How does the JPEG group make their money? Do they enforce a MP3-style licencing scheme, or is it a group effort of companies and organizations who would mutually benefit?
i doubt a government would let some pesky little thing like a consitution get in the way. the american government doesn't seem to get too bothered about the US constitution, for example.
Maybe you should find some specific examples of the Japanese going against their constitution before you start making arguments like that. The Japanese government is not the American government, and vice versa. Unless you have some concrete evidence otherwise, you may not want to make broad generalizations about one government based on what you know about another.
Uh.. from Chapter II, Section 9 of the Japanese constitution:
"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. 2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized."
The Japanese are only able to maintain a defensive force, not an army, so even if it was weapons research, it would only be for use in self defense.
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In this case, it's that I had the wrong idea about what it meant. Somehow I had them backwards in my head. It's not so much I was throwing terminology I didn't know out to sound intelligent, if that's the idea you got.
Maybe we just have different ways of interpreting things; you put more emphasis on the way things are said than I do. Not that either way is better or worse, but I tend to just stop, figure out what they meant, and move on without using it as a mark against them. But perhaps that leads me into situations where I misinterpret people. Anyway, no offense taken, and please don't take offense to my comments.
Huh. I guess you learn something every day, thanks. Ok, I used e.g. incorrectly, in the future I'll try to watch that. However, I am having trouble following the rest of your logic.. People talk to me using "u" and "your" instead of "you" and "you're" all the time. They also forget capitalization and punctuation. Yeah, it's incorrect, but I got their point, and that's what counts. I can't see how truly intelligent people would care more about the way something was said rather than the essence something was said. While I appreciate your post, I think you might wish to reconsider the logic in your second paragraph a little bit.
No, it's not like that. They mean it has wireless communication capabilities versus NO communication capabilities, not versus wired communication capabilities.
Hold on.. so Windows sold on Ebay (e.g. transferring your licence to another user) gets Microsoft pissed enough to start demanding they be pulled off the listings, but giving your Windows copy to schools (e.g. transferring your licence to another user) is fine by them? Am I missing something?
If you like stuff like PerlBox, you might also want to check out ROX-filer while you're at it. ROX-Filer an excellent file manager written in Python, and also offers a session manager, a wallpaper utility, a clock, etc, all written in Python. I'd recommend checking both PerlBox and ROX-Filer out.
I know this is a troll, but you're correct in that it's actually quite viable. Check out ROX-filer, an excellent file manager (also on the site is ROX-session for session management, and a load of tools to use with it, all in Python). ROX-Filer is an excellent example of how to use Python to create a desktop environment.
Easy there.. that guy was a troll.. keep in mind that the loudest voice doesn't necessarily represent the majority of the population.. most of the Linux users I talk to are pretty friendly folk, but usually the ones who are smug are smug in excess. I wouldn't fret that guy, just ignore him.
When all is said and done, music is still a luxury product. Even if Best Buy changed its policy, the fact would still remain the large labels are still shoving copy protection down our throats.
Know what? Screw them. Go support other artists. There is plenty of great music out there not published by the big labels (indie music, for example- and you can feel better knowing you are funding musicians when you buy their cds, and that you are not funding the purchase of DMCA-type laws.) Yeah, even if all the./ers stopped buying big label music, they would still be fine. But at least then you, personally, can feel better knowing that you're supporting and encouraging the way YOU deserve to listen to music.
If Microsoft is promoting this for developers, how are the developers going to use it without a documented API? Yes, there are undocumented APIs in Windows, but I don't think this is a case where Microsoft would be doing that.. it doesn't make sense.
I don't think this is going to be as bad as WinModems. With WinModems, everyone and their cousin had a different way of dealing with emulating hardware with their drivers, so it was almost impossible to replicate functionality on Linux. If Microsoft is offering some kind of standard library that emulates the hardware they'd be removing from their boards, that means you have a documented API you can write an implementation of for Linux, and it wont' be as hard to make drivers for these WinWiFi devices.
The technology that both to work is a protocol that allows packets to be sent and be guaranteed to get to the other side, or be notified that they didn't/ This little known magical protocol is naped TCP/IP, and ahs worked wonders for any net based aplication
It's because it's not really an editor, it's someone who is pretending to be an editor, that's why. Hemos is user #2, whoever this guy is is #520833, ergo it's not really Hemos whos talking to you there.
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How does the JPEG group make their money? Do they enforce a MP3-style licencing scheme, or is it a group effort of companies and organizations who would mutually benefit?
i doubt a government would let some pesky little thing like a consitution get in the way. the american government doesn't seem to get too bothered about the US constitution, for example.
Maybe you should find some specific examples of the Japanese going against their constitution before you start making arguments like that. The Japanese government is not the American government, and vice versa. Unless you have some concrete evidence otherwise, you may not want to make broad generalizations about one government based on what you know about another.
Non Weapon research??
Yeah right !
Uh.. from Chapter II, Section 9 of the Japanese constitution:
"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. 2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized."
The Japanese are only able to maintain a defensive force, not an army, so even if it was weapons research, it would only be for use in self defense.
You may have more luck gathering information in other ways. If posts are off topic, they tend to be modded down here. Also, if you don't login, your comment is rated at 0 for starters, and the default threshold is comments rated 1 and above. I would create an account here, contribute to discussions, and add a link in your signature that leads to a page or an entry in your slashdot journal asking people's input.
In this case, it's that I had the wrong idea about what it meant. Somehow I had them backwards in my head. It's not so much I was throwing terminology I didn't know out to sound intelligent, if that's the idea you got.
Maybe we just have different ways of interpreting things; you put more emphasis on the way things are said than I do. Not that either way is better or worse, but I tend to just stop, figure out what they meant, and move on without using it as a mark against them. But perhaps that leads me into situations where I misinterpret people. Anyway, no offense taken, and please don't take offense to my comments.
Hm.. I guess I can see how it could be viewed that way. Thanks for the insight.
That's kind of unfortunate, then.. I personally think it's very unfair. If I have poor grammar usage, does it make me a worse programmer?
Huh. I guess you learn something every day, thanks. Ok, I used e.g. incorrectly, in the future I'll try to watch that. However, I am having trouble following the rest of your logic.. People talk to me using "u" and "your" instead of "you" and "you're" all the time. They also forget capitalization and punctuation. Yeah, it's incorrect, but I got their point, and that's what counts. I can't see how truly intelligent people would care more about the way something was said rather than the essence something was said. While I appreciate your post, I think you might wish to reconsider the logic in your second paragraph a little bit.
No, it's not like that. They mean it has wireless communication capabilities versus NO communication capabilities, not versus wired communication capabilities.
Hold on.. so Windows sold on Ebay (e.g. transferring your licence to another user) gets Microsoft pissed enough to start demanding they be pulled off the listings, but giving your Windows copy to schools (e.g. transferring your licence to another user) is fine by them? Am I missing something?
Are you saying we should just be complacent about it? Yeah, it happens all the time, but that doesn't mean we should get used to it.
If you like stuff like PerlBox, you might also want to check out ROX-filer while you're at it. ROX-Filer an excellent file manager written in Python, and also offers a session manager, a wallpaper utility, a clock, etc, all written in Python. I'd recommend checking both PerlBox and ROX-Filer out.
I know this is a troll, but you're correct in that it's actually quite viable. Check out ROX-filer, an excellent file manager (also on the site is ROX-session for session management, and a load of tools to use with it, all in Python). ROX-Filer is an excellent example of how to use Python to create a desktop environment.
Do something productive...
:)
Like troll Slashdotters?
The best part is, he was on topic, because he was replying to your post, but he lost more karma than you. :P
Easy there.. that guy was a troll.. keep in mind that the loudest voice doesn't necessarily represent the majority of the population.. most of the Linux users I talk to are pretty friendly folk, but usually the ones who are smug are smug in excess. I wouldn't fret that guy, just ignore him.
Nope, you didn't. What is exactly so special about it anyway?
When all is said and done, music is still a luxury product. Even if Best Buy changed its policy, the fact would still remain the large labels are still shoving copy protection down our throats.
Know what? Screw them. Go support other artists. There is plenty of great music out there not published by the big labels (indie music, for example- and you can feel better knowing you are funding musicians when you buy their cds, and that you are not funding the purchase of DMCA-type laws.) Yeah, even if all the
If Microsoft is promoting this for developers, how are the developers going to use it without a documented API? Yes, there are undocumented APIs in Windows, but I don't think this is a case where Microsoft would be doing that.. it doesn't make sense.
I don't think this is going to be as bad as WinModems. With WinModems, everyone and their cousin had a different way of dealing with emulating hardware with their drivers, so it was almost impossible to replicate functionality on Linux. If Microsoft is offering some kind of standard library that emulates the hardware they'd be removing from their boards, that means you have a documented API you can write an implementation of for Linux, and it wont' be as hard to make drivers for these WinWiFi devices.
This deserves +%, insightful.
Except when the windowing system is designed primarily for use with 1 button.. UNIX does not inherentnly mean it uses X.
The technology that both to work is a protocol that allows packets to be sent and be guaranteed to get to the other side, or be notified that they didn't/ This little known magical protocol is naped TCP/IP, and ahs worked wonders for any net based aplication
Hemos is user #2. If the post isn't from user #2, it's not Hemos. (hint, it's not from user #2)
Somehow I don't think Hemos would be the 569,506th member of his own site.
It's because it's not really an editor, it's someone who is pretending to be an editor, that's why. Hemos is user #2, whoever this guy is is #520833, ergo it's not really Hemos whos talking to you there.