You really don't know of what you are talking about. If a browser with mail, composer and all the other stuff in 10mb is too much, then tell me how much you think IE fits in...
And M$ programs aren't separate from each others... they are all tied up in the OS.
And Mozilla is modular... you can choose what you wan't to install. On the other hand, in the M$ land, you can't uninstall the browser or mail program or anything at all... FULL BLOAT!
Cheers...
P.S.- And Mozilla is much better then IE!
Due to it's huge complexity... MMORPG are bound to be launched with bugs...
Always had and it will be a long time til one is launched without bugs (if ever).
Cheers...
P.S.- mayhappen i will play another MMORPG (played UO, EQ, AO and DAoC)... but they all lack something... when i find what it is...
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The problem of Java is that is taught in old platforms, deprecated platforms and with old methods of programming and learning (respectivly, unix, windows and mainstream programming methedology).
That is a pity because i feel Java aims for a bigger future.
Cheers...
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As if XML was the cure for all evils.
The current trend of Microsoft to push XML to all layers of software, be it client or server, only make me suspect that they need it because they are unable to make the current software talk to each others.
After all, as they stated in court... they don't know how their own code works...
Cheers...
P.S.- for me... XML is nice, but take it with a grain of salt and pepper... What you do with XML is more important then the XML by itself (even if things are marketed diferently)
When the courts make this kind of decisions that are so appaling that the only alternative is to still them in an higher court (if one exists).
This of course have repercutions in the stock exchange if the companies involved are quoted in the stock exchanges they are mingling and abusivly tampering in the market values.
Why shouldn't the courts be investigated by the SEC?
Class protection?
Cheers...
P.S.- it is amazing how can a judge rule over something that he doesn't have an ounce of wit about... Shouldn't the special cases be judged by judges with credentials in the area? (i'm assuming too much here mayhappen... i'm assuming that judges are people with curiosity and thrus have more skills then the law)
Language barriers are nothing compared with cultural ones... And i'm not saying that the ocidental culture is better or worse then the Indian/Oriental one... They are just diferent... and that makes a hell to understant each others, even if both understand that white is white and black is black.
BTW this happens even inside one culture. Just define very well the project and enforce very strong development methods with case tests, performance tests, code review, coding rules, source control, and the like...
Software patents aren't the only evil... all patents are evil per si...
Some decades ago... the legislators, in an atempt to put order in the fast and furious times of invention... invented a low level playground called "patent". It was granted to intenvors to protect them from others thieving their ideas and marketing the fruits of them without any compensation the the original inventor.
Even in it's starting points... the rush to patent existed. The first to place the papers in the patent office would win (and that happened with patents related with telephones at least - if i recall correctly).
Patents today don't protect anything. The only thing that they allow is for restrictive access of common knowledge.
Today the great majority of all patents are pushed by companies, funded by companies and mayhappen used by companies.
The inventors at large don't profit anymore from the inventions apart from the "renown" (which they would receive anyway).
Another problem with patents is the time of "monopoly" for exploring the patent. It doesn't even protect companies anymore (see the typewriters patents and all those *inventive* tecniks to hammer the letters in the paper - and specially see where all that has gone today [and the companies also]).
Of course... the time is still the end of the 19 century... yup... where to build anything you still needed one or two years... NOT!
20 or 25 years in a software patent is just madning! In the industrial world, a patent normally don't outlast it's usefullness. But, in software, that means 5 to 6 full generations of software and arround 2 completelly diferent breads software engeneering! That is just too much...
And yes... the root of all evil is in the USPTO office. When the patent examiners are rewarded by the number of patents approved! You can add 2+2 i presume...
Our children are too precious to sacrifice them at the altar of free speech.
If you spent more time educating your wanderfull children and less time posting in slashdot you would be protecting them much better then by posting irrelevant speechs...
If the teachers let them learn... which in institutionalized and rigid schools as of today can be very dificult if at least part of the "learning" isn't self motivated by the students themselfs (and please don't tell me that they don't know what they should learn, because apart from basic of language, math, science and society, everything else if game...).
Cheers...
P.S.- I sometime think that schools exist to lift the burden of education from the parents shoulders. If the kids learn or not isn't normally the issue AND THAT IS PLAIN WRONG!
The net isn't a newspaper, but on the other hand, that site claims (C) for it's news bits. That means that they are obliged by the law to provide to the public domain the article (ok... after 25 years).
Failure to do that means that the article isn't copyrighted at all. Where is the archive of the older version?
And vice-versa... like in the recent French and German cases agains Nazi memoralia and content (of which i abstain of making a comment because that is utterly off-topic)...
Cheers...
File sharing doens't mandatorially damages the authors nor anyone.
Don't mix correlation with causation please. I'm as most tired of having that kind of "trues" thrown at my ears.
And you can't prove that all downloads from kazaa are illegal (i could download a music of which i own the cd. under the fair use and format shift resolutions, it is legal for me to do it - at least in US - other countries may have legislative environments to the contrary).
I'm perfectly aware that the majority of the kazaa users use it illegally, but there are legal uses of it as well, they aren't just the "mainstream"
On the other hand, a download isn't mandatory to mean a cd that isn't brougt (even if some would like to make that relation).
Most people will use kazaa to download music to preview it before buying it. It more pratical then go to the disco and preview the cd there. There are more offer for preview.
Those that like the music and that can aford it, will eventually start to buy the new found authors music (another falacy is that everyone that downloads music can afford it and thrus represents a forfeit cd sell).
But i digress... Mayhappen some should go to economic universities and study macro-economy... Mayhappen they start to understand what a market is!
Cheers...
P.S.- And... what on the hell has spyware to do with "harm musicians"?
If you check the legal bases for copyright, you will see that it is granted by the public representatives as a trade-off for the "trouble" of publishing the works.
Never forget that IT IS A GRANT type of right and, that the work is in the public domain after the grant elapse.
If the work is published in a crypted form (whatever the mean), they are forfeiting the "public domain" part of the grant and thrus are forbiding it.
Of course, they aren't strictly forbiden to crypt the content. BUT THEY ARE OBLIGED to publish the algoritms and the keys of it before it is published (as one can't assume that the publishers will survive until the end of the grant to "free" the content to the public domain).
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The problem was the advertising in the site where the software was sold. It claimed in BIG LETTERS to overcome the copy protections for that effect.
If they just publicited the product to enable blinds to read e-books... they would be just off the hook! (as is stated in the DMCA)...
[the servers in US and the payments thru US wheren't also very helpfull... but they are just details]
What i find funny is that US is claiming liability to a foreigner company...
Acording to the US legal code, legal bi-directionalidy exists... are they opening their doors to legal troubles brought all over the world?
Cheers...
P.S.- And i don't like ADOBE... specially for their part in this whole stuff... (yes... YOU CAN'T ERASE THE RESPONSABILITY)
I just hope the case is dismissed so they can counter-sue and demand compensation from the state and from Adobe...
I normally use them as monitor bases... 4 piles of cd's make a very nice and stable base...
Cheers...
You really don't know of what you are talking about. If a browser with mail, composer and all the other stuff in 10mb is too much, then tell me how much you think IE fits in...
And M$ programs aren't separate from each others... they are all tied up in the OS.
And Mozilla is modular... you can choose what you wan't to install. On the other hand, in the M$ land, you can't uninstall the browser or mail program or anything at all... FULL BLOAT!
Cheers...
P.S.- And Mozilla is much better then IE!
Whow... nice proportions in M$ news...
Cheers...
What wrath? After the migration is done... M$ can call anything but will be eating the dust...
You can even deny the "right" to auditory... and even deny the right of M$ to know how many computers and licences you have...
Unless they come with a court order...
And even then... you can refuse to deliver the data to M$ and demand to deliver it only to the court itself...
Cheers...
P.S.- Of course you can end with all your licenses voided but alas...
You win a nice +2 in your posts ;)
What Supreme Court? That think that only judges a few cases per year? Or a real Court Room?
Cheers...
Due to it's huge complexity... MMORPG are bound to be launched with bugs...
Always had and it will be a long time til one is launched without bugs (if ever).
Cheers...
P.S.- mayhappen i will play another MMORPG (played UO, EQ, AO and DAoC)... but they all lack something... when i find what it is...
The problem of Java is that is taught in old platforms, deprecated platforms and with old methods of programming and learning (respectivly, unix, windows and mainstream programming methedology).
That is a pity because i feel Java aims for a bigger future.
Cheers...
As if XML was the cure for all evils.
The current trend of Microsoft to push XML to all layers of software, be it client or server, only make me suspect that they need it because they are unable to make the current software talk to each others.
After all, as they stated in court... they don't know how their own code works...
Cheers...
P.S.- for me... XML is nice, but take it with a grain of salt and pepper... What you do with XML is more important then the XML by itself (even if things are marketed diferently)
When the courts make this kind of decisions that are so appaling that the only alternative is to still them in an higher court (if one exists).
This of course have repercutions in the stock exchange if the companies involved are quoted in the stock exchanges they are mingling and abusivly tampering in the market values.
Why shouldn't the courts be investigated by the SEC?
Class protection?
Cheers...
P.S.- it is amazing how can a judge rule over something that he doesn't have an ounce of wit about...
Shouldn't the special cases be judged by judges with credentials in the area? (i'm assuming too much here mayhappen... i'm assuming that judges are people with curiosity and thrus have more skills then the law)
Language barriers are nothing compared with cultural ones... And i'm not saying that the ocidental culture is better or worse then the Indian/Oriental one... They are just diferent... and that makes a hell to understant each others, even if both understand that white is white and black is black.
BTW this happens even inside one culture. Just define very well the project and enforce very strong development methods with case tests, performance tests, code review, coding rules, source control, and the like...
Cheers...
(and good luck)
HA...
Now a wrong thing is more "legal" jsut because a court hadn't the "clues" enought to see what was "wrong" in it...
Brilhant legal system!
Cheers...
Software patents aren't the only evil... all patents are evil per si...
Some decades ago... the legislators, in an atempt to put order in the fast and furious times of invention... invented a low level playground called "patent". It was granted to intenvors to protect them from others thieving their ideas and marketing the fruits of them without any compensation the the original inventor.
Even in it's starting points... the rush to patent existed. The first to place the papers in the patent office would win (and that happened with patents related with telephones at least - if i recall correctly).
Patents today don't protect anything. The only thing that they allow is for restrictive access of common knowledge.
Today the great majority of all patents are pushed by companies, funded by companies and mayhappen used by companies.
The inventors at large don't profit anymore from the inventions apart from the "renown" (which they would receive anyway).
Another problem with patents is the time of "monopoly" for exploring the patent. It doesn't even protect companies anymore (see the typewriters patents and all those *inventive* tecniks to hammer the letters in the paper - and specially see where all that has gone today [and the companies also]).
Of course... the time is still the end of the 19 century... yup... where to build anything you still needed one or two years... NOT!
20 or 25 years in a software patent is just madning! In the industrial world, a patent normally don't outlast it's usefullness. But, in software, that means 5 to 6 full generations of software and arround 2 completelly diferent breads software engeneering! That is just too much...
And yes... the root of all evil is in the USPTO office. When the patent examiners are rewarded by the number of patents approved! You can add 2+2 i presume...
Enought of rantings...
Our children are too precious to sacrifice them at the altar of free speech.
If you spent more time educating your wanderfull children and less time posting in slashdot you would be protecting them much better then by posting irrelevant speechs...
Cheers...
"First, DMCA is about protecting copywritten digital content"
I wander how they implemented such a wanderfull thing as a crypted copyright in the first place...
That is one thing that, in all this threads and news, nobody explained yet...
Cheers...
And what exactly is that?
Welcome to legal arbiterariety (arg... spelling)...
Cheers...
A tought passed my mind... is M$ auditing machines used by minors?
Isn't against the law to in any way compromise minors privacy?
On the other hand why should schools comply with the auditings? What will happen?
From my reading, if they forbid access they are forfeiting the EULA... Big deal as they are converting everything to linux anyway...
Cheers...
If the teachers let them learn... which in institutionalized and rigid schools as of today can be very dificult if at least part of the "learning" isn't self motivated by the students themselfs (and please don't tell me that they don't know what they should learn, because apart from basic of language, math, science and society, everything else if game...).
Cheers...
P.S.- I sometime think that schools exist to lift the burden of education from the parents shoulders. If the kids learn or not isn't normally the issue AND THAT IS PLAIN WRONG!
If he comes here he will find with a FULL TIME job at hands...
With so many wrongly signaled exits and outdated signals he would work 7/24 at least for one year!
Cheers...
And it has less then half the possible funcionality and takes double time to install.
And in the end... performs a stack dump... or a BSoD...
Cheers...
The net isn't a newspaper, but on the other hand, that site claims (C) for it's news bits. That means that they are obliged by the law to provide to the public domain the article (ok... after 25 years). Failure to do that means that the article isn't copyrighted at all. Where is the archive of the older version?
And vice-versa... like in the recent French and German cases agains Nazi memoralia and content (of which i abstain of making a comment because that is utterly off-topic)... Cheers...
File sharing doens't mandatorially damages the authors nor anyone.
Don't mix correlation with causation please. I'm as most tired of having that kind of "trues" thrown at my ears.
And you can't prove that all downloads from kazaa are illegal (i could download a music of which i own the cd. under the fair use and format shift resolutions, it is legal for me to do it - at least in US - other countries may have legislative environments to the contrary).
I'm perfectly aware that the majority of the kazaa users use it illegally, but there are legal uses of it as well, they aren't just the "mainstream"
On the other hand, a download isn't mandatory to mean a cd that isn't brougt (even if some would like to make that relation).
Most people will use kazaa to download music to preview it before buying it. It more pratical then go to the disco and preview the cd there. There are more offer for preview.
Those that like the music and that can aford it, will eventually start to buy the new found authors music (another falacy is that everyone that downloads music can afford it and thrus represents a forfeit cd sell).
But i digress... Mayhappen some should go to economic universities and study macro-economy... Mayhappen they start to understand what a market is!
Cheers...
P.S.- And... what on the hell has spyware to do with "harm musicians"?
If you check the legal bases for copyright, you will see that it is granted by the public representatives as a trade-off for the "trouble" of publishing the works.
Never forget that IT IS A GRANT type of right and, that the work is in the public domain after the grant elapse.
If the work is published in a crypted form (whatever the mean), they are forfeiting the "public domain" part of the grant and thrus are forbiding it.
Of course, they aren't strictly forbiden to crypt the content. BUT THEY ARE OBLIGED to publish the algoritms and the keys of it before it is published (as one can't assume that the publishers will survive until the end of the grant to "free" the content to the public domain).
Cheers...