Let's say you read the EULA and were OK with it. You then bought XP and installed it. Six months later MS changed the EULA. What now? Are you bound by the original or the new one. DO they have all the revision on the web site? If you are bound by the new one do they send it to you or let you know in any way? What if the new EULA is not acceptable to you then what?
"He's basically lost most of his credibility there, because a good decision maker needs to bring in technical people to explain this."
To me he lost his credibility by talking about an open source solaris before such a thing even exists. Why don't we wait till sun actually open sources solaris, examine the license, examine what had to be taken out due to licensing, examine what sun says about suing people who may be reading patented code and THEN start speculating about how it will all effect linux.
For example if SUN releases solaris under GPL no problem. Linux will take from it and improve itself. If it's under the BSD-like the same thing will occur. If it's released under something like the Java license I don't expect them to build a decent community or to present any real competition to linux.
Ability to publish zope objects with SOAP CORBA support. Message queues Object relational layer transaction support for relational databases RMI or it's equavalent in python Common logging infrastructure (log4j) Timed services (cron like device for calling certain code) Naming directory..... Many Many more thing that are in J2EE but not in zope.
But what it lacks more then anything else is good documentation. Yes there are lots of products but the vast majority of them have no more then a one sentence explation.
FInally a plea to whoever is reading this.
I hate Java, please please please build a J2EE like container for python or ruby make sure it has everything I have listed above.
"Why is there not this outcry against Call of Duty, when it recreates the tragic deaths of millions during WWII? Is a historical simulation only wrong if someone FAMOUS gets hurt?"
It has nothing to do with fame. It has to do with killing americans. It's OK to make a game where americans kill other people even if they are famous (saddam, hitler, osama etc). It's offensive when americans are being killed.
I just wish our current president would be satisfied by getting his dick sucked in the white house. It would not have cost us 200 billion that's for sure.
Maybe that's the thing. Maybe people who are happy getting their dicks sucked are not going around starting wars.
Where is Monica when we need her. Monica your nation needs you, please give bush blowjobs so he wont' start another war.
That's because games like movies are trying to expand the meme that wars are heroic actions and that it makes people heroic to participate in war.
The success of that meme being propagated by countless movies and books has now resulted in an atmosphere where it's extremely politically incorrect to critize any soldier or even any war. Rah Rah, Go US, Support our troops etc.
Obviously it's not like the movie or the game manufacturers want to persue a point of view, they want to give the public what it wants and the public has been programmed by the govt to want wars. Entertainment goes to re-inforce this notion rather then create it.
If you ask me Ballmer is just asking for it. Now every tom, dick and harry is free sue MS. MS is between a rock and a hard place. They can't on the one hand go on and on about IP and on the other hand fight too vigorously when other people claim IP infringement. They have a huge motivation to settle or license the product.
If you own any patents MS is the place to try to make money from them. They won't even put up much of a fight.
Legally both the software company and the customer could be sued if patents are being infringed. Practically though nobody sues the customer because MS has so much money. It's easier to sue the fatcat then to sue a thousand customers.
This is why linux companies and customers won't be sued. There just isn't enough money there. If somebody sues linus what do they hope to collect? A few thousand dollars? It's more profitable to sue MS.
This is especially important because the if somebody has a patent on let's say memory management the chances are both windows and linux infringe the same patent. In that case why go after linux? Why not go after the deep pockets.
Matt Groenig had a cartoon one that basically said.
"School prepares you for file by teaching you to sit quietly at your desk and do what you are told".
America is pretty much like that. People don't question authority. They simply accept whatever they are being told.
In the last election for example an incredible number of Americans were shown to believe in things that were demonstrably false. For example saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 and that Iraq had nuclear weapons. The odd thing is that even if you were to go to one of these people and argue that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 they would dismiss you as being a communist/liberal and stop listening to you.
Since human beings put ten thousand times as much CO2 into the air as volcanos it's safe to presume we can do something about it. Look at what happened with the ozone layer. It took a while but the ozone hole is getting smaller. That's a direct result of humans stopping the use of hydrocarbons.
I just don't get the people who think that humans have no impact on the earths atmosphere, air, seas or the land.
Porn is fantasy, fantasy is by definition that which is very hard for you to obtain.
Porn is full of horny women who want nothing more then to have sex with you and who enjoy it immensely during the process.
You may think that's ugly but it's simply the thing males want because they don't have it. If your wife/girlfriend/randomgirl desparately wanted you and enjoyed sex with you immensely then you probably would not be watching so much porn.
"Is anyone the least bit surprised or concerned that a conservative Christian Republican senator from Kansas found the testimony "disturbing". How is this news?"
It's news because those conservative republicans are controlling the presidency, house, senate and the supreme court. If they are talking about it it means legislation is pending.
Brilliant!. I bet nobody thought to ask those questions before.
You are indeed wise. You should be working on this treaty instead of those idiots. Why they didn't even have the common sense to define what emission or industrialized nations mean. They totally left that out of the treaty. Nobody knows what emissions mean when it comes to this treaty.
How could they have created a treaty like that without answering these basic questions.
When the UN monitors elections it relies mostly on exit polls to determine if the counts are being manipulated.
In this case the exit polls showed that people were voting for Kerry but the counts showed otherwise.
Now what? How do we know which is true?
You know what the sad thing is? The sad thing is that we even have to ask that question. I for one don't trust the machines or the voting process, I am not the only one either. That's sad.
So the question is what do we do about it? Your congress critter does not care because 95% of them run pretty much unopposed or win by huge margins. Your senator knows that when push comes to shove more people are afraid of gays getting married then patents. All the politicians know how to push your bottons to get you to vote for them.
What are you going to do?
The only thing that can work is a worldwide boycott but good luck getting mom and pop middle america to participate.
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Let's say you read the EULA and were OK with it. You then bought XP and installed it. Six months later MS changed the EULA. What now? Are you bound by the original or the new one. DO they have all the revision on the web site? If you are bound by the new one do they send it to you or let you know in any way? What if the new EULA is not acceptable to you then what?
"He's basically lost most of his credibility there, because a good decision maker needs to bring in technical people to explain this."
To me he lost his credibility by talking about an open source solaris before such a thing even exists. Why don't we wait till sun actually open sources solaris, examine the license, examine what had to be taken out due to licensing, examine what sun says about suing people who may be reading patented code and THEN start speculating about how it will all effect linux.
For example if SUN releases solaris under GPL no problem. Linux will take from it and improve itself. If it's under the BSD-like the same thing will occur. If it's released under something like the Java license I don't expect them to build a decent community or to present any real competition to linux.
You can't write beans in jython or groovy. Perhaps you could write some objects in those and then call them from session beans or something.
Ruby on rails offers almost none of what I listed. It's a neat project for rapidly building web sites though.
What ZOPE doesn't have.
.... Many Many more thing that are in J2EE but not in zope.
Ability to publish zope objects with SOAP
CORBA support.
Message queues
Object relational layer
transaction support for relational databases
RMI or it's equavalent in python
Common logging infrastructure (log4j)
Timed services (cron like device for calling certain code)
Naming directory.
But what it lacks more then anything else is good documentation. Yes there are lots of products but the vast majority of them have no more then a one sentence explation.
FInally a plea to whoever is reading this.
I hate Java, please please please build a J2EE like container for python or ruby make sure it has everything I have listed above.
"Why is there not this outcry against Call of Duty, when it recreates the tragic deaths of millions during WWII? Is a historical simulation only wrong if someone FAMOUS gets hurt?"
It has nothing to do with fame. It has to do with killing americans. It's OK to make a game where americans kill other people even if they are famous (saddam, hitler, osama etc). It's offensive when americans are being killed.
I just wish our current president would be satisfied by getting his dick sucked in the white house. It would not have cost us 200 billion that's for sure.
Maybe that's the thing. Maybe people who are happy getting their dicks sucked are not going around starting wars.
Where is Monica when we need her. Monica your nation needs you, please give bush blowjobs so he wont' start another war.
That's because games like movies are trying to expand the meme that wars are heroic actions and that it makes people heroic to participate in war.
The success of that meme being propagated by countless movies and books has now resulted in an atmosphere where it's extremely politically incorrect to critize any soldier or even any war. Rah Rah, Go US, Support our troops etc.
Obviously it's not like the movie or the game manufacturers want to persue a point of view, they want to give the public what it wants and the public has been programmed by the govt to want wars. Entertainment goes to re-inforce this notion rather then create it.
If you ask me Ballmer is just asking for it. Now every tom, dick and harry is free sue MS. MS is between a rock and a hard place. They can't on the one hand go on and on about IP and on the other hand fight too vigorously when other people claim IP infringement. They have a huge motivation to settle or license the product.
If you own any patents MS is the place to try to make money from them. They won't even put up much of a fight.
Legally both the software company and the customer could be sued if patents are being infringed. Practically though nobody sues the customer because MS has so much money. It's easier to sue the fatcat then to sue a thousand customers.
This is why linux companies and customers won't be sued. There just isn't enough money there. If somebody sues linus what do they hope to collect? A few thousand dollars? It's more profitable to sue MS.
This is especially important because the if somebody has a patent on let's say memory management the chances are both windows and linux infringe the same patent. In that case why go after linux? Why not go after the deep pockets.
Matt Groenig had a cartoon one that basically said.
"School prepares you for file by teaching you to sit quietly at your desk and do what you are told".
America is pretty much like that. People don't question authority. They simply accept whatever they are being told.
In the last election for example an incredible number of Americans were shown to believe in things that were demonstrably false. For example saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 and that Iraq had nuclear weapons. The odd thing is that even if you were to go to one of these people and argue that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 they would dismiss you as being a communist/liberal and stop listening to you.
Since human beings put ten thousand times as much CO2 into the air as volcanos it's safe to presume we can do something about it. Look at what happened with the ozone layer. It took a while but the ozone hole is getting smaller. That's a direct result of humans stopping the use of hydrocarbons.
I just don't get the people who think that humans have no impact on the earths atmosphere, air, seas or the land.
Porn is fantasy, fantasy is by definition that which is very hard for you to obtain.
Porn is full of horny women who want nothing more then to have sex with you and who enjoy it immensely during the process.
You may think that's ugly but it's simply the thing males want because they don't have it. If your wife/girlfriend/randomgirl desparately wanted you and enjoyed sex with you immensely then you probably would not be watching so much porn.
"Is anyone the least bit surprised or concerned that a conservative Christian Republican senator from Kansas found the testimony "disturbing". How is this news?"
It's news because those conservative republicans are controlling the presidency, house, senate and the supreme court. If they are talking about it it means legislation is pending.
Feel free to believe anything you want. You probably believe that lettign gays get married is threatening your marriage.
Considering what the consequences of the melting of polar caps might be I'd say it's one of the most important things in the world.
All they have to do is to pass a resolution and we will go and kill them all when they don't obey those resolutions. What's the big deal?
Brilliant!. I bet nobody thought to ask those questions before.
You are indeed wise. You should be working on this treaty instead of those idiots. Why they didn't even have the common sense to define what emission or industrialized nations mean. They totally left that out of the treaty. Nobody knows what emissions mean when it comes to this treaty.
How could they have created a treaty like that without answering these basic questions.
Right. Because profits are more important then anything else.
"what, so an organized pool of talented and hungry engineers isn't worth anything?"
According to wall st it's not worth a hell of a lot.
This study seems to show that the election was not "reasonably fair".
The article points out that the only factor was the nature of the voting machine. Read the article.
There were some claims that have been argued against but none of what you are posting applies to this study. This study seems very solid.
When the UN monitors elections it relies mostly on exit polls to determine if the counts are being manipulated.
In this case the exit polls showed that people were voting for Kerry but the counts showed otherwise.
Now what? How do we know which is true?
You know what the sad thing is? The sad thing is that we even have to ask that question. I for one don't trust the machines or the voting process, I am not the only one either. That's sad.
So the question is what do we do about it? Your congress critter does not care because 95% of them run pretty much unopposed or win by huge margins. Your senator knows that when push comes to shove more people are afraid of gays getting married then patents. All the politicians know how to push your bottons to get you to vote for them.
What are you going to do?
The only thing that can work is a worldwide boycott but good luck getting mom and pop middle america to participate.
You forgot $10,000 in attorney fees.