You can only charge at most the same amount for the source code as the software does. So if you were to charge $1B for the source code, you'd also have to charge at least $1B for the binaries. Otherwise, you're breaking copyright law.
At least resetting the passwords on a Mac are easier. Just hold s (or was it cmd+s?) on boot-up to boot into su. From there, just passwd yourself some new passwords.:)
You mention that Netscape 6 was bloated (which was based on Mozilla 1.6, an already bloated piece of software). Then you mention you liked Firebird. Sounds a lot like Ben Goodger (one of the lead engineers for Firefox).
The issue isn't that they don't want to provide their software on competing platforms; rather, it's the lack of a good enough market for them to develop on those alternate platforms. I'm sure that if OSX and Linux had considerable market share (together at least maybe 15-20%), Microsoft would put efforts into spending the money on developing and publishing software for said platforms. However, Microsoft just doesn't see any desirable return profits in doing that.
Summary: Microsoft is a corporation, and corporations tend to spend the least amount of money possible while retaining the best quality they can get for that price.
I even went to check the experimental package for Xorg to see if I could prove that they were at least testing Xorg 6.9, but I guess I'm mistaken. Oh well; I'd rather have solid, stable work going on in Debian than dependency nightmares of keeping up to date...
Knowing how much of a bitch it is to maintain packages from experimental, I think Ubuntu is the distro that's going to get hammered. They were one (if not the only one) of the major distros that was offering Xorg 7.0 for testing during its development via Dapper.
Dude, people are still running Windows 98; I severely doubt that there will be any mass migrations to "new and improved" DRM'd hardware. My parents still use VHS instead of a PVR, and I'd have to say that they're more technologically aware than Joe Beerbelly. The only thing to fear for now (other than the public's ignorance) is the **AA lobbying to get DRM a mandated part of hardware, also outlawing analog devices (despite how futile that idea is).
In other news,/.ers need to write to their state's congresscritters (if applicable). I'm sure the EFF has some pre-written letters you can send.
If his email is broken for him, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he doesn't have enough access via SSH to mess around with it. I'm pretty sure that OSTG maintains the Slashdot servers as well as the other servers used for the OSTG websites.
It might be better to use a regex like/[\W_]m?ad([sz]|v(ert(i[sz]e(ment)?)?[sz]?[\W_]/ (remove spaces if they exist). The key to making good filters is using [\W_] to delimit simple words like "banner", "ad", etc. In fact, I've got an extensive filter list available that I've been using and working with for over a year. That filter is synced with the Filterset.G lists every once in a while, so you get that along with ones I've added.
Well, I guess it's time to try out MSN Search since Microsoft hasn't sold out their search results yet. In fact, look at how good it is at finding results!:)
No, it's not an overreaction. In fact, it's very simple: images in unsolicited advertisements are evil. Unless I'm searching Froogle, Amazon, or some other product site, and then I get images for the products that turn up in the results, images to advertise anything are inherently evil.
Although I might be saying this because I use Firefox, and Firefox does have that memory leakage with images. Then again, I also can't use any other browser for more than a few minutes before I want to kill -9 it due to the awesomeness that is Adblock Plus and No-Script.
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You can only charge at most the same amount for the source code as the software does. So if you were to charge $1B for the source code, you'd also have to charge at least $1B for the binaries. Otherwise, you're breaking copyright law.
Basically, you're putting a certain Creative Commons license on all your posts. Not such a bad idea...
At least resetting the passwords on a Mac are easier. Just hold s (or was it cmd+s?) on boot-up to boot into su. From there, just passwd yourself some new passwords. :)
Well, if you want to buy a used and still functional NES, they usually cost at least $40 to $50, so the price is right.
You mention that Netscape 6 was bloated (which was based on Mozilla 1.6, an already bloated piece of software). Then you mention you liked Firebird. Sounds a lot like Ben Goodger (one of the lead engineers for Firefox).
Just thought you might like to know.
The issue isn't that they don't want to provide their software on competing platforms; rather, it's the lack of a good enough market for them to develop on those alternate platforms. I'm sure that if OSX and Linux had considerable market share (together at least maybe 15-20%), Microsoft would put efforts into spending the money on developing and publishing software for said platforms. However, Microsoft just doesn't see any desirable return profits in doing that.
Summary: Microsoft is a corporation, and corporations tend to spend the least amount of money possible while retaining the best quality they can get for that price.
Oh, I was just going off what I got in the mail, but I guess I forgot the details...
I even went to check the experimental package for Xorg to see if I could prove that they were at least testing Xorg 6.9, but I guess I'm mistaken. Oh well; I'd rather have solid, stable work going on in Debian than dependency nightmares of keeping up to date...
Are you implying that wasn't the point of XEmacs? Uh oh, I've been using that terribly wrong for ages now...
Isn't that a given? I'm sure Gentoo has nightly versions of Linux 2.6.15 as well.
Adblocking stylesheets are so 2003. :P
.js ads)
(i.e. I remember doing that a couple years ago; before that was disabling JavaScript for certain sites to nullify
At least nVidia actively supports Linux. Take a look at ATi and tell me they're doing anything helpful with their own abysmal Linux support.
Knowing how much of a bitch it is to maintain packages from experimental, I think Ubuntu is the distro that's going to get hammered. They were one (if not the only one) of the major distros that was offering Xorg 7.0 for testing during its development via Dapper.
Block the ads. Either use Firefox and Adblock, or edit your /etc/hosts file using some already-made filters of ad sites.
Dude, people are still running Windows 98; I severely doubt that there will be any mass migrations to "new and improved" DRM'd hardware. My parents still use VHS instead of a PVR, and I'd have to say that they're more technologically aware than Joe Beerbelly. The only thing to fear for now (other than the public's ignorance) is the **AA lobbying to get DRM a mandated part of hardware, also outlawing analog devices (despite how futile that idea is).
/.ers need to write to their state's congresscritters (if applicable). I'm sure the EFF has some pre-written letters you can send.
In other news,
Maybe the turning point in ads that Armstrong was referring to a couple weeks ago has something to do with this?
I think you were right the first time. People touch themselves at night, not at work...
Today's opposite day?
Don't forget about the enforcement of thread-safety and Unicode strings. Quite useful if you ask me.
With our luck, the Slashdot editors would handle the Tier 2.5 sections.
If his email is broken for him, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he doesn't have enough access via SSH to mess around with it. I'm pretty sure that OSTG maintains the Slashdot servers as well as the other servers used for the OSTG websites.
Very geeky as well. What I want to see is an egrepnet.com or egrep.net or something.
It might be better to use a regex like /[\W_]m?ad([sz]|v(ert(i[sz]e(ment)?)?[sz]?[\W_]/ (remove spaces if they exist). The key to making good filters is using [\W_] to delimit simple words like "banner", "ad", etc. In fact, I've got an extensive filter list available that I've been using and working with for over a year. That filter is synced with the Filterset.G lists every once in a while, so you get that along with ones I've added.
Well, I guess it's time to try out MSN Search since Microsoft hasn't sold out their search results yet. In fact, look at how good it is at finding results! :)
No, it's not an overreaction. In fact, it's very simple: images in unsolicited advertisements are evil. Unless I'm searching Froogle, Amazon, or some other product site, and then I get images for the products that turn up in the results, images to advertise anything are inherently evil.
Although I might be saying this because I use Firefox, and Firefox does have that memory leakage with images. Then again, I also can't use any other browser for more than a few minutes before I want to kill -9 it due to the awesomeness that is Adblock Plus and No-Script.