Maybe there is more than one REGINALD C. BROUGHTON working for the company? When I ran for student council in year 12 there were two Sharni Lynd's both running. Really. And they didn't know each other either, and certainly weren't related.
Possible?
Nah, probably not. Not given all the other crap SCO has pulled.
If you dont have to look at and press buttons how is it any more distracting than conversing with someone in the passenger seat?
Because the person sitting in the passenger seat is aware of what's happening around you, and tends to not only stop talking when a situation arises, but is more likely to notice a situation developing and draw your attention to it.
Someone on a mobile phone will be blissfully unaware, and keep taking through the moments when you need _all_ your attention on the road.
Or just install KDE, it comes as a standard component of kdegames
(compiling tonight's CVS now - and believe me, the nightly compiles really are - if I don't go to bed early enough, it won't be ready in the morning. Here's fingers crossed for kgpg and sound to be back again)
I believe the real reason is that the person in the car with you is aware of your environment, and stops talking/distracting you when a situation arrises. They immediately realise that you need to concentrate. Someone on the phone will keep talking, and your brain will allocate effort to listening to them.
For those turned off or scared away by the debian install process (which still seems stuck in the 90's. Jesus, did I just say that?), grab a Knoppix CD.
Tell me about it - I just downloaded the latest testing official installer CD, and the thing is absolutely shocking - much worse user interface than even the Woody installer. It writes (default) at the end of the command which it's currently expecting to run, which takes ages to find amongst 20 lines with random lengths and various text in them if you're not familiar with it. It has broken components all over the place, and it doesn't have any design coherency. Half the options aren't cleanly back-out-ofable, and it's still inefficient with bandwidth for a console-only setup.
There really isn't much going for the current installer - I hope someone brings out a better one soon - I'm almost tempted to play with it myself (I might also be bitter because it doesn't have the rtl8139 driver, thought the 8139too driver is on there and works fine - but every single time you do anything it prompts with "couldn't find required driver". Grr)
As a physicist, let me assure you that perpetual motion has not been and never will be _PROVEN_ impossible. That's not how science works.
True, but hey - Albert Einstien is quoted as saying that if he believes the least likely physical "law" to be overturned is the second law of thermodynamics.
Also, if a perpetual motion machine was possible (producing more energy than was put in to actually create real work rather than just perfecting a zero friction device), then the whole universe would blow up in a puff of positive feedback if you weren't really _really_ careful.
(ok, so I quit physics after second year Uni because they closed the physics club down and I had nowhere to play cards, so I protested by doing 100% compsci)
YOU ARE PROVING MY POINT HERE. Who is making th emoney off of the OSS? The corporations, NOT THE PERSON MAKING THE SOFTWARE. I am glad you have two new card, a house, a gaming network. WHAT DOES THE OSS DEVELOPER GET? NOTHING.
Just because you uploaded your very own blog script to Freshmeat last week, and nobody has offered you a gaming network and a couple of houses doesn't mean that people doing stuff that's actually valuable to their business shouldn't get paid for it.
The basic test that I hope my boss still applies goes something like "Is it going to give our competitors any significant advantages to have access to this? 'No'. Is it likely to be useful to people and have additional benefits? 'Yes'. Release it then." - of course, I generally just send diffs to already existing tools that we use - because that's the whole points of releasing it in the first place.
I've read the law on this, a merchant can deny payment if the total is over $1 and the customer has all pennies.
I haven't, but there's something similar here in Australia - you only have to accept up to a certain number of each denomination in a single transaction, so you can't pay more than a dollar or so in 5 cent coins before they have a right to refuse you.
Want to put non-competitive clause in my contract? Fine, but then I want you to pay me salary during the perioid.
That's what my work does. The contract I signed says that they're allowed to require me not to compete for as long as they like, but will pay me at the same salary for that period. The specific job description then states the default period that applies to my job (1 month).
Note: this payment only applies if they fire me. If I leave of my own free will they ask me to respect the agreement (though I think they note that it's probably not enforcable) and won't pay the period.
Re:Slightly OT: Linking static libs w/GPL'd code?
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What happens if you're a software company that buys some closed source static libraries from another company and link them to your proprietary product and sell the result to customers and later discover the library company included GPL'd code without telling you?
Then you sue the pants off the company that sold you the static libraries under false pretences, and you hope you can find all the authors of the GPL program and convince them to re-licence the libraries to you.
It's still no different to if that company had stolen non-GPL software from someone who didn't want to licence the software to you for any price. You'd still have to remove the offending software. Not only that, but I imagine you'd get a reasonable degree of sympathy from the authors of the open-source component if you had been lied to by a commercial vendor (though they may try to sell you on the benefits of open-source).
If you were particularly lucky, the library you link against may be LGPL, or you may convince the authors to re-licence it LGPL, and then you could link against it for free.
As a software developer you know all about TCP sequence numbers then, obviously. Maybe you need to read up about starting with a random sequence number for every new connection.
Sure TCP is partially fakable, but it's not exactly easy any more.
MS has to amortize their development, support, sales, and other costs over all of the sales of W3K. Just because you can duplicate the CD media for $0.25 doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
You're right, which is why we're about to see a bunch of M$ source code leaked to the net, and then M$ will blame those evil hackers for stealing $150 billion worth of intellectual property and write all their development costs off the books.
Cheers for taking the company that used to create those really good laser printers and turning them into another crap marketing company, just like you did to Digital.
Why is it that mergers seem to take the worst bits of both companies?
Not quite, no. It's a wrapper that turns Win32 calls into X calls. Basically, it is an implementation of the Win32 API. No emulation is actually done because none is necessary -- x86 applications running on an x86 -- the only thing Linux lacks is the API. Wine brings the API to Linux. By your logic, XFree86 is an X11 emulator.
Which leads to fun things like running Winamp under Wine (crossover office 2.0 to be exact. Work paid for my copy, and I like being able to read Office docs when I need to) - it was actually quite reasonable, though compiling KDE in the background made it skip occasionally.
On the other hand, my audio path can't exactly be called solid at the best of times - ALSA/aRts seems a little flaky in the 2.5.67-ac2 kernel I'm running on this box, either that or my configuration is shit.
If you expect to be on the whitelist you don't attach a payment coupon, and hence you are either accepted by the whitelist, or bounce because you're not paid.
If the ex-girlfriend removes you from the whitelist then your email bounces. Well, it's not like she doesn't have a right to do that (or even add you to her 'blacklist and strip' collection, which takes the money you attached and deletes the message so she doesn't get to see it).
The whole point is that you either have a speaking (emailing) relationship with someone, or you offer them the option of taking a sum of money to consider talking with you, and they have the option of taking the money and still refusing to talk to you.
I hate spam as much as everyone else, but I don't see how this can violate any law. If the User opted-in, which it appears he did, and then later opted-out, Audio Galaxy can't be expected to go around to everyone they sold his email address to and say "Hey, that email we sold to you before? Stop using it!" Audio Galaxy should stop selling his email address at that point, but that would have no effect on the apparent sequence of events here.
So every slimeball company would form a second company called "email address holdings [inc]" and immediately sell them your email address upon opt-in. From this point, even if you opt out, EAHI has full rights to keep spamming you and selling your address for ever?
I don't think anyone could sanely call that an opt-out.
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Maybe there is more than one REGINALD C. BROUGHTON working for the company? When I ran for student council in year 12 there were two Sharni Lynd's both running. Really. And they didn't know each other either, and certainly weren't related.
Possible?
Nah, probably not. Not given all the other crap SCO has pulled.
If you dont have to look at and press buttons how is it any more distracting than conversing with someone in the passenger seat?
Because the person sitting in the passenger seat is aware of what's happening around you, and tends to not only stop talking when a situation arises, but is more likely to notice a situation developing and draw your attention to it.
Someone on a mobile phone will be blissfully unaware, and keep taking through the moments when you need _all_ your attention on the road.
IHNJ IJLTS 'programming is an sexact'
Or just install KDE, it comes as a standard component of kdegames
(compiling tonight's CVS now - and believe me, the nightly compiles really are - if I don't go to bed early enough, it won't be ready in the morning. Here's fingers crossed for kgpg and sound to be back again)
I believe the real reason is that the person in the car with you is aware of your environment, and stops talking/distracting you when a situation arrises. They immediately realise that you need to concentrate. Someone on the phone will keep talking, and your brain will allocate effort to listening to them.
For those turned off or scared away by the debian install process (which still seems stuck in the 90's. Jesus, did I just say that?), grab a Knoppix CD.
Tell me about it - I just downloaded the latest testing official installer CD, and the thing is absolutely shocking - much worse user interface than even the Woody installer. It writes (default) at the end of the command which it's currently expecting to run, which takes ages to find amongst 20 lines with random lengths and various text in them if you're not familiar with it. It has broken components all over the place, and it doesn't have any design coherency. Half the options aren't cleanly back-out-ofable, and it's still inefficient with bandwidth for a console-only setup.
There really isn't much going for the current installer - I hope someone brings out a better one soon - I'm almost tempted to play with it myself (I might also be bitter because it doesn't have the rtl8139 driver, thought the 8139too driver is on there and works fine - but every single time you do anything it prompts with "couldn't find required driver". Grr)
I'm going to go get Knoppix now!
As a physicist, let me assure you that perpetual
motion has not been and never will be _PROVEN_
impossible. That's not how science works.
True, but hey - Albert Einstien is quoted as saying that if he believes the least likely physical "law" to be overturned is the second law of thermodynamics.
Also, if a perpetual motion machine was possible (producing more energy than was put in to actually create real work rather than just perfecting a zero friction device), then the whole universe would blow up in a puff of positive feedback if you weren't really _really_ careful.
(ok, so I quit physics after second year Uni because they closed the physics club down and I had nowhere to play cards, so I protested by doing 100% compsci)
And as McBride recently pointed out they found the code during the 30 day extention IBM filed for. So it clearly does'nt take an army.
Especially if you can just grep the CVS repository for "stole this bit from Linux".
Hehe, mine isn't a geek - well, not about computers anyway, but I'm cuddled up in bed with my 2 week old daughter - maybe she will be a geek.
YOU ARE PROVING MY POINT HERE. Who is making th emoney off of the OSS? The corporations, NOT THE PERSON MAKING THE SOFTWARE. I am glad you have two new card, a house, a gaming network. WHAT DOES THE OSS DEVELOPER GET? NOTHING.
Just because you uploaded your very own blog script to Freshmeat last week, and nobody has offered you a gaming network and a couple of houses doesn't mean that people doing stuff that's actually valuable to their business shouldn't get paid for it.
The basic test that I hope my boss still applies goes something like "Is it going to give our competitors any significant advantages to have access to this? 'No'. Is it likely to be useful to people and have additional benefits? 'Yes'. Release it then." - of course, I generally just send diffs to already existing tools that we use - because that's the whole points of releasing it in the first place.
I've read the law on this, a merchant can deny payment if the total is over $1 and the customer has all pennies.
I haven't, but there's something similar here in Australia - you only have to accept up to a certain number of each denomination in a single transaction, so you can't pay more than a dollar or so in 5 cent coins before they have a right to refuse you.
Want to put non-competitive clause in my contract? Fine, but then I want you to pay me salary during the perioid.
That's what my work does. The contract I signed says that they're allowed to require me not to compete for as long as they like, but will pay me at the same salary for that period. The specific job description then states the default period that applies to my job (1 month).
Note: this payment only applies if they fire me. If I leave of my own free will they ask me to respect the agreement (though I think they note that it's probably not enforcable) and won't pay the period.
What happens if you're a software company that buys some closed source static libraries from another company and link them to your proprietary product and sell the result to customers and later discover the library company included GPL'd code without telling you?
Then you sue the pants off the company that sold you the static libraries under false pretences, and you hope you can find all the authors of the GPL program and convince them to re-licence the libraries to you.
It's still no different to if that company had stolen non-GPL software from someone who didn't want to licence the software to you for any price. You'd still have to remove the offending software. Not only that, but I imagine you'd get a reasonable degree of sympathy from the authors of the open-source component if you had been lied to by a commercial vendor (though they may try to sell you on the benefits of open-source).
If you were particularly lucky, the library you link against may be LGPL, or you may convince the authors to re-licence it LGPL, and then you could link against it for free.
As a software developer you know all about TCP sequence numbers then, obviously. Maybe you need to read up about starting with a random sequence number for every new connection.
Sure TCP is partially fakable, but it's not exactly easy any more.
Maybe this rat could be used to bell the cat, making life safe for all the leetle meecies?
MS has to amortize their development, support, sales, and other costs over all of the sales of W3K. Just because you can duplicate the CD media for $0.25 doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
You're right, which is why we're about to see a bunch of M$ source code leaked to the net, and then M$ will blame those evil hackers for stealing $150 billion worth of intellectual property and write all their development costs off the books.
How do you think they avoid paying taxes?
if ((flag & VAL1) || (flag & VAL2)
NOTHING;
else
Here I see a language crying out for perl's 'unless'.
Have I seen you somewhere else? I'm sure useful information like the above doesn't belong on Slashdot...
Dude, grow some fucking comprehension skills. I was doing it because I _could_. You don't really think I use it all the time do you?
Actually, I tend to use noatun as much as XMMS, since I'm currently following CVS HEAD of KDE, and want to test it.
*sigh*
Cheers for taking the company that used to create those really good laser printers and turning them into another crap marketing company, just like you did to Digital.
Why is it that mergers seem to take the worst bits of both companies?
Not quite, no. It's a wrapper that turns Win32 calls into X calls. Basically, it is an implementation of the Win32 API. No emulation is actually done because none is necessary -- x86 applications running on an x86 -- the only thing Linux lacks is the API. Wine brings the API to Linux. By your logic, XFree86 is an X11 emulator.
Which leads to fun things like running Winamp under Wine (crossover office 2.0 to be exact. Work paid for my copy, and I like being able to read Office docs when I need to) - it was actually quite reasonable, though compiling KDE in the background made it skip occasionally.
On the other hand, my audio path can't exactly be called solid at the best of times - ALSA/aRts seems a little flaky in the 2.5.67-ac2 kernel I'm running on this box, either that or my configuration is shit.
I would be more likely to write perl like so:
foreach my $i (1..10) {
$j += $i;
}
(and I'd use the += operator in C++ too, it can be made more efficient by the compiler).
of course in Perl you can get stranger if you want:
map { $j += $_ } (1..10);
of course I would probably just do:
$j += 55;
but that's your fault for choosing a silly example.
With KDE:
1) Find URL and highlight it.
2) Select preferred browser from the menu which pops up (I enabled this because I like it, it is optional)
Without KDE:
1) Find URL and highlight it.
2) Find a handy browser.
3) Middle click anywhere in the screen.
4) Learn how your software works before fucking complaining that you bring your Windows habits over.
If you expect to be on the whitelist you don't attach a payment coupon, and hence you are either accepted by the whitelist, or bounce because you're not paid.
If the ex-girlfriend removes you from the whitelist then your email bounces. Well, it's not like she doesn't have a right to do that (or even add you to her 'blacklist and strip' collection, which takes the money you attached and deletes the message so she doesn't get to see it).
The whole point is that you either have a speaking (emailing) relationship with someone, or you offer them the option of taking a sum of money to consider talking with you, and they have the option of taking the money and still refusing to talk to you.
I hate spam as much as everyone else, but I don't see how this can violate any law. If the User opted-in, which it appears he did, and then later opted-out, Audio Galaxy can't be expected to go around to everyone they sold his email address to and say "Hey, that email we sold to you before? Stop using it!" Audio Galaxy should stop selling his email address at that point, but that would have no effect on the apparent sequence of events here.
So every slimeball company would form a second company called "email address holdings [inc]" and immediately sell them your email address upon opt-in. From this point, even if you opt out, EAHI has full rights to keep spamming you and selling your address for ever?
I don't think anyone could sanely call that an opt-out.