Unlike taxes, buying Spiderman 3 is not obligatory, so I'm failing to see your point. Care to specify what makes you consider HD-DVD to be a "better win", or are you going to continue sticking to PR-speak?
I like the part where you complain about fanboyism, and then immediately start going into wild speculation about "divx-like lockdowns and timed rentals", then follow that up with complaints of "selective buyouts" that both sides were doing.
Frankly, I'm just glad the whole thing's over, so that hopefully the burners will start getting more common/cheaper.
The previous version was beer-free, but not Free. Now that the source is GPLed, it can be forked if they ever decide to close down again.
I was also a MT->Wordpress convert back when MT was closed up. In the beginning, I had assumed that WordPress would be getting some features that I found very desirable, such as the ability to run multiple blogs in an install. Due to the combination of waiting N years for WordPress to include this support, as well as their issues with frequent security updates (which means that every month or two I've got to do several updates, one for each site), I'm definitely feelin' an urge to move back.
Hey, maybe this will get WordPress back into action.
I don't use MSOffice anymore, but I still play a fair number of games, many of which require CD keys for multiplayer. What I usually do is write the CD key onto a label, then affix the label onto the CD. So far I've not had issues with losing the cd key for one of my games.
I've noticed that recent games often don't even put keys on the case anymore, since the cd case is itself the box for the game. Instead they print the CD key on the manual, making it even easier to lose.
No. CMYK are subtractive colors, RGB are additive colors.
With a piece of paper, you're reflecting light off the paper, and some of that is absorbed by the paper or by ink. The colors of the ink are determined using CMYK, because it measures absorption.
On a display, you're blasting light at the user in the desired colors, which are specified using RGB. This is additive color, because it measures emission.
I've found it handy to keep/home on a separate partition, so that if I feel like switching/updating distros, all my settings are kept across the change. There's the possibility of an application which does not use the same settings across versions, but I haven't yet found this to be a problem.
Even better, if you're feeling particularly geeky, would be having/home stored on a networked fileserver, then just mounting it on each of the computers that you use. I haven't tried this, but have been thinking about doing it for some time.
As a resident of Phoenix, your water supply is imported from California. Why should the "coastal homeowners" of California feel obligated to provide you with water? After all, its your fault that you live in a fucking desert, and you should be punished for it.
I dunno, I could see some users going into pissing matches with each other because they have a bigger karma value. Something along the lines of "well, I'm right, because I have +40 and you only have +5". It would become an issue of whose point score is larger, rather than whose input is factually correct (and easy to understand).
I don't really have any idea how such a system pan out, this is just how I see things going.
If Ford was able to arbitrarily patent the combustion engine, or force gas stations to only provide fuel that worked with Fords, then Porsche would care.
Linux on non-x86 (not an uncommon occurence in a server room). Blind users. Not everyone has access to this idea of choice that apparently exists in your happy little world.
It is also their choice to ignore their users. Would it be so terribly difficult for them to provide a text version? There are many cases (ex: video) where dynamic content is a must. This is definitely not one of those cases.
So who could be sued that would stop linux development?
I think SCO has, if anything, shown that lawsuits are insufficient when the development of Linux (kernel OR applications) is done by so many people and organizations across so many countries (each with their own legal systems).
Heck, if for some reason the kernel (or any other project) could no longer be developed because of some infringing code, why cant that code just be stripped out? Even if the original team for a given OSS project runs out of money due to lawyer salaries, what's keeping someone else from making a fork (without the problematic code) and continuing the work?
Trying to stop Linux with lawsuits would be like trying to kill a swarm of bionic regenerative bees with a shotgun. You might get one or two, but they reproduce so quickly that you'll be overwhelmed anyway.
Just nitpicking, I agree with most of your post: I could see them having a century's worth of re-released games if they did it on a weekly basis, but a daily basis feels unlikely. After all, how long have they been making games so far? 25 years? During that time, I doubt that games have been coming out at a rate of 4 per day.
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The herd.plethora.net link has moved here:
http://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcr.html
He's paying ATT for their DNS -- why should anyone expect him to leech off somebody else?
Did the 2.4 update on my 80GB (MGS bundle) this morning. No problems whatsoever.
Unfortunately, the Sun doesn't care about the Earth.
Sorry
..and still nothing on whether WinForms is legally safe to use.
How unique is a MAC address? Can't a given manufacturer reuse old addresses since they only need to be unique within the local network?
The Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing already did that for us.
Unless, of course, everyone's already forgotten about that.
[citation needed]
So use IE for the payroll site, and whatever you like for doing your job more efficiently.
Would a 32GB chip of ROM be more expensive to produce compared to a disc?
Movie sales are all about margins.
Unlike taxes, buying Spiderman 3 is not obligatory, so I'm failing to see your point. Care to specify what makes you consider HD-DVD to be a "better win", or are you going to continue sticking to PR-speak?
I like the part where you complain about fanboyism, and then immediately start going into wild speculation about "divx-like lockdowns and timed rentals", then follow that up with complaints of "selective buyouts" that both sides were doing.
Frankly, I'm just glad the whole thing's over, so that hopefully the burners will start getting more common/cheaper.
The previous version was beer-free, but not Free. Now that the source is GPLed, it can be forked if they ever decide to close down again.
I was also a MT->Wordpress convert back when MT was closed up. In the beginning, I had assumed that WordPress would be getting some features that I found very desirable, such as the ability to run multiple blogs in an install. Due to the combination of waiting N years for WordPress to include this support, as well as their issues with frequent security updates (which means that every month or two I've got to do several updates, one for each site), I'm definitely feelin' an urge to move back.
Hey, maybe this will get WordPress back into action.
I don't use MSOffice anymore, but I still play a fair number of games, many of which require CD keys for multiplayer. What I usually do is write the CD key onto a label, then affix the label onto the CD. So far I've not had issues with losing the cd key for one of my games.
I've noticed that recent games often don't even put keys on the case anymore, since the cd case is itself the box for the game. Instead they print the CD key on the manual, making it even easier to lose.
If Google wanted to force users to go with webmail, why are they now supporting IMAP?
No. CMYK are subtractive colors, RGB are additive colors.
With a piece of paper, you're reflecting light off the paper, and some of that is absorbed by the paper or by ink. The colors of the ink are determined using CMYK, because it measures absorption.
On a display, you're blasting light at the user in the desired colors, which are specified using RGB. This is additive color, because it measures emission.
I've found it handy to keep /home on a separate partition, so that if I feel like switching/updating distros, all my settings are kept across the change. There's the possibility of an application which does not use the same settings across versions, but I haven't yet found this to be a problem.
/home stored on a networked fileserver, then just mounting it on each of the computers that you use. I haven't tried this, but have been thinking about doing it for some time.
Even better, if you're feeling particularly geeky, would be having
For Windows? No clue, haha!
As a resident of Phoenix, your water supply is imported from California. Why should the "coastal homeowners" of California feel obligated to provide you with water? After all, its your fault that you live in a fucking desert, and you should be punished for it.
Until relatively recently, there hasn't been as much CO2 in the atmosphere. Darwin will take some time to catch up, unless we help him along.
I dunno, I could see some users going into pissing matches with each other because they have a bigger karma value. Something along the lines of "well, I'm right, because I have +40 and you only have +5". It would become an issue of whose point score is larger, rather than whose input is factually correct (and easy to understand).
I don't really have any idea how such a system pan out, this is just how I see things going.
Why can't I just buy OSX and install it on a PC?
Because Apple is a hardware company.
If Ford was able to arbitrarily patent the combustion engine, or force gas stations to only provide fuel that worked with Fords, then Porsche would care.
Linux on non-x86 (not an uncommon occurence in a server room). Blind users. Not everyone has access to this idea of choice that apparently exists in your happy little world.
It is also their choice to ignore their users. Would it be so terribly difficult for them to provide a text version? There are many cases (ex: video) where dynamic content is a must. This is definitely not one of those cases.
So who could be sued that would stop linux development?
I think SCO has, if anything, shown that lawsuits are insufficient when the development of Linux (kernel OR applications) is done by so many people and organizations across so many countries (each with their own legal systems).
Heck, if for some reason the kernel (or any other project) could no longer be developed because of some infringing code, why cant that code just be stripped out? Even if the original team for a given OSS project runs out of money due to lawyer salaries, what's keeping someone else from making a fork (without the problematic code) and continuing the work?
Trying to stop Linux with lawsuits would be like trying to kill a swarm of bionic regenerative bees with a shotgun. You might get one or two, but they reproduce so quickly that you'll be overwhelmed anyway.
Just nitpicking, I agree with most of your post: I could see them having a century's worth of re-released games if they did it on a weekly basis, but a daily basis feels unlikely. After all, how long have they been making games so far? 25 years? During that time, I doubt that games have been coming out at a rate of 4 per day.