Nope. If - hypothetical case - this turned out to be the result of vote rigging by businesses and/or local governments sympathetic to a particualr canditate it matters very much no matter who won. We're talking the core democratic right of every citizen here and I'd expect the winner to demand an accounting of why the discrepencies occured and work towards a resolution before the next election. I also think the odds of it happening are nil.
If much less 10% of the total installed user base is defined as a monopoly in your book, I'm dying to see the rest of your dictionary. Is Cobol listed under "monopoly" as well because of all the banks 'forced' to maintain it?
It will be interesting to see how that stands up against companies offering free technology and selling support. My prediction is Microsoft will transition to an IBM style operation, maybe when the the dynamic duo of Gates and Balmer eventually pack it in.
How could anyone forget Artisoft's LANtastic? WfW was so cludgy on release we stayed with Artisoft until Win 9x.
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Not by any means universally true. Vancouver has the about the most expensive real estate in Canada and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who ascribes it to the quality of local government. A beautiful location, year-round temperate weather, even a similarity to Hong Kong's geography attracting Pacific Rim money are bigger factors which, in my opinion, offset what has to be the most slack, lazy and irresponsible (in the sense of procatively taking responsibility for anything) municipal government it's been my displeasure to live under.
The only thing really apparent is that Redmond astroturfing is distorting the moderation again today. Did you read both pages of TFA? Two lawyers specializing in IP disagree with your read of the license, not just 'the eWeek guy'. It's a safe bet all three "RTFL" and have a much better professional understanding of its nuances than anyone here. They disagreee with you.
" Lawrence Rosen, a partner in the law firm Rosenlaw & Einschlag and author..."
and
"Glenn Peterson, an IP attorney and shareholder with Sacramento-based law firm McDonough Holland & Allen..."
which I'ld say is more than one, more than just "this guy's opinion" and pretty good research for a short magazine article. Since it seems you didn't RTA, these two experts disagree with your assessment.
The new beta Debian installer is miles ahead of the 'stable' version from my limited experience with the latter. Might be worth another try, love the 64-bit port running on my desktop. My first choice for an AMD64 notebook though was 64-bit port of FreeBSD but the installer didn't have a work-around for a BIOS bug and made it no further than infinitely rebooting. In fairness most OSS OSs bombed and it's running Gentoo right now. Anyone know if 5.3 has the (I believe) NForce3 fix?
The rules of engagement become tricky in a "war on terror", where the opponent looks like any other civilian and aren't afforded the normal protections of the Geneva Convention. See "enemy combatant" and Guantanamo.
I personally don't miss doing the Blockbuster zombie walk, blankly shuffling past endless rows of Pirates of the Caribbean, Police Academy movies and a foreign section comprised of a couple Akira Kurosawa flicks and something starting Antonio Banderas. There's a literal world of good film the major rental houses can't, or won't, carry.
For the record, this is far from the first study of its type performed for the American military. There's a long history of this kind thing, especially through the seventies.
500 hours of music will cost much more in the form of 500 CDs, and it's guaranteed you won't care for much (most?) of it. On the plus side though, you do get something more tangible than a license to listen from buying a CD, and it can be resold afterwards.
The Linksys wireless routers, for example, run Linux and are appealing to geeks because of it, but also hide the nuts and bolts beneath a slick and intuitive interface and are therefore appealing to customers who don't care. You can have both.
Uhhhh, that century old infrastructure has been replaced multiple times over with new tech, from microwave to fiber to new copper. "Decade's old" infrastructure is no longer in use.
Who moderates this stuff? China and Europe have personal residences and restaraunts older than your counry. Boston's a swaddling baby compared to them.
Your country must use "irrelevant" in a way unfamiliar to me. Where I live, in a discussion about file sharing, saying one thing enforces sharing and another prevents it is dead on topic. Same with "copyright", in my land it's not a license, it's a law, a legal right. The GPL(icense)'s power rests on copyright because it's forced to, it cleverly uses copyright, through promoting cooperation with the promise of getting more than you give, to circumvent those who would lock down the expression of ideas. In a world without copyright it's true the GPL wouldn't be possible, but in this context it wouldn't be necessary. All expressions of ideas would be naturally shared freely.
Your final line really is irrelevant though, since your grandparent post said nothing about strict adherence because it's the law. Nor is it one I agree with when the law in question is so obviously bought by special interests and counter to the intent of the country's founders.
For the millionth time, the GPL forces sharing and media copyright disallows sharing. One promotes an open society equally shared by all, the other locks down ownership of culture (in this context) in the hands of a few large corporations. They're diametrical opposites. It's a simple concept.
Ooo-whee, such an inaccurate semi-coherent AC post rated to 3 already can only mean one thing. Everyone drop by and bid a hi-diddlie-ho (TM) to the MPAA astroturfers.
That's exactly the point, file sharing allows me to bypass the locked down North American market and find great, undistributed movies from Japan and Korea. I use P2P precisely because Hollywood's output is 99% crap.
More accurately, it wasn't all that long ago that Declan McCullagh suggested that something an the EFF lawyer said suggested the industry should be suing infringers.
Unlikely. Imagine my surprise on moving to British Columbia to find the Liberals are considered right wing out here. No, the US is very right wing from a global standard.
In business price is always the issue. Plus there's a huge low to middle range of applications, things like touching up photos for the company newsletter or internal technical reports, for which the Gimp is a perfectly viable solution. Not every edited graphic is destined for a magazine cover.
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Nope. If - hypothetical case - this turned out to be the result of vote rigging by businesses and/or local governments sympathetic to a particualr canditate it matters very much no matter who won. We're talking the core democratic right of every citizen here and I'd expect the winner to demand an accounting of why the discrepencies occured and work towards a resolution before the next election. I also think the odds of it happening are nil.
If much less 10% of the total installed user base is defined as a monopoly in your book, I'm dying to see the rest of your dictionary. Is Cobol listed under "monopoly" as well because of all the banks 'forced' to maintain it?
It will be interesting to see how that stands up against companies offering free technology and selling support. My prediction is Microsoft will transition to an IBM style operation, maybe when the the dynamic duo of Gates and Balmer eventually pack it in.
How could anyone forget Artisoft's LANtastic? WfW was so cludgy on release we stayed with Artisoft until Win 9x.
Not by any means universally true. Vancouver has the about the most expensive real estate in Canada and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who ascribes it to the quality of local government. A beautiful location, year-round temperate weather, even a similarity to Hong Kong's geography attracting Pacific Rim money are bigger factors which, in my opinion, offset what has to be the most slack, lazy and irresponsible (in the sense of procatively taking responsibility for anything) municipal government it's been my displeasure to live under.
The only thing really apparent is that Redmond astroturfing is distorting the moderation again today. Did you read both pages of TFA? Two lawyers specializing in IP disagree with your read of the license, not just 'the eWeek guy'. It's a safe bet all three "RTFL" and have a much better professional understanding of its nuances than anyone here. They disagreee with you.
" Lawrence Rosen, a partner in the law firm Rosenlaw & Einschlag and author..."
and
"Glenn Peterson, an IP attorney and shareholder with Sacramento-based law firm McDonough Holland & Allen..."
which I'ld say is more than one, more than just "this guy's opinion" and pretty good research for a short magazine article. Since it seems you didn't RTA, these two experts disagree with your assessment.
The new beta Debian installer is miles ahead of the 'stable' version from my limited experience with the latter. Might be worth another try, love the 64-bit port running on my desktop. My first choice for an AMD64 notebook though was 64-bit port of FreeBSD but the installer didn't have a work-around for a BIOS bug and made it no further than infinitely rebooting. In fairness most OSS OSs bombed and it's running Gentoo right now. Anyone know if 5.3 has the (I believe) NForce3 fix?
The rules of engagement become tricky in a "war on terror", where the opponent looks like any other civilian and aren't afforded the normal protections of the Geneva Convention. See "enemy combatant" and Guantanamo.
I personally don't miss doing the Blockbuster zombie walk, blankly shuffling past endless rows of Pirates of the Caribbean, Police Academy movies and a foreign section comprised of a couple Akira Kurosawa flicks and something starting Antonio Banderas. There's a literal world of good film the major rental houses can't, or won't, carry.
For the record, this is far from the first study of its type performed for the American military. There's a long history of this kind thing, especially through the seventies.
500 hours of music will cost much more in the form of 500 CDs, and it's guaranteed you won't care for much (most?) of it. On the plus side though, you do get something more tangible than a license to listen from buying a CD, and it can be resold afterwards.
The Linksys wireless routers, for example, run Linux and are appealing to geeks because of it, but also hide the nuts and bolts beneath a slick and intuitive interface and are therefore appealing to customers who don't care. You can have both.
Use Peergurardian and Blocklist Manager. Not 100% bulletproof but still a greatway to protect your computer from most unwanted visitors.
Uhhhh, that century old infrastructure has been replaced multiple times over with new tech, from microwave to fiber to new copper. "Decade's old" infrastructure is no longer in use.
Who moderates this stuff? China and Europe have personal residences and restaraunts older than your counry. Boston's a swaddling baby compared to them.
Your final line really is irrelevant though, since your grandparent post said nothing about strict adherence because it's the law. Nor is it one I agree with when the law in question is so obviously bought by special interests and counter to the intent of the country's founders.
For the millionth time, the GPL forces sharing and media copyright disallows sharing. One promotes an open society equally shared by all, the other locks down ownership of culture (in this context) in the hands of a few large corporations. They're diametrical opposites. It's a simple concept.
Ooo-whee, such an inaccurate semi-coherent AC post rated to 3 already can only mean one thing. Everyone drop by and bid a hi-diddlie-ho (TM) to the MPAA astroturfers.
That's exactly the point, file sharing allows me to bypass the locked down North American market and find great, undistributed movies from Japan and Korea. I use P2P precisely because Hollywood's output is 99% crap.
People probably don't feel bad sharing because they don't consider bought legislation to hold as much moral weight.
More accurately, it wasn't all that long ago that Declan McCullagh suggested that something an the EFF lawyer said suggested the industry should be suing infringers.
Usually when a system swings so far to one extreme it can't return, it's called broken.
Unlikely. Imagine my surprise on moving to British Columbia to find the Liberals are considered right wing out here. No, the US is very right wing from a global standard.
In business price is always the issue. Plus there's a huge low to middle range of applications, things like touching up photos for the company newsletter or internal technical reports, for which the Gimp is a perfectly viable solution. Not every edited graphic is destined for a magazine cover.