Well, there is no law of physical nature that then prevents them from sneaking up behind you and OJ'ing your neck.
Except the law that if you do, you will go down there. Four major religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism) have a religious law against taking of life but no law against sharing of information. (Besides, OJ was never found guilty of any homicide.)
It's called civilization, folks. You set up rules that people can agree on. Hopefully they are logical rules, which is to say, things similar to the Golden Rule and Your Rights End Where My Nose Begins.
Except my village is several kilometers away from your nose. You aren't harmed in any way when I copy your cookie recipe unless you accept copyright. I'm not taking anything from you unless you accept copyright, as you still have the cookie recipe. Try reasoning your argument for perpetual copyright from a standpoint that doesn't assume copyright as one of its premises.
Anti-IP whines are nothing more than bleats about not being allowed by Daddy to copy others' months or even years of hard work with no consequences.
How much did you copy to create that very sentence? Every single word has appeared in another published work. It's a good thing the English language itself is largely unencumbered by government-granted monopolies; otherwise, the owner of the English language would have us all in debtors' prison.
If you don't want me to copy your recipe, don't show it to me. Copyright was designed to be a bargain that promotes the progress of science and the useful arts by saying, in effect: "To compensate you for creating this, you get a monopoly for x years; after that, anybody can copy it." This article is about the fact that corporations managed to bribe Congress into laws that keep the "anybody can copy it" from happening within a natural person's lifetime. And we can do little or nothing about bribery without lots of money to out-lobby the lobbyists; everybody has a price.
That's odd...I noticed the colors too. I was just thinking about how I like them better than the colors found on the rest of Slashdot.
Probably because they remind you of the spam-free experiences you've had on Kuro5hin, where YOU choose the stories. K5 uses #006699; Slashdot/developers uses #336699. The perceptual difference between sRGB #006699 and sRGB #336699 is negligible.
And when Linux kernels rev and compilers break, this is....? Progress? Innovation?
The GCC developers are not as worried about backwards compatibility as they are about CORRECTNESS. If new features highlight optimization BUGS or standards NON-CONFORMANCES in a given compiler, the compiler is at fault. GCC has kept up very nicely. If you are worried about a new compiler breaking your old code, compile with gcc -Wall to show where your code relies on non-conforming misfeatures of old compilers.
Can't we just save everyone the trouble of bookmarking two sites and just glue/. and Freshmeat together
You don't call Slashdot "Slashf---ed" when it covers dot-com bad news. So why call it Slashmeat? Slashdot covers only newsworthy software releases. This includes packages critical to system and network structure (OS kernels, server software, major security patches, etc.) and "cool" stuff that fits the day's omelet. The new Developers section goes a long way toward this*. If you want, you can exclude this section in your user settings if you don't want to look at so-called "Slashmeat."
Either way, don't bother bookmarking two sites. A link to OSDN Freshmeat II is in the OSDN box to the left of the textarea where I paste this very comment.
* It also may represent budget cuts in the OSDN division of VA Linux Systems Inc. If scoop and Taco can work together nicely enough, the integration of Slashdot and Freshmeat may be a Good Thing for LNUX's bottom line.
Darwin, the kernel of Mac OS X, is almost-free software. The theme editor lies squarely in Apple's proprietary domain (Quartz/Aqua/Carbon technologies). If you want themes on Mac OS X, run GNOME or KDE with XFree86.
For example, if I could only allow people to send URLs and text externally, but files internally,
...there would be no difference. Nothing prevents you from HTTP POST uploading a zipfile to your Geocities account (a firewall prohibiting HTTP POST would be a royal pain in the) and giving somebody the link.
For me the real killer is not having a client that will tunnel through the strict http firewall
You may want to try this Jabber applet for the Java platform unless your strict http firewall actually parses the incoming data and does not allow binary Java applets to cross the wire.
What inherent *right* do you have to take my recipe?
Inherently, once you show me the recipe, there is no law of physical nature that prevents me from reproducing the recipe to the letter and using to create cookies, even in competition with you. To assume that a government-granted monopoly system is "inherent" is begging the question.
How do you propose to compensate companies that develop new drug formulas and such.
By giving them a government-granted monopoly that lasts just long enough to compensate the company for the money spent on R&D. This works in the domain of drug patents, but it's falling apart in the domain of copyrights, which last 96 years (or life + 71) thanks to the Walt Disney Company, which every 20 years lobbies for another retroactive 20-year extension to copyright terms. It completely goes against the spirit of the "for limited times" language that the Framers wrote into the Constitution.
You *can* install [GCC 2.91 as kgcc]. If you want to use a stoneage compiler with tons of known issues, that's your choice.
What about GCC 2.95.3? It fixes the incompatibilities with glibc 2.2. (Given, it wasn't out yet when Red Hat 7.0 was released.) Any big problems with 2.95.3 (official GNU source release) as opposed to 2.96 (RH fork)?
Even if it still ships with Red Hat GCC version "2.96," you can still use it to recompile GCC 2.95.3 (last stable version; mirrors here), Linux itself, and your apps.
PBS does regular begging sessions too, I don't think the BBC could lower themselves to that
Except the BBC have lowered themselves further than that. Every household in the UK that owns one or more devices capable of tuning television signals must pay the BBC a user fee.
Some audiophiles prefer DTS encoded surround to Dolby Digital because it isn't as compressed.
DTS is not as compressed bitstream-wise as Dolby Digital, but it is more compressed sound-wise. When you send your audio off to the DTS people, they compress (remove dynamics from) the heck out of it, removing the punch. They attempt to add it back by turning up the bass really loud (Joe Sixpack thinks loud bass == good sound).
I know there is a compiler online for the nes and the snes
There are common assemblers for NES and SNES. NES's 2A03 is a 6502 (same arch as Apple II and C=64) with an on-die sound generator. SNES's 65816 is nearly the same as that of the Apple IIGS. Neither is C-friendly. The 32-bit 68000 in the Sega Genesis, on the other hand, has a version of GCC.
but their cart based so you couldn't just trade them
It's relatively easy to make an EEPROM cartridge for NES; start here. Edit, compile, emulate, edit, compile, emulate,... burn on to EEPROM, test for bugs tripped up by emu inaccuracies. Just make sure you never use NESticle for testing.
It would be nice if they did opensource their development tools.
Standard "why don't they just free the software" response: For one thing, they might have licensed technology and not licensed the right to sub-license it to the community. (This may be much of why NVIDIA hasn't freed the drivers for its video cards.)
For another thing, game companies sell software. They don't want competition from software designed to run on their older consoles. This is why Nintendo is going after not only ROMs but also emulators, even when such emulators are used to develop free software for old consoles.
Also, there are trademarks and copyrights on the games' content itself. If you have a devkit, you can rip graphics from Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon and use them in your own games.
the great thing about consoles is that the programmers can't just throw in a little extra and say "Oh, they'll upgrade".
But that's exactly what Nintendo did for the Super NES. The programming model for the Super NES CPU and picture generator wasn't that much different from that of the NES. Even though the sound was radically different (NES had 20 registers in CPU address space; Super NES had a mini-DSP in the space of a separate processor with an extremely obscure instruction set), most game publishers just used Nintendo's sound driver from Super Mario World (it was provided with the dev kits). In fact, backwards compatibility with NES games was planned but later dropped.
The point of the article is that it is in the interests of the hardware industry to fund the development of bloated software.
x86 serverS plural. In that case, build a cluster.
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Try buying a MP AMD system from your local vendor. If a corporation needs SMP, they _must_ buy Intel (for x86 servers).
Recent Athlon processors use a bus protocol similar to that of Compaq Alpha processors. Somebody else wrote that VA Linux Systems (Slashdot's parent company) is building an Athlon-based SMP server and patching Linux to improve its SMP performance. But still, can you imagine...
...a Beowulf cluster of these? You can get SMP without having multiple processors on one motherboard. Simply throw a bunch of small (g4cube-size) mobos into a rack (I forget which company is doing this), run a load balancing firewall (OpenBSD, of course) on one and server software on the rest, and you effectively have SMP. Besides, static content serving (well over half of a typical web site's throughput is ads or other images) is I/O bound; that is, it's limited primarily by bandwidth to the public network, NOT by CPU speed.
Why AMD can't market the Duron processor
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despite the fact that the Celeron is more than double the price of the equivalent Duron, Intel has a virtual monopoly on the sub-$1000 market, which makes me very seriously question AMD's marketing abilities.
Consumers probably think that "Duron" is a paint not a processor. Plus, AMD doesn't have the Blue Man Group doing cheesy commercials (QuickTime).
An easy to upgrade console would make a great internet appliance/games machine/DVD player. I'm surprised this hasn't occurred to anyone apart from Indrema.
Or Sony (makers of PS2, a graphics and DVD upgrade to PlayStation). Or Microsoft (Xbox).
For one thing, digital wireless communication devices are not considered "cellular."
1P: Well, dem whole monkey twice the pudding octopi for... tango man. Salesman: I sense a little... confusion. 1P: Yeah, very blender shoes cellular, scooter my daisyheads. Salesman: You said... cellular. 1P: Tiddly-day. Salesman: Those cellular plans, they can really confuse you. (Hands 1P a communicator.) Here, the new Sprint PCS Free & Clear plan lets you choose one free option: long distance, nights and weekends, or wireless web. 1P: And all the calls are clear. Salesman: Well said. Announcer: Choose one free option. Introducing the new Sprint PCS Free & Clear plan. (Read More...)
But what are the commercials for this new product going to be like?
If there is someone left with rights that has the power to sue for loses, then that is the same someone that would be required to continue its support or that person/company would probably be liable for damages in the first place.
When a f__ked company dies, a holding company buys up its assets, including GGM[0] rights. The holding company may then discontinue the product and support therefor, leaving you with no central license servers.
"So crack it." Four letters: DMCA. And even a copyright owner brings about no legal action, the Federal government can still prosecute criminal copyright infringers in the US.
Rented software (and proprietary software in general) give me too much discomfort for me to continue using them more than absolutely necessary. A largelibrary of freesoftware makes this "absolutely necessary" absolutely small.
[0] Government Granted Monopoly. I prefer this term to "IP" (intellectual property) because it more accurately describes how the United States Code treats copyright, trademark, and patent issues.
Thin client doesn't have to mean central (= big corp) control. It's certainly possible that in a couple of years you'll have a linux box under the stairs and flat-screen clients on all your walls
Not if you want to view movies, first-person shooters, or other high-video-bandwidth applications. For example, a display at 1024x768, 16-bit color, and 60 fps nearly saturates even gigabit networking. You need computer and terminal to be close together for those purposes.
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Well, there is no law of physical nature that then prevents them from sneaking up behind you and OJ'ing your neck.
Except the law that if you do, you will go down there. Four major religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism) have a religious law against taking of life but no law against sharing of information. (Besides, OJ was never found guilty of any homicide.)
It's called civilization, folks. You set up rules that people can agree on. Hopefully they are logical rules, which is to say, things similar to the Golden Rule and Your Rights End Where My Nose Begins.
Except my village is several kilometers away from your nose. You aren't harmed in any way when I copy your cookie recipe unless you accept copyright. I'm not taking anything from you unless you accept copyright, as you still have the cookie recipe. Try reasoning your argument for perpetual copyright from a standpoint that doesn't assume copyright as one of its premises.
Anti-IP whines are nothing more than bleats about not being allowed by Daddy to copy others' months or even years of hard work with no consequences.
How much did you copy to create that very sentence? Every single word has appeared in another published work. It's a good thing the English language itself is largely unencumbered by government-granted monopolies; otherwise, the owner of the English language would have us all in debtors' prison.
If you don't want me to copy your recipe, don't show it to me. Copyright was designed to be a bargain that promotes the progress of science and the useful arts by saying, in effect: "To compensate you for creating this, you get a monopoly for x years; after that, anybody can copy it." This article is about the fact that corporations managed to bribe Congress into laws that keep the "anybody can copy it" from happening within a natural person's lifetime. And we can do little or nothing about bribery without lots of money to out-lobby the lobbyists; everybody has a price.
That's odd...I noticed the colors too. I was just thinking about how I like them better than the colors found on the rest of Slashdot.
Probably because they remind you of the spam-free experiences you've had on Kuro5hin, where YOU choose the stories. K5 uses #006699; Slashdot/developers uses #336699. The perceptual difference between sRGB #006699 and sRGB #336699 is negligible.
And when Linux kernels rev and compilers break, this is....? Progress? Innovation?
The GCC developers are not as worried about backwards compatibility as they are about CORRECTNESS. If new features highlight optimization BUGS or standards NON-CONFORMANCES in a given compiler, the compiler is at fault. GCC has kept up very nicely. If you are worried about a new compiler breaking your old code, compile with gcc -Wall to show where your code relies on non-conforming misfeatures of old compilers.
Can't we just save everyone the trouble of bookmarking two sites and just glue /. and Freshmeat together
You don't call Slashdot "Slashf---ed" when it covers dot-com bad news. So why call it Slashmeat? Slashdot covers only newsworthy software releases. This includes packages critical to system and network structure (OS kernels, server software, major security patches, etc.) and "cool" stuff that fits the day's omelet. The new Developers section goes a long way toward this*. If you want, you can exclude this section in your user settings if you don't want to look at so-called "Slashmeat."
Either way, don't bother bookmarking two sites. A link to OSDN Freshmeat II is in the OSDN box to the left of the textarea where I paste this very comment.
* It also may represent budget cuts in the OSDN division of VA Linux Systems Inc. If scoop and Taco can work together nicely enough, the integration of Slashdot and Freshmeat may be a Good Thing for LNUX's bottom line.
OS X is open source. look at it all you want.
Darwin, the kernel of Mac OS X, is almost-free software. The theme editor lies squarely in Apple's proprietary domain (Quartz/Aqua/Carbon technologies). If you want themes on Mac OS X, run GNOME or KDE with XFree86.
For example, if I could only allow people to send URLs and text externally, but files internally,
For me the real killer is not having a client that will tunnel through the strict http firewall
You may want to try this Jabber applet for the Java platform unless your strict http firewall actually parses the incoming data and does not allow binary Java applets to cross the wire.
What inherent *right* do you have to take my recipe?
Inherently, once you show me the recipe, there is no law of physical nature that prevents me from reproducing the recipe to the letter and using to create cookies, even in competition with you. To assume that a government-granted monopoly system is "inherent" is begging the question.
How do you propose to compensate companies that develop new drug formulas and such.
By giving them a government-granted monopoly that lasts just long enough to compensate the company for the money spent on R&D. This works in the domain of drug patents, but it's falling apart in the domain of copyrights, which last 96 years (or life + 71) thanks to the Walt Disney Company, which every 20 years lobbies for another retroactive 20-year extension to copyright terms. It completely goes against the spirit of the "for limited times" language that the Framers wrote into the Constitution.
Are there any switches in RH7.1 gcc-2.96RH which will TELL ME which part of my code is NONCOMPLIANT, POORLY WRITTEN, ETC (all these vague terms).
gcc -Wall -W -pedantic
If you use these switches, it's more likely that
gcc will tell me what is wrong rather than just compiling and then getting runtime garbage
Here's a little background for this Slashback: Yahoo! selling porn | Alcatel DSL holes | iSmell one-liner contest
I couldn't find anything for the book reviews though.
You *can* install [GCC 2.91 as kgcc]. If you want to use a stoneage compiler with tons of known issues, that's your choice.
What about GCC 2.95.3? It fixes the incompatibilities with glibc 2.2. (Given, it wasn't out yet when Red Hat 7.0 was released.) Any big problems with 2.95.3 (official GNU source release) as opposed to 2.96 (RH fork)?
Does it fix the GCC C++ issues?
Even if it still ships with Red Hat GCC version "2.96," you can still use it to recompile GCC 2.95.3 (last stable version; mirrors here), Linux itself, and your apps.
PBS does regular begging sessions too, I don't think the BBC could lower themselves to that
Except the BBC have lowered themselves further than that. Every household in the UK that owns one or more devices capable of tuning television signals must pay the BBC a user fee.
Disclaimer: I am not a UKianOK, you have that "effective SMP" web cluster of maybe 100s of machines. Fine. Now what's your database server?
This is also an Athlon cluster. Specifically, an Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Parallel Server cluster. (MySQL doesn't seem to support clustering.)
Some audiophiles prefer DTS encoded surround to Dolby Digital because it isn't as compressed.
DTS is not as compressed bitstream-wise as Dolby Digital, but it is more compressed sound-wise. When you send your audio off to the DTS people, they compress (remove dynamics from) the heck out of it, removing the punch. They attempt to add it back by turning up the bass really loud (Joe Sixpack thinks loud bass == good sound).
Mpeg4 is very slow to compress and is not near real time in even a top computer.
I'm using DivX ;-) with my USB video capture box, and my P3-900 compresses real-time 320x240x15fps captured video just fine.
I know there is a compiler online for the nes and the snes
There are common assemblers for NES and SNES. NES's 2A03 is a 6502 (same arch as Apple II and C=64) with an on-die sound generator. SNES's 65816 is nearly the same as that of the Apple IIGS. Neither is C-friendly. The 32-bit 68000 in the Sega Genesis, on the other hand, has a version of GCC.
but their cart based so you couldn't just trade them
It's relatively easy to make an EEPROM cartridge for NES; start here. Edit, compile, emulate, edit, compile, emulate, ... burn on to EEPROM, test for bugs tripped up by emu inaccuracies. Just make sure you never use NESticle for testing.
It would be nice if they did opensource their development tools.
Standard "why don't they just free the software" response: For one thing, they might have licensed technology and not licensed the right to sub-license it to the community. (This may be much of why NVIDIA hasn't freed the drivers for its video cards.)
For another thing, game companies sell software. They don't want competition from software designed to run on their older consoles. This is why Nintendo is going after not only ROMs but also emulators, even when such emulators are used to develop free software for old consoles.
Also, there are trademarks and copyrights on the games' content itself. If you have a devkit, you can rip graphics from Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon and use them in your own games.
the great thing about consoles is that the programmers can't just throw in a little extra and say "Oh, they'll upgrade".
But that's exactly what Nintendo did for the Super NES. The programming model for the Super NES CPU and picture generator wasn't that much different from that of the NES. Even though the sound was radically different (NES had 20 registers in CPU address space; Super NES had a mini-DSP in the space of a separate processor with an extremely obscure instruction set), most game publishers just used Nintendo's sound driver from Super Mario World (it was provided with the dev kits). In fact, backwards compatibility with NES games was planned but later dropped.
NESdev, the center of the NES sceneShouldn't it be the software industry?
The point of the article is that it is in the interests of the hardware industry to fund the development of bloated software.
Try buying a MP AMD system from your local vendor. If a corporation needs SMP, they _must_ buy Intel (for x86 servers).
Recent Athlon processors use a bus protocol similar to that of Compaq Alpha processors. Somebody else wrote that VA Linux Systems (Slashdot's parent company) is building an Athlon-based SMP server and patching Linux to improve its SMP performance. But still, can you imagine...
despite the fact that the Celeron is more than double the price of the equivalent Duron, Intel has a virtual monopoly on the sub-$1000 market, which makes me very seriously question AMD's marketing abilities.
Consumers probably think that "Duron" is a paint not a processor. Plus, AMD doesn't have the Blue Man Group doing cheesy commercials (QuickTime).
An easy to upgrade console would make a great internet appliance/games machine/DVD player. I'm surprised this hasn't occurred to anyone apart from Indrema.
Or Sony (makers of PS2, a graphics and DVD upgrade to PlayStation). Or Microsoft (Xbox).
For one thing, digital wireless communication devices are not considered "cellular."
But what are the commercials for this new product going to be like?If there is someone left with rights that has the power to sue for loses, then that is the same someone that would be required to continue its support or that person/company would probably be liable for damages in the first place.
When a f__ked company dies, a holding company buys up its assets, including GGM[0] rights. The holding company may then discontinue the product and support therefor, leaving you with no central license servers.
"So crack it." Four letters: DMCA. And even a copyright owner brings about no legal action, the Federal government can still prosecute criminal copyright infringers in the US.
Rented software (and proprietary software in general) give me too much discomfort for me to continue using them more than absolutely necessary. A large library of free software makes this "absolutely necessary" absolutely small.
[0] Government Granted Monopoly. I prefer this term to "IP" (intellectual property) because it more accurately describes how the United States Code treats copyright, trademark, and patent issues.
Thin client doesn't have to mean central (= big corp) control. It's certainly possible that in a couple of years you'll have a linux box under the stairs and flat-screen clients on all your walls
Not if you want to view movies, first-person shooters, or other high-video-bandwidth applications. For example, a display at 1024x768, 16-bit color, and 60 fps nearly saturates even gigabit networking. You need computer and terminal to be close together for those purposes.