Wrong, your copy of Linux is no more yours than your copy of Windows. Both are copyrighted works owned by others which you have a limited license to use.
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So. You need to accept the licence in order to modify or redistribute Linux. You'll find nothing in there about using it. I don't have any licence at all to use Linux, because I don't need one. I may use my copy of Linux as I see fit because it is my copy. I do have a licence to copy Linux, to modify and redistribute it, and that licence imposes conditions; I need to accept that licence because otherwise I would be in breach of copyright.
I really wish the industry representatives would sit down and rethink copyright, DMCA and fair use
They did, that's the problem, that's how we got the DMCA in the first place.
I really wish the people's representatives would sit down and rethink copyright, DMCA and fair use. And remember while doing so whose representatives they are.
I'm wondering if maybe the guy found asian porn, the women kind of looked underage (as asians sometimes do even if they are not)
Too true. So many times you see girls who look and indeed act like they're about 14, but the subtitles say she's nineteen and she's in fifteenth grade at high school. Amazing.
It's all about advertising *OPPORTUNITY*. Advertisers want you to have the opportunity to click on an ad, even if you never will. They want you to have the opportunity to watch an ad, even if you never do.
That's fine. I have the opportunity to click and to watch the ads. I can deactivate Adblock Plus any time I like. I just never do. What more of an opportunity do they want me to have?
There is a reason that Wikipedia always shows up in the top two or three results.
Yeah, it's because everybody links Wikipedia for just about everything. The cumulative PageRank of a billion links from blogs and commmentaries and rants has got to have made Wikipedia into some kind of monster.
I thought "Blink" was by far the best Dr. Who episode this season.. can't believe it wasn't listed there. Anyways, are they really canceling this show after next season?? I do hope it continues.
Blink was fantastic; Family of Blood was also excellent, and the finale was tremendous.
They're definitely not cancelling the show; it's absolutely huge, the kids love it, and merchandise sales are astronomical. They're having a year out, and I hear it's because David Tennant is going to be playing Hamlet. I mean, seriously... cancel Doctor Who? Why, the BBC would have to be quite mad to do away with such a national icon. Certainly they'd never do such a thing. Nope. Never ever ever.
(No, I never have forgiven them for what they did when I was eight. Damn them.)
I haven't seen it yet it airs next friday in the USA for the first time.
Well, you're in for a treat and a half. This is an episode that really thinks through the possible mindfucks of time travel, and gets it all into one story. And it's spooky as hell, too - I imagine it's caused more than its share of nightmares:-)
My friend stood up to say that he wanted to call "The President of the United States" and "The King of England" (the fact that England doesn't have a king wasn't really an important factor in his reasoning process).
Maybe that was a cunning trick. If the King of England is required to appear at the trial, then the trial cannot fairly proceed until His Majesty turns up. Which means that the whole proceeding has to wait until there is a king of England. Given the fact that the Queen Mother only died a couple of years ago, and lived to over a hundred, that might be a long wait.
Plot idea 3: Medium future. Internet and control of botnets becomes so intrinsic to society that governments have less importance than internet societies. Whole "countries" exist as virtual connections of affiliated machines. With hilarious consequences.
The Borg were different. They were collective. They couldn't be reasoned with or argued with. They couldn't be effectively attacked, because there was no one thing to attack. You really didn't even exist to them. They started chopping your ship up before they might even notice you. And when they did, they attacked and adapted and attacked again until you were assimilated. And they did it without fear or anger or hate or any other emotion or attribution that we could understand. That is what made them so creepy and cool as enemies.
That was indeed extremely cool. Once. Maybe even twice or three times over the course of the seven-year run. And that's great: TNG used the Borg well, a very rarely-used enemy of ultimate power and menace. Although bear in mind that the Borg weren't quite so impersonal even early on: the first thing they did on arrival in the Alpha Quadrant was select a figurehead to conduct their relations with humanity. Sure, those relations were implacably hostile, but they were supervised by Locutus in particular as much as by the generalised, impersonal Collective. (In-universe hypothesis: this Cube is a long, long way from home, and perhaps comms latency is too great for it to be in full contact with the larger Collective, so it needs a leader on the spot?)
Even the Borg Queen in First Contact wasn't so bad. As above, this is a one-ship mission to the other side of the Galaxy, so it makes sense to promote an individual to command it rather than wait for replies from the Delta Quadrant. I sometimes wonder what she was originally. Perhaps one of the Enterprise crew taken at the very first contact? Spent the intervening decade or so as a drone, and then made into Locutus mk. 2 for the mission?
The trouble came in Voyager. The show was struggling, but it was always on the cards that Voyager, out there in the Delta Quadrant, would meet Borg in their home territory. That should have been incredibly cool. And for a few episodes it was: leaving behind the territory of the very lame Kazon and finding evidence of blasted worlds and ruined civilisations, and then one episode closed with the discovery of the remains of a burned-out drone. Fabulous.
But what then? Voyager can't plausibly fight Borg every damn week for the next couple of years. Hence the dreadful Species 8472 business, in which the entire Borg collective are incapable of making a crucial nanotechnology breakthrough which the Emergency Medical Hologram can achieve in a single episode. And hence Seven of Nine. And all the rest of the atrocities committed upon what was once a very, very cool villain.
I use News.google.com RSS feeds for phrases I am watching, and I'm seeing more than 15% of those news stories come from non-mainstream media entities with a variety of opinions way different than the "eat, regurgitate and vomit the AP and Reuters articles" process that the MSM tends to stick together with.
Funnily enough, it's news.google.com that gave me the opposite impression. I was looking on there last summer to see how the World Cup was being covered over in America, where football is something of a minority sport, just out of curiosity as to what the US press were making of it. Plenty of different papers, plenty of different sites, and all covering the tournament - but then I looked more closely and realised that they were all posting the same articles, word for word.
I imagine it's because of the size of the country - you don't really have national newspapers, just a lot of small-town papers without the resources to provide their own coverage of global events, hence the verbatim regurgitation of of wire articles. In which case may I humbly suggest you try news.google.co.uk as an alternative? One thing our newspapers do not lack is varied opinion:-)
Let alone, how similar was Super Mario Bros. 2 to Super Mario Bros. 3?!
Not very similar at all, but it was very similar to Super Mario Bros. 1. Except ridiculously hard, so they wouldn't let us incompetent gaijin get our hands on it and fobbed us off with a rebranded reissue of bloody Doki Doki Panic. Which as it turned out wasn't actually a bad game at all.
On a more serious note, the ringtone news was the only bad news to come out of this. Ringtones can be made in iTunes, but they charge you an additional 99 cents, even if you've already purchased the song.
Um... what?
They charge you 99c - that's, what, 50p? - to make your own ringtone on your own phone?
I've got a common-or-garden K800i and it's a matter of 1: hook up USB cable, 2: transfer MP3 file, 3: set as ringtone. In combination with a NES emulator and Audacity, this makes for happy. And the iPhone... does not allow this?
as a Nintendo aficionado for the better part of two decades, I resent Nintendo for expecting me to continually buy the same type of games over and over.
Two decades, you say? So you remember the NES era?
Then how much does Twilight Princess resemble The Legend Of Zelda? How similar is Super Mario Galaxy to Super Mario Bros. 3? What at all does Metroid Prime 3 have to do with Metroid? The similarities are pretty superficial: character art, brand name. Just about everything else has been changed massively over the years.
You have a case with Mario Party and Smash Bros, but for the rest? Nintendo reuse popular franchises, true, but they're hardly reissuing the same games over and over. Hell, even Twilight Princess only feels so much like Ocarina because the fanboys complained so much about Majora and Wind Waker...
Don't worry guys. Even though we're back on top, we're not going to try to make you all our bitches like in the old days. You can feel safe developing for Wii and have nothing to fear from us.
Signed, Grand High Ultimate Iwata-sama-daioh.
Seriously, though, it's good news. If you remember what the old Nintendo were like, you'd see Sony and Microsoft's evil pale in comparison. They've had plenty of time to repent in the meantime, of course.
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So. You need to accept the licence in order to modify or redistribute Linux. You'll find nothing in there about using it. I don't have any licence at all to use Linux, because I don't need one. I may use my copy of Linux as I see fit because it is my copy. I do have a licence to copy Linux, to modify and redistribute it, and that licence imposes conditions; I need to accept that licence because otherwise I would be in breach of copyright.
They did, that's the problem, that's how we got the DMCA in the first place.
I really wish the people's representatives would sit down and rethink copyright, DMCA and fair use. And remember while doing so whose representatives they are.
Too true. So many times you see girls who look and indeed act like they're about 14, but the subtitles say she's nineteen and she's in fifteenth grade at high school. Amazing.
That's fine. I have the opportunity to click and to watch the ads. I can deactivate Adblock Plus any time I like. I just never do. What more of an opportunity do they want me to have?
When I transfer a + c bytes, that's OK. When I transfer only c bytes, I'm stealing. So in this case, it's stealing when I take less than normal?
Yeah, it's because everybody links Wikipedia for just about everything. The cumulative PageRank of a billion links from blogs and commmentaries and rants has got to have made Wikipedia into some kind of monster.
It is quite newsworthy, though. This parrot had particularly beautiful plumage.
2: ???
3: Profit!
2 probably involves some sort of comedy routine, rather than any attempt to sell the thing, though.
Yeah, but that doesn't give us a cue to commence the recital of Monty Python routines.
Blink was fantastic; Family of Blood was also excellent, and the finale was tremendous.
They're definitely not cancelling the show; it's absolutely huge, the kids love it, and merchandise sales are astronomical. They're having a year out, and I hear it's because David Tennant is going to be playing Hamlet. I mean, seriously... cancel Doctor Who? Why, the BBC would have to be quite mad to do away with such a national icon. Certainly they'd never do such a thing. Nope. Never ever ever.
(No, I never have forgiven them for what they did when I was eight. Damn them.)
Well, you're in for a treat and a half. This is an episode that really thinks through the possible mindfucks of time travel, and gets it all into one story. And it's spooky as hell, too - I imagine it's caused more than its share of nightmares :-)
Maybe that was a cunning trick. If the King of England is required to appear at the trial, then the trial cannot fairly proceed until His Majesty turns up. Which means that the whole proceeding has to wait until there is a king of England. Given the fact that the Queen Mother only died a couple of years ago, and lived to over a hundred, that might be a long wait.
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.
A masterful post indeed :-)
Sure, Hitler was stopped. But where now is the Soviet Union that defeated him?
That was indeed extremely cool. Once. Maybe even twice or three times over the course of the seven-year run. And that's great: TNG used the Borg well, a very rarely-used enemy of ultimate power and menace. Although bear in mind that the Borg weren't quite so impersonal even early on: the first thing they did on arrival in the Alpha Quadrant was select a figurehead to conduct their relations with humanity. Sure, those relations were implacably hostile, but they were supervised by Locutus in particular as much as by the generalised, impersonal Collective. (In-universe hypothesis: this Cube is a long, long way from home, and perhaps comms latency is too great for it to be in full contact with the larger Collective, so it needs a leader on the spot?)
Even the Borg Queen in First Contact wasn't so bad. As above, this is a one-ship mission to the other side of the Galaxy, so it makes sense to promote an individual to command it rather than wait for replies from the Delta Quadrant. I sometimes wonder what she was originally. Perhaps one of the Enterprise crew taken at the very first contact? Spent the intervening decade or so as a drone, and then made into Locutus mk. 2 for the mission?
The trouble came in Voyager. The show was struggling, but it was always on the cards that Voyager, out there in the Delta Quadrant, would meet Borg in their home territory. That should have been incredibly cool. And for a few episodes it was: leaving behind the territory of the very lame Kazon and finding evidence of blasted worlds and ruined civilisations, and then one episode closed with the discovery of the remains of a burned-out drone. Fabulous.
But what then? Voyager can't plausibly fight Borg every damn week for the next couple of years. Hence the dreadful Species 8472 business, in which the entire Borg collective are incapable of making a crucial nanotechnology breakthrough which the Emergency Medical Hologram can achieve in a single episode. And hence Seven of Nine. And all the rest of the atrocities committed upon what was once a very, very cool villain.
Funnily enough, it's news.google.com that gave me the opposite impression. I was looking on there last summer to see how the World Cup was being covered over in America, where football is something of a minority sport, just out of curiosity as to what the US press were making of it. Plenty of different papers, plenty of different sites, and all covering the tournament - but then I looked more closely and realised that they were all posting the same articles, word for word.
I imagine it's because of the size of the country - you don't really have national newspapers, just a lot of small-town papers without the resources to provide their own coverage of global events, hence the verbatim regurgitation of of wire articles. In which case may I humbly suggest you try news.google.co.uk as an alternative? One thing our newspapers do not lack is varied opinion :-)
Never mind running a book, was anyone running a spread? Ouch.
Gargoyle lifestyle, here we come.
Not very similar at all, but it was very similar to Super Mario Bros. 1. Except ridiculously hard, so they wouldn't let us incompetent gaijin get our hands on it and fobbed us off with a rebranded reissue of bloody Doki Doki Panic. Which as it turned out wasn't actually a bad game at all.
Um... what?
They charge you 99c - that's, what, 50p? - to make your own ringtone on your own phone?
I've got a common-or-garden K800i and it's a matter of 1: hook up USB cable, 2: transfer MP3 file, 3: set as ringtone. In combination with a NES emulator and Audacity, this makes for happy. And the iPhone... does not allow this?
Two decades, you say? So you remember the NES era?
Then how much does Twilight Princess resemble The Legend Of Zelda? How similar is Super Mario Galaxy to Super Mario Bros. 3? What at all does Metroid Prime 3 have to do with Metroid? The similarities are pretty superficial: character art, brand name. Just about everything else has been changed massively over the years.
You have a case with Mario Party and Smash Bros, but for the rest? Nintendo reuse popular franchises, true, but they're hardly reissuing the same games over and over. Hell, even Twilight Princess only feels so much like Ocarina because the fanboys complained so much about Majora and Wind Waker...
Signed, Grand High Ultimate Iwata-sama-daioh.
Seriously, though, it's good news. If you remember what the old Nintendo were like, you'd see Sony and Microsoft's evil pale in comparison. They've had plenty of time to repent in the meantime, of course.
Computers, Babbage, Turing, UK.
Web protocol, Berners-Lee, UK / CH.
Operating system, Torvalds, FI.
TCP-IP I'll grant you, though.
This century? By which you mean... the last seven years? Way to pick your timescale there.