So some other company came up in the advertisement box, when the user searched for the brand they wanted.
Big deal.
A story earlier in the week was saying how more than 80% of people aren't smart enough to tell the difference between advertisements and the real search results. I take your comment to mean that you are one of those people.
How is it that all 13 patches are magically ready on the same day? Are they not withholding them when they could have released the patches earlier, as they were developed?
Yeah, it's a bit of a joke that the guy is using Dell's Windows discounts (or "bias", as I like to call it) as the entire underpinning of a TCO calculation. Maybe he should start noticing computer shops which aren't Dell.
Seems like a cheap copout for a real explanation. A real explanation would have gone into the means with which someone can continue to play games and yet still use Linux.
The odds are that if you're on a cellphone, it isn't a Palm device. Sure, there are a few people who bought a Treo, but nowhere near as many people as those with Symbian devices.
I think you'd be safer grabbing one of the dozen or so J2ME dice rollers which are around. Google dredges up a hell of a lot of them, and writing one yourself is only a couple dozen lines of code, which is probably where there are so many.:-)
As long as it is designated as a new version of the GPL, and it is compatible with the EPL, I'm not fussed. I just want developers to stop using the current incompatibility as an excuse not to release SWT/Qt.:-)
Even now, Optus still make a point of calling their accounts "unlimited" even though they are clearly not unlimited, and haven't been for years. Furthermore, their phone staff feel no problem in calling the plans unlimited when speaking to the customer.
This was in fact the case just the other day when I was cancelling my account. I told them that I was moving to an ISP which had unlimited downloads, and the woman on the phone claimed that Optus had an "unlimited download plan" (in those exact words.)
So I guess it depends. If customers believe anything their ISP says, then yes... they could well be under the misapprehension that they have unlimited downloads. Those of us who read the fine print are within our power to move to some ISP who doesn't use the fine print as part of their marketing strategy.
Hmm, I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't say that it counts as "their content" until they actually licence the series. Until then, it would seem to be up for grabs. Plenty of fansub groups adhere to this rule, although a great many don't (and for that, I'm sometimes grateful. Heh.)
I've found probably a couple dozen broken ebuilds in my last couple of years using Gentoo. In every case but one, the package was masked... so I was supposed to expect them to break. The one remaining case was when Xorg 6.8 came out and was unmasked before it was known that ATI's latest drivers (also unmasked) crashed it. Eventually they set up a block so that both couldn't be installed at once.:-)
But on a personal note, the thing I like most about Gentoo is CONFIG_PROTECT. It applies CVS-like merging to all my config files so I don't have to.
The OpenDocument format is going through OASIS, which pretty much anyone can join to help guide the direction of that format. Microsoft's format, on the other hand, can't be guided by anyone but Microsoft. So in their case, "open" doesn't really mean it's open, and that's the catch.
Wasn't Cloudscape donated to the Apache project, where it changed its name to Derby? Don't IBM think that offering a download of "Cloudscape" is going to confuse developers?
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I heard that "No Wi-fi" was the new corporate slogan for PalmOne.
Taking sympathy for idiots makes one an idiot. I think that's all there is to be said on the matter.
So some other company came up in the advertisement box, when the user searched for the brand they wanted.
Big deal.
A story earlier in the week was saying how more than 80% of people aren't smart enough to tell the difference between advertisements and the real search results. I take your comment to mean that you are one of those people.
How is it that all 13 patches are magically ready on the same day? Are they not withholding them when they could have released the patches earlier, as they were developed?
And then again on Wednesday for people on the other side of the dateline. :-p
Yeah, it's a bit of a joke that the guy is using Dell's Windows discounts (or "bias", as I like to call it) as the entire underpinning of a TCO calculation. Maybe he should start noticing computer shops which aren't Dell.
Seems like a cheap copout for a real explanation. A real explanation would have gone into the means with which someone can continue to play games and yet still use Linux.
Me too, yet I use Linux. Please explain this apparent discrepancy.
The odds are that if you're on a cellphone, it isn't a Palm device. Sure, there are a few people who bought a Treo, but nowhere near as many people as those with Symbian devices.
I think you'd be safer grabbing one of the dozen or so J2ME dice rollers which are around. Google dredges up a hell of a lot of them, and writing one yourself is only a couple dozen lines of code, which is probably where there are so many. :-)
As long as it is designated as a new version of the GPL, and it is compatible with the EPL, I'm not fussed. I just want developers to stop using the current incompatibility as an excuse not to release SWT/Qt. :-)
What about those activities carries out using the person's own equipment? I don't think their computer use policy touches my PDA. :-)
You could make the living from support, or charge for the commercial version. :-)
Even now, Optus still make a point of calling their accounts "unlimited" even though they are clearly not unlimited, and haven't been for years. Furthermore, their phone staff feel no problem in calling the plans unlimited when speaking to the customer.
This was in fact the case just the other day when I was cancelling my account. I told them that I was moving to an ISP which had unlimited downloads, and the woman on the phone claimed that Optus had an "unlimited download plan" (in those exact words.)
So I guess it depends. If customers believe anything their ISP says, then yes... they could well be under the misapprehension that they have unlimited downloads. Those of us who read the fine print are within our power to move to some ISP who doesn't use the fine print as part of their marketing strategy.
It would have to be oddly that odd movie too, since once you've downloaded 3 or 4 decent quality copies, you've almost blown the limit.
For what it's worth, I never had to run it as root on my Gentoo install, either.
Hmm, I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't say that it counts as "their content" until they actually licence the series. Until then, it would seem to be up for grabs. Plenty of fansub groups adhere to this rule, although a great many don't (and for that, I'm sometimes grateful. Heh.)
I've found probably a couple dozen broken ebuilds in my last couple of years using Gentoo. In every case but one, the package was masked... so I was supposed to expect them to break. The one remaining case was when Xorg 6.8 came out and was unmasked before it was known that ATI's latest drivers (also unmasked) crashed it. Eventually they set up a block so that both couldn't be installed at once. :-)
But on a personal note, the thing I like most about Gentoo is CONFIG_PROTECT. It applies CVS-like merging to all my config files so I don't have to.
The OpenDocument format is going through OASIS, which pretty much anyone can join to help guide the direction of that format. Microsoft's format, on the other hand, can't be guided by anyone but Microsoft. So in their case, "open" doesn't really mean it's open, and that's the catch.
My favourite variant is "Emacs is a fantastic OS, but it could really use a better text editor."
Emacs, however, is an OS. ;-)
The Newton concept lead to Palm and then to PocketPC and then to Zaurus. :-)
I wonder if it will be able to speak human words... :-/
Wasn't Cloudscape donated to the Apache project, where it changed its name to Derby? Don't IBM think that offering a download of "Cloudscape" is going to confuse developers?
Engineers or not, how many clerical workers do you seriously think have never used computers?
The average user doesn't work for IBM, either. If they did, hell... I could easily get a job there.