The protesters have every right to protest to Planned Parenthood. They don't have the right to shout anything at the patients there. And ANYONE who throws something or gets violent at such a protest should be thrown in jail for at least ten years. Those people have it hard enough, they don't need protesters to make their lives worse. If you have a problem with abortion, talk to your congressmen and your state government. If 2/3 of the country agrees with you, you might be able to change things. Until then, people have the right to privacy.
It's in the UN Charter actually, countries are able to provide troops to the UN (not the same as coalition forces, actually placing them under the command of the UN). No one has done this for obvious reasons, but it's there, and the fact that they don't have troops limits what they can do. In all fairness, the UN is a diplomatic body. It does the job of trying to prevent WWIII and trying to do some good. There's a massive assistance program in Palestine run by the UN, and they have done good work in other places as well. Read the preamble to the UN charter sometime. The founders knew that they couldn't form an army that would stop everyone else from fighting, that was the US's job. They could, however, go after the causes of that fighting, try to head them off 50 years ahead of time. That's the idea with the work in palestine, but a lot more would be needed before the conditions there could be considered livable. Rather than waiting for people to attack you before you do something, you give them food, water, medicine, and education so that they're less likely to attack you. This doesn't work perfectly, we have much of what we need here in the U.S. but we've also got domestic terrorism which will never go away (I'm not talking about arabs on visas, I'm talking about Timothy McVeigh).
For testing purposes, a system with 512MB of RAM should be able to run Windows XP in VMWare on another windows box, if that is what you need. As for Safari, KDE is working on porting back all the changes Apple made to konqueror, at some point in the next year or two Safari and Konqueror will probably be close enough to identical. e.g. Some Mac specific stuff (automatic installers and such) might be different, but if you need to test those features, you are targetting Mac and can probably buy one. For that matter the $500 or so needed to get a Mac test box should not be that tough for a business.
I believe there have been a few times in the last hundred years that a member of the electoral college decided not to vote for the candidate they were expected to. What exactly have I missed, Mr. Coward?
Here in the U.S., we have no problem mislabeling things to avoid confusing stupid people. Our presidential ballots give the name of the candidate we are voting for, when in fact we are voting for a representative to the electoral college. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) was once known as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, it uses radio waves to do its job just the same. Marking irradiated meat as "sanitized" or similar seems perfectly reasonable given the general fear of safe uses of radiation. Frankly I'm surprised people who get their power from nuclear plants don't try to put lead shielding around the cords, because clearly the electricity must be irradiating their homes and giving their children cancer. Perhaps they've had enough lead already.
And spend (guess) $1000 to replace something I already have with something that will be less configurable. Besides, my point is that you can't just magically register any computer you have with iTunes and play music/video through it, you have to stay within Apple's terms for it. What if Apple decides to stop supporting Windows? What if they decide that iTunes music will only play on intel Macs? Why should we give any company the right to decide what content we can play on our hardware?
Ok, people need to stop saying the registration process is "simple and easy" my PVR could never play something downloaded by iTunes, and my PVR has fast remote-connection capability (NX which is many times faster than VNC) and can be controlled by remote via LIRC. So, unless iTunes will run on Ubuntu/x86, admit that playing iTunes stuff over the network only works if you pay for a license of Windows for each computer. So that's $2 per episode + $150 per computer (or whatever Windows runs for these days).
What you quoted has nothing to do with your response. I was asking for somewhere on the site that said "Music purchased from the iTunes music store can only be played on Windows and OS X."
I used to run Windows. Rather than just having lock-in software, whose functionality can be replaced, Apple is selling lock-in content. If you switch operating systems, your license to the media is meaningless.
The same is true of a lot of QuickTime content, H.264 is heavily patented, and Apple has decided not to port QuickTime to Linux, so there are videos that my iPod (video) can play, but my computer can't.
If someone could find me a link on the Apple website stating that content bought from iTMS can only be played on Windows and OS X, I would like to see it.
Interesting, could you please tell me how to authorize my machine? It's an Athlon64 laptop running Ubuntu. I tried running linux, but it crashes too quickly. Of course, since Mac OS X/Intel includes Hardware-based DRM as well, I can't boot it on this system. So that leaves me with linux, if you could provide me with instructions on how to do this, I would much appreciate it, as I have music on my iPod that only it can play.
As a student at a college (not a professor), I don't care about slashdot knowing the school I go to. RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) has 2 different programming majors, CS and SE, CS is entirely Unix based, SE is entirely windows based. The sad thing is there are a ton of upper-level programming courses taught by the SE department. The IT department (which is where you will find the sysadmins) get a mix of the two. I'm currently in SE, but I'm jumping ship ASAP. The SE department is annoying and way-too-paranoid about students using their computers.
I googled around and found an xml file of importables, for some reason IE 6/Win didn't work for me, could be flashblock related though (I didn't try whitelisting until I used the Opera UA). I find it odd that Opera is supported but not Firefox/Linux.
I just set my User Agent in Firefox 1.5.0.5/Ubuntu Linux 6.06 to Opera 8.0/Win 2000, after whitelisting the site with flashblock, the video played perfectly in the Videos section, and I wasn't shooed away by any browser detection.
Exactly, Microsoft could make their own, but it would have to be GPL, which means they can't limit redistribution. I can buy one copy and put it on the internet legally. Not really useful if you want to sell it. On the other hand, they could try buying commercial licenses from the author (unlikely to happen in the case of most of the GNU/Linux tools, but assume for the moment they could) thus allowing the author to continue to development, and allowing MS to continue commercial production.
Or, maybe developers are using the GPL because *they* can still use the code for commercial development but others *can't*. They can give the community the fruits of their labor, and still use the code for commercial purposes. If other companies want to use it, they have to do what you have to do for everything in business: Pay For It. The BSD and MIT licenses just allow others to take your code, use it for whatever they want, extend it and expand it, and they never have to give you the modified code.
I end up using academic stuff every once in a while (I'm running ubuntu presently, but sometimes something windows-only pops up). Allow me to quash this bug:
MSDN Academic Alliance --Student Use Guidelines [snip]
By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Product, you agree to be bound by the terms of the EULA and the License Amendment. If you do not agree to be bound, do not install, copy or use the Product.
Installation Guidelines:
[snip]
Usage Guidelines:
o You may use the software for non-commercial purposes including instructional use, research and/or design, development and testing of projects for class assignment and tests or personal projects. You may not use the Program software for any for-profit software development.
o When you are no longer a registered student in a department that is a member of the MSDN Academic Alliance, you may no longer receive updates for your personal use computer. However, <i><b>you may continue to use previously installed software on your computer, provided you continue to follow program guidelines</i></b>.
o If you violate the terms of the License Agreement and EULA, the MSDNAA Program Administrator will demand confirmation of removal of the program software on your personal use computer.
Ahh, yes, I stand corrected, I knew that but wasn't thinking. Actually I think there would be a lot of resistance to banning laptops here. I'm allowed two carry-ons just because my backpack carries a laptop. Then again, if laptops were banned on board, we might see some really cool PDAs.
Now granted I know more restrictions just went up due to the liquid bombers, but AFAIK they still haven't banned laptops, I bring and use my laptop on flights all the time without a problem. You just have to take it out of the bag and let it run through the scanner on it's own. I've done this many times and never been asked a question about it.
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My cousin is in the military, so now, I don't think people entering recruitment centers should be yelled at either. Right to privacy, as I said.
The protesters have every right to protest to Planned Parenthood. They don't have the right to shout anything at the patients there. And ANYONE who throws something or gets violent at such a protest should be thrown in jail for at least ten years. Those people have it hard enough, they don't need protesters to make their lives worse. If you have a problem with abortion, talk to your congressmen and your state government. If 2/3 of the country agrees with you, you might be able to change things. Until then, people have the right to privacy.
It's in the UN Charter actually, countries are able to provide troops to the UN (not the same as coalition forces, actually placing them under the command of the UN). No one has done this for obvious reasons, but it's there, and the fact that they don't have troops limits what they can do. In all fairness, the UN is a diplomatic body. It does the job of trying to prevent WWIII and trying to do some good. There's a massive assistance program in Palestine run by the UN, and they have done good work in other places as well. Read the preamble to the UN charter sometime. The founders knew that they couldn't form an army that would stop everyone else from fighting, that was the US's job. They could, however, go after the causes of that fighting, try to head them off 50 years ahead of time. That's the idea with the work in palestine, but a lot more would be needed before the conditions there could be considered livable. Rather than waiting for people to attack you before you do something, you give them food, water, medicine, and education so that they're less likely to attack you. This doesn't work perfectly, we have much of what we need here in the U.S. but we've also got domestic terrorism which will never go away (I'm not talking about arabs on visas, I'm talking about Timothy McVeigh).
For testing purposes, a system with 512MB of RAM should be able to run Windows XP in VMWare on another windows box, if that is what you need. As for Safari, KDE is working on porting back all the changes Apple made to konqueror, at some point in the next year or two Safari and Konqueror will probably be close enough to identical. e.g. Some Mac specific stuff (automatic installers and such) might be different, but if you need to test those features, you are targetting Mac and can probably buy one. For that matter the $500 or so needed to get a Mac test box should not be that tough for a business.
I believe there have been a few times in the last hundred years that a member of the electoral college decided not to vote for the candidate they were expected to. What exactly have I missed, Mr. Coward?
Here in the U.S., we have no problem mislabeling things to avoid confusing stupid people. Our presidential ballots give the name of the candidate we are voting for, when in fact we are voting for a representative to the electoral college. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) was once known as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, it uses radio waves to do its job just the same. Marking irradiated meat as "sanitized" or similar seems perfectly reasonable given the general fear of safe uses of radiation. Frankly I'm surprised people who get their power from nuclear plants don't try to put lead shielding around the cords, because clearly the electricity must be irradiating their homes and giving their children cancer. Perhaps they've had enough lead already.
I'm waiting for a prototype as well, but an 80-fold increase above current ultra-capacitors wouldn't blow me away.
Please RTFA, they are not using regular capacitors, just something that acts like a capacitor.
And spend (guess) $1000 to replace something I already have with something that will be less configurable. Besides, my point is that you can't just magically register any computer you have with iTunes and play music/video through it, you have to stay within Apple's terms for it. What if Apple decides to stop supporting Windows? What if they decide that iTunes music will only play on intel Macs? Why should we give any company the right to decide what content we can play on our hardware?
Ok, people need to stop saying the registration process is "simple and easy" my PVR could never play something downloaded by iTunes, and my PVR has fast remote-connection capability (NX which is many times faster than VNC) and can be controlled by remote via LIRC. So, unless iTunes will run on Ubuntu/x86, admit that playing iTunes stuff over the network only works if you pay for a license of Windows for each computer. So that's $2 per episode + $150 per computer (or whatever Windows runs for these days).
What you quoted has nothing to do with your response. I was asking for somewhere on the site that said "Music purchased from the iTunes music store can only be played on Windows and OS X."
I used to run Windows. Rather than just having lock-in software, whose functionality can be replaced, Apple is selling lock-in content. If you switch operating systems, your license to the media is meaningless.
The same is true of a lot of QuickTime content, H.264 is heavily patented, and Apple has decided not to port QuickTime to Linux, so there are videos that my iPod (video) can play, but my computer can't.
If someone could find me a link on the Apple website stating that content bought from iTMS can only be played on Windows and OS X, I would like to see it.
I meant I tried running *windows* but it crashed too quickly.
Interesting, could you please tell me how to authorize my machine? It's an Athlon64 laptop running Ubuntu. I tried running linux, but it crashes too quickly. Of course, since Mac OS X/Intel includes Hardware-based DRM as well, I can't boot it on this system. So that leaves me with linux, if you could provide me with instructions on how to do this, I would much appreciate it, as I have music on my iPod that only it can play.
rawr, i hope he's a nice big boy, federal prison has to keep up with it's advertising after all
As a student at a college (not a professor), I don't care about slashdot knowing the school I go to. RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) has 2 different programming majors, CS and SE, CS is entirely Unix based, SE is entirely windows based. The sad thing is there are a ton of upper-level programming courses taught by the SE department. The IT department (which is where you will find the sysadmins) get a mix of the two. I'm currently in SE, but I'm jumping ship ASAP. The SE department is annoying and way-too-paranoid about students using their computers.
I googled around and found an xml file of importables, for some reason IE 6/Win didn't work for me, could be flashblock related though (I didn't try whitelisting until I used the Opera UA). I find it odd that Opera is supported but not Firefox/Linux.
No investment is required, the videos play on linux, just switch off browser detection or whitelist linux.
I just set my User Agent in Firefox 1.5.0.5/Ubuntu Linux 6.06 to Opera 8.0/Win 2000, after whitelisting the site with flashblock, the video played perfectly in the Videos section, and I wasn't shooed away by any browser detection.
Exactly, Microsoft could make their own, but it would have to be GPL, which means they can't limit redistribution. I can buy one copy and put it on the internet legally. Not really useful if you want to sell it. On the other hand, they could try buying commercial licenses from the author (unlikely to happen in the case of most of the GNU/Linux tools, but assume for the moment they could) thus allowing the author to continue to development, and allowing MS to continue commercial production.
Or, maybe developers are using the GPL because *they* can still use the code for commercial development but others *can't*. They can give the community the fruits of their labor, and still use the code for commercial purposes. If other companies want to use it, they have to do what you have to do for everything in business: Pay For It. The BSD and MIT licenses just allow others to take your code, use it for whatever they want, extend it and expand it, and they never have to give you the modified code.
I end up using academic stuff every once in a while (I'm running ubuntu presently, but sometimes something windows-only pops up). Allow me to quash this bug:
MSDN Academic Alliance --Student Use Guidelines
[snip]
By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Product, you agree to be bound by the terms of the EULA and the License Amendment. If you do not agree to be bound, do not install, copy or use the Product.
Installation Guidelines:
[snip]
Usage Guidelines:
o You may use the software for non-commercial purposes including instructional use, research and/or design, development and testing of projects for class assignment and tests or personal projects. You may not use the Program software for any for-profit software development.
o When you are no longer a registered student in a department that is a member of the MSDN Academic Alliance, you may no longer receive updates for your personal use computer. However, <i><b>you may continue to use previously installed software on your computer, provided you continue to follow program guidelines</i></b>.
o If you violate the terms of the License Agreement and EULA, the MSDNAA Program Administrator will demand confirmation of removal of the program software on your personal use computer.
Ahh, yes, I stand corrected, I knew that but wasn't thinking. Actually I think there would be a lot of resistance to banning laptops here. I'm allowed two carry-ons just because my backpack carries a laptop. Then again, if laptops were banned on board, we might see some really cool PDAs.
Now granted I know more restrictions just went up due to the liquid bombers, but AFAIK they still haven't banned laptops, I bring and use my laptop on flights all the time without a problem. You just have to take it out of the bag and let it run through the scanner on it's own. I've done this many times and never been asked a question about it.
Actually there was a law passed in the U.S. a few years back that made it criminal. See the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NET_Act .