If you noticed that your company was infringing on others patents (they are, of course), would you "turn them in"? Complying with a silly license is about as illegal as not paying you bills. You just might have to pay fines, fees, judgements, or whatever. However, you should probably consider leaving, because a disgruntled employee will surely bring the place down, and you don't want to get caught up in it.
Well, after hearing stories about Mathematica and Matlab, here's the Maple story. I purchased Maple 6.0 in 2001 (I think). The retail box has a penguin on the outside. Nevertheless, it took a week of calls to Maple to get the license for Linux set up. Less than a year later, I replaced a broken CD ROM drive and upgraded the RAM. Oops! License is no good. So I call again, and again. Finally got someone to mail licenses to me, and after none of the licenses based on my "hardware profile" work, they FINALLY send me a machine-neutral license that works to this day. Waste of my time for $140 software. Should have been using open software. Also, the programming syntax changes from version to version, and not in trivial ways. Porting anything complex is hard.
The last time I used Mathematica was version 1.0 on NeXT, which was kinda buggy, but pretty cool. I hated that all the commands started with a capital letter. I don't know anyone who uses it today. Everybody either uses Matlab or more specialized math software.
I recently called the harzardous waste disposal place in Los Angeles, and they told me microwave ovens don't have hazardous materials, so you can just throw then in a dumpster.
This probably isn't the reason, but in math, the general term used for the capacity of an object, regardless of its dimension, is "volume". And so "length" refers to the volume of a 1-dimensional object, and "area" refers to the volume of a 2-D object.
[Disclaimer: I'm against weapons for "personal defense"]
A few years ago, there were two guys at my door attempting to break in. They lunged into the door so hard, that I was almost certain they would break in. It was pretty scary, because the only weapon I had was a big kitchen knife. Anyway, they failed to break the door in, but after they left, the 911 operator didn't want to send police over, because, well, they were gone. The police didn't even bother to come by and take finger prints (the thugs tried the door knob to see if it was unlocked). I live in Los Angeles. I'm not against weapons for "personal defense". If I had a shot gun, I could have calmly waited for them to knock the door in, and picked them off as they entered. There's a different perspective for you.
There are still zillions of good domain names left. Just a little creativity will produce a nice name for almost any purpose. I think it's good that all the obvious names are taken. It forces you to be creative, and the new name you create won't conflict with someone else's trademark, unless you aren't trying hard enough.
Harder to debug than C++ templates? I guess it's o.k. to exaggerate sometimes. I've been using LaTeX since 1993, and have never spent an enormous amout of time debugging anything. I'm extremely curious to hear what you're doing that's causing so many problems. You have enough experience with LaTeX to know how to make things look exactly as you wish, but it seems you just can't be bothered. Would you really prefer to write that thesis in MS Word? I've seen others experience unexplained strangeness when their MS Word documents exceed 50 or so pages. My thesis (math) is already split among 10 files with revision control from the start. I can't imagine even writing one page with MS Word.
why do you want to always hide everything? Paranoia?
When people do things in the privacy of their own homes or businesses, they're not "hiding." The question you should be asking is, why the hell is the DOJ trying to get into my personal business?
The new features are pretty cool, but it seems to me it needs many months of testing to get right, expecially time machine. Also, getting it all to work within processor and memory limits looks pretty hard.
Those $30 ones from Taiwan will play anything you through at them, usually even out of region stuff with little to no effort.
Indeed, I got a $20 loss-leader DVD player from Best Buy, and it plays everything.
The question is will you accept a computer that might run a tad slower (and might not run some commercial software programs at all) for the price of using it how you see fit.
Why would it run slower? The computer I'm using now has no commercial software, so I, like other freedom fighters, should be o.k.
In my opinion, open/free Linux is still 5-10 years behind Windows and OSX in terms of desktop functionality...
Yeah, a friend of mine has a Windows 95 machine, and I tried it out recently. Man, I was BLOWN AWAY. I've been wasting productivity on my Gentoo and Ubuntu machines, when all this time Windows 95 just makes it much easier. I mean, it looks and functions better, and everything just works. My friend showed me how to take all my LaTeX files (100 or so) for my book, with all the revision history in Git, and convert it all to Microsoft Word. Wow! Productivity SQUARED! After watching my reaction, my firend slapped me on the head (really hard) and exclaimed, "It's the APPS, stupid!"
Sellable? Are you serious? This is essentially dividing the price of gas by five for many cars. There is a large class of people who don't buy cars to impress their friends-- people who consider cars a necessary evil, or a job requirement. The demand for such a car would be so high that there would be a waiting list for months (or even years).
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
Maybe there isn't a need to drive faster than 70mph, but an engine designed to max out around 70 will be a lot more stressed than one designed to max out at, say, 120mph. If the maximum power draw of your computer was 245 watts, would you buy a 250 watt power supply?
I just recommended a Dell system for my family 2000 miles away. I'm praying to God I won't have to do any tech support over the phone. Hopefully they understand I've never even seen a computer with Vista installed. I hope the 1GB of memory is enough.
Indeed. I've done several telemarketing jobs, and a good salesman gets a sale from about one in a hundread calls. Sending letters out gets you a much, much smaller return. The RIAA is making $$$$ just by sending out form letters. Impressive.
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If you noticed that your company was infringing on others patents (they are, of course), would you "turn them in"? Complying with a silly license is about as illegal as not paying you bills. You just might have to pay fines, fees, judgements, or whatever. However, you should probably consider leaving, because a disgruntled employee will surely bring the place down, and you don't want to get caught up in it.
Well, after hearing stories about Mathematica and Matlab, here's the Maple story. I purchased Maple 6.0 in 2001 (I think). The retail box has a penguin on the outside. Nevertheless, it took a week of calls to Maple to get the license for Linux set up. Less than a year later, I replaced a broken CD ROM drive and upgraded the RAM. Oops! License is no good. So I call again, and again. Finally got someone to mail licenses to me, and after none of the licenses based on my "hardware profile" work, they FINALLY send me a machine-neutral license that works to this day. Waste of my time for $140 software. Should have been using open software. Also, the programming syntax changes from version to version, and not in trivial ways. Porting anything complex is hard. The last time I used Mathematica was version 1.0 on NeXT, which was kinda buggy, but pretty cool. I hated that all the commands started with a capital letter. I don't know anyone who uses it today. Everybody either uses Matlab or more specialized math software.
I recently called the harzardous waste disposal place in Los Angeles, and they told me microwave ovens don't have hazardous materials, so you can just throw then in a dumpster.
I haven't seen a single logical argument against software patents that doesn't involve circular reasoning.
Nice troll. +5
Are upload speeds of at least 1.5 megabits/sec usually available to home users?
This probably isn't the reason, but in math, the general term used for the capacity of an object, regardless of its dimension, is "volume". And so "length" refers to the volume of a 1-dimensional object, and "area" refers to the volume of a 2-D object.
Bzzt! Real men use both. Sometimes pictures/illustrations/explanations are better in one than the other.
Since it's a business model, HP will patent it. Competition problem solved.
But Kinkos has been doing this for years, and probably already beat them to the patent.
[Disclaimer: I'm against weapons for "personal defense"]
A few years ago, there were two guys at my door attempting to break in. They lunged into the door so hard, that I was almost certain they would break in. It was pretty scary, because the only weapon I had was a big kitchen knife. Anyway, they failed to break the door in, but after they left, the 911 operator didn't want to send police over, because, well, they were gone. The police didn't even bother to come by and take finger prints (the thugs tried the door knob to see if it was unlocked). I live in Los Angeles. I'm not against weapons for "personal defense". If I had a shot gun, I could have calmly waited for them to knock the door in, and picked them off as they entered. There's a different perspective for you.
There are still zillions of good domain names left. Just a little creativity will produce a nice name for almost any purpose. I think it's good that all the obvious names are taken. It forces you to be creative, and the new name you create won't conflict with someone else's trademark, unless you aren't trying hard enough.
Harder to debug than C++ templates? I guess it's o.k. to exaggerate sometimes. I've been using LaTeX since 1993, and have never spent an enormous amout of time debugging anything. I'm extremely curious to hear what you're doing that's causing so many problems. You have enough experience with LaTeX to know how to make things look exactly as you wish, but it seems you just can't be bothered. Would you really prefer to write that thesis in MS Word? I've seen others experience unexplained strangeness when their MS Word documents exceed 50 or so pages. My thesis (math) is already split among 10 files with revision control from the start. I can't imagine even writing one page with MS Word.
why do you want to always hide everything? Paranoia?
When people do things in the privacy of their own homes or businesses, they're not "hiding." The question you should be asking is, why the hell is the DOJ trying to get into my personal business?
X is not "a beast". It runs pretty fast on very slow processors/graphics cards.
Owned = black gangsta rap slang for "owning hoes", as in, women. It's fucking sexist.
Care to give a reference? Maybe it's a white gangsta rap term? Silly fool.
The new features are pretty cool, but it seems to me it needs many months of testing to get right, expecially time machine. Also, getting it all to work within processor and memory limits looks pretty hard.
What do freedom fighters fight? "for freedom" :)
The way to do it if you are of any decent size
You boys are getting pretty explicit nowadays!
Those $30 ones from Taiwan will play anything you through at them, usually even out of region stuff with little to no effort.
Indeed, I got a $20 loss-leader DVD player from Best Buy, and it plays everything.
The question is will you accept a computer that might run a tad slower (and might not run some commercial software programs at all) for the price of using it how you see fit.
Why would it run slower? The computer I'm using now has no commercial software, so I, like other freedom fighters, should be o.k.
In my opinion, open/free Linux is still 5-10 years behind Windows and OSX in terms of desktop functionality
Yeah, a friend of mine has a Windows 95 machine, and I tried it out recently. Man, I was BLOWN AWAY. I've been wasting productivity on my Gentoo and Ubuntu machines, when all this time Windows 95 just makes it much easier. I mean, it looks and functions better, and everything just works. My friend showed me how to take all my LaTeX files (100 or so) for my book, with all the revision history in Git, and convert it all to Microsoft Word. Wow! Productivity SQUARED! After watching my reaction, my firend slapped me on the head (really hard) and exclaimed, "It's the APPS, stupid!"
If you buy one for me, I promise I will take full advantage of it's power.
Sellable? Are you serious? This is essentially dividing the price of gas by five for many cars. There is a large class of people who don't buy cars to impress their friends-- people who consider cars a necessary evil, or a job requirement. The demand for such a car would be so high that there would be a waiting list for months (or even years).
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
Maybe there isn't a need to drive faster than 70mph, but an engine designed to max out around 70 will be a lot more stressed than one designed to max out at, say, 120mph. If the maximum power draw of your computer was 245 watts, would you buy a 250 watt power supply?
I just recommended a Dell system for my family 2000 miles away. I'm praying to God I won't have to do any tech support over the phone. Hopefully they understand I've never even seen a computer with Vista installed. I hope the 1GB of memory is enough.
You''l probably find (in the future) Geany more useful than Scribes, as far as productivity is concerned.
Indeed. I've done several telemarketing jobs, and a good salesman gets a sale from about one in a hundread calls. Sending letters out gets you a much, much smaller return. The RIAA is making $$$$ just by sending out form letters. Impressive.