Speaking of fonts, try XLinSans as a desktop and application font. To me it's absolutely beautiful. At http://temcat.narod.ru/ you'll find a DEB for it made by me from AltLinux RPM package.
And even if the books are not theirs (in which case they are acting unfair), the damage in this case is limited to exactly one copy of each book anyway. The servoice itself is irrelevant, since the excerpts are too small.
"They may only be providing snippets, but they're copying the whole damn thing."
So what? As far as the damage to the copyright holder goes, the amount of content copied matters only if you actually distribute it (that is, from the common sense point of view - laws may be as bizarre as you want). If I made 100 copies of a book but I don't distribute them, the damage is zero. Distribution in small, insubstantial fragments counts as fair use.
They wouldn't scan books if they could make a full text search on printed books, which they of course can't. So the actual question here is the one of format shifting: should you have the right to burn your CD on mp3 if you don't give your CD to anyone? (Well, maybe quote a line from a song - which is equivalent to what Google does trhough its service.) If the law says you shouldn't, then the law is unreasonable and must be changed. Even if Google does violate the law here, I'm not sympathetic to the copyright holders in this case.
Dear Anonymous Coward, you're pathetic anyway, regardless of how bad this "twitter" may be. Nobody needs your "community service". In fact, you'll best serve this community by shutting up till you grow up a bit.
I always thought that the "left" part in "copyleft" was a participle of the verb "leave" (meaning that a copy is left for each), and not an adjective "left" referring to political views...
I tried a build from the current Ubuntu Breezy, that is, 1.9.129. It was nice overall, even performance-wise until I touched wizards. Maaaaan was that painful! IIRC OO.o in Ubuntu is built with gcj, no? It took 22 s (yes, that's twenty two seconds) from the moment I clicked on a wizard in menu to the moment the wizard's window was displayed. And this is on a Celeron 2.6GHz with 512M RAM! Until OO.o people stop filling functionality gaps with poor Java code, OO.o will not make big inroads into the enterprise. I mean come on, isn't that a joke - 22 seconds for displaying a freaking wizard window...
"Honestly, can anyone name a "feature" of Microsoft Office that is so grand, living without it will bring the world to a halt?"
They are different to everybody, but to me they are:
1) Proper implementation of the Normal mode where the text fits on the screen while you can zoom it to your liking. Yes Writer has "Web Layout", but not quite as convenient.
2) Comments. Please show me what exactly chunk of the text is commented and don't remove that info from the file, thank you. Please also preserve author's full name: there can be many reviewers with AB initials.
3) Interoperability with TRADOS translation memory software. (Now this isn't going to be implemented, because who uses TRADOS except a bunch of translators:-))
There are also diverse issues that have been reported by me via Issuezilla, but many of the issues from as early as 2002 are still there.
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Speaking of fonts, try XLinSans as a desktop and application font. To me it's absolutely beautiful. At http://temcat.narod.ru/ you'll find a DEB for it made by me from AltLinux RPM package.
"Hasn't stopped me from earning six figures"
:-) how appropriate :-)
LOL I first read that as "learning six figures"
Yep, I found it: the books are from libraries. Thanks for pointing it out.
And even if the books are not theirs (in which case they are acting unfair), the damage in this case is limited to exactly one copy of each book anyway. The servoice itself is irrelevant, since the excerpts are too small.
"By copying the books they didn't even pay for, the damage is nonzero."
Fair enough, if it is indeed the case, but is it? Do you by chance have any reference concerning that?
"They may only be providing snippets, but they're copying the whole damn thing."
So what? As far as the damage to the copyright holder goes, the amount of content copied matters only if you actually distribute it (that is, from the common sense point of view - laws may be as bizarre as you want). If I made 100 copies of a book but I don't distribute them, the damage is zero. Distribution in small, insubstantial fragments counts as fair use.
They wouldn't scan books if they could make a full text search on printed books, which they of course can't. So the actual question here is the one of format shifting: should you have the right to burn your CD on mp3 if you don't give your CD to anyone? (Well, maybe quote a line from a song - which is equivalent to what Google does trhough its service.) If the law says you shouldn't, then the law is unreasonable and must be changed. Even if Google does violate the law here, I'm not sympathetic to the copyright holders in this case.
Word 2000 worked like a charm for me on a Celeron 266 with 128M RAM.
So, is stealing cable wrong?
:-)
Who exactly steals cable? Was there anybody who cut a piece of cable and took it away?
If water is included in the price of your apartment is it wrong to let everyone you know come use your shower?
I cannot see anything wrong with that. Sure I must be quite an amoral type then...
Dear Anonymous Coward, you're pathetic anyway, regardless of how bad this "twitter" may be. Nobody needs your "community service". In fact, you'll best serve this community by shutting up till you grow up a bit.
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) has been amended
Sorry for offtopic, but whoever has come up with the name FECA, reflected very accurately the quality of family entertainment content nowadays...
... and wanna make chargeback? Do I still owe them 8 grands? :-)
Before you sign (click) the EULA, you are allowed to modify your copy of the software
No you aren't. Copyright takes effect regardless of any EULA.
Now how is that offtopic? Not very funny, but certainly ontopic.
but back in 1990 my elektronika was ready within 1 second
:-)
Do you have it still? Ah, those were times
I always thought that the "left" part in "copyleft" was a participle of the verb "leave" (meaning that a copy is left for each), and not an adjective "left" referring to political views...
I tried a build from the current Ubuntu Breezy, that is, 1.9.129. It was nice overall, even performance-wise until I touched wizards. Maaaaan was that painful! IIRC OO.o in Ubuntu is built with gcj, no? It took 22 s (yes, that's twenty two seconds) from the moment I clicked on a wizard in menu to the moment the wizard's window was displayed. And this is on a Celeron 2.6GHz with 512M RAM! Until OO.o people stop filling functionality gaps with poor Java code, OO.o will not make big inroads into the enterprise. I mean come on, isn't that a joke - 22 seconds for displaying a freaking wizard window...
Thanks, this is it!
(Yes, it takes less than 12 sec to write the above phrase and hit Submit! Hate these stupid checks...)
Can anybody point me to the Windows binaries of the development version (2.3.4)? I can't find them on gimp.org. Thanks in advance!
that allows breaking copy protection. It's called brain. Oh Lord, now I'm a criminal!
OK, so you still pay 8 bucks too much if there are only 2 good songs there.
Code is an implementation of a protocol. Nobody asks them to give the code - just the specs.
Suddenly tattooing will become wildly popular among the athletes. Also various sports where women are involved will get a big popularity boost, too.
Hey, back in 2000 I used to work in Word 97 under Windows 95 on a 486 with 8 Mb RAM! And yet I always met the deadlines :-)
Summary: I want my MTV :-)
"Honestly, can anyone name a "feature" of Microsoft Office that is so grand, living without it will bring the world to a halt?"
:-))
They are different to everybody, but to me they are:
1) Proper implementation of the Normal mode where the text fits on the screen while you can zoom it to your liking. Yes Writer has "Web Layout", but not quite as convenient.
2) Comments. Please show me what exactly chunk of the text is commented and don't remove that info from the file, thank you. Please also preserve author's full name: there can be many reviewers with AB initials.
3) Interoperability with TRADOS translation memory software. (Now this isn't going to be implemented, because who uses TRADOS except a bunch of translators
There are also diverse issues that have been reported by me via Issuezilla, but many of the issues from as early as 2002 are still there.