Yes. And, I mean, everybody knows that software patents is a hotly debated topic where the average german/european voter is emotionally very attached to, right? Right.
This might not be a topic for a great many people, but what else does the SPD/Greens have to offer? And if one comment made during a press conference can sway a couple 10K people to vote for them, what harm does that do? I'm not saying they're trying to win the election with this alone, but they are desperate. Their list of accomplishments is very short, and their support has declined steadily in the last few years.
I don't have any reason to believe that the german government really wanted the war. And knowing the political history of the current ruling parties in Germany, doubly so.
May I remind you that the history of the current ruling party of Germany includes two wars fought without hesitation?
You have to distinguish between reasoning and true motive here. Don't get me wrong - it's a good thing they opposed it, but I'm sure that if elections weren't coming up, things might have turned out very differently. Just a few years earlier, they had no trouble going to war in Kosovo, where as we now know things were just as shady as they are in the Iraq war.
Probably not where you come from. Here the number of people who does care is bigger. The point is that lobby groups are generating a lot of negative publicity right now, and that'll probably stop now - at no cost to the government.
I welcome you to write what you think is the reason though - I'm curious...
If the german government choses to not vote in favor of this, then only because they're sure their vote is not needed in order to have this passed.
Elections for european parliament are coming up. That's why. Don't be fooled for one minute by the german government: they voted against the iraq war even though they probably wanted it - to win elections. They don't critize the US for what happened in iraq recently, but are killing themselves to tell everyone how aweful the beheading of one US citizen was - to get a permanent seat in the UN security council.
Don't trust them. They WANT this law. They fought for it for years. They're just opportunistic, that's all.
They didn't just catch three people in this operation, but they took down several servers, some of which the operators might not have realized were even being used for warez distribution.
People who have several TB going through their line every day and don't even notice it get everything they deserve;)
Do you think people don't go loco on people in cinemas here that talk during the movie? Or run around all the time? Or make loud noises? When last someone in my vicinity did that - during LotR 3 - I nearly threw them off the balcony. Gave them one loud SHUT UP and they buckled and didn't make any more sounds. Not because I'm so frightening, but because they realized what they did was idiotic.
I can only wonder why the people you describe don't mind cell phone use (and probably other annoyances) when they paid to see the movie... Are they perhaps so used to such annoyances that they don't hear them anymore? Like a computer geek who doesn't hear the fan of his computer anymore because he hears it all day? I can only wonder.
Lister: Oh god, aliens? Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys, it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
Rimmer: Well we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?
Lister: Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?
Rimmer: Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't mean to say they don't have to visit the little boys' room. Only they probably do something weird and alienesque, like it comes out of the top of their heads or something.
Lister: Well I wouldn't like to be stuck behind one in a cinema.
Seriously. We here in Europe can't for the love of god understand what's up with this..first a giant fuss about that ugly nipple and now this. It's just pathetic!
I learnt from painful experience is that it's best to let parents learn to handle their machines themselves. Do not raise them to depend on you. That's the solution. Let them get a clue about what's going on and how to solve problems themselves. It's the only way:|
Just the other day - in the double episode Heroes - I thought how much that probe looked like one of those imperial probes from Star Wars....
I guess these days it's getting more and more difficult to be truely original. Stargate lends from quite a few different sources, but most of the time does it subtle enough not to be noticed too much - in my opinion anyway. And they do a nice job with storytelling. Plus Sam is hot!:D~~~~
The software used and written by NASA doesn't necessarily have to be some esoteric space-only software - NASA is a huge organisation with a lot of administrative overhead. Perhaps they have some good payroll software or project management systems or something that a lot more people could use than some rocket guidance programs.
If you've downloaded a song in the past few years, it's in large part because of Justin Frankel. Seven years ago, when he was just eighteen, he invented Winamp, the first software program that made it easy to play digital music on your computer.
Yeah, stupid me. And I thought it was because of programs like WinPlay3 and all those pirate groups (Rabid Neurosis, anyone?) that started to rip cds and distribute them via MP3 that this started.
Sweet memories... When I first got that free version of WinPlay3, my computer could only play back songs with 22khz and in mono because it was so slow, and it took half an hour just too get one song - my first one was "Lodi Dodi" by Snoop Doggy Dogg. Heh.
Nowadays I just buy CDs, mp3ize them and play them back with either mpg123 or mplayer. NOT winamp. And when I download songs, it's mostly from legal sources, like EMusic. But then I guess I'm not most people....
At precisely the time I saw this headline, I lost the last bit of respect for the british monarchy. Not as if there was much to begin with, but this is just pathetic. As if Gates had acted out of any other motive than to make money. The very notion is rediculous.
How pathetic: the GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) is moaning about this specific patent because for some reason they don't like it, but on the other side they're pushing for software patentability in Europe. Do they intent to fight every single stupid patent instead of rooting for the unpatentability of software? Boy, they're in for quite a ride.
I do not have a congressman/woman, you insensitive clod!:)
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You're making as much sense as a japanese vcr instruction manual. How on earth (or moon, for that matter) is a base on the moon cheaper? The distance is bigger, so that shipments there for replacement parts etc. are much more expensive, and you can't as easily direct your telescope on something because that stupid rock keeps on rotating. It's not only less cost-effective, it's just stupid. And btw, I doubt they'll do it anyway (a telescope on the moon). They appear to have abandoned all scientifically interesting goals and go straight for the "look everyone we're going places so lets forget our domestic problems" approach.
It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together.
Linux users don't have an opinion about BSD, they just don't know any better. We on the other side know better and use BSD because it is so much more elite. Linux isn't geeky enough anymore and that's why we have to reeducate Linux users. It's only for their own good!
Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.
Linux users wouldn't get it if you'd slap them over the head with a 12 lb BSD manual, so here's the absolute dummy's guide to BSD that even a totally brainless halfwit can understand.
If it's a myth, I have to say it's a pretty profitable one. All the money I've been making last year I've been making writing mythical software for an automotive company... If only there were more myths like this - I'd be filthy rich!:)
A little more behind the scenes negotiations before making this an even bigger issue might have been prudent.
NO. It HAS to hurt.
If it doesn't hurt, companies will have no reason not to use GPL code in their proprietary products. The price to pay for the violation of the GPL, the risk HAS GOT to be high. They have to see that this will burn their greedy fingers, so the MPlayer people did the only right thing. Such behaviour simply cannot be tolerated.
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Yes. And, I mean, everybody knows that software patents is a hotly debated topic where the average german/european voter is emotionally very attached to, right? Right.
This might not be a topic for a great many people, but what else does the SPD/Greens have to offer? And if one comment made during a press conference can sway a couple 10K people to vote for them, what harm does that do? I'm not saying they're trying to win the election with this alone, but they are desperate. Their list of accomplishments is very short, and their support has declined steadily in the last few years.
I don't have any reason to believe that the german government really wanted the war. And knowing the political history of the current ruling parties in Germany, doubly so.
May I remind you that the history of the current ruling party of Germany includes two wars fought without hesitation?
You have to distinguish between reasoning and true motive here. Don't get me wrong - it's a good thing they opposed it, but I'm sure that if elections weren't coming up, things might have turned out very differently. Just a few years earlier, they had no trouble going to war in Kosovo, where as we now know things were just as shady as they are in the Iraq war.
Probably not where you come from. Here the number of people who does care is bigger. The point is that lobby groups are generating a lot of negative publicity right now, and that'll probably stop now - at no cost to the government.
I welcome you to write what you think is the reason though - I'm curious...
If the german government choses to not vote in favor of this, then only because they're sure their vote is not needed in order to have this passed.
Elections for european parliament are coming up. That's why. Don't be fooled for one minute by the german government: they voted against the iraq war even though they probably wanted it - to win elections. They don't critize the US for what happened in iraq recently, but are killing themselves to tell everyone how aweful the beheading of one US citizen was - to get a permanent seat in the UN security council.
Don't trust them. They WANT this law. They fought for it for years. They're just opportunistic, that's all.
...going back to the moon?
What's that?
Oh no!
It's Buzz Aldrin!
He's gonna punch me!
They didn't just catch three people in this operation, but they took down several servers, some of which the operators might not have realized were even being used for warez distribution.
People who have several TB going through their line every day and don't even notice it get everything they deserve ;)
I'm sorry mate but that's not the way it is.
Do you think people don't go loco on people in cinemas here that talk during the movie? Or run around all the time? Or make loud noises? When last someone in my vicinity did that - during LotR 3 - I nearly threw them off the balcony. Gave them one loud SHUT UP and they buckled and didn't make any more sounds. Not because I'm so frightening, but because they realized what they did was idiotic.
I can only wonder why the people you describe don't mind cell phone use (and probably other annoyances) when they paid to see the movie... Are they perhaps so used to such annoyances that they don't hear them anymore? Like a computer geek who doesn't hear the fan of his computer anymore because he hears it all day? I can only wonder.
Lister: Oh god, aliens? Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys, it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
Rimmer: Well we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?
Lister: Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?
Rimmer: Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't mean to say they don't have to visit the little boys' room. Only they probably do something weird and alienesque, like it comes out of the top of their heads or something.
Lister: Well I wouldn't like to be stuck behind one in a cinema.
Wasn't he also that double faced guy?
Check this
...and wait how this plays out in court. Mario Monti lost the three last major cases, so it's doubtful if this decision is gonna stand.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
Seriously. We here in Europe can't for the love of god understand what's up with this..first a giant fuss about that ugly nipple and now this. It's just pathetic!
I learnt from painful experience is that it's best to let parents learn to handle their machines themselves. Do not raise them to depend on you. That's the solution. Let them get a clue about what's going on and how to solve problems themselves. It's the only way :|
Just the other day - in the double episode Heroes - I thought how much that probe looked like one of those imperial probes from Star Wars....
I guess these days it's getting more and more difficult to be truely original. Stargate lends from quite a few different sources, but most of the time does it subtle enough not to be noticed too much - in my opinion anyway. And they do a nice job with storytelling. Plus Sam is hot! :D~~~~
The software used and written by NASA doesn't necessarily have to be some esoteric space-only software - NASA is a huge organisation with a lot of administrative overhead. Perhaps they have some good payroll software or project management systems or something that a lot more people could use than some rocket guidance programs.
"Today, we don't feel like to admit it yet, so we'll call it 'speculation'
If you've downloaded a song in the past few years, it's in large part because of Justin Frankel. Seven years ago, when he was just eighteen, he invented Winamp, the first software program that made it easy to play digital music on your computer.
Yeah, stupid me. And I thought it was because of programs like WinPlay3 and all those pirate groups (Rabid Neurosis, anyone?) that started to rip cds and distribute them via MP3 that this started.
Sweet memories... When I first got that free version of WinPlay3, my computer could only play back songs with 22khz and in mono because it was so slow, and it took half an hour just too get one song - my first one was "Lodi Dodi" by Snoop Doggy Dogg. Heh.
Nowadays I just buy CDs, mp3ize them and play them back with either mpg123 or mplayer. NOT winamp. And when I download songs, it's mostly from legal sources, like EMusic. But then I guess I'm not most people....
At precisely the time I saw this headline, I lost the last bit of respect for the british monarchy. Not as if there was much to begin with, but this is just pathetic. As if Gates had acted out of any other motive than to make money. The very notion is rediculous.
Who's next? Some oil billionaire from Bahrain?
How pathetic: the GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) is moaning about this specific patent because for some reason they don't like it, but on the other side they're pushing for software patentability in Europe. Do they intent to fight every single stupid patent instead of rooting for the unpatentability of software? Boy, they're in for quite a ride.
He's dead, Jim.
I do not have a congressman/woman, you insensitive clod! :)
You're making as much sense as a japanese vcr instruction manual. How on earth (or moon, for that matter) is a base on the moon cheaper? The distance is bigger, so that shipments there for replacement parts etc. are much more expensive, and you can't as easily direct your telescope on something because that stupid rock keeps on rotating. It's not only less cost-effective, it's just stupid. And btw, I doubt they'll do it anyway (a telescope on the moon). They appear to have abandoned all scientifically interesting goals and go straight for the "look everyone we're going places so lets forget our domestic problems" approach.
It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together.
Linux users don't have an opinion about BSD, they just don't know any better. We on the other side know better and use BSD because it is so much more elite. Linux isn't geeky enough anymore and that's why we have to reeducate Linux users. It's only for their own good!
Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.
Linux users wouldn't get it if you'd slap them over the head with a 12 lb BSD manual, so here's the absolute dummy's guide to BSD that even a totally brainless halfwit can understand.
Both, my young friend. Both.
If it's a myth, I have to say it's a pretty profitable one. All the money I've been making last year I've been making writing mythical software for an automotive company... If only there were more myths like this - I'd be filthy rich! :)
A little more behind the scenes negotiations before making this an even bigger issue might have been prudent.
NO. It HAS to hurt.
If it doesn't hurt, companies will have no reason not to use GPL code in their proprietary products. The price to pay for the violation of the GPL, the risk HAS GOT to be high. They have to see that this will burn their greedy fingers, so the MPlayer people did the only right thing. Such behaviour simply cannot be tolerated.