im not sure if this has been suggested before, but who thinks patents should be (like trademarks) valid on a 'use it or lose it' basis, to prevent submarine patents, like this one?
if athlon-xp's overheat, they turn off. I know this because i (very, very stupidly) put the heatsink on the wrong way (how?!?) on my gf's shiney new athlon-xp2800+ and spent about three hours trying to work out why it would beep a few times then turn off during the compile of xorg
i dunno - if they said to the customer "we dont use windows anymore - its crap, this is much better", the _average_ customer would just assume the dell guy is right because they dont have a clue (never heard of linux). Linux is a bit of a buzzword nowadays, so if he has heard of it, he'd act knowlegable and say "does it support xml" or something equally stupid.
there'd be hell to pay when he got home and couldn't install his porn dialers though.
i like the idea about copyrights being limited to 20 years or when you die, unless you transfer it which makes it 20 years.
Like i said, my post was refering to music, not films. i agree films need longer copyright than 6 months. Maybe 6 months is too short, but i think even 20 years is too long for music - 5 years would give the good artists plenty of compensation for their 'hard work', but would also be an incentive to keep making new stuff.
by that logic a perfectly legit dvd player breaks copyright law by copying the comprighted data into RAM (presumably, i dont know how dvd players work though).
that would also make it illegal to backup commercial computer software (a ghost image of your hard disk for example)
I realised at the end of my post that copyright covers stuff other than music (software, films, etc)
6 months should be enough for copyright.
It would mean artists and record companies wouldn't beable to sustain their current business model, and wages would be more reasonable.
The artists and the record companies could still make a killing, just not as much as they currently do.
Plus, no more one hit wonders - whats the point marketting somebody crap if their only work is going to be public domain in 6 months?
I seriously believe 6 months would be benificial to the quality of music. If anybody feels differently, please tell me why and not that im "teh gh3y" or whatever.
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webservers? afaik google runs a linux cluster (with apache and mysql, although i might be wrong about that).
im not sure if this has been suggested before, but who thinks patents should be (like trademarks) valid on a 'use it or lose it' basis, to prevent submarine patents, like this one?
there's a package called gpl-flash in gentoo's portage. im not sure how good it is though.
what about defensive patents, to be used in counter suits (i believe red hat has some)
you mean something like clamAV?
of course he's kidding. i was thinking of posting something along the same lines, but was beaten to it.
some northerners (UK) say ta for thanks (including myself). i had a bit of trouble explaining that to the hotel worker on holiday.
its what i feel comfortable with, and kde's kioslaves make life great if your doing webdev over ftp or whatever.
well it is blatantly obvious that peanuts contain peanuts, i would assume the name of the product, for example kp salted peanuts would be enough.
The bit that gets me though is that it says "_may_ contain peanuts"
some people are too stupid to realise that peanuts might actualy contain peanuts.
i suppose it was management covering there arses incase it turns out that their peanuts contain as much peanuts as macdonalds beef contain beef.
are you saying that those "warning, may contain peanuts" warnings on bags of peanuts are unnecessary?
(im not joking, those are the exact words on bags of peanuts in the uk)
driver support has improved greatly recently, with the inclusion of udev in many major distro's.
if you want to try linux again, i would recommend ubuntu (i think thats the spelling). its based on debian, so its got apt-get.
dont use barcodes, use colourcodes and words (easy to count, easy to check by the voter). fold it in half and nobody can see what your voting either.
and whats wrong with bollocking-cunty-cunty-twat-fuck? thats a perfectly valid combination of words.
being american (presumably), you dont know bollocks or twat, but theyre real words.
if athlon-xp's overheat, they turn off. I know this because i (very, very stupidly) put the heatsink on the wrong way (how?!?) on my gf's shiney new athlon-xp2800+ and spent about three hours trying to work out why it would beep a few times then turn off during the compile of xorg
crappy slashdot stealing < signs. crappy html for using them.
0.6>X<1.7
i can count on one finger the number of girls on the undergrad computing course im on, and the degree that runs with it.
no, 1kg is what causes most peoples bathroom scales to display X, where :
0.6>X1.7
i dunno - if they said to the customer "we dont use windows anymore - its crap, this is much better", the _average_ customer would just assume the dell guy is right because they dont have a clue (never heard of linux). Linux is a bit of a buzzword nowadays, so if he has heard of it, he'd act knowlegable and say "does it support xml" or something equally stupid.
there'd be hell to pay when he got home and couldn't install his porn dialers though.
i like the idea about copyrights being limited to 20 years or when you die, unless you transfer it which makes it 20 years.
Like i said, my post was refering to music, not films. i agree films need longer copyright than 6 months. Maybe 6 months is too short, but i think even 20 years is too long for music - 5 years would give the good artists plenty of compensation for their 'hard work', but would also be an incentive to keep making new stuff.
well then:
bollocking-cunty-cunty-twat-fuck
online trust falling overall in other news: Bank Of America Loses 1.2 Million Customer Records
by that logic a perfectly legit dvd player breaks copyright law by copying the comprighted data into RAM (presumably, i dont know how dvd players work though).
that would also make it illegal to backup commercial computer software (a ghost image of your hard disk for example)
I realised at the end of my post that copyright covers stuff other than music (software, films, etc)
6 months should be enough for copyright.
It would mean artists and record companies wouldn't beable to sustain their current business model, and wages would be more reasonable.
The artists and the record companies could still make a killing, just not as much as they currently do.
Plus, no more one hit wonders - whats the point marketting somebody crap if their only work is going to be public domain in 6 months?
I seriously believe 6 months would be benificial to the quality of music. If anybody feels differently, please tell me why and not that im "teh gh3y" or whatever.
thats funny, i think i might use that