Actually, looking back at the article, that quote was pretty tangential anyway and isn't impacted by the ruling. It's a "This is why free software developers oppose piracy" thing, which upon second reading I'm entirely in agreement with.
We also look at the effect of piracy and ask whether piracy can ever be beneficial to Microsoft. This extension was motivated by analyzing data on a cross-section of countries on Linux penetration and piracy rates. We found that in countries where piracy is highest, Linux has the lowest penetration rate. The model shows that Microsoft can use piracy as an effective tool to price discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft!
This makes no sense. Linux has lower penetration in areas of high piracy because people who just want a free operating system rip off Windows instead of using Linux. How does that contribute profit to MS? If they use it as a price discrimination tool and raise the price in high priracy areas (presumably thinking that "low Linux penetration" means less competition), more people will pirate it!
In fact, Linspire has been nervous about the Grokster case, because they are concerned that erosion of P2P could undermine their ability to distribute code via their one-click download service, called "CNR" for Click N Run. The same applies to lots of variations on Debian's apt-get solution.
In what way to "CNR" ot apt-get foster piracy for commercial gain?
I think the ruling is correct. If you deliberately set up a business that relies on copyright violation, then you deserve to get hauled through court.
I use Expansys (US site)- while their prices aren't quite as keen as ebuyer (UK only I think) they have a great range, an easy-to-navigate site, loads of product compatability information, and a discussion forum for every product. I've been buying from them since they opened under the name of 21Store in 1997.
We do not directly address the issue of the release and storage of CO2 on the ocean floor and in the deep oceans as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) programme.... This subject is part of a forthcoming special report on carbon capture and storage by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due in late 2005.
Additionally, my point about 'fertilizer' is void, because CO2 is primarily consumed through photosyntheses in the surface waters. It may be that those freaky things that grow around thermal vents have some other method of consuming CO2 but I'm sure there's plenty down there already.
Another proposed form of carbon sequestration in the ocean is direct injection. In this method, carbon dioxide is pumped directly into the water at depth, and expected to form "lakes" of liquid CO2 at the bottom. Experiments carried out in moderate to deep waters (350 - 3600 meters) indicate that the liquid CO2 reacts to form solid CO2 clathrate hydrates which gradually dissolve in the surrounding waters.
Also:
Phytoplankton in the oceans, like trees, use photosynthesis to extract carbon from CO2. They are the starting point of the marine food chain.
It's more like me going into a shop and standing by a counter and offering better prices to the customers in that shop. I'm sure I'd get chucked out by security pretty quickly.
In my local bowling alley (Star City, Birmingham) they have TV screens that you actually piss on. I can't remember what was on them, though. The experience was rather odd.
It should dramatically reduce the flood of "That email address that you sent an email to does not exist" messages that I get, in relation to emails that I did not send. It didn't come from my ISP's address block, therefore it didn't come from me, therefore they don't need to spam me back.
When I was a kid, my piano teacher would admonish me to keep my wrists straight or (cue teacher's deep Hungarian accent) your wrists will torment you like the hounds of hell.(cut accent)
What you really need is a program that analyzes the frequency of keys that you actually use, and dynamically rearranges the keyboard so that the most frequent characters are on the home row.
You misunderstand me. IE renders it as HTML, which is technically incorrect but convenient. Firefox renders it as plain text, which is technically correct but inconvenient. It's a case of the web page developer targetting IE only, and inadvertently making use of IE-only nonstandard behaviour.
I'm a firefox zealot, but there are occasional pages that don't load right in the fox. At least three times I've seen the HTML source displayed in the window, because the web server says text/plain. IE renders it as HTML. I know, Firefox is doing "the right thing" from a technical point of view, but I loaded it in IE to view it. I emailed the webmaster, though.
Things are odd shapes and despite 5000 years of achitectural evolution our designer throws it all out and assumes he knows best
After 5000 years of software development I'm sure we will have worked out what works and what doesn't. Right now we're still in our infancy as a discipline. And yes, "discipline" is an optimistic choice of term.
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Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that.
Actually, looking back at the article, that quote was pretty tangential anyway and isn't impacted by the ruling. It's a "This is why free software developers oppose piracy" thing, which upon second reading I'm entirely in agreement with.
This makes no sense. Linux has lower penetration in areas of high piracy because people who just want a free operating system rip off Windows instead of using Linux. How does that contribute profit to MS? If they use it as a price discrimination tool and raise the price in high priracy areas (presumably thinking that "low Linux penetration" means less competition), more people will pirate it!
In what way to "CNR" ot apt-get foster piracy for commercial gain?
I think the ruling is correct. If you deliberately set up a business that relies on copyright violation, then you deserve to get hauled through court.
I use Expansys (US site)- while their prices aren't quite as keen as ebuyer (UK only I think) they have a great range, an easy-to-navigate site, loads of product compatability information, and a discussion forum for every product. I've been buying from them since they opened under the name of 21Store in 1997.
Additionally, my point about 'fertilizer' is void, because CO2 is primarily consumed through photosyntheses in the surface waters. It may be that those freaky things that grow around thermal vents have some other method of consuming CO2 but I'm sure there's plenty down there already.
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So it's like fertilizer for the seas.
No, they pump it into the ocean where it dissolves. No gas, no greenhouse effect, no global warming.
It's more like me going into a shop and standing by a counter and offering better prices to the customers in that shop. I'm sure I'd get chucked out by security pretty quickly.
who have cybernetic hands, because ours were severed in a climactic showdown with our evil fathers, you insensitive clod!
You do know that "Drop the Dead Donkey" is fiction, right?
Different translations.
No, they'll rip you off for an outrageous $3.99 for shipping, according to TFA.
...and some turkeys voted against Christmas.
In my local bowling alley (Star City, Birmingham) they have TV screens that you actually piss on. I can't remember what was on them, though. The experience was rather odd.
It should dramatically reduce the flood of "That email address that you sent an email to does not exist" messages that I get, in relation to emails that I did not send. It didn't come from my ISP's address block, therefore it didn't come from me, therefore they don't need to spam me back.
Obviously he meant "the evil corporates".
"A curved wrist is the devil's roller coaster!"
What you really need is a program that analyzes the frequency of keys that you actually use, and dynamically rearranges the keyboard so that the most frequent characters are on the home row.
Yes, obviously if it's only 0.01 different, it must be easy to crack. That's, like, only two-thirds of a percent different!
You misunderstand me. IE renders it as HTML, which is technically incorrect but convenient. Firefox renders it as plain text, which is technically correct but inconvenient. It's a case of the web page developer targetting IE only, and inadvertently making use of IE-only nonstandard behaviour.
I'm a firefox zealot, but there are occasional pages that don't load right in the fox. At least three times I've seen the HTML source displayed in the window, because the web server says text/plain. IE renders it as HTML. I know, Firefox is doing "the right thing" from a technical point of view, but I loaded it in IE to view it. I emailed the webmaster, though.
That would be Eminent Domain
After 5000 years of software development I'm sure we will have worked out what works and what doesn't. Right now we're still in our infancy as a discipline. And yes, "discipline" is an optimistic choice of term.
2000 years on, and it finally comes true.
Well, you can copy rectangular sections, but copying something that wraps onto the next line is a two-step operation.