Please mod parent up. The suggestion for a temporary mirror hosted by slashdot (most recent 5 or 10 articles only) would be a life saver to many of the poor sites that get/.'ed. Many times I have to search down through the messages looking for a mirror, when I would really rather read the article first! (I already know I'm weird.)
Re:It's piracy.. that's why.. Explanation.......
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If the manufacturers choose to dump the hardware at below their cost to boost their market share, or for whatever reason they have in mind, that is their business. (Unless it is illegal dumping. I'm not exactly clear on when selling below cost to enter a market is ok and when it is illegal.) In any case, after you legally own the product, you can do anything you want with it, burn it, hack it to pieces with an ax, or even write your own games to run on your own hardware. You are not obligated in any way to buy more games.
If the manufacturers don't want to lose money, it is easy for them. Just remember to sell above cost!
Why code to support a browser? Why not code to support a standard? Then nobody has to be in the position of deciding which are the three (or four?) "golden browsers" and which versions of each of those are acceptable.
they're defining a known interface with known liability targets to their secure system
That's the key. If their interface is actually secure, it doesn't matter one little bit what browser or PalmPilot app interfaces with it. The best they can do is be secure up to their own designed interface. If the next verions of IE or Konqueror has security problems, that is not something they can be held responsible for.
Re:Maybe you should use those purty fonts...
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Please provide spacific examples of how my freedoms are being abridged and limited, and how Microsoft owns my computer(s). Please, be specific and don't rely on what you've "heard" here in Slashdot...
I guess that I am used to controlling the software on my computer. I pay for the computer, I own it. I pay for the software, I own it. I bought my music, I own it.
If you accept the EULA, you grant Microsoft the right to change the software on your computer. Please check with this InfoWorld article, not Slashdot. They can add DRM software, they can encrypt your own MP3's, and they can disable your favorite players for not being "secure". If they feel like it. When they feel like it.
It all makes good sense to them, and it will be good business for them. It just doesn't appeal to me.
Re:Maybe you should use those purty fonts...
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I did read it. And so your point is that if I accept the EULA I'm "pathetic"?
If you accept the EULA, you accept that MS owns your computer, owns any software that you buy from any vendor that you run on that computer, and owns any music or other data that you keep in there. If you are willing to accept that, then I do feel sad for you. Check "pathetic".
I guess stealing fonts from Microsoft so that you can have a decent-looking OS is heroic.
I do not advocate stealing those fonts from Microsoft. Microsoft did make those fonts available for free use, to establish them as a standard for web use, but you what? They decided to change the license. They have that right legally, just as they have the right to change your EULA. Now Linux doesn't have any pretty fonts. Somebody will make some open source fonts someday, I'm not worried. I'll wait.
And please don't give me the stupid "M$ is evil" spiel. It's as tired as a hooker at a GeekWorld convention.
I don't think Microsoft is evil. They are a corporation, they are just in the business of making money. They get the most money by controlling their software, your computer, and you. It's efficient. Profits are double what they were same quarter last year! I just don't want to be part of it anymore. I can't imagine why you do.
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...to read your XP EULA. Linux may not for the moment have "purty fonts", but it has no ugly EULA either. Anybody accepting the XP EULA is pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
An additional plus for a moonbase, water has been found on the Moon's north pole. Sunlight, water, plentry of dirt (of a sort anyway, good enough for hydroponics type growing medium) and a place to dig in to be safe from radiation and bombardment. Also a much cheaper place to launch from or come back to than the surface of Earth.
I thought that they should have kept the Russian space station, even if it was just junk, and tie it with bailing wire to the new international space station. (Orbits weren't that different, only a small amount of energy needed compared to lifting that much shielding into orbit.) It would have been very ugly, but it could have been good micrometeoriod and radiation shielding, even if from only one side. And there might be spare parts available if some unforeseen emergency arose. I'll take useful over beautiful if I have to go into space!
Do you think the number isn't interpreted as hex unless it has letters in it or something?
Keep in mind I know nothing about this, but I would guess that 111111 would be interpreted as decimal 111,111 rather than hex 111111 (which is 1,118,481 in decimal.) Many parsers decide based of the first character of a symbol whether they are parsing a number or a label.
That's got to be misleading wording: Faster == lower orbit
You are right, my wording is not only misleading, I was just plain wrong. The Earth does pull forward on the moonlet while it is catching up, which does raise the orbit (that part I got right), but I shouldn't have said faster, that is wrong. It seems paradoxical, but pulling forward on the moonlet in orbit actually slows it down!
The moonlet is orbiting the Sun in an orbit that is either a little more distant from the Sun, or a bit closer to the Sun than the Earth's orbit. The switcheroo goes like this...
Let's say the moonlet is in the close to the Sun (call it "lower") orbit. Let's also say it is far away, like on the other side of the Sun. This low orbit is faster than the Earth's orbit, so the moonlet starts to catch up to the Earth. Closer and closer it gets, until it get so close to the Earth that the Earth starts to pull it forward, giving it energy. This makes the moonlet go faster, "raising" the orbit further from the Sun. As it passes between the Earth and the Sun, it is now rising up into the orbit of the Earth, and beyond. The Earth, now is lower in orbit than the moonlet, the Earth scoots under the moonlet, which is now in a higher and slower orbit than the Earth. The Earth steams away, and after 95 years approaches the moonlet from underneath, and the opposite of the whole thing happens, sucking energy out of the moonlet and putting it back into the lower orbit. HTH!
Tada! So the cannonball just keeps moving, around the Earth. It's in orbit.
Not quite. The cannonball you mention is in an eliptical orbit, where the perigee is ground level. It will go around the Earth once, (the Earth may spin a bit during this movement,) and land on the ground again. If you fire from a mountain top, and neglect air friction, you have a chance.
Much better is to do a apogee kick, a short rocket blast at the highest altitude, to convert the orbit from eliptical to circular. No more pesky dirt or air to worry about!
It might be easier to build a linear accelerator. It is basically a bigger Van deGraf generator, and (I think) much easier to build than a cyclotron to get a 1MV beam.
I like to get Cd's from CD Connection. I've been ordering from them for over a decade, online since 1990. The prices are still high compared to the old vinyl albums, but lower than the prices you quote.
"spell out the whole deal in detail on how royalties are computed."
The parents parent was refering to "artists' royalties" which can be nothing (or less in some cases). A famouse example, the "Dixie Chicks" getting less than $1M on over $200M sales. That's less than a half-penny on the dollar.
That's what makes the Constitution so great. It protects the rights of the weak; it doesn't bow to the whims of the strong.
Please, somebody with mod points, mod parent up! The U.S. Constitution was designed to protect people who are different. This idea is not generally understood in the U.S., not even by some members of our government, especially in these times.
Can you see how you left out the word "reasonable"?
The word "reasonable" does not appear in the message to which I responded. Check it out. Even if it had, MS appears to be at liberty to make their own definition of the word "reasonable", so I could see them setting a high dollar figure. I write programs myself, and a $100 charge would effectively lock me out, based on my hobby budget.
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Ummm, point well taken, I guess. (slinks away)
Please mod parent up. The suggestion for a temporary mirror hosted by slashdot (most recent 5 or 10 articles only) would be a life saver to many of the poor sites that get /.'ed. Many times I have to search down through the messages looking for a mirror, when I would really rather read the article first! (I already know I'm weird.)
If the manufacturers choose to dump the hardware at below their cost to boost their market share, or for whatever reason they have in mind, that is their business. (Unless it is illegal dumping. I'm not exactly clear on when selling below cost to enter a market is ok and when it is illegal.) In any case, after you legally own the product, you can do anything you want with it, burn it, hack it to pieces with an ax, or even write your own games to run on your own hardware. You are not obligated in any way to buy more games.
If the manufacturers don't want to lose money, it is easy for them. Just remember to sell above cost!
Why code to support a browser? Why not code to support a standard? Then nobody has to be in the position of deciding which are the three (or four?) "golden browsers" and which versions of each of those are acceptable.
That's the key. If their interface is actually secure, it doesn't matter one little bit what browser or PalmPilot app interfaces with it. The best they can do is be secure up to their own designed interface. If the next verions of IE or Konqueror has security problems, that is not something they can be held responsible for.
So you are saying that specialty items should cost less than equivalent mass market items? (If you were being funny, I apologize in advance.)
Warmer and more human like his 4'33" composition?
I guess that I am used to controlling the software on my computer. I pay for the computer, I own it. I pay for the software, I own it. I bought my music, I own it.
If you accept the EULA, you grant Microsoft the right to change the software on your computer. Please check with this InfoWorld article, not Slashdot. They can add DRM software, they can encrypt your own MP3's, and they can disable your favorite players for not being "secure". If they feel like it. When they feel like it.
It all makes good sense to them, and it will be good business for them. It just doesn't appeal to me.
If you accept the EULA, you accept that MS owns your computer, owns any software that you buy from any vendor that you run on that computer, and owns any music or other data that you keep in there. If you are willing to accept that, then I do feel sad for you. Check "pathetic".
I guess stealing fonts from Microsoft so that you can have a decent-looking OS is heroic.
I do not advocate stealing those fonts from Microsoft. Microsoft did make those fonts available for free use, to establish them as a standard for web use, but you what? They decided to change the license. They have that right legally, just as they have the right to change your EULA. Now Linux doesn't have any pretty fonts. Somebody will make some open source fonts someday, I'm not worried. I'll wait.
And please don't give me the stupid "M$ is evil" spiel. It's as tired as a hooker at a GeekWorld convention.I don't think Microsoft is evil. They are a corporation, they are just in the business of making money. They get the most money by controlling their software, your computer, and you. It's efficient. Profits are double what they were same quarter last year! I just don't want to be part of it anymore. I can't imagine why you do.
Jus' a second thought.
An additional plus for a moonbase, water has been found on the Moon's north pole. Sunlight, water, plentry of dirt (of a sort anyway, good enough for hydroponics type growing medium) and a place to dig in to be safe from radiation and bombardment. Also a much cheaper place to launch from or come back to than the surface of Earth.
I thought that they should have kept the Russian space station, even if it was just junk, and tie it with bailing wire to the new international space station. (Orbits weren't that different, only a small amount of energy needed compared to lifting that much shielding into orbit.) It would have been very ugly, but it could have been good micrometeoriod and radiation shielding, even if from only one side. And there might be spare parts available if some unforeseen emergency arose. I'll take useful over beautiful if I have to go into space!
I criticized you for being impolite. I do know about this.
If it assumed decimal, it would do 0 red, 99 green, and undefined blue.Why would it not be 0 red, 0 green, and 99 blue if it were viewed as a decimal? Isn't leading zero suppression normally allowed in parsing generally?
Keep in mind I know nothing about this, but I would guess that 111111 would be interpreted as decimal 111,111 rather than hex 111111 (which is 1,118,481 in decimal.) Many parsers decide based of the first character of a symbol whether they are parsing a number or a label.
Nice test, but not exhaustive. In fact, is is a fairly mild test, as only the background is invalid in any way. No values like 1FFFFF were tested.
Instead of calling the poster a liar, why not ask for the specific test he used?
You are right, my wording is not only misleading, I was just plain wrong. The Earth does pull forward on the moonlet while it is catching up, which does raise the orbit (that part I got right), but I shouldn't have said faster, that is wrong. It seems paradoxical, but pulling forward on the moonlet in orbit actually slows it down!
The moonlet is orbiting the Sun in an orbit that is either a little more distant from the Sun, or a bit closer to the Sun than the Earth's orbit. The switcheroo goes like this...
Let's say the moonlet is in the close to the Sun (call it "lower") orbit. Let's also say it is far away, like on the other side of the Sun. This low orbit is faster than the Earth's orbit, so the moonlet starts to catch up to the Earth. Closer and closer it gets, until it get so close to the Earth that the Earth starts to pull it forward, giving it energy. This makes the moonlet go faster, "raising" the orbit further from the Sun. As it passes between the Earth and the Sun, it is now rising up into the orbit of the Earth, and beyond. The Earth, now is lower in orbit than the moonlet, the Earth scoots under the moonlet, which is now in a higher and slower orbit than the Earth. The Earth steams away, and after 95 years approaches the moonlet from underneath, and the opposite of the whole thing happens, sucking energy out of the moonlet and putting it back into the lower orbit. HTH!
Not quite. The cannonball you mention is in an eliptical orbit, where the perigee is ground level. It will go around the Earth once, (the Earth may spin a bit during this movement,) and land on the ground again. If you fire from a mountain top, and neglect air friction, you have a chance.
The Navy actually did something quite like this.
Much better is to do a apogee kick, a short rocket blast at the highest altitude, to convert the orbit from eliptical to circular. No more pesky dirt or air to worry about!
It might be easier to build a linear accelerator. It is basically a bigger Van deGraf generator, and (I think) much easier to build than a cyclotron to get a 1MV beam.
I like to get Cd's from CD Connection. I've been ordering from them for over a decade, online since 1990. The prices are still high compared to the old vinyl albums, but lower than the prices you quote.
The parents parent was refering to "artists' royalties" which can be nothing (or less in some cases). A famouse example, the "Dixie Chicks" getting less than $1M on over $200M sales. That's less than a half-penny on the dollar.
Perhaps you meant "that's just too pedantic."?
Please, somebody with mod points, mod parent up! The U.S. Constitution was designed to protect people who are different. This idea is not generally understood in the U.S., not even by some members of our government, especially in these times.
The word "reasonable" does not appear in the message to which I responded. Check it out. Even if it had, MS appears to be at liberty to make their own definition of the word "reasonable", so I could see them setting a high dollar figure. I write programs myself, and a $100 charge would effectively lock me out, based on my hobby budget.
By making it the same for everyone naturally A flat fee of $1M is the same for everybody, but it is still discriminatory. Can you see how?