"I accidentally got my girlfriend pregnant by pulling out too late. After giving the kid up for adoption, we tried using a condom, but I didn't care for it, so now I'm back to pulling out, and hoping she doesn't get pregnant, because I really don't know what happened the first time."
When the US was building our strong economy you so cherish, it had much weaker IP laws. IP, especially in it's current form, doesn't do much for society in general, it allows the entrenched to stay so, and get fat on the losses of society as a whole. It stifled creative works, and basically creates a mediocre oligopoly of "art" and technology. Whatever's the safest bet for those who want to keep all their money, and make more. You wonder why Britney Spears is popular, and why Windows is at best passable, rather than brilliant and progressive in technology? People with intellectual property play it safe because they can protect their "intellectual" monopoly, and don't have to take risks with new things that might not go over well. Which basically makes everything play to the lowest common denominator.
Pretty much, yeah. Open Source, you contribute back to the community by submitting bugs, etc. If you submit bugs to Apple, you're contributing back to... Apple. If it's worth it to you, go for it. But there's a little more altruism when contributing to a free, community product as compared to a corporation.
Nope. Apache, etc. run chrooted and with minimal external privileges. I don't believe that you can configure IIS6 the same way, and at very least, it's not configured as such out of the box like most Linux distributions have it. It's a much more dangerous bug than you'd assume.
Hell, there aren't even any usage restrictions with GPLv3. It's all in redistribution and modification. So use it to your heart's content... but if you change it or adapt it to your needs, you get to compensate the community by opening up any "IP" you may have included.
So... they either spend their time fixing buggy, crash and virus-prone Microsoft "solutions", or install something open-source that works well, and does only what they need, and then move on to other projects. Give ya a hint as to the difference, one is a recurring, non-productive cost, the other is actually adding value to the business.
It did start that way, but it's really just a set of API wrappers. I personally think the line of "emulation" has to be drawn and more significant and lower-level functionality, such as emulating an instruction set, rather than just library call wrapping. The Wine guys do too, hence the change of what Wine's acronym theoretically means.
But that's just me. Either way, it's still a fair bit different than LAME, which has absolutely no arguments other than they were following the GNU naming pattern.
Except for the fact that you're completely wrong, you have a point. Just because the acronym has been "deprecated" doesn't mean that it's not how it started.
Yes, Ubuntu won't let us use all the other shit we've been locked into by distasteful business practices, so let's keep our blinders on and pretend that anything different is bad, because it's not what we already have...
Umbatu, oranages, anticdotes, delemmia... how did you navigate the Internet before Google suggesting you spell something correctly? Most DNS systems I know of are sticklers for spelling.
NVIDIA can (and does) say no. We're entitled to ask them to support our ideology just as much as they're entitled to say "Ummm, no". Voting with your wallet does absolutely no good unless the company you're voting against knows WHY they aren't getting the money.
It's not even code licensing. It's algorithm licensing, stuff like S3TC. They could re-write it easily, but it'd still be contrary to the patents that S3 has on it.
Riveted shut? I think you were opening the wrong side. Sometimes it's hard to figure out the logic of opening the case, but it's always an easy case to open, in my experience. Even their machines from the early 90's were decent to work in.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the GPL. It was made in RESPONSE to shit like the EULA's. Therefore, if you enforce one, you have to enforce the other. Double-edged sword. If Microsoft didn't proscribe making addins in their license, it's their problem. He's not doing anything wrong or against the license. If you modify GPL code and then release the binary without the source, you ARE breaking the license, and therefore culpable. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
We can bitch. We just don't sue, because there's no legal basis for it. The GPL crowd goes for what's "right", and completely artificial restrictions on usage don't fall under the banner of "right" with us, especially when they're not codified in the contract. We aren't as hypocritical as you'd like to think we are. We're just smarter than you are.
Gandhi "won" because Britain couldn't be bothered to go all the way over to India to fuck with him. If it was their backyard, he would have been crushed under their heels and ignored.
I know they were readable. But when you're looking for a job, you don't want to look as if you have the writing skills of a 5th grader. It has the tendency of making people not want to hire you. I know we throw out pretty much any resume that has mistakes that a spell-checker would catch.
Your work time put into maintaining said procedure: About 30 seconds, total.
Theirs? 15 minutes. And they make money by calling interested people. I'd say that it's their time that's wasted, by far. I've already wasted more time typing up this comment than I would have by answering the call and putting the twit on hold.
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Oohh, oooh, analogy time!
"I accidentally got my girlfriend pregnant by pulling out too late. After giving the kid up for adoption, we tried using a condom, but I didn't care for it, so now I'm back to pulling out, and hoping she doesn't get pregnant, because I really don't know what happened the first time."
When the US was building our strong economy you so cherish, it had much weaker IP laws. IP, especially in it's current form, doesn't do much for society in general, it allows the entrenched to stay so, and get fat on the losses of society as a whole. It stifled creative works, and basically creates a mediocre oligopoly of "art" and technology. Whatever's the safest bet for those who want to keep all their money, and make more. You wonder why Britney Spears is popular, and why Windows is at best passable, rather than brilliant and progressive in technology? People with intellectual property play it safe because they can protect their "intellectual" monopoly, and don't have to take risks with new things that might not go over well. Which basically makes everything play to the lowest common denominator.
Pretty much, yeah. Open Source, you contribute back to the community by submitting bugs, etc. If you submit bugs to Apple, you're contributing back to... Apple. If it's worth it to you, go for it. But there's a little more altruism when contributing to a free, community product as compared to a corporation.
Malkovich? Malkovich malkovich!
Nope. Apache, etc. run chrooted and with minimal external privileges. I don't believe that you can configure IIS6 the same way, and at very least, it's not configured as such out of the box like most Linux distributions have it. It's a much more dangerous bug than you'd assume.
And how does that help me, as a Linux user? Let me know when WMA is portable.
But... but... God! Nukular! Terrists!
Hell, there aren't even any usage restrictions with GPLv3. It's all in redistribution and modification. So use it to your heart's content... but if you change it or adapt it to your needs, you get to compensate the community by opening up any "IP" you may have included.
So... they either spend their time fixing buggy, crash and virus-prone Microsoft "solutions", or install something open-source that works well, and does only what they need, and then move on to other projects. Give ya a hint as to the difference, one is a recurring, non-productive cost, the other is actually adding value to the business.
It did start that way, but it's really just a set of API wrappers. I personally think the line of "emulation" has to be drawn and more significant and lower-level functionality, such as emulating an instruction set, rather than just library call wrapping. The Wine guys do too, hence the change of what Wine's acronym theoretically means.
But that's just me. Either way, it's still a fair bit different than LAME, which has absolutely no arguments other than they were following the GNU naming pattern.
Except for the fact that you're completely wrong, you have a point. Just because the acronym has been "deprecated" doesn't mean that it's not how it started.
Yes, Ubuntu won't let us use all the other shit we've been locked into by distasteful business practices, so let's keep our blinders on and pretend that anything different is bad, because it's not what we already have...
Umbatu, oranages, anticdotes, delemmia... how did you navigate the Internet before Google suggesting you spell something correctly? Most DNS systems I know of are sticklers for spelling.
Ubuntu isn't major? News to me...
NVIDIA can (and does) say no. We're entitled to ask them to support our ideology just as much as they're entitled to say "Ummm, no". Voting with your wallet does absolutely no good unless the company you're voting against knows WHY they aren't getting the money.
It's not even code licensing. It's algorithm licensing, stuff like S3TC. They could re-write it easily, but it'd still be contrary to the patents that S3 has on it.
Riveted shut? I think you were opening the wrong side. Sometimes it's hard to figure out the logic of opening the case, but it's always an easy case to open, in my experience. Even their machines from the early 90's were decent to work in.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the GPL. It was made in RESPONSE to shit like the EULA's. Therefore, if you enforce one, you have to enforce the other. Double-edged sword. If Microsoft didn't proscribe making addins in their license, it's their problem. He's not doing anything wrong or against the license. If you modify GPL code and then release the binary without the source, you ARE breaking the license, and therefore culpable. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
We can bitch. We just don't sue, because there's no legal basis for it. The GPL crowd goes for what's "right", and completely artificial restrictions on usage don't fall under the banner of "right" with us, especially when they're not codified in the contract. We aren't as hypocritical as you'd like to think we are. We're just smarter than you are.
So... if most people don't even describe themselves as developers or even want this plugin... how does it's existence hurt MS again?
Gandhi "won" because Britain couldn't be bothered to go all the way over to India to fuck with him. If it was their backyard, he would have been crushed under their heels and ignored.
I know they were readable. But when you're looking for a job, you don't want to look as if you have the writing skills of a 5th grader. It has the tendency of making people not want to hire you. I know we throw out pretty much any resume that has mistakes that a spell-checker would catch.
"You'll need to get the signature of Griffin"
"Ted Griffin in finance, or the mythical creature?"
"Whichever is harder"
Paraphrased from the 5/15/1995 Dilbert comic, which I can't find online with moderate googling.
*leech
*slimy
*desperate
*phony
*hell
No wonder you had trouble finding work. You can barely type coherently.
Your work time put into maintaining said procedure: About 30 seconds, total.
Theirs? 15 minutes. And they make money by calling interested people. I'd say that it's their time that's wasted, by far. I've already wasted more time typing up this comment than I would have by answering the call and putting the twit on hold.