So, if I get sold a 60" Plasma TV for $50, and it turns out to be stolen and the cops confiscate it... your saying it is my right to DEMAND that Sony give me a free tv?
sorry pal, that doesn't fly.
What MS is going is great for customers, but they have no legal requirement to do so.
My city (US) is implementing cameras in the major red light intersections. If your car is photographed running a red light, you WILL get a ticket in the mail...
My understanding is that you can only get out of it if you can PROVE that someone else was driving.
This slashdot article is basically saying "well, i dont' know what happened... Eric Raymond complained almost a year ago and still nothing has changed!". As if by magic the poster expected all FOSS developers to drop what they were doing and create the perfect GUI printer system for Linux.
On your point of ColdFusion now being basically a custom tag library for Java, is anyone aware of any project to try to implement a free version of the coldfusion language?
would this even be possible, or would MM be able to stop it?
If I buy GTA3 for one console, why should I have to buy it for any other console or pc I want to play it on?
It is the same argument of VHS vs DVD. If I own a VHS copy of a movie, it really bugs me that the movie industries want me to pay them again for THE SAME MOVIE!
There is no "theft of MitMover's work". The independant contractor in his own free time was working on creating a competing product.
By your logic, Open Office is stealing the work of MS on its Office suite...
Further, when I contract with a company, they have NO influence on what side projects I do. I would probably be offended if they even asked me to stop working on a personal project.
I have glanced through the Napster to go website, and am still confused...
If I download music thru the napster service and put the music on my compatable portable player, how does my player know if I cancel my Napster to Go subscription?
Would I be required to 'sync' my player every day????
Yahoo is not just a search engine. I know lots of people that automatically think of sites like maps.yahoo.com, or autos.yahoo.com, or finance.yahoo.com, or anything_that_I_need_to_do_online.yahoo.com instead of other services... Yahoo is still strong in a lot of fields.
Interesting... I guess the good folks at microsoft didn't feel like trying to nail down all the spyware associated with Kazaa and decided to just remove the whole program instead... I bet that pisses off Sharman Networks!
regarding your aside, I am curious... When I ran the MS Anitsypware prog, it detected kazaa and I told it to ignore. It did not mess up my installation, are you saying that it messed up kazaa even tho you told it to ignore, or that you forgot to tell the prog to ignore kazaa?
The sites they are going after are not just hosting links, they are running trackers. They did not shut down sites like Suprnova, Suprnova decided to close on its own for fear of future action. The links are not the problem, the tracker is what is getting ppl in trouble.
Hmm... I am pretty sure that if you had that attitude with ANY OSS project (for example) they would ignore you, too.
As a sibling poster wrote, your attitude would be understandable if you had actually paid for the email service, or if they claimed it was a completed product.
You can get vonage where you are, you just can't have a local number... but you could get a toll free number for only $5 more a month... that will allow ppl in your local area to call you free. And when they ask why u are giving out your toll free number, it gives you a great opportunity to help ppl understand that they have choices for thier phone service!
The idea is for the "source" to host torrent files instead of having to host mirrors of thier content. This allows the users of the content to share in the bandwidth costs.
The way torrents work, its really not possible to download a torrent file from a legit source (for instance your GTA demo) and end up downloading a mis-labelled file.
You are absolutly right! Why didn't I see that before, lets just use Google's infinite bandwidth and hosting instead of trying to come up with an alternative.
Or did I miss the point and give fuel to your flame?
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So, if I get sold a 60" Plasma TV for $50, and it turns out to be stolen and the cops confiscate it... your saying it is my right to DEMAND that Sony give me a free tv?
sorry pal, that doesn't fly.
What MS is going is great for customers, but they have no legal requirement to do so.
This is MS being good.
Interesting tangent...
My city (US) is implementing cameras in the major red light intersections. If your car is photographed running a red light, you WILL get a ticket in the mail...
My understanding is that you can only get out of it if you can PROVE that someone else was driving.
[sarcasm]What a great world we live in[/sarcasm]
The point the GP is probably trying to make is...
This slashdot article is basically saying "well, i dont' know what happened... Eric Raymond complained almost a year ago and still nothing has changed!". As if by magic the poster expected all FOSS developers to drop what they were doing and create the perfect GUI printer system for Linux.
Sorry but it doesn't happen that way.
On your point of ColdFusion now being basically a custom tag library for Java, is anyone aware of any project to try to implement a free version of the coldfusion language?
would this even be possible, or would MM be able to stop it?
or...
they could just dispose of their "disposable" gloves.
Actually, I liked the GP analagy...
If I buy GTA3 for one console, why should I have to buy it for any other console or pc I want to play it on?
It is the same argument of VHS vs DVD. If I own a VHS copy of a movie, it really bugs me that the movie industries want me to pay them again for THE SAME MOVIE!
Disclaimer: No, I have not RTFA...
There is no "theft of MitMover's work". The independant contractor in his own free time was working on creating a competing product.
By your logic, Open Office is stealing the work of MS on its Office suite...
Further, when I contract with a company, they have NO influence on what side projects I do. I would probably be offended if they even asked me to stop working on a personal project.
This is ridiculous
I have glanced through the Napster to go website, and am still confused...
If I download music thru the napster service and put the music on my compatable portable player, how does my player know if I cancel my Napster to Go subscription?
Would I be required to 'sync' my player every day????
Yahoo is not just a search engine. I know lots of people that automatically think of sites like maps.yahoo.com, or autos.yahoo.com, or finance.yahoo.com, or anything_that_I_need_to_do_online.yahoo.com instead of other services... Yahoo is still strong in a lot of fields.
What exactly does this have to do with your rights? or am I off my game today and feeding a troll?
That is GREAT!
I wish I had mod points!
I agree. The TV execs are getting way too greedy.
Interesting... I guess the good folks at microsoft didn't feel like trying to nail down all the spyware associated with Kazaa and decided to just remove the whole program instead... I bet that pisses off Sharman Networks!
regarding your aside, I am curious... When I ran the MS Anitsypware prog, it detected kazaa and I told it to ignore. It did not mess up my installation, are you saying that it messed up kazaa even tho you told it to ignore, or that you forgot to tell the prog to ignore kazaa?
just curious
The sites they are going after are not just hosting links, they are running trackers. They did not shut down sites like Suprnova, Suprnova decided to close on its own for fear of future action. The links are not the problem, the tracker is what is getting ppl in trouble.
As a sibling poster wrote, your attitude would be understandable if you had actually paid for the email service, or if they claimed it was a completed product.
If you don't like it, don't use it.
It is a free beta, afterall... a privilege, not a right
Hmm... preloaded malware... couldn't have anything to do with the fact that HP or Dell installed Windows for your friend, could it?
You can get vonage where you are, you just can't have a local number... but you could get a toll free number for only $5 more a month... that will allow ppl in your local area to call you free. And when they ask why u are giving out your toll free number, it gives you a great opportunity to help ppl understand that they have choices for thier phone service!
should be -1, Troll for
...and officially became a non-story on November 2, 2004...
If you had RFTA (Yes, I know, this is /.) you would see that MPAA Chief Dan Glickman actually has a subcription to Netflix.
I think that is cool... Netflix is a great idea, and now that they are starting to get some competition, it can only be good for us, the consumer.
The idea is for the "source" to host torrent files instead of having to host mirrors of thier content. This allows the users of the content to share in the bandwidth costs.
The way torrents work, its really not possible to download a torrent file from a legit source (for instance your GTA demo) and end up downloading a mis-labelled file.
You are absolutly right! Why didn't I see that before, lets just use Google's infinite bandwidth and hosting instead of trying to come up with an alternative. Or did I miss the point and give fuel to your flame?
This doesn't just apply to MySQL. This is actually how indexes work. More work for adds/deletes, but less work for querys using the indexes.
Your scenario would cause performance problems in any database.
Actually, the parent was asking where the other 4 minutes were going.
We have a leap year to compensate for those minutes.
The parent wasn't asking why the earth has 23:56 per day, the parent wanted to know where the extra minutes were.
I believe my answer was more helpful to the parent than the other replies.