Even if users can have any one of several version of IE, they all still have IE. The linux kernel is part of the OS, but users upgrade it constantly. Microsoft's argument may have been silly, but her point doesn't make sense to me.
In addition, lets take a look at where we are so many years later. Apple's industry dominating platforms are locked into iTunes and the App Store. Both of which are far more intrusive than IE ever was. Try installing Mozilla AppFox or FireTunes on your iPad...
This is more a case of stupidity in that he apparently confused plagiarism with copyright infringement. The more important aspect (to me) is that he is such a foolish person that he couldn't even explain the reasoning for himself. Not only did he require copying wikipedia, but he didn't even justify the new law. According to the article, he simply took the paragraphs that DEFINED plagiarism. This shows he has a complete misunderstanding of the topic, and worse, is apparently not smart enough to gather his own thoughts about a subject he wants to legislate.
I'm sure he will stay in office, as he is probably very good at winning popularity wars with opponents. I wish I could say that my own elected officials were better, but I know that isn't the case. Politicians in the US are only slightly better at disguising their ignorance.
The word "Perfect" neither requires nor allows a conditional modifier. "Effectively Perfect" makes no literal sense.
This makes it unsurprising that their approach seems uninspired. For example, who says the template cannot change? What if their template matches real email notes? What about image spam?
Email and Spam are like global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play. (Spam will only go away when email does)
If I remember correctly, one of these companies donated their tool to many open source projects, including Linux and the BSDs. I think it led to a wave of commits as 'bugs' were fixed. It seemed like a pretty good endorsement to me...
If you are a carrier in telephony, you should have many load-balanced servers that can be taken offline one at a time and restored after patching. They probably would be taken out of the loop for the in-place patching anyway. So who is "clamoring"?
This article doesn't seem to put much effort into proving their point. In addition, they seem to completely ignore the possibility of Google forcing ISP mail users to submit to an agreement of their own devising, causing all personal email to be subject to data mining efforts. Whether it be for advertising or for future nefarious purposes, its much more of a downside than is "no domain name portability (boo-hoo)".
When a disc is terribly scratched or cracked and they send it back, simply throw it in the garbage and report a missing disc. That happens so often they make no fuss about it. Plus, its not like you are hurting their bottom line. The disc was damaged anyway. If anything, you saved them a few superfluous shipping fees.
"An anonymous points out the inaugural issue of Darker Matter, which start off with a bang by publishing an interview with the late Douglas Adams that has not seen the light of day in 28 years, except for brief excerpts published in the magazine that commissioned the interview. The first two parts are now online with the last part coming next month."
My GoDaddy service was interrupted today. The godaddy.com website was working but my domains were not. However, the problems seem to have been fixed now.
Slashdot Mirror
Even if users can have any one of several version of IE, they all still have IE. The linux kernel is part of the OS, but users upgrade it constantly. Microsoft's argument may have been silly, but her point doesn't make sense to me.
In addition, lets take a look at where we are so many years later. Apple's industry dominating platforms are locked into iTunes and the App Store. Both of which are far more intrusive than IE ever was. Try installing Mozilla AppFox or FireTunes on your iPad...
The demo from HSR is way too slow to be useful. Is this the popular experience?
This is more a case of stupidity in that he apparently confused plagiarism with copyright infringement. The more important aspect (to me) is that he is such a foolish person that he couldn't even explain the reasoning for himself. Not only did he require copying wikipedia, but he didn't even justify the new law. According to the article, he simply took the paragraphs that DEFINED plagiarism. This shows he has a complete misunderstanding of the topic, and worse, is apparently not smart enough to gather his own thoughts about a subject he wants to legislate.
I'm sure he will stay in office, as he is probably very good at winning popularity wars with opponents. I wish I could say that my own elected officials were better, but I know that isn't the case. Politicians in the US are only slightly better at disguising their ignorance.
FAIL.
I'm pretty sure this was posted to already.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1641232/Universe-Has-100x-More-Entropy-Than-We-Thought
October 6th 2009
The word "Perfect" neither requires nor allows a conditional modifier. "Effectively Perfect" makes no literal sense.
This makes it unsurprising that their approach seems uninspired. For example, who says the template cannot change? What if their template matches real email notes? What about image spam?
Email and Spam are like global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play. (Spam will only go away when email does)
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heh. +1
Can it correctly render Slashdot now? Seems like an obvious enough test to me... but O9 can't seem to do it out of the box.
As posted on Engadget, they are clearing out the 20GB model to be replaced by a 60GB model.
If I remember correctly, one of these companies donated their tool to many open source projects, including Linux and the BSDs. I think it led to a wave of commits as 'bugs' were fixed. It seemed like a pretty good endorsement to me...
If you are a carrier in telephony, you should have many load-balanced servers that can be taken offline one at a time and restored after patching. They probably would be taken out of the loop for the in-place patching anyway. So who is "clamoring"?
I came here to say Zenburn.
This article doesn't seem to put much effort into proving their point. In addition, they seem to completely ignore the possibility of Google forcing ISP mail users to submit to an agreement of their own devising, causing all personal email to be subject to data mining efforts. Whether it be for advertising or for future nefarious purposes, its much more of a downside than is "no domain name portability (boo-hoo)".
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Soldier of Fortune 2 had randomized multiplayer maps many years ago.
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the Internet : global exchange of ideas :: air : talking
When a disc is terribly scratched or cracked and they send it back, simply throw it in the garbage and report a missing disc. That happens so often they make no fuss about it. Plus, its not like you are hurting their bottom line. The disc was damaged anyway. If anything, you saved them a few superfluous shipping fees.
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If you don't think Intel is going to jump on the DRM bandwagon, you are sadly mistaken.
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One wonders if these "researchers" have ever actually used p2p...
(see subject)
"An anonymous points out the inaugural issue of Darker Matter, which start off with a bang by publishing an interview with the late Douglas Adams that has not seen the light of day in 28 years, except for brief excerpts published in the magazine that commissioned the interview. The first two parts are now online with the last part coming next month."
(in case they fix it)
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My GoDaddy service was interrupted today. The godaddy.com website was working but my domains were not. However, the problems seem to have been fixed now.
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How is this news?
A media player goes from version 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 -> FRONT PAGE
WTF??
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UGH, Jack Thompson is such a douche bag.
Really, I can't think of any better way to put it.
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Government. - thats the joke, nothing else needed.
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All I can say is...
Quake 3
Just my favorite game.
Lets see... i guess some others would be
some of the Zelda games
Rome Total War
Contra
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