Yes, there may not be a great need for 3D acceleration to play games on GNU/Linux, but 3D acceleration comes in handy elsewhere. It will be nice to have it next time I am looking at a surface plot of some scientific data. Or perhaps I want to visualize a model in real-time with OpenGL.
Here is a more concrete example, let's say I am an aerospace engineer and I am using FlightGear to model an airplane I am designing (my aerospace engineer friends actually do this). If I want to see and control this model in real-time that 3d acceleration is important here. Right now if you want to do this in GNU/Linux without an Intel video card you have to install proprietary software, which many people find unacceptable.
slow down or terminate user accounts that AFACT has determined are being used to distribute copyrighted works.
I upload copyrighted works all the time, such as this Slashdot post. I also upload source code I have written to my web page. I share free software with people. Looks like AFACT would have shut someone like me down.
Or we can stop saying broad things like this. The University of Kansas says, "if you are caught downloading copyrighted material, you will lose your ResNet privileges forever." You can't use the Internet without downloading copyrighted material. Unless you have spent your life in a coma, you are probably a copyright holder yourself. Even if you are not (for some odd reason), there are lots of copyrighted works that you have permission to share with anyone.
Radio Paradise is an internet radio station that works well with free software. I listen/streamrip using VLC. The only thing I don't like is the lack of an Ogg Vorbis stream (or some other free codec):-P.
It is obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. Free software != non-commercial software. You can sell free software all day long and no one can do anything about it. In fact, the FSF encourages you to charge money when distributing free software. "Free" is not about price, but freedom.
I was going to write more but it is actually pretty obvious that you are just trolling. I am done.
Actually, there is a mouseless browsing addon for Firefox that allows you to easily browse without a mouse. I use it all the time on my laptop where I do everything I need to do without touching a mouse (I hate touchpads). Emacs, Pidgin, rxvt, and Firefox with this addon (my main applications) can used just as quickly, if not quicker, without a mouse.
The only problem is Flash stuff, such as Youtube. You can't control the video playback without a mouse by any means I know about. You also cannot follow Flash links either. However, this is no problem for me as I do not have Flash installed (you can watch Youtube without Flash).
To get back to the article a bit, it seems that the "commercial" is placed on top by the Flash player, not embedded in the video. This means watch with a different player (mplayer or vlc), you will not see these ads.
I also enjoy not having Flash installed, including the free versions (gnash, swfdec, etc). It also allows me to ignore most links that my friends send: "Can't see it. Don't have flash."
However, I do like watching Youtube videos. You can watch those without Flash using youtube-dl. I use it anytime someone sends me a youtube link.
This means that if you are from Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Washington (source), you will need to show a passport to board an airplane.
That's right, a fucking passport. Nothing else. You will need to show a document whose purpose is to travel in an out of the country in order to fly up to your grandma's house, even when she lives within the US. Does anyone else find this shocking and insulting?
The only way you can think this is a good idea is... well... I don't know how. Maybe if you are on some serious drugs? Is there any reasonable argument for this?
(A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.
[...]
(C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.
I am pretty sure that this license (or at least some software under the license) will not be accepted by Debian, which is slightly stricter than the FSF and the OSI. If the software includes a trademark, it must be included when distributed in either modified or unmodified form. If there is trademark a trademark, it is probably non-free. Remember, the trademark may even be an image, not just a small copyright statement.
Therefore, distributing software under this license that contains a trademark will have non-free components that are not removable. This is the same reason that Debian rejected the GFDL as well as the some of the issues with the Firefox/Iceweasel thing.
Now, for the FSF,
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
If removing a trademark or logo can be considered an improvement to the program, you are not allowed to do it. This means you cannot improve the software. I bet this makes it fail FSF approval. Again, IANAL, just speculating here.
Now, before I am blamed for being off topic, here is a relevant OSI section,
3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
I am getting more desperate here. This is similiar to the FSF thing above. Assuming the trademark or logo is not free, you will be unable to modify it.
I probably don't know what I am talking about, though. The BSD advertising clause (requiring that the software contains a notice that it was developed at Berkley, etc) was still accepted and considered free (and annoying), and it is very similar to this logo/trademark thing.
That page doesn't utilize the user agent string. In fact, Firefox filtering is done on the client end. It takes advantage of javascript execution differences between IE and other browsers. Here is the culprit HTML,
If you dont have javascript enabled, you are taken to a bullshit javascript required page. With NoScript in Firefox, this is what happens to me. I see the whole page load, then I am taken to the nojs.htm page 1 second later.
With javascript enabled, the expression !document.all evaluates to true on non-IE browsers (maybe including Opera?) taking you to the blocked page. This makes the page impossible to view on any graphical free software browsers without some special aid from plugins or something. This includes all Gecko (Mozilla) and KHTML (Konqueror, Safari) based browsers. Dillo is out because it obeys the <noscript> tag.
Both links and lynx ignore javascript, <noscript>, and the meta "refresh", allowing you to view the page with these browsers while also avoiding the image ads. These are the only free browsers you can use to view the page. You could wget the page, pull out the annoying HTML above, and look at the page in any browsers without a problem. This will not allow Adblock to completely block ads however. This will depend on your filters.
Notice: I don't have any proprietary software on my computers so I cannot/will not test this with IE and Opera. I am assuming that the page views fine in IE and I have no idea what happens in Opera.
Slashdot Mirror
Son: "Dad, I can't figure out how to prove this one."
Dad: "Son, you know the rules. No dessert unless you finish your proofs."
Yep, there is a patch that will remove the worm so that you will never get it again: here.
I saw "sharing C" and thought, "What's wrong with sharing source code over P2P?".
The software side of things was already complete: libaa.
Yes, there may not be a great need for 3D acceleration to play games on GNU/Linux, but 3D acceleration comes in handy elsewhere. It will be nice to have it next time I am looking at a surface plot of some scientific data. Or perhaps I want to visualize a model in real-time with OpenGL.
Here is a more concrete example, let's say I am an aerospace engineer and I am using FlightGear to model an airplane I am designing (my aerospace engineer friends actually do this). If I want to see and control this model in real-time that 3d acceleration is important here. Right now if you want to do this in GNU/Linux without an Intel video card you have to install proprietary software, which many people find unacceptable.
Because it is easier than mounting nuclear weapons on a prairie?
How many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Hey! Wanna go ride bikes?
You just referenced an odd-numbered Star Trek movie ... be careful doing that around here.
What about GNU?
Look, these people are too old to be bending over and taking it from behind.
It also says,
slow down or terminate user accounts that AFACT has determined are being used to distribute copyrighted works.I upload copyrighted works all the time, such as this Slashdot post. I also upload source code I have written to my web page. I share free software with people. Looks like AFACT would have shut someone like me down.
Or we can stop saying broad things like this. The University of Kansas says, "if you are caught downloading copyrighted material, you will lose your ResNet privileges forever." You can't use the Internet without downloading copyrighted material. Unless you have spent your life in a coma, you are probably a copyright holder yourself. Even if you are not (for some odd reason), there are lots of copyrighted works that you have permission to share with anyone.
Awesome! I already used your code to resize some images.
Radio Paradise is an internet radio station that works well with free software. I listen/streamrip using VLC. The only thing I don't like is the lack of an Ogg Vorbis stream (or some other free codec) :-P.
Except it requires Flash to use it. Looks like you can't access this music using only free software. :-(
It is obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. Free software != non-commercial software. You can sell free software all day long and no one can do anything about it. In fact, the FSF encourages you to charge money when distributing free software. "Free" is not about price, but freedom.
I was going to write more but it is actually pretty obvious that you are just trolling. I am done.
I also found a picture of what the eclipse will look like.
This reminds me of a quote from America: The Book (page 45),
[A]n island country is about to get a can of "police action" opened up on them.Actually, there is a mouseless browsing addon for Firefox that allows you to easily browse without a mouse. I use it all the time on my laptop where I do everything I need to do without touching a mouse (I hate touchpads). Emacs, Pidgin, rxvt, and Firefox with this addon (my main applications) can used just as quickly, if not quicker, without a mouse.
The only problem is Flash stuff, such as Youtube. You can't control the video playback without a mouse by any means I know about. You also cannot follow Flash links either. However, this is no problem for me as I do not have Flash installed (you can watch Youtube without Flash).
To get back to the article a bit, it seems that the "commercial" is placed on top by the Flash player, not embedded in the video. This means watch with a different player (mplayer or vlc), you will not see these ads.
If you are having trouble imagining 9.7 billion miles, here is the same distance in a more useful unit,
9.7 billion miles = 140 billion football fields
Ah! That is much easier for me to picture in my head.
I also enjoy not having Flash installed, including the free versions (gnash, swfdec, etc). It also allows me to ignore most links that my friends send: "Can't see it. Don't have flash."
However, I do like watching Youtube videos. You can watch those without Flash using youtube-dl. I use it anytime someone sends me a youtube link.
This means that if you are from Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Washington (source), you will need to show a passport to board an airplane.
That's right, a fucking passport . Nothing else. You will need to show a document whose purpose is to travel in an out of the country in order to fly up to your grandma's house, even when she lives within the US. Does anyone else find this shocking and insulting?
The only way you can think this is a good idea is ... well ... I don't know how. Maybe if you are on some serious drugs? Is there any reasonable argument for this?
You just need to go get RealIDAlternative.
IANAL (for Entertainment purposes only!)
Here are two clauses from the license
(A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.
[...]
(C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.
I am pretty sure that this license (or at least some software under the license) will not be accepted by Debian, which is slightly stricter than the FSF and the OSI. If the software includes a trademark, it must be included when distributed in either modified or unmodified form. If there is trademark a trademark, it is probably non-free. Remember, the trademark may even be an image, not just a small copyright statement.
Therefore, distributing software under this license that contains a trademark will have non-free components that are not removable. This is the same reason that Debian rejected the GFDL as well as the some of the issues with the Firefox/Iceweasel thing.
Now, for the FSF,
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
If removing a trademark or logo can be considered an improvement to the program, you are not allowed to do it. This means you cannot improve the software. I bet this makes it fail FSF approval. Again, IANAL, just speculating here.
Now, before I am blamed for being off topic, here is a relevant OSI section,
3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
I am getting more desperate here. This is similiar to the FSF thing above. Assuming the trademark or logo is not free, you will be unable to modify it.
I probably don't know what I am talking about, though. The BSD advertising clause (requiring that the software contains a notice that it was developed at Berkley, etc) was still accepted and considered free (and annoying), and it is very similar to this logo/trademark thing.
Beliefs
That page doesn't utilize the user agent string. In fact, Firefox filtering is done on the client end. It takes advantage of javascript execution differences between IE and other browsers. Here is the culprit HTML,
If you dont have javascript enabled, you are taken to a bullshit javascript required page. With NoScript in Firefox, this is what happens to me. I see the whole page load, then I am taken to the nojs.htm page 1 second later.
With javascript enabled, the expression !document.all evaluates to true on non-IE browsers (maybe including Opera?) taking you to the blocked page. This makes the page impossible to view on any graphical free software browsers without some special aid from plugins or something. This includes all Gecko (Mozilla) and KHTML (Konqueror, Safari) based browsers. Dillo is out because it obeys the <noscript> tag.
Both links and lynx ignore javascript, <noscript>, and the meta "refresh", allowing you to view the page with these browsers while also avoiding the image ads. These are the only free browsers you can use to view the page. You could wget the page, pull out the annoying HTML above, and look at the page in any browsers without a problem. This will not allow Adblock to completely block ads however. This will depend on your filters.
Notice: I don't have any proprietary software on my computers so I cannot/will not test this with IE and Opera. I am assuming that the page views fine in IE and I have no idea what happens in Opera.