This is like saying you will step down as the head of a screwdriver & hammer manufacturing company because you are against the war in Iraq and you oppose the military's use of screwdrivers & hammers.
Not exactly on topic, but just to keep with the topic, I think it would be a tremendous breakthrough if we could get more energy out of fusion than we put in.
I love the retraining issue... shows how ignorant MS is of its own products. Ever try upgrading an organization from one major release of MS Office to another release? Where's the ______ menu now? How do I mail merge? The only thing they keep consistent between releases is that damn dancing singing talking paperclip.
It certainly does - it uses only one port, and it goes right thru NAT (even if NAT is on both ends) without any additional configuration. SIP can only go thru one layer of NAT unless you have a gatekeeper or an asterisk box set up on at least one end (at the NAT box itself).
"Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable."
That way more people could afford to counterfeit money? Oh wait, somehow I doubt that those who are counterfeiting money actually OWN a license to Photoshop!
Might as well bust all jaywalkers too and make them go to walking school while you're at it.
News flash - things that are considered petty but illegal do occur on a day-to-day basis right on your own street!
The real question is not about the legality of downloading the music, but a) is it truely the source of lost sales, or the driving force keeping any sales going? and b) if it is truely the reason behind them (and not a smokescreen to cover up bad economic times, low quality product, or even the fact that the market has reached a saturation level on a 20 year old technology) does it truely pay to try to enforce, given any backlash you might have? Every product, whether tangible or intangible, has a certain calculated loss due to theft and/or infringement already calculated into its price. Anybody who claims otherwise is just as full of b.s. as those who compare copyright infringers to rapists, murderers, and other felons.
I personally would like to see some innovation without a jail cell (aka DRM). I want oggs that I can download and pay a *reasonable* price (reasonable == 75 cents per song). CD Audio to me is a pain, and honestly, the most recent music I've heard that I've enjoyed was from The Precursors... certainly not something from any major label.
I can forsee it... they will continue suing Lindows in every third world country that they can if and when they lose in Finland, Sweden, and NL (what I read is this is only a preliminary injuction, and not a closed case)... Next stop - Micronesia!
Not that I really care about lindows much, but that's because I'm an old fashioned slackware user...
Gee, if the UN controls the internet, I can just see all the Arab countries voting Israel to be disconnected because.il is not a "recognized" TLD... just like the Magen David Adom (Red Jewish Star, the ambulance service in Israel) was forbidden entry into the Red Cross association by the Arabs because the Jewish Star is not an "officially recognized symbol"... Is this the type of Internet you want? This type of nonsense is not limited to the Arab-Israeli situation but can be transposed to any similar situation... perhaps Russia v. Chechenya for example?
Let's assume (and I might not be correct in this assertion) that every computer in every country can at least type & see the 26 letters used in the English language plus digits 0-9 and the dash & period signs. However, I have no idea how to type anything coherent in Chinese Simplified or Traditional (hell, it's all Chinese to me...)...
In the interest of fostering the best method to communicate your ideas, products, services, etc., would you not want to use the characters that most everybody can type?
Oh, and this begs the next question - what about languages that go right-to-left instead of left-to-right? How about Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew? Personally, I don't want to see any domain names outside of the 26 chars used in English, 0-9, and the period & dash signs.
SCO = The Korh-Ah, bent on destruction of Open Source
Microsoft = The Kzer-Za, bent on enslaving all sentient species
Linus & RMS = Humans with a precursor service vehicle...
So what will be our secret weapon to destroy the Sa-Matra that SCO & Microsoft hold in their hands?
...the Financial Times reported that it had received a DDoS attack from all those/. readers accessing their site. The Financial Times has responded by offering $50,000 protection money to/.....
I'm no zealot, but what I see is a company praying on the ignorance and miseducation of the ordinary user. Many similar techniques, such as "cramming" on a telephone sales call are considered predatory and illegal (at least I believe that the FTC considers cramming as an illegal scam).
Some web pages try to install Gator/GAIN and notify you of it (which most windows users ignore, because that would require READING), but when you install programs like Kazaa and other "free programs", Gator/GAIN, PrecisionTime, Date Manager, $avenow, and a half dozen other spyware programs can be installed and you are NEVER informed of it. So, I will continue to call Gator "spyware", and if they'd like to sue me, I hope they can hope to squeeze water out of a rock.;-)
Also, I hope Gator reads this, so they know how much we hate them. But maybe I should thank them for generating extra business for me to remove their program from clients' computers.
That (at least at a glance) Open Office seems to have really stepped up the multi-language support... including Hebrew.
Next we'll barricade Microsoft's Israel headquarters and make Bill Gates spend a romantic evening with Yasser Arafat...
Much of the blame on this is due to a lack of foresight on behalf of the FCC and the baby bells. I know that in Israel, there is a separate area code for cellphones. If regional cellphone/pager-only area codes were overlaid on top of the existing area code "map", it would make it very easy to classify cellphones. And as for number portability, they could then stipulate that numbers are portable, however, landline-to-landline and cellphone-to-cellphone. And then direct marketting calls to cellphones could either be outlawed or be reverse-charged to the direct marketters.
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This is like saying you will step down as the head of a screwdriver & hammer manufacturing company because you are against the war in Iraq and you oppose the military's use of screwdrivers & hammers.
Are the articles that lean this morning?
Question: What. do. you. get. when. you. combine. deuterium. pellet. terrawatt. laser. and. ancient. earth. leader. from. the. asian. steppes?
Answer: Khan. Fusion.
Not exactly on topic, but just to keep with the topic, I think it would be a tremendous breakthrough if we could get more energy out of fusion than we put in.
Absolutely, the US does this all the time to other countries as well as other countries doing it to the US.
I love the retraining issue... shows how ignorant MS is of its own products. Ever try upgrading an organization from one major release of MS Office to another release? Where's the ______ menu now? How do I mail merge? The only thing they keep consistent between releases is that damn dancing singing talking paperclip.
Shouldn't this be about the history of every UI, not GUI? CLI doesn't normally incorporate graphics. ;-)
It certainly does - it uses only one port, and it goes right thru NAT (even if NAT is on both ends) without any additional configuration. SIP can only go thru one layer of NAT unless you have a gatekeeper or an asterisk box set up on at least one end (at the NAT box itself).
Alright, so v1.0 supports openh323, v2.0 is going to add SIP, does that mean we have to wait for v3.0 for IAX/IAX2 support?
because you are preventing us from being a monopoly! And that is sooooo unfair to us!
Does this mean they get rid of that obnoxious dog?
If so, maybe I'll study Thai... *grin*
"Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable."
That way more people could afford to counterfeit money? Oh wait, somehow I doubt that those who are counterfeiting money actually OWN a license to Photoshop!
from SC2 - The Ur-Quan Masters:
"The enemy of your enemy is your friend, for a time."
Here's to hoping that time is a very long time!
Might as well bust all jaywalkers too and make them go to walking school while you're at it.
News flash - things that are considered petty but illegal do occur on a day-to-day basis right on your own street!
The real question is not about the legality of downloading the music, but a) is it truely the source of lost sales, or the driving force keeping any sales going? and b) if it is truely the reason behind them (and not a smokescreen to cover up bad economic times, low quality product, or even the fact that the market has reached a saturation level on a 20 year old technology) does it truely pay to try to enforce, given any backlash you might have? Every product, whether tangible or intangible, has a certain calculated loss due to theft and/or infringement already calculated into its price. Anybody who claims otherwise is just as full of b.s. as those who compare copyright infringers to rapists, murderers, and other felons.
I personally would like to see some innovation without a jail cell (aka DRM). I want oggs that I can download and pay a *reasonable* price (reasonable == 75 cents per song). CD Audio to me is a pain, and honestly, the most recent music I've heard that I've enjoyed was from The Precursors... certainly not something from any major label.
I can forsee it... they will continue suing Lindows in every third world country that they can if and when they lose in Finland, Sweden, and NL (what I read is this is only a preliminary injuction, and not a closed case)... Next stop - Micronesia!
Not that I really care about lindows much, but that's because I'm an old fashioned slackware user...
Gee, if the UN controls the internet, I can just see all the Arab countries voting Israel to be disconnected because .il is not a "recognized" TLD... just like the Magen David Adom (Red Jewish Star, the ambulance service in Israel) was forbidden entry into the Red Cross association by the Arabs because the Jewish Star is not an "officially recognized symbol"... Is this the type of Internet you want? This type of nonsense is not limited to the Arab-Israeli situation but can be transposed to any similar situation... perhaps Russia v. Chechenya for example?
I'd say Mod this entire section -5 for off topic.
What does the West Bank, IDF actions, and "occupation" have to do with Open Office?
The Elders of Zion used TCP.
Let's assume (and I might not be correct in this assertion) that every computer in every country can at least type & see the 26 letters used in the English language plus digits 0-9 and the dash & period signs. However, I have no idea how to type anything coherent in Chinese Simplified or Traditional (hell, it's all Chinese to me...)...
In the interest of fostering the best method to communicate your ideas, products, services, etc., would you not want to use the characters that most everybody can type?
Oh, and this begs the next question - what about languages that go right-to-left instead of left-to-right? How about Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew? Personally, I don't want to see any domain names outside of the 26 chars used in English, 0-9, and the period & dash signs.
We'll just have to wait for Passover so that all slave drives will be freed from the evil Master drives... Will Charleton Heston play Moses this time?
to one of our favorite open-source games out there?...
The Ur-Quan Masters
Here is the line-up:
SCO = The Korh-Ah, bent on destruction of Open Source
Microsoft = The Kzer-Za, bent on enslaving all sentient species
Linus & RMS = Humans with a precursor service vehicle...
So what will be our secret weapon to destroy the Sa-Matra that SCO & Microsoft hold in their hands?
According to the marketting department of the Syrius Cybernetics Corp., a robot is your plastic pal who's fun to be with.
I don't suppose this new machine is going to have a chronically depressed mood is it?
Life, don't talk to me about life...
...the Financial Times reported that it had received a DDoS attack from all those /. readers accessing their site. The Financial Times has responded by offering $50,000 protection money to /. ....
...to a cemetery near you in Chicago! Now the dead can vote, even earlier and more often!
I'm no zealot, but what I see is a company praying on the ignorance and miseducation of the ordinary user. Many similar techniques, such as "cramming" on a telephone sales call are considered predatory and illegal (at least I believe that the FTC considers cramming as an illegal scam).
Also, I hope Gator reads this, so they know how much we hate them. But maybe I should thank them for generating extra business for me to remove their program from clients' computers.
That (at least at a glance) Open Office seems to have really stepped up the multi-language support... including Hebrew. Next we'll barricade Microsoft's Israel headquarters and make Bill Gates spend a romantic evening with Yasser Arafat...
Much of the blame on this is due to a lack of foresight on behalf of the FCC and the baby bells. I know that in Israel, there is a separate area code for cellphones. If regional cellphone/pager-only area codes were overlaid on top of the existing area code "map", it would make it very easy to classify cellphones. And as for number portability, they could then stipulate that numbers are portable, however, landline-to-landline and cellphone-to-cellphone. And then direct marketting calls to cellphones could either be outlawed or be reverse-charged to the direct marketters.