Looks pretty. But I never understood why many people love such BIG launch buttons. It is only a waste of screen real estate. (Yes, and I'm speaking about Mac OS X, too: having application main menu at the top supposedly spares place on the desktop, but big launch buttons waste as much, if not more...)
No, that's wrong. The proper analogy is: Your property is padlocked, and they can sell you a key, but you aren't allowed to produce your own keys or force the padlocks. How is this NOT wrong?!
If you are using the bandwidth of a website, at least help them out by viewing the ads.
Well, by fully blocking ads from the site I actually consume LESS bandwidth:-) And if you think some more about it, you'll reach an interesting conclusion: the site is actually PAYING for each ad it hosts.
Have you bothered to consider that some people naturally look younger than they are? I also would love to hear how exactly you can depict a woman "as under 18". C'mon. Gimme some characteristic features that would allow me to reliably differentiate 17 y.o. from 19 y.o. Finally, the opinion that pornography actually "tempts" someone to do something is moot, too. Maybe it's better if they get their rocks off at the pics as long as no actual damage has occured.
Yes, patents are a rich man's game. That's part of the cost of doing business in the US. I agree with every comment regarding the cost of going to court, and while that's a problem involving the patent system, this isn't something that the USPTO has authority to change.
Yeah, so much for protecting the innovative little guy, which I thought was the primary reason for patents. Hypocritical, isn't it?
The position of Microsoft is understandable. It doesn't want its protocols to be available to everybody free of charge. But it's exactly what will happen if they allow source distribution.
Now I think there is a workaround for the OSS community if, at the end of the day, source code redistribution isn't allowed. Isn't it possible to license a protocol on Microsofts terms and then create a closed source program designed in a way that permits full and convenient reverse engineering of the underlying protocol? You can also output a lot of debugging information which IMHO shouldn't count as source code distribution. Then just give this program in binary form to a third party that will do a clean-room reverse engineering, and I don't think there is much Microsoft can do to prevent it...
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Well, it's not like it will force you if you don't. Makes me wonder what you are doing here, though, if that's the case ;-)
Yesterday at work I was translating to Russian UI strings for PSP browser. So yes, it can surf the web.
Uh, that's a helluva lot of typing! Especially those lines that begin with #...
But remember, sometimes they can delete you, too...
When you're linking to GPL software, you effectively "have" the GPL code inside yours. So "no" to your "no".
I mean "sarcasm" ones.
Slashdot sometimes eats tags.
Looks pretty. But I never understood why many people love such BIG launch buttons. It is only a waste of screen real estate. (Yes, and I'm speaking about Mac OS X, too: having application main menu at the top supposedly spares place on the desktop, but big launch buttons waste as much, if not more...)
"Skazheetye" is an imperative mode from the verb "skazat" when politely (as in You vs thou) addressing a person in Russian.
No, only we had a castrated version of Scout movement called "Pioneers". Very little in common, actually...
"Dem der" sounds almost Swedish... :-)
No, that's wrong. The proper analogy is: Your property is padlocked, and they can sell you a key, but you aren't allowed to produce your own keys or force the padlocks. How is this NOT wrong?!
If you are using the bandwidth of a website, at least help them out by viewing the ads.
:-) And if you think some more about it, you'll reach an interesting conclusion: the site is actually PAYING for each ad it hosts.
Well, by fully blocking ads from the site I actually consume LESS bandwidth
Have you bothered to consider that some people naturally look younger than they are? I also would love to hear how exactly you can depict a woman "as under 18". C'mon. Gimme some characteristic features that would allow me to reliably differentiate 17 y.o. from 19 y.o. Finally, the opinion that pornography actually "tempts" someone to do something is moot, too. Maybe it's better if they get their rocks off at the pics as long as no actual damage has occured.
;-)
BTW, 16 y.o. is just fine where I live
Maybe something is wrong with your legislation, then.
Yes, patents are a rich man's game. That's part of the cost of doing business in the US. I agree with every comment regarding the cost of going to court, and while that's a problem involving the patent system, this isn't something that the USPTO has authority to change.
Yeah, so much for protecting the innovative little guy, which I thought was the primary reason for patents. Hypocritical, isn't it?
The position of Microsoft is understandable. It doesn't want its protocols to be available to everybody free of charge. But it's exactly what will happen if they allow source distribution.
Now I think there is a workaround for the OSS community if, at the end of the day, source code redistribution isn't allowed. Isn't it possible to license a protocol on Microsofts terms and then create a closed source program designed in a way that permits full and convenient reverse engineering of the underlying protocol? You can also output a lot of debugging information which IMHO shouldn't count as source code distribution. Then just give this program in binary form to a third party that will do a clean-room reverse engineering, and I don't think there is much Microsoft can do to prevent it...