There hasn't even been a new version released since December 2000. (Which happens to be when I looked at it and realized how cool it is.) Not only is this the wrong kind of news for Slashdot, it's not even news.
Microsoft is harbouring terrorism by allowing these terrorists to easily crack systems and spread their terror. They're much like the Taliban -- they tolerate these terrorist activities and do very little to shut them down. You'll notice that good application "nations" like Apache don't allow such terrorism to go on with impunity.
Yeah, but it took the President a couple weeks to figure this out. No troll intended -- I know he has a lot of very intelligent advisors as well. It's just that the previous administration(s) built up bin Laden so much as our enemy that we've made him out to be more than he is, and we need to undo that.
My fingers are a bit too big to hit the buttons, so I usually end up pressing the buttons with my fingernails. I seriously doubt that I'm going to hit the buttons in the same spot so that it generates a similar pattern each time.
It doesn't matter how much code or ideas you borrow. With Open Source code, all you really have to do is give credit where credit is due. (Assuming the licenses are compatible, which they generally are when using Open Source.) And you should really be crediting people for what they've done to help you even if it isn't required.
Companies do have an incentive to treat laid-off employees with respect: loyalty and morale.
Compare the morale at a company that just laid off 1000 workers with no severence package and was ignorant to the people to a company that did it "right", with generous severence packages and compassionate managers. The first one will end up losing good workers, because they will feel that they will be treated like trash, just like the people just laid off. Many good people will stay at the second company, because they feel that they will be respected and treated fairly. And they really won't even fear for their jobs, because they know that if they get laid off in a next round, it won't have too large of a financial impact.
Loyalty must be earned. And it does have an impact on the quality of the work that gets done.
If they're abandoning the game, they should open source the code. (At least as much of it as they can.) While I'm sure some of the code is useful in their other games, the majority of it will have been for naught. Why not allow others to make some use of the code? It would create a lot of good will for the company. And if the game isn't that great, it shouldn't create any competition that Maxis would need to worry about.
I haven't heard any reports that the terrorists used any encryption or even email to communicate. In fact, it is well-known that bin Laden does not touch electronic devices for 2 reasons: he could be traced, and he prefers the trust he places in people.
We need to ban those things that we know the terrorists DID use: airplanes, knives, plastic, telephones, blue jeans, alcohol, cars, books, English, Arabic. Of course, outlaws will still have access to these things, but taking these things away from Americans will keep us safe.
These are actually my favorite potato chips. They are quite tasty, and people look at you strange when you eat them. They taste pretty close to regular potato chips. I suspect the main difference is the oil they are fried in.
Yes, NT of Windows NT fame did originally stand for New Technology. Although Microsoft later dropped the expansion, so NT just meant NT at that time.
Interestingly, Northern Telecom owned the trademark to NT, and Microsoft had to pay them to use it. Microsoft was unable to sue anyone for using "NT" in their name.
If you think about it, the vigilante code is really just sending a message to the owner of the system. Passing messages would not normally be considered breaking in.
As an analogy, consider it the equivalent of laying a message inside of an open door.
Hmm, rumor has it that bin Laden has been using the Internet to communicate with his terrorist group. I wonder if he'll still be allowed to do that or not.
The guy running Linux Mentors teaches underpriveleged kids using donated 486s running Linux. He says that 11-year-olds were able to pick it up without any computer experience at all. He uses X applications to teach them how to use the mouse, GUI apps, etc. He said that some of the kids even went off on their own to learn the Linux command line.
Actually, VAX is a hardware architecture, not an OS. Normally, you'd run VMS on it, which I agree was a pretty good OS. But you could also run Ultrix (a UNIX variant) on it. There is a project porting Linux to it as well. But I doubt that you could set up any multi-boot on it.
Take the 1/2 of the 2 payments and then sue them in small claims court. Tell the judge that you signed the agreement not to sue under duress. Withholding money would definitely be considered duress.
Small claims is easy to do yourself, if the amounts involved are not above the limit ($5000 most places, I think). Unfortunately, you may have trouble with jurisdiction if your agreement with UGO specified one that is not close to you.
Once you get a judgement, you may have to go to the collections agents that others recommended.
Since XML is a text-based meta-format, any XML document will work fairly well with CVS. Unfortunately, there aren't too many easy-to-use office apps that generate XML. (The next version of Excel is rumored to, but it doesn't look like Word will.) So you're probably better off using something like Visual Source Safe or Documentum.
I wonder what happens with the licensing agreements that Samsung and others signed with Rambus. Will they have to continue paying Samsung royalties, even though the patents have been invalidated?
At first glance, I thought it said CONDOMS. I thought it was kind of a weird topic for Slashdot.
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Replace "businesses"/"companies" with "individuals". Same difference. The point is that government is not here to help some people at the expense of society as a whole.
But if there was no intellectual property (IP) law, the GPL would not be *needed*. All code would be free for everyone to use. That's the whole point of the GPL -- to make software free for everyone to use as they wish. The GPL is just a trick to use IP law against itself. It creates nearly the same situation that would exist if there were no IP law. The only 2 exceptions I can think of are that GPL code cannot be mixed with closed-source code (evening the playing field for itself) and that the source must be easily obtained (without IP, it could be hidden, but you could still "steal" the original source or reverse engineer it).
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There hasn't even been a new version released since December 2000. (Which happens to be when I looked at it and realized how cool it is.) Not only is this the wrong kind of news for Slashdot, it's not even news.
Shouldn't that be Earth Standard Time? It's a bit much for us to presume that we can set the standard time conventions for the entire Universe.
Microsoft is harbouring terrorism by allowing these terrorists to easily crack systems and spread their terror. They're much like the Taliban -- they tolerate these terrorist activities and do very little to shut them down. You'll notice that good application "nations" like Apache don't allow such terrorism to go on with impunity.
Yeah, but it took the President a couple weeks to figure this out. No troll intended -- I know he has a lot of very intelligent advisors as well. It's just that the previous administration(s) built up bin Laden so much as our enemy that we've made him out to be more than he is, and we need to undo that.
OK, it's nice that EBay has a acceptable use policy. But how can a robot agree to that policy?
My fingers are a bit too big to hit the buttons, so I usually end up pressing the buttons with my fingernails. I seriously doubt that I'm going to hit the buttons in the same spot so that it generates a similar pattern each time.
It doesn't matter how much code or ideas you borrow. With Open Source code, all you really have to do is give credit where credit is due. (Assuming the licenses are compatible, which they generally are when using Open Source.) And you should really be crediting people for what they've done to help you even if it isn't required.
Companies do have an incentive to treat laid-off employees with respect: loyalty and morale.
Compare the morale at a company that just laid off 1000 workers with no severence package and was ignorant to the people to a company that did it "right", with generous severence packages and compassionate managers. The first one will end up losing good workers, because they will feel that they will be treated like trash, just like the people just laid off. Many good people will stay at the second company, because they feel that they will be respected and treated fairly. And they really won't even fear for their jobs, because they know that if they get laid off in a next round, it won't have too large of a financial impact.
Loyalty must be earned. And it does have an impact on the quality of the work that gets done.
Sorry -- had to say it.
If they're abandoning the game, they should open source the code. (At least as much of it as they can.) While I'm sure some of the code is useful in their other games, the majority of it will have been for naught. Why not allow others to make some use of the code? It would create a lot of good will for the company. And if the game isn't that great, it shouldn't create any competition that Maxis would need to worry about.
I haven't heard any reports that the terrorists used any encryption or even email to communicate. In fact, it is well-known that bin Laden does not touch electronic devices for 2 reasons: he could be traced, and he prefers the trust he places in people.
We need to ban those things that we know the terrorists DID use: airplanes, knives, plastic, telephones, blue jeans, alcohol, cars, books, English, Arabic. Of course, outlaws will still have access to these things, but taking these things away from Americans will keep us safe.
These are actually my favorite potato chips. They are quite tasty, and people look at you strange when you eat them. They taste pretty close to regular potato chips. I suspect the main difference is the oil they are fried in.
Yes, NT of Windows NT fame did originally stand for New Technology. Although Microsoft later dropped the expansion, so NT just meant NT at that time.
Interestingly, Northern Telecom owned the trademark to NT, and Microsoft had to pay them to use it. Microsoft was unable to sue anyone for using "NT" in their name.
If you think about it, the vigilante code is really just sending a message to the owner of the system. Passing messages would not normally be considered breaking in.
As an analogy, consider it the equivalent of laying a message inside of an open door.
Room101, can you please email me? I want to possibly re-print your essay.
Thanks.
Hmm, rumor has it that bin Laden has been using the Internet to communicate with his terrorist group. I wonder if he'll still be allowed to do that or not.
"This Car Subject to Video Taping"
That should satisy the requirement that the recording not be made without notification.
The guy running Linux Mentors teaches underpriveleged kids using donated 486s running Linux. He says that 11-year-olds were able to pick it up without any computer experience at all. He uses X applications to teach them how to use the mouse, GUI apps, etc. He said that some of the kids even went off on their own to learn the Linux command line.
Does "pirated utilities" mean illegally copied versions of Norton Utilities, or tapping into electicity/cable/phone lines for free?
Actually, VAX is a hardware architecture, not an OS. Normally, you'd run VMS on it, which I agree was a pretty good OS. But you could also run Ultrix (a UNIX variant) on it. There is a project porting Linux to it as well. But I doubt that you could set up any multi-boot on it.
Take the 1/2 of the 2 payments and then sue them in small claims court. Tell the judge that you signed the agreement not to sue under duress. Withholding money would definitely be considered duress.
Small claims is easy to do yourself, if the amounts involved are not above the limit ($5000 most places, I think). Unfortunately, you may have trouble with jurisdiction if your agreement with UGO specified one that is not close to you.
Once you get a judgement, you may have to go to the collections agents that others recommended.
Since XML is a text-based meta-format, any XML document will work fairly well with CVS. Unfortunately, there aren't too many easy-to-use office apps that generate XML. (The next version of Excel is rumored to, but it doesn't look like Word will.) So you're probably better off using something like Visual Source Safe or Documentum.
I wonder what happens with the licensing agreements that Samsung and others signed with Rambus. Will they have to continue paying Samsung royalties, even though the patents have been invalidated?
At first glance, I thought it said CONDOMS. I thought it was kind of a weird topic for Slashdot.
Replace "businesses"/"companies" with "individuals". Same difference. The point is that government is not here to help some people at the expense of society as a whole.
But if there was no intellectual property (IP) law, the GPL would not be *needed*. All code would be free for everyone to use. That's the whole point of the GPL -- to make software free for everyone to use as they wish. The GPL is just a trick to use IP law against itself. It creates nearly the same situation that would exist if there were no IP law. The only 2 exceptions I can think of are that GPL code cannot be mixed with closed-source code (evening the playing field for itself) and that the source must be easily obtained (without IP, it could be hidden, but you could still "steal" the original source or reverse engineer it).