Let me teel you a story about a ham. A friend of mine's wife used to cut the lasdt inch and a half off of every ham she cooked. He asked her why she did that. She said, That's what my mother always did. So next time he's at his mothers he asks her why she cut the last inch and a half off the ham. She said, because the pan I had was too small to handle all of it. So just because it's always been done that way doesn't make it a good idea. On the other hand, reasoned change is always better than surprises.
I stand corrected, They have dropped most of the draconian restrictions from the xpress version of VB. You still cannot modify any MS distributable to become part of any OSS license but that's hardly a problem. Not running the plug-ins like re-factoring is a bummer though.
The same way standard Visual Studio is. Ie. Can't write a competing product like a word processor. And the last time I looked they limited your commercial use as well.
It pioneered and still pioneers messenger features and therefore with it a lot of online culture.
If you can call copying AOL and then when AOL started allowing them to connect they changed and broke compatibility. Yeah they pioneered the IM wars for sure. I think they also pioneered the "it's on by default and we'll hide how to turn it off" and the documentation requires that you go through three different layers of web crap and propaganda before we start to give you actual docs.
I've really never seen a Microsoft apologist as virulent as you before, tell me what's it like? You sound almost euphoric...
You can get practically no where with the free versions. They are EULA limited with what you can do. They also won't handle the plug-ins and those are what make VS a joy to work with. I wish eclipse were either more like the Mac IDE or more like VS but it's kind of half way between and not as good as either. I haven't tried Sharp develop but the integrated debugging in VS is really nice. Ive used the UNIX type debuggers and I can never remember enough of the arcane incantations to keep up with how they work. I really wish I could do rapid application development as good as I can in VS on any other system. Mac comes close but even it has it's short comings.
Ok Taiwan is decent the rest are nearly hell holes. Yeah ass crack does about describe that. But hiding out from the law isn't supposed to be comfortable.
Not a problem we'll just put you in this -425C hole in this here ice on Titan and you can have your shiny Mercury chains. Extradition won't be a problem then after all.
Criminal is indeed a real word and if you get caught there are indeed real world consequences. The DMCA comes with many real world penalties and they are indeed criminal. So if I'm a "Flower Child" what's that make you? The Man? kind of ironical with a certain truthiness to it dontcha think! Besides, GET OFF MY LAWN.
Have you actually read the good advice given by many other people on this thread and have you been following this thread? Oh sorry this is/. you shoot from the hip and don't put a name on it so no one knows how lame your reply is. Sorry I asked.
BSA comes to mind, and there are other ways to force compliance, be creative people give me a break. I shouldn't have to take you by the hand and point to the pretty pictures on the menu for you to think for yourselves.
Sane copyright laws will come about when we can regain control of our government and elect people without a commercial axe to grind. As long as money makes the rotunda go round we lose!
The flaw in your argument is that you think the person who took the software to begin with was an actual sale. Not even relevant to the argument. Most legitimate software companies supply trial versions. If they don't, don't use it if you can't preview it. What part of "Obey the law" do you people not understand?
There shouldn't even be an argument here.
Out of context and not even correct. I said Copyright is not theft in response to someone who said it was. Moron! You do understand the meaning of Copyright verses the meaning of Copyright violation right?
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If by reliability you mean that nothing really runs, yes!
Is it worthy of wider attention and discussion?
NO!
Dude you don't need a computer, you need a typewriter. Only thing as safe as you want. Or you could try DropBox.com and use encryption.
how come your friend married his sister, isn't that illegal?
Yeah it was supposed to be Mother in law's house.
If an admin wants to grant a user extra power than thats up to the admin
extra power than what? Oh and "thats" isn't a word.
Whooooosh!
Let me teel you a story about a ham. A friend of mine's wife used to cut the lasdt inch and a half off of every ham she cooked. He asked her why she did that. She said, That's what my mother always did. So next time he's at his mothers he asks her why she cut the last inch and a half off the ham. She said, because the pan I had was too small to handle all of it. So just because it's always been done that way doesn't make it a good idea. On the other hand, reasoned change is always better than surprises.
You just had to bring up Python didn't you. Now you've done it. We'll never hear the end of it now.
I stand corrected, They have dropped most of the draconian restrictions from the xpress version of VB. You still cannot modify any MS distributable to become part of any OSS license but that's hardly a problem. Not running the plug-ins like re-factoring is a bummer though.
The same way standard Visual Studio is. Ie. Can't write a competing product like a word processor. And the last time I looked they limited your commercial use as well.
Please refer to your own sig...
It pioneered and still pioneers messenger features and therefore with it a lot of online culture.
If you can call copying AOL and then when AOL started allowing them to connect they changed and broke compatibility. Yeah they pioneered the IM wars for sure. I think they also pioneered the "it's on by default and we'll hide how to turn it off" and the documentation requires that you go through three different layers of web crap and propaganda before we start to give you actual docs.
I've really never seen a Microsoft apologist as virulent as you before, tell me what's it like? You sound almost euphoric...
Command lines are for neanderthals, but there are command line .NET applications. What rock do you live under?
You can get practically no where with the free versions. They are EULA limited with what you can do. They also won't handle the plug-ins and those are what make VS a joy to work with. I wish eclipse were either more like the Mac IDE or more like VS but it's kind of half way between and not as good as either. I haven't tried Sharp develop but the integrated debugging in VS is really nice. Ive used the UNIX type debuggers and I can never remember enough of the arcane incantations to keep up with how they work. I really wish I could do rapid application development as good as I can in VS on any other system. Mac comes close but even it has it's short comings.
Ask Psystar! they just got busted for it!
Yeah oops my ass, under US law both are liable for the offense.
certain ones yes, some are criminal and will land you in jail for quite a while. Especially under the DMCA.
Ok Taiwan is decent the rest are nearly hell holes. Yeah ass crack does about describe that. But hiding out from the law isn't supposed to be comfortable.
Not a problem we'll just put you in this -425C hole in this here ice on Titan and you can have your shiny Mercury chains. Extradition won't be a problem then after all.
Criminal is indeed a real word and if you get caught there are indeed real world consequences. The DMCA comes with many real world penalties and they are indeed criminal. So if I'm a "Flower Child" what's that make you? The Man? kind of ironical with a certain truthiness to it dontcha think! Besides, GET OFF MY LAWN.
Have you actually read the good advice given by many other people on this thread and have you been following this thread? Oh sorry this is /. you shoot from the hip and don't put a name on it so no one knows how lame your reply is. Sorry I asked.
BSA comes to mind, and there are other ways to force compliance, be creative people give me a break. I shouldn't have to take you by the hand and point to the pretty pictures on the menu for you to think for yourselves.
Sane copyright laws will come about when we can regain control of our government and elect people without a commercial axe to grind. As long as money makes the rotunda go round we lose!
The flaw in your argument is that you think the person who took the software to begin with was an actual sale.
Not even relevant to the argument.
Most legitimate software companies supply trial versions. If they don't, don't use it if you can't preview it. What part of "Obey the law" do you people not understand?
There shouldn't even be an argument here.
Out of context and not even correct. I said Copyright is not theft in response to someone who said it was. Moron! You do understand the meaning of Copyright verses the meaning of Copyright violation right?