abandon the entire concept of intellectual property. Millions of people are suffering because they cannot afford the artifically expensive medicine. Thousands have ended in jail or with an otherwise ruined life because of some copyright violation. Innovations are beeing held back because corporations are better off selling and licensing the ancestor. New players are hard to get into any market because they cannot afford the numerous patents held by the establishment.
You CAN fight big companies and even WIN! For example: we have a very famous and rich person here in Austria, Dietrich Mateschitz, the inventor of the 'Red Bull' energy drink, he tried to stand above environmental protection proceedings and was sued by a little citizens' initiative and guess what: they won. Now everyone from the mayor of the villige where this project was planned up to the federal chancellor is creeping up his ass to save that project.
As a long time Palm (since Palm III) and Linux (since RedHat 4.2) user I appreciate this development. In my opinion Palm has brought the PDA to Linux and I think it is a logical step to bring Linux on the PDA now. Please don't forget to make a Palm emulator available as a desktop application for Linux.
I wonder how long it will take for pop-up spam advertizers to call for legislation to make pop-up blocking illegal. Law is the worst enemy of mankind and progress:-(
they'll manage to make things only worse here in Austria. For years we have had a typical thumb traffic light here at the crossing Simmeringer Hauptstrasse/Kaiserebersdorfer Strasse/Hasenleitengasse and wait times were at most 1 minute. Some years ago they have replaced this with a sensor controlled system and now you have to wait about 3 minutes, because the sensor for the second traffic light check for traffic before you can reach it after the first light turn green. Anyone remembering "Schilda"?
Correct, but we have no evolved resistence to most bacteria and yet they cannot harm us. These diseases from Europe where already pathogenic. Additionally the native population has not been administered adequate treatment.
We have to regretfully accept the fact that there will always be some people fear the progress we make and stand in it's way. Martian environment is not so much different from our's, it's just not a friendly. We may find microbes there that can resist extreme cold and heat, but there is no need for them to be resistent against antibiotic or immune systems for there are none.
When I was a child I received severely inappropriate treatment at several occasions: codeine drops against allergy induced cough, phenylmercure borate for fever blisters, a tooth inlay implanted in my gums. Do you still wonder why I don't trust medics anymore and prefer to conduct a web search for every diagnosis and medication?
I guess this gives Norway, whose court's have decided this to be legal, another push on George WW3 Bush's list of terrorist countries. Our brave norwegians have even resisted the pressure to join the european union. Remember that small village in Gaul?;-)
In the beginning, the industry sold music and movies to the people and it was good. Then they wanted to make more money and tried to sell hypes, people didn't want them and began sharing the good old stuff instead. Industry was not happy and abused their money to make this illegal. Now we develop and use secure anonymizing P2P systems to avoid getting sued, even if this means that these systems can be abused to distribute child pornography and terrorist information. These repressive governments won't win the war on neither terrorism nor copyright, we are just all going to loose.
So president Bush prefers to fight a war against terrorism to the war against global warming. The former has cost 'only' a few thousand lives, the latter endangers millions of people. But maybe it is just more convenient to manipulate citizens with fear of terrorism than to save a few drops of oil.
The definition of stealing (copyright infringement) depends very much on the current legislation. For my part there can be no stealing of intellectual property and I am pretty certain that history will agree with this once that industry stops lobbying.
The intellectual property mafia needs our money to criminalize and sue us. Just because we are no longer willing to buy albums with only one or two good tracks.
Let us realize that nobody needs this blown-up industry anymore and let them starve to death. I do not buy music anymore and I ask everyone to follow.
Old tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Businesses, however, often try other strategies. These include...
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse"
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead".
11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is now "better, faster and cheaper."
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
As the laws of entropy mandate, earth's atmosphere was initially composed of water vapour, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. The worst ecocatastrophe ever happened when photosynthesis started and oxygen was released into the atmosphere. So I find it extremely doubtful and suspect it to be a trick of the oil industry that a few more ppm carbon dioxide should endanger life on this planet.
I am most unhappy with Fedora still shipping mysql-3.28.58 and claiming to be unable to include any later release due to licensing issues.
Unfortunately the people responsible seem to favour PostgreSQL now and have yet failed to discuss this issue in depth. This is a ever recurring issue on the mailing list and I would really appreciate if you or someone else at MySQL AB could approach them.
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abandon the entire concept of intellectual property. Millions of people are suffering because they cannot afford the artifically expensive medicine. Thousands have ended in jail or with an otherwise ruined life because of some copyright violation. Innovations are beeing held back because corporations are better off selling and licensing the ancestor. New players are hard to get into any market because they cannot afford the numerous patents held by the establishment.
You CAN fight big companies and even WIN! For example: we have a very famous and rich person here in Austria, Dietrich Mateschitz, the inventor of the 'Red Bull' energy drink, he tried to stand above environmental protection proceedings and was sued by a little citizens' initiative and guess what: they won. Now everyone from the mayor of the villige where this project was planned up to the federal chancellor is creeping up his ass to save that project.
As a long time Palm (since Palm III) and Linux (since RedHat 4.2) user I appreciate this development. In my opinion Palm has brought the PDA to Linux and I think it is a logical step to bring Linux on the PDA now. Please don't forget to make a Palm emulator available as a desktop application for Linux.
I wonder how long it will take for pop-up spam advertizers to call for legislation to make pop-up blocking illegal. Law is the worst enemy of mankind and progress :-(
they'll manage to make things only worse here in Austria. For years we have had a typical thumb traffic light here at the crossing Simmeringer Hauptstrasse/Kaiserebersdorfer Strasse/Hasenleitengasse and wait times were at most 1 minute. Some years ago they have replaced this with a sensor controlled system and now you have to wait about 3 minutes, because the sensor for the second traffic light check for traffic before you can reach it after the first light turn green. Anyone remembering "Schilda"?
Impossible, virii have no ability to reproduce outside an living organism.
Correct, but we have no evolved resistence to most bacteria and yet they cannot harm us. These diseases from Europe where already pathogenic. Additionally the native population has not been administered adequate treatment.
We have to regretfully accept the fact that there will always be some people fear the progress we make and stand in it's way. Martian environment is not so much different from our's, it's just not a friendly. We may find microbes there that can resist extreme cold and heat, but there is no need for them to be resistent against antibiotic or immune systems for there are none.
this summer was not even close to being as hot as the one in 2003. Let's burn some more fuel! At least one good thing from the Bush administration.
Medics do often use latin and I think virii is the correct form in latin.
Correct, it's a manual drive operated by a servo, this makes power transmission a lot more efficient than classic automatic.
When I was a child I received severely inappropriate treatment at several occasions: codeine drops against allergy induced cough, phenylmercure borate for fever blisters, a tooth inlay implanted in my gums. Do you still wonder why I don't trust medics anymore and prefer to conduct a web search for every diagnosis and medication?
Nothing, at least for me when someone hit my smart in the back.
I guess this gives Norway, whose court's have decided this to be legal, another push on George WW3 Bush's list of terrorist countries. Our brave norwegians have even resisted the pressure to join the european union. Remember that small village in Gaul? ;-)
So the Philippines may very well be the very next country to be annihilated by George WW3 Bush.
In the beginning, the industry sold music and movies to the people and it was good. Then they wanted to make more money and tried to sell hypes, people didn't want them and began sharing the good old stuff instead. Industry was not happy and abused their money to make this illegal. Now we develop and use secure anonymizing P2P systems to avoid getting sued, even if this means that these systems can be abused to distribute child pornography and terrorist information. These repressive governments won't win the war on neither terrorism nor copyright, we are just all going to loose.
So president Bush prefers to fight a war against terrorism to the war against global warming. The former has cost 'only' a few thousand lives, the latter endangers millions of people. But maybe it is just more convenient to manipulate citizens with fear of terrorism than to save a few drops of oil.
The definition of stealing (copyright infringement) depends very much on the current legislation. For my part there can be no stealing of intellectual property and I am pretty certain that history will agree with this once that industry stops lobbying.
The intellectual property mafia needs our money to criminalize and sue us. Just because we are no longer willing to buy albums with only one or two good tracks.
Let us realize that nobody needs this blown-up industry anymore and let them starve to death. I do not buy music anymore and I ask everyone to follow.
Old tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Businesses, however, often try other strategies. These include...
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse"
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead".
11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is now "better, faster and cheaper."
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
As the laws of entropy mandate, earth's atmosphere was initially composed of water vapour, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. The worst ecocatastrophe ever happened when photosynthesis started and oxygen was released into the atmosphere. So I find it extremely doubtful and suspect it to be a trick of the oil industry that a few more ppm carbon dioxide should endanger life on this planet.
I am most unhappy with Fedora still shipping mysql-3.28.58 and claiming to be unable to include any later release due to licensing issues. Unfortunately the people responsible seem to favour PostgreSQL now and have yet failed to discuss this issue in depth. This is a ever recurring issue on the mailing list and I would really appreciate if you or someone else at MySQL AB could approach them.
I wouldn't trust my data to a database that needs to be dumped and restored for a version upgrade.
I also wouldn't use a database that doesn't understand and refuses to restore it's own dumpfiles.
And finally I wouldn't use a database where I have to check every query using explain to make sure that the query optimizer does the right thing(tm).
If postgresql is that robust, why should one don't kill -9 the postmaster?!?