Debian is designed with absolute stability in mind. Everything should conform precisely to spec and never crash. If they can use multiple full-featured kernels, they have something to test against, and help weed out bugs on the kernel side that might otherwise not have been found.
Ports are valuable if only for the stability they add (and they're even more valuable if people use them so that they're deployed widely and help root out even more bugs.)
They have a system that assumes ownership by default. I especially like in Canada where they get money for any writable CD sold, because it's naturally being used to copy their music without permission. (Never mind independents that cut their own records.)
Well, ostensibly Warner Brothers won't commit fraud, because it's a major record label. Though obviously they have, it's reasonable for Myspace to assume that they haven't, because that sort of thing is really bad press.
If people had been able to stream this over the internet, he could easily have lined up dozens of concerts paying tens of thousands of dollars each, all because Warner Brothers fradulently claimed copyright to his work.
Throw in some pointless punitive damages, and that ought to net him a good 6 million dollars, right? I mean if it works for the RIAA...
This sounds like it could provide strong legal protection for anyone that wants to use Moonlight should Microsoft start to invoke patents on non-Novell users.
You're wrong. If it was the way you described, they could've just all jumped through the gate and waited till it shut down. As it was, the people already on the other side would've died if they shut down the gate - thus the problem.
The distinction was very clearly illustrated. And I think they generally did refer to it as phase shift, from when it was first used with the Ritu and all that jazz.
I think you misunderstood the chronology. There were four ancient allied races - scientifically minded races: the Ancients, Asgard, Nox, and Furriers (who are never mentioned.) They are not related, just allies.
There was however a split among the ancients, in which half went to the Milky Way, and half stayed in their Galaxy. The scientific half are the ancients of Earth, who ascended and occupy the higher plane in the Milky Way. The Ori were the other "spiritual" branch of the ancients. Both branches ascended, the only difference is the Spiritual branch called themselves gods and fed on the energy of the lower planes.
Except there's zero artistry to it. In BSG at the beginning, you had those beautiful shots of the admiral drinking water in his office while waiting for news on the state of water.
In this, you just have cheesy shots of air getting sucked out of doors.
Yes, I know. Until just last week I ran Ubuntu on a 2.8ghz machine, and believe me, I know how painful it is to hear your CPU fan spin up to max as you're watching a TV show that if you had pirated would take almost no system resources to run.
Looks like the system is working a lot better than I could've expected... though the bit in the FBI report valuing the data downloaded at $1.5 million is a little vexing. Government data has value, sure, but it should be shared widely so it can't be lost.
He never said nor suggested that Microsoft as a whole is your ally.
I'm looking this article over top to bottom, and I don't really see him suggesting anything. There's a lot of namecalling, a parable where I'm right thank you very much (shoeless people in Africa? We have Java, as well as Python and various other languages on Linux for the niche Mono wants to fill.)
Seems to me like RMS gave a principled (and really fairly balanced) assessment of Mono, and Icaza responded by calling RMS a luddite, with absolutely no argument to back it up. Why did this even make Slashdot when Icaza says absolutely nothing to refute Stallman's argument?
Well, no. It's people who would prefer watching bad movies with excellent special effects to good movies made with puppets in someone's garage who are uneducated heathens.
On the other hand, the trouble with the gaming industry is that there are only maybe 8 or 9 different engine types that you need to make every kind of game already devised. Open source has made several good shooter engines, those really don't need any improvement. RTS is coming along, turn-based strategy is trivial, and RPG can use any of the three depending on what you want to do.
In my experience, most of the value in games comes from user-generated content anyway, so I certainly see PC gaming moving away from the industry to FOSS, as the modding community starts to discover they don't need proprietary games (especially when the studios are so often seen actively inhibiting the modding community.)
Piracy has nothing to do with the strength of DRM. A baseline amount of DRM to make piracy non-trivial does show results, but beyond that market share is the only real factor.
Mckay was a much better stand-in for the viewer. He was sort of an aspirational stand-in, what the annoying fat gamer dude could be in the best of all possible worlds. Eli just feels like what the gamer dude actually is in this world, except he magically is a genius motivated to solve problems and not play silly games all day.
He's the equivalent of someone who installed Slackware on his mother's box and is confused as to why she's mad at him.
And not Slackware of today, when really, assuming he set it up properly (he didn't) she'd be just fine.
This jackass installed Slackware on his mother's box in 1999, somehow thinking that could possibly be a good idea.
Except for instead of the relatively harmless, but useless Slackware, he's stranded a bunch of people in a situation where they could die at any moment. It could be a really funny show. Unfortunately they decided to try and play this bullshit as if it were a good plot.
The useful cloud is what I can hand to my mother and allow her to publish a webpage as easily as I could with a bit of CGI. Though open-source CMS's like Drupal do offer some of that, they still face the wall at the edge of your webspace where friends cannot easily integrate their content with mine. Social networks really do offer a great deal, but the lock-in is killer.
I find it difficult to believe that any SG-1 fan could be as happy as the submitter.
I find it difficult to believe that any fan of Atlantis could be as happy of the submitter. Atlantis had its faults, but it was at least true to the series. This feels a lot more like the "Enterprise" of the Stargate world than the "Voyager."
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They're comparing probable paths that the asteroid will take. There could be four paths that will crash into Earth.
There are infinitely many points where the asteroid could potentially collide with Earth, if you really want to be pedantic.
Debian is designed with absolute stability in mind. Everything should conform precisely to spec and never crash. If they can use multiple full-featured kernels, they have something to test against, and help weed out bugs on the kernel side that might otherwise not have been found.
Ports are valuable if only for the stability they add (and they're even more valuable if people use them so that they're deployed widely and help root out even more bugs.)
They have a system that assumes ownership by default. I especially like in Canada where they get money for any writable CD sold, because it's naturally being used to copy their music without permission. (Never mind independents that cut their own records.)
Well, ostensibly Warner Brothers won't commit fraud, because it's a major record label. Though obviously they have, it's reasonable for Myspace to assume that they haven't, because that sort of thing is really bad press.
If people had been able to stream this over the internet, he could easily have lined up dozens of concerts paying tens of thousands of dollars each, all because Warner Brothers fradulently claimed copyright to his work.
Throw in some pointless punitive damages, and that ought to net him a good 6 million dollars, right? I mean if it works for the RIAA...
This antitrust suit started years ago. You need older ads to even begin to make a case.
This sounds like it could provide strong legal protection for anyone that wants to use Moonlight should Microsoft start to invoke patents on non-Novell users.
The market was working just fine until the government stuck their noses into it and reduced AT&T's profits.
The wormhole draws power from subspace.
The one in Antarctica was busted, the Russians owned the other dialer (and they broke it to save Tealc's life when he was trapped in the gate.)
You're wrong. If it was the way you described, they could've just all jumped through the gate and waited till it shut down. As it was, the people already on the other side would've died if they shut down the gate - thus the problem.
The distinction was very clearly illustrated. And I think they generally did refer to it as phase shift, from when it was first used with the Ritu and all that jazz.
I think you misunderstood the chronology. There were four ancient allied races - scientifically minded races: the Ancients, Asgard, Nox, and Furriers (who are never mentioned.) They are not related, just allies.
There was however a split among the ancients, in which half went to the Milky Way, and half stayed in their Galaxy. The scientific half are the ancients of Earth, who ascended and occupy the higher plane in the Milky Way. The Ori were the other "spiritual" branch of the ancients. Both branches ascended, the only difference is the Spiritual branch called themselves gods and fed on the energy of the lower planes.
Except there's zero artistry to it. In BSG at the beginning, you had those beautiful shots of the admiral drinking water in his office while waiting for news on the state of water.
In this, you just have cheesy shots of air getting sucked out of doors.
Linux is not the masses. Stallman is a functional programming stalwart. Unix in general has had functional programming for a very very long time.
And of course, you qualified Java with the language, so clearly I don't need to retort with a lot of talk about what the VM can do.
Yes, I know. Until just last week I ran Ubuntu on a 2.8ghz machine, and believe me, I know how painful it is to hear your CPU fan spin up to max as you're watching a TV show that if you had pirated would take almost no system resources to run.
Looks like the system is working a lot better than I could've expected... though the bit in the FBI report valuing the data downloaded at $1.5 million is a little vexing. Government data has value, sure, but it should be shared widely so it can't be lost.
I'm looking this article over top to bottom, and I don't really see him suggesting anything. There's a lot of namecalling, a parable where I'm right thank you very much (shoeless people in Africa? We have Java, as well as Python and various other languages on Linux for the niche Mono wants to fill.)
Seems to me like RMS gave a principled (and really fairly balanced) assessment of Mono, and Icaza responded by calling RMS a luddite, with absolutely no argument to back it up. Why did this even make Slashdot when Icaza says absolutely nothing to refute Stallman's argument?
Well, no. It's people who would prefer watching bad movies with excellent special effects to good movies made with puppets in someone's garage who are uneducated heathens.
On the other hand, the trouble with the gaming industry is that there are only maybe 8 or 9 different engine types that you need to make every kind of game already devised. Open source has made several good shooter engines, those really don't need any improvement. RTS is coming along, turn-based strategy is trivial, and RPG can use any of the three depending on what you want to do.
In my experience, most of the value in games comes from user-generated content anyway, so I certainly see PC gaming moving away from the industry to FOSS, as the modding community starts to discover they don't need proprietary games (especially when the studios are so often seen actively inhibiting the modding community.)
Piracy has nothing to do with the strength of DRM. A baseline amount of DRM to make piracy non-trivial does show results, but beyond that market share is the only real factor.
In all fairness, he probably has a fast enough CPU that it isn't an issue.
Mckay was a much better stand-in for the viewer. He was sort of an aspirational stand-in, what the annoying fat gamer dude could be in the best of all possible worlds. Eli just feels like what the gamer dude actually is in this world, except he magically is a genius motivated to solve problems and not play silly games all day.
He's the equivalent of someone who installed Slackware on his mother's box and is confused as to why she's mad at him.
And not Slackware of today, when really, assuming he set it up properly (he didn't) she'd be just fine.
This jackass installed Slackware on his mother's box in 1999, somehow thinking that could possibly be a good idea.
Except for instead of the relatively harmless, but useless Slackware, he's stranded a bunch of people in a situation where they could die at any moment. It could be a really funny show. Unfortunately they decided to try and play this bullshit as if it were a good plot.
The useful cloud is what I can hand to my mother and allow her to publish a webpage as easily as I could with a bit of CGI. Though open-source CMS's like Drupal do offer some of that, they still face the wall at the edge of your webspace where friends cannot easily integrate their content with mine. Social networks really do offer a great deal, but the lock-in is killer.
As for SaaS, yeah, that's nothing new.
I find it difficult to believe that any SG-1 fan could be as happy as the submitter.
I find it difficult to believe that any fan of Atlantis could be as happy of the submitter. Atlantis had its faults, but it was at least true to the series. This feels a lot more like the "Enterprise" of the Stargate world than the "Voyager."