couldnt get anything done without it. Phones are much more distracting- you need to interrupt whatever you're doing for the duration of the conversation, whereas IM can be responded to whenever a free moment is had. It has a sense of urgency to it which Email does not- when you send an e-mail, you can't be sure that anyone will even respond.
As for turning around and talking to the person who's, after all, sitting right next to me anyway.. that can never lead to anything good.
Well, for Write-once, read-many, I guess that's right. An ungodly huge drive that is not rewritable would make sense for most activities (turning all your CDs into MP3s, for example), and you'll have a hard time replacing the neccessity of read/write drives. I actually would like WORM to be several leaps ahead of R/W as far as density goes. My box of 275+ backup CDs can attest to my annoyance.. So, this technology won't actually eliminate smaller R/W drives..
Ah, but you can't get 15GB of storage space today. Seriously, look for it. Hard to get anything under 40GB, really. If the availability of increased storage capacity (and increased chance of failure) means you can't find something smaller and more reliable, is that a good thing?
Not that I'm saying it would make sense to do so, but the door lock is not mechanical by pure neccessity. If the handle to the regular door-latch (not lock) were also simply an electronic switch, the "lock" could simply be something which disables the regular latch.
Just trying to be unhelpful here:) [hey, it's how I'd build a lock!]
Seems like they're hiring programmers to debug the legal system, find security holes, etc. "Well,, somebody/could/ walk in to a store that's showing off one of our movies to promote their new big-screen TV, and stand there for hours as the movie plays, hoping that nobody actually responds to the promotion, blocking the shot" "Uhm.. would anyone actually do that?" "In my experience, these theives are willing to do anything, investing thousands of hours and dollars into the piracy of our intellectual property. And let me tell you, when you catch them, you do not want them to be caught without a law specifically forbidding the exact method they employ!"
Not that there's any store which lets you turn a video camera on inside anyway.
Well since either way they were undeniably hacking his computer, sending it fraudulent data in order to get his computer to operate in a way it was not intended to... I'd say that no matter how someone phrases "cut it out", it's a valid complaint. The article doesnt say, by the way, that his first message to them was "I'm coming after you with an icepick" It very well implied that his first messages were, at the very least, not brutally violent.
In which case you would already have considered that the company in question launched a malicious attack against his system and refused to even acknowledge his complaints for over two months, then decided that if ignoring him wouldnt get rid of him, maybe getting him put in jail for becomming irritated by their harrassment would.
If over, say... 20,000 or so people... independently come up with an idea that you come up with- REGAURDLESS of whether you thought it up "first"- your patent is voided. What would be wrong with such a standard?
The old standard was "use what is best for the job", this tended to be translated to "Use the de facto standard" Now the move is toward "use what is best, and open"
Like it or not, this DOES put a restriction which was not there before. I'm not saying that Microsoft has a point, I'm just saying I'd like everyone to stop pretending they dont understand it.
For recieving mail, I understand the need to have a dedicated server, but I have always wondered why it is considered standard and okay to send outgoing mail through a seperate server. It doesnt make sense to me at all- why do e-mail programs not just connect directly to the servers they are trying to send mail to? (this is just ignorance, I'm actually wondering why)
I seriously would like to know how the hell you people manage to communicate. Do you just hope that the person you're talking to doesnt have a whitelist, or have you graduated beyond IM & Email and started using limitted ESP to at least begin the authentication ritual telling you to add someone to a whitelist?
I bought the first Zaurus I heard about, the SL-5600 I think.. then I starded hearing about the next and greatest Zaurus yet, so I sold mine in anticipation, knowing that what I had would be near-worthless once this new model came out.. Since then, I have not once been at a point where I have seen a new Zaurus released Without the next and greatest version already having been announced- Way to go, guys. Your marketing is done by idiots. Could you maybe wait a full month between the release of your current product and the announcement of your next version?
How about: pass the bill as it is now, then pass an ammendment later on.
"Storm's coming" "Don't worry, I put up a steel barrier." "Steel? I wanted Titanium!" "Oh, okay, I'll tear down the steel one until we can get the titanium one built"
they dont. Note that this still doesnt bring any meaning to "compute at the speed of light", which can't actually work out if you use it in a sentence no matter how many operations per second you can get
The movie is a COMEDY, specifically, PARODY!
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Of course the characters would be using an entirely unrealistic operating system, which no real person would ever use. It's stupposed to be FUNNY you nitwits!
If you took time to re-write every line of code so that it was "obfuscated", as in, no longer had any of the same structure or even ways of going about doing things.. is that theft? if I watch Star Wars, like Star Wars, and make my own movie with the same plot (Non-X who wants to be X becomes the best X ever thanks to barely-explained element Y over the course of two hour or so), having none of the same characters or settings (though characters and settings exist which carry out the same roles where neccessary), am I doing anything criminal?
I'm not trolling, I'm asking: Where's the line between "theft" and "inspiration"? If completely re-writing code to carry out the same functions (having said code as refrence) is theft, then cloning something the way OpenOffice tries to is certainly also theft, not to mention that SCO's claims would have no defense against them whatsoever.
I'm not bashing the GPL, I just think you're being extreme in saying that such a level of "obfuscation" would still have you as a theif.
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couldnt get anything done without it. Phones are much more distracting- you need to interrupt whatever you're doing for the duration of the conversation, whereas IM can be responded to whenever a free moment is had. It has a sense of urgency to it which Email does not- when you send an e-mail, you can't be sure that anyone will even respond.
As for turning around and talking to the person who's, after all, sitting right next to me anyway.. that can never lead to anything good.
Do this for all crimes, no matter how small. That'll teach 'em.
Well, for Write-once, read-many, I guess that's right. An ungodly huge drive that is not rewritable would make sense for most activities (turning all your CDs into MP3s, for example), and you'll have a hard time replacing the neccessity of read/write drives. I actually would like WORM to be several leaps ahead of R/W as far as density goes. My box of 275+ backup CDs can attest to my annoyance..
So, this technology won't actually eliminate smaller R/W drives..
Ah, but you can't get 15GB of storage space today.
Seriously, look for it. Hard to get anything under 40GB, really. If the availability of increased storage capacity (and increased chance of failure) means you can't find something smaller and more reliable, is that a good thing?
Not that I'm saying it would make sense to do so, but the door lock is not mechanical by pure neccessity. If the handle to the regular door-latch (not lock) were also simply an electronic switch, the "lock" could simply be something which disables the regular latch.
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Just trying to be unhelpful here
[hey, it's how I'd build a lock!]
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I thought GitSAC was made for a Pay-per-view type service.. that's what the promotion for it said, anyway.
Seems like they're hiring programmers to debug the legal system, find security holes, etc. /could/ walk in to a store that's showing off one of our movies to promote their new big-screen TV, and stand there for hours as the movie plays, hoping that nobody actually responds to the promotion, blocking the shot"
"Well,, somebody
"Uhm.. would anyone actually do that?"
"In my experience, these theives are willing to do anything, investing thousands of hours and dollars into the piracy of our intellectual property. And let me tell you, when you catch them, you do not want them to be caught without a law specifically forbidding the exact method they employ!"
Not that there's any store which lets you turn a video camera on inside anyway.
Well since either way they were undeniably hacking his computer, sending it fraudulent data in order to get his computer to operate in a way it was not intended to... I'd say that no matter how someone phrases "cut it out", it's a valid complaint. The article doesnt say, by the way, that his first message to them was "I'm coming after you with an icepick"
It very well implied that his first messages were, at the very least, not brutally violent.
In which case you would already have considered that the company in question launched a malicious attack against his system and refused to even acknowledge his complaints for over two months, then decided that if ignoring him wouldnt get rid of him, maybe getting him put in jail for becomming irritated by their harrassment would.
If over, say... 20,000 or so people... independently come up with an idea that you come up with- REGAURDLESS of whether you thought it up "first"- your patent is voided.
What would be wrong with such a standard?
The old standard was "use what is best for the job", this tended to be translated to "Use the de facto standard"
Now the move is toward "use what is best, and open"
Like it or not, this DOES put a restriction which was not there before. I'm not saying that Microsoft has a point, I'm just saying I'd like everyone to stop pretending they dont understand it.
expirementing with dark energy will only anger the tree goddess!
For recieving mail, I understand the need to have a dedicated server, but I have always wondered why it is considered standard and okay to send outgoing mail through a seperate server. It doesnt make sense to me at all- why do e-mail programs not just connect directly to the servers they are trying to send mail to?
(this is just ignorance, I'm actually wondering why)
I seriously would like to know how the hell you people manage to communicate. Do you just hope that the person you're talking to doesnt have a whitelist, or have you graduated beyond IM & Email and started using limitted ESP to at least begin the authentication ritual telling you to add someone to a whitelist?
I bought the first Zaurus I heard about, the SL-5600 I think.. then I starded hearing about the next and greatest Zaurus yet, so I sold mine in anticipation, knowing that what I had would be near-worthless once this new model came out..
Since then, I have not once been at a point where I have seen a new Zaurus released Without the next and greatest version already having been announced-
Way to go, guys. Your marketing is done by idiots. Could you maybe wait a full month between the release of your current product and the announcement of your next version?
I am a pervert and I stand by that firmly.
Now I realize that it was all part of a larger trend to give our vehicles fewer and fewer wheels. At this rate, flying cars can't be far off.
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How about: pass the bill as it is now, then pass an ammendment later on.
"Storm's coming"
"Don't worry, I put up a steel barrier."
"Steel? I wanted Titanium!"
"Oh, okay, I'll tear down the steel one until we can get the titanium one built"
they dont.
Note that this still doesnt bring any meaning to "compute at the speed of light", which can't actually work out if you use it in a sentence no matter how many operations per second you can get
Of course the characters would be using an entirely unrealistic operating system, which no real person would ever use. It's stupposed to be FUNNY you nitwits!
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If you took time to re-write every line of code so that it was "obfuscated", as in, no longer had any of the same structure or even ways of going about doing things.. is that theft?
if I watch Star Wars, like Star Wars, and make my own movie with the same plot (Non-X who wants to be X becomes the best X ever thanks to barely-explained element Y over the course of two hour or so), having none of the same characters or settings (though characters and settings exist which carry out the same roles where neccessary), am I doing anything criminal?
I'm not trolling, I'm asking: Where's the line between "theft" and "inspiration"? If completely re-writing code to carry out the same functions (having said code as refrence) is theft, then cloning something the way OpenOffice tries to is certainly also theft, not to mention that SCO's claims would have no defense against them whatsoever.
I'm not bashing the GPL, I just think you're being extreme in saying that such a level of "obfuscation" would still have you as a theif.
I fail to see how "You can sell, but you can't buy" is in any way an inconsistency.