Not exactly. The difference is in the way civil and criminal cases are tried.
Criminal cases have a 'beyond a shadow of a doubt' restriction on guilt, meaning that the evidence must show that the defendant was clearly guilty of the crime.
Civil cases are tried on a 'preponderance of the evidence', meaning that the jury is allowed to look at the evidence and if it indicates that the defendant is reasonably accountable, they can find him guilty.
Another difference is that Civil and Criminal courts are just two separate parts of the legal system. Criminal cases are brought up by the goverment against individuals, Civil cases are individuals against other individuals.
The parent comment is only insightful if you know dick about the American legal system.
The RIAA and MPAA are protecting the rights of the individuals that are members of their organizations. They're essentially unions. It just so happens that through exerting control over material they have rights to, they make more money.
When there's a rash of people randomly running into houses and stealing shit, like they steal from record and movie companies, then the goverment will form some kind of task force to track down the criminals and bring them to justice.
Oh, wait, my bad. They have that. They're called the police.
Uh... no. Talk to some artists on independent labels. It doesn't have a fucking thing to do with distribution or their labels. It has to do with MONEY. Distributing their own music is NOT a viable option for about 90% of the bands out there. They don't have the money, period.
Uh... you see it in car commercials all the time. "More powerful than the Camry." "More cargo space than the leading truck in its class." It's called MARKETING. You emphasize your strong points. You don't mention "Has half as many cupholders as a Volvo." or "The seatbelts kind of pull you back in a weird way. It's annoying at first, but you get used to it."
The only maturing that needs to be done is by OSS advocates whose FUD weenies go off every time MS makes a fuckin' press release. "WE HAVE TO RESPOND! They said that OOo is kind of slow!" *yawn*
Exactly my point. You're not going to be running either of these programs on the bare system, so what's the point of comparing the system requirements? I read the article before reading the MS thing, and after reading MS's sheet, the article is just plain dumb. It's a marketing press release that answers some questions about OO IN A MANNER BENEFITTING MS. Oh shit! A marketing department that wants to make its products look good?!? THE HORROR!!!
OO doesn't perfectly support the millions, possibly even billions by now, of Word DOC files that companies have been accumulating for years which are neccesary to their continued operation.
It might have something to do with that not exactly being a DOC type of layout. This looks like something intended for eventual printing, where PDF files are pretty much a standard.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! I'm with you. It's funny how everyone gets their undies in a bind when Microsoft tries to promote their own products. What's the point of arguing? Nobody cares, either way. It's a fucking press release. Get over it.
Well, that's YOU. Personally, I use Nedit for all my writing needs, but that doesn't preclude EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET from needing more than I do. Those features might go unused by YOU, but there are a lot of people out there that need them and use them.
Nice how the author completely sidestepped speed issues. I can have anything in Office opened up on my woeful K6-2/500MHz machine in 10-15 seconds. Firing up any portion of OO takes from 45 seconds to a full minute. No, I am not overstating the problem. OO has some great functionality, but it is horrendously slow to start, and runs slower than Office once it's open.
Also, the comparison of OO and Office system requirements is weak. "Wow, look! OO doesn't mention what processor to use! We win!" No, I don't think so. The Office guidelines are merely more specific. Who is going to be running Office XP on such a low-end (P133, 24MB RAM?) system? NOBODY! It sounds to me like OO and Office have the exact same system requirements... "A computer that doesn't completely suck."
The editors are making the smart assumption that anyone old enough to have played Robotron either have Alzheimers and forgot it by now, or are too stricken with arthritis to care about any kind of handheld devices.
Am I supposed to cry or something? It's still playing games for a living. I did QC work for a large guitar manufacturer a couple of years ago. When someone asked what I did I told them "I sit around and play with guitars all day." I didn't bother mentioning that I rarely had a guitar in my hand for more than five minutes, that I had to do a good amount of warehouse work, that I had to handle incoming customer service calls, and that the company I was working for was on the brink of financial disaster and employed too many assholes and morons. My job was to play with guitars and get paid for it. I WISH I could say that all I did was play games all day and get paid for it. Tedious or not, it's still far better than working in a warehouse.
No, fucktard, being a hypocrite would be saying that RMS IS smelly then going and not bathing for a month. I never said he WAS, I said he looked like the typical smelly hippie. Please take some classes in basic English comprehension.
Well, no shit. You mean they might want to just pay someone to do the work for them? Wow, what a strange concept.
With the 'fuck the users' attitude that most OSS developers seem to take, I don't blame anyone for not wanting to get involved. Why support an OSS project that's about half as useful as a proprietary project?
So because three packages you use haven't required upgrades, Open Source software doesn't develop more rapidly than proprietary? No, fuckwit, it's those particular packages that develop slow.
FUD? No, you're just to fucking stupid to realize this is a PRO-OSS article. Did you even bother reading the damn thing, or are you just going off of the paragraph headings as to what the article's about?
Yes, gaps are a problem. How many places use Linux systems for architectural and product design (CAD/CAM), or publishing work? Few, if any. Lack of programs such as AutoCAD and Photoshop (which are de facto standards) is a HUGE gap that simply isn't filled by anything available right now (no, Gimp isn't a replacement, no matter how much ball licking its supporters do).
Not many companies want to release a software product to a resounding wave of bitching from OSS geeks that one of their programmers copied a line from some obscure OSS project, meaning the entirety of their project has to be released as source. THAT is the licensing issues. Also, Groklaw and IBM aren't exactly a judgement handed down from a court. Of course they're going to argue opposite SCO, they're a law-oriented OSS advocacy site and the COMPANY THAT SCO IS SUING. Yeah, they're going to be really fucking credible in the eyes of PHB's everywhere.
But this is all moot because you're too damned stupid to realize that this is an article arguing FOR OSS.
Or do you think that maybe it's because it's just a different author with different opinions writing an Op/Ed piece? Nah, it couldn't be that. The whole world is either US or THEM, never both...
Dude, have you SEEN RMS? Or read anything written by him? I don't know of anyone that looks and sounds more like the prototypical smelly geek hippie*, and he's Free Software Guru #1.
*I'm not saying he smells, but he looks like he does. For all I know he could put off a fresh lavender scent.
They are under no obligation to contribute back to the community. Their code contributions have to be released, but even then only to the customers that actually purchased their product. The grandparent was referring to the whiny bastards that complain about companies using GPL code and not contributing to 'the community', probably in the form of fondling RMS's nads every other day. They are bound by the terms of the license, not the terms of what a bunch of geek-ass zealots THINK they should do.
I wrote a simple temperature conversion program in C. I compiled it, and it ran on my Linux box. It wouldn't run on my Windows box. So much for the cross-platform compatibility of C.
You mean like Paintshop, Painter, and the like? Yes. The version of Painter I was using didn't have layers, so I was mostly out on it. On the rare occasions I have to draw something (usually for textures), I use Photoshop. At least for me it works better.
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Not exactly. The difference is in the way civil and criminal cases are tried.
Criminal cases have a 'beyond a shadow of a doubt' restriction on guilt, meaning that the evidence must show that the defendant was clearly guilty of the crime.
Civil cases are tried on a 'preponderance of the evidence', meaning that the jury is allowed to look at the evidence and if it indicates that the defendant is reasonably accountable, they can find him guilty.
Another difference is that Civil and Criminal courts are just two separate parts of the legal system. Criminal cases are brought up by the goverment against individuals, Civil cases are individuals against other individuals.
The parent comment is only insightful if you know dick about the American legal system.
The RIAA and MPAA are protecting the rights of the individuals that are members of their organizations. They're essentially unions. It just so happens that through exerting control over material they have rights to, they make more money.
Er... like Socialism? Sounds good to me.
When there's a rash of people randomly running into houses and stealing shit, like they steal from record and movie companies, then the goverment will form some kind of task force to track down the criminals and bring them to justice.
Oh, wait, my bad. They have that. They're called the police.
Have I made my point, or do I have to explain it?
Uh... no. Talk to some artists on independent labels. It doesn't have a fucking thing to do with distribution or their labels. It has to do with MONEY. Distributing their own music is NOT a viable option for about 90% of the bands out there. They don't have the money, period.
And that has precisely WHAT to do with speed?
So the response article doesn't insult Office by making OO look better? Bullshit. It's a marketing thing and nothing more.
Uh... you see it in car commercials all the time. "More powerful than the Camry." "More cargo space than the leading truck in its class." It's called MARKETING. You emphasize your strong points. You don't mention "Has half as many cupholders as a Volvo." or "The seatbelts kind of pull you back in a weird way. It's annoying at first, but you get used to it."
The only maturing that needs to be done is by OSS advocates whose FUD weenies go off every time MS makes a fuckin' press release. "WE HAVE TO RESPOND! They said that OOo is kind of slow!" *yawn*
Exactly my point. You're not going to be running either of these programs on the bare system, so what's the point of comparing the system requirements? I read the article before reading the MS thing, and after reading MS's sheet, the article is just plain dumb. It's a marketing press release that answers some questions about OO IN A MANNER BENEFITTING MS. Oh shit! A marketing department that wants to make its products look good?!? THE HORROR!!!
*cough*
Nope, and it doesn't matter. If OO wants to open faster, they can start a daemon at boot. But they don't. So it's slower. Not an excuse.
OO doesn't perfectly support the millions, possibly even billions by now, of Word DOC files that companies have been accumulating for years which are neccesary to their continued operation.
That makes about 1,000,000,00 - 1 for Office.
It might have something to do with that not exactly being a DOC type of layout. This looks like something intended for eventual printing, where PDF files are pretty much a standard.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! I'm with you. It's funny how everyone gets their undies in a bind when Microsoft tries to promote their own products. What's the point of arguing? Nobody cares, either way. It's a fucking press release. Get over it.
Well, that's YOU. Personally, I use Nedit for all my writing needs, but that doesn't preclude EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET from needing more than I do. Those features might go unused by YOU, but there are a lot of people out there that need them and use them.
Nice how the author completely sidestepped speed issues. I can have anything in Office opened up on my woeful K6-2/500MHz machine in 10-15 seconds. Firing up any portion of OO takes from 45 seconds to a full minute. No, I am not overstating the problem. OO has some great functionality, but it is horrendously slow to start, and runs slower than Office once it's open.
Also, the comparison of OO and Office system requirements is weak. "Wow, look! OO doesn't mention what processor to use! We win!" No, I don't think so. The Office guidelines are merely more specific. Who is going to be running Office XP on such a low-end (P133, 24MB RAM?) system? NOBODY! It sounds to me like OO and Office have the exact same system requirements... "A computer that doesn't completely suck."
The editors are making the smart assumption that anyone old enough to have played Robotron either have Alzheimers and forgot it by now, or are too stricken with arthritis to care about any kind of handheld devices.
Am I supposed to cry or something? It's still playing games for a living. I did QC work for a large guitar manufacturer a couple of years ago. When someone asked what I did I told them "I sit around and play with guitars all day." I didn't bother mentioning that I rarely had a guitar in my hand for more than five minutes, that I had to do a good amount of warehouse work, that I had to handle incoming customer service calls, and that the company I was working for was on the brink of financial disaster and employed too many assholes and morons. My job was to play with guitars and get paid for it. I WISH I could say that all I did was play games all day and get paid for it. Tedious or not, it's still far better than working in a warehouse.
No, fucktard, being a hypocrite would be saying that RMS IS smelly then going and not bathing for a month. I never said he WAS, I said he looked like the typical smelly hippie. Please take some classes in basic English comprehension.
Well, no shit. You mean they might want to just pay someone to do the work for them? Wow, what a strange concept.
With the 'fuck the users' attitude that most OSS developers seem to take, I don't blame anyone for not wanting to get involved. Why support an OSS project that's about half as useful as a proprietary project?
Pull your fucking blinders off.
So because three packages you use haven't required upgrades, Open Source software doesn't develop more rapidly than proprietary? No, fuckwit, it's those particular packages that develop slow.
FUD? No, you're just to fucking stupid to realize this is a PRO-OSS article. Did you even bother reading the damn thing, or are you just going off of the paragraph headings as to what the article's about?
Yes, gaps are a problem. How many places use Linux systems for architectural and product design (CAD/CAM), or publishing work? Few, if any. Lack of programs such as AutoCAD and Photoshop (which are de facto standards) is a HUGE gap that simply isn't filled by anything available right now (no, Gimp isn't a replacement, no matter how much ball licking its supporters do).
Not many companies want to release a software product to a resounding wave of bitching from OSS geeks that one of their programmers copied a line from some obscure OSS project, meaning the entirety of their project has to be released as source. THAT is the licensing issues. Also, Groklaw and IBM aren't exactly a judgement handed down from a court. Of course they're going to argue opposite SCO, they're a law-oriented OSS advocacy site and the COMPANY THAT SCO IS SUING. Yeah, they're going to be really fucking credible in the eyes of PHB's everywhere.
But this is all moot because you're too damned stupid to realize that this is an article arguing FOR OSS.
Or do you think that maybe it's because it's just a different author with different opinions writing an Op/Ed piece? Nah, it couldn't be that. The whole world is either US or THEM, never both...
Dude, have you SEEN RMS? Or read anything written by him? I don't know of anyone that looks and sounds more like the prototypical smelly geek hippie*, and he's Free Software Guru #1.
*I'm not saying he smells, but he looks like he does. For all I know he could put off a fresh lavender scent.
They are under no obligation to contribute back to the community. Their code contributions have to be released, but even then only to the customers that actually purchased their product. The grandparent was referring to the whiny bastards that complain about companies using GPL code and not contributing to 'the community', probably in the form of fondling RMS's nads every other day. They are bound by the terms of the license, not the terms of what a bunch of geek-ass zealots THINK they should do.
I wrote a simple temperature conversion program in C. I compiled it, and it ran on my Linux box. It wouldn't run on my Windows box. So much for the cross-platform compatibility of C.
You mean like Paintshop, Painter, and the like? Yes. The version of Painter I was using didn't have layers, so I was mostly out on it. On the rare occasions I have to draw something (usually for textures), I use Photoshop. At least for me it works better.