On the short but oil-powered commute home, there was a report of 100 insurgents (nationalities undetermined) in Iraq killed vs 3 US Marine casualties. I play FPS games. Let's just say I don't get a 30:1 ratio.
3 Marines killed? They don't mention the crippling injuries and the vegetables, though.
Can you buy a Windows CD, make a bunch of code changes, and the resell it as "Windows Improved Edition"? No, copyright law forbids that. It's a derivative work. First sale doctrine does not come into it.
Well, that just goes to prove: if you're encrypting your backups - don't use a closed-source product, and definitely don't use a closed-source, poorly-documented product, to do so.
I sincerely doubt they would cut off Linux support within the next decade or so. Seriously. It can't cost that much to support, and the userbase of Java-on-Linux must be huge. Besides, OpenSolaris is going to be open sourced in a few months, so Sun wouldn't make a lot of money if they forced people to switch to Solaris.
They're not being sued for dumping, they're being sued for "price-fixing", by a pro se litigant who is a little confused about what the word "defendant" means.
and I'm pretty sure many/.ers are a bunch of long haired hobos living in their parents' basements..
I am curious as to what personality factors influence this perception. Are you a Republican? Are you poor? Do you make your money thanks to proprietary software sales? Are you anti-Linux?
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No, this review isn't a pre-publication review. Books are not always published at the same time everywhere in the world. Also, the paperback comes out later than the hardback. Any bibliophile should know this.
Come on. Get a sense of perspective. Spam and spyware are annoying, but they're hardly major election issues on a par with MRSA in hospitals, and Blair's lies about Iraq.
Quotas are not how affirmative action is supposed to work, and I bet you cannot cite even a single case of a company (not a political party, a company) which really does have such quotas.
If we want to talk ethics, my ethical problem with this is that it shits on some of the smartest people in society who solve hard, generally applicable problems and want to productize their solutions and/or intellectual contributions and be rewarded financially for them.
So does capitalism, to an extent. Coders in richer countries are starting to lose out to coders in poorer countries. As more smart people become available in the IT labour market, their average value to the market will decline. That's capitalism. (I'm a socialist by the way.)
It destroys the small software company in favor of large services, hardware and tech conglomerate shops.
So does capitalism, but do I hear you complaining about that?
It kills entrepreneurship and innovation in the software industry, which I believe benefits society as a whole by encouraging said smart people to come up with new ideas and produce stuff that otherwise might not get produced.
So do software patents. The difference is, free software innovation can be addressed by government funding. Whereas the owner of a software patent has a monopoly and can charge prohibitively high licensing fees to prevent competition.
Tell a black/homosexual/whatever other minority member his performance is poor, only referring to his professional level, and very often they'd use their "minority" rights as a cover up.
What do you mean - do you mean they'll say "Yeah, it's because I'm black, and like everyone knows, blacks are not as hard working"? I am at a loss to understand what you mean.
In what way do they use minority rights as a cover up, in your view?
This is what got me worried today about the proposed EU software patents directive. Those who are for the directive, keep saying that the highly contentious phrase "technical effect" doesn't need to be defined, because it's already covered by a body of existing case law. But how useful is that in countries like Germany, where precedent doesn't dictate legal decisions?
But wouldn't the expense of creating a secure cross-platform e-filing system, be more than offset by the efficiency savings resulting from more people e-filing?
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Here in the UK, we don't view privacy as purely a contractual issue. Our Data Protection legislation (privacy legislation) applies to all data collection, whether governed by a contract or not.
It is the same in the UK. And here, if you complain, your employer just gets told to pay you back-pay as if you had been due minimum wage (which you were, by law). They don't necessarily get any fines for blatantly abusing the law and only bothering to pay minimum wage when someone complains.
The law therefore has very little teeth. However, many companies comply anyway, either because they would have anyway to attract enough competent workers, or because they don't want the hassle and the bad publicity. There are a few who don't. The worst offenders, I understand, are certain employers of foreign migrant labourers (legal or illegal immigrants).
(b) It's not always possible for product X to be "sufficiently better" than product Y to make everyone switch, because what they do may be inherently quite simple tasks.
And I believe you should have the right to incessant whining if you so desire, but it will be your fault if your face gets pounded into a pulp because of it.
I take it you're not a libertarian then (no force). You sound more like a fascist (force valourised).
This means if you have a relatively new router (everything I've used in the last year or so has been UPnP compliant) Azureus should go ahead and punch the holes it needs in the firewall for you. It's always worked well for me.
That's the most idiotic idea I've heard of this year! What's the point of having a firewall in the first place if, in the future, any app you start will simply "punch its way through" the firewall?
Think about it - the firewall will only be blocking unused ports and malformed packets, which is almost completely useless!!
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3 Marines killed? They don't mention the crippling injuries and the vegetables, though.
Even if I did, I'd never paraphrase a Nazi like that. It's just inviting speculation over my political allegiances.
I don't think it will get very far.
I am curious as to what personality factors influence this perception. Are you a Republican? Are you poor? Do you make your money thanks to proprietary software sales? Are you anti-Linux?
So does capitalism, to an extent. Coders in richer countries are starting to lose out to coders in poorer countries. As more smart people become available in the IT labour market, their average value to the market will decline. That's capitalism. (I'm a socialist by the way.)
It destroys the small software company in favor of large services, hardware and tech conglomerate shops.
So does capitalism, but do I hear you complaining about that?
It kills entrepreneurship and innovation in the software industry, which I believe benefits society as a whole by encouraging said smart people to come up with new ideas and produce stuff that otherwise might not get produced.
So do software patents. The difference is, free software innovation can be addressed by government funding. Whereas the owner of a software patent has a monopoly and can charge prohibitively high licensing fees to prevent competition.
What do you mean - do you mean they'll say "Yeah, it's because I'm black, and like everyone knows, blacks are not as hard working"? I am at a loss to understand what you mean.
In what way do they use minority rights as a cover up, in your view?
But wouldn't the expense of creating a secure cross-platform e-filing system, be more than offset by the efficiency savings resulting from more people e-filing?
The law therefore has very little teeth. However, many companies comply anyway, either because they would have anyway to attract enough competent workers, or because they don't want the hassle and the bad publicity. There are a few who don't. The worst offenders, I understand, are certain employers of foreign migrant labourers (legal or illegal immigrants).
(a) Network effects
(b) It's not always possible for product X to be "sufficiently better" than product Y to make everyone switch, because what they do may be inherently quite simple tasks.
That's what you get for using proprietary software.
I take it you're not a libertarian then (no force). You sound more like a fascist (force valourised).
That's the most idiotic idea I've heard of this year! What's the point of having a firewall in the first place if, in the future, any app you start will simply "punch its way through" the firewall?
Think about it - the firewall will only be blocking unused ports and malformed packets, which is almost completely useless!!