The first two refer to the cost of acquiring a copy as opposed to pirating one.
All three of them refer to "pirating", i.e. "copying illegally", i.e. "going beyond what is allowed by the union of copyright law and whatever license is applicable".
Did you think the value of the leaked Windows source code is the price tag of one retail copy? Because that's what you just suggested.
No. I carefully said "price", not "value".
Forget the GPL example. The price tag of Sun Java is also $0.00, but you are required to download it yourself (or something like that). With such a license, people will still copy illegally since it is more convenient to borrow a CD than it is to download Java through a 28k modem.
but what is the difference between Community and Official?
The Official version is basically the Community version plus a few months worth of updates. Thus, the Official version should have the major errors removed and be Very Stable.
Plus, the Official version is what you get if you want a boxed version.
If I didn't spend 10 minutes an hour meandering arround the office I would probably go insane.
I am not sure why this is funny. It really is a good idea with typing breaks, and of course you can do other work while not typing.
The tool Xwrits may be of use for people interested in this item but not prepared for the entire GNOME upgrade shebang. It must be cool, JWZ uses it (and so do I).
Marketing folks must hate putting "Ogg Vorbis" on things.
Do we need this one every time?
Names do not matter. If they did, MP3 and MS-DOS would hardly have caught on. At least you can sort-of pronounce Ogg Vorbis, rather than having to spell it.
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[...] if you convert BILL GATES III into ASCII and add the values you get 666. WINDOWS95 is also 666.
Not really. "BILL GATES III" sums to 946. You have to leave out the spaces and then count "III" as the ASCII value 3 to get 666.
"WINDOWS95" sums to 665. Closer, but still no cigar.
However, "MS-DOS 6.21" does sum to 666.
I've always wanted to build a dead-man-switch email system.
I always thought that people just wanted their porn to disappear when they do.
[...] am dying to hear more about the technology/mathematics behind it! Can you say Nobel Prize nomination?
There is no Noble Prize for mathematics.
At my university you can get pretty much any Microsoft product for free.
Only if your time has no value.
The first two refer to the cost of acquiring a copy as opposed to pirating one.
All three of them refer to "pirating", i.e. "copying illegally", i.e. "going beyond what is allowed by the union of copyright law and whatever license is applicable".
Did you think the value of the leaked Windows source code is the price tag of one retail copy? Because that's what you just suggested.
No. I carefully said "price", not "value".
Forget the GPL example. The price tag of Sun Java is also $0.00, but you are required to download it yourself (or something like that). With such a license, people will still copy illegally since it is more convenient to borrow a CD than it is to download Java through a 28k modem.
>> As long as it costs $40 for a game or $100 for software there will always be people pirating.
> People will even pirate data worth 99 cents...
Furthermore, people will pirate if it is priced at $0.00, see for example some GPL violations.
(Testing the maximum nesting depth of the "+5 Insightful for naming any price" phenomenon)
but what is the difference between Community and Official?
The Official version is basically the Community version plus a few months worth of updates. Thus, the Official version should have the major errors removed and be Very Stable.
Plus, the Official version is what you get if you want a boxed version.
At least my daughter was easier to set up.
Yeah, the initial set up is quite easy (especially if you are not the female). But just wait for your daughter to become a teenager.
Using your reasoning, your post to slashdot just cost you $6.
I can see why he did not have time to read the article.
He actually denies ever saying that.
Does that make it "Fear, Uncertainty, and Denial?"
"I have never had a customer mention Linux to me" (Bill Gates)
To be fair, at that time it may have been correct. Just as 640KB used to be enough for everyone.
Kind of like how doing "linux init=/bin/bash" at the LILO prompt gives you instant root access?
There are options to turn that off, like password.
The weak point is the BIOS password, since you can then use a boot floppy (for any OS).
Can you provide a link to this?
Here it is
Even if I've messed up the configuration, please do not try to download the RPMs. PLEASE
This must be the worst mirror service I have ever seen.
I did not get further than "Standard Brewing" before I thought of RFC 2324, namely the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.
> Ogg Vorbis? Real /. readers only encode in FLAC..
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> Phataudio.org MP3 Device News
There is something funny about your signature.
Well everyone knows that two wrongs don't make a right, [...]
... but two Wrights make an aeroplane.
If I didn't spend 10 minutes an hour meandering arround the office I would probably go insane.
I am not sure why this is funny. It really is a good idea with typing breaks, and of course you can do other work while not typing.
The tool Xwrits may be of use for people interested in this item but not prepared for the entire GNOME upgrade shebang. It must be cool, JWZ uses it (and so do I).
They're plastic fish! This is nothing new, you can buy these cases off the shelf.
The article is in fact a review, not a show-off.
Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek?
It says that it is a Lian Li PC-6010W which apparently by default includes the aquarium option.
Marketing folks must hate putting "Ogg Vorbis" on things.
Do we need this one every time?
Names do not matter. If they did, MP3 and MS-DOS would hardly have caught on. At least you can sort-of pronounce Ogg Vorbis, rather than having to spell it.
Who am I? A user of desktop tools, email, office the internet. A typical office worker who gets techies to help out whenever anything goes wrong.
Typical office workers do not read Slashdot.
I foresee BitTorrent as being the next Slashdot craze. (See: Beowulf, Natalie Portman. . .)
They could say "We demand your firstborn.", and you'd have to sign cheerfully or you're screwed.
Well, you would also have to get screwed to provide the firstborn, so I guess you are screwed either way.
Java applications = Java applets + Java applications
So, Java applets = 0. Seems just about right.
(yeah, I saw your followup)