>How much of the price of software is because of >patent license fees?
Employees have to be paid. Your argument is silly, take IAR for instance their C Compiler is outrageously expensive (+$1500) but it works and people buy it. If it it was stolen the company would eventually go out of business.
Microsoft is a giant and won't be hurt by losses because software is paid up front with purchases of PCs but this isn't true of software companies. I don't like Microsoft and try to avoid using their products as much as I can but if I do need some I will buy them.
Advocating stealing because someone can afford to be robbed isn't a valid response to the laws on piracy. Whether we agree or not with certain laws, a fact remain and it is that what belongs to others doesn't belong to you. If you want to live free in a society you obey the laws of said society.
If something is too expensive you go without it. This is what I do and I ain't less happy this way.
We live in a great country and obeing the laws of the land isn't such a high cost.
Sober up a bit and on your next blue screen or when you are bitching that this shit is at 100% usage for no valid reason your memory will come back and you may realize that Linux could do a much better job than that useless shit.
Just take a bit of time to read the article(s). The legislators listed don't even exist.
The title is indeed correct. There are a lot of imbeciles reading news in general. The fact that this moronic stuff has been denied over and over doesn't mean anything to you obviously.
I saw two almost identical letters about the subject. One originated from Canada and one from the USA. Names like MPs were changed to senators and representatives to make it look more US like. The bottom line is that it is a hoax put on the net to get morons going and make sure they annoy the politicians. The representative and senator responsible for the said bill don't even exist. The bill is the same as the one in Canada, the said MP probably doesn't exist either.
At work we had someone who posted the letter on the bulletin board. I didn't take it out because I thought it was funny that so many idiots would bite to it. And I don't care much for the local republicans that we're stuck with. At election time this is straight party stuff and I have no choice except the senator and president. Every one else on the ballot are republicans. It is amusing to think of those guys being harrassed by idiots who think they're about to be taxed on their EMAIL.
We had another hoax just about as amusing this one a while back about the long distance versus local calls. A lot of morons fell for that one. Apparently the politicians got more calls about that one than about the president's impeachment trial.
As we say in French : "Juste une trappe à cons" in other words, it's just a trap for morons.
Joe Blow will get the shaft again. I live in a mobile home park where we have middle class people and some poor people. We see the rent to own truck going regularly in the homes of the poors. Those of us of the middle class can't afford the prices of rent to own, you actually own the product when it's unusable after paying several times the price.
Microsoft has found out that most winblows users are of the type who never pay for software so in order to cash in on that market they have to make it such that you will not be able to buy but will have to rent. People will not complain because they will think that they get a good deal. It's only $5 a week for the latest window version. Another $5 for Office. If you can't afford that then you pay $0.01 a minute for the use of Office 2000, another cent or two for IE5, etc... At the end of the month you get $17.95 for your internet connection plus $30-$50 for your winblows. Microsoft didn't get your last month check or your credit card bounced the payment so you don't have the computer for the next month or so...
Fundies are against teaching of the evolution because it would contradict their religious myth about the age of the planet.
The only way you can get your mind to refute evolution is if you actually believe that earth is only a few thousand years old.
Evolution is a gradual change that takes hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. Just looking in the past few thousand years we see some bits of changes in humans, not really that much to be really noticeable. The change has been more in the accumulation of knowledge than anything else. There is abundant proofs that over the past millions of years humans have evolved from some similar species, perhaps not as close as to chimps as some may think but the same family nevertherless.
It should no surprise for anyone considering the high number of fundies in that area of the country. Didn't Pat Robertson do very well in his bid for the presidency in Kansas?
At election time the fundies will be treatening not to support Bush unless he make clear plans about curbing the evil stuff that is on TV and on the internet, like sex. You know, all those things those people likes but are sinful when not done by a preacher.
If the fundies stay home Bush is screwed and he knows that. He may get some of the Hispanic vote but this may not be enough to counter the lack of fundies votes.
He would then attack Gore as bein pro internet thus an evil person. The fundies would vote as many times as possible to guarantee his election. Coming out now appearing to do something about the evil internet both Gore and Clinton look like the good guy to the average fundy. Since it doesn't do much, most normal people won't give a rat's ass.
You see! it's a win win situation for the president and vice president. If you ever want to go in politic just look at the pros in action.
You need to learn a bit more about politic and you will understand the meaning of studies.
A study is made when people bitch to the government to do something and the government is unable or doesn't want to do anything about it.
Look at the past history in Canada about racism toward the natives and French. Little was done except over 30 years of multiple useless studies. And here in the USA about Acid rain, studies and more studies, nothing of value is really done.
In this case they'll study about possible things that can be done and will find out that little can be done.
Child pornography : the nasty stuff is usually not done here in the US.
Drugs, guns and explosives : By the time they get to the guilty ones, they'll be moved. This is just mail moving to the net.
Fraud : read previous comment.
At the end the population is pleased, the president has done something about their biggest worry, the internet.
If people are so concerned about the kids being exposed to filth on the net why not keep the kid off the computer? It's just another baby sitter as the TV is/was.
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>You're missing the point here. It doesn't matter >what I'm linking to or why. It could be a >neo-Nazi page advising kids to make pipe bombs >while stoned. It's not for you or anyone else to >tell me what I can say or print (PLEASE read the > First Amendment).
This is just a bill and before it becomes law it will have to be clarified as to what it means. If not I agree that it will and should be struck down as anti constitutional.
The linking I will agree is a bit silly since you could actually be pointing to the FBI where to look for a particular asshole. I do that occasionally on religious sites. There is a guy promoting nuking non believers and dedicated a site to it. My linking to his site was a warning that there are dangerous assholes to watch out for in this great country. I also link to one of those rapture site in my humor section.
The bulk of the letters that I've read on the weekend about lack of freedom in the US and bitching about our lawmakers are nothing but moronic comments by in large drug addicts so it seems.
This country is and will stay for a long time to come one of the most free country in the world.
The government wants to curb drug use to protect our society the best way they see fit. We elect them to do that among other things. They often goof but I would challenge anyone to do better.
As for the encription laws, it was lost by the government at the supreme court. They will appeal but are likely to lose at the end. Even if they don't I fail to see what difference that will do in our lives. If the government wants to waste their time looking thru my mail they are welcome as I don't give a rat's ass. If they tell me or my family that we have to go to church, pray or whatever other bullshit, this is an entirely different issue.
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I would agree that he is a moron and anyone who support drug use but really the democrats aren't socialists by any mean.
There are conservative and liberal democrats. Some suck up to liberal groups some don't.
Republicans are for the most part hypocrites who suck up to the fundies and the richest people in America.
Ideally we'd want someone like Ross Perot but then again he's against free trade.
In the end we're better off with a mixture of Democrats and Republicans who fight each others and leave us alone. The democrats keep the Republicans in line so they stay out of our bedrooms and can't install their theocracy and the republicans keep the democrats in line so they don't tax us to death.
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>your response shows your ignorance of the >Canadian political system and of the US >Constitution.
I was born and raised in Québec, went to university in Québec. I know the political system very well.
>It is possible for a President to be elected in >the US with less than 50% of the popular vote
Not 41% as it is usually the case in Canada and they get a majority government with that.
>(his opponent can even get more votes and >lose)--ever heard of the electoral college?
That's only true on paper
> If a >Canadian party wins less than 50% of the seats, >they must form a minority (coalition) government >with another party. This usually results >in a government that actually does what the >people want,
If I recall the Canadian economy was brought down the toilet in the days when Trudeau went to bed with the comies at the NDP. The biggest screw ups in Canada have been done during the short lived coalition government. Not to say that Trudeau and Ray didn't do a lot of this on their own.
Ontario's economy had quite a fall with Ray. With a good system like here Ray wouldn't have been able to screw up the Ontario economy like he did.
>and doesn't make too many stupid >laws.
HA!HA!
GST and the tape tax to name a couple.
>True, Canada does have more severe party >discipline than the US. Of course,
Dictature you mean, here the representatives are free to do what they want wether or not the party leadership likes it.
>your President just has people >rubbed out if they piss him off (Vincent Foster, >Ron Brown, Gary Parks...):-)
Moronic and unfounded accusations.
>Linking to the site is an entirely different >thing
If you link to a drug site this is because you approve of it but are too chicken to put the stuff on your own site.
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By keeping that from happening there is less chances for that fucked up person to kill in order to get his fix.
Considering that most killings are drug related, reducing the use of drug can limit the number of killings. If the killings were only of other morons this might be an acceptable route but this isn't the case. We often see good law abiding citizens being robbed and/or killed for drug money.
There are countless number of good people who lose their sons or daugthers due to a drug addiction which is often hard to prevent with the fucked up school system with no discipline.
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>It looks like these US laws took the combined >stupidity of both parties to create. Maybe >getting the GOP and 'crats to co-operate isn't a >good idea... With Canada's multi-party system, >we're virtually assured that there will never be >co-operation among the politicians...
I'll skip commenting about encription considering that it is not even part of the article we're talking about. Big brother issue but nothing to do with the current law being proposed.
This is to protect companies from assholes stealing the names for profit. I would like them to broaden it to include family names as well. So if your name is not Catudal for instance you can't get a www.catudal.com place. Catudal is my name. In Canada there is a company in BC who bought hundreds of French Canadian family names for profit. They are another group of assholes who should be nailed.
Your multiparty system is a joke. It means that a political party can technically get elected with a majority governement with 25% of the vote or less in a case where the votes would be equally distributed among the different parties. The prime minister is the sole ruler of the government and the ministers are what we call in French "mitaines" with no real power because if they do something the prime minister doesn't want them to do they are fired promptly. If a member of parliament vote against a law that the majority of the population is against he may well be voting himself out of office as he is overturning the government, thus firing himself. There is no real guarantee that he'll get reelected for his courage as people know damm well that they are electing a dictator prime minister and the MPS are just numbers to get that moron elected.
>Seriously, though, linking a crime? Hello, FIRST >AMENDMENT! When will people get it that freedom >of speech means you can say, write, or type >whatever you want, as long as you're not directly > violating someone else's rights (i.e. libel).
Promoting and selling drugs does in no way fall into the category of free speech. The day that you lose a love one or more due to drug you will realize that drugs is an issue that will not go away and that we as parents will support our government in keeping those drug dealers out of business.
Any law that would prohibit the discussion of the issue on the other hand has no chance of standing and will sooner or later be made null and void. So far I have seen nothing of the kind in the new law. In the previous law this was different but it was amended so it would not violate the constitution.
The constitution doesn't protect your right to use or sell drugs but doesn't prohibit you to discuss it. If your web site promotes it's use you may fall into a crack where it would be possible to assume that you are a drug user or drug dealer. Otherwise why would you waste your time doing such ridiculous stuff?
>The cybersquatting thing doesn't scare me quite >as much.
The day your company has it's name stolen by some jerk you might change your tune. It is no less than robbery for someone to use somebody else's name or property name to make profit.
As for freedom of the press in general canada has no lesson to give here. Remember that vicious murder in the Hamilton area? There was a news blackout in Canada. We were able to know about it here in the US but canucks were deprived the right to know about the whole thing thus giving the chance to the killers not to get the right punishment. Come to find out that is exactly what happened, the ones involved barely got a slapped on the hands. The killer convicted should be released shortly. Actually, due to the kind of vicious crime he did he should never be released except for his funeral, actually his ashes should be sent to the dump.
>There's NOTHING commercially written for DOS >these days.
Bullshit!
A few weeks ago I bought an action game for my son. It says made for Win 95/98 game by Softkey.
"Redneck Rampage The early uears"
It turned out that this was a dos game. It has to switch to MS DOS mode to run with no sound and it crashes on return.
I moved the binaries on the DRDOS partition and it runs perfectly and faster and the sound works.
This is one among several others. This made for Win 95/98 is for the moron much like those mouse pads designed for Windows 95 that you can find in the store.
>No offense guys but I am yet to see apps for X >that are decently designed. Most are either >good looking and bad functioning or vice versa.
I got tons of good apps on my PC. Take a look on the SuSE 6.1 distribution for guidance and search the web a bit. Linux has changed a lot since version 0.1 as you should know.
>Honestly, if someone came out with a (don't shoot >me) Visual Basic
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." (Dijkstra)
Anyone doing embedded programming should realize that Borland C++ 3.0 and 3.1 are the very best for any programming on 80C186 and those like me who have some of those V25 left.
This is also the last stable version to run on dos. Version 4.5 switched to graphic so I never bothered to update.
This is old stuff, look at the current Borland products. Microsoft is no match. A friend of mine is using the latest Borland and I fail to see what could be superior in Microsoft's product.
At this time I prefer Visual Age for C++ from IBM.
I loved this turbo pascal for CPM/80 I used it on a ZCPR system in the mid 80s at Lamson in Syracuse NY. Do you have any idea where I could get a copy?
I asked Borland and was told that it was no longer available. It'd be nice if they would post that one as well if it still exist.
This is no bullshit and you will believe it when it happens to you. I went thru this 9 years ago and lost my home in the process. This was during the recession.
The responses were diverse but it always went around the fact that I was over qualified. One person told me that I was too old. I was 40 at the time.
Look at ads, many say 2-5 years of experience. They mean it, no less than 2 years and no more than 5 years. The belief is that a young person is easier to control and can be forced to do more unpaid overtime than older folks who have been thru this bullshit before.
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>How much of the price of software is because of >patent license fees?
Employees have to be paid.
Your argument is silly, take IAR for instance
their C Compiler is outrageously expensive
(+$1500) but it works and people buy it. If it
it was stolen the company would eventually go
out of business.
Microsoft is a giant and won't be hurt by
losses because software is paid up front with
purchases of PCs but this isn't true of software
companies. I don't like Microsoft and try to
avoid using their products as much as I can but
if I do need some I will buy them.
Advocating stealing because someone can afford
to be robbed isn't a valid response to the laws
on piracy. Whether we agree or not with certain
laws, a fact remain and it is that what belongs
to others doesn't belong to you. If you want to
live free in a society you obey the laws of said
society.
If something is too expensive you go without it.
This is what I do and I ain't less happy this
way.
We live in a great country and obeing the laws
of the land isn't such a high cost.
Have you been drinking?
Sober up a bit and on your next blue screen
or when you are bitching that this shit is
at 100% usage for no valid reason your memory
will come back and you may realize that Linux
could do a much better job than that useless
shit.
is that I had just bought OSS sound a few ...
months before and then I realized that it
came free with SuSE. S.H.I.T.
HA!HA!HA!
Just take a bit of time to read the article(s).
The legislators listed don't even exist.
The title is indeed correct. There are a lot
of imbeciles reading news in general. The fact
that this moronic stuff has been denied over
and over doesn't mean anything to you obviously.
I saw two almost identical letters about the
subject. One originated from Canada and one
from the USA. Names like MPs were changed
to senators and representatives to make it
look more US like. The bottom line is that
it is a hoax put on the net to get morons
going and make sure they annoy the politicians.
The representative and senator responsible for
the said bill don't even exist. The bill is the
same as the one in Canada, the said MP probably
doesn't exist either.
At work we had someone who posted the letter
on the bulletin board. I didn't take it out
because I thought it was funny that so many
idiots would bite to it. And I don't care much
for the local republicans that we're stuck with.
At election time this is straight party stuff
and I have no choice except the senator and
president. Every one else on the ballot are
republicans. It is amusing to think of those
guys being harrassed by idiots who think they're
about to be taxed on their EMAIL.
We had another hoax just about as amusing this
one a while back about the long distance versus
local calls. A lot of morons fell for that
one. Apparently the politicians got more calls
about that one than about the president's
impeachment trial.
As we say in French : "Juste une trappe à cons"
in other words, it's just a trap for morons.
Joe Blow will get the shaft again. I live in
... ...
a mobile home park where we have middle class
people and some poor people. We see the rent
to own truck going regularly in the homes of
the poors. Those of us of the middle class
can't afford the prices of rent to own, you
actually own the product when it's unusable after
paying several times the price.
Microsoft has found out that most winblows users
are of the type who never pay for software so
in order to cash in on that market they have to
make it such that you will not be able to buy
but will have to rent. People will not complain
because they will think that they get a good
deal. It's only $5 a week for the latest window
version. Another $5 for Office. If you can't
afford that then you pay $0.01 a minute for
the use of Office 2000, another cent or two
for IE5, etc
At the end of the month you get $17.95 for your
internet connection plus $30-$50 for your winblows.
Microsoft didn't get your last month check
or your credit card bounced the payment so
you don't have the computer for the next month
or so
Fundies are against teaching of the evolution
because it would contradict their religious
myth about the age of the planet.
The only way you can get your mind to refute
evolution is if you actually believe that
earth is only a few thousand years old.
Evolution is a gradual change that takes hundreds
of thousands if not millions of years. Just
looking in the past few thousand years we see
some bits of changes in humans, not really that
much to be really noticeable. The change has
been more in the accumulation of knowledge
than anything else. There is abundant proofs
that over the past millions of years humans
have evolved from some similar species, perhaps
not as close as to chimps as some may think
but the same family nevertherless.
It should no surprise for anyone considering
the high number of fundies in that area of
the country. Didn't Pat Robertson do very
well in his bid for the presidency in Kansas?
At election time the fundies will be treatening
not to support Bush unless he make clear plans
about curbing the evil stuff that is on TV and
on the internet, like sex. You know, all those
things those people likes but are sinful when
not done by a preacher.
If the fundies stay home Bush is screwed and he
knows that. He may get some of the Hispanic vote
but this may not be enough to counter the lack
of fundies votes.
He would then attack Gore as bein pro internet
thus an evil person. The fundies would vote
as many times as possible to guarantee his
election. Coming out now appearing to do something
about the evil internet both Gore and Clinton
look like the good guy to the average fundy.
Since it doesn't do much, most normal people
won't give a rat's ass.
You see! it's a win win situation for the
president and vice president. If you ever
want to go in politic just look at the pros
in action.
You need to learn a bit more about politic and
you will understand the meaning of studies.
A study is made when people bitch to the
government to do something and the government
is unable or doesn't want to do anything about it.
Look at the past history in Canada about racism
toward the natives and French. Little was done
except over 30 years of multiple useless studies.
And here in the USA about Acid rain, studies and
more studies, nothing of value is really done.
In this case they'll study about possible things
that can be done and will find out that little
can be done.
Child pornography : the nasty stuff is usually
not done here in the US.
Drugs, guns and explosives : By the time they
get to the guilty ones, they'll be moved. This
is just mail moving to the net.
Fraud : read previous comment.
At the end the population is pleased, the
president has done something about their biggest
worry, the internet.
If people are so concerned about the kids
being exposed to filth on the net why not
keep the kid off the computer? It's just
another baby sitter as the TV is/was.
>You're missing the point here. It doesn't matter
>what I'm linking to or why. It could be a
>neo-Nazi page advising kids to make pipe bombs
>while stoned. It's not for you or anyone else to
>tell me what I can say or print (PLEASE read the
> First Amendment).
This is just a bill and before it becomes law
it will have to be clarified as to what it means.
If not I agree that it will and should be struck
down as anti constitutional.
The linking I will agree is a bit silly since
you could actually be pointing to the FBI where
to look for a particular asshole. I do that
occasionally on religious sites. There is a
guy promoting nuking non believers and dedicated
a site to it. My linking to his site was a
warning that there are dangerous assholes to
watch out for in this great country. I also
link to one of those rapture site in my humor
section.
The bulk of the letters that I've read on the
weekend about lack of freedom in the US and
bitching about our lawmakers are nothing but
moronic comments by in large drug addicts so it
seems.
This country is and will stay for a long time
to come one of the most free country in the
world.
The government wants to curb drug use to protect
our society the best way they see fit. We elect
them to do that among other things. They often
goof but I would challenge anyone to do better.
As for the encription laws, it was lost by the
government at the supreme court. They will appeal
but are likely to lose at the end. Even if they
don't I fail to see what difference that will do
in our lives. If the government wants to waste
their time looking thru my mail they are welcome
as I don't give a rat's ass.
If they tell me or my family that we have to go to
church, pray or whatever other bullshit, this is
an entirely different issue.
I would agree that he is a moron and anyone
who support drug use but really the democrats
aren't socialists by any mean.
There are conservative and liberal democrats.
Some suck up to liberal groups some don't.
Republicans are for the most part hypocrites
who suck up to the fundies and the richest
people in America.
Ideally we'd want someone like Ross Perot
but then again he's against free trade.
In the end we're better off with a mixture
of Democrats and Republicans who fight each
others and leave us alone. The democrats keep
the Republicans in line so they stay out of our
bedrooms and can't install their theocracy and
the republicans keep the democrats in line so
they don't tax us to death.
>your response shows your ignorance of the
:-)
>Canadian political system and of the US
>Constitution.
I was born and raised in Québec, went to
university in Québec. I know the political
system very well.
>It is possible for a President to be elected in
>the US with less than 50% of the popular vote
Not 41% as it is usually the case in Canada and
they get a majority government with that.
>(his opponent can even get more votes and
>lose)--ever heard of the electoral college?
That's only true on paper
> If a
>Canadian party wins less than 50% of the seats,
>they must form a minority (coalition) government
>with another party. This usually results
>in a government that actually does what the
>people want,
If I recall the Canadian economy was brought
down the toilet in the days when Trudeau went
to bed with the comies at the NDP.
The biggest screw ups in Canada have been
done during the short lived coalition
government. Not to say that Trudeau and Ray didn't
do a lot of this on their own.
Ontario's economy had quite a fall with Ray. With
a good system like here Ray wouldn't have been
able to screw up the Ontario economy like he
did.
>and doesn't make too many stupid
>laws.
HA!HA!
GST and the tape tax to name a couple.
>True, Canada does have more severe party
>discipline than the US. Of course,
Dictature you mean, here the representatives
are free to do what they want wether or not
the party leadership likes it.
>your President just has people
>rubbed out if they piss him off (Vincent Foster,
>Ron Brown, Gary Parks...)
Moronic and unfounded accusations.
>Linking to the site is an entirely different
>thing
If you link to a drug site this is because you
approve of it but are too chicken to put the
stuff on your own site.
By keeping that from happening there is less
chances for that fucked up person to kill
in order to get his fix.
Considering that most killings are drug related,
reducing the use of drug can limit the number
of killings. If the killings were only of other
morons this might be an acceptable route but
this isn't the case. We often see good law
abiding citizens being robbed and/or killed
for drug money.
There are countless number of good people who
lose their sons or daugthers due to a drug
addiction which is often hard to prevent with
the fucked up school system with no discipline.
>It looks like these US laws took the combined
>stupidity of both parties to create. Maybe
>getting the GOP and 'crats to co-operate isn't a
>good idea... With Canada's multi-party system,
>we're virtually assured that there will never be
>co-operation among the politicians...
I'll skip commenting about encription considering
that it is not even part of the article we're
talking about. Big brother issue but nothing
to do with the current law being proposed.
This is to protect companies from assholes
stealing the names for profit. I would like
them to broaden it to include family names
as well. So if your name is not Catudal for
instance you can't get a www.catudal.com place.
Catudal is my name. In Canada there is a company
in BC who bought hundreds of French Canadian
family names for profit. They are another group
of assholes who should be nailed.
Your multiparty system is a joke. It means that
a political party can technically get elected
with a majority governement with 25% of the vote
or less in a case where the votes would be equally
distributed among the different parties. The
prime minister is the sole ruler of the government
and the ministers are what we call in French
"mitaines" with no real power because if they
do something the prime minister doesn't want
them to do they are fired promptly. If a member
of parliament vote against a law that the majority
of the population is against he may well be voting
himself out of office as he is overturning the
government, thus firing himself. There is no
real guarantee that he'll get reelected for
his courage as people know damm well that they
are electing a dictator prime minister and the
MPS are just numbers to get that moron elected.
>Seriously, though, linking a crime? Hello, FIRST
>AMENDMENT! When will people get it that freedom
>of speech means you can say, write, or type
>whatever you want, as long as you're not directly
> violating someone else's rights (i.e. libel).
Promoting and selling drugs does in no way fall
into the category of free speech. The day that
you lose a love one or more due to drug you will
realize that drugs is an issue that will not go
away and that we as parents will support our
government in keeping those drug dealers out
of business.
Any law that would prohibit the discussion of
the issue on the other hand has no chance of
standing and will sooner or later be made
null and void. So far I have seen nothing of
the kind in the new law. In the previous law
this was different but it was amended so it
would not violate the constitution.
The constitution doesn't protect your right
to use or sell drugs but doesn't prohibit you
to discuss it. If your web site promotes it's
use you may fall into a crack where it would
be possible to assume that you are a drug
user or drug dealer. Otherwise why would you
waste your time doing such ridiculous stuff?
>The cybersquatting thing doesn't scare me quite
>as much.
The day your company has it's name stolen by
some jerk you might change your tune. It is
no less than robbery for someone to use somebody
else's name or property name to make profit.
As for freedom of the press in general
canada has no lesson to give here. Remember
that vicious murder in the Hamilton area?
There was a news blackout in Canada. We were
able to know about it here in the US but
canucks were deprived the right to know about
the whole thing thus giving the chance to
the killers not to get the right punishment.
Come to find out that is exactly what happened,
the ones involved barely got a slapped on the
hands. The killer convicted should be released
shortly. Actually, due to the kind of vicious
crime he did he should never be released except
for his funeral, actually his ashes should be
sent to the dump.
Bringing to Linux PM would help Linux kill
winblows. What killed OS/2 was IBM non
willingness to support it for Joe Blow.
I'd live with it even if it wasn't as long
as IBM would support it. Judging by the past
we'd be better off with an open source PM.
>There's NOTHING commercially written for DOS
>these days.
Bullshit!
A few weeks ago I bought an action game for
my son. It says made for Win 95/98 game by
Softkey.
"Redneck Rampage The early uears"
It turned out that this was a dos game. It has
to switch to MS DOS mode to run with no sound
and it crashes on return.
I moved the binaries on the DRDOS partition and
it runs perfectly and faster and the sound works.
This is one among several others. This made for
Win 95/98 is for the moron much like those mouse
pads designed for Windows 95 that you can find in
the store.
>No offense guys but I am yet to see apps for X
>that are decently designed. Most are either
>good looking and bad functioning or vice versa.
I got tons of good apps on my PC. Take a look on
the SuSE 6.1 distribution for guidance and search
the web a bit. Linux has changed a lot since
version 0.1 as you should know.
>Honestly, if someone came out with a (don't shoot
>me) Visual Basic
"It is practically impossible to teach good
programming style to students that have had
prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers
they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
regeneration." (Dijkstra)
Actually you saw the only good part of the game,
assuming that we can call this a game.
This thing sucks big time!
Anyone doing embedded programming should realize
that Borland C++ 3.0 and 3.1 are the very best
for any programming on 80C186 and those like
me who have some of those V25 left.
This is also the last stable version to run
on dos. Version 4.5 switched to graphic so
I never bothered to update.
This is old stuff, look at the current Borland
products. Microsoft is no match. A friend of
mine is using the latest Borland and I fail
to see what could be superior in Microsoft's
product.
At this time I prefer Visual Age for C++ from
IBM.
I loved this turbo pascal for CPM/80
I used it on a ZCPR system in the mid 80s at
Lamson in Syracuse NY. Do you have any idea where
I could get a copy?
I asked Borland and was told that it was
no longer available. It'd be nice if they
would post that one as well if it still exist.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
bbcat@netonecom.net
The worst thing about this is that I allready
bought all of those.
I have all the version up to 3.1
and then I bought OS/2 version
then I switched to IBM after Borland dropped OS/2
What I want is the Linux version. I don't give
a rat's ass about the graphic version, I want
a command line version with a working turbovision.
This is no bullshit and you will believe it
when it happens to you. I went thru this 9 years
ago and lost my home in the process. This was
during the recession.
The responses were diverse but it always went
around the fact that I was over qualified.
One person told me that I was too old. I was
40 at the time.
Look at ads, many say 2-5 years of experience.
They mean it, no less than 2 years and no more
than 5 years. The belief is that a young person
is easier to control and can be forced to
do more unpaid overtime than older folks who
have been thru this bullshit before.
I fail to see what the winblows API has to do
with a bcc working under Linux.
I would think of the borland compiler much
like the dos or OS/2 compilers. They are
tailored for the particular environment.
I've always like the Turbo and Borland products
can't wait to get my hands of their Linux
versions.