How many of these fools don't read their licenses before buying the software? How many of them think that they pay money, get some software, and then they own it and can do whatever they want with it? You can buy software like you can buy groceries, even my local grocery store has a software display! Can we blame Joe Average for thinking he actually OWNS what he bought?
Somehow we need one or two popular newspapers to print the GPL side by side with the Microsoft EULA, so people can see what they've been locked into! Just put the two licenses side by side and add some commentary, and bingo, instant illumination!
It wasn't judge Patel who said "smells bad looks bad is bad", that was napster's own counsel. The good judge referred the question to experts, and accepted that the argument might be valid.
I dunno, when are the editors going to stop playing up and exaggerating stories? I don't understand sometimes. You know I only read slashdot because it has this wonderful user base and excellent moderation system, which makes it the most readable "news" site on the net.
"Linux is just a tool to get people off Windows and over to some from of Unix. Then once they have customers moved to Linux they will then start to convince them now they need to move up a their commericial Unix "
Suits me. The more applications on *nix environments the better for all us *nix developers. What real difference does it make whether companies choose Tru64, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tomix, Dickix or Harrix?
Have a good, close look at the illustration on the front page of the mircorp website. It looks like the new 'station' is about the size of a Soyuz! For the uninitiated, if you squint at the page and stand on your head you can see three roughly-identical objects stuck together. The object on the left is the Soyuz that gets you there, the one hanging down is the Progress cargo ship that brings supplies, and the one in the middle is the "station".
The main difference between a Soyuz and a station seems to be a new ventral docking port right below the main port, for the Progress.
This would be ludicrously cheap and easy to build and put into space, but if three people are to live there it would be awful cramped.
That said... I'd go!
"He's heading for that tiny moon"
"That's no moon. That's a space station!"
"It's too small to be a space station."
Low-orbit satellites have orbital velocities of several miles per second, so if you want to have a better look at that Chinese ICBM base, Helios could be a choice.
Of all the potential applications, this must be the killer.
This thing is a fantastic spy plane! Just think of the advantages over a conventional spy plane or satellite. Instead of waiting for a satellite to pass over the target area, or sending a recon flight, you can monitor your target 24 hours a day with live action video! And it has such a small radar signature that they won't even know you're there!
"It's not your piece of paper
It's not your pen
Neither of them belong to you so how can you possibly expect any ideas that you write down to belong to you?"
"Many users rely on resources that rate web sites that provide information and products. Others rely on "trust-marks" or a seal designating that the site abides by a given standard. Problems with these approaches have been that 1) ratings can never be complete nor comprehensive and depend heavily on the tools used, and 2) adherence to trust-mark standards cannot be enforced."
What rot! WHO can already certify sites! The procedure?
Web site registers its name and address with WHO website
WHO official examines site.
On approval an approval number is generated, the site name, address, comments and approval number are added to a WHO database, and the webmaster is emailed a link to display on their site, which links to "http://who.int/approve.php?approvalnumber=1234"
The DU (Dumb User) clicks the link. The WHO page approve.php reads the parameter, looks up the approval database and displays the site name, address, comments.
"DeCSS" means any computer program, file or device that may be used to decrypt or unscramble the contents of DVDs that are protected, or otherwise to circumvent the protection afforded, by CSS and that permits the copying of the contents or any portion thereof.
However this is pretty broad. It seems to cover
Licensed players
Licensed decoders
Software which can read the signal sent to a video card
VCRs [which can record the output of a DVD player, admittedly at a lower quality, but this IS "any portion thereof"]
After the success of the radical pathfinder landing method with the airbags, I thought NASA would start dropping airbag landers all over the place. But what we got were more rocket landers.
For goodness sake dudes, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that landing robots on a planet 45 light-minutes away is much much much easier if you can just drop it and forget it, rather than have a computer control a bunch of rockets.
Aw screw it - I'm tired and jetlagged and don wanna play no more.
I don't want to play games about who or what owns who; I just want to get my work done.
Hear hear! This is the reason I gave for moving from SCO to Linux at the last company I worked for: the most annoying error message I have ever seen "too many users for this client license". BAH!
Postscript: they stayed with SCO, I left last year, 3 months later they became an all-Linux shop.
This is such an excellent FUD principle that it should be wrought in iron above the gates of spin-doctor school:
Always accuse your opposition of your own worst failing.
If you folow this strategy, the worst your opponent can do is say "Yeah? Well, firstly that's not true, and secondly I don't do that, you do," which sounds incredibly lame.
I dunno about you, but after reading this interview with George, I'm very much looking forward to episode three:
...and then the third film is very, very, very dark. It's not a happy movie by any stretch of the imagination. It's a tragedy. People think of the Star Wars movie as happy movies. What they're going to do about a tragedy, I don't know. It will probably be the least successful of all the Star Wars movies - but I know that.
Set your cybersittter filters to ban all Microsoft news stories, pour wax in your ears, turn off the TV and don't buy the paper. If this appeal lasts as long as they are saying, the facts (little things like faking evidence) are going to slowly leak out to the mainstream press. Us non-rabid anti-MS peoples will be eagarly reading developments, with fingers crossed that justice will prevail and MS will be dragged off in chains to be decapitated.
Voice recognition, Active Directory, and even ping are not part of any modern operating system. They come bundled with it, but they are not part of it.
The OS provides access to the hardware, that's all. Hardware drivers are the only function of an OS, everything else is libraries and applications.
Ping is not a part of any OS that I know of, even Windows! It's a separate program, calling the network driver libraries, which in turn call the device drivers in the OS.
The desktop should not be considered part of the OS. It is what we call a "graphical shell", a sort of visual layer that sits in front of the OS.
Ah stuffit, I didn't come to slashdot to argue, not on a wonderful day like today! Let's all break out the champagne!
[pop] [fizzzzzz] Whahey! Yahoo! [the exclamation not the company]
Assuming (as I think everyone does) that over the next few million years AI becomes the next evolutionary step, and also assuming that eBay's big money defeats small money in this case, historians will look back on this trial and see the first victory of the rights of a human over the rights of an AI which performs the same job.
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Somehow we need one or two popular newspapers to print the GPL side by side with the Microsoft EULA, so people can see what they've been locked into! Just put the two licenses side by side and add some commentary, and bingo, instant illumination!
Ah, I can dream, can't I?
It wasn't judge Patel who said "smells bad looks bad is bad", that was napster's own counsel. The good judge referred the question to experts, and accepted that the argument might be valid.
I dunno, when are the editors going to stop playing up and exaggerating stories? I don't understand sometimes. You know I only read slashdot because it has this wonderful user base and excellent moderation system, which makes it the most readable "news" site on the net.
When you have to take out a second mortgage to buy a new monitor, you know your toyphillia is getting out of hand.
You want really cool?
How about a computer using a simulated environment to evolve a simulated robot, then using a 3d printer to build the robot, and it works!
Now THAT is cool.
Suits me. The more applications on *nix environments the better for all us *nix developers. What real difference does it make whether companies choose Tru64, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tomix, Dickix or Harrix?
The main difference between a Soyuz and a station seems to be a new ventral docking port right below the main port, for the Progress.
This would be ludicrously cheap and easy to build and put into space, but if three people are to live there it would be awful cramped.
That said... I'd go!
This thing is a fantastic spy plane! Just think of the advantages over a conventional spy plane or satellite. Instead of waiting for a satellite to pass over the target area, or sending a recon flight, you can monitor your target 24 hours a day with live action video! And it has such a small radar signature that they won't even know you're there!
"It's not your piece of paper It's not your pen Neither of them belong to you so how can you possibly expect any ideas that you write down to belong to you?"
This could utterly destroy America...
Hooray!
Yeah, magnets suck. :)
Now this is one page I'm going to add to my daily office-surfing schedule. Thanks Google!
For goodness sake dudes, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that landing robots on a planet 45 light-minutes away is much much much easier if you can just drop it and forget it, rather than have a computer control a bunch of rockets.
Aw screw it - I'm tired and jetlagged and don wanna play no more.
Postscript: they stayed with SCO, I left last year, 3 months later they became an all-Linux shop.
GOD how I wish I could moderate this up...
The OS provides access to the hardware, that's all. Hardware drivers are the only function of an OS, everything else is libraries and applications.
Ping is not a part of any OS that I know of, even Windows! It's a separate program, calling the network driver libraries, which in turn call the device drivers in the OS.
The desktop should not be considered part of the OS. It is what we call a "graphical shell", a sort of visual layer that sits in front of the OS.
Ah stuffit, I didn't come to slashdot to argue, not on a wonderful day like today! Let's all break out the champagne!
[pop] [fizzzzzz] Whahey! Yahoo! [the exclamation not the company]
I was going to email a great long argument to the email address given at the end of the agreement, but gave up and shortened it to:
The information posted on the website has always been public information, it's just that in the past it's been difficult to get.
The best way to get people to jump ship is to move your ship closer to theirs.
- Website X hosted in Country A
- Country B declares some information in X illegal to access for citizens of B
- Court in B takes action, ordering X to stop broadcasting to citizens of B
X's options areHow about alternative, equivalent scenarios?