The difference, of course, is when you steal a car the manufacturer loses money because they can't sell that car to anyone else, they can't make up that lost money/time they put into creating it. When you steal software you can't afford, it's a digital copy of something and the company doesn't lose anything. You weren't you going buy it in the first place, and they can still turn around a sell a copy to someone else like this never happened.
I do not condone software piracy, but the comparison of software to items in the "physical" world does not make sense.
I'm sure tons of people are wondering what category they fall into in your break down of the readers. Since you apparently have access to the data, would there be a way to give each user a (maybe approximate) count of how many pages they use in a month/week/whatever? Something on users.pl maybe?
I was browsing ChuckJones.com and came across a section entitled, "Letters from the heart." It's a area where you can write in your tributes to Chuck, and tell how his work has touched you.
I think it's all that more important to write now. Here's the link.
Has no one seen The 6th Day!? This is how it all starts. Pretty soon we're going to have cloned Arnold Schwarzenegger's running around. That's something I sure don't want, who needs more bad action movies?
The desktop of display model in the photo has the same background as the computer I'm typing from. It's this kde theme. Just thought I'd share, kinda wierded me out for a sec.
You have gcc 2.96, that's what is installed by default. If you don't even know what you have then where's your reasoning for upgrading to an official gcc release?
Good lord. Did you even look at the, IMHO, clearly labeled "DOCS" directory? Well since everyone seems to need their hand held to read the FAQ page for this project here you go:
Have you read their resoning for not allowing binary distribution? Obviosly not. There are tons of compile-time options that if you take the time to look through can make your experience great. The player gets customized more to your machine through these, for the most part automagically. One of these customizations is centered around what processor you have. They rely on compile-time processor detection to optimize to your computer. A binary built for a K6 will die on a Pentium, or the other way around.
Secondly, there are legal issues with binary distribution. The source of mplayer is legally distributable. But because many of the licenses covering files in the project do not allow binary distribution, it's illegal. Compiling is not hard, and most people who use linux quickly find it easy as a Windows user's step-by-step installs with an InstallShield application. Very little difference.
My downloaded version of Mandrake 8.1 came with 30+ games installed by default. They include minesweeper, about 15 arcade games, KPatience (solitaire), XPat2 (which has 16 card games in it, including Freecell), and a handful of puzzle games. And to clarify, Freecell was not invented by Microsoft, it's been around 20 years.
Games are not the deciding factor in Linux's sucess in the Desktop market. The thing that keeps Linux off most people's desktop is that it's not ready for many of them, and they're scared of it. Regardless of the leaps in terms of usability in the past couple years, Windows is still much easier to use. I love to use Linux and avoid a Windows machine whenever possible, but I don't expect a large % of my friends or my parents to be able to use it at this point.
Slightly off-topic but on a similar note, does anyone have a link or two to someplace I could purchase a laptop with either linux pre-installed or with no OS installed at all? This was an option at Dell at one point, but apparently not anymore.
It's news to those of us who still have a windows 95 box sitting around. It may seem cool to slam slashdot for making fun of windows, however in this case it's clearly not happening
There are also pre-pay phones available that have no monthly charge or contract. You could just buy 30 minutes worth of calling or something. I'm not sure if the minutes expire, so you may have to buy some each month.
Well, we can settle this whole state debate on Sunday when the Packers kick the Cowboys' drug addicted butts back to their ranches. That is, if the Packers can ever stop bickering about who's at fault for this season's poor start. Bah, at least I still have the Badgers to cheer for.
Um, yea. Maybe you should read a little about an OS before you say something. There are already very nice icq clones out for Be. In fact two projects recently merged into one for further advancement. Secondly, winamp quite simply is not that great of an mp3 player. sure it has pretty skins and it can play the files but soundplay for Be is a much nicer player. Go over to BeWare for a lot the nifty software available for Be.
www.lsl.com is running Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) on FreeBSD
Apache is also being used by Javasoft, Financial Times, W3 Consortium, and The Royal Family. FreeBSD users include Hotmail, Yahoo, and The Apache Project.
Mailordercentral.com is just handling their sales and shipping it seems.
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I'm that one cheap individual.
If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year at college.
The difference, of course, is when you steal a car the manufacturer loses money because they can't sell that car to anyone else, they can't make up that lost money/time they put into creating it. When you steal software you can't afford, it's a digital copy of something and the company doesn't lose anything. You weren't you going buy it in the first place, and they can still turn around a sell a copy to someone else like this never happened.
I do not condone software piracy, but the comparison of software to items in the "physical" world does not make sense.
I'm sure tons of people are wondering what category they fall into in your break down of the readers. Since you apparently have access to the data, would there be a way to give each user a (maybe approximate) count of how many pages they use in a month/week/whatever? Something on users.pl maybe?
I think it's all that more important to write now. Here's the link.
some forty jokes about mononucleosis and how it will just make you sick, probably not kill you. Yada, yada, yada.
Has no one seen The 6th Day!? This is how it all starts. Pretty soon we're going to have cloned Arnold Schwarzenegger's running around. That's something I sure don't want, who needs more bad action movies?
The desktop of display model in the photo has the same background as the computer I'm typing from. It's this kde theme. Just thought I'd share, kinda wierded me out for a sec.
The support is there. OpenDivx should be autodetected, and do a ./configure --help to find the flag to enable ogg support.
Whoops, for not upgrading to an official gcc release I mean. I should really use preview more often.
You have gcc 2.96, that's what is installed by default. If you don't even know what you have then where's your reasoning for upgrading to an official gcc release?
Those win32 files can also be found on their dowload page here.
/usr/lib/win32/ (or someplace else if you specify during ./configure)
Download, extract and put them in
Good lord. Did you even look at the, IMHO, clearly labeled "DOCS" directory? Well since everyone seems to need their hand held to read the FAQ page for this project here you go:
all DOCS
supported codecs
FAQ
If you can't find you answer there, then it could be a bug. So follow all the steps in this docutment to the mplayer-users mailing list....
bug report
By the way, all of those files were downloaded when you acquired mplayer by CVS or the source.tar.gz.
Have you read their resoning for not allowing binary distribution? Obviosly not. There are tons of compile-time options that if you take the time to look through can make your experience great. The player gets customized more to your machine through these, for the most part automagically. One of these customizations is centered around what processor you have. They rely on compile-time processor detection to optimize to your computer. A binary built for a K6 will die on a Pentium, or the other way around.
Secondly, there are legal issues with binary distribution. The source of mplayer is legally distributable. But because many of the licenses covering files in the project do not allow binary distribution, it's illegal. Compiling is not hard, and most people who use linux quickly find it easy as a Windows user's step-by-step installs with an InstallShield application. Very little difference.
Pulling 50k/s off the ftp with DSL. Aint bad considering 2 of my roomates are getting VCD porns off hotline...
I believe he means a non-proprietary, and I agree with his statement.
My downloaded version of Mandrake 8.1 came with 30+ games installed by default. They include minesweeper, about 15 arcade games, KPatience (solitaire), XPat2 (which has 16 card games in it, including Freecell), and a handful of puzzle games. And to clarify, Freecell was not invented by Microsoft, it's been around 20 years.
Games are not the deciding factor in Linux's sucess in the Desktop market. The thing that keeps Linux off most people's desktop is that it's not ready for many of them, and they're scared of it. Regardless of the leaps in terms of usability in the past couple years, Windows is still much easier to use. I love to use Linux and avoid a Windows machine whenever possible, but I don't expect a large % of my friends or my parents to be able to use it at this point.
Slightly off-topic but on a similar note, does anyone have a link or two to someplace I could purchase a laptop with either linux pre-installed or with no OS installed at all? This was an option at Dell at one point, but apparently not anymore.
It's news to those of us who still have a windows 95 box sitting around. It may seem cool to slam slashdot for making fun of windows, however in this case it's clearly not happening
Notice it's Multiplayer Test _2_. This is an update.
Doesn't anyone read anymore?
There are also pre-pay phones available that have no monthly charge or contract. You could just buy 30 minutes worth of calling or something. I'm not sure if the minutes expire, so you may have to buy some each month.
I wish I could mod this up! LOL
Well, we can settle this whole state debate on Sunday when the Packers kick the Cowboys' drug addicted butts back to their ranches. That is, if the Packers can ever stop bickering about who's at fault for this season's poor start. Bah, at least I still have the Badgers to cheer for.
Um, yea. Maybe you should read a little about an OS before you say something. There are already very nice icq clones out for Be. In fact two projects recently merged into one for further advancement. Secondly, winamp quite simply is not that great of an mp3 player. sure it has pretty skins and it can play the files but soundplay for Be is a much nicer player. Go over to BeWare for a lot the nifty software available for Be.
http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats?host= www.lsl.com
www.lsl.com is running Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) on FreeBSD
Apache is also being used by Javasoft, Financial Times, W3 Consortium, and The Royal Family.
FreeBSD users include Hotmail, Yahoo, and The Apache Project.
Mailordercentral.com is just handling their sales and shipping it seems.