Didn't we come up with an etiquette for all this back in the days of Usenet?:)
You are assuming that ANYONE on the Slashdot Editorial Staff remembers when Usenet, Eamil, FTP and Gopher was the internet. This is a very young, short-sighted group of people.
Besides, does it really matter? It's just a TV show, and not a very good one anymore.
Please see above. The legal onus is upon the DONOR, not the receiver. You MUST surrender the licence, either to the receiver, or the dumpster, when you no longer posess the PC that came with that licence.
You are correct. The point is, the donor of the PC is required to surrender the licence that came with the machine, if one did. That's ALL. It has NOTHING to do with the receiver of the donated PC.
Legal Requirement refers to the CONTRACTS and Licence Agreements Microsoft has with OEMs, and end users. (EULA). These are not laws in and of themselves, but ARE legal requirements, enforced by other contract law.
At the risk of being modded 'Redundant', The codec is NOT Apple's, it's Sorenson. Sorenson is the one who won't/hasn't released the codec. Quicktime can use other codecs, but they all suck ass, quality-wise, compared to Sorenson.
There is another issue, though. Apple's market share on the Desktop is enormous, compared to Linux. Now that they are the LARGEST purveyor of UNIX on the desktop, how willing are they to twist Sorenson's arm to get a codec for a fringe desktop platform?
(Yes, I know linux is making some progress on the desktop. But Gnome and KDE and all the Office-type apps out there Blow Goats compared, even to MS Windows. That isn't likely to change anytime soon, given the typical Open SOurce attitude that syas, ''If a pretty smart geek can figure out just how to tweak this stuff to get it to limp along, that's good enough.'' That doesn't cut it in the real world.
I can't call you anything. I also cannot dispute your claims of research and accurate information. You refused to login and post under your own identity. Perhaps you do not wish to be discredited with previous utterances you may have made in this forum.
a) That is not entirely correct. There were elements within the Japanese Government that wanted to surrender, but the hard-liners were the ones in charge, and they were preparing for a protracted ground invasion.
b) See (a). The operative word is sane. The leadership of the Japanese military, not the emporer, was in charge, and they had become loosely connected to reality. Remeber, these were the same racist, murdering bastards responsible for the sex slavery of Korea, and the Rape of Nanking.
...USA is the only country that has actually used this weapon...
And because we used it we saved hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Allied lives, and brought the war to an end much sooner than it would have otherwise.
We also kept the Soviet Union from overrunning the rest of Europe, be cause they knew we had it, and would use it.
[rant mode on] I am sick to the teeth of the ignorance and naivete displayed by most peacniks, on so many levels. They assume that all peoples of the world simply want the same things. They assume that all political, philosophical, and religious structures are morally equivalent. It's especially galling to hear these kind of complaints from Europeans. Who kept Britain free of German domination twice in the last century? That's right, WE DID. Who liberated you rifle-dropping French, twice? THat's right, WE DID.
It's also quite depressing when this sort of rubbish comes from US citizens. The ignorance perpetrated by the liberal education system in the US has resulted in more than 2 generations of selfish, self-centerd whingers, who feel rather than think, and who have no understanding or gratitude for the sacrifice of those who have gone before. We have been given the most prosperous, moral, and brave country in the world. We ARE fit to be the world's policemen. The old nations proved they were unfit to the task.
[rant mode off]
I expect to get flamed, and modded down, but that's alright.
...make local client firewalls and sandboxing standard...
And who is going to administer such an arrangement?
The problem is, NAT works, and properly administered central firewalls work. IPv6 might have had a chance, had it been rolled out 6 or 8 years ago. Now, the infrastructure is just too big. The inertia is now too large to overcome. IPv6 will continue to grow in niche areas, But it will not replace most LAN and WAN installations. The appropriate analogy is the Desktop computing environment. Linux will never overcome the MS Windows inertia on the desktop. If the current state of affairs in Linux desktop environment and apps existed 6 years ago, when Win95 was new, and the total installed base was much smaller, it might have had a chance.
If I only had one good shot with a ClueBat in my life, it would have to be at an HR ape. They are, without doubt the worst, in every company I have ever worked at. Some have been decent, nice, even smart people, personally. But in their natural habitat, they are clueless, vicious, evil little bastards.
Try vgrep'ing (visual grep) through 500 pages of logs to find something.
I have done just that. Sometimes, that's ALL you've got. If you've been rooted, you CANNOT rely on the rooted system, and you MAY be unable to rely on ANY attached systems.
Sure it is. He keeps the packets in file drawers and stuck on cork boards. They are organized so that he can compare new packets with old ones, using v-grep.
I agree with you 95%. I have met some Linux admins who do not fit your stereotype. I'd like to think I am one of them. I'm an old-school SCO/MIPS/AIX/Business Basic/Pick kind of guy. I'm using Linux on Dell racks in a mixed shop, with some big-ass HP/UX boxes and some NT and Novell.
I'm gald you said 'most cases'. I have found that proper Admin skills and habits are portable accross platforms, but that some platforms lend themselves to better habits than others. Linux has inherited some excellent features from older UNIX varieties, and has inovated some features I hadn't seen, that I like. It's also got some problems, like everything.
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I agree that it would have been nice if a Spoiler warning had been part of the headline, but the level of abject whinging going on is quite sickening.
You are assuming that ANYONE on the Slashdot Editorial Staff remembers when Usenet, Eamil, FTP and Gopher was the internet. This is a very young, short-sighted group of people.
Besides, does it really matter? It's just a TV show, and not a very good one anymore.
Please see above. The legal onus is upon the DONOR, not the receiver. You MUST surrender the licence, either to the receiver, or the dumpster, when you no longer posess the PC that came with that licence.
You are correct. The point is, the donor of the PC is required to surrender the licence that came with the machine, if one did. That's ALL. It has NOTHING to do with the receiver of the donated PC.
Legal Requirement refers to the CONTRACTS and Licence Agreements Microsoft has with OEMs, and end users. (EULA). These are not laws in and of themselves, but ARE legal requirements, enforced by other contract law.
Why? It seems a reasonable suggestion to me.
You assume that the editors of Slashdot,
So very true.
There is another issue, though. Apple's market share on the Desktop is enormous, compared to Linux. Now that they are the LARGEST purveyor of UNIX on the desktop, how willing are they to twist Sorenson's arm to get a codec for a fringe desktop platform?
(Yes, I know linux is making some progress on the desktop. But Gnome and KDE and all the Office-type apps out there Blow Goats compared, even to MS Windows. That isn't likely to change anytime soon, given the typical Open SOurce attitude that syas, ''If a pretty smart geek can figure out just how to tweak this stuff to get it to limp along, that's good enough.'' That doesn't cut it in the real world.
I can't call you anything. I also cannot dispute your claims of research and accurate information. You refused to login and post under your own identity. Perhaps you do not wish to be discredited with previous utterances you may have made in this forum.
b) See (a). The operative word is sane. The leadership of the Japanese military, not the emporer, was in charge, and they had become loosely connected to reality. Remeber, these were the same racist, murdering bastards responsible for the sex slavery of Korea, and the Rape of Nanking.
And because we used it we saved hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Allied lives, and brought the war to an end much sooner than it would have otherwise.
We also kept the Soviet Union from overrunning the rest of Europe, be cause they knew we had it, and would use it.
[rant mode on]
I am sick to the teeth of the ignorance and naivete displayed by most peacniks, on so many levels. They assume that all peoples of the world simply want the same things. They assume that all political, philosophical, and religious structures are morally equivalent. It's especially galling to hear these kind of complaints from Europeans. Who kept Britain free of German domination twice in the last century? That's right, WE DID. Who liberated you rifle-dropping French, twice? THat's right, WE DID.
It's also quite depressing when this sort of rubbish comes from US citizens. The ignorance perpetrated by the liberal education system in the US has resulted in more than 2 generations of selfish, self-centerd whingers, who feel rather than think, and who have no understanding or gratitude for the sacrifice of those who have gone before. We have been given the most prosperous, moral, and brave country in the world. We ARE fit to be the world's policemen. The old nations proved they were unfit to the task.
[rant mode off]
I expect to get flamed, and modded down, but that's alright.
This is Slashdot. Of course, no one ready the article. That goes without saying.
And who is going to pay for this?
And who is going to administer such an arrangement?
The problem is, NAT works, and properly administered central firewalls work. IPv6 might have had a chance, had it been rolled out 6 or 8 years ago. Now, the infrastructure is just too big. The inertia is now too large to overcome. IPv6 will continue to grow in niche areas, But it will not replace most LAN and WAN installations. The appropriate analogy is the Desktop computing environment. Linux will never overcome the MS Windows inertia on the desktop. If the current state of affairs in Linux desktop environment and apps existed 6 years ago, when Win95 was new, and the total installed base was much smaller, it might have had a chance.
If I only had one good shot with a ClueBat in my life, it would have to be at an HR ape. They are, without doubt the worst, in every company I have ever worked at. Some have been decent, nice, even smart people, personally. But in their natural habitat, they are clueless, vicious, evil little bastards.
;-)
I haven't read that in 20 years. I guess I should find read it again, although finding it after 6 or 8 moves might be a problem.
It's called Firewire. No cards needed.
And even more interesting... SBC is doing quite well, for a Telco, and BT is in deep sh*t, financially.
I have done just that. Sometimes, that's ALL you've got. If you've been rooted, you CANNOT rely on the rooted system, and you MAY be unable to rely on ANY attached systems.
Next time, think before posting.
and probably others as well.
Sure it is. He keeps the packets in file drawers and stuck on cork boards. They are organized so that he can compare new packets with old ones, using v-grep.
No, you could not SSH into the machine. sshd is not running, NOTHING is running.
I'm gald you said 'most cases'. I have found that proper Admin skills and habits are portable accross platforms, but that some platforms lend themselves to better habits than others. Linux has inherited some excellent features from older UNIX varieties, and has inovated some features I hadn't seen, that I like. It's also got some problems, like everything.
It's not habachi, it's teppanyaki, and it is indeed Japanese.