Indeed. I run win98 because I like it. It works, it runs my apps, and after a bit of configuration and weeding out of shitty apps it now rarely crashes (I typically reboot only once a week to free memory that buggy programs have leaked). I'll probably upgrade to Win2k soon, because afaik it retains everything I like about Windows, while adding stability.
I used AOL for a while as well. I had used other online services (Prodigy, CompuServe, local ISPs), but it seemed the best designed. My parents could check their email and whatnot instantly, without downloading/installing email apps, configuring pop3 servers, smtp servers, etc. It just worked. Same with most aspects of the service really - there's configuration available (though not as much as some people might like), but it's not mandatory - everything just works by default.
So I don't use AOL anymore, simply because I have a cablemodem so just use them as my ISP, but I don't understand most of the outright hostility to it. AOL are quite accomplished in the field of user interfaces - they were a large non-internet BBS in the early 90s with a great interface, made the adaptation to ISP-hood, and adapted in the face of a proliferation of cheaper internet-only ISPs. You might not like their business tactics, but they really do have a point when they say "So easy to use, no wonder it's #1" - it is much easier than the alternatives for most people, and that is the reason they're so popular.
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Just because someone is living high doesn't mean they're wealthy....more likely the opposite.
Perhaps, but they're still relatively wealthy to even be able to purchase a million-dollar house, even if it took all their money. Most people couldn't afford a million-dollar house even if they were living well beyond their means.
Erm, isn't that the entire point of the term lease? The bank owns the car, and you are leasing it from them; you have not bought it from them, and thus ownership hasn't transferred from the bank to you.
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Of course that doesn't change the fact that someone with a million-dollar house is by definition quite wealthy. The simple fact that they live in an expensive neighborhood (so they aren't wealthier than their neighbors) doesn't change this. Most people could not afford to move into such neighborhoods to begin with...
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You speak as if companies are some sort of independent entity. Companies are always owned by people (either stockholders individual owners). In addition, companies are run by people. Thus, if companies benefit, people benefit by definition.
I don't see how this is applicable, as there doesn't appear to be any transfer to copyrights to the US government involved (which is what that section of the law allows). Instead the US government is producing code and licensing it under the GPL. However, code produced by the US government cannot be copyrighted by the US government. Thus it cannot be licensed (since only a copyright holder may release code under a license).
we demand that code that goes into Public Domain go under this brilliant license
Then you are demanding the impossible (which I suppose might not be too surprising). If code is public domain, there are no copyright restrictions on it whatsoever. There is no licensing, there is no copyright ownership. It is in the public domain, and may be used however any member of that public sees fit.
Now if code is instead put under "this brilliant license," then it is most certainly not in the public domain. It comes with copyright restrictions - you cannot use it except as provided under the terms of the license. This, I believe, is what Microsoft is objecting to: the failure to release taxpayer-funded source code into the public domain, choosing instead to license it under a more restrictive license.
Because unions reduce freedom. In most unionized industries, I cannot get a job without being forced to join a union against my will and having the union extort money from me (in the form of dues). Plus unions tend to equalize pay, so the best employees get underpaid while the worst get overpaid (and it's hard to fire unionized employees so the crappy ones never get fired either). For example, there are very few good high-school-level science teachers, because in states with teacher unions they'd be paid the exact same as oversupplied social studies teachers. A school might be willing to pay extra for a good science teacher because of the greater demand for them, but the union won't let them. Then the few scientists who do decide to teach, who could've gotten hired easily on their own, are nonetheless forced to join a union, and on top of being stuck with the union-negotiated lower pay rates, are forced to pay dues to the union. "Rights of the workers" my ass.
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Of course he is a trained professional with a hard science/engineering background (and was in fact a NASA engineer way back in the 1960s), so none of your comments really apply.
It's not a specific statute, but it can make your defense much harder (though not impossible). If something illegal is traced back to your computer, that's normally evidence that you committed a crime. However, if you run a proxy server and have logs to show that somebody else committed that crime through your proxy, you have an alibi. If you just run a proxy but don't log, this alibi is much more shaky; you could just be running the proxy to cover for crimes that you're actually committing from that computer.
Not if they applied for the patent before those games came out (there's often a long delay between patent filing and patent granting, so this patent may actually have been applied for a long time ago; I'm not sure).
Umm, my major problem with C++ is execution time. I try and write as little as possible in C++, sticking mainly to C and Perl for anything which needs to execute quickly
You're claiming Perl executes faster than C++? Bwahahaha.
I fully agree, THE united states will be going to have a RECESSION and fall from power soon and CANADA will rise to pre-eminence. Then you'll all PAY, eh?
Exactly. And that's the problem. If you live in your own little fantasy world until you're 18, how do you expect to know how to deal with bosses, coworkers, etc. who may be jerks, idiots, or egomanaics?
U.S. Gov't-in-Exile: http://www.USGovernment-in-Exile.org
Umm, a "government in exile" is a legitimate government which has been driven into exile because a rival government has seized power. Unless you have some reason I'm not aware of, nobody affiliated with your site has any legitimate claim to the government of the United States, and hence cannot claim to be forming a "government in exile." Al Gore perhaps could make his claim (though he would not), but just a bunch of random people cannot.
Actually the reports so far indicate that it'll retail for $200, possibly less. Microsoft has more than enough money to sell the system at a loss to gain marketshare.
Perhaps you mean "I've been on IRC with..." instead? Dammit Hemos, you sound like the newbies who say "I was talking to somebody on mIRC yesterday," you should know better than that.
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Indeed. I run win98 because I like it. It works, it runs my apps, and after a bit of configuration and weeding out of shitty apps it now rarely crashes (I typically reboot only once a week to free memory that buggy programs have leaked). I'll probably upgrade to Win2k soon, because afaik it retains everything I like about Windows, while adding stability.
I used AOL for a while as well. I had used other online services (Prodigy, CompuServe, local ISPs), but it seemed the best designed. My parents could check their email and whatnot instantly, without downloading/installing email apps, configuring pop3 servers, smtp servers, etc. It just worked. Same with most aspects of the service really - there's configuration available (though not as much as some people might like), but it's not mandatory - everything just works by default.
So I don't use AOL anymore, simply because I have a cablemodem so just use them as my ISP, but I don't understand most of the outright hostility to it. AOL are quite accomplished in the field of user interfaces - they were a large non-internet BBS in the early 90s with a great interface, made the adaptation to ISP-hood, and adapted in the face of a proliferation of cheaper internet-only ISPs. You might not like their business tactics, but they really do have a point when they say "So easy to use, no wonder it's #1" - it is much easier than the alternatives for most people, and that is the reason they're so popular.
Just because someone is living high doesn't mean they're wealthy....more likely the opposite.
Perhaps, but they're still relatively wealthy to even be able to purchase a million-dollar house, even if it took all their money. Most people couldn't afford a million-dollar house even if they were living well beyond their means.
Erm, isn't that the entire point of the term lease? The bank owns the car, and you are leasing it from them; you have not bought it from them, and thus ownership hasn't transferred from the bank to you.
Of course that doesn't change the fact that someone with a million-dollar house is by definition quite wealthy. The simple fact that they live in an expensive neighborhood (so they aren't wealthier than their neighbors) doesn't change this. Most people could not afford to move into such neighborhoods to begin with...
You speak as if companies are some sort of independent entity. Companies are always owned by people (either stockholders individual owners). In addition, companies are run by people. Thus, if companies benefit, people benefit by definition.
I don't see how this is applicable, as there doesn't appear to be any transfer to copyrights to the US government involved (which is what that section of the law allows). Instead the US government is producing code and licensing it under the GPL. However, code produced by the US government cannot be copyrighted by the US government. Thus it cannot be licensed (since only a copyright holder may release code under a license).
we demand that code that goes into Public Domain go under this brilliant license
Then you are demanding the impossible (which I suppose might not be too surprising). If code is public domain, there are no copyright restrictions on it whatsoever. There is no licensing, there is no copyright ownership. It is in the public domain, and may be used however any member of that public sees fit.
Now if code is instead put under "this brilliant license," then it is most certainly not in the public domain. It comes with copyright restrictions - you cannot use it except as provided under the terms of the license. This, I believe, is what Microsoft is objecting to: the failure to release taxpayer-funded source code into the public domain, choosing instead to license it under a more restrictive license.
Because unions reduce freedom. In most unionized industries, I cannot get a job without being forced to join a union against my will and having the union extort money from me (in the form of dues). Plus unions tend to equalize pay, so the best employees get underpaid while the worst get overpaid (and it's hard to fire unionized employees so the crappy ones never get fired either). For example, there are very few good high-school-level science teachers, because in states with teacher unions they'd be paid the exact same as oversupplied social studies teachers. A school might be willing to pay extra for a good science teacher because of the greater demand for them, but the union won't let them. Then the few scientists who do decide to teach, who could've gotten hired easily on their own, are nonetheless forced to join a union, and on top of being stuck with the union-negotiated lower pay rates, are forced to pay dues to the union. "Rights of the workers" my ass.
Of course he is a trained professional with a hard science/engineering background (and was in fact a NASA engineer way back in the 1960s), so none of your comments really apply.
It's not a specific statute, but it can make your defense much harder (though not impossible). If something illegal is traced back to your computer, that's normally evidence that you committed a crime. However, if you run a proxy server and have logs to show that somebody else committed that crime through your proxy, you have an alibi. If you just run a proxy but don't log, this alibi is much more shaky; you could just be running the proxy to cover for crimes that you're actually committing from that computer.
Yeah, I played Quake1 shareware sometime in late95/early96. I remember cuz I moved summer 96 and it was before that. =]
Not if they applied for the patent before those games came out (there's often a long delay between patent filing and patent granting, so this patent may actually have been applied for a long time ago; I'm not sure).
Now you yuppies with your Palm Pilots don't have to miss "POSSIBLE GPL VIOLATION?!?!?!?" stories even when you're away from your computer.
Umm, my major problem with C++ is execution time. I try and write as little as possible in C++, sticking mainly to C and Perl for anything which needs to execute quickly
You're claiming Perl executes faster than C++? Bwahahaha.
I fully agree, THE united states will be going to have a RECESSION and fall from power soon and CANADA will rise to pre-eminence. Then you'll all PAY, eh?
Exactly. And that's the problem. If you live in your own little fantasy world until you're 18, how do you expect to know how to deal with bosses, coworkers, etc. who may be jerks, idiots, or egomanaics?
User Friendly, eh?
Usar Freindley, Lunix friend.
(Yuo are WORST comic evar.)
U.S. Gov't-in-Exile: http://www.USGovernment-in-Exile.org
Umm, a "government in exile" is a legitimate government which has been driven into exile because a rival government has seized power. Unless you have some reason I'm not aware of, nobody affiliated with your site has any legitimate claim to the government of the United States, and hence cannot claim to be forming a "government in exile." Al Gore perhaps could make his claim (though he would not), but just a bunch of random people cannot.
Actually the reports so far indicate that it'll retail for $200, possibly less. Microsoft has more than enough money to sell the system at a loss to gain marketshare.
Of course if you don't drive, that's not a problem.
Don't drive in Europe? Still have to register.
Umm, the only times I've posted in this forum about Indrema in the past were to mention how it was unlikely to ever be released. And I was right. =]
Linux is not the be-all end-all of operating systems.
[I personally have deleted all vestiges of Linux from my system due to it pissing me off to no end]
To install CLI, no. To get a GUI working, yes.
(or at least that was the case the last time I tried Slackware, which was v3.0 with XFree86 v3.x).
Good. Takedown is horribly innaccurate.
Perhaps you mean "I've been on IRC with..." instead? Dammit Hemos, you sound like the newbies who say "I was talking to somebody on mIRC yesterday," you should know better than that.