I'm no lawyer either, but what if there is a 'no trespass' sign that is obscured by foliage? Lots of street signs are hidden or covered by leaves during the summer, and last I checked the Google StreetView photos are taken during the summer months. I've a sneaking suspicion the lawbooks don't say what happens then. That's a lawyer bonanza, though not much good for the family or Google.
But there are even more fundamental differences, when the whole API gets deprecated. For example, the Waveform API - you still can use it, but it's not nice and does not always offer you the best results. DirectX / DirectSound is more appropriate these days, though XAudio2 is also interesting, though you'd better know about X3DAudio if you are making games, though DirectSound3D could replace it for you. Fortunately, on Vista there is WASAPI in between the stack and the hardware, which only adds fun to the scope of your testing:-) But there are even more fundamental differences, when the whole API
gets deprecated. For example, the OSS - you still can use it, but it's
not nice and does not always offer you the best results. ALSA is more
appropriate these days, though ARTS is also interesting, though JACK
could replace it for you. Fortunately, on KDE4 there is phono in
between the stack and the hardware, which only adds fun to the scope
of your testing:-)
I guess Linux isn't much different regarding sound.
That is all very true...selling GPL'd code is perfectly legal. If they refuse to provide sourcecode to their sw upon request, that is illegal, but that hasn't happened, yet.
The violation comes in stripping the GPL off the code....definitely illegal.
Besides, on a purely practical note, after the police finish beating the crap out of you and your friend(s), how hard is it for them to confiscate and destroy a recording device?
That's easy. But that assumes that the recording device (camcorder, cellphone, whatever), isn't also transmitting the data elsewhere. A wi-fi enabled camera-phone would pretty much nullify that option.
Quoth the parent: "jEdit offers some really nice features, but until its performance is improved 30 fold, it just won't be a suitable replacement for other graphical text editors."
Java's JRE is big enough that it puts a damper on any program starting up very quickly. So I wouldn't use jedit (or any other Java program) for quick-startup tasks. I'd sooner bring it up once, use it to edit lots of files for a long time, keep it around even if not using it, just so it's there again if I need it.
Sort of like emacs. So jedit is more likely to replace emacs than vi:)
> What the fuck is "Pwned"? I thought this was a > news site, not an AOL chatroom.
Corruption of 'owned'. Someone made a typo, and the typo became popular. (Guess this says something about AOL, or/., when typos become more popular than correct spellings.)
BTW, your question garnered 8 smartass replies, not one of them containing this answer. Come on, people, if you need to be wiseacres, at least answer the original question!
Do you see the current situation as a systemic problem in the current torts system? Specifically, do you think we need legislative intervention to correct the "money bias" in our legal system?
Excellent question, but asking a pair of lawyers this question is like asking Goliath if we should stop discriminating against short people.
Let's see if these lawyers have the guts to reform the system that their career (and current fame) is founded on.
A comparative study on criminal and corporate behaviour would probably be rather interesting... especially regarding the point when either subject decided that the interest of their immediate environment was not theirs anymore.
Don't complain about 'offtopic'. If 3rd parties were viable, there would be a party loudly proclaiming that they don't spam the public with phonecalls.
As it is now, Libertarians (and most other 3rd parties) don't spam me, but they can't afford to proclaim it loudly.
No, a third party wins simply by scaring the other two major parties into instituting the same change the third party wants. All you have to say 'If you don't do X changes, I'm going to use my mass support to come into power and do the changes myself.' Thats why third parties don't win elections, its easier to bow to the wishes of the third party in exchange of not being pushed out of power.
I think the bigger problem wrt 3rd parties is that until one of the bigger parties adopts the 3rd-parties ideals, the 3rd party tends to split the voters on one of the two bigger parties w/o affecting the other. Perot drew more Reps than Dems in '92, the Dems won that year. And Nader's biggest turnout was in 2000...and drew more Dems than Reps...enough to give the election to the Reps.
An alternate voting system could allow you to have voted for *both* Bush and Perot in 92. This would have more effectively demonstrated the support for both Republicans and Reform parties in 92. As it was Ross got 0 electoral votes...not very representative, eh?
who will be the first to go to jail for running a p2p client?
I hope it will be US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's daughter. THAT would be real fun.
I want to know why this HASN'T happened yet! In Sept 2003 when the RIAA started sueing people, they were immediately lambasted by the press for the people they sued...grandmonthers running Macs and 12-year-olds in the projects.
Since then, despite the thousands of people they've sued, they haven't sued someone able to make a major stink by who they are. I always assumed the RIAA were carefully screening out VIPs from their suit list.
But then in Dec 2004 Verizon won a court ruling against the RIAA that essentially said that the RIAA could not know whom they were suing...they had to make 'John Doe' lawsuits, only after sueing could they find out the identities of their victims.
I assumed that after that that they could not filter 'unsuable' people off their list. Yet no one prominent has gotten sued and told the press. So what happened? Or will it happen RSN?
Skype requires headphones and a mike, which means it isn't designed to be used by more than one person on one machine. EG fine for your office PC, not fine for a conference room where multiple people will be speaking/listening. You're better off with a good speakerphone.
Of course. That's because Eclipse is extended using the same programming language it's built in (Java). Emacs is built in C, but you extend it using Elisp. As such, there are many (useful?) extensions you simply can't do, being limited to elisp.
Both are plugin architectures, but that's where their similarity ends.
I should mention that I use Apple Xcode, so I'm not against IDEs per se; I just think Eclipse is way too complicated.
I have the feeling that any architecture based on plugins is going to be hideously complicated...simply because you have many people working on individual plugins, each with their own vision...there is no Grand Unified Vision of how it all works together.
I respect Eclipse as a great creation, but I'm not yet ready to claim I like it. Still prefer Emacs. Without any Java IDE.
Heck look at the mess of options Emacs provides...no unified vision there.
Dude you want me to charge my Mom? Should I tell my 60 year old mom "PAY UP WITH THAT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK MONEY BITCH"? Sorry I am not a heartless bastard
Who said anything about charging $ to clean up Mom's PC? Better yet to barter with her...clean it up for a batch of cookies...or a 6-pack. People are generally a lot more willing to trade goods/services than pay $.
And if she's family, she should understand where you're coming from. You may not be a heartless bastard, but the spammers sure are. And keeping that machine clean costs $. Or cookies:)
Great. By enforcing that your Windows is legal when doing security updates, MS ensures that the world will be full of computers with insecure pirated Windows boxes. Ideal for spammers, haxors & pwners.
It sure beats MS enforcing Windows being legal when you try to actually INSTALL windows. Why, if they did that, the world would be devoid of pirated Windows...just legit, secure Windows. And a few Linux machines here 'n there.
Obviously MS prefers that there be lots of insecure pirated Windows boxes out there. I wonder why...
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Oh ye of little faith!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSkM-QEeUg
I'm no lawyer either, but what if there is a 'no trespass' sign that is obscured by foliage? Lots of street signs are hidden or covered by leaves during the summer, and last I checked the Google StreetView photos are taken during the summer months. I've a sneaking suspicion the lawbooks don't say what happens then. That's a lawyer bonanza, though not much good for the family or Google.
I guess Linux isn't much different regarding sound.
The violation comes in stripping the GPL off the code....definitely illegal.
Hmm. Google doesn't advertise themselves. And Google is extremely popular. Coincidence?
That's easy. But that assumes that the recording device (camcorder, cellphone, whatever), isn't also transmitting the data elsewhere. A wi-fi enabled camera-phone would pretty much nullify that option.
This may be one of the longest threads of messages continuously modded up, all marked as 'Funny'.
Funny that.
s/Semantic Web/Wikipedia/g;
I believe all your arguments have been used to explain why Wikipedia will fail. Well, it hasn't failed yet.
Right now, your post is +3 Funny, but I find it more insightful. Funny that.
;)
So how did the Grand Cyclops respond? Or is my imagination better than reality again here?
Quoth the parent:
:)
"jEdit offers some really nice features, but until its performance is improved 30 fold, it just won't be a suitable replacement for other graphical text editors."
Java's JRE is big enough that it puts a damper on any program starting up very quickly. So I wouldn't use jedit (or any other Java program) for quick-startup tasks. I'd sooner bring it up once, use it to edit lots of files for a long time, keep it around even if not using it, just so it's there again if I need it.
Sort of like emacs. So jedit is more likely to replace emacs than vi
s/jedit/your favorite Java app/g;
Hopefully that will change now that another Animaniacs & P&TB DVD set just came out.
I'm sorry...what was the topic again?
> What the fuck is "Pwned"? I thought this was a > news site, not an AOL chatroom.
/., when typos become more popular than correct spellings.)
Corruption of 'owned'. Someone made a typo, and the typo became popular. (Guess this says something about AOL, or
BTW, your question garnered 8 smartass replies, not one of them containing this answer. Come on, people, if you need to be wiseacres, at least answer the original question!
'"Show me any human on this planet who is not biased."'
"Check the cemeterys."
Bzzt! They're full of registered Democrats.
<ducks>
Do you see the current situation as a systemic problem in the current torts system? Specifically, do you think we need legislative intervention to correct the "money bias" in our legal system?
Excellent question, but asking a pair of lawyers this question is like asking Goliath if we should stop discriminating against short people.
Let's see if these lawyers have the guts to reform the system that their career (and current fame) is founded on.
(and me without mod points!) MOD PARENT UP!
Don't complain about 'offtopic'. If 3rd parties were viable, there would be a party loudly proclaiming that they don't spam the public with phonecalls.
As it is now, Libertarians (and most other 3rd parties) don't spam me, but they can't afford to proclaim it loudly.
I think the bigger problem wrt 3rd parties is that until one of the bigger parties adopts the 3rd-parties ideals, the 3rd party tends to split the voters on one of the two bigger parties w/o affecting the other. Perot drew more Reps than Dems in '92, the Dems won that year. And Nader's biggest turnout was in 2000...and drew more Dems than Reps...enough to give the election to the Reps.
An alternate voting system could allow you to have voted for *both* Bush and Perot in 92. This would have more effectively demonstrated the support for both Republicans and Reform parties in 92. As it was Ross got 0 electoral votes...not very representative, eh?
Yes...but THEY don't want you to know who it is.
who will be the first to go to jail for running a p2p client?
I hope it will be US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's daughter. THAT would be real fun.
I want to know why this HASN'T happened yet! In Sept 2003 when the RIAA started sueing people, they were immediately lambasted by the press for the people they sued...grandmonthers running Macs and 12-year-olds in the projects.
Since then, despite the thousands of people they've sued, they haven't sued someone able to make a major stink by who they are. I always assumed the RIAA were carefully screening out VIPs from their suit list.
But then in Dec 2004 Verizon won a court ruling against the RIAA that essentially said that the RIAA could not know whom they were suing...they had to make 'John Doe' lawsuits, only after sueing could they find out the identities of their victims.
I assumed that after that that they could not filter 'unsuable' people off their list. Yet no one prominent has gotten sued and told the press. So what happened? Or will it happen RSN?
Skype requires headphones and a mike, which means it isn't designed to be used by more than one person on one machine. EG fine for your office PC, not fine for a conference room where multiple people will be speaking/listening. You're better off with a good speakerphone.
I suspect there are workarounds to this though...
Of course. That's because Eclipse is extended using the same programming language it's built in (Java). Emacs is built in C, but you extend it using Elisp. As such, there are many (useful?) extensions you simply can't do, being limited to elisp.
Both are plugin architectures, but that's where their similarity ends.
I have the feeling that any architecture based on plugins is going to be hideously complicated...simply because you have many people working on individual plugins, each with their own vision...there is no Grand Unified Vision of how it all works together.
I respect Eclipse as a great creation, but I'm not yet ready to claim I like it. Still prefer Emacs. Without any Java IDE.
Heck look at the mess of options Emacs provides...no unified vision there.
Who said anything about charging $ to clean up Mom's PC? Better yet to barter with her...clean it up for a batch of cookies...or a 6-pack. People are generally a lot more willing to trade goods/services than pay $.
And if she's family, she should understand where you're coming from. You may not be a heartless bastard, but the spammers sure are. And keeping that machine clean costs $. Or cookies
Popcorn and a date to snuggle up with are up to > you. For now. But that's the feature I need most!
Guess I'll wait until it's out of beta...
It sure beats MS enforcing Windows being legal when you try to actually INSTALL windows. Why, if they did that, the world would be devoid of pirated Windows...just legit, secure Windows. And a few Linux machines here 'n there.
Obviously MS prefers that there be lots of insecure pirated Windows boxes out there. I wonder why...