Well, I would be between 2 and 3. In fact, i do not really grow a beard as much as i do not shave myself. Given that I am lucky and I don't have to make any maintenance to my "beard" for the first three months I leave it that way and reboot (shave) only once every three months or so.
BTW, do any Brits think it is a gross breach of sovereignty to have foreign bases in the UK?
I don't know for the brits but we had US bases in France (NATO bases) but it didn't please us very much so De Gaulle told them to go back home and went out of NATO. Now we are alone and well.
and no doubt TT will be trying hard to ensure GTKs failure, and no doubt the main way they'll do this is by making QT better and better.
As long as they try to beat GTK by enhancing QT I am GLADE;). This is the spirit of capitalism, competition, and this is why having both KDE and Gnome is good, as long as everybody plays fair.
Bungie didn't do the ports to Linux. Loki did. Bungie developed the games.
I know, but that doesn't change anything if MS tells then "You want to license Halo to Loki for Linux? No way!"
Now Microsoft is the publisher. Bungie can still ship off their titles to Loki to be published on Linux, as long as there's no clause in the MS contract that explicitly forbids this.
And that is exactly what I am fearing.
It's called "logic" and "reasoning". I'm suprised that more of the slashbots don't possess these skills, despite being the "geeks" they are.
Apparently you still lack the basic reading and analysing what you read skills. You tell me I am stupid and then gives me reasons why I am may right to fear the worse.
Complete off-topic remark about poster's sig: No way! I was thinking last night that "The Road Ahead" must have some halarious material in it. Sure enough. Please tell me 'ol Bill really said that. Now I finally have motivation to read that book.
To be fair, I haven't read it myself, but many people told me that it was in the book, although someone told me that it wasn't in the reedition.
What surprised me wasn't that it wasn't in the reedtition but that their was reedition in the first place.
What you are saying is taht it could be done from what is already existing.
It's probably true, but the advantage of beginning from scratch is taht you are not encumbered by backward compatibility and therefore have more liberty in your design.
Maybe. But the assumption in your statement is that the first modification was made was under the GPL.
Yes, I said that I didn't knew about the other licenses, so all i can comment on is when cod ethat was done in a Doom project under the GPL is included in a non-GPL Doom project.
Ok, I am currently reading the white paper and I have a question.
About Logical Disks it says:
The name provided by the user must be unique as no two logical disks may have the same name. [...] The name will travel with the device(s) that comprises the logical disk so that, when it is attached to another system employing this LVMS, the name assigned to it will be available to the LVMS on the new system.
So what if the traveling disk has a name already taken by another volume in the new system?
Does it resolve the conflict automatically? Or, more likely, does it ask the manager to pick up a new name?
Heck, I suppose it does both, it first resolve with a temporary name (like conflicting_name_2) and work with it while asking the manager to pick a new name.
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Ok, I am not a x86 expert so take this question with a grain of salt.
I often hear about the x86 being obsolete, old... but shouldn't it be the IBM compatible PC taht should be blamed?
Couldn't it be possible to do a x86 based computer that doesn't try to be compatible with the old IBM design or what evolved from it with all its IRQ (or the fact that there isn't enough IRQ's), it's bus and everything and use it (the X86) in a more modern design?
And I'm forbidden (non-disclosure agreements) to tell you the secret IBM handshake, which gets you into any IBM building around the world.
LOL.
I think that the harder will be to get an interview. I may be a typical geek for many things but oral exams/interviews and such are easy for me, well, except that it would be my first real job interview and even worse it would not be in my native language.
Otherwise my personal supervisor/project tutor thinks that i have the capacity to have a 2(i) degree (between 60 and 70%) and I was the major at my school in France two years ago (15.33/20 ~= 76.6%) so I think it should gives me some arguments.
your way of thinking about it will avoid conflicts between licenses, but it doesn't cover the whole space of possibilities. For example, BSD licensed code may be incorporated into a GPL'ed project and that formerly BSD'ed code may be released under a GPL license.
Therefore the BSD is a O group that can give blood (code) to A, B and AB but cannot receive from them, while the GPL is an AB group that can receive from O, A and B but cannot give any blood to anybody that isn't AB (GPL) themselves.
This is not a problem to the proponents of the BSD license because they don't believe in restricting what licensees can do. The BSD way of thinking is, "it's allowed, that makes it OK."
Which seems logical for me. If they put it under the BSD license it is becaise they agree that anybody can do anything with their code. If it wasn't ok with them they shouldn't have put it under the BSD license in the first place, no?
In other word, the GPL way of thinking is also "if it's allowed then it's ok", their is just less things that are allowed.
Public domain is what is not copyrighted either because it finished his protection period (which is very rare today thanks to !*&^$$£"^£ such as Sony Bon(n?)o) or because the author decided to relinquish all control over it and put it in the public domain (these are the two main ways).
The point of licences is to unambiguously tell people what they can and cannot do with the software.
I think it should be the role of copyright laws. Most licenses are trying to aviod giving you the rights that the law gives you. Free Softwre license are different in this respect given that you have all the rights that the law gives you and you may get some more if you agree to certain conditions that are more or less restrictive.
The phrase "public domain" may be interpreted in different ways by different people
Yes and no. No, because Pubic domain (;-)) has a well defined definition and because by its nature it doesn't have any interpretation due to the lack of rules but yes because anybody can use it any way they like, including making it proprietary again (the PD version remains but if he makes change to his version these changes are proprietary).
therefore some form of licensing is necessary to clarify the situation.
No, see above. PD tells you to make whatever you f*cking want.
The pre-prepared BSD and GPL licenses provide a simple way for people to put a license with their code.
Given that the only thing the BSD license forces you to do is to keep their copyright on the files and to put the disclaimer you could as well put it in the public domain.
If it was in the public domain then the disclaimer would be unnecessary given that you relinquish the control over the software you cannot be attacked if it doesn't work.
Furthermore I know that even if you sell your copyright you still have the right to be acknowledged as the author of your work. I don't know if you keep this right when putting it in the public domain (although it is likely) but if you do then it would be the same as putting the copyright notice.
You may say, yes, but with the copyright notice I still have the copyright whereas if I put it in DP I lose it. So what? If you put it under the BSD license you lose the control on your copyright anyway, and if it is in the public domain nothing forbid you to take your own DP work and make a proprietary version of it.
but the GPL is clear. If someone modified the GPL'd Doom and someone else took these change and put them in a non-GPL'd Doom thi is a violation of the GPL and the guy that write this code can sue. I am not talking of Carmack here, given that Doom itself was released under many licenses but of the hypothetical guy that would havemodified Doom under the GPL.
And yes, IBM/has/ changed alot. They're actually pretty damned cool! I would highly recommend anyone looking for a cool Linux-related job to consider IBM. Hey, look at me! I'm getting paid to write Open-Source Software!
Being a soon-to-be graduate in the UK (Portsmouth, near IBM's headquarters in the UK) I am seriously interested in working for them. My question is, have you any hint specific to IBM to give people wanting to work for them?
Yeah, when potatoes where first imported in France, people didn't want to eat them (an early NIH syndrom?).
What the King did was to have fields of them guarded "by order of the King" with guards having the instructions to let people go through the sieve (I bet some of them even made the "thieves" pay to let them enter:)).
Given the aura of secrecy around potatoes, people did of course try to get in the field and steal them.
This guy is not able to remember technological things directly related to his company's job but he is able to remember that a given woman would not be happy to be cald Diana instead of Diane?
I guess this woman terrorised him more than DVD piracy then.
Well, I am not saying that Valenti is a dictator that tortured dozens and dozens (hundreds?) of people, but just like Pinochet he is ill at the right time.
I bet he is better now but I fear that the fever may come back during the stress incured by the suit.;)
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Anyway, here would you fit Linus in this?
I don't know for the brits but we had US bases in France (NATO bases) but it didn't please us very much so De Gaulle told them to go back home and went out of NATO. Now we are alone and well.
As long as they try to beat GTK by enhancing QT I am GLADE ;). This is the spirit of capitalism, competition, and this is why having both KDE and Gnome is good, as long as everybody plays fair.
Hold on, isn't that redundant? :D
Note: this may sound more funny if you know that I am French myself.
So that's why the used us to unstable operating systems during all these years.
Doesn't it raise the possibility to find diabetic aliens elsewhere in the universe too?
I know, but that doesn't change anything if MS tells then "You want to license Halo to Loki for Linux? No way!"
Now Microsoft is the publisher. Bungie can still ship off their titles to Loki to be published on Linux, as long as there's no clause in the MS contract that explicitly forbids this.
And that is exactly what I am fearing.
It's called "logic" and "reasoning". I'm suprised that more of the slashbots don't possess these skills, despite being the "geeks" they are.
Apparently you still lack the basic reading and analysing what you read skills. You tell me I am stupid and then gives me reasons why I am may right to fear the worse.
To be fair, I haven't read it myself, but many people told me that it was in the book, although someone told me that it wasn't in the reedition.
What surprised me wasn't that it wasn't in the reedtition but that their was reedition in the first place.
Sniff, wait and see.
It's probably true, but the advantage of beginning from scratch is taht you are not encumbered by backward compatibility and therefore have more liberty in your design.
Feel free to clarify, being French I understand that my English isn't always the best around (but then I would like to read your french :D).
That's right, when do we upgrade American to the more advanced metric system?
Human are hard to upgrade.
Yes, I said that I didn't knew about the other licenses, so all i can comment on is when cod ethat was done in a Doom project under the GPL is included in a non-GPL Doom project.
About Logical Disks it says:
The name provided by the user must be unique as no two logical disks may have the same name. [...] The name will travel with the device(s) that comprises the logical disk so that, when it is attached to another system employing this LVMS, the name assigned to it will be available to the LVMS on the new system.
So what if the traveling disk has a name already taken by another volume in the new system?
Does it resolve the conflict automatically? Or, more likely, does it ask the manager to pick up a new name?
Heck, I suppose it does both, it first resolve with a temporary name (like conflicting_name_2) and work with it while asking the manager to pick a new name.
I often hear about the x86 being obsolete, old... but shouldn't it be the IBM compatible PC taht should be blamed?
Couldn't it be possible to do a x86 based computer that doesn't try to be compatible with the old IBM design or what evolved from it with all its IRQ (or the fact that there isn't enough IRQ's), it's bus and everything and use it (the X86) in a more modern design?
Isn't what VA Linux does for some of its boxes?
LOL.
I think that the harder will be to get an interview. I may be a typical geek for many things but oral exams/interviews and such are easy for me, well, except that it would be my first real job interview and even worse it would not be in my native language.
Otherwise my personal supervisor/project tutor thinks that i have the capacity to have a 2(i) degree (between 60 and 70%) and I was the major at my school in France two years ago (15.33/20 ~= 76.6%) so I think it should gives me some arguments.
Therefore the BSD is a O group that can give blood (code) to A, B and AB but cannot receive from them, while the GPL is an AB group that can receive from O, A and B but cannot give any blood to anybody that isn't AB (GPL) themselves.
This is not a problem to the proponents of the BSD license because they don't believe in restricting what licensees can do. The BSD way of thinking is, "it's allowed, that makes it OK."
Which seems logical for me. If they put it under the BSD license it is becaise they agree that anybody can do anything with their code. If it wasn't ok with them they shouldn't have put it under the BSD license in the first place, no?
In other word, the GPL way of thinking is also "if it's allowed then it's ok", their is just less things that are allowed.
Public domain is what is not copyrighted either because it finished his protection period (which is very rare today thanks to !*&^$$£"^£ such as Sony Bon(n?)o) or because the author decided to relinquish all control over it and put it in the public domain (these are the two main ways).
The point of licences is to unambiguously tell people what they can and cannot do with the software.
I think it should be the role of copyright laws. Most licenses are trying to aviod giving you the rights that the law gives you. Free Softwre license are different in this respect given that you have all the rights that the law gives you and you may get some more if you agree to certain conditions that are more or less restrictive.
The phrase "public domain" may be interpreted in different ways by different people
Yes and no. No, because Pubic domain (;-)) has a well defined definition and because by its nature it doesn't have any interpretation due to the lack of rules but yes because anybody can use it any way they like, including making it proprietary again (the PD version remains but if he makes change to his version these changes are proprietary).
therefore some form of licensing is necessary to clarify the situation.
No, see above. PD tells you to make whatever you f*cking want.
The pre-prepared BSD and GPL licenses provide a simple way for people to put a license with their code.
Given that the only thing the BSD license forces you to do is to keep their copyright on the files and to put the disclaimer you could as well put it in the public domain.
If it was in the public domain then the disclaimer would be unnecessary given that you relinquish the control over the software you cannot be attacked if it doesn't work.
Furthermore I know that even if you sell your copyright you still have the right to be acknowledged as the author of your work. I don't know if you keep this right when putting it in the public domain (although it is likely) but if you do then it would be the same as putting the copyright notice.
You may say, yes, but with the copyright notice I still have the copyright whereas if I put it in DP I lose it. So what? If you put it under the BSD license you lose the control on your copyright anyway, and if it is in the public domain nothing forbid you to take your own DP work and make a proprietary version of it.
but the GPL is clear. If someone modified the GPL'd Doom and someone else took these change and put them in a non-GPL'd Doom thi is a violation of the GPL and the guy that write this code can sue. I am not talking of Carmack here, given that Doom itself was released under many licenses but of the hypothetical guy that would havemodified Doom under the GPL.
On their UK website they say that you have to dress up only if/when you meet with clients, which is normal IMO.
Being a soon-to-be graduate in the UK (Portsmouth, near IBM's headquarters in the UK) I am seriously interested in working for them. My question is, have you any hint specific to IBM to give people wanting to work for them?
What the King did was to have fields of them guarded "by order of the King" with guards having the instructions to let people go through the sieve (I bet some of them even made the "thieves" pay to let them enter :)).
Given the aura of secrecy around potatoes, people did of course try to get in the field and steal them.
Isn't that called social engineering?
12 written by you and others.
13 A What I want to do, counsel, if you will
14 allow me. It's Diane. If you say Diana I don't
15 think that she would like that very much.
This guy is not able to remember technological things directly related to his company's job but he is able to remember that a given woman would not be happy to be cald Diana instead of Diane?
I guess this woman terrorised him more than DVD piracy then.
14 Q Do you know who Mr. Schumann is?
15 A Schumann?
16 Q Yeah.
17 A What's his first name?
18 Q Robert?
19 A Great composer. I love his music.
20 Q Not this man's. He's an expert witness
21 who has been retained by the MPAA and Proskauer.
He his the head of the MPAA and he doesn't even know the names of his witnesses. What a luser.
I bet he is better now but I fear that the fever may come back during the stress incured by the suit. ;)