Funny, I don't see any Hollywood movies blantently taking scenes from other movies and using it as is in their own. You fail to understand copyright. The exact implemention of an idea is what is protected, not the "formula" as you put it. There's no hipocracy there.
On the other hand you're taking an exact copy of something and enjoying it, but not paying for it. In other words, money would have been gotten by the development studio if you payed for it is not going to them because you stole it. When enough people try to operate as you do, you WILL put them out of business. And then you'll whine when you don't have any games to play.
You're going to Iraq and might die; you need to grow up and stop trying to rationalize everything you do wrong away. Grow up, or you might get yourself killed.
Well, that changes things quite a bit. You are right, and that's what my trainer told me.. have snacks with protien at 10 and 3 between my meals. Protien is a better choice than fat for reasons I've outlined; it does quite a good job keeping you "full" and its not adding unnecessary fat, and you are giving your muscles what they need to build.
A car is much more likely to be broken into than a home. However, had he done as he was told, I wouldn't find any fault with what he did. He did exactly as he was asked.
He didn't do exactly what he was asked, which was take reasonable care to ensure the safety of the tapes. Leaving them in the car not only opens them to being stolen, but, depending on weather conditions, could harm the tapes. Keeping them in his apartment is reasonable because its unlikely someone would break in during the night when most apartment residents are home. Also, unless he stored them in the oven or was careless with fire, there is nothing more reasonable he could do to prevent his building from burning down.
It depends on which version of VS you buy. The Team versions have quite a lot of nice features. On the fly compiling is not a key feature and its usefulness is in doubt. If you really want, try Vb.net, as it does have on the fly compiling.
Java has its own problems; "well almost" doesn't cut it for multiplatform development. C# performs great server side. Derby and MySql don't even hold a candle to Sql Server 2005. Does MySql even have transactions yet? Sql Server 2005 includes.Net integration, comes with Reporting Services, Notification Services, Integration Services and Analysis services. Are there even frameworks comparable to those in the OSS world?
Ok, please explain to me, what is wrong with Windows scheduling, timesharing, fault tolerance, response, file system and networking. It seems to provide those very nicely, and any developer can tap into those features as well. Be specific, repeating your statement doesn't make it true.
Um, I wouldn't call anyone forgetting backup tapes in his car a good employee. Besides the risk of being stolen, melting is another possiblity if its hot enough.
That, and he should know better than to not report something stolen to the police... especially if its someone else's property.
Yes, you don't blind your readers. Black on white is much easier to the eye.
Not for me. All the white shot at my eyes strains them. In VS, I had to change my background to black and text to light gray. I find websites that have a simily schema are much easier to read for longer periods of time.
Why would the FSF enter into this at all? Open source != free software. So I see no reason why FSF would need to add its seal of approval. Same goes for debian.
Huh? Already happened? Then why do we need articles saying year 20xx is the year of desktop linux? Where are the deluge of applications for linux?
It seems to me OSS is playing catch up constantly; is there anything like WPF for Linux? What about WCF? Frameworks which make UI development almost trivial, and are able to setup communications channels with a simple config file?
Since you haven't used MS in 8 years you probably don't know that security has greatly improved. XPSP2, Vista and Server 2003 are all very secure, as is IIS6 and Sql Server 2005. Please, don't claim they aren't, you don't know because you haven't been around it.
Let me rephrase: Are we guaranteed that Microsoft won't claim that it has patented the code after we start using it?
You have a license to use it. Its up to MS to not license patented code under the new license.
Using GPLed code under an M$ would almost certainly be problematic. I was talking about the other way. It's a lot easier to make OSS code GPLed than GPLed code go to a different license (aka, impossible).
Sounds like the GPL is more restrictive on developers then. That's the trade off with the GPL by the way; you give users rights but take them from developers.
What does that mean? Most FLOSS software reinvents the wheel? True. But if you're looking to use someone else's code, why start at Microsoft?
Perhaps because it may solve the problem better than the other code out there? Ruling their code out automatically just because it was made by MS is just stupid.
It's possible to do so, but debugging something that's as buggy as I believe M$ code to be is probably a bigger undertaking than writing from scratch.
Perhaps you should leave personal beliefs out of your evaluation and stick to facts. All code has bugs. Sometimes the bugs are irrelevent. But MS' software (especially XPSP2, Vista and server 2003) is very stable.
But there is reason to be more suspicious of M$ code for the reasons I mentioned. If I knew for a fact that ABC's OSS code had the flaws I refer to, I wouldn't use it either. I just don't trust Microsoft.
Of course not, because you have not evaluated them recently. You think that they could not have changed and fail to realize the company is so big that some divisions want to work with OSS while others may not.
Nintendo can charge whatever they like for their own games, and the fact that Mario and Zelda are popular ensure people will pay the price. I was referring to the price limits they placed on anyone creating Nintendo games, a practice which was ruled illegal and resulted in them sending $20 off coupons to those that bought games in the early 90s IIRC.
I'd be saying the same thing. As a software developer, I get paid to write software. I personally love my job and would hate being able to only program as a hobby. I ask that others respect whatever license I choose, just as I will respect whatever license MS or anyone else chooses.
Wonderful, and when everyone does as you, and game studios make $40 from a game that cost $4M to make, we'll have that attitude to thank when there are almost no more video games and certainly no consoles.
Yes, you need fiber too, and from reading labels lately I can see that its difficult to get the fiber you really need. That's why my trainer said keep up the shreaded wheat for breakfast and use whole grain breads, which taste better as an added bonus.
Actually, it is. That's why Atkins-type diets produce such spectacular (if generally unsustainable) results.
The Atkins type diets produce the same results as other kinds of diets. If you'll look into critisms of the diet, you'll see that its likely water loss that caues the inital drop in weight.
Fat produces short-term energy and sated feelings. However, it is *not* easily stored as fat. What *is* easily stored as fat is carbs, once they're broken down -- particularly processed simple carbs, such as white bread.
You're right, its not easily stored in fat cells, but it does tend to clog your arteries up. Simple carbs are what I was advising against, for the reason you state.
Where you get the strong correlation between eating fat and getting fat is that typically junk foods include large amounts of both fat and simple carbs, because that's how to get cheap crap to taste good. The simple carbs are broken down quickly -- how quickly, you ask? Chew a piece of white bread, hold it in your mouth for about 20 seconds, notice that sugar taste? Yeah, about that quickly -- and since none of your metabolism is requesting more energy at the time since it's awash in fat energy, all those broken down carb calories head straaaaaaight for the fat cells.
I very much doubt you'll lose much weight eating a 3/4 lb cheeseburger from Wendy's but throw away the bun. If you don't use the short term enegry from fat, it will be stored for later.
The ideal solution, for a generally applicable value of "ideal", is to break your eating up into four to six meals, with 1/3 of your calories from healthy fats (avocado, nuts, yadayadayada); 1/3 of your calories from protein; and 1/3 of your calories from *complex* carbs. Best to completely avoid all forms of grains, but at all costs avoid heavily processed white flour type stuff. Then you will, I pretty much guarantee, lose weight without cutting back on calories or increasing exercise, since you're evening out availability and usage of the energy taken in.
This of course is hogwash. To lose weight you MUST use more than you take in. Keeping your calorie intake high even eating as you describe will maintain (or increase) your weight. Think about it, if you're taking in just as many calories, why does your body need to burn any fat for engery? The answer is that it doesn't, and thus you will keep (or increase) you weight. You'll get fatter if you're calorie intake remains more than you need.
Alternatively, you can do a triathlete's daily training worth of ride/bike/swim every day. Then you can eat whatever the hell you want until you feel like bursting, and you will almost certainly still lose weight rapidly. Hell, I've known triathletes that lost weight on a 9000 cal/day diet while training...
If you spend all day working out, yes. But most of us have regular day jobs. I personally spend about an hour a day exercising; 4 days of cardio + weights, and two days of Dragon boat paddling. But the triathelete is burning much more than 9000 calories day, which is why his 9000 calorie a day diet causes them to lose weight.
It all comes down to calories; you need to use more than you take in, which is why those of us with desk jobs need to work out harder..
Wow, you never bought video games back then, did you? They certainly cost $50 and Nintendo made sure that the prices stayed high, no matter how old a game was.
Sure, because we should limit what people can do in a free society because you don't like how things look. The fact is gambling should not be illegal at all, just like prostitution or "illegal" drugs.
Copyright does not give you rights to make any copies. Fair use does, but you'd be hard pressed to claim fair use if you copy an entire chapter of a book. However Windows is also licesensed and you must agree to that license to be able to copy it at all. Just as you couldn't legally copy an entire chapter, you can't just copy portions of software.
That's correct, fat will give you the quickest way to feel full. The problem is that you're injesting exactly what you are trying to rid youself of, so that's not a great way to diet.
Protien on the other hand will be used to build muscle, which is why exercising with weights is recommended as well as a cardio program.
Ahh... well being that tall then he is about right for his height. Its not common that I encounter people taller than me;-)
You're right, as long as you get the fat off it doesn't matter how you do it, I was just pointing out how it could be made to be a quicker process, if you desire.
Carbs aren't evil or anything.. they just don't make you feel full. And you usually get too many of them to begin with.
What your friend did will work to a point, likely where he is now. To further lose weight, he'll need to exercise and reduce calories more. You friend is still obese at 220 lbs and needs to lose about 50 more lbs, assuming he's 6'2" (as I am).
I started exercise and diet when i got up to around 240. While I've done well (30lbs in 8 weeks) I still need to lose 35 lbs more. Notice your friend lost 80 lbs in 14 months, or ~1.4 lbs a week. With proper diet and exercise (30 minutes of cardio a day plus weights) I've lost 3.75lbs a week. So it can be done your friends way, but if you really want to get it going, exercise!
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Funny, I don't see any Hollywood movies blantently taking scenes from other movies and using it as is in their own. You fail to understand copyright. The exact implemention of an idea is what is protected, not the "formula" as you put it. There's no hipocracy there.
On the other hand you're taking an exact copy of something and enjoying it, but not paying for it. In other words, money would have been gotten by the development studio if you payed for it is not going to them because you stole it. When enough people try to operate as you do, you WILL put them out of business. And then you'll whine when you don't have any games to play.
You're going to Iraq and might die; you need to grow up and stop trying to rationalize everything you do wrong away. Grow up, or you might get yourself killed.
Well, that changes things quite a bit. You are right, and that's what my trainer told me.. have snacks with protien at 10 and 3 between my meals. Protien is a better choice than fat for reasons I've outlined; it does quite a good job keeping you "full" and its not adding unnecessary fat, and you are giving your muscles what they need to build.
A car is much more likely to be broken into than a home. However, had he done as he was told, I wouldn't find any fault with what he did. He did exactly as he was asked.
He didn't do exactly what he was asked, which was take reasonable care to ensure the safety of the tapes. Leaving them in the car not only opens them to being stolen, but, depending on weather conditions, could harm the tapes. Keeping them in his apartment is reasonable because its unlikely someone would break in during the night when most apartment residents are home. Also, unless he stored them in the oven or was careless with fire, there is nothing more reasonable he could do to prevent his building from burning down.
So you need to go back to 1998 to dig up one instance of Windows leaving a ship stranded? Well at least you didn't need to go back 10 years.
It depends on which version of VS you buy. The Team versions have quite a lot of nice features. On the fly compiling is not a key feature and its usefulness is in doubt. If you really want, try Vb.net, as it does have on the fly compiling.
.Net integration, comes with Reporting Services, Notification Services, Integration Services and Analysis services. Are there even frameworks comparable to those in the OSS world?
Java has its own problems; "well almost" doesn't cut it for multiplatform development. C# performs great server side. Derby and MySql don't even hold a candle to Sql Server 2005. Does MySql even have transactions yet? Sql Server 2005 includes
Ok, please explain to me, what is wrong with Windows scheduling, timesharing, fault tolerance, response, file system and networking. It seems to provide those very nicely, and any developer can tap into those features as well. Be specific, repeating your statement doesn't make it true.
He was told to take the tapes HOME, not take the tapes and leave them in his car overnight. He certainly deserves to be fired, as does everyone else.
Um, I wouldn't call anyone forgetting backup tapes in his car a good employee. Besides the risk of being stolen, melting is another possiblity if its hot enough.
That, and he should know better than to not report something stolen to the police... especially if its someone else's property.
Yes, you don't blind your readers. Black on white is much easier to the eye.
Not for me. All the white shot at my eyes strains them. In VS, I had to change my background to black and text to light gray. I find websites that have a simily schema are much easier to read for longer periods of time.
Why would the FSF enter into this at all? Open source != free software. So I see no reason why FSF would need to add its seal of approval. Same goes for debian.
Huh? Already happened? Then why do we need articles saying year 20xx is the year of desktop linux? Where are the deluge of applications for linux?
It seems to me OSS is playing catch up constantly; is there anything like WPF for Linux? What about WCF? Frameworks which make UI development almost trivial, and are able to setup communications channels with a simple config file?
Since you haven't used MS in 8 years you probably don't know that security has greatly improved. XPSP2, Vista and Server 2003 are all very secure, as is IIS6 and Sql Server 2005. Please, don't claim they aren't, you don't know because you haven't been around it.
Let me rephrase: Are we guaranteed that Microsoft won't claim that it has patented the code after we start using it?
You have a license to use it. Its up to MS to not license patented code under the new license.
Using GPLed code under an M$ would almost certainly be problematic. I was talking about the other way. It's a lot easier to make OSS code GPLed than GPLed code go to a different license (aka, impossible).
Sounds like the GPL is more restrictive on developers then. That's the trade off with the GPL by the way; you give users rights but take them from developers.
What does that mean? Most FLOSS software reinvents the wheel? True. But if you're looking to use someone else's code, why start at Microsoft?
Perhaps because it may solve the problem better than the other code out there? Ruling their code out automatically just because it was made by MS is just stupid.
It's possible to do so, but debugging something that's as buggy as I believe M$ code to be is probably a bigger undertaking than writing from scratch.
Perhaps you should leave personal beliefs out of your evaluation and stick to facts. All code has bugs. Sometimes the bugs are irrelevent. But MS' software (especially XPSP2, Vista and server 2003) is very stable.
But there is reason to be more suspicious of M$ code for the reasons I mentioned. If I knew for a fact that ABC's OSS code had the flaws I refer to, I wouldn't use it either. I just don't trust Microsoft.
Of course not, because you have not evaluated them recently. You think that they could not have changed and fail to realize the company is so big that some divisions want to work with OSS while others may not.
Nintendo can charge whatever they like for their own games, and the fact that Mario and Zelda are popular ensure people will pay the price. I was referring to the price limits they placed on anyone creating Nintendo games, a practice which was ruled illegal and resulted in them sending $20 off coupons to those that bought games in the early 90s IIRC.
I'd be saying the same thing. As a software developer, I get paid to write software. I personally love my job and would hate being able to only program as a hobby. I ask that others respect whatever license I choose, just as I will respect whatever license MS or anyone else chooses.
Wonderful, and when everyone does as you, and game studios make $40 from a game that cost $4M to make, we'll have that attitude to thank when there are almost no more video games and certainly no consoles.
Yes, you need fiber too, and from reading labels lately I can see that its difficult to get the fiber you really need. That's why my trainer said keep up the shreaded wheat for breakfast and use whole grain breads, which taste better as an added bonus.
Actually, it is. That's why Atkins-type diets produce such spectacular (if generally unsustainable) results.
The Atkins type diets produce the same results as other kinds of diets. If you'll look into critisms of the diet, you'll see that its likely water loss that caues the inital drop in weight.
Fat produces short-term energy and sated feelings. However, it is *not* easily stored as fat. What *is* easily stored as fat is carbs, once they're broken down -- particularly processed simple carbs, such as white bread.
You're right, its not easily stored in fat cells, but it does tend to clog your arteries up. Simple carbs are what I was advising against, for the reason you state.
Where you get the strong correlation between eating fat and getting fat is that typically junk foods include large amounts of both fat and simple carbs, because that's how to get cheap crap to taste good. The simple carbs are broken down quickly -- how quickly, you ask? Chew a piece of white bread, hold it in your mouth for about 20 seconds, notice that sugar taste? Yeah, about that quickly -- and since none of your metabolism is requesting more energy at the time since it's awash in fat energy, all those broken down carb calories head straaaaaaight for the fat cells.
I very much doubt you'll lose much weight eating a 3/4 lb cheeseburger from Wendy's but throw away the bun. If you don't use the short term enegry from fat, it will be stored for later.
The ideal solution, for a generally applicable value of "ideal", is to break your eating up into four to six meals, with 1/3 of your calories from healthy fats (avocado, nuts, yadayadayada); 1/3 of your calories from protein; and 1/3 of your calories from *complex* carbs. Best to completely avoid all forms of grains, but at all costs avoid heavily processed white flour type stuff. Then you will, I pretty much guarantee, lose weight without cutting back on calories or increasing exercise, since you're evening out availability and usage of the energy taken in.
This of course is hogwash. To lose weight you MUST use more than you take in. Keeping your calorie intake high even eating as you describe will maintain (or increase) your weight. Think about it, if you're taking in just as many calories, why does your body need to burn any fat for engery? The answer is that it doesn't, and thus you will keep (or increase) you weight. You'll get fatter if you're calorie intake remains more than you need.
Alternatively, you can do a triathlete's daily training worth of ride/bike/swim every day. Then you can eat whatever the hell you want until you feel like bursting, and you will almost certainly still lose weight rapidly. Hell, I've known triathletes that lost weight on a 9000 cal/day diet while training...
If you spend all day working out, yes. But most of us have regular day jobs. I personally spend about an hour a day exercising; 4 days of cardio + weights, and two days of Dragon boat paddling. But the triathelete is burning much more than 9000 calories day, which is why his 9000 calorie a day diet causes them to lose weight.
It all comes down to calories; you need to use more than you take in, which is why those of us with desk jobs need to work out harder..
I see. So you have no problem with stealing an Audi or Jag then either?
Wow, you never bought video games back then, did you? They certainly cost $50 and Nintendo made sure that the prices stayed high, no matter how old a game was.
Sure, because we should limit what people can do in a free society because you don't like how things look. The fact is gambling should not be illegal at all, just like prostitution or "illegal" drugs.
Copyright does not give you rights to make any copies. Fair use does, but you'd be hard pressed to claim fair use if you copy an entire chapter of a book. However Windows is also licesensed and you must agree to that license to be able to copy it at all. Just as you couldn't legally copy an entire chapter, you can't just copy portions of software.
That's correct, fat will give you the quickest way to feel full. The problem is that you're injesting exactly what you are trying to rid youself of, so that's not a great way to diet.
Protien on the other hand will be used to build muscle, which is why exercising with weights is recommended as well as a cardio program.
Ahh... well being that tall then he is about right for his height. Its not common that I encounter people taller than me ;-)
You're right, as long as you get the fat off it doesn't matter how you do it, I was just pointing out how it could be made to be a quicker process, if you desire.
Thanks for the good wishes!
Carbs aren't evil or anything.. they just don't make you feel full. And you usually get too many of them to begin with.
What your friend did will work to a point, likely where he is now. To further lose weight, he'll need to exercise and reduce calories more. You friend is still obese at 220 lbs and needs to lose about 50 more lbs, assuming he's 6'2" (as I am).
I started exercise and diet when i got up to around 240. While I've done well (30lbs in 8 weeks) I still need to lose 35 lbs more. Notice your friend lost 80 lbs in 14 months, or ~1.4 lbs a week. With proper diet and exercise (30 minutes of cardio a day plus weights) I've lost 3.75lbs a week. So it can be done your friends way, but if you really want to get it going, exercise!
Because users will always need a keyboard, so you're not gaining another port anyway?