Wow. Am I the only one that said "there's got to be a catch to this" when this thing started and went to their website to check it out. I knew that they would charge you for the movie because I looked it up. Did you think they were just going to let you keep the movie?
I hate to be a "me too"er, but I agree. There are many times when I'm trying to spell a word and MS Word can't figure out what I mean. Even after trying several spellings. Google usually (not always) gets it on the first try.
the 'precedent' system in which past rulings form a legal ground for deciding future cases is part of common law, which as the link indicates is generally found in English speaking countries.
So the judges "cheat". They don't want to rule on something, or they're not sure how to rule, so they see how someone else did it.
You know, if places like Slashdot would stop posting things like this to the front page, Apple might not have heard about it. Then you could have continued to use it....
should they be allowed to generate 'closed-source' solutions at the taxpayers' expense?
This is one problem that I have with PBS. They pay these companies millions of dollars to develop "Barney". Then, instead of the money from the merchandising going back into funding PBS, it goes into the pockets of someone else. And PBS, despite having a "hit" show, one that generates lots of money, still has telethons.
I don't think the article mentions it, but there's also a portable version of python for windows out there. Sorry don't have the url handy. Google for "movable python".
I've been looking for a list like this for a while. Google searches got me no where. (Except to websites of companies that sell both thumb drives and software)
So maybe the lost the source code to IE 6 (in a crash maybe?). So IE 7 is just going to be IE 6 with the filed hex edited to show a different version...:-)
You did not build a web-browser in 4 hours, you merely wrapped an existing one in a new interface. You did not build an e-mail client, you patched together some API's.
That's the point. You can leverage code that someone else has written. You can build upon it and make something better.
There are relatively few people in the whole of the United States qualified to do my job
I think you proved the parent's point. VB jobs are easy to come by.
As has been pointed out, your simply moving the security onus to code completely out of your control produced by a company with a spotty security record
That's a fair point. But that's also true anytime your relying on external libraries.
mainframe programs running against COBOL
Mainframes are a totally different world. (I don't get me started on how much I hate COBOL.:-)
I'm not against a study finding faults with Linux. But when you see something like "which includes IT heavyweights...Microsoft" it kind of makes it hard to take seriously.
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Wow. Am I the only one that said "there's got to be a catch to this" when this thing started and went to their website to check it out. I knew that they would charge you for the movie because I looked it up. Did you think they were just going to let you keep the movie?
I hate to be a "me too"er, but I agree. There are many times when I'm trying to spell a word and MS Word can't figure out what I mean. Even after trying several spellings. Google usually (not always) gets it on the first try.
I remember back in the Atari ST/Amiga times. There were DTP programs for the Atari ST that cost more than the computer!
So why don't we just have GPL 2 and allow extensions to be written for it like Firefox? :-)
Would you people please stop using all this money on court cost and use it instead to RUN CABLE AND/OR DSL TO MY HOUSE!
Couldn't it simply be a modern form of abbreviation. People have been doing that for hundreds of years.
AFP: Being on the front page of one the most popular websites in the world is bad for us. We estimate that it has caused us $17.5 million!
Person 1: How has it done that!?
AFP: All those hits on our website caused us to go over our bandwidth limit!
Ok, so Mono is like .Net. Now can you explain to me how to "get" .Net? :-)
the 'precedent' system in which past rulings form a legal ground for deciding future cases is part of common law, which as the link indicates is generally found in English speaking countries.
So the judges "cheat". They don't want to rule on something, or they're not sure how to rule, so they see how someone else did it.
Ok, Yahoo said "I'll see your 1GB". Shouldn't they have also said, "And I'll raise you 500MB"? (Or at least something else) :-)
You know, if places like Slashdot would stop posting things like this to the front page, Apple might not have heard about it. Then you could have continued to use it....
should they be allowed to generate 'closed-source' solutions at the taxpayers' expense?
This is one problem that I have with PBS. They pay these companies millions of dollars to develop "Barney". Then, instead of the money from the merchandising going back into funding PBS, it goes into the pockets of someone else. And PBS, despite having a "hit" show, one that generates lots of money, still has telethons.
I don't think the article mentions it, but there's also a portable version of python for windows out there. Sorry don't have the url handy. Google for "movable python".
I've been looking for a list like this for a while. Google searches got me no where. (Except to websites of companies that sell both thumb drives and software)
Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but try here: http://movix.sourceforge.net/
Or they could just charge an extra 50 cent to the cell phone company and still have a free browser. :-)
(Yes, I know what the orginal poster was saying. I was just making a joke.)
If the computer industry goes with one standard and the movie industry goes with another, we won't have to pay those extra taxes on the discs will we?
So maybe the lost the source code to IE 6 (in a crash maybe?). So IE 7 is just going to be IE 6 with the filed hex edited to show a different version...:-)
Yes, but is it a class "M"?
So now emacs people argue with themselves?
You did not build a web-browser in 4 hours, you merely wrapped an existing one in a new interface. You did not build an e-mail client, you patched together some API's.
:-)
That's the point. You can leverage code that someone else has written. You can build upon it and make something better.
There are relatively few people in the whole of the United States qualified to do my job
I think you proved the parent's point. VB jobs are easy to come by.
As has been pointed out, your simply moving the security onus to code completely out of your control produced by a company with a spotty security record
That's a fair point. But that's also true anytime your relying on external libraries.
mainframe programs running against COBOL
Mainframes are a totally different world. (I don't get me started on how much I hate COBOL.
"'vim-like' editor commands"
Oh no. Don't tell the emacs people about this...
It's not like Opera hasn't been provoked.
I'm not against a study finding faults with Linux. But when you see something like "which includes IT heavyweights...Microsoft" it kind of makes it hard to take seriously.
...everything that should have been in version 6?