> There you go. Give the program away free and
> charge for help. This is especially lucrative if
> the program is complex.
Considering that most programs that people want
to use don't need much help you'd be working
for nothing or not selling anything.
If if get a program with no help and need to
pay on a continuous basis for that help I delete
it and forget about the moron who issued such a
ridiculous program.
>I'm wondering in the next 10 years how many
>things we'll no longer own, but be charged as we
>use them
You'll get an implant that counts the numbers
and intensity of your orgasms and you'll get
charged accordingly. When you exceed your monthly
quota the sex police will arrest you.
What are the odds that an individual be audited?
You have more chances of getting hit by a train.
An audit will occur when a company thinks that
you stole their software. The only way they
would hit an individual would be if they have
enough information to go by. Borland is a decent
company who is just looking at protecting their
investment. If you go in a business of reselling
or giving away their product they little recourse
but to go after you. They are not going to waste
their time going after individuals unless they
have good reasons to do so.
The more likely candidates for audit are
companies. You know as well as me that many
companies will buy one copy of a program and
make copies for each programmers. This is hard
to trace and when a company has proofs of wrong
doing they usually go to audit. What Borland
did was just to make it easier for them in the
audit process. Whether they'd have this kind of
wording or not in the ULA they would still go
forward with the audit if they think they have
a good case.
In all the cases that I have seen in audits
it was started by an disgrunted employee who
got screwed by his previous employer and sought
revenge. So if you own a small company and steal
software just make sure you don't screw any of
you employee or if you fire him be nice and sweet.
Lick his boots if necessary. Obviously the right
path is honesty. Also if you have a large business
but only bought one copy of software it is bound
to smell when Borland check to know about your
company
When you're honest you are not likely to be
annoyed by Borland or anybody else for audit.
During my last engineering contract in Montréal
(that's in Québec, Canada) I learned of several
audit where the RCMP and some companies like
Microsoft and others were going thru companies
records in the St Laurent business area.
This occurs all over the USA and Canada. Usually
all you have to do is buy as many copies of the
software as you have employees and the company
gets off you ass with no lawsuit. Microsoft is
good at that apparently.
Could it be the moronic shit that crashes
Netscape 4.77 when I run Real Audio?
If the sound card is used java seems to go
in a stall. Closing Real Audio restore sanity.
I can't even close Netscape at this point except
with a killall -9 netscape.
This puzzled me because I get this on sites
that aren't supposed to have any audio running.
The best is to build a circuit with a
microcontroller and send the data to the serial
port. That way you don't have to be concerned
about the latency. Or you could buy an allready
made board for a PC.
I've used a board with an Atmel AT90LS8535
and it works great.
All you have to do is write some supporting
code at the PC with Kylix or Labview.
There are other programs available for cheap
on Linux but these two are the best.
Basic is something used by kids before they learn
how to write programs.
C is still king when not overrun by C++. Most
small embedded processors use C. Only the people
who have no clue about programming use basic.
If you are too scared of C but someday you want to
learn how to program in a real programming
language and at the same time have the benefits
of the visual design use Kylix or Delphi or both.
>Republicans want *less* government and more freedoms.
Republicans wants *less* government that limits the abuses from some companies and protects
the environment
but want *more* government to make sure that people don't commit any sin while having sex.
Ashcroft is a jerk. Why do you think that
my mother in law and many like here voted
for a dead man instead of voting for him?
Despite this fact, I am solidly behind him
and Georges Bush for the time being as we
should all unite to fight a common enemy.
Hopefully the congress will not let Ashchroft
tamper with our civil rights to get what he
wants. It is important to get the criminals
but also important not to can innocent people.
Remember the Arab doctor from Texas?
As for things we don't agree with in politic
we can always resume our quarrels after we
beat the shit out of those motherfuckers
who killed so many of our people.
For the time being it is more important to
be united and do all we can to help our
government win the war. Even if it means
fraternizing with fundies and right wingers
and other weird people.
No matter what our political views are, as
Americans we all feel the pain of the families
who lost their love ones in those mass murders.
In my family, we recycle computers for the ones
who can't afford to buy a computer. Not everyone
has a family of 13 but I'm sure you have some
cousin or niece who would enjoy a working
computer.
Media consolidation would be impossible in
the USA or Canada. Looking at the recent
purchase of TVA in Québec where they must
sell the network TQS, there is no chance of
stuff like that over there.
Here we have the antitrust laws which forbid
control of everything. It is also impossible
to control news in one area. So tell me how
this so called media consolidation could ever
be possible?
There are always those who try to justify filth.
Europeans used to think, and some of them might
still do, that washing more often than once
a year was dangerous for their health.
Funny that the fear of washing still exist to
this day. They considered our native ancestors
savages because they washed often.
The black robes thought of being washed as being
tortured, perhaps many other europeans thought
that as well. Perhaps many still feel that way.
Mirosoft actually acts like a commie government.
The irony is that our government has been fighting
the commies for years to preserve our freedoms
but is letting a dictator free to control people's
lives. Eventually you will see Microsoft's logo
all over. You'll see it when you watch TV, read
the newspapers, wipe your ass, etc...
Anyone not using a Microsoft product on their
TV, computer or telephone will face the chance
of being prosecuted as an heretic or a criminal.
Didn't you forget the last predictions of
doom, the Y2K bug was going to trigger the
end of the world?
There is big money for the people who can
convince enough morons to give them their
belongings or part of their paycheck in
return for eternal life in heaven instead of in hell.
Here to check if you're rapture ready
on that
fundy site
Open a mediaplayer (Microsoft, Real Audio, winamp)
Start to play something. Now enter in a full
screen dos session. What do we hear? (beside
your swears)
You start some printing. Make sure it will
run out of paper, forcing a paper jam might
create too much problem. Now you go in a dos
session and use your favorite line editor.
You are busy editing a program and the
printer runs out of paper. Your are typing
along and all of a sudden : "fucking winblows"
You are back in the GUI with a stupid message
telling you that it ran out of paper.
The best thing is when you're in a network and
share your printer with someone and you have
no clue when someone is going to print anything
or if there is enough paper at the printer.
It doesn't matter whether you are in a dos
full screen edition or any winblows application
the damm winblows OS will decide that it is
more important to ask you if you want to cancel
the printing or add paper specially when you
don't give a fuck either way.
Someone sniffing glue or flour has been importing
one of these bugs in KDE2 but you don't have to
use KDE2, there are other less obnoxious GUI
interfaces for Linux.
Isn't that mostly taxes that you are paying
for? Before taxes the prices shouldn't be a
great deal different that the before taxes
US prices. We do have local oil but we buy
a lot at world prices in Mexico, Canada,
Venezuella and the middle east.
CompUSA had them for $15 for 100 on the weekend
in Grand Rapids Michigan.
The funny thing is that we get less frisbies
with those than the Imation CDs which are
much more expensive.
This could be very usefull when we have to
go thru areas where there is no decent
country station available. That way if
we forget to bring a CD we're not stuck
with no music to listen to.
Slashdot Mirror
> There you go. Give the program away free and
> charge for help. This is especially lucrative if
> the program is complex.
Considering that most programs that people want
to use don't need much help you'd be working
for nothing or not selling anything.
If if get a program with no help and need to
pay on a continuous basis for that help I delete
it and forget about the moron who issued such a
ridiculous program.
>I'm wondering in the next 10 years how many
>things we'll no longer own, but be charged as we
>use them
You'll get an implant that counts the numbers
and intensity of your orgasms and you'll get
charged accordingly. When you exceed your monthly
quota the sex police will arrest you.
What are the odds that an individual be audited?
You have more chances of getting hit by a train.
An audit will occur when a company thinks that
you stole their software. The only way they
would hit an individual would be if they have
enough information to go by. Borland is a decent
company who is just looking at protecting their
investment. If you go in a business of reselling
or giving away their product they little recourse
but to go after you. They are not going to waste
their time going after individuals unless they
have good reasons to do so.
The more likely candidates for audit are
companies. You know as well as me that many
companies will buy one copy of a program and
make copies for each programmers. This is hard
to trace and when a company has proofs of wrong
doing they usually go to audit. What Borland
did was just to make it easier for them in the
audit process. Whether they'd have this kind of
wording or not in the ULA they would still go
forward with the audit if they think they have
a good case.
In all the cases that I have seen in audits
it was started by an disgrunted employee who
got screwed by his previous employer and sought
revenge. So if you own a small company and steal
software just make sure you don't screw any of
you employee or if you fire him be nice and sweet.
Lick his boots if necessary. Obviously the right
path is honesty. Also if you have a large business
but only bought one copy of software it is bound
to smell when Borland check to know about your
company
When you're honest you are not likely to be
annoyed by Borland or anybody else for audit.
During my last engineering contract in Montréal
(that's in Québec, Canada) I learned of several
audit where the RCMP and some companies like
Microsoft and others were going thru companies
records in the St Laurent business area.
This occurs all over the USA and Canada. Usually
all you have to do is buy as many copies of the
software as you have employees and the company
gets off you ass with no lawsuit. Microsoft is
good at that apparently.
Could it be the moronic shit that crashes
Netscape 4.77 when I run Real Audio?
If the sound card is used java seems to go
in a stall. Closing Real Audio restore sanity.
I can't even close Netscape at this point except
with a killall -9 netscape.
This puzzled me because I get this on sites
that aren't supposed to have any audio running.
The best is to build a circuit with a
microcontroller and send the data to the serial
port. That way you don't have to be concerned
about the latency. Or you could buy an allready
made board for a PC.
I've used a board with an Atmel AT90LS8535
and it works great.
All you have to do is write some supporting
code at the PC with Kylix or Labview.
There are other programs available for cheap
on Linux but these two are the best.
>Netscape 4.7x takes days to render that page, maybe they wanted people to have this problem to encourage them to switch to IE.
This is nonsense. It loads fast but has no
background color. It looks like some old html
It rejects Konqueror, Opera, Star Office and
Mozilla on SuSE Linux 7.2
It works on Netscape 4.77 with no background
color
Basic is something used by kids before they learn
how to write programs.
C is still king when not overrun by C++. Most
small embedded processors use C. Only the people
who have no clue about programming use basic.
If you are too scared of C but someday you want to
learn how to program in a real programming
language and at the same time have the benefits
of the visual design use Kylix or Delphi or both.
>Republicans want *less* government and more freedoms.
Republicans wants *less* government that limits the abuses from some companies and protects
the environment
but want *more* government to make sure that people don't commit any sin while having sex.
Ashcroft is a jerk. Why do you think that
my mother in law and many like here voted
for a dead man instead of voting for him?
Despite this fact, I am solidly behind him
and Georges Bush for the time being as we
should all unite to fight a common enemy.
Hopefully the congress will not let Ashchroft
tamper with our civil rights to get what he
wants. It is important to get the criminals
but also important not to can innocent people.
Remember the Arab doctor from Texas?
As for things we don't agree with in politic
we can always resume our quarrels after we
beat the shit out of those motherfuckers
who killed so many of our people.
For the time being it is more important to
be united and do all we can to help our
government win the war. Even if it means
fraternizing with fundies and right wingers
and other weird people.
No matter what our political views are, as
Americans we all feel the pain of the families
who lost their love ones in those mass murders.
He must be pissed off that his parole officer
gave him shit for not reporting in when he
was supposed to.
In my family, we recycle computers for the ones
who can't afford to buy a computer. Not everyone
has a family of 13 but I'm sure you have some
cousin or niece who would enjoy a working
computer.
>Oh my God! The dead have risen, and they're supporting Microsoft!
No surprise here that the undead would support something from the dark side.
When you use W2K, isn't that more a downgrade?
Using Linux or OS/2 would be an upgrade
Media consolidation would be impossible in
the USA or Canada. Looking at the recent
purchase of TVA in Québec where they must
sell the network TQS, there is no chance of
stuff like that over there.
Here we have the antitrust laws which forbid
control of everything. It is also impossible
to control news in one area. So tell me how
this so called media consolidation could ever
be possible?
Just move to the best and most free country
in the world, the USA.
There are always those who try to justify filth.
Europeans used to think, and some of them might
still do, that washing more often than once
a year was dangerous for their health.
Funny that the fear of washing still exist to
this day. They considered our native ancestors
savages because they washed often.
The black robes thought of being washed as being
tortured, perhaps many other europeans thought
that as well. Perhaps many still feel that way.
Just someone who badly needs free room and board
and is doing everything he can to get it.
For those morons who think this is legal, you've
been sniffing glue.
Mirosoft actually acts like a commie government. ...
The irony is that our government has been fighting
the commies for years to preserve our freedoms
but is letting a dictator free to control people's
lives. Eventually you will see Microsoft's logo
all over. You'll see it when you watch TV, read
the newspapers, wipe your ass, etc
Anyone not using a Microsoft product on their
TV, computer or telephone will face the chance
of being prosecuted as an heretic or a criminal.
Didn't you forget the last predictions of doom, the Y2K bug was going to trigger the
end of the world?
There is big money for the people who can convince enough morons to give them their
belongings or part of their paycheck in return for eternal life in heaven instead of in hell.
Here to check if you're rapture ready on that fundy site
Try these :
Open a mediaplayer (Microsoft, Real Audio, winamp)
Start to play something. Now enter in a full
screen dos session. What do we hear? (beside
your swears)
You start some printing. Make sure it will
run out of paper, forcing a paper jam might
create too much problem. Now you go in a dos
session and use your favorite line editor.
You are busy editing a program and the
printer runs out of paper. Your are typing
along and all of a sudden : "fucking winblows"
You are back in the GUI with a stupid message
telling you that it ran out of paper.
The best thing is when you're in a network and
share your printer with someone and you have
no clue when someone is going to print anything
or if there is enough paper at the printer.
It doesn't matter whether you are in a dos
full screen edition or any winblows application
the damm winblows OS will decide that it is
more important to ask you if you want to cancel
the printing or add paper specially when you
don't give a fuck either way.
Someone sniffing glue or flour has been importing
one of these bugs in KDE2 but you don't have to
use KDE2, there are other less obnoxious GUI
interfaces for Linux.
Isn't that mostly taxes that you are paying
for? Before taxes the prices shouldn't be a
great deal different that the before taxes
US prices. We do have local oil but we buy
a lot at world prices in Mexico, Canada,
Venezuella and the middle east.
Where did you learn your maths?
There is 3.79 litres to a gallon.
CDs have around 15 each in 100 qty for
several weeks.
At 30 or more it's a rippoff.
CompUSA had them for $15 for 100 on the weekend
in Grand Rapids Michigan.
The funny thing is that we get less frisbies
with those than the Imation CDs which are
much more expensive.
This could be very usefull when we have to
go thru areas where there is no decent
country station available. That way if
we forget to bring a CD we're not stuck
with no music to listen to.