Actually, about a year ago, they had some months of bad performance and gave all paid members an additional 2mo (or so, I forget exactly) of paid member-level service, free of charge.
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There is no text in the license itself that requires you to use "all later versions". That said, nearly everyone just copy-pastes the default "how to use this license" text which does include that language. I know when I write stuff, I remove it. To do otherwise would put too much faith in RMS and the FSF (although I like them both) for me to be comfortable with.
AOL already handles popup blocking in their usual IE shell (in AOL 9 SE [blame my parents] ). They have a ad-ware blocker, but its utter crap, dragging my parents' 1.1ghz Athlon down to behaving like some 386 (I shit you not), and could not be disabled once enabled. I finally was able to kill it enough times to seemingly keep it out of memory, although when AOL started up it still said it was running (some artifact of spybot's perhaps?). The spam detection has improved significantly since they allowed users to report multiple messages as spam at once.
Everything else, I can't agree with more! They should pop Firefox in, cut the price, and everything else.
That's because Rochesterians can't drive. I lived in NYC all my life, and it wasn't until I came to Rochester for college that I saw people doing horrendous things on the roads like left turns on red and running reds outright. Don't even get me started on the stop sign abuse!
Clinton? attacked Iraq first on the very same premise of WMDs.
After this line, I just couldn't believe another word. The first Persian Gulf War was started by George H. W. Bush back in 1990 and '91, not by Clinton, and the reason was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Learn your history. I mean, I know I was alive and socially aware at this time (I was in like 4th grade or something), so unless you're like eight years old, you have no right to be unaware of this history: you lived through it!
While you were getting your haircut, a paying customer is having to wait. This is the service that is stolen when you high-tail it. It is different from copyright infringement because when you infringe, you utilize your own labor (and other things, such as blank media and connectivity, which you have (or should have!) paid for) to make a copy for your use. You do not deprive anyone else their copy (perhaps you ask your friend for one, but that's okay, because they agreed to lend you some property for some kind of payment, even if its only regard for them), so by definition, you have not stolen this copy, nor have you stolen anyone else's.
Lithium is actually toxic, and its a real bad thing to take it for an extended period of time. Traditional anti-anxiety/antidepressant drugs are less toxic.
This is not to say I agree with the suggestion that meds are requried for grief lasting a week, quite the opposite.
Of course, there's two kinds of "open source". There's Open Source, and for that, I send you to the OSI. Then, there's open source, which means that the source is available (regardless of legality), which makes it trivially easy to modify the code.
Because, as you so aptly pointed out, the kind of person who would make the massively parallel autoclick adbar, would already be violating the terms of service of AdSense.
Unless I'm horrendously mistaken, XPI files are in plain text, and are script files. So while there may be a way to sort of hide it (javascript's encode() comes to mind), but it would be easily defeated.
So, really, what's stopping someone from creating one of these that sits in the background (no adbar) and generates clicks automagically? That would be a whole lot of free money to the person who convinced people to install that extension.
None of those are recent. There's one that's dated august 4, but it only refers to gaim 0.75 and earlier (and many versions of Trillian, I might add!). 0.81 is here, and dear goodness is it tasty! (AIM file sending now works [slowly, but AIM-ftp was always slow])
Really? Last I checked X copy works in all web browsers (even graphical links!)
Mozilla: Select the url, middle click into a new tab. Bam.
Konqueror: Ibid.
Links (graphical): Select the url, hit g, middle click
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The curvature isn't much. Well known factoid: if we shrunk Earth to the size of a brand-new cue ball, the mini-Earth would be significantly smoother than the cue ball.
I concurr. Sound worked correctly out of the box (the volume levels were zeroed, but that's nothing that aumix can't fix). X started up with my window manager of choice no problem at all. Happened in slack 9 on my laptop, happened with slack 10 on the desktop.
Many manufacturers do use barcodes (Code 39, in fact, which only supports the uppercase characters, the numbers, and about six punctuation characters), in addition to the standard metal-punching method. However, they do need to keep that method, for the "rusty VIN" reason stated above, metal is more robust than stickers.
I worked for a barcode reader manufacturer for a while and we got calls from people wanting to use our scanners in just that way, because ours use Bluetooth, and you don't want to deal with wires when you're leaning over a car.
And, in reference to my parenthetical above, not all symbologies support the full ASCII set, in fact, very few do. Barcode Island has some nice low-level specs about specific symbologies.
I agree with you that if you want software released without restriction, yes, you should use PD (or BSDL). I am simply stating that the GPL police aren't going to come knocking at your door if your version of rm does something theirs doesn't, and they want it.
Far better to use the GPL. If AOL wants to use the SW they paid for, they can do so. If they want to improve it, they can do that too, but they must distribute their source, so they can't create a huge "incompatibilty-hole" amongst the people who originally paid to produce the software.
This is patently incorrect. If they want to use (in any way, shape or (modified) form) GPL-ed software, they can do so without restriction. However, if they distribute it to someone who is not in-house, and have made modifications, they must also make the source available to them (and for that matter, to anyone else).
I hate it when people assist in the sullying of the GPL name when they attempt to defend it.
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That happened like 6mo ago.
Can you tell I read status.livejournal.org too often?
Actually, about a year ago, they had some months of bad performance and gave all paid members an additional 2mo (or so, I forget exactly) of paid member-level service, free of charge.
There is no text in the license itself that requires you to use "all later versions". That said, nearly everyone just copy-pastes the default "how to use this license" text which does include that language. I know when I write stuff, I remove it. To do otherwise would put too much faith in RMS and the FSF (although I like them both) for me to be comfortable with.
AOL already handles popup blocking in their usual IE shell (in AOL 9 SE [blame my parents] ). They have a ad-ware blocker, but its utter crap, dragging my parents' 1.1ghz Athlon down to behaving like some 386 (I shit you not), and could not be disabled once enabled. I finally was able to kill it enough times to seemingly keep it out of memory, although when AOL started up it still said it was running (some artifact of spybot's perhaps?). The spam detection has improved significantly since they allowed users to report multiple messages as spam at once.
Everything else, I can't agree with more! They should pop Firefox in, cut the price, and everything else.
That's because Rochesterians can't drive. I lived in NYC all my life, and it wasn't until I came to Rochester for college that I saw people doing horrendous things on the roads like left turns on red and running reds outright. Don't even get me started on the stop sign abuse!
My former high school has a .edu domain:
Bronx High School of Science
If you cannot tell the difference between a surgical strike and a full-scale invasion, then I cannot help you.
Clinton? attacked Iraq first on the very same premise of WMDs.
After this line, I just couldn't believe another word. The first Persian Gulf War was started by George H. W. Bush back in 1990 and '91, not by Clinton, and the reason was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Learn your history. I mean, I know I was alive and socially aware at this time (I was in like 4th grade or something), so unless you're like eight years old, you have no right to be unaware of this history: you lived through it!
William Shatner's latest album rocks!
[For those who don't get it, that's a line from the track, "Can't get behind that" featuring Henry Rollins, and it's totally excellent]
While you were getting your haircut, a paying customer is having to wait. This is the service that is stolen when you high-tail it. It is different from copyright infringement because when you infringe, you utilize your own labor (and other things, such as blank media and connectivity, which you have (or should have!) paid for) to make a copy for your use. You do not deprive anyone else their copy (perhaps you ask your friend for one, but that's okay, because they agreed to lend you some property for some kind of payment, even if its only regard for them), so by definition, you have not stolen this copy, nor have you stolen anyone else's.
Lithium is actually toxic, and its a real bad thing to take it for an extended period of time. Traditional anti-anxiety/antidepressant drugs are less toxic.
This is not to say I agree with the suggestion that meds are requried for grief lasting a week, quite the opposite.
Plaid is intrinsically funny.
And I still enjoy wearing it! (Especially the warm flannel!)
My original post's parent was talking about DirectTV PPV, not the topic of the article, which is what you're saying.
Yet another advantage of PPV over video rental: Live events.
You know, those wrestling and boxing matches that are covered by PPV.
They do IMAP now. Thunderbird's FAQ told me how to do it.
Of course, there's two kinds of "open source". There's Open Source, and for that, I send you to the OSI. Then, there's open source, which means that the source is available (regardless of legality), which makes it trivially easy to modify the code.
Because, as you so aptly pointed out, the kind of person who would make the massively parallel autoclick adbar, would already be violating the terms of service of AdSense.
Unless I'm horrendously mistaken, XPI files are in plain text, and are script files. So while there may be a way to sort of hide it (javascript's encode() comes to mind), but it would be easily defeated.
So, really, what's stopping someone from creating one of these that sits in the background (no adbar) and generates clicks automagically? That would be a whole lot of free money to the person who convinced people to install that extension.
None of those are recent. There's one that's dated august 4, but it only refers to gaim 0.75 and earlier (and many versions of Trillian, I might add!). 0.81 is here, and dear goodness is it tasty! (AIM file sending now works [slowly, but AIM-ftp was always slow])
There is a real danger of earthquakes in the Midwest USA, thanks to the New Madrid Fault
Really? Last I checked X copy works in all web browsers (even graphical links!)
Mozilla: Select the url, middle click into a new tab. Bam.
Konqueror: Ibid.
Links (graphical): Select the url, hit g, middle click
The curvature isn't much. Well known factoid: if we shrunk Earth to the size of a brand-new cue ball, the mini-Earth would be significantly smoother than the cue ball.
I concurr. Sound worked correctly out of the box (the volume levels were zeroed, but that's nothing that aumix can't fix). X started up with my window manager of choice no problem at all. Happened in slack 9 on my laptop, happened with slack 10 on the desktop.
Verdict: Article is a troll. =)
Many manufacturers do use barcodes (Code 39, in fact, which only supports the uppercase characters, the numbers, and about six punctuation characters), in addition to the standard metal-punching method. However, they do need to keep that method, for the "rusty VIN" reason stated above, metal is more robust than stickers.
I worked for a barcode reader manufacturer for a while and we got calls from people wanting to use our scanners in just that way, because ours use Bluetooth, and you don't want to deal with wires when you're leaning over a car.
And, in reference to my parenthetical above, not all symbologies support the full ASCII set, in fact, very few do. Barcode Island has some nice low-level specs about specific symbologies.
I agree with you that if you want software released without restriction, yes, you should use PD (or BSDL). I am simply stating that the GPL police aren't going to come knocking at your door if your version of rm does something theirs doesn't, and they want it.
Far better to use the GPL. If AOL wants to use the SW they paid for, they can do so. If they want to improve it, they can do that too, but they must distribute their source, so they can't create a huge "incompatibilty-hole" amongst the people who originally paid to produce the software.
This is patently incorrect. If they want to use (in any way, shape or (modified) form) GPL-ed software, they can do so without restriction. However, if they distribute it to someone who is not in-house, and have made modifications, they must also make the source available to them (and for that matter, to anyone else).
I hate it when people assist in the sullying of the GPL name when they attempt to defend it.