Ok, but (~P ^ Q) can be true, and (~P v Q) is enough for you. Why again can't you make an argument for (~P) and one for (Q)? If any of them is right, it is proof enough, even if the other isn't.
You need to check your facts again. IE was late supporting PNG in any way, was buggy at the begining, and only then it was able to support it ignoring the alpha channel.
So bad* that nobody seems to be interested on suing the OSS community. It is obvious that if there is a workaround, it will be created and published, if the patent is bogus, the OSS victim have a big chance of having inexpensive lawers wanting to invalidate the patent, and if the party suing isn't a troll, there will be hundreds of patents agains it on an eye-blink. Besides that, there is no money.
In summary, the OSS already is the worst nightmare of any patent troll wanabe. That is why people don't get sued, they get extortionated, they become the target of FUD, but they don't get sued.
* "Bad" isn't pprobably the right word. The right one may be "good", or maybe it is still an understatement.
"...obligates the government to pass the Draconian legislation as proposed. Failure to do so will emasculate the country's standing in future treaty negotiations (we won't be regarded as good on our word)"
Well, if you are from the US (most likely), you shouldn't care, you are already known to not be good on your word. In fact, very few countries care, and normaly just very (economicaly) small ones.
Now, I can imagine that phrase being used internally to justify passing a bad law.
Too bad the laws that are good for RIAA/MPAA aren't good for making a competitive economy. The US risks very soon to export only bad laws, since even RIAA/MPAA proucts aren't made more competitive.
"Starts to have a percentage or two tick UP, will we see a/. story about it?"
Obviously, yes. And everybody will be complaining that MS is doing evil stuff, what is true, but is as informative as saying that IE share fluctuated on a month.
We don't get out of this loop in real life. It is only that on practice we have balls of difering sizes, and can throw plenty of small ones around without changing too much the scene.
Installing another (or a milion others) MS software won't increase the untrustworthy of your system. You aready trust Microsoft, and on this case, trust is a binary thing.
Well, if it has access to guns, and can replicate itself, I'm quite sure it'll have all the rights it wants. If not, and if it still wants some rights, people will probably simply turn the anoyance off.
Well, if you ignore all the interactivity of the OS, and stuck with the desktop and window management featrues, Windows may be the best. (It still doesn't feet my preferences, I stopped using WindowMaker for a reason.)
It's interesting that every time I ever lost control of a car, I didn't expect it to go on the direction the steering weel pointed. I'd be dangerously surprized if that happened on a car with ESC.
By the way, there isn't snow aroud here, it may be different enough from oil covered asphalt, gravel and sand so that things change.
Well, if he is trying to make some DRM by reading physical disk data, we can do nothing but encorage him, and teach other DRM researches to follow his steps.
Now, if he is trying to read physical data from disks he actualy has physical access, there is already plenty of help on other comments.
I don't know... He probably won't get the answer he needs because he didn't ask the right question. But that is an interesting question nonetheless and the comentary may benefit other people.
I tought on a way to solve a problem of mine by just reading it, and thinking on how hard drivers work.
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One can avoid most patents by making trivial changes to the code/product.
Seems to be working better with business processes patents (we'll be sure on september). Maybe somebody should put software ones before the court.
Ok, but (~P ^ Q) can be true, and (~P v Q) is enough for you. Why again can't you make an argument for (~P) and one for (Q)? If any of them is right, it is proof enough, even if the other isn't.
You need to check your facts again. IE was late supporting PNG in any way, was buggy at the begining, and only then it was able to support it ignoring the alpha channel.
So bad* that nobody seems to be interested on suing the OSS community. It is obvious that if there is a workaround, it will be created and published, if the patent is bogus, the OSS victim have a big chance of having inexpensive lawers wanting to invalidate the patent, and if the party suing isn't a troll, there will be hundreds of patents agains it on an eye-blink. Besides that, there is no money.
In summary, the OSS already is the worst nightmare of any patent troll wanabe. That is why people don't get sued, they get extortionated, they become the target of FUD, but they don't get sued.
* "Bad" isn't pprobably the right word. The right one may be "good", or maybe it is still an understatement.
Is there a list of countries? Does anybody knows if Brazil is taking party of it?
Well, if you are from the US (most likely), you shouldn't care, you are already known to not be good on your word. In fact, very few countries care, and normaly just very (economicaly) small ones.
Now, I can imagine that phrase being used internally to justify passing a bad law.
International treaties are not legaly binding. Most are worded that way.
Too bad the laws that are good for RIAA/MPAA aren't good for making a competitive economy. The US risks very soon to export only bad laws, since even RIAA/MPAA proucts aren't made more competitive.
Obviously, yes. And everybody will be complaining that MS is doing evil stuff, what is true, but is as informative as saying that IE share fluctuated on a month.
We've already had a couple of examples.
We don't get out of this loop in real life. It is only that on practice we have balls of difering sizes, and can throw plenty of small ones around without changing too much the scene.
Installing another (or a milion others) MS software won't increase the untrustworthy of your system. You aready trust Microsoft, and on this case, trust is a binary thing.
Because Microsoft would (and did) break the knees of anybody that tries something like that.
That will only happen in Windows. And some people still say the security differential is just market-share...
What is the difference from detach to nohup?
Well, if it has access to guns, and can replicate itself, I'm quite sure it'll have all the rights it wants. If not, and if it still wants some rights, people will probably simply turn the anoyance off.
Don't you ever mess with my pipe separated files!!!
Well, if you ignore all the interactivity of the OS, and stuck with the desktop and window management featrues, Windows may be the best. (It still doesn't feet my preferences, I stopped using WindowMaker for a reason.)
That's a long way Microsoft has come.
Yep, Windows 7 is acting just like WindowMaker. Personaly, I don't like to use it, but it is pretty, and may be great for small screens.
Yep, that was my first tought. I only realized that was about cars after clicking on the story.
It's interesting that every time I ever lost control of a car, I didn't expect it to go on the direction the steering weel pointed. I'd be dangerously surprized if that happened on a car with ESC.
By the way, there isn't snow aroud here, it may be different enough from oil covered asphalt, gravel and sand so that things change.
Well, if he is trying to make some DRM by reading physical disk data, we can do nothing but encorage him, and teach other DRM researches to follow his steps.
Now, if he is trying to read physical data from disks he actualy has physical access, there is already plenty of help on other comments.
I don't know... He probably won't get the answer he needs because he didn't ask the right question. But that is an interesting question nonetheless and the comentary may benefit other people.
I tought on a way to solve a problem of mine by just reading it, and thinking on how hard drivers work.
No, it is not. You build a cryptographic system with math, not with specialized hardware.
Some people think that is ettiquete for posting on Slashdot. This site is inherently linked to free software.