The guy screaming about "free" cut his chops doodleing in the margins of Mad Magazine. Although, as a kid, I generally found his work more amusing than the satire of the main features.
I use OSS antivirus on my commercial MS boxes. Along with TONS of OSS apps. But, yeah, I don't have AV on my linux boxes, either.
tracker1 is either a troll, or hasn't used an app since 1995.
Your post is clueless flame-bait. Please find out what they are doing with a technology before posting your ignorance. FYI, flash is an Activex plugin running a derivitive of javascript. Silverlight is a .NET assembly running byte-code or compiled. The fact is, both technologies are falling by the wayside thanks to HTML5.
An alternative to flash WAS a good idea. Activex sucks! It's just that HTML5 killed the demand.
I agree. Just because you have chairs for "every suit in the deck" doesn't mean you get the exclusive right to make chairs in that style!
He has a snowball's chance in hell if he goes to court. And if Disney has any sense(???) They'll crucify this guy as an example to others.
I never liked Java, being a graphically-oriented Windows developer. Their feeble attempts at GUI's made me sick. I did try my hand at it, though, but incomprehensibly-stupid rules like, "you can't give your class the same name as a file in your project" made me drop the course.
I took to C# like a fish to water, though. Being designed by the creator of Turbo-Pascal, I found it to be very intelligently designed and easy to understand.
I was unhappy, however, that Microsoft was holding it so tightly. I looked at Mono, an open source implementation, and got excited. Then I read about how patent-encumbered Mono is, and how everyone who thinks about developing in a modern language should use Java(Blech) since it's GPL'ed.
Then I read about this. I got excited because Google has the means to create it's own open-source, patent-unencumbered language and platform. Then I read that they did: this isn't Java, this is a Java-like language (C#, anyone?) which uses a Dalvik virtual machine.
I hope that Google can say to every patent, "No, we don't do it that way." I wish they would take Oracle to task on software patents, and have them abolished. But since it's cheaper to just pay up than to do what's right...
To clarify AC's comment, allow me to quote the US Constitution:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
My nightmare journey that started with innocently trying to create an animated gif creator in 1999, and being told that I couldn't because the algorythm was patented, may soon be over? My rantings over the past 10 years to everyone who was dumb enough to listen, may not have been in vain?
Please! Telling the RIAA they are losing money is counter-productive. Tell them that they are making the 2% profit! Woo-hoo! Let them do the math and figure out it's really -98%.
I wonder how long it will take until the RIAA is bankrupt, or at least can't afford their lobbyists. That "fool and his money are soon parted" saying must be in a geologic timeframe.
You guys forget the real fun. As Nick Coghlan observed, throttling is the proper mechanism to curb massive usage, or at least that should be an option. As a parent of a teen-ager, I can tell you that a teen will happily blow past any tier they're on, because they don't have to pay for it. My teen blew past minute caps and text caps without batting an eye. We finally just took the phone away, but not before he had cost us nearly $1,000 in overages.
Now, you'd think that Verizon would have a mechanism available to just stop calls and texts after the maximum is reached. That is what any responsible company would do, but not what a profit-gouging company with minimal competition does.
Consumers need an open market and real competition, not the near-monopoly we have today.
Maybe if McFarlane hadn't blown a million on Mark McGwire's home-run baseball, he'd have enough money to pay his artist's royalties.
FYI, "Mark Twain Highway" was changed to "Mark McGwire Highway", and it's still that way today. Write brilliant books, so what. But cheat well at baseball... YEAH!
Actually, the best idea is to gather as many accurate statistics now about Armenia, and then compare them yearly as long as this legislation is in place.
Hard to argue with facts, and we should see some interesting numbers.
Bing isn't a good enough search engine to use. Would you use plastic wrap as a paper towel if someone paid you 25 cents a roll?
if they want people to use their engine, first they need to fix it, or offer some feature that Google doesn't have. Then they can bribe new users into becoming loyal users.
The more they crack down on file sharing, the more technology goes into making it difficult to trace the file sharers. This, in turn, makes the file sharers feel safer, and more likely to continue to share and download in the future.
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Re: Techdirt imbeciles
You seem to have capitalism confused with imperialism.
On the post: Comic Book Writer Mark Waid Defends Copying, Points To The Value Of The Public Domain
Amusing...
On the post: Has Microsoft Extinguished Silverlight?
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tracker1 is either a troll, or hasn't used an app since 1995.
On the post: Has Microsoft Extinguished Silverlight?
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An alternative to flash WAS a good idea. Activex sucks! It's just that HTML5 killed the demand.
On the post: Chair Designer Sues Disney Over Chair Used In Alice In Wonderland Movie
Re: Lame
He has a snowball's chance in hell if he goes to court. And if Disney has any sense(???) They'll crucify this guy as an example to others.
On the post: The Need For Anti-SLAPP Laws: Developer Sues Author, Publisher, Academic Who Praised Book & Reporter That Reviewed Book
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I'm sure in was nobody important. Camp counselor or something.
On the post: Kids In The Hall Admit They 'Pirate' Their Own Shows, Because They Can't Get Them Legally
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On the post: Oracle's First Big Move With Sun? Use Sun's Patents To Sue Google
Totally crap-tastic!
I took to C# like a fish to water, though. Being designed by the creator of Turbo-Pascal, I found it to be very intelligently designed and easy to understand.
I was unhappy, however, that Microsoft was holding it so tightly. I looked at Mono, an open source implementation, and got excited. Then I read about how patent-encumbered Mono is, and how everyone who thinks about developing in a modern language should use Java(Blech) since it's GPL'ed.
Then I read about this. I got excited because Google has the means to create it's own open-source, patent-unencumbered language and platform. Then I read that they did: this isn't Java, this is a Java-like language (C#, anyone?) which uses a Dalvik virtual machine.
I hope that Google can say to every patent, "No, we don't do it that way." I wish they would take Oracle to task on software patents, and have them abolished. But since it's cheaper to just pay up than to do what's right...
On the post: New Zealand Lawyers Suggest Full Internet Ban For Repeat Infringers
It makes perfect sense!
On the post: Study About IP On The Human Genome Shows That Patents Hindered Innovation
Re: Question about "social benefit"
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Nothing about profits in there.
On the post: First Post-Bilski Patent Appeals Ruling Rejects Software Patent
Light at the end of the tunnel...
On the post: RIAA Spent $17.6 Million In Lawsuits... To Get $391,000 In Settlements?
Would all you people shut up?
I wonder how long it will take until the RIAA is bankrupt, or at least can't afford their lobbyists. That "fool and his money are soon parted" saying must be in a geologic timeframe.
On the post: Why iPhone Broadband Caps Aren't Actually A 'Good Deal'
Kids...
Now, you'd think that Verizon would have a mechanism available to just stop calls and texts after the maximum is reached. That is what any responsible company would do, but not what a profit-gouging company with minimal competition does.
Consumers need an open market and real competition, not the near-monopoly we have today.
On the post: Another Journalist Seduced By App Madness Predicts The End Of The Web
Come on you guys...
You just read too much into things...
On the post: Neil Gaiman And Todd McFarlane Fight Over Whose Derivative Character Is Owned By Whom
Jeeze...
FYI, "Mark Twain Highway" was changed to "Mark McGwire Highway", and it's still that way today. Write brilliant books, so what. But cheat well at baseball... YEAH!
On the post: Armenia Decides It Needs Incredibly Strict Copyright Laws
Re: Excellent
Hard to argue with facts, and we should see some interesting numbers.
On the post: Microsoft Discovers That Bribing People To Use Its Search Engine Didn't Work
The simple fact of the matter is...
if they want people to use their engine, first they need to fix it, or offer some feature that Google doesn't have. Then they can bribe new users into becoming loyal users.
On the post: Amazon Patents Selling Used Goods At Starbucks, Barnes & Noble Or Other Locations
Re: Prior Art
Once one idiot examiner calls it a patent, it's done.
I sure hope the Supreme Court catches wind of this, and does Bilsky right...
On the post: Microsoft Suggests Android Violates Its Patents... But Gets HTC To Buy A License
Re: Re: Re: WOW
If you don't believe me, show me a piece of non-Apple hardware running OS-X with Apple's blessing.
On the post: Shanghai 'Crackdown' On Bootleg Discs Just Moves Them Underground
Another way to look at it...
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