For $20 (sam's club), I got a refill kit with enough ink to outlast the printer. It came with about half a liter of ink. You can refill HPs, too, but those die after a while. With canons, you don't even need to ever buy new ink tanks, since it's just a sponge. I couldn't care less how much ink it wastes, since bulk ink is rather cheap.
Dude, get a better printer. Only HP and Lexmark make printers with shitty printheads integrated into the cartridge. Epson has one permanently built-in (so it tends to dry out -- don't get them). Canon has a printhead that's separate from the ink tanks, yet replaceable. I've been using the same head for a few years and it's still decent. Replacement head is only $40, too.
Do you want to go to jail for sharing kiddie porn? That is really the risk you are taking on with freenet. By using freenet, you pretty much give consent to everyone to store whatever on your computer. If it's illegal, YOU are responsible. Sure, it's encrypted, but that doesn't help much.
You do realize that freenet is not exactly anonymous? Sure, it protects the person who made the content, but it's rather easy to figure out who has kiddie porn. Better hope the feds don't start searching for it, or you're in deep shit.
Free software contributes more to society than the local food bank ever could. Yeah, they help some bums who are too lazy to work. Maybe if they didn't, the bums would find a job. I would see your point if you donated to the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association, which both do very good things for humanity, but donating to a food bank is not exactly important when you look at the big picture.
I don't think Microsoft uses "heavily hacked" fonts so much as they use well-hinted fonts.
Look at a microsoft font in a font editor sometime. You won't find much special hinting. You cannot make a single font outline look good at all font sizes. What they do is program the font (yes, it is a program that runs in a VM kinda like postscript) to radically change the outlines so that the font renders differently at small sizes. This is not hinting -- it's more like putting 3 or more fonts into one. Hinting does not help when your goal is to make a font render well at a ridiculously low resolution. Hints are good when you are rendering at 6000 or even 600 DPI, but not when you have to render to a 75dpi screen.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the patents. The MS fonts render almost as well on Linux even on the stock freetype engine. In fact, I can't even see the difference between the 'legal' and the 'patented' versions.
You don't need to convert fonts. Most, if not all, fonts are either Adobe Type1 or TrueType/OpenType. Both are supported quite well without any conversion.
The font problems that people are bitching about involve fonts that get displayed on the screen without antialiasing. These do look shitty unless they are specially made. Microsoft uses heavily hacked fonts, Apple simply antialiases them. Both options also work on Linux.
Wow. You sure as hell aren't creative. Lowest-bidder laws are absolutely NOT an issue in such cases. If you want to run MS Windows, just put down 'must run Word' or something like that as one of the requirements.
Besides, the article says that Microsoft underbid Linux by at least 11 million. But in any case, the initial investment is pennies when compared to the 10- or 20-year TCO -- which includes administration, productivity, hardware upgrades, system upgrades, etc. I sure as hell hope they don't have lowest-bidder laws for this kind of stuff.
Actually, yes. And I do think it's crack induced. In fact, you cannot play ANY artist (even an independent, non-RIAA one) without paying ASCAP, BMI, and finally the RIAA. If you do, then you are no longer eligible for compulsory licensing and therefore you have to negotiate each fucking song with the record label. AND the royalties are distributed on a statistical basis, based on Billboard charts. So the money would go to NSync or Britney Spears, not the band you're playing.
Anyway, read this to get the full picture of this insanity.
Nice job. You are apparently living in your own little fantasy world, where you can "think outside the box" to solve any problem. Judging from that logic (and your childish article), I am suspecting you are about 13 years old. The advice in your article reminds me of those warnings on warez sites that prohibit the FBI from using them. It's simply childish.
Let's drop the "think outside the box" bullshit. Many people before you thought about this same thing. The short version of the story: it won't work. Laws are usually interpreted in the wider sense. If you find a loophole, chances are good that a judge will not see it as one. Especially if it's in the letter of the law.
Also, let's see what happens when your idea is put into action. You start a webcast, claiming some loophole in the letter of the rules. The RIAA, ASCAP, BMI, and others file lawsuits. Now, you have to hire an expensive lawyer and try to prove that you did not break the law. The judge would have quite a bit of fun with the $1/year DJ idea. Remember: judges usually don't look favorably towards people who try to abuse the system. If you know the rules and specially try to avoid them, you are going to be found guilty.
It's a part of copyright law, so yes, they do. The RIAA can't impose anything on you that's not in copyright law. There is no contract between you and the RIAA.
There has to be an economic reward for the hard work it takes to become a great software developing center.
There is. You: a) get nice software that everyone can use and boosts the demand for computers (and thus other, commercial software) b) get a group of experienced software developers that know how to write software
You realize that some small company in Trinidad can't compete with the likes of Microsoft? You can't be a small fish in a pond dominated by sharks, you know.
I would love to be able to make a living developing OSS, however, there needs to be a way to pay rent.
People who do it as a hobby do it in their free time. People who do it full-time usually get paid to do it (like Linus Torvalds).
Also, remember that developing applications for an ISV is a rather small piece of the pie when compared to the market for custom software. Many companies have their own development team that writes custom applications. Many others hire consultants. That market is not going away any time soon, so free software is not going to put any developers out of business.
The main goal of OSS is simply to end the idea of software development as a business.
Where'd you get that one from? Free software is not putting anyone out of business. If anything, it encourages innovation by commercial developers. If you haven't noticed, commercial software makers have been forced to make increasingly better software in order to stay competitive (just compare Win2K and Win98). That is good for the industry. As long as the industry stays innovative, nothing is going to move to the third world since innovation does not happen there.
You do realize the xbox has a place for an LPC header inside? The only thing you have to do to get a modchip in there is to solder in a header into the provided holes and plug in an LPC FlashROM chip on a circuit board. I'd say that's a pretty big flaw.
Well, you can't have a small to medium-size NASA replacement, can you? Besides, the Tyco, Enron, and other corporate scandals happened WAY after the Internet boom.
This might actually make shipping cheaper rather than more expensive.
You're ignoring amortization costs. Such a system would cost trillions of dollars to develop and build. Think of how much one mile of underground concrete airtight tunnel would cost. Multiply by many thousands. This huge capital outlay is pretty much why nobody would ever build something like this. Assuming you could actually finance that, how are you going to repay the cost?
Well, you would make it a part of the price to ship something via the system. So even if recurring expenses are zero (actually, they will be rather high -- think of all the maintenance such a system would need), shipping stuff would still be prohibitively expensive. Basically, with such a system, you embedded your recurring costs into the initial outlay. So it wouldn't really be cheaper than just shipping stuff by private airplane.
But, are you sure that doesn't happen at corporations? I sure as hell think it does. Ever hear of Dennis Kozlowski (from Tyco) and his $15,000 shower curtains purchased on company money?
Given that even the G5 is 3 times slower than a new Intel (what's it at now, 3.6GHz compared to the Mac's paltry 1.5), I don't think Mac owners have much to worry about.
the foamed insulation was low-mass and crumbled easily enough that it didn't pose a threat to the vehicle
Idiots. Looks like NASA is run by PHBs rather then engineers. Anyone who didn't flunk physics knows that momentum = mass * velocity. So really, the mass is irrelevant as long as the velocity is high enough.
that a judge *could* decide linux was infringing, and that it would be illegal to use it without paying Sco royalties
This is not true. SCO cannot force anyone to pay royalties *unless* there are patents involved (there aren't). Any SCO-owned code in Linux (if it exists) could be removed and replaced, and no royalties would be needed. The only entity that might potentially have to pay is IBM, and that would be damages rather than royalties.
You don't buy a license, you buy a disc with music. You can't copy it, because copyright law doesn't give you that right. There are also a couple of other restrictions. However, there is no license involved -- that is only the case with software.
Well, it IS the user's responsibility to read the contract they are agreeing to. The court likely assumes that the user read and understood the contract before entering it, just like it would in any other case. Consider the fact that it weren't users who sued Gator, but rather media companies.
If the court found that Gator was violating the law, this ruling would have effectively prohibited ad-blocking and popup-blocking software (since the user would no longer have the right to alter the display of web pages).
If the users sued Gator for deliberately confusing them, they might have a point. Since it isn't the users suing in this case, the confusing nature of the contract is irrelevant. Even in your analogy, the only people who could sue are the users, not the billboard owners.
That's a bad analogy. What you described (vandalism) would occur if someone hacked into the server and replaced the banner ads. This case would be more like building another billboard right in front of the U-haul one thus blocking it. Assuming you own the land, that's perfectly legal and acceptable. Seems like the judge made the proper conclusion in this case.
Well, yes, but his point was that we would already have a patch available in binary form by now were it open-source. Since it isn't, we have to wait for Apple to cough up a patch when it feels like it.
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For $20 (sam's club), I got a refill kit with enough ink to outlast the printer. It came with about half a liter of ink. You can refill HPs, too, but those die after a while. With canons, you don't even need to ever buy new ink tanks, since it's just a sponge. I couldn't care less how much ink it wastes, since bulk ink is rather cheap.
Dude, get a better printer. Only HP and Lexmark make printers with shitty printheads integrated into the cartridge. Epson has one permanently built-in (so it tends to dry out -- don't get them). Canon has a printhead that's separate from the ink tanks, yet replaceable. I've been using the same head for a few years and it's still decent. Replacement head is only $40, too.
Do you want to go to jail for sharing kiddie porn? That is really the risk you are taking on with freenet. By using freenet, you pretty much give consent to everyone to store whatever on your computer. If it's illegal, YOU are responsible. Sure, it's encrypted, but that doesn't help much.
You do realize that freenet is not exactly anonymous? Sure, it protects the person who made the content, but it's rather easy to figure out who has kiddie porn. Better hope the feds don't start searching for it, or you're in deep shit.
Free software contributes more to society than the local food bank ever could. Yeah, they help some bums who are too lazy to work. Maybe if they didn't, the bums would find a job. I would see your point if you donated to the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association, which both do very good things for humanity, but donating to a food bank is not exactly important when you look at the big picture.
I don't think Microsoft uses "heavily hacked" fonts so much as they use well-hinted fonts.
Look at a microsoft font in a font editor sometime. You won't find much special hinting. You cannot make a single font outline look good at all font sizes. What they do is program the font (yes, it is a program that runs in a VM kinda like postscript) to radically change the outlines so that the font renders differently at small sizes. This is not hinting -- it's more like putting 3 or more fonts into one. Hinting does not help when your goal is to make a font render well at a ridiculously low resolution. Hints are good when you are rendering at 6000 or even 600 DPI, but not when you have to render to a 75dpi screen.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the patents. The MS fonts render almost as well on Linux even on the stock freetype engine. In fact, I can't even see the difference between the 'legal' and the 'patented' versions.
You don't need to convert fonts. Most, if not all, fonts are either Adobe Type1 or TrueType/OpenType. Both are supported quite well without any conversion.
The font problems that people are bitching about involve fonts that get displayed on the screen without antialiasing. These do look shitty unless they are specially made. Microsoft uses heavily hacked fonts, Apple simply antialiases them. Both options also work on Linux.
Wow. You sure as hell aren't creative. Lowest-bidder laws are absolutely NOT an issue in such cases. If you want to run MS Windows, just put down 'must run Word' or something like that as one of the requirements.
Besides, the article says that Microsoft underbid Linux by at least 11 million. But in any case, the initial investment is pennies when compared to the 10- or 20-year TCO -- which includes administration, productivity, hardware upgrades, system upgrades, etc. I sure as hell hope they don't have lowest-bidder laws for this kind of stuff.
Actually, yes. And I do think it's crack induced. In fact, you cannot play ANY artist (even an independent, non-RIAA one) without paying ASCAP, BMI, and finally the RIAA. If you do, then you are no longer eligible for compulsory licensing and therefore you have to negotiate each fucking song with the record label. AND the royalties are distributed on a statistical basis, based on Billboard charts. So the money would go to NSync or Britney Spears, not the band you're playing.
Anyway, read this to get the full picture of this insanity.
Nice job. You are apparently living in your own little fantasy world, where you can "think outside the box" to solve any problem. Judging from that logic (and your childish article), I am suspecting you are about 13 years old. The advice in your article reminds me of those warnings on warez sites that prohibit the FBI from using them. It's simply childish.
Let's drop the "think outside the box" bullshit. Many people before you thought about this same thing. The short version of the story: it won't work. Laws are usually interpreted in the wider sense. If you find a loophole, chances are good that a judge will not see it as one. Especially if it's in the letter of the law.
Also, let's see what happens when your idea is put into action. You start a webcast, claiming some loophole in the letter of the rules. The RIAA, ASCAP, BMI, and others file lawsuits. Now, you have to hire an expensive lawyer and try to prove that you did not break the law. The judge would have quite a bit of fun with the $1/year DJ idea. Remember: judges usually don't look favorably towards people who try to abuse the system. If you know the rules and specially try to avoid them, you are going to be found guilty.
but I highly doubt the Fed gives one shit.
It's a part of copyright law, so yes, they do. The RIAA can't impose anything on you that's not in copyright law. There is no contract between you and the RIAA.
There has to be an economic reward for the hard work it takes to become a great software developing center.
There is. You:
a) get nice software that everyone can use and boosts the demand for computers (and thus other, commercial software)
b) get a group of experienced software developers that know how to write software
You realize that some small company in Trinidad can't compete with the likes of Microsoft? You can't be a small fish in a pond dominated by sharks, you know.
I would love to be able to make a living developing OSS, however, there needs to be a way to pay rent.
People who do it as a hobby do it in their free time. People who do it full-time usually get paid to do it (like Linus Torvalds).
Also, remember that developing applications for an ISV is a rather small piece of the pie when compared to the market for custom software. Many companies have their own development team that writes custom applications. Many others hire consultants. That market is not going away any time soon, so free software is not going to put any developers out of business.
The main goal of OSS is simply to end the idea of software development as a business.
Where'd you get that one from? Free software is not putting anyone out of business. If anything, it encourages innovation by commercial developers. If you haven't noticed, commercial software makers have been forced to make increasingly better software in order to stay competitive (just compare Win2K and Win98). That is good for the industry. As long as the industry stays innovative, nothing is going to move to the third world since innovation does not happen there.
It doesn't have to be THAT stable. Transmit a beam with a few kilowatts of power and it will reach the satellite no matter what.
You do realize the xbox has a place for an LPC header inside? The only thing you have to do to get a modchip in there is to solder in a header into the provided holes and plug in an LPC FlashROM chip on a circuit board. I'd say that's a pretty big flaw.
Well, you can't have a small to medium-size NASA replacement, can you? Besides, the Tyco, Enron, and other corporate scandals happened WAY after the Internet boom.
This might actually make shipping cheaper rather than more expensive.
You're ignoring amortization costs. Such a system would cost trillions of dollars to develop and build. Think of how much one mile of underground concrete airtight tunnel would cost. Multiply by many thousands. This huge capital outlay is pretty much why nobody would ever build something like this. Assuming you could actually finance that, how are you going to repay the cost?
Well, you would make it a part of the price to ship something via the system. So even if recurring expenses are zero (actually, they will be rather high -- think of all the maintenance such a system would need), shipping stuff would still be prohibitively expensive. Basically, with such a system, you embedded your recurring costs into the initial outlay. So it wouldn't really be cheaper than just shipping stuff by private airplane.
But, are you sure that doesn't happen at corporations? I sure as hell think it does. Ever hear of Dennis Kozlowski (from Tyco) and his $15,000 shower curtains purchased on company money?
Given that even the G5 is 3 times slower than a new Intel (what's it at now, 3.6GHz compared to the Mac's paltry 1.5), I don't think Mac owners have much to worry about.
the foamed insulation was low-mass and crumbled easily enough that it didn't pose a threat to the vehicle
Idiots. Looks like NASA is run by PHBs rather then engineers. Anyone who didn't flunk physics knows that momentum = mass * velocity. So really, the mass is irrelevant as long as the velocity is high enough.
that a judge *could* decide linux was infringing, and that it would be illegal to use it without paying Sco royalties
This is not true. SCO cannot force anyone to pay royalties *unless* there are patents involved (there aren't). Any SCO-owned code in Linux (if it exists) could be removed and replaced, and no royalties would be needed. The only entity that might potentially have to pay is IBM, and that would be damages rather than royalties.
You don't buy a license, you buy a disc with music. You can't copy it, because copyright law doesn't give you that right. There are also a couple of other restrictions. However, there is no license involved -- that is only the case with software.
Well, it IS the user's responsibility to read the contract they are agreeing to. The court likely assumes that the user read and understood the contract before entering it, just like it would in any other case. Consider the fact that it weren't users who sued Gator, but rather media companies.
If the court found that Gator was violating the law, this ruling would have effectively prohibited ad-blocking and popup-blocking software (since the user would no longer have the right to alter the display of web pages).
If the users sued Gator for deliberately confusing them, they might have a point. Since it isn't the users suing in this case, the confusing nature of the contract is irrelevant. Even in your analogy, the only people who could sue are the users, not the billboard owners.
That's a bad analogy. What you described (vandalism) would occur if someone hacked into the server and replaced the banner ads. This case would be more like building another billboard right in front of the U-haul one thus blocking it. Assuming you own the land, that's perfectly legal and acceptable. Seems like the judge made the proper conclusion in this case.
I don't think any individuals are risking being sued for ad-blocking software.
Well, yes, but his point was that we would already have a patch available in binary form by now were it open-source. Since it isn't, we have to wait for Apple to cough up a patch when it feels like it.