Pornography is largley a commodity business. If you have a camera and a willing wife, girlfriend, or neighborhood hooker, you can be a pornographer. Do you know (or care) where your online porn pictures come from?
When you're in a commodity business, and there's no cost or other barrier to entry, profits shrink to 0. Hiring lawyers and filing lawsuit against small scale infringers isn't worth it.
Playboy's tagline is 'Entertainment for Men', and they provide more than just pornography -- original literature, reviews, jokes, interviews, etc -- to create mindshare as well as erections. They have a known brand, and can charge a premium for it, and enforce their rights.
In XWindows (and I believe win32) you can use lyx for almost wysiwyg latex editing. It sure makes tables a whole lot easier, and is great for beginners.
netatalk is open source. If there are problems or shortcomings with it, you can fix them yourself! That's something that can't be said of proprietary solutions (even if they do work off the shelf without hours of configuring).
Consider if you want to use the snippet in BSD licensed code. Oops, it can't be BSD licensed, becuase BSD allows you to make a closed fork. MIT, Artistic License, and a few other "open source" licenses do allow closed forks.
true fact: his first job out of law school was teaching ethics at a law school in arkansas.
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Have you bought a CD from amazon.com lately? I haven't. Not because I get free music from some p2p site -- most of what I download is bootlegs that aren't available from a legitimate source -- but because amazon's CD prices are not particularly competetive. 2-3 years ago, I used to buy a CD or two from amazon everytime I got ahold of a gift certificate. Most of the CDs I'm interested in buying are list price at amazon.com (or higher, some places have a lower list price).
AOL Time Warner could possibly sell at a reduced price (although they'd have to be careful. IIRC, Sony/Columbia House got a lot of flack when they considered bailing out cdnow.com since they would be undercutting other resellers).
I believe Apple claims MacOS X is the most popular desktop unix(tm)-like OS (maybe even the most popular). But Apple has 2-3% market share total. Let's assume 50% are pre-OS X machines -- a realistic assumption given that many macintoshes are used in schools which are strapped for cash.
Desktop linux therefore accounts for 1-1.5% of the x86 PCs. A company selling a PPC computer that runs linux/*bsd/darwin is looking at an incredibly small potential market share. Pegasos (the company behind the x86/ppc review) is probably the only non-apple, desktop PPC computer manufacturor. Have you bought a computer off them? Do you know anyone who has? See my point?
In the good old USA, you're dealing with a consistent set of laws (the UCC) that govern sales, you have known agreements with credit card vendors, merchant banks, you can easily do address verification, etc.
I think you can consider perl 6 to be a new project. I don't care about backwards compatability (as long as you can have dual installs of perl6 and perl5), but I care about cleaning up a lot of perl cruft.
If it was an MS program, slashdorks would be complaining about MS adding unneeded crap. But not when it's poster boy perl.
Christ, slashdot seems to be full of shit these days. And that's not even counting the comments!
Press releases, stories where nobody has anything to say (we all hate spam, we all hate SCO, I'm gonna patent patenting stuff, etc, end of story)... and the one or 2 times there is an interesting web site, the story consists of people asking for mirrors, making stupid statements indicating they hadn't read the fucking article, etc.
Jump. The . Shark.
Isn't VA Linus supposed to go bankrupt and put/. out of it's misery?
It would be a little disappointing if [Microsoft] couldn't sue me. You see, I'm quite happy for them to take us to court, I just want to see it happen under conditions where we win. In order for them to argue they have not agreed to the download conditions, they would have to acknowledge that click-through legal agreements are not valid - which is something that I think would be very funny to see Microsoft doing.
He reminds me of the warez sites that have a "disclaimer" to the effect that feds, police, fbi, etc are prohibited from browsing or downloading. I wonder if they really believe that works.
KDE version 1 or so had a help application that could display html help, gnu tex-info, and man pages, although, IIRC, searching was broken. I haven't tried using konq. to view a man page lately.
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Pornography is largley a commodity business. If you have a camera and a willing wife, girlfriend, or neighborhood hooker, you can be a pornographer. Do you know (or care) where your online porn pictures come from?
When you're in a commodity business, and there's no cost or other barrier to entry, profits shrink to 0. Hiring lawyers and filing lawsuit against small scale infringers isn't worth it.
Playboy's tagline is 'Entertainment for Men', and they provide more than just pornography -- original literature, reviews, jokes, interviews, etc -- to create mindshare as well as erections. They have a known brand, and can charge a premium for it, and enforce their rights.
In XWindows (and I believe win32) you can use lyx for almost wysiwyg latex editing. It sure makes tables a whole lot easier, and is great for beginners.
netatalk is open source. If there are problems or shortcomings with it, you can fix them yourself! That's something that can't be said of proprietary solutions (even if they do work off the shelf without hours of configuring).
They should release their software under the GPL license (so everybody can improve it for them), and sell support contracts.
Consider if you want to use the snippet in BSD licensed code. Oops, it can't be BSD licensed, becuase BSD allows you to make a closed fork. MIT, Artistic License, and a few other "open source" licenses do allow closed forks.
AOL Time Warner could possibly sell at a reduced price (although they'd have to be careful. IIRC, Sony/Columbia House got a lot of flack when they considered bailing out cdnow.com since they would be undercutting other resellers).
I can't believe you'd dis color selection. I mean, have you seen the slashdot games section? or yro section?!?!
or a month for a full-time developer to work on perl 6.
Too bad slashdot doesn't have an editor to fix that kind of stuff.
Desktop linux therefore accounts for 1-1.5% of the x86 PCs. A company selling a PPC computer that runs linux/*bsd/darwin is looking at an incredibly small potential market share. Pegasos (the company behind the x86/ppc review) is probably the only non-apple, desktop PPC computer manufacturor. Have you bought a computer off them? Do you know anyone who has? See my point?
If it was an MS program, slashdorks would be complaining about MS adding unneeded crap. But not when it's poster boy perl.
ooh yeah
Press releases, stories where nobody has anything to say (we all hate spam, we all hate SCO, I'm gonna patent patenting stuff, etc, end of story)... and the one or 2 times there is an interesting web site, the story consists of people asking for mirrors, making stupid statements indicating they hadn't read the fucking article, etc.
Jump. The . Shark.
Isn't VA Linus supposed to go bankrupt and put /. out of it's misery?
He reminds me of the warez sites that have a "disclaimer" to the effect that feds, police, fbi, etc are prohibited from browsing or downloading. I wonder if they really believe that works.
Last time I checked, MS Office, QuickTime, PhotoShop, et alia were not command-line only, posix-only applications.
Anyhow, shouldn't you be spouting that gimp, open office, and mozilla are better applications?
The XBox isn't cutting edge -- it's made from 1-2 year old components, and they drop in price rather fast.
Many commercial programs have an EULA that disallow publishing benchmarks etc. That may be one reason.
was he the open anus guy? good riddance! This web site needs fewer links to gross pictures.
NTFS does support streams (file.txt:source could be a link back to the
original source), but they're not queryable (in win2k).
I use PHP + IIS + MySQL + Dreamweaver to test/debug on my local machine.