An example of solid technology that in war time (like you just got bombed) is sound powered phones instead of externally powered electric phones...
Why make our ships run fewer people are more prone to breaking.
Ok, so take out 30 sailors and replace them with 5 wireless techs... What happens when war starts and all the hatches are sealed up and you can get to the next room to fix the broken parts?
This sound ominously similar to drive by wire... but worse.
The only advantage I can see is that now with the same number of sailors you have have 1/3 more ships out pounding the seas...
That is why I said "duplicate" (which was a poor choice of words) and not exact copy... You are right, I can't take the actual font file of "Times" and rename it "bob font" and sell it... you couldn't do that before anyways...
But what is unclear to me is how much of the font file "times" I would have to change before I could call my own...
As with photo manipulation, I can take someone else's photo and manipulate it to the point where it is so unique that I could call mine at that point without fear of copyright infringment.
But with a font not having copyright protection like a photo or an illustration would, then the amount of manipulation needed to make it mine might very well be close to nothing...
The really funny thing is
1) that there still seems to be a strong font industry as I can literally find thousands of font to purchase 2) there are plenty of free fonts out there for the public to use
An odd conclusion? Perhaps copyright law all together is pointless as the only people who can really truly enforce the copyright of their own work are those with the money for the lawyers.
I personally could never enforce it... so copyright protection for me is as good as non-existant.
This is where I find it ironic that there's a movement to push font IP into a new law... why? Who is doing this? People like me that even if the law was there wouldn't help me? No, it's being pushed by people with tons of money that once the law is enacted that they can let their lawyers loose...
I wouldn't buy into it, I like not being afraid of accidently using the wrong font, or asking a client to send me a font to work on their stuff, if I had to buy every font I ever used to work on my client's material, I would be broke...
When finished, they will go under a copyright which allows you (roughly) to fold, spindle, and mutilate the fonts, so long as you change the name to something else, and you can sell them so long as you don't sell them by themselves. You can sell them with any software whatsoever. You can freely redistribute the fonts anywhere, anytime, unmodified under that name.
What's funny about this is that you can do this now legally without any agreement. I can make an indentical font face ( not an identical copy mind you, be creative here (unless I read the law wrong)) of any font and even sell it as long as it's named different. This is under current copyright law. (dating back to the old days of the print press where the US colony wanted free reign of British and other's fonts:)
The simple fact that no fonts were "made", or modified from other good fonts, sooner than now and distributed (as there's no copyright protection for "font faces") is mind boggling...
Let's say they do get someone's IP address, and let's say they find out who had that IP at the time ( as IP's change on some accounts )
If there are 3 computers in the house, and only one has songs on it, they are all legit, blah, blah, [insert infintite scenarios]...
Can your really sue someone simply based on an IP? Can't this be -
1) faked 2) Used by someone else 3) Be a simply a lie from RIAA (how could you proove this true or false??)
It's like, saying "Bob called Mary on the phone, and Mary sang this song, and she did it illegally." Even though it's illegal to tap anyone's phone line, so you couldn't have gotten this information legally, so if the RIAA is serving up songs to catch people, then they are promoting piracy themselves, arg the circles of logic here are giving me a head ache...
This is like Microsoft demanding you proved you paid for Windows or whatever, and threatening a fee if you can't proove it, it's just lunacy. As if they could force you to pay anyways...
So let's say the RIAA tracks you on the net, finds you downloaded a song, then reports you, how do they really proove you have done anything? And even if they say you downloaded a song, wouldn't they have to have proof you actually have the song?
...when only multibillion-dollar corporations can afford to hire the army of lawyers and CPAs required to comply with the tax laws, the only legal businesses will be multibillion-dollar corporations.
I started a corporation with a total of about $300, including accountant time. ($65 an hour)
I don't agree with the abuses huge corps do, but I have to admit I see the need for corporation model of doing business.
For one, I am currently in a lawsuit over copyright infringement with the first client I got contracted by right after graduating from college. If I had been incorporated then, I would not be being personally sued right now...
Every freelancer should incorporate, with proper advice it can save you in many situtuations, and you get tax benefits too...
If this is totally true, and you can just copy the directory then all you have to deal with is this-
Buy Wise installer or some other installer App (perhaps 1 for each OS, can't imagine it would be more than 3)
1) If what was stated is true (that you can simply copy the folders) then make an installer based on your one computer's Moz setup.
2) This will compress your files.
3) You can add any extra files you want (.jar or otherwise) Install those as well, or even make seperate installers for the jar files, and simply include them in the installer. You can put these files anywhere you want on their system as well, simple point, click and naming folders and such, it's very easy.
4) Any variations of versions of an OS (say windows 95 vs Windows XP) can be detected using scripting in the Wise installer (or hopefully any other installer you use) and then you can install different files based on the version of the OS.
5) You would maintain total control of how the installer puts files on the end users computer. (One installer I made when ran, didn't ask the user anything, just opened up, installed the files and then closed.)
6) Any and all shortcuts, and folder groups are all super cake and easy to setup with a good installer application. I highly recommend wise if you do any installing on windows.
7) A simple wise for windows installer 4 standard edition is $450, with all the power and ease of use you get for it, you will find it can help you with many other things to install besides this. You can make installers to install installers, just to get past people screwing up things.:) (like automated button clicks and the such) though I have only experimented with these things a little.
8) If you have the money and the time to learn the more robust installers, you may be able to do even more than the above.
No, I see a more literal translation here... more like a "ship" taking about 1,000 cds of the "most current java installer" over to say... Zimbabwe... yup, that would fullfil the deal. Ship and java installer in the same sentence...no pun intended...
I actually pity Russians where the city cyclically turns off your hot water to save on power... needless to say in the middle of one of the worst winter's in Russia's recent history... (this is in Moscow even...)
Comrade 1: Comrade, if you had two houses would you give me one of your houses?
Comrade 2: Of course, Comrade!
Comrade 1: Comrade, if you had two cars would you give me one of your cars?
Comrade 2: Of course, Comrade!
Comrade 1: Comrade, if you had two chickens, would you give me one of your chickens?
Comrade 2: No, Comrade, I would not...
Comrade 1: But if you had two houses you would give me a house, if you had two cars you would give me a car... if you had two chickens why would you not give me a chicken?
uhm, sorry you can't control random events, (like being sued or being hit by a car) so avoiding them is luck, not a victory.
AFTER you have been hit, or sued, if you live or win, _that IS_ a victory...
I am sure the bad guy lawyers were sitting over there smirking "ha, they thought they won, but I saw the look in the judges eye, he really didn't mean it."
The biggest reason in this case is wide spread knowledge of linux/MySql/PHP. It's an easy combination to setup, find people to maintain or build on and it's a relatively simple. I can attest to this because I am a designer first a programmer second, and I've been able to set up my own php/mysql server and work hand in hand with the heavy coders...
Anyways, I've read that postgres is better than mysql, but I've never heard of tomcat, eclipse. Are these so much better than php or is the scripts more portable? What are the advantages?
Because if stability is the only comparison, php does fine for what we need, it's not mission critical software... any comments on PLATE are welcome, I am always open to the best solution for the problem.
wrong, every xbox sold is another number than can add to their tally. The more than can say they have sold, the better their system looks to game developers. Whether or not any of these xbox owners actually buy any games or just hack it is irrelevant.
The more games and developers working on the xbox the better it will look in the market place. period.
One of my best clients has had only requests for PHP/Linux/MySql based solutions. Why? Cause they make complete server products, and to make a profit off of ColdFusion & MS software you have a minimum cost of $8,000 to $10,000 and that does not include the cost of your own proprietary software, and on top of that you still need to profit.
So compare $10,000 to $0 intial costs, 10k can get a few benefits like this-
1) Extra features in your software 2) More time spent debugging and testing 3) Better hardware 4) More profit 5) Easier sales (because you can sell to any platform not just MS)
etc...
When it comes to bottom dollar, MS doesn't come close to competing, not to mention draconian licenses with no hope of relief in the future from them.
The only problem with this scenario is that Michael Moore is a serial dissembler. His book, "Stupid White Men," was laced with inaccuracies and falsehoods. His movie is just as bad. It's worth looking at just a few of these falsehoods to see exactly what his agenda is.
Perhaps the most gripping scene in the movie is one where Moore simply turns up at a bank, North Country Bank & Trust in Traverse City, Michigan, opens a bank account and gets a gun for his trouble. As he walks away, Moore chortles to the camera: "Here's my first question: do you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank?" It would be if true. But in fact the bank in question only gives you a gun if you open long-term CDs, and then you have to go to a gun store to get the gun after a background check. The scene, according to Lyons, was staged.
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What's wrong with wires?
An example of solid technology that in war time (like you just got bombed) is sound powered phones instead of externally powered electric phones...
Why make our ships run fewer people are more prone to breaking.
Ok, so take out 30 sailors and replace them with 5 wireless techs... What happens when war starts and all the hatches are sealed up and you can get to the next room to fix the broken parts?
This sound ominously similar to drive by wire... but worse.
The only advantage I can see is that now with the same number of sailors you have have 1/3 more ships out pounding the seas...
-v
in a quiet corner of the redmond campus, hell is about to break loose from above on two unsuspecting admins..
Bob: You get that lastest patch Homer?
Homer: Sure, I got it right here on this floppy.
Bob: Yah amazing how small patches are getting these days....
Homer: Yah, those guys over in the geek department are getting good...
Bob: Say, Homer, did you install that patch by any chance?
Homer: Sure, I put the disk in that one thing and the auto-fixy-thingy does all the work for me... Microsoft sure makes great stuff...
Bob: Yah, some day all we will have to do is patch software all day, won't that be great, no more this security garbage...
Patches? Patches? We don't need not stinking patches!
What is stopping them from changing the copyright lengths back to death + 70 years a year later? Then where are we?
-v
That is why I said "duplicate" (which was a poor choice of words) and not exact copy... You are right, I can't take the actual font file of "Times" and rename it "bob font" and sell it... you couldn't do that before anyways...
But what is unclear to me is how much of the font file "times" I would have to change before I could call my own...
As with photo manipulation, I can take someone else's photo and manipulate it to the point where it is so unique that I could call mine at that point without fear of copyright infringment.
But with a font not having copyright protection like a photo or an illustration would, then the amount of manipulation needed to make it mine might very well be close to nothing...
The really funny thing is
1) that there still seems to be a strong font industry as I can literally find thousands of font to purchase
2) there are plenty of free fonts out there for the public to use
An odd conclusion? Perhaps copyright law all together is pointless as the only people who can really truly enforce the copyright of their own work are those with the money for the lawyers.
I personally could never enforce it... so copyright protection for me is as good as non-existant.
This is where I find it ironic that there's a movement to push font IP into a new law... why? Who is doing this? People like me that even if the law was there wouldn't help me? No, it's being pushed by people with tons of money that once the law is enacted that they can let their lawyers loose...
I wouldn't buy into it, I like not being afraid of accidently using the wrong font, or asking a client to send me a font to work on their stuff, if I had to buy every font I ever used to work on my client's material, I would be broke...
-v
When finished, they will go under a copyright which allows you (roughly) to fold, spindle, and mutilate the fonts, so long as you change the name to something else, and you can sell them so long as you don't sell them by themselves. You can sell them with any software whatsoever. You can freely redistribute the fonts anywhere, anytime, unmodified under that name.
:)
What's funny about this is that you can do this now legally without any agreement. I can make an indentical font face ( not an identical copy mind you, be creative here (unless I read the law wrong)) of any font and even sell it as long as it's named different. This is under current copyright law. (dating back to the old days of the print press where the US colony wanted free reign of British and other's fonts
The simple fact that no fonts were "made", or modified from other good fonts, sooner than now and distributed (as there's no copyright protection for "font faces") is mind boggling...
Ford car at auto show...
wierd, I really think I have seen this _thing_ before...
Ford sure hasn't made much progress in design in the last _24 years_
-v
I think that compared to HUGE GIGANTIC WHOPPING KKAAAABBOOOOOMMMMM!!! right in your face... I think you really could say that it's completely safe...
Let's say they do get someone's IP address, and let's say they find out who had that IP at the time ( as IP's change on some accounts )
If there are 3 computers in the house, and only one has songs on it, they are all legit, blah, blah, [insert infintite scenarios]...
Can your really sue someone simply based on an IP? Can't this be -
1) faked
2) Used by someone else
3) Be a simply a lie from RIAA (how could you proove this true or false??)
It's like, saying "Bob called Mary on the phone, and Mary sang this song, and she did it illegally." Even though it's illegal to tap anyone's phone line, so you couldn't have gotten this information legally, so if the RIAA is serving up songs to catch people, then they are promoting piracy themselves, arg the circles of logic here are giving me a head ache...
This is like Microsoft demanding you proved you paid for Windows or whatever, and threatening a fee if you can't proove it, it's just lunacy. As if they could force you to pay anyways...
So let's say the RIAA tracks you on the net, finds you downloaded a song, then reports you, how do they really proove you have done anything? And even if they say you downloaded a song, wouldn't they have to have proof you actually have the song?
-v
...when only multibillion-dollar corporations can afford to hire the army of lawyers and CPAs required to comply with the tax laws, the only legal businesses will be multibillion-dollar corporations.
I started a corporation with a total of about $300, including accountant time. ($65 an hour)
I don't agree with the abuses huge corps do, but I have to admit I see the need for corporation model of doing business.
For one, I am currently in a lawsuit over copyright infringement with the first client I got contracted by right after graduating from college. If I had been incorporated then, I would not be being personally sued right now...
Every freelancer should incorporate, with proper advice it can save you in many situtuations, and you get tax benefits too...
-v
Yea Microsoft would never base their products on something that apple made.. oh.. wait a minute....
Yea and Microsoft also would never base their products on something similar to unix but stinks.. oh.. wait a minute....
If this is totally true, and you can just copy the directory then all you have to deal with is this-
Buy Wise installer or some other installer App (perhaps 1 for each OS, can't imagine it would be more than 3)
1) If what was stated is true (that you can simply copy the folders) then make an installer based on your one computer's Moz setup.
2) This will compress your files.
3) You can add any extra files you want (.jar or otherwise) Install those as well, or even make seperate installers for the jar files, and simply include them in the installer. You can put these files anywhere you want on their system as well, simple point, click and naming folders and such, it's very easy.
4) Any variations of versions of an OS (say windows 95 vs Windows XP) can be detected using scripting in the Wise installer (or hopefully any other installer you use) and then you can install different files based on the version of the OS.
5) You would maintain total control of how the installer puts files on the end users computer. (One installer I made when ran, didn't ask the user anything, just opened up, installed the files and then closed.)
6) Any and all shortcuts, and folder groups are all super cake and easy to setup with a good installer application. I highly recommend wise if you do any installing on windows.
7) A simple wise for windows installer 4 standard edition is $450, with all the power and ease of use you get for it, you will find it can help you with many other things to install besides this. You can make installers to install installers, just to get past people screwing up things. :) (like automated button clicks and the such) though I have only experimented with these things a little.
8) If you have the money and the time to learn the more robust installers, you may be able to do even more than the above.
-v
Bushfires Destroy Historic Mt. Stromlo Observatory
...then I found out it was just a regular ol' fire..
For a second I thought this was a political satire
if( /. == xbox_advertising_arena){
deleteBookmark("/.");
}
what? are you kidding you think M$ would give up the chance to have the data transfer get stopped in a bad port? har...
-v
Mugabe and Bill have alot in common I guess. :)
hehe, maybe it is a coincidence that some java beans come from Zimbabwe, maybe they could use some more java there as well...
-v
No, I see a more literal translation here... more like a "ship" taking about 1,000 cds of the "most current java installer" over to say... Zimbabwe... yup, that would fullfil the deal. Ship and java installer in the same sentence...no pun intended...
-v
I actually pity Russians where the city cyclically turns off your hot water to save on power... needless to say in the middle of one of the worst winter's in Russia's recent history... (this is in Moscow even...)
Comrade 1: Comrade, if you had two houses would you give me one of your houses?
Comrade 2: Of course, Comrade!
Comrade 1: Comrade, if you had two cars would you give me one of your cars?
Comrade 2: Of course, Comrade!
Comrade 1: Comrade, if you had two chickens, would you give me one of your chickens?
Comrade 2: No, Comrade, I would not...
Comrade 1: But if you had two houses you would give me a house, if you had two cars you would give me a car... if you had two chickens why would you not give me a chicken?
Comrade 2: Because I have two chickens.
The regular old Quicktime plugin meant for Netscape works fine for Mozilla... though it does crash more often than it should... -v
//this is like my way cool browser d00d, openIE();
uhm, sorry you can't control random events, (like being sued or being hit by a car) so avoiding them is luck, not a victory.
AFTER you have been hit, or sued, if you live or win, _that IS_ a victory...
I am sure the bad guy lawyers were sitting over there smirking "ha, they thought they won, but I saw the look in the judges eye, he really didn't mean it."
-v
The biggest reason in this case is wide spread knowledge of linux/MySql/PHP. It's an easy combination to setup, find people to maintain or build on and it's a relatively simple. I can attest to this because I am a designer first a programmer second, and I've been able to set up my own php/mysql server and work hand in hand with the heavy coders...
Anyways, I've read that postgres is better than mysql, but I've never heard of tomcat, eclipse. Are these so much better than php or is the scripts more portable? What are the advantages?
Because if stability is the only comparison, php does fine for what we need, it's not mission critical software... any comments on PLATE are welcome, I am always open to the best solution for the problem.
-v
wrong, every xbox sold is another number than can add to their tally. The more than can say they have sold, the better their system looks to game developers. Whether or not any of these xbox owners actually buy any games or just hack it is irrelevant.
The more games and developers working on the xbox the better it will look in the market place. period.
-v
One of my best clients has had only requests for PHP/Linux/MySql based solutions. Why? Cause they make complete server products, and to make a profit off of ColdFusion & MS software you have a minimum cost of $8,000 to $10,000 and that does not include the cost of your own proprietary software, and on top of that you still need to profit.
So compare $10,000 to $0 intial costs, 10k can get a few benefits like this-
1) Extra features in your software
2) More time spent debugging and testing
3) Better hardware
4) More profit
5) Easier sales (because you can sell to any platform not just MS)
etc...
When it comes to bottom dollar, MS doesn't come close to competing, not to mention draconian licenses with no hope of relief in the future from them.
-v
Some interesting exerpts
The only problem with this scenario is that Michael Moore is a serial dissembler. His book, "Stupid White Men," was laced with inaccuracies and falsehoods. His movie is just as bad. It's worth looking at just a few of these falsehoods to see exactly what his agenda is.
Perhaps the most gripping scene in the movie is one where Moore simply turns up at a bank, North Country Bank & Trust in Traverse City, Michigan, opens a bank account and gets a gun for his trouble. As he walks away, Moore chortles to the camera: "Here's my first question: do you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank?" It would be if true. But in fact the bank in question only gives you a gun if you open long-term CDs, and then you have to go to a gun store to get the gun after a background check. The scene, according to Lyons, was staged.
[end exerpts]
-v