Ah, I see, thanks. I often find it hard to read with screen brightness all the way down because the screen reflects everything and when you're outdoors that's hard.
I should try seeing if I can undervolt my processor, just as soon as it falls out of warranty - I don't think it's covered.
Well, just in case you aren't, and are truly confused by something I said: by 'a few small games' I meant just that, 'a few small games'. Quake 3 Arena, TA:Spring, Half Life 2 don't qualify, though those run on a GMA 950. There are quite a few people who just play a small game - I still play just a little xmoto, and I'm partial to a quick round of teeworlds. I do play Battlefield 2 now and then but most of the time I just want a quick 3 minute distraction.
If you want to play Fallout 3 on your laptops, then maybe an Intel-graphics-based laptop is not for you? You're not really someone who just wants a hardware accelerated desktop and 'some small games'. What makes you think that everyone is like you?
Similarly, you can't legally buy a SIM card for a mobile phone in India without providing identity credentials to the seller, who is responsible for recording the information for possible police followup.
It's funny though, it's illegal enough if you don't do this, but easy enough to get away with. Even today.
I have no clue how my comment landed up there, but yours seems as unrelated as possible:) Mine was meant as a reply to #26461531 who had trouble with having to reboot his home router all the time. Yeah, 47-50 days, that's about what I got too, then the power went out. I would've hooked it up to the UPS, but there's no point in that when everything else also has to be on a UPS to actually use it.
You know, man. I do. While Symbian may be open source, Nokia Series 40 isn't. And there's this annoying bug. When you have a particular combination of tones set and you're using a stereo headset and playing music over the headset, receiving a flash message (like an SMS but it comes straight to the screen) will make the music player hang. Because S40 isn't really multi-tasking, you end up having to restart the phone. This is so annoying! If only I could get someone to do something.
Is that normal? Admittedly, the router I have at home only usually has some 4 clients connected to it at the same time at the maximum, but the ZyXEL P-660 (not exactly high end) has uptimes in the many hundreds of hours.
And OP also seems to have trouble with a router he's using at home.
That isn't a very good analogy, is it? If it's some GNU library functions that you want, those are licensed under the LGPL, you can link to those if you so wish while still 'protecting your innovations'.
However, if your milkman makes all the ratchets in your SAF 3000 under the condition that you provide units to every milkman who asks, and then you don't, then you're pretty much violating the law (and also any ethical or moral stricture about respecting an agreement).
This was actually my question. I forgot to mention that in my original post. I too live in a country where software patents aren't valid. Is it Free if I live in a place where the patents aren't valid?
You are really missing the point. The GPL is a license. A developer gives you a license to use the code on the condition that you release any changes to it. If you don't you don't have a license to the code, what you are doing is 'copyright violation'. Get that? It's copyright violation! Your code doesn't become free or anything like that.
I mean, seriously, you can just pay the copyright violation settlement costs if you want, and stop distributing someone else's code.
I've never understood how you can want to 'protect' your work but use everyone else's.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with an mp3 decoder? LAME is LGPL.
Personally, while I'm willing to make these compromises (I have nVidia graphics drivers - though personally I was happier with Intel's, and I have an Intel wireless card), I'm a great fan of Stallman. Someone's got to be the extremist for things to change.
What an amusing response! The very article you reference further goes on to say:
Obscenity - personal viewing - Is it an offence
From a plain reading of Section 292 of the IPC it appears that if a person is in mere possession of the obscene material for his personal use without any intention to perform any of the purposes specified in section 292 (as stated above) it may not be an offence under section 292. In the case of Jagdish Chavla and others v/s the State of Rajasthan, 1999 CR LJ 2562 (Raj), the accused was caught viewing an obscene film on the television with the help of a VCR which along with the cassette was seized and a case under section 292 of the IPC was registered. The accused filed a petition in the High Court for quashing of the proceedings and it was held that simply being in possession of a blue film could not make a person guilty under section 292 unless it was further proved that the purpose of keeping the same was selling or letting it on hire. Therefore without proving the purpose of keeping the same no offence mentioned in section 292 was made out and the proceedings were quashed. The law therefore excludes from liability (under section 292) the mere possession of obscene material for ones own personal use without any intention to perform any of the purposes specified in section 292.
However, it would be prudent to be aware that a prosecution may lie for mere possession of obscene material also. It could be argued that a person, even though he is in mere possession of the obscene material which may be for his own personal use, actually aids and abets the publication, sale, hire, distribution etc of the obscene material, which is an offence under section 292. And under section 111 of the IPC, the abettor is held to be equally guilty of the offence which he has abetted provided it is proved that the offence is a probable consequence of the abetment.
Now, notice how the second paragraph does warn that you may be prosecuted for possession. However, the first paragraph mentions a case where possessing and viewing an 'obscene' tape resulted in no sentencing, with the court saying that it must be proved that the person intended hire, sell or publish.
And if that's not enough, your original quote says nothing to back up what you said! Stop trolling, please.
Yes, but think practically. For a domain registered in the USA with a server in Canada, how exactly does Indian law have jurisdiction? IANAL, so I may well be wrong. They're very bad at blocking websites. Besides, blocking the distribution of pornography is simply impossible. It's unenforceable.
Seriously, loads of Indian laws are notoriously unenforceable. Besides, IIRC, viewing pornography isn't illegal, it's distributing it that is illegal.
Anyway, it's interesting how little the average Indian knows about surveillance, and even more interesting how little he cares. Take me, for instance, until Research In Motion said that they couldn't allow the Indian Government to read email and stuff from Blackberries, I did not know that the Government could do that with my messages or phone calls.
Even otherwise, I find it hard to care, because even if intelligence gathering is done, it'll probably get stuck in a file somewhere, with nothing done. Really, incompetence cuts both ways - helps the militants, helps us.
Ideally, of course, it would be hard to make legislation like this and there would be protests and discussions about why laws like this do nothing to actually prevent terrorism, and how our essential liberties are being threatened. But try pulling stuff like that in a country where 120,000 people have starved to death or committed suicide for lack of a harvest. The large majority of Indians have more immediate issues to worry about, and the few who care can bypass these stupid strictures easily.
In addition, it's always been easy to be 'hard on terrorism', it's actually much much harder to have the resolve to fight it properly. And Indian politicians have rarely had the resolve to do anything.
May be I should also put up my own research...may be, then call my self a "Security researcher."
Well, yes, yes you could. Why on earth does the author of the paper have to be on Google or Wikipedia? All the information you need is in the paper itself including an explanation of the methodology and _the freaking damn code itself_!
OT, but what are you guys doing to get such high battery life? My less-than-a-year-old Dell XPS M1330 gives me only 2 hours on a 57.7 Wh (now down to 40 Wh) battery. Maybe I made a bad purchase, but surely you can't be getting such good performance out of the box?
Hell yeah, Intel rocks in this respect. If all you want is a hardware accelerated desktop and a few small games, the Intel X3100 is actually better on Ubuntu (in my experience) than the nVidia 8400M GS. I have the latter, and a friend has a laptop with the former and I was amazed to see how much better his worked with Compiz.
Is it just me who treats the C:/Users/Username/ subdirectory as a Home folder? What exactly about UAC is a problem? It does exactly what I would expect it to. When I'm messing with stuff outside my Home folder it warns me. When I'm installing software, it asks me for permission. Frankly, I think it's sound. The only thing that got on my nerves is that the bloody Java updater displays this little notification when it has found a new version, and you have to aim at the 'x' exactly or the bloody thing will pop up two UAC prompts trying to update. God!
That said, I don't use Windows any more because Windows Update and friends are stupid, inconsistent and shoddily made. But frankly, UAC has never been a problem.
Ubuntu calls itself 'Linux for Human Beings', and their forums have explicit rules about how you help other people. Not once have I known that place to elitist. They answered all my questions, including the silly ones.
Is this a false idea of ease? The software that is released as source-only on Linux, may not be released at all on Windows. I find it hard to believe that someone who won't go to the trouble of making a statically-linked binary* will go to the trouble of making a whole installer.
Also, I haven't had to compile anything for years.
* This is possible and works fine. Look at the way Teeworlds is distributed, for example.
Funny you should say that. Linux Firefox is awful compared to how it is on Windows at least. And it doesn't support Gnome Keyring or KDE Wallet either.
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Ah, I see, thanks. I often find it hard to read with screen brightness all the way down because the screen reflects everything and when you're outdoors that's hard.
I should try seeing if I can undervolt my processor, just as soon as it falls out of warranty - I don't think it's covered.
Are you joking?
Well, just in case you aren't, and are truly confused by something I said: by 'a few small games' I meant just that, 'a few small games'. Quake 3 Arena, TA:Spring, Half Life 2 don't qualify, though those run on a GMA 950. There are quite a few people who just play a small game - I still play just a little xmoto, and I'm partial to a quick round of teeworlds. I do play Battlefield 2 now and then but most of the time I just want a quick 3 minute distraction.
If you want to play Fallout 3 on your laptops, then maybe an Intel-graphics-based laptop is not for you? You're not really someone who just wants a hardware accelerated desktop and 'some small games'. What makes you think that everyone is like you?
It's funny though, it's illegal enough if you don't do this, but easy enough to get away with. Even today.
I have no clue how my comment landed up there, but yours seems as unrelated as possible :) Mine was meant as a reply to #26461531 who had trouble with having to reboot his home router all the time. Yeah, 47-50 days, that's about what I got too, then the power went out. I would've hooked it up to the UPS, but there's no point in that when everything else also has to be on a UPS to actually use it.
You know, man. I do. While Symbian may be open source, Nokia Series 40 isn't. And there's this annoying bug. When you have a particular combination of tones set and you're using a stereo headset and playing music over the headset, receiving a flash message (like an SMS but it comes straight to the screen) will make the music player hang. Because S40 isn't really multi-tasking, you end up having to restart the phone. This is so annoying! If only I could get someone to do something.
Is that normal? Admittedly, the router I have at home only usually has some 4 clients connected to it at the same time at the maximum, but the ZyXEL P-660 (not exactly high end) has uptimes in the many hundreds of hours.
And OP also seems to have trouble with a router he's using at home.
That isn't a very good analogy, is it? If it's some GNU library functions that you want, those are licensed under the LGPL, you can link to those if you so wish while still 'protecting your innovations'.
However, if your milkman makes all the ratchets in your SAF 3000 under the condition that you provide units to every milkman who asks, and then you don't, then you're pretty much violating the law (and also any ethical or moral stricture about respecting an agreement).
This was actually my question. I forgot to mention that in my original post. I too live in a country where software patents aren't valid. Is it Free if I live in a place where the patents aren't valid?
You are really missing the point. The GPL is a license. A developer gives you a license to use the code on the condition that you release any changes to it. If you don't you don't have a license to the code, what you are doing is 'copyright violation'. Get that? It's copyright violation! Your code doesn't become free or anything like that.
I mean, seriously, you can just pay the copyright violation settlement costs if you want, and stop distributing someone else's code.
I've never understood how you can want to 'protect' your work but use everyone else's.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with an mp3 decoder? LAME is LGPL.
Personally, while I'm willing to make these compromises (I have nVidia graphics drivers - though personally I was happier with Intel's, and I have an Intel wireless card), I'm a great fan of Stallman. Someone's got to be the extremist for things to change.
Now, notice how the second paragraph does warn that you may be prosecuted for possession. However, the first paragraph mentions a case where possessing and viewing an 'obscene' tape resulted in no sentencing, with the court saying that it must be proved that the person intended hire, sell or publish.
And if that's not enough, your original quote says nothing to back up what you said! Stop trolling, please.
Yes, but think practically. For a domain registered in the USA with a server in Canada, how exactly does Indian law have jurisdiction? IANAL, so I may well be wrong. They're very bad at blocking websites. Besides, blocking the distribution of pornography is simply impossible. It's unenforceable.
Seriously, loads of Indian laws are notoriously unenforceable. Besides, IIRC, viewing pornography isn't illegal, it's distributing it that is illegal.
Anyway, it's interesting how little the average Indian knows about surveillance, and even more interesting how little he cares. Take me, for instance, until Research In Motion said that they couldn't allow the Indian Government to read email and stuff from Blackberries, I did not know that the Government could do that with my messages or phone calls.
Even otherwise, I find it hard to care, because even if intelligence gathering is done, it'll probably get stuck in a file somewhere, with nothing done. Really, incompetence cuts both ways - helps the militants, helps us.
Ideally, of course, it would be hard to make legislation like this and there would be protests and discussions about why laws like this do nothing to actually prevent terrorism, and how our essential liberties are being threatened. But try pulling stuff like that in a country where 120,000 people have starved to death or committed suicide for lack of a harvest. The large majority of Indians have more immediate issues to worry about, and the few who care can bypass these stupid strictures easily.
In addition, it's always been easy to be 'hard on terrorism', it's actually much much harder to have the resolve to fight it properly. And Indian politicians have rarely had the resolve to do anything.
Because Fallout 3 falls in the category, "a hardware accelerated desktop and a few small games", of course...
Well, yes, yes you could. Why on earth does the author of the paper have to be on Google or Wikipedia? All the information you need is in the paper itself including an explanation of the methodology and _the freaking damn code itself_!
OT, but what are you guys doing to get such high battery life? My less-than-a-year-old Dell XPS M1330 gives me only 2 hours on a 57.7 Wh (now down to 40 Wh) battery. Maybe I made a bad purchase, but surely you can't be getting such good performance out of the box?
Hell yeah, Intel rocks in this respect. If all you want is a hardware accelerated desktop and a few small games, the Intel X3100 is actually better on Ubuntu (in my experience) than the nVidia 8400M GS. I have the latter, and a friend has a laptop with the former and I was amazed to see how much better his worked with Compiz.
Is it just me who treats the C:/Users/Username/ subdirectory as a Home folder? What exactly about UAC is a problem? It does exactly what I would expect it to. When I'm messing with stuff outside my Home folder it warns me. When I'm installing software, it asks me for permission. Frankly, I think it's sound. The only thing that got on my nerves is that the bloody Java updater displays this little notification when it has found a new version, and you have to aim at the 'x' exactly or the bloody thing will pop up two UAC prompts trying to update. God!
That said, I don't use Windows any more because Windows Update and friends are stupid, inconsistent and shoddily made. But frankly, UAC has never been a problem.
Ubuntu calls itself 'Linux for Human Beings', and their forums have explicit rules about how you help other people. Not once have I known that place to elitist. They answered all my questions, including the silly ones.
:P
PS: Would correcting your spelling be elitist?
Is this a false idea of ease? The software that is released as source-only on Linux, may not be released at all on Windows. I find it hard to believe that someone who won't go to the trouble of making a statically-linked binary* will go to the trouble of making a whole installer.
Also, I haven't had to compile anything for years.
* This is possible and works fine. Look at the way Teeworlds is distributed, for example.
PS: Does Slashdot not use Unicode?
Skype for Linux has had video calls since the beta last year.
Have you looked at running the application in a chroot that mirrors your filesystem, if it's because the program expects certain paths?
Funny you should say that. Linux Firefox is awful compared to how it is on Windows at least. And it doesn't support Gnome Keyring or KDE Wallet either.
It's an old troll. Don't feed it.
I've seen that benchmark often. Is there a newer version of that for Wine 1+?