I may do just that. As an Arlington County resident, I'm pretty angry that they are wasting my tax dollars by using county police department and the court system here. What a waste of tax dollars. The theater could have used more discretion over this.
Good luck doing that with some of the CDMA carriers. Verizon does not allow any phone that didn't come from them onto their network. I believe Sprint does the same thing. Don't forget that even if you did purchase the phone outright, you'd still be locked in by a contract.
Unfortunately, the Ma Bell attitude continues to prevail to this day. The carriers' fascist control over cell phone devices suffocates any potential innovation in them. The same thing happened with wired phone service until the FCC enacted the Carterphone regulations. The sad thing is, it will continue to happen for wireless devices until the FCC extends those regulations to the wireless industry.
Until then or until a new carrier comes along with something different, I plan on continuing with a phone that just simply makes calls and refuse to pay for many of those extras the cell phone carriers peddle.
For those whose soul isn't currently owned by the traditional carriers, it may be worth checking out Helio. They seem to offer a lot more value and innovation in their phones. Their plans aren't unreasonable and they have good coverage due to leasing capacity from the traditional carriers. There may be some hope after all.
I've had the same experience. When I had a modem go bad on me, I called up and told them my modem was not syncing with the equipment on their end. They looked at the logs and saw the errors. As soon as I had a replacement modem, all I had to do was call them up and have them change the MAC address in the system.
Forking isn't about glory seeking. Typically, It's about a person or group of people that are unhappy with the direction of a project, and they want to take the project in their own direction. The project may not meet their needs and requirements. If the project maintainer won't take the changes, then forking the code is necessary to distribute those changes. There is nothing unethical about that. This is not only with the spirit of the GPL but in fact encouraged by the FSF. The license is all about your freedom to make and distribute changes of the code as you the user sees fit. This was the initial goal of the FSF. Community involvement is simply a byproduct of that goal. It just happens that most project maintainers will include most user changes in the main project.
Don't forget that it's quite common for code exchanges to occur between two forks of the same project, and on occasion the forks merge back together(i.e. Beryl and Compiz). At the end of the day, you are contributing to the project and the community whether the maintainer includes your code or you fork it into a separate project.
Actually, it would be abuse for Sprint to force them to stay for the duration of their contract. Getting released from Sprint is what I call good customer service.
Anyways, I doubt that it would mean an end to the free or very discounted phones. Carriers would continue to offer the promotional phone deals in an effort to gain new market share or keep customers. It's just more likely you would see fewer features disabled in the phones that they are offering since their subsidized phones would have to compete with the unlocked phones from retail outlets.
Even if the subsidized phone offerings were to go away, the customer would still likely win. Carriers would have to compete more on quality of service, price, and customer service. Retail phone offerings would probably come down in price in addition to offering more features and being more responsive to the end-user preferences.
I never quite understood why people get so religious about their operating systems. I support assisting new users and trying to make Linux as user friendly as possible. However, as long as there is a large amount of hardware that is supported by linux, I don't personally care how much market share Linux has compared to Windows. Each OS has different strengths and weaknesses. There really is no silver bullet.
Once again Microsoft thinks it's ahead in the race. Once the reach the finish line, they may finally realize that the others behind them were about to lap them, and then they'll wonder why they have one more lap to go.
Behind the counter at McDonalds serving fries should fit his qualifications quite nicely.
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This article has been producing a lot of knee-jerk comments about not buying AMD any more and so on. The thing people tend to forget when you have a duopoly such as Intel and AMD is that the green grass on the other side is spray paint. Intel and AMD are simply responding to consumer demand for the playing of HD content on a computer while catering to the demands of the content holders. They're caught in the middle. The real bad guys are the RIAA and the MPAA. The only way you can really get back at these guys is to hit them in the wallet by minimizing the money you spend on them. Instead of going to movies or buying movies, get Netflix. Instead of buying cds or itunes, get an XM radio subscription. There are so many alternatives for entertainment. You could play recreational sports, shoot pool, go bowling, go for a bike ride, hike trails, visit museums, or watch live music or live sports. The world provides an endless supply of ways for us to entertain ourselves that don't involve buying DVDs or CDs. The best way to tackle the content control freaks is to simply not accept the content on their own terms and hit them where it counts, their wallet.
c't: The copy (of the code in SCO's presenttation) seems to reach far further back than your rights to Unix. On top of this, they seem to have already been distributed by AT&T under the BSD licence i.e. they're freely available, could have gotten into Linux from there.
Sontag: This is completely untrue. We own all the files of this code with the complete development tree all the way back to the original 1969 version. We have researched all the tapes and all versions of the code. The code in question comes the exact version of the Unix System V code that we licenced in our contract to SGI. This version was available to SGI and was never in BSD or other releases. And the to-the-letter copy of this code is in Linux. We are raising awareness about such flagrant violations.
c't: But you can't use this as evidence in your claim against IBM?
Sontag: Correct.
c't: Why are you then showing exactly these pieces of code? Your suit is against IBM..
Sontag: We've found many kinds of copyright and contract breaches. The copying of code word for word was the most obvious kind and we wanted to demonstrate this. This is why we showed this in public and why we also show it under NDA. In the case of IBM we have not yet such cases of direct copying, but we haven't researched all the code yet. In IBM's case, it is mainly about another kind of breach of contract, namely the inclusion of derived code in large amounts. The contract states that all changes in the code and derivations thereof remain part of the origionally licenced code.
Well which is it? Either you have or haven't researched all the code.
Well, three months ago I finally was able to upgrade to a cable modem from my 56k modem. Sorry, It's not my fault the cable company is adelphia you insensitive prick.
No thanks, our main lab was nicely furnished with brand new Dell computers this past semester.
When I went through the program(started in 97) I had to install FreeBSD on my machine my freshman year. I think in the last few years the hard core FreeBSD person left and haven't figured out what to require out of students. I've seen RedHat, Debian, and Mandrake so far. On the plus side, they are fixing to make quite a few of the classes UNIX only which will make for some amusement for the CS majors watching the EEs suffer because of that.
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I may do just that. As an Arlington County resident, I'm pretty angry that they are wasting my tax dollars by using county police department and the court system here. What a waste of tax dollars. The theater could have used more discretion over this.
Good luck doing that with some of the CDMA carriers. Verizon does not allow any phone that didn't come from them onto their network. I believe Sprint does the same thing. Don't forget that even if you did purchase the phone outright, you'd still be locked in by a contract.
Unfortunately, the Ma Bell attitude continues to prevail to this day. The carriers' fascist control over cell phone devices suffocates any potential innovation in them. The same thing happened with wired phone service until the FCC enacted the Carterphone regulations. The sad thing is, it will continue to happen for wireless devices until the FCC extends those regulations to the wireless industry.
Until then or until a new carrier comes along with something different, I plan on continuing with a phone that just simply makes calls and refuse to pay for many of those extras the cell phone carriers peddle.
For those whose soul isn't currently owned by the traditional carriers, it may be worth checking out Helio. They seem to offer a lot more value and innovation in their phones. Their plans aren't unreasonable and they have good coverage due to leasing capacity from the traditional carriers. There may be some hope after all.
I've had the same experience. When I had a modem go bad on me, I called up and told them my modem was not syncing with the equipment on their end. They looked at the logs and saw the errors. As soon as I had a replacement modem, all I had to do was call them up and have them change the MAC address in the system.
Either that, or he's bitter about having an open source project of his forked. Trolling can't be ruled out either.
Forking isn't about glory seeking. Typically, It's about a person or group of people that are unhappy with the direction of a project, and they want to take the project in their own direction. The project may not meet their needs and requirements. If the project maintainer won't take the changes, then forking the code is necessary to distribute those changes. There is nothing unethical about that. This is not only with the spirit of the GPL but in fact encouraged by the FSF. The license is all about your freedom to make and distribute changes of the code as you the user sees fit. This was the initial goal of the FSF. Community involvement is simply a byproduct of that goal. It just happens that most project maintainers will include most user changes in the main project.
Don't forget that it's quite common for code exchanges to occur between two forks of the same project, and on occasion the forks merge back together(i.e. Beryl and Compiz). At the end of the day, you are contributing to the project and the community whether the maintainer includes your code or you fork it into a separate project.
Actually, it would be abuse for Sprint to force them to stay for the duration of their contract. Getting released from Sprint is what I call good customer service.
Anyways, I doubt that it would mean an end to the free or very discounted phones. Carriers would continue to offer the promotional phone deals in an effort to gain new market share or keep customers. It's just more likely you would see fewer features disabled in the phones that they are offering since their subsidized phones would have to compete with the unlocked phones from retail outlets.
Even if the subsidized phone offerings were to go away, the customer would still likely win. Carriers would have to compete more on quality of service, price, and customer service. Retail phone offerings would probably come down in price in addition to offering more features and being more responsive to the end-user preferences.
Unless you're a US Attorney. But then again, that was delegated to Alberto Gonzales and he is suffering amnesia.
Better yet. I'm going to patent it.
That's the obvious solution. You'd better patent it.
I never quite understood why people get so religious about their operating systems. I support assisting new users and trying to make Linux as user friendly as possible. However, as long as there is a large amount of hardware that is supported by linux, I don't personally care how much market share Linux has compared to Windows. Each OS has different strengths and weaknesses. There really is no silver bullet.
Once again Microsoft thinks it's ahead in the race. Once the reach the finish line, they may finally realize that the others behind them were about to lap them, and then they'll wonder why they have one more lap to go.
Behind the counter at McDonalds serving fries should fit his qualifications quite nicely.
This article has been producing a lot of knee-jerk comments about not buying AMD any more and so on. The thing people tend to forget when you have a duopoly such as Intel and AMD is that the green grass on the other side is spray paint. Intel and AMD are simply responding to consumer demand for the playing of HD content on a computer while catering to the demands of the content holders. They're caught in the middle. The real bad guys are the RIAA and the MPAA. The only way you can really get back at these guys is to hit them in the wallet by minimizing the money you spend on them. Instead of going to movies or buying movies, get Netflix. Instead of buying cds or itunes, get an XM radio subscription. There are so many alternatives for entertainment. You could play recreational sports, shoot pool, go bowling, go for a bike ride, hike trails, visit museums, or watch live music or live sports. The world provides an endless supply of ways for us to entertain ourselves that don't involve buying DVDs or CDs. The best way to tackle the content control freaks is to simply not accept the content on their own terms and hit them where it counts, their wallet.
Now we know how to get out of the contract without paying the $175.
Much like Microsoft.
Now if only they would revert their braindead file chooser to something more usable by adding the text entry back.
Yes, mob rule is so much better. Everybody grab your torches and pitchforks.
Let's find some witches to burn while we're at it.
c't: The copy (of the code in SCO's presenttation) seems to reach far further back than your rights to Unix. On top of this, they seem to have already been distributed by AT&T under the BSD licence i.e. they're freely available, could have gotten into Linux from there.
Sontag: This is completely untrue. We own all the files of this code with the complete development tree all the way back to the original 1969 version. We have researched all the tapes and all versions of the code. The code in question comes the exact version of the Unix System V code that we licenced in our contract to SGI. This version was available to SGI and was never in BSD or other releases. And the to-the-letter copy of this code is in Linux. We are raising awareness about such flagrant violations.
c't: But you can't use this as evidence in your claim against IBM?
Sontag: Correct.
c't: Why are you then showing exactly these pieces of code? Your suit is against IBM..
Sontag: We've found many kinds of copyright and contract breaches. The copying of code word for word was the most obvious kind and we wanted to demonstrate this. This is why we showed this in public and why we also show it under NDA. In the case of IBM we have not yet such cases of direct copying, but we haven't researched all the code yet. In IBM's case, it is mainly about another kind of breach of contract, namely the inclusion of derived code in large amounts. The contract states that all changes in the code and derivations thereof remain part of the origionally licenced code.
Well which is it? Either you have or haven't researched all the code.
Yeah, well they're all dumbasses, considering Blacksburg was named most wired town years ago.
Yep, one unoriginal, uninspired joke deserves another.
The least you all could do is follow the link to the Virginia Tech History of Computing page and make fun of it.
Organization for the page.
No thanks, our main lab was nicely furnished with brand new Dell computers this past semester.
GO HOKIES!!!!!!!!
When I went through the program(started in 97) I had to install FreeBSD on my machine my freshman year. I think in the last few years the hard core FreeBSD person left and haven't figured out what to require out of students. I've seen RedHat, Debian, and Mandrake so far. On the plus side, they are fixing to make quite a few of the classes UNIX only which will make for some amusement for the CS majors watching the EEs suffer because of that.
Leave it to UVA to put all that information on one long page with lots of graphics. It's really great for modem users. GO HOKIES!!!!!!!