast either, just use a bent coathanger on a stove burner, or hell, an open fire cause we really don't need stoves. We don't need mice either, use your cursor keys on your keyboard or hell, we don't need computers, can't you do the math in your head to play quake3 in your mind?
We don't need linux, windows is good enough, right? I mean all that hassel that you put up with just installing it...
Tax software is good, crappy DRM which breaks my dual boot is bad.
Damnit, I was trying to decide between TurboTax and QuickTax and I got TurboTax because it was cheaper and seemed to do more. Now I KNOW it does more but I don't want to use it now! WTF as we as consumers supposed to do about this crap? DRM submarined in software that you don't know about until after you bought it?
Via CTCP over the IRC network, one line of text saying "I have a file to send you, this is my IP and this is the port to connect to."
Your analogy is flawed, it's more like using the telephone to arrange a meeting. You don't actually send the product throught the phone lines and if the phone lines wern't there you still have other means of negotiating meetings. The point is you're not using the servers bandwidth to send a file and therefore opers don't have a moral, ethical or, IMO a technical right to tell you not to transfer files if they're going to allow you to chat on their network as technically it's all the bloody same.
Considering that the DCC file transfer protocol by definition bypasses the IRC server entirely for the actual act of sending the file (Direct Client Connection) I'd say: since it began.
That's not the issue, the issue is that JEDEC addopted the technology as standard and RAMBUS went behind everyone else's backs and patented it. Quoth the article:
Infineon, of Germany, and some other technology companies have accused Rambus of tricking computer-chip makers into adopting technologies for which it held or was seeking patents for chips in a wide range of electronic gear.
Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission leveled similar accusations in a lawsuit filed last year.
This is not a simple case of patent infringement that you seem to think it is.
Yeah, absolutely, because you know it's true when it comes from a dog groomers website. Or when you see the remains from a squished alien who fell out of his spacecraft and landed on a concrete sidewalk of NYC on stileproject.com.
I mean really, who else would have evidence of UFO's but the UFO centric people who have been researching them. Just because they're looking for it doesn't mean it isn't there.
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And they will happily charge you $5 per minute for that access.
Something tells me 802.11b is a little cheaper.
-- iCEBaLM
Spam is unsolicited *commercial* email, as in, I'm trying to sell you something to make a profit. What this guy was doing was not commercial in the least and therefore it is not spam.
The point is, if you have a server on a public network accepting connections from the public at large then you have authorized the public at large to connect to it. Just like a webserver, if you want to block certain IP's go ahead, if you want to filter on subject, be my guest. If this guys actions are found to be illegal or damaging in any way than ANYONE can be found the same way just because someone says "no, you're not allowed to access my server" after the fact!
These should be dealt with technically, not litigously.
-- iCEBaLM
The DVD itself isn't $15, that's just the SHIPPING cost. The DVD is $25, of which I would gladly pay, but I will not pay 60% of that cost in shipping fees!
If he wants to get paid, he should have more than one retailer for it, one that perhaps doesn't charge 60% of the cost of the actual product just to ship it across one land shared border (of which it really only costs about $5 to do).
-- iCEBaLM
Someone wanna put this on one of the P2P networks? $15 for a DVD case to ship to CANADA is ludicrous.
-- iCEBaLM
Geez, wouldn't it be funny if it got delayed a day, or maybe 9.1 comes out the day after. :)
-- iCEBaLM
Only a fool would like MS-Vanilla over GNU/Butterscotch when there are so many reasons to eat butterscotch! It has enhanced flavor functionality as well as color functionality which distance itself so far from vanilla it's not funny. It's like comparing apples to oranges!
-- iCEBaLM
It doesn't give you the option, this would have been really cool with Mechassault but everyone hears everything in Mechassault. Perhaps games in the future will allow it.
-- iCEBaLM
My APC UPS has coax/RJ-11 connections for surge suppression - and if it happens I'm covered by APC for something like $50k :)
-- iCEBaLM
Not necessarily. There is nowhere in the GPL that forces you to give away your source to the world - it only forces you to distribute (or make easily available) the source to those that you are selling/giving the binaries.
Quoth the GPL section 3b (emphasis mine):
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
If Boeing distributes GPL'd code to the US Army it also must give any third party the source if they ask for it.
-- iCEBaLM
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I own an iPaq H3870 and I have used many palms. The ipaq is great for what I use it for: mp3/ogg listening, book reading (for which I use the Palm Reader even because the MS Reader is crap!), game playing, bluetooth to the internet. Re: laptop replacement.
As for information management it's not as good as a Palm PDA - plain and simple. Activesync is horrible, you DO have to reset it constantly, you DO have to recharge it *every day*, it's bigger than the biggest Palm handheld, the PPC OS gets in the way a lot, etc.
Like I said, you and I would rather laptop replacements, but WE ARE NOT PALMS TARGET MARKET. Just because you don't use something does not make it a sinking ship.
-- iCEBaLM
That's not what I said now, was it? Reread my statement.
-- iCEBaLM
The last straw for me was when Palm pretended they hadn't heard of the problem my IIIc had
This actually is not a known issue with the IIIc, just because some random people that you personally know have it doesn't make it widespread enough for palm to have known about it.
-- iCEBaLM
Slashdot readers like myself may not like Palm PDA's because they don't cram a whole lot of whiz-bang features into the PDA's, they aren't laptop replacements in your hand, but that's NOT what Palm is gunning for. They're electronic organizers made for business professionals, and at this they excel. They are better at this job than PocketPCs. They are simple, elegant and trustworthy. You normally do not have to reset a Palm handheld 5 times a day like you do with a PocketPC unless something is horribly wrong with it or an application you have on it was coded by a 3 year old monkey.
Palm is not a sinking ship, they just don't target you as a user.
-- iCEBaLM
You're completely braindamaged. Nevermind the convenience of netfile ALONE to get a speedier return but archiving digitally on CD-RW or instead of wasting space in a shoebox for everything. It took me all of 10 minutes to do my taxes last year and I got a sizable refund. How long did it take you with all your doing it by hand and reading about the millions of tax changes since last year?
Spare me the luddite crap and go take your rabbies shot will you?
-- iCEBaLM
I think you need to get a rabbies shot or something dude, you sound completely off your rocker.
-- iCEBaLM
yeah, we don't need toasters to make toast either, just use a bent coathanger on a stove burner, or hell, an open fire cause we really don't need stoves. We don't need mice either, use your cursor keys on your keyboard or hell, we don't need computers, can't you do the math in your head to play quake3 in your mind?
We don't need linux, windows is good enough, right? I mean all that hassel that you put up with just installing it...
Tax software is good, crappy DRM which breaks my dual boot is bad.
-- iCEBaLM
Damnit, I was trying to decide between TurboTax and QuickTax and I got TurboTax because it was cheaper and seemed to do more. Now I KNOW it does more but I don't want to use it now! WTF as we as consumers supposed to do about this crap? DRM submarined in software that you don't know about until after you bought it?
-- iCEBaLM
How do you think a DCC connection is negotiated?
Via CTCP over the IRC network, one line of text saying "I have a file to send you, this is my IP and this is the port to connect to."
Your analogy is flawed, it's more like using the telephone to arrange a meeting. You don't actually send the product throught the phone lines and if the phone lines wern't there you still have other means of negotiating meetings. The point is you're not using the servers bandwidth to send a file and therefore opers don't have a moral, ethical or, IMO a technical right to tell you not to transfer files if they're going to allow you to chat on their network as technically it's all the bloody same.
And FYI: I do not troll.
-- iCEBaLM
Considering that the DCC file transfer protocol by definition bypasses the IRC server entirely for the actual act of sending the file (Direct Client Connection) I'd say: since it began.
-- iCEBaLM
That's not the issue, the issue is that JEDEC addopted the technology as standard and RAMBUS went behind everyone else's backs and patented it. Quoth the article:
Infineon, of Germany, and some other technology companies have accused Rambus of tricking computer-chip makers into adopting technologies for which it held or was seeking patents for chips in a wide range of electronic gear.
Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission leveled similar accusations in a lawsuit filed last year.
This is not a simple case of patent infringement that you seem to think it is.
-- iCEBaLM
The Tungsten is nice, but I want full screen!
I don't know what you mean by "full screen". The Tungsten T has a 320x320 screen which is higher res than an ipaq H3xxx 240x320 screen.
-- iCEBaLM
I guess that doesn't qualify you as "people outside the US who cannot use the TiVo service (or actually buy a TiVo)."
-- iCEBaLM
1: That was 12 words.
2: It very well may, we just don't know how to do it *yet*. Welcome to the wonderful world of science.
-- iCEBaLM
Yeah, absolutely, because you know it's true when it comes from a dog groomers website. Or when you see the remains from a squished alien who fell out of his spacecraft and landed on a concrete sidewalk of NYC on stileproject.com.
I mean really, who else would have evidence of UFO's but the UFO centric people who have been researching them. Just because they're looking for it doesn't mean it isn't there.
-- iCEBaLM