If I pay for a ticket that says a movie will start at 9:30 it better start at 9:30 otherwise the movie theater is in breach of contract.
The ticket doesn't say the movie starts at 9:30, it states that the screening will commence from 9:30... which includes all the trailers. Same way as the pop acts can get away with lip-synching their songs at a supposedly "live" performance. It's live, but they don't say in advance or on the ticket that the artist will be singing their songs, they say that the artist will be performing their songs...
yet. Every desktop converted to open source means one less commercial package has been sold
NO, there's plenty of room for commercial packages to run on open source desktops... what this gives is the tools to someone who otherwise wouldn't be able to raise the capital for a more polished, professional quality, closed source solution. It gives the closed source solutions proper competition... they can't just rest on their laurels, they have to improve what they're offering for money.
not in this instance... what we are discussing is skins for another game... skins with team logos to which EA now have exclusive rights. Papa Tango got the exclusive rights to distribute aircraft models for FS2000 with AA livery on them... they then got AA to hit major flightsim freeware sites with C&D letters to stop them from hosting third party freeware skins for flightsim aircraft.
that only works as long as several people have got the file and have left themselves seeding it... and it's very easy for it to be strangled by isps giving their customers highly assymetric down up ratios... In order to pull the stuff down at the fair speed required for live playback would require a ridiculous number of people to remain seeding several weeks after the initial upload.
The appearance of an airline's logo on a Website like flightsim.com is basically free advertising, conveniently delivered to a prime target market. The value of this advertising wasn't taken into consideration when the licensing agency for AA signed the exclusive deal with Papa Tango. The cost the boycott it would cause evidently wasn't considered either. American Airline's executives have had time to consider both, and now seem in a damage control mode. The problem is that the rights have already been signed away, and Papa Tango is well aware it can now force AA to use it's hefty legal resources to systematically drive competing AA related freeware from the Internet. (AA employs a law firm to do nothing but prosecute logo violations at the request of the licensing agency.) Under current US law, a company that doesn't defend its logo loses all rights to it.
and a usb keydrive with you to access your email with... gets round any spyware on the machines... unfortunately it can't cope with hardware based keyboard loggers or someone else in the circuit sniffing all your packages...
copyright and probably patents my dear boy... it ships with the old version and to update it, you uninstall it and add PLF to your sources of software were all the yummy goodness that Mandrake can't put in the distro can be found.
How does using the game with Cedega register as a Linux sale??? The games publishers aren't going to get any feedback that it was a Linux sale at all... they'll just see it as an ms-windows sale and thus won't have any incentive to port it to Linux. Using Cedega to run new games isn't doing Linux gaming any good. You should be boycotting the game and telling the publishers exactly why you are doing this.
When an exciting game is announced by a publisher, take the trouble to go to the website and check if it will be available for Linux. If not, let them know you're not happy by using the feedback provided. If they don't know they're losing customers, they'll think everybody is happy.
They can't afford to verify the contents of the file...
once they start doing that, they open themselves up to charges of contributing/assisting/ whatever copyright infringement unless they actually go to the trouble of determining if the uploader has got permission from the copyright holder to distribute the material.
Currently their get out clause is on the upload page and in the terms of use where the uploader is not supposed to upload the torrent unless they actually have permission to distribute the material.
The downloader is only supposed to be accessing the material for educational purposes only and is supposed to delete and all copies once they've finished viewing/testing it
"Users are sued for deleting malware off their computer? where do you go from here?"
Actually I and no doubt lots of others in here would welcome that. Because it would then be an opportunity for the EFF or whatever to get in on the case and actually test the legality of EULAs
no, but I remember a short story where people had to achieve their ad quota everyday or else face fines. Everyone wore some kind of headset that could track where they were looking or what they were listening to so that the ad could be registered if they held their gaze on it for long enough
most probably find the customers are calling for Red Hat on the boxes as they've never heard of this Suse stuff... it's called "Mindshare"... and as far as most business people are concerned, Red Hat is Linux. They probably think Suse is all German language or whatever and their admins would have to learn German in order to admin it... or else buying Suse or Mandrake would be unpatriotic
The UK's failure to provide enough data for the study was criticised by teachers' representatives and characterised by opposition parties as shocking and even suspicious.
Also, I ask you this-- In my junior and senior engineering courses why in the world should I be forced to work out the time consuming calculus or algebra part by hand when that's not even the concept being taught? It wastes my time, and the instructor's time, and greatly increases the chance of missing an answer due to a mistake somewhere.
Graphic calculators have their place at school, and that is to let you bypass things that are, at that point in your studies, more or less mundane
Except that if you have no idea what the shape of the function should look like in the first place, then you won't know if you've cocked up entering the problem into the calculator and it's given you a curve that's wildly wrong... Basic math and calculus skills shouls be a prerequisite before you get let loose on the higher stuff... you should always be able to get a rough estimate of what your figure should be so that if you misplace a decimal comma, it stands out as the result is too large or too small. Same with graphing functions. You should know that certain functions have certain characteristics like inflections and maxima and minima.... There have been several cases of deaths resulting from mis-dispensed drugs for people where the nurse or doctor making the dose calculation has misplaced a decimal point and given a massive overdose of a powerful drug... some basic numeracy skills instead of blind faith in the calculator being right would have picked the error up.
It might be useful to note that I got through my schooling with a twelve inch slide rule and a book of log tables. Calculators did exist then, but they were banned from the exam hall... mostly because they required plugging into the mains!!! and so few people had access to them either considering that the first one my father had back in 1973 cost two weeks wages... now you can get something vastly more powerful in a Christmas cracker...
bloody ridiculous obsession with clock speed... the whole point of this technology is to free you from the tyranny of the clock speed by allowing you to use multiples of low frequency devices... that way, your chips can run far, far cooler... sheesh... why the heck don't they make it a 2.6 GHz 16 core chip instead... you'll get just about the same effective processor speed as you'll still be I/O bound getting data and code in and out of the damned thing...
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waves hand... "These are not the Linux boxes you are looking for..."
The ticket doesn't say the movie starts at 9:30, it states that the screening will commence from 9:30... which includes all the trailers. Same way as the pop acts can get away with lip-synching their songs at a supposedly "live" performance. It's live, but they don't say in advance or on the ticket that the artist will be singing their songs, they say that the artist will be performing their songs...
NO, there's plenty of room for commercial packages to run on open source desktops... what this gives is the tools to someone who otherwise wouldn't be able to raise the capital for a more polished, professional quality, closed source solution. It gives the closed source solutions proper competition... they can't just rest on their laurels, they have to improve what they're offering for money.
Quit your whinging... it's open source, fix it... whinging about it in here won't get it fixed
they'll attack the .torrent files themselves as unauthorised derivative works.
not in this instance... what we are discussing is skins for another game... skins with team logos to which EA now have exclusive rights. Papa Tango got the exclusive rights to distribute aircraft models for FS2000 with AA livery on them... they then got AA to hit major flightsim freeware sites with C&D letters to stop them from hosting third party freeware skins for flightsim aircraft.
scan it twice on diferent hardware, OCR both scans and do a diff on the text files to find the errors.
that only works as long as several people have got the file and have left themselves seeding it... and it's very easy for it to be strangled by isps giving their customers highly assymetric down up ratios... In order to pull the stuff down at the fair speed required for live playback would require a ridiculous number of people to remain seeding several weeks after the initial upload.
now that would be a killer if you could embed Maxima objects into OOo documents.
It'll all go wormy when EA start hitting sites which host the mods for download with C&D notices. Remember how papa Tango managed to alienate itself with the flightsim community when they did a similar thing with user created AA skins for aircraft
and a usb keydrive with you to access your email with... gets round any spyware on the machines... unfortunately it can't cope with hardware based keyboard loggers or someone else in the circuit sniffing all your packages...
as opposed to the comparision of w2k3 on an ordinary server against Linux on a Z series mainframe??? Microsoft got slammed for that one in the UK
copyright and probably patents my dear boy... it ships with the old version and to update it, you uninstall it and add PLF to your sources of software were all the yummy goodness that Mandrake can't put in the distro can be found.
there's Gentoo!!!
How does using the game with Cedega register as a Linux sale??? The games publishers aren't going to get any feedback that it was a Linux sale at all... they'll just see it as an ms-windows sale and thus won't have any incentive to port it to Linux. Using Cedega to run new games isn't doing Linux gaming any good. You should be boycotting the game and telling the publishers exactly why you are doing this.
When an exciting game is announced by a publisher, take the trouble to go to the website and check if it will be available for Linux. If not, let them know you're not happy by using the feedback provided. If they don't know they're losing customers, they'll think everybody is happy.
They can't afford to verify the contents of the file...
once they start doing that, they open themselves up to charges of contributing/assisting/ whatever copyright infringement unless they actually go to the trouble of determining if the uploader has got permission from the copyright holder to distribute the material.
Currently their get out clause is on the upload page and in the terms of use where the uploader is not supposed to upload the torrent unless they actually have permission to distribute the material.
The downloader is only supposed to be accessing the material for educational purposes only and is supposed to delete and all copies once they've finished viewing/testing it
Actually I and no doubt lots of others in here would welcome that. Because it would then be an opportunity for the EFF or whatever to get in on the case and actually test the legality of EULAs
no, but I remember a short story where people had to achieve their ad quota everyday or else face fines. Everyone wore some kind of headset that could track where they were looking or what they were listening to so that the ad could be registered if they held their gaze on it for long enough
hey... I know Suse very well indeed... and Mandy, and Debby...
most probably find the customers are calling for Red Hat on the boxes as they've never heard of this Suse stuff... it's called "Mindshare"... and as far as most business people are concerned, Red Hat is Linux. They probably think Suse is all German language or whatever and their admins would have to learn German in order to admin it... or else buying Suse or Mandrake would be unpatriotic
Except that if you have no idea what the shape of the function should look like in the first place, then you won't know if you've cocked up entering the problem into the calculator and it's given you a curve that's wildly wrong... Basic math and calculus skills shouls be a prerequisite before you get let loose on the higher stuff... you should always be able to get a rough estimate of what your figure should be so that if you misplace a decimal comma, it stands out as the result is too large or too small. Same with graphing functions. You should know that certain functions have certain characteristics like inflections and maxima and minima.... There have been several cases of deaths resulting from mis-dispensed drugs for people where the nurse or doctor making the dose calculation has misplaced a decimal point and given a massive overdose of a powerful drug... some basic numeracy skills instead of blind faith in the calculator being right would have picked the error up.
It might be useful to note that I got through my schooling with a twelve inch slide rule and a book of log tables. Calculators did exist then, but they were banned from the exam hall... mostly because they required plugging into the mains!!! and so few people had access to them either considering that the first one my father had back in 1973 cost two weeks wages... now you can get something vastly more powerful in a Christmas cracker...
My servers do have gui interfaces... Webmin and SWAT...
bloody ridiculous obsession with clock speed... the whole point of this technology is to free you from the tyranny of the clock speed by allowing you to use multiples of low frequency devices... that way, your chips can run far, far cooler... sheesh... why the heck don't they make it a 2.6 GHz 16 core chip instead... you'll get just about the same effective processor speed as you'll still be I/O bound getting data and code in and out of the damned thing...