Now they turn up :)
Allen
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Does read only work
Allen
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Chop their hands off I say
And mean it.
You work hard to get things and some low life that never bothered, thinks
they can just take what they cant earn. We need a new Australia.
Allen
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On 8/25/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go back 4 billion years and look at the graph.
Oh wait, we don't have temperaturer records for the
last 4 billion years.
The Earth's not that old, remember :-)
So looking at the last 200 years with respect to
4,000,000,000 years tells us
On 8/25/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/CSM/story?id=3523859page=1
Not if you look at the 5-year average.
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On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
What are you planning on doing, starting Rick's Genuine Advantage?
Yeah, I'll bet that sales will boom when people have to deal with
that to use his software!
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On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Stephen the Cook wrote:
So if your committed to open source then fine. If your not, you
should
protect yourself as best you can. I have decorative security doors
on my
home to protect me from the bad people. Why not do the same with my
products out for
On Aug 26, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote:
Have you ever been a victim of a crime Ted? Someone break into
your car,
home, apt, business, or your identity? When it happens to you
don't think
that It's alright. Sorry but you feel the opposite, or at least I
did.
Andy Davies wrote:
I do it the other way and use vfp to 'push' data to Excel
If anyone's interested here is how I do it:
My main form has a dataObj with properties for the database connection and
the name of a view or table of de-normalised data (I'm using a backend
database but the same
Jon Stewart warns us why electing someone like Obama, who has little
foreign policy experience, would be a terrible idea.
http://tinyurl.com/2cvm2h
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On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Stephen the Cook wrote:
So if your committed to open source then fine. If your not, you
should protect yourself as best you can. I have decorative security
doors on my home to protect me from the bad people. Why not do the
same with my
On 8/26/07, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funny that you're using the 'crime' argument while talking about a
company that has single-handedly had to pay more in settlements for
them breaking intellectual property laws than all other companies
combined.
MS (and most everyone
MB Software Solutions wrote:
Stephen the Cook wrote:
snipped
I have decorative security doors on my home to protect me from the
bad people. Why not do the same with my products out for sale?
...right next to the Welcome sign, eh? g
Bigfoot kicked in my back door 17 years or so ago.
On Aug 26, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote:
Bigfoot kicked in my back door 17 years or so ago. They took TV
entertainment, a lot of my wife's family pieces out of her jewelry
box, a
computer, etc. I was not a happy camper. The dealing with the loss
was very
trying.
Allen wrote:
Chop their hands off I say
And mean it.
You work hard to get things and some low life that never bothered, thinks
they can just take what they cant earn. We need a new Australia.
Allen
??? Explain that We need a new Austrailia comment. Are there
severely harsh laws down
Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070825-windows-genuine-advantage-suffers-worldwide-outage-problems-galore.html
Everyone knows that this is undoubtedly the work of those open source
communists.
I'm sure we'll see
On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
Everyone knows that this is undoubtedly the work of those open source
communists.
You mean like Microsoft?
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/21/microsoft_google_osi/
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C'mon, Rick, tell me that you think that MS DRM stops anyone who wants
a cracked version of Windows. Get real. Anyone who wants one can find
one. DRM just hurts those who are trying to follow the rules, when the
vendor doesn't live up to their end of the bargain, or installs a
rootkit that causes
On Aug 26, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
To everyone who's asked if I have every been robbed or mugged or had
my car or house broken into: yes. (I've been shot at and even
depth-charged, too.) Equating physical property with intellectual
property is a lazy way out of this discussion.
On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
staying ahead of evil
Ooohh, oooh! Evil-doers!!! ;-)
I consider a company that would make a product that incorrectly
prevents me from using a copy I legitimately purchased to be much,
much more evil than someone who uses an
Ed,
They'll keep out the good people, too.
Obviously this is true, but how many? Do you have any statistics you are basing
this on, or are you
just generalizing?
I am not talking about a glitch here and there. I think we can agree on the
fact this does happen.
We might have read the same
I've also had my copywritten materials stolen.
No doubt. It is a shame. Kind of makes you wonder why you even established the
copyright? Oh, that's
right, you were trying to protect your intellectual property beg (and sorry
for the cheap shot -
but know I am doing this with humor as my motive)
Yeah, I'll bet that sales will boom when people have to deal with
that to use his software!
Interesting. I never thought adding this feature would boost sales. I wish I
would have thought of
putting this in years ago, thanks for the advice Ed. g
Rick
White Light Computing, Inc.
On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
They'll keep out the good people, too.
Obviously this is true, but how many? Do you have any statistics
you are basing this on, or are you just generalizing?
No, I have not spent my time compiling statistics. If that means
that
On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
Interesting. I never thought adding this feature would boost sales.
I wish I would have thought of putting this in years ago, thanks
for the advice Ed. g
Just be sure to send my cut of the profits!
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Ed Leafe wrote:
It is the nature of digital products to be able to be copied
infinitely without degradation. It is expected that some copies will
be made that we didn't authorize. Every attempt to stop this ends up
doing more harm than good. Smart developers, rather than fighting
Yes Paul, because that's a verifiable fact, not
fantasy.
It doesn't stop you using this study's findings to
harp on about 1938
being the hottest on record.
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Paul
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How come we're not looking at the 4 billion year
average?
--- Paul Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/25/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/CSM/story?id=3523859page=1
Not if you look at the 5-year average.
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Paul
Giving me a product that incorrectly refuses to work is stealing.
Definitely, no argument from me and there are consumer laws that will protect
you as the consumer.
You can go return the product and ask for your money back. Done. You also have
the right to choose
not to buy the product in the
Just be sure to send my cut of the profits!
The check is already in the mail. Don't spend it all in one spot.
Rick
White Light Computing, Inc.
www.whitelightcomputing.com
www.swfox.net
www.rickschummer.com
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On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:21 PM, MB Software Solutions wrote:
Reminds me of Whil (?? at a WhilFest in the past?) saying that only
drug dealers and software companies call their customers users. And
drug dealers get users--repeat paying customers--by first giving them
the stuff for free and
When Activation was introduced, there were numerous reports of failures
that had to be
resolved by calling Microsoft and getting special override keys once they could
demonstrate that
they owned a legal copy. Do you remember that? Now here we have people who were
being honest, but
who
On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
If a zillion copies of your software were made, how much does
that reduce your bank account?
Zero.
That makes it completely right then. What was I thinking?!?
Obviously, you aren't thinking, or at least not reading. Nowhere did
I
On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
I was printing out a document to create an Acrobat PDF. Acrobat
fires up to preview the document. Up
pops a message I have seen a couple of times before about my config
changing and prompted me to
re-activate. Strange, but I tell it to do
Ah, and had this not happened, how much money would Adobe have lost?
Sounds like they're chasing ghosts.
And if I was really using one license on two machines for the purpose of
running my business? $400.
It is their right to chase ghosts if that is how they want to spend their
Dave,
You are correct. Thanks for that I'll give it a look.
Dave Crozier
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On 8/26/07, MB Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Allen wrote:
Chop their hands off I say
And mean it.
You work hard to get things and some low life that never bothered, thinks
they can just take what they cant earn. We need a new Australia.
Allen
??? Explain that We need
Dang! Ed and I agree on one more thang!
JH
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On
Rick Schummer wrote:
My favorite example of this is the most obvious one: WinZip. I can't tell you
how many developers I
have worked with over the years start up WinZip and it prompts with the
number of days since it was
installed and where to go pay for a license. $30 is cheap and most
One example of a company charging a license in a practical manner is
2BrightSparks (SyncBack). It does an incredible job of performing file
backups, uses VSS on XP and 2003 server (where VSS criteria are met), and
the license is only $30. But wait, there's more! For home users you can
use the
I never said to prove it, I asked for you to supply something besides
just righteous indignation.
Well, thank you for the recognition that my indignation is righteous. I become
angry when people attempt to screw up my life, my country, my grandkids futures
by telling everyone that we are too
One of the apps I'm assisting a company with has an SQL Server table
with more than 255 columns. Is there anyway to read it in Fox? I am
getting the dreaded 1872 error when I try to. Of course, the obvious
answer is, don't bring down more than 255 columns, but I need to
update every field back
* this code will get all columns from a SQL Server - handy when
* there are more than 255 columns.
SQLEXEC(dsn,[exec sp_columns 'incident_name'],'c_columns')
JH
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I guess I should tell you to replace incident_name with your table name.
Jh
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