"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machinegun. It is the finest available"
Wernstrom, Futurama.
The wisdom of Futurama never ceases to amaze
Actually, if you apply economics you can see that the product will then become a part of the free market and thus it's price will reduce to the marginal cost of production; because anyone can copy it, the price will reach the cost of this copying. Less money will be made, but more copies will be sold.
Thus a substantial reduction in price occurs, allowing more people to enjoy the copyrighted work, or people to enjoy more copyrighted works.
The "more money in the publisher's pocket or more money in the creator's pocket" is only one point of view; the opposing is "more content in more people's pockets".
At least one implementation of Perl6 is being written in Perl.
Which should help with the situation you describe. Plus the perl6 grammar capabilities are pretty nifty looking.
This already exists and is called repagination . It is not perfect, in that it essentially concatenates the pages together rather than expanding the single content block, but it is better than continual clicking between pages. Overall an excellent extension.
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Was there significant public involvement that was critical to the project?
Well, for one they are using ffmpeg, and cairo, so I would say that there is significant involvement.
Also, what was accomplished? A 100% direct rip-off of a product already created and demonstrated by a closed-source development house? Impressive. Wow.
At the moment moonlight may not have any significant functionality over silverlight, but one example given of the value of the mono work is that in time you will be able to ship mono libraries with your silverlight/moonlight app, extending it's functionality without having to implement yourself from the ground up.
Surely in these cases the RIAA has admitted that they do not believe that they can secure a verdict against the defendant, so why should they be allowed to cease litigation while leaving the matter unsettled and the defendant out of pocket for legal and other expenses?
I hope this ensures that the RIAA ensures that in future cases they have valid and sufficient evidence to proceed rather than filing such frivolous suits that waste time and money for all concerned.
ou still need to go out and download the proper 3d accelerated optimized drivers from the chipset vendors. Same for sound. Sorry, but that's just a fact of life for Linux, at least it was the last time I installed it.
And for those thousands of pcs with integrated intel graphics, which have open source drivers, which are included with your distro, it is not a fact of life. Stop trolling.
Windows XP support USB keyboards and mice in the base install.
But not the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer they manufacture themselves. "You need to go out and download the proper Microsoft drivers from Microsoft". Stop trolling.
Installing an OS requires planning and an amount of manual installation/downloads. Regardless of who makes it. There is no need to troll.
DRM allows copyright owners to grant themselves additional 'rights' and restrain you artificially from exercising your own. For example, I can resell my CDs if I find I no lonnger like them, but I cannot resell my DRMed music file. Truly Digital Restrictions Management is a better name for it. DRM is getting in the way of my doing something *legal*.
Given that all currently supported versions of Windows, from a technical perspective, have security capabilities that exceed those of most unixes, how do you propose they do more than they already have ?
It doesn't matter if these security measures are there if noone uses them. Windows still ships with new user accounts being administrator by default. The default group policy is very permissive, and acls do nothing versus the administrator user. If windows had decent sudo capabilities (yes I have used runas and credentials storing in shortcuts), which make it painful for the average user to run as anything other than Administrator.
Poor security by default is the real issue. Corporate entities can afford to create group policy and run users as non admins and have things like standard images if systems do get infected. A home user does not have the resources. Security needs to be on by default.
"your computer ACPI is broken"... which is stupid as "the ohter" operating system can hybernate and suspend without problems.
Your ACPI probably is broken. Many laptop vendors compile their ACPI information using the Microsoft ACPI tools, which are not standards compliant. You do not have an ACPI laptop - you have a MSFT-ACPI laptop. You can try checking the DSDT list to see if someone has provided a "corrected" ACPI. Ubuntu probably has instructions for using this.
Guess you have 1GB or less of RAM, otherwise Win XP has problems hibernating reliably.
But, in my opinion is not a problem of the hardware manufacturers but a problem of the Linux zealotry of "give us the driver source code or give us the ball". Linux will always be catching up trying to hack togheter hardware drivers until they agree to play nicely with the hardware providrers.
Windows has drivers, and OSX has drivers because either Microsoft or Apple or the manufacturer of the hardware has written them. Windows & OSX are licensed differently from Linux (or BSD or...) and the Driver Development Kits or OSKIT (iirc) is licensed in a way that allows binary driver distribution by the manufacturer.
Linux (the kernel) is licensed mostly under the GPL v2. It is not the sole copyright of Linus Torvalds, but of hundreds of developers around the world who own the copyright for various pieces of it. They have chosen a license that is very permissive in many ways, but restrictive in others; it has the goal of ensuring all users of the software can make changes, study how it works and have access to the source code. Hardware providers are free to write drivers, and companies such as Redhat or SUSE or Academics all contribute drivers themselves also, and fix bugs in drivers that they use. Linux already plays nice with many hardware providers, for instance Intel releases various drivers for Linux themselves. In fact, often drivers are written by the 'community' following the release of specifications only, or by reverse engineering. Windows is ahead in driver support because the hardware companies write the drivers for Windows first, as their largest target market; it is in their best economic interest.
They're currently target number one for several other big tech firms, and fighting on all fronts, and I'm sure Sun Tzu had something to say about the wisdom of that approach.
The height of strategy is not to subdue the enemy in battle, but to subdue him without fighting at all.
Google's major market is advertising & search. If they can distract other potential competitors in that market, then they are already winning.
Turnitin are not performing research of the character of high school papers, they are providing a commercial service to schools.
Since a school does not pay you (infact in many cases you have to pay the school) I cannot see a reasonable argument for schools holding copyright on assignments. You do not work for the school, the school works for you.
I like to think of everything as 50/50. Either I win or I don't win.
I propose a simple game with you. You win if a fair die is rolled and comes up 1. I win otherwise. We both put in £1/$1/1 or whatever each time. I will play until you are bankrupt.
The chance of some CHOSEN ticket (eg 1 2 3 4 5 6) winning is less than a neutron star, but the chance of ANY of the tickets bought in a lottery winning is much larger.
A Turing Space rather than a Turing machine. Turing was an excellent mathematician, and although currently most famous for his ideas on computation and the Halting Problem, this was a seperate area of research.
This area of study (colourations on animals) is based on Reaction Diffusion Equations, of which a canonical example is the Belousov-Zhabotinskii equation derived from a chemical experiment, and a simpler one is the Heat Equation. These take the form of partial differential equations.
As to simulations of the world or parts on a computer, there is the problem of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, meaning you can never form a complete 'image' of any part of the world.
At college we tend to use BaKoMa Tex which lets you have a live preview. I find that the typing approach is much faster myself, but i can see how some people might find equation editor easier to use.
And I would argue that the math does need to be pretty, because well laid out equations are much easier to understand.
What monopoly in search? Google has less than 50% of the market for search, and they have a significant competitor in Yahoo search marketing (used to be called Overture) not to mention the banner ad people such as doubleclick, although I couldn't find any comparison of the services relative market share.
Google has not attempted to artificially raise the barrier to entry of the search market, unless they are involved in something i am unaware of, you can get some clever people together, some big hardware and a gigantic pipe and make your own search engine or pay per click advertising. Same for payment processing; Google are not engaging in dumping of Google Checkout, it is infact more expensive than it's biggest rival Paypal.
(Full disclosure: I have used paypal to pay for things, google & yahoo to search, and I block all adverts with adblock plus and filterset.g)
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"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machinegun. It is the finest available" Wernstrom, Futurama. The wisdom of Futurama never ceases to amaze
Actually, if you apply economics you can see that the product will then become a part of the free market and thus it's price will reduce to the marginal cost of production; because anyone can copy it, the price will reach the cost of this copying. Less money will be made, but more copies will be sold.
Thus a substantial reduction in price occurs, allowing more people to enjoy the copyrighted work, or people to enjoy more copyrighted works.
The "more money in the publisher's pocket or more money in the creator's pocket" is only one point of view; the opposing is "more content in more people's pockets".
At least one implementation of Perl6 is being written in Perl. Which should help with the situation you describe. Plus the perl6 grammar capabilities are pretty nifty looking.
Openchange is the project you are looking for.
This already exists and is called repagination . It is not perfect, in that it essentially concatenates the pages together rather than expanding the single content block, but it is better than continual clicking between pages. Overall an excellent extension.
To remove the ads, just use AdblockPlus with one of the subscriptions, for zero effort expended ad blocking.
It is early days, but the openchange project is looking to change this.
Also samba 4 should be a vast improvement AD wise.
Surely in these cases the RIAA has admitted that they do not believe that they can secure a verdict against the defendant, so why should they be allowed to cease litigation while leaving the matter unsettled and the defendant out of pocket for legal and other expenses?
I hope this ensures that the RIAA ensures that in future cases they have valid and sufficient evidence to proceed rather than filing such frivolous suits that waste time and money for all concerned.
This is incorrect. Copyright to the code in the kernel rests with many authors, some is licensed under GPL V2, some under GPL V2 or later.
Linus Torvald's current position is that it will not, as he is unwilling to license his code under GPL V3.
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273.
as does mine ... by *gmail address* i meant your address.
Use a message filter of "From" "is" "*gmail address*"
and an action of "Move message to" "Sent on Local Folders"
Free university is no longer guaranteed in the UK; most people either have to pay Tuition Fees (up to £3,000) or recieve a loan for the amount.
And for those thousands of pcs with integrated intel graphics, which have open source drivers, which are included with your distro, it is not a fact of life. Stop trolling.
But not the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer they manufacture themselves. "You need to go out and download the proper Microsoft drivers from Microsoft". Stop trolling.
Installing an OS requires planning and an amount of manual installation/downloads. Regardless of who makes it. There is no need to troll.
DRM allows copyright owners to grant themselves additional 'rights' and restrain you artificially from exercising your own. For example, I can resell my CDs if I find I no lonnger like them, but I cannot resell my DRMed music file. Truly Digital Restrictions Management is a better name for it. DRM is getting in the way of my doing something *legal*.
It doesn't matter if these security measures are there if noone uses them. Windows still ships with new user accounts being administrator by default. The default group policy is very permissive, and acls do nothing versus the administrator user. If windows had decent sudo capabilities (yes I have used runas and credentials storing in shortcuts), which make it painful for the average user to run as anything other than Administrator.
Poor security by default is the real issue. Corporate entities can afford to create group policy and run users as non admins and have things like standard images if systems do get infected. A home user does not have the resources. Security needs to be on by default.
Thanks for the informative link. It surprises me too. SP3 perhaps? You have to pass WGA to continue, perhaps this is the reason?
Your ACPI probably is broken. Many laptop vendors compile their ACPI information using the Microsoft ACPI tools, which are not standards compliant. You do not have an ACPI laptop - you have a MSFT-ACPI laptop. You can try checking the DSDT list to see if someone has provided a "corrected" ACPI. Ubuntu probably has instructions for using this.
Guess you have 1GB or less of RAM, otherwise Win XP has problems hibernating reliably.
Windows has drivers, and OSX has drivers because either Microsoft or Apple or the manufacturer of the hardware has written them. Windows & OSX are licensed differently from Linux (or BSD or ...) and the Driver Development Kits or OSKIT (iirc) is licensed in a way that allows binary driver distribution by the manufacturer.
Linux (the kernel) is licensed mostly under the GPL v2. It is not the sole copyright of Linus Torvalds, but of hundreds of developers around the world who own the copyright for various pieces of it. They have chosen a license that is very permissive in many ways, but restrictive in others; it has the goal of ensuring all users of the software can make changes, study how it works and have access to the source code. Hardware providers are free to write drivers, and companies such as Redhat or SUSE or Academics all contribute drivers themselves also, and fix bugs in drivers that they use. Linux already plays nice with many hardware providers, for instance Intel releases various drivers for Linux themselves. In fact, often drivers are written by the 'community' following the release of specifications only, or by reverse engineering. Windows is ahead in driver support because the hardware companies write the drivers for Windows first, as their largest target market; it is in their best economic interest.
The height of strategy is not to subdue the enemy in battle, but to subdue him without fighting at all.
Google's major market is advertising & search. If they can distract other potential competitors in that market, then they are already winning.
Turnitin are not performing research of the character of high school papers, they are providing a commercial service to schools.
Since a school does not pay you (infact in many cases you have to pay the school) I cannot see a reasonable argument for schools holding copyright on assignments. You do not work for the school, the school works for you.
I propose a simple game with you. You win if a fair die is rolled and comes up 1. I win otherwise. We both put in £1/$1/1 or whatever each time. I will play until you are bankrupt.
The chance of some CHOSEN ticket (eg 1 2 3 4 5 6) winning is less than a neutron star, but the chance of ANY of the tickets bought in a lottery winning is much larger.
I installed VLC on Windows. "If VLC doesn't play it, it isn't a media file"
A Turing Space rather than a Turing machine. Turing was an excellent mathematician, and although currently most famous for his ideas on computation and the Halting Problem, this was a seperate area of research.
This area of study (colourations on animals) is based on Reaction Diffusion Equations, of which a canonical example is the Belousov-Zhabotinskii equation derived from a chemical experiment, and a simpler one is the Heat Equation. These take the form of partial differential equations.
As to simulations of the world or parts on a computer, there is the problem of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, meaning you can never form a complete 'image' of any part of the world.
At college we tend to use BaKoMa Tex which lets you have a live preview. I find that the typing approach is much faster myself, but i can see how some people might find equation editor easier to use.
And I would argue that the math does need to be pretty, because well laid out equations are much easier to understand.
YMPWVWhat monopoly in search? Google has less than 50% of the market for search, and they have a significant competitor in Yahoo search marketing (used to be called Overture) not to mention the banner ad people such as doubleclick, although I couldn't find any comparison of the services relative market share.
Google has not attempted to artificially raise the barrier to entry of the search market, unless they are involved in something i am unaware of, you can get some clever people together, some big hardware and a gigantic pipe and make your own search engine or pay per click advertising. Same for payment processing; Google are not engaging in dumping of Google Checkout, it is infact more expensive than it's biggest rival Paypal.
(Full disclosure: I have used paypal to pay for things, google & yahoo to search, and I block all adverts with adblock plus and filterset.g)