Linus only recently opened the 2.5 kernel series. He's been maintaining 2.4. I believe what you're attributing to ownership is his being aware of the fact that a broken "stable" kernel could do terrible damage, and nifty new sound bits and experimental reworking of the task scheduler aren't worth taking that risk.
So... how do you explain him ripping out the memory manager in the middle of a stable series and replacing it with entirely new, undocumented code?
The "best" lawyer is a subjective assessment... you'd never be able to prove it in court, whereas calling a phone number continuously to block genuine customers causes provable financial losses.
Here's a quick translation of the Japanese news release:
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Industrial-use wearable Internet appliance launched in Japanese market
Hitachi, Ltd.'s venture company, Net-PDA, (CEO: Matsuoka Shigeru) will begin shipping the WIA-100NB wearable Internet appliance, with head-mounted display, from February 28.
Mobile computing needs are increasing with the spread of wireless communication infrastructure and Internet access from mobile phones.
The company completed an OEM licensing contract for wearable Internet appliances with the U.S. Xybernaut Corp. in June of 2001, and has conducted marketing in Japan. As a result, it judged that wearable Internet appliances are an effective solution for work environments such as clean rooms and machine rooms where printed materials cannot be used, as well as for hands-free viewing of blueprints and Internet/intranet access via PHS [a Japanese form of mobile phone] and wireless LAN.
The WIA-100NB, in order to meet these needs, weighs 310 grams for the main body, with the head-mounted display weighing a mere 80 grams, and the total package weighing less than 500 grams even with the addition of a pointing device. By rubbing the pointing device's optical sensor with a thumb, it is possible to move the cursor on the head-mounted display, allowing the operation of the unit in any position.
Used as terminals for improving work efficiency, wearable Internet applicances are predicted to form a major part of the market for portable information devices. The company aims to develop this valuable market further.
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Then it lists the specs, and where to buy it (here, but you'd better know Japanese).
I was being ironic. It's a category that 90% of the people watching the Oscars have no idea about, thus it's safe to give to a movie like LoTR, rather than a "real" movie that deals with "serious" themes (that's more irony, in case you missed it).
1. Best Picture - No way. The Academy is a bunch of rich old farts that wouldn't know high fantasy if it leaped up and bit them in their collective white asses. It'll go to "A Beautiful Mind", because the Academy loves actors portraying mentally ill people.
2. Supporting Actor - McKellen takes it. Ben Kingsley's already got his Oscar (IIRC, for Gandhi), and c'mon, not even the Academy would be so twisted as to give it to Jon Voight.
3. Director - Toss up. Since Jackson's a semi-unknown who isn't American, they'll either give it to him by a landslide or ignore him totally. I reckon it'll go to Jackson, though.
4. Screenplay - They'll say "No originality in LoTR" or something and give it to A Beautiful Mind.
5. Art direction - Moulin Rouge. Deserves it, too.
6. Cinematography - A nice safe category that no-one gives a fuck about, so it'll go to LoTR.
7. Sound - Who cares? But it'll probably go to Pearl Harbor or other such dreck.
8. Original score - God knows, but I sure hope it ain't A.I.
9. Pearl Harbor or Vanilla Sky.
10. Costume - Moulin Rouge, again deservedly.
11. Film editing - Black Hawk Down, because it's Ridley Scott, and we can't be unpatriotic or anything, can we? Fuck Ridley Scott.
12. Makeup - LoTR, definitely, just for the Uruk-Hai.
13. Visual effects - LoTR, again because no-one cares about this category.
...And in this year's Oscar nominations, Russel Crowe leads the pack with his moving performance as a father of two in "My Boring Life". A little-known fact about this movie is that Crowe did all his own stunts, including the washing-the-family-car scene, the mowing-the-lawn scene, and the going-to-work-and-coming-home scene. Critics acclaimed his portrayal of a mid-forties office worker as "stupifying", "stunning" and "narcoleptic".
Basically, the GPL doesn't care about that case, because anybody can buy/use/sell GPL'd software *anyway*. When you get into the sections of the GPL dealing with use of source, then copyright law comes into play, so it's unrelated to this decision.
Here in Japan, 7-11s put out their unbought food in big plastic bags, and ignore the gentlemen hanging around waiting to leap on the bags the moment the door closes. There's an unspoken agreement that it's OK for them to take the food.
I want a monitor that projects the screen onto my face, so I can look really 1337.
And an email program that can send mail to people that I've never met and have no idea what their address may be.
And a tracing program that shows me a big map of the phone lines people are using when they try to h4XXoR me.
And a communication protocol that can do live, streaming video over a 14.4K modem.
What I want to know is, where does Hollywood get their technical advisors?
Some people must be, or otherwise there would be no bug reports submitted;)
I used to run an old fileserver on 2.0.xx at work, until the HD crashed a couple of months ago... in some cases, it's just not worth upgrading everything that you need to compile newer kernels (the box was running on TurboLinux 1.1 (*blech*) upgraded to 1.4, a libc5 distro released around 1998).
It looks like Linux (for PlayStation 2) may be a really popular item (for PlayStation 2), especially if Sony (for PlayStation 2) is releasing (for PlayStation 2) this into mainstream (for PlayStation 2) retail (for PlayStation 2) outlets (for PlayStation 2).
Just remember, it's for PlayStation (for Play(for PlayStat(for PlayStation 2)ion 2)Station 2) 2!
*Sigh*... sometimes irony goes completely over peoples' heads...
What I meant was, the original poster was complaining about how people sent him Word files, you suggested MIME as a remedy, and I just wanted to point out that that would be like saying "I hate banner ads" - "So use ADSL", i.e. the difference between content and carrier.
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Linus only recently opened the 2.5 kernel series. He's been maintaining 2.4. I believe what you're attributing to ownership is his being aware of the fact that a broken "stable" kernel could do terrible damage, and nifty new sound bits and experimental reworking of the task scheduler aren't worth taking that risk.
So... how do you explain him ripping out the memory manager in the middle of a stable series and replacing it with entirely new, undocumented code?
I think you're missing something...
The "best" lawyer is a subjective assessment... you'd never be able to prove it in court, whereas calling a phone number continuously to block genuine customers causes provable financial losses.
Dunno about US law, but under Japanese law it'd fall under obstruction of commercial activities. I imagine the US has similar laws.
Here's a quick translation of the Japanese news release:
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Industrial-use wearable Internet appliance launched in Japanese market
Hitachi, Ltd.'s venture company, Net-PDA, (CEO: Matsuoka Shigeru) will begin shipping the WIA-100NB wearable Internet appliance, with head-mounted display, from February 28.
Mobile computing needs are increasing with the spread of wireless communication infrastructure and Internet access from mobile phones.
The company completed an OEM licensing contract for wearable Internet appliances with the U.S. Xybernaut Corp. in June of 2001, and has conducted marketing in Japan. As a result, it judged that wearable Internet appliances are an effective solution for work environments such as clean rooms and machine rooms where printed materials cannot be used, as well as for hands-free viewing of blueprints and Internet/intranet access via PHS [a Japanese form of mobile phone] and wireless LAN.
The WIA-100NB, in order to meet these needs, weighs 310 grams for the main body, with the head-mounted display weighing a mere 80 grams, and the total package weighing less than 500 grams even with the addition of a pointing device. By rubbing the pointing device's optical sensor with a thumb, it is possible to move the cursor on the head-mounted display, allowing the operation of the unit in any position.
Used as terminals for improving work efficiency, wearable Internet applicances are predicted to form a major part of the market for portable information devices. The company aims to develop this valuable market further.
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Then it lists the specs, and where to buy it (here, but you'd better know Japanese).
...and if you spent more time outside your trailer park, you'd know that the Oscars have very little to do with how an actor performed.
Will you believe oscar.com?
VOLUME.
You can deconstruct it all you like, but so what? In the end you still have a bunch of answers to questions that nobody's asking.
I was being ironic. It's a category that 90% of the people watching the Oscars have no idea about, thus it's safe to give to a movie like LoTR, rather than a "real" movie that deals with "serious" themes (that's more irony, in case you missed it).
Of those, I reckon it'll go like this:
1. Best Picture - No way. The Academy is a bunch of rich old farts that wouldn't know high fantasy if it leaped up and bit them in their collective white asses. It'll go to "A Beautiful Mind", because the Academy loves actors portraying mentally ill people.
2. Supporting Actor - McKellen takes it. Ben Kingsley's already got his Oscar (IIRC, for Gandhi), and c'mon, not even the Academy would be so twisted as to give it to Jon Voight.
3. Director - Toss up. Since Jackson's a semi-unknown who isn't American, they'll either give it to him by a landslide or ignore him totally. I reckon it'll go to Jackson, though.
4. Screenplay - They'll say "No originality in LoTR" or something and give it to A Beautiful Mind.
5. Art direction - Moulin Rouge. Deserves it, too.
6. Cinematography - A nice safe category that no-one gives a fuck about, so it'll go to LoTR.
7. Sound - Who cares? But it'll probably go to Pearl Harbor or other such dreck.
8. Original score - God knows, but I sure hope it ain't A.I.
9. Pearl Harbor or Vanilla Sky.
10. Costume - Moulin Rouge, again deservedly.
11. Film editing - Black Hawk Down, because it's Ridley Scott, and we can't be unpatriotic or anything, can we? Fuck Ridley Scott.
12. Makeup - LoTR, definitely, just for the Uruk-Hai.
13. Visual effects - LoTR, again because no-one cares about this category.
...And in this year's Oscar nominations, Russel Crowe leads the pack with his moving performance as a father of two in "My Boring Life". A little-known fact about this movie is that Crowe did all his own stunts, including the washing-the-family-car scene, the mowing-the-lawn scene, and the going-to-work-and-coming-home scene. Critics acclaimed his portrayal of a mid-forties office worker as "stupifying", "stunning" and "narcoleptic".
When you post, turn on the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox...
GOVERNMENT ABUSES POWERS - Film at 11!
Ho hum, another day, another government to topple...
Basically, the GPL doesn't care about that case, because anybody can buy/use/sell GPL'd software *anyway*. When you get into the sections of the GPL dealing with use of source, then copyright law comes into play, so it's unrelated to this decision.
Here in Japan, 7-11s put out their unbought food in big plastic bags, and ignore the gentlemen hanging around waiting to leap on the bags the moment the door closes. There's an unspoken agreement that it's OK for them to take the food.
Exactly what I thought. Data encrypted throughout? Protection against compromised nodes? Already done. So much for Microsoft "research".
I want a monitor that projects the screen onto my face, so I can look really 1337.
And an email program that can send mail to people that I've never met and have no idea what their address may be.
And a tracing program that shows me a big map of the phone lines people are using when they try to h4XXoR me.
And a communication protocol that can do live, streaming video over a 14.4K modem.
What I want to know is, where does Hollywood get their technical advisors?
Some people must be, or otherwise there would be no bug reports submitted ;)
I used to run an old fileserver on 2.0.xx at work, until the HD crashed a couple of months ago... in some cases, it's just not worth upgrading everything that you need to compile newer kernels (the box was running on TurboLinux 1.1 (*blech*) upgraded to 1.4, a libc5 distro released around 1998).
Could someone mod the parent post up? That's H. Peter Anvin, the admin of kernel.org...
Just to let you know, the original BBC Micro could do this - there was a Z80 option (main CPU was a 6502).
(define ps2
;)
(lambda (phrase)
(cond
((null? phrase) (quote ()))
(else (cons phrase (for PlayStation 2)))))
Sorry, I couldn't resist
It looks like Linux (for PlayStation 2) may be a really popular item (for PlayStation 2), especially if Sony (for PlayStation 2) is releasing (for PlayStation 2) this into mainstream (for PlayStation 2) retail (for PlayStation 2) outlets (for PlayStation 2).
Just remember, it's for PlayStation (for Play(for PlayStat(for PlayStation 2)ion 2)Station 2) 2!
You read it your way, I'll read it mine...
*Sigh*... sometimes irony goes completely over peoples' heads...
What I meant was, the original poster was complaining about how people sent him Word files, you suggested MIME as a remedy, and I just wanted to point out that that would be like saying "I hate banner ads" - "So use ADSL", i.e. the difference between content and carrier.
Hmmm, I didn't realize that Word was part of MIME...