While you can certainly uninstall the ad-supported software program, simply removing the advertising component will likely cause the program to stop working, or at the very least would be software piracy.
What the fuck!?!?! Does anyone else see something wrong with this sentence?
If I modify a copy of a program I'm given, I'm a pirate... right....
Some of the greatest mathematicians and geniuses have also been a bit lunatic or unbalanced in one way or another (e.g. Godel, Turing, Erdos). And certainly a person doing something stupid UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS doesn't indicate that they're stupid or not worth preserving in some way.
Even then, you're still admitting that you "browsed around" things you "shouldn't have been looking at" (thinking with the knuckledraggers mindset here). By the "logic" of this case, they could still try to have you prosecuted in retaliation.
Well, they have to if they want to stay profitable. They've done Windows, they've done Office, they've done the Backoffice stuff. And they're running out of ideas to steal and competitors to buy out. Hence the warmed-up hype that is.NET. They have to keep adding new, profitable "features" and making people perceive them as useful (even if they aren't) to get enough people to upgrade. That doesn't imply that what comes out of MS R&D will necessarily be useful (to us, rather than MS), just that we'll be told that it's useful.
There are countless examples of braindead design like this in MS development products.
Absolutely agree. If I could sum up what most irks me about MS in two words, it would be "braindead design". Sometimes they get it right, but too often they get it wrong.
They settled out of court with Sun recently. Part of the agreement was MS would not have access to new Java tech and would only be able to continue using their current Java tech (original code came from Sun) for a few more years. So they have to phase it out. So blame Sun!
But really it's not a big issue (especially with Java Web Start). Compare and contrast: "Hey, Visual Basic will never take off! You need a VB Runtime library to be installed, and no user would EVER bother to do that, NOOOOO...."
No matter how optimised the VM will always be a speed killer.
Not true. Have you ever heard of dynamic optimisation? A dynamic optimizing VM like Hotspot can actually run some code faster than native code, because it tunes the code to actual runtime conditions.
If C is a product of A and B which can't vary, then C can't vary. Also, if C is defined as AB then, equivalently, B could have been defined as C/A instead. Your atomic/composite distinction is meaningless.
I was under an uneducated layman's impression that if there will be a Big Crunch, then the universe is approx spherical-shaped in 4D anyway... i.e. it "starts off" (metaphorically speaking) very small and "ends up" very small.
I read something by Rupert Sheldrake that said that it is now "impossible" (within our current theoretical framework) to do an experiment contradicting the thesis that the speed of light is constant, because our units of length and time are both defined in terms of the speed of light, which is presupposed to be fixed. Is this correct?
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From "law or regulation X was bad", it does not follow that "all laws or regulations are bad". Obvious point, I don't know why so many people seem to miss it.
That just replaces a monopoly with another monopoly - the state.
No it doesn't. The state exists whether or not it regulates monopolies. And state regulation of competition is different to the state actually providing services monopolistically. In fact they're practically opposites.
No matter how many times you libertarians say it, "the state has guns" isn't a valid argument against regulation.
If you don't like regulation of monopolies, you're free to move to another country. No-one's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to stay in your current country. Otherwise stop whining.
No, it shows that monopolies cause problems, it doesn't show that regulation causes problems, in fact it shows that lack of regulation plus monopolies causes problems.
I just love it how some people seem to be able to twist any facts to fit the free market dogma. Just goes to show how content-free "free market" theory is. It's like astrology in that respect.
Oh yeah, everyone who doesn't know much about programming can't see the problem. But Cyc project alone has been spending years doing just what you said - and before that there were decades of research that failed to solve the person-simulation problem. It's a lot harder than it looks at first sight - and no-one really has a clue why!
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Every single article has to have at least one post (preferably several) complaining about Slashdot Linux fanaticism. It's the law.
Oh - and by the way - thumbing your nose at other people does not an argument make. It's just insulting.
What the fuck!?!?! Does anyone else see something wrong with this sentence?
If I modify a copy of a program I'm given, I'm a pirate... right....
Think before you post. Thank you.
I'm not sure about "ideological" - it's not really very clear what the concrete issues are here.
Absolutely agree. If I could sum up what most irks me about MS in two words, it would be "braindead design". Sometimes they get it right, but too often they get it wrong.
But really it's not a big issue (especially with Java Web Start). Compare and contrast: "Hey, Visual Basic will never take off! You need a VB Runtime library to be installed, and no user would EVER bother to do that, NOOOOO...."
Not true. Have you ever heard of dynamic optimisation? A dynamic optimizing VM like Hotspot can actually run some code faster than native code, because it tunes the code to actual runtime conditions.
I think you'll find (especially in cases like this!), even the scientists who encounter counterexamples are initially surprised.
No it doesn't. The state exists whether or not it regulates monopolies. And state regulation of competition is different to the state actually providing services monopolistically. In fact they're practically opposites.
No matter how many times you libertarians say it, "the state has guns" isn't a valid argument against regulation.
Yes, that was parody.
I just love it how some people seem to be able to twist any facts to fit the free market dogma. Just goes to show how content-free "free market" theory is. It's like astrology in that respect.