will have open formats that are not supported in any other version of Office, nor can it be purchased outside Norway, and will not install under any other locale of Windows.
And costs more.
is now apparently large enough that they want to buy it with promises of space travel. At last, all the geeks ignored in highschool now have a little influence. How sad they'll be when that money gets shifted to space based military programs, after they've voted. Yeah, they'll put people on the moon and Mars. Soldiers.
That would only be relevant in countries where the DMCA applies, which is basically just the US. The rest of the world is outside the US jurisdiction, unless, of course, it invades them.
It actually is a very serious question. The books are very amusing, and if the movie is funny as well, then why don't the ads present it that way? If the ads are presenting the movie as it is, then why have an adaptation of the books that lacks in humor?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unfunny indicates exactly the meaning I was trying to convey. I'm far from illiterate. My presentation was succinct and precise. I did consider it when I wrote it, despite its brevity.
of this technology will be direct stimulation of the pleasure center.
No ifs, ands, or buts. It will.
Of course it's a threat.
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Any form of music distribution outside the channels they control and can extract money from are a threat, whether or not they are legal.
Soon we will see a crackdown on sites that distribute free music legally, such as stuff under Creative Commons license. That's where the real threat to their business model is - legal free music. That will scare them really badly, and they will go to great lengths to stop it, including illegal harrassment, but mostly by making it impossible to play non-DRM music on most hardware and software. It'll only play on open source platforms, and there will be a great effort to make sure a free OS will not even run on future DRM enhanced hardware.
Why? It escapes channels they control, channels they can extract money from. When that happens, their business models are destroyed and they go broke.
How does that work? It can ignore governmental orders, pressure countries into software patents, and now alter someone's sentence in a criminal trial?
What happens when they decide to increase someone's sentence instead of decrease?
that it will block not just Windows updates, but *all* MS downloads. This includes specs and other miscellany that doesn't even require Windows of any kind to run.
He thinks MS can kill Linux by releasing a MS-Linux. Who in their right mind would use that? No Linux geek will ever want that, and no non-Linux geek would see it as useful. Even if it did happen, and somehow did become the dominant Linux, and MS did stop work on it, the entire open source community would resurrect Linux from the ashes. Sure, I can see MS doing an embrace-and-extend like they always do, and injecting incompatible code into their base and not releasing the source, and then claiming that other forms of Linux are incompatible with their standards, but it's becoming increasingly obvious to everyone that MS is the one who is incompatible with the rest of the world, not the other way around.
No, that violates the copyright. If you take unpatented GPL code and learn a method from it and reimplement it yourself in a completely different way, that's fine. You have to be careful that your code is not even similar to the original GPL code, as that counts as a derivative work, but implementation of an idea is not protected by copyright - only by a patent.
Yeah, because asking questions of the general public takes a lot more effort than doing it myself.
I've got better things to do with my time, and don't care enough to do it myself, so it's out of idle curiosity that I ask.
Also, a pickpocket can only work one person at a time. Viruses and spyware hammer thousands at once. That's how this is different.
If you don't want to work for me, fine. I won't pay you. Wasn't going to anyway.
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it has SCO code in it!
will have open formats that are not supported in any other version of Office, nor can it be purchased outside Norway, and will not install under any other locale of Windows. And costs more.
is now apparently large enough that they want to buy it with promises of space travel. At last, all the geeks ignored in highschool now have a little influence. How sad they'll be when that money gets shifted to space based military programs, after they've voted. Yeah, they'll put people on the moon and Mars. Soldiers.
is when all the extra traffic from higher rankings crashes the IIS servers that much faster!
Oh, I got it. It just was only about as funny as what I said.
If htis pans out as well as it looks like it will, this guy will be a full professor in no time flat.
That would only be relevant in countries where the DMCA applies, which is basically just the US. The rest of the world is outside the US jurisdiction, unless, of course, it invades them.
It actually is a very serious question. The books are very amusing, and if the movie is funny as well, then why don't the ads present it that way? If the ads are presenting the movie as it is, then why have an adaptation of the books that lacks in humor? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unfunny indicates exactly the meaning I was trying to convey. I'm far from illiterate. My presentation was succinct and precise. I did consider it when I wrote it, despite its brevity.
do the ads look like a terribly unfunny movie?
of this technology will be direct stimulation of the pleasure center. No ifs, ands, or buts. It will.
Any form of music distribution outside the channels they control and can extract money from are a threat, whether or not they are legal. Soon we will see a crackdown on sites that distribute free music legally, such as stuff under Creative Commons license. That's where the real threat to their business model is - legal free music. That will scare them really badly, and they will go to great lengths to stop it, including illegal harrassment, but mostly by making it impossible to play non-DRM music on most hardware and software. It'll only play on open source platforms, and there will be a great effort to make sure a free OS will not even run on future DRM enhanced hardware. Why? It escapes channels they control, channels they can extract money from. When that happens, their business models are destroyed and they go broke.
How does that work? It can ignore governmental orders, pressure countries into software patents, and now alter someone's sentence in a criminal trial? What happens when they decide to increase someone's sentence instead of decrease?
Frightening way to dispense candy...or listen to music...
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/28/ 1738239&tid=141&tid=3
Can we please stop this nonsense?
of specifically which patents the Linux kernel violates?
that it will block not just Windows updates, but *all* MS downloads. This includes specs and other miscellany that doesn't even require Windows of any kind to run.
He thinks MS can kill Linux by releasing a MS-Linux. Who in their right mind would use that? No Linux geek will ever want that, and no non-Linux geek would see it as useful. Even if it did happen, and somehow did become the dominant Linux, and MS did stop work on it, the entire open source community would resurrect Linux from the ashes. Sure, I can see MS doing an embrace-and-extend like they always do, and injecting incompatible code into their base and not releasing the source, and then claiming that other forms of Linux are incompatible with their standards, but it's becoming increasingly obvious to everyone that MS is the one who is incompatible with the rest of the world, not the other way around.
to activate Windows, I'm just going to remove it entirely from my machine and use a different operating system.
Make them build Linux From Scratch. They'll learn a lot that way.
Just wait until someone decides that aggregation of content and presenting it into a unified format counts as copyright violation.
No, that violates the copyright. If you take unpatented GPL code and learn a method from it and reimplement it yourself in a completely different way, that's fine. You have to be careful that your code is not even similar to the original GPL code, as that counts as a derivative work, but implementation of an idea is not protected by copyright - only by a patent.
increase the gas tax?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://heartland.org/ about/donors.htm
Yeah, because asking questions of the general public takes a lot more effort than doing it myself. I've got better things to do with my time, and don't care enough to do it myself, so it's out of idle curiosity that I ask. Also, a pickpocket can only work one person at a time. Viruses and spyware hammer thousands at once. That's how this is different. If you don't want to work for me, fine. I won't pay you. Wasn't going to anyway.