It's not copyright infringement if you ship something you wrote, but compiled with someone else's SDK.
If Microsoft owns the rights to things compiled with VS and linked with MS libraries, that would imply that GNU owns copyright on every executable produced by gcc.
Of course you wouldn't use an external IM service for internal secure communications. But that's no reason to ignore IM altogether, when you could run your own Jabber server internally, for example.
I definitely have to agree about IM. For a lot of personal communications now I use IM instead of email, because IM is often quicker and easier and doesn't have spam.
BTW, when you said "in 10 years", all the things you have mentioned are already happening. Many IM services allow messaging people while they're away, and connect to other IM services, and stop people who aren't on your contact list from messaging you.
"Halo 3 cinematics to be great improvements on Halo 2's"
It's a game, not a movie. I find it strange that people would be interested in improvements to the cinematics, which have no impact on gameplay. To me, the headline of this article just sounds weird.
Next thing you know, we'll be having articles about how the menus look better in halo 3 than halo 2, or something.
The USA tells the Australian government what to do (e.g war in Iraq). Now they also sentence Australian people, who have not been found guilty of anything under Australian law, under USA law. The trial is held in the USA, and they are sent to prison there.
Does this mean the USA has executive, legislative and judicial power over Australia, making Australia essentially another state of the USA, under the control of the US government?
if a starving art student created a webcomic with a lovable character, it would be A-OK for Disney to come in, steal the character, rename him, put him in a bunch of movies that make 100 million dollars, and then give absolutely no credit or money to the creator.
Even without IP laws, wouldn't that be fraud? Claiming that they made a movie or character they didn't, then getting money for it, would be obtaining property by deception, which is basically the definition of fraud.
The author was actually making a generalisation that all chemicals that build up in the body are bad. If the author had meant PCBEs, the author would have said PCBEs. Also, spelling 'Chemical' has nothing to do with this at all, so stop trolling.
The problems are being caused just by loading two DLLs, both supplied by MS. A program doesn't need to be relying on animated cursors for this patch to break it.
Have you even been reading the thread? The problems are being caused just by loading two DLLs, both supplied by MS. A program doesn't need to be relying on undocumented behavior for this patch to break it.
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It's not copyright infringement if you ship something you wrote, but compiled with someone else's SDK. If Microsoft owns the rights to things compiled with VS and linked with MS libraries, that would imply that GNU owns copyright on every executable produced by gcc.
But does it run Linux?
In Soviet Russia, apostrophes misplace you!
So if someone rapes you without physically injuring you, then that's ok?
Of course you wouldn't use an external IM service for internal secure communications. But that's no reason to ignore IM altogether, when you could run your own Jabber server internally, for example.
BTW, when you said "in 10 years", all the things you have mentioned are already happening. Many IM services allow messaging people while they're away, and connect to other IM services, and stop people who aren't on your contact list from messaging you.
I think the risk is sufficiently small that it doesn't really matter.
If you can't see the traffic light at all, the sensible thing to do is to assume it's red and wait until you can see it.
You can never stop people from building their own recorders, or buying equipment from countries with less DRM.
It's a game, not a movie. I find it strange that people would be interested in improvements to the cinematics, which have no impact on gameplay. To me, the headline of this article just sounds weird. Next thing you know, we'll be having articles about how the menus look better in halo 3 than halo 2, or something.
Does this mean the USA has executive, legislative and judicial power over Australia, making Australia essentially another state of the USA, under the control of the US government?
Even without IP laws, wouldn't that be fraud? Claiming that they made a movie or character they didn't, then getting money for it, would be obtaining property by deception, which is basically the definition of fraud.
I think it would have got a "buahaha" tag.
You misspelt "pwned."
... Wow. That is probably the best post I've ever read on slashdot.
Windows has a manual?
I'm fairly sure it would take more CPU cycles to send commands to the GPU for Aero than to draw the classic interface.
I have a box here which is XP on P2/64MB. It's slow, but it's usable for word processing and web browsing.
I was kind of hoping the gigahertz race would end so Microsoft would have to stop making each version of Windows slower than the last.
RTFA. He didn't break the law.
It's not a truck, it's a series of tubes! All we need is more tunnels!
If your software is inefficient, it's not the content creator's fault. There are multiple other SVG viewers available.
The author was actually making a generalisation that all chemicals that build up in the body are bad. If the author had meant PCBEs, the author would have said PCBEs. Also, spelling 'Chemical' has nothing to do with this at all, so stop trolling.
The problems are being caused just by loading two DLLs, both supplied by MS. A program doesn't need to be relying on animated cursors for this patch to break it.
Have you even been reading the thread? The problems are being caused just by loading two DLLs, both supplied by MS. A program doesn't need to be relying on undocumented behavior for this patch to break it.