As far as I can tell, this is not the case. It even has strlcpy(), which to me is a strong indication that it is not, in fact, glibc. Most likely derived from FreeBSD's libc, in fact.
So if you believe in free software, you need to run a free os, i'll buy that. Why, though, would you run non-free applications on that free os? That's the part that makes no sense.
If you dont believe in free software (or, rather, dont believe proprietary software is immoral) what is the reason to switch from os x to linux on a desktop. Performance might be one answer, but you are giving up a lot for the extra performance. It's all quite confusing to me.
Anything is possible, but revoking Novell's right specifically would cause GNU/Linux to cease to be open source software (it would fail under section 5 of the OSD imo). The wisdom would also be somewhat questionable.
"is it possible to revoke Novell's right to distribute a GNU/Linux distribution?"
Actually no, security updates are available regardless, the stuff pirated users cant download is extra software microsoft provides. To date, they have not locked down security updates. You might have to enable windows update to get them, but they are there.
It's rarely about getting stuff going on a platform, but rather making sure nothing regresses. Compile farms are useful for doing the following:
- compiling the software on all platforms
- running automated test suite
- automatically building packages periodically
- determining what percentage of the code your test suite covers
- verifying the built package works
Patches from users cant reproduce all of these things, and this is where compile farms come in handy. Whether it makes sense for something like sourceforge is another matter.
I agree, I think google should comply with the law, and on request remove any companies data from their cache, as well as remove the company from the search engine entirely. Problem solved.
I'd agree with that in general; I don't think there is any piracy problem with the current download services, or if so it is a very small one, people arent pirated the DRMed content (even though it's breakable). A scheme like this could be useful in letting legitimate users make use of their media, while still discouraging it from being shared.
I've seen stuff like this used in software, and seems fairly effective. For example, the IDA disassembler uses watermarked biaries plus the output of the disassembler has a plain text header with the users name, serial number, etc.
"So, people who pay for a movie from these guys won't be able to share it via Kazaa or bittorrent or whatever is popular right now. I don't think that many people who pay to download a movie really do so with the intent of putting it on a filesharing network. I mean, why the hell would you do that? The people I know who do the whole illegal filesharing thing, don't pay for media they can get for free, and the people I know who buy digital download media, don't use illegal filesharing sites. Buying something legally kinda defeats the purpose of using a filesharing site, amirite?"
I'm not sure I see how this is entrapment. Entrapment is when you induce someone who would otherwise be unwilling to commit the crime into commiting a crime. How is making something what appears to be copywritten material on a search engine inducement? It seems pretty clear that this is not entrapment.
Of course, whether it is copyright ingringement is questionable as well. If the content isn't real, it's not ingringement. Unfortunately, with screen shots being treated as evidence, things can get tricky. If these reports can be substantiated, perhaps they can be used as a reason to demand there be proof that actual infringement took place (as opposed to a screenshot listing filenames that shared substrings in common with the titles of protected works).
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Good UI design is often less about delivering what is logical and more about delivering what is expected. For a lot of users, this means delivering a UI experience quite similar to what windows offers today, for good or bad. Anytime you diverge from these expectations, you create friction for users, which should be avoided.
Leveraging existing user knowledge seems to be the best way to go about things for niche systems, even if those experiences were in user interfaces which arent 100% logical or consistant.
What if (for example) the kernel interfaces change, and your statically linked library is now interacting wrongly with the kernel? Certainly not everyone thinks static linking is a good idea, just for reasons such as this.
I'm personally looking forward to the ps3, and not the wii. It comes down to the games to me, and the ps3 launch titles have atleast 2 games I want to play (vs 0 on the xbox 360 even now, and I havent heard of anything I particularly wanna play on the wii).
I'm not going to pay 1500$ to play those 2 games, but once the creation of a media event via artificial scarcity ends, I will be looking to buy one.
The two games are mgs4 and dmc4, just the sort of games I like to play...
You mean you trade *everybodys* privacy for protection against a few assholes? That's an okay tradeoff for you to make about your information, but kindly dont make that tradeoff for me. I value my privacy.
For those who rtfa (yeah yeah, i'm new here), you would note that downloading music to your phone is indeed free. Getting it from your phone to a portable music player is not. The summary is misleading.
"Cingular will allow people to download music to compatible phones for free, although consumers will pay a monthly charge in the range of $15 for the ability to download songs from those services to a portable music player. "Right now, we're focused on getting people to view mobile music as something that's interesting and exciting. You've got to build a base. Once you do that, there are all sorts of ways to drive revenue from it," says Jim Ryan, vice-president of consumer data services at Cingular."
In other words, they will support their phones for free, but if you want to download to, say, your nomad or ipod, you will have to pay a fee.
While I use itunes for all my tv watching (dont watch much tv, it's much much much much cheaper for me than paying for cable, and I get the advantage of no commercials), I agree with you here. For short shows, itunes would be terrible I imagine.
It doesn't have to be, though. They could bundle multiple shows with a single price. I've seen them do that with bsg eps where a 2 parter was sold as a single 90 minute show, for the single show price (did that with a recent bsg 2 parter, for example).
I don't have the time or interest to watch a show every weekday, though. That's a pretty big commitment.
There are 3 shared source licenses i've seen microsoft talk about, 2 of them seem to comply with osi standards, from what i can tell (ms-pl, which is a very free license similar to the bsd license and ms-cl, which is a less free reciprical license, similar to the gpl). The one that does not is the ms-rl (reference license), which sounds like what they would use for CE, but i'm not certain of that.
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As far as I can tell, this is not the case. It even has strlcpy(), which to me is a strong indication that it is not, in fact, glibc. Most likely derived from FreeBSD's libc, in fact.
So if you believe in free software, you need to run a free os, i'll buy that. Why, though, would you run non-free applications on that free os? That's the part that makes no sense.
If you dont believe in free software (or, rather, dont believe proprietary software is immoral) what is the reason to switch from os x to linux on a desktop. Performance might be one answer, but you are giving up a lot for the extra performance. It's all quite confusing to me.
Since when does os x use glibc?
Anything is possible, but revoking Novell's right specifically would cause GNU/Linux to cease to be open source software (it would fail under section 5 of the OSD imo). The wisdom would also be somewhat questionable.
"is it possible to revoke Novell's right to distribute a GNU/Linux distribution?"
Actually no, security updates are available regardless, the stuff pirated users cant download is extra software microsoft provides. To date, they have not locked down security updates. You might have to enable windows update to get them, but they are there.
It's rarely about getting stuff going on a platform, but rather making sure nothing regresses. Compile farms are useful for doing the following:
- compiling the software on all platforms
- running automated test suite
- automatically building packages periodically
- determining what percentage of the code your test suite covers
- verifying the built package works
Patches from users cant reproduce all of these things, and this is where compile farms come in handy. Whether it makes sense for something like sourceforge is another matter.
I agree, I think google should comply with the law, and on request remove any companies data from their cache, as well as remove the company from the search engine entirely. Problem solved.
I'd agree with that in general; I don't think there is any piracy problem with the current download services, or if so it is a very small one, people arent pirated the DRMed content (even though it's breakable). A scheme like this could be useful in letting legitimate users make use of their media, while still discouraging it from being shared.
I've seen stuff like this used in software, and seems fairly effective. For example, the IDA disassembler uses watermarked biaries plus the output of the disassembler has a plain text header with the users name, serial number, etc.
"So, people who pay for a movie from these guys won't be able to share it via Kazaa or bittorrent or whatever is popular right now. I don't think that many people who pay to download a movie really do so with the intent of putting it on a filesharing network. I mean, why the hell would you do that? The people I know who do the whole illegal filesharing thing, don't pay for media they can get for free, and the people I know who buy digital download media, don't use illegal filesharing sites. Buying something legally kinda defeats the purpose of using a filesharing site, amirite?"
*cough* pot. kettle. black. ever hear of cpan?
I'm not sure I see how this is entrapment. Entrapment is when you induce someone who would otherwise be unwilling to commit the crime into commiting a crime. How is making something what appears to be copywritten material on a search engine inducement? It seems pretty clear that this is not entrapment.
Of course, whether it is copyright ingringement is questionable as well. If the content isn't real, it's not ingringement. Unfortunately, with screen shots being treated as evidence, things can get tricky. If these reports can be substantiated, perhaps they can be used as a reason to demand there be proof that actual infringement took place (as opposed to a screenshot listing filenames that shared substrings in common with the titles of protected works).
source: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/080/080661p1.html
It wasn't. Launch titles are:
Armored Core 2 (Agetec, Action)
DOA2: Hardcore (Tecmo, Fighting)
Dynasty Warriors 2 (Koei, Action)
ESPN International Track and Field (Konami, Sports)
ESPN X-Games Snowboarding (Konami, Sports)
Eternal Ring (Agetec, RPG)
Evergrace (Agetec, RPG)
FantaVision (SCEI, Puzzle)
Gun Griffon Blaze (Working Designs, Action)
Kessen (EA, Adventure)
Madden NFL 2001 (EA, Sports)
Midnight Club (Rockstar, Racing)
Moto GP (Namco, Racing)
NHL 2001 (EA, Sports)
Orphen (Activision, RPG)
Q-Ball Billiards Master (Take-Two Interactive, Simulation)
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 (Midway, Sports)
Ridge Racer V (Namco, Racing)
Silent Scope (Konami, Shooter)
Smuggler's Run (Rockstar, Racing-Adventure)
SSX (EA, Sports)
Street Fighter EX3 (Capcom, Fighting)
Summoner (THQ, RPG)
Swing Away (Paradise Golf in Japan) (EA, Sports)
Tekken Tag Tournament (Namco, fighting)
TimeSplitters (Eidos, First-Person Shooter)
Unreal Tournament (Infogrames, First-Person Shooter)
Wild Wild Racing (Interplay, Racing)
X-Squad (EA, Action)
The ps2 launch was, as most launches are, very very weak.
Which ps2 launch games didnt suck?
Good UI design is often less about delivering what is logical and more about delivering what is expected. For a lot of users, this means delivering a UI experience quite similar to what windows offers today, for good or bad. Anytime you diverge from these expectations, you create friction for users, which should be avoided.
Leveraging existing user knowledge seems to be the best way to go about things for niche systems, even if those experiences were in user interfaces which arent 100% logical or consistant.
What if (for example) the kernel interfaces change, and your statically linked library is now interacting wrongly with the kernel? Certainly not everyone thinks static linking is a good idea, just for reasons such as this.
So a paladin's out too, I guess...
The masses own dvd players already.
I'm personally looking forward to the ps3, and not the wii. It comes down to the games to me, and the ps3 launch titles have atleast 2 games I want to play (vs 0 on the xbox 360 even now, and I havent heard of anything I particularly wanna play on the wii).
I'm not going to pay 1500$ to play those 2 games, but once the creation of a media event via artificial scarcity ends, I will be looking to buy one.
The two games are mgs4 and dmc4, just the sort of games I like to play...
and what about the word 'some' did you not understand?
You mean you trade *everybodys* privacy for protection against a few assholes? That's an okay tradeoff for you to make about your information, but kindly dont make that tradeoff for me. I value my privacy.
For those who rtfa (yeah yeah, i'm new here), you would note that downloading music to your phone is indeed free. Getting it from your phone to a portable music player is not. The summary is misleading.
"Cingular will allow people to download music to compatible phones for free, although consumers will pay a monthly charge in the range of $15 for the ability to download songs from those services to a portable music player. "Right now, we're focused on getting people to view mobile music as something that's interesting and exciting. You've got to build a base. Once you do that, there are all sorts of ways to drive revenue from it," says Jim Ryan, vice-president of consumer data services at Cingular."
In other words, they will support their phones for free, but if you want to download to, say, your nomad or ipod, you will have to pay a fee.
My understanding is Ron Paul had to switch his affiliation not so much to get into congress, but to get seats in important commitees.
Maybe this is the only way they could ship vista on time?
While I use itunes for all my tv watching (dont watch much tv, it's much much much much cheaper for me than paying for cable, and I get the advantage of no commercials), I agree with you here. For short shows, itunes would be terrible I imagine.
It doesn't have to be, though. They could bundle multiple shows with a single price. I've seen them do that with bsg eps where a 2 parter was sold as a single 90 minute show, for the single show price (did that with a recent bsg 2 parter, for example).
I don't have the time or interest to watch a show every weekday, though. That's a pretty big commitment.
I'd take that bet.
There are 3 shared source licenses i've seen microsoft talk about, 2 of them seem to comply with osi standards, from what i can tell (ms-pl, which is a very free license similar to the bsd license and ms-cl, which is a less free reciprical license, similar to the gpl). The one that does not is the ms-rl (reference license), which sounds like what they would use for CE, but i'm not certain of that.