They knew there were time-dependent features... there should have been some mechanism to "fast-forward" the clock to after each unlock point and thoroughly test at each one.
plenty of windows programs (not from microsoft specifically, but from the "closed-source community" if there can be said to be such a thing) have obscure names...
So, he's expected to read a topic link whose description says nothing _on the surface_ about package servers being down, [or were you referring to the rather obscure statement about "gluck", which, incidentally, doesn't say WHY it's down] and find the google cache when the article doesn't work? what exactly is the channel there for, anyway? (incidentally, when i'm in there i try to answer people's questions even over the noise of the self-important RTFM idiots)
i wanted my quasi-unrelated side remark to appear smaller than the text of my main comment.... you are saying it doesn't make sense for me to want _all_ of my comment to appear smaller, when that's not what i'm asking for - i wanted _some_ of it to appear smaller than the rest of the comment.
Also, the discman is just as unlikely to skip as the ipod:
www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-5-28
i've heard they prefer you link to the newspost instead of the strip... however, the funny is in the strip, not the newspost. maybe they should put them on one page if they absolutely HAVE to make people read it as a condition of reading the strip
as an aside: why the hell doesn't slashdot provide any way to shrink text? <small>, <font>, and style attributes on tags are all filtered
during the woody release cycle (i.e. as woody became stable), "sid" was added as a "permanent name" for unstable. However, prior to that the change of unstable distributions would have been nothing more than a name change, if you'd been keeping on top of updates. (you were, right? if not, why go unstable?)
in any case, "sid" is permanent unstable now... they fork off new "testing" versions from it.
You attack Americans as nationalistic, yet cite "Rumsfeld et al" as an authoritative source. You can't even distill out your own inconstistencies, let alone that of the news you've read.
you're missing the point: "If even (insert name of someone who has a very strong interest in believing the opposite) admits this is true, it MUST be true". he doesn't believe Rumsfeld/etc generally, but he's saying that it must be true if they can't help but step away from their normal propaganda line to say it
There's some discussion of licensing in the project's forums. The sentiment appears to be "open source bad".
Also, in this thread, the project's author states in a message dated January 2002 that, "for now", SkyOS is freeware.
Meanwhile, allegations of GPL violations are already arising.
you practically need a rosetta stone to understand what they're talking about... according to one of your links,
GPL == freeware,
BSD'esque licenses == simply open source.
Besides, these sites were using hacks to artificially inflate their pagerank instead of providing a higher quality site to increase it.
i'm not sure having the thing you sell as part of the name of your company and domain name (one of the "hacks" cited) is really as illegitimate as you make it sound.
suddenly start [...] new packages, things get messy
Neither of these statements are accurate reflections of reality. 'sid' is synonymous with 'unstable', and, even were that not the case, it would just upgrade the packages that there were dependencies for when the dist switched over
I was fairly confident it was legal, but I figured I'd better put a disclaimer in there since I'm not a lawyer
not being a lawyer doesn't require you to comment on its legality at all... and, by your definition you're only "fairly confident" it's legal for the phone companies to sell you phone service: it's something they do, and advertise this fact openly, without being shut down by the police. what's "possibly illegal" about that, without the slightest reason to think it might not be?
If there are "public performance rights" attached to _any_ description of the game, not just _their_ description, i don't see how, as you claim, "they dont" claim to have a copyright on the facts of how the game went.
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They knew there were time-dependent features... there should have been some mechanism to "fast-forward" the clock to after each unlock point and thoroughly test at each one.
- Acrobat Reader (compare xpdf)
- Outlook Express (compare kmail)
that's all i can think of for now.. any help?So, he's expected to read a topic link whose description says nothing _on the surface_ about package servers being down, [or were you referring to the rather obscure statement about "gluck", which, incidentally, doesn't say WHY it's down] and find the google cache when the article doesn't work? what exactly is the channel there for, anyway? (incidentally, when i'm in there i try to answer people's questions even over the noise of the self-important RTFM idiots)
just because they have the legal right to do something doesn't mean it's not unethical
i wanted my quasi-unrelated side remark to appear smaller than the text of my main comment.... you are saying it doesn't make sense for me to want _all_ of my comment to appear smaller, when that's not what i'm asking for - i wanted _some_ of it to appear smaller than the rest of the comment.
i was also under the impression they block clients with slashdot.org Referer headers. evidently i was wrong.
there's a difference between advertising a drug (product) vs advertising a pharmacy (place to get product).
Also, the discman is just as unlikely to skip as the ipod:
www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-5-28
i've heard they prefer you link to the newspost instead of the strip... however, the funny is in the strip, not the newspost. maybe they should put them on one page if they absolutely HAVE to make people read it as a condition of reading the strip
as an aside: why the hell doesn't slashdot provide any way to shrink text? <small>, <font>, and style attributes on tags are all filteredGPP was referring not to "Yeah, right" as a valid _double negative_, but "not incorrect". are you denying that "not incorrect" is valid english?
he meant "non-commissioned" as in NCO
if the trademarked stuff is required for the system to boot, it doesn't count as a trademark violation.
the point of my message was that the people on the forum (linked in ggrandparent), were misusing "freeware" as a contraction for "[free] soft[ware]"
during the woody release cycle (i.e. as woody became stable), "sid" was added as a "permanent name" for unstable. However, prior to that the change of unstable distributions would have been nothing more than a name change, if you'd been keeping on top of updates. (you were, right? if not, why go unstable?)
in any case, "sid" is permanent unstable now... they fork off new "testing" versions from it.
You attack Americans as nationalistic, yet cite "Rumsfeld et al" as an authoritative source. You can't even distill out your own inconstistencies, let alone that of the news you've read.
you're missing the point: "If even (insert name of someone who has a very strong interest in believing the opposite) admits this is true, it MUST be true". he doesn't believe Rumsfeld/etc generally, but he's saying that it must be true if they can't help but step away from their normal propaganda line to say it
Well somebody cares, cos the download speed for the 32MB package that I'm trying to pull down now sucks...
I don't think they were slashdotted; i think maybe they just suck
There's some discussion of licensing in the project's forums. The sentiment appears to be "open source bad".
Also, in this thread, the project's author states in a message dated January 2002 that, "for now", SkyOS is freeware.
Meanwhile, allegations of GPL violations are already arising.
you practically need a rosetta stone to understand what they're talking about... according to one of your links,
GPL == freeware,
BSD'esque licenses == simply open source.
Besides, these sites were using hacks to artificially inflate their pagerank instead of providing a higher quality site to increase it.
i'm not sure having the thing you sell as part of the name of your company and domain name (one of the "hacks" cited) is really as illegitimate as you make it sound.
there's also ANSI X3.110 which appears to be very different from iso 8859-anything or windows 1252
Thing were never the same after that....
after you got dumped, you mean?
when sid finally becomes stable
suddenly start [...] new packages, things get messy
Neither of these statements are accurate reflections of reality. 'sid' is synonymous with 'unstable', and, even were that not the case, it would just upgrade the packages that there were dependencies for when the dist switched over
I was fairly confident it was legal, but I figured I'd better put a disclaimer in there since I'm not a lawyer
not being a lawyer doesn't require you to comment on its legality at all... and, by your definition you're only "fairly confident" it's legal for the phone companies to sell you phone service: it's something they do, and advertise this fact openly, without being shut down by the police. what's "possibly illegal" about that, without the slightest reason to think it might not be?they fired people whose productivity was impacted by being thrust into a social environment - i.e. people who are antisocial
in most of the incidents in question, the tires didn't fail until after the vehicle was rolling over, anyway
...which only further proves my theory - Nigerians LOVE David Hasselhoff.
If there are "public performance rights" attached to _any_ description of the game, not just _their_ description, i don't see how, as you claim, "they dont" claim to have a copyright on the facts of how the game went.