one thing about everybody having what would have been the total computing power of the planet 20 years ago on their desks is that any single person could perpetrate this. either that, or it's another sony rootkit gone wrong...
absolutely wrong. if you're going to buy and use a computer, you should learn about it and how to use it safely. if not, you don't get to blame the programmers when something goes wrong.
Google has a particular objective: directing as many as possible users to Google products
call me naive, but i don't have this impression of google. my opinion is rather that google's objective is to have fun with cool technologies. to keep that going, they need money of course.
i would argue that star wars has become so much a part of public culture that everybody should be able to do what they want with it. it is now part of our shared culture.
tomtom implements a file system using FAT because it is the only file system they can use to communicate with home PCs. there is no other choice and without this implementation their products would be worthless.
microsoft steals the most important technology tomtom has so they can create a direct competitor
tomtom asks microsoft to stop
microsoft responds by threatening to destroy tomtom's business
tomtom and microsoft decide to settle out of court
oh yes, watch that totally functioning patent system work its magic!
Most people's concerns could be worked around, and as long as you stick to the standardised stuff and treat it first and foremost as "an implementation of a language" rather than "a port of Microsoft's technologies" then you should be fine.
the problem is, that isn't your decision to make, but rather the decision of the microsoft legal department.
also i see no relationship between rms's comments on mono (implementation for existing software until we can write replacement software is good, but writing software in a language which can be taken away from us at any moment just adds to the problem) and his comments on preferring the gpl to the lgpl for certain projects. i can only assume you are either just trolling here, or having a bad-hair day, or are really, really stupid.
rms has nothing against using the internet. he just cannot depend upon having a connection at any one moment in time. that's why he communicates preferably over email, so he can download mails and upload replies in batches.
rms spends most of his time reading and replying to emails. as far as i can tell, his main problem with webpages is that he spends most of his time jet-setting around the world and consequently quite often does not have access to the internet or only has a very slow connection. communicating using email solves this problem for him.
which in no way changes my stance that it is quite brave to claim to know what the EFF understands and what it does not understand. it's quite possible they have a different opinion to yours while at the same time understanding the issues involved.
Theora may be equally as good, but it's trying to supplant an already-established format. 'Equally as good' isn't good enough for that: You have to be noticeably better.
nope, that's not how the world works. theora's quality is of absolutely no importance and of no relevance to its success. what it needs is support by a monopoly. that's how a data format or codec becomes popular.
i see you summarized your argument in the last line. apart from the usage of 'your weird fantasy world' it was also the only sentence that wasn't blatantly argumentative. couldn't you have just missed out the other sentences for the sake of polite discourse?
no. ubuntu is not a monopoly. ubuntu does not make money out of supplying a terminal. ubuntu does not drive competitors out of business by making dash the default terminal. ubuntu does not package its own terminal either, because ubuntu does not have its own terminal. so basically the two cases are pretty dissimilar, but i imagine you already knew that and were just trolling.
Microsoft is a huge American corporation, so the EC is basically using them as a source for extra funding. If Microsoft were based in Europe this wouldn't be happening.
just because your government is totally corrupt, don't assume that other people's governments are too.
now this is interesting. the eu does something to try to stop the most abusive monopolistic company of modern times, a company which costs the economies of the world billions of dollars every year, a company which forces drm and ignorance down the consumers' throats and what happens? suddenly the eu is in the wrong because "it's not america". i only hope most of the replies up to now have been astroturfing by microsoft, because if they aren't this paints a rather sorry picture of america and americans in general.
It may be the case that MSHTML (what's used for the help system and such) is actually pretty lightweight and IE adds quite a bit, so this split is actually quite meaningful, but I doubt that's the case.
welcome to another round of 'guess how that closed-source technology works'. and your starter for 10, what does ie add to the microsoft html rendering engine?
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someone said something bad about apple and got modded down. what a surprise.
i have never seen anything like that.
one thing about everybody having what would have been the total computing power of the planet 20 years ago on their desks is that any single person could perpetrate this. either that, or it's another sony rootkit gone wrong ...
absolutely wrong. if you're going to buy and use a computer, you should learn about it and how to use it safely. if not, you don't get to blame the programmers when something goes wrong.
small correction
:)
U=0101 0101
u=0111 0101
it quite obviously cannot be a number larger than 128 in decimal
this should be voted 'informative' and not 'troll'
Google has a particular objective: directing as many as possible users to Google products
call me naive, but i don't have this impression of google. my opinion is rather that google's objective is to have fun with cool technologies. to keep that going, they need money of course.
Google all but owns Firefox
you know, i don't think the word 'owns' means what you think it means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
Google has the clout to get it pre-installed, so it could have a huge effect on the market.
i would argue that star wars has become so much a part of public culture that everybody should be able to do what they want with it. it is now part of our shared culture.
Most pirates I know do so because they simply would rather get the latest music for free than paying for it.
not quite right.
:)
Most pirates I know do so because they simply would rather get the latest music than not have it.
There, fixed it for you
and both are extremely old and any patents there may be on them have long since expired. so basically, stop being a troll.
oh yes, watch that totally functioning patent system work its magic!
Most people's concerns could be worked around, and as long as you stick to the standardised stuff and treat it first and foremost as "an implementation of a language" rather than "a port of Microsoft's technologies" then you should be fine.
the problem is, that isn't your decision to make, but rather the decision of the microsoft legal department.
also i see no relationship between rms's comments on mono (implementation for existing software until we can write replacement software is good, but writing software in a language which can be taken away from us at any moment just adds to the problem) and his comments on preferring the gpl to the lgpl for certain projects. i can only assume you are either just trolling here, or having a bad-hair day, or are really, really stupid.
rms has nothing against using the internet. he just cannot depend upon having a connection at any one moment in time. that's why he communicates preferably over email, so he can download mails and upload replies in batches.
rms spends most of his time reading and replying to emails. as far as i can tell, his main problem with webpages is that he spends most of his time jet-setting around the world and consequently quite often does not have access to the internet or only has a very slow connection. communicating using email solves this problem for him.
void free(void* ptr); you can find it in stdlib.h
which in no way changes my stance that it is quite brave to claim to know what the EFF understands and what it does not understand. it's quite possible they have a different opinion to yours while at the same time understanding the issues involved.
They don't understand that spam is highly destructive to the net as a form of communication.
it's quite a risky stance to claim to know what the EFF understands and what it does not understand.
Theora may be equally as good, but it's trying to supplant an already-established format. 'Equally as good' isn't good enough for that: You have to be noticeably better.
nope, that's not how the world works. theora's quality is of absolutely no importance and of no relevance to its success. what it needs is support by a monopoly. that's how a data format or codec becomes popular.
i see you summarized your argument in the last line. apart from the usage of 'your weird fantasy world' it was also the only sentence that wasn't blatantly argumentative. couldn't you have just missed out the other sentences for the sake of polite discourse?
no. ubuntu is not a monopoly. ubuntu does not make money out of supplying a terminal. ubuntu does not drive competitors out of business by making dash the default terminal. ubuntu does not package its own terminal either, because ubuntu does not have its own terminal. so basically the two cases are pretty dissimilar, but i imagine you already knew that and were just trolling.
Microsoft is a huge American corporation, so the EC is basically using them as a source for extra funding. If Microsoft were based in Europe this wouldn't be happening.
just because your government is totally corrupt, don't assume that other people's governments are too.
now this is interesting. the eu does something to try to stop the most abusive monopolistic company of modern times, a company which costs the economies of the world billions of dollars every year, a company which forces drm and ignorance down the consumers' throats and what happens? suddenly the eu is in the wrong because "it's not america". i only hope most of the replies up to now have been astroturfing by microsoft, because if they aren't this paints a rather sorry picture of america and americans in general.
It may be the case that MSHTML (what's used for the help system and such) is actually pretty lightweight and IE adds quite a bit, so this split is actually quite meaningful, but I doubt that's the case.
welcome to another round of 'guess how that closed-source technology works'. and your starter for 10, what does ie add to the microsoft html rendering engine?