I go to Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, and there is wireless everywhere (as well as liberal spatterings of 100TX RJ45 jacks) Every student is issued a laptop (the freshmen class, of which i am a member, gets ThinkPad T30s) The article is quite right about the lack of cell phone usage, most people just IM each other. The proffessors are also very technologically in tune. The math homework is submitted online and graded immediately. Computer science homework is also submitted online, as well as writing and humanites homework. I haven't been here long enough to know if this trend continues. We have Blackboard 5 system that provides access to course information (syllabus, homeworks, etc.) In fact my English teacher is using a forum feature of this system to have us submit our homework responses and discuss each other's responses. Of course there are "downsides", you'll notice people playing GTA3 during lectures, but its amazing how useful and pervasive these sort of systems can be.
plus I am sure it is quite simple to write a quick little app to convert your Human readable code into small fast code (shortening variable names, removing unesscessary white space, etc.) The best of both worlds, maintainability and efficency.
Poll Sugestion:
Megaseism occurs
You are flurried intently
You evacuate calmly
The machine is raised from the floor
It escapes with note
Ignoring, hack continuation
In bulletin board commemoration entry
Already, it is useless.
The bnez searching, 3 thousand villages
I really do not see how. It is after all being used by AIM subscribers. It isn't like Trillian is using AOL's resources to run its own "pirate" IM network.
Trillian isn't analogous to apple clones really. Nor is your GPU example. I was speaking of the reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS which resulted in the PC clone market. No you could just buy black market GF4 GPUs, but you _could_ reverse engineer them and sell GF4 compatible cards. Its the same thing with Trillian.
And as for your bank example, I'm sure that the users who chose to use a non-IE browser, going against the bank's recommendation, realize they can't expect it to work properly, or at all, and that they certainly can't complain about issues with the alternative browser.
It is the same with Trillian. Users of the software recognize they are taking a risk by using non-sanctioned software, and are aware that they can't really complain if it fails to work. Unless the Trillian users harm the network or other users experience in some way I don't see any reason to not allow Trillian to continue to exist. Of course AOL can change their protocol willy-nilly if they want, after all it is there protocol and their client.
I don't know what hiwire is so I can't comment on that.
IBM chooses to limit which companies make PC's. IBM doesn't want alternative PC manufacturers, so to try and force alternative manufacturers on IBM is wrong. It steals something that belongs to IBM.
Everyone can play with their product was they wish. If Microsoft wants to use Trillian, that's their prorogative. However, if Trillian refuses to properly license AOL's service like Apple did, then I think that Trillian is at fault. Why doesn't Trillian sell their client, and then step up to the plate and sign a licensing agreement with AOL. Seems to me that would accomplish a lot more then whining about how AOL won't let them play, er, um steal.
What precisely has Trillian stolen? They merely provide an alternative client for people to use AOL's service with. People still have to sign up with AOL to use th AIM service. I'm not saying AOL has to alert Trillian of protocol changes or anything like that, but this is like complaining people acess/. with IE instead of Mozilla.
Um but what about the actual developers of the games? I don't think they'd be too keen on you copying their games, selling them, giving a cut to Sega and leaving them in the lurch.
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So is Ogg and MP3.
Why not something solid-state, like MP3 or OGG? Ah the joys of file formats and media.
Oh come on. Dread never saw a psychiatrist and look how he turned out.
I go to Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, and there is wireless everywhere (as well as liberal spatterings of 100TX RJ45 jacks) Every student is issued a laptop (the freshmen class, of which i am a member, gets ThinkPad T30s) The article is quite right about the lack of cell phone usage, most people just IM each other. The proffessors are also very technologically in tune. The math homework is submitted online and graded immediately. Computer science homework is also submitted online, as well as writing and humanites homework. I haven't been here long enough to know if this trend continues. We have Blackboard 5 system that provides access to course information (syllabus, homeworks, etc.) In fact my English teacher is using a forum feature of this system to have us submit our homework responses and discuss each other's responses. Of course there are "downsides", you'll notice people playing GTA3 during lectures, but its amazing how useful and pervasive these sort of systems can be.
You killed Linux Journal! You bastards! I figured it was time for an alternative South Park joke.
gcc tvshow.cpp -o tvshow
So write one.
Styx - Mr. Roboto. It's a song.
plus I am sure it is quite simple to write a quick little app to convert your Human readable code into small fast code (shortening variable names, removing unesscessary white space, etc.) The best of both worlds, maintainability and efficency.
Oh. That's what i get for using school computers. Is oe 32-bit number not IPv4 compliant or something?
I can click on the links and they work fine. (Moz1.1)
the dash dash?
Well I'd take hundreds of Lvl 1 fighters over 1 Lvl 15 fighter, but these are lawyers we are talking about...
Poll Sugestion: Megaseism occurs You are flurried intently You evacuate calmly The machine is raised from the floor It escapes with note Ignoring, hack continuation In bulletin board commemoration entry Already, it is useless. The bnez searching, 3 thousand villages
I really do not see how. It is after all being used by AIM subscribers. It isn't like Trillian is using AOL's resources to run its own "pirate" IM network.
HP 100/200LX. They ran DOS
Trillian isn't analogous to apple clones really. Nor is your GPU example. I was speaking of the reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS which resulted in the PC clone market. No you could just buy black market GF4 GPUs, but you _could_ reverse engineer them and sell GF4 compatible cards. Its the same thing with Trillian.
What exactly are they stealing from AOL?
And as for your bank example, I'm sure that the users who chose to use a non-IE browser, going against the bank's recommendation, realize they can't expect it to work properly, or at all, and that they certainly can't complain about issues with the alternative browser.
It is the same with Trillian. Users of the software recognize they are taking a risk by using non-sanctioned software, and are aware that they can't really complain if it fails to work. Unless the Trillian users harm the network or other users experience in some way I don't see any reason to not allow Trillian to continue to exist. Of course AOL can change their protocol willy-nilly if they want, after all it is there protocol and their client.
I don't know what hiwire is so I can't comment on that.
IBM chooses to limit which companies make PC's. IBM doesn't want alternative PC manufacturers, so to try and force alternative manufacturers on IBM is wrong. It steals something that belongs to IBM.
Beer and blunts keep you going? Funny thing I always find that combo to be sleep, fun, but sleepy towards the end.
wait...if its light colored it cna't contain caffeine? By law? Huh? Someone want to explain this to a clueless American?
Nah. Just look at the metric way of doing things and the American (North Ameriacan? USian?) way of doing things. They are both standard.
Um but what about the actual developers of the games? I don't think they'd be too keen on you copying their games, selling them, giving a cut to Sega and leaving them in the lurch.