Most importantly, GIMP doesn't have this gem of a term that comes with a validly licensed copy of Photoshop:
13. Compliance with Licenses.
If Customer is a business, company, or organization, Customer agrees that, in addition to any license compliance checking performed by the Software, Adobe or its authorized representative have the right, no more than once every twelve (12) months, upon seven (7) business days' prior notice to Customer, to inspect Customer's records, systems, and facilities to verify that its use of any and all Adobe software or service is in conformity with its valid licenses from Adobe. For example, Adobe has the right to those of Customer's records useful to determine whether installations of the Software have been serialized, and Customer shall provide such records to Adobe promptly upon request by Adobe. Additionally, Customer shall provide Adobe with all records and information requested by Adobe in order to verify that its use of any and all Adobe software is in conformity with its valid licenses from Adobe within thirty (30) days of Adobe's request. Additional information on serialization is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/elicensing.
Obviously GIMP staff or the wider community will check or notice if you violated the GPLv3+ for your distributed version of GIMP, but I don't have to worry about getting my private property felt up to make sure the software I got is prim and proper.
Hmph. Another member of the Universal Association for the Advancement of Colored Holes. You must've half-died when Wolf Blitzer called them "so massive, and so black" when that comet passed over them.
One thing's certain: I don't support the United Negro Singularity Fund, because a star is a terrible thing to waste.
That's ok. They'll still have their Like buttons outside of Facebook, and their shareholders, and their corporate partnerships, and their incessant mentions by high-profile users on TV news and shows...
They can capitalize on this, if they try; they haven't tried yet. What they've said now isn't a reversal at all, just a clarification at best. They probably already think CESSPOOL^WCISPA "helps to tackle the real threat of cybercrime while protecting consumer privacy", or can be massaged a bit to do so--especially if it helps make them look tough on "piracy" of their software.
How does MS cap on this, to regain whatever goodwill they bled from their customers and not look like they'll happily whore themselves out to any anti-"piracy" bill (as long as they can arbitrarily pick who's an MS "pirate") or to any "social", "app", or "tablet" trend? Simples.
Firmly and fully reject CISPA, ideally through a statement written and read in a public video by the CEO....ok, maybe not ideally by the CEO.
Remove the OS-level Facebook integration (FB supports CISPA, after all). Bonus points if they include an easy-to-use Facebook domain blocker. (It's not like FB was paying them to do that...right? Right?)
Announce that the released Windows 8 will be Metro-optional, and not have it on by default. (Forcing people to call tech support to figure out a dumb new interface Creates Jobs(tm) for all the wrong reasons.)
Make a binding promise they'll never pull or abet something like what happened to that nonprofit group in Russia with the licenses, especially as part of a government's campaign against free speech or political opponents.
So lemme see here...Intel's new CPU dies are now smaller (good), which makes them less dissipative of heat (bad), so they decide to use worse thermal paste stuff?
No; that's not even the good news. It's all bad news--all these domains will make people move all their actual web sites from the collapsing DNS black hole to "web sites" on apps, Twitter and Facebook (with a side of YouTube and trendy_html5_website).
The only lining this cloud has is a blustery shitstorm--nothing silver about it.
I can't speak for the Bush part, but this isn't all rosy. Quoth the Science article:
To help pay for the fusion increases, the committee made major cuts to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences account, which funds studies in an array of fields, including chemistry, geosciences, and biology. That account would get $1.7 billion, $36.9 million below this year's level and $142.5 million below the Administration's request. The bulk of the savings would come from canceling or delaying construction projects.
Is all of the potential loss of research and certain loss of construction worth the fusion goal? I'm not feeling lucky there.
Don't you get it? Firefox is a Living Standard(tm) now, like HTML. If your plugins aren't getting updated every SHORT_TIME_PERIOD they're already dead.;)
Speaking of TLDs, one thing that irks me is a certain major local channel that, inconsistently but increasingly, has dropped the.com from mentions of its 7online website (especially during their local news) and even shows subpaths as e.g. 7online/protect (what you'd see if you ever run into their missing person commercial things). As you'd expect, that URL doesn't work-as-given.
I'm not sure how much of that is laziness, how much is preparation for a future move to a.7online TLD (!!!), and how much is ESPN3-esque net-neutrality hijinks (Disney owns both, and they tout their 7online apps and Facebook and stuff more than a little often).
Anyway I hope they (WABC and ICANN) stop fucking with the DNS as they currently do. It's confusing and unnecessary.
(Seriously, the differences between calls to the US and abroad can be stark. I won't name names, but from experience the voices on the other end of credit card activation numbers can differ heavily with the issuer--the difference between a clear and even pleasant conversation, and "excuse me? Wuzzat?".)
Even without that factor, between direct deposit and e-payment (by cc#, bitcoin, paypal...), it's kinda tough to actually need to move greenbacks for a pay service.
No shocker if the US suddenly forces me to send my dollars to the oven for conversion to an electronic account in the next...decade or half? The "created jobs" that print the money might throw a year-long fit to delay that but they're not the boss there.
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Most importantly, GIMP doesn't have this gem of a term that comes with a validly licensed copy of Photoshop:
Obviously GIMP staff or the wider community will check or notice if you violated the GPLv3+ for your distributed version of GIMP, but I don't have to worry about getting my private property felt up to make sure the software I got is prim and proper.
For that alone GIMP is already massively better.
Hmph. Another member of the Universal Association for the Advancement of Colored Holes. You must've half-died when Wolf Blitzer called them "so massive, and so black" when that comet passed over them.
One thing's certain: I don't support the United Negro Singularity Fund, because a star is a terrible thing to waste.
That's ok. They'll still have their Like buttons outside of Facebook, and their shareholders, and their corporate partnerships, and their incessant mentions by high-profile users on TV news and shows...
There was much coverage of it on local TV over the years--enough that I sometimes wanted to throw a rock and say "Shuddap and build it already!"
The floor-every-week build pace seems to make up for it, but I worry that will make the towers that much more fragile.
I'm still waiting on the atom-thick holographic film, Holocene(tm).
Yup. When one of those damn pirate drones flies in to steal the events from the BBC and NBC, they'll feel full SAM stopping power!
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He's a close friend of Bill Stickers. Those two are my homies.
They can capitalize on this, if they try; they haven't tried yet. What they've said now isn't a reversal at all, just a clarification at best. They probably already think CESSPOOL^WCISPA "helps to tackle the real threat of cybercrime while protecting consumer privacy", or can be massaged a bit to do so--especially if it helps make them look tough on "piracy" of their software.
How does MS cap on this, to regain whatever goodwill they bled from their customers and not look like they'll happily whore themselves out to any anti-"piracy" bill (as long as they can arbitrarily pick who's an MS "pirate") or to any "social", "app", or "tablet" trend? Simples.
So lemme see here...Intel's new CPU dies are now smaller (good), which makes them less dissipative of heat (bad), so they decide to use worse thermal paste stuff?
Seems legit.
No; that's not even the good news. It's all bad news--all these domains will make people move all their actual web sites from the collapsing DNS black hole to "web sites" on apps, Twitter and Facebook (with a side of YouTube and trendy_html5_website).
The only lining this cloud has is a blustery shitstorm--nothing silver about it.
I can't speak for the Bush part, but this isn't all rosy. Quoth the Science article:
Is all of the potential loss of research and certain loss of construction worth the fusion goal? I'm not feeling lucky there.
It's quite close to the Apple offices, so you can tell the co-workers the restaurant is just Outback!
House of Representatives, for peculiar values of "Representatives".
Frankly I'm glad Google didn't just shut it down outright. Big companies are where acquisitions go to die (in exchange for some cash, if lucky).
Well, I'll admit that's "found naturally in nuts" too...
Don't you get it? Firefox is a Living Standard(tm) now, like HTML. If your plugins aren't getting updated every SHORT_TIME_PERIOD they're already dead. ;)
Runlevel 5 is the typical X level. You switch to runlevel 6 to reboot the system.
So you set inittab to default to level 6 when you want to incur general rage and butthurt with a restart loop. :D
That one was shuttered long ago. After all, the last Metroid is in captivity and the galaxy is at peace.
Speaking of TLDs, one thing that irks me is a certain major local channel that, inconsistently but increasingly, has dropped the .com from mentions of its 7online website (especially during their local news) and even shows subpaths as e.g. 7online/protect (what you'd see if you ever run into their missing person commercial things). As you'd expect, that URL doesn't work-as-given.
I'm not sure how much of that is laziness, how much is preparation for a future move to a .7online TLD (!!!), and how much is ESPN3-esque net-neutrality hijinks (Disney owns both, and they tout their 7online apps and Facebook and stuff more than a little often).
Anyway I hope they (WABC and ICANN) stop fucking with the DNS as they currently do. It's confusing and unnecessary.
'ey, watch it with my borough, buddy!
(Seriously, the differences between calls to the US and abroad can be stark. I won't name names, but from experience the voices on the other end of credit card activation numbers can differ heavily with the issuer--the difference between a clear and even pleasant conversation, and "excuse me? Wuzzat?".)
It's like they're trying to skip the "extend" part and just extinguish their new subsidiary Skype forever.
Woah...
Even without that factor, between direct deposit and e-payment (by cc#, bitcoin, paypal...), it's kinda tough to actually need to move greenbacks for a pay service.
No shocker if the US suddenly forces me to send my dollars to the oven for conversion to an electronic account in the next...decade or half? The "created jobs" that print the money might throw a year-long fit to delay that but they're not the boss there.
I've dabbled with XNAs before. They start out cornflower blue, and eventually evolve into video games.
All the more reason not to take yourself or your money here.