I don't, exactly, see how this can be. Are you claiming that the USPS will deliver mail originating from Russia for less than they will deliver mail originating in the U.S.?
If I send a parcel from here to, say, England, I have to pay more postage because I must cover the cost from the USPS to take it to GB and also the cost from the British mail service to deliver it to the final address.
But if what you say is true, then Russians must be getting a discount from the USPS!
Mocking people is not an effective form of discussion.
Remote X is still not as widely used as it is endlessly hyped to be. You know it's true.
I most certainly don't "know it's true." And your repeated assertions don't make it any more real. In fact, everyone I know who uses Unix for real work (read: not playing Kohan or Chromium on their single Linux box at home) use remote X sessions every day.
Remote X isn't widely used in the business world, either. Get a job and find out.
This is perhaps true in places where Unix is also not widely used. If you are using Unix and not taking advantage of the X Window System's remote capabilities then I pity you.
When people come to me with, "My machine is doing [whatever]," I chat with them for a bit until they finally ask when I am going to come fix their problem. I tell them, "I already fixed it."
This is another reason why the Sprint example is unlike the Microsoft example. A service contract for wireless minutes is not exactly like a service contract for software upgrades, is it?
If I pay for 1000 minutes of wireless service, I expect to receive 1000 minutes. If I go over then I owe more. It doesn't make any difference who dials the phone.
On the other hand, if I pay for three years of upgrades, I expect three years of upgrades. There is no "going over" in terms of number of upgrades I'm owed. So if I pay off the contract early, I don't expect Microsoft to yank the rung out from under my upgrade path.
But if I paid off the balance of the contract (which is what the customer in question has to do in the case of the Microsoft license), then Sprint is still obligated to provide the service. It doesn't matter who's holding the phone.
With Microsoft, the charge for breaking the contract is the balance of the contract. Not quite the same as what you are describing with the Sprint PCS example.
I don't typically like "me too" posts, but I feel compelled to stand up and shout my agreemennt. The ability to roll back disk changes, or to keep clean installs handy, has to be one of top three reasons I use VMWare. And setting up mixed OS networking environments must be one of the other top three.
(For those that MUST know, the other is the ability to copy-and-paste between OS's.)
You must include the license with a binary or source redistribution.
Attaching a licence file to a distribution is not very onerous, especially where the succinct BSD licence is concerned.
Also, common copyright law means you can't slap a GPL license on it because you felt like it.
Who says? I see nothing in the BSD licence that keeps you from doing what you want with the software, even if what you want is to impose a more restrictive GPL license on your distribution.
Incidentally, I've always appreciated the wording of the MIT license, as it makes explicit that you may do as you wish, including sub-licensing. In legal terms, however, it is no different than BSD on this point.
The freest code is Public Domain.
Perhaps true. But unlike MIT, BSD, and the like, Public Domain affords no real protection from losing your shirt in court because you wrote some software. And, like I said, the retention of Copyrights is not very onerous. (Remember, by asserting my Copyright, I am saying that, "I retain the right to copy my stuff." The license makes explicit that the recipient has that same right, so there's no real loss of freedom there.)
When you drive into a downtown at night to see a show, and you park your car, do you leave it unlocked?
Your comparison still breaks down, unless you think it should be legal to enter into an unlocked car and do damage or take things that aren't yours. You do think it should be illegal to break into others' cars, don't you?
All the parent is saying is that it should be similarly illegal to misrepresent yourself or your intentions in email.
And by the way, the fact that spam is legal, or at least possibly legal depending on jurisdiction or whatever, in some ways legitimize the act, and so worsen the problem.
Except that ioctlsocket() is a braindead subsitute for fcntl() and ioctl(). Try, for example, to discover whether a socket is blocking or non-blocking without fcntl().
(As far as I can tell, it can't be done in Win32.)
To begin, "The Turkey Farm Game" was written solely to demonstrate the basics of DirectX to first-year students. He has also written a book on parallel complexity theory, which is likely beyond the comprehension of the many undoubtedly talented authors of those games you mention. So what's your point?
You're ignorant assessment of Dr. Parberry as a "Wanna be Comp Sci prof" only proves you've never met him. He is one of the most talented and intelligent men I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
And while this new school is probably very good, that does not make all other game-related courses of study bad.
I've taken the class at North Texas. Ian Parberry is NOT a "wanna be Comp Sci prof." He's mentioned in Knuth's Art of Computer Programming and he has himself authored several books and papers on diverse CompSci topics. He's a walking mass of grey matter who loves to write and play games.
GWBush does everything in his power to ignore/obstruct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Supposing that your unsubstanciated statement and its associated insinuation were true, all you have said is that the President's political priorities changed because of a major world event. There is still nothing necessarily idiotic about it.
If you want to be the cop of the world, you are responsible for each little fight happening anywhere.
This is false. Even if we assume that the U.S. wants to be the cop of the world, which is also false.
If all of your political ideology comes from Marvel comic characters, you may want to shy away from serious political debate in the future.
You had me until that last one. Let's see...
Sep, 2001: Enemies of the U.S. kill thousands of U.S . citizens, promise further attacks.
Oct, 2001: President of the U.S. vows to come down hard on the perpetrators. U.S. citizens approve.
What's idiotic about that, exactly?
I suppose I will never understand how Bush-haters have become so cavalier in their disposition that they believe it is a foregone conclusion that anyone who approves of his governance must be a "frickin idiot."
you can do so totally as an anonymous customer that I assure you NO clerk will remember five minutes after you leave
Ah! But there are security cameras at CompUSA. So the Feds, having determined that the dispatch in question came from a particular store at a particular time can go and check the tapes to see if they happened to catch a glimpse of the person using the internet machines just then.
Out of curiosity, what the heck is a terrorist going to do with internet access that we're so afraid of?
Talk to my fellow terrorists, of course! With every one of the listed access points, there is the possibility that someone could identify me.
If I'm using the public library frequently to contact my partners, the authorities at least have a lead on where they ought to be watching for me.
If I am using someone's wireless, nobody has to see my face at all. And if they trace the messages back to their source, the schmuck who owns the wireless hub gets hassled and still nobody's seen my face. I'll just go and tap one of the many other open wireless networks.
Our lives are filled with fuzzy boundaries. Why are you suddenly no longer a child at 18?
18 years old is not a fuzzy boundary. It's occurance can be measured to the minute. You may or may not agree with this boundary, but it is not fuzzy at all.
You can argue that an embryo of a certain age is only a patch of tissue without a functioning nervous system or active brain.
This example is completely different from the 18-year-old example in that this one is completely unknowable in the general case. How old is the embryo, exactly? Can one non-destructively examine a living embryo and extrapolate the time of conseption and, therefore, the age of that embryo. No.
This is exactly the reason that laws cannot be made that way. There is a fine line between "sex with a minor" and "sex with a consenting adult." There must also be an absolutely determinable difference between "tissue removal" and "murder."
Because every law requires a boundary. Otherwise it can be misapplied and used unjustly.
And why are birth and conception the only two "reasonable" boundaries?
Can you name another reasonable boundary? Fifth birthday? Is that a good boundary? First trimester? Can you know when that is unless you know the exact time of conception? Even if you do know the exact time of conception, is that enough to determine when the first trimester is complete? (Assuming that the first trimester (or any other arbitrary point between conception and birth) were, in fact, a reasonable boundary.)
Absolutely nothing I did on a 286 in 1992 would be "demanding" to modern hardware. OTOH, I'm not sure that the CVS version of SDL would even run on a 286.
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If I send a parcel from here to, say, England, I have to pay more postage because I must cover the cost from the USPS to take it to GB and also the cost from the British mail service to deliver it to the final address.
But if what you say is true, then Russians must be getting a discount from the USPS!
Mocking people is not an effective form of discussion.
Remote X is still not as widely used as it is endlessly hyped to be. You know it's true.
I most certainly don't "know it's true." And your repeated assertions don't make it any more real. In fact, everyone I know who uses Unix for real work (read: not playing Kohan or Chromium on their single Linux box at home) use remote X sessions every day.
"No infidels use X network transparency. Never!"
He'd be perfect for the job.
This is perhaps true in places where Unix is also not widely used. If you are using Unix and not taking advantage of the X Window System's remote capabilities then I pity you.
When people come to me with, "My machine is doing [whatever]," I chat with them for a bit until they finally ask when I am going to come fix their problem. I tell them, "I already fixed it."
Give me a call when I can run NOTEPAD.EXE remotely.
You're kidding, right? I have recompiled my kernel many times, but never for new hardware. That is what modules are for.
Can I use ksh, then?
If I pay for 1000 minutes of wireless service, I expect to receive 1000 minutes. If I go over then I owe more. It doesn't make any difference who dials the phone.
On the other hand, if I pay for three years of upgrades, I expect three years of upgrades. There is no "going over" in terms of number of upgrades I'm owed. So if I pay off the contract early, I don't expect Microsoft to yank the rung out from under my upgrade path.
With Microsoft, the charge for breaking the contract is the balance of the contract. Not quite the same as what you are describing with the Sprint PCS example.
(For those that MUST know, the other is the ability to copy-and-paste between OS's.)
Attaching a licence file to a distribution is not very onerous, especially where the succinct BSD licence is concerned.
Also, common copyright law means you can't slap a GPL license on it because you felt like it.
Who says? I see nothing in the BSD licence that keeps you from doing what you want with the software, even if what you want is to impose a more restrictive GPL license on your distribution.
Incidentally, I've always appreciated the wording of the MIT license, as it makes explicit that you may do as you wish, including sub-licensing. In legal terms, however, it is no different than BSD on this point.
The freest code is Public Domain.
Perhaps true. But unlike MIT, BSD, and the like, Public Domain affords no real protection from losing your shirt in court because you wrote some software. And, like I said, the retention of Copyrights is not very onerous. (Remember, by asserting my Copyright, I am saying that, "I retain the right to copy my stuff." The license makes explicit that the recipient has that same right, so there's no real loss of freedom there.)
Your comparison still breaks down, unless you think it should be legal to enter into an unlocked car and do damage or take things that aren't yours. You do think it should be illegal to break into others' cars, don't you?
All the parent is saying is that it should be similarly illegal to misrepresent yourself or your intentions in email.
And by the way, the fact that spam is legal, or at least possibly legal depending on jurisdiction or whatever, in some ways legitimize the act, and so worsen the problem.
(As far as I can tell, it can't be done in Win32.)
Try reading the whole sentence. He wasn't comparing USB-1 and USB-2.
No. It's the Law of Cognitive Gravity. So called because it doesn't affect Wile E. Coyote, for example, until he realizes it should.
You're ignorant assessment of Dr. Parberry as a "Wanna be Comp Sci prof" only proves you've never met him. He is one of the most talented and intelligent men I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
And while this new school is probably very good, that does not make all other game-related courses of study bad.
"Dr. Blue" is also a pretty smart guy. :)
Supposing that your unsubstanciated statement and its associated insinuation were true, all you have said is that the President's political priorities changed because of a major world event. There is still nothing necessarily idiotic about it.
If you want to be the cop of the world, you are responsible for each little fight happening anywhere.
This is false. Even if we assume that the U.S. wants to be the cop of the world, which is also false.
If all of your political ideology comes from Marvel comic characters, you may want to shy away from serious political debate in the future.
You had me until that last one. Let's see...
Sep, 2001: Enemies of the U.S. kill thousands of U.S . citizens, promise further attacks.
Oct, 2001: President of the U.S. vows to come down hard on the perpetrators. U.S. citizens approve.
What's idiotic about that, exactly?
I suppose I will never understand how Bush-haters have become so cavalier in their disposition that they believe it is a foregone conclusion that anyone who approves of his governance must be a "frickin idiot."
Ah! But there are security cameras at CompUSA. So the Feds, having determined that the dispatch in question came from a particular store at a particular time can go and check the tapes to see if they happened to catch a glimpse of the person using the internet machines just then.
Talk to my fellow terrorists, of course! With every one of the listed access points, there is the possibility that someone could identify me.
If I'm using the public library frequently to contact my partners, the authorities at least have a lead on where they ought to be watching for me.
If I am using someone's wireless, nobody has to see my face at all. And if they trace the messages back to their source, the schmuck who owns the wireless hub gets hassled and still nobody's seen my face. I'll just go and tap one of the many other open wireless networks.
18 years old is not a fuzzy boundary. It's occurance can be measured to the minute. You may or may not agree with this boundary, but it is not fuzzy at all.
You can argue that an embryo of a certain age is only a patch of tissue without a functioning nervous system or active brain.
This example is completely different from the 18-year-old example in that this one is completely unknowable in the general case. How old is the embryo, exactly? Can one non-destructively examine a living embryo and extrapolate the time of conseption and, therefore, the age of that embryo. No.
This is exactly the reason that laws cannot be made that way. There is a fine line between "sex with a minor" and "sex with a consenting adult." There must also be an absolutely determinable difference between "tissue removal" and "murder."
Because every law requires a boundary. Otherwise it can be misapplied and used unjustly.
And why are birth and conception the only two "reasonable" boundaries?
Can you name another reasonable boundary? Fifth birthday? Is that a good boundary? First trimester? Can you know when that is unless you know the exact time of conception? Even if you do know the exact time of conception, is that enough to determine when the first trimester is complete? (Assuming that the first trimester (or any other arbitrary point between conception and birth) were, in fact, a reasonable boundary.)
Quite demanding!?! You're kidding, right?
Absolutely nothing I did on a 286 in 1992 would be "demanding" to modern hardware. OTOH, I'm not sure that the CVS version of SDL would even run on a 286.
Anyway, Top Google result for the search I just did for "star control 2":
- News: Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL - Slashdot - 37 minutes ago
Google is awesome.