Or even bzip2 the *.WAV's (or the prorietary Ace format which often copmresses slightly better due to its specially algrothithm for PCM wave (.WAV &c) file compression)
It is a minor point, but using "expressly" implies that *you* must contractly agree to take any liability as opposed to them saying that *they* will not accept any liability to the extent of applicable laws. I may be wrong, IANAL, and I agree there is not much difference.
In fact there is a version of MNG (muti-image PNG)which uses JPEG and is called JNG (JPEG Network Graphics).
This offers the advantages of the PNG/MNG file-format specifcations (transparency, meta-data, &c) along with the JPEG compression algorithm, and is meant to be a replacement for JFIF (the JPEG file image format) which is the commonest JPEG-based file format.
In fact there is a version of MNG (muti-image PNG)which uses JPEG and is called JNG (JPEG Network Graphics).
This offers the advantages of the PNG/MNG file-format specifcations (transparency, meta-data, &c) along with the JPEG compression algorithm, and is meant to be a replacement for JFIF (the JPEG file image format) which is the commonest JPEG-based file format.
BTW, this story sounds *very* BAAD...
Do they give copies with their products too though?
The webpage that the parent links to looks says "you expressly assume all risk and liability associated with downloading [my emphasis]". This seems to be adding an additional clause to the GNU GPL as I would interpret that as not just disclaiming their own liability.
Also it says at the bottom of the page that one must enable cookies.
You could also call it QDOS (Quick and Ditry OS) which was the original name for MSDOS. And after all, MSW is just MSDOS with a badly tacked-on windows system.
"Corrected" refers to the fact that I corrected my *own* sibling comment--not the parent's--should have previewed:-o.
what else do you call MS Windows
Hmm...if you have to live with using it, you call it lots of things....;-). Oh, I see. Well you could call it {gasp} "MS Windows";-) or even "MSW" (pronounced mess-wu or muss-wu) for short.
Using "Windows" is sometimes genuinely ambiguous--it does really confuse lots of people in some contexts--especially spoken or non-case-differentiated textual ones (or where you have used lower case)--as well as the fact that, of course, using "Windows" when you mean MSW helps Micrsoft's attempts to turn this generic term (cf. DECWindows, XWindows, &c) dating from the 1950/60's (see UNIX, Emacs, &c) into a trademark.
I stand corrected--I haven't read the book versions of either works (H2G2, LotR) recently.
Ye, I probably will--Prosser isn't used and is as good as any.
Even more off-topic but very funny: I, incidentally, have been involved in a dispute with the town clerk of my local town council, a Mr. Prosser, over various sets of light-polluting floodlighting which the town council erected without planning permission and which shine up into the sky and onto the side of two mountains (and are no doubt partly responsible for the ever-increasing and massive cost of town-council tax in my town). The areas they shine on are also internationally-protected wildife habitats (SSSI's, SAC's, AONB's, SPA's, &c) and nesting birds are kept awake by the lighting. Said Mr. Prosser told me, when asked what the purpose of the lights were, something like "well...they're lighting aren't they...decorative lighting...what do you mean purpose?...you've got to put up decorative lighting" (s/lighting/bypass;-)). You couldn't make it up...
Wildly off-topic (and FYIW IMO parent and grandparent are childish), but I think the $ sign is supposed to represent bribery and corruption (rather than just having lots of money). I don't know if they started it, but it was
popularised by Greenpeace's use of "Stop E$$O"*.
I must admit in view of recent behaviour of the EC (in relation to Microsoft, software patents, and other things), I have started abbreviating them to €C sometimes.
[*Incidentally, although this was allowed under copyright &c because it is a parody, Esso attempted to claim that it was illegal in France because the dollar looks like an (illegal-in-France Nazi) inverted swastika. Needless to say, Esso's case was eventually thrown out of court (after Esso succesfully got a preliminary injunction banning the use of E$$O)]
Never mind where the magnet is*, where's the parent's.sig link (explaining what these projects are)?
*although tell me anyway. I just bought a 160 GB external USB2/Firewire HDD, so I guess I can sacrifice Bilbo** (my old Seagate >100MB drive) for dissection (muhehawwwww)--well I'll probably wait until it starts to develop bad sectors or sthg 'cause storage is storage after all--need as many hard dic^Hsks as I can get^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W. Hmmm...good job I can use the ctrl-h to get rid of Freudian slips....
**yes, my HDD's have names 8=:-)--Bilbo for Stryder (my old i486DX machine), and Marvin (my new PIII Coppermine 800MHz) has two HDD's called Slartibardfast and Zaphod--makes sense to me. I don't know what I'll call the new one. Suggestions here if you want...
If an employee of company X GPL'd code illegally, then that's another matter
I heard of previous cases in the US which suggest that, in the US at least, if an employee licenses something or makes a contract, the company cannot withdraw it by saying the employee was not allowed to--they can only sack the employee.
Obviously there is a certain amount of common sense (i.e.: you would expect it to be released by a senior employee to believe a contract/license)--if someone on the shop floor in Mc. Donalds tries to sell McDonalds to you, it would be argued that you should not believe them.
I don't give a **** who they give knighthoods to as the things are meaningless anyway. However, if you missed the Bill-Gates-knighted story recently, it gets even better.
The EU announced it had completed its investigations into MS's criminal activity on the same day as the UK government announced the knighthood.
I am not joking. I went on BBC Technology News and among the latest headlines were two something like this:
EU completes investigations into Microsoft's "criminal business practices"
Government announces that Microsft Founder is to be awarded a knghthood for his "innovative business practices"
The wording was somethnig like that with the quoted words taken from the EU and UK gov. press releases too.
I personally stil think/hope that the renumeration in Mario Monti's ruling will be given by EC/govs not by users/developers of rival software. It depends how it is interpreted I guess. I keep meaning to send an email to the EC asking them which is meant.
Hello, people. Has no one realised that YYYY-MM-DD is the standard official US date format (as well as the standard date format in every country in the world bar a few)?
Have you ever considered the fact that it should be -09-11 in the Iso8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD which is the official standard one in the US, UK and EU)?
Or do you still live in the dark ages and not use the standard international date format?
I sent RMS an email recently about sthg and he sent a nice reply quite quickly--I'm not sure why everyone thinks RMS is that funny actually (for a geek anyway).
Although, in his reply, he did say that I should attach webpages instead of giving him the URI's so that he doesn't have to wait for his next batch of mail to receive the webpages (by emailing the URI's) (i.e.: he dsoesn't have WWW access ort doesn't use it) which I thought was a bit sad.
They are doing this, so that people don't use the Firefox and Mozilla trademarks (and logos)(which they refuse to license without explicit permission).
Mozilla Foundation probably do not have the right to stop people from using the logos under trademark law, and they certainly cannot stop people using the name or logos if it is made clear that it is only derived from Firefox (but they are trying to anyway).
Firefox doesn't seem to be a registered trademark in the EU yet anyway, and Mozilla is still registered to Netscape Corporation (now Time Warner) in the US and EU.
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Or even bzip2 the *.WAV's (or the prorietary Ace format which often copmresses slightly better due to its specially algrothithm for PCM wave (.WAV &c) file compression)
It is a minor point, but using "expressly" implies that *you* must contractly agree to take any liability as opposed to them saying that *they* will not accept any liability to the extent of applicable laws. I may be wrong, IANAL, and I agree there is not much difference.
In fact there is a version of MNG (muti-image PNG)which uses JPEG and is called JNG (JPEG Network Graphics).
This offers the advantages of the PNG/MNG file-format specifcations (transparency, meta-data, &c) along with the JPEG compression algorithm, and is meant to be a replacement for JFIF (the JPEG file image format) which is the commonest JPEG-based file format.
BTW, this story sounds *very* BAAD...
[woops...formatted now]
In fact there is a version of MNG (muti-image PNG)which uses JPEG and is called JNG (JPEG Network Graphics). This offers the advantages of the PNG/MNG file-format specifcations (transparency, meta-data, &c) along with the JPEG compression algorithm, and is meant to be a replacement for JFIF (the JPEG file image format) which is the commonest JPEG-based file format. BTW, this story sounds *very* BAAD...
Do they give copies with their products too though?
The webpage that the parent links to looks says "you expressly assume all risk and liability associated with downloading [my emphasis]". This seems to be adding an additional clause to the GNU GPL as I would interpret that as not just disclaiming their own liability.
Also it says at the bottom of the page that one must enable cookies.
You could also call it QDOS (Quick and Ditry OS) which was the original name for MSDOS. And after all, MSW is just MSDOS with a badly tacked-on windows system.
Using "Windows" is sometimes genuinely ambiguous--it does really confuse lots of people in some contexts--especially spoken or non-case-differentiated textual ones (or where you have used lower case)--as well as the fact that, of course, using "Windows" when you mean MSW helps Micrsoft's attempts to turn this generic term (cf. DECWindows, XWindows, &c) dating from the 1950/60's (see UNIX, Emacs, &c) into a trademark.
I stand corrected--I haven't read the book versions of either works (H2G2, LotR) recently.
;-)). You couldn't make it up...
Ye, I probably will--Prosser isn't used and is as good as any.
Even more off-topic but very funny:
I, incidentally, have been involved in a dispute with the town clerk of my local town council, a Mr. Prosser, over various sets of light-polluting floodlighting which the town council erected without planning permission and which shine up into the sky and onto the side of two mountains (and are no doubt partly responsible for the ever-increasing and massive cost of town-council tax in my town). The areas they shine on are also internationally-protected wildife habitats (SSSI's, SAC's, AONB's, SPA's, &c) and nesting birds are kept awake by the lighting. Said Mr. Prosser told me, when asked what the purpose of the lights were, something like "well...they're lighting aren't they...decorative lighting...what do you mean purpose?...you've got to put up decorative lighting" (s/lighting/bypass
[corrected]
makes Linux/etc inherently more secure than Windows They really are not comparable. Linux is a kernel and windows are GUI objects.
OK. Doh! Ignore me--I'm usually already logged in, so I did not realise that .sigs where suppressed whe reading AC.
Never mind where the magnet is*, where's the parent's .sig link (explaining what these projects are)?
Obviously there is a certain amount of common sense (i.e.: you would expect it to be released by a senior employee to believe a contract/license)--if someone on the shop floor in Mc. Donalds tries to sell McDonalds to you, it would be argued that you should not believe them.
IANAL &c.
MacOS X already comes with a very nice windows system. Also, have you tried using XWindows on GNU/Linux?
I've got mod points and I would mod this story -1 troll if I could.
The EU announced it had completed its investigations into MS's criminal activity on the same day as the UK government announced the knighthood.
I am not joking. I went on BBC Technology News and among the latest headlines were two something like this:
- EU completes investigations into Microsoft's "criminal business practices"
- Government announces that Microsft Founder is to be awarded a knghthood for his "innovative business practices"
The wording was somethnig like that with the quoted words taken from the EU and UK gov. press releases too.JOINED-UP GOVERNMENT ;-)
I personally stil think/hope that the renumeration in Mario Monti's ruling will be given by EC/govs not by users/developers of rival software. It depends how it is interpreted I guess. I keep meaning to send an email to the EC asking them which is meant.
Hello, people. Has no one realised that YYYY-MM-DD is the standard official US date format (as well as the standard date format in every country in the world bar a few)?
Have you ever considered the fact that it should be -09-11 in the Iso8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD which is the official standard one in the US, UK and EU)?
Or do you still live in the dark ages and not use the standard international date format?
It is also, I believe, the standard date format in nearly every single country in the world (inlcuding all the countries in the EU and the US).
I sent RMS an email recently about sthg and he sent a nice reply quite quickly--I'm not sure why everyone thinks RMS is that funny actually (for a geek anyway).
Although, in his reply, he did say that I should attach webpages instead of giving him the URI's so that he doesn't have to wait for his next batch of mail to receive the webpages (by emailing the URI's) (i.e.: he dsoesn't have WWW access ort doesn't use it) which I thought was a bit sad.
Of course they are. That's the idea of April Fool's Day. Google are well-known for doing good April Fools jokes.
Of course, this year the joke could be that its not a joke...hmmm...
Maybe as in Sir Bilbo of the GatePeople?
They are doing this, so that people don't use the Firefox and Mozilla trademarks (and logos)(which they refuse to license without explicit permission).
Mozilla Foundation probably do not have the right to stop people from using the logos under trademark law, and they certainly cannot stop people using the name or logos if it is made clear that it is only derived from Firefox (but they are trying to anyway).
Firefox doesn't seem to be a registered trademark in the EU yet anyway, and Mozilla is still registered to Netscape Corporation (now Time Warner) in the US and EU.
Trademarks only apply to a single product type. Software is a separate category from vehicles for the purposes of trademarks.