The engineering firm I work for used to shell out $1500-ish canadian each for licenses of the craptabulous AutoCAD Light... for use by our engineers who just need to view files and do very simple things, while our geomatics department does the heavy lifting with for AutoCAD and Civil3D (and several other modelling and GIS softwares).
AutoCAD Light is USELESS. It is a pathetic joke that gives you so little functionality as to be a total waste of money. Our Engineers constantly came across simple things that they could not do.
Solution: Intellicad for roughtly $100 canadian. It reads autocad files just fine, it has very similar command line commands, and all the familiar buttons etc.
And best of all, for the price of one useless AutoCAD Light license, it will keep 15 Engineers out of my hair until they need real work done.
Since when has 'legality' had anything to do with how the US treats their people?
The Patriot Act has been around for how many years now, destroying most of their constitution, and only last week did one of their judges have the balls to strike down a small corner of it.
And that's fine, if the people agree to such laws being passed, and so long as it does not interfere with their constitution. Of course driving is not a right, no one seems to realize that it is a privilege that comes with responsibilities.
Going down that road covertly is just going to create a lot of hate towards their government.
You do realize... that I'm not an American! America ain't the center of the world, they and you just think they are!
I live in Canada, where we have judges with balls that not only strike down unconstitutional laws promptly but anticipate constitutional problems that will require changes to laws before they are enacted.... instead of pecking at small parts of a bad law years later like the judge did to the Patriot Act the other day.
Now, why are you posting as an 'Anonymous Coward'? Are you scared your government isn't going to like how you are talking about their laws? Too embarassed that your judges and your god damn people haven't overthrown Bush as is your responsibility when he stripped away the rights your ancestors died for?
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This is modded interesting?
Come on, this guy isn't aware of the great benchmarks that have been coming out, and all the new press material AMD has released to support the imminent launch.
Ignorance is interesting. must have been an american modder.
Reminds me of when my brother was arrested for siphoning gas from cars... and after the judge found him to be innocent, he was allowed to collect his siphoning gear back from the evidence locker.
At what point does it become viable to sue the police for their lies and denials on this case?
And what kind of law requires a warrent to do something, except when the police are claiming they are in a hurry and don't need a warrent if they think the judge will be on their side? Sounds like their judges have balls even smaller than those of American judges when it comes to stricking down bad laws.
I bet 90% of the time, the police intend to be in a hurry, and don't even consider asking for the warrent.
If no one agreed to the NDA, then AMD would get no press (except for press about the NDA like today, and any press is good press, it made you think about AMD), and would have to loosen their NDA a bit.
The problem is that chances are someone agreed to the NDA, shooting their publication in the foot and empowering AMD.
Really this is no different then the arguement over pirating music. If you don't like the agreement, don't use the music in any way, not even pirating it, the music then looses the value you have given it by being willing to steal it, then the industry has to loosen up or far fewer people are listening to their product.
Kind of funny how many people are supporting AMD on the NDA issue, when so many of them would post on pirating topics with the opposite point of view.
You need to stop creating enemies around the world, funding, training, and empowering them like you did Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, the Ayotolla after the Shah, Noriega, Ferdinand Marcos, Samosa, Pinochet, Batista, and on and on and on.
You need to stop meddling and causing the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, like when you empowered your friend Saddam Hussein with money and chemical weapons technology to use against Iran when your ayotolla turned on you... that he then used on his own people... that you had to clean up with the first gulf war.
You need to educate yourself so that you don't elect power hungry, self serving leaders that steal the rights your ancesters fought for, and so you and millions of your countrymen do not accept disenfrancisement and illegal blocking of your voting rights.
You need to stop being suckered by your leaders into being afraid of everything they want you to be afraid of.
But nevermind, I know the thought of personal responsibility and effort being spent on anything beyond ensuring you can own a gun must scare you, I can almost hear the sound of duct tape and plastic sheets being strung up in some bizarre defense from this reality.
And so speaks another blind victim of Dubya's campaign of fear and lies.
I suppose you would have sat around in Germany in the 1930's happily enjoying your life as people you didn't know were rounded up... because you think it can't happen to you.
911 would not have happened if not for decades of USA Greed and interference in the middle east including the training and funding of Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviets by your government. Just part of the long history of the USA needlessly creating it's own enemies and getting bitten by them.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Actually, yes it does mean exactly that... if Opera is less compliant with the webstandards. Are they?
I've never had to go out of my way to make a website that works with both FF and IE, generally if a website passes html and css validation they just work... but not necessarily in Opera.
In Canada, a driver's license is an official piece of ID however, you are only required to show it if you are driving.
Drinking establishments may require that you show it or a similar ID to prove your age... but it's your choice. If you don't want to show it, you don't have to enter.
If a cop stops you walking on the street, you are required to properly identify yourself. He may ask for your license, but you are not required to show it. You can simply state your name and address.
If the cop thinks you are misleading him, then he can take you in.
But the idea that in the US, people can say NO when asked to show a receipt when leaving a store with goods (purchased or otherwise) is just rediculous. You aren't showing ID, you are just showing that you purchased the goods. And by accepting this, you are helping keep the costs of the goods down by helping the store catch shoplifters.
The store should have the right to protect their property just as much as you have the right to protect your home and belongings.
Why does anyone care about this man's rights, whether it is regarding showing his license or showing his receipt?
Who cares!
It's all meaningless in the face of the laws the USA have enacted in the last several years which have destroyed several sections of the US constitution.
It's all meaningless considering that your judges don't have the balls to uphold your constitution and strike down such laws.
Your ancestors fought and died for that constitution, for you to have those rights, but no, instead people are concerned that a consumer might actually have to prove he purchased the goods he's trying to remove from a store?
In 5+ years of running XP, I never had a spam or virus problem. I was never infested with anything. It was never a spam relaying bot. Nothing was stealing any of the bandwith or processing power of my computer.
But yours would be the typical ignorant assumption by a windows hater wouldn't it? There are a few of us out here that actually know how to keep their computer clean.
And I guess i need to repeat myself since you apparently assumed the worst without reading the full post.
I said that it may very well have been a setting in windows XP that i was unaware of that was limiting the bandwidth.
I said that my speed at speakeasy net was the same high number in XP and in Vista, but that Vista was actually able to use the bandwidth while XP never could. The matching high bandwidth tests prove that nothing was stealing my bandwidth.
Vista has a much more efficient network stack. Maybe this is part of it. Maybe not.
But you just keep going on your dumbfuck spam bot theory. No doubt you've had that problem many times. huh.
I suppose you've never heard of the history of the Taliban huh. Perhaps you just don't like to admit that it is yet another of a long list of enemies the USA has needlessly created for themselves. Or maybe you'd just like to forget about your country's failure to defeat them or even find their leader.
You know, the Taliban, the group that was funded and trained by the USA government through Osama Bin Ladin to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. -the group that was a big part of the slow bankrupting of the USSR that led to their defeat in the cold war. -The group that then ran afghanistan turning it into a country of warlords and terrorist training facilities. -The group that under the orders of Osama Bin Laden, from many locations around the world organized 911 to draw the USA into the same type of slow bankrupting war that they defeated the USSR with. -The group that was allowed to gain power in Iraq, a country they were not previously present in, because of dubyafucker's destabilizing, misguided, and unncessary invasion.... The group created and empowered by the USA that is succeeding again at bankrupting their enemy... YOU.
Now if that isn't a disenfranchised american, I don't know what is!
I'm on his side, and he's pissed at me for not complaining more loudly!
By the way, here in Canada our judges not only shoot down unconstitutional laws as they should, they actually identify ways in which the government needs to adapt to protect the constitution... for example, the same-sex marriage laws.
Here in Canada, we could see the blatant lies of George Bush... and stayed out of Iraq... and instead contribute to the effort in Afghanistan, you know, the place 911 was run from remember?
Here in Canada, the polls aren't fixed. We have consistent election laws across our country instead of separate conflicting laws in every state like you have.
Here in Canada, when we really dislike a government that has screwed us bad... we vote them out! We don't keep them around for a second term to cause more damage like you've done with Dubyafucker.
Sure, I only spoke of recent times... but Vietnam was started under the same false pretenses as Iraq. the Spanish American war is the same story! and damn! you didn't even come out for WWII until 2 years after Canada joined in.
The US is not just concerned about others trying to copy the propeller to reduce the noice made by their subs.
The submarine will still make some noise. They would be concerned because knowing the propeller design gives you an idea of what type of noise it will make in use... the sonar signature.
The signature can be used to identify classes of submarines and potentially individual subs.
So rather than other countries copying it... the problem is that other countries may now have a good idea what that particular sub will sound like, and may know when the US is illegally sneaking in and out of other countries waters etc with this sub, or if this sub is positioned just outside their waters with all it's nuclear WMD's ready to go.
On the other hand, maybe the US doesnt care at all... maybe this was an old propeller design being replaced and retired.
And that's the big scam that is being attempted in the name of open source.
Microsoft created the vouchers before GPL v3, for software created under other licenses. The open souce community thought that if they changed the license that somehow MS wouldn't have to be consulted and agree to be bound by it... they assumed that the MS vouchers would still be valid.
But they are not and MS has been reminding the world that this is the case. You're welcome to all the updates you want... but if you update to GPL v3 code, you are making an intentional choice to void your voucher.
You know damn well that GPL v3 was created in part to entrap Microsoft on these vouchers. Such pathetic entrapment attempts will never stand up in court.
Can you imagine the uproar that would happen if MS tried to pull this shit on the open source community?
The pope is supposedly god's one true representative on earth... surely chosen not simply by the votes of the cardinals, but by the will of god slanting that vote to the 'correct' choice.
Therefore you are either saying that god is not infallible... an impossibility, or essentially that there is no god.
"they cheat the greater well-being of society"... right, as if the catholic church hasn't cheated the greater well-being of society for the last 2 thousand years with:
-hundreds of child molesting priests; -destruction of hundreds of native cultures around the world; -scams to buy forgiveness for your sins and buy your way into heaven; -thousands of years of intentional friction or worse with all other religions; -constant re-interpretation of the bible to suit whatever power trip they are currently on;...and on and on and on...
Look at everything their government has done to them while they've just sat their waving their flag.
Look at the outright lies used by Bush to invade Iraq when it was well known that Iraq had nothing to do with 911, had no WMD's, and was already fully contained.
Look at the many ways their constitutionally protected rights have been stripped away, while not one of their judges has had the balls to do their job and strike down the Patriot Act and similar unconstitutional.
Look at the way they've allowed fundamentalist christian groups to take control, destroying the separation of church and state.
Look at the way their government has repressed the black community, including the needless destruction of New Orleans. Bush spoke at the 2 year anniversary of Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward... but failed to remember that it was CANADIAN government disaster response team that got into that area first... even though several days had passed since the storm.
Look at the way they have yet again allowed their banking system to run scams that built up to the point of being able to hurt the world economy. About every 5 years its something, this time it was their unregulated 'sub-prime' mortgages. Golly Gee! maybe we shouldn't have been giving mortgages to people without even verifying their income! duhhhh!
The american people couldn't revolt their way out of a paper bag.
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The engineering firm I work for used to shell out $1500-ish canadian each for licenses of the craptabulous AutoCAD Light ... for use by our engineers who just need to view files and do very simple things, while our geomatics department does the heavy lifting with for AutoCAD and Civil3D (and several other modelling and GIS softwares).
AutoCAD Light is USELESS. It is a pathetic joke that gives you so little functionality as to be a total waste of money. Our Engineers constantly came across simple things that they could not do.
Solution: Intellicad for roughtly $100 canadian. It reads autocad files just fine, it has very similar command line commands, and all the familiar buttons etc.
And best of all, for the price of one useless AutoCAD Light license, it will keep 15 Engineers out of my hair until they need real work done.
Since when has 'legality' had anything to do with how the US treats their people?
The Patriot Act has been around for how many years now, destroying most of their constitution, and only last week did one of their judges have the balls to strike down a small corner of it.
... or to help enforce speed laws.
And that's fine, if the people agree to such laws being passed, and so long as it does not interfere with their constitution. Of course driving is not a right, no one seems to realize that it is a privilege that comes with responsibilities.
Going down that road covertly is just going to create a lot of hate towards their government.
You do realize ... that I'm not an American! America ain't the center of the world, they and you just think they are!
... instead of pecking at small parts of a bad law years later like the judge did to the Patriot Act the other day.
I live in Canada, where we have judges with balls that not only strike down unconstitutional laws promptly but anticipate constitutional problems that will require changes to laws before they are enacted.
Now, why are you posting as an 'Anonymous Coward'? Are you scared your government isn't going to like how you are talking about their laws? Too embarassed that your judges and your god damn people haven't overthrown Bush as is your responsibility when he stripped away the rights your ancestors died for?
This is modded interesting?
Come on, this guy isn't aware of the great benchmarks that have been coming out, and all the new press material AMD has released to support the imminent launch.
Ignorance is interesting. must have been an american modder.
Reminds me of when my brother was arrested for siphoning gas from cars ... and after the judge found him to be innocent, he was allowed to collect his siphoning gear back from the evidence locker.
At what point does it become viable to sue the police for their lies and denials on this case?
And what kind of law requires a warrent to do something, except when the police are claiming they are in a hurry and don't need a warrent if they think the judge will be on their side? Sounds like their judges have balls even smaller than those of American judges when it comes to stricking down bad laws.
I bet 90% of the time, the police intend to be in a hurry, and don't even consider asking for the warrent.
Who's the dirty nutsack?
If no one agreed to the NDA, then AMD would get no press (except for press about the NDA like today, and any press is good press, it made you think about AMD), and would have to loosen their NDA a bit.
The problem is that chances are someone agreed to the NDA, shooting their publication in the foot and empowering AMD.
Really this is no different then the arguement over pirating music. If you don't like the agreement, don't use the music in any way, not even pirating it, the music then looses the value you have given it by being willing to steal it, then the industry has to loosen up or far fewer people are listening to their product.
Kind of funny how many people are supporting AMD on the NDA issue, when so many of them would post on pirating topics with the opposite point of view.
Yet again, the good reputation of Canada is abused by others. Reminds me of the multiple times Isreali spies used forged Canadian passports.
You do not need the patriot act.
... that he then used on his own people ... that you had to clean up with the first gulf war.
You need to stop creating enemies around the world, funding, training, and empowering them like you did Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, the Ayotolla after the Shah, Noriega, Ferdinand Marcos, Samosa, Pinochet, Batista, and on and on and on.
You need to stop meddling and causing the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, like when you empowered your friend Saddam Hussein with money and chemical weapons technology to use against Iran when your ayotolla turned on you
You need to educate yourself so that you don't elect power hungry, self serving leaders that steal the rights your ancesters fought for, and so you and millions of your countrymen do not accept disenfrancisement and illegal blocking of your voting rights.
You need to stop being suckered by your leaders into being afraid of everything they want you to be afraid of.
But nevermind, I know the thought of personal responsibility and effort being spent on anything beyond ensuring you can own a gun must scare you, I can almost hear the sound of duct tape and plastic sheets being strung up in some bizarre defense from this reality.
And so speaks another blind victim of Dubya's campaign of fear and lies.
... because you think it can't happen to you.
I suppose you would have sat around in Germany in the 1930's happily enjoying your life as people you didn't know were rounded up
911 would not have happened if not for decades of USA Greed and interference in the middle east including the training and funding of Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviets by your government. Just part of the long history of the USA needlessly creating it's own enemies and getting bitten by them.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Actually, yes it does mean exactly that ... if Opera is less compliant with the webstandards. Are they?
... but not necessarily in Opera.
I've never had to go out of my way to make a website that works with both FF and IE, generally if a website passes html and css validation they just work
In Canada, a driver's license is an official piece of ID however, you are only required to show it if you are driving.
... but it's your choice. If you don't want to show it, you don't have to enter.
Drinking establishments may require that you show it or a similar ID to prove your age
If a cop stops you walking on the street, you are required to properly identify yourself. He may ask for your license, but you are not required to show it. You can simply state your name and address.
If the cop thinks you are misleading him, then he can take you in.
But the idea that in the US, people can say NO when asked to show a receipt when leaving a store with goods (purchased or otherwise) is just rediculous. You aren't showing ID, you are just showing that you purchased the goods. And by accepting this, you are helping keep the costs of the goods down by helping the store catch shoplifters.
The store should have the right to protect their property just as much as you have the right to protect your home and belongings.
Why so much uproar on this topic?
Why does anyone care about this man's rights, whether it is regarding showing his license or showing his receipt?
Who cares!
It's all meaningless in the face of the laws the USA have enacted in the last several years which have destroyed several sections of the US constitution.
It's all meaningless considering that your judges don't have the balls to uphold your constitution and strike down such laws.
Your ancestors fought and died for that constitution, for you to have those rights, but no, instead people are concerned that a consumer might actually have to prove he purchased the goods he's trying to remove from a store?
Sure, Opera is fast ..
But speed doesnt matter when it fails to display so many web pages properly.
Call me back when Opera is as compatible with websites as Firefox or IE.
um ya no.
In 5+ years of running XP, I never had a spam or virus problem. I was never infested with anything. It was never a spam relaying bot. Nothing was stealing any of the bandwith or processing power of my computer.
But yours would be the typical ignorant assumption by a windows hater wouldn't it? There are a few of us out here that actually know how to keep their computer clean.
And I guess i need to repeat myself since you apparently assumed the worst without reading the full post.
I said that it may very well have been a setting in windows XP that i was unaware of that was limiting the bandwidth.
I said that my speed at speakeasy net was the same high number in XP and in Vista, but that Vista was actually able to use the bandwidth while XP never could. The matching high bandwidth tests prove that nothing was stealing my bandwidth.
Vista has a much more efficient network stack. Maybe this is part of it. Maybe not.
But you just keep going on your dumbfuck spam bot theory. No doubt you've had that problem many times. huh.
I suppose you've never heard of the history of the Taliban huh. Perhaps you just don't like to admit that it is yet another of a long list of enemies the USA has needlessly created for themselves. Or maybe you'd just like to forget about your country's failure to defeat them or even find their leader.
... The group created and empowered by the USA that is succeeding again at bankrupting their enemy ... YOU.
You know, the Taliban, the group that was funded and trained by the USA government through Osama Bin Ladin to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
-the group that was a big part of the slow bankrupting of the USSR that led to their defeat in the cold war.
-The group that then ran afghanistan turning it into a country of warlords and terrorist training facilities.
-The group that under the orders of Osama Bin Laden, from many locations around the world organized 911 to draw the USA into the same type of slow bankrupting war that they defeated the USSR with.
-The group that was allowed to gain power in Iraq, a country they were not previously present in, because of dubyafucker's destabilizing, misguided, and unncessary invasion.
HAHAHAHHAHAHA
... for example, the same-sex marriage laws.
... and stayed out of Iraq ... and instead contribute to the effort in Afghanistan, you know, the place 911 was run from remember?
... we vote them out! We don't keep them around for a second term to cause more damage like you've done with Dubyafucker.
... but Vietnam was started under the same false pretenses as Iraq. the Spanish American war is the same story! and damn! you didn't even come out for WWII until 2 years after Canada joined in.
WOW!
Now if that isn't a disenfranchised american, I don't know what is!
I'm on his side, and he's pissed at me for not complaining more loudly!
By the way, here in Canada our judges not only shoot down unconstitutional laws as they should, they actually identify ways in which the government needs to adapt to protect the constitution
Here in Canada, we could see the blatant lies of George Bush
Here in Canada, the polls aren't fixed. We have consistent election laws across our country instead of separate conflicting laws in every state like you have.
Here in Canada, when we really dislike a government that has screwed us bad
Sure, I only spoke of recent times
Ah yes, the surest way know that the truth has hurt ... the Troll moderation gets used to hide it.
Wow, you can almost here the banjo pluckin in the background of this ignorant redneck's post.
The US is not just concerned about others trying to copy the propeller to reduce the noice made by their subs.
... the sonar signature.
... the problem is that other countries may now have a good idea what that particular sub will sound like, and may know when the US is illegally sneaking in and out of other countries waters etc with this sub, or if this sub is positioned just outside their waters with all it's nuclear WMD's ready to go.
... maybe this was an old propeller design being replaced and retired.
The submarine will still make some noise. They would be concerned because knowing the propeller design gives you an idea of what type of noise it will make in use
The signature can be used to identify classes of submarines and potentially individual subs.
So rather than other countries copying it
On the other hand, maybe the US doesnt care at all
And that's the big scam that is being attempted in the name of open source.
... they assumed that the MS vouchers would still be valid.
... but if you update to GPL v3 code, you are making an intentional choice to void your voucher.
Microsoft created the vouchers before GPL v3, for software created under other licenses. The open souce community thought that if they changed the license that somehow MS wouldn't have to be consulted and agree to be bound by it
But they are not and MS has been reminding the world that this is the case. You're welcome to all the updates you want
You know damn well that GPL v3 was created in part to entrap Microsoft on these vouchers. Such pathetic entrapment attempts will never stand up in court.
Can you imagine the uproar that would happen if MS tried to pull this shit on the open source community?
The pope is supposedly god's one true representative on earth ... surely chosen not simply by the votes of the cardinals, but by the will of god slanting that vote to the 'correct' choice.
... an impossibility, or essentially that there is no god.
Therefore you are either saying that god is not infallible
Either way, I like your way of thinking!
"they cheat the greater well-being of society" ... right, as if the catholic church hasn't cheated the greater well-being of society for the last 2 thousand years with:
...and on and on and on ...
-hundreds of child molesting priests;
-destruction of hundreds of native cultures around the world;
-scams to buy forgiveness for your sins and buy your way into heaven;
-thousands of years of intentional friction or worse with all other religions;
-constant re-interpretation of the bible to suit whatever power trip they are currently on;
Look at everything their government has done to them while they've just sat their waving their flag.
... but failed to remember that it was CANADIAN government disaster response team that got into that area first ... even though several days had passed since the storm.
Look at the outright lies used by Bush to invade Iraq when it was well known that Iraq had nothing to do with 911, had no WMD's, and was already fully contained.
Look at the many ways their constitutionally protected rights have been stripped away, while not one of their judges has had the balls to do their job and strike down the Patriot Act and similar unconstitutional.
Look at the way they've allowed fundamentalist christian groups to take control, destroying the separation of church and state.
Look at the way their government has repressed the black community, including the needless destruction of New Orleans. Bush spoke at the 2 year anniversary of Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward
Look at the way they have yet again allowed their banking system to run scams that built up to the point of being able to hurt the world economy. About every 5 years its something, this time it was their unregulated 'sub-prime' mortgages. Golly Gee! maybe we shouldn't have been giving mortgages to people without even verifying their income! duhhhh!
The american people couldn't revolt their way out of a paper bag.