Terrorism IS a PR trick. It kills few people (compare the number of deaths caused by terrorism over a ten year period in any country with ordinary murders or road deaths or the effect of a single raid by bomber aircraft over a city).
Even the group notorious for being the inventor of modern suicide bombing techniques, as killed no more than a few thousand people through terrorist techniques out of a total that is definitely over a hundred thousand (one study suggests hundreds of thousands) killed in more conventional actions in the same conflict.
I do not know blender, but Linux distros and apps usually come with good default configurations of the GUI, but are flexible enough to make it look and work a bit differently.
You seem to be saying that it would be good to get rid of this flexibility. Why? People do not have to change themes if they do not want to. In my experience naive users do not have much of a problem using the defaults.
I have never seen a "one way GUI" such as you describe. Yes its bad, but it not common. I have not seen the problems you describe with alert boxes on Linux any more than on Windows.
In addition, the Mandriva Control Centre is very good, the community is friendly, multiple desktop environments are properly supported (no Kubuntu style underfunded support), the repos are fairly big (but smaller than Debian/Ubuntu) and bug fixes usually happen fast.
In addition, the Mandriva Control Centre is very good, the community is friendly, multiple desktop environments are properly supported (no Kubuntu style underfunded support), the repos are fairly big (but smaller than Debian/Ubuntu) and bug fixes usually happen fast.
I am not sure it is true that CEOs are worth the salary. A good company can produce good results even under a mediocre CEO, a bad company is very difficult for even a good CEO to turnaround, and it can be very difficult to tell who will be a good CEO before appointing them.
Even in hindsight, it can be very difficult to allocate praise of blame.
A lot of CEOs have made a lot of money without making the shareholders happy either.
He is stlill just a man. papal infallibility means that he very occasionally gets to exercise the level of authority formerly reserved for church councils.
That seems to prove it is open source. They are porting the original source, even though its been done before, in order to tailor it to what they want.
So much for fundamentalists being Christians who base their beliefs on the Bible. They are Christians who base their beliefs on selected, often out of context, bits of the Bible they like.
I wonder what they (with the pro-capitalist agenda) are going to do about "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" and "give all you have to the poor".
That assumes that St Paul would have asserted his copyright in a way that prevented copying. I think he would probably have used a creative commons license.
So what are their margins on hardware and software?
PC hardware is usually low margin, and software is usually is high margin.
Even if Apple's margins on hardware sales is high, it can be attributed to its only real differentiating characteristic - the software bundled with it.
To put it another way, Apple's profits ultimately come from its software,
Thousands of experts would have assured you that pholgiston and the ether existed. The consensus view in medicine has been wrong lots of times: routine tonsilectomy, eggs and other foods as contributing to high cholesterol, the effects of tobacco and alcohol - the last is particularly good because you can very easily see that many individual doctors use their medical knowledge to bolster their own prejudices and choices.
You can gain access to more datasets once you exhibit certain basic qualifications (like a relevant degree).
Why should that restriction exist at all? Who decides what a relevant degree? Do you need to be a climatologist? a statistician? is my econometrics heavy MSc enough?
Apple already owns the online music distribution and playing industry and the high end professional computing industry (programming, design, scientific computing, high performance computing, etc.. basically anyone who needs a computer for serious work)
Wow, what are you smoking?
Whatever it is, its a scary example of "your brain on Mac".
They do dominate paid online music distribution. I am sure the volume of pirated plus legitimate free stuff is far greater - especially if you include podcasts and radio.
I love the bit about Quicktime (and by implication all Apple stuff) being more secure than free software.
I can see lots of possible monetary damage to the developers:
1) Loss of reputation: their names are advertised if the source is distributed with their copyright notices on it. This may lead to loss of work (e.g. related consultancy work). 2) Extra development costs because of loss of access to a bug-fix or feature addition that was not released by the violator. 3) Loss of opportunities to sell proprietary licences. 4) Loss of information because they were not able to identify some devices as using their code. People spend money analysing market share, so the information has value. It may for example lead to lost opportunities to pitch for consultancy or customisation work, or to sell a proprietary add-on.
That's your problem. Some businesses go bust. Its called creative destruction and is essential to free market capitalism. Find another job or become unemployed.
How exactly would I be any worse off if "Bill had decided to pump gas instead"?
I'll go pump gas and you can live without it.
Can we know exactly what this software is so we can decide how terrible this threat is. I tried Googlong for your name and all I could find are open source and Ubuntu related stuff: i.e. your biggest impact on the world is through free software.
I am not sure that it is Joe who has to distribute the code. It is the manufacturer that did the copying. Do you need a license to re-sell an embedded copyright work? If the dashboard computer runs Windows CE do I have to agree to Microsoft's EULA when I buy it? Does the seller need to check that all the licences are transferable?
So what happens? If Jim contacts the copyright holders is it really likely that they will sue Joe?
I would not actually have a problem with that, especially with regard to software (I think there is a good argument for a reasonable copyright term or about 20 years on books, films music etc.).
Suppose we had a two year copyright on software and no software patents. Developers could reverse engineer any format or codec that is more than two years old. There would be a huge incentive to improve proprietary software so that the latest version is a sufficient improvement on the two year old one to the worth paying for.
So people could make proprietary forks of two year old GPL stuff. Of course they would have to back-port all the security fixes and any new features they want.
In the UK, at least, the loser pays the costs, BUT the costs are assessed for reasonableness by the court.
If your example ever happened, you would only have to pay only what the curt thought MS should have spent.
In any case, a cases involving small amounts of money (I think the current limit is £5,000) are almost always heard by the small claims court where the loser does not pay, and at which people normally represent themselves.
Most of my Facebook Friends are in their thirties and forties.
Its useful for keep in in touch with friends in other countries who you do no see regularly, its useful for telling people about events or advertising things you are involved in, (its great for amateur actors and musicians), it allows a group of people to have a discussion.
The best thing has been getting in touch with people I have lost contact with. A lot of them may not be close friends, and Facebook is any easy way of keeping in touch.
Yes, but there is nothing to stop the judge having a drink the a lawyer every evening. It does not stop judges and lawyers being friends, it only prevents public knowledge of the friendship.
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Terrorism IS a PR trick. It kills few people (compare the number of deaths caused by terrorism over a ten year period in any country with ordinary murders or road deaths or the effect of a single raid by bomber aircraft over a city).
Even the group notorious for being the inventor of modern suicide bombing techniques, as killed no more than a few thousand people through terrorist techniques out of a total that is definitely over a hundred thousand (one study suggests hundreds of thousands) killed in more conventional actions in the same conflict.
I do not know blender, but Linux distros and apps usually come with good default configurations of the GUI, but are flexible enough to make it look and work a bit differently.
You seem to be saying that it would be good to get rid of this flexibility. Why? People do not have to change themes if they do not want to. In my experience naive users do not have much of a problem using the defaults.
I have never seen a "one way GUI" such as you describe. Yes its bad, but it not common. I have not seen the problems you describe with alert boxes on Linux any more than on Windows.
Ugliest OS: $ANY_LINUX_DISTRO Seriously show me a pretty one.
Mandriva 2010 KDE
http://www2.mandriva.com/linux/overview/
In addition, the Mandriva Control Centre is very good, the community is friendly, multiple desktop environments are properly supported (no Kubuntu style underfunded support), the repos are fairly big (but smaller than Debian/Ubuntu) and bug fixes usually happen fast.
Sorry, made half the aove comment on the wrong story.
Thats what happens if you work in two tabs at once
its not something you want to be locked into.
http://www2.mandriva.com/linux/overview/
In addition, the Mandriva Control Centre is very good, the community is friendly, multiple desktop environments are properly supported (no Kubuntu style underfunded support), the repos are fairly big (but smaller than Debian/Ubuntu) and bug fixes usually happen fast.
I am not sure it is true that CEOs are worth the salary. A good company can produce good results even under a mediocre CEO, a bad company is very difficult for even a good CEO to turnaround, and it can be very difficult to tell who will be a good CEO before appointing them.
Even in hindsight, it can be very difficult to allocate praise of blame.
A lot of CEOs have made a lot of money without making the shareholders happy either.
He is stlill just a man. papal infallibility means that he very occasionally gets to exercise the level of authority formerly reserved for church councils.
That seems to prove it is open source. They are porting the original source, even though its been done before, in order to tailor it to what they want.
So much for fundamentalists being Christians who base their beliefs on the Bible. They are Christians who base their beliefs on selected, often out of context, bits of the Bible they like.
I wonder what they (with the pro-capitalist agenda) are going to do about "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" and "give all you have to the poor".
That assumes that St Paul would have asserted his copyright in a way that prevented copying. I think he would probably have used a creative commons license.
[quote]a Catholic organization would suffer far more damage by being cut off from the church (i.e. excommunicated).[/quote]
I really, really, doubt that anyone would be excommunicated for using the Pope's image without permission.
So what are their margins on hardware and software?
PC hardware is usually low margin, and software is usually is high margin.
Even if Apple's margins on hardware sales is high, it can be attributed to its only real differentiating characteristic - the software bundled with it.
To put it another way, Apple's profits ultimately come from its software,
Thousands of experts would have assured you that pholgiston and the ether existed. The consensus view in medicine has been wrong lots of times: routine tonsilectomy, eggs and other foods as contributing to high cholesterol, the effects of tobacco and alcohol - the last is particularly good because you can very easily see that many individual doctors use their medical knowledge to bolster their own prejudices and choices.
You can gain access to more datasets once you exhibit certain basic qualifications (like a relevant degree).
Why should that restriction exist at all? Who decides what a relevant degree? Do you need to be a climatologist? a statistician? is my econometrics heavy MSc enough?
Wow, what are you smoking?
Whatever it is, its a scary example of "your brain on Mac".
They do dominate paid online music distribution. I am sure the volume of pirated plus legitimate free stuff is far greater - especially if you include podcasts and radio.
I love the bit about Quicktime (and by implication all Apple stuff) being more secure than free software.
What happened? We voted Labour thinking they could not possibly be worse than the conservatives, and they were determined to prove us wrong.
The man who will make the decisions is
1) Has been forced to resign twice
2) Does not hold any elected office
3) Popularly known as "the Prince of Darkness"
No, the last is not a joke - google for "mandelson prince".
I can see lots of possible monetary damage to the developers:
1) Loss of reputation: their names are advertised if the source is distributed with their copyright notices on it. This may lead to loss of work (e.g. related consultancy work).
2) Extra development costs because of loss of access to a bug-fix or feature addition that was not released by the violator.
3) Loss of opportunities to sell proprietary licences.
4) Loss of information because they were not able to identify some devices as using their code. People spend money analysing market share, so the information has value. It may for example lead to lost opportunities to pitch for consultancy or customisation work, or to sell a proprietary add-on.
That's your problem. Some businesses go bust. Its called creative destruction and is essential to free market capitalism. Find another job or become unemployed.
How exactly would I be any worse off if "Bill had decided to pump gas instead"?
Can we know exactly what this software is so we can decide how terrible this threat is. I tried Googlong for your name and all I could find are open source and Ubuntu related stuff: i.e. your biggest impact on the world is through free software.
I am not sure that it is Joe who has to distribute the code. It is the manufacturer that did the copying. Do you need a license to re-sell an embedded copyright work? If the dashboard computer runs Windows CE do I have to agree to Microsoft's EULA when I buy it? Does the seller need to check that all the licences are transferable?
So what happens? If Jim contacts the copyright holders is it really likely that they will sue Joe?
I would not actually have a problem with that, especially with regard to software (I think there is a good argument for a reasonable copyright term or about 20 years on books, films music etc.).
Suppose we had a two year copyright on software and no software patents. Developers could reverse engineer any format or codec that is more than two years old. There would be a huge incentive to improve proprietary software so that the latest version is a sufficient improvement on the two year old one to the worth paying for.
So people could make proprietary forks of two year old GPL stuff. Of course they would have to back-port all the security fixes and any new features they want.
It sounds good to me.
Can the judge not have the case transferred to another court?
In the UK, at least, the loser pays the costs, BUT the costs are assessed for reasonableness by the court.
If your example ever happened, you would only have to pay only what the curt thought MS should have spent.
In any case, a cases involving small amounts of money (I think the current limit is £5,000) are almost always heard by the small claims court where the loser does not pay, and at which people normally represent themselves.
I like Gnumeric too.
Abiword is a good lightweight word-processor, but not as feature rich as OpenOffice.
What exactly is your problem with Latex? If the learning curve is too much, you use Lyx.
Most of my Facebook Friends are in their thirties and forties.
Its useful for keep in in touch with friends in other countries who you do no see regularly, its useful for telling people about events or advertising things you are involved in, (its great for amateur actors and musicians), it allows a group of people to have a discussion.
The best thing has been getting in touch with people I have lost contact with. A lot of them may not be close friends, and Facebook is any easy way of keeping in touch.
One is not a good sample.
Yes, but there is nothing to stop the judge having a drink the a lawyer every evening. It does not stop judges and lawyers being friends, it only prevents public knowledge of the friendship.