In the UK it is illegal to install a program on a PC without permission, if (as I understand) this CD doesn't offer you the option NOT to install it, then I suspect that it breaks UK law, interesting no?
"The Sims" for PC: ~10 Million Units
"Half-Life" for PC: ~8 Million Units
"Myst" for PC: ~7 Million Units
Or for 2002:
1) The Sims: Vacation
2) The Sims Unleashed
3) Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
4) Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
5) The Sims
6) The Sims: Hot Date
7) The Sims Deluxe
8) Zoo Tycoon
9) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
10) Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Not many of these appear to be playable under Linux by default, I'm not sure how many would be playable using WINE or WINEX though.
He created an operating system
Nope, he created a kernel. Thousands of developers created the OS. He sparked a community to righteous uprising
My impression of Linus is that he tries to avoid "holy wars", he loves his OS, quite rightly, and believes in Open Source. If you want a quasi-religious figure for this, look to Stallman.
I know he brought us "everybodies favourite Open Source"(tm). But a great mind along the lines of Dali? I think not. At the end of the day all Linus did (and did very well) was to produce a clone of something that already existed i.e. a UN*X kernel, something for which he deserves to be recognised but not (yet) grounds for a Nobel prize (or equivalent).
A quick google search turned up Icesoft who are selling a product called iceSculptor. Is it possible these guys bought the rights when the company folded?
Sorry, wasn't complaining about your figures at all!;)
Just pointing out that it seems to be a wierd way of arriving at development costs, not that they were wrong. I am having startling images of the R&D costs of some development guy being told he had $100,000 to work out what type of water they were going to send in the ship!
Oooh! Nice calculations there! Apparently when developing you budget for new space vehicles it doesn't matter what technology you put in, just how much it weighs. Looking forwards to the 12oz shuttle that NASA will told to produce for their next vehicle!
The bizarre thing is, if MS had released 3 OS versions in three years people would be screaming about how they should have got it right the first time!
I actually own a copy (somewhere) of a linux distribution called Linux-FT that was produced in the mid-90s by a UK company called Lasermoon. I believe that they actually paid for and got UNIX certification for their version of Linux.
If I remember correctly, the difference between the 486SX and 486DX (at least Intel versions) was the fact that the DX had the math co-processor, while the SX didn't.
Good call! In fact, I would make it industry standard to have just such a system. But at the end of the day, I think that it just wouldn't work. Because it isn't JUST Microsoft that have buggy software, you would also end up damaging all the other OS companies.
I simply cannot think of an OS where I haven't had major problems at one time or another. A quick list of a few below (take Windows as being in there obviously).
Let me think.... Solaris 8 x86, wouldn't even boot. RedHat 7.2 screwed my Windows install when partitioning (and no I don't know why, followed the instructions exactly)! OS/2, well that just doesn't work on anything, even in it's latest incarnation as eCOMStation. Oh! And SGI just because I hate installing IRIX.
Not to mention ....
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... assholes who keep saying "Linux is an OS for technically advanced users"?
Grow up! People use Linux for all kinds of reasons and don't have to be technically advanced to do so. Or aren't you technically advanced enough to learn how to configure your system for usability yet? Maybe if you started to worry about helping to make systems more usable for other people you wouldn't have to keep blaming it's failings on others.
The true legal intent of copyright is to protect the author of a work. It gives the artist the right to control the use of their work completely, not just to write it and then watch every Internet user in existence download it for free.
I agree that they can't force somebody to destroy what they have legally bought, and if a copy survives in two hundred years time, that's great. But people shouldn't fall into the trap of saying that it is fine to rip off somebody else's work because it "needs preserving". It isn't.
According to the international criminal court, a crime against humanity is defined as one of the following:
(a) Murder
(b) Extermination
(c) Enslavement
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law
(f) Torture
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons
(j) The crime of apartheid
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
None of these really seem to fit the RIAA trying to stop me copying Metallica CDs.
And making it illegal to transfer our knowledge and works of art to...
Nobody is saying that it is illegal to transfer material to another media, simply that you have to be the owner of the material in order to do so. This puts the responsibility for such transfers with the author/owner of the original material, at least until the copyright on their work expires.
I agree I want the right to back up media for which I have purchased the right to view, but not to release to anybody else at all. That right isn't mine and shouldn't be mine. Until copyright expires it doesn't matter if I think it is the greatest work of art in history, I don't have the right to distribute (or even preserve, except for myself) it.
Comparing this to a crime against humanity is simply giving those who want to ensure that "fair use" is properly enshrined in law a bad name, as well as belittling (sp?) those instances such as the Holocaust that truly deserve the name of crime against humanity.
He's the president, for God's sake! If that doesn't make him a politician, what does? The fact that the guy must have devoted a reasonable chunk of his adult life to getting into office means that he must be a politician par excellence!
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In the UK it is illegal to install a program on a PC without permission, if (as I understand) this CD doesn't offer you the option NOT to install it, then I suspect that it breaks UK law, interesting no?
Of all time:
"The Sims" for PC: ~10 Million Units"Half-Life" for PC: ~8 Million Units
"Myst" for PC: ~7 Million Units
Or for 2002:
1) The Sims: Vacation2) The Sims Unleashed
3) Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
4) Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
5) The Sims
6) The Sims: Hot Date
7) The Sims Deluxe
8) Zoo Tycoon
9) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
10) Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Not many of these appear to be playable under Linux by default, I'm not sure how many would be playable using WINE or WINEX though.
Grommett won first place with his mechanical trousers
Who do I sue about my broken nose?
He created an operating system
Nope, he created a kernel. Thousands of developers created the OS.
He sparked a community to righteous uprising
My impression of Linus is that he tries to avoid "holy wars", he loves his OS, quite rightly, and believes in Open Source. If you want a quasi-religious figure for this, look to Stallman.
I know he brought us "everybodies favourite Open Source"(tm). But a great mind along the lines of Dali? I think not. At the end of the day all Linus did (and did very well) was to produce a clone of something that already existed i.e. a UN*X kernel, something for which he deserves to be recognised but not (yet) grounds for a Nobel prize (or equivalent).
Take a look at here where they have a "build your own solution" for tilting Palms
Ah ha! I can trade in all my equipment for a used coffee cup!
A quick google search turned up Icesoft who are selling a product called iceSculptor. Is it possible these guys bought the rights when the company folded?
Just pointing out that it seems to be a wierd way of arriving at development costs, not that they were wrong. I am having startling images of the R&D costs of some development guy being told he had $100,000 to work out what type of water they were going to send in the ship!
Oooh! Nice calculations there! Apparently when developing you budget for new space vehicles it doesn't matter what technology you put in, just how much it weighs. Looking forwards to the 12oz shuttle that NASA will told to produce for their next vehicle!
Or just right-click on click on the desktop, choose properties and say "none" to wallpaper and change the colour from there.
The bizarre thing is, if MS had released 3 OS versions in three years people would be screaming about how they should have got it right the first time!
Or even their dead parrots ;)
I actually own a copy (somewhere) of a linux distribution called Linux-FT that was produced in the mid-90s by a UK company called Lasermoon. I believe that they actually paid for and got UNIX certification for their version of Linux.
If I remember correctly, the difference between the 486SX and 486DX (at least Intel versions) was the fact that the DX had the math co-processor, while the SX didn't.
You should see the rope full of repeaters that it has to drag behind it!
I simply cannot think of an OS where I haven't had major problems at one time or another. A quick list of a few below (take Windows as being in there obviously).
Let me think.... Solaris 8 x86, wouldn't even boot. RedHat 7.2 screwed my Windows install when partitioning (and no I don't know why, followed the instructions exactly)! OS/2, well that just doesn't work on anything, even in it's latest incarnation as eCOMStation. Oh! And SGI just because I hate installing IRIX.
Grow up! People use Linux for all kinds of reasons and don't have to be technically advanced to do so. Or aren't you technically advanced enough to learn how to configure your system for usability yet? Maybe if you started to worry about helping to make systems more usable for other people you wouldn't have to keep blaming it's failings on others.
I agree that they can't force somebody to destroy what they have legally bought, and if a copy survives in two hundred years time, that's great. But people shouldn't fall into the trap of saying that it is fine to rip off somebody else's work because it "needs preserving". It isn't.
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(a) Murder
(b) Extermination
(c) Enslavement
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law
(f) Torture
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons
(j) The crime of apartheid
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
None of these really seem to fit the RIAA trying to stop me copying Metallica CDs.
Nobody is saying that it is illegal to transfer material to another media, simply that you have to be the owner of the material in order to do so. This puts the responsibility for such transfers with the author/owner of the original material, at least until the copyright on their work expires.
I agree I want the right to back up media for which I have purchased the right to view, but not to release to anybody else at all. That right isn't mine and shouldn't be mine. Until copyright expires it doesn't matter if I think it is the greatest work of art in history, I don't have the right to distribute (or even preserve, except for myself) it.
Comparing this to a crime against humanity is simply giving those who want to ensure that "fair use" is properly enshrined in law a bad name, as well as belittling (sp?) those instances such as the Holocaust that truly deserve the name of crime against humanity.
He's the president, for God's sake! If that doesn't make him a politician, what does? The fact that the guy must have devoted a reasonable chunk of his adult life to getting into office means that he must be a politician par excellence!
Plus of course, the fact it wasn't a fine, it was a settlement.