is that our brains work nothing like computer processors as they are designed today, so I don't think it will be possible using existing technology and programming techniques to ever create such a thing.
What you describe is more likely to come from genetic engineering than from computer based technology.
Maybe american phones will have too small a screen, but you seem to be several years behind the rest of the world in that respect. Japan seems to be several years ahead of the rest of the world.
My phone is basically a PDA with a wireless modem inside it. It has a similar sized screen to an IPAQ. I can get a pretty reasonable amount of text on the screen, certainly enough to make it useable. And with my 1GB memory card, I can carry pretty much an entire bookcase around in my pocket.
If we took the same level of care over coal plant waste as we do over nuclear waste - bottle up all the CO2, smoke, ash and so on, and keep it under armed guard, do you think coal would be a safer form of fuel than nuclear?
You can tell wordprefect to save files defaultly as.doc. Otherwise it will save them as.wpd, a format that hasn't changed since version 6. We are now on version 12.
A spell chequer[sic] will not always pick up everything. If you mis-spell a word in such a way that it is the same as another word in the dictionary, it will miss it.
Google for "owed to a spell chequer" for an example.
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That's not what happened in this case though.
Here, he made use of his employee access to the library computer system to say that the book had been returned, when it had not been.
Secondly, I don't think he sold them on Amazon for more than the list price. These are current, in print books that you can get from a bookstore anywhere, including Amazon's new books section.
When RMS wrote his free Emacs program, he made money from it by selling copies for $150 each. It was still free software because people had the right to distribute and modify the software.
Other free software developers make money from selling support contracts for their software. Again, even though you are paying for it, it is still free software, because you have freedom.
If they took pearpc and put it on a p2p network, nobody would complain. In fact, a search on emule shows many copies of pearpc out there, and nobody is complaining.
If the cherryos guys made a fork of pearpc and released the changes under the GPL, nobody would complain. They might suggest that it would be better to work with the existing team, but they would respect their freedom to do what they are doing.
What we complain about is taking other people's code, and claiming they wrote it themselves, and, while doing so, attempting to restrict other people's freedom to copy the resulting work.
The only people who are entitled to receive it are those who receive the binaries.
The section you highlight applies where you give away the phone to someone else. Then that someone else can ask the original company for the source code.
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Lot's of people already have fixed this.
The software is free, but the trademark isn't, so you can't call the modified collection of programs Red Hat.
People have been trying to code intelligence for thousands of years.
The result is called government.
is that our brains work nothing like computer processors as they are designed today, so I don't think it will be possible using existing technology and programming techniques to ever create such a thing.
What you describe is more likely to come from genetic engineering than from computer based technology.
Maybe american phones will have too small a screen, but you seem to be several years behind the rest of the world in that respect. Japan seems to be several years ahead of the rest of the world.
My phone is basically a PDA with a wireless modem inside it. It has a similar sized screen to an IPAQ. I can get a pretty reasonable amount of text on the screen, certainly enough to make it useable. And with my 1GB memory card, I can carry pretty much an entire bookcase around in my pocket.
Lycos tried that with their "make love not spam" thing.
Spam is caused by the people who buy the spammed stuff.
If there was no money in it, they wouldn't bother doing it.
If we took the same level of care over coal plant waste as we do over nuclear waste - bottle up all the CO2, smoke, ash and so on, and keep it under armed guard, do you think coal would be a safer form of fuel than nuclear?
I do.
Isn't what you are looking for called ReactOS?
which tells us that Lycos and Altavista are better search engines than Google?
If I am looking for adverts, or to buy something, I will use Yahoo. It's classified ads sections are much better than anything Google can offer.
If I am looking to buy something offline, I use yell.com.
If I am looking for software, I use something like freshmeat or one of the rpm search facilities.
Otherwise, I use Google.
You can tell wordprefect to save files defaultly as .doc. Otherwise it will save them as .wpd, a format that hasn't changed since version 6. We are now on version 12.
A spell chequer[sic] will not always pick up everything. If you mis-spell a word in such a way that it is the same as another word in the dictionary, it will miss it.
Google for "owed to a spell chequer" for an example.
That's not what happened in this case though.
Here, he made use of his employee access to the library computer system to say that the book had been returned, when it had not been.
Secondly, I don't think he sold them on Amazon for more than the list price. These are current, in print books that you can get from a bookstore anywhere, including Amazon's new books section.
I would say this is a clear cut case of theft.
1. Until the courts rule that p2p is illegal, it probably isn't.
2. The internet is a p2p network
3. MPAA v Sony (Betamax)
4. Point to the large number of legitimate torrent sites, and explain how bittorrent's design makes it pretty unsuitable for copyright infringement.
Remember, it is free as in freedom.
When RMS wrote his free Emacs program, he made money from it by selling copies for $150 each. It was still free software because people had the right to distribute and modify the software.
Other free software developers make money from selling support contracts for their software. Again, even though you are paying for it, it is still free software, because you have freedom.
Call your lawyer and what? Sue for £1.50?
It will cost you more than that in lawyer's fees. A lot more than that.
Maybe report them to your local trading standards dept.
Dixons / PC World (Britains largest computer shop) use it on their own desktops.
I don't know anyone who works there to know how they get on with it.
I've seen a couple of small charities use it, and they don't actually notice that they aren't using MS Office.
Only the loss of sound quality from performing two lots of lossy compression.
How can they argue that you stole music, when you actually paid the required $0.99 for ir?
It circumvents an access control system put in place to prevent unauthorised copying.
Therefore as I understand it, it probably violates the DMCA.
They had a stand at Paddington Station London one day.
There is a big difference.
If they took pearpc and put it on a p2p network, nobody would complain. In fact, a search on emule shows many copies of pearpc out there, and nobody is complaining.
If the cherryos guys made a fork of pearpc and released the changes under the GPL, nobody would complain. They might suggest that it would be better to work with the existing team, but they would respect their freedom to do what they are doing.
What we complain about is taking other people's code, and claiming they wrote it themselves, and, while doing so, attempting to restrict other people's freedom to copy the resulting work.
Anyone can asl for the source ...
The only people who are entitled to receive it are those who receive the binaries.
The section you highlight applies where you give away the phone to someone else. Then that someone else can ask the original company for the source code.
Compared to a lot of other companies, Microsoft have been pretty relaxed about their patent portfolio.
Would you give a pass grade to the operating system that is even more sucessful than this one in the desktop market?