Actually no, they do it because they either have a marketing agreement with opposing vendors who didn't want free advertising to be given to the competition or because the image was TRADEMARKED and they were worried the use of it in their show might bring legal trouble on that front.
Unless they have an incompetent legal department, they are never doing it because they fear they are infringing copyrights, as it'd be a 100% slam dunk when they showed up for court and said "Your honor, fair use."
A portion of the PDF spec is based on a subset of the PostScript language, which is a Turing Complete programing language. It's never been 'just a document markup and layout' format. It's just that few people have considered it worth the bother to attack it till recently.
Actually while I was a CS major one of our labs was half NeXTSTEP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP) and was aware of graduate students who pranked each other on the lab computers using the fact that the computers used postscript as a display engine.
PDF is the evolved form of PostScript - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript and at the time PS came out, it wasn't that bad of an idea, especially since it enabled us to actually print IMAGES.
Unfortunately, feature creep set in and instead of creating a language actually meant for publishing and sharing documents, Adobe just reimplemented PS in PDF and glossed over the fact that they were using an elephant gun to shoot mosquito. This is coming back around to bite them in their butt. But the actual origins of the language weren't as boneheaded as you make them out to be.
Are becoming? Are you new to the scene or have you been ignoring the past twenty years of Sony tech? Sony and Nintendo walk hand in hand to the prom as the King and Queen of Overbearing Control Freaks who punish their customers left and right for committing the sins of daring to use their products in an unauthorized manner.
Remember the Memory Stick? The DAT? The MiniDisc? BetaMax? ATRAC? UMD?
Anyone buying a PS3 thinking they were entering into a relationship with a company that was open and responsive to it's customers needs over it's own desire to control the 'experience' was either born yesterday or operating on blind faith.
Presumably, the terrain isn't going to be changing that often and if you are doing urban planning, you are probably going to be aware of what's on the map already.
The geek in me says you simply need to have the right sensors checking the right stuff to be able to cherry pick the wood prior to cutting. You'd probably have a reject pile worse than the production lines for early 60 inch LCD panels, but in theory it should be possible.
The majority of the 'masses' are doing just fine and are about as interested in lining the 'government' up as they were before this whole brouhaha. That's the unfortunate result of living in a country where the government actively controls the media, you are always told you are doing well and any inconveniences are necessary sacrifices for the good of the cause. Which is also why China won't budge an inch over this, since Google has the power to cause the populace to believe differently.
Not that I don't think a vast majority of the people at EA don't enjoy a good paint chip now and then, I haven't been under a rock you know. I just don't think this particular article is about the consequences of such.
If you want to be safe, don't use GPL license for your software, you're going to have to deal with a bunch of pains in the asses in the future if you ever want to do anything different from a license perspective.
If you want to be 'safe' in your limited definition, simply require that all contributions that you accept into the 'primary fork' that you maintain be accompanied by a copyrights assignment to you or your company so that you can legally re-license those contributions. It's not rocket science, you don't own the code that other people contribute anymore than they 'own' the code you've contributed. You are perfectly within your rights to re-license your own code just as they are perfectly within their rights to refuse you permission to do the same with theirs.
Information on the Wiki being removed, all of the 'opensource' versions removed for download, all updates to the same removed, leaving only the pay "enterprise" version avaliable?
Let me guess, in a previous life you worked in Baghdad handing press announcements concerning the Allied troop advances for the Iraqi government.
If it takes a billion to build the factory and needs eight years to get going, then you need to be able to raise a billion dollars, keep a float for over eight years before even hoping to break even (because you know that first year isn't going to produce a billion in profits).
On one side of that coin, I agree with you. On the other side of that coin, I remember the sick to my stomache feeling I had the entire time of the Tiananmen Square events.
It's one thing to be a cheerleader, it's entirely different to know that the side you are cheering for will likely end up dead or have a short brutal life in a 'rehabilitation camp' when your and the rest of the world's governments just decided to stand by and watch rather than get in involved.
Dude, what are you? Magnetically attracted to trolls? This one didn't even finish his thought at the end of the comment and you still had to treat it like a legitimate comment. Troll food. That's what you are, TROLL FOOD.
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Almost as silly as your Google-bashing has become.
No, not really.
You are still miles ahead of them. Keep it up, everyone loves a clown.
Actually no, they do it because they either have a marketing agreement with opposing vendors who didn't want free advertising to be given to the competition or because the image was TRADEMARKED and they were worried the use of it in their show might bring legal trouble on that front.
Unless they have an incompetent legal department, they are never doing it because they fear they are infringing copyrights, as it'd be a 100% slam dunk when they showed up for court and said "Your honor, fair use."
A portion of the PDF spec is based on a subset of the PostScript language, which is a Turing Complete programing language. It's never been 'just a document markup and layout' format. It's just that few people have considered it worth the bother to attack it till recently.
Actually while I was a CS major one of our labs was half NeXTSTEP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP) and was aware of graduate students who pranked each other on the lab computers using the fact that the computers used postscript as a display engine.
PDF is the evolved form of PostScript - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript and at the time PS came out, it wasn't that bad of an idea, especially since it enabled us to actually print IMAGES.
Unfortunately, feature creep set in and instead of creating a language actually meant for publishing and sharing documents, Adobe just reimplemented PS in PDF and glossed over the fact that they were using an elephant gun to shoot mosquito. This is coming back around to bite them in their butt. But the actual origins of the language weren't as boneheaded as you make them out to be.
Are becoming? Are you new to the scene or have you been ignoring the past twenty years of Sony tech? Sony and Nintendo walk hand in hand to the prom as the King and Queen of Overbearing Control Freaks who punish their customers left and right for committing the sins of daring to use their products in an unauthorized manner.
Remember the Memory Stick? The DAT? The MiniDisc? BetaMax? ATRAC? UMD?
Anyone buying a PS3 thinking they were entering into a relationship with a company that was open and responsive to it's customers needs over it's own desire to control the 'experience' was either born yesterday or operating on blind faith.
Presumably, the terrain isn't going to be changing that often and if you are doing urban planning, you are probably going to be aware of what's on the map already.
The geek in me says you simply need to have the right sensors checking the right stuff to be able to cherry pick the wood prior to cutting. You'd probably have a reject pile worse than the production lines for early 60 inch LCD panels, but in theory it should be possible.
First Picture on the page. Not that you were going to pay for one anyway.
The majority of the 'masses' are doing just fine and are about as interested in lining the 'government' up as they were before this whole brouhaha. That's the unfortunate result of living in a country where the government actively controls the media, you are always told you are doing well and any inconveniences are necessary sacrifices for the good of the cause. Which is also why China won't budge an inch over this, since Google has the power to cause the populace to believe differently.
EA: We Will Not Charge For "Traditionally Free Game Demos" claims something entirely different and less "OMG the people in EA have been eating LEAD!"
Not that I don't think a vast majority of the people at EA don't enjoy a good paint chip now and then, I haven't been under a rock you know. I just don't think this particular article is about the consequences of such.
If you want to be 'safe' in your limited definition, simply require that all contributions that you accept into the 'primary fork' that you maintain be accompanied by a copyrights assignment to you or your company so that you can legally re-license those contributions. It's not rocket science, you don't own the code that other people contribute anymore than they 'own' the code you've contributed. You are perfectly within your rights to re-license your own code just as they are perfectly within their rights to refuse you permission to do the same with theirs.
Information on the Wiki being removed, all of the 'opensource' versions removed for download, all updates to the same removed, leaving only the pay "enterprise" version avaliable?
Let me guess, in a previous life you worked in Baghdad handing press announcements concerning the Allied troop advances for the Iraqi government.
Ipso Facto...
So, we drink their milkshake?
If it takes a billion to build the factory and needs eight years to get going, then you need to be able to raise a billion dollars, keep a float for over eight years before even hoping to break even (because you know that first year isn't going to produce a billion in profits).
Not a scenario many can pull off.
It made the news recently, of course not everyone buys it.
Given your signature expresses the problem (albeit, I'm sure you meant it humorously)... I think my cynicism, however distorting, valid.
Are you aware of the irony of what you've just said or jaded enough to ignore it?
What are the codes to launch the nuclear weapons is a valid national security secret.
How do we plan on breaking the law, local or international, is not.
The problem is, the government has used the latter often enough that no one believes them anymore when they have a valid instance of the former.
On one side of that coin, I agree with you. On the other side of that coin, I remember the sick to my stomache feeling I had the entire time of the Tiananmen Square events.
It's one thing to be a cheerleader, it's entirely different to know that the side you are cheering for will likely end up dead or have a short brutal life in a 'rehabilitation camp' when your and the rest of the world's governments just decided to stand by and watch rather than get in involved.
Dude, what are you? Magnetically attracted to trolls? This one didn't even finish his thought at the end of the comment and you still had to treat it like a legitimate comment. Troll food. That's what you are, TROLL FOOD.
Perhaps not every piece of software, perhaps just the software that fit in the category he was interested in? Such as replacements/shells for DOS.
Especially as, as mentioned, Windows 1.0 had a 'rep' already.
Back before Bit Torrent, sometimes you actually had to pay for software before you'd know if it was any good.
PS. In case you want it and your google-fu is out sick today it's:
format /FS:FAT32 X:
with X being your drive.