Industrialised countries will have until 2012 to cut their collective emissions
Or what?
Or global warming will be worse than if they had.
Participating nations signed the agreement voluntarily. Why should there be a threat to noncompliance when there was no threat to not signing in the first place? Can't you grasp the concept of doing something for a good reason, even if nobody puts a gun to your head?
I believe Microsoft will indemnify as long as you don't use any non-Microsoft software at all on your system.
I think you are wrong. It doesn't even matter whether Microsoft's idemnification has a legal loophole or not. Don't you see? Indemnification is Microsoft's new competitive advantage against Linux. They're not going to sell that off for a few (million) measly dollars of lawyers' fees. They are going to protect the image of Microsoft as the safe choice, to the last breath.
Novell owns the rights to Unix, file structures, shared memory, threads etc...
You miss the point, these things aren't decided on merit, they're decided on wealth. Microsoft loses its antitrust, patent, and even trademark cases on merit, but what does it matter? They have enough money to settle with any private party, and more staying power than the US govt. in court.
Besides that, many, many people still blindly assume that IP laws are serving their intended purpose, so violaters deserve to be punished. And let's face it, Linux probably is violating a lot of patents. No moreso than anybody else, of course, but this situation is ideal for selective enforcement.
This tired argument is irrelevant except in cases where the company fully disclosed to the customer what they were buying into. The fact is customers usually don't get angry unless the company is deceptive or incompetent.
When you buy a game, with system requirements printed on the box, the clear implication is that if you have the system and lay out the cash, you can play the game... not waste hours struggling with their ill-conceived spyware scheme.
Not really, since they're adding commercials in to the time that you spend fast-forwarding through the recorded commercials.
This whole concept is nonsense; if a Tivo is anythink like my homebrew PVR, fast-forwarding doesn't take any time in the first place! It's like proposing to show commercials while your TV channel is changing, it doesn't take any appreciable time in the first place.
Again, if you don't like the service, don't subscribe.
This argument is irrelevant for people who already bought lifetime service (and others have already pointed this out repeatedly).
Personally I don't own a Tivo anyhow. I'm just here to watch the train wreck.
The problem is that the TIVO is NOT free. You paid for that device, and you paid for that service. Getting ads you don't want is a betrayal of the customer.
Another problem is the ads you skipped weren't free either - to the advertisers. Will they accept their ads stripped out and others put in their stead? I doubt it very much.
The old, customer-oriented Tivo was like a web browser with popup blockers, and nobody has been sued over popup blockers yet. Tivo's new ad-supported model is more like that browser hack that stripped the original ads and replaced them with other ads - and they DID get sued.
Knowing some customers aren't watching your ads is bad enough, but knowing your competitors are paying much less to have your ads replaced with theirs will really make companies angry.
Is that why fishing lures don't work anymore? Oh wait, they do...
For that matter, some Caterpillars have fake eyes to make them look bigger and scare off predators. Some frogs self-inflate for (presumably) the same reason. Surely it should be easier for the predator to evolve the ability to recognize an inflated frog than for the frog to evolve to inflate itself? But apparently not.
Besides what *might* happen, I believe the craft is actually *supposed* to disentigrate as part of the test. I can't imagine it has landing gear, a parachute, or anything of the sort.
Another thing to try is qpkg -l . This lists the files in the package, so you can pick out any man pages or other docs. If nothing else you can see what binaries were installed and try running them with -h.
I think your premise is wrong. I think most people who are against exploitation of desparate people around the world wouldn't mind somewhat higher prices if it helped. In fact I think quite a few of those same people already shop at organic food markets, buy hybrid cars, and in other ways put their money where their mouth is. "Standard of living," at least in the US, has reached the level where it's all relative anyways.
I think that he was implying that it would be sensible for terrorist organizations to target tech-support centers.
Well, I think (or at least hope) he was saying that basing your economy on one thing is risky because individual fields go up and down (as we techies well know). Forget terrorism and nukes. Normal economic factors will play havoc with an economy based on one sector.
Is it a foregone conclusion that non-stop war is seen as our inevitable futures?
Honestly, I think so.
If you remember, before 911 we were all getting worked up about China. There was a lot of concern about weaponry sold to China, distributed intelligence gathering, industrial espionage, security at the national labs, etc. We even bombed their embassy in Belgrade (officially that was an accident).
Then 911 hit and we don't care about China anymore.
Why? It seems we have a certain amount of concern and money set aside for conflict, and we have to spend it somewhere. The fact is there is *always* some reason to start a war somewhere. It might not be a great reason, but if you drill it into peoples' heads many of them will buy it.
I think there's more to it than astroturfing. My latest PDA is a (palm-based) Clie TH55 which is a pretty nice piece of hardware. With built-in camera, microphone, and Wifi, it just seems brimming with possibilities (not just off-color ones either).
But the OS just isn't there. I was going to start writing apps for it, but most of the cool features are supported through Sony-specific API extensions to PalmOS. With sony out of the market (the TH55 is discontinued) that's a dead end. I looked for Palm's API's, and it seems to be a mess - the various palm-based devices use different extensions for the same thing, and finding info on them is hard.
Finally I asked my office mate about it. He develops Palm software on the side. He said to ensure quality you have to posess each target device, because each has its own quirks and the emulator isn't accurate. That killed it for me.
There's a bright side to more PC-like handhelds - they're much more likely to get Linux ports. I love the idea of a small, sleek, Linux-based PDA, but the commercial market isn't there and it won't happen. The Zaurus is just too big and heavy, whereas the smaller iPaqs are even quite a bit thinner than the Tungsten T3.
Finally, I should add that I recently tried a co-worker's new IPaq and the handwriting recognition blows away anything I've seen for the Palm.
Anybody care to report on the OSX port of wxWidgets? I tried to port a wxWindows app to MacOS 9 a while ago and the Mac port wasn't complete enough to be useful.
It may well have been one impatient user.... if an audit were ever done, a few software keys wouldn't quite match up even though the counts would be roughly correct.
I'm sure it was, it's almost always that way. That's precisely why the Microsoft-backed BSA's "zero tolerance" policy frightens the bejeezus out of people and companies. I think it's time for some intolerance just about now, don't you?
Actually, any form of combat would be nearly impossible at mach 10. Even with the pilot pulling 10 G's, your turning radius would be half a continent wide. Most dogfights occur at subsonic speeds.
Dogfights hardly ever occur, period. But I can certainly see wanting the ability to quickly act on new intelligence (by dropping a bomb), without having bombers or subs dotting the whole earth.
The equipment is designed to be installed by theater management, and ALWAYS be running. If it's tampered with, a call center is notified. And if any "detections" are made, the same call center is notified, and then a live person makes the decision to notify the local theater's security and management.
Wow, that sounds impressive! And extremely expensive!!
Seriously, they would never recoup costs of $thousands for every screen in the world. Not unless they believe their own inflated damage estimates (I predict they don't). And it's an incredibly risky investment. I give it 2 weeks before somebody figures out you can defeat it by covering the camcorder's infrared autofocus light with a piece of masking tape, or installing a lens hood, or before they simply have to trash the whole system because it triggers the emergency response system every time somebody wearing coke-bottle glasses walks in.
Not that I care, I've never even seen a "screener."
Energy is not conserved. E=MC^2. There you have it, Einstein disproved the first law of thermodynamics pure and simple. What's conserved is the sum that includes both E and MC^2, but that sum is neither just matter or energy, it's both.
The link you referenced rightly uses "transformed" to mean "changed from one form of energy to another" (i.e. potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy) but that's not what a nuclear reaction does.
It unfairly taxes a specific kind of internet traffic. It is just data flowing over lines no differently than webbrowsing.
Well, there's no physical basis for how the RF spectrum is divided into unlicensed vs. licensed (and auctioned) frequencies, either. Or for that matter, zoning laws (the dirt doesn't know any better). Or "owned" vs "free" information (the bits don't care).
You're media centric; the application doesn't matter. What's the argument against being application centric, with the assumption that the media doesn't matter?
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Participating nations signed the agreement voluntarily. Why should there be a threat to noncompliance when there was no threat to not signing in the first place? Can't you grasp the concept of doing something for a good reason, even if nobody puts a gun to your head?
Besides that, many, many people still blindly assume that IP laws are serving their intended purpose, so violaters deserve to be punished. And let's face it, Linux probably is violating a lot of patents. No moreso than anybody else, of course, but this situation is ideal for selective enforcement.
Fine then, cats and mice.
Bad example, that one's not over yet.
When you buy a game, with system requirements printed on the box, the clear implication is that if you have the system and lay out the cash, you can play the game... not waste hours struggling with their ill-conceived spyware scheme.
Personally I don't own a Tivo anyhow. I'm just here to watch the train wreck.
The old, customer-oriented Tivo was like a web browser with popup blockers, and nobody has been sued over popup blockers yet. Tivo's new ad-supported model is more like that browser hack that stripped the original ads and replaced them with other ads - and they DID get sued.
Knowing some customers aren't watching your ads is bad enough, but knowing your competitors are paying much less to have your ads replaced with theirs will really make companies angry.
For that matter, some Caterpillars have fake eyes to make them look bigger and scare off predators. Some frogs self-inflate for (presumably) the same reason. Surely it should be easier for the predator to evolve the ability to recognize an inflated frog than for the frog to evolve to inflate itself? But apparently not.
Besides what *might* happen, I believe the craft is actually *supposed* to disentigrate as part of the test. I can't imagine it has landing gear, a parachute, or anything of the sort.
Personally I'm a chicken and only update packages individually when I find a need to do so.
Another thing to try is qpkg -l . This lists the files in the package, so you can pick out any man pages or other docs. If nothing else you can see what binaries were installed and try running them with -h.
I think your premise is wrong. I think most people who are against exploitation of desparate people around the world wouldn't mind somewhat higher prices if it helped. In fact I think quite a few of those same people already shop at organic food markets, buy hybrid cars, and in other ways put their money where their mouth is. "Standard of living," at least in the US, has reached the level where it's all relative anyways.
If you remember, before 911 we were all getting worked up about China. There was a lot of concern about weaponry sold to China, distributed intelligence gathering, industrial espionage, security at the national labs, etc. We even bombed their embassy in Belgrade (officially that was an accident).
Then 911 hit and we don't care about China anymore.
Why? It seems we have a certain amount of concern and money set aside for conflict, and we have to spend it somewhere. The fact is there is *always* some reason to start a war somewhere. It might not be a great reason, but if you drill it into peoples' heads many of them will buy it.
Good point. Instead I suggest they just wait until the ultimate version of everything is available at WalMart so they only have to buy it once.
But the OS just isn't there. I was going to start writing apps for it, but most of the cool features are supported through Sony-specific API extensions to PalmOS. With sony out of the market (the TH55 is discontinued) that's a dead end. I looked for Palm's API's, and it seems to be a mess - the various palm-based devices use different extensions for the same thing, and finding info on them is hard.
Finally I asked my office mate about it. He develops Palm software on the side. He said to ensure quality you have to posess each target device, because each has its own quirks and the emulator isn't accurate. That killed it for me.
There's a bright side to more PC-like handhelds - they're much more likely to get Linux ports. I love the idea of a small, sleek, Linux-based PDA, but the commercial market isn't there and it won't happen. The Zaurus is just too big and heavy, whereas the smaller iPaqs are even quite a bit thinner than the Tungsten T3.
Finally, I should add that I recently tried a co-worker's new IPaq and the handwriting recognition blows away anything I've seen for the Palm.
Anybody care to report on the OSX port of wxWidgets? I tried to port a wxWindows app to MacOS 9 a while ago and the Mac port wasn't complete enough to be useful.
If that's all there was to it, we'd all still be driving 55 MPH on the freeway.
Seriously, they would never recoup costs of $thousands for every screen in the world. Not unless they believe their own inflated damage estimates (I predict they don't). And it's an incredibly risky investment. I give it 2 weeks before somebody figures out you can defeat it by covering the camcorder's infrared autofocus light with a piece of masking tape, or installing a lens hood, or before they simply have to trash the whole system because it triggers the emergency response system every time somebody wearing coke-bottle glasses walks in.
Not that I care, I've never even seen a "screener."
The link you referenced rightly uses "transformed" to mean "changed from one form of energy to another" (i.e. potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy) but that's not what a nuclear reaction does.
You're media centric; the application doesn't matter. What's the argument against being application centric, with the assumption that the media doesn't matter?