they've shown that if not corrupt, they're barely ethical/competent. will they accept donations? let the friends of the board members go first? this kind of stuff happens when you don't have open procedings. its ridiculous for this to be going on in the 21st century.
judges rule one way or another, maybe they aren't all biased, but when the law backfires for a group like the riaa, the legislators modify the law. i think its safe to assum judges generally will side with big companies, because if they don't the law will just get changed anyway.
why don't those things stand up in court. if you had to click on a button that said 'if you download this you agree you're only downloading it for backup' would that stand up?
"You can say what you want, but I believe that this improvement in quality is caused by the DOJ hearings, at least in part. With the world spotlighting their practices and software quality, MS simply has to put its best foot forward. "
i think the improvement in ms' server oses is due to competition from *nix. of course you wouldn't be able to buy computers with an os installed without the doj investigation. so i guess linux et all are a cause of windows 2000 being better.
Jon you say "Was Microsoft really supposed to sit back and allow competitors to dominate this critical market, surely threatening Windows in the process?"
I don't think anybody on the governments side would say they should have. What ms should have done is charge for IE and let it compete, instead of giving it away solely for the purpose of driving netscape out of business. Since I'm in no way qualified to comment on the technicalities of the case, I'll just say that the issue is clouded for me. One one had, government shouldn't be interfering in business. On the other, I really really dislike ms products and would like to not ever have to use them unless they're much better than they are. I don't want to be forced to use ms software because they can just buy all their competition. I guess thats whats so inspiring about free software, someday it may provide a complete replacement for windows and nearly all ms (and other poorly designed proprietary) software. At some point you have to forget about idealogies and think about what is best for you personally.
lets say you write said software and sell it to people in binary form. lots of people here about it and know what it is used for, but it doesn't suit everybodys needs. should we all sit around with our thumbs up our asses, giving you money for software that is somewhat useful but not exactly how we would like that? hell no. so we write our own, and because we need it to get the job done, not to feed ourself, we release it under the gpl. you can either make your software better and keep getting money, or you can do nothing and eventually the free alternative will be better. just because write a piece of software once doesn't mean you should be set up for the rest of your life.
again you just make a claim. i wonder if there are countries with weak patent protection or short patent time periods. (other than like china or communist countries)
i agree trustedbsd is probably more up their alley, maybe they will be interested in porting the trustedbsd changes to openbsd, since the method the two took towards being secure is different.
i don't know how they would read it, the article doesn't have much detail. however the spin exists in only two states, the ininite storage capability doesnt relate really, that other article about infinite storage was related to the infinite energy levels of an electron. the article does claim they are stable suggesting that the 'spin-state' wouldn't be changed by random radiation. i don't really know what spin state means, something about the spin of each particle in the central atom i suppose...
while not entirely irrelevant, there are things more important than major. for instance if i had it all to do over again i would have gone to florida state. i don't know if they have much of an ee dept. but i know there are a ton of women there. for the love of god before choosing a school LOOK AT THE FEMALE:MALE RATIO. don't take one worse than 1:1 for the whole school, and try to get one with a good ratio in the engineering school. i know mine was something like 1 female per 30 males. thats the one thing i really feel that i underestimated going in.
i don't buy it. all the stuff on tv is a bunch of crap i don't want and don't have a choice whether i get. yet i am forced to pay because i absolutely refuse to go without nhl and nfl coverage. i would rather have subscription as opposed to micropayment, like $10 bucks a year for unlimited/. access (if they get rid of the warning goatse.cx guy). i would also like to apply this to tv, i specifically pay for a certain program (simpsons) without all the other shit on fox.
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part of the problem is that the majority of americans would rather rail against the 'other party' than try to understand issues and policies.
the method by which they selected the new tld's was 'closed'.
they've shown that if not corrupt, they're barely ethical/competent. will they accept donations? let the friends of the board members go first? this kind of stuff happens when you don't have open procedings. its ridiculous for this to be going on in the 21st century.
what if you live off campus but the school still provides your internet access.
"Does nobody care about search and seizure rights?"
i don't know. are they good for the economy?
linux doesn't have a monopoly
judges rule one way or another, maybe they aren't all biased, but when the law backfires for a group like the riaa, the legislators modify the law. i think its safe to assum judges generally will side with big companies, because if they don't the law will just get changed anyway.
why don't those things stand up in court. if you had to click on a button that said 'if you download this you agree you're only downloading it for backup' would that stand up?
why not just use an fae (fuel air explosive) and blow them all up? should be fairly cheap and fast, and easy to clean up?
sure they can.
"if you put software a on your computers and sell them, we won't sell you any more licenses."
the problem is ms can prevent oems from selling a computer with anything other than ms products installed on it. this would suck.
"You can say what you want, but I believe that this improvement in quality is caused by the DOJ hearings, at least in part. With the world spotlighting their practices and software quality, MS simply has to put its best foot forward. "
i think the improvement in ms' server oses is due to competition from *nix. of course you wouldn't be able to buy computers with an os installed without the doj investigation. so i guess linux et all are a cause of windows 2000 being better.
Jon you say "Was Microsoft really supposed to sit back and allow competitors to dominate this critical market, surely threatening Windows in the process?"
I don't think anybody on the governments side would say they should have. What ms should have done is charge for IE and let it compete, instead of giving it away solely for the purpose of driving netscape out of business. Since I'm in no way qualified to comment on the technicalities of the case, I'll just say that the issue is clouded for me. One one had, government shouldn't be interfering in business. On the other, I really really dislike ms products and would like to not ever have to use them unless they're much better than they are. I don't want to be forced to use ms software because they can just buy all their competition. I guess thats whats so inspiring about free software, someday it may provide a complete replacement for windows and nearly all ms (and other poorly designed proprietary) software. At some point you have to forget about idealogies and think about what is best for you personally.
economic policy in the u.s. for the past 20 years has been based on a supply-driven (supply side) theory. don't know where you have been.
lets say you write said software and sell it to people in binary form. lots of people here about it and know what it is used for, but it doesn't suit everybodys needs. should we all sit around with our thumbs up our asses, giving you money for software that is somewhat useful but not exactly how we would like that? hell no. so we write our own, and because we need it to get the job done, not to feed ourself, we release it under the gpl. you can either make your software better and keep getting money, or you can do nothing and eventually the free alternative will be better. just because write a piece of software once doesn't mean you should be set up for the rest of your life.
again you just make a claim. i wonder if there are countries with weak patent protection or short patent time periods. (other than like china or communist countries)
i agree trustedbsd is probably more up their alley, maybe they will be interested in porting the trustedbsd changes to openbsd, since the method the two took towards being secure is different.
"Reality is that patents help the little guy"
i would like to see the hard evidence backing that claim up. not unsubstantiated claims.
buckminsterfullerene i think, not -ine. just fyi.
i don't know how they would read it, the article doesn't have much detail. however the spin exists in only two states, the ininite storage capability doesnt relate really, that other article about infinite storage was related to the infinite energy levels of an electron. the article does claim they are stable suggesting that the 'spin-state' wouldn't be changed by random radiation. i don't really know what spin state means, something about the spin of each particle in the central atom i suppose...
while not entirely irrelevant, there are things more important than major. for instance if i had it all to do over again i would have gone to florida state. i don't know if they have much of an ee dept. but i know there are a ton of women there. for the love of god before choosing a school LOOK AT THE FEMALE:MALE RATIO. don't take one worse than 1:1 for the whole school, and try to get one with a good ratio in the engineering school. i know mine was something like 1 female per 30 males. thats the one thing i really feel that i underestimated going in.
send me $50 cash in the mail (to my po box) and i'll describe to you how these scam artists work.
i don't buy it. all the stuff on tv is a bunch of crap i don't want and don't have a choice whether i get. yet i am forced to pay because i absolutely refuse to go without nhl and nfl coverage. i would rather have subscription as opposed to micropayment, like $10 bucks a year for unlimited /. access (if they get rid of the warning goatse.cx guy). i would also like to apply this to tv, i specifically pay for a certain program (simpsons) without all the other shit on fox.
lets not. then we have all those 12 year old aolers on slashdot talking about insink. its bad enough already, lets not make it worse.
sometimes to do whats right isn't easy or cheap.