One point: isn't it a little hipocritical to complain about all the people in a club being shallow and then complain that you can't see what people look like cause the lighting is insufficient?
Secondly could I repeat the already stated: go to a good club.
I think you're post is far more offensive than the one you are replying to. In every country there are some things that are considered to be government services and get paid for by various taxes. What is or os not on that list is a matter for the people of that country to decide on any way they like.
Why do you consider it offensive that some people in (I'm assuming) another country think waste collection should be a government service?
UK has been selling liscenses for many many years too, what they are proposing is to remove much of the limitations on reselling or changing what the spectrum is used for, so if you buy spectrum for TV signals now and then TV dies (or this particular company does) that spectrum could be resold to a phone company.
It's assumed in the wording. When read from the assumption that the FSF assumes copyright, the entire document reads through just fine. When read under the assumption that the author keeps the copyright, there are a couple of spots that don't make sense.
Legal transfers of copyright can not happen because they are assumed in the wording of something. They have to be explicit, doesn't the whole SCO Novel and who actually owns the code thing prove that?
Even if you think that the GPL doesn't make sense unless you assume something it doesn't mean that the GPL puts that assumption on a legal footing, it might mean that the GPL doesn't make sense.
I have just been playing eith it on my laptop and given the CPU usage here it looks like it would have to be configured for considerably less calculations to run on a Zaurus (don't know if this even possible) and this looks like it would make little more useful than the built in word completion.
Note: I am only guessing for everyhting beyond the CPU usage on this machine, but then isn't that the way of/.
Speed throttle definitely works under SUSE 9.1, I just tried the suspend and hibernate options and get a message saying they have been disabled by the admin. So they probably don't work.
I rarely use OOo but I went and had a look and on my incredibly cheap and nasty laptop LCD I had to have my face about 2 inches from the screen before the fonts stopped looking smooth.
OK they could probably be better than that but not by much, and if it really does annoy you then I wonder how you might get on with something like a dot matrix printer (We still use them for some stuff where I work).
DVD regions aren't actually about preventing distributors from competing with one another intentionally (as you say contracts stop that), it is about stopping people themselves from buying DVDs in regions where they are cheaper (eg far east) and then using them in Europe or the USA.
It is a way of making those in regions where DVD prices are higher buy at the higher price instead of importing cheaper DVDs.
If 90+% of the population becomes unemployed cause they have been replaced by robots then the system will have to change.
It might change by Big Evil Corp simply exterminating all the other people, but I am more of an optimist than to believe that. Capitalism no longer works if there aren't anything like enough jobs for the population.
We either descend into anarchy or things get better - I suppose it all depends who controls the technology for a start and what ordinary people decide to do about it.
This kind of society can work without changing fundamental human nature (and open source is proof of that). There are some people willing to work because they enjoy it.
We need technology to advance to a level where these few are capable of producing enough to support the freeloaders who don't want to work and where undesirable jobs (menial labour etc) can be eliminated completely. Unfortunately this is a ways off yet but we can still hope.
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wine is not exactly like vmware. Vmware is an emulater of the x86 architecture which you can then install an operating system into, wine is a (free) reimplementation of the win 32 API. With vmware you still have a copy of windows running, you don't with wine (or crossover office).
Writing software can be both a service or producing a product. It depends on the type of software. There is certainly a market for producing custom software to order and that is a service, but on the other hand producing a web browser or a word processor is definitely not a service cause there are so many users wanting much the same thing so making one version and distributing it to them all is the way to go. In the open source world making money of this general purpose package is either relying on goodwill donations or providing some service to the users (support or subscription to some extra value that isn't open source)
The big advantage would be more for things like PDAs where a normal interface is much slower (and those of us whose typing skills are fairly lousy).
Imagine having the cabability to use your PDA via two way thought control when your walking down the street or in a meeting (you can play games without having to pretent to take notes). Add in an internet connection and google is always only a thought away.
How do you measure positions in the sky in "handspans" ignoring the fact that no too hands are the same size (there are abouts in there anyway) with ni indication about how far from your eye your hand should be held that kind of measurement is completely useless.
It's not like you can actually put your hand against the sky.
You can install across pretty much any network connection if there exists a kernel module to support the interface. I've never tried a wireless install but I've installed over PLIP and normal network without any problems.
You are in no way responsible for the use of code that someone else has stolen. If I steal some code from a company and then put it on the net and you use it, the company I stole it from can go after me and possibly people who were making and distributing CDs with this code on (I think only if they could prove that they knew the code was stolen and kept on distributing) but they can't go after you unless you continue to use the code after they have notified you it was stolen (and I think even that one would need a damn good lawyer to make it stick).
The P2P situation has confused everyone about this somewhat because everyone is sharing copyrighted stuff and so everyone involved (unless you only download) can be persued legally.
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Secondly could I repeat the already stated: go to a good club.
Why do you consider it offensive that some people in (I'm assuming) another country think waste collection should be a government service?
Why not try all 3?
An arrogant frenchman? Who would have thought.
UK has been selling liscenses for many many years too, what they are proposing is to remove much of the limitations on reselling or changing what the spectrum is used for, so if you buy spectrum for TV signals now and then TV dies (or this particular company does) that spectrum could be resold to a phone company.
Legal transfers of copyright can not happen because they are assumed in the wording of something. They have to be explicit, doesn't the whole SCO Novel and who actually owns the code thing prove that?
Even if you think that the GPL doesn't make sense unless you assume something it doesn't mean that the GPL puts that assumption on a legal footing, it might mean that the GPL doesn't make sense.
Note: I am only guessing for everyhting beyond the CPU usage on this machine, but then isn't that the way of /.
Maybe they are reading everybodies body language just fine and it is the fact that nobody wants to sleep with them that prevents them gatting laid?
You know there are cheaper and much more satisfying ways to deal with politicians...
I was wondering the same thing - It looks like sustainable bit that doesn't make much sense. Or maybe it is just me?
Speed throttle definitely works under SUSE 9.1, I just tried the suspend and hibernate options and get a message saying they have been disabled by the admin. So they probably don't work.
So you want a blimp? It has puzzled me for a while that they aren't used more for just playing with.
Yes. It really is that simple.
OK they could probably be better than that but not by much, and if it really does annoy you then I wonder how you might get on with something like a dot matrix printer (We still use them for some stuff where I work).
It is a way of making those in regions where DVD prices are higher buy at the higher price instead of importing cheaper DVDs.
So now wouldn't be a good time to bring up the complaints in this country about the "dumming (should that have a b in it?) down" of the BBC?
If 90+% of the population becomes unemployed cause they have been replaced by robots then the system will have to change.
It might change by Big Evil Corp simply exterminating all the other people, but I am more of an optimist than to believe that. Capitalism no longer works if there aren't anything like enough jobs for the population.
We either descend into anarchy or things get better - I suppose it all depends who controls the technology for a start and what ordinary people decide to do about it.
This kind of society can work without changing fundamental human nature (and open source is proof of that). There are some people willing to work because they enjoy it.
We need technology to advance to a level where these few are capable of producing enough to support the freeloaders who don't want to work and where undesirable jobs (menial labour etc) can be eliminated completely. Unfortunately this is a ways off yet but we can still hope.
NO
wine is not exactly like vmware. Vmware is an emulater of the x86 architecture which you can then install an operating system into, wine is a (free) reimplementation of the win 32 API. With vmware you still have a copy of windows running, you don't with wine (or crossover office).
Writing software can be both a service or producing a product. It depends on the type of software. There is certainly a market for producing custom software to order and that is a service, but on the other hand producing a web browser or a word processor is definitely not a service cause there are so many users wanting much the same thing so making one version and distributing it to them all is the way to go. In the open source world making money of this general purpose package is either relying on goodwill donations or providing some service to the users (support or subscription to some extra value that isn't open source)
The big advantage would be more for things like PDAs where a normal interface is much slower (and those of us whose typing skills are fairly lousy).
Imagine having the cabability to use your PDA via two way thought control when your walking down the street or in a meeting (you can play games without having to pretent to take notes). Add in an internet connection and google is always only a thought away.
Only for higher animals. For some that is actually reproduction.
It's not like you can actually put your hand against the sky.
You can install across pretty much any network connection if there exists a kernel module to support the interface. I've never tried a wireless install but I've installed over PLIP and normal network without any problems.
You are in no way responsible for the use of code that someone else has stolen. If I steal some code from a company and then put it on the net and you use it, the company I stole it from can go after me and possibly people who were making and distributing CDs with this code on (I think only if they could prove that they knew the code was stolen and kept on distributing) but they can't go after you unless you continue to use the code after they have notified you it was stolen (and I think even that one would need a damn good lawyer to make it stick). The P2P situation has confused everyone about this somewhat because everyone is sharing copyrighted stuff and so everyone involved (unless you only download) can be persued legally.