So if I use CD-Rs to make illegal copies of software, that is, computer programs, instead of illegal copies of recordings of musical performances, the RIAA and, theoretically, the artists, get a piece of my money but the software companies don't?
If you say "a direction other than mimicry", the word different becomes unneeded, unless there is some "same direction other than mimicry".
"...perhaps we should look in a direction different from mimic." would allow a correct use of "different", but "look in a direction other than" is probably the best way overall, so consider yourself one up on me.
"Take out the anti-Microsoft rhetoric and foul language, and my 2 year old has the same conversation skills as most slashdotters."
While I agree that you should discourage your child from using foul language, I really don't see where there's any problem with him or her using anti-Microsoft rhetoric, at least not if they have the facts to back up their words.
Oh, you meant the average Slashdotter. Never mind.
How about this? It's like stepping off of the Empire State Building. Gravity doesn't take hold until you actually notice that you're standing on air. (After all, with all those plans and schemes he came up with, Wile E. Coyote must have been at least a PhD. in theoretical physics.)
Quantum computing does have one benefit, though. At least when you look you find out whether the cat is dead or alive.:-)
You should have said "different from" instead of "different than", but otherwise your use of English is better than that of most people for whom it is their first language.
Note that "than" is used in conjunction with terms such as "better", "worse", "more", "less", "higher", "lower", "nearer", and "farther away". In other words, comparisions. (Okay, "comparisons" is only one other word.) You're specifying the type of difference. When you say "different from", you're only acknowledging a difference, not classifying or describing it.
What I was wondering was if I could open an account and use it to access those other Hotmail accounts I opened back when with phony names and details and forgot the passwords for.
Will the spammers be signing up all the poor people down there to do their dirty work for them? What kind of terms of service will the city impose and how bad does somebody have to screw up to lose their privileges, and how soon will the fight start over whether it's privilege or right?
Just think of the qubit as a quasi-analog device. It can be pure red or pure blue or 6 other values representing blends of red and blue in different proportions.
Of course when you look to see what color it is, the act of looking changes the color.
You probably fooled them into thinking you were an FBI agent or deputy sheriff pretending to be a young girl and they were having fun wasting your time. Unless of course they were really FBI agents or deputies pretending to be teenage boys to try to attract old guys who look for teenage boys by pretending to be young girls.
That consultant has to do something to justify the expense of keeping him around. He's probably also on a power trip. He's gonna show 'em how wonderful he is by saving them the cost of keeping you around. He's also going to want to make it look like he saved them from your ineptitude just in the nick of time.
You need, notarized and in writing, an admission from them that everything is working fine right now, another stipulation of all the things that can go wrong when running as root, and that they fully understand and accept those dangers, and you need a lawyer to make sure it's worded so that it'll stand up in court.
You're in the crosshairs of fate. Time to shop for Kevlar.
"Intel has a contract with Rambus that if they sell a certain number of Rambus-requiring chipsets by a certain date, they get a huge pile of Rambus stock."
And the only way that Rambus stock certificates will be worth more than their scrap paper value is if Intel can create a situation where people have to buy Rambus memory from no one but Rambus at whatever price Rambus wants to charge.
Of course if enough people decide that they can get the same performance with AMD and regular DIMMs for less money or more preformance for the same money then Intel and Rambus could both be out of luck. However with most people getting their CPU buying advice from Blue Man Group or the Bunny People, it'll take a lot of work (i.e., expensive advertising) by AMD and/or a "known name" box maker like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, or IBM to educate the masses enough to really put the screws to Intel and Rambus.
"...who would have thought we'd be looking to cable TV companies for relief from monopoly?"
Who would have thought 2 or 3 decades ago that nowadays such a large percentage of American households would be getting cable television from American Telephone and Telegraph, but not their long distance telephone service?
I think all these companies are just going to keep going from business to business until they find one in which they can be a monopoly.
If Microsoft is really as nefarious as we've all come to believe, expect, and even count on, it seems that they *would* crank out a version of IE that runs on Linux. Just think, since it'd only be available as binary, they could hide all sorts of stuff in there and get up to lots of mischief. If they were feeling especially wicked they could make the Linux version of IE work better than any of the other stuff available for Linux and use that to muddy that whole "open versus closed" thing.
The phone company and the cable company each has a line running to my house as well, but if I want telephone service I can only buy it from the telephone company and if I want cable television I can only buy it from that cable company.
If I want to connect to my Internet Service Provider I can only do it via dial-up. Phone company's been saying Real Soon Now on DSL for about a year and a half, and if it ever does get here I'll probably have to go with the phone company as an ISP if I want DSL. If I want something as fast as cablemodem, I can choose Roadrunner or Roadrunner. The cable company just added some more non-scrambled channels (including an exciting golf channel or two, but still no UPN so that I can check out 7 days or the upcoming new Star Trek) and raised the monthly rate. When local subscribers howled the county commissioners (who granted TWC the local franchise) said we don't have any control over that, go bother the FCC or somebody, and the TWC local manager offered the usual "added value for the customer" song and dance, and everybody ducked the "why can't we choose which channels we want to subscribe to and avoid paying for a bunch of stuff we don't want" question.
Smells like monopolies to me.
Interestingly enough the phone company has been using co-axial cable 75 ohm RG-6) messengered with BUG (buried under ground) wire (the actual twisted copper pair used for the telephone) for new installs for several years around here now, so there's a bunch of dark co-ax in the ground around here but no move to light it up with anything.
"Everyone should be compensated for the valuable work they do for society."
So how is the level of that compensation going to be decided, and who's going to be doing that deciding? Who's going to be choosing who gets to do the deciding? And so forth.
"But to refuse to do that work unless you can become more wealthy than most everyone else (as is the case in the tech industry) is evil and selfish."
But to refuse to pick that cotton for massa as fast and for as long as he says is evil and selfish.
It doesn't matter if one refuses to do a particular job because it doesn't pay as much as one wishes to be paid, or because one feels that the uniform is unflattering to one's figure and coloration. If you don't have the right to refuse, ain't it just different plantation, same situation?
If you're running Windows notepad comes in handy a lot more often than IE. 'Course if you meant the replacement for file manager (hey, maybe MS could name a couple more programs "explorer"), it's about 50-50.
You had me scared there for a minute
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When I saw the headline I thought this might actually be about what kind of software the mob uses when using computers in aid of their illegal activities. Which would actually be an interesting thing to learn about, but I was afraid it was motivated not so much by technical interest as "Soprano" bandwagon jumping. Criminals don't really need to be glamourized.
But the really frightening part was the vision of Linus waking up to find that Bill left a penguin head in his bed.
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Tell me again who the pirate is here.
Maybe that's scheduled for next week.
The best code is written by programmers drinking...
a. Mountain Dew
b. Pepsi
c. Coca-Cola
d. Mountain Dew Code Red
e. Jolt Cola
f. beer
g. RC Cola and eatin' a Moon Pie
h. Cowboy Neal's bath water
Whether this poll should be subdivided into open and closed source code I leave as an intellectual exercise for the reader.
"...perhaps we should look in a direction different from mimic." would allow a correct use of "different", but "look in a direction other than" is probably the best way overall, so consider yourself one up on me.
While I agree that you should discourage your child from using foul language, I really don't see where there's any problem with him or her using anti-Microsoft rhetoric, at least not if they have the facts to back up their words.
Oh, you meant the average Slashdotter. Never mind.
Quantum computing does have one benefit, though. At least when you look you find out whether the cat is dead or alive. :-)
Note that "than" is used in conjunction with terms such as "better", "worse", "more", "less", "higher", "lower", "nearer", and "farther away". In other words, comparisions. (Okay, "comparisons" is only one other word.) You're specifying the type of difference. When you say "different from", you're only acknowledging a difference, not classifying or describing it.
What I was wondering was if I could open an account and use it to access those other Hotmail accounts I opened back when with phony names and details and forgot the passwords for.
Anybody else notice that the word *Microsoft* was conspicuous by its absence from the entire article?
Will the spammers be signing up all the poor people down there to do their dirty work for them? What kind of terms of service will the city impose and how bad does somebody have to screw up to lose their privileges, and how soon will the fight start over whether it's privilege or right?
Of course when you look to see what color it is, the act of looking changes the color.
You probably fooled them into thinking you were an FBI agent or deputy sheriff pretending to be a young girl and they were having fun wasting your time. Unless of course they were really FBI agents or deputies pretending to be teenage boys to try to attract old guys who look for teenage boys by pretending to be young girls.
Before who goes talking to CNN? Dr. Anat Treister-Goren (who is a she) or HAL?
You need, notarized and in writing, an admission from them that everything is working fine right now, another stipulation of all the things that can go wrong when running as root, and that they fully understand and accept those dangers, and you need a lawyer to make sure it's worded so that it'll stand up in court.
You're in the crosshairs of fate. Time to shop for Kevlar.
See, now *that's* how you generate media coverage. Especially if there's a cigar involved.
And the only way that Rambus stock certificates will be worth more than their scrap paper value is if Intel can create a situation where people have to buy Rambus memory from no one but Rambus at whatever price Rambus wants to charge.
Of course if enough people decide that they can get the same performance with AMD and regular DIMMs for less money or more preformance for the same money then Intel and Rambus could both be out of luck. However with most people getting their CPU buying advice from Blue Man Group or the Bunny People, it'll take a lot of work (i.e., expensive advertising) by AMD and/or a "known name" box maker like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, or IBM to educate the masses enough to really put the screws to Intel and Rambus.
I think the idea is, if you click on the link, that makes you the goat.
Who would have thought 2 or 3 decades ago that nowadays such a large percentage of American households would be getting cable television from American Telephone and Telegraph, but not their long distance telephone service?
I think all these companies are just going to keep going from business to business until they find one in which they can be a monopoly.
If Microsoft is really as nefarious as we've all come to believe, expect, and even count on, it seems that they *would* crank out a version of IE that runs on Linux. Just think, since it'd only be available as binary, they could hide all sorts of stuff in there and get up to lots of mischief. If they were feeling especially wicked they could make the Linux version of IE work better than any of the other stuff available for Linux and use that to muddy that whole "open versus closed" thing.
If I want to connect to my Internet Service Provider I can only do it via dial-up. Phone company's been saying Real Soon Now on DSL for about a year and a half, and if it ever does get here I'll probably have to go with the phone company as an ISP if I want DSL. If I want something as fast as cablemodem, I can choose Roadrunner or Roadrunner. The cable company just added some more non-scrambled channels (including an exciting golf channel or two, but still no UPN so that I can check out 7 days or the upcoming new Star Trek) and raised the monthly rate. When local subscribers howled the county commissioners (who granted TWC the local franchise) said we don't have any control over that, go bother the FCC or somebody, and the TWC local manager offered the usual "added value for the customer" song and dance, and everybody ducked the "why can't we choose which channels we want to subscribe to and avoid paying for a bunch of stuff we don't want" question.
Smells like monopolies to me.
Interestingly enough the phone company has been using co-axial cable 75 ohm RG-6) messengered with BUG (buried under ground) wire (the actual twisted copper pair used for the telephone) for new installs for several years around here now, so there's a bunch of dark co-ax in the ground around here but no move to light it up with anything.
One of the best things about notepad is that it can't access the internet.
So how is the level of that compensation going to be decided, and who's going to be doing that deciding? Who's going to be choosing who gets to do the deciding? And so forth.
"But to refuse to do that work unless you can become more wealthy than most everyone else (as is the case in the tech industry) is evil and selfish."
But to refuse to pick that cotton for massa as fast and for as long as he says is evil and selfish.
It doesn't matter if one refuses to do a particular job because it doesn't pay as much as one wishes to be paid, or because one feels that the uniform is unflattering to one's figure and coloration. If you don't have the right to refuse, ain't it just different plantation, same situation?
If you're running Windows notepad comes in handy a lot more often than IE. 'Course if you meant the replacement for file manager (hey, maybe MS could name a couple more programs "explorer"), it's about 50-50.
But the really frightening part was the vision of Linus waking up to find that Bill left a penguin head in his bed.
But if our IQs were higher, would Slashdot exist?