A charge of rape will only get him a few years, or a reduced sentence to six months of the judge is a liberal. Most murder convictions get life or death depending on the state or judge/jury. A murder frame, will last longer or be more effective than a rape frame. Besides the woman would have to testify in court about the rape charge and might say something to show he is innocent. But if the woman cuts one of her fingers with a knife, spills some drops of her blood on a sleeping bag and his car, and then goes to another country under an assumed name, she doesn't have to testify and her (ex)boyfriend/husband won't be able to get out of it unless he can afford a good lawyer to prove him innocent.
Can't fight the Hackers without getting even more fascist than Apple already is right now.
Might as well license an OEM copy of OSX to a few PC Makers, in exchange for 10% of the sale and a small fee per machine OSX is installed on.
Apple makes most of its money via iPods, iPhones, iTunes, etc now. It isn't the old 1990's Apple that bled money via Newton, Printer, Scanner, Pippin, etc support and sales that cost more to support than they brought in. That is what really killed the Mac Clones in the first place, Apple losing money due to things that didn't sell enough like the Newton. Though many Mac Clones were cheaper than what Apple could sell. But that establishes proof that Apple's Macs are overpriced and consumers want a lower cost Mac. If Apple can't do it or only offers the crippled Mac Mini, then bring back the Mac Clones.
being "weird" means you are automatically judged guilty for any crime you are changed with. They will use the Hans Reiser case as a basis to find you guilty even if there is reasonable doubt and a lack of evidence.
Your girlfriend or wife can leave the country, spill some of their blood on your stuff before they leave, and even if no body is found, because you are a Computer Geek any jury will find you guilty even if she did leave the country.
Your girlfriend or wife can pull a Reiser on you, as the ultimate form of revenge for all of those years you ignored her and spent it on a computer instead of time with her.
First we'll see a CD-Key to install Mac OSX, and then a Macintosh Genuine Advantage check. Mac OSX already has DRM for media files, adding in DRM to prevent pirated copies would be the next logical step.
Of course the Mac Pirates will just find a way around that as the Windows Pirates did with XP and Vista. So maybe Apple wouldn't bother and just allow OEM installs for Non-Apple branded hardware?
It is both a major release and a service pack all ion one. Apple just happens to charge extra for service packs and calls them major releases.
If Microsoft did that with Vista SP1, people would cry foul, but Apple can do that and get away with it. Vista SP1 is a major release and service pack as well as 10.5 was.
A new OS from Apple would be Mac OSX 11.0 not 10.5, as 10.5 is but a fraction not a whole number.
but usually one expects service packs and bug fixes to be free after buying the original OS and license.
But then Apple does that with each Mac OSX release, 10.5 was meant as a service pack and bug fix to 10.4, etc. The 10.5.1 is a minor fix, and each 10.X is a major release.
Windows Vista 2.0 will be a major fix, Vista SP1 is the minor fix. Windows Vista 1.0 seems to be the beta test according to Ballmer.
What next, users have to pass an IQ test to get on the Internet? That way all of the stupid people who click on email links from phishing scams before looking at the message to see if it is fake or not, will forever see "Error ID10T: User is not smart enough to use the Internet. Request denied!"
They can always download and install Firefox. Then install an anti-phishing addon.
Firefox works as far back as Windows 95 IIRC? I installed Firefox on my uncle's Windows 98 box, the only issue was that the start bar title icon didn't show up properly but it ran.
Sure he can't use his iPod with Windows 98, but Firefox works great. If he gets a RAM upgrade he can run Windows 2000. But technically with 128M of RAM or more he can run Windows XP on his 333Mhz processor, but it will be really slow.
I don't think we can afford to buy a new machine, and his old machine runs great.
Of course open source licenses allow for some code and features to be released from the open source license by paying off the developers who developed the code and having them sign a contract. In that way their open source developments pay off and they can finally earn an income for their hard work.
What the community doesn't seem to get is that this is basically creating two versions of the same product. One open sourced and one closed source. It is basically forking off a closed source version and paying off developers to release it so they are finally paid for their hard work and years dedicated to writing code. Just that the open source version now doesn't have the same code and features as the new closed source version has. But that wouldn't stop open source developers from writing new code to put features back in the open source version. As long as it doesn't use source code from the closed source fork of it. For example this was done to WINE to create Crossover Office, WINEX/Cediga, et all. Also Red Hat Enterprise is different from Red Hat Fedora. Just that one version went commercial and the other went open source.
As an open source developer you actually want this to happen, so that all of your hard work is paid off finally. You want a company to buy out your work and pay you for it eventually. That doesn't make you selfish and it doesn't make you greedy either. I mean you spend years supporting the open source community for free and writing a lot of code without even being paid for it. So they really can't say you haven't given anything to the open source community. While people jokingly call open source developers as communists or hippies, in reality they are capitalists at heart. In the end they want equal pay for equal work. Open source projects are a good way to market their skills and show off their coding abilities and ability to work in a team. Plus it gives back to the community in free software. But the time will come eventually when some company decides the project is good enough to license and use in a commercial project so they sell their rights to it for money. Most of the time that doesn't happen and it continues to be unsupported and open source developers have friends and family members wondering if they are insane, doing all of that hard work for free and it looks like they are throwing away money or flushing it down the toilet.
There will still be an open source version of MySQL, just that parts of it got spun off into a closed source commercial version. I did a lot of research into open source business plans myself in college. You try to earn money via charging for tech support or donations, failing that you try to get some company like Sun to buy your code and pay off your developers to release the code from open source. But some open source companies sell t-shirts and stuffed animals and other stuff. Any way you look at it, it is still capitalism and still a company trying to earn a profit. You still have stock holders who want a return on their investments. You still have employees that expect a paycheck. It may be free software, but people aren't really writing it for free, they expect a payoff sooner or later.
Yeah I've always seen PostgreSQL as an open source version of Oracle because both of them support PL/SQL. PostgreSQL may not be as good as Oracle is, but it is good enough for most projects that it doesn't have to be. Much better than MySQL anyway.
I sort of seen MySQL as only being partly finished and more like an open source version of SyBase but without stored procedures and triggers, etc, unless they recently added them and I didn't know it. MySQL was usually good enough for most small projects and web sites and when you needed to upgrade the database to advanced features you went to PostgreSQL or Oracle or even, shudder MS-SQL Server or Sybase. Of course there is always Firebird the open source version of the old Borland Innerbase which became the Inprise database and Inprise company after Borland made changes but the database dates way back to 1981. I think that Firebird can replace MySQL for an open source database if people give it the chance. I think they just got a Mac OSX 32 bit version and are working on the 64 bit Mac OSX version. It exists for many variations of Unix, as well as Windows. Under Vista you have to disable the control panel or else it breaks Vista's control panel but they are working on fixing that. The Flamerobin GUI is in alpha but it is being worked on as well. MySQL happened to be in the right place at the right time and got the web standard before Firebird did, but now that MySQL is starting to go closed source, Firebird is looking better as an alternative to MySQL. Instead of LAMP we might get LAFP some day or maybe LAPP with PostgreSQL replacing MySQL.
True but Ada has runtime controls that prevent access to unallocated memory, buffer overflow errors, off by one errors, array access errors, etc for the modular code. That makes Ada more secure than C or Modula-2.
It would have to be the Ada runtime checks to make sure that access to unallocated memory, buffer overflow errors, off by one errors, array access errors, and other errors don't exploit the code in the libraries. I mean that is why the DOD uses Ada in avionics and missile controls. They don't want someone exploiting a bug or getting access to the source code so they can control or damage plans or missiles.
Uh you do know the difference between a sales tax and an income tax right?
An income tax is a federal or state tax collected each quarter or year and it is based on the profits that a company earns in that time period. If the company has more expenses than revenue then it operates at a net loss and a net loss cannot be taxed only a net gain. There are tax shelters in which a company can place the profits into that can avoid being taxed, some companies choose to put profits into an offshore account in the Cayman Islands for example and incorporate a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying federal and state income taxes, for example.
A sales tax is usually a tax collected by a state or city or local government on the sale of goods. Usually a food sales tax is lower than a general sales tax. The tax is usually figured out by the location of a brick and mortar (ie physical) location that the sale is made in. In the case of an Internet business there is no physical brick and mortar location, so a loophole exists in the laws that allow Internet sales not to have a sales tax, but that could change soon. States may decide to charge a sales tax on the location of the web server the sale is made on, or the location of the seller, or the location of the home office of the company selling the item, or *gasp* each state that the sales data travels through from the web browser to the web server might levy a sales tax on the sale and it will add up to a huge tax payable to several if not more states.
Sales tax cannot be avoided, but it is not a problem with the company making the sale, they just charge the tax to the customer in the shopping cart as an extra fee and then wire the collected sales tax to the state or local government that collects it. Companies won't be hurt by this, but consumers will. It will be consumers that will be charged an extra fee now, if Congress passes this law, that will be collected by Paypal, or the company accepting the credit card or debit card and included in the total sale. It is usually like 7% of the sale, but some states could be larger or smaller. Usually non-profit groups are exempt from sales taxes, though. But not the normal average consumer.
People outside of the USA may be shocked to find out they are being charged a sales tax from a state that they don't live in by a country they don't live in either when they buy something from a US web site.
This is really going to mess with eBay and auctions as well. They'll have to change the code to accept sales taxes based on federal law. Or get hit with heavy fines for not allowing the software to collect taxes. Mom and Pop operations that wrote their own code or bought the code will either have to make changes by themselves or hire someone to make changes for them.
But this Internet sales tax will be nothing relative to the "carbon tax" that Democrats will get approved and passed in the next eight years or so to fight global warming. Already our country is fighting global warming by forcing all home owners to have their minimum trash disposal services charge for both waste and recycling disposals as the minimum service, which has doubled the trash disposal service bill for everyone in our area and disabled, elderly, poor, and people without a job or living on a fixed income have already felt the crunch of their bill double on them per month and there is nothing they can do about it. Sure it is discrimination against the poor and disabled and jobless, but it was forced on us via liberal fascism to save the planet just like the "carbon tax" will be forced on us via liberal fascism to fight global warming.
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A charge of rape will only get him a few years, or a reduced sentence to six months of the judge is a liberal. Most murder convictions get life or death depending on the state or judge/jury. A murder frame, will last longer or be more effective than a rape frame. Besides the woman would have to testify in court about the rape charge and might say something to show he is innocent. But if the woman cuts one of her fingers with a knife, spills some drops of her blood on a sleeping bag and his car, and then goes to another country under an assumed name, she doesn't have to testify and her (ex)boyfriend/husband won't be able to get out of it unless he can afford a good lawyer to prove him innocent.
Can't fight the Hackers without getting even more fascist than Apple already is right now.
Might as well license an OEM copy of OSX to a few PC Makers, in exchange for 10% of the sale and a small fee per machine OSX is installed on.
Apple makes most of its money via iPods, iPhones, iTunes, etc now. It isn't the old 1990's Apple that bled money via Newton, Printer, Scanner, Pippin, etc support and sales that cost more to support than they brought in. That is what really killed the Mac Clones in the first place, Apple losing money due to things that didn't sell enough like the Newton. Though many Mac Clones were cheaper than what Apple could sell. But that establishes proof that Apple's Macs are overpriced and consumers want a lower cost Mac. If Apple can't do it or only offers the crippled Mac Mini, then bring back the Mac Clones.
being "weird" means you are automatically judged guilty for any crime you are changed with. They will use the Hans Reiser case as a basis to find you guilty even if there is reasonable doubt and a lack of evidence.
Your girlfriend or wife can leave the country, spill some of their blood on your stuff before they leave, and even if no body is found, because you are a Computer Geek any jury will find you guilty even if she did leave the country.
Your girlfriend or wife can pull a Reiser on you, as the ultimate form of revenge for all of those years you ignored her and spent it on a computer instead of time with her.
So if I take an Apple label off a Mac and stick it on a PC, I can legally install OSX on the Apple labeled PC even if it wasn't made by Apple?
The FSF should sue Apple over the name of this eMac becuase it resembles emacs too much.
I agree, imagine if Apple licensed OSX in OEM form to the following companies:
IBM/Lenovolo You'd have IBM Thinkpads that could be called Macpads.
Dell, you'd have iDells being sold over the Internet.
Compaq already has the iPaq so it would be called the MacPaq.
Apple can finally settle with eMachines and the eOne ripping off the original iMac, and call their machines the iPC or iMachines iOne.
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First we'll see a CD-Key to install Mac OSX, and then a Macintosh Genuine Advantage check. Mac OSX already has DRM for media files, adding in DRM to prevent pirated copies would be the next logical step.
Of course the Mac Pirates will just find a way around that as the Windows Pirates did with XP and Vista. So maybe Apple wouldn't bother and just allow OEM installs for Non-Apple branded hardware?
It is both a major release and a service pack all ion one. Apple just happens to charge extra for service packs and calls them major releases.
If Microsoft did that with Vista SP1, people would cry foul, but Apple can do that and get away with it. Vista SP1 is a major release and service pack as well as 10.5 was.
A new OS from Apple would be Mac OSX 11.0 not 10.5, as 10.5 is but a fraction not a whole number.
The new OS from Microsoft will be Windows 7.0.
Gators won't eat lawyers, because it gives them a bellyache and also professional courtesy like sharks have for lawyers to not attack or eat them.
Well now we know who is a card carrying member of the "he-man women haters club".
No wonder most computer geeks don't have girlfriends and are still single and never got married. Have a nice life living in your mother's basement.
but usually one expects service packs and bug fixes to be free after buying the original OS and license.
But then Apple does that with each Mac OSX release, 10.5 was meant as a service pack and bug fix to 10.4, etc. The 10.5.1 is a minor fix, and each 10.X is a major release.
Windows Vista 2.0 will be a major fix, Vista SP1 is the minor fix. Windows Vista 1.0 seems to be the beta test according to Ballmer.
Either you are using a Hacked version of OSX or you hacked it yourself.
Apple's DRM and EFI code prevents OSX from installing on non-Apple branded PCs.
Don't let the Apple DRM and EFI code get in your way. :)
that is a cheap PC that runs a pirated version of Mac OSX that can run on Non-Apple branded PCs.
Your company's computer guy?
:)
"You're doing it wrong, moooooove!" Then he sits down and fixes it.
Nor vote either or get a mortgage it seems. :)
What next, users have to pass an IQ test to get on the Internet? That way all of the stupid people who click on email links from phishing scams before looking at the message to see if it is fake or not, will forever see "Error ID10T: User is not smart enough to use the Internet. Request denied!"
They can always download and install Firefox. Then install an anti-phishing addon.
Firefox works as far back as Windows 95 IIRC? I installed Firefox on my uncle's Windows 98 box, the only issue was that the start bar title icon didn't show up properly but it ran.
Sure he can't use his iPod with Windows 98, but Firefox works great. If he gets a RAM upgrade he can run Windows 2000. But technically with 128M of RAM or more he can run Windows XP on his 333Mhz processor, but it will be really slow.
I don't think we can afford to buy a new machine, and his old machine runs great.
Of course open source licenses allow for some code and features to be released from the open source license by paying off the developers who developed the code and having them sign a contract. In that way their open source developments pay off and they can finally earn an income for their hard work.
What the community doesn't seem to get is that this is basically creating two versions of the same product. One open sourced and one closed source. It is basically forking off a closed source version and paying off developers to release it so they are finally paid for their hard work and years dedicated to writing code. Just that the open source version now doesn't have the same code and features as the new closed source version has. But that wouldn't stop open source developers from writing new code to put features back in the open source version. As long as it doesn't use source code from the closed source fork of it. For example this was done to WINE to create Crossover Office, WINEX/Cediga, et all. Also Red Hat Enterprise is different from Red Hat Fedora. Just that one version went commercial and the other went open source.
As an open source developer you actually want this to happen, so that all of your hard work is paid off finally. You want a company to buy out your work and pay you for it eventually. That doesn't make you selfish and it doesn't make you greedy either. I mean you spend years supporting the open source community for free and writing a lot of code without even being paid for it. So they really can't say you haven't given anything to the open source community. While people jokingly call open source developers as communists or hippies, in reality they are capitalists at heart. In the end they want equal pay for equal work. Open source projects are a good way to market their skills and show off their coding abilities and ability to work in a team. Plus it gives back to the community in free software. But the time will come eventually when some company decides the project is good enough to license and use in a commercial project so they sell their rights to it for money. Most of the time that doesn't happen and it continues to be unsupported and open source developers have friends and family members wondering if they are insane, doing all of that hard work for free and it looks like they are throwing away money or flushing it down the toilet.
There will still be an open source version of MySQL, just that parts of it got spun off into a closed source commercial version. I did a lot of research into open source business plans myself in college. You try to earn money via charging for tech support or donations, failing that you try to get some company like Sun to buy your code and pay off your developers to release the code from open source. But some open source companies sell t-shirts and stuffed animals and other stuff. Any way you look at it, it is still capitalism and still a company trying to earn a profit. You still have stock holders who want a return on their investments. You still have employees that expect a paycheck. It may be free software, but people aren't really writing it for free, they expect a payoff sooner or later.
Yeah I've always seen PostgreSQL as an open source version of Oracle because both of them support PL/SQL. PostgreSQL may not be as good as Oracle is, but it is good enough for most projects that it doesn't have to be. Much better than MySQL anyway.
I sort of seen MySQL as only being partly finished and more like an open source version of SyBase but without stored procedures and triggers, etc, unless they recently added them and I didn't know it. MySQL was usually good enough for most small projects and web sites and when you needed to upgrade the database to advanced features you went to PostgreSQL or Oracle or even, shudder MS-SQL Server or Sybase. Of course there is always Firebird the open source version of the old Borland Innerbase which became the Inprise database and Inprise company after Borland made changes but the database dates way back to 1981. I think that Firebird can replace MySQL for an open source database if people give it the chance. I think they just got a Mac OSX 32 bit version and are working on the 64 bit Mac OSX version. It exists for many variations of Unix, as well as Windows. Under Vista you have to disable the control panel or else it breaks Vista's control panel but they are working on fixing that. The Flamerobin GUI is in alpha but it is being worked on as well. MySQL happened to be in the right place at the right time and got the web standard before Firebird did, but now that MySQL is starting to go closed source, Firebird is looking better as an alternative to MySQL. Instead of LAMP we might get LAFP some day or maybe LAPP with PostgreSQL replacing MySQL.
True but Ada has runtime controls that prevent access to unallocated memory, buffer overflow errors, off by one errors, array access errors, etc for the modular code. That makes Ada more secure than C or Modula-2.
It would have to be the Ada runtime checks to make sure that access to unallocated memory, buffer overflow errors, off by one errors, array access errors, and other errors don't exploit the code in the libraries. I mean that is why the DOD uses Ada in avionics and missile controls. They don't want someone exploiting a bug or getting access to the source code so they can control or damage plans or missiles.
Uh you do know the difference between a sales tax and an income tax right?
An income tax is a federal or state tax collected each quarter or year and it is based on the profits that a company earns in that time period. If the company has more expenses than revenue then it operates at a net loss and a net loss cannot be taxed only a net gain. There are tax shelters in which a company can place the profits into that can avoid being taxed, some companies choose to put profits into an offshore account in the Cayman Islands for example and incorporate a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying federal and state income taxes, for example.
A sales tax is usually a tax collected by a state or city or local government on the sale of goods. Usually a food sales tax is lower than a general sales tax. The tax is usually figured out by the location of a brick and mortar (ie physical) location that the sale is made in. In the case of an Internet business there is no physical brick and mortar location, so a loophole exists in the laws that allow Internet sales not to have a sales tax, but that could change soon. States may decide to charge a sales tax on the location of the web server the sale is made on, or the location of the seller, or the location of the home office of the company selling the item, or *gasp* each state that the sales data travels through from the web browser to the web server might levy a sales tax on the sale and it will add up to a huge tax payable to several if not more states.
Sales tax cannot be avoided, but it is not a problem with the company making the sale, they just charge the tax to the customer in the shopping cart as an extra fee and then wire the collected sales tax to the state or local government that collects it. Companies won't be hurt by this, but consumers will. It will be consumers that will be charged an extra fee now, if Congress passes this law, that will be collected by Paypal, or the company accepting the credit card or debit card and included in the total sale. It is usually like 7% of the sale, but some states could be larger or smaller. Usually non-profit groups are exempt from sales taxes, though. But not the normal average consumer.
People outside of the USA may be shocked to find out they are being charged a sales tax from a state that they don't live in by a country they don't live in either when they buy something from a US web site.
This is really going to mess with eBay and auctions as well. They'll have to change the code to accept sales taxes based on federal law. Or get hit with heavy fines for not allowing the software to collect taxes. Mom and Pop operations that wrote their own code or bought the code will either have to make changes by themselves or hire someone to make changes for them.
But this Internet sales tax will be nothing relative to the "carbon tax" that Democrats will get approved and passed in the next eight years or so to fight global warming. Already our country is fighting global warming by forcing all home owners to have their minimum trash disposal services charge for both waste and recycling disposals as the minimum service, which has doubled the trash disposal service bill for everyone in our area and disabled, elderly, poor, and people without a job or living on a fixed income have already felt the crunch of their bill double on them per month and there is nothing they can do about it. Sure it is discrimination against the poor and disabled and jobless, but it was forced on us via liberal fascism to save the planet just like the "carbon tax" will be forced on us via liberal fascism to fight global warming.