I am beginning to Wonder(TM) what the Future(TM) holds when you can trademark a Word(TM) commonly used and defend that trademark. How long is it before people who don't have lawyers or the money to buy them have to start using numbers (package 347 is a great drawing program). And to those who made cases about using names that bear a resembalence to their closed source couterparts here are some of your favorite things listed side by side
Linux | Unix
XFree86 | X386
KDE | CDE
and there are many SomethingFree86 or Free86 somethings that I don't remeber... but the point is this... indistinctive names morally should not be trademarked. Yes I do live in "Happy Linux Slashdot Land"(TM) but free speech is one of the things that I love about this country. I suppose I feel like getting modded redundant today.
The security we are dealing with today is an insult to the MIT TMRC Hackers that started oh so long ago. Back in the day (before I was born) there was ITS, and on this mystic machine even privlages were basically all open... no passwords... and, of course, a command DESIGNED to crash the system. Security on computers (especially home Microslothy ones) is just funny to me. People install Firewalls thinking they are Virus Scanners and vice-versa. This parinoia amoung home users wouldn't even exist if the 31337 HaX0RZ (Script Kiddies) would stop with thier m4d Ski11z (VB Script "Programs") and would just stop R0X0R1NG the public (double clicking.exes and hoping they can make some poor guys day misrable)... Frankly I don't have much need for security (I mean I won't hand out my root password or anything) and the little I do have is plenty enough to keep unwanted people out (to some degree). So, 31337 K1DD13Z stop... and others calm down, nobody wants to delete all your precious word documents.
I like Apple now because of OS X. I like (to an extent) their new GUI. I think that what they are doing to extend BSD into a new community and a vast user base (compared to the current BSD community this puts them competitivly sized with the Linux community) is excellent. I just think that credit for the powerfulness of the Unix platform they are buildning should be given to BSD. And, on another note, anything in italics was a quote from the BoF, so don't shoot me down for what they said.
other reply stuff:
My BSD boot deals with several network daemons so it can be a little slow at times (compared to Windows boot... but windows doesn't serve apache during boot now does it)
"It doesn't matter. The license matters."... thank you for saying that... I hope Apples license gets better so that we can call this all open source.
Once more I will say Apple good job (or Jobs), and that this is not a negligable undertaking... but by itself they don't have an OS and so there should have been credit to BSD in that quote (that is what I meant.... but when you post at 2AM you really can't be held accountable for saying stupid things)... well until next post
Well... in anticipation of the massive anti-BSD flaming ahead I decided to say this... BSD is doing just fine thank you. BSD (in the BSDLites) was really a hacker project and out of that has grow a robust server. It isn't GPL, but I don't hold that against them. Frankly I find that on my old peice of crap computer BSD is seriosly the best way to go.
now to reply to the real post:
Points of Intrist in the BoF Post:
"Mac OS X has the power and openness of Unix, with the simplicity and friendliness of a Mac"
Apple took BSD and built a new GUI with some nifty features to make the Mac community accept it. Don't get me wrong I love BSD and I think that OS X will be good for it. But really how much did Apple do here?
What went to WindRiver:... FreeBSD-related work
And yet again there is the shadey sound of Windriver playing with words about FreeBSD. It isn't possible for them to OWN FreeBSD, but watch them overstepping their bounds guys.
OpenBSD received a DARPA grant to continue the security work its been doing.
Still trying to get at Mitnicks encrypted data (read porn) eh big bro?
OpenBSD Received a legal threat from OpenSSH.com, demanding that they change the OpenBSD name, which they refused (good for you!)
Because you know that the goals of Open Source software projects are purely evil... they were planning on trying to sell back the name and then dominate the world muuuaaahhahahahahahah hah ha ha ha ah ahhh ahhha ah....
FreeBSD: [Jordan Hubbard] Mentioned he was working on speeding up the boot process...hey, that'd be nice!
yeah I seem to recall the boot being a little slow when I last booted a month ago... of course Microsoft has already got the golden pair... fast boot so you can crash sooner.
AMD and Intel step up FreeBSD efforts
I really hope this leads to them competing on who can donate the most money to Open Source.
Microsoft renounces evil, switches to FreeBSD
I seem to recall Hotmail switching from BSD to 2k (so thats why my email got so much slower and less predictable)
NO PLANS TO PORT OS X TO x86 HARDWARE!
Damn, I guess I won't be doing the OS-X benchmarking then.
OS X: Fully integrated JDK 1.3
woohoo... I am a java programmer, and while some many people around here hate java support of it will promote Open Source
OS X: Key productivity applications (MS Office...)
I wonder if StarOffice will come bundled for a little of taste of Microsofts own medicine (but IE MUST come preinstalled)
one last thing.... if you haven't read/used any O'Reilly books, then your really missing out.
"Peace, Love, Linux" -Leo Laporte, TSS
Repling to myself...
I'm not saying Intel is the invincible king of processors... all I am saying is that AMD is not really the leader yet. In general people know the word Pentium, and while the number is growing less know the word Athelon and even less know that it is a better processor. NO I'm not an Intel lacky I just like to think that slashdotters could cope with the idea that the world isn't perfect and just because something is better means it's winning the market.
Noone OWNS FreeBSD... and Benchmarking tests never proove anything (why because I say so... and becuase they never seem to reflect anything specific... they come back however you want them to)... it looks like this guy just cuts and pastes the same post on every BSD article... get a life you AC, if BSD is dead then go flame elsewhere and leave my Distro alone... or suffer the wrath of the burning hells (which I might add BSD owns... or at least the logo would lead us to believe that)... nuff said
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Ummmm why bother explaining all the other things you have when all that needs to be said is cost:
Microsoft: 50+ for a FORCED copy of the said software
FreeBSD: 0+ you can download it for free
hence one reason Linux sells... it doesn't... no cost.
Yes All of those fetures will be avalible along with:
Documentation subtitles
Stunning menus (themes.org)
Boot with the original aspect ratio!
scene selections (install/reinstall/compiling the kernel/...)
The alternate ending (NetBSD?)
Retouched Technicolor (Amber terminals never looked so bright)
A special introduction by Ken Thompson
The Open Source Boxed set edition (including FreeBSD Debian and RedHat with bonus SuSe)
And, in addition to the Developers commentary channel, the Users commentary channel
and act now and you'll recive a beasty plush toy!
Do you people pay attention... yes AMD is making better processors... yes people who really know choose AMD over Intel... therefor slashdotters choose AMD over Intel...
But back to the real world: If you turn on a computer out there in happy fun land (aka "The Real World"(TM)) then odds are it will be a running Intel. Linux your precious kernel started out with optimized non-portable code for the i386. You geeks keep falling victim to the same trap year after year... just because it's better doesn't mean people will use it. Linux/BSD/Solaris/Irix/SVR4/MACOS/BeOS... is clearly better than Windows when you look at a track record... and yes in some cases can be *almost* as easy to use... but they have been winning the OS war since they made a *bad* ripoff of the Macintosh (read Xerox) GUI OS. MacOS was better, more stable, and quite cleaner... but Micro$oft had the market share and they won. People listen to money, and Intel is still the processor most people/companies would prefer buying. Hackers are one of the lowest demographics in the computing industry these days and people (outside of their community) don't pay much attention to them.
Well, I guess thats it... go ahead return to your illusion and mod this down.
It seems like Bill and Apple share the same idea that THEY the commercial providers of software should have free reign to reap all the benifits without themselves helping the movement. I mean when Apple took BSD and created OS X didn't they start licensing it in a way where they tried to get free Beta testing, source code, and this without having to release their source.
--snip--
The GPL, he continued, "breaks that cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work. So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the browser could never happen. We believe there should be free software and commercial software; there should be a rich ecosystem that works around that."
--snip--
It sounds like Bill wants free work for him and doesn't want to play nice with others. Bill we understand that you miss the good old days when you could walk into Xerox PARC and steal ideas instead of having to think them up yourself (ouch thinkings hard). But Open Source is NOT a free ride for YOU. Actually Bill wrote a letter to hobbiests saying basically that source should ALWAYS be closed. I think his intention in this is to gain popularity by saying that WE are the ones to blaim for his closed community.
No, What he meant is that the Windows NT will reduce personnel by sinking ships and thus "reducing" personnel. And this "lets just hope NT gets better..." Great they control Nuclear missles and their betting Microsoft will *improve* software (I'm so so scared... hold me) I waited for microsofts OS to get better since 95 and there has been a steady decline in stability (with the exception of 98SE)... this to the point where running me is like being a crash test dummy (Beta. Relase. Whats the difference?). Well now that I have insulted the Government and Microsloth I have fufilled my duties as a/.er return to useful postings.
Well what is to be said about this movie... First the accent; well let us think about this, when an actor must fake an accent they have a few months to (psudo) learn it and then they have to shoot, and the accent can't change. When, however, you come from that land and have spoken with that accent for all your lives of course it will sound different. I have acted and acting depends on stereotypes -- not reality. If an actor pulls off a real Brittish accent it will not sound like what an AMERICAN audience believes is a Brittish accent. However, I don't believe AJ pulled off either a fake or real Brit accent that well anyways. But you know what... it is a game to movie movie and that means one thing: don't expect ANYTHING. If you went into the movie expecting anyting more than crap you are gullable or neive (probably both) and should realize that you need to think about the roots of this problem. They have two groups of audience those who game and those who see whats popular (or liked the preview or something along those lines)... now if they wish to try and please their PRIMARY AUDIENCE they will stick to the game and not think about how bad a movie it makes (and other than RPG's not many games have plots that will translate to the screen in any way)... If they wish to please Joe the movie janitor who saw the preview and liked Jolies' Breasts (and you know Joe did) then you make some attempt at a plot and butcher the game beyond all belief... of course the end result is that the Director and Script writer will make some compromize between these two extremes but in the end it won't be very good if your expecting Shakespeare. Don't get me wrong it was a piece of crap but there was some effort made and maybe if the industry demands movies from games, then games will finally have better plots.
Bottom Line: if you want a game to movie experiance that makes you more than thrilled wait for "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within," if you get free movies or have money to kill see the cheap show with low expectations and you might have a good time making fun of the gaping holes in the plot line. (just destroy the half you have Lara)
Stars: **/******
--MEB
Yahoo! removing the auctions is alright, but France telling US websites what they can and can't do; that is just plain wrong. At first I thought that it might be okay, but it comes down to who percives what as offencive. If yahoo posts a site about Nazis, France just has to deal. It comes down to this: we have the freedom of speech. In the US there are laws that protect even the most slimy websites out there. If this doesn't fit in with your nation cut the telephone lines, filter at ISPs, or just deal. This is almost as absurd as making everything appropriate for a 3 year old so parents don't have to parent. #set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
but frankly if you wanna run binaries on some better achitecture that x86.... recomple them. I should think that slashdot of all places would say that this matters not because only propritary software needs this kind of emulation support. So go ahead run WinME on RISC and crash it in all it's buggy bliss on another chipset. If the other posts didn't get this point through then here it is... OPEN SOURCE MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE BUT EMULATERS ARE ONLY USED BY THOSE WHO USE OPEN SOURCE, AND WE ALREADY HAVE OUR FILL.
It seems very much like the judge smacked down any and every argument. That is not to say they were not good arguments... it just seems very much like the lawyer hadn't put enough though into the rebuttles that She could and must expect. Speech is only as free as the money you can spend to defend it. Democrasy, hah, this Country is ruled not by monobolies but trusts. I have yet to understand how this system (MPAA, CSS) is not infringing the Anti-trust laws. These companies in complete control of the media and the forms of access seek to destroy the competition by saying fair-use only protects non-encrypted data... and if it's copyrighted those who decript MUST be trying to infringe upon their copyrights. GPL the world... that way Microsofts so called infection will infest the world with, god forbid, freedom. #set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
I've said it here before and I'll say it again... FreeBSD wasn't bought by ANYONE. Walnut Creek funded and help distribute it... then BSDi took over. If all else fails they can resort to a different distrobution method... but the company that now owns BSDi has promised they will continue to freely support FreeBSD. And hey if being bought out means your dead/. died when Andover and then OSDN bought them out. Why can't we all just get along. Yes BSD is more stable and secure than linux their own (linux) gurus have prooved this time and again. However it lacks the newest features and fast development cycle linux (and most of it's distros) has. I've used both, I like both, and as long as one of them effectivly moves into the desktop environment (yes linux is far more suited for this) then I'll be happy that someone called Windows out and won... and as to the first question... if it can run linux the odds are high it can run BSD considering they both support fairly simaler hardware (In the actual article they said it would be possible to run the full version of linux... meaning they haven't included any special support or drivers)
yes this is a rant... feel free to mod away #set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
Flame Defense Flame Defense... this is a predictable pattern with RMS. No linux didn't make GNU and yes to a large degree GNU made linux... just as XFree86 started the long path to a desktop (Insert OS X comment here) but one would have survived without the other. RMS is a hacker in the truest form of the word, and one of the great ones. RMS is also a pain in the ass because thats what keeps GNU and GPL alive and unchanged. For those of you who think RMS is a worthless outdated polititian I would like to see you remove all traces of GNU from linux. It's simple, they form a symbiosis(sp?) in the truest form of the word, they serve to benifit one another. No changing the name won't do RMS tried that with Lignux GNU/Linux is ugly too and I am disgusted by Ginux. The name Linux identifes the product quite well. But there is the little fact that if the creater of Minix (Tannenbaum) had been willing to GPL it, (thus allowing RMS to use that as his kernel) Linus never would have had the motivation to write Linux into a UNIX alternative. RMS is and was a large part of this revolution in distributed development of software. RMS is a socialist, and because the software we know and love (Linux) is distributed with his license, you are contributing to his efforts. To sum it all up: as long as the GPL stands up in court his way of doing things will continue to permiate the software industry.
Get some books if you wish to know more here is a good start for more info on this: Hackers by Steven Levy Rebel Code by Glyn Moody
This seemed to be an appropriate place to ask all the posters out there...
What hardware is good at handling plugins for *amp with high framerates. I have a killer machine with 256 megs of RAM and a PIII 800mhz... and perhaps the most important part I have a GeForce 2 GTS w/32 megs. Even with all these goodies at resolutions above 800x600 (and even there) the framerates are terribly low for winamp AVS and wildtanget apps. I was wondering if anyone out there had framerates 50 fps+ on these plugins. Any ideas... could I hype somepart of my system up for this somehow... help.
#set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
I suppose this means slashdot is dead too... seeing as how they were aquired by Andover and then OSDN... being bought isn't being killed... I use BSD and linux... open source OS'es are damn hard to kill, because they have loyal fans willing to carry on even if the funding and support stops... FreeBSD rocks my UNIX world... it's faster, more stable, and runs on machines with less than 128 megs of RAM... heck even/. had a post on that recently #set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
This is a nice security concern and if you feel violated and shocked you should be shot. Microsoft has NO concern for INDIVIDUALS or their rights (evidence in the inhearent crappyness of Windows). Yes I use Hotmail; yes I believe they would trample my rights and or data if it served them any advantage. But honestly, what are you sending over your Hotmail account thats so important and or threatining to Microsoft that they will misuse it? And if this is a password concern... if you care so much about security you should be using multiple passwords... and never ever ever use your root password on any other account. But for those of us in UNIX happy land this is all old hat and big bad Microsoft playing very old games. #set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
Now it is becoming clear to the DOJ... the right action would be to force Micro$oft to open source Windoze in all it's forms... under the GPL... if this had happened well the world would be a better windozeless place... for there software would have been prooven to be the buggy insecure flawed piece of #$*! we all know it is. #set prompt = $user.$group @ `hostname -s`#
root.wheel @ reality#
Well at least in one form... Windows... I mean just think it KNOWS when your working on an incredibly important project you haven't saved in awhile and CRASH all gone... And it's gotten more and more advanced over the years. Now, with WinME, it will actually crash during boot... and to proove the intelligence this crashing seems random, but when looked at closely it's only when speed is of importance. So remember, next time your flaming Micro$oft, they created life... who knew. Oh and if consumtion and creation of energy have to do with anything just look at all the CPU cycles wasted on an overblown GUI.
--OStone
/. isn't as good as this link to nothing it's much better
WE all have the same feeling here on/. it seems... IP laws and copyright laws are simply being pushed beyond thier limits after all they have been around simce umph-te-um and they were certinly not thinking of GUI design and Complex Theming when they were written... so the answer here is apple is just doing business as usual and trying to prevent others from gaining the little market share that they have. I think that while this attemt is not noble it is understandable... but hey if everthing went my way there would be new IP laws and legitimate uses. In the end Linux will prevail because no AMERICAN law is stronger than the freedom that an INDIVIUAL feels they have... Linux users and hackers will continue to hack GUI code with or without government support because hell we are INTITLED to resonably priced stable software and nobody-- not Apple, not Micro$oft, not even the drones who claim to be part of our own movement. This is not going to be stood for and if Microsoft doesn't fight it (fat chance) then WE will.
I've got a patent pending on the full-stop; after all in the US it's only known as a period, dot, or decimal. So, I suppose that everyone who posts a properly punctuated sentence owes me some kind of licencing fee. Where does this stop? I wonder when the government will realize the purpose of the copyright and the patent, and business will be forced to stop these BS lawsuits.
I don't know about anyone else but I know who has my vote this year, A write in of Rob 'Cmdr Taco' Malda. Theres a president for you... He runs slash he knows linux he would only censor non-debian distrobutions of linux... And besides who else are you going to vote for theres george 'Initial beneath your current threshold' Bush, Al 'Invented the Internet' Gore, Darth Nader, need I go on... With cmdr taco we know his only agenda is world debian domination. Now there is a candidate we can trust... Well this is all a moot point because here in this united states because I am
-- Ostone "42."
Slashdot Mirror
I am beginning to Wonder(TM) what the Future(TM) holds when you can trademark a Word(TM) commonly used and defend that trademark. How long is it before people who don't have lawyers or the money to buy them have to start using numbers (package 347 is a great drawing program). And to those who made cases about using names that bear a resembalence to their closed source couterparts here are some of your favorite things listed side by side
Linux | Unix XFree86 | X386 KDE | CDE
and there are many SomethingFree86 or Free86 somethings that I don't remeber... but the point is this... indistinctive names morally should not be trademarked. Yes I do live in "Happy Linux Slashdot Land"(TM) but free speech is one of the things that I love about this country. I suppose I feel like getting modded redundant today.
The security we are dealing with today is an insult to the MIT TMRC Hackers that started oh so long ago. Back in the day (before I was born) there was ITS, and on this mystic machine even privlages were basically all open... no passwords... and, of course, a command DESIGNED to crash the system. Security on computers (especially home Microslothy ones) is just funny to me. People install Firewalls thinking they are Virus Scanners and vice-versa. This parinoia amoung home users wouldn't even exist if the 31337 HaX0RZ (Script Kiddies) would stop with thier m4d Ski11z (VB Script "Programs") and would just stop R0X0R1NG the public (double clicking .exes and hoping they can make some poor guys day misrable)... Frankly I don't have much need for security (I mean I won't hand out my root password or anything) and the little I do have is plenty enough to keep unwanted people out (to some degree). So, 31337 K1DD13Z stop... and others calm down, nobody wants to delete all your precious word documents.
Parinoia Sale on Aisle 4
I like Apple now because of OS X. I like (to an extent) their new GUI. I think that what they are doing to extend BSD into a new community and a vast user base (compared to the current BSD community this puts them competitivly sized with the Linux community) is excellent. I just think that credit for the powerfulness of the Unix platform they are buildning should be given to BSD. And, on another note, anything in italics was a quote from the BoF, so don't shoot me down for what they said.
other reply stuff:
My BSD boot deals with several network daemons so it can be a little slow at times (compared to Windows boot... but windows doesn't serve apache during boot now does it)
"It doesn't matter. The license matters."... thank you for saying that... I hope Apples license gets better so that we can call this all open source.
Once more I will say Apple good job (or Jobs), and that this is not a negligable undertaking... but by itself they don't have an OS and so there should have been credit to BSD in that quote (that is what I meant.... but when you post at 2AM you really can't be held accountable for saying stupid things)... well until next post
now to reply to the real post:
- Points of Intrist in the BoF Post:
- "Mac OS X has the power and openness of Unix, with the simplicity and friendliness of a Mac"
- What went to WindRiver:... FreeBSD-related work
- OpenBSD received a DARPA grant to continue the security work its been doing.
- OpenBSD Received a legal threat from OpenSSH.com, demanding that they change the OpenBSD name, which they refused (good for you!)
- FreeBSD: [Jordan Hubbard] Mentioned he was working on speeding up the boot process...hey, that'd be nice!
- AMD and Intel step up FreeBSD efforts
- Microsoft renounces evil, switches to FreeBSD
- NO PLANS TO PORT OS X TO x86 HARDWARE!
- OS X: Fully integrated JDK 1.3
- OS X: Key productivity applications (MS Office...)
one last thing.... if you haven't read/used any O'Reilly books, then your really missing out.Apple took BSD and built a new GUI with some nifty features to make the Mac community accept it. Don't get me wrong I love BSD and I think that OS X will be good for it. But really how much did Apple do here?
And yet again there is the shadey sound of Windriver playing with words about FreeBSD. It isn't possible for them to OWN FreeBSD, but watch them overstepping their bounds guys.
Still trying to get at Mitnicks encrypted data (read porn) eh big bro?
Because you know that the goals of Open Source software projects are purely evil... they were planning on trying to sell back the name and then dominate the world muuuaaahhahahahahahah hah ha ha ha ah ahhh ahhha ah....
yeah I seem to recall the boot being a little slow when I last booted a month ago... of course Microsoft has already got the golden pair... fast boot so you can crash sooner.
I really hope this leads to them competing on who can donate the most money to Open Source.
I seem to recall Hotmail switching from BSD to 2k (so thats why my email got so much slower and less predictable)
Damn, I guess I won't be doing the OS-X benchmarking then.
woohoo... I am a java programmer, and while some many people around here hate java support of it will promote Open Source
I wonder if StarOffice will come bundled for a little of taste of Microsofts own medicine (but IE MUST come preinstalled)
"Peace, Love, Linux" -Leo Laporte, TSS
Repling to myself...
I'm not saying Intel is the invincible king of processors... all I am saying is that AMD is not really the leader yet. In general people know the word Pentium, and while the number is growing less know the word Athelon and even less know that it is a better processor. NO I'm not an Intel lacky I just like to think that slashdotters could cope with the idea that the world isn't perfect and just because something is better means it's winning the market.
Noone OWNS FreeBSD... and Benchmarking tests never proove anything (why because I say so... and becuase they never seem to reflect anything specific... they come back however you want them to)... it looks like this guy just cuts and pastes the same post on every BSD article... get a life you AC, if BSD is dead then go flame elsewhere and leave my Distro alone... or suffer the wrath of the burning hells (which I might add BSD owns... or at least the logo would lead us to believe that)... nuff said
Ummmm why bother explaining all the other things you have when all that needs to be said is cost:
Microsoft: 50+ for a FORCED copy of the said software
FreeBSD: 0+ you can download it for free
hence one reason Linux sells... it doesn't... no cost.
Yes All of those fetures will be avalible along with:
Documentation subtitles
Stunning menus (themes.org)
Boot with the original aspect ratio!
scene selections (install/reinstall/compiling the kernel/...)
The alternate ending (NetBSD?)
Retouched Technicolor (Amber terminals never looked so bright)
A special introduction by Ken Thompson
The Open Source Boxed set edition (including FreeBSD Debian and RedHat with bonus SuSe)
And, in addition to the Developers commentary channel, the Users commentary channel
and act now and you'll recive a beasty plush toy!
all this for a total of 145 min of FreeBSD fun
Do you people pay attention... yes AMD is making better processors... yes people who really know choose AMD over Intel... therefor slashdotters choose AMD over Intel...
But back to the real world: If you turn on a computer out there in happy fun land (aka "The Real World"(TM)) then odds are it will be a running Intel. Linux your precious kernel started out with optimized non-portable code for the i386. You geeks keep falling victim to the same trap year after year... just because it's better doesn't mean people will use it. Linux/BSD/Solaris/Irix/SVR4/MACOS/BeOS... is clearly better than Windows when you look at a track record... and yes in some cases can be *almost* as easy to use... but they have been winning the OS war since they made a *bad* ripoff of the Macintosh (read Xerox) GUI OS. MacOS was better, more stable, and quite cleaner... but Micro$oft had the market share and they won. People listen to money, and Intel is still the processor most people/companies would prefer buying. Hackers are one of the lowest demographics in the computing industry these days and people (outside of their community) don't pay much attention to them.
Well, I guess thats it... go ahead return to your illusion and mod this down.
It seems like Bill and Apple share the same idea that THEY the commercial providers of software should have free reign to reap all the benifits without themselves helping the movement. I mean when Apple took BSD and created OS X didn't they start licensing it in a way where they tried to get free Beta testing, source code, and this without having to release their source.
--snip--
The GPL, he continued, "breaks that cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work. So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the browser could never happen. We believe there should be free software and commercial software; there should be a rich ecosystem that works around that."
--snip--
It sounds like Bill wants free work for him and doesn't want to play nice with others. Bill we understand that you miss the good old days when you could walk into Xerox PARC and steal ideas instead of having to think them up yourself (ouch thinkings hard). But Open Source is NOT a free ride for YOU. Actually Bill wrote a letter to hobbiests saying basically that source should ALWAYS be closed. I think his intention in this is to gain popularity by saying that WE are the ones to blaim for his closed community.
No, What he meant is that the Windows NT will reduce personnel by sinking ships and thus "reducing" personnel. And this "lets just hope NT gets better..." Great they control Nuclear missles and their betting Microsoft will *improve* software (I'm so so scared... hold me) I waited for microsofts OS to get better since 95 and there has been a steady decline in stability (with the exception of 98SE)... this to the point where running me is like being a crash test dummy (Beta. Relase. Whats the difference?). Well now that I have insulted the Government and Microsloth I have fufilled my duties as a /.er return to useful postings.
Well what is to be said about this movie... First the accent; well let us think about this, when an actor must fake an accent they have a few months to (psudo) learn it and then they have to shoot, and the accent can't change. When, however, you come from that land and have spoken with that accent for all your lives of course it will sound different. I have acted and acting depends on stereotypes -- not reality. If an actor pulls off a real Brittish accent it will not sound like what an AMERICAN audience believes is a Brittish accent. However, I don't believe AJ pulled off either a fake or real Brit accent that well anyways. But you know what... it is a game to movie movie and that means one thing: don't expect ANYTHING. If you went into the movie expecting anyting more than crap you are gullable or neive (probably both) and should realize that you need to think about the roots of this problem. They have two groups of audience those who game and those who see whats popular (or liked the preview or something along those lines)... now if they wish to try and please their PRIMARY AUDIENCE they will stick to the game and not think about how bad a movie it makes (and other than RPG's not many games have plots that will translate to the screen in any way)... If they wish to please Joe the movie janitor who saw the preview and liked Jolies' Breasts (and you know Joe did) then you make some attempt at a plot and butcher the game beyond all belief... of course the end result is that the Director and Script writer will make some compromize between these two extremes but in the end it won't be very good if your expecting Shakespeare. Don't get me wrong it was a piece of crap but there was some effort made and maybe if the industry demands movies from games, then games will finally have better plots.
Bottom Line: if you want a game to movie experiance that makes you more than thrilled wait for "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within," if you get free movies or have money to kill see the cheap show with low expectations and you might have a good time making fun of the gaping holes in the plot line. (just destroy the half you have Lara)
Stars: **/******
--MEB
Yahoo! removing the auctions is alright, but France telling US websites what they can and can't do; that is just plain wrong. At first I thought that it might be okay, but it comes down to who percives what as offencive. If yahoo posts a site about Nazis, France just has to deal. It comes down to this: we have the freedom of speech. In the US there are laws that protect even the most slimy websites out there. If this doesn't fit in with your nation cut the telephone lines, filter at ISPs, or just deal. This is almost as absurd as making everything appropriate for a 3 year old so parents don't have to parent.
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but frankly if you wanna run binaries on some better achitecture that x86.... recomple them. I should think that slashdot of all places would say that this matters not because only propritary software needs this kind of emulation support. So go ahead run WinME on RISC and crash it in all it's buggy bliss on another chipset. If the other posts didn't get this point through then here it is...
OPEN SOURCE MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE BUT EMULATERS ARE ONLY USED BY THOSE WHO USE OPEN SOURCE, AND WE ALREADY HAVE OUR FILL.
you can just feel the negative karma
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It seems very much like the judge smacked down any and every argument. That is not to say they were not good arguments... it just seems very much like the lawyer hadn't put enough though into the rebuttles that She could and must expect. Speech is only as free as the money you can spend to defend it. Democrasy, hah, this Country is ruled not by monobolies but trusts. I have yet to understand how this system (MPAA, CSS) is not infringing the Anti-trust laws. These companies in complete control of the media and the forms of access seek to destroy the competition by saying fair-use only protects non-encrypted data... and if it's copyrighted those who decript MUST be trying to infringe upon their copyrights. GPL the world... that way Microsofts so called infection will infest the world with, god forbid, freedom.
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I've said it here before and I'll say it again... FreeBSD wasn't bought by ANYONE. Walnut Creek funded and help distribute it... then BSDi took over. If all else fails they can resort to a different distrobution method... but the company that now owns BSDi has promised they will continue to freely support FreeBSD. And hey if being bought out means your dead /. died when Andover and then OSDN bought them out. Why can't we all just get along. Yes BSD is more stable and secure than linux their own (linux) gurus have prooved this time and again. However it lacks the newest features and fast development cycle linux (and most of it's distros) has. I've used both, I like both, and as long as one of them effectivly moves into the desktop environment (yes linux is far more suited for this) then I'll be happy that someone called Windows out and won... and as to the first question... if it can run linux the odds are high it can run BSD considering they both support fairly simaler hardware (In the actual article they said it would be possible to run the full version of linux... meaning they haven't included any special support or drivers)
yes this is a rant... feel free to mod away
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Flame Defense Flame Defense... this is a predictable pattern with RMS. No linux didn't make GNU and yes to a large degree GNU made linux... just as XFree86 started the long path to a desktop (Insert OS X comment here) but one would have survived without the other. RMS is a hacker in the truest form of the word, and one of the great ones. RMS is also a pain in the ass because thats what keeps GNU and GPL alive and unchanged. For those of you who think RMS is a worthless outdated polititian I would like to see you remove all traces of GNU from linux. It's simple, they form a symbiosis(sp?) in the truest form of the word, they serve to benifit one another. No changing the name won't do RMS tried that with Lignux GNU/Linux is ugly too and I am disgusted by Ginux. The name Linux identifes the product quite well. But there is the little fact that if the creater of Minix (Tannenbaum) had been willing to GPL it, (thus allowing RMS to use that as his kernel) Linus never would have had the motivation to write Linux into a UNIX alternative. RMS is and was a large part of this revolution in distributed development of software. RMS is a socialist, and because the software we know and love (Linux) is distributed with his license, you are contributing to his efforts. To sum it all up: as long as the GPL stands up in court his way of doing things will continue to permiate the software industry.
Get some books if you wish to know more here is a good start for more info on this:
Hackers by Steven Levy
Rebel Code by Glyn Moody
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This seemed to be an appropriate place to ask all the posters out there... What hardware is good at handling plugins for *amp with high framerates. I have a killer machine with 256 megs of RAM and a PIII 800mhz... and perhaps the most important part I have a GeForce 2 GTS w/32 megs. Even with all these goodies at resolutions above 800x600 (and even there) the framerates are terribly low for winamp AVS and wildtanget apps. I was wondering if anyone out there had framerates 50 fps+ on these plugins. Any ideas... could I hype somepart of my system up for this somehow... help.
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I suppose this means slashdot is dead too... seeing as how they were aquired by Andover and then OSDN... being bought isn't being killed... I use BSD and linux... open source OS'es are damn hard to kill, because they have loyal fans willing to carry on even if the funding and support stops... FreeBSD rocks my UNIX world... it's faster, more stable, and runs on machines with less than 128 megs of RAM... heck even /. had a post on that recently
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This is a nice security concern and if you feel violated and shocked you should be shot. Microsoft has NO concern for INDIVIDUALS or their rights (evidence in the inhearent crappyness of Windows). Yes I use Hotmail; yes I believe they would trample my rights and or data if it served them any advantage. But honestly, what are you sending over your Hotmail account thats so important and or threatining to Microsoft that they will misuse it? And if this is a password concern... if you care so much about security you should be using multiple passwords... and never ever ever use your root password on any other account. But for those of us in UNIX happy land this is all old hat and big bad Microsoft playing very old games.
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Now it is becoming clear to the DOJ... the right action would be to force Micro$oft to open source Windoze in all it's forms... under the GPL... if this had happened well the world would be a better windozeless place... for there software would have been prooven to be the buggy insecure flawed piece of #$*! we all know it is.
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Well at least in one form... Windows... I mean just think it KNOWS when your working on an incredibly important project you haven't saved in awhile and CRASH all gone... And it's gotten more and more advanced over the years. Now, with WinME, it will actually crash during boot... and to proove the intelligence this crashing seems random, but when looked at closely it's only when speed is of importance. So remember, next time your flaming Micro$oft, they created life... who knew. Oh and if consumtion and creation of energy have to do with anything just look at all the CPU cycles wasted on an overblown GUI.
/. isn't as good as this link to nothing
--OStone
it's much better
WE all have the same feeling here on /. it seems... IP laws and copyright laws are simply being pushed beyond thier limits after all they have been around simce umph-te-um and they were certinly not thinking of GUI design and Complex Theming when they were written... so the answer here is apple is just doing business as usual and trying to prevent others from gaining the little market share that they have. I think that while this attemt is not noble it is understandable... but hey if everthing went my way there would be new IP laws and legitimate uses. In the end Linux will prevail because no AMERICAN law is stronger than the freedom that an INDIVIUAL feels they have... Linux users and hackers will continue to hack GUI code with or without government support because hell we are INTITLED to resonably priced stable software and nobody-- not Apple, not Micro$oft, not even the drones who claim to be part of our own movement. This is not going to be stood for and if Microsoft doesn't fight it (fat chance) then WE will.
--OStone
"The Devil made me do it"
I've got a patent pending on the full-stop; after all in the US it's only known as a period, dot, or decimal. So, I suppose that everyone who posts a properly punctuated sentence owes me some kind of licencing fee. Where does this stop? I wonder when the government will realize the purpose of the copyright and the patent, and business will be forced to stop these BS lawsuits.
I don't know about anyone else but I know who has my vote this year, A write in of Rob 'Cmdr Taco' Malda. Theres a president for you... He runs slash he knows linux he would only censor non-debian distrobutions of linux... And besides who else are you going to vote for theres george 'Initial beneath your current threshold' Bush, Al 'Invented the Internet' Gore, Darth Nader, need I go on... With cmdr taco we know his only agenda is world debian domination. Now there is a candidate we can trust... Well this is all a moot point because here in this united states because I am
-- Ostone
"42."