The only reason Bit-Keeper is annoyed is because they see a free product competing with thier own. Most companies adopt a business model of giving the client away for free and charging for the server. To the best of my knowledge, Tridgell was reverse-engineering the client, not the server. That shouldn't have resulted in any revenue loss to BitKeeper if they had followed the traditional business model. Wasn't BitKeeper also giving their client away for free?
I dunno, what's more likely to fail in the middle of watching a movie... that shiny disc, or my cable connection? (Hint: I have Comcast. It craps out all the time.) Perhaps some of us would rather know we can finish watching a movie before we start. (You're obviously right about MPAA instead of RIAA, I should have said "*AA" instead.)
Why would you want to bother keeping an anachronistic collection of shiny discs, when you could have anything you want, instantly. Because I can watch that shiny disc practically as many times as I want without incurring any additional cost, wheras I'm sure the RIAA will find a way to ding me every time I download that movie again? To say nothing of the fact that fedexing a box of discs will probably always have more bandwidth and cheaper cost per bit than any "pipe" that streams bits to my home?
Rapists and violent criminals should be locked up for a long time to prevent them from reoffending, not as punishment or deterent. This law will do nothing to keep movie leakers from reoffending, since once it is known in the industry that you leaked a movie, nobody is ever going to let you near a prerelease again!
It's not yellow. The picture is shot through a window, which has a UV-blocking coating on it. This makes everything appear yellow. Apparently certain frequencies of light are bad for the wafers.
I don't know about you, but on my Windows XP machine at home I have separate user accounts set up for myself, my wife, and my 4-year old so they don't screw up my settings. You must consider yourself fortunate that you don't have to share your equipment with anyone else.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that I'd expect from someone that learned everything they know about computers from working with MS-DOS... he can't seem to conceive of the notion that there might be more than one person's data on a single machine!
Mr. Cheney said this in the context of wanting his lesbian daughter to have the same rights as everyone else, including the right to marriage. Meaning that although he might officially follow the ridiculous Republican party line, he privately might have disagreements with it.
why would anyone want to do this? It's called "extortion", as in "pay us money and we'll stop DDOSing your server". (Isn't amazing how many questions can be answered with a single word: "money"?
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The icon for a Word document, for example, is a tiny iteration of the first page of the file. Folders, too, show glimpses of what's inside. Such images can be rather small, but they offer a visual cue that aids in the searching process, Allchin said. Can I turn this feature off? It's going to make it a LOT harder to hide my porn collection!
Perhaps I should have been more specific and said "legal right" instead of "right". Some people might argue that the RIAA do not have a "moral right" to go after unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. I don't beleive there is any such thing as absolute morality, but rather that all morality is contractual. In many cases this "contract" is implicit in our societal norms, which may change over time. But currently we have a social contract that says that creators of art deserve monetary compensation for their efforts. The artists in most cases have transferred their right to collect said compensation to the record companies, which have in turn transferred that right to the RIAA. Yes, the whole concept of a "copyright" is an aberration that has only been around for the last few hundred years, but I beleive there has always been resentment by creators of others who "borrowed" creative works and didn't give due credit. Yes, paying for stories and songs is also a relatively recent concept that might not be the norm 200 years from now. But at least for right now, it IS the norm.
2) I don't need an alarm clock to annoy my spouse -- I can do that just fine all by myself!
3) I've never actually used an alarm clock. I tell myself what time it is and what time I want to get up just before I go to sleep, then I wake myself up at the optimal point in my sleep cycle. Only problem with this is I tend to wake myself up too early!
In a restroom you have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" and the owners can't violate that without consequences. Right... I also have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the fitting rooms, so I guess all those clothing stores that have employees watching the changing rooms must be violating the law, eh? Why do you think stores have signs advising you against taking merchandise into the restroom? Because swapping clothes in the restroom is a damn good way to shoplift! You have no "right to privacy"... get over it!
Lawyers are a necessary evil. "They" have lawyers, therefore "we" must have lawyers too, to defend ourselves. Of course, politics is dominated by lawyers, the rules are all slanted to make it impossible to accomplish anything without a lawyer get a percentage. (Tryed making out a Living Will without paying a lawyer?)
No, although we may disagree with their methods, the RIAA does have a right to go after people distributing copyrighted material without authorization, just like GPL developers have a right to go after people distributing GPL software without following the terms of the license. However, the RIAA does not have the right to go after people for downloading copyrighted material (unless they later redistribute it) just like GPL developers have no right to go after people who bought network equipment from companies that violate the GPL. I believe at least half the./ crowd does have a consistent viewpoint on this, but I may be wrong.
Gee... you mean The Gap doesn't publish catalogs???
Government agencies may not have a right to watch you, but owners of private property have the right to do anything they want... including monitor you in the restroom. If you don't like, don't go there! (By rights, they should have to tell you that you're being recorded. Not sure what the law says on this, but most of those cameras are there as a deterent, so "secret" cameras really don't make any sense.)
the moon has a breathable atmosphere Huh? I thought the moons atmosphere was mostly sodium... although there should be oxygen as well. Probably not 70% nitrogen though. Methinks you need to filter out the bad stuff as well as compress it.
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The only reason Bit-Keeper is annoyed is because they see a free product competing with thier own. Most companies adopt a business model of giving the client away for free and charging for the server. To the best of my knowledge, Tridgell was reverse-engineering the client, not the server. That shouldn't have resulted in any revenue loss to BitKeeper if they had followed the traditional business model. Wasn't BitKeeper also giving their client away for free?
I dunno, what's more likely to fail in the middle of watching a movie... that shiny disc, or my cable connection? (Hint: I have Comcast. It craps out all the time.) Perhaps some of us would rather know we can finish watching a movie before we start. (You're obviously right about MPAA instead of RIAA, I should have said "*AA" instead.)
You use that word a lot... I do not think it means what you think it means!
Why would you want to bother keeping an anachronistic collection of shiny discs, when you could have anything you want, instantly. Because I can watch that shiny disc practically as many times as I want without incurring any additional cost, wheras I'm sure the RIAA will find a way to ding me every time I download that movie again? To say nothing of the fact that fedexing a box of discs will probably always have more bandwidth and cheaper cost per bit than any "pipe" that streams bits to my home?
Rapists and violent criminals should be locked up for a long time to prevent them from reoffending, not as punishment or deterent. This law will do nothing to keep movie leakers from reoffending, since once it is known in the industry that you leaked a movie, nobody is ever going to let you near a prerelease again!
It's not yellow. The picture is shot through a window, which has a UV-blocking coating on it. This makes everything appear yellow. Apparently certain frequencies of light are bad for the wafers.
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Martian. Fart. Jokes!
It never fails to amaze me how some people are willing to pay for the priviledge of beta-testing Microsoft's software for them...
I don't know about you, but on my Windows XP machine at home I have separate user accounts set up for myself, my wife, and my 4-year old so they don't screw up my settings. You must consider yourself fortunate that you don't have to share your equipment with anyone else.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that I'd expect from someone that learned everything they know about computers from working with MS-DOS... he can't seem to conceive of the notion that there might be more than one person's data on a single machine!
Reva is a very rude name for vagina in Finnish. I'll have to tell my parents that. They live in Reva, Virginia!
Mr. Cheney said this in the context of wanting his lesbian daughter to have the same rights as everyone else, including the right to marriage. Meaning that although he might officially follow the ridiculous Republican party line, he privately might have disagreements with it.
door latches that can be opened with a flashlight.
Right... 'cause we all want a door that opens itself every morning when the sun comes up!
why would anyone want to do this?
It's called "extortion", as in "pay us money and we'll stop DDOSing your server". (Isn't amazing how many questions can be answered with a single word: "money"?
2006?!? Try 2007!
The icon for a Word document, for example, is a tiny iteration of the first page of the file. Folders, too, show glimpses of what's inside. Such images can be rather small, but they offer a visual cue that aids in the searching process, Allchin said. Can I turn this feature off? It's going to make it a LOT harder to hide my porn collection!
SP2 by default turns on the software firewall... have you tried turning it off?
Perhaps I should have been more specific and said "legal right" instead of "right". Some people might argue that the RIAA do not have a "moral right" to go after unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. I don't beleive there is any such thing as absolute morality, but rather that all morality is contractual. In many cases this "contract" is implicit in our societal norms, which may change over time. But currently we have a social contract that says that creators of art deserve monetary compensation for their efforts. The artists in most cases have transferred their right to collect said compensation to the record companies, which have in turn transferred that right to the RIAA. Yes, the whole concept of a "copyright" is an aberration that has only been around for the last few hundred years, but I beleive there has always been resentment by creators of others who "borrowed" creative works and didn't give due credit. Yes, paying for stories and songs is also a relatively recent concept that might not be the norm 200 years from now. But at least for right now, it IS the norm.
1) I'm never likely to wake up "perky"!
2) I don't need an alarm clock to annoy my spouse -- I can do that just fine all by myself!
3) I've never actually used an alarm clock. I tell myself what time it is and what time I want to get up just before I go to sleep, then I wake myself up at the optimal point in my sleep cycle. Only problem with this is I tend to wake myself up too early!
In a restroom you have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" and the owners can't violate that without consequences. Right... I also have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the fitting rooms, so I guess all those clothing stores that have employees watching the changing rooms must be violating the law, eh? Why do you think stores have signs advising you against taking merchandise into the restroom? Because swapping clothes in the restroom is a damn good way to shoplift! You have no "right to privacy"... get over it!
Lawyers are a necessary evil. "They" have lawyers, therefore "we" must have lawyers too, to defend ourselves. Of course, politics is dominated by lawyers, the rules are all slanted to make it impossible to accomplish anything without a lawyer get a percentage. (Tryed making out a Living Will without paying a lawyer?)
No, although we may disagree with their methods, the RIAA does have a right to go after people distributing copyrighted material without authorization, just like GPL developers have a right to go after people distributing GPL software without following the terms of the license. However, the RIAA does not have the right to go after people for downloading copyrighted material (unless they later redistribute it) just like GPL developers have no right to go after people who bought network equipment from companies that violate the GPL. I believe at least half the ./ crowd does have a consistent viewpoint on this, but I may be wrong.
The OpenOffice developers MUST be copying Microsoft code!
Government agencies may not have a right to watch you, but owners of private property have the right to do anything they want... including monitor you in the restroom. If you don't like, don't go there! (By rights, they should have to tell you that you're being recorded. Not sure what the law says on this, but most of those cameras are there as a deterent, so "secret" cameras really don't make any sense.)
the moon has a breathable atmosphere Huh? I thought the moons atmosphere was mostly sodium... although there should be oxygen as well. Probably not 70% nitrogen though. Methinks you need to filter out the bad stuff as well as compress it.