Comparing proprietary document files, which can ONLY be read by the proprietary software when it first comes out, to HTML files, which might be rendered *somewhat* poorly on a different software, but most can be read just fine. HTML is pretty open already. I think THAT is the point. Apples and grapefruit.
"Most people who pass on the opportunity to use Microsoft's software usually have an irrational hate for Microsoft itself and put that above what would be the best tool for the job."
People started using MS products when they were not the King of the Hill for the same reason many (don't claim to know about most) people use linux on the desktop: It does everything they need it to do. Why would I pay money for constant upgrades and only get an O/S in the deal? Buy extra software for burning a DVD!? Resizing and cropping photos!? You want some Adware with your free trials? WTF???
"NDIS wrapper has never been a great idea. It puts you at the mercy of Microsoft bugs and malice all for the benefit of a $30 network card. The kind of card that needs NDIS wrapper is usually worst of class and should be shunned."
On the other hand, for someone like me who bought a used PIII laptop in order to have a cheap linux laptop, it made using a WIFI card incredibly easy. Not something I'm interested in learning how to hack.
I also think I understand that NDIS wrappers are used to make 32bit flash work on my 64 bit system without any input on my part (not sure I understood the article, though). Me likes NDIS wrapper. See, once more, wrappers mean more bling.
"It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic."
Oh, you mean just like the way we embargo the vicious dictatorship in Saudi Arabia that has 1/2 the population reduced to sub-human status???
"It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic."
Oh, you mean just like the way we embargo the vicious dictatorship in China???
>>These cars aren't copyrighted. They may contain patents, but the image of them doesn't violate a patent, as images can't be patented. This is not a grey area in the copyright law.
>There are three main types of intellectual property. You forgot the one that's relevant to this case.
In technical terms, I think that is just silly. There is no real difference between what Ford is trying to do and the company that built the Empire State Building saying, "You may not reprint a photo of our building because we own all the rights to it". Using this same logic, puplic figures could claim that you need permission to reprint a photo of them... and if you say they "didn't make themselves", then just substitute their parents as the legal owners of their "image". What nonsense!
The earth is what? Like hundreds of millions of years old? Only 10 million, okay, whatever...
The point is the same. Many upon many catastrophic events (HUGE earthquakes, volcanic events, great floods even, recorded by every civilization of the world) change lots of stuff. Plates in the earth move. Sometimes a lot. Antarctica is a moving target on a geological time scale.
I tried gnash. I have a AMD_64 type machine and it worked WAY less than half of the time. The other times it just sent the processor into orbit and maintained a geosynchronous one indefinitely.
The idea of entire websites where I go to spend money saying, "you must have Adobe Flash player to view our site", seems so unreal. No fallback text at all?! It is becoming as bad as "you need IE to be here". So, gnash is really important, but releasing something that works less than half of the time is a mistake. If someone doesn't know what is happening to their computer, it just leaves them with "linux is broke and it freezes my computer".
"...books, which... have a lifespan measured in centuries."
Exactly, I remember taking AP chemistry in 12th grade and the book we used must have been at least 150 years old. I think the Iliad and the Odyssey were the originals penned by the author. Even back in the 80's, we were lucky to have that special paper that after you dropped it in the rain and snow a few times you could just wipe it off and put it in the Book Cleaner for the kid to use the next year, or the next century!
That's great. Let' punish people for breaking the law. Now if someone steals my car, which *definitely* has a commonly agreed "blue book" type of value, then they should be made to pay me for it before they can go to jail. And when someone beats someone to a bloody pulp, what do they get...maybe 2 years in jail, probably out in a year? Payment to victim = 0.
The criminal justice system in the US can't do everything, so they have to make priorities. This is a huge red flag saying, "we don't give a damn about you victims of serious crimes that put an individual in a hole and/or shatter your life...but don't you dare go messing with a corporation's copyrighted material. Hoo no! That's worthy of few years of your livelihood, biatch. Mess with our major campaign contributors and it's gonna get ugly!" It is surreal. Absolutely absurd.
A democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. In the *theoretical* US constitutional republic, 99% of the population cannot take rights away from a single person.
"um the fact that we use AC for long distances means that it is in fact better..."
Ah, yes, the old "I've been doing it this way for twenty years" reasoning. I can't think of a more dumb way to prove something than to say the reason is because "we've been doing it this way".
"Way to counter my argument by just calling me a chicken-shit."
All you said was "dumber". You started the name calling, not some kind of a discourse.
Those two arab factions (and no, I can't spell them) have been fighting each other for hundreds of years. The idea that some new tactic, number of foreign troops, or other outside intervention is going to stop the fighting is kind of short-sided, it seems.
It will have the desired effect, however: a permanent military base in the region and control of the oil pipelines. It's a banker's war, just like all the rest.
"Dont you mean that in two decades, China will become as free as the US?"
Have you actually read the "Patriot" Act? A couple more pieces of legislation like that and the US will be very close to "as free" as China. Just a couple more well-place terrorist acts, and US citizens will be begging the government to take away their liberty. Works the same anywhere (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp).
Now, where's my damn soma?!
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"It's not that I don't like Linux, I just don't want to be associated with its users anymore."
Why are you worried about being associated with *anything* when you won't even associate your name-calling with an identity other than "anonymous coward"?
You really haven't demonstrated this at all. It sounds like people who say, "I can't find a job that pays me what I'm worth." The definition of worth/value in the market is what people are willing to pay for it. Gold has worked as a standard of exchange for as long as there is recorded history.
The Federal Reserve Bank is a fraud. It is NOT federal and has nil reserves. If you or I finagled people out of their gold and replaced it with paper, AND got them to believe they owe you interest because you created "wealth" out of thin air, we would be sent to jail for fraud.
Do you know who owns the Federal Reserve bank, hmmm?
Exactly correct. This is the same thing that happened to Japanese Americans during WWII. The police state was all like, "Oh, those people don't have rights because they don't have the proper papers," and the courts (eventually) were like, "Not your police state yet, you can't have one. The constitution states that all men are created with certain rights and doesn't talk about citizens".
But I guess this is a different police state this time...
"My only question is did the concert tickets also get cheaper since his last visit?"
Apples and grapefruit. Maybe having a large number of people work their ass off for the entire night, paying rent on a building, etc., is actually taking some money? That is a lot different than the margin cost of piece of plastic you can buy for less than 1USD.
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Comparing proprietary document files, which can ONLY be read by the proprietary software when it first comes out, to HTML files, which might be rendered *somewhat* poorly on a different software, but most can be read just fine. HTML is pretty open already. I think THAT is the point. Apples and grapefruit.
"Most people who pass on the opportunity to use Microsoft's software usually have an irrational hate for Microsoft itself and put that above what would be the best tool for the job."
People started using MS products when they were not the King of the Hill for the same reason many (don't claim to know about most) people use linux on the desktop: It does everything they need it to do. Why would I pay money for constant upgrades and only get an O/S in the deal? Buy extra software for burning a DVD!? Resizing and cropping photos!? You want some Adware with your free trials? WTF???
"...because I was too lazy to buy online..."
Damn, I don't even know how I could make a better joke than you did already.
>>Ballmer is clearly re-tossing the deck chairs on RMS Vis^Titanic.
>What does RMS has to do with Vista?
You can see the exponential symbol, so I'm pretty sure it's this RMS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square
"NDIS wrapper has never been a great idea. It puts you at the mercy of Microsoft bugs and malice all for the benefit of a $30 network card. The kind of card that needs NDIS wrapper is usually worst of class and should be shunned."
On the other hand, for someone like me who bought a used PIII laptop in order to have a cheap linux laptop, it made using a WIFI card incredibly easy. Not something I'm interested in learning how to hack.
I also think I understand that NDIS wrappers are used to make 32bit flash work on my 64 bit system without any input on my part (not sure I understood the article, though). Me likes NDIS wrapper. See, once more, wrappers mean more bling.
"It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic."
Oh, you mean just like the way we embargo the vicious dictatorship in Saudi Arabia that has 1/2 the population reduced to sub-human status???
"It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic."
Oh, you mean just like the way we embargo the vicious dictatorship in China???
That is just gross.
Mountain Dew and Doritos. EVERYWHERE!
*blink*.
*blink*-*blink*.
There was a strike!?
>>These cars aren't copyrighted. They may contain patents, but the image of them doesn't violate a patent, as images can't be patented. This is not a grey area in the copyright law.
>There are three main types of intellectual property. You forgot the one that's relevant to this case.
In technical terms, I think that is just silly. There is no real difference between what Ford is trying to do and the company that built the Empire State Building saying, "You may not reprint a photo of our building because we own all the rights to it". Using this same logic, puplic figures could claim that you need permission to reprint a photo of them... and if you say they "didn't make themselves", then just substitute their parents as the legal owners of their "image". What nonsense!
The earth is what? Like hundreds of millions of years old? Only 10 million, okay, whatever...
The point is the same. Many upon many catastrophic events (HUGE earthquakes, volcanic events, great floods even, recorded by every civilization of the world) change lots of stuff. Plates in the earth move. Sometimes a lot. Antarctica is a moving target on a geological time scale.
I tried gnash. I have a AMD_64 type machine and it worked WAY less than half of the time. The other times it just sent the processor into orbit and maintained a geosynchronous one indefinitely.
The idea of entire websites where I go to spend money saying, "you must have Adobe Flash player to view our site", seems so unreal. No fallback text at all?! It is becoming as bad as "you need IE to be here". So, gnash is really important, but releasing something that works less than half of the time is a mistake. If someone doesn't know what is happening to their computer, it just leaves them with "linux is broke and it freezes my computer".
"...books, which ... have a lifespan measured in centuries."
Exactly, I remember taking AP chemistry in 12th grade and the book we used must have been at least 150 years old. I think the Iliad and the Odyssey were the originals penned by the author. Even back in the 80's, we were lucky to have that special paper that after you dropped it in the rain and snow a few times you could just wipe it off and put it in the Book Cleaner for the kid to use the next year, or the next century!
That's great. Let' punish people for breaking the law. Now if someone steals my car, which *definitely* has a commonly agreed "blue book" type of value, then they should be made to pay me for it before they can go to jail. And when someone beats someone to a bloody pulp, what do they get...maybe 2 years in jail, probably out in a year? Payment to victim = 0.
The criminal justice system in the US can't do everything, so they have to make priorities. This is a huge red flag saying, "we don't give a damn about you victims of serious crimes that put an individual in a hole and/or shatter your life...but don't you dare go messing with a corporation's copyrighted material. Hoo no! That's worthy of few years of your livelihood, biatch. Mess with our major campaign contributors and it's gonna get ugly!" It is surreal. Absolutely absurd.
A democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. In the *theoretical* US constitutional republic, 99% of the population cannot take rights away from a single person.
The 90's called, they want their latest fad back.
"um the fact that we use AC for long distances means that it is in fact better..."
Ah, yes, the old "I've been doing it this way for twenty years" reasoning. I can't think of a more dumb way to prove something than to say the reason is because "we've been doing it this way".
"Way to counter my argument by just calling me a chicken-shit."
All you said was "dumber". You started the name calling, not some kind of a discourse.
Those two arab factions (and no, I can't spell them) have been fighting each other for hundreds of years. The idea that some new tactic, number of foreign troops, or other outside intervention is going to stop the fighting is kind of short-sided, it seems.
It will have the desired effect, however: a permanent military base in the region and control of the oil pipelines. It's a banker's war, just like all the rest.
"Dont you mean that in two decades, China will become as free as the US?"
Have you actually read the "Patriot" Act? A couple more pieces of legislation like that and the US will be very close to "as free" as China. Just a couple more well-place terrorist acts, and US citizens will be begging the government to take away their liberty. Works the same anywhere (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp).
Now, where's my damn soma?!
...and why would I want it on my computer?
"Dream on. It's only going to get worse from here."
Worse in rhetoric only. Threatening is MUCH better than suing:
flash movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YExl9ojclo
text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_%E2%80%9CBe_very_afraid%E2%80%9D_tour
"It's not that I don't like Linux, I just don't want to be associated with its users anymore."
Why are you worried about being associated with *anything* when you won't even associate your name-calling with an identity other than "anonymous coward"?
"This means that gold is artificially valued"
You really haven't demonstrated this at all. It sounds like people who say, "I can't find a job that pays me what I'm worth." The definition of worth/value in the market is what people are willing to pay for it. Gold has worked as a standard of exchange for as long as there is recorded history.
The Federal Reserve Bank is a fraud. It is NOT federal and has nil reserves. If you or I finagled people out of their gold and replaced it with paper, AND got them to believe they owe you interest because you created "wealth" out of thin air, we would be sent to jail for fraud.
Do you know who owns the Federal Reserve bank, hmmm?
Exactly correct. This is the same thing that happened to Japanese Americans during WWII. The police state was all like, "Oh, those people don't have rights because they don't have the proper papers," and the courts (eventually) were like, "Not your police state yet, you can't have one. The constitution states that all men are created with certain rights and doesn't talk about citizens".
But I guess this is a different police state this time...
"My only question is did the concert tickets also get cheaper since his last visit?"
Apples and grapefruit. Maybe having a large number of people work their ass off for the entire night, paying rent on a building, etc., is actually taking some money? That is a lot different than the margin cost of piece of plastic you can buy for less than 1USD.