Parties to contracts get certain protections based on their understanding-- or assumed understanding-- of its terms. This comes up all the time in real estate, which is why we spend an inordinate amount of time explaining each individual clause of the contract to our clients. If something were to go wrong who do you think is going to get sued? The foul, nasty, tricksy realtorses that "tricked" them into the contract.
EULAs always make me think of the old axiom that oral contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on. Neither are click-through EULAs, and everyone knows it. Like software patents, they're a legal bomb looking for a good place to explode.
I love that in Firefox I've got address bar searching powered by google. Like a lot of old hats from the CLI days, a mouse is mostly an impediment to me, and keyboard shortcuts occupy the majority of my interaction with my OS. All I have to do in Firefox is hit "alt+d" and then type in "google" followed by a space and one or more keywords and it takes me straight to a results page.
Toolbar shmoolbar.:)
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It may or may not be your cup of tea, but after being annoyed for a long time with my RedHat server I made the switch to FreeBSD. The set-up was a snap for me, and I haven't had so much as a hiccup out of the system. People can make all the "BSD is dead!" jokes they want, but I'm in love with it.
Too many people (not necessarily the Parent, but other's in this thread) are too quick to write off the Other White Meat, as it were.
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The way I've generally heard it is that if they're male they're a Pointy-Haired Boss, and if they're female the term is Psycho Hose Beast (vide: Wayne's World).
I mean come on, raise your hand if you're really surprised by this. These people are clearly betting the farm with the claims they're making in the hopes that they'll either be bought out by Big Blue or win the case by dazzling a Judge with bullshit. It shouldn't be news for anyone here to find out that they're willing to violate a legal agreement. After all, they've already torn up the GPL and started shoving US copyright law into the shredder several pages at a time.
Now the true test is when the Farmer competes against the wild dogs. Farmer usually wins in the end, because the farmers all band together, track the pack of wild dogs, and remove them from the equation.
Does this give anyone else the mental image of Linus and RMS hunting Darl & Co. through the woods with automatic weaponry?
What's funny about this? This post needs to be modded informative. I think the mods are confusing the Windows Messenger service-- which, on its face, allows system administrators send message to every box on the network-- with MSN Messenger the IM tool. Windows Messenger is a known hole to allow spammers to send you a flood of advertisements. Pretty much anyone that's ever sat at a Windows box without this service disabled knows exactly what I mean.
I agree that the out-of-the-box insecurity of Windows is so sad that it's funny, I don't think comedy was the point of the parent's post.
There's got to be some effect if someone "games" the system and disproportionately removes most of the winners.
Not really. There are still the same numbers of winners and losers as there were when the bottles hit the shelves.
For example, say the ABC Grain Company makes 3000 boxes of their new cereal (Homicidal Choco Puffs). One thousand of those boxes include a limited edition whistle that when blown will rupture the eardrums of anyone within 20 feet if they're not wearing a special set of earplugs (sold separately).
Obviously, everyone wants one of these whistles. Some enterprising young man does a little research and finds that he can "hand weigh" the boxes and tell by the slight difference in weight which ones have whistles and which just have ABC Grain Company's really disgusting cereal. He promptly goes out and buys all one thousand boxes.
The end result of this is that everyone else gets screwed. The localized probability for YOU getting a whistle is 0, but the overall probability is STILL 1 in 3. It's just that someone else has all the "1"s.:)
Absolutely nothing. If I buy 3 bottles and all three are winners while you buy 6 that are all losers, the probability is still one and three. It's like that old 'trick' question: "If a flipped coin lands 'heads' 9 times in a row, what's the probability it will land heads the next time it's flipped?"
Realplayer is popular?! Stop the presses! I think a better word for Realplayer (that doesn't contain only four letters) is prolific. Popular implies that people actually like having to use it.
I'm not saying that their work is in vain, i just don't see the point. If you care to explain it would be much appreciated, instead of calling me an asshole just because I disagree.
A major part of the hacker spirit is not doing something because it's strictly necessary, but doing it because you learn from the experience and ENJOY doing it. For example, I play the guitar. Is it really necessary for me to sit and play when no one else is around? No one will hear it but me. No one is around to enjoy it. It isn't making me any money. I do it because the practice makes me better at it, and because I genuinely enjoy the experience.
If this guy wants to spend his time porting WinCE to the X-Box (a non-trivial) task, then that's his perogative. "The point," as you put it, is that he enjoys doing it. I doubt even 1000 people will ever utilize what he's doing here, but a lesson he learns or a novel hack he comes up with during the process might come in handy to him later when he IS writing something that thousands of people might use.
Keep in mind that he said "shelf life" not "desk life."
Considering that the most common explanation for DVD Rot (which affects upwards of 10% of all DVDs) is that it's caused by the layers of the DVD beginning to separate because of poor case (that is, the case of polycarbonate on the disc itself) design and bad glues, I don't think it matters where it happens to be sitting.
I'm finding that I've had several DVDs for less than 4 years and they're already unplayable. The worst part is that many manufacturers are refusing to replace the DVD unless you can prove it was an error in their process that made the DVD fail. Who's surprised? Not me.
I have a Targus bag, solely because of the fact that it was one of the only sturdy bags I could find that actually fit my 17" Powerbook and was under $100.
You shelled out the cash for a 17 inch Powerbook, but you weren't willing to spend more than 100 bucks on a primo case to protect the bloody thing? Ye gods man! Loan me 20 bucks?
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...Then you press Alt+Shift+Tab instead to cycle through backwards. I'm amazed no one's said it yet.
Parties to contracts get certain protections based on their understanding-- or assumed understanding-- of its terms. This comes up all the time in real estate, which is why we spend an inordinate amount of time explaining each individual clause of the contract to our clients. If something were to go wrong who do you think is going to get sued? The foul, nasty, tricksy realtorses that "tricked" them into the contract.
EULAs always make me think of the old axiom that oral contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on. Neither are click-through EULAs, and everyone knows it. Like software patents, they're a legal bomb looking for a good place to explode.
7) Profit.
Oh come on. Someone had to do it.
I love that in Firefox I've got address bar searching powered by google. Like a lot of old hats from the CLI days, a mouse is mostly an impediment to me, and keyboard shortcuts occupy the majority of my interaction with my OS. All I have to do in Firefox is hit "alt+d" and then type in "google" followed by a space and one or more keywords and it takes me straight to a results page.
:)
Toolbar shmoolbar.
It may or may not be your cup of tea, but after being annoyed for a long time with my RedHat server I made the switch to FreeBSD. The set-up was a snap for me, and I haven't had so much as a hiccup out of the system. People can make all the "BSD is dead!" jokes they want, but I'm in love with it.
Too many people (not necessarily the Parent, but other's in this thread) are too quick to write off the Other White Meat, as it were.
The way I've generally heard it is that if they're male they're a Pointy-Haired Boss, and if they're female the term is Psycho Hose Beast (vide: Wayne's World).
I mean come on, raise your hand if you're really surprised by this. These people are clearly betting the farm with the claims they're making in the hopes that they'll either be bought out by Big Blue or win the case by dazzling a Judge with bullshit. It shouldn't be news for anyone here to find out that they're willing to violate a legal agreement. After all, they've already torn up the GPL and started shoving US copyright law into the shredder several pages at a time.
Now the true test is when the Farmer competes against the wild dogs. Farmer usually wins in the end, because the farmers all band together, track the pack of wild dogs, and remove them from the equation.
Does this give anyone else the mental image of Linus and RMS hunting Darl & Co. through the woods with automatic weaponry?
D'you think that 'Murrica *really* made up its laws without any reference material? That the Senate is the bastion of the World's original democracy?
And Britain is? I think there are quite a few Ancient Athenians that would beg to differ with you.
What's funny about this? This post needs to be modded informative. I think the mods are confusing the Windows Messenger service-- which, on its face, allows system administrators send message to every box on the network-- with MSN Messenger the IM tool. Windows Messenger is a known hole to allow spammers to send you a flood of advertisements. Pretty much anyone that's ever sat at a Windows box without this service disabled knows exactly what I mean.
I agree that the out-of-the-box insecurity of Windows is so sad that it's funny, I don't think comedy was the point of the parent's post.
There's got to be some effect if someone "games" the system and disproportionately removes most of the winners.
:)
Not really. There are still the same numbers of winners and losers as there were when the bottles hit the shelves.
For example, say the ABC Grain Company makes 3000 boxes of their new cereal (Homicidal Choco Puffs). One thousand of those boxes include a limited edition whistle that when blown will rupture the eardrums of anyone within 20 feet if they're not wearing a special set of earplugs (sold separately).
Obviously, everyone wants one of these whistles. Some enterprising young man does a little research and finds that he can "hand weigh" the boxes and tell by the slight difference in weight which ones have whistles and which just have ABC Grain Company's really disgusting cereal. He promptly goes out and buys all one thousand boxes.
The end result of this is that everyone else gets screwed. The localized probability for YOU getting a whistle is 0, but the overall probability is STILL 1 in 3. It's just that someone else has all the "1"s.
I wonder what this does to the one in three odds?
Absolutely nothing. If I buy 3 bottles and all three are winners while you buy 6 that are all losers, the probability is still one and three. It's like that old 'trick' question: "If a flipped coin lands 'heads' 9 times in a row, what's the probability it will land heads the next time it's flipped?"
Realplayer is popular?! Stop the presses! I think a better word for Realplayer (that doesn't contain only four letters) is prolific. Popular implies that people actually like having to use it.
Because HE's a malware author, you insensitive clod!
Apparently the first will consist of Michael Brant, Winifred Coburn Brant, Francis Seeney, Olga Seeney, Ward Smith, Mary Jane Lyle Smith, Sergei Rimsky, and Eleanora Rimsky.
I'm not saying that their work is in vain, i just don't see the point. If you care to explain it would be much appreciated, instead of calling me an asshole just because I disagree.
A major part of the hacker spirit is not doing something because it's strictly necessary, but doing it because you learn from the experience and ENJOY doing it. For example, I play the guitar. Is it really necessary for me to sit and play when no one else is around? No one will hear it but me. No one is around to enjoy it. It isn't making me any money. I do it because the practice makes me better at it, and because I genuinely enjoy the experience.
If this guy wants to spend his time porting WinCE to the X-Box (a non-trivial) task, then that's his perogative. "The point," as you put it, is that he enjoys doing it. I doubt even 1000 people will ever utilize what he's doing here, but a lesson he learns or a novel hack he comes up with during the process might come in handy to him later when he IS writing something that thousands of people might use.
And if not? At least he enjoyed himself.
Keep in mind that he said "shelf life" not "desk life."
Considering that the most common explanation for DVD Rot (which affects upwards of 10% of all DVDs) is that it's caused by the layers of the DVD beginning to separate because of poor case (that is, the case of polycarbonate on the disc itself) design and bad glues, I don't think it matters where it happens to be sitting.
Given that DVDs have an indefinite shelf life (okay, greater than 20 years)
You have apparently never suffered from DVD Rot.
I'm finding that I've had several DVDs for less than 4 years and they're already unplayable. The worst part is that many manufacturers are refusing to replace the DVD unless you can prove it was an error in their process that made the DVD fail. Who's surprised? Not me.
And it looks like you've been sucked into the growing trend of not 'R'ing the 'FA'.
I have a Targus bag, solely because of the fact that it was one of the only sturdy bags I could find that actually fit my 17" Powerbook and was under $100.
You shelled out the cash for a 17 inch Powerbook, but you weren't willing to spend more than 100 bucks on a primo case to protect the bloody thing? Ye gods man! Loan me 20 bucks?
It seems like cutting 7 minutes from what, a two and a half hour movie
Good thing this is a 3 hour and 20 minute movie cut down from FOUR hours (which will get you your money's worth from the DVD).
The Revolutionary War. The War of 1812. The Spanish American War. The First World War. The Second World War...
Any other Vice City players here immediately think when reading this summary: "In the future, there will be robots"??
I found myself wondering if they have laser lights and a dehydrating manatee...
Or is Slashdot doing "product placement" now?
Allow me the obligatory: "You must be new here."
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Matrices.