Might some[many] companies be unwilling to port those full-featured programs because having the full features would require being able to interact with certain code which they most certainly do _not_ want to look at, for fear of legal ramifications forcing them to open up _all_ of their code? As more companies start to see linux as an oportunity, we will probably see these "stripped-down" versions more. In windows, the option is simply to pay a licensing fee, which cuts into your profits a bit, and then you can make sure your code works with the code that's there. The alternative, linux, has the potential to cut into Vastly More of the profits. A product may come out incredibly superior, but the makers dont really care about that if the superior product is a branch-off which they have no control over and due to branching make no money from.
all the times Trillian has been unable to run AIM, GAIM seems to work for me. On the other hand, I have never had consistant results using GAIM's ICQ plugin. (sometimes people hear me, sometimes not) I have found no resources noting this, and the latest version of trillian lets me use AOL again.. so Trillian it is, until somebody tells me what's wrong with gaim.
Whether the source is availible or not, this does not matter. If you think it does, congratulations on being an idiot. Open source may be good for lots of things, software for home or business use, that's great. But would open-sourcing a voting machine help ensure that it is fair and accurate? No. Open source is slightly more trustworthy, provided all the potential users are downloading and compiling that source. This would never be the case with a voting machine. Just because the supposed-source is availible to you doesnt mean that the unseen binaries, hidden behind many different layers (we would hope, for security), which you actually have no access to, are the same ones you get when you download it from nerdvote.sourceforge and compile it. Many factors can change such things, and there's really no garantee that the binaries of any one program compiled on different machines would be the same. Do you have the same compiler? headers? You don't know. And even if you had the exact same setup, it's not like the machine will give you a confirmation MD5 of the binary before proceeding. Open source, for something like this, would just be a joke. Get off your damn mission. Open-source is nice, it's good, people should use it, but it won't actually/help/ here.
Isnt reporting massive declines in sales, when in fact the opposite is true, isnt that Fraud? It may not seem like it at first, because usually when Fraud is tied with things like that, it is the companies/inflating/ profits, instead of claiming to have lost money. But then, thay're claiming to have lost money in order to seek help from the government. That much is common too. I want to know what's being said by these guys when they're actually, directly, talking. We always hear it second-hand, them saying "We've lost money", but doesnt it tend to go first-hand- "We've lost money, here are figures from this year, and here is last year." So I guess it just comes down to bad journalism. Not checking out the validity of your sources. Right?
DVDs have changed things. Now they/want/ to have as much "Unseen footage" as possible. They actually make/more/ money now by filming things that dont get put into the theatrical release. They get: +a lot more time to work on the unreleased stuff +even more time, because they can just say "We're going to be releasing an extra 40 minutes on the DVD, so you can understand why it's not out yet" +More sales of the DVD
Yeah, they spend extra money filming, and if they do poorly in theaters, they lose more money (-but still more people buy the DVDs, even if the movie sucks, because they want the "extra content", maybe the uncut/doesnt/ suck.) And in the meantime, some scenes get cut.
No, they dont write in the extra 40 minutes/just/ so that it can get cut. They just dont bother to go over everything making sure to get rid of absolutely all unneccessary scenes first. They can afford not to. I expect that they were surprised with a whole 40 extra minutes, but would you be so surprised about 10? 20? That's probably what they were expecting. Go over by 20 minutes, cut that down to 10. That much/usually/ gets cut. The idea of "Uncut releases" just pushes the excepted number up a bit. "We're 40 minutes over? Oh well." and the rest is on a DVD.
Somewhere out there, there's a 3-hour long uncut version.. Take a bunch of nerds, show them a 2-hour movie. A couple months later, when it's about to come out on DVD, tell them the movie was actually three hours long. And it's a star-trek movie. Anyone who/isnt/ going to buy that, probably/isnt/ going to be posting here. Get out you frigg'n non-nerd!
If they had even looked into the general field- IM Messaging in general, they would have instantly been harrassed by dozens of IM Bots claiming to be horny 18y/o with a new HP lolomglol!!! Now we can look at this two ways: They arent taking the slightest steps towards trying; or fraud. [is this the right word for it?] I can't seriously believe that nobody at the patent office uses an IM client, so I'm going to have to draw the only possible conclusion after a long series of bad patents: They aren't lazy, they corrupt. We, the consumers, can't wait for corperations to eat eachother. We need to take action. To start with, I suggest writing your congressmen, as usual, but it shouldnt end there. Eventually there will need to be some suits filed against the patent office. [Is there any way to do such a thing without bringing up claims of/monetary/ damages? There's intellectual property, can we claim intelectual damage?]
This isnt about me not wanting to see it. I am, amazingly, smart enough to not click goatse links in the first place. Also amazingly, I have the amazing ability to type it into my URL bar whenever I/do/ want to see it. So given that both your assertions- that I am too dumb to not see it when I don't want to; that I have something against seeing it at all -perhaps now you can see my real point, the elimination of off-topic posts, such as this one.
The article seems to be presenting this as a good thing. Any imported animals are likely to cary disease, and they're a new import so it just needs to be found out what safeguards and restrictions should apply, just like fruit. Just another developement in the modern way of making everything/bigger/. And this one seems to have come about naturally, no mention of any genetic engineering, and for everybody who doesnt bother to read the article: "Nuclear" Worms is just a name. Come up with to market the things. These are just animals being brought from one region to another. Like horses. But getting chopped into bits after the sale. Any "Threat" is more likely going to be based on survival-of-the-fittest, not some non-obscure diseases which happen to be in some worms which have been imported for years with no related cases of illness.
Incredibly hard, actually. Just like it would be incredibly hard to simply disallow posts which contain links to goatse. Sure, there are redirects which circumvent it, but what the hell is wrong with just IP-banning people who try to post a link like that, automatically? Just as hard as it would be to disallow posts which start with "... by poopbot" Just as hard as it would be to just give up on the pointlessly worthless search feature in favore of a google site-search. In case you haven't noticed: The Editor's Don't Care. What they are doing is posting stories they like. They don't care enough to read the site themselves because, to them, that's not what the site is about. To them this site is about posting links. To us it's about reading those links. Seems that 90% of these posts should be -2 offtopic.
It seems to me that, according to law, he is guilty. The original trial is meaningless, since he can only be found guilty, if the system works the way it is supposed to. In an ordinary court it is only to determine whether a law has been broken. One [at least] _HAS_ been broken. It is not until the appeals proccess that it can be determined whether those laws are in question.
The Zaurus has no built-in USB port. This is possibly the one and only reason that the Zaurus is a peice of crap, but there you have it. *goes back to trying to get linux to even/talk/ to the thing*
You can find them in Circuit City. They're those $120 ones everyone can afford. You know, unless they've got this thing about spending $120 on something that holds less than.3% of what the larger versions of storage will hold for the same price.
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Using AIM/ICQ just fails to send _ALL_ messages, rather than some. error about a "local permit/deny" (which is set to allow-all, btw)
Wow! 10G's for over a second just from plopping into a chair, really? No? Okay then I guess you can stop missing the fucking point, in that case.
Might some[many] companies be unwilling to port those full-featured programs because having the full features would require being able to interact with certain code which they most certainly do _not_ want to look at, for fear of legal ramifications forcing them to open up _all_ of their code?
As more companies start to see linux as an oportunity, we will probably see these "stripped-down" versions more. In windows, the option is simply to pay a licensing fee, which cuts into your profits a bit, and then you can make sure your code works with the code that's there. The alternative, linux, has the potential to cut into Vastly More of the profits. A product may come out incredibly superior, but the makers dont really care about that if the superior product is a branch-off which they have no control over and due to branching make no money from.
I dont know specifics, just a theory.
all the times Trillian has been unable to run AIM, GAIM seems to work for me.
On the other hand, I have never had consistant results using GAIM's ICQ plugin. (sometimes people hear me, sometimes not)
I have found no resources noting this, and the latest version of trillian lets me use AOL again.. so Trillian it is, until somebody tells me what's wrong with gaim.
Whether the source is availible or not, this does not matter. If you think it does, congratulations on being an idiot. Open source may be good for lots of things, software for home or business use, that's great. But would open-sourcing a voting machine help ensure that it is fair and accurate? No. /help/ here.
Open source is slightly more trustworthy, provided all the potential users are downloading and compiling that source. This would never be the case with a voting machine. Just because the supposed-source is availible to you doesnt mean that the unseen binaries, hidden behind many different layers (we would hope, for security), which you actually have no access to, are the same ones you get when you download it from nerdvote.sourceforge and compile it. Many factors can change such things, and there's really no garantee that the binaries of any one program compiled on different machines would be the same. Do you have the same compiler? headers? You don't know. And even if you had the exact same setup, it's not like the machine will give you a confirmation MD5 of the binary before proceeding. Open source, for something like this, would just be a joke. Get off your damn mission. Open-source is nice, it's good, people should use it, but it won't actually
I'm sure we've got a shitload powerful enough to see the landing site from here. Why the hell send another ship?
Well in order for both to be used as one screen, you'd have to view it at an angle. So that's however many collumns x4, not x2
so, big.
Isnt reporting massive declines in sales, when in fact the opposite is true, isnt that Fraud? /inflating/ profits, instead of claiming to have lost money. But then, thay're claiming to have lost money in order to seek help from the government. That much is common too. I want to know what's being said by these guys when they're actually, directly, talking. We always hear it second-hand, them saying "We've lost money", but doesnt it tend to go first-hand- "We've lost money, here are figures from this year, and here is last year."
It may not seem like it at first, because usually when Fraud is tied with things like that, it is the companies
So I guess it just comes down to bad journalism. Not checking out the validity of your sources.
Right?
Disable Images, Scripts, Tables, and everything else that isnt plain, unformatted text. Yes.
..in which time some asshole will ruin everybody's fun by cloning a mammoth through some other method.
Actually, you may or may not be able to (probably still not ^_^), and you didnt read his question thoroughly. Dont be a dumbass.
"So, first time on an airplane?"
"Y-yeah.."
"Nervous?"
"A little.."
"GET HIM!"
X-Box+Linux+Emulator+Emulator+Emulator+Emulator+
Emulator+Emulator+Emulator+... ;)
Seriously, wtf?
"Listen4ever has clearly located itself in China to avoid the ambit of United States copyright law," the suit said.
"Yeah, and guess what, that works" the State Department said.
they admitted 'We can't get the people who are really responsible, so we're going after innocent people'
DVDs have changed things. Now they /want/ to have as much "Unseen footage" as possible. They actually make /more/ money now by filming things that dont get put into the theatrical release. They get:
/doesnt/ suck.)
/just/ so that it can get cut. They just dont bother to go over everything making sure to get rid of absolutely all unneccessary scenes first. They can afford not to. /usually/ gets cut. The idea of "Uncut releases" just pushes the excepted number up a bit. "We're 40 minutes over? Oh well." and the rest is on a DVD.
+a lot more time to work on the unreleased stuff
+even more time, because they can just say "We're going to be releasing an extra 40 minutes on the DVD, so you can understand why it's not out yet"
+More sales of the DVD
Yeah, they spend extra money filming, and if they do poorly in theaters, they lose more money (-but still more people buy the DVDs, even if the movie sucks, because they want the "extra content", maybe the uncut
And in the meantime, some scenes get cut.
No, they dont write in the extra 40 minutes
I expect that they were surprised with a whole 40 extra minutes, but would you be so surprised about 10? 20? That's probably what they were expecting. Go over by 20 minutes, cut that down to 10. That much
Somewhere out there, there's a 3-hour long uncut version.. /isnt/ going to buy that, probably /isnt/ going to be posting here. Get out you frigg'n non-nerd!
Take a bunch of nerds, show them a 2-hour movie.
A couple months later, when it's about to come out on DVD, tell them the movie was actually three hours long.
And it's a star-trek movie.
Anyone who
If they had even looked into the general field- IM Messaging in general, they would have instantly been harrassed by dozens of IM Bots claiming to be horny 18y/o with a new HP lolomglol!!! /monetary/ damages? There's intellectual property, can we claim intelectual damage?]
Now we can look at this two ways: They arent taking the slightest steps towards trying; or fraud. [is this the right word for it?]
I can't seriously believe that nobody at the patent office uses an IM client, so I'm going to have to draw the only possible conclusion after a long series of bad patents: They aren't lazy, they corrupt. We, the consumers, can't wait for corperations to eat eachother. We need to take action. To start with, I suggest writing your congressmen, as usual, but it shouldnt end there. Eventually there will need to be some suits filed against the patent office. [Is there any way to do such a thing without bringing up claims of
Here: "We are allowed to change our government, why not our software?"
There: "We are allowed to change our software, why not our government?"
This isnt about me not wanting to see it. I am, amazingly, smart enough to not click goatse links in the first place. Also amazingly, I have the amazing ability to type it into my URL bar whenever I /do/ want to see it. So given that both your assertions- that I am too dumb to not see it when I don't want to; that I have something against seeing it at all -perhaps now you can see my real point, the elimination of off-topic posts, such as this one.
The article seems to be presenting this as a good thing. Any imported animals are likely to cary disease, and they're a new import so it just needs to be found out what safeguards and restrictions should apply, just like fruit. /bigger/. And this one seems to have come about naturally, no mention of any genetic engineering, and for everybody who doesnt bother to read the article: "Nuclear" Worms is just a name. Come up with to market the things. These are just animals being brought from one region to another. Like horses. But getting chopped into bits after the sale.
Just another developement in the modern way of making everything
Any "Threat" is more likely going to be based on survival-of-the-fittest, not some non-obscure diseases which happen to be in some worms which have been imported for years with no related cases of illness.
Incredibly hard, actually. Just like it would be incredibly hard to simply disallow posts which contain links to goatse. Sure, there are redirects which circumvent it, but what the hell is wrong with just IP-banning people who try to post a link like that, automatically?
Just as hard as it would be to disallow posts which start with "... by poopbot"
Just as hard as it would be to just give up on the pointlessly worthless search feature in favore of a google site-search.
In case you haven't noticed: The Editor's Don't Care.
What they are doing is posting stories they like. They don't care enough to read the site themselves because, to them, that's not what the site is about. To them this site is about posting links. To us it's about reading those links.
Seems that 90% of these posts should be -2 offtopic.
this is slashdot, so who cares if an innocent server is forced to shut down? Stop being "Hopeful" and start being responsible.
It seems to me that, according to law, he is guilty. The original trial is meaningless, since he can only be found guilty, if the system works the way it is supposed to. In an ordinary court it is only to determine whether a law has been broken. One [at least] _HAS_ been broken. It is not until the appeals proccess that it can be determined whether those laws are in question.
The Zaurus has no built-in USB port. This is possibly the one and only reason that the Zaurus is a peice of crap, but there you have it. /talk/ to the thing*
*goes back to trying to get linux to even
You can find them in Circuit City. They're those $120 ones everyone can afford. You know, unless they've got this thing about spending $120 on something that holds less than .3% of what the larger versions of storage will hold for the same price.