Did you read the price list? MS would just pay $60K flat fee for unlimited copies and be done with it. Same for Apple, Macromedia, AOL, etc. The only people hurt are the OSS and shareware people.
Yeah, but this kind of "poetic license" was almost never done in ST:TOS - it started happening for earnest a couple of seasons into ST:TNG, probably about the same time they ran out of stories with any sort of meaningful plot. It's akin to a mystery introducing a new character at the end who turns out to be the killer.
The problem with Troi was that in the early seasons she was simply a plot device to explain the emotions that the actors were supposed to be, though not successfully, portraying. They had this whole stick-up-the-butt acting style in the first season - they never really got totally over it during the entire run. The whole "I feel anger/love/contentment coming from that alien/monster/ship/planet" was almost as annoying as Wesley Crusher.
They're an Apple reseller, which means they're buying the machines at a wholesale-type discount. They're hoping you'll buy machines from them instead of another retailer by adding "value".
Let me give you an example. In the US there is a wine company that sells itself as Cabris, which is actually a region in France that is know to sell a good white wine. Well the American company took advantage of this to "con" people. The French region on the other hand has problems now because people get confused by the marketing message.
Then they should declare war on the US. After all, it worked for the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
So....how many days' worth of revenue did Microsoft lose because of Linux?
We should not only be looking at how much Linux made, but how much Microsoft didn't make as a result of those sales. Somewhere along the line, a bunch of people chose Linux instead of Windows (at least upgrades) for their computing needs - money Bill didn't get. And a lost sale hurts them much more than a lost sale hurts Linux.
Certainly Apple can participate, with XServe and Darwin. Since they make most of their money on the hardware, they could even sell their computers with Linux installed.
If someone was passing a law that ONLY allowed MS software in a government you guys would be up in arms! But here is a government passing a law that only allows open source software. They are actual mandating at the government level what type of software can be bought!
If they mandated only Microsoft software, then Microsoft can be the only vendor. By mandating open source, any company, including Microsoft if they so choose could provide the software. The government is perfectly within its rights to specify what they want, and it's Microsoft that chooses not to meet those specifications. Would it also be discriminatory if they demanded that the operating system software also run on computers manufactured by Apple?
Macromedia publishes the spec on their site - I don't know if it's up to date with Flash 6. There was an open source player available that worked for movies up to Flash 3, but the project has been abandoned. Squeak Smalltalk has a Flash 3 Player. AFAIK, Flash is unencumbered by the need to license patents. The Flash 6 player from Macromedia has Sorenson support, so that's proprietary, but nobody appears to use it yet, and an open player could use another codec instead.
This has been beaten to death any number of times on Usenet. But don't take my word for it, and don't argue with me - try it with a friend and you'll see.
Nope -
There are other convex shapes that won't fall through. Here's how to make one:
1) Draw an equilateral triangle. 2) Draw a circular arc with the center on one corner, with the arc between the other two corners 3) Repeat for the other two corners.
You now have a triangle shape with circular arcs as the edges. This won't fall through a hole the same shape. It works for any regular convex polygon with an odd number of sides.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you read the price list? MS would just pay $60K flat fee for unlimited copies and be done with it. Same for Apple, Macromedia, AOL, etc. The only people hurt are the OSS and shareware people.
Presumably they'd just pay the flat rate of $60K and go on their merry way.
Not to excuse CNN's lack of depth on some stories, but they're not the source of the story - AP is. You may as well be saying "Good Job SlashDot".
Yeah, but this kind of "poetic license" was almost never done in ST:TOS - it started happening for earnest a couple of seasons into ST:TNG, probably about the same time they ran out of stories with any sort of meaningful plot. It's akin to a mystery introducing a new character at the end who turns out to be the killer.
The problem with Troi was that in the early seasons she was simply a plot device to explain the emotions that the actors were supposed to be, though not successfully, portraying. They had this whole stick-up-the-butt acting style in the first season - they never really got totally over it during the entire run. The whole "I feel anger/love/contentment coming from that alien/monster/ship/planet" was almost as annoying as Wesley Crusher.
Does it bother you that Paging Eliza: Patenting IM Bots?
They're an Apple reseller, which means they're buying the machines at a wholesale-type discount. They're hoping you'll buy machines from them instead of another retailer by adding "value".
Pretty simple.
So....how many days' worth of revenue did Microsoft lose because of Linux? We should not only be looking at how much Linux made, but how much Microsoft didn't make as a result of those sales. Somewhere along the line, a bunch of people chose Linux instead of Windows (at least upgrades) for their computing needs - money Bill didn't get. And a lost sale hurts them much more than a lost sale hurts Linux.
Certainly Apple can participate, with XServe and Darwin. Since they make most of their money on the hardware, they could even sell their computers with Linux installed.
If someone was passing a law that ONLY allowed MS software in a government you guys would be up in arms! But here is a government passing a law that only allows open source software. They are actual mandating at the government level what type of software can be bought!
If they mandated only Microsoft software, then Microsoft can be the only vendor. By mandating open source, any company, including Microsoft if they so choose could provide the software. The government is perfectly within its rights to specify what they want, and it's Microsoft that chooses not to meet those specifications. Would it also be discriminatory if they demanded that the operating system software also run on computers manufactured by Apple?
Princeton can just claim that they thought that Yale might have had some copyrighted materials on their servers.
I may indeed be an idiot, but the Flash file format is nonetheless open. I never said it was a standard.
I have looked at the SVG spec. What does that have to do with Flash being open?
Macromedia publishes the spec on their site - I don't know if it's up to date with Flash 6. There was an open source player available that worked for movies up to Flash 3, but the project has been abandoned. Squeak Smalltalk has a Flash 3 Player. AFAIK, Flash is unencumbered by the need to license patents. The Flash 6 player from Macromedia has Sorenson support, so that's proprietary, but nobody appears to use it yet, and an open player could use another codec instead.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. You should switch.
This has been beaten to death any number of times on Usenet. But don't take my word for it, and don't argue with me - try it with a friend and you'll see.
Nope - There are other convex shapes that won't fall through. Here's how to make one:
1) Draw an equilateral triangle.
2) Draw a circular arc with the center on one corner, with the arc between the other two corners
3) Repeat for the other two corners.
You now have a triangle shape with circular arcs as the edges. This won't fall through a hole the same shape. It works for any regular convex polygon with an odd number of sides.
Too late - you've used up all the time in the first lap.
Why are manholes round? Note: This is a famous Microsoft question. Yet amusingly, the Microsoft campus uses square manholes.
I would guess that the expected answer is that the circle is the only shape that won't fall through a hole the same shape but slightly smaller.
However, that's not the case. There are an infinite number of non-circular shapes with the same property. Anyone else know what they are?