That's cynical, but I guess you have a point.
Maybe I'm too idealistic to think that a wrong result at an election can cause much more damage than any problems with ATMs...
I really don't understand why voting machines never seem to work.
I mean, ATMs also use a complicated technology in order to prevent other people from taking your money, to prevent you from withdrawing more than you're allowed to, etc, etc.
But, in general, they seem to work. Or maybe only banks notice the problems? Why are there so many problems with voting machines? Isn't counting what computers where made for?
I'm not bashing Microsoft when I ask a legitimate question about a paragraph in the EULA.
If this does not mean a ban of GPL'ed programs, it's fine with me, IANAL. Yet, many people seem to be not so sure about that.
And don't tell me, considering MS' business pracics,this idea is too farfetched... .
3.2 If you use the Redistributables, then in addition to your compliance with the applicable distribution requirements described for the Redistributables, the following also applies. Your license rights to the Redistributables are conditioned upon your not (a) creating derivative works of the Redistributables in any manner that would cause the Redistributables in whole or in part to become subject to any of the terms of an Excluded License; and (b) distributing the Redistributables (or derivative works thereof) in any manner that would cause the Redistributables to become subject to any of the terms of an Excluded License. An "Excluded License" is any license which requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of software subject to the Excluded License, that such software or other software combined and/or distributed with such software (x) be disclosed or distributed in source code form; (y) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (z) be redistributable at no charge.
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Does "Excluded License" mean GPL? A type of license that requires you to include the source code?
If this is correct, you can't use it to compile most OS programs...
You're also aware that you may not use the complier to produce anything for non-windows platforms... but that yould be difficult anymway.
I remember something similar was also done in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
They used leaves as money; the only problem was the galloping inflation that was caused by everybody suddenly becoming so rich...
Beck's - This Octoberfest beer... Octoberfest beer???
I guess the local breweries from Munich would be very angry if you could buy Beck's there... It's like serving Bourbon at an Scottish Pub... it will not happen.
How am I going to wreck havoc on the system if all I can do is run a few application binaries and change my wallpaper?
It's possible -- in Windows. I know a secretary who renders her installation of Windows 2000 unusable every few weeks -- by installing screen savers.
Maybe screen savers in Mac OS X are inferior as none has ever crashed my system.
Or some even click "ignore" to virus warning?
I'm also using OS X at home (and love it). At my university, I'm using mostly windows. The problem is, with Windows, you are forced so often to click "OK", "Ignore", "Cancel", etc., you just get used to it. Every Windows user I know with an installation older than 3 months performs this orgy of clicking after booting and after starting certain programs.
I must admit, I also do. On windows.
Maybe that's why people stop reading and just click "OK". (Install Trojan? "OK")
Do they even exist, Windows fanatics? I always have the feeling people like windows as long as they don't know anything else.
Which means, most people who have a clue about computers use other OSes, say, BSD, Linux, UNIX or Mac OS X (a statement that can't be reversed, though).
So I guess the risk of a counter attack from the dark side is unlikely:-P
The only problem is the work Andy caused for SysAdmins... (many of them UNIX lovers that are forced to take care of Windows boxes...)
Maybe he was paid by anti-virus software producers.
Otherwise they should consider giving prizes to the most successful virus-writers.
I understand their business is going very well thanks to these people...
This action is clearly a terrorist act of sabotage. Obviously, CIA does not only not care about their allies' (UK and Germany) interests but also about the potential loss of life. It could have happened in a town, I guess. And then, what? Huge explosion, 10.000 people killed? Success?
Next thing they tell you is that they were also responsoble for the reactor accident in Chernobil, Ukraina (highly successful, for the region will be contaminated for 1000s of years).
What's the difference between the CIA sabotaging gas pipelines and Al Qaida, say, Hoover Dam? Are countries that use terrorist methods better than terrorists?
Oh, yes, I guess I should have gone to Wal-mart... I was looking in so many shops for a copy...
O well, it's too late now, isn't it?
Without hesitating I would pay 40-50$ for a game if i could play Urban Terror... but, as you said, a port seems very unlikely now...
Quote from the announcement: "The Macintosh users are a bit uneasy, since there is no support for ET."
So I guess we can stop speculating.
I really liked playing Urban Terror on my Mac some time ago.
Yes, it seems now impossible to purchease a copy of Quake III, so their move seems to be clever.
Yet, maybe they don't know how many of the players are/were Macintosh (or Linux???) users... I got the impression, quite a lot. We just lost a great game.
maybe we should be asking ourselves how many Falun Gong followers China has unjustly imprisoned today.
You don't have to go so far. Just ask how many people are detained in the US (or by the US in Guantanamo or similiar places) without rights and without accusation.
And just recently, the Supreme Court said, that's okay. New York Times article
Before everybody shouts that I can't compare the two countries and that I would be put in jail just for saying that... I admit: you're right.
The USA is a free country. Still. Quite. Well, relatively. As long as you're not Arabian or muslim or otherwise suspicious.
But of course, none of us is, so we don't have to worry. Do we?
I just wanted to say the same. Precisely, they should have said "x86" CPUs.
In my opinion, the PPC 970 was the surprise of the year. A shame not to mention it.
The screenshots look cool. I hope there will be a versionb for the Nintendo Gamcube.
But unfortunately, as we learned in other news, the NGC dying...
A pity...
I don't want to say everything is perfect in Germany. I'm sure it's not.
Every time the police or the state or any of its organizations try to abuse their power, the people must prevent them from doing so. Everybody, everywhere.
Don't believe anybody who tells you in order to fight freedom they have to restrict it.
every country pulls this crap ... and each time this happens the public must cry out loudly. This does not seem to happen in the USA. The leaders succeeded in provocing panic in the public about a terrorist threat and to convince them only a kind of dictatorship can deal with this problem.
Sadly, many seem to believe this is true.
The first thought would be,of course, that International Law should be applied. In whatever law system, it should be no problem to convict Saddam Hussein. He has killed, and ordered to kill, thousands of people.
International law - which the US flouts whenever it suits them? Good point: if the US uses it, that could be interpreted as they accept it. Other nations might demand this law to be applied to American soldiers and politicians. Yet that seems the only logical solution to me...
I can't help, but somehow, I can't imagine there will be a publice trial on Saddam Hussein, both because this would give the impression the USA accepts International Law or even International Courts, and because Saddam might tell too much about his old friends Cheney, Bush Sr., Reagan, the CIA... about those who not only illegaly delivered weapons to him (during Iran-Iraq war) but also sullpied him with chemical weapons.
As I can't imagine this to happen, I suspect an accident might happen where he's killed by a crazy Islamic fundamentalist (paid by CIA). Hey, they could even blame Osama Bin Laden. Or, of course, there yould be secret trials but that would ruin the whole victory-thing for the media. Or could you imagine anybody could possible WANT this trial to happen?
Try to explain to a mother child killed in an American attack that the war was illegal... Oh, never mind, I'm sure someone has already told her, as Islamic fundamentalists have much better contact to the population than foreign soldiers.
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That's cynical, but I guess you have a point.
Maybe I'm too idealistic to think that a wrong result at an election can cause much more damage than any problems with ATMs...
I really don't understand why voting machines never seem to work.
I mean, ATMs also use a complicated technology in order to prevent other people from taking your money, to prevent you from withdrawing more than you're allowed to, etc, etc.
But, in general, they seem to work. Or maybe only banks notice the problems?
Why are there so many problems with voting machines? Isn't counting what computers where made for?
I'm not bashing Microsoft when I ask a legitimate question about a paragraph in the EULA.
If this does not mean a ban of GPL'ed programs, it's fine with me, IANAL. Yet, many people seem to be not so sure about that.
And don't tell me, considering MS' business pracics,this idea is too farfetched... .
***
3.2 If you use the Redistributables, then in addition to your compliance with the applicable distribution requirements described for the Redistributables, the following also applies. Your license rights to the Redistributables are conditioned upon your not (a) creating derivative works of the Redistributables in any manner that would cause the Redistributables in whole or in part to become subject to any of the terms of an Excluded License; and (b) distributing the Redistributables (or derivative works thereof) in any manner that would cause the Redistributables to become subject to any of the terms of an Excluded License. An "Excluded License" is any license which requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of software subject to the Excluded License, that such software or other software combined and/or distributed with such software (x) be disclosed or distributed in source code form; (y) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (z) be redistributable at no charge.
****Does "Excluded License" mean GPL? A type of license that requires you to include the source code?
If this is correct, you can't use it to compile most OS programs...
You're also aware that you may not use the complier to produce anything for non-windows platforms... but that yould be difficult anymway.
I remember something similar was also done in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
They used leaves as money; the only problem was the galloping inflation that was caused by everybody suddenly becoming so rich...
Sorry, but I can't find a Mac version... Is there really one? Where?
where are the maginfied magnified beer images?
Beck's - This Octoberfest beer...
Octoberfest beer???
I guess the local breweries from Munich would be very angry if you could buy Beck's there...
It's like serving Bourbon at an Scottish Pub... it will not happen.
How am I going to wreck havoc on the system if all I can do is run a few application binaries and change my wallpaper?
It's possible -- in Windows. I know a secretary who renders her installation of Windows 2000 unusable every few weeks -- by installing screen savers.
Maybe screen savers in Mac OS X are inferior as none has ever crashed my system.
Or some even click "ignore" to virus warning?
I'm also using OS X at home (and love it). At my university, I'm using mostly windows. The problem is, with Windows, you are forced so often to click "OK", "Ignore", "Cancel", etc., you just get used to it.
Every Windows user I know with an installation older than 3 months performs this orgy of clicking after booting and after starting certain programs.
I must admit, I also do. On windows.
Maybe that's why people stop reading and just click "OK". (Install Trojan? "OK")
The Russians are probably taking revenge for the sabotaged gas pipeline in the 80s. /. yesterday
It was on
Do they even exist, Windows fanatics? :-P
I always have the feeling people like windows as long as they don't know anything else.
Which means, most people who have a clue about computers use other OSes, say, BSD, Linux, UNIX or Mac OS X (a statement that can't be reversed, though).
So I guess the risk of a counter attack from the dark side is unlikely
The only problem is the work Andy caused for SysAdmins... (many of them UNIX lovers that are forced to take care of Windows boxes...)
Maybe he was paid by anti-virus software producers.
Otherwise they should consider giving prizes to the most successful virus-writers.
I understand their business is going very well thanks to these people...
This action is clearly a terrorist act of sabotage.
Obviously, CIA does not only not care about their allies' (UK and Germany) interests but also about the potential loss of life.
It could have happened in a town, I guess. And then, what? Huge explosion, 10.000 people killed?
Success? Next thing they tell you is that they were also responsoble for the reactor accident in Chernobil, Ukraina (highly successful, for the region will be contaminated for 1000s of years).
What's the difference between the CIA sabotaging gas pipelines and Al Qaida, say, Hoover Dam?
Are countries that use terrorist methods better than terrorists?
Oh, yes, I guess I should have gone to Wal-mart... I was looking in so many shops for a copy...
O well, it's too late now, isn't it?
Without hesitating I would pay 40-50$ for a game if i could play Urban Terror... but, as you said, a port seems very unlikely now...
Quote from the announcement: "The Macintosh users are a bit uneasy, since there is no support for ET."
So I guess we can stop speculating.
I really liked playing Urban Terror on my Mac some time ago.
Yes, it seems now impossible to purchease a copy of Quake III, so their move seems to be clever.
Yet, maybe they don't know how many of the players are/were Macintosh (or Linux???) users... I got the impression, quite a lot.
We just lost a great game.
You don't have to go so far. Just ask how many people are detained in the US (or by the US in Guantanamo or similiar places) without rights and without accusation.
And just recently, the Supreme Court said, that's okay. New York Times article
Before everybody shouts that I can't compare the two countries and that I would be put in jail just for saying that... I admit: you're right.
The USA is a free country. Still. Quite. Well, relatively. As long as you're not Arabian or muslim or otherwise suspicious.
But of course, none of us is, so we don't have to worry. Do we?
I just wanted to say the same. Precisely, they should have said "x86" CPUs.
In my opinion, the PPC 970 was the surprise of the year. A shame not to mention it.
The screenshots DON'T look cool :-P
Of course, they're from PS2, not my beloved GC
The screenshots look cool. I hope there will be a versionb for the Nintendo Gamcube.
But unfortunately, as we learned in other news, the NGC dying...
A pity...
Man, you're a nerd.
But then again, so are we all otherwise we wouldn't be here.
I don't want to say everything is perfect in Germany. I'm sure it's not.
Every time the police or the state or any of its organizations try to abuse their power, the people must prevent them from doing so. Everybody, everywhere.
Don't believe anybody who tells you in order to fight freedom they have to restrict it.
every country pulls this crap
... and each time this happens the public must cry out loudly. This does not seem to happen in the USA. The leaders succeeded in provocing panic in the public about a terrorist threat and to convince them only a kind of dictatorship can deal with this problem.
Sadly, many seem to believe this is true.
The first thought would be,of course, that International Law should be applied.
In whatever law system, it should be no problem to convict Saddam Hussein. He has killed, and ordered to kill, thousands of people.
International law - which the US flouts whenever it suits them?
Good point: if the US uses it, that could be interpreted as they accept it. Other nations might demand this law to be applied to American soldiers and politicians. Yet that seems the only logical solution to me...
I can't help, but somehow, I can't imagine there will be a publice trial on Saddam Hussein, both because this would give the impression the USA accepts International Law or even International Courts, and because Saddam might tell too much about his old friends Cheney, Bush Sr., Reagan, the CIA... about those who not only illegaly delivered weapons to him (during Iran-Iraq war) but also sullpied him with chemical weapons.
As I can't imagine this to happen, I suspect an accident might happen where he's killed by a crazy Islamic fundamentalist (paid by CIA). Hey, they could even blame Osama Bin Laden.
Or, of course, there yould be secret trials but that would ruin the whole victory-thing for the media.
Or could you imagine anybody could possible WANT this trial to happen?
Try to explain to a mother child killed in an American attack that the war was illegal...
Oh, never mind, I'm sure someone has already told her, as Islamic fundamentalists have much better contact to the population than foreign soldiers.