what case? What are you talking about? The "case" is over. Are they going to drop the appeal? Good! Are you trying to tell us that on his first week in office dubya is gunna stand up on national television and sign a pardon for Microsoft? Please tell me in what, actual, legal, constitutional way Bush's administration is going to reverse the wheels of justice that have declared Microsoft to be a monopoly that has violated anti-trust laws?
Drop what charges?!?! The case is over! Man, what is the deal with you people. They've been found guilty, they have received sentence. You're not saying this government is going to drop any charges, what you are saying is that this newly elected government is going to pardon them. So basically what you're saying is that you can buy pardons in your country? Man, now that's capitialism.
not to mention the ex-CEO who claims he is not a monopoly to every newspaper in town and at a congressional hearing. Even though he controls 90% marketshare and, well, read the tag line: They make 24% profits on sales. Everyone else in free competitive markets is making 3 to 5% profit on sales.
am I wrong here or does it matter about didly squat what you're newly elected officials over at the whitehouse give a shit about a decision that has already been passed down even if it is in appeal? If so, I truely have to fear for your system of government where the courts are bought and sold so readily.
After all, the victim is dead, he's not comming back, the trial is just a clumsy and dangerous artificial attempt at "making things right." Oh wait! That's right, we enforce the law to stop them from doing it again. Sheesh, hang your flamebait head in shame.
Law is a respectable profession you know. Dont let The Practice tell you otherwise or the blood suckers who work for the RIAA taint your vision. Man, people truely do see a couple of bad apples and immediately throw out the barrel. Either way, you want some cheese with that whine?
actually I've always been afraid of "the country". A number of times I've gone out to a rural area and almost gone insane during the day. It's just so quiet! I find it hard to maintain a single line of thought in my head without background noise. During the night it's a different story. Trying to sleep in a rural town is totally dependant on the whether anyone has mowed the lawn that day. If they have, you lie in your bed totally incapable of falling asleep. You have no problem falling which is how I feel in complete silence. If the lawn hasn't been mowed that day you have the standard background noise of traffic replaced with crickets and other green what-have-you's. I dont know how people can stand it. Give me the sweet background noise of traffic and an occasional tram. There is only two other background noises that I can stand. A fan in summer or a thunder storm. But even a thunder storm in the country is ruined by the constant croaking of frogs.
Do they also proudly proclaim style > substance? I watched a movie today and, with true product placement style, the lead character buys an Apple iBook. She then goes into a bar and orders a Pepsi. Ladies and gentlement of the jury, I rest my case.
wow, an AC with something useful to say. Would this be what you're talking about? Don't worry, the market for vogue computing technology will open wide up when we try to squeeze those last ten years out of silicon.
Common, bitchin' about fans in computers is so 1984. Just get too carried away with this whole fanless silence thing and you end up with a computer that looks like a water cooler.
bah.. if the Microsoft EULA (which basically declares that you have agreed to the license before you even read it) can stand up in court, so can the GPL. Copyright is lame, outright.
If it's all about being free and open why don't we just make everything public domain and not restrict users. If closed-source projects use open-source code, they aren't stealing profits from open-source code because it's open anyways.
I think that's the point.. it's all about everything being free and open. RMS is not just trying to encourage Free Software, he is trying to stop closed software, which is all in all, a good thing, because you only do harm to people by closing your source.
I cant say I agree that GPL forces anyone to open their code. Indeed it does use the force of the state, so this is debatable, but I tend to think that GPL is about not wanting to aid other people in writing non-free software. This would be because non-free software is considered a Bad Thing in that it reduces freedom and causes social harm. Now RMS is not coming out and saying "Thou shalt not harm others with non-free software" (although I wouldn't be suprised if he did say this), he's just saying "If you want to go and build fences and hurt people you can do it without my help and without the help of free software".
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why is this news? One truely has to ask. If the software was portable it would be easy to port and therefore a port of the software should be news to about 10 people who want to play quake on a PDA. Yawn. But because the software is hard to port we all stand up and cheer when they port it? Why? Shouldn't we answer this news with "uhh.. we port stuff to different platforms every day, that's what writing portable code is all about?"
Not that I've played quake in the last 2 years. Bravo, you ported some software.. woo hoo.
See right now parser people are rolling their eyes. I sat with a parser guy at a conference as we were repeatable bombarded with the words "generic parser", it's not a generic parser, it's a generic XML parser. A generic parser is a very different thing all together. Should someone actually figure out a way to efficently parse arbitary grammars and write a parser to do so, then you will have a generic parser and it will supercede XML because it will be able to parse anything efficently, not just XML. So yes, in the not too distant future you can expect to see the next bit of snake oil that claims to be a "generic parser" without even looking up the definition and everyone will run to it. They will only at that point downplay the importance of XML saying it was the worst thing since LISP and list all the virtues of the new technology and its many three letter acronyms.
That and Apple's stockholders. Shiping Mac OS for the x86 would spell doom for Apple. It is a desperate play indeed and I doubt that even in the throws of death whether it would be attempted. About the only other thing that could make less sense is if they started selling PC clones. It might be possible that they would replace the motorola chip with an x86 chip and recompile Mac OS for it, but there is no way that it would run on standard PC's. ie. You will require specific hardware to get it to run. But even then, I still dont see it because it would still be a threat to their platform, albiet one that they can control with copyright and law suits against anyone who makes a run Mac OS on standard hardware. If Apple does become a software company, we will all see it coming. They will slowly sell off their factories and convince third part software developers to start porting their applications (which should be just a recompile for most). It's still utterly unthinkable with Microsoft in the game.
I think the guy's a god. Who do you know who has the balls to not alter his every day speech patterns for a press interview? Anyone who comes in and outright levels with you is ok with me. The press asked him some hard questions and he answered every single one of em without pulling any punches. That's not just downright honourable, it says something about the CEO. It says "we're so sure that this current slump is a non issue I dont even have to bullshit you about it." Not that I think he is right, but he does and that's what matters.
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is it just me or does everyone put "Steve Jobs" into "name" fields on online forms?
what case? What are you talking about? The "case" is over. Are they going to drop the appeal? Good! Are you trying to tell us that on his first week in office dubya is gunna stand up on national television and sign a pardon for Microsoft? Please tell me in what, actual, legal, constitutional way Bush's administration is going to reverse the wheels of justice that have declared Microsoft to be a monopoly that has violated anti-trust laws?
Drop what charges?!?! The case is over! Man, what is the deal with you people. They've been found guilty, they have received sentence. You're not saying this government is going to drop any charges, what you are saying is that this newly elected government is going to pardon them. So basically what you're saying is that you can buy pardons in your country? Man, now that's capitialism.
not to mention the ex-CEO who claims he is not a monopoly to every newspaper in town and at a congressional hearing. Even though he controls 90% marketshare and, well, read the tag line: They make 24% profits on sales. Everyone else in free competitive markets is making 3 to 5% profit on sales.
am I wrong here or does it matter about didly squat what you're newly elected officials over at the whitehouse give a shit about a decision that has already been passed down even if it is in appeal? If so, I truely have to fear for your system of government where the courts are bought and sold so readily.
Yes.. I absolutely love the sky at night. Stars totally own. I can stare at the sky for hours.
After all, the victim is dead, he's not comming back, the trial is just a clumsy and dangerous artificial attempt at "making things right." Oh wait! That's right, we enforce the law to stop them from doing it again. Sheesh, hang your flamebait head in shame.
Law is a respectable profession you know. Dont let The Practice tell you otherwise or the blood suckers who work for the RIAA taint your vision. Man, people truely do see a couple of bad apples and immediately throw out the barrel. Either way, you want some cheese with that whine?
actually I've always been afraid of "the country". A number of times I've gone out to a rural area and almost gone insane during the day. It's just so quiet! I find it hard to maintain a single line of thought in my head without background noise. During the night it's a different story. Trying to sleep in a rural town is totally dependant on the whether anyone has mowed the lawn that day. If they have, you lie in your bed totally incapable of falling asleep. You have no problem falling which is how I feel in complete silence. If the lawn hasn't been mowed that day you have the standard background noise of traffic replaced with crickets and other green what-have-you's. I dont know how people can stand it. Give me the sweet background noise of traffic and an occasional tram. There is only two other background noises that I can stand. A fan in summer or a thunder storm. But even a thunder storm in the country is ruined by the constant croaking of frogs.
Do they also proudly proclaim style > substance? I watched a movie today and, with true product placement style, the lead character buys an Apple iBook. She then goes into a bar and orders a Pepsi. Ladies and gentlement of the jury, I rest my case.
wow, an AC with something useful to say. Would this be what you're talking about? Don't worry, the market for vogue computing technology will open wide up when we try to squeeze those last ten years out of silicon.
or perhaps we could encourage french people to turn these t-shirts inside out.
Common, bitchin' about fans in computers is so 1984. Just get too carried away with this whole fanless silence thing and you end up with a computer that looks like a water cooler.
bah.. if the Microsoft EULA (which basically declares that you have agreed to the license before you even read it) can stand up in court, so can the GPL. Copyright is lame, outright.
commercializing != closed source.
If it's all about being free and open why don't we just make everything public domain and not restrict users. If closed-source projects use open-source code, they aren't stealing profits from open-source code because it's open anyways.
I think that's the point.. it's all about everything being free and open. RMS is not just trying to encourage Free Software, he is trying to stop closed software, which is all in all, a good thing, because you only do harm to people by closing your source.
why dont you go and get a law degree. It could make your practice.
I cant say I agree that GPL forces anyone to open their code. Indeed it does use the force of the state, so this is debatable, but I tend to think that GPL is about not wanting to aid other people in writing non-free software. This would be because non-free software is considered a Bad Thing in that it reduces freedom and causes social harm. Now RMS is not coming out and saying "Thou shalt not harm others with non-free software" (although I wouldn't be suprised if he did say this), he's just saying "If you want to go and build fences and hurt people you can do it without my help and without the help of free software".
why is this news? One truely has to ask. If the software was portable it would be easy to port and therefore a port of the software should be news to about 10 people who want to play quake on a PDA. Yawn. But because the software is hard to port we all stand up and cheer when they port it? Why? Shouldn't we answer this news with "uhh.. we port stuff to different platforms every day, that's what writing portable code is all about?"
Not that I've played quake in the last 2 years. Bravo, you ported some software.. woo hoo.
See right now parser people are rolling their eyes. I sat with a parser guy at a conference as we were repeatable bombarded with the words "generic parser", it's not a generic parser, it's a generic XML parser. A generic parser is a very different thing all together. Should someone actually figure out a way to efficently parse arbitary grammars and write a parser to do so, then you will have a generic parser and it will supercede XML because it will be able to parse anything efficently, not just XML. So yes, in the not too distant future you can expect to see the next bit of snake oil that claims to be a "generic parser" without even looking up the definition and everyone will run to it. They will only at that point downplay the importance of XML saying it was the worst thing since LISP and list all the virtues of the new technology and its many three letter acronyms.
Press interview, reseller interview.. whatever.. the guy owns.
common. Doesn't the POSIX standard mean anything to you?
and it never will.
That and Apple's stockholders. Shiping Mac OS for the x86 would spell doom for Apple. It is a desperate play indeed and I doubt that even in the throws of death whether it would be attempted. About the only other thing that could make less sense is if they started selling PC clones. It might be possible that they would replace the motorola chip with an x86 chip and recompile Mac OS for it, but there is no way that it would run on standard PC's. ie. You will require specific hardware to get it to run. But even then, I still dont see it because it would still be a threat to their platform, albiet one that they can control with copyright and law suits against anyone who makes a run Mac OS on standard hardware. If Apple does become a software company, we will all see it coming. They will slowly sell off their factories and convince third part software developers to start porting their applications (which should be just a recompile for most). It's still utterly unthinkable with Microsoft in the game.
I think the guy's a god. Who do you know who has the balls to not alter his every day speech patterns for a press interview? Anyone who comes in and outright levels with you is ok with me. The press asked him some hard questions and he answered every single one of em without pulling any punches. That's not just downright honourable, it says something about the CEO. It says "we're so sure that this current slump is a non issue I dont even have to bullshit you about it." Not that I think he is right, but he does and that's what matters.