It seems to be a big leap to say that markup languages are programming languages. Sure, it's text that has structure and is interpreted to produce a result, but so are all the other text based file formats out there. Does a word document automatically become a program the instant you export it to a text based format like html, xml, or rtf?
I would consider PostScript to be a true programming language though. It has functions, loops, recursion, etc.
Microsoft has a Windows Logo program whereby you pay them to see if your product meets the standards to use the "Designed for Microsoft Windows ####" logos. I bet they can sue you for trademark infringement if you say your product is "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" without getting their approval first.
Members see ads too. We just get to suppress 1000 of them for $5. Though some pages always have ads.
A nice benefit of membership is being able to see new articles an hour or so before non-members, allowing you to see sites before they get slashdotted and prepare a well thought out response before the comments page fills with didn't rtfa nonsense.
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And those not responding processes that Windows can't close are fun too, like if the Visual Studio.NET IDE crashes, I've ran into situations where you can't close it from the task manager, it's still there and using 99% cpu if you log off and log back on, and you must flip the switch to shut down your PC.
Also exciting are the local Access Denied messages you sometimes get when logged in as Administrator, which can get in your way when trying to close a misbehaving process.
If you really wish to ignore SCO's public spewage: Click "Preferences" Click "Homepage" Check the "Caldera" box to exclude all articles relating to SCO.
A lot of it depends on the type of software you make, but:
X day money back guarantee if dissatisfied. Many companies won't offer it because someone could just lie, get their money back, and keep the software. But on the other hand, most people will not use that option if satisfied, and those that will could have alternately looked to other methods of piracy. A lot of business software purchases are high risk, and a big question on many potential customers' minds is "What if we spend all this money and it doesn't work for us?" You have a good chance of this policy getting you more customers than it costs in refunds.
Another concern to people is if they buy a piece of software and the company goes out of business. Having the source code available to high paying customers under a non-resell, non-distribution, send your mods back to us sort of license can have many benefits, from accelerated development to levels of customization and interoperability that your company alone couldn't offer.
And lastly (because I can't type forever), is licensing flexibility. This is a very complicated topic.
All this time, I could have had her webcam appear whenever I visited Slashdot. Even the guest gallery (there's also a paid members only gallery) is loaded with full nudity and "playing". Even during the past week. Live news and live porn all in the same place. Too bad it'll be over after this month.
Tell that to the United States Patent Office, which grants roughly a dozen software patents a daily basis nowadays. Just check out uspto.gov. It sickens me to think that I could be sued into bankruptcy for failing to examine every one of them to ensure that I don't write something similar based on my own ideas.
Software patents are quite legal. They manage it by calling them computer implemented business methods. Courts have ruled in favor of them, congress hasn't changed the law to prohibit them, and the patent office just does their job.
We can factory farm (indoor stacked pens) hundreds of millions of animals smarter than dogs (pigs) to butcher (often still alive when it starts) and eat for breakfast, but we can't keep engineered goldfish as pets?
64 bit chips make good heating elements. And 64 bit arithmetic takes twice as long in the hardware and 2-4 times the electricity as 32 bit arithmetic. The best place to increase the number of bits is in the memory bandwidth.
I predict 3-4 years before people really need them.
They do sell the Pest Patrol spyware removal tool bundled with spam and popup blockers in their online software store, which is targetted towards their pc customers.
Since they have always refused to provide evidence, the general theory has been that their entire plan from the beginning was to pump and dump their stock, not to win a lawsuit.
A good as in free wysiwyg html editor is Mozilla Composer, which comes with Mozilla. It includes ftp support.
A good free standalone ftp client is FileZilla.
Beyond that, all you need is a good image editor. I believe Paint Shop Pro 5.0 doesn't enforce the 60 day trial limit like 6.0 through 8.0. There's also the gimp, a free, but powerful open source image editor, but the windows version is always more buggy and less up to date than the linux version.
My experience with Tiki-Wiki is limited to installing it and getting it to work with MySQL. I haven't actually "used" it. But it appears to have a lot of features. The download contains thousands of files.
Unlike a slow segway, if it fails while you're going top speed in that thing, you might die. If you're on a motorcycle that dies, at least you don't lose your balance.
Still, the extent of the violation seems potentially minor. Failing to provide a mirror of easy to find GPL source code doesn't seem that bad of on offense, if that's all it is.
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It seems to be a big leap to say that markup languages are programming languages. Sure, it's text that has structure and is interpreted to produce a result, but so are all the other text based file formats out there. Does a word document automatically become a program the instant you export it to a text based format like html, xml, or rtf?
I would consider PostScript to be a true programming language though. It has functions, loops, recursion, etc.
Microsoft has a Windows Logo program whereby you pay them to see if your product meets the standards to use the "Designed for Microsoft Windows ####" logos. I bet they can sue you for trademark infringement if you say your product is "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" without getting their approval first.
Members see ads too. We just get to suppress 1000 of them for $5. Though some pages always have ads.
A nice benefit of membership is being able to see new articles an hour or so before non-members, allowing you to see sites before they get slashdotted and prepare a well thought out response before the comments page fills with didn't rtfa nonsense.
And those not responding processes that Windows can't close are fun too, like if the Visual Studio .NET IDE crashes, I've ran into situations where you can't close it from the task manager, it's still there and using 99% cpu if you log off and log back on, and you must flip the switch to shut down your PC.
Also exciting are the local Access Denied messages you sometimes get when logged in as Administrator, which can get in your way when trying to close a misbehaving process.
If you really wish to ignore SCO's public spewage:
Click "Preferences"
Click "Homepage"
Check the "Caldera" box to exclude all articles relating to SCO.
More like Linus 8, SCO -573.
A lot of it depends on the type of software you make, but:
X day money back guarantee if dissatisfied. Many companies won't offer it because someone could just lie, get their money back, and keep the software. But on the other hand, most people will not use that option if satisfied, and those that will could have alternately looked to other methods of piracy. A lot of business software purchases are high risk, and a big question on many potential customers' minds is "What if we spend all this money and it doesn't work for us?" You have a good chance of this policy getting you more customers than it costs in refunds.
Another concern to people is if they buy a piece of software and the company goes out of business. Having the source code available to high paying customers under a non-resell, non-distribution, send your mods back to us sort of license can have many benefits, from accelerated development to levels of customization and interoperability that your company alone couldn't offer.
And lastly (because I can't type forever), is licensing flexibility. This is a very complicated topic.
But it's so funny and non-threatening.
All this time, I could have had her webcam appear whenever I visited Slashdot. Even the guest gallery (there's also a paid members only gallery) is loaded with full nudity and "playing". Even during the past week. Live news and live porn all in the same place. Too bad it'll be over after this month.
Tell that to the United States Patent Office, which grants roughly a dozen software patents a daily basis nowadays. Just check out uspto.gov. It sickens me to think that I could be sued into bankruptcy for failing to examine every one of them to ensure that I don't write something similar based on my own ideas.
Software patents are quite legal. They manage it by calling them computer implemented business methods. Courts have ruled in favor of them, congress hasn't changed the law to prohibit them, and the patent office just does their job.
We can factory farm (indoor stacked pens) hundreds of millions of animals smarter than dogs (pigs) to butcher (often still alive when it starts) and eat for breakfast, but we can't keep engineered goldfish as pets?
64 bit chips make good heating elements. And 64 bit arithmetic takes twice as long in the hardware and 2-4 times the electricity as 32 bit arithmetic. The best place to increase the number of bits is in the memory bandwidth.
I predict 3-4 years before people really need them.
I have some legitimate reason to send 50 or more emails in under a minute.
So many proctologists prefer the old fashioned way. And don't forget, that's the same camera they shove down peoples' throats to do upper endoscopies.
I reinstalled 1.5 on my current pc about a year ago. It still works, and I'm running XP pro.
They do sell the Pest Patrol spyware removal tool bundled with spam and popup blockers in their online software store, which is targetted towards their pc customers.
Here's what they recommend:1 068833
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?dn=
The memo said don't recommend any spyware removal programs, it didn't say don't help with spyware removal.
The memo only says not to recommend a third party spyware removal program. It does not say they can't assist the users in uninstalling spyware.
A lot of companies have policies of not recommending third party products they're not prepared to support if something goes wrong.
They actually have 3 game sections. That's just the one most geared towards, er, lovers.
Since they have always refused to provide evidence, the general theory has been that their entire plan from the beginning was to pump and dump their stock, not to win a lawsuit.
He was like 14 or 15 when he released DeCSS and it wasn't even illegal in his country at the time.
A good as in free wysiwyg html editor is Mozilla Composer, which comes with Mozilla. It includes ftp support.
A good free standalone ftp client is FileZilla.
Beyond that, all you need is a good image editor. I believe Paint Shop Pro 5.0 doesn't enforce the 60 day trial limit like 6.0 through 8.0. There's also the gimp, a free, but powerful open source image editor, but the windows version is always more buggy and less up to date than the linux version.
My experience with Tiki-Wiki is limited to installing it and getting it to work with MySQL. I haven't actually "used" it. But it appears to have a lot of features. The download contains thousands of files.
I don't think they're mods, but rather plush toys in the shape of consoles.
Unlike a slow segway, if it fails while you're going top speed in that thing, you might die. If you're on a motorcycle that dies, at least you don't lose your balance.
I wonder how I didn't see that.
Still, the extent of the violation seems potentially minor. Failing to provide a mirror of easy to find GPL source code doesn't seem that bad of on offense, if that's all it is.