There is definitely a difference. Technically, they make a copy and the ISP doesn't. You should also consider that owners of websites want to make money with it, by banner advertising etc. Offline, they cannot make money. For that reason, no-one can assume that their approval of that copy since it's obviously against their intentions.
In almost all countries (first world or not), the bloodine grants economic and social status. But it's strange for a democracy to have two classes of citizens, determined by bloodline.
I've seen it; but honestly I don't think it's worth seeing, unless you think that the 602nd gay joke is just as funny as the 601st. "Kirk" and "Spock" in this movie are a gay copule, and almost all supposed-to-be-funny scenes bear on that.
Putting anything into the EULA means nothing if you cannot prove that the other guy ever accepted it. This is spyware, so it's main purpose is to install it without the user noticing, right? A user that doesn't notice the install obviously doesn't read and accect a f*cking EULA, so it doesn't matter what the EULA says. Sunbelt might just as well have examined a contamined PC.
but open source software that runs only on Windows encourages the use of Windows and discourages the use of free operating systems. On the way to a fully free software stack, it's basically a dead end. You can't expect the members of the FOSS community to endorse that.
It's hard to understand why people assume that all people in Africa have the same problems and needs. Many of them may need food etc., but others may need computers and software.
String mangling is only necessary and SQL injection is only possible if you don't have an API supporting host variables. Therefore (and for some other reasons) one should use host variables whenever possible.
Because SQL with its subqueries, joins, unions, aggregate function etc. is way to powerfull. It doesn't match the OO paradigm, therefore it must be bad. It's obviously much more efficient to retrieve a million records, create a million objects and count those objects with a certain property than runnig a simple "select count(*) from x where y=z" against the database. If this assumption does not hold, you should build caching, optimizations etc. into the persistence framework, until you have a database sitting on top of a database.
I can't imagine why Sun, Realmedia or Adobe would care enough to send lawyers after people "pirating" Java, Flashplayer or Adobe Reader, since all this applications are available for free download anyway.
Book searching sites like bookfinder4u are not the same kind of beast; in fact, Amazon wants such sites to consider Amazon's stock of book and offer an API for querying their database. A friend of mine made such a system for the Austrian and German market; because it receives a lot of hits, book stores even put effort into making their answers to the seach enigne's requests faster (because the faster the answer, the better the ranking)
Customers go to the local book store, ask the clerks there for advice, read a few pages in the samples - and then, using the devices described in the patent application, order online from Amazon. IMO this is unfair business against the local store. Granted, some customers do that anyway, but in my eyes it's bad business manners on the side of Amazon to promote such behaviour. I hope someone "invents" a browser extension that allows users to browse through Amazon's website, read the recommendations, reviews and excerpts - and then do a one-click price check against competing shops and order at the cheapest shop.
I've built a system for a retail shop that enables users to get price, availability information etc. from a server to a hand held device through WLAN. The same device can also be equipped with an GPRS adapter so users could go to another shop to check the prices against their own. This would not require a modification of the software, since the software doesn't care (in fact, does not even know) if the network is WLAN or GPRS.
So the whole patent boils down to the idea of doing it. There is IMO no technical invention behind that.
The web based e-tax forms in my country work perfectly with Firefox on Linux. Our neighbours in Germany have a similar problem like the Aussies: The only available free (as in beer) program for their electronic tax forms is for Windows.
Any reason why wine would work so much better on OS/X than on Linux? People seem to think that OS/X is the big magical thing where everything works perfectly just because you wish it does. Hint: To make wine work perfectly, its makers must perfectly understand and simulate how Windows works. This task is not at all easier on OS/X.
Every IP number with 127 in the beginning has the same effect, e.g. 127.5.4.3 or 127.98.32.119 . Try it! Some scriptkiddies might already know 127.0.0.1, but 127.76.199.20 is not so obvious.
What you say makes sense, but it can be seen as a indication that PPC emulation on x86 doesn't work well. And that it is not that easy to port software to OS/X86. Granted, ISV needs a few months to do the port, test, package and ship the ported programs, but I doubt it takes one whole year if the recompilation is a matter of hours as they claim. It's more than likely that the x86 Macs will have some bugs in the beginning, but this only makes the damned year longer.
It's not per se bad for Apple to do the switch. But it is suicide to announce it 12 months in advance. Who's gonna buy a PowerMac now, knowing that this product line is discontinued and not compatible with the next Macs? Who's gonna buy software that is very unlikely to run smoothly (if at all) on the next generation of Macs? This will be a hard year for Apple, and we all know that in IT, the "year" between announcement and delivery can take 12-48 months.
ok, but how could this possibly harm Linux? My guess is that should Apple survive this stunt, they will concentrate on media which means strong DRM everywhere. Something that doesn't go well with OSS. A locked hardware is extremely unlikely to attract OSS developers.
Since Apple's move will put them out of business, Window's market share will rise. It will be seen as a proof that no alternative system can survive. People will say "Look, even Apple died, how long until that Linux thingy dies, too?" The idea of a user-friendly gui sitting on top of a unix-like open source operating system will seem disproved. Too bad we will never know how x86-Macs would have worked... because how is Apple going to survive the next 12 months when buing a PowerMac is ridculous?
Looking at "Das Keyboard", you can see that - despite it's name - it is not a German keyboard. This because the Enter key is differently shaped on a genuine German keyboard: it is two rows high and shaped like a vertically mirrored L. Look here: http://www.cherry.de/deutsch/enjoy-line/enjoy_mast er-linux.htm
IIRC French keyboards have the same style of Enter keys.
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There is definitely a difference. Technically, they make a copy and the ISP doesn't. You should also consider that owners of websites want to make money with it, by banner advertising etc. Offline, they cannot make money. For that reason, no-one can assume that their approval of that copy since it's obviously against their intentions.
In almost all countries (first world or not), the bloodine grants economic and social status.
But it's strange for a democracy to have two classes of citizens, determined by bloodline.
contrary to common believe, /. readers with kids exist
I've seen it; but honestly I don't think it's worth seeing, unless you think that the 602nd gay joke is just as funny as the 601st.
"Kirk" and "Spock" in this movie are a gay copule, and almost all supposed-to-be-funny scenes bear on that.
I'm not talking about software like Nvu that runs on Windows AND Linux, I'm talking about Windows-only software.
Of course I cannot speak for the whole community, in fact, nobody can. Anyway, if I were to write Windows-only free software,
I would not expect plaudit from RMS or ESR.
What amazes me is your rejection of desktop linux - you are the lead developer of Nvu? The Nvu "Copyright. © 2003-2005 Linspire, Inc. All rights reserved." thingy? What does your boss think about desktop linux, UI inconsistencies, geeky interfaces?
Putting anything into the EULA means nothing if you cannot prove that the other guy ever accepted it.
This is spyware, so it's main purpose is to install it without the user noticing, right?
A user that doesn't notice the install obviously doesn't read and accect a f*cking EULA, so it doesn't matter what the EULA says.
Sunbelt might just as well have examined a contamined PC.
but open source software that runs only on Windows encourages the use of Windows
and discourages the use of free operating systems. On the way to a fully free
software stack, it's basically a dead end. You can't expect the members
of the FOSS community to endorse that.
It's hard to understand why people assume that all people in Africa have the same problems and needs. Many of them may need food etc., but others may need computers and software.
String mangling is only necessary and SQL injection is only possible if you don't have an API supporting host variables.
Therefore (and for some other reasons) one should use host variables whenever possible.
Because SQL with its subqueries, joins, unions, aggregate function etc. is way to powerfull. It doesn't match the OO paradigm, therefore it must be bad.
It's obviously much more efficient to retrieve a million records, create a million objects and count those objects with a certain property than runnig a simple "select count(*) from x where y=z" against the database.
If this assumption does not hold, you should build caching, optimizations etc. into the persistence framework, until you have a database sitting on top of a database.
I can't imagine why Sun, Realmedia or Adobe would care enough to send lawyers after people "pirating" Java, Flashplayer or Adobe Reader,
since all this applications are available for free download anyway.
OK, it's java applets instead of Ajax, but the main advantages and disadvantages are the same, aren't they?
Ah, yes, that's what I meant.
Book searching sites like bookfinder4u are not the same kind of beast; in fact, Amazon wants such sites to consider Amazon's stock of book and offer an API for querying their database. A friend of mine made such a system for the Austrian and German market; because it receives a lot of hits, book stores even put effort into making their answers to the seach enigne's requests faster (because the faster the answer, the better the ranking)
Customers go to the local book store, ask the clerks there for advice, read a few pages in the samples - and then, using the devices described in the patent application, order online from Amazon.
IMO this is unfair business against the local store. Granted, some customers do that anyway, but in my eyes it's bad business manners on the side of Amazon to promote such behaviour. I hope someone "invents" a browser extension that allows users to browse through Amazon's website, read the recommendations, reviews and excerpts - and then do a one-click price check against competing shops and order at the cheapest shop.
I've built a system for a retail shop that enables users to get price, availability information etc. from a server to a hand held device through WLAN. The same device can also be equipped with an GPRS adapter so users could go to another shop to check the prices against their own. This would not require a modification of the software, since the software doesn't care (in fact, does not even know) if the network is WLAN or GPRS.
So the whole patent boils down to the idea of doing it. There is IMO no technical invention behind that.
Wiener Schnaps? There is no such thing, at least not in Vienna.
The web based e-tax forms in my country work perfectly with Firefox on Linux. Our neighbours in Germany have a similar problem like the Aussies: The only available free (as in beer) program for their electronic tax forms is for Windows.
While it's legal to drink in the public at the age of 16, many kids drink before that, let's say at the age of 12, and nobody cares.
Greetings from Vienna
Any reason why wine would work so much better on OS/X than on Linux? People seem to think that OS/X is the big magical thing where everything works perfectly just because you wish it does. Hint: To make wine work perfectly, its makers must perfectly understand and simulate how Windows works. This task is not at all easier on OS/X.
Every IP number with 127 in the beginning has the same effect, e.g. 127.5.4.3 or 127.98.32.119 . Try it! Some scriptkiddies might already know 127.0.0.1, but 127.76.199.20 is not so obvious.
What you say makes sense, but it can be seen as a indication that PPC emulation on x86 doesn't work well. And that it is not that easy to port software to OS/X86. Granted, ISV needs a few months to do the port, test, package and ship the ported programs, but I doubt it takes one whole year if the recompilation is a matter of hours as they claim. It's more than likely that the x86 Macs will have some bugs in the beginning, but this only makes the damned year longer.
It's not per se bad for Apple to do the switch. But it is suicide to announce it 12 months in advance. Who's gonna buy a PowerMac now, knowing that this product line is discontinued and not compatible with the next Macs? Who's gonna buy software that is very unlikely to run smoothly (if at all) on the next generation of Macs? This will be a hard year for Apple, and we all know that in IT, the "year" between announcement and delivery can take 12-48 months.
ok, but how could this possibly harm Linux?
My guess is that should Apple survive this stunt, they will concentrate on media which means strong DRM everywhere. Something that doesn't go well with OSS. A locked hardware is extremely unlikely to attract OSS developers.
Since Apple's move will put them out of business, Window's market share will rise. It will be seen as a proof that no alternative system can survive.
People will say "Look, even Apple died, how long until that Linux thingy dies, too?" The idea of a user-friendly gui sitting on top of a unix-like open source operating system will seem disproved. Too bad we will never know how x86-Macs would have worked... because how is Apple going to survive the next 12 months when buing a PowerMac is ridculous?
Looking at "Das Keyboard", you can see that - despite it's name - it is not a German keyboard. This because the Enter key is differently shaped on a genuine German keyboard: it is two rows high and shaped like a vertically mirrored L. Look here:t er-linux.htm
http://www.cherry.de/deutsch/enjoy-line/enjoy_mas
IIRC French keyboards have the same style of Enter keys.