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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: IdeaMason to be featured on Bitsdujour
« Last post by tinjaw on April 25, 2007, 09:50 AM »I was looking at that this morning as well. I am interested in hearing what you think of it after your trial.
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So what’s good about a monoculture, and why does Microsoft win so often when people make a decision about platforms? Largely because what the open source community sees as a strength, people trying to get a job done in the real world see as a weakness. We celebrate the diversity of choices available to solve a problem and call it freedom. IT managers and CIOs look at it and call it chaos, confusion and uncertainty.
Can you ask him if they are using a copy of the Ghost Corporate Suite or some other type of method to image the drive? Different methods for different replications. I’m scanning for an answer that doesn’t require a software solution. Keep in mind that he technically “is” violating the law because even though he ships each with a separate code, every four systems are sharing the same key. This will probably end up causing more issues in the long run with genuine windows checks.
http://image.nartbox.../swf/040121_dung.swfI just tried the link, and unfortunately-Curt (April 22, 2007, 08:46 AM)
yes, it did work for me.I haven't got a list handy at the moment but there are loads of useful sites with RegEx tutorials. I'd guess if you searched this forumm you would find a few of them.Most likely I will start with the very excellent site run by Jan Goyvaerts, the developer of RegexBuddy, called Regular-Expressions.info.-Carol Haynes (April 22, 2007, 05:18 PM)
I think that what's at the bottom of it all is a fundamental flaw in capitalism that cannot be adequately addressed inside the system it operates. (This would run off on too much of a tangent - I'll leave it there.)A hah! You admit you are a pinko commie socialist hippie!!-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 05:21 PM)
J/K of course.When you make $100 per month, it's not easy to spend $50 on software.If anyone makes $100 per month and they spend a single penny on software, they're a fricking idiot. If they are making $100 per month a) they probably don't have a computer in the first place b) if they do, they can't afford electricity to run it. c) If they "need" software they can use free software. I don't care if the price of the software is one cent. If they don't pay for it, they are stealing. If you don't believe me, read a dictionary. I'm not trying to be hostile here, it is just a fact of life. The definition of the word is what it is.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
To ask that someone that makes what I spit on for a piece of software is just cruel. It's called having some sense of generosity and compassion.That is a red herring. Again, if the software has a price, be it one cent or a million dollars, if they use it without paying they are stealing. It has absolutely nothing to do with generosity or compassion. Again, I repeat, if a seller wants to show compassion and generosity and give it away for free or at a reduced price, then I applaud them.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
At the moment our ability to respond to these issues (as software manufacturers) is limited, and only the larger manufacturers really have the means to do soI cannot disagree with you more. I disagree with you 100%. I offer you the tens of thousands of one-person F/OSS applications available for anybody's use. It doesn't take a large manufacturer to provide free software for people who can't afford to pay for software. I am not sure why you say this. And if the company you are working for makes software that poor people cannot afford, spend your time off the clock working on F/OSS.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
But to begrudge someone that lives in poverty and is fortunate enough to actually HAVE A COMPUTER is just cruel.Who in this thread has aid *anything* to indicate that they begrudge such people? No one has said anything of the sort.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
I'm not really buying this line of reasoning across the board.Yes, pricing is situational. But, that is a red herring. The situation might be that the software only costs $0.000001 USD in China and $1,000,000 USD in the US, however, if you take it without paying, by definition, you are stealing. I don't care if you downloaded it, borrowed installer media, or shoplifted it. It doesn't matter if it is software.
Pricing is situational.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
Just around the corner from my house I see Mercedez cars, BMWs, and Bentleys. These people can afford to pay for software. I can also travel a few hours from where I live and see people in complete and total squallor with literally nothing. If they "steal" from me, my cost is virtually nothing.It has nothing to do with one's ability to afford something. Again, by definition, if you take something that isn't yours, that isn't being offered to you by the rightful owner freely, then you are stealing. If the millionaire down the street takes the same exact software that a homeless person takes without paying, they are both stealing.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
We're talking about software here. The cost for me to get my products to these people is virtually nothing.You can decide that about your personal situation and the software that you personally make, however, just because you don't seem to feel there is any cost, even an opportunity cost, associated with doesn't mean that this is the case across the board for all entities and all software.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
How can I possibly begin to accuse people of theft there?Definition of theft according to Wiktionary. Definition of stealing according to Wiktionary. That is how I can.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
It's got to do with a matter of scale and resources. On my resource scale I can spend $50 and not bat an eye. For some people, that's a weeks wages!It has nothing to do with matter of scale or resources. See definition above.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
(Ahem... Like mouser said... WHAT IS IT WORTH TO YOU!)-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
)Now... If you live in a developed country, then there's no excuse. You can afford my prices and what I'm asking for my software. If you're stealing, then you're stealing. Period. Agreed there.If you want to forgive poor people for stealing, fine. Let them take your stuff. However, it is theft. period. I haven't yet seen any reason, in any of the arguments you have put forth that the definition of theft has changed.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
This is a complex issue and there are real problems in solving it.As this discussion is about piracy, I will have to disagree with you. It is black and white. However, I do believe that you are mixing issues here, and the issue you seem to be confusing with piracy is one about economics, humanity, society, philosophy, etc. - the ability to legally obtain what you need. That is one I will leave the economists and philosophers to figure out.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
But it's just not right for us as software authors in the developed world to complain about fractions of a cent. That's being miserly and greedy in a very obscene and (almost) evil way.I don't believe any of them are complaining about fractions of a cent. They are complaining about millions of dollars.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
I am not condoning Adobe's behaviour. I am not endorsing any particular licensing scheme. I am endorsing being compassionate and fair to PEOPLE.In terms of Adobe being a company competing in a Capitalistic market, I am condoning they're licensing scheme. And I am condoning the licensing scheme of the other companies that compete against them with other software products, targeted at similar markets, with various pricing models. I also condone the licensing scheme of those developers writing similar software using a variety of F/OSS licensing schemes. That is what is great about democracy and capitalism.-Renegade (April 22, 2007, 11:48 AM)
At this point I can't even evaluate it since I don't know much RegEx, but I plan on using RegExBuddy to help me learn them. There is an awful lot to learn, not just of the application, but of RegEx as well.I can make the program using normal methods i.e. while statements and nested if statements.-h0meopathic (April 17, 2007, 09:38 PM)
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With Multi Clipboard you have access to nine clipboard texts (slots), which you can select either via mouseclick when the program window is active, or via Hotkey "Ctrl + NUMPAD 1.. 9", even if the program is inactive or minimized to the system tray. This copies the selected slot to the Windows clipboard, from which you can paste it into your active application (for instance with Ctrl + V). The hotkey "Ctrl + NUMPAD 0" hides or shows the program window, depending on the previous state. If nine slots are not enough and you need more, you can change to another of three available files.