well, that's certainly more recent than i thought. but it's preeeettty pathetic that the 20 years since then have seen not a single work enter the public domain.
That reminds me -- when's the last time a copyrighted work passed into the public domain? I'm 28 years old; has that ever happened in my lifetime? A brief discussion with some of my lawyer friends a couple of weeks ago concluded that it probably hadn't.
well, my advice to them would be to stop selling it, of course, but it seems that the marketing scum have been running too much at microsoft, and the people who build their actual products running too little... and it finally caught up with them. it's difficult to claim with a straight face that windows XP is a supportable configuration except on legacy boxes. microsoft should run, not walk, away from that train wreck.
apple keeps ramping up the pointless restrictions and i keep looking for another smartphone with minimal moving parts -- no slidey shit, no foldy shit, and definitely no no no physical keypad. i won't buy a pre. it's got all the planned-failure mechanical parts that i bought an iphone to avoid, even if the OS is the most promising thing i've seen in a year.
the best candidate right now looks like the HTC magic/G2/mytouch/whatchamacallit, although it's still got that nasty trackball, and that disastrous headphone adapter thing, both of which will hopefully be gone by the android phone that's shipping next time i'm shopping for a phone.
i basically want something with a good browser, nice fonts (so, never a blackberry), passable email, a passable library of apps, and as few moving parts as possible. right now the iphone is the thing that comes closest to meeting those criteria, even though apple's restrictive behavior has been juvenile and borderline illegal.
honestly, you don't have a clue anywhere in the same county as what you're talking about. you're embarrassing yourself. you don't even seem to be aware of the penalties for concerted action. this is open and shut, and you're hung up on being a fan of a brand. get over it.
this is clearly a play to prevent any competitor from offering the service-unifying technology Google is offering. the suspicious "duplication of functionality" clause on the EULA is practically an admission of this. taken together with the huge number of "approved" apps that do duplicate functionality shipped with the base OS, it's clear that Apple wants to pick and choose who is allowed to duplicate what functionality -- specifically, they will permit apps that violate this EULA clause only as long as they don't interfere with Apple/AT&T's ability to restrain trade.
sure, AT&T Unified Messaging is not exactly the same thing as Google Voice, but you'd have to try pretty hard to convince yourself that this isn't a brazen attempt to protect that service against competition. these actions are federal felonies under the sherman act.
apple are very obviously engaging in illegal anticompetitive behavior here. i need them to relent on this and permit google to distribute this application, or i am going to flee immediately into the waiting arms of t-mobile the moment my contract is up. apple's management of the app store can only be described, honestly, as mentally ill.
the aluminum apple keyboard is absolutely horrific to type on. it is the single worst keyboard i have ever used, and nothing else even comes close. it is too low to the desk, it has crappy rubber mush switches, and the keycaps are rounded at the edges so your fingers get lost. my fingers start to hurt after about 20 minutes of typing on one of these nasty little keyboards. they're just awful.
now, the apple extended keyboard ii, that's a good keyboard.
most keyboards don't have microprocessors and memory. he didn't pick an apple keyboard for attention out of a field of identically vulnerable keyboards. he picked it because it was a special example with odd specifications that enable this attack.
there are a few logictech keyboards he could have picked (the programmable ones with the LCD and all that), but no, this is not some widespread problem. this is an apple keyboard issue.
Once we camped out near a river, in known bear territory somewhere in central California. We hadn't seen any bear tracks, but put our food up in a nearby tree anyway (because that's just what you do in bear territory).
At around 2 AM that night, we awoke to hear the sound of large animals moving in our campsite, accompanied by the rustling of what sounded very much like our bear bag. Getting a fire going as quickly as possible (meaning, a liter of white gas poured onto the nearest thing that looked like wood and then set ablaze), we didn't find a bear. We found a team of TWO bears attacking our bear bag.
The big one climbed up the trunk of the tree, just under the branch from which we'd hung the bag. The little one, presumably a cub of the big one, had climbed out on the branch, and in a series of small steps, had pulled the bag along the branch with one arm toward the larger bear, who could now reach it from her spot on the trunk, and who was shredding the bag to bits as all our food dropped out. The fire, of course, chased the thieving duo away after a couple of minutes, and they thankfully only got away with some sausages and most of a bottle of pancake syrup.
Of course, what we hadn't noticed was that this tree had basically no leaves or branches or bark on it anywhere. Based on the number of large scratches and claw marks all over the tree, we surmised that we weren't the first ones to try to hang our food from this tree, which was essentially a food collection station operated by the bears to tax any humans foolish enough to camp there.
Listen, shut up about the "clouds" already. Just because you don't understand the architecture doesn't make it a "cloud". That word doesn't mean anything. I'm sick to death of hearing it already.
haha! well, maybe now their hollywood accounting will come back to bite them in the ass as they struggle to show that the songs are now worth massive damages, when they were worth nothing or less as they computed royalties for the artists they were screwing.
The killer app soon followed, Lotus 1-2-3. One showing of this app to anyone in business made DOS so valuable that pc's became as ubiquitous as water. Everyone started making PC's that could run DOS & Lotus 1-2-3. The price of hardware then drops like a rock as everyone started making it and ultimately farming that work out to Asia driving prices down further. Apple never appealed to business, the needs of which really drive innovation. You can appreciate a personal computer as you would a Stradivarius, but that's not a need. Business had a real need for an electronic spreadsheet.
And now, sadly, we know exactly what happens to an economy when its businessmen make their decisions based on the output of those unsound spreadsheets.
imagine, for a moment, a system with both windows and linux installed on it. each OS wants to read the data stored by the other. ntfs-3g solves the problem in one direction, and 128-bit inode enable fs-driver to solve it in the other direction.
i write differently for technical audiences and for nontechnical audiences. i am sorry i didn't insult the fine readers of slashdot with a condescending seventeen paragraph howto that explains what a computer is and how it organizes data.
of course, for someone who thinks "-I 128" is cryptic, yet has no problem with "%SystemRoot%" or the labyrinth of deceptively labeled tabs and dialogs it takes to change vista's "shutdown" button to a button that shuts the machine down, i suppose there's no hope.
ext2fsd and fs-driver both work on vista. and they'll both mount my ext3 filesystems, as long as i formatted them with the right inode size.
the issue you (eventually) link to basically says that all ext2/3 filesystems mounted on vista are the equivalent of noexec. i don't think it is accurate to describe that as a significant issue. i don't know many people who keep substantial quantities of windows executables on their linux drives. the permissions system on ext2/3 is totally wrong for windows anyway, so you'd never use it for, say, %ProgramFiles% or %SystemRoot%.
do not disable UAC.
the problem i have with vista's driver support is that on amd64 it requires them to be cryptographically signed by some sort of extortion outfit, or i have to press F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 up up enter every time i boot the system in order to get it to load the drivers i need.
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well, that's certainly more recent than i thought. but it's preeeettty pathetic that the 20 years since then have seen not a single work enter the public domain.
That reminds me -- when's the last time a copyrighted work passed into the public domain? I'm 28 years old; has that ever happened in my lifetime? A brief discussion with some of my lawyer friends a couple of weeks ago concluded that it probably hadn't.
well, my advice to them would be to stop selling it, of course, but it seems that the marketing scum have been running too much at microsoft, and the people who build their actual products running too little ... and it finally caught up with them. it's difficult to claim with a straight face that windows XP is a supportable configuration except on legacy boxes. microsoft should run, not walk, away from that train wreck.
apple keeps ramping up the pointless restrictions and i keep looking for another smartphone with minimal moving parts -- no slidey shit, no foldy shit, and definitely no no no physical keypad. i won't buy a pre. it's got all the planned-failure mechanical parts that i bought an iphone to avoid, even if the OS is the most promising thing i've seen in a year.
the best candidate right now looks like the HTC magic/G2/mytouch/whatchamacallit, although it's still got that nasty trackball, and that disastrous headphone adapter thing, both of which will hopefully be gone by the android phone that's shipping next time i'm shopping for a phone.
i basically want something with a good browser, nice fonts (so, never a blackberry), passable email, a passable library of apps, and as few moving parts as possible. right now the iphone is the thing that comes closest to meeting those criteria, even though apple's restrictive behavior has been juvenile and borderline illegal.
honestly, you don't have a clue anywhere in the same county as what you're talking about. you're embarrassing yourself. you don't even seem to be aware of the penalties for concerted action. this is open and shut, and you're hung up on being a fan of a brand. get over it.
this is clearly a play to prevent any competitor from offering the service-unifying technology Google is offering. the suspicious "duplication of functionality" clause on the EULA is practically an admission of this. taken together with the huge number of "approved" apps that do duplicate functionality shipped with the base OS, it's clear that Apple wants to pick and choose who is allowed to duplicate what functionality -- specifically, they will permit apps that violate this EULA clause only as long as they don't interfere with Apple/AT&T's ability to restrain trade. sure, AT&T Unified Messaging is not exactly the same thing as Google Voice, but you'd have to try pretty hard to convince yourself that this isn't a brazen attempt to protect that service against competition. these actions are federal felonies under the sherman act.
apple are very obviously engaging in illegal anticompetitive behavior here. i need them to relent on this and permit google to distribute this application, or i am going to flee immediately into the waiting arms of t-mobile the moment my contract is up. apple's management of the app store can only be described, honestly, as mentally ill.
the aluminum apple keyboard is absolutely horrific to type on. it is the single worst keyboard i have ever used, and nothing else even comes close. it is too low to the desk, it has crappy rubber mush switches, and the keycaps are rounded at the edges so your fingers get lost. my fingers start to hurt after about 20 minutes of typing on one of these nasty little keyboards. they're just awful.
now, the apple extended keyboard ii, that's a good keyboard.
most keyboards don't have microprocessors and memory. he didn't pick an apple keyboard for attention out of a field of identically vulnerable keyboards. he picked it because it was a special example with odd specifications that enable this attack.
there are a few logictech keyboards he could have picked (the programmable ones with the LCD and all that), but no, this is not some widespread problem. this is an apple keyboard issue.
Once we camped out near a river, in known bear territory somewhere in central California. We hadn't seen any bear tracks, but put our food up in a nearby tree anyway (because that's just what you do in bear territory).
At around 2 AM that night, we awoke to hear the sound of large animals moving in our campsite, accompanied by the rustling of what sounded very much like our bear bag. Getting a fire going as quickly as possible (meaning, a liter of white gas poured onto the nearest thing that looked like wood and then set ablaze), we didn't find a bear. We found a team of TWO bears attacking our bear bag.
The big one climbed up the trunk of the tree, just under the branch from which we'd hung the bag. The little one, presumably a cub of the big one, had climbed out on the branch, and in a series of small steps, had pulled the bag along the branch with one arm toward the larger bear, who could now reach it from her spot on the trunk, and who was shredding the bag to bits as all our food dropped out. The fire, of course, chased the thieving duo away after a couple of minutes, and they thankfully only got away with some sausages and most of a bottle of pancake syrup.
Of course, what we hadn't noticed was that this tree had basically no leaves or branches or bark on it anywhere. Based on the number of large scratches and claw marks all over the tree, we surmised that we weren't the first ones to try to hang our food from this tree, which was essentially a food collection station operated by the bears to tax any humans foolish enough to camp there.
The damn bears are smarter than you'd think.
oh my... you should at least upgrade to one with fewer moving parts, especially moving parts in a subsystem as critical as the radio!
that's not surprising, or you're not paid to administer linux systems.
really, now.
Listen, shut up about the "clouds" already. Just because you don't understand the architecture doesn't make it a "cloud". That word doesn't mean anything. I'm sick to death of hearing it already.
haha! well, maybe now their hollywood accounting will come back to bite them in the ass as they struggle to show that the songs are now worth massive damages, when they were worth nothing or less as they computed royalties for the artists they were screwing.
hell with that, i use GUN/Linux
I heard they will be renaming the project to Orcale.
The corruption of a civilization's primary means for communicating and archiving knowledge is among the gravest of evils.
And now, sadly, we know exactly what happens to an economy when its businessmen make their decisions based on the output of those unsound spreadsheets.
imagine, for a moment, a system with both windows and linux installed on it. each OS wants to read the data stored by the other. ntfs-3g solves the problem in one direction, and 128-bit inode enable fs-driver to solve it in the other direction.
i write differently for technical audiences and for nontechnical audiences. i am sorry i didn't insult the fine readers of slashdot with a condescending seventeen paragraph howto that explains what a computer is and how it organizes data. of course, for someone who thinks "-I 128" is cryptic, yet has no problem with "%SystemRoot%" or the labyrinth of deceptively labeled tabs and dialogs it takes to change vista's "shutdown" button to a button that shuts the machine down, i suppose there's no hope.
thank you, i will try this the next time i boot windows.
ext2fsd and fs-driver both work on vista. and they'll both mount my ext3 filesystems, as long as i formatted them with the right inode size.
the issue you (eventually) link to basically says that all ext2/3 filesystems mounted on vista are the equivalent of noexec. i don't think it is accurate to describe that as a significant issue. i don't know many people who keep substantial quantities of windows executables on their linux drives. the permissions system on ext2/3 is totally wrong for windows anyway, so you'd never use it for, say, %ProgramFiles% or %SystemRoot%.
do not disable UAC.
the problem i have with vista's driver support is that on amd64 it requires them to be cryptographically signed by some sort of extortion outfit, or i have to press F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 up up enter every time i boot the system in order to get it to load the drivers i need.
when you're setting up your own filesystems, however... just use ntfs-3g and fs-driver. problems solved. just don't forget to use mke2fs -I 128
The GPL is a weapon useful for diminishing the regime of the copyright proprietarians. To say that one may not use copyright to fight its abusers is akin to saying that one may not carry a rifle against his oppressors who wield artillery.
You could be working with George.