And what are the "red" states going to do with these weapons? Kill everyone in the world? Only a crazy man would use a nuke in this day and age. If they did, we're all dead, red or blue.
It's thinking like that which makes me kinda proud to be a "liberal yankee". At least I don't want to kill everything on Earth.
Like Doom 3, Bungie has never actually announced an official release date until E3 where they stated with certainty a November 9th release date. It seems they will be able to deliver on that.
All other dates were pure speculation by the media. People think the game is pushed back because speculation and rumors prove to not be true.
It's sad how the opinion on a developer can be so easily lowered by incorrect assumptions made by gaming sites and the media.
Doom 3 was never delayed. Every date ever announced other than the final one was mere speculation on the game industry.
This is why it's sometimes good to have a date set to "When it's done." and stick with it... Never give a real date unless you can meet it (hense the joke of Duke Nukem Forever)
It does seem a bit rude to those of us who watch Jeopardy as if it were a national sport. I know some people who would be horridly offended if you were to tell them the results of every football/baseball/basketball/soccar/nascar/rugby/w ater polo/cricket/volleyball/bullfighting.... etc. before the event was ever aired on TV. It sort of takes away from watching these things when you know the end result.
I know that for the whole last season I'd feel myself compelled to gravitate towards the TV whenever I heard that Ken was on... even if I was in the middle of something else, I found I couldn't concentrate until I watched the damn show. Mostly it was because I wanted to see if that night would be the last night for Ken or not. A few times there was at least a chance he could lose, and finding out by watching was the big event of the evening if nothing else was going on.
So please keep away from the spoilers.. I'm still hoping he's going to go on until Trebek gets sick of him and retires from the job:)
You are correct. You only have to distribute the source code to a GPL'd product/software/whatever to anyone who you give the binaries to. If you run the website on a server and never make the "binaries" of the website available to the public, you don't have to make the source available.
GPL only needs the sourcecode to go to anyone using the software, not everyone in the world has the right to ask for the source code if they don't have a copy of the actual program.
hmm.. I'm not sure I agree on what you believe to be a "real" education.
Let me take a small example of a completely different society than most of us are used to: The Jh/'hoansi. Alright, it's a group of people who's primary occupation is hunting and gathering, but the way that they raise their children and the amount that their "education" system works is astounding.
For the Jh/'hoansi, the idea of punishing a child at all is unheard of. Any sort of phyiscal or even verbal punishment is considered abuse and shunned outright in the society. No child under around 8 is ever told what to do, and the best they do at safty precautions is to make sure they don't cut themselves with poisoned arrows. However, the fatality or even heavy injury rate among these children is extremely low. The reason: they are watched all the time by parents, though never taught directly.
So this is a system where adults do not interfere with their children's learning, in fact they don't take any active participation at all. Yet the Jh/'hoansi tend to retain 25% more of what they learn than people who are taught in a regimented schooling system. There is no compitition among them, even the games that children play do not have winners or losers. Sounds kinda marxist doesn't it? Well I won't say that it would work in America or in fact in most other "civilized" places of the world, but it does give you a different perspective on what is the "best" educational system to give children a "real" education.
A lot of electronics don't use too much power...
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I had a situation at my school last year where our power kept going off because our circut was overloading and the breaker would go off. We learned how to reset it from the box that was down the hall, but it was really annoying that it kept going off. What was stranger was it never had this problem before, so finally we had the maintence department of the school come up and check it out and I learned a bit about how much power devices consume.
Our room was one of 3 doubles set up on the same circut. We were the only ones around, so we couldn't do much about the other rooms power, but we could look at ours. The circuts cut after 20 amps. When we turned everything on in our room, the circut breaker went off and broke the circut, but we found out that it wasn't our stuff causing me majority of the problem. We had in the room 3 computers, 4 monitors, 2 TV's, 2 Xboxes, 3 lamps, 2 alarm clocks, 2 phones, 2 speaker systems, 1 sperate stereo, a dozen accessories for various computers (printers, scanners... etc). and a few other things that I can't remember.
When we had all of our stuf off, the breaker was still reporting 11 amps being drawn from the other rooms. He went into one and found an illegal (per college rules anyway) space heater in there on with no one around. He turned just that off and we were down to 2 amps being drawn. After turning all of our stuff back on, it went up to 12.
One space heater was using almost as much power as 2 people's worth of electronics. Moral of the story: don't use space heaters in college dorms 'cause power outages every 30 mins suck.
Oh yea, that's also the reason why we differentiate between 2004 'baud' and 56Kbps. One is for samples per second, other is for (thousands of) bits per second.
(I actually use cable or a T1 depending on where I am) However, were I to use a modem, I'd still be using 2400 baud.
baud is essentially the number of samples per second, and that hasn't risen since the release of the old 2400 baud modem. What makes things like 56K possible is how many distinct pieces of data can be extracted out of each sample, such as changes in frequency, amplitude, or phase shifts.
And yes, my first modem was a real 2400 baud in '93.
After reading through a good deal of IBM's counterclaims, I think the best part that made me nearly giddy was this part:
NATURE OF COUNTERCLAIMS
1. These counterclaims arise from SCO's efforts wrongly to assert proprietary rights over important, widely-used technology and to impede the use of that technology by the open-source community. SCO has misused, and is misusing, its purported rights to the UNIX operating system developed originally by Bell Laboratories, then a research and development arm of AT&T Corp., to threaten destruction of the competing operating systems known as AIX and Linux, and to extract windfall profits for its unjust enrichment.
2. IBM's counterclaims also arise from SCO's infringement of IBM patents. Although SCO purports to respect the intellectual property rights of others -- and has instituted
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litigation against IBM for alleged failures with respect to SCO's purported rights -- SCO itself is infringing no fewer than four IBM patents.
Ah yes, thank you IBM for leveraging your awesome might by throwing it right back in their face.
Well that's not true at least at my school. I go to Hartwick College and the only time we used the microsoft development tools was for one class on visual programming, everything else has been done in linux with gcc or java. All programs for class need to be uploaded to a linux server, and it's pretty much required to learn the OS (though I had experience before I went to college, as I found a lot of other people did as well.)
Several things wrong with your argument. First off, as we've all heard, copyright violation is not stealing, it's copyright violation. What Linksys is being accused of is not following the licensing agreement set forth in the GPL, thereby ignoring the individual developer's copyrights that they have on those GPL'ed works.
Now as for your comment on MP3's and the negative view towards the RIAA that most/.ers have, I think you've missed the point completely on that issue. You may not have noticed, but most people here don't believe in violating the copyrights of musicians by illigally downloading MP3's. What we have a problem with however, is the RIAA's attempts to destroy legit P2P services that can be used to share legal MP3's (among other things). Also, the fact that they're attempting to take the law into their own hands (such as that attempt to being able to crack people's boxes if they suspected them of copying illegal music without a judge to intervene) seems to most to be a violation of our rights. The fact that the RIAA is sueing individuals also means that little guys that could actually be sharing only legal music could get caught up in the struggle and not be able to pay to get out of it through a lawsuit, and are forced to settle. We disagree with how the RIAA is acting, but most would just urge artists to use a different avenue instead of the RIAA rather than break the law.
The GPL was meant to allow the original authors some sort of payment without the use of actual money (eg, code that anyone else modified and released to the public). It's also meant to make it easier for people to see what's going on inside of these things and be able to make needed changes to suit the users need, and that right is protected by the copyright holder through his use of the GPL. How you can assume that it's the same as illegal filesharing, I have no idea.
Well for 8 hours a day my only internet connection is a telnet to a box at home... so my favorite alt browser is links (and the updated elinks). I tried lynx but the formatting of the pages got screwed up horribly and the colors were really annoying. You'd be surprised on how easy it is to adapt to a text-based web browser though... no popups, no ads, just the text. (though some sites suck and are by no means meant for a text-based browser).
Well I wouldn't usually say hundreds of thousands... A standard coax cable can only run so far before you need a signal booster of some kind. Each run of cable (not to your house, but to your section) will connect back to a branch office of the cable company somewhere. They won't run one long extended and boosted signal across an entire town or city, because the signal would start to become unclear and people would complain about an unclear picture (usually more important to them then internet quality, the same goes with the phone companies and their reliance on reliable direct point to point service).
Each line that runs out of the office where you're getting your cable from is hooked into a fiber backbone that the cable company runs on. While the end mile is coax, the majority of the real infrastructure is fiber... and from what I've learned, quite a bit of fiber at that. (they claim near unlimited, but there is no such thing).
So while people on a cable line do share their bandwidth, no doubt on that, it usually won't get up to such a high number as hundreds of thousands on a single coax line. Heck, if anything, just in case that line got damaged you'd have to find the break fast because 100,000 people can't watch Survivor and you'd have a lot of complaints on your hands. It's in their better interest to split up the line into mulitiple units and make them a bit more managable.
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but the right to bare arms is in the Bill of Rights correct? Now the Bill of rights is simply the first 10 amendments to the constitution correct? Now if you ammend something, you simply change it... So if the Bill of Rights are changes to the constitution, how the heckis it NOT in the constitution? All of the amendments are considered a part of the constitution because it was designed to be flexible like that and be able to change.
The right to keep a gun isn't a part of being human, it's a right granted by the US government through the constitution that the government cannot revoke (without an amendment).
Why does it seem a bit odd to be testing software quality with other software? I wonder if they ran their own software through its own program, but then that gets kinda weird when a program starts noticing errors about itself... maybe it'd get depressed and start ranting at the creator on how they should have taken better care of it... ok, I need more sleep
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One part about SCO though that I think will cause them problems is the fact that they told their Linux customers that their SCO Linux copies were fully legal and they didn't have to worry about it. By the GPL, that would make all linux valid.
Think about it, if SCO is willing to say that the UNIX code in question is legal in their version of linux, then that code which has been integrated with a GPL work then must fall under the GPL as well because it is a modified work of a GPL project. Else they're participating in a violation of the GPL and have a few thousand lawsuits on their hands from all of the copyright holders that made Linux.
Actually, have you ever watched the Dubbed version of Eva?
I know most diehard fans of anime are always insistant upon subtitles, and there are quite a few pieces of good anime destroyed by bad dubbing, but Eva did an awesome job at it. I acutally preferred it from the subtitled version because the stressing of each word was easier to connect, unlike in subtitles. The only other dubbed anime that I found of the same quality was Trigun.
Hopefully CN won't cut too much, it truely shouldn't be deformed in such ways.
I stil prefer CRT's because of price and the ability to clean the damn things, but you have to remember when compairing a 19" CRT to a 19" LCD that the LCD is 19" viewable (CRT is usually something like 18" viewable). So I've noticed that a 15" LCD is nearly equivilant to a 17" CRT.
Not sure this isn't overreacting a bit at least on the Linux front. Look at xmms's website for their nice statement on the front page. They claim it doesn't affect them and no changes will be made in their distribution of the player.
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And what are the "red" states going to do with these weapons? Kill everyone in the world? Only a crazy man would use a nuke in this day and age. If they did, we're all dead, red or blue.
It's thinking like that which makes me kinda proud to be a "liberal yankee". At least I don't want to kill everything on Earth.
Like Doom 3, Bungie has never actually announced an official release date until E3 where they stated with certainty a November 9th release date. It seems they will be able to deliver on that.
All other dates were pure speculation by the media. People think the game is pushed back because speculation and rumors prove to not be true.
It's sad how the opinion on a developer can be so easily lowered by incorrect assumptions made by gaming sites and the media.
Doom 3 was never delayed. Every date ever announced other than the final one was mere speculation on the game industry.
This is why it's sometimes good to have a date set to "When it's done." and stick with it... Never give a real date unless you can meet it (hense the joke of Duke Nukem Forever)
I agree with the parent,
w ater polo/cricket/volleyball/bullfighting .... etc. before the event was ever aired on TV. It sort of takes away from watching these things when you know the end result.
:)
It does seem a bit rude to those of us who watch Jeopardy as if it were a national sport. I know some people who would be horridly offended if you were to tell them the results of every football/baseball/basketball/soccar/nascar/rugby/
I know that for the whole last season I'd feel myself compelled to gravitate towards the TV whenever I heard that Ken was on... even if I was in the middle of something else, I found I couldn't concentrate until I watched the damn show. Mostly it was because I wanted to see if that night would be the last night for Ken or not. A few times there was at least a chance he could lose, and finding out by watching was the big event of the evening if nothing else was going on.
So please keep away from the spoilers.. I'm still hoping he's going to go on until Trebek gets sick of him and retires from the job
You are correct. You only have to distribute the source code to a GPL'd product/software/whatever to anyone who you give the binaries to. If you run the website on a server and never make the "binaries" of the website available to the public, you don't have to make the source available.
GPL only needs the sourcecode to go to anyone using the software, not everyone in the world has the right to ask for the source code if they don't have a copy of the actual program.
hehe, we know we'd be in a true realm of science-fiction-becomes-reality if instead the headline read:
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Duke Nukem Forever Ships!
"This project needs to get done! You better take your pill so you don't slack it off"
/.*
*while readin
"Yeah yeah... I'll take it in a minute..."
hmm.. I'm not sure I agree on what you believe to be a "real" education.
Let me take a small example of a completely different society than most of us are used to: The Jh/'hoansi. Alright, it's a group of people who's primary occupation is hunting and gathering, but the way that they raise their children and the amount that their "education" system works is astounding.
For the Jh/'hoansi, the idea of punishing a child at all is unheard of. Any sort of phyiscal or even verbal punishment is considered abuse and shunned outright in the society. No child under around 8 is ever told what to do, and the best they do at safty precautions is to make sure they don't cut themselves with poisoned arrows. However, the fatality or even heavy injury rate among these children is extremely low. The reason: they are watched all the time by parents, though never taught directly.
So this is a system where adults do not interfere with their children's learning, in fact they don't take any active participation at all. Yet the Jh/'hoansi tend to retain 25% more of what they learn than people who are taught in a regimented schooling system. There is no compitition among them, even the games that children play do not have winners or losers. Sounds kinda marxist doesn't it? Well I won't say that it would work in America or in fact in most other "civilized" places of the world, but it does give you a different perspective on what is the "best" educational system to give children a "real" education.
I had a situation at my school last year where our power kept going off because our circut was overloading and the breaker would go off. We learned how to reset it from the box that was down the hall, but it was really annoying that it kept going off. What was stranger was it never had this problem before, so finally we had the maintence department of the school come up and check it out and I learned a bit about how much power devices consume.
Our room was one of 3 doubles set up on the same circut. We were the only ones around, so we couldn't do much about the other rooms power, but we could look at ours. The circuts cut after 20 amps. When we turned everything on in our room, the circut breaker went off and broke the circut, but we found out that it wasn't our stuff causing me majority of the problem. We had in the room 3 computers, 4 monitors, 2 TV's, 2 Xboxes, 3 lamps, 2 alarm clocks, 2 phones, 2 speaker systems, 1 sperate stereo, a dozen accessories for various computers (printers, scanners... etc). and a few other things that I can't remember.
When we had all of our stuf off, the breaker was still reporting 11 amps being drawn from the other rooms. He went into one and found an illegal (per college rules anyway) space heater in there on with no one around. He turned just that off and we were down to 2 amps being drawn. After turning all of our stuff back on, it went up to 12.
One space heater was using almost as much power as 2 people's worth of electronics. Moral of the story: don't use space heaters in college dorms 'cause power outages every 30 mins suck.
Yea, that's exactally what we need at slashdot with all these SCO stories flying around, an Intellectual Property moderation.
Oh yea, that's also the reason why we differentiate between 2004 'baud' and 56Kbps. One is for samples per second, other is for (thousands of) bits per second.
(I actually use cable or a T1 depending on where I am) However, were I to use a modem, I'd still be using 2400 baud.
baud is essentially the number of samples per second, and that hasn't risen since the release of the old 2400 baud modem. What makes things like 56K possible is how many distinct pieces of data can be extracted out of each sample, such as changes in frequency, amplitude, or phase shifts.
And yes, my first modem was a real 2400 baud in '93.
Ah yes, thank you IBM for leveraging your awesome might by throwing it right back in their face.
Well that's not true at least at my school.
I go to Hartwick College and the only time we used the microsoft development tools was for one class on visual programming, everything else has been done in linux with gcc or java. All programs for class need to be uploaded to a linux server, and it's pretty much required to learn the OS (though I had experience before I went to college, as I found a lot of other people did as well.)
Umm no...
/.ers have, I think you've missed the point completely on that issue. You may not have noticed, but most people here don't believe in violating the copyrights of musicians by illigally downloading MP3's. What we have a problem with however, is the RIAA's attempts to destroy legit P2P services that can be used to share legal MP3's (among other things). Also, the fact that they're attempting to take the law into their own hands (such as that attempt to being able to crack people's boxes if they suspected them of copying illegal music without a judge to intervene) seems to most to be a violation of our rights. The fact that the RIAA is sueing individuals also means that little guys that could actually be sharing only legal music could get caught up in the struggle and not be able to pay to get out of it through a lawsuit, and are forced to settle. We disagree with how the RIAA is acting, but most would just urge artists to use a different avenue instead of the RIAA rather than break the law.
Several things wrong with your argument. First off, as we've all heard, copyright violation is not stealing, it's copyright violation. What Linksys is being accused of is not following the licensing agreement set forth in the GPL, thereby ignoring the individual developer's copyrights that they have on those GPL'ed works.
Now as for your comment on MP3's and the negative view towards the RIAA that most
The GPL was meant to allow the original authors some sort of payment without the use of actual money (eg, code that anyone else modified and released to the public). It's also meant to make it easier for people to see what's going on inside of these things and be able to make needed changes to suit the users need, and that right is protected by the copyright holder through his use of the GPL. How you can assume that it's the same as illegal filesharing, I have no idea.
Well for 8 hours a day my only internet connection is a telnet to a box at home... so my favorite alt browser is links (and the updated elinks). I tried lynx but the formatting of the pages got screwed up horribly and the colors were really annoying. You'd be surprised on how easy it is to adapt to a text-based web browser though... no popups, no ads, just the text. (though some sites suck and are by no means meant for a text-based browser).
Well I wouldn't usually say hundreds of thousands... A standard coax cable can only run so far before you need a signal booster of some kind. Each run of cable (not to your house, but to your section) will connect back to a branch office of the cable company somewhere. They won't run one long extended and boosted signal across an entire town or city, because the signal would start to become unclear and people would complain about an unclear picture (usually more important to them then internet quality, the same goes with the phone companies and their reliance on reliable direct point to point service).
Each line that runs out of the office where you're getting your cable from is hooked into a fiber backbone that the cable company runs on. While the end mile is coax, the majority of the real infrastructure is fiber... and from what I've learned, quite a bit of fiber at that. (they claim near unlimited, but there is no such thing).
So while people on a cable line do share their bandwidth, no doubt on that, it usually won't get up to such a high number as hundreds of thousands on a single coax line. Heck, if anything, just in case that line got damaged you'd have to find the break fast because 100,000 people can't watch Survivor and you'd have a lot of complaints on your hands. It's in their better interest to split up the line into mulitiple units and make them a bit more managable.
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but the right to bare arms is in the Bill of Rights correct? Now the Bill of rights is simply the first 10 amendments to the constitution correct? Now if you ammend something, you simply change it... So if the Bill of Rights are changes to the constitution, how the heckis it NOT in the constitution? All of the amendments are considered a part of the constitution because it was designed to be flexible like that and be able to change.
The right to keep a gun isn't a part of being human, it's a right granted by the US government through the constitution that the government cannot revoke (without an amendment).
Why does it seem a bit odd to be testing software quality with other software? I wonder if they ran their own software through its own program, but then that gets kinda weird when a program starts noticing errors about itself... maybe it'd get depressed and start ranting at the creator on how they should have taken better care of it... ok, I need more sleep
But he's not a CEO, Steve Ballmore is.
Last I heard, Gates was the CTO or somesuch.
One part about SCO though that I think will cause them problems is the fact that they told their Linux customers that their SCO Linux copies were fully legal and they didn't have to worry about it. By the GPL, that would make all linux valid.
Think about it, if SCO is willing to say that the UNIX code in question is legal in their version of linux, then that code which has been integrated with a GPL work then must fall under the GPL as well because it is a modified work of a GPL project. Else they're participating in a violation of the GPL and have a few thousand lawsuits on their hands from all of the copyright holders that made Linux.
Actually, have you ever watched the Dubbed version of Eva?
I know most diehard fans of anime are always insistant upon subtitles, and there are quite a few pieces of good anime destroyed by bad dubbing, but Eva did an awesome job at it. I acutally preferred it from the subtitled version because the stressing of each word was easier to connect, unlike in subtitles. The only other dubbed anime that I found of the same quality was Trigun.
Hopefully CN won't cut too much, it truely shouldn't be deformed in such ways.
I stil prefer CRT's because of price and the ability to clean the damn things, but you have to remember when compairing a 19" CRT to a 19" LCD that the LCD is 19" viewable (CRT is usually something like 18" viewable). So I've noticed that a 15" LCD is nearly equivilant to a 17" CRT.
Not sure this isn't overreacting a bit at least on the Linux front. Look at xmms's website for their nice statement on the front page. They claim it doesn't affect them and no changes will be made in their distribution of the player.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind...