Unless they start getting those emails in sufficient quantity, they'll just be replied with the usual boilerplate response. They won't think it's worth their time to make drivers for only a "few" people.
Where it says "I promise never to allow financial gain, competitiveness or ambition cloud my judgment in the ethical conduct of research and scholarship" I thought it meant "I won't screw with my data because it'll get me money, or make me look good in the eyes of others, or even myself", not "don't pursue any research that will possibly make you money". I think the emphasis is on "ethical", not "research and scholarship".
"Every effort"? Does making "every effort" to minimise the effects of a horrific act somehow mean said act is OK? There are many, many cases of the IDF killing innocent people, such as Rachel Corrie (the peace activist, sorry, vicious anti-semite terrorist). For not wanting to do it they seem to do it an awful lot.
Being able to vote and run for office doesn't mean anything when you can't travel to the next town because the checkpoint, for no apparent reason, either never opens or turns you around at the border, regardless if your travel documents (for travelling in your own country) are valid or not. It kind of sucks when the checkpoint is between you and the hospital, or between you and your kids, or between your kids and school. Saying "they can vote so it's cool" is like giving a bunch of people without electricity plasma TVs. They don't have the power to run then, but "hey! they have plasma TVs so they're cool". First things first.
Your point about the size of the US would make sense if Americans travelled thousands of miles in their commute. They don't - no-one lives in New York and works in Florida. Americans tend to live not too far away from where they work, just as they do in Europe - America just doesn't have the public infrastructure to move them away from their cars and on to something that makes more sense. I live in Germany (but I'm not German), and the public transport is fucking INSANE. Where I live, the TGV from France serves our train station, and can get you to Paris in a few hours, and goes all the way down to Munich (the whole route is rated to 190MPH). I can jump on an ICE train and be in Amsterdam in a few hours. Or take the train to London. Or, indeed, any European town, large or small. The local tram system is a pioneer in public transportation, by having long-range trains run as trams in the centre of town (so you can hop on one in the middle of the street), and they can take you over 100KM away for a few euros. Cheap, reliable, sane. Many Europeans live in rural areas, yet they are served by public transport such a the S-Bahn (the street-tram/train), or a bus to the nearest tram stop/train station. Four mile drive into town? That's nothing for many, many Europeans. We don't all live in cities, stacked on top of each other. There are massive amounts of tiny, tiny hamlets dotted many tens of miles away from any other town, and many even more remote. It seems you are upset that Europeans stereotype Americans, but you are doing the exact same thing. You think Europe, you imagine Paris, Berlin and London, and think everyone lives in a high-rise apartment block above their workplace. It's not like that in the slightest. It just seems that Europe has its head screwed on when it comes to public transport. Even the UK, with arguably one of the worst train services in western Europe (apart from Italy:)), still provides enough of a service to allow people to commute 150miles, both ways, in one day. I've not driven a car since I passed my test, because I've never needed to. Public transport has always been there. Plus you can ride it out of your mind and not get arrested, or kill yourself in the process;)
Not necessarily. Software houses release their bleeding-edge software for the latest versions of Windows all the time. Adobe do that. They can do it, because people who use their software want to take advantage of the benefits the new versions have (such as performance increases, better use of multi-core CPUs, etc.), and those new benefits often come from improvements in the OS itself, or its supporting frameworks. They then wait for the rest of the market to catch up, and eventually adopt their software. If what you say is true, then why isn't Wine supporting 100% of Windows applications?
That's why it's a prize. If it was "walk down the end of your street for £9,999", everyone would win. As it is, it's going to require lots of thinking and ingenuity to find a solution.
It never will, as it will always be playing "catch-up". Through its very nature it will never be 100% compatible, as long as modifications to win32 happen, which has been the best part of the last 20 years.
The difference is Nokia are engaging in a commercial enterprise, trying to pry open the closed-source nature of mobile phones. All that guy is asking for is time, and for OSS developers (and the community in general) to not throw a tantrum every time DRM is mentioned, and instead play by "the rules" until the phone companies and media providers get their acts together and get rid of DRM in favour of a method that actually guarantees content owners will get their revenue, instead of weighing down media with DRM. Nokia could be a massive, massive benefit to the OSS movement, and they're reaching out to make it happen, eventually on the OSS community's terms, but while their hands are tied by the market they thrive in, they are asking for people to realise they're not happy with the status quo, but are actively trying to change it, where possible.
That's all. It doesn't sound too bad to me. I guess he was saying it to people like you, who get a bee in their bonnett every time DRM or open source is mentioned. Clearly it's going to take more than logic to get through to some:)
We don't know the people in Gitmo are terrorists, as no charges against them have been presented, and no evidence has been put before a judge. Go back to watching Fox.
Actually, that's not exactly true. I'm not saying I agree with it, but they are making sure the disc you buy is an actual real disc, and not some knock-off that might have undesired consequences for your system and their support lines. So by having copy protection, they are (or claim to be) protecting the buyers of their games, and their copies of said games, specifically.
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Unless they start getting those emails in sufficient quantity, they'll just be replied with the usual boilerplate response. They won't think it's worth their time to make drivers for only a "few" people.
Where it says "I promise never to allow financial gain, competitiveness or ambition cloud my judgment in the ethical conduct of research and scholarship" I thought it meant "I won't screw with my data because it'll get me money, or make me look good in the eyes of others, or even myself", not "don't pursue any research that will possibly make you money". I think the emphasis is on "ethical", not "research and scholarship".
Pardon?
I know! Next they'll make us put unique identifiers on our cars that can be automatically read from a distance! Where will the madness end?!?
So you won't buy their perfectly-good product because you read on slashdot that they don't provide the source code? Idiot.
"Every effort"? Does making "every effort" to minimise the effects of a horrific act somehow mean said act is OK? There are many, many cases of the IDF killing innocent people, such as Rachel Corrie (the peace activist, sorry, vicious anti-semite terrorist). For not wanting to do it they seem to do it an awful lot.
Being able to vote and run for office doesn't mean anything when you can't travel to the next town because the checkpoint, for no apparent reason, either never opens or turns you around at the border, regardless if your travel documents (for travelling in your own country) are valid or not. It kind of sucks when the checkpoint is between you and the hospital, or between you and your kids, or between your kids and school. Saying "they can vote so it's cool" is like giving a bunch of people without electricity plasma TVs. They don't have the power to run then, but "hey! they have plasma TVs so they're cool". First things first.
Or if it's osCommerce, it'll require a total rebuild from the ground-up, taking millions of innocent lives in the process :)
Read the article again. Then read your post again. Then realise where you went wrong.
You mean "over 8 years old"?
You could at least try to read the article first. If you had, you'd realise how silly you look right now.
Your point about the size of the US would make sense if Americans travelled thousands of miles in their commute. They don't - no-one lives in New York and works in Florida. Americans tend to live not too far away from where they work, just as they do in Europe - America just doesn't have the public infrastructure to move them away from their cars and on to something that makes more sense. I live in Germany (but I'm not German), and the public transport is fucking INSANE. Where I live, the TGV from France serves our train station, and can get you to Paris in a few hours, and goes all the way down to Munich (the whole route is rated to 190MPH). I can jump on an ICE train and be in Amsterdam in a few hours. Or take the train to London. Or, indeed, any European town, large or small. The local tram system is a pioneer in public transportation, by having long-range trains run as trams in the centre of town (so you can hop on one in the middle of the street), and they can take you over 100KM away for a few euros. Cheap, reliable, sane. Many Europeans live in rural areas, yet they are served by public transport such a the S-Bahn (the street-tram/train), or a bus to the nearest tram stop/train station. Four mile drive into town? That's nothing for many, many Europeans. We don't all live in cities, stacked on top of each other. There are massive amounts of tiny, tiny hamlets dotted many tens of miles away from any other town, and many even more remote. It seems you are upset that Europeans stereotype Americans, but you are doing the exact same thing. You think Europe, you imagine Paris, Berlin and London, and think everyone lives in a high-rise apartment block above their workplace. It's not like that in the slightest. It just seems that Europe has its head screwed on when it comes to public transport. Even the UK, with arguably one of the worst train services in western Europe (apart from Italy :)), still provides enough of a service to allow people to commute 150miles, both ways, in one day. I've not driven a car since I passed my test, because I've never needed to. Public transport has always been there. Plus you can ride it out of your mind and not get arrested, or kill yourself in the process ;)
Not necessarily. Software houses release their bleeding-edge software for the latest versions of Windows all the time. Adobe do that. They can do it, because people who use their software want to take advantage of the benefits the new versions have (such as performance increases, better use of multi-core CPUs, etc.), and those new benefits often come from improvements in the OS itself, or its supporting frameworks. They then wait for the rest of the market to catch up, and eventually adopt their software. If what you say is true, then why isn't Wine supporting 100% of Windows applications?
That's why it's a prize. If it was "walk down the end of your street for £9,999", everyone would win. As it is, it's going to require lots of thinking and ingenuity to find a solution.
It never will, as it will always be playing "catch-up". Through its very nature it will never be 100% compatible, as long as modifications to win32 happen, which has been the best part of the last 20 years.
PEOPLE!
Or you can just use any phone with bluetooth and/or wifi - they can all do that, and have been doing it for years.
Can I buy that saying off you? I've only got £5,000. I can get the rest to you tomorrow.
Exactly. I'd go one further and say terrorism has nothing to do with a body count, but everything to do with threats.
And it's strange how Iraq got invaded, but North Korea didn't...
The difference is Nokia are engaging in a commercial enterprise, trying to pry open the closed-source nature of mobile phones. All that guy is asking for is time, and for OSS developers (and the community in general) to not throw a tantrum every time DRM is mentioned, and instead play by "the rules" until the phone companies and media providers get their acts together and get rid of DRM in favour of a method that actually guarantees content owners will get their revenue, instead of weighing down media with DRM. Nokia could be a massive, massive benefit to the OSS movement, and they're reaching out to make it happen, eventually on the OSS community's terms, but while their hands are tied by the market they thrive in, they are asking for people to realise they're not happy with the status quo, but are actively trying to change it, where possible.
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That's all. It doesn't sound too bad to me. I guess he was saying it to people like you, who get a bee in their bonnett every time DRM or open source is mentioned. Clearly it's going to take more than logic to get through to some
Idiot.
We don't know the people in Gitmo are terrorists, as no charges against them have been presented, and no evidence has been put before a judge. Go back to watching Fox.
Actually, that's not exactly true. I'm not saying I agree with it, but they are making sure the disc you buy is an actual real disc, and not some knock-off that might have undesired consequences for your system and their support lines. So by having copy protection, they are (or claim to be) protecting the buyers of their games, and their copies of said games, specifically.
Nope. That money came from somewhere. As long as the rich keep getting richer faster than the poor people, society will be screwed.
Your level of ignorance and knee-jerk reactionism is startling.