Ah, I get it. They should have taken your idea, filmed it, and sold it as "The Elderly And Poor Try To Outrun The Hurricane On Foot 80-Mile Marathon, 2005"!
With a few days notice, even the slowest person could have gotten out of town on foot.
So how do you get food? where are those people who helped you then? Do you have any friends or family?
"... whether or not there is any available transportion in the city when you don't have a car be damned!"
Everyone has two feet. They had notice days in advance, and were told to prepare for the worse. They should have started walking.
"... whether or not your plane got cancelled on you be damned!"
See Above, or drive.
"... whether or not you're assigned to stay for vital services (prison guards, hospital workers, police, etc) be damned!"
Had the normal civilians not chose to stay, there would not have been need for anyone else to be there.
The fact of the matter is, people chose to stay, and still are. They are finally being told to leave or they would not recieve any more food or help. That should have been the deal the whole time. "The city is probably going under water, get out now or your fucked!"
Copyright protection should protect you enough from other people using your content. If I have an image on my site, for my visitors to see, there is nothing that says that any other site has a right to use it, just because I have it available to the public.
I believe they did that in San Francisco. They took all the rubble from the earth quake in 1906, pushed it into the water, and then built upon it. Guess what area had the most damage from the quake in 1989.
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The money you pay for a boxed linux cd also usually comes with support.
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With GPL though, anyone who purchases the software would recieve the source code, and in turn be able to release it free if they wanted. That really discourages companies from trying to sell a product.
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Right, simple choice. I do not release under a BSD license. I just do not get why people keep telling me BSD is superior, when it obviously does not fit my needs.
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Something about a company releasing a commercial product based on my work and not giving me a cent does not appeal to me.
With a hyperlink, the owner of a site acknowledges Domain.com as the creator of content, and links to the site to show people its content.
Hotlinking:
With hotlinking, the visitor never knows that domain.com is the provider of the image used. Domain.com gets no exposure, has no opportunity to generate revenue, and has to foot a bill for bandwidth.
A few posters have mentioned that the game authors email and url were on the front of the game, but that is honestly irrelevant. Would Fudruckers have linked to him if he did not have the URL on his game? Also, if Fudruckers would have linked to an HTML page on his site, he would have had an opportunity to place banner ads on his page to generate some revenue. By displaying the game directly, only 1% of the visitors might actually click that link, which gives him less of an opportunity to generate revenue.
Nobody has the right to hotlink to content. Yes, there are ways to block hotlinking, but a webmaster should not be obligated to prevent people from doing so. If I leave my house unlocked, that does not give the public the right to walk in.
I remember getting a free copy of Linspire 4.5 through a brain bench offer, it did not require a serial or anything. Does 5.0? If not, isnt that torrent warez?
Are you saying thats when they became evil?
Its not possible all the sites have a use for the cookie? I use cookies so that people can login and so they can customize a site. You dont think other sites do that?
As for ad networks, sorry to tell you guys, but they support free content. They will not go away, blocking their cookies does nothing more than make them find new ways of tracking which ads they have already shown you. Would you prefer to just see the same ads over and over and over and over?
Are you saying people do not voluntarily give up their information to companies?
A company can not set a cookie with your name if they don't know it. Your browser does not just keep a permanent cookie with your name, that all sites can access.
If a company has your name to put it in a cookie, you gave it to them. You filled out a form, you hit submit, and you gave them your name.
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Even with one day, the could have been to higher ground.
Yes, I am cruel. I firmly believe in survival of the fittest.
You didn't have to walk 80 miles to be out of the flood zone.
Ah, I get it. They should have taken your idea, filmed it, and sold it as "The Elderly And Poor Try To Outrun The Hurricane On Foot 80-Mile Marathon, 2005"!
With a few days notice, even the slowest person could have gotten out of town on foot.
"... whether you can walk or not be damned!"
So how do you get food? where are those people who helped you then? Do you have any friends or family?
"... whether or not there is any available transportion in the city when you don't have a car be damned!"
Everyone has two feet. They had notice days in advance, and were told to prepare for the worse. They should have started walking.
"... whether or not your plane got cancelled on you be damned!"
See Above, or drive.
"... whether or not you're assigned to stay for vital services (prison guards, hospital workers, police, etc) be damned!"
Had the normal civilians not chose to stay, there would not have been need for anyone else to be there.
The fact of the matter is, people chose to stay, and still are. They are finally being told to leave or they would not recieve any more food or help. That should have been the deal the whole time. "The city is probably going under water, get out now or your fucked!"
Copyright protection should protect you enough from other people using your content. If I have an image on my site, for my visitors to see, there is nothing that says that any other site has a right to use it, just because I have it available to the public.
I believe they did that in San Francisco. They took all the rubble from the earth quake in 1906, pushed it into the water, and then built upon it. Guess what area had the most damage from the quake in 1989.
If you are a resident of New Orleans, then you should have left when they told you to.
20,000 dead people have no effect on me... sorry.
The money you pay for a boxed linux cd also usually comes with support.
With GPL though, anyone who purchases the software would recieve the source code, and in turn be able to release it free if they wanted. That really discourages companies from trying to sell a product.
Right, simple choice. I do not release under a BSD license. I just do not get why people keep telling me BSD is superior, when it obviously does not fit my needs.
Something about a company releasing a commercial product based on my work and not giving me a cent does not appeal to me.
Great, even when I told slashdot to use Plain Old Text, it still rendered the HTML tags to show how each is done.
Hyperlinking:
Domain.com
With a hyperlink, the owner of a site acknowledges Domain.com as the creator of content, and links to the site to show people its content.
Hotlinking:
With hotlinking, the visitor never knows that domain.com is the provider of the image used. Domain.com gets no exposure, has no opportunity to generate revenue, and has to foot a bill for bandwidth.
A few posters have mentioned that the game authors email and url were on the front of the game, but that is honestly irrelevant. Would Fudruckers have linked to him if he did not have the URL on his game? Also, if Fudruckers would have linked to an HTML page on his site, he would have had an opportunity to place banner ads on his page to generate some revenue. By displaying the game directly, only 1% of the visitors might actually click that link, which gives him less of an opportunity to generate revenue.
Nobody has the right to hotlink to content. Yes, there are ways to block hotlinking, but a webmaster should not be obligated to prevent people from doing so. If I leave my house unlocked, that does not give the public the right to walk in.
I remember getting a free copy of Linspire 4.5 through a brain bench offer, it did not require a serial or anything. Does 5.0? If not, isnt that torrent warez?
Actually, with the help of CrossOver Office, or just WINE, they can run natively.
Plenty of people are not technically inclined enough to do a windows XP install either.
How so?
Are you saying thats when they became evil? Its not possible all the sites have a use for the cookie? I use cookies so that people can login and so they can customize a site. You dont think other sites do that? As for ad networks, sorry to tell you guys, but they support free content. They will not go away, blocking their cookies does nothing more than make them find new ways of tracking which ads they have already shown you. Would you prefer to just see the same ads over and over and over and over?
Are you saying people do not voluntarily give up their information to companies?
A company can not set a cookie with your name if they don't know it. Your browser does not just keep a permanent cookie with your name, that all sites can access.
If a company has your name to put it in a cookie, you gave it to them. You filled out a form, you hit submit, and you gave them your name.
Please explain to me how a cookie can be abused.
And with AOL visitors, the IP will most likely change through the course of the visit, so that really breaks the IP checks also.
I still want to know when exactly cookies became evil.
The only reason I have a problem with the whole cookies thing is that what is being taken from me has a commercial value.
TAKEN from you? If the company has the information to put it in a cookie, then you had to have GIVEN it to them in the first place.
what about Xandros?