Generally a public API is the only thing that's called externally, and so it doesn't matter how you implement the 10000+ internal functions or if you even have them at all. But, of course, Microsoft's applications do use these 'internal' calle directly, meaning that they're really part of the undocumented public API.
Right. The problem is not that it can't be done from a technical perspective. The problem is that torrents rely on bandwidth sharing between everybody who's downloading the identical thing. The amount of bandwidth sharing in a build-your-own-ISO scheme is going to be a LOT smaller.
IMHO, the ideal solution is something that doesn't exist yet. A way of grabbing some subset of a collection of files in a torrent-like manner. I think this would make it a lot easier to run a mirror too.
Maybe the Livna people could host Livna Linux, which is just Fedora core with all their evil patent encumbered and/or non-Free packages in place of the fully Free but less capable ones. If they only provided the download via bittorrent it likely wouldn't even cost them a huge amount of bandwidth.
Actually, some string theories require that this "silliness" occur. Branes interact gravitationally and one theory suggests that the universe came into existence when our brane collided with another. The branes would have to be adjacent if they are close enough to collide.
Yes, I know. But in order to have two large clumps of dark matter pass right through eachother, the dark matter (which is supposedly matter on an adjacent brane) has to either not interact with itself or the two clumps of dark matter that used to be part of the two separate galaxies have to each be on a different adjacent brane so they can't interact with eachother.
In the galaxies colliding gravitational lensing thing, it was very clear that a large portion of the mass of each of the two colliding galaxies just sailed straight on by without interacting significantly with either itself or the other matter other than gravitationally.
This is actually made a much less tenable theory by the latest gravitational lensing result involving colliding galaxies. Presumably matter on an adjacent brane would interact with itself other than gravitationally, but it's clear from the lensing that the dark matter didn't interact with itself other than gravitationally.
Perhaps the laws of physics are different on the other brane, but it still seems odd that the two bunches of matter would pass right through eachother.
Well, there could be two adjacent branes I suppose. But that's just starting to get silly.
In fact, I think this might be an analog of the "single particle universe" theory, in which one particle zips back and forth through time, constituting all physical matter. In a similar fashion, this one goofball is jumping from company to company, making each one into Jennifer Jason Leigh in "SWF". If we could just find that guy and "cancel" him, the world would be a better place...
That might almost be a workable theory except for the fact that the universe seems to exhibit a massive charge parity violation that causes the amount of matter to be much higher than amount of matter.
So, if Apple were to mysteriously disappear off the face of the planet, all the music would become unplayable then. If, for some reason, you want to sever all ties with Apple and cancel every account you have with them whether it costs you money or not, you must count the music you 'bought' as a cost of this decision. The music hasn't been bought, it's been rented for an indefinite time period.
Or, just maybe, it could be that people like having sex, and sometimes like having it in semi-public places. Personally, I think people should just all get used to the idea that people have sex and if they have it in a semi-public place it stands a reasonable chance of having been recorded.
You would almost certainly have problems in Python too, but I think there are many methods in Python that can't really be redefined in this manner because the binding is immutable. But it doesn't really matter how many there are, as long as there's one that other programs would use with some frequency.
What's needed is a full interpreter reset and load from scratch with every new page.
It sounds like the Javascript interpreter needs to be completely restarted from scratch with every new page that's loaded. Otherwise, if you can stick your method into the Javascript base classes, how would you remove it when a new page is loaded?
It is abuse. It is until they give me, the person who purchased their hardware the ability to change what software it runs. It's my hardware. They don't own it any longer. They should have no right whatsoever to tell me what I can and can't run on it. None at all.
Do you think any airline in their right mind would buy an airplane that they were told they couldn't take apart or fix the software of? What happens when the airplane manufacturer goes out of business?
Sure, hardware keys are darned useful for security, and I think they ought to be allowed. But not letting me change them when I own the device is tantamount to stealing the device back from me after I purchased it. It's my piece of hardware darn it. If you don't want to sell it to me, don't. But don't sell it to me then tell me it really isn't mind afterwards.
All of the GPL licenses have been about pushing an agenda with a license. Personally, I think the new license is generally clearer and easier to work with. It makes it much easier for non-GPL free software and GPL free software to be able to play together.
You are trying to push an agenda with your license too. It's an anti-GPLv3 agenda. So you're complaint about the GPLv3 is somewhat silly. If there's something a little more specific you'd like to complain about, please do. I would really hate to have to give up on using a nice piece of software like Adium.
Still not the same. And it doesn't really address the information gap anyway. It's more a matter of making the police accountable to the public they're watching. There should be cameras in the police station that the public can look at with impunity.
The difference is that I and many other bystanders can watch the policeman in person, whereas if the policeman is watching me on camera nobody gets to watch h(im/er) aside possibly from other policemen.
The issue I have with most surveillance technology is the information gap it creates. If they get to watch me, I should get to watch them too.
I definitely wouldn't say that about RIAA. Perhaps most people don't have any feelings about them one way or the other because they aren't aware that RIAA exists. But most people who've heard of them think very poorly of them.
As for Microsoft, I think most people are neutral to negative about Microsoft. At least that's what I get from the people around me.
Of course, hardly anybody outside the Unix community has heard of SCO.
I think that you would have to take into consideration that something like that could only measure what you believe to be true, not what actually is. Those can often be very different things.
If you don't provide a link to the article in question, the situation you describe will continue forever. If you do provide the link then it's possible it will be fixed. It also reduces your credibility significantly to be so vague.
I'm guessing that the article you're referring to is Foreskin which looks reasonably well balanced to me right now.
I believe that one of my civil liberties is to be able to be in a public space without having my health compromised. Though I will have to agree with you completely about the trans-fat ban. Someone at the next table consuming trans-fats doesn't harm me in the least.
I actually sort of don't like the smoking ban either. Bars and nightclubs are only semi-public spaces. What I would like to have seen is a much more local ban (county-wide perhaps) and a time limit on it of 15 years. Perhaps, after that time there will be bars that have enough of a clientelle who do not want smoking that it will be possible to find one that doesn't allow it on a private basis.
The ban passed with a vote by the people of 80% for, so it was wanted by a huge majority. It seems to me that the non-existence of smoke-free venues represented a severe market failure if this many people wanted a ban.
You assume too much. I would be just as upset at those things. And besides, your statement is no defense whatsoever. Claiming that your club's civil rights abuses shouldn't be talked about because that same person might not be willing to talk about his club's civil rights abuses is ridiculous and will simply result in a downward spiral in which all of them are gone.
So, take your medicine and if you don't like civil rights abuses, vote against the people who would perpetrate them regardless of whether or not they belong to your club. The health of this country is more important than the health of any club in it, including yours.
I'm sorry, but your attempt to distract me from my country's evil by pointing out that some other country is worse has been a failure. You are painfully nieve in the ways of debate young operagost, and are not yet ready for the position at the right hand of the president being his PR flak.
Slashdot Mirror
The best response to a sidestepping Microsoft apologist I've seen in quite awhile.
Generally a public API is the only thing that's called externally, and so it doesn't matter how you implement the 10000+ internal functions or if you even have them at all. But, of course, Microsoft's applications do use these 'internal' calle directly, meaning that they're really part of the undocumented public API.
There is a reason I capitalized the word 'free'.
Right. The problem is not that it can't be done from a technical perspective. The problem is that torrents rely on bandwidth sharing between everybody who's downloading the identical thing. The amount of bandwidth sharing in a build-your-own-ISO scheme is going to be a LOT smaller.
IMHO, the ideal solution is something that doesn't exist yet. A way of grabbing some subset of a collection of files in a torrent-like manner. I think this would make it a lot easier to run a mirror too.
While that's a really interesting idea, it's really hard to make that work right with bittorrent. :-(
Maybe the Livna people could host Livna Linux, which is just Fedora core with all their evil patent encumbered and/or non-Free packages in place of the fully Free but less capable ones. If they only provided the download via bittorrent it likely wouldn't even cost them a huge amount of bandwidth.
Yes, I know. But in order to have two large clumps of dark matter pass right through eachother, the dark matter (which is supposedly matter on an adjacent brane) has to either not interact with itself or the two clumps of dark matter that used to be part of the two separate galaxies have to each be on a different adjacent brane so they can't interact with eachother.
In the galaxies colliding gravitational lensing thing, it was very clear that a large portion of the mass of each of the two colliding galaxies just sailed straight on by without interacting significantly with either itself or the other matter other than gravitationally.
This is actually made a much less tenable theory by the latest gravitational lensing result involving colliding galaxies. Presumably matter on an adjacent brane would interact with itself other than gravitationally, but it's clear from the lensing that the dark matter didn't interact with itself other than gravitationally.
Perhaps the laws of physics are different on the other brane, but it still seems odd that the two bunches of matter would pass right through eachother.
Well, there could be two adjacent branes I suppose. But that's just starting to get silly.
Not to mention that I forgot the 'anti' in front of the second 'matter'. *grin*
That might almost be a workable theory except for the fact that the universe seems to exhibit a massive charge parity violation that causes the amount of matter to be much higher than amount of matter.
So, if Apple were to mysteriously disappear off the face of the planet, all the music would become unplayable then. If, for some reason, you want to sever all ties with Apple and cancel every account you have with them whether it costs you money or not, you must count the music you 'bought' as a cost of this decision. The music hasn't been bought, it's been rented for an indefinite time period.
Or, just maybe, it could be that people like having sex, and sometimes like having it in semi-public places. Personally, I think people should just all get used to the idea that people have sex and if they have it in a semi-public place it stands a reasonable chance of having been recorded.
Can you put up a page that demonstrates this?
You would almost certainly have problems in Python too, but I think there are many methods in Python that can't really be redefined in this manner because the binding is immutable. But it doesn't really matter how many there are, as long as there's one that other programs would use with some frequency.
What's needed is a full interpreter reset and load from scratch with every new page.
It sounds like the Javascript interpreter needs to be completely restarted from scratch with every new page that's loaded. Otherwise, if you can stick your method into the Javascript base classes, how would you remove it when a new page is loaded?
It is abuse. It is until they give me, the person who purchased their hardware the ability to change what software it runs. It's my hardware. They don't own it any longer. They should have no right whatsoever to tell me what I can and can't run on it. None at all.
Do you think any airline in their right mind would buy an airplane that they were told they couldn't take apart or fix the software of? What happens when the airplane manufacturer goes out of business?
Sure, hardware keys are darned useful for security, and I think they ought to be allowed. But not letting me change them when I own the device is tantamount to stealing the device back from me after I purchased it. It's my piece of hardware darn it. If you don't want to sell it to me, don't. But don't sell it to me then tell me it really isn't mind afterwards.
All of the GPL licenses have been about pushing an agenda with a license. Personally, I think the new license is generally clearer and easier to work with. It makes it much easier for non-GPL free software and GPL free software to be able to play together.
You are trying to push an agenda with your license too. It's an anti-GPLv3 agenda. So you're complaint about the GPLv3 is somewhat silly. If there's something a little more specific you'd like to complain about, please do. I would really hate to have to give up on using a nice piece of software like Adium.
Still not the same. And it doesn't really address the information gap anyway. It's more a matter of making the police accountable to the public they're watching. There should be cameras in the police station that the public can look at with impunity.
The difference is that I and many other bystanders can watch the policeman in person, whereas if the policeman is watching me on camera nobody gets to watch h(im/er) aside possibly from other policemen.
The issue I have with most surveillance technology is the information gap it creates. If they get to watch me, I should get to watch them too.
I definitely wouldn't say that about RIAA. Perhaps most people don't have any feelings about them one way or the other because they aren't aware that RIAA exists. But most people who've heard of them think very poorly of them.
As for Microsoft, I think most people are neutral to negative about Microsoft. At least that's what I get from the people around me.
Of course, hardly anybody outside the Unix community has heard of SCO.
I think that you would have to take into consideration that something like that could only measure what you believe to be true, not what actually is. Those can often be very different things.
If you don't provide a link to the article in question, the situation you describe will continue forever. If you do provide the link then it's possible it will be fixed. It also reduces your credibility significantly to be so vague.
I'm guessing that the article you're referring to is Foreskin which looks reasonably well balanced to me right now.
I believe that one of my civil liberties is to be able to be in a public space without having my health compromised. Though I will have to agree with you completely about the trans-fat ban. Someone at the next table consuming trans-fats doesn't harm me in the least.
I actually sort of don't like the smoking ban either. Bars and nightclubs are only semi-public spaces. What I would like to have seen is a much more local ban (county-wide perhaps) and a time limit on it of 15 years. Perhaps, after that time there will be bars that have enough of a clientelle who do not want smoking that it will be possible to find one that doesn't allow it on a private basis.
The ban passed with a vote by the people of 80% for, so it was wanted by a huge majority. It seems to me that the non-existence of smoke-free venues represented a severe market failure if this many people wanted a ban.
You assume too much. I would be just as upset at those things. And besides, your statement is no defense whatsoever. Claiming that your club's civil rights abuses shouldn't be talked about because that same person might not be willing to talk about his club's civil rights abuses is ridiculous and will simply result in a downward spiral in which all of them are gone.
So, take your medicine and if you don't like civil rights abuses, vote against the people who would perpetrate them regardless of whether or not they belong to your club. The health of this country is more important than the health of any club in it, including yours.
I'm sorry, but your attempt to distract me from my country's evil by pointing out that some other country is worse has been a failure. You are painfully nieve in the ways of debate young operagost, and are not yet ready for the position at the right hand of the president being his PR flak.