I think you have read wrong. Linus said that he originally called it linux as a play on his name and that he never intended for that to be the actual name. He came up w/ freax(or somethink like that, a combination of free + freak + unix) but the owner of the ftp site where he was uploading the sources didn't like the name and just left linux as the name. It just stuck after that.
If Diamond loses a suit to the RIAA it will pretty much ensure that anyone else creating a portable mp3 player will also lose a suit. Demand will be there, but suply won't. No one is going to get into a market where they know that they will lose a lawsuit and be forced to shutdown.
It's also recommended that you match the stepping and the batch if possible. Basically you want the chips to be as close to identical as possible. That's normally why it's better to buy the chips all at the same time.
but the next guy refuses, and so does the next guy, and the next, and the next. Uh-oh, circuit city has no body left to hire. Maybe they should rethink their drug testing policy. If everyone says "well that sucks, but that's just the way it is, nothing will ever change"
But granted it's true. Divx is one of the few products you can buy where if the company goes out of business the computer is no longer functional. If company that makes your car goes under your warantee will no longer be any good, but your car will still drive.
I actually wonder how long it will be before you start getting Divx discs in the mail that don't come with the first free viewing period. That certainly would be interesting.
One nice thing about Open Source (from a companies' perspective) is that they can't be aquired by the project. The only way the open source project can win against the commercial one is if it's genuinely better.
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I prefered the comment about your kids eyes bugging out after watching a movie 100times in a row.
Seriously though, it was an excellent article with no BS at all, atleast as far as I could see. I especially liked the end where they reminded you that they are a competitor of circuit city, and encouraged you to go to circuit city and ask them to respond to the issues they raised. I'm sure they only did this because they knew circuit city couldn't provide decent answers, but it was still nice to see.
Well aparently the license for Silver discs can be transfered to another person if you sell the disc. I'd assume you could transfer it to yourself if you got a new player. This kinda makes me think of another bad point though. Accourding to the article a "silver" disc can only be "owned" by one player at a time. What happens when you get two players in one house? I know that doesn't seem likely now, but look at vcrs. Many people have 1 vcr per tv. Will you need spend $20 for each player in your house? That's just insane.
I doubt it will ever give unlimited usage. What I think is more likely is that Divx will go out of bussiness and a lot of angry people will be stuck with worthless players and movies and you will probally see a class action lawsuit against circuit city.
Sure you CAN buy a divx player and only watch DVDs. But that would just be stupid, when you can buy a DVD player for less and get better picture quality.
I actually think other distributions are a good thing. Just having redhat on alpha sux. I'm not saying redhat sux. Just having debian, or slackware, or suse, or anything on alpha is bad. Choice is good.
As was stated in the article, due to the speed at which the universe is expanding, our galaxy, in relation to some other one, is actually moving at quite close to the speed of light. Basically the universe can move beyond the speed of light, we just can't.
An easy way to think of this whole thing is picture being on a train that travels at the speed of light. You stand up and walk forward to the next cart. Relative to the train you were moving maybe 1mph. Relative to the tracks you were going beyond the speed of light. But since you yourself weren't going beyond the speed of light you don't violate relativity.
(disclaimer, I'm no where near an expert in any of this, in fact I probally shouldn't be talking).
Actually the way i understood it tachyons HAD to travel faster than light. At zero energy they travel at infinite speed. At infinite energy they travel at light speed. Since you can never reach infinite energy tachyons always travel faster than the speed of light. Then again I'm probally wrong. I just dig physics in situations like this when it gets so damned weird and out there.
It's the odd trek rule. Odd startrek movies suck. Look at the next gen movies. Generations: had the next gen crew, but all in all a crappy movie, and kirk's prediction of his death from startrek V I think it was (the one w/ god) didn't quite come true, he wasn't completely alone. First Contact, excelent movie, great fight scenes, wasn't watered down with that lovely star trek morality. They weren't fighting for ethics or morals or ideals, they were fighting to save earth. Insurrection: again, crappy, again, morals up the wazoo. Fortunately this means the next trek movie will be good.
99% of the humor in the simpsons flies by in about 1 frame. Another question, was the nephew supposed to be sam simon? He looked a lot like the sam simon character from the simpsons 138th episode spectacular.
I think the compiler is the hard part. You could use egcs, but that's essentially gcc. libc is also a problem. But other than that there are replacements for just about everything. Also, GPL != GNU. If you removed all GPL software you wouldn't even have the kernel. You'd have uhm...netscape and xv?
I'm not saying that theey don't deserve credit. They do. But by demanding credit and coming up with terms like "GNU/Linux" and "correcting" people at press conferences, the FSF and RMS are making them selves look like absolute twits. I respect RMS's work, but not him.
I agree that most of us do want the same thing. But I think RMS's method of going about it is 100% wrong. I prefer Linus' method. With RMS everything is political or it's about recognition and credit. Linus seems a lot more laid back, pretty much just code great software and people will GIVE you recognition and credit. RMS isn't doing much more than pissing people off.
I really hate to make the comparison but RMS is a lot like Bill Gates. Neither one of them seems to have written any code in the last few years. Neither one of them wants to give you any choice, Bill Gates wants everything to be proprietary, RMS wants everything to be free. They both seem to want to own everything, Bill wants to litterally own everything, RMS wants everything to be "GNU". I really think RMS needs to calm down a bit, and step back from the scene for a while and rethink his public behavior.
I wasn't aware that Debian was started by the FSF. And they can call it debian GNU/Linux if they like. They can call it RMS IS A GOD/Linux. I'm calling my box Linux. I don't tell you what to call your system, don't tell me what to call mine. Hey if I wanted to I could modify the kernel to be mst3kix.
And i've been running linux for 3 or 4 years now. Just to let you know.
Why should I use BSD just because RMS is, IMHO, a twit? I'm happy with Linux. I really think RMS needs to learn a lesson from Linus, Linus never receives this much heat because he's smart enough to earn respect and recognition rather than demanding it.
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I think you have read wrong. Linus said that he originally called it linux as a play on his name and that he never intended for that to be the actual name. He came up w/ freax(or somethink like that, a combination of free + freak + unix) but the owner of the ftp site where he was uploading the sources didn't like the name and just left linux as the name. It just stuck after that.
If Diamond loses a suit to the RIAA it will pretty much ensure that anyone else creating a portable mp3 player will also lose a suit. Demand will be there, but suply won't. No one is going to get into a market where they know that they will lose a lawsuit and be forced to shutdown.
It's also recommended that you match the stepping and the batch if possible. Basically you want the chips to be as close to identical as possible. That's normally why it's better to buy the chips all at the same time.
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but the next guy refuses, and so does the next guy, and the next, and the next. Uh-oh, circuit city has no body left to hire. Maybe they should rethink their drug testing policy. If everyone says "well that sucks, but that's just the way it is, nothing will ever change"
But granted it's true. Divx is one of the few products you can buy where if the company goes out of business the computer is no longer functional. If company that makes your car goes under your warantee will no longer be any good, but your car will still drive.
I actually wonder how long it will be before you start getting Divx discs in the mail that don't come with the first free viewing period. That certainly would be interesting.
One nice thing about Open Source (from a companies' perspective) is that they can't be aquired by the project. The only way the open source project can win against the commercial one is if it's genuinely better.
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I prefered the comment about your kids eyes bugging out after watching a movie 100times in a row.
Seriously though, it was an excellent article with no BS at all, atleast as far as I could see. I especially liked the end where they reminded you that they are a competitor of circuit city, and encouraged you to go to circuit city and ask them to respond to the issues they raised. I'm sure they only did this because they knew circuit city couldn't provide decent answers, but it was still nice to see.
Well aparently the license for Silver discs can be transfered to another person if you sell the disc. I'd assume you could transfer it to yourself if you got a new player. This kinda makes me think of another bad point though. Accourding to the article a "silver" disc can only be "owned" by one player at a time. What happens when you get two players in one house? I know that doesn't seem likely now, but look at vcrs. Many people have 1 vcr per tv. Will you need spend $20 for each player in your house? That's just insane.
I doubt it will ever give unlimited usage. What I think is more likely is that Divx will go out of bussiness and a lot of angry people will be stuck with worthless players and movies and you will probally see a class action lawsuit against circuit city.
Sure you CAN buy a divx player and only watch DVDs. But that would just be stupid, when you can buy a DVD player for less and get better picture quality.
I actually think other distributions are a good thing. Just having redhat on alpha sux. I'm not saying redhat sux. Just having debian, or slackware, or suse, or anything on alpha is bad. Choice is good.
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As was stated in the article, due to the speed at which the universe is expanding, our galaxy, in relation to some other one, is actually moving at quite close to the speed of light. Basically the universe can move beyond the speed of light, we just can't.
An easy way to think of this whole thing is picture being on a train that travels at the speed of light. You stand up and walk forward to the next cart. Relative to the train you were moving maybe 1mph. Relative to the tracks you were going beyond the speed of light. But since you yourself weren't going beyond the speed of light you don't violate relativity.
(disclaimer, I'm no where near an expert in any of this, in fact I probally shouldn't be talking).
Actually the way i understood it tachyons HAD to travel faster than light. At zero energy they travel at infinite speed. At infinite energy they travel at light speed. Since you can never reach infinite energy tachyons always travel faster than the speed of light. Then again I'm probally wrong. I just dig physics in situations like this when it gets so damned weird and out there.
It's the odd trek rule. Odd startrek movies suck. Look at the next gen movies. Generations: had the next gen crew, but all in all a crappy movie, and kirk's prediction of his death from startrek V I think it was (the one w/ god) didn't quite come true, he wasn't completely alone. First Contact, excelent movie, great fight scenes, wasn't watered down with that lovely star trek morality. They weren't fighting for ethics or morals or ideals, they were fighting to save earth. Insurrection: again, crappy, again, morals up the wazoo. Fortunately this means the next trek movie will be good.
But then again I was 10. I should get that book again and re-read it. Really a good read if you're a nerd.
Actually isn't egcs just gcc minus RMS?
99% of the humor in the simpsons flies by in about 1 frame. Another question, was the nephew supposed to be sam simon? He looked a lot like the sam simon character from the simpsons 138th episode spectacular.
...the answer my friends is blowing in the wind, except in New Jersey, where what's blowing in the wind smells funny.
I think the compiler is the hard part. You could use egcs, but that's essentially gcc. libc is also a problem. But other than that there are replacements for just about everything. Also, GPL != GNU. If you removed all GPL software you wouldn't even have the kernel. You'd have uhm...netscape and xv?
I'm not saying that theey don't deserve credit. They do. But by demanding credit and coming up with terms like "GNU/Linux" and "correcting" people at press conferences, the FSF and RMS are making them selves look like absolute twits. I respect RMS's work, but not him.
I agree that most of us do want the same thing. But I think RMS's method of going about it is 100% wrong. I prefer Linus' method. With RMS everything is political or it's about recognition and credit. Linus seems a lot more laid back, pretty much just code great software and people will GIVE you recognition and credit. RMS isn't doing much more than pissing people off.
I really hate to make the comparison but RMS is a lot like Bill Gates. Neither one of them seems to have written any code in the last few years. Neither one of them wants to give you any choice, Bill Gates wants everything to be proprietary, RMS wants everything to be free. They both seem to want to own everything, Bill wants to litterally own everything, RMS wants everything to be "GNU". I really think RMS needs to calm down a bit, and step back from the scene for a while and rethink his public behavior.
I wasn't aware that Debian was started by the FSF. And they can call it debian GNU/Linux if they like. They can call it RMS IS A GOD/Linux. I'm calling my box Linux. I don't tell you what to call your system, don't tell me what to call mine. Hey if I wanted to I could modify the kernel to be mst3kix.
And i've been running linux for 3 or 4 years now. Just to let you know.
Why should I use BSD just because RMS is, IMHO, a twit? I'm happy with Linux. I really think RMS needs to learn a lesson from Linus, Linus never receives this much heat because he's smart enough to earn respect and recognition rather than demanding it.
Actually XFree86 isn't GPL'd. It's under their own license.