On behalf of the rest of the English speaking world I'd just like to remind everybody here that the book is actually called 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
The American publishers elected to change the title to appeal to an American audience. There's a list of changes made to the rest of the book circulating on the net. Seems like at least one word/phrase was changed on every page of the book so that American readers wouldn't be confronted by the realisation that people in other countries have different names for common items and can spell properly. (Aluminium)
It's not released under the GPL. It's released under the Apple Public Source License. This is not free (as in speech), it's just open source.
You can get the code. You can modify it and use the modified code (solely for personal or internal research purposes), you automatically forfeit any rights to the modifications you make, they are automatically owned by Apple, and I have a feeling Apple can arbitrarily revoke your right to posess or use the code, including your modifications, at any time.
Actually I'd say you're the one who missed the point.
Pretty much all Linux apps can be compiled for all supported architectures and the pre-compiled binaries are available in several popular distributions (YDL, Debian and Gentoo spring to mind).
Besides, that's not why I, and I suspect many other folks, run Linux. It's free of restrictive licenses, you can get the source code to everything, you can reconfigure pretty much anything to work the way you want, you can become actively involved in the development of apps, drivers, the kernel, etc.
OSX is closed. Darwin is only a little bit open. You can see the source but there are a lot of licensing restrictions imposed on what you can actually do with it.
Since Linux works very well on my Mac hardware and doesn't impose the limitations of OSX it's what I prefer to run most of the time, though my system is dual boot. Best of both worlds really.
I don't mean this in a bad way, but are you maybe gay and you haven't realised yet. How many comic books do you have? And how big is your collection of fantasy novels?
.....can be trusted 100%. Only Apple would exaggerate for marketing purposes.
I have this theory. A 2Ghz twin G5 system is really fast. And if you have some money to spend and you want a really fast system and you'd like to run OSX then you could do worse than buy one.
Actually I think the argument was that Mhz is not the only factor determining the speed of a computer. ie. my G4 is clocked slower than my workmates PC but my Quake3 fps is way higher.
Oh and also maybe there may have been an argument along the lines of 'Windows at any speed sucks rocks and you'd be better off running something good like perhaps OSX, even if maybe the Mac you buy is slower than a similarly priced PC'.
And those G5s sure look sweet. How hard would it be to make a PC tower that didn't look like a piece of shit. I've seen some mighty fine looking Wintel laptops lately, but the beige box still rules the desktop. Sad. Very sad.
So you chose a distribution which expects you to do a lot of work configuring the system rather than just installing a default suite of pre-configured apps and now you're upset that it did exactly that.
I have YDL installed on my iBook. I wanted to use the machine as a general workstation so I selected 'general workstation', or something like that, from the install options and that's what I got. Everything works, haven't had to change anything.
Not that there's anything wrong with Debian, it's just intended for people who want a lot of flexibility/options.
A tattoo of an eagle's talons on the head of your cock may have less impact in the workplace than, say, a swastika on the forehead.
Choose your tattoo wisely and then something about spoons I need a coffee I don't have any tattoos or piercings and I vote so you just have a think about that right there buddy.
I accidentally omitted the words 'I hope' from the previous comment. You may insert these words anywhere that takes your fancy. My choice would be about half way through the bit with loads of swearing. Immediately before the word Redmond might be as good a spot as any.
.... is people who don't see the distinction b/w RAM and disk space. My computer illiterate house mate complains, 'It says I'm out of memory but I've got 4Gb free !'.
The first paragraph of this article is all over the shop like a mad woman's knitting. I particularly like,
"Even the first Windows versions were not capable of completely utilizing all the physical memory on the drive."
Yeah right, coz that's where the physical memory is.
And this new filesystem is supposed to be good because you can search for stuff faster or something? Why not just don't lose your files in the first place and update your locate database daily and fuck I fucking hate those dirty monopolistic fucks and Redmond is hit by an almighty fucking asteroid and fuckety fuck fucking fuck.
A few Starbucksesesss have opened in Melbourne recently. Curious little oddities with insipidly weak coffee available in twenty gazillion flavours. How strange it must be to live in America.
Yeah sure, because the only software that exists is Microsoft and Free software. This will have no impact on other commercial software vendors, after all they don't exist anymore thanks in no small part to Microsoft's aggressively anti competitive trade practises.
I figure pretty much any monopoly is a bad thing.
Look at it in an evolutionary sense. Every succesful species has found an ecological niche. Inability to thrive in that niche = extinction. Carving out such a large niche that the rest of the ecology is comprised = extinction.
Left unchecked the wheels will fall off. Microsoft have completely fucked themselves by buying into the notion that infinite growth is possible. The same probably applies to the US economy too.
In the next 5 to 10 years Microsoft will either radically change it's business practises or collapse under it's own bloated weight.
The sickle and hammer is usually associated with communism. Suing people for violation of intellectual property rights and seeking vast sums of money as compensation is a capitalist endeavour.
Instead I suggest we combine the SCO and Microsoft logos and leave it at that. Or maybe a $ sign. Or a little scribbly moustache and glasses, or pointy devil ears, or an unrelated picture of bacon, the world's favourite meat.
Slashdot Mirror
....and he still wears a suit.
The day I have enough money in the bank to never work again is the day I burn my suit. Or at least I would if I had one. I saw a suit once. In a shop.
Ever drink glass cleaner or windshield wiper fluid?
ummm.....yes.
The religious fanatic thing was a recurring joke throughout the article. He was taking the piss.
And I think you'll find that both the Catholic and Lutheran churches are already Christian so they were maybe poor examples.
On behalf of the rest of the English speaking world I'd just like to remind everybody here that the book is actually called 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
The American publishers elected to change the title to appeal to an American audience. There's a list of changes made to the rest of the book circulating on the net. Seems like at least one word/phrase was changed on every page of the book so that American readers wouldn't be confronted by the realisation that people in other countries have different names for common items and can spell properly. (Aluminium)
It's not released under the GPL. It's released under the Apple Public Source License. This is not free (as in speech), it's just open source.
You can get the code. You can modify it and use the modified code (solely for personal or internal research purposes), you automatically forfeit any rights to the modifications you make, they are automatically owned by Apple, and I have a feeling Apple can arbitrarily revoke your right to posess or use the code, including your modifications, at any time.
Not free at all.
your cock is not your manhood. It is your cock.
actually I was thinking more in terms of Anne Elk.
I have a theory. Which is mine. My theory, ehh hmmm, which is mine, by Anne Elk, is that the brontosaurus......blah blah etc.
Actually I'd say you're the one who missed the point.
Pretty much all Linux apps can be compiled for all supported architectures and the pre-compiled binaries are available in several popular distributions (YDL, Debian and Gentoo spring to mind).
Besides, that's not why I, and I suspect many other folks, run Linux. It's free of restrictive licenses, you can get the source code to everything, you can reconfigure pretty much anything to work the way you want, you can become actively involved in the development of apps, drivers, the kernel, etc.
OSX is closed. Darwin is only a little bit open. You can see the source but there are a lot of licensing restrictions imposed on what you can actually do with it.
Since Linux works very well on my Mac hardware and doesn't impose the limitations of OSX it's what I prefer to run most of the time, though my system is dual boot. Best of both worlds really.
something useful, you mean like trolling on Slashdot ?
I don't mean this in a bad way, but are you maybe gay and you haven't realised yet. How many comic books do you have? And how big is your collection of fantasy novels?
.....can be trusted 100%. Only Apple would exaggerate for marketing purposes.
I have this theory. A 2Ghz twin G5 system is really fast. And if you have some money to spend and you want a really fast system and you'd like to run OSX then you could do worse than buy one.
Actually I think the argument was that Mhz is not the only factor determining the speed of a computer. ie. my G4 is clocked slower than my workmates PC but my Quake3 fps is way higher.
Oh and also maybe there may have been an argument along the lines of 'Windows at any speed sucks rocks and you'd be better off running something good like perhaps OSX, even if maybe the Mac you buy is slower than a similarly priced PC'.
And those G5s sure look sweet. How hard would it be to make a PC tower that didn't look like a piece of shit. I've seen some mighty fine looking Wintel laptops lately, but the beige box still rules the desktop. Sad. Very sad.
hmmm...interesting.
So you chose a distribution which expects you to do a lot of work configuring the system rather than just installing a default suite of pre-configured apps and now you're upset that it did exactly that.
I have YDL installed on my iBook. I wanted to use the machine as a general workstation so I selected 'general workstation', or something like that, from the install options and that's what I got. Everything works, haven't had to change anything.
Not that there's anything wrong with Debian, it's just intended for people who want a lot of flexibility/options.
hmmmmm....teenage girls, I'd like to dominate a teenage girl......oh, ohhh. Did I say that or just think it ?
A tattoo of an eagle's talons on the head of your cock may have less impact in the workplace than, say, a swastika on the forehead.
Choose your tattoo wisely and then something about spoons I need a coffee I don't have any tattoos or piercings and I vote so you just have a think about that right there buddy.
I accidentally omitted the words 'I hope' from the previous comment. You may insert these words anywhere that takes your fancy. My choice would be about half way through the bit with loads of swearing. Immediately before the word Redmond might be as good a spot as any.
The first paragraph of this article is all over the shop like a mad woman's knitting. I particularly like,
Yeah right, coz that's where the physical memory is.
And this new filesystem is supposed to be good because you can search for stuff faster or something? Why not just don't lose your files in the first place and update your locate database daily and fuck I fucking hate those dirty monopolistic fucks and Redmond is hit by an almighty fucking asteroid and fuckety fuck fucking fuck.
A few Starbucksesesss have opened in Melbourne recently. Curious little oddities with insipidly weak coffee available in twenty gazillion flavours. How strange it must be to live in America.
small, useful, fast, intuitive.
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
Just started reading 'Free as in Freedom'. All about RMS. He has a beard.
Have a look at Squeak.
It's a Smalltalk virtual machine with easily programmable 2D and 3D graphics, audio support, runs on just about anything.
Squeak
Squeakland
Actually known monopolies are not free to give away their stuff. They're not even allowed to sell below cost. It's called dumping.
The beast is frickin nuts. I think you should be set on fire.
Yeah sure, because the only software that exists is Microsoft and Free software. This will have no impact on other commercial software vendors, after all they don't exist anymore thanks in no small part to Microsoft's aggressively anti competitive trade practises.
I figure pretty much any monopoly is a bad thing.
Look at it in an evolutionary sense. Every succesful species has found an ecological niche. Inability to thrive in that niche = extinction. Carving out such a large niche that the rest of the ecology is comprised = extinction.
Left unchecked the wheels will fall off. Microsoft have completely fucked themselves by buying into the notion that infinite growth is possible. The same probably applies to the US economy too.
In the next 5 to 10 years Microsoft will either radically change it's business practises or collapse under it's own bloated weight.
The sickle and hammer is usually associated with communism. Suing people for violation of intellectual property rights and seeking vast sums of money as compensation is a capitalist endeavour.
Instead I suggest we combine the SCO and Microsoft logos and leave it at that. Or maybe a $ sign. Or a little scribbly moustache and glasses, or pointy devil ears, or an unrelated picture of bacon, the world's favourite meat.