Th same ones that are giving up the funding to solve the problem.
Practically speaking probably mainly the USA, plus whomever we can talk into participating in the cleanup process. Heck if we can get a dozen countries to participate in an illegal war we should have no problem getting them to participate in this.
Seriously, filtering the top 6 inches of water, even going so far as to remove anything bigger than.5 micron shouldn't be such an impossible task, I'm envisioning a boat with a wide modified bow that collects the bow wave for filtering.. perhaps a group of them in an arrow formation filtering thier way back and forth across the gyre. Heck done right they could burn the plastic as fuel, capture the co2 in the sea water to help the phytoplankton recover.
As to to the depletion of the microorganisms in that layer, if the plastic is THAT deleterious we are likely doing the species(s) a favor by removing the badly damaged members, freeing up the space for healthier members to reproduce.
"Oh, and in case you weren't aware, any weapon you have is several times more likely to be used AGAINST you in a crime than BY you to prevent one. Good luck, and happy hunting."
Spoken like a true anti-gun nut, Got a link to that study? I doubt it exists. I won't even bother to explain about the sanctity of the home and the concepts of self defense, you wont bother to listen.
Oh, And Good Luck getting the burglar or rapist to wait while you call the cops and wait for them to arrive.
Actually, most of those actions can insure that when you get the collectors ass hauled into court he will lose. Considering the circumstances it's likely they will be paying the "non-debtor" a good deal of money for the privilege of being an idiot.
Google The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (aka FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. Â 1692
Last time I set it for a customer (at his request) a week later he made me change it back 'cause he lost a 4 page word document by shutting down without saving it first. (who the heck types 4 pages without hitting save!?!) I turned on autosave in all his office apps too.
None of the restrictions you complain about are creations of (or a benefit to) the author of the client for the iPhone. You are certainly free to jump through apple's hoops !Just as the client's developer had to! and can even jailbreak your phone to avoid the $100 fee.
You could also fork the source to another platform that does not have those restrictions.
Personally I have to believe that anyone that was capable of changing the source would likely already have the required resources to do either or NONE of it would matter to them.
My.02, is the OP is completely in the right, there would be NO client for the game on the iPhone without him/them. It's not his fault that Apple has set up the restrictions for development and distribution that they have.
As far as the "fossiness" or lack thereof of his actions, RedHat, SuSE, and many others SELL gpl'd software, for a profit. They do not provide the items required for compiling, installing or running the source they provide either.
The original developer may not like the fact that the OP is charging for the client but he CHOSE the gpl in the first place.
Your sig is priceless! Making people fill their sinuses with a beverage SHOULD give you karma, however I don't think it would be the kind of karma you _want_, at least not till after they are done cleaning it up.
If they couldn't track me I'd grudgingly pay the tax I suppose. But you can bet that they won't do away with the fuel tax, this will end up being an add-on.
Umm, the data is coming off a GPS unit, all they have to do (and trust me they have this in mind already) is say, Oh, we need to know where you go so we know where to send the tax money and suddenly they have a "legitimate" and "reasonable" reason to track each persons vehicular movements. To think that that data would not be subject to the same "mission creep" that every other government collection of anything is subject to is ludicrous.
Even if the initial legislation explicitly forbids any other uses they will simply write new laws later allowing it, probably to foil terrorists or the help the children.
I'm not a tinfoil hatter but DAMN! This one stinks!
Copyright infringement is not "theft" bacause the copyright holder is not being _deprived_ of real money or real property.
By pretending to hold a copyright and taking _actual_money_ for something that is actually copyright free you are actually depriving someone of real money using fraudulent claims.
What part of that don't you understand? Or are you just trolling?
Fisher developed the pen at their own expense NASA only had to buy the pens, at the same price the general public could I might add.
You know, just a little research would keep you from looking quite so stupid. As a personal note you might try not being an ass, just for fun.
re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen NASA never approached Paul Fisher to develop a pen, nor did Fisher receive any government funding for the pen's development. Fisher invented it independently, and then asked NASA to try it. After the introduction of the AG7 Space Pen, both the American and Soviet (later Russian) space agencies adopted it. Previously both the Russian and American astronauts used grease pencils and plastic slates
The Edens in Chicago (94) was concrete end to end for a long long time, I commuted using it end to end for 10 years straight. Most of the repairs were of the type where they took out a 4 to 6 foot section of one lane & re-poured it, this happened rarely enough to not be much of a problem and they would literally do one lane each way end to end, always working at night and almost never taking more than a month to complete all the repairs. It was the nicest road I've ever had the pleasure of having to travel, both my car and motorcycle.
Recently they covered it with asphalt (screwing up traffic in the most asinine way possible of course) and by spring the potholes were pretty much unbearable including a couple that actually BROKE multiple cars.
I guess the road company that whatever politician that made the decision needed to pay back diden't know how to do concrete and wanted the continuing income...
Wow, That's one twisted view of the world you have there.
It's also historically inaccurate, microsoft created competing standards well AFTER the creation of the "real" standards and has used it's market clout to train a generation of sysadmins and programmers that don't know any better, dare I say, like you.
I have a little story, with little to do with this but a great deal to do with marketing winning out over good tech.
I just replaced a server at one of my long term customers site, they are a small shop with 3 PC's that need the network to use a common database.
I had built them a Novell 4.11 server in 1998 and it has been running 24/7/365 since. It has been rebooted probably all of 10 times, usually because of reaching the end of the UPS battery during a blackout. Once due to the new Polish cleaning lady not being able to read the Spanish sign for the old cleaning lady that said "don't touch".
Anyway, that USED to be called reliability. But now thanks to advertising to the CEO's that don't know any better and bringing up college kids to be ms brainwashed masses, you all ACCEPT servers that have to be rebooted all the time for stupid reasons. For a patch? no, you shouldn't have to reboot for a patch, you swap out the files & unload and reload the service, not reboot a SERVER.
Oh and the day I put the new server in, the old one had 893 days of uptime and it's still up waiting for me to migrate one other app to the new server, humming away happily.
10 years with no failures, no security holes, no every other week patches requiring reboots.
think about that everytime you have to reboot your windows server & disrupt your life or the users workday.
Sadly it's failing badly in practice as evidenced by the continuing inability of MS to actually produce secure, bug free code.
I can easily control the quality of MY code, I have no control (or usually knowledge) whatsoever of the bugs in the MS supplied libs/dlls.
IMHO, the.net framework is not worth the time it took to learn it, directX is better but (of course) still has the MS method bias.
I personally think that they are much more about MS controlling your ability to easily support other platforms than being as good as they should (or could) be.
If ANY program (or OS) has artificial limitations deliberately put in place with the ONLY reason being to increase the developers profit, that is the very definition of crippleware.
Sure, Because having every single application be vulnerable to exactly the same problems makes the computing experience both more consistant and more secure.
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Th same ones that are giving up the funding to solve the problem.
Practically speaking probably mainly the USA, plus whomever we can talk into participating in the cleanup process. Heck if we can get a dozen countries to participate in an illegal war we should have no problem getting them to participate in this.
You mean worse than oh say, FISHING?
Seriously, filtering the top 6 inches of water, even going so far as to remove anything bigger than .5 micron shouldn't be such an impossible task, I'm envisioning a boat with a wide modified bow that collects the bow wave for filtering.. perhaps a group of them in an arrow formation filtering thier way back and forth across the gyre. Heck done right they could burn the plastic as fuel, capture the co2 in the sea water to help the phytoplankton recover.
As to to the depletion of the microorganisms in that layer, if the plastic is THAT deleterious we are likely doing the species(s) a favor by removing the badly damaged members, freeing up the space for healthier members to reproduce.
"Oh, and in case you weren't aware, any weapon you have is several times more likely to be used AGAINST you in a crime than BY you to prevent one. Good luck, and happy hunting."
Spoken like a true anti-gun nut, Got a link to that study? I doubt it exists.
I won't even bother to explain about the sanctity of the home and the concepts of self defense, you wont bother to listen.
Oh, And Good Luck getting the burglar or rapist to wait while you call the cops and wait for them to arrive.
Actually, most of those actions can insure that when you get the collectors ass hauled into court he will lose. Considering the circumstances it's likely they will be paying the "non-debtor" a good deal of money for the privilege of being an idiot.
Google The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (aka FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. Â 1692
So they invalidated all keys generated by lenovo up to date?
They are going to have to reinstall the preboot image on every machine they have manufactured with W7?
Of course for all I know that could be 4 machines or 400,000.
All I can say is OWWWW!
Ya Darinbob, there's a registry setting for that.
Last time I set it for a customer (at his request) a week later he made me change it back 'cause he lost a 4 page word document by shutting down without saving it first. (who the heck types 4 pages without hitting save!?!) I turned on autosave in all his office apps too.
Feature or bug? who's to say.
None of the restrictions you complain about are creations of (or a benefit to) the author of the client for the iPhone.
You are certainly free to jump through apple's hoops !Just as the client's developer had to! and can even jailbreak your phone to avoid the $100 fee.
You could also fork the source to another platform that does not have those restrictions.
Personally I have to believe that anyone that was capable of changing the source would likely already have the required resources to do either or NONE of it would matter to them.
And that's the client developers fault because???
My .02, is the OP is completely in the right, there would be NO client for the game on the iPhone without him/them.
It's not his fault that Apple has set up the restrictions for development and distribution that they have.
As far as the "fossiness" or lack thereof of his actions, RedHat, SuSE, and many others SELL gpl'd software, for a profit.
They do not provide the items required for compiling, installing or running the source they provide either.
The original developer may not like the fact that the OP is charging for the client but he CHOSE the gpl in the first place.
Newspapers don't "make content" they just regurgitate what they have seen or re-regurgitate the things that AP or other papers have seen.
Arguably, investigative reporting COULD be making content, but I haven't seen any newspapers or even news programs do that for many YEARS.
Slashdot dosen't even "make" content. it's community makes the content, Slashdot is merely the "building" we meet in to do it.
It's a minor point but it's actually vapor by the time it burns...
SilverHatHacker,
Your sig is priceless!
Making people fill their sinuses with a beverage SHOULD give you karma, however I don't think it would be the kind of karma you _want_, at least not till after they are done cleaning it up.
I'm not saying that MS shouldn't have in the first place but sandboxie does exist and does a pretty good job I think.
http://www.sandboxie.com/
(I just use it when I have no choice but to use exploder)
Sorry, posted @ the wrong reply...
If they couldn't track me I'd grudgingly pay the tax I suppose. But you can bet that they won't do away with the fuel tax, this will end up being an add-on.
Umm, the data is coming off a GPS unit, all they have to do (and trust me they have this in mind already) is say, Oh, we need to know where you go so we know where to send the tax money and suddenly they have a "legitimate" and "reasonable" reason to track each persons vehicular movements.
To think that that data would not be subject to the same "mission creep" that every other government collection of anything is subject to is ludicrous.
Even if the initial legislation explicitly forbids any other uses they will simply write new laws later allowing it, probably to foil terrorists or the help the children.
I'm not a tinfoil hatter but DAMN! This one stinks!
Copyright infringement is not "theft" bacause the copyright holder is not being _deprived_ of real money or real property.
By pretending to hold a copyright and taking _actual_money_ for something that is actually copyright free you are actually depriving someone of real money using fraudulent claims.
What part of that don't you understand? Or are you just trolling?
Nope sorry p51d007
Fisher developed the pen at their own expense NASA only had to buy the pens, at the same price the general public could I might add.
You know, just a little research would keep you from looking quite so stupid.
As a personal note you might try not being an ass, just for fun.
re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen
NASA never approached Paul Fisher to develop a pen, nor did Fisher receive any government funding for the pen's development. Fisher invented it independently, and then asked NASA to try it. After the introduction of the AG7 Space Pen, both the American and Soviet (later Russian) space agencies adopted it. Previously both the Russian and American astronauts used grease pencils and plastic slates
@davidsyes
No, that's just you.
Sorry.
Antennas of course!
The Edens in Chicago (94) was concrete end to end for a long long time, I commuted using it end to end for 10 years straight. Most of the repairs were of the type where they took out a 4 to 6 foot section of one lane & re-poured it, this happened rarely enough to not be much of a problem and they would literally do one lane each way end to end, always working at night and almost never taking more than a month to complete all the repairs.
It was the nicest road I've ever had the pleasure of having to travel, both my car and motorcycle.
Recently they covered it with asphalt (screwing up traffic in the most asinine way possible of course) and by spring the potholes were pretty much unbearable including a couple that actually BROKE multiple cars.
I guess the road company that whatever politician that made the decision needed to pay back diden't know how to do concrete and wanted the continuing income...
And far LESS expensive in the long term.
Wow,
That's one twisted view of the world you have there.
It's also historically inaccurate, microsoft created competing standards well AFTER the creation of the "real" standards and has used it's market clout to train a generation of sysadmins and programmers that don't know any better, dare I say, like you.
I have a little story, with little to do with this but a great deal to do with marketing winning out over good tech.
I just replaced a server at one of my long term customers site, they are a small shop with 3 PC's that need the network to use a common database.
I had built them a Novell 4.11 server in 1998 and it has been running 24/7/365 since.
It has been rebooted probably all of 10 times, usually because of reaching the end of the UPS battery during a blackout. Once due to the new Polish cleaning lady not being able to read the Spanish sign for the old cleaning lady that said "don't touch".
Anyway, that USED to be called reliability. But now thanks to advertising to the CEO's that don't know any better and bringing up college kids to be ms brainwashed masses, you all ACCEPT servers that have to be rebooted all the time for stupid reasons. For a patch? no, you shouldn't have to reboot for a patch, you swap out the files & unload and reload the service, not reboot a SERVER.
Oh and the day I put the new server in, the old one had 893 days of uptime and it's still up waiting for me to migrate one other app to the new server, humming away happily.
10 years with no failures, no security holes, no every other week patches requiring reboots.
think about that everytime you have to reboot your windows server & disrupt your life or the users workday.
Yes that IS a nice theory.
Sadly it's failing badly in practice as evidenced by the continuing inability of MS to actually produce secure, bug free code.
I can easily control the quality of MY code, I have no control (or usually knowledge) whatsoever of the bugs in the MS supplied libs/dlls.
IMHO, the .net framework is not worth the time it took to learn it, directX is better but (of course) still has the MS method bias.
I personally think that they are much more about MS controlling your ability to easily support other platforms than being as good as they should (or could) be.
If ANY program (or OS) has artificial limitations deliberately put in place with the ONLY reason being to increase the developers profit, that is the very definition of crippleware.
Sure,
Because having every single application be vulnerable to exactly the same problems makes the computing experience both more consistant and more secure.
Thank you Romancer.