"So then unlike cars, pants and every other commodity I can buy in a store, software has a legal exception in that it ALONE can be LICENSED?..."
The person answered your question and you're just on a rant. You can buy a car, you can buy a toaster, you can buy a license. They said in their response that you didn't buy the software. Your rant after this statement totally ignores that. You don't need a special law to make a contract between two parties. They said, "Here it is, buy it or don't buy it." It's true Virginia, there really are alternatives to Microsoft...
The only thing that makes people not take theories of human origins from space seriously is their egos. You guys are just too damn *educated* to think scientifically about an issue. I'm not saying anyone knows the truth, but it isn't that drivel that they fed you in school. Look-see: Fish, reptile, little ape, ape, ape-man, man. I know, 'cause I've seen the cartoon in my science book. If any one looks scientifically at all the holes in this theory, an open mind would have to say, "C, something else".
Here's the cartoon I originally meant: [Two aliens observing the planet earth] A1: It seems the earthlings have developed atomic bombs. A2: Let me see, maybe it's time to interact with them? A1: They are pointing them at each other. [Two aliens walk away from observation site]
Just moments ago it was "MySQL closes its source" (which it hadn't), now a nonsensical, bipolar, I'll-let-you-know-what-you-can-decide headline from the same brainless moron.
If I spent more than 10 minutes on this site, I'd figure out how to filter out all of CmdrTaco's posts. What a lame excuse for a "journalist".
"Exactly. A lot of clueless, ivory-tower folks around here. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how they don't get that not everyone is privileged, or lucky, or given the same chances in life. Before most common people have a chance they are addicted to big tobacco, have kids they can't afford and credit card debt they can't pay back. To top it off, they've changed bankruptcy laws so that, now, they can't even escape that massive debt. And these people haven't even finished getting their wisdom teeth most times."
If this was fark.com, then I could say, "Personal responsibility surrenders", but it's not, so I'll just say, "Wow, there sure are a lot of victims. We should round up this big, bad 'society' character and throw the bum in jail!".
"If you've done your homework and you know something fund managers don't..."
This is a joke, right? Every time there has been a stock market crash, there have been a ton of *professional* fund managers who are exposed as not knowing crap. Is it in there oh-so-brilliant plan to let the value of their fund fall by 10 or 20% (or more)? Please, just think a little about it.
"I was intrigued by what you said about not being able to make a new GPL-based license so I looked it up on the FSF website:"
I mean I just can't believe how many people are seriously questioning their own ability to take a piece of paper and write a contractual agreement with another party. What in the world is the issue here? You can write a set of agreements between two people and have it say whatever you want. If someone has copyrighted (trademarked?) a certain phrase, you might not be able to use it in public, but how controlled, numbed (stoned?) are you people to wonder, "oh, could WE do that, too?"
Obviously, everyone does not live under US laws, but this discussion is only applicable to people in countries that agree to international copyright rules.
If you can get through to the end (or fast forward somehow) this film shows someone getting arrested for filming on a public street in NYC. I think the feds didn't like his sign, but they never did say *why* he couldn't film.
Hints: --The Federal Reserve Bank isn't "federal" the way most people use the word. --You can no longer trade in your money for anything of value with the people that print it.
"Hilf accused his former employers, IBM, of starting a standards war simply because they wanted a part of the Office market. People do not want ODF (Open Document Format), but they want a way to control the information they create, he claimed."
He lied.
Ever since the early 90s when someone handed me a floppy disk with a document on it and said, "Do you have WordPerfect" [Word, or whatever it was].
"No."
"Well, you have to buy this program if you want to be able to read this document."
"That's stupid."
"You're out of touch, it's the way software works. You need to buy the program to read the documents."
Well, it's still stupid. I can't control my document if all I bought was Office 97 and people are handing me Office 2003 documents. It didn't have to be "odt", MS could have helped develop a better standard, but they chose not too. A private comany's product never has been, and never will be, a good choice for a standard format.
"I'd like to hear Lucinda William's "Righteously." The version from "Live at the Filmore", not the studio release. Right now. Where do I tune in to hear that?"
Dial up IAM-INA-HELL. Should be there along with all the other country music....
The argument seems to imply that *nixes have "lost". Stick a fork in their butts and turn them over because they are finished.
I'm no veteran, but for 7 or 8 years now I keep reading these stories about why linux / free software is so bad, but my expereince has been that its popularity and ease of use has only increased exponentially over the same time period. Major corporations are integrating free software in their businesses. People are getting an operating system AND just about every app they could ever need for free and they are writing complaints about how their mouse isn't wireless! This is great news, not bad. The article is trying to spread FUD.
When people say it enough, it becomes an idomatic expression. You cannot make sense of it by putting the parts together, but if you're not an idiomat, then you know what it is referring to.
You said MICROSOFT already added ODF support. Then you give a link to SOURCEFORGE. That doesn't make any sense. If MS added it, you wouldn't have to go somewhere else to get it, eh?
If the stinky pinko commies over at sourceforge could make it work, then why didn't the company do it themselves and include it in their product? Maybe that would have given people the "freedom to innovate"?
"This isn't a troll but a simple question. Why are you still doing your taxes by hand?"
Here is another simple answer. I am an independent small businessman. It would take more time to learn a tax program than it does to enter all the data on the form. I still have to figure out how much money I spent on my vehicle, etc., no matter what the method is and my computer doesn't know the values. I don't see a benefit to it all at all.
Without my soma, I won't want to play sex games with all the other children.
"All citizens are expected to be involved socially; spending time alone is discouraged and sexual promiscuity is norm. Recreational drug use has become a pillar of society and all citizens regularly swallow tablets of soma, a narcotic-tranquilizer that makes users mindlessly happy."
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"I think it would be more constructive if you could at least cite a few parts of the standard you consider to be "objectively horrible" and why."
It. is. six. thousand. pages. long.
That answers both part A and B.
"So are you suggesting we abolish all classes and force everyone to learn from books in rooms by themselves? Sure sounds like it."
You sure have a funny sense of hearing.
But to address the post's topic:
Mel Gibson's middle-ages character said it best, "Freeeeeeeeeeeeddooooooooooooooooom!"
"So then unlike cars, pants and every other commodity I can buy in a store, software has a legal exception in that it ALONE can be LICENSED?..."
The person answered your question and you're just on a rant. You can buy a car, you can buy a toaster, you can buy a license. They said in their response that you didn't buy the software. Your rant after this statement totally ignores that. You don't need a special law to make a contract between two parties. They said, "Here it is, buy it or don't buy it." It's true Virginia, there really are alternatives to Microsoft...
Dark Side of the Oz or something?
The only thing that makes people not take theories of human origins from space seriously is their egos. You guys are just too damn *educated* to think scientifically about an issue. I'm not saying anyone knows the truth, but it isn't that drivel that they fed you in school. Look-see: Fish, reptile, little ape, ape, ape-man, man. I know, 'cause I've seen the cartoon in my science book. If any one looks scientifically at all the holes in this theory, an open mind would have to say, "C, something else".
Here's the cartoon I originally meant:
[Two aliens observing the planet earth]
A1: It seems the earthlings have developed atomic bombs.
A2: Let me see, maybe it's time to interact with them?
A1: They are pointing them at each other.
[Two aliens walk away from observation site]
I wouldn't approach us, either.
Just moments ago it was "MySQL closes its source" (which it hadn't), now a nonsensical, bipolar, I'll-let-you-know-what-you-can-decide headline from the same brainless moron.
If I spent more than 10 minutes on this site, I'd figure out how to filter out all of CmdrTaco's posts. What a lame excuse for a "journalist".
"Exactly. A lot of clueless, ivory-tower folks around here. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how they don't get that not everyone is privileged, or lucky, or given the same chances in life. Before most common people have a chance they are addicted to big tobacco, have kids they can't afford and credit card debt they can't pay back. To top it off, they've changed bankruptcy laws so that, now, they can't even escape that massive debt. And these people haven't even finished getting their wisdom teeth most times."
If this was fark.com, then I could say, "Personal responsibility surrenders", but it's not, so I'll just say, "Wow, there sure are a lot of victims. We should round up this big, bad 'society' character and throw the bum in jail!".
in destroying music. Why not give the other guys a chance? The whole intarweb couldn't do much more damage than
Reginald Kenneth Dwight has done.
"If you've done your homework and you know something fund managers don't..."
This is a joke, right? Every time there has been a stock market crash, there have been a ton of *professional* fund managers who are exposed as not knowing crap. Is it in there oh-so-brilliant plan to let the value of their fund fall by 10 or 20% (or more)? Please, just think a little about it.
All you fatty Mountain Dew-ers are belong to us.
"I was intrigued by what you said about not being able to make a new GPL-based license so I looked it up on the FSF website:"
I mean I just can't believe how many people are seriously questioning their own ability to take a piece of paper and write a contractual agreement with another party. What in the world is the issue here? You can write a set of agreements between two people and have it say whatever you want. If someone has copyrighted (trademarked?) a certain phrase, you might not be able to use it in public, but how controlled, numbed (stoned?) are you people to wonder, "oh, could WE do that, too?"
Obviously, everyone does not live under US laws, but this discussion is only applicable to people in countries that agree to international copyright rules.
>> It might not help with the 'loan nut' problem, but how many of those are there?
>I don't know...it seems to me that most banks have at least one....
Ah, yes, the sub-prime cocktail mix being my personal favorite.
If you can get through to the end (or fast forward somehow) this film shows someone getting arrested for filming on a public street in NYC. I think the feds didn't like his sign, but they never did say *why* he couldn't film.
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(flash video)
Hints:
--The Federal Reserve Bank isn't "federal" the way most people use the word.
--You can no longer trade in your money for anything of value with the people that print it.
"Hilf accused his former employers, IBM, of starting a standards war simply because they wanted a part of the Office market. People do not want ODF (Open Document Format), but they want a way to control the information they create, he claimed."
He lied.
Ever since the early 90s when someone handed me a floppy disk with a document on it and said, "Do you have WordPerfect" [Word, or whatever it was].
"No."
"Well, you have to buy this program if you want to be able to read this document."
"That's stupid."
"You're out of touch, it's the way software works. You need to buy the program to read the documents."
Well, it's still stupid. I can't control my document if all I bought was Office 97 and people are handing me Office 2003 documents. It didn't have to be "odt", MS could have helped develop a better standard, but they chose not too. A private comany's product never has been, and never will be, a good choice for a standard format.
"I'd like to hear Lucinda William's "Righteously." The version from "Live at the Filmore", not the studio release. Right now. Where do I tune in to hear that?"
Dial up IAM-INA-HELL. Should be there along with all the other country music....
The argument seems to imply that *nixes have "lost". Stick a fork in their butts and turn them over because they are finished.
I'm no veteran, but for 7 or 8 years now I keep reading these stories about why linux / free software is so bad, but my expereince has been that its popularity and ease of use has only increased exponentially over the same time period. Major corporations are integrating free software in their businesses. People are getting an operating system AND just about every app they could ever need for free and they are writing complaints about how their mouse isn't wireless! This is great news, not bad. The article is trying to spread FUD.
"Web Developer: Fine - we can do all that and reach 90% of the market ..."
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When people say it enough, it becomes an idomatic expression. You cannot make sense of it by putting the parts together, but if you're not an idiomat, then you know what it is referring to.
"For those that complain about the format, you can EASILY have it in MP3 format.
Howto Follows> Launch your iTunes..."
Not only is that NOT easy, it is impossible.
uchair@chair:~$ sudo apt-get install itunes
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package itunes
uchair@chair:~$ sudo apt-get install iTunes
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package iTunes
You might be able to imagine it a little better.
"People seem to keep correcting me on points I've never made."
Welp. You seem to have gotten that right.
Speedo and toothbrush. That's 'bout it.
You said MICROSOFT already added ODF support. Then you give a link to SOURCEFORGE. That doesn't make any sense. If MS added it, you wouldn't have to go somewhere else to get it, eh?
If the stinky pinko commies over at sourceforge could make it work, then why didn't the company do it themselves and include it in their product? Maybe that would have given people the "freedom to innovate"?
"This isn't a troll but a simple question. Why are you still doing your taxes by hand?"
Here is another simple answer. I am an independent small businessman. It would take more time to learn a tax program than it does to enter all the data on the form. I still have to figure out how much money I spent on my vehicle, etc., no matter what the method is and my computer doesn't know the values. I don't see a benefit to it all at all.
This proposal is an incredible increase for a small web broadcaster like
http://somafm.com/
Without my soma, I won't want to play sex games with all the other children.
"All citizens are expected to be involved socially; spending time alone is discouraged and sexual promiscuity is norm. Recreational drug use has become a pillar of society and all citizens regularly swallow tablets of soma, a narcotic-tranquilizer that makes users mindlessly happy."
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World