Gosh, and I thought it was part of the mechanism that allows me to charge for the stuff I write (e.g. http://www.examulator.com/tamer/ ) Nice to know that I'm a member of the ruling classes though.
No, you could still easily charge for stuff without copyright. Bookstores still charge for Shakespeare books, even though there's no copyright on that. What copyright does is prevent other publishers from taking your work and selling it without your permission or giving you any money. Shakespeare, being dead, doesn't mind, but you might.
Gosh, and I thought it was part of the mechanism that allows me to charge for the stuff I write (e.g. http://www.examulator.com/tamer/ ) Nice to know that I'm a member of the ruling classes though.
No, you could still easily charge for stuff without copyright. Bookstores still charge for Shakespeare books, even though there's no copyright on that. What copyright does is prevent other publishers from taking your work and selling it without your permission or giving you any money. Shakespeare, being dead, doesn't mind, but you might.
Considering, at least in the US, how many kids are actually dangerously obese...I don't see this as a danger.
Americans are all fucked up when it comes to diet. You've got your anorexics who don't eat anything, you've got you bulemics who don't know how to stop eating but want to be anorexic so they force themselves to vomit, and then you have the people who know they can't be anorexic and just give up and wallow in obesity.
While obesity is a serious and growing problem in America, that doesn't negate the problems of anorexia and other eating disorders.
but someone complains about Microsoft's licensing and you think they're being unreasonable?
DO NOT EVER PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH, I'd like to see a direct quote of mine ever saying that. Back your bullshit lies up.
This other dude said:
You mean like I'm not allowed to use Windows XP despite having paid a portion of the school's copy ?
Then you said:
That argument is like saying I should be able to drag the photocopier out from the school because I paid for it as well. Or that I should be able to pull up a few boards from the gym to add onto my house. Do you really want to go down that rathole, you are able to see the difference between the two aren't you?
I took from this that you think the other dude was being unreasonable for wanting a copy of XP because his taxes paid for the school's copy. Am I wrong?
If the school had bought GPL software instead, they could give him as many copies as he wants, and do a lot of things with it they couldn't do with proprietary software. So I don't understand being against using public money to buy GPL software if you're not also against using public money to buy proprietary software.
You do realize that to MS "use" is on redistributing something don't you? They'd have a really, really, really expensive R&D with hardly any return if they only developed for applications inside MS.
And they can redistribute GPL software with the source, or they can choose not to use GPL software. What's the problem?
So wait, you think the GPL is too restrictive because it requires you to give out the source if you modify and redistribute it, but someone complains about Microsoft's licensing and you think they're being unreasonable? WTF?
Does Opera come with the features contained in ConQuery, Flashblock, Gmail Notifier, IE Tab, Nuke Anything, Slashdotter, and Web Developer?
Yes, it does. Next.
Can you tell me how to enable these features? Because I like Opera 9, but without Flashblock, Nuke Anything, and Gmail Notifier, I just can't use it as my main browser.
Anyway, you aren't the first to mention this "solution" so let me say it loudly -- Middle click does not close Firefox tabs in Linux and considering the utility of middle-click-paste, I hope it never does.
There's an option in about:config to have middle click close tabs in Linux, and Ubuntu's Firefox does that by default.
Looks like Firefox drank the coolaid and opted for the tab closing button on each tab, thus presenting a moving target for closing tabs. I hope they make single button an option a least.
I want my Firefox to have no tab closing buttons (middle click for me). Anyone know if that will be an option or an extention?
Nintendo most of the time in the past has done Console launch one year, Portable launch for a year or two, then console launch, etc
Nintendo has done console launches every 5-6 years. Portables haven't been on an even schedule, but it went: GB 1989, GBC 1998, GBA 2001, DS 2004.
Notice the original GB went 9 years without an upgrade, and the GBC wasn't even much of an upgrade (just some colors, but no better graphics). The GBASP is a sweet handheld, and could have easily carried on without the DS if it wasn't for the PSP. Hell, the SP was outselling both of them for a while after the new handhelds came out. If Sony hadn't gone into the handheld market, I doubt we would ever have the DS. We'd probably be getting a GBA2 (or whatever) about now, but it wouldn't have anywhere near the innovation that the DS has, because Nintendo wouldn't need it to.
Right, because all female gamers play the same kinds of games for the same reasons.
I think the "secret" of getting women to play games is to not turn them off. For example, if you make a game series that's fairly popular with women (Final Fantasy) when you finally make one where the lead charactor is female (X-2), don't stick her in skanky shorts and a shirt cut down to her waist (not that that was the only problem in X-2). Female gamers do play all sorts of games, but I get really annoyed at games that assume I'm a 25 year old boy.
Nice idea for the 'hide-it-from-your-wife' crowd, but other than that not too much use for this, and not really anything that is not provided by extensions for existing browsers already.
Even for the hide-it-from-your-wife crowd, if just manually (or with extentions) clearing your cookies, cache, and history isn't enough to stop her, she'll find a way around this, too (it also means that you two have some trust issues to work out). I would also think a bigger concern along these lines is preventing spyware from installing and changing the homepage to porn and opening porn popups, which this doesn't seem to help prevent.
I'm glad you've had good luck with Flash. I've had nothing but bad, and if you read what other people have to say about Flash on Linux you'll see the problem isn't just me. I managed to configure a wireless card with ndiswrapper in about a minute the first time I tried, that doesn't mean that everyone has the greatest experience with ndiswrapper and we don't need open drivers.
Except Linux isn't a company, so they're not supporting one company over another (they're not even supporting - they're recommending). Linux is an open source operating system that can be supported and modified by any company or group of people. India has a lot of underemployed skilled technical people, having them support and modify Linux distros for Indian schools and companies is much better for India than those companies and schools sending their money to another country.
And just to bring that point home, OS X fans believe OS X's share of the market is rising because Mac sales are rising. One does not lead to the other.
Everyone I know who's 'switched' to a mac has bought it expressly to run windows. Sad, but true.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but wtf? Why would you buy an expensive computer that comes with an OS just to buy (or pirate) another OS when you could have bought a cheaper computer with your OS of choice? Is it 'cuz Macs are sooo pretty? How dumb are people with their money?
OSX is a vendor lock-in solution, and not many people like that.
Most people get into a vendor lock-in solution without knowing or caring. The only people who wouldn't consider OSX because of vender lock-in have already switched to Linux (or BSD, or whatever)
OSX is substantially slower on most benchmarks than Linux and Windows.
Yeah, and if companies can save money on technical staff by having an OS that's more user friendly, they'll do that. That means more to most businesses than benchmarks.
OSX isn't a serious solution.
OSX is a potential solution to anyone using Windows who doesn't like it. It's more secure, more stable, and doesn't require the technical retraining (or rehiring) that a migration to Linux would. Sure, some people and companies require more power and freedom than OSX has, but many don't. As OSX becomes more popular for personal use, it will become more popular for business use.
Please understand that closed source has the potential to fork linux.
I'd like to see gnash or another open source flash program get good enough that linux users don't even consider Adobe's. That would be much better than us sitting around waiting for Adobe to release a half-baked linux version, or not.
Closed source flash on linux is exactly the same as firefox running on windows.
Oh Great Oracle, pray tell us why Flash 7 for Linux is almost completely useless!
If you'd ever used it, you'd know, but I'll explain.
- The audio and video are out of sync which makes many videos unwatchable.
- It's rather unstable and can cause frequent browser crashes.
Some people have found workarounds, or their system works better with flash and doesn't crash as much, or the audio sync bug just doesn't bother them. That's the "almost". For me, it took me hours to stop it from instantly crashing my browser whenever I went to a page with flash and get sound to play (the sound problem was actually causing the crashes, flash's OSS doesn't work well w/ Ubuntu's default ESD) but the syncing problem is really bad and it still crashes occasionally. It's not really worth it to me to find a fix; I just find videos that aren't flash.
Not good enough. Macromedia already made flash 7 for linux. What's the point of switching to gnash if it comes without flash 8 support?
I believe it runs on ppc and amd64 linux, which Macromedia's flash doesn't.
Also, it's the concept of using free (as in speech) software. And hopefully, with enough work and support, gnash will be current enough and good enough that linux users can use gnash instead and won't have to wait for Adobe to not release the latest flash versions for linux.
But when I do use Linux to view them, I can usually view even movies I thought were restricted to Player 9. Me being dense, no doubt, but maybe someone could clear the air as to version compatibility?
Most websites still use Flash 7. There's very few websites that have 8 or 9, but they're there, and you'll get a message to upgrade your flash when you find them. What's probably happened is you just haven't found any 8 or 9 sites, and you're just assuming that the site has upgraded its flash when it hasn't.
Flash 7 for Linux is almost completely useless. Here's hoping that Flash 9 for Linux is sweet and comes out soon, or (better yet) the gnash team gets it going to the point that Linux users don't need to rely on Adobe for flashy goodness.
I'd rather be killed by a nice boy like you, than an islamo-fascist any day.
Is that sarcastic? Because it doesn't make any sense. Why would it be better to have nice boys killing people instead of "Islamo-facists"? The people aren't any less dead.
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No, you could still easily charge for stuff without copyright. Bookstores still charge for Shakespeare books, even though there's no copyright on that. What copyright does is prevent other publishers from taking your work and selling it without your permission or giving you any money. Shakespeare, being dead, doesn't mind, but you might.
Gosh, and I thought it was part of the mechanism that allows me to charge for the stuff I write (e.g. http://www.examulator.com/tamer/ ) Nice to know that I'm a member of the ruling classes though. No, you could still easily charge for stuff without copyright. Bookstores still charge for Shakespeare books, even though there's no copyright on that. What copyright does is prevent other publishers from taking your work and selling it without your permission or giving you any money. Shakespeare, being dead, doesn't mind, but you might.
Awww, they're cute.
While obesity is a serious and growing problem in America, that doesn't negate the problems of anorexia and other eating disorders.
If the school had bought GPL software instead, they could give him as many copies as he wants, and do a lot of things with it they couldn't do with proprietary software. So I don't understand being against using public money to buy GPL software if you're not also against using public money to buy proprietary software.
You do realize that to MS "use" is on redistributing something don't you? They'd have a really, really, really expensive R&D with hardly any return if they only developed for applications inside MS. And they can redistribute GPL software with the source, or they can choose not to use GPL software. What's the problem?
So wait, you think the GPL is too restrictive because it requires you to give out the source if you modify and redistribute it, but someone complains about Microsoft's licensing and you think they're being unreasonable? WTF?
Notice the original GB went 9 years without an upgrade, and the GBC wasn't even much of an upgrade (just some colors, but no better graphics). The GBASP is a sweet handheld, and could have easily carried on without the DS if it wasn't for the PSP. Hell, the SP was outselling both of them for a while after the new handhelds came out. If Sony hadn't gone into the handheld market, I doubt we would ever have the DS. We'd probably be getting a GBA2 (or whatever) about now, but it wouldn't have anywhere near the innovation that the DS has, because Nintendo wouldn't need it to.
I'm glad you've had good luck with Flash. I've had nothing but bad, and if you read what other people have to say about Flash on Linux you'll see the problem isn't just me. I managed to configure a wireless card with ndiswrapper in about a minute the first time I tried, that doesn't mean that everyone has the greatest experience with ndiswrapper and we don't need open drivers.
Except Linux isn't a company, so they're not supporting one company over another (they're not even supporting - they're recommending). Linux is an open source operating system that can be supported and modified by any company or group of people. India has a lot of underemployed skilled technical people, having them support and modify Linux distros for Indian schools and companies is much better for India than those companies and schools sending their money to another country.
Yeah, and if companies can save money on technical staff by having an OS that's more user friendly, they'll do that. That means more to most businesses than benchmarks.
OSX is a potential solution to anyone using Windows who doesn't like it. It's more secure, more stable, and doesn't require the technical retraining (or rehiring) that a migration to Linux would. Sure, some people and companies require more power and freedom than OSX has, but many don't. As OSX becomes more popular for personal use, it will become more popular for business use.
I don't understand what you mean.
- The audio and video are out of sync which makes many videos unwatchable.
- It's rather unstable and can cause frequent browser crashes.
Some people have found workarounds, or their system works better with flash and doesn't crash as much, or the audio sync bug just doesn't bother them. That's the "almost". For me, it took me hours to stop it from instantly crashing my browser whenever I went to a page with flash and get sound to play (the sound problem was actually causing the crashes, flash's OSS doesn't work well w/ Ubuntu's default ESD) but the syncing problem is really bad and it still crashes occasionally. It's not really worth it to me to find a fix; I just find videos that aren't flash.
Also, it's the concept of using free (as in speech) software. And hopefully, with enough work and support, gnash will be current enough and good enough that linux users can use gnash instead and won't have to wait for Adobe to not release the latest flash versions for linux.
Flash 7 for Linux is almost completely useless. Here's hoping that Flash 9 for Linux is sweet and comes out soon, or (better yet) the gnash team gets it going to the point that Linux users don't need to rely on Adobe for flashy goodness.