Gentoo has most recent (3D and other) commercial games for Linux in the portage tree. The same applies for most of the packages other distros can not put on their cds because of license restrictions.
(Before I get flamed, note that installing from command line is not a viable option for most people)
Without wanting to flame but I never really understood this. Why is the command line any different than a GUI concerning difficulty? I wouldn't say it is easier but I wouldn't say it is harder than making 3-5 clicks in the GUI to reach the installer file in some file browser and double-click it either. Maybe I am just too much of a geek but is there some fear of the keyboard involved or can anyone enlighten me?
Strange. Most people breaking into houses here in Germany do that to rob electronics, rape and murder happen mostly on the street. I would argue that shooting someone for a 50 Euro DVD-Player or even a few hundred Euro TV or PC isn't worth it because:
1) The risk of the robber harming you is higher if you attack him
2) A human life (even that of a criminal) is worth more than a pile of transistors in a box.
A modern desktop 7200 rpm harddrive has transfer rates around 50-60 MB/s so why shouldn't a mobile, small-form-factor harddrive be able to transfer 5 MB/s. If there is anything wrong with the GP post it is the spinning up the harddrive when the buffer is empty instead of filling it again when it is half empty or something similar.
And perhaps the fact that the US is a country with a defective law system makes you overestimate the value of this clause. You can't make licenses immune to law-makers intentionally passing laws to break your license.
There should be a percentage given in patent law. When this percentage of fraudulent patents is reached (counting all patents of everyone who is found to have at least one fraudulent patent) the patent system should be automatically killed.
Actually no. But e.g. in Germany where I live we don't have many dumb (as in: would reply to spam) people that speak english good enough to understand the english spam messages and have a credit card (most people here don't have one). So the group of potential customers for english spam is far lower than in the US.
Your second point is bullshit. If you constantly write a sector, let us say it is the page-file/partition you probably won't need access to this data after several months of not touching it which is about the only situation where remagnetization helps.
Hint: You don't need the JVM if your apps run on the server and if you use a JVM it doesn't have to run in a Windows Emulator, just native Windows apps have to.
The problem is simple. There are no 64-bit codecs for Windows Media and 64 Bit applications can not import 32 bit ones. And since we have no source we can not simply recompile.
I guess they compared students using almost exclusively computers to students using books when both have the same budget or something like that. In that situation computers are bad. There are much less learning programs out there than books and you can't get good grammar by reading online-english. You won't get good results in math tests if students let their computer do the work for them. Computers are not meant as replacement for traditional forms of learning. They should be added as another alternative way to learn things where traditional learning has weak spots.
I use a computer a lot but I also read a lot and I am perfectly capable of calculating without an electronic (or mechanical) calculator when it comes to basic arithmetic calculations (add, subtract, multiply, divide,...). Sadly that isn't true for everyone using computers today and I blame parents and the education system for that. We even have students at our Computer Science course at the University unable to calculate simply things like 2 to the power of 3. I don't think this is the result of computer use but the result of a lack of other forms of learning in addition to computer use.
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Gentoo has most recent (3D and other) commercial games for Linux in the portage tree. The same applies for most of the packages other distros can not put on their cds because of license restrictions.
Strange. Most people breaking into houses here in Germany do that to rob electronics, rape and murder happen mostly on the street. I would argue that shooting someone for a 50 Euro DVD-Player or even a few hundred Euro TV or PC isn't worth it because:
1) The risk of the robber harming you is higher if you attack him
2) A human life (even that of a criminal) is worth more than a pile of transistors in a box.
Nobody has a "need" for an ipod product. At most they have a need for a portable audio player.
A modern desktop 7200 rpm harddrive has transfer rates around 50-60 MB/s so why shouldn't a mobile, small-form-factor harddrive be able to transfer 5 MB/s. If there is anything wrong with the GP post it is the spinning up the harddrive when the buffer is empty instead of filling it again when it is half empty or something similar.
And you might want to update the constitution to fix all known exploits after same decades.
Probably worthless because the court system is designed to help rich people, the kind of people commiting crimes for money, not normal people.
And perhaps the fact that the US is a country with a defective law system makes you overestimate the value of this clause. You can't make licenses immune to law-makers intentionally passing laws to break your license.
There should be a percentage given in patent law. When this percentage of fraudulent patents is reached (counting all patents of everyone who is found to have at least one fraudulent patent) the patent system should be automatically killed.
Actually no. But e.g. in Germany where I live we don't have many dumb (as in: would reply to spam) people that speak english good enough to understand the english spam messages and have a credit card (most people here don't have one). So the group of potential customers for english spam is far lower than in the US.
Perhaps we could tell them the earth will be eaten by a giant space goat and put them all in a giant space ship to "save" them...
Your second point is bullshit. If you constantly write a sector, let us say it is the page-file/partition you probably won't need access to this data after several months of not touching it which is about the only situation where remagnetization helps.
A rat in the server room would take down all of the workstations?
And with thin clients 50 users can go home and have some unplanned free time if the server takes an unexpected timeout...
Hint: You don't need the JVM if your apps run on the server and if you use a JVM it doesn't have to run in a Windows Emulator, just native Windows apps have to.
Isn't it more of a Y1K joke? That was the last time we added a digit.
The problem is simple. There are no 64-bit codecs for Windows Media and 64 Bit applications can not import 32 bit ones. And since we have no source we can not simply recompile.
Even with the source in the (invisible to most) AC reply it still looks stupid to everything speaking german. I would suggest a sig change.
It shouldn't. Why do you think we try everything here in Europe to kill Software-Patents before they are established?
I guess they compared students using almost exclusively computers to students using books when both have the same budget or something like that. In that situation computers are bad. There are much less learning programs out there than books and you can't get good grammar by reading online-english. You won't get good results in math tests if students let their computer do the work for them. Computers are not meant as replacement for traditional forms of learning. They should be added as another alternative way to learn things where traditional learning has weak spots.
I use a computer a lot but I also read a lot and I am perfectly capable of calculating without an electronic (or mechanical) calculator when it comes to basic arithmetic calculations (add, subtract, multiply, divide,...). Sadly that isn't true for everyone using computers today and I blame parents and the education system for that. We even have students at our Computer Science course at the University unable to calculate simply things like 2 to the power of 3. I don't think this is the result of computer use but the result of a lack of other forms of learning in addition to computer use.
So it is Offline-Internet-Radio, simply put?
I agree. Enforcing of the license terms is enough. Fining is unnecessary (unless needed to fund the enforcing actions).
Worked with the word "pirates" for the other side.
If you would't use Internet you would probably read a book or magazine or two which are not exactly free (as in beer) either.
Which phone can tell you where the next lifeform is located from your current position and wether it is human?