We're talking about Australia here. You know, the country that rides along every time the Americans 'go it alone.' But not to worry, we're well ahead of you. We invaded ourselves a couple of years ago to save America the trouble.
I thought Force Unleashed was OK. I bought the Wii version and other than getting too energetic and hitting the TV and Furniture a couple of times, I had great fun with it.
They'd have to defend their trademark against dilution. If the summary wasn't wrong, this could be a really bizarre situation to watch. Watch the cops become just like every other big business.
They will lean on companies that have older licenses of things like Office and haven't upgraded. They kept calling us and trying to get us to participate in a 'software asset evaluation' or some such in ~2004. We hadn't upgraded from Office 2000 so they were trying to flog us licenses assuming that we had upgraded without purchasing any.
But for the small scale stuff like home users, they prefer to use technical measures like WGA and WPA. It's cheaper for them and scarier for a lot of the home users.
Wasn't that the point of the Internet boom/bust last decade. People discovered that giving crap away for free didn't make money. Once again Microsoft is a decade behind.:)
(Actually, all of the anti-pirate stuff makes sense. Their main competitor is dodgy copies of their own stuff.)
Oh hell yes. I learned Fortran on VMS and learned to love the file versioning. If there was one thing MS should have stolen from VMS for Windows NT, it's file versioning. You could take crap like VSS and ignore it. Office apps wouldn't need to do stupid tricks inside the files. It would make my life simpler.
Actually, to add to this, look at the training industry around proprietary software. People want to be sent on training courses with free lunch. They want the company to buy big useless books. They want a shelf of big, useless, attractive books. They want to add Vendor Certified Whatever to their CV. This is another area where OSS needs to catch up.
But "Support" has a whole other meaning to non-technical people. There has to be a commercial relationship so that they have the illusion of someone who will be held responsible when the software screws up. If that isn't available then the people making decisions will have to take personal responsibility for the situation and in my experience, that isn't going to happen.
I agree that there is usually good support (our version of the word) for most of the useful open-source software out there. There just isn't the support that the accountants and managers need to see. There are, however, businesses that are starting to sell 'support' and are making OSS look more normal to the suits.
Incorrect. Australian copyright law allows software to cover the code and 'required data.' The rulings that did this came from a case where a guy reverse engineered an AutoCAD hardware lock and started selling work-alike versions. The case went back and forth but AutoDesk eventually won. It meant that schedules, bus timetables and the like could hold copyright on the data.
Hey, my cheaper than Dell, Acer notebook has a Firewire port. I use it to download my video camera. On the windows side, the only people I know of who use Firewire are downloading video and it's pretty solid for that. USB sucks for video work.
I have it on my desktop machines and have it inbuilt or use a PC-Card adapter for my notebooks. All are WinXP, except the Vista notebook. (Bleh) It's the connection on both of my video cameras. I could never find a USB video camera that didn't suck.
The FBI was given a mission to get online crime under control, so that's what they did. In Australia, one drug squad took control of the local drug scene and supposedly ran it very well.
You've obviously worked in places where managers respect doors. Personally, I can't stand open plan, but I worked in one place where the guys in the open that everyone could see had their web access filtered while the people who could do things unobserved had no filtering. Of course, the worst offenses weren't porn but online share trading and the guy bleating loudest about the need for filtering was the worst of the lot.
No shit, Rudd speaks Mandarin? Is the pope catholic? Look up irony sometime. You missed the subtlety. You must be an American like the original tool that thinks our government speaks out about China or Venezuala.
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We're talking about Australia here. You know, the country that rides along every time the Americans 'go it alone.' But not to worry, we're well ahead of you. We invaded ourselves a couple of years ago to save America the trouble.
Bloody stupid git.
Gee, that almost sounds like Jedi teamwork versus the individual way of the Sith. You may be on to something.
I thought Force Unleashed was OK. I bought the Wii version and other than getting too energetic and hitting the TV and Furniture a couple of times, I had great fun with it.
They'd have to defend their trademark against dilution. If the summary wasn't wrong, this could be a really bizarre situation to watch. Watch the cops become just like every other big business.
Hmm, I think you've shown us the way...
Mongols meet Uwe, Uwe meet Mongols.
Hey, I hear the '30s are coming back into fashion. There's a buzz on Wall Street.
They will lean on companies that have older licenses of things like Office and haven't upgraded. They kept calling us and trying to get us to participate in a 'software asset evaluation' or some such in ~2004. We hadn't upgraded from Office 2000 so they were trying to flog us licenses assuming that we had upgraded without purchasing any.
But for the small scale stuff like home users, they prefer to use technical measures like WGA and WPA. It's cheaper for them and scarier for a lot of the home users.
Wasn't that the point of the Internet boom/bust last decade. People discovered that giving crap away for free didn't make money. Once again Microsoft is a decade behind. :)
(Actually, all of the anti-pirate stuff makes sense. Their main competitor is dodgy copies of their own stuff.)
I think they did it this week to stop you giving disks of warez to trick or treaters next week. Hmmm...
Yep, I realised that after I hit post. Obviously you got the joke but could have done better
The original estimate was 32768 and an overflow flag.
Oh hell yes. I learned Fortran on VMS and learned to love the file versioning. If there was one thing MS should have stolen from VMS for Windows NT, it's file versioning. You could take crap like VSS and ignore it. Office apps wouldn't need to do stupid tricks inside the files. It would make my life simpler.
A new variant of the BSD advertising clause:
This product includes software developed by California Prison Inmates.
Yep, BeaTeR FS is a kinder, gentler alternative to Reiser FS.
I read it as BeaterFS and wondered if it was too soon for ReiserFS jokes.
Actually, to add to this, look at the training industry around proprietary software. People want to be sent on training courses with free lunch. They want the company to buy big useless books. They want a shelf of big, useless, attractive books. They want to add Vendor Certified Whatever to their CV. This is another area where OSS needs to catch up.
But "Support" has a whole other meaning to non-technical people. There has to be a commercial relationship so that they have the illusion of someone who will be held responsible when the software screws up. If that isn't available then the people making decisions will have to take personal responsibility for the situation and in my experience, that isn't going to happen.
I agree that there is usually good support (our version of the word) for most of the useful open-source software out there. There just isn't the support that the accountants and managers need to see. There are, however, businesses that are starting to sell 'support' and are making OSS look more normal to the suits.
Incorrect. Australian copyright law allows software to cover the code and 'required data.' The rulings that did this came from a case where a guy reverse engineered an AutoCAD hardware lock and started selling work-alike versions. The case went back and forth but AutoDesk eventually won. It meant that schedules, bus timetables and the like could hold copyright on the data.
Hey, my cheaper than Dell, Acer notebook has a Firewire port. I use it to download my video camera. On the windows side, the only people I know of who use Firewire are downloading video and it's pretty solid for that. USB sucks for video work.
I have it on my desktop machines and have it inbuilt or use a PC-Card adapter for my notebooks. All are WinXP, except the Vista notebook. (Bleh) It's the connection on both of my video cameras. I could never find a USB video camera that didn't suck.
The FBI was given a mission to get online crime under control, so that's what they did. In Australia, one drug squad took control of the local drug scene and supposedly ran it very well.
You've obviously worked in places where managers respect doors. Personally, I can't stand open plan, but I worked in one place where the guys in the open that everyone could see had their web access filtered while the people who could do things unobserved had no filtering. Of course, the worst offenses weren't porn but online share trading and the guy bleating loudest about the need for filtering was the worst of the lot.
No shit, Rudd speaks Mandarin? Is the pope catholic? Look up irony sometime. You missed the subtlety. You must be an American like the original tool that thinks our government speaks out about China or Venezuala.
We are the Borg, prepare to be buttimilated. Resistance is futile.