And that should never have happened. Can you say slippery slope? Where do you draw the line?
I would be horrified if they had such laws here in the U.S. I would hate to be afraid of saying anything derogatory about any company for fear of being sued. It's ridiculous. IMHO, unless someone said something that was truly libelous -- that is, a deliberate falsehood designed to do nothing but destroy a company's reputation, they have the right to say anything they want about a company. I've made plenty of derogatory statements about Microsoft on these pages -- all of them truthful to the best of my knowledge. What if they could sue me or Slashdot for making them?
I do. And I hate these things. At any place that I've worked that uses these background daemons to control licensing, due to the proliferation of various similar programs, we've had to run a special license server -- and usually more than one. FlexLM, LUM, proprietary license solutions, etc., with multiple daemons usually. A typical box might run 25 different license processes. And management is usually a big PITA, because these processes almost always break in some way sooner or later.
Would have been much funnier if the city had agreed to remove the parking meters, taken the 35k and put 3 much larger and more obtrusive No Parking signs there instead. Or perhaps one of those 3-ft tall walls with the words 'NO PARKING' stencil-sprayed on it in big 18 inch letters...:)
Oh, sorry, this is Canada..91.5 cm wall, 45.5 cm letters.
OOo keeps a directory either A) in your home directory (Linux/UNIX), or B) in a directory under your user profile (Windows) called.openoffice.org2. It stores all your settings. If you want to migrate them to another computer, just copy that folder.
...MS Internet Explorer 63.3 % Firefox 26.5 % I think the fact that an older audience like that is over 1/4 Firefox users says boatloads about the inroads they've made on IE. No doubt. It's certainly a better representation than counting downloads, though hardly representative of the general Internet population.
What? All of you? You're all using this man's technology right now. Accusations of this product being vaporware do not account for the man's track record (no pun intended). You should all give this man a little credit, okay?
What's Microsoft going to say when a large site gets hacked, using someone else's pwned box as a launch platform, and the attacker got into that box because it was pirated, and Microsoft deliberately disabled the update that would have fixed a remote root exploit? I'm gonna f**king KILL !!!! *Ballmer throws chair*
Nobody objects to "informed consent" here. What people don't like is having the contract changed while it is being exercised. What contract? A contract requires not just a 'meeting of the minds' and a mutual consent, but also requires that something of value be exchanged by each of the parties. What did you give to Microsoft to use Windows Live? (No, buying Vista does not count).
Nobody is paying for this service (yet). That means they decidedly did not enter into any sort of contract.
I pay for those services. Over the public services, I have the power of the vote to control those services. The others are publically-regulated monopolies, hence, once again, the power of the vote.
So? Look at my posting record. I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft. But in this case, they're right. Counting downloads tells you just about nothing about the number of Firefox user -- and it cuts both ways. I have four copies of Firefox sitting on machines used by myself and my wife and my step-son, that I can say for certain were decidedly not downloaded from Mozilla.org.
If you don't like the privacy policy, don't use the service. What's the big deal? If any site were to kick me off because I didn't agree to changes in their privacy policy, I would simply not visit the site again.
Or were installed as part of a Linux distro? Or were downloaded from PortableApps.com? Or were downloaded as part of some 'open source CD for Windows'? Or were just copied from a friend? How many are installed as part of a standard corporate desktop image?
How many were updates? How many were downloaded to replace another copy after say, a wipe-and-reinstall? How many were downloaded, but never installed?
Anyway you look at it, counting downloads doesn't reveal much about the number of Firefox users?
Clearly, since Islam began in the seven century AD (Anno Domini, Year of our Lord, or just plain 'after Jesus' as opposed to *B*efore *C*hrist), it started before Christianity did.* Actually, that statement is not entirely inaccurate. The Gospels were not written until somehwere around 50-70 AD.
Actually, two of the records are listed as having an original copyright holder as being CBS Records. CBS Records is not an RIAA member, according to their website. Also, many of the companies listed on that link aren't RIAA members, either, they just report to the RIAA. I think among those is Geffen, which is also listed in TFA, but I'm not sure.
I wonder how much Microsoft paid Miguel to say this. Wait...Microsoft will PAY you to say shit like this? Holy fuck! Hey, Microsoft! What you want me to say? I'll say anything provided you pay me and Ballmer doesn't get to throw any chairs at me!
w00t!
*wakes up from mind-control state*
Wait? Huh? What did I just say? I was almost a goner!
No, it isn't. If there was an article in which an armed robber was caught, he would be "facing" at least 5-10 years, maybe more if he killed someobdy. Whether the armed robber gets that sentence or not is up to the jury, or in some states, the sentencing judge. Do you read newspapers, Google News, or at least watch CNN?
Your post is right on the money, but maybe I'm biased. While my first language was interpreted BASIC, my first compiled procuedural language was... Turbo Pascal 3.02a. It was also my first OOP language, or, more correctly, Turbo Pascal 5.5 was. I yearn for the days of that Borland compiler... it was FAST, and it generated small, highly-optimized executables -- well before anyone else did.
I've used Free Pascal for the odd project here or there, but, well, sadly, these days I find myself mostly using C and Python. Don't get me wrong -- I like C, and I especially like gcc, and Python -- well, Python reminds me of the old days, in many ways, even though it's different. But Free Pascal will never pay the bills.
An example of this would be if you created a group called F**k Bush because a group of you didn't like President Bush. I dunno about you, but I started a group called F**k Bush, it wouldn't have anything to do with the current President of the United States (or even the band 'Bush'.);)
I think I've got this stuff growing on my back fence. (No, really!) (Disclosure: I live in Florida).
It seems like almost any plant oil could be used to make biodiesel, but this stuff does grow like a weed, even in sandy soil and drought conditions (both of which are present in my backyard). That's what would make it economically viable.
Although, the fact that it does grow like a weed, means it still pulls out a lot of nutrients from the soil, which would make it hard to grow anything else on the same land. OTOH, it grows where other things already don't grow, so that's definitely a plus from an environmental point of view.
Oh, and if BP or anyone else wants to pay me to grow more, let me know!
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And that should never have happened. Can you say slippery slope? Where do you draw the line?
I would be horrified if they had such laws here in the U.S. I would hate to be afraid of saying anything derogatory about any company for fear of being sued. It's ridiculous. IMHO, unless someone said something that was truly libelous -- that is, a deliberate falsehood designed to do nothing but destroy a company's reputation, they have the right to say anything they want about a company. I've made plenty of derogatory statements about Microsoft on these pages -- all of them truthful to the best of my knowledge. What if they could sue me or Slashdot for making them?
No, but now they will.
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I do. And I hate these things. At any place that I've worked that uses these background daemons to control licensing, due to the proliferation of various similar programs, we've had to run a special license server -- and usually more than one. FlexLM, LUM, proprietary license solutions, etc., with multiple daemons usually. A typical box might run 25 different license processes. And management is usually a big PITA, because these processes almost always break in some way sooner or later.
Oh, sorry, this is Canada..91.5 cm wall, 45.5 cm letters.
OOo keeps a directory either A) in your home directory (Linux/UNIX), or B) in a directory under your user profile (Windows) called .openoffice.org2. It stores all your settings. If you want to migrate them to another computer, just copy that folder.
Untrue.
...MS Internet Explorer 63.3 % Firefox 26.5 % I think the fact that an older audience like that is over 1/4 Firefox users says boatloads about the inroads they've made on IE. No doubt. It's certainly a better representation than counting downloads, though hardly representative of the general Internet population.What? All of you? You're all using this man's technology right now. Accusations of this product being vaporware do not account for the man's track record (no pun intended). You should all give this man a little credit, okay?
Encryption is difficult for laypersons? The guy sniffed Web passwords. It's sooo much harder for a layperson to type https instead of http....
Nobody is paying for this service (yet). That means they decidedly did not enter into any sort of contract.
I pay for those services. Over the public services, I have the power of the vote to control those services. The others are publically-regulated monopolies, hence, once again, the power of the vote.
Perhaps these people should think twice before relying on a service that they have no control over whatsoever.
So? Look at my posting record. I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft. But in this case, they're right. Counting downloads tells you just about nothing about the number of Firefox user -- and it cuts both ways. I have four copies of Firefox sitting on machines used by myself and my wife and my step-son, that I can say for certain were decidedly not downloaded from Mozilla.org.
If you don't like the privacy policy, don't use the service. What's the big deal? If any site were to kick me off because I didn't agree to changes in their privacy policy, I would simply not visit the site again.
Or were installed as part of a Linux distro? Or were downloaded from PortableApps.com? Or were downloaded as part of some 'open source CD for Windows'? Or were just copied from a friend? How many are installed as part of a standard corporate desktop image?
How many were updates? How many were downloaded to replace another copy after say, a wipe-and-reinstall? How many were downloaded, but never installed?
Anyway you look at it, counting downloads doesn't reveal much about the number of Firefox users?
Actually, two of the records are listed as having an original copyright holder as being CBS Records. CBS Records is not an RIAA member, according to their website. Also, many of the companies listed on that link aren't RIAA members, either, they just report to the RIAA. I think among those is Geffen, which is also listed in TFA, but I'm not sure.
w00t!
*wakes up from mind-control state*
Wait? Huh? What did I just say? I was almost a goner!
No, it isn't. If there was an article in which an armed robber was caught, he would be "facing" at least 5-10 years, maybe more if he killed someobdy. Whether the armed robber gets that sentence or not is up to the jury, or in some states, the sentencing judge. Do you read newspapers, Google News, or at least watch CNN?
Your post is right on the money, but maybe I'm biased. While my first language was interpreted BASIC, my first compiled procuedural language was ... Turbo Pascal 3.02a. It was also my first OOP language, or, more correctly, Turbo Pascal 5.5 was. I yearn for the days of that Borland compiler ... it was FAST, and it generated small, highly-optimized executables -- well before anyone else did.
I've used Free Pascal for the odd project here or there, but, well, sadly, these days I find myself mostly using C and Python. Don't get me wrong -- I like C, and I especially like gcc, and Python -- well, Python reminds me of the old days, in many ways, even though it's different. But Free Pascal will never pay the bills.
I think I've got this stuff growing on my back fence. (No, really!) (Disclosure: I live in Florida).
It seems like almost any plant oil could be used to make biodiesel, but this stuff does grow like a weed, even in sandy soil and drought conditions (both of which are present in my backyard). That's what would make it economically viable.
Although, the fact that it does grow like a weed, means it still pulls out a lot of nutrients from the soil, which would make it hard to grow anything else on the same land. OTOH, it grows where other things already don't grow, so that's definitely a plus from an environmental point of view.
Oh, and if BP or anyone else wants to pay me to grow more, let me know!
Like me and, apparently, you. ;)
Yup. You can tell. IBM was really thinking about handicapped accessibility with this once-very popular product