The reason for this seems to root from the fact that gnome for example attempts to create standards across the system for applications to use in their framework and then applications try to allow you to modify the fonts in them seperately. Then you have multiple ways to adjust fonts system wide as well. I think that a lot of work is still needed with Linux and fonts. Its something (and one of the only things) that Windows and MacOS do better. Its still something that is easily tolerable.
Indeed. For simply distributing something that someone else created without letting them get their money is worth 15 years for some reason. Someone can be arrested for cocaine, beat their wife, have sex with animals, or steal the equivalent amount of copyrighted materials from a store and still not get as many years in prison...
So according to US law and most laws in other nations, one can steal all this stuff and keep it to himself, and get off with less jail time then someone who simply gets a copy that was already stolen and allows others to steal it from him...
Confusing yes but then again remember how long congress takes to care about something. Also remember that when money is involved people drop logic and morals and think about how they can save their cash flows.
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The funny thing about this attempt is that UK is even less for software patents then the US. If they can't get the US to believe them what makes them think the EU and the UK government will hear them out anymore? European nations are even more pro open source and anti software patents. Hopefully SCO goes bankrupt with this poor decision.
Yep its a lot easier to break the law when uncle sam doesn't have an eye on you as you browse the web. People often underestimate the government though and it comes back to haunt them sometimes.
I agree. Its good to see people standing up against corporate bullies. I get sick of the attitude that the MPAA and RIAA display. The attitude of we have millions and we have to make sure we can still make millions so we should sue and create lawsuits to protect it.
Does this give you any faith in the system? I sure as hell don't want to blame a side as much as I want to say the american voting system just isn't good enough to deal with the fact that our nation is split 50/50. Everyone in Washington just wants a governor at this point.
I may note that despite what you hear it was the Deomcrat Christina who decided to have the recount so its her fault that we are making this a big scene. I voted democrat in the fall but I sure as hell wish they would shutup right now.
Land of the free means you are free to sue anyone. Of course you have to prove they are guilty because that brings justice while at the same time wasting everyone's time and money if the claim is complete crap. I think they need to have a system where if someone is wrong and it isn't proven then they have to pay some of the legal fees. I mean if you have to waste thousands of dollars to protect yourself from a moron that moron should pay you back for your troubles.
Thats all this is. I actually find it disgusting that the NFL signed abord. Lets give into one corporation to try to make money rather then allow all game producing companies to potentially make a sports game involving our league. Well I can tell you this much. I don't like Madden's voice so I won't be picking up the next EA NFL game.
To me it seems like a last desperate attempt to remain alive because they forsee the cell phone market will be putting them out of business and they need a way to still make money off their outdated copper wires that nobody wants to use anymore. Hey at least they try to adapt rather then just give up. They deserve a little credit for that I think.
I don't appreciate you showing a lack of respect or regard for Washington. I grew up there and I love it. If any state deserves to be removed from the map its Texas.
Ha I love it. Corporations think they can do anything they want with enough money and lawyers. The sad thing is sometimes they can... I think this is way too far of a stretch no matter how much money you throw at it.
I don't mean to be hostile at all in this comment but I must mention that I don't think this article is fair to american programmers either. For one it is true that almost everyone's relatives at some point were immigrants but remember they came over and did things that didn't require higher level education. I think people are irritated because they spend years of their time learning this stuff and paying for it to be replaced by someone outside the country. They fail to see why immigrants have to come over to the US if they have training in their own country for high level learning.
Why is India and other countries training people to send them over here? That is something that boggles my mind. I don't see the reason to waste money on training people to send to another country. Its not the US policies that are out of wack in my mind. I think that maybe these countries lack some pride or something. I wouldn't move to halfway across the world for a better job and then renounce my citizenchip. Remember when you come across the world into another country and take a job that someone else wanted from that country you should expect them to be upset. You went out of your way to get their job...
I'm not trying to be an asshole here but there is always going to be two perspectives and I can see both of them. This problem is reoccuring throughout history and is the same argument everytime. So I don't think complaining on either side is going to solve it. I think people just need to accept that anyone can take their job and maybe people need to also consider having a bit more respect for their own country.
You are going about it completely the wrong way. DSL and cable DO NOT work great. There is a limited capaticity on any line or wired network. The wires can only take in so much bandwidth. Therefore in populated areas you have to install Fiber Optic networks just to maintain highspeeds. The reality is we need better technology because populations are constantly increasing and cable networks are constantly becoming bigger. A lot of people see this in the fact that they have constant downtimes because of it. I for example lose internet at primetimes very often due to high connectivity.
Wireless airships remove this. Then its just radio waves being sent back and forth and it is less costly then satellites which are already being used too much according to some. The world is going wireless is what I keep telling everyone. You should expect to see wired networks declining until they are gone because they are so limited. The question is what affect will all the radio traffic have on the world. That I do not know and it would be interesting to see if anyone finds or has found what happens with increased radio traffic in areas. We might be setting ourselves up for an interference nightmare in 20 years or so where nothing is usuable because there is so much clutter. Essentially filling our air full of radio waves until we make the air into a traffic nightmare equivalent to rush hour traffic in cities.
Ya but the problem you have to remember is funding. Its a lot easier for a small town to fuck up because they have less people watching for problems. They aren't expected to be up to par with things. You know humans are going to be humans and to expect perfect results whether its with a computer or a piece of paper isn't fair. Accept that mistakes will happen when there is over 120 million votes being counted. 8,000 counted wrong does suck but hey its bound to happen and its statistically not possible to have everything go perfectly.
Man, that really sucks. I'm glad I haven't been screwed in that sort of way. I guess if you get caught you were being incredibly obvious about what you were doing because I definitely have never been caught.
Don't take me the wrong way. Voting is worth your time but I don't expect miracles to happen when I do vote. I did vote but I'm saying if 8,000 people represent a very small fraction then their votes for who is president is more important then who is a local councilmember or something.
What do they actually do? I'm just curious what the governments do in an attempt to keep you from it. Couldn't you steal wireless or something from your neighbors?
Well it probably will make it easier to write viruses for windows, it isn't like its the shining knight for the virus writers. Windows is an easy target with or without those and has a new exploit in something every week it would seem. There is never a shortage of viruses for the windows OS. Lets just hope that this doesn't make it any worse.
I don't see the point about making a fuss over a canidate that is decided by 8,000 votes. If they don't represent that much who really cares enough to make a cort case out of it. People should pick battles more wisely and become a hippy.
This is just another sign that wireless is replacing wired networks around the world. I'm guessing sometime in the near future wireless will outnumber wired networks. I think that everyone can be excited about this.
I agree. I believe that the Dutch government won't just turn things around on people like that. I think it might be that people and other organizations are jumping to conclusions earlier then they should. Well at least thats what I'm hoping.
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The Year In Ideas
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Very clever idea. Do they datamine or something anyways? I can't see the purpose in having a registration process to view news articles if its free.
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The reason for this seems to root from the fact that gnome for example attempts to create standards across the system for applications to use in their framework and then applications try to allow you to modify the fonts in them seperately. Then you have multiple ways to adjust fonts system wide as well. I think that a lot of work is still needed with Linux and fonts. Its something (and one of the only things) that Windows and MacOS do better. Its still something that is easily tolerable.
Indeed. For simply distributing something that someone else created without letting them get their money is worth 15 years for some reason. Someone can be arrested for cocaine, beat their wife, have sex with animals, or steal the equivalent amount of copyrighted materials from a store and still not get as many years in prison... So according to US law and most laws in other nations, one can steal all this stuff and keep it to himself, and get off with less jail time then someone who simply gets a copy that was already stolen and allows others to steal it from him... Confusing yes but then again remember how long congress takes to care about something. Also remember that when money is involved people drop logic and morals and think about how they can save their cash flows.
The funny thing about this attempt is that UK is even less for software patents then the US. If they can't get the US to believe them what makes them think the EU and the UK government will hear them out anymore? European nations are even more pro open source and anti software patents. Hopefully SCO goes bankrupt with this poor decision.
Yep its a lot easier to break the law when uncle sam doesn't have an eye on you as you browse the web. People often underestimate the government though and it comes back to haunt them sometimes.
I agree. Its good to see people standing up against corporate bullies. I get sick of the attitude that the MPAA and RIAA display. The attitude of we have millions and we have to make sure we can still make millions so we should sue and create lawsuits to protect it.
If he can find it. Chances are it isn't legal if he can.
Especially with something that isn't that big a deal in reality because everyone uses it. The question is how they got the pantents.
Nothing like spending christmas day configuring and compiling a new kernel!
Does this give you any faith in the system? I sure as hell don't want to blame a side as much as I want to say the american voting system just isn't good enough to deal with the fact that our nation is split 50/50. Everyone in Washington just wants a governor at this point. I may note that despite what you hear it was the Deomcrat Christina who decided to have the recount so its her fault that we are making this a big scene. I voted democrat in the fall but I sure as hell wish they would shutup right now.
Land of the free means you are free to sue anyone. Of course you have to prove they are guilty because that brings justice while at the same time wasting everyone's time and money if the claim is complete crap. I think they need to have a system where if someone is wrong and it isn't proven then they have to pay some of the legal fees. I mean if you have to waste thousands of dollars to protect yourself from a moron that moron should pay you back for your troubles.
Thats all this is. I actually find it disgusting that the NFL signed abord. Lets give into one corporation to try to make money rather then allow all game producing companies to potentially make a sports game involving our league. Well I can tell you this much. I don't like Madden's voice so I won't be picking up the next EA NFL game.
To me it seems like a last desperate attempt to remain alive because they forsee the cell phone market will be putting them out of business and they need a way to still make money off their outdated copper wires that nobody wants to use anymore. Hey at least they try to adapt rather then just give up. They deserve a little credit for that I think.
I don't appreciate you showing a lack of respect or regard for Washington. I grew up there and I love it. If any state deserves to be removed from the map its Texas.
Ha I love it. Corporations think they can do anything they want with enough money and lawyers. The sad thing is sometimes they can... I think this is way too far of a stretch no matter how much money you throw at it.
I don't mean to be hostile at all in this comment but I must mention that I don't think this article is fair to american programmers either. For one it is true that almost everyone's relatives at some point were immigrants but remember they came over and did things that didn't require higher level education. I think people are irritated because they spend years of their time learning this stuff and paying for it to be replaced by someone outside the country. They fail to see why immigrants have to come over to the US if they have training in their own country for high level learning. Why is India and other countries training people to send them over here? That is something that boggles my mind. I don't see the reason to waste money on training people to send to another country. Its not the US policies that are out of wack in my mind. I think that maybe these countries lack some pride or something. I wouldn't move to halfway across the world for a better job and then renounce my citizenchip. Remember when you come across the world into another country and take a job that someone else wanted from that country you should expect them to be upset. You went out of your way to get their job... I'm not trying to be an asshole here but there is always going to be two perspectives and I can see both of them. This problem is reoccuring throughout history and is the same argument everytime. So I don't think complaining on either side is going to solve it. I think people just need to accept that anyone can take their job and maybe people need to also consider having a bit more respect for their own country.
You are going about it completely the wrong way. DSL and cable DO NOT work great. There is a limited capaticity on any line or wired network. The wires can only take in so much bandwidth. Therefore in populated areas you have to install Fiber Optic networks just to maintain highspeeds. The reality is we need better technology because populations are constantly increasing and cable networks are constantly becoming bigger. A lot of people see this in the fact that they have constant downtimes because of it. I for example lose internet at primetimes very often due to high connectivity. Wireless airships remove this. Then its just radio waves being sent back and forth and it is less costly then satellites which are already being used too much according to some. The world is going wireless is what I keep telling everyone. You should expect to see wired networks declining until they are gone because they are so limited. The question is what affect will all the radio traffic have on the world. That I do not know and it would be interesting to see if anyone finds or has found what happens with increased radio traffic in areas. We might be setting ourselves up for an interference nightmare in 20 years or so where nothing is usuable because there is so much clutter. Essentially filling our air full of radio waves until we make the air into a traffic nightmare equivalent to rush hour traffic in cities.
Ya but the problem you have to remember is funding. Its a lot easier for a small town to fuck up because they have less people watching for problems. They aren't expected to be up to par with things. You know humans are going to be humans and to expect perfect results whether its with a computer or a piece of paper isn't fair. Accept that mistakes will happen when there is over 120 million votes being counted. 8,000 counted wrong does suck but hey its bound to happen and its statistically not possible to have everything go perfectly.
Man, that really sucks. I'm glad I haven't been screwed in that sort of way. I guess if you get caught you were being incredibly obvious about what you were doing because I definitely have never been caught.
Don't take me the wrong way. Voting is worth your time but I don't expect miracles to happen when I do vote. I did vote but I'm saying if 8,000 people represent a very small fraction then their votes for who is president is more important then who is a local councilmember or something.
What do they actually do? I'm just curious what the governments do in an attempt to keep you from it. Couldn't you steal wireless or something from your neighbors?
Well it probably will make it easier to write viruses for windows, it isn't like its the shining knight for the virus writers. Windows is an easy target with or without those and has a new exploit in something every week it would seem. There is never a shortage of viruses for the windows OS. Lets just hope that this doesn't make it any worse.
I don't see the point about making a fuss over a canidate that is decided by 8,000 votes. If they don't represent that much who really cares enough to make a cort case out of it. People should pick battles more wisely and become a hippy.
This is just another sign that wireless is replacing wired networks around the world. I'm guessing sometime in the near future wireless will outnumber wired networks. I think that everyone can be excited about this.
I agree. I believe that the Dutch government won't just turn things around on people like that. I think it might be that people and other organizations are jumping to conclusions earlier then they should. Well at least thats what I'm hoping.
Very clever idea. Do they datamine or something anyways? I can't see the purpose in having a registration process to view news articles if its free.