Seriously, I love it here - I am going to school in Canada, so I've been here for about two years now. I am sure most of it is not great (but then neither is much of the US), but I am quite enjoying myself here in Montreal.
While on paper this is a "less free" country, in practice a lot more common sense is applied to the way things are done. One of my fouvorite parts - most movies that are rated 'R' in the US are rated 'G' here, and I have to say it really doesn't look like the MPAA's the one that's right:)
I am not seeing what you are getting at - the point of Samba is to provide Windows interoperability, if you "abandon MS support" that point is kind of defeated.
Samba isn't something that Linux needs, it's something that Linux needs when working in a Windows environment.
How infectious is the GPL anyway? If a GPL program that implements TCP/IP is distributed, doesn't TCP/IP now fall under the GPL? And then, by extension, anything that implements TCP/IP??
What are you just fucking insane? How does implementing a protocol change that protocol itself?
Well what the fuck did you do? Sat on your ass and read/.? Yeah, that's much more impressive.
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Of course this assumes that software piracy actually "costs" the companies money. How many of the people who get pirated software would pay the ridiculous prices for it, had the sites been shut down - 1 in 1,000? 1 in 100,000?
Alright if someone writes a cross platform script to do these submissions (I am sure you don't need the actual plugin to send the submission), I'll run it 24/7 on the 5 computers I have around:)
Where do you "see" the song? And what exactly will the button tell RIAA?
So, I fire up Kazaa, see a bunch of copyrighted songs, press 'F' a few times, RIAA gets the message "Copyrighted songs spotted at Kazaa!" It's not like any significant amount (any at all?) of copyrighted music (or video) is distributed over the web. It's probably a bit more for software, but I'd still say that's far from the majority of it.
Do you realize that if everyone thought (and wrote) about things in a similar way to yours, then Slashdot (and in fact most internet "publications") would not exist?
wonderful; you just forgot to add the part about the "majority of/.ers" and a racial stereotype or two, and you'd be well on your way with this well thought out argument.
and hell, these "masses" distributions don't even claim to provide anything "better" they provide "cheaper" and "no MS fist around your balls"er
because you cannot explain to a non-technical person that "easy to use" != "is like windows"; to them easy to use does mean it has to be exactly like Windows, because that's the only thing they know how to use (as far as that applies) and consequently find everything else "hard"
Never really thought about StarWars in a "literary" context much, but this did make me reflect that it not only follows Joseph Campbell's briefer pattern to the letter, but also is fairly close to the "general" pattern for heroic myth (shamelessly taken from Classical Mythology, Images and Insights by Stephen L. Harris and Gloria Platzner):
The hero's mother is a royal virgin (we'll find out soon enough, I guess)
His father is a king
The circumstances of his conception and birth are unusual, and
He is reputed to be the son of a god (close enough, I'd say)
At birth an attempt is made, often by his father or maternal grandfather, to kill him, but
He is spirited away, and
He is raised by foster-parents in a far country (you know, a far, far away kind of country)
On reaching manhood, he returns or travels to his future kingdom
He of makes a journey to the Underworld, or the shades of the dead may visit him (the latter is obvious, I think the former is a bit more of a stretch
AFter he triumphs over the king and/or a giant, dragon, or wild beast,
He marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor, and
He becomes king
the rest of it goes on about how his life ends, which isn't really relevant I suppose. Anyway, with a strech or two here and there and a bit of a twist with the whole princess thing, the trilogy pretty much hits every single point.
Personally, I'd say it's more of a case of not being that original, rather than direct "borrowing" - people couldn't come up with anything new for millenia, and Lucas just isn't all that special.
I've heard something about the possiblity to compile Mozilla to use Qt - anyone have experience with that? And if it does work, does that mean that if I switch to Mozilla, my browser will finally look as sweet as the rest of KDE (with Mosfet's Liquid engine)? Oh, Konqueror, just doesn't do it for me functionality wise.
Reading a law is boring, not to mention that it now changes every five minutes.:)
So what you are saying then is that it would be illegal for me to make a copy of the CD, bring that to work and listen to it with my co-workers, while listening to the original when I am home; but it's not illegal if I drag the actual CD around with me and do the same? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense (not saying anything about it being the law or not, not knowing anything about that).
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That's the point! It's not the person patenting this that's causing the "uproar" it's the patent office.
While on paper this is a "less free" country, in practice a lot more common sense is applied to the way things are done. One of my fouvorite parts - most movies that are rated 'R' in the US are rated 'G' here, and I have to say it really doesn't look like the MPAA's the one that's right :)
Samba isn't something that Linux needs, it's something that Linux needs when working in a Windows environment.
Or more open systems - the world doesn't end with GPL and LGPL you know. Plus kinda seems to go against the whole idea of "free" software.
What are you just fucking insane? How does implementing a protocol change that protocol itself?
the day of the obvious today?
Obviously Apache will beat IIS at Apache's own game.
Well yeah, that's what kids are, what's the problem?
I use it all the time, when I am logged in remotely somewhere and need to edit config files and the like; but yeah, I hardly see the point otherwise.
I kinda thought it was a tongue in cheek joke... no need to get your shorts in a bunch.
Well what the fuck did you do? Sat on your ass and read /.? Yeah, that's much more impressive.
Of course this assumes that software piracy actually "costs" the companies money. How many of the people who get pirated software would pay the ridiculous prices for it, had the sites been shut down - 1 in 1,000? 1 in 100,000?
Yeah, there's a tought thing to do. Blueberry muffins can be attacked using the DMCA!
Alright if someone writes a cross platform script to do these submissions (I am sure you don't need the actual plugin to send the submission), I'll run it 24/7 on the 5 computers I have around :)
So, I fire up Kazaa, see a bunch of copyrighted songs, press 'F' a few times, RIAA gets the message "Copyrighted songs spotted at Kazaa!" It's not like any significant amount (any at all?) of copyrighted music (or video) is distributed over the web. It's probably a bit more for software, but I'd still say that's far from the majority of it.
Why would anyone be using any sort of instant messanger at work? I really am curious. Do these people have nothing better to be doing?
Do you realize that if everyone thought (and wrote) about things in a similar way to yours, then Slashdot (and in fact most internet "publications") would not exist?
heh, that's kinda funny :)
and hell, these "masses" distributions don't even claim to provide anything "better" they provide "cheaper" and "no MS fist around your balls"er
because you cannot explain to a non-technical person that "easy to use" != "is like windows"; to them easy to use does mean it has to be exactly like Windows, because that's the only thing they know how to use (as far as that applies) and consequently find everything else "hard"
I would've done more, but the site seems to have gotten /.ed as I was writing this helpful post.
- The hero's mother is a royal virgin (we'll find out soon enough, I guess)
- His father is a king
- The circumstances of his conception and birth are unusual, and
- He is reputed to be the son of a god (close enough, I'd say)
- At birth an attempt is made, often by his father or maternal grandfather, to kill him, but
- He is spirited away, and
- He is raised by foster-parents in a far country (you know, a far, far away kind of country)
- On reaching manhood, he returns or travels to his future kingdom
- He of makes a journey to the Underworld, or the shades of the dead may visit him (the latter is obvious, I think the former is a bit more of a stretch
- AFter he triumphs over the king and/or a giant, dragon, or wild beast,
- He marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor, and
- He becomes king
the rest of it goes on about how his life ends, which isn't really relevant I suppose. Anyway, with a strech or two here and there and a bit of a twist with the whole princess thing, the trilogy pretty much hits every single point.Personally, I'd say it's more of a case of not being that original, rather than direct "borrowing" - people couldn't come up with anything new for millenia, and Lucas just isn't all that special.
I've heard something about the possiblity to compile Mozilla to use Qt - anyone have experience with that? And if it does work, does that mean that if I switch to Mozilla, my browser will finally look as sweet as the rest of KDE (with Mosfet's Liquid engine)? Oh, Konqueror, just doesn't do it for me functionality wise.
Yeah this whole sarcasm thing just doesn't carry over well on /. - I've been affected more than once...
So what you are saying then is that it would be illegal for me to make a copy of the CD, bring that to work and listen to it with my co-workers, while listening to the original when I am home; but it's not illegal if I drag the actual CD around with me and do the same? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense (not saying anything about it being the law or not, not knowing anything about that).