Qt offers quite a bit more than just an abstracted UI model. Being able to have a totally common codebase across a number of platforms for a given application (including lower-level network code, threading, non-UI graphics manipulation, file I/O, printing, etc.) is a great help.
Not to mention an XML parser, localisation and Unicode support by default, a great scripting engine, MD5 and SHA1, and awesome documentation, while the whole API is built to encourage best practices.
About the only thing I'm missing is archive handling with QDir. Including bzip for a fully functional NMDC client is so last year:)
The RIAA haven't undertaken raids on their own authority, nor have they used their own forces. In these cases, they are influencing government (police SWATs) to use its monopoly on force to "enforce the law". Maybe it's a fine line, but it is a line.
No, it's a blurred line. Corporations write the laws the government enforces, even if not directly.
They do have a point though - communications infrastructure is very important both for the economic wellbeing of the country, and to allow other branches of the military to coordinate and defend the country.
And how do you plan to take down the internet? Its design criteria included the capability to survive WW3.
You missed one of my points. U.S. law does not affect me.
And of course, reasonableness would be much easier to determine, if the laws were based on common sense. You know, like if stuff can be copied for free with devices found in most households and companies, maybe you shouldn't criminalize the act based on laws dating back to steam engines.
f someone reasonably believes you're offering legal advice, and she follows your advice and loses some legal right or money, she can sue you for legal malpractice.
What. The. Fuck.
How can someone reasonably believe they're getting legal advice on a site with the motto "news for nerds" from random morons who might not even live in that country?
Quick test: Murder is legal as long as you're only killing your wife. This post constitutes legal advice.
when in fact they ultimately do something directly analogous to what I did in high school speech: do some research and present an opinion in a persuasive manner.
$.10 for tapping with the hammer $.10 for knowing where to tap $999.80 for being allowed to.
Well thar's your problem, that's like The Perfect Storm, linux edition!
Nah, it's more like that kid from The Day After Tomorrow:
Also, the alleged honor student who gashed her leg while standing hip-deep in flood waters overflowing out of the sewer, and yet never thought of trying to disinfect her wound. Her near-death by infection several days later came, amazingly enough, as a complete surprise to her.
Or, more practically, when no library in your particular state/country/jurisdiction has a copy which you are allowed to check out? Very dog-in-a-manger, yeesh.
Is there anyone who still believes global copyright is good for humanity?
there must be something out there that can be stretched into precedent for this.
And this is why the current legal climate is so fucked up. If you want a new law, make a new law. Distorting 200 year old laws to fit the internet does not work. See copyright.
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Which country has incarcerated the largest fraction of its population?
Umm. Germany?
GTK is a toolkit on the same semantic level Qt is. It's not a platform.
Qt offers quite a bit more than just an abstracted UI model. Being able to have a totally common codebase across a number of platforms for a given application (including lower-level network code, threading, non-UI graphics manipulation, file I/O, printing, etc.) is a great help.
Not to mention an XML parser, localisation and Unicode support by default, a great scripting engine, MD5 and SHA1, and awesome documentation, while the whole API is built to encourage best practices.
About the only thing I'm missing is archive handling with QDir. Including bzip for a fully functional NMDC client is so last year :)
The RIAA haven't undertaken raids on their own authority, nor have they used their own forces. In these cases, they are influencing government (police SWATs) to use its monopoly on force to "enforce the law". Maybe it's a fine line, but it is a line.
No, it's a blurred line. Corporations write the laws the government enforces, even if not directly.
Clearly, I need to learn more bash....
unzip; strip; touch; finger; ifup; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep
A corporation, no matter how evil, cannot lawfully detain you, lock you in a cage or kill you.
http://www.google.com/search?q=riaa+swat+team
'Nuff said.
For the love of christ, I'm a developer.
MS applies that term to Visual Basic users too, you know.
They do have a point though - communications infrastructure is very important both for the economic wellbeing of the country, and to allow other branches of the military to coordinate and defend the country.
And how do you plan to take down the internet? Its design criteria included the capability to survive WW3.
Cyber Guantanamo - wouldn't that be like making them use AOL over a 9600 baud modem? Or would that be considered torture by the Geneva Convention?
Sir, you're replying to a comment submitted via GPRS on the Worcester-London train. I now officially hate you.
Who knows what happens to enemy combatants.
Cyber Guantanamo. Maybe they could swipe a small beach from Cyber Yugoslavia
The only way to fight this epidemy is
...to stop approving the stupid ones, with a big fucking fine to those who filed it.
You missed one of my points. U.S. law does not affect me.
And of course, reasonableness would be much easier to determine, if the laws were based on common sense. You know, like if stuff can be copied for free with devices found in most households and companies, maybe you shouldn't criminalize the act based on laws dating back to steam engines.
What about the kids in South Africa and Iraq?
Is that in Ohio? Texas maybe?
That would actually be very amusing, given the number of well-paid lawyers that probably go to Shelter Rock Jewish Center...
Back in my day, they only went there once.
f someone reasonably believes you're offering legal advice, and she follows your advice and loses some legal right or money, she can sue you for legal malpractice.
What. The. Fuck.
How can someone reasonably believe they're getting legal advice on a site with the motto "news for nerds" from random morons who might not even live in that country?
Quick test: Murder is legal as long as you're only killing your wife. This post constitutes legal advice.
Now sue me.
when in fact they ultimately do something directly analogous to what I did in high school speech: do some research and present an opinion in a persuasive manner.
$.10 for tapping with the hammer
$.10 for knowing where to tap
$999.80 for being allowed to.
This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron... which is dependent on collaborating with CERN...
I guess that means more particles for the rest of us!
In light of the above, I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Brilliant move but the physics are still a little confusing to me.
Me too. Cybersex is easier to get than money. Apparenty retards stay that way, no matter how many lives you give them.
At least these won't get out in the open that easily because someone copied them to an USB drive and lost it somewhere.
Imagine a Beowulf cluste- OW! OW!
Well thar's your problem, that's like The Perfect Storm, linux edition!
Nah, it's more like that kid from The Day After Tomorrow:
Also, the alleged honor student who gashed her leg while standing hip-deep in flood waters overflowing out of the sewer, and yet never thought of trying to disinfect her wound. Her near-death by infection several days later came, amazingly enough, as a complete surprise to her.
Not the content, only what ioquake3 replaces. The data files for such games as Doom or Quake are still commercial.
Thus demonstrating the distance between Open Source and Free Software in a way RMS never could.
Is there a Free set of data files available somewhere?
Summary: "I'm illiterate and don't think I should be held responsible for actions that I undertook myself."
I suppose you read every piece of paper you signed your whole life.
Or, more practically, when no library in your particular state/country/jurisdiction has a copy which you are allowed to check out? Very dog-in-a-manger, yeesh.
Is there anyone who still believes global copyright is good for humanity?
Which makes the outcome of the vote fair?
No. What on earth made you think it did?
That was exactly my point.
there must be something out there that can be stretched into precedent for this.
And this is why the current legal climate is so fucked up. If you want a new law, make a new law. Distorting 200 year old laws to fit the internet does not work. See copyright.