I don't doubt they already have the source code through 'other' means, and are already working on their modifications.
It just needs the US to sign on the dotted line to make it legitimate.. which they will. This is just like when gov. department threatens to use Linux instead of MS - it's (mostly) just a threat. The UK doesn't *want* to act upon it - although the option is always there of course (otherwise it wouldn't be much of a threat).
Funnily enough this is exactly what Nixon said during Vietnam, that all the bad publicity was why the US was getting its ass handed on a plate. It was bullshit back then too.
Do we have a strong, stable ally? No. Are we going to do something about that? Yes. Will whatever comes out of the rubble respect the US military? Only if they don't want to fall as quickly as Saddam.
You're joking, right?
The US is getting its ass kicked. Even george bush has finally admitted it.
The only strategy left now is how to get the hell out of the country without getting the remaining troops slaughtered. You really think they'd go back in after that kind of debacle? It'll be 20 years before the US embarks on anything like this again.
The press make sure they don't (and this isn't a US thing it happens in all wars).
So they're not people, they're 'insurgents'. In WW2 they weren't people they were 'nazis'.
On the other side I'm sure they call the US troops infidels or invaders or something - same principle.
Meanwhile if one of the US troops gets killed we get news reports about 'Joe from Ohio, and here's film of his greiving family'. I'm sure the other side do the 'Joe from Baghdad' story as well.
The crazy thing is we've been falling for it ever since mass media was invented...
Our goal was to make the iraqis suffer so much that they would rise up and overthrow saddam so we worked very hard at hurting as many common iraqis as possible.
What lunatic thought *that* could work? It will have had exactly the opposite effect.
Even acronyms get 'censored' - We don't often hear of CPUs rated in MegaLIPS (Million Logical Instructions Per Second) any more, and the old quasi-official mouse speed scale (mickies per pixel) seems to bave been virtually erased from history, predumably by threat of lawsuit from disney..
In fact that's the crucial difference between the LGPL and GPL - LGPL *does* allow dynamic linking.
The hazy area comes with the viral aspect - if you have the GPL app link to an LGPL library that in turn can (optionally) load a non-GPL binary does the GPL 'infect' the LGPL library and also the non-GPL binary (making the whole lot illegal) or does the author of each part get to choose their own license? RMS would have it that 1 line of GPL anywhere in an application forces the entire application to be GPL however it's linked together.
Where did you get that from? The goal is to remove PSTN from the equation. PSTN is expensive, normally charging per-minute and having call setup costs etc. VOIP is free end to end, by its nature.
I make a lot of calls over SIP and rarely need to hit a PSTN connection... and when I do I use SIP gateways in the country I'm calling that provide a free connection to that country. Skype is horribly expensive when it forces you into PSTN - in many cases more expensive than a standard analogue phone call.
see what happens when you let people use 3G for fully featured tcp/ip".
Only 3 is retarded enough to block TCP/IP connections (you can actually get them to unblock, at a price).
All the other providers *already* have fully featured tcp/ip - you can even get 3G PCMCIA cards to plug your laptop in from most of them.
The downside is the data cost. They measure their data cost in megabytes at about the same rate that the DSL connections measure in gigabytes, cost wise - ie. mobile data is 1000* more expensive.
You know those figures aren't end user figures anyway?
Wii will sell '1 million consoles' on its first day. To retailers. But they don't mention that last bit. The same with Vista which will ship 'a million copies' in its first day, etc.
If they get the retailers to preorder 5 million of the things guess what the headlines the next day will be?
In Europe the wii comes out on December 8th. Just in time for the christmas rush.
The PS3? March *next year*.
By that time everyone will have bought their next-gen console and the PS3 will be irrelevant. Sony have nothing to offer at the time when people are throwing money at consoles like it was growing on trees.
(Similar for HDDVD vs. Bluray over here... HDDVD, Microsoft drive for the xbox 360, region free (That's *unbelievably* important to use europeans) November 24th. Sony, Bluray, Region locked... nothing until next year. Possibly. Nobody is thinking of standalone players since they're ~$1900 a throw and only for nutters).
If you want to compare gameboys try the Atari Lynx and the NGPC vs. the Gameboy Color. Both of those were better (NGPC was *much* better) and yet they both tanked - the Lnyx because Atari can't market for shit and the NGPC because it was suddenly pulled off the market just as everyone was gearing up to buy one (the shops had displays and everything...) - coincidentally shortly before the release of the Gameboy Color (conspiracy theorist, me?).
Every time windows vs. linux is mentioned people quote this thing like it was a rule of battle or something. It isn't. Sometimes they fight you and you lose.
To a non-geek a PC is a closed system. No difference really.
What matters to MS is money. The desktop market is saturated (hence the dead comment above, which I agree with. Yes, you may be running a desktop but when was the last time you gave money to MS for the privilege?).. the only way MS can sell more software now is forced hardware upgrades (and to a certain extent they can force corporates to upgrade their software with restrictive support contracts, but that has a habit of backfiring if they push it too far). So they're going after the server market. Longhorn is late... the novell thing is an attempt to get MS in the real servers not just the wintel toys - and that might work, it might not.
I don't think linux is the issue to MS, it's all about market share. They'd do the same with any OS they could do a deal with to get more money.
In our case we learnt ADA because the lecturer was on the committee and had written several books on the subject (which were required reading, of course).
Never touched it since... probably couldn't write the simplest program in it now.
Still, there was no Windows there.. no Intel machines at all (or macs) - it was all VMS terminals and (for some bizarre reason) a lab of Sinclair QL's for teaching machine language.
I worry when I hear of universities requiring windows - you want to learn basic OS principles and basic programming principles now how to play Quake all day...
And guess who's going to be in the shit if valuable information gets leaked? The execs that covered it up? Noooo.... the poor sap they convinced not to tell anyone about it.
Get everything in writing. If possible get signatures. If you need them for references get then *now* before anything goes wrong.
Plus it's fairly easy to get a certificate if you own the domain in question.
Case in point: 2 years ago I needed a new certificate.. went to a cert. dealer, filled in the name/address of my company and used the company email address. I got the certificate in under 2 hours.
No proof was required, just the existence of the domain and presumably they checked the whois. My address is unrelated to the company (which is just a virtual office with the trading address at the accountants) and I paid with my own credit card.
In that case I was legitimate, but I could have registered *any* domain since there was no attempt to establish a link between me and the company.
If it's a registered company you want it for, file a domain dispute with ICANN and get it taken off them - I've seen this done multiple times and it's a *lot* cheaper than paying the squatter (who usually just caves in and gives it up.. they have thousands of these things and aren't prepared to fight).
How long will the 1.5.x branch be supported for? I've found 2.0 to be too unstable to be used in production at the moment - I'm sure the bugs will be fixed but over the next 3-6 months it would be nice to have the reassurance that 1.5.x will still get security fixes etc.
Oh FFS... don't you know what your argument boils down to?
All the ipods that are the same are the same.
Well, duh.
You originally said all ipods are the same, then tried to qualify it by redefining 'product line' to meaning 'all the ipods with the same interface'. You were wrong, deal with it.
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I don't doubt they already have the source code through 'other' means, and are already working on their modifications.
It just needs the US to sign on the dotted line to make it legitimate.. which they will. This is just like when gov. department threatens to use Linux instead of MS - it's (mostly) just a threat. The UK doesn't *want* to act upon it - although the option is always there of course (otherwise it wouldn't be much of a threat).
Funnily enough this is exactly what Nixon said during Vietnam, that all the bad publicity was why the US was getting its ass handed on a plate. It was bullshit back then too.
Do we have a strong, stable ally? No. Are we going to do something about that? Yes. Will whatever comes out of the rubble respect the US military? Only if they don't want to fall as quickly as Saddam.
You're joking, right?
The US is getting its ass kicked. Even george bush has finally admitted it.
The only strategy left now is how to get the hell out of the country without getting the remaining troops slaughtered. You really think they'd go back in after that kind of debacle? It'll be 20 years before the US embarks on anything like this again.
The press make sure they don't (and this isn't a US thing it happens in all wars).
So they're not people, they're 'insurgents'. In WW2 they weren't people they were 'nazis'.
On the other side I'm sure they call the US troops infidels or invaders or something - same principle.
Meanwhile if one of the US troops gets killed we get news reports about 'Joe from Ohio, and here's film of his greiving family'.
I'm sure the other side do the 'Joe from Baghdad' story as well.
The crazy thing is we've been falling for it ever since mass media was invented...
Our goal was to make the iraqis suffer so much that they would rise up and overthrow saddam so we worked very hard at hurting as many common iraqis as possible.
What lunatic thought *that* could work? It will have had exactly the opposite effect.
Even acronyms get 'censored' - We don't often hear of CPUs rated in MegaLIPS (Million Logical Instructions Per Second) any more, and the old quasi-official mouse speed scale (mickies per pixel) seems to bave been virtually erased from history, predumably by threat of lawsuit from disney..
I thought IED was some kind of contraceptive.
In fact that's the crucial difference between the LGPL and GPL - LGPL *does* allow dynamic linking.
The hazy area comes with the viral aspect - if you have the GPL app link to an LGPL library that in turn can (optionally) load a non-GPL binary does the GPL 'infect' the LGPL library and also the non-GPL binary (making the whole lot illegal) or does the author of each part get to choose their own license? RMS would have it that 1 line of GPL anywhere in an application forces the entire application to be GPL however it's linked together.
Yeah, they're using fenêtres instead :)
Where did you get that from? The goal is to remove PSTN from the equation. PSTN is expensive, normally charging per-minute and having call setup costs etc. VOIP is free end to end, by its nature.
I make a lot of calls over SIP and rarely need to hit a PSTN connection... and when I do I use SIP gateways in the country I'm calling that provide a free connection to that country. Skype is horribly expensive when it forces you into PSTN - in many cases more expensive than a standard analogue phone call.
see what happens when you let people use 3G for fully featured tcp/ip".
Only 3 is retarded enough to block TCP/IP connections (you can actually get them to unblock, at a price).
All the other providers *already* have fully featured tcp/ip - you can even get 3G PCMCIA cards to plug your laptop in from most of them.
The downside is the data cost. They measure their data cost in megabytes at about the same rate that the DSL connections measure in gigabytes, cost wise - ie. mobile data is 1000* more expensive.
You know those figures aren't end user figures anyway?
Wii will sell '1 million consoles' on its first day. To retailers. But they don't mention that last bit. The same with Vista which will ship 'a million copies' in its first day, etc.
If they get the retailers to preorder 5 million of the things guess what the headlines the next day will be?
I don't think Sony care.
In Europe the wii comes out on December 8th. Just in time for the christmas rush.
The PS3? March *next year*.
By that time everyone will have bought their next-gen console and the PS3 will be irrelevant. Sony have nothing to offer at the time when people are throwing money at consoles like it was growing on trees.
(Similar for HDDVD vs. Bluray over here... HDDVD, Microsoft drive for the xbox 360, region free (That's *unbelievably* important to use europeans) November 24th. Sony, Bluray, Region locked... nothing until next year. Possibly. Nobody is thinking of standalone players since they're ~$1900 a throw and only for nutters).
If you want to compare gameboys try the Atari Lynx and the NGPC vs. the Gameboy Color. Both of those were better (NGPC was *much* better) and yet they both tanked - the Lnyx because Atari can't market for shit and the NGPC because it was suddenly pulled off the market just as everyone was gearing up to buy one (the shops had displays and everything...) - coincidentally shortly before the release of the Gameboy Color (conspiracy theorist, me?).
There needs to be a godwin-like rule for this.
Every time windows vs. linux is mentioned people quote this thing like it was a rule of battle or something. It isn't. Sometimes they fight you and you lose.
To a non-geek a PC is a closed system. No difference really.
What matters to MS is money. The desktop market is saturated (hence the dead comment above, which I agree with. Yes, you may be running a desktop but when was the last time you gave money to MS for the privilege?).. the only way MS can sell more software now is forced hardware upgrades (and to a certain extent they can force corporates to upgrade their software with restrictive support contracts, but that has a habit of backfiring if they push it too far). So they're going after the server market. Longhorn is late... the novell thing is an attempt to get MS in the real servers not just the wintel toys - and that might work, it might not.
I don't think linux is the issue to MS, it's all about market share. They'd do the same with any OS they could do a deal with to get more money.
In our case we learnt ADA because the lecturer was on the committee and had written several books on the subject (which were required reading, of course).
Never touched it since... probably couldn't write the simplest program in it now.
Still, there was no Windows there.. no Intel machines at all (or macs) - it was all VMS terminals and (for some bizarre reason) a lab of Sinclair QL's for teaching machine language.
I worry when I hear of universities requiring windows - you want to learn basic OS principles and basic programming principles now how to play Quake all day...
In monetary value (which is what matters to MS) it way outclasses the desktop world. I don't know where you get your 'tenth of one percent' thing.
There's still a hell of a lot of the old Unixes out there and they make up the vast majority of that market.
Solaris seems to be the king at the moment, btw. probably because of history. MS? Nowhere. You don't run 24/7 servers on intel hardware.
And guess who's going to be in the shit if valuable information gets leaked? The execs that covered it up? Noooo.... the poor sap they convinced not to tell anyone about it.
Get everything in writing. If possible get signatures. If you need them for references get then *now* before anything goes wrong.
Writing a windows application in pure assembler isn't *that* hard... it's worth doing as an excercise sometime.
Writing a complex one would probably be impractical due to time constraints rather than difficulty.
Plus it's fairly easy to get a certificate if you own the domain in question.
Case in point: 2 years ago I needed a new certificate.. went to a cert. dealer, filled in the name/address of my company and used the company email address. I got the certificate in under 2 hours.
No proof was required, just the existence of the domain and presumably they checked the whois. My address is unrelated to the company (which is just a virtual office with the trading address at the accountants) and I paid with my own credit card.
In that case I was legitimate, but I could have registered *any* domain since there was no attempt to establish a link between me and the company.
If it's a registered company you want it for, file a domain dispute with ICANN and get it taken off them - I've seen this done multiple times and it's a *lot* cheaper than paying the squatter (who usually just caves in and gives it up.. they have thousands of these things and aren't prepared to fight).
How long will the 1.5.x branch be supported for? I've found 2.0 to be too unstable to be used in production at the moment - I'm sure the bugs will be fixed but over the next 3-6 months it would be nice to have the reassurance that 1.5.x will still get security fixes etc.
Godwin!
Oh FFS... don't you know what your argument boils down to?
All the ipods that are the same are the same.
Well, duh.
You originally said all ipods are the same, then tried to qualify it by redefining 'product line' to meaning 'all the ipods with the same interface'. You were wrong, deal with it.