1. On Slashdot, nobody values the opinion of Windows users.
2. The only people who can answer this accurately are Windows users. ...3. PROFIT!... No, wait, wrong silly Slashdot reference.
3. Therefore, the only people who can answer this accurately will not have their opinions seriously considered.
This sounds a LOT like Spotlight, a search technology built into Apple's next major Mac OS X revision, 10.4 Tiger. Of course, Blinkx could be anywhere from coincidence to an unusually fast and successful emergency-Apple-ripoff.
Well, if this bill passes, then Gore will probably be liable as an inducer, since the modern Internet does indeed exist largely because of his economic and legislative initiatives. And these P2P programs wouldn't exist without the internet, would they...?
LAWSUIT TIME!
No, the story explicitly says that the distributors do not care if people share the movie.
"I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour." -- Michael Moore
"Meanwhile, Lions Gate says it has no plans to oppose the practice." -- The article
See? (Lions Gate is the distributor, by the way.)
I'm not sure if this makes it perfectly "legal," but it's effectively the same thing if the copyright holder allows it and the creator literally encourages it.
Just make sure you don't criticize the iTMS's quality before you've actually listened to songs from it. To me, they're easily CD-quality; I wouldn't be able to tell the differences. I don't know much about the technical differences between AAC and MP3, aside from that MP3 comes from MPEG-1 and AAC comes from MPEG-4, but I suppose AAC just allows for an inherently higher quality at a similar bitrate.
Learn your basic PC history before you correct someone about it... The first true PC was the Micral, made in 1973, though of course the Altair followed, and was much more well known. IBM created the 5100 in 1975, which was their little-known first PC. Woz soon followed with the Apple I, and several other types of PCs had been produced before Microsoft stepped into the picture. Microsoft was in no way involved in inventing the PC. A few PCs had been made before Microsoft even existed.
I applaud M$ for trying to do better than the hideous Luna, yet when they have a second chance to do it right, and a chance to learn from their mistakes, they still can't manage to do anything that doesn't look like it was designed by Teletubbies on acid.
Incredible! You've proven... you've proven that all numbers are equal!
Thanks for the tip. Now I can tell people that my Mac can perform 90,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, proudly state that my website gets just as many daily visitors as every pr0n site combined, tell the world that I have an IQ of 10,000, and brag that I have a 20-foot penis!
And I can say it all with a clean conscience, because it's all *true* thanks to your new math!
But if using a few functions is not a "derivitive work," and the license can be ignored, then using SCO's UNIX code in Linux is perfectly OK, and this whole thing is moot! And if using a few functions is a "derivative work" then, duh, the GPL will hold up.
The way I think about it, atheism is not belief that there is no deity, but rather, it is a lack of belief in a deity. Atheists are skeptics, they don't believe something if there isn't definitive evidence. If a theist was presented with evidence of a lack of a deity, they would most likely hold on to their belief, but if an atheist was presented with evidence of the existence of a deity, they may reconsider.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, it made sense in my mind. I guess your view is as valid as mine.
That wouldn't explain why an Anonymous Coward would post that, but it at least explains why it seems that every other +5 Funny modded post in the SCO-related articles uses the same joke ("omg look, I found teh stolen code: 'for (i=0; icount; i++)'! hahaha, mod me +funny please!").
I see this as being comparable to Iraq's "phantom WMDs."
Rumsfeld: "Of course, the reason we haven't found any WMDs is that Saddam Hussein must have secretly destroyed them. And that means that they did have WMDs, so the war is justified!"
SCO: "Of course, the reason we haven't actually pointed out any of the stolen code is that Linus Torvalds removed it in order to avoid legal action. And that means that at one point our IP was found in the Linux kernel, and so the lawsuit is justified!"
As far as I'm concerned, I'll never look at Slashdot the same way, ever again.
I feel the exact same way.
But it's pretty bizarre, if you think about it. SourceForge and FreshMeat are also part of the OSDN, and they provide vital support to the very movement Microsoft is terrified of. In other words, Microsoft is providing funding for their mortal enemy?
This was only Slashworthy a little over 4 months ago... http://opensource.org/halloween/halloween8.php was posted on the Open Source Initiative on January 2.
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In other news, SCO plans to sue its own OpenLinux division for possibly abusing access to UNIX trade secrets. SCO issued a press release stating that there was "substantial evidence" that their Linux group had used proprietary UNIX code in the Linux kernel and OpenLinux operating system, though the press release then stated, "but we don't have it with us."
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1. On Slashdot, nobody values the opinion of Windows users.
...3. PROFIT! ... No, wait, wrong silly Slashdot reference.
2. The only people who can answer this accurately are Windows users.
3. Therefore, the only people who can answer this accurately will not have their opinions seriously considered.
This sounds a LOT like Spotlight, a search technology built into Apple's next major Mac OS X revision, 10.4 Tiger. Of course, Blinkx could be anywhere from coincidence to an unusually fast and successful emergency-Apple-ripoff.
In Soviet Russia, passwords harvest YOU!
Well, if this bill passes, then Gore will probably be liable as an inducer, since the modern Internet does indeed exist largely because of his economic and legislative initiatives. And these P2P programs wouldn't exist without the internet, would they...? LAWSUIT TIME!
No, the story explicitly says that the distributors do not care if people share the movie. "I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour." -- Michael Moore "Meanwhile, Lions Gate says it has no plans to oppose the practice." -- The article See? (Lions Gate is the distributor, by the way.) I'm not sure if this makes it perfectly "legal," but it's effectively the same thing if the copyright holder allows it and the creator literally encourages it.
Just make sure you don't criticize the iTMS's quality before you've actually listened to songs from it. To me, they're easily CD-quality; I wouldn't be able to tell the differences. I don't know much about the technical differences between AAC and MP3, aside from that MP3 comes from MPEG-1 and AAC comes from MPEG-4, but I suppose AAC just allows for an inherently higher quality at a similar bitrate.
Learn your basic PC history before you correct someone about it... The first true PC was the Micral, made in 1973, though of course the Altair followed, and was much more well known. IBM created the 5100 in 1975, which was their little-known first PC. Woz soon followed with the Apple I, and several other types of PCs had been produced before Microsoft stepped into the picture. Microsoft was in no way involved in inventing the PC. A few PCs had been made before Microsoft even existed.
I applaud M$ for trying to do better than the hideous Luna, yet when they have a second chance to do it right, and a chance to learn from their mistakes, they still can't manage to do anything that doesn't look like it was designed by Teletubbies on acid.
So... 100,000 == 25,000,000?!
... you've proven that all numbers are equal!
Incredible! You've proven
Thanks for the tip. Now I can tell people that my Mac can perform 90,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, proudly state that my website gets just as many daily visitors as every pr0n site combined, tell the world that I have an IQ of 10,000, and brag that I have a 20-foot penis!
And I can say it all with a clean conscience, because it's all *true* thanks to your new math!
But if using a few functions is not a "derivitive work," and the license can be ignored, then using SCO's UNIX code in Linux is perfectly OK, and this whole thing is moot! And if using a few functions is a "derivative work" then, duh, the GPL will hold up.
The way I think about it, atheism is not belief that there is no deity, but rather, it is a lack of belief in a deity. Atheists are skeptics, they don't believe something if there isn't definitive evidence. If a theist was presented with evidence of a lack of a deity, they would most likely hold on to their belief, but if an atheist was presented with evidence of the existence of a deity, they may reconsider.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, it made sense in my mind. I guess your view is as valid as mine.
That wouldn't explain why an Anonymous Coward would post that, but it at least explains why it seems that every other +5 Funny modded post in the SCO-related articles uses the same joke ("omg look, I found teh stolen code: 'for (i=0; icount; i++)'! hahaha, mod me +funny please!").
No, atheism is a lack of religion.
Uh... I don't get it, why do people post things like this? Oh well, at least it makes /. fun, in an absurd way. Absurdity is good.
"if (x == 1) then"??
SCO doesn't know how to write C...
I see this as being comparable to Iraq's "phantom WMDs." Rumsfeld: "Of course, the reason we haven't found any WMDs is that Saddam Hussein must have secretly destroyed them. And that means that they did have WMDs, so the war is justified!" SCO: "Of course, the reason we haven't actually pointed out any of the stolen code is that Linus Torvalds removed it in order to avoid legal action. And that means that at one point our IP was found in the Linux kernel, and so the lawsuit is justified!"
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Key words: ... says a source within the company.
That was just a signature, if you didn't notice.
Actually, the RIAA is riaa.org ...
- As far as I'm concerned, I'll never look at Slashdot the same way, ever again.
I feel the exact same way.But it's pretty bizarre, if you think about it. SourceForge and FreshMeat are also part of the OSDN, and they provide vital support to the very movement Microsoft is terrified of. In other words, Microsoft is providing funding for their mortal enemy?
This was only Slashworthy a little over 4 months ago... http://opensource.org/halloween/halloween8.php was posted on the Open Source Initiative on January 2.
In other news, SCO plans to sue its own OpenLinux division for possibly abusing access to UNIX trade secrets. SCO issued a press release stating that there was "substantial evidence" that their Linux group had used proprietary UNIX code in the Linux kernel and OpenLinux operating system, though the press release then stated, "but we don't have it with us."
Don't tell them that, they'll start going after FTP users next! (And then they might sue the IETF for creating a protocol for violating copyrights.)
That's a signature, by the way, if you didn't notice. And I think it's supposed to be humor...