IE 5.00.2314.1003CO, but I'm using "light" mode, which is probably the pertinent point. There's an extra just before "Microsoft (MSFT) could face a... in the article, this probably doesn't affect the default slash layout because of the tables.
I once saw a screenshot of a big digital advertising board in a city, and it was showeing the top left quarter of a Windows desktop, with part of the "Detected new hardware" dialog poking in at the bottom right corner. I'd love to see that picture again - anyone got a link to it?
"Using one monopoly to gain another", I think it means. They're using their O/S monopoly to establish a digital media monopoly. Playing digital media content is definitively an application function, not an operating system one, more clearly so than the browser thingy IMO.
Many posters don't seem to know what zero-sum means.
Of or relating to a situation in which a gain is offset by an equal loss: “. ..under the zero-sum budgeting system that governs federal spending, the money for spinal research is likely to be deducted from some other research account” (Daniel S. Greenburg).
Please stop posting "I wanna patent (fire|the wheel|breathing)" every time there's a fscking patent story, will you? There must be about a dozen attached to this story, and it's NOT FUNNY ANY MORE! You're all "Redundant", that's what you are! And so am I! Mod me down before I explode.
Can Kylix be replaced by a compatable GPL'd IDE+compiler? Then your GPL's applications can be built with free tools.
"But Kylix is free", you say. The problem is, I don't have the source to Kylix, so I don't know if someone has inserted a back door into it. If I can take the source to the compiler and compile it with a different compiler, then I can be pretty sure that the backdoor will be stripped out. After all, they put a backdoor in Interbase, why should we trust Kylix?
Constitutionally speaking, copyright is a carrot for getting authors to work more -- not a recognition of any sort of property rights in the resulting works
As Larry Niven puts it, "Copyright is fiction". In other words, it's invented. It isn't a recognition of a "natural right".
We haven't seen anything go into the public domain for decades!
In Ireland, James Joyce's works entered the public domain in 1990, but a European Union directive harmonising copyright law caused them to leave the public domain and gain copyright protection again. Any work that was still under copyright in an EU member state gained the same protection. I believe a collection of Joyce works was produced in the intervening time, and I believe that book can still be published without royalty, but other anthologies rewuire royalty payments to Joyce's estate.
It's been shown that the part of the community who calls themselves the Open Source Community are well disposed to using software which does not meet all of the requirements that some people in our community require their software to have before they put a considerable time investment in learning it and using it.
No shit, you mean we aren't all clones who think identically?
Seriously, people are into open source for different reasons. Some like the philosophy of everything being guaranteed free(dom) for the duration of copyright law. Some like the safety provided by being able to audit the source code. Some like the opportunity to fiddle around with cool programs. Some just like freebies. Chaos theory shows us that any system that lacks diversity is doomed to instability. The prevalance of Win/Outlook demonstrated this with Melissa et al. Viva diversity.
The DMCA protects "technological measure[s] that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title". There is a clear distinction in copyright law between access and use. Access is defined as acquiring a copy of the copyrighted work, whereas use is, well, obvious. In purchasing a DVD, I have accessed the copyrighted work. I own the copy of it. CSS is a use control measure, not an access control> measure, and therefore the DMCA doesn't apply to it. The reality of what transpires in a courtroom is, of course, obvious to anybody that has been following the story thus far.
Copyright is a bargain struck between society and content producers. It places certain restrictions our natural ability to share ideas, in return for certain guarantees about what we can do, and a time limitation on what we can't (and don't start me on that one). One of the things we can do is make certain "fair uses" of the material, such as personal copies, excerpts, parodies, etc.
Here's the good bit:
If a content provider takes steps to ensure that I cannot do some of the things that copyright says I can do, then that sends a clear signal that the content producer does not want copyright law to apply to their product. There are consequences to that decision. They may put copyright notices on it, but that's like putting a "This is a duck" sticker on your dog. I ain't gonna throw it no bread.
the DMCA says "you cannot crack copyright protection schemes even if your purpose is to allow you to have fair use of the underlying material."
It doesn't say this. It is being interpreted in court as though it says this, though.
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I agree, I've been using "light" mode for a long time. It doesn't seem to get a very high development priority, sometimes someone changes something and the section titles start printing in white on a white background, but Taco fixed it quite quickly when I mailed him. It rather annoys me if I have to access/. from a new machine and it renders in default mode, and archived articles still take an eon to load.
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Arse, I meant to say "An extra ", of course.
IE 5.00.2314.1003CO, but I'm using "light" mode, which is probably the pertinent point. There's an extra just before "Microsoft (MSFT) could face a... in the article, this probably doesn't affect the default slash layout because of the tables.
Everything on the front page in "light" mode is coming up in italics, because this story doesn't close the tag!
I love you, and I want to bear your children!
I once saw a screenshot of a big digital advertising board in a city, and it was showeing the top left quarter of a Windows desktop, with part of the "Detected new hardware" dialog poking in at the bottom right corner. I'd love to see that picture again - anyone got a link to it?
BTW, do Americans really believe that left-handed people can't drive stick-shifts?
"Using one monopoly to gain another", I think it means. They're using their O/S monopoly to establish a digital media monopoly. Playing digital media content is definitively an application function, not an operating system one, more clearly so than the browser thingy IMO.
Dammit you beat me to it! My post has a link, though!
Calvinball is definitely non-zero-sum. It's potentially infinite-sum.
From dictionary.com:
game n. 1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.
Ever heard of role-playing games?
Please stop posting "I wanna patent (fire|the wheel|breathing)" every time there's a fscking patent story, will you? There must be about a dozen attached to this story, and it's NOT FUNNY ANY MORE! You're all "Redundant", that's what you are! And so am I! Mod me down before I explode.
"But Kylix is free", you say. The problem is, I don't have the source to Kylix, so I don't know if someone has inserted a back door into it. If I can take the source to the compiler and compile it with a different compiler, then I can be pretty sure that the backdoor will be stripped out. After all, they put a backdoor in Interbase, why should we trust Kylix?
If you can get someone to pay you for your labours, then good for you. You don't have a natural right to stop me from telling a joke that you made up.
Seriously, people are into open source for different reasons. Some like the philosophy of everything being guaranteed free(dom) for the duration of copyright law. Some like the safety provided by being able to audit the source code. Some like the opportunity to fiddle around with cool programs. Some just like freebies. Chaos theory shows us that any system that lacks diversity is doomed to instability. The prevalance of Win/Outlook demonstrated this with Melissa et al. Viva diversity.
It's right at the bottom of the first page.
The DMCA protects "technological measure[s] that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title". There is a clear distinction in copyright law between access and use. Access is defined as acquiring a copy of the copyrighted work, whereas use is, well, obvious. In purchasing a DVD, I have accessed the copyrighted work. I own the copy of it. CSS is a use control measure, not an access control> measure, and therefore the DMCA doesn't apply to it. The reality of what transpires in a courtroom is, of course, obvious to anybody that has been following the story thus far.
I only posted it in case the password stopped working. Which it did.
I agree, I've been using "light" mode for a long time. It doesn't seem to get a very high development priority, sometimes someone changes something and the section titles start printing in white on a white background, but Taco fixed it quite quickly when I mailed him. It rather annoys me if I have to access /. from a new machine and it renders in default mode, and archived articles still take an eon to load.