If you strip out the GNU tools, you can't use those wonderful beasts known as shell scripts. I think it would be very difficult to develop large-scale software without using shell scripts.
Then again, we *are* talking about "small" systems...:-) They'd probably write all those routines in C. (Re-re-re-inventing the wheel.)
I'll still produce, but I'll need to keep everything locked up, hidden away from society. What a horrible way to live.
There was a time in this country (US) that Native Americans could not "legally" practice their traditions. We had to hide away, hoping that we would not be caught practicing our ceremonies. Thankfully, those particular laws have been (rightfully) shown to be unconstitutional (freedom of religion and all that), so we can safely practice our traditions in the open.
Of course, the US has a history of denying their citizen's rights. (Slavery, WW2 Japanese concentration camps, etc) Only recently have the rights of the "majority" been denied in this way. A friend of mine once said, "They have a lot farther to fall than we do. We never had anything to begin with."
It may not be illegal, but having a file names that is enough suspicion to investigate further. If I have a baggie that looks like it has crack in it, and I show it to a cop, he's going to arrest me. If you have something that looks exactly like a pirated file, they have enough grounds to pursue it. You may be found innocent in court, but that doesn't mean they aren't going to try and prove it was a pirated file.
Oh boy, that takes the cake! With all this garbage about how something "looks" illegal, and therefore is (ie. "looks like under 18" is kiddy porn, "looks like pirated song" is pirated song, "looks like cocaine" is cocaine, etc.) you'd think that everything will be illegal soon.
I can see it now: Cop: What's in that bag? Arrestee: Powdered sugar! C: Take it to the lab! a few hours later... C: Chemical analysis proves that is indeed sugar, but since it looks like cocaine you are under arrest for posession with malicious intent to bake. Judge: Fifty years in prison! Next! Oh hi, Mr. Hitler, that will be fifty days suspended sentence...
If the record companies dropped their prices to $1 per CD, people would still continue to download music for free rather than pay for it."
I can't speak for anyone else, but if the price of CD's dropped to $1 per CD then I could afford to buy crappy CD's without listening to them first, and thus not have to waste my time downloading songs from Napster/whatever before buying those CD's. I don't like piracy for piracy's sake, but I don't intend to pay $10-$15 for something I'll never listen to. With things like Napster (and before it Tapes:-) I can find out if something is worth buying or not.
I don't see how I'm stealing from "artists" when I'm still buying their albums...
There's a ten-or-so year old book which was reprinted recently called "The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way". It describes how to have a UK number one with a few weeks of effort and very little of your own money.
It seems that if more people took this sort of approach that the "majors" would have a serious problem.
But it wouldn't crash Netscape if I turned off JavaScript. Interesting that...there was no JavaScript on the page.
The reason Netscape stopped crashing when you turned off JS is because turning it off also turns off CSS. Why?
Back when NN 4.0 was under development, Netscape decided that they wanted stylesheets in their browser. They just couldn't wait for CSS, so they designed their own. Netscape's answer: JavaScript Stylesheets. Of course, the W3C was putting the finishing touches on CSS, and Netscape realized that it had better support that as well. So, they just put translation code in their browser to translate from CSS to JSSS. Result? Their CSS implementation depends on JavaScript.
That's why it crashes. That's why it turns itself off when you turn off JavaScript, even with CSS still enabled. And that's why it doesn't support CSS properly. So, when yet again Netscape crashes when you use even the simplest of CSS attributes, remember JSSS.
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If you strip out the GNU tools, you can't use those wonderful beasts known as shell scripts. I think it would be very difficult to develop large-scale software without using shell scripts.
:-) They'd probably write all those routines in C. (Re-re-re-inventing the wheel.)
Then again, we *are* talking about "small" systems...
That's when you analyze the program, and then re-write the afflicted section. Surely everyone can do that? :-)
I'll still produce, but I'll need to keep everything locked up, hidden away from society. What a horrible way to live.
There was a time in this country (US) that Native Americans could not "legally" practice their traditions. We had to hide away, hoping that we would not be caught practicing our ceremonies. Thankfully, those particular laws have been (rightfully) shown to be unconstitutional (freedom of religion and all that), so we can safely practice our traditions in the open.
Of course, the US has a history of denying their citizen's rights. (Slavery, WW2 Japanese concentration camps, etc) Only recently have the rights of the "majority" been denied in this way. A friend of mine once said, "They have a lot farther to fall than we do. We never had anything to begin with."
No one ever got killed for using Napster.
Doesn't anyone listen to MP3's before they finish downloading them?
Vogons? Soft place?!? We are talking about the same Vogons, right?
It may not be illegal, but having a file names that is enough suspicion to investigate further. If I have a baggie that looks like it has crack in it, and I show it to a cop, he's going to arrest me. If you have something that looks exactly like a pirated file, they have enough grounds to pursue it. You may be found innocent in court, but that doesn't mean they aren't going to try and prove it was a pirated file.
Oh boy, that takes the cake! With all this garbage about how something "looks" illegal, and therefore is (ie. "looks like under 18" is kiddy porn, "looks like pirated song" is pirated song, "looks like cocaine" is cocaine, etc.) you'd think that everything will be illegal soon.
I can see it now:
Cop: What's in that bag?
Arrestee: Powdered sugar!
C: Take it to the lab!
a few hours later...
C: Chemical analysis proves that is indeed sugar, but since it looks like cocaine you are under arrest for posession with malicious intent to bake.
Judge: Fifty years in prison! Next! Oh hi, Mr. Hitler, that will be fifty days suspended sentence...
But a lot of people (surprise) download songs and then don't buy the albums.
Do you suppose they would have bought the album anyway (at current prices)? :-)
You said it! All "intellectual property" should be in the public domain. Of course, war should be outlawed...
The top five servers are all Opennap because Napster, Inc. asked Napigator to remove the statistics for the "official" servers.
If the record companies dropped their prices to $1 per CD, people would still continue to download music for free rather than pay for it."
I can't speak for anyone else, but if the price of CD's dropped to $1 per CD then I could afford to buy crappy CD's without listening to them first, and thus not have to waste my time downloading songs from Napster/whatever before buying those CD's. I don't like piracy for piracy's sake, but I don't intend to pay $10-$15 for something I'll never listen to. With things like Napster (and before it Tapes :-) I can find out if something is worth buying or not.
I don't see how I'm stealing from "artists" when I'm still buying their albums...
There's a ten-or-so year old book which was reprinted recently called "The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way". It describes how to have a UK number one with a few weeks of effort and very little of your own money.
It seems that if more people took this sort of approach that the "majors" would have a serious problem.
Hey, it worked for The KLF...
But it wouldn't crash Netscape if I turned off JavaScript. Interesting that...there was no JavaScript on the page.
The reason Netscape stopped crashing when you turned off JS is because turning it off also turns off CSS. Why?
Back when NN 4.0 was under development, Netscape decided that they wanted stylesheets in their browser. They just couldn't wait for CSS, so they designed their own. Netscape's answer: JavaScript Stylesheets. Of course, the W3C was putting the finishing touches on CSS, and Netscape realized that it had better support that as well. So, they just put translation code in their browser to translate from CSS to JSSS. Result? Their CSS implementation depends on JavaScript.
That's why it crashes. That's why it turns itself off when you turn off JavaScript, even with CSS still enabled. And that's why it doesn't support CSS properly. So, when yet again Netscape crashes when you use even the simplest of CSS attributes, remember JSSS.