If they ask you to send money out of the goodness of your heart it's freeware. Programs like Winzip that don't actually take any action to prevent you from using it except telling you to over and over are still shareware, though, but they're asking you to send them money out of the desire to be a law abiding citizen.
Yes that's entirely possible, but that doesn't change that you need to use 3rd party software in order to get a large fat32 partition formatted in Windows.
To repeal an ammendment is to nullify it with another ammendment. Why don't we also argue about whether it's pronounced potato or potato? (It'd make more sense if I were saying it)
I hardly see open source as communism. For me it's a hobby. I will never fix a bug for the greater good, just because it benefits me to not have to deal with it anymore. Using open source software is also a capitalist choice for me. I use it when it's best combination of quality and value.
Oh well, anyone else remember the good old days and software was just bytes, not an ideology?
Machines can't do everything. So people need to do something. And if I get everything for free I should do something because...? If your system where most people get everything for free is so good, it'll be stable, so if I don't do anything, it'll still manage. Things need to be done. How do you decide what needs to be done? Just have a worker class who are subjected to the will of everyone else? Expect people to volunteer to serve even though they don't have to?
Feel free to blow me off because I'm stuck in my "box", though if you're really convinced people who disagree with you are stuck in a box, don't you think that perhaps you're being a bit close minded? You're just stuck in a different box. Quit preaching.
Yeah yeah yeah, Capitalism is oiled by the blood of the workers. Boohoo. Communism is oiled by nothing. It grinds to a halt because it's in nobody's best interest to work harder to make things better.
You're right though, clearly all of us have just given up on the glorious ideals you hold true. Struggle on, comrade. I suggest you do so by refusing to use any capitalist products or services.
After all, how could you consume something so horrible? Cell phones, computers, and even food are pretty horrible. How could capitalist companies create something so horrible, and then force us to consume them? So cruel.
Anyway, I'm all for free software as an alternative, and I am not opposed to a free mesh network, but I don't see either as a moral necessity. I quite like my cable modem and my cell phone. Yay for Comcast and Cingular I guess.
I don't have a car 8 months out of the year. And yet somehow I find a way to appreciate roads, because if people couldn't deliver food to places near me in trucks, I'd have to grow my own. Grow my own food or go offline.. hmm.. Yeah, I'd be reading a lot of books.. you know, the old fashioned kind, with paper.
Do the private competitors get the taxes that their customers pay that would otherwise go to the government run company? Otherwise of course they won't offer service that is "cheaper" since if you use a private company you're paying for the private company and you're still paying for the state run company that you don't use. I put cheaper in quotation marks since I'm sure as it stands now most price comparisons being made between them go by what you pay in addition to taxes, as if taxes were somehow inevitable and thus shouldn't be considered.
OS/2 is a bit before my time, but didn't IBM invest large amounts of money in implementing the Windows API on OS/2, in a similar way to Wine, instead of using an emulator? It was my understanding that you could never count on being able to reliably run all Windows programs in OS/2 (not that you can in Windows either I suppose).
I think the implication here is not that Windows is addictive or in any way enjoyable or preferable. It just means that people often become dependant on it and don't want to switch to other platforms because they think it's too hard, too expensive, or whatever. The first platform most people use seriously is what they will stick with. Keep in mind this is news for nerds, but most non-nerds don't like learning new things about computers.
Is Gnome term really a good solution? While I'm all about Gnome, gnome-terminal isn't the best in my opinion. It is in my experience not especially fast and a bit of a memory hog.
How about Eterm? That seems like it would be a better fit, though I don't know if it is available. Maybe when Gentoo gets ported to OS X some ports for quality terminals will become available.
I can not see Microsoft ever seriously promoting a Windows emulator. Why not? A quality Windows emulator being on the market will lead to more Mac use. As people get accustomed to Macs they will stop feeling the need for a Windows emulator. Plain and simple, despite the fact that Windows emulators require a Windows license, Windows emulators make it easier to switch away from Microsoft.
It depends. If they kept it a secret then your patent should stand. If it was published or common knowledge or anything like that, your patent is invalid if I'm not mistaken, whether you knew about it or not.
Of course, I could be wrong and I accept no liability if anyone gets sued because they assumed I knew what I was talking about somehow!
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If they ask you to send money out of the goodness of your heart it's freeware. Programs like Winzip that don't actually take any action to prevent you from using it except telling you to over and over are still shareware, though, but they're asking you to send them money out of the desire to be a law abiding citizen.
That's odd. I thought NTFS = NTFS + Journaling? Am I mistaken about NTFS already being a journaled file system?
Yes that's entirely possible, but that doesn't change that you need to use 3rd party software in order to get a large fat32 partition formatted in Windows.
To repeal an ammendment is to nullify it with another ammendment. Why don't we also argue about whether it's pronounced potato or potato? (It'd make more sense if I were saying it)
Oh well, anyone else remember the good old days and software was just bytes, not an ideology?
Feel free to blow me off because I'm stuck in my "box", though if you're really convinced people who disagree with you are stuck in a box, don't you think that perhaps you're being a bit close minded? You're just stuck in a different box. Quit preaching.
Yeah yeah yeah, Capitalism is oiled by the blood of the workers. Boohoo. Communism is oiled by nothing. It grinds to a halt because it's in nobody's best interest to work harder to make things better. You're right though, clearly all of us have just given up on the glorious ideals you hold true. Struggle on, comrade. I suggest you do so by refusing to use any capitalist products or services. After all, how could you consume something so horrible? Cell phones, computers, and even food are pretty horrible. How could capitalist companies create something so horrible, and then force us to consume them? So cruel. Anyway, I'm all for free software as an alternative, and I am not opposed to a free mesh network, but I don't see either as a moral necessity. I quite like my cable modem and my cell phone. Yay for Comcast and Cingular I guess.
I don't have a car 8 months out of the year. And yet somehow I find a way to appreciate roads, because if people couldn't deliver food to places near me in trucks, I'd have to grow my own. Grow my own food or go offline.. hmm.. Yeah, I'd be reading a lot of books.. you know, the old fashioned kind, with paper.
Do the private competitors get the taxes that their customers pay that would otherwise go to the government run company? Otherwise of course they won't offer service that is "cheaper" since if you use a private company you're paying for the private company and you're still paying for the state run company that you don't use. I put cheaper in quotation marks since I'm sure as it stands now most price comparisons being made between them go by what you pay in addition to taxes, as if taxes were somehow inevitable and thus shouldn't be considered.
OS/2 is a bit before my time, but didn't IBM invest large amounts of money in implementing the Windows API on OS/2, in a similar way to Wine, instead of using an emulator? It was my understanding that you could never count on being able to reliably run all Windows programs in OS/2 (not that you can in Windows either I suppose).
I think the implication here is not that Windows is addictive or in any way enjoyable or preferable. It just means that people often become dependant on it and don't want to switch to other platforms because they think it's too hard, too expensive, or whatever. The first platform most people use seriously is what they will stick with. Keep in mind this is news for nerds, but most non-nerds don't like learning new things about computers.
Is Gnome term really a good solution? While I'm all about Gnome, gnome-terminal isn't the best in my opinion. It is in my experience not especially fast and a bit of a memory hog. How about Eterm? That seems like it would be a better fit, though I don't know if it is available. Maybe when Gentoo gets ported to OS X some ports for quality terminals will become available.
I can not see Microsoft ever seriously promoting a Windows emulator. Why not? A quality Windows emulator being on the market will lead to more Mac use. As people get accustomed to Macs they will stop feeling the need for a Windows emulator. Plain and simple, despite the fact that Windows emulators require a Windows license, Windows emulators make it easier to switch away from Microsoft.
It's entirely possible to take the average of one number.
It depends. If they kept it a secret then your patent should stand. If it was published or common knowledge or anything like that, your patent is invalid if I'm not mistaken, whether you knew about it or not. Of course, I could be wrong and I accept no liability if anyone gets sued because they assumed I knew what I was talking about somehow!