Why doesn't someone who has a copy of the software email Borland and ask them to clarify, rather than everyone randomly speculating and/or switching compilers? Do we even know if all versions of the compiler come with this licence, or just the one from the magazine?
Perhaps, in order to avoid setting dangerous precedent like this, the EFF should offer their services to the Dialectizer, even if the maintainer was willing to back down. We don't know if anyone was planning to sue, but only one of the complainers would have to sue and lose to set the correct precedent, whereas now, all the companies know that they can pull the same thing against other translators people have mentioned on this page, and they will back down.
True, but it's possible to provide alternate ways of arriving at that constant. For example: if I use a CLI, I can do anything. Make a simple GUI to the same CLI, and allow me to do some things easily. This is being done by RedHat, KDE, GNOME, linuxconf, etc.
The one suggestion I would make, and this would make Linux more powerful than just the sum of the two interfaces, is not to lock people in to the GUI. The problem with linuxconf, for example, is that when I use it to make changes, I have no idea what files it edited. Now I have to use linuxconf forever. A simple "Behind the Scenes" button on linuxconf et al could show what files are being edited, and a little explanation. That was, a new user can "grow up" from the GUI to the underlying stuff, and more importantly, when things go wrong, you can debug them by bypassing the GUI.
Has anyone here used Gandi? They were recommended by the Domain Name Buyer's Guide as being cheap and non-evil. But before I start registering with them, does anyone have any personal experience with them?
Well, at least it's better that the usual style of unix programs, which would render it something like kxbwlq (KDE X-Window Browser With Long aQronym - Motto: It's easy! Just type it on the command line!)
As far as I can tell, the legal issue in this case is not that people are pirating the music, since they are required to own the CD before listening to the music on my.mp3.com. Rather, the issue is that MP3.com illegally copied some 80,000 CDs, which I suppose is a violation of DMCA. (Someone please correct me if I'm completely wrong.)
So, as I see it, the phenomenon demonstrated by MP3.com is that people are willing to purchase CDs, but want additional functionality, ie. the ability to listen from anywhere, or have the music in a more robust format. The recording industry could take away from this that if they sold music in a format that people prefer, with capabilities that people want, then people will buy it. And a CD (or web-accessible CD) won't be require much more effort to copy than is currently needed to rip a whole CD.
Bottom line: we'll pay for music if it fits our our modern music-listening needs.
I never got printing to work in the WP8 downloadable version. It seemed to have its own printer drivers, none of which it felt matched my printer, which is pretty annoying since I already had functional printer drivers that every other app was able and willing to use. If printing is more difficult in wp2000, I guess I won't bother.
The act of eating can not just be taken as simply getting food.
I agree. Work would be much less bearable without a lunch break. And it would be a shame for "family dinner time" to be replaced by slapping a patch on the kids and watching TV.
I'm confused about what Demon's involvement was. Were they the poster's ISP? Were they Godfrey's ISP? What does it mean to publish a Usenet article? Doesn't every ISP "publish" when they copy the news to their servers? Can Godfrey sue every British ISP that carried the news article?
I saw the head of the Patent Office on CNN last night, and from his comments, I don't have high hopes for any meaningful change. Here's a basic rundown:
Amazon's patent was correct, and has held up in courts.
It's not up to the Patent Office to change the rules on internet or business practice patents - it's up to the courts who rule on these cases, and they have upheld the patents, such as Amazon's.
International law prevents shortening the length of internet patents.
They are not interested in hearing public comments before granting a patent, as that will lengthen the process. But,
They do welcome proof of prior art after the patent is granted, and will always be willing to re-examine a patent.
I also got the impression that he didn't quite understand the issue whe he said that software patents didn't need shorter expiry, since if they become obsolete so quickly, then people won't be violating them, so it doesn't matter that the patent is still in effect. But the issue isn't obsolecence, but rather that these new inventions (such as, say, selling something over the internet) start with one company, but quickly become extremely basic for the medium, and thus shouldn't be resticted to one company. So the patent ends up being violated by everyone, not by no one.
So, from what I gathered, Dickinson's basic gist was: everything is fine, and we don't plan any reform, but we're always willing to re-examine a patent. That really doesn't add anything useful at all.
I set up something like this once for my school. As soon as it went up, it was flooded with extremely vulgar comments on a particular professor. The comments were not true, and were also not constructive. We decided to start approving posts before they went up, and now the message board is clean and useful, and although some professors are slammed on the page, no one can complain about libel.
If the volume on this site is prohibitive, or people would object on a free speech basis, then perhaps a slashdot-style moderation system would help cut down on the useless vulgarity. GPA could reflect a weighted average of comments by moderation.
Remember: free speech is important, but comments wrongly (or otherwise) commenting on the lifesyle choice of a professor, or ways in which students would like to maim said professor, is not going to help students choose classes, and will only serve to make the forum look bad.
This sounds very similar to a lot of the comments made about state sales tax on the internet. You're right - it's impractical to make people on the net worry about every possible destination of their mail or web page. Perhaps it makes more sense to make it illegal to send spam from Washington. That will be more enforceable and more reasonable - this way you are only regulating your own state, and only people in your state are subject to your laws. That's the way it should be.
The school from which I graduated last year still does not provide any network connection from the dorms. They also have declined to allow any student content (publications, student home pages)on the school web site, or any student-run UNIX boxes on the network. Although, I don't think they've banned anything coming through the T1 to the porn theaters^W^Wcomputer labs.
So don't complain too much about not having napster in the dorm.
This may be off-topic, but.... Which virtual hosting services have people had success with? Which ones should be avoided like the plague? I'm sure there's enough experience here to answer this question. Personally, I just signed up with a new, inexpensive service, and have gotten the impression that they are completely incompetant, and I may be looking to switch. Any advice?
When I was in elementary school, our "computer classes" consisted of programming BASIC. Now, they consist of how to use Word. It's too bad... while Word may be more practical than BASIC, people my age who count themselves as "non-computer types" still have some concept of what programming is, whereas the kids now won't have a concept of what anything is, but people (including themselves) will think they're "wizzes" because they can put a clip-art into Word.
I think KMozilla would be the best option now (there was some attempt at this when Netscape first opened up). Netscape does have the most established code base, but hideous broken Motif things mess it up -- like pulldown menus that are unreadable because of being on dark backgrounds or unusable because they have a lot of options and take up thirty screens (no scrollbar).
Does deleting the double-click cookie every so often help? I suppose it severs your connection to them, but is their current store of info still useful to them?
Why is AOL storing the password on the user's hard drive? It seems like this is asking for trouble, since there are so many published ways of getting files and such off of people's Windows computers. There must be a better way of maintaining a session without repeatedly sending the password.
"Unfair" seems to imply that you feel there was undue bias in the moderation. Is it also meant to include moderations that you think are just plain wrong? ie. something not funny being rated as Funny.
Let's face it: a new word processor can have all the features in the world, but if it can't read or write the latest MS Word format, then it's going to be of limited use. Abi didn't mention anything about it. I noticed that the KOffice FAQ basically said that it's impossible to read binary formats, so forget about Word compatibility. SO I'm not going to bother downloading that one. But it seems to me that if StarOffice and WordPerfect can read these files, then between the two OSS office suite projects, filters should be able to be written.
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Why doesn't someone who has a copy of the software email Borland and ask them to clarify, rather than everyone randomly speculating and/or switching compilers? Do we even know if all versions of the compiler come with this licence, or just the one from the magazine?
Perhaps, in order to avoid setting dangerous precedent like this, the EFF should offer their services to the Dialectizer, even if the maintainer was willing to back down. We don't know if anyone was planning to sue, but only one of the complainers would have to sue and lose to set the correct precedent, whereas now, all the companies know that they can pull the same thing against other translators people have mentioned on this page, and they will back down.
True, but it's possible to provide alternate ways of arriving at that constant. For example: if I use a CLI, I can do anything. Make a simple GUI to the same CLI, and allow me to do some things easily. This is being done by RedHat, KDE, GNOME, linuxconf, etc.
The one suggestion I would make, and this would make Linux more powerful than just the sum of the two interfaces, is not to lock people in to the GUI. The problem with linuxconf, for example, is that when I use it to make changes, I have no idea what files it edited. Now I have to use linuxconf forever. A simple "Behind the Scenes" button on linuxconf et al could show what files are being edited, and a little explanation. That was, a new user can "grow up" from the GUI to the underlying stuff, and more importantly, when things go wrong, you can debug them by bypassing the GUI.
Has anyone here used Gandi? They were recommended by the Domain Name Buyer's Guide as being cheap and non-evil. But before I start registering with them, does anyone have any personal experience with them?
Well, at least it's better that the usual style of unix programs, which would render it something like kxbwlq (KDE X-Window Browser With Long aQronym - Motto: It's easy! Just type it on the command line!)
As far as I can tell, the legal issue in this case is not that people are pirating the music, since they are required to own the CD before listening to the music on my.mp3.com. Rather, the issue is that MP3.com illegally copied some 80,000 CDs, which I suppose is a violation of DMCA. (Someone please correct me if I'm completely wrong.)
So, as I see it, the phenomenon demonstrated by MP3.com is that people are willing to purchase CDs, but want additional functionality, ie. the ability to listen from anywhere, or have the music in a more robust format. The recording industry could take away from this that if they sold music in a format that people prefer, with capabilities that people want, then people will buy it. And a CD (or web-accessible CD) won't be require much more effort to copy than is currently needed to rip a whole CD.
Bottom line: we'll pay for music if it fits our our modern music-listening needs.
I never got printing to work in the WP8 downloadable version. It seemed to have its own printer drivers, none of which it felt matched my printer, which is pretty annoying since I already had functional printer drivers that every other app was able and willing to use. If printing is more difficult in wp2000, I guess I won't bother.
I agree. Work would be much less bearable without a lunch break. And it would be a shame for "family dinner time" to be replaced by slapping a patch on the kids and watching TV.
I'm confused about what Demon's involvement was. Were they the poster's ISP? Were they Godfrey's ISP? What does it mean to publish a Usenet article? Doesn't every ISP "publish" when they copy the news to their servers? Can Godfrey sue every British ISP that carried the news article?
I also got the impression that he didn't quite understand the issue whe he said that software patents didn't need shorter expiry, since if they become obsolete so quickly, then people won't be violating them, so it doesn't matter that the patent is still in effect. But the issue isn't obsolecence, but rather that these new inventions (such as, say, selling something over the internet) start with one company, but quickly become extremely basic for the medium, and thus shouldn't be resticted to one company. So the patent ends up being violated by everyone, not by no one.
So, from what I gathered, Dickinson's basic gist was: everything is fine, and we don't plan any reform, but we're always willing to re-examine a patent. That really doesn't add anything useful at all.
I set up something like this once for my school. As soon as it went up, it was flooded with extremely vulgar comments on a particular professor. The comments were not true, and were also not constructive. We decided to start approving posts before they went up, and now the message board is clean and useful, and although some professors are slammed on the page, no one can complain about libel.
If the volume on this site is prohibitive, or people would object on a free speech basis, then perhaps a slashdot-style moderation system would help cut down on the useless vulgarity. GPA could reflect a weighted average of comments by moderation.
Remember: free speech is important, but comments wrongly (or otherwise) commenting on the lifesyle choice of a professor, or ways in which students would like to maim said professor, is not going to help students choose classes, and will only serve to make the forum look bad.
This sounds very similar to a lot of the comments made about state sales tax on the internet. You're right - it's impractical to make people on the net worry about every possible destination of their mail or web page. Perhaps it makes more sense to make it illegal to send spam from Washington. That will be more enforceable and more reasonable - this way you are only regulating your own state, and only people in your state are subject to your laws. That's the way it should be.
The school from which I graduated last year still does not provide any network connection from the dorms. They also have declined to allow any student content (publications, student home pages)on the school web site, or any student-run UNIX boxes on the network. Although, I don't think they've banned anything coming through the T1 to the porn theaters^W^Wcomputer labs.
So don't complain too much about not having napster in the dorm.
Everyone encrypts CC numbers on the way to the server. But are they encrypting them once they get there? Storing CC numbers is OK if it's done right.
Has anyone here heard of csoft.net? They look clueful, but they are hard to get in touch with.
This may be off-topic, but....
Which virtual hosting services have people had success with? Which ones should be avoided like the plague? I'm sure there's enough experience here to answer this question.
Personally, I just signed up with a new, inexpensive service, and have gotten the impression that they are completely incompetant, and I may be looking to switch. Any advice?
When I was in elementary school, our "computer classes" consisted of programming BASIC. Now, they consist of how to use Word. It's too bad... while Word may be more practical than BASIC, people my age who count themselves as "non-computer types" still have some concept of what programming is, whereas the kids now won't have a concept of what anything is, but people (including themselves) will think they're "wizzes" because they can put a clip-art into Word.
I think KMozilla would be the best option now (there was some attempt at this when Netscape first opened up). Netscape does have the most established code base, but hideous broken Motif things mess it up -- like pulldown menus that are unreadable because of being on dark backgrounds or unusable because they have a lot of options and take up thirty screens (no scrollbar).
They mention you need to have a CD writer. Can you mount an ISO image like you can with a disk image? That would eliminate the need for a CD-writer.
Why is this marked as Funny? It's actually true... and linked from that page, among other things, is Microsoft's 1996 patent of the scrollbar itself.
Does deleting the double-click cookie every so often help? I suppose it severs your connection to them, but is their current store of info still useful to them?
Why is AOL storing the password on the user's hard drive? It seems like this is asking for trouble, since there are so many published ways of getting files and such off of people's Windows computers. There must be a better way of maintaining a session without repeatedly sending the password.
"Unfair" seems to imply that you feel there was undue bias in the moderation. Is it also meant to include moderations that you think are just plain wrong? ie. something not funny being rated as Funny.
Let's face it: a new word processor can have all the features in the world, but if it can't read or write the latest MS Word format, then it's going to be of limited use. Abi didn't mention anything about it. I noticed that the KOffice FAQ basically said that it's impossible to read binary formats, so forget about Word compatibility. SO I'm not going to bother downloading that one. But it seems to me that if StarOffice and WordPerfect can read these files, then between the two OSS office suite projects, filters should be able to be written.