Looks like Linus better get started on writing that family tree traversal code... It better be efficient with the memory usage, or else he may not have enough memory to create more child nodes.
I own the Beatles White Album on vinyl, but I don't have a record player. If I want to buy the CD new, I have to pay full price.
When you buy the Beatles White Album on vinyl, you own the Beatles White Album on vinyl. When you purchased it, you weren't promised lifetime upgrades. Why would anyone give you anything other than what you purchased? It's not like you paid your money and received nothing for it. You now have an album. What is wrong with that?
I don't own the music, I just own the right to listen to it
Of course you don't own the rights to the music. If you by a car, do you own the rights to the blueprints? If you by an Intel CPU, do you own the rights to their patents? Of course not. You own the object you paid for. You are purchasing the right to use the object you just purchased.
so why do I have to pay the same for the CD as someone who doesn't own the album?
Again, you don't own the IP to the album - you own the object that you just purchased. Just because software companies sell upgrades for less than the cost of purchasing the same item for the first time doesn't mean everyone has to comply with this. If Microsoft chooses to do this, that's their decision. The "media" companies don't choose to do this; that's their decision. If you don't like it, don't buy the album in the first place.
Wouldn't it be great if there was some group of official slashdot lawyers that could comment on stories that contain legal issues like this one? There are so many comments from people that say IANAL. Well, I want to hear from someone who is a lawyer. What if the Andover legal staff contributed to this discussion? Would be interesting.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm no scientist, but I've gotta think that any lifeform that can exist the radiation of space must be pretty resilient. If it's some virulent strain of bacteria out there, and it lands in our oceans.... We might not be eating sea food for a while.
This whole thing reminds me of the Andromeda Strain...
Ahhh, timothy. Another quality news posting. I usually enjoy the slashback stories you report on, but to create an entire story for a clock that spins fast with LED's, well, that's impressive. I hope Taco and Hemos are supportive on your concept of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
Slightly off topic, but... If the Russian government wanted to pocket some quick cash, they should sell the Mir space-fungus on eBay. It's probably worth more than the space station it's devouring..
Using a program like InCtrl, you can easily track any changes made to your system by the installation program. Since you can track what changes are made to your system, you can COMPLETELY uninstall it when you need to.
PaintShop Pro does the same "sprinking" that Napster does. You can use InCtrl for all these types of programs.
InCtrl is made by Ziff Davis, and it's free. Get it from ZDNet.
Everyone complained about how lame this movie was. Now, all of a sudden, everyone is desperate for for the DVD. Doesn't make sense. Does everyone just LOVE to buy horrible movies on DVD?
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Looks like Linus better get started on writing that family tree traversal code... It better be efficient with the memory usage, or else he may not have enough memory to create more child nodes.
Subscription based Office software?
I think we all better just send Microsoft a letter with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
I own the Beatles White Album on vinyl, but I don't have a record player. If I want to buy the CD new, I have to pay full price.
When you buy the Beatles White Album on vinyl, you own the Beatles White Album on vinyl. When you purchased it, you weren't promised lifetime upgrades. Why would anyone give you anything other than what you purchased? It's not like you paid your money and received nothing for it. You now have an album. What is wrong with that?
I don't own the music, I just own the right to listen to it
Of course you don't own the rights to the music. If you by a car, do you own the rights to the blueprints? If you by an Intel CPU, do you own the rights to their patents? Of course not. You own the object you paid for. You are purchasing the right to use the object you just purchased.
so why do I have to pay the same for the CD as someone who doesn't own the album?
Again, you don't own the IP to the album - you own the object that you just purchased. Just because software companies sell upgrades for less than the cost of purchasing the same item for the first time doesn't mean everyone has to comply with this. If Microsoft chooses to do this, that's their decision. The "media" companies don't choose to do this; that's their decision. If you don't like it, don't buy the album in the first place.
Wouldn't it be great if there was some group of official slashdot lawyers that could comment on stories that contain legal issues like this one? There are so many comments from people that say IANAL. Well, I want to hear from someone who is a lawyer. What if the Andover legal staff contributed to this discussion? Would be interesting.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm no scientist, but I've gotta think that any lifeform that can exist the radiation of space must be pretty resilient. If it's some virulent strain of bacteria out there, and it lands in our oceans.... We might not be eating sea food for a while.
This whole thing reminds me of the Andromeda Strain...
Ahhh, timothy. Another quality news posting. I usually enjoy the slashback stories you report on, but to create an entire story for a clock that spins fast with LED's, well, that's impressive. I hope Taco and Hemos are supportive on your concept of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
Make sure that before you load it on your penis, you aren't doing any Input/Output or using any "tunneling" protocols.
Slightly off topic, but... If the Russian government wanted to pocket some quick cash, they should sell the Mir space-fungus on eBay. It's probably worth more than the space station it's devouring..
Come on man, it's all linux these days. I plan on loading linux on the digital clock in my car.
Using a program like InCtrl, you can easily track any changes made to your system by the installation program. Since you can track what changes are made to your system, you can COMPLETELY uninstall it when you need to.
PaintShop Pro does the same "sprinking" that Napster does. You can use InCtrl for all these types of programs.
InCtrl is made by Ziff Davis, and it's free. Get it from ZDNet.
Nah, at some point we'll actually run out of things which require such processing power.
I dunno about that one.. Never underestimate the power of Microsoft developers to write incredibly bloated programs and operating systems.
All you need is a natural gas or propane connection.
I got a cable modem, and I thought that was all the connectivity I needed. Now I gotta get a propane connection, too.
Is that a 1.5 Mbit propane connection I need?
Unix is alive and well at MS.
Here's the link to the MS knowledge base article you speak of..
The real question is: can I download some whores on Napster?
Everyone complained about how lame this movie was. Now, all of a sudden, everyone is desperate for for the DVD. Doesn't make sense. Does everyone just LOVE to buy horrible movies on DVD?