Why don't we as citizens fight the ridiculous software copyright system that locks up Lode Runner or Visicalc for decades after their useful life is over?
I don't hate that the Canadians are doing this sort of work, but I do hate that we're not. Look, I'm in Chicago, a huge American city with the slogan "the city that works" and where we decided that the river flowed the wrong way, so we changed it. Why the hell aren't we putting in something like this?
These days those quasi-socialists have it all over us...
I was thinking of the patents that many are claiming much OSS already violates. A token payment from the manufacturer that cleared them and their customers from further suits I think would be desirable.
Of course, some people find Ed Asner desirable so what do I know?
I would think IBM would have a way to enforce its huge patent portfolio in a way that would torpedo SCO entirely, and not just in court.
Maybe they could offer a $50/year licensing fee to other open source companies that use their patents and a fee of one BAZILLION dollars to SCO to use their patents.
CA has historically been a place where good products go to die after the original company that put the successful software out is purchased by CA.
Is the Open Source Initiative seen internally as a way to address the problem that killed (or maimed) top programs like Quattro Pro, AccPac, and ArcServe?
I would rather hire a smart self-motivated dropout from the U of Chicago or Stanford or MIT than a degreed graduate of a school where the entrance requirements were low and the curriculum out of date.
Bill Brasky wrote the entire Linux kernel in assembler one day in 1966 on an Underwood typewriter hooked up to a copper coil while he sat watching a baseball game. It took three teams of ten men each 22 years to translate the code backwards into C.
To Bill Brasky!
I don't think you're overstating the horrors of biological warfare, but I think you may be underestimating the horrors of nuclear warfare.
An H-bomb of the size of modern "big-player" weaponry will end up with a near 100% casualty rate at the primary target. Those who don't get vaporized instantly or burn to death or suffocate from the lack of oxygen as it burns off die from radiation or lack of potable water or lack of food or opportunistic infections or any one of a number of horrible ways to die. People survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but those were pop caps compared to what they have today.
Put it this way - if you were standing in a room with a switch that lets you choose to release smallpox into the room or detonate an atomic bomb in the room in 30 seconds, which way are you going to point that switch?
It's not a question of providing you privacy as much as it is of preventing infringement of that right. The government does have that obligation as it would the obligation to prevent a gang of thugs from preventing a peaceful assembly.
One of the justifications for the government's existence is to protect the rights of its individual citizens. There is no specific phrase in the Constitution (that I could find) that says the government has to offer me assistance if I get in trouble in another country, but they usually do.
No, I'm suggesting that you don't have a right if that right can't be exercised.
It's like that debate in Life of Brian where they argue about whether the one member of the radicals has the right to give birth even though he doesn't have a womb. He may have the right in theory but it's going to be pretty damn hard to exercise it.
I don't need to identify privacy as a right. The courts have already done so using the 9th and 10th as justification. IANAL, but I suspect you aren't either.
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Do you really want MORE Budweiser in the can?
Mmmmmm... Fin Du Monde.
I thought it was illegal (in the U.S. at least) if you bypass a copy protection technology. Or does the DMCA only apply if you redistribute the info?
Why don't we as citizens fight the ridiculous software copyright system that locks up Lode Runner or Visicalc for decades after their useful life is over?
I like Portland, but you guys are poachers.
These days those quasi-socialists have it all over us...
And now I wonder about the times I ate at the rusty scupper. Did the chefs not wash their hands or use old meat or something?
Of course, some people find Ed Asner desirable so what do I know?
Maybe they could offer a $50/year licensing fee to other open source companies that use their patents and a fee of one BAZILLION dollars to SCO to use their patents.
We liked pop, we liked soul, we liked rock, but we never liked disco
Is the Open Source Initiative seen internally as a way to address the problem that killed (or maimed) top programs like Quattro Pro, AccPac, and ArcServe?
And I have.
To reapply an old saying about Xerox and IBM...
If Novell bought KFC, they'd market the product as "Hot dead bird."
If Sun bought KFC, they'd market the product as "Warm dead bird."
Yes, but it fits on one Super Blu-Ray disk.
I guess we know Darl's slashdot name now...
Bill Brasky wrote the entire Linux kernel in assembler one day in 1966 on an Underwood typewriter hooked up to a copper coil while he sat watching a baseball game. It took three teams of ten men each 22 years to translate the code backwards into C. To Bill Brasky!
Damn! You've discovered the weakness in my plan. Curse you, Batman!
I don't think you're overstating the horrors of biological warfare, but I think you may be underestimating the horrors of nuclear warfare.
An H-bomb of the size of modern "big-player" weaponry will end up with a near 100% casualty rate at the primary target. Those who don't get vaporized instantly or burn to death or suffocate from the lack of oxygen as it burns off die from radiation or lack of potable water or lack of food or opportunistic infections or any one of a number of horrible ways to die. People survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but those were pop caps compared to what they have today.
Put it this way - if you were standing in a room with a switch that lets you choose to release smallpox into the room or detonate an atomic bomb in the room in 30 seconds, which way are you going to point that switch?
I'm not familiar with the smell, but I do know the sound of old T-Rex.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi- 040624baby-photo,1,7431047.photo has a photo of the kid's legs. You might have to register. Hulk smash.
It's not a question of providing you privacy as much as it is of preventing infringement of that right. The government does have that obligation as it would the obligation to prevent a gang of thugs from preventing a peaceful assembly.
I had the same experience. Quake just was missing... something. Doom had it, Half-Life had it and UT2004 has it.
Haven't tried Farcry yet.
I disagree.
One of the justifications for the government's existence is to protect the rights of its individual citizens. There is no specific phrase in the Constitution (that I could find) that says the government has to offer me assistance if I get in trouble in another country, but they usually do.
Uhhh.... Nope. Never mind.
No, I'm suggesting that you don't have a right if that right can't be exercised.
It's like that debate in Life of Brian where they argue about whether the one member of the radicals has the right to give birth even though he doesn't have a womb. He may have the right in theory but it's going to be pretty damn hard to exercise it.
I don't need to identify privacy as a right. The courts have already done so using the 9th and 10th as justification. IANAL, but I suspect you aren't either.