Now, I'm not a lawyer, however isn't a part of the patent system protect it or lose it, if it was made apart of a standard that is used globally, it means they can't say they didn't know about it, so isn't them waiting 10 years invalidating the license because they didn't protect it?
Well....
ALL of them, as the 13 updates includes office etc as well. Reguardless if it's SMP or uniprocessor, it's apart of the kernel, if it's a kernel patch it has to be counted, otherwise it wouldn't be linux would it?
At the end of the day 13 is for everything "in this batch", so if your going to be counting linux bugs, i would count everything you'd consider linux, just because one distro doesn't include one part of the kernel doesn't mean you don't count a patch for it...
We use to run fidonet over the internet back in the days, use to cost a fortune, but was cheaper then phone calls, but can't remember the exact date, costed a fortune thou!
i remeber lord by seth robison from the bbs days, and his space game as well, you use to be able to create a group of bbs's that would batch out data to each other every day (to save on phone calls - could be related to packets in this day and age). That sounds like what it's taking about.
Scary good.
At least it shows MS is looking for problems, and fixing them as they find them.
If somebody got a full list of bugs / sec updates for linux everymonth (all software), i'm quite sure that "31" would be quite a low number.
Of course MS could ignore them (or some), and come up with a low number, but that wouldn't be in anybodies best interests...
Maybe the RIAA should take a look at them. Give away your goods for free, and get somebody else to pay for it, i don't think the RIAA have though of that one yet have they?
I've had this happen to me previously on a few websites, the easy way to fix it? don't put your entire story into the feeds... seems pretty simple enough, just put in a exert and force them to link back to the original site.
Instead of spending $$$ on bondage and discipline, how about treating your users like adult human beings?
Because a number of them will wind up installing aps that put the company at risk?
Like "screen savers" that try and install crap along with it, then there'll be all the support calls why isn't it working. It May be Linux, but there is still software / programs / items you just don't want users to have access to.
The Less access the user has, the better. Treating adults like adults is good in theory, but when you have 300+ people trying to beat "the man", you want to take away as much temptation as possible.
When we start building a site (for anything), the first question is - is it going to be run by tech staff or admin staff, if it's admin staff, it's wordpress, trying to teach admin staff about front page featured, order etc, their eyes just glaze over.
Been able to just tell them to "click on new post, put it in, and click on publish" makes life so much easier...
Sorry Your Honor,
we took a wrong turn on the way to the court house, and ended up in a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with America.
Yours Sincerely,
RIAA lawyers.
well from the summary, it sounds like it's server side, because other computers on the same account can't use the old player anymore either, so a simple uninstall and reinstall wouldn't work.
(note - i am australian) I believe the real issue is that we get rid of all the kindling (ie bush's underscrub etc) and allow the fuel (ie the tree's etc) to keep growing, brushfires are natural, and use to happen enough that when they did happen, it was a small to medium size. Now we have massive amount of large+ tree's in high density, what do you think is going to happen? "super" bush fires. Bush fires aren't going to happen anywhere near as much as they use to, due to human intervention, but when they do - they are going to be alot bigger, and more intense. If climate has anything to do with it - it would be that there was more dry wood out there to get it started, by the time the fires are in full swing, the sheer heat is going to annihilate the water content of anything in it's path
Using something like this saying the climate is what caused it, well all i can say is - beware the religion of climent change
Also as a systems administrator, i like gui's, generally good ones allow me to get my job done faster, not slower, if I have to, I'll drop to cli, but in a good gui you don't have to, if the gui is written well for usability, you'll be able to cover 95% of what you need to do, and beening able to do that quickly and efficiently is the important thing
But that flashy stuff, and the web2.0 is what gets the users, if you don't like it, just use telnet, that'll solve your issues out right wouldn't it ?
If i'm not in the office, and the dsl connection has an issue, it's alot easier to tell someone to click on the red button or green button etc. trying to tell a non tech person a command for iptables or something like that is just outright stupid. I'd rather have the office administrator implementing the rules she puts in place so i can get onto more important thing like protecting the web production environment from the developers.
The other thing is, regardless if you accept the eula or not, you generally can't return software, so you "own" the software that you can't use. that's the B*t*h.
I really do believe, if you can't read the conditions before a purchase you shouldn't have to adhere to them (even if the program/item forces you to before use).
AFAIK they also get a $$ amount per game sold as well, so every "lost sale" is lost income to them. Remember their primary goal is to benefit their shareholders, and that is what they are doing.
omg, someone else took responbility for the learning of his child, and he's sueing for it. That seems to be most parents dreams these days, and he's going to piss all of them off!
I think one of the worse type's of spoilers, which has really come out on the wii (and some of the other console games), is with casual games, having to spend 10-20+ hours unlocking content for a game that is a "casual" game, that really spoils it. Seriously, if i'm only playing a game here and there like an hour a week, on some games it can take years to unlock it all.
Unless google is going to send you an sms every 5 minutes stating your been tracking, i see a non issue with this. If someone can get to your mobile and enable it, without you know, then that is your problem, not Google's or anybody else's, From what i can see is that the app needs to be updated by the user and there are some time of reminders.
This is going so over board, it's really not funny. The General public reads articles like this, think it's blow out of proportion and aren't going to take anything similar as serious as they should, that really hurts ALL of us.
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Now, I'm not a lawyer, however isn't a part of the patent system protect it or lose it, if it was made apart of a standard that is used globally, it means they can't say they didn't know about it, so isn't them waiting 10 years invalidating the license because they didn't protect it?
Well that's another sales op to upsell extended warranty then...
Well.... ALL of them, as the 13 updates includes office etc as well. Reguardless if it's SMP or uniprocessor, it's apart of the kernel, if it's a kernel patch it has to be counted, otherwise it wouldn't be linux would it? At the end of the day 13 is for everything "in this batch", so if your going to be counting linux bugs, i would count everything you'd consider linux, just because one distro doesn't include one part of the kernel doesn't mean you don't count a patch for it...
We use to run fidonet over the internet back in the days, use to cost a fortune, but was cheaper then phone calls, but can't remember the exact date, costed a fortune thou!
i remeber lord by seth robison from the bbs days, and his space game as well, you use to be able to create a group of bbs's that would batch out data to each other every day (to save on phone calls - could be related to packets in this day and age). That sounds like what it's taking about.
Scary good. At least it shows MS is looking for problems, and fixing them as they find them.
If somebody got a full list of bugs / sec updates for linux everymonth (all software), i'm quite sure that "31" would be quite a low number.
Of course MS could ignore them (or some), and come up with a low number, but that wouldn't be in anybodies best interests...
The way i have always seen it, is if there is a crime, there are two parties involved (in "copyright infringement" anyway).
TPB is in Sweden, so they done the offence there, the only thing Italy can do IMO is charge the people that copied the "artwork".
Anything else wouldn't be legal?
Maybe the RIAA should take a look at them. Give away your goods for free, and get somebody else to pay for it, i don't think the RIAA have though of that one yet have they?
I've had this happen to me previously on a few websites, the easy way to fix it? don't put your entire story into the feeds... seems pretty simple enough, just put in a exert and force them to link back to the original site.
how are they going generate baseline power with solar energy only? get rain for a week and city will be sure to go black
Of course, it saves a heap of time and money on all of that testing and revision crap
Instead of spending $$$ on bondage and discipline, how about treating your users like adult human beings?
Because a number of them will wind up installing aps that put the company at risk?
Like "screen savers" that try and install crap along with it, then there'll be all the support calls why isn't it working. It May be Linux, but there is still software / programs / items you just don't want users to have access to.
The Less access the user has, the better. Treating adults like adults is good in theory, but when you have 300+ people trying to beat "the man", you want to take away as much temptation as possible.
When we start building a site (for anything), the first question is - is it going to be run by tech staff or admin staff, if it's admin staff, it's wordpress, trying to teach admin staff about front page featured, order etc, their eyes just glaze over.
Been able to just tell them to "click on new post, put it in, and click on publish" makes life so much easier...
Sorry Your Honor,
we took a wrong turn on the way to the court house, and ended up in a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with America. Yours Sincerely, RIAA lawyers.
well from the summary, it sounds like it's server side, because other computers on the same account can't use the old player anymore either, so a simple uninstall and reinstall wouldn't work.
(note - i am australian) I believe the real issue is that we get rid of all the kindling (ie bush's underscrub etc) and allow the fuel (ie the tree's etc) to keep growing, brushfires are natural, and use to happen enough that when they did happen, it was a small to medium size. Now we have massive amount of large+ tree's in high density, what do you think is going to happen? "super" bush fires. Bush fires aren't going to happen anywhere near as much as they use to, due to human intervention, but when they do - they are going to be alot bigger, and more intense. If climate has anything to do with it - it would be that there was more dry wood out there to get it started, by the time the fires are in full swing, the sheer heat is going to annihilate the water content of anything in it's path
Using something like this saying the climate is what caused it, well all i can say is - beware the religion of climent change
Couldn't agree with your more.
Also as a systems administrator, i like gui's, generally good ones allow me to get my job done faster, not slower, if I have to, I'll drop to cli, but in a good gui you don't have to, if the gui is written well for usability, you'll be able to cover 95% of what you need to do, and beening able to do that quickly and efficiently is the important thing
But that flashy stuff, and the web2.0 is what gets the users, if you don't like it, just use telnet, that'll solve your issues out right wouldn't it ?
If i'm not in the office, and the dsl connection has an issue, it's alot easier to tell someone to click on the red button or green button etc. trying to tell a non tech person a command for iptables or something like that is just outright stupid. I'd rather have the office administrator implementing the rules she puts in place so i can get onto more important thing like protecting the web production environment from the developers.
IMO no, if you can't read the contract (which to me what it is) before the purchase, then it shouldn't count.
The other thing is, regardless if you accept the eula or not, you generally can't return software, so you "own" the software that you can't use. that's the B*t*h.
I really do believe, if you can't read the conditions before a purchase you shouldn't have to adhere to them (even if the program/item forces you to before use).
I can't believe eula's are even legal (at all).
While true, Working on reducing piracy would increase revenue to some degree, so therefore would increase their bottom line.
AFAIK they also get a $$ amount per game sold as well, so every "lost sale" is lost income to them. Remember their primary goal is to benefit their shareholders, and that is what they are doing.
and understand that some actions are unacceptable
omg, someone else took responbility for the learning of his child, and he's sueing for it. That seems to be most parents dreams these days, and he's going to piss all of them off!
oh come, they'll give it a gothic wash like most recent games, that'd be cool, black turned greyscale.. oh wait
I think one of the worse type's of spoilers, which has really come out on the wii (and some of the other console games), is with casual games, having to spend 10-20+ hours unlocking content for a game that is a "casual" game, that really spoils it. Seriously, if i'm only playing a game here and there like an hour a week, on some games it can take years to unlock it all.
Unless google is going to send you an sms every 5 minutes stating your been tracking, i see a non issue with this. If someone can get to your mobile and enable it, without you know, then that is your problem, not Google's or anybody else's, From what i can see is that the app needs to be updated by the user and there are some time of reminders.
This is going so over board, it's really not funny. The General public reads articles like this, think it's blow out of proportion and aren't going to take anything similar as serious as they should, that really hurts ALL of us.