"Problem is the GPL has never been validated in court..."
Seems to me there was a good point made once that someone who is using GPL code would never want to invalidate the GPL. If the GPL were to be invalidated, then normal copyright law would be in effect and the end user would have no rights to the code unless granted it specifically, no?
"If Microsoft couldn't patent, say, the intellectual capital in it's latest tools, so that all and sundtry could copy them without any paying back to the inventor, why on earth would Microsoft bother to invent new tools and processes?"
Total stab in the dark here, but ummmm...to make things easier for themselves? The "intellectual capital", whatever that means, is still protected by Copyright. Nobody could claim MS work as their* own. Then, if someone found a better way to do the same thing, there would be ***competition***. Isn't that what "Freedom To Innovate" is? I'm soooo confused.
"That's an old excuse and not valid with current releases of IE."
That's not true and people shouldn't believe it as truth. A simple layout of "divs", float one left and float one right. Have a margin on the left one and test it in the mostly-standard compliant browsers (I know, none of them are 100% compliant) and everything is fine. Look at it on Windows and say, "oh, crap, now I have to modify it so it works with IE" because the content of the right "div" is all the way at the bottom. MARGINS are not occasional plugins, it is about the most simple CSS you can apply (and I'm an expert at being a simpleton). I am using IE 6 on XP when I have to.
The origninal point is valid. Microsoft certainly has enough resources to petition a standards organization for changes and make a case for them. If they can't make their case, they have enough resources to make the browser mostly standards comliant. They chose to do it "their way" instead.
Re:Clippy did its job... Unfortunatly.
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"I use linux because it works. Other people use linux because it works. Companies (ie google) use linux because it works.
The software keeps getting better..."
I've been watching the "experts" argue and grandstand about what linux needs to do for about 6 years now. Some of the stuff happens and some of it hasn't. Regardless, the adoption of linux-type OS's just keeps growing and the software keeps getting better. This ESR rant smells of FUD. I'm not afraid, even if you do have a lot of guns...
>Kind of what it is, though. Where would Linux be without GCC?
It is what it is, and it isn't all prepared by RMS. He seems to be further proof of the oft-believed link between insanity and genius. Freedom, freedom, freedom is all we hear, but heaven forbid you want to use an easy name for the software instead of a difficult one, then there's a problem? He said on film something like "that's not nice".
The name GNU might have actually caught on if people said, "hey, it's the 'new' operating system, but noooooo..., you've got to say GAH-NU and listen to him explain how clever the name is. That's not nice, either. I am so much a fan of free software and the idea behind it, but I like other freedoms, too. The whole naming thing is just wacky.
Look, the points all line up on the graph!
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We don't have an extra earth to know what would have happened without certain stimuli, so it is a matter of empirical educated guesses. There is no hard science here.
I'm all for taking the most conservative actions concerning something as important as the planet, but it is pure drivel to say you "know for sure" something you have arrived at through correlation of data. Correlation does not prove causation. You need to have a control.
Here is an article on the MicroSoft Network, dissing a computer based on another operating system. My experience has been there is almost no such thing as objective reporting. I guess I'll have to check out what they have to say on the Fox network, where they guarantee me it's "fair and balanced".
Yes. And there are some unpleasant things like the laws of thermodynamics that can get in the way. A barrel refined oil has x amount of useful energy. As the process of getting the oil out of the ground becomes more convoluted than The Beverly Hillbillies action, then the amount of energy needed to produce said barrel is more than likely going to increase.
That said, I have faith in improved technologies, but not going along the same rotted organic matter path. I'd have more hope for a freakin' laser beam of some kind.
Calling someone idiotic while saying something idiotic is just why I come here... This is delicious.
Somehow you think the scientist can prove how old the ice is by the depth of it? WTF are you saying? They are usually trying to guess the composition of the air at such a time by assuming the ice is x years old. So now the proof is in the assumptions?! Can you say "circular" boys and girls?
If I understood the moderation system, I call this post funny.
"How is it a big market? There are a ton of people there, sure, but they make very low wages; and it will be difficult for a true middle class that buys legal versions of software to emerge, ever"
Can't tell if you're joking or not, but since this is not the first time I have read something like this on Slashdot, it is worth some kind of response. When was the last time you were in China? I'm guessing never, like the guy who said they are "like in the 19th century". When I was there in 2002 they already had a middle class emerging.
They have advanced universities and advanced science and the economy is experiencing phenomenal growth. They aren't democratic and growth doens't mean it's a "good" country, but when will you teeny-boppers stop with this 30-year-old version of China?
Slashdot Mirror
after beating the crap outta the Obvious tag
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=p redecessor&btnG=Search
How can you call bullshit on a statement so vague that it doesn't say anything?!
"Problem is the GPL has never been validated in court..."
Seems to me there was a good point made once that someone who is using GPL code would never want to invalidate the GPL. If the GPL were to be invalidated, then normal copyright law would be in effect and the end user would have no rights to the code unless granted it specifically, no?
"I personally hate how many RPG games have morphed into an action game to keep the kiddies happy."
I'm no gamer, but what on earth would you expect from a Rocket Propelled Grenade game, anyways?
"If Microsoft couldn't patent, say, the intellectual capital in it's latest tools, so that all and sundtry could copy them without any paying back to the inventor, why on earth would Microsoft bother to invent new tools and processes?"
Total stab in the dark here, but ummmm...to make things easier for themselves? The "intellectual capital", whatever that means, is still protected by Copyright. Nobody could claim MS work as their* own. Then, if someone found a better way to do the same thing, there would be ***competition***. Isn't that what "Freedom To Innovate" is? I'm soooo confused.
*this is valid so GN stfu
"That's an old excuse and not valid with current releases of IE."
That's not true and people shouldn't believe it as truth. A simple layout of "divs", float one left and float one right. Have a margin on the left one and test it in the mostly-standard compliant browsers (I know, none of them are 100% compliant) and everything is fine. Look at it on Windows and say, "oh, crap, now I have to modify it so it works with IE" because the content of the right "div" is all the way at the bottom. MARGINS are not occasional plugins, it is about the most simple CSS you can apply (and I'm an expert at being a simpleton). I am using IE 6 on XP when I have to.
The origninal point is valid. Microsoft certainly has enough resources to petition a standards organization for changes and make a case for them. If they can't make their case, they have enough resources to make the browser mostly standards comliant. They chose to do it "their way" instead.
gee, thanks...your great!
"Threaten to beat the librarian with your barometer if she does not obtain the required journals"
You could exert pressure and measure it at the same time. Brilliant!
I was trying to figure out what kind of Shared Object they were referring to...I never would have guessed.
In Windows 2000 and XP.
You're a new user and you want to stop the computer and shut it off, so where do you go?
The START button, of course!
People don't cry when you cut up a banjo.
"I use linux because it works.
Other people use linux because it works.
Companies (ie google) use linux because it works.
The software keeps getting better..."
I've been watching the "experts" argue and grandstand about what linux needs to do for about 6 years now. Some of the stuff happens and some of it hasn't. Regardless, the adoption of linux-type OS's just keeps growing and the software keeps getting better. This ESR rant smells of FUD. I'm not afraid, even if you do have a lot of guns...
Clearly, these "corporations" are (8/92 * 100)% over budget.
Anne Coulter is a man. I read it on the internet.
I predict a reasoned, fair, and balanced discussion on this issue here, so I can't wait to get to the rest of the thread get educated!
>> GNU/Linux? C'mon....
>Kind of what it is, though. Where would Linux be without GCC?
It is what it is, and it isn't all prepared by RMS. He seems to be further proof of the oft-believed link between insanity and genius. Freedom, freedom, freedom is all we hear, but heaven forbid you want to use an easy name for the software instead of a difficult one, then there's a problem? He said on film something like "that's not nice".
The name GNU might have actually caught on if people said, "hey, it's the 'new' operating system, but noooooo..., you've got to say GAH-NU and listen to him explain how clever the name is. That's not nice, either. I am so much a fan of free software and the idea behind it, but I like other freedoms, too. The whole naming thing is just wacky.
Sorry. I don't know how to start a new thread.
b out/position/globalwarming.jsp
What pompous ass posts that a scientific debate "has ended" concerning something where you can't even have a control in the experiment?! This CO2 scientists isn't that sure:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/a
We don't have an extra earth to know what would have happened without certain stimuli, so it is a matter of empirical educated guesses. There is no hard science here.
I'm all for taking the most conservative actions concerning something as important as the planet, but it is pure drivel to say you "know for sure" something you have arrived at through correlation of data. Correlation does not prove causation. You need to have a control.
What about the source?
Here is an article on the MicroSoft Network, dissing a computer based on another operating system. My experience has been there is almost no such thing as objective reporting. I guess I'll have to check out what they have to say on the Fox network, where they guarantee me it's "fair and balanced".
Yes. And there are some unpleasant things like the laws of thermodynamics that can get in the way. A barrel refined oil has x amount of useful energy. As the process of getting the oil out of the ground becomes more convoluted than The Beverly Hillbillies action, then the amount of energy needed to produce said barrel is more than likely going to increase.
That said, I have faith in improved technologies, but not going along the same rotted organic matter path. I'd have more hope for a freakin' laser beam of some kind.
Calling someone idiotic while saying something idiotic is just why I come here... This is delicious.
Somehow you think the scientist can prove how old the ice is by the depth of it? WTF are you saying? They are usually trying to guess the composition of the air at such a time by assuming the ice is x years old. So now the proof is in the assumptions?! Can you say "circular" boys and girls?
If I understood the moderation system, I call this post funny.
"How is it a big market? There are a ton of people there, sure, but they make very low wages; and it will be difficult for a true middle class that buys legal versions of software to emerge, ever"
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Can't tell if you're joking or not, but since this is not the first time I have read something like this on Slashdot, it is worth some kind of response. When was the last time you were in China? I'm guessing never, like the guy who said they are "like in the 19th century". When I was there in 2002 they already had a middle class emerging.
http://kimbriggs.com/photos/china/beijing/beijing
They have advanced universities and advanced science and the economy is experiencing phenomenal growth. They aren't democratic and growth doens't mean it's a "good" country, but when will you teeny-boppers stop with this 30-year-old version of China?
http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/00b9a680/46 3c5922
"There is no such word as "alot," and if there is, there shouldn't be. It's "a lot." Two words, not one."
thankslot for the PSA!
"Take a look at the top of the screen. See where it says "news for nerds"? Do you want that to be true, or don't you?"
What about nuclear physicist nerds, or people who build parts for the space shuttle, do they all have to know about programming? That's not right.
"Good comeback... denial without explanation."
/. course...
How is this any different than 'assertion without explanation'? Seems to be par for the