It's annoying to have to install lots of compatibility libraries because just one application is stuck in 32-bit-land. Also, 64-bit applications are faster on x86_64 than 32-bit applications, contrary to just about all other architectures.
Everything else I threw at it was working. Turns out that it won't work in 16-bit colour, only in 24-bit. Rather odd. I don't think it was too happy about Xinerama either. In 24-bit, non-Xinerama, it works.
Itanium has killed off PA-RISC, Alpha, MIPS (high-end)... At one point it looked like SPARC would be a casualty too. POWER is the only RISC architecture which is doing well now. Intel even got HP to foot much of the bill. In a while they can transition their Itanium customers to 64-bit Xeon, and only HP will be seriously angry about it. The other Itanium system vendor, SGI, will be able to switch fairly easily to Xeon since they run Linux anyway. Ok, perhaps "fairly easily" is overstating the case, but Intel can afford to help SGI financially with the transition.
The only snag is that AMD showed up with 64-bit x86 before Intel was ready for that phase.
You are switching objections. You have decided that the fact that "reverse engineering is necessary for learning" is not by itself enough to exclude copyrighting something. I think that, by itself, is enough to exclude copyrighting. I supported it by the example that machines do not allow you to learn from them without reverse engineering, and therefore they are not considered copyrightable. Of course an example isn't proof, but we're debating, not doing math.
I am in fact doing quite the opposite. I'm saying that even though books and machines are similar in that they cannot be easily copied, they are rightfully treated differently by law.
What you get out of that is very different from the original book, and you will be using paper and toner at considerable expense. It is certainly not something you can do "unlimited".
It's not particularly absurd to throw out copyright for binary software. Copyrighted works such as books and music normally allow you to learn from them, and they're expressions of creativity. Binary software on the other hand is more like a machine. You can't learn much from it unless you reverse engineer it -- exactly like you can't learn much from a machine without taking it apart. Therefore binary software, like other machines, should not be copyrightable.
Software in source form on the other hand should be copyrightable, as long as it passes the test for creativity that all other works have to pass as well. The fact that a book of source code is useful for more than mere entertainment should not make it unsuitable for copyright.
Argh, substitute "European Commission" for "European Council" above. Lost in Translation, I'm afraid. And apparently the lobbyists are actually targeting the Council of Ministers. So it's more like the equivalent of going to ask mummy if you can stay out late, getting no, and then proceeding to ask daddy instead.
Parliament said no, so the lobbyists figured it would be better to go where the actual power is. The European Council. Whose members are unelected and almost entirely unaccountable for their actions (i.e. they basically have to commit crimes to get sacked, and even when they do commit crimes, they only get sacked, not punished.)
There are no provisions for leaving the EU in the current treaties. So it will depend entirely on the circumstances. Many unions have had civil wars when one or more members tried to secede. That's a very theoretical possibility right now -- but it's a very theoretical possibility that any country would secede at this time. The political elites of all member states are very much in favour of the EU.
Every union has a civil war, sooner or later. Some unions survive it.
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It's pretty much impossible to avoid brute force if the adversary has access to the encrypted password. I'm not worrying about that attack anymore; if people gain access to my shadow files I have larger problems.
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Which threat is it that changing passwords frequently mitigates?
I think the point is that the economy and the environment are both shared resources. If the US was to vanish off of the face of the earth tomorrow, pollution levels might fall off some, but the world economy would be utterly and completely destroyed. Economic disaster kills people too.
The US manages to consume for $600 billion more a year than it produces. That's a lot of stuff being produced all over the world and counting towards the pollution of other countries even though the goods end up in the US.
Notice that you don't need to agree to the GPL to use GPL'd programs. It is only if you distribute the programs that you need the GPL. Most proprietary licenses do not allow distribution.
the Space Shuttle landed short (and would have been destroyed anywhere but in the Utah desert).
The only story like that I can find is about a simulated landing. Is that what you are referring to? It is an interesting story though, particularly because the problem was with the actual simulation hardware. Therefore it wasn't an intentional simulated emergency. The simulation ended with loss of vehicle and crew, caused by nothing more than a stuck gauge needle.
They load the windows codecs from MS's dll files, which is a) probably illegal, b) slow, and c) only works on x86 processors.
As long as you own a copy of Windows and don't use that at the same time (i.e. you dual-boot or something), you are probably not breaking the law. You may be in breach of contract (the Windows EULA) though.
It would also be really easy for President Bush Jr to release the Nuclear Launch Codes to Al Qaeda.
With the talent that the administration has so far shown when it comes to finding weapons of mass destruction, I would be surprised if they managed to find their own.
The USA spends more money per capita on public healtcare than even the Danish system does.
Yes, in fact it spends about twice as much. Despite that it doesn't even offer universal health care, and health outcomes are average for an industrialized nation (among those covered, of course). Not particularly impressive.
Perhaps because taxes are also robbery, whether your language is Danish and English.
No, taxes are taxes. Next you'll be telling me that prison is kidnapping. There is a large majority in favour of taxes in Denmark. You may not like that, but it is a simple fact, and using emotional language does not change it. In a democracy the majority can force a minority to play along. (Subject to some constraints, which include certain protections for minorities -- because a majority has decided that such protections are a good idea.)
As a fellow dane i wouldn't mind him/her moving to the states, one less "I want it all and I give a crap about the rest" kind of ppl here.
As another fellow Dane I support you completely. Besides, so what if the marginal tax is 62%? If you reach that tax bracket you're pretty well off. And if you become sick and unable to work, you know that you will never be without health care, a roof over your head, and food on the table. In a system with privatized health care, the health insurers will try to dump you when you get sick. Do you have the strength to fight a court battle when you are ill? And even if your health insurance doesn't screw you, will you have the money needed to send your children off to university if you are too ill to work?
In the US, you live in constant financial danger, because noone will be there for you when you need it. Therefore it's important to work as hard as you can to save up. Since money is needed for basic survival, taxes in the US are seen as the government causing a risk for your basic survival. It is no wonder that Americans complain so much about taxes.
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It's annoying to have to install lots of compatibility libraries because just one application is stuck in 32-bit-land. Also, 64-bit applications are faster on x86_64 than 32-bit applications, contrary to just about all other architectures.
Everything else I threw at it was working. Turns out that it won't work in 16-bit colour, only in 24-bit. Rather odd. I don't think it was too happy about Xinerama either. In 24-bit, non-Xinerama, it works.
The only snag is that AMD showed up with 64-bit x86 before Intel was ready for that phase.
You are switching objections. You have decided that the fact that "reverse engineering is necessary for learning" is not by itself enough to exclude copyrighting something. I think that, by itself, is enough to exclude copyrighting. I supported it by the example that machines do not allow you to learn from them without reverse engineering, and therefore they are not considered copyrightable. Of course an example isn't proof, but we're debating, not doing math.
I am in fact doing quite the opposite. I'm saying that even though books and machines are similar in that they cannot be easily copied, they are rightfully treated differently by law.
What you get out of that is very different from the original book, and you will be using paper and toner at considerable expense. It is certainly not something you can do "unlimited".
Unlimited copies of books cannot be produced at the click of a button. Yet books can be copyrighted, and machines cannot be.
The MS EULA does not rely on copyright law. It restrains you from doing things that copyright law doesn't prohibit.
Software in source form on the other hand should be copyrightable, as long as it passes the test for creativity that all other works have to pass as well. The fact that a book of source code is useful for more than mere entertainment should not make it unsuitable for copyright.
Argh, substitute "European Commission" for "European Council" above. Lost in Translation, I'm afraid. And apparently the lobbyists are actually targeting the Council of Ministers. So it's more like the equivalent of going to ask mummy if you can stay out late, getting no, and then proceeding to ask daddy instead.
Parliament said no, so the lobbyists figured it would be better to go where the actual power is. The European Council. Whose members are unelected and almost entirely unaccountable for their actions (i.e. they basically have to commit crimes to get sacked, and even when they do commit crimes, they only get sacked, not punished.)
There are no provisions for leaving the EU in the current treaties. So it will depend entirely on the circumstances. Many unions have had civil wars when one or more members tried to secede. That's a very theoretical possibility right now -- but it's a very theoretical possibility that any country would secede at this time. The political elites of all member states are very much in favour of the EU.
The parliament is busy voting in new tax-exempt "expense refunds" for expenses they never had. Don't expect them to actually do useful work.
Every union has a civil war, sooner or later. Some unions survive it.
It's pretty much impossible to avoid brute force if the adversary has access to the encrypted password. I'm not worrying about that attack anymore; if people gain access to my shadow files I have larger problems.
Which threat is it that changing passwords frequently mitigates?
The US manages to consume for $600 billion more a year than it produces. That's a lot of stuff being produced all over the world and counting towards the pollution of other countries even though the goods end up in the US.
Notice that you don't need to agree to the GPL to use GPL'd programs. It is only if you distribute the programs that you need the GPL. Most proprietary licenses do not allow distribution.
The only story like that I can find is about a simulated landing. Is that what you are referring to? It is an interesting story though, particularly because the problem was with the actual simulation hardware. Therefore it wasn't an intentional simulated emergency. The simulation ended with loss of vehicle and crew, caused by nothing more than a stuck gauge needle.
As long as you own a copy of Windows and don't use that at the same time (i.e. you dual-boot or something), you are probably not breaking the law. You may be in breach of contract (the Windows EULA) though.
Norway tends to stay aligned with most EU directives. It is possible that they will resist the Euro-DMCA, but I wouldn't bet on it.
With the talent that the administration has so far shown when it comes to finding weapons of mass destruction, I would be surprised if they managed to find their own.
Yes, in fact it spends about twice as much. Despite that it doesn't even offer universal health care, and health outcomes are average for an industrialized nation (among those covered, of course). Not particularly impressive.
Perhaps because taxes are also robbery, whether your language is Danish and English.
No, taxes are taxes. Next you'll be telling me that prison is kidnapping. There is a large majority in favour of taxes in Denmark. You may not like that, but it is a simple fact, and using emotional language does not change it. In a democracy the majority can force a minority to play along. (Subject to some constraints, which include certain protections for minorities -- because a majority has decided that such protections are a good idea.)
As another fellow Dane I support you completely. Besides, so what if the marginal tax is 62%? If you reach that tax bracket you're pretty well off. And if you become sick and unable to work, you know that you will never be without health care, a roof over your head, and food on the table. In a system with privatized health care, the health insurers will try to dump you when you get sick. Do you have the strength to fight a court battle when you are ill? And even if your health insurance doesn't screw you, will you have the money needed to send your children off to university if you are too ill to work?
In the US, you live in constant financial danger, because noone will be there for you when you need it. Therefore it's important to work as hard as you can to save up. Since money is needed for basic survival, taxes in the US are seen as the government causing a risk for your basic survival. It is no wonder that Americans complain so much about taxes.