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Tell me it's a teaser. Please tell me it's a teaser and this is going to be cleaned up.
I'll be as vague as possible. Watch the "running down the street to punch each other" scene. Notice they're running, running...suddenly they're standing still for the slow motion shot? Messy. Do a frame by frame. Notice they don't even connect, and the flash is used to distract form that. By the time your eyes stop hurting, they're already reeling. You can tell both these films where shot at the same time...they look hurried. Everything else is very well lit and kind of phony looking, none of the dark errie reality of the original. Still, can't wait to see this amazing helicopter finale they made such a big deal about.
My torrent window is still open and uplink speed is about 40k give or take. <APPRICIATE>
PS: Is it just me, or has even the encrypted green text become cheesier with every Matrix release?
On a pokey 400MHz OS X box, BT is currently getting 155.3K downstream. Go ahread and do wget -c, I didnt' beat the rush. WB's site is timing out like a fucktard. Horray for BT.
...The source code for which Caldera International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System...
So in this comment by an AC, we can see clearly that the code presented in the slides was in fact in the PDP-11 Unix code, which clearly states at the top:
/* * Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement * specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. * * @(#)subr_rmap.c 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92 */
So, this code has been under the BSD license since 1986?
What I would like to know is, how is it that in SCO's comments, there is suddenly Greek describing the modularizational re-naming of malloc and mfree to rmalloc and rmfree? Why is there Greek in English source code? Why are they trying to alege that the Linux code is stolen when the newer code would feature more comments/changes?
You know, fhqwhgads, you're only making yourself look worse, man. Everyone's just gonna feel sorry for you. I mean, I do...
The copyright clearly says 1986 & University of California Berkeley. If SCO bought that code legitimately, then they would have to have changed that attribution, no?
Actually, no, that would have been pretty illegal. 1986 Berkeley probably means that code was taken from a BSD licensed bunch of code, perhaps even BSD itself. Even if SCO purchased code with BSD code in it, that BSD code was still released by it's original authors with the provision of being free forever. Anyone can use it for anything as long as credit is given to the original authors; SCO has done just that, but now wants to claim that the code is theirs and only theirs because they bought it?
I believe it is, but the original code is not affected by your use of it, therefore you cannot claim ownership of BSD'd code and claim the fact it is used elsewhere is an infringement of the GPL or whatever other license you use. This might come back and bite SCO in the ass.
SCO is aleging trade secret voilation. All this nonsense about stolen code being in the kernel is bullshit, they made no mention of that in their suit against IBM. They are simply implying that we have no right to use code that was freely released before they where ever suckered into buying the rights for it (and it's not even clear that they did actually buy the rights), and calling it "theft".
It's bullshit. It will not stand, and that's easy to see.
This brings up a question I wanted to ask: Would this kind of thing be considered a very basic life form playing a game? Have these guys created a lifeform that plays tic-tac-toe? Or is this way too low-level to be considered life?
Some musicians have to buy their own equipment, and no matter what kind of music you play, that's not cheap. Most musicians aren't overpaid. Recently we've seen quite a few who are, especially those that buy other writer's material and hire a studio to create the music for them, then call it their own. That is the kind of thing that shouldnt be rewarded: cookie-cutter hit songs.
Worse yet, naming a project after an obscure occult reference is likely to be offensive to those of various religions.
Exactly, because only their religion is the One True Belief, and therefore the most important factor in choosing a software product.
Exactly why I don't run BSD: Last time I poured holy water on my computer to get rid of the daemons, it started a fire! They might have been exorcized, but in one final act of defiance, they burned my entire copmouter to the ground! Damn those bastards and their willingness to make baby Jesus weep!
Perhaps going that far would warrant an explicit flag, but I would think that a program for de-archiving could just do it automatically, or somehow be configured to do so.
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WARNING: This post contains opinions, initial (possibly incorrect) reactions, and spoilers. Skip it if that sort of think makes you irratible.
Tell me it's a teaser. Please tell me it's a teaser and this is going to be cleaned up.
I'll be as vague as possible. Watch the "running down the street to punch each other" scene. Notice they're running, running...suddenly they're standing still for the slow motion shot? Messy. Do a frame by frame. Notice they don't even connect, and the flash is used to distract form that. By the time your eyes stop hurting, they're already reeling. You can tell both these films where shot at the same time...they look hurried. Everything else is very well lit and kind of phony looking, none of the dark errie reality of the original. Still, can't wait to see this amazing helicopter finale they made such a big deal about.
My torrent window is still open and uplink speed is about 40k give or take. <APPRICIATE>
PS: Is it just me, or has even the encrypted green text become cheesier with every Matrix release?
And no, I'm not trolling.
On a pokey 400MHz OS X box, BT is currently getting 155.3K downstream. Go ahread and do wget -c, I didnt' beat the rush. WB's site is timing out like a fucktard. Horray for BT.
I think it's been made official:
SCO = Smoke Crack Often?
Best. Post. Ever.
It's +5 Funny because it's +5 True.
Is for that heated water so somehow be used to recharge my laptop battery. I'm use that would at least lengthen the time between charges, no?
So far SCO has proven nothing.
Same way one manages to attempt alegations of the nature that SCO has: total brainlessness.
What I would like to know is, how is it that in SCO's comments, there is suddenly Greek describing the modularizational re-naming of malloc and mfree to rmalloc and rmfree? Why is there Greek in English source code? Why are they trying to alege that the Linux code is stolen when the newer code would feature more comments/changes?
You know, fhqwhgads, you're only making yourself look worse, man. Everyone's just gonna feel sorry for you. I mean, I do...
Not only that, they "pumped & dumped" within legal limits, so their clean no matter what.
Only try to realize the truth: There is no case.
I believe it is, but the original code is not affected by your use of it, therefore you cannot claim ownership of BSD'd code and claim the fact it is used elsewhere is an infringement of the GPL or whatever other license you use. This might come back and bite SCO in the ass.
Show me something stolen.
SCO is aleging trade secret voilation. All this nonsense about stolen code being in the kernel is bullshit, they made no mention of that in their suit against IBM. They are simply implying that we have no right to use code that was freely released before they where ever suckered into buying the rights for it (and it's not even clear that they did actually buy the rights), and calling it "theft".
It's bullshit. It will not stand, and that's easy to see.
Perhaps they could put a bear holding a shark on their website now and scare away security experts.
Would Linux and other open source be considered "local" if there are Chineese contributors?
This brings up a question I wanted to ask: Would this kind of thing be considered a very basic life form playing a game? Have these guys created a lifeform that plays tic-tac-toe? Or is this way too low-level to be considered life?
<LUSERMODE>Where can I download the patch for My Blaster?</LUSERMODE>
You can tell by the bloatware jokes.
That probably falls under #3.
It's easy, simply attach a mains plug to an Ethernet cable and plug it into the network. Now THAT's what I call a collision!
Some musicians have to buy their own equipment, and no matter what kind of music you play, that's not cheap. Most musicians aren't overpaid. Recently we've seen quite a few who are, especially those that buy other writer's material and hire a studio to create the music for them, then call it their own. That is the kind of thing that shouldnt be rewarded: cookie-cutter hit songs.
Not a flame, just food for thought.
Here on Slashdot, we prefer hot grits.
Exactly why I don't run BSD: Last time I poured holy water on my computer to get rid of the daemons, it started a fire! They might have been exorcized, but in one final act of defiance, they burned my entire copmouter to the ground! Damn those bastards and their willingness to make baby Jesus weep!
Then don't use the forked version.
Perhaps going that far would warrant an explicit flag, but I would think that a program for de-archiving could just do it automatically, or somehow be configured to do so.
Then again, who wants a tar.conf in their