I'm not assuming that innovation is a good thing, but.museum has been doing it for longer, so it really isn't new. In fact, not only is it unoriginal, it's also rude, greedy, and generally harmful.
Did you ever even read what SGI admitted to? They admitted to adding code which didn't infringe on anything! It was already public domained, they just removed it because SCO would shut up about stuff being from SystemV. SGI hasn't officially even stolen any code.
Also, there has to be at least SOME proof of it being even SLIGHTLY intentional, or they're given a chance to solve the problem. They pulled *200* lines for *2,000,000* lines they had contributed.
Oh, my god, how could they possibly have missed that.
The problem is, it'd be a suit against SCO. The executives are gonna get off clean. SCO will just cease to be, and all the honest investors will get screwed.
The only people who can make a class-action suit work are the investors who are getting screwed, and if they knew that, they wouldn't be getting screwed right now.
That's why the legal system needs to change in regards to corporations.
I only hope that they can be adequately punished by the law.
I am certain, however, that those in charge of the company (which I will not name, as one should not name the devil) will make of with wads of cash after running their stock scam, and all anyone else will get is an end to a great deal of pain and suffering.
I only hope that I'm wrong (it's happened before, once or twice)
Where you made the mistake is where you said is will simply cause them to grow. It may not cause them to shrink, but that's an entirely different matter than causing them to grow. Even if people can only prevent them from growing, they will die in time. Also, they don't need to stop growing due to these actions: Their competitors need to grow faster and keep doing so longer.
You might want to consider Stallman in that thought as well. He is very much a leader and an innovator. Although I don't much care for him personally, the GPL has done some marvelous things.
The issue is that politics in this country is too political to allow for innovation. That is, it is completely centered around compromise, while innovation is centered around progress, and the two are quite commnly conflicting ideas.
I was refering more to the fact that they do suffer more from terrorism, and often it is from an internal source. Although the US has many violent groups, terrorism is extremely rare here. Much of the rest of the world is not so lucky, and I suspect (but do not know) that India is a country that gets more than its fair share of hard knocks.
Now, I'm not a security guy, but I see some use here. Not that a bayesian filter will be good for you alone, but they might be good in general. With each sys-admin giving completely different training, general system security might get a bit more diverse, and an attack would less often work on all systems. Of course, you'd want to have regular fire-walling as well, but why not have an application level bayesian filter to filter out a little bit more?
Apparently you've never played a high-quality video. Even with hard-ware acceleration, a well-compressed MPEG4 stream at a good bitrate needs at least a 500MHz to play without frame-drop.
"this is not the border of canada and the us, across which most people here on slashdot are posting, perhaps the most historically peaceful border in the world"
Not perhaps, definitely. It is the largest and longest undefended border in history (although there apparently were some issues between Minnesota and Canada during the 60's, IIRC)
"a lot of people here come from cultural monocultures of western democracies with strong central governments"
The US isn't a mono-culture. India is not a mono-culture either. It just happens that India's cultural differences currently tend towards violence more than the cultural differences in the US do at the moment.
"this is serious stuff, this is not funny, this is not a simplistic civics lesson in sixth grade that is understandable in simplistic terms only"
The purpose of the structure in the United States is not that something is best for country, but that it is right. That it is best for the country happens to coincide with what is right, on many occasions. Regardless of effectiveness and side-effects, some things are inalienable rights. The point is, if they can be abridged *at all* they are no longer inalienable rights.
It's like the difference between getting genuinely no water, and getting a little drink of water every day. Stepping away from the absolute has a drastically different effect. It is not merely a change in the magnitude of a situation, it is change in the nature of the situation.
If you wish to argue that some rights can still be restricted, feel free to. In some cases, I may even agree with you. However, once a right is reduced, it is no longer an absolute right, and cannot fit into the same category of absolute rights.
Lets just all hope that they *DO* try to use the PATRIOT act against this guy. He sounds to have the balls for the fight, and if he fight's he really might win. If he can get it to the supreme court, they could notice that the PATRIOT act is unconstitutional.
Sometimes I feel bad for wishing legal action against a man, but I think its the best hope there is for a quick resolution of this issue, and I think it would help our country clarify its position on this shit.
Then, it is all the more important to actively support those who didn't back the PATRIOT act. They showed bravery under fire (honestly, they did). If they do not get re-elected, that says more against this country than that the PATRIOT act was passed in the first place.
There's a huge difference. The war on drugs was stupid. The PATRIOT act is unconstitutional. And, even if the war on drugs violated the consitution in a few way, it did not take the consitution and use it to wipe it's own ass, then send it through a shredder and a furnace.
"For those who aren't professionals, the Gimp is a great alternative for free. I know it isn't as good as Photoshop, but it has everything most users need."
The problem here is that users need something targetted at their usage range. GIMP and Photoshop are both High-Power tools, the only difference being that GIMP is worse and Photoshop is better.
Photoshop Elements is a Mid-Power tool, more like Paintshop Pro. So, as it turns out, Photoshop doesn't compete with GIMP.
Wait, I spoke out about Adobe? Hmmm...I don't remember that. Oh wait, I didn't. Why? Because I don't have a problem with them?
Oh, yeah...that's what it was.
You see, 'I' am not 'Slashdot'. If 'I' were 'Slashdot', I'd be a rampaging monster ripping apart poor websites without the bandwidth to handle me, and multiple-personality disorder to boot.
But, as it turns out, 'Slashdot' is not an individual, nor are 'Slashdotters' one being. See, not being an individual, 'Slashdot' does not function as an idividual.
I say. I'm an artist who uses GIMP and Photoshop. When directly comparing GIMP to Photoshop, it's like comparing a smoking pile of horse crap to a bar of gold. I can honestly say that I have only ever twice found something in GIMP that I couldn't do in Photoshop, and that went away when I tried Photoshop 7.0.
GIMP is great, but it is so far away from Photoshop that it boggles the mind.
Disclaimer: I am trying GIMP 1.3.x tonight, but have not tried it yet, so some of it might have improved, but not that much.
"Alot of people have animosity towards Adobe, myself included over various issues, but there is one thing that Adobe has that nobody else can hold a candle to:
Photoshop."
That's not 'all' that they have. Many of their products are out there on their own.
Freehand has something, but it's not Illustrator by a long-shot (and the opensource solution, SodiPodi, is good but not even playing the same game)
Ever want to actually edit a PDF, or add notes to it, or give it a working index? What does that besides Acrobat Writer? (No, really, I know of not one other piece of software that does)
Does anyone else have a fully working SVG viewer (that won't be much longer for Linux, but it still doesn't render everything right). Likewise, their PDF reader is the only one with full support. Yes, those are both free, but they are also using completely open formats.
Also, since PhotoShop Elements (I think that's what it's called) they just got the best mid-range graphics suite out there.
Streamline is still the best Raster-to-Vector convertor on the market, even if those aren't much in demand.
Photoshop might be their best, but it's not their only strong point.
I commonly note this kind of attitude these days. Is there any need to be so harsh? Certainly, if they are non-compliant, a solid stand should be taken. However, it appears at the moment that this can be resolved without the court system being involved.
Of course, if they drag their feet again, that's another matter. As someone pointed out on the list, this was likely outsourced, and this may have been an honest mistake.
Be nice, give them a week. Rushing to court and suing people left and right is what makes the legal system so bad and the lawyers so rich. Lawsuits should be a last resort. However, when they are needed, they should be of sufficient force to kill a small Godzilla.
As an example, take SCO. People asked them to show the code. People asked them to shut up. People asked them again. Now, RedHat, IBM, and plenty of others are bringing charges against them for violating the GPL, and a whole lot of other shit. In a year, SCO will not only not exist, they will exist as an inverted entity, so broke that they are beyond being broke.
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I'm not assuming that innovation is a good thing, but .museum has been doing it for longer, so it really isn't new. In fact, not only is it unoriginal, it's also rude, greedy, and generally harmful.
Actually, it was just ripped like shit. Try a better rip-group. I think the Psychlo-Anime Neo Ranga rips were quite viewable.
How do you not notice that being able to delete files remotely is a problem? Isn't that just about the most obvious thing ever?
I meant, specifically, those who have been suckered by SCO's hope, as a group separate from those who are in on the stock scam and busy cashing out.
Did you ever even read what SGI admitted to? They admitted to adding code which didn't infringe on anything! It was already public domained, they just removed it because SCO would shut up about stuff being from SystemV. SGI hasn't officially even stolen any code.
Also, there has to be at least SOME proof of it being even SLIGHTLY intentional, or they're given a chance to solve the problem. They pulled *200* lines for *2,000,000* lines they had contributed.
Oh, my god, how could they possibly have missed that.
By the way, pull your head out of your ass.
The problem is, it'd be a suit against SCO. The executives are gonna get off clean. SCO will just cease to be, and all the honest investors will get screwed.
The only people who can make a class-action suit work are the investors who are getting screwed, and if they knew that, they wouldn't be getting screwed right now.
That's why the legal system needs to change in regards to corporations.
I only hope that they can be adequately punished by the law.
I am certain, however, that those in charge of the company (which I will not name, as one should not name the devil) will make of with wads of cash after running their stock scam, and all anyone else will get is an end to a great deal of pain and suffering.
I only hope that I'm wrong (it's happened before, once or twice)
Actually, I thought that was when the RIAA came up, after another group died trying to fight taping. Of course, I'm probably wrong. Please, tell me.
Where you made the mistake is where you said is will simply cause them to grow. It may not cause them to shrink, but that's an entirely different matter than causing them to grow. Even if people can only prevent them from growing, they will die in time. Also, they don't need to stop growing due to these actions: Their competitors need to grow faster and keep doing so longer.
You might want to consider Stallman in that thought as well. He is very much a leader and an innovator. Although I don't much care for him personally, the GPL has done some marvelous things.
The issue is that politics in this country is too political to allow for innovation. That is, it is completely centered around compromise, while innovation is centered around progress, and the two are quite commnly conflicting ideas.
"wear only a small linux penguin pin"
I think that might be a bit of a mistake, especially for some of the geeks I know.
I was refering more to the fact that they do suffer more from terrorism, and often it is from an internal source. Although the US has many violent groups, terrorism is extremely rare here. Much of the rest of the world is not so lucky, and I suspect (but do not know) that India is a country that gets more than its fair share of hard knocks.
Now, I'm not a security guy, but I see some use here. Not that a bayesian filter will be good for you alone, but they might be good in general. With each sys-admin giving completely different training, general system security might get a bit more diverse, and an attack would less often work on all systems. Of course, you'd want to have regular fire-walling as well, but why not have an application level bayesian filter to filter out a little bit more?
Apparently you've never played a high-quality video. Even with hard-ware acceleration, a well-compressed MPEG4 stream at a good bitrate needs at least a 500MHz to play without frame-drop.
The first amendment was being ignored, slightly after the PATRIOT act kicked it in the balls and the government shat on its head.
We're currently hosing it down, and will try to get it presentable and fit to move sometime in the next few months.
"this is not the border of canada and the us, across which most people here on slashdot are posting, perhaps the most historically peaceful border in the world"
Not perhaps, definitely. It is the largest and longest undefended border in history (although there apparently were some issues between Minnesota and Canada during the 60's, IIRC)
"a lot of people here come from cultural monocultures of western democracies with strong central governments"
The US isn't a mono-culture. India is not a mono-culture either. It just happens that India's cultural differences currently tend towards violence more than the cultural differences in the US do at the moment.
"this is serious stuff, this is not funny, this is not a simplistic civics lesson in sixth grade that is understandable in simplistic terms only"
The purpose of the structure in the United States is not that something is best for country, but that it is right. That it is best for the country happens to coincide with what is right, on many occasions. Regardless of effectiveness and side-effects, some things are inalienable rights. The point is, if they can be abridged *at all* they are no longer inalienable rights.
It's like the difference between getting genuinely no water, and getting a little drink of water every day. Stepping away from the absolute has a drastically different effect. It is not merely a change in the magnitude of a situation, it is change in the nature of the situation.
If you wish to argue that some rights can still be restricted, feel free to. In some cases, I may even agree with you. However, once a right is reduced, it is no longer an absolute right, and cannot fit into the same category of absolute rights.
Lets just all hope that they *DO* try to use the PATRIOT act against this guy. He sounds to have the balls for the fight, and if he fight's he really might win. If he can get it to the supreme court, they could notice that the PATRIOT act is unconstitutional.
Sometimes I feel bad for wishing legal action against a man, but I think its the best hope there is for a quick resolution of this issue, and I think it would help our country clarify its position on this shit.
Then, it is all the more important to actively support those who didn't back the PATRIOT act. They showed bravery under fire (honestly, they did). If they do not get re-elected, that says more against this country than that the PATRIOT act was passed in the first place.
There's a huge difference. The war on drugs was stupid. The PATRIOT act is unconstitutional. And, even if the war on drugs violated the consitution in a few way, it did not take the consitution and use it to wipe it's own ass, then send it through a shredder and a furnace.
"For those who aren't professionals, the Gimp is a great alternative for free. I know it isn't as good as Photoshop, but it has everything most users need."
The problem here is that users need something targetted at their usage range. GIMP and Photoshop are both High-Power tools, the only difference being that GIMP is worse and Photoshop is better.
Photoshop Elements is a Mid-Power tool, more like Paintshop Pro. So, as it turns out, Photoshop doesn't compete with GIMP.
Wait, I spoke out about Adobe? Hmmm...I don't remember that. Oh wait, I didn't. Why? Because I don't have a problem with them?
Oh, yeah...that's what it was.
You see, 'I' am not 'Slashdot'. If 'I' were 'Slashdot', I'd be a rampaging monster ripping apart poor websites without the bandwidth to handle me, and multiple-personality disorder to boot.
But, as it turns out, 'Slashdot' is not an individual, nor are 'Slashdotters' one being. See, not being an individual, 'Slashdot' does not function as an idividual.
"Hate to say it, but for the Windows platform Microsoft products are a much better price-efficiency alternative than Adobe."
Yeah, that'd be true, if they even tried to do the same thing. Have you ever used Photoshop? No, really used Photoshop? I mean professionally?
See, that's what Adobe makes. Professional quality tools. Microsoft makes silly little end-user products that do a couple things you might want.
I say. I'm an artist who uses GIMP and Photoshop. When directly comparing GIMP to Photoshop, it's like comparing a smoking pile of horse crap to a bar of gold. I can honestly say that I have only ever twice found something in GIMP that I couldn't do in Photoshop, and that went away when I tried Photoshop 7.0.
GIMP is great, but it is so far away from Photoshop that it boggles the mind.
Disclaimer: I am trying GIMP 1.3.x tonight, but have not tried it yet, so some of it might have improved, but not that much.
"Alot of people have animosity towards Adobe, myself included over various issues, but there is one thing that Adobe has that nobody else can hold a candle to:
Photoshop."
That's not 'all' that they have. Many of their products are out there on their own.
Freehand has something, but it's not Illustrator by a long-shot (and the opensource solution, SodiPodi, is good but not even playing the same game)
Ever want to actually edit a PDF, or add notes to it, or give it a working index? What does that besides Acrobat Writer? (No, really, I know of not one other piece of software that does)
Does anyone else have a fully working SVG viewer (that won't be much longer for Linux, but it still doesn't render everything right). Likewise, their PDF reader is the only one with full support. Yes, those are both free, but they are also using completely open formats.
Also, since PhotoShop Elements (I think that's what it's called) they just got the best mid-range graphics suite out there.
Streamline is still the best Raster-to-Vector convertor on the market, even if those aren't much in demand.
Photoshop might be their best, but it's not their only strong point.
I commonly note this kind of attitude these days. Is there any need to be so harsh? Certainly, if they are non-compliant, a solid stand should be taken. However, it appears at the moment that this can be resolved without the court system being involved.
Of course, if they drag their feet again, that's another matter. As someone pointed out on the list, this was likely outsourced, and this may have been an honest mistake.
Be nice, give them a week. Rushing to court and suing people left and right is what makes the legal system so bad and the lawyers so rich. Lawsuits should be a last resort. However, when they are needed, they should be of sufficient force to kill a small Godzilla.
As an example, take SCO. People asked them to show the code. People asked them to shut up. People asked them again. Now, RedHat, IBM, and plenty of others are bringing charges against them for violating the GPL, and a whole lot of other shit. In a year, SCO will not only not exist, they will exist as an inverted entity, so broke that they are beyond being broke.