I was once introducing myself and then somebody started talking over me and said "I'm not interested in donating any money." Before I could tell her I'm only doing polling--which, sincerely, I am--she'd hung up on me. Who's the asshole, here? The asshole who is asking Americans about their political beliefs or the asshole who's hanging up on somebody without letting the other person finish?
The assholes are the other telemarketing companies, who put their employees under intense pressure to get the pitch out no matter what. I know I have been totally desensitized to marketing calls, that I say my good byes, and not interested, and immediately hang up the call without waiting for any response the the other end.. 9 times out of 10 I'm hanging up on someone who is not interested on disconnecting the call, and tries to keep going. To those 1 our of 10 that are polite enough to acknowledge that I don't care, I apologize, but the rest of the industry is bringing you down.
Behold the OEM license, and Anti-Unbundling clauses. The software is tied to the hardware, and the license sticker is even on the unit (just the case).
It's annoying -- but intentional -- to prevent exactly what you describe.
countless linux distro's each seem to have their own ideologies (see Suse/RedHat/Gentoo/etc, packaging)
These Windows 'distributions' are the same ideology, but just w/ features added or removed, to force users to choose and pay for the features they think are important to them.
Having never written/read Mumps, I'm just defending my favorite language:)
Written out, that line of code makes much more sense. (But is still a bit weird to see) -- You seem to know the language, how is a function like that usually written?
xecute looks quite handy, looks like it's like an eval from other language (perl/javascript/scheme).
What I haven't been able to understand is why can't/doesn't the FCC force the local monopolies to split into a service company, and a physical maintence company?
The only part that the natural monopoly exists is really on the physical properties. Then the services compete on services, while everyone just pays the physical wires company fees for upkeep and expansion?
This seems to makes much more sense, since these network seems to moving more towards packet-switched technologies rather than circut based technologies.
the Boston Museum of Science has a IMAX theatre that projects on huge semi-spherical screen that pretty much covers your entire field of view. (ie, you have to turn your head to see the entire screen)
The samples are AIF format inside the archive (inside a DMG file).
Audacity is a fantastic quick-and-dirty multitrack editor, but you'd have to reassemble the samples, I don't think there's a converter. It's a wxWindows app, so it's gui is the same across unix/x11, mac & windows.
Ardour for linux is more pro-strength, but the same problem exists -- you'd have to convert the tracking by hand.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. [... ]
There is nothing new about this. We've been (unfortunatly) using 3rd party document encryptor to protect some of our client's documents. Users require a plugin installed, but the document is actually encrypted, no javascript involved.
The document can be configured to ping the server every time any action on the document is performed. (Printing, opening, etc). The server can decide to deny any action too.
It does support a one-time-online-to-authorize mode (much like Windows Actvation), but that's about it.
Your correct, but you have to remember which freedoms the zealots are fighting for. They're fighting for the right to modify, improve and redistribute software.
Unfortunatly, most of the general public has no use for these freedoms, since they're not software developers.
Software like realplayer can legally be distributed for free because Real, Inc. has done the legal footwork to license other codecs. This makes Helix player "the best choice" by default since no open source alternative can legally exist. (thanks to patents and what not)
According to the HTML4 ref @ w3, putting a table inside of an anchor-tag is illegal. Only inline tags may reside there, and a table is a block-level tag.
Since ths means the browser's behavior is undefined, I hope they come up w/ a better fix...
I haven't tried tic98 (mentioned lower in this thread) but I can vouch for DjVu. I routinely scan notices, bills and whatnot mailed to me, then destroy them (rather than maintain a large paper file)
300DPI Black & White scans take about 19kb. They are quite readable, and with 300DPI information, make pretty good printouts.
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The assholes are the other telemarketing companies, who put their employees under intense pressure to get the pitch out no matter what. I know I have been totally desensitized to marketing calls, that I say my good byes, and not interested, and immediately hang up the call without waiting for any response the the other end.. 9 times out of 10 I'm hanging up on someone who is not interested on disconnecting the call, and tries to keep going. To those 1 our of 10 that are polite enough to acknowledge that I don't care, I apologize, but the rest of the industry is bringing you down.
You install a piece of softare on to your daughter's computer w/o a 2nd license. Is this infringment or fair use? It's not publically distributed.
A copy by any other name is still a copy, and governed by copyright law, and you can only do what the copyright holder's permit you to do.
A web site owner would have a difficult time serving content if he forbid any caching whatsoever. (not just Expires headers,etc.)
Well, Now we don't have to worry about jwz porting xscreensaver to windows!!!
xscreensaver
win-xmatrix, here I come!
/didn't rtfa
//don't run windows
///oops, wrong site.
You forgot:
..."
"Team racketeer blasting off again
Not Allowed.
Behold the OEM license, and Anti-Unbundling clauses. The software is tied to the hardware, and the license sticker is even on the unit (just the case).
It's annoying -- but intentional -- to prevent exactly what you describe.
...And also important (and why i stick w/ ext2/3): Tools for the inevitable do-it-yourself "oh sh_t" recoveries.
countless linux distro's each seem to have their own ideologies (see Suse/RedHat/Gentoo/etc, packaging)
These Windows 'distributions' are the same ideology, but just w/ features added or removed, to force users to choose and pay for the features they think are important to them.
I wish they'd use BNF in my HS english class.
Grammar for CS Geeks -- I love it already.
For a company that makes a web product, they have a pretty scarce web presence:
...
www.epicrealm.com == 'under construction'
www.infospinner.com == non existant
the only thing Googling for either name turns up press releases
Having never written/read Mumps, I'm just defending my favorite language :)
Written out, that line of code makes much more sense. (But is still a bit weird to see) -- You seem to know the language, how is a function like that usually written?
xecute looks quite handy, looks like it's like an eval from other language (perl/javascript/scheme).
Mumps code:
.signature; it prints a table of primes,e chnology_and_MUMPS_Language_FAQ,_Part_1_2
f p=2,3:2 s q=1 x "f f=3:2 q:f*f>p!'q s q=p#f" w:q p,?$x\8+1*8
[part of Keith Lynch's
including code to format it neatly into columns--DPBS]
(from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.lang.mumps/M_T
)
line noise?
Perl's got nothing on mumps.
What I haven't been able to understand is why can't/doesn't the FCC force the local monopolies to split into a service company, and a physical maintence company?
The only part that the natural monopoly exists is really on the physical properties. Then the services compete on services, while everyone just pays the physical wires company fees for upkeep and expansion?
This seems to makes much more sense, since these network seems to moving more towards packet-switched technologies rather than circut based technologies.
So, why not?
the Boston Museum of Science has a IMAX theatre that projects on huge semi-spherical screen that pretty much covers your entire field of view. (ie, you have to turn your head to see the entire screen)
http://www.mos.org/doc/1001
When they do that car drive through scene, Everyone instincitvly braces themself since it looks like your about to hit another car @ 75 mph!
The samples are AIF format inside the archive (inside a DMG file).
Audacity is a fantastic quick-and-dirty multitrack editor, but you'd have to reassemble the samples, I don't think there's a converter. It's a wxWindows app, so it's gui is the same across unix/x11, mac & windows.
Ardour for linux is more pro-strength, but the same problem exists -- you'd have to convert the tracking by hand.
No, through the same mechanism the GPL works:
If Aussie tv is anything like American tv, you must remember one important thing.
You are not the customer.
The advertisers are.
It suddenly becomes apparent that they *are* doing what the customers want: namely, full control of the distribution channel.
There is nothing new about this. We've been (unfortunatly) using 3rd party document encryptor to protect some of our client's documents. Users require a plugin installed, but the document is actually encrypted, no javascript involved.
The document can be configured to ping the server every time any action on the document is performed. (Printing, opening, etc). The server can decide to deny any action too.
It does support a one-time-online-to-authorize mode (much like Windows Actvation), but that's about it.
Your correct, but you have to remember which freedoms the zealots are fighting for. They're fighting for the right to modify, improve and redistribute software.
Unfortunatly, most of the general public has no use for these freedoms, since they're not software developers.
Software like realplayer can legally be distributed for free because Real, Inc. has done the legal footwork to license other codecs. This makes Helix player "the best choice" by default since no open source alternative can legally exist. (thanks to patents and what not)
see xorp's website
It's BSD Licensed, so Yes, MS could take and use it, much like their TCP/IP stack.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#ede f-A
...
According to the HTML4 ref @ w3, putting a table inside of an anchor-tag is illegal. Only inline tags may reside there, and a table is a block-level tag.
Since ths means the browser's behavior is undefined, I hope they come up w/ a better fix
Try Mac On Linux (Like vmware for PPC, PPCLinux only obviously)
Or try Sheep Shaver, a portable PPC emulator, although they admit to not being able to run OS X yet. (And you still need a PPC ROM image)
Yes, it'll change to 403 Service Unavailable.
at work, I vim trick, but w/ a file named 'stack'.
;)
As more stuff needs to be done, the file grows downards. As I finish stuff, i delete the lines, till i'm back to my original task at hand.
works great for me
I haven't tried tic98 (mentioned lower in this thread) but I can vouch for DjVu. I routinely scan notices, bills and whatnot mailed to me, then destroy them (rather than maintain a large paper file)
300DPI Black & White scans take about 19kb. They are quite readable, and with 300DPI information, make pretty good printouts.