Except that the post was a reply to a thread about foreign patents and whether or not they are relevant to this case. And, that isn't the only patent in the case. Even assuming IBM's foriegn IP portfolio doesn't become an issue, there are at least three other relevant patents. Good job figuring out how to copy and paste though. I guess you finally read "Windows for Dummies."
This is true, if you want your invention to be protected in countries without such trade agreements with the US. I'm not sure which ones they are... many companies still get patents they don't technically need anyway, because it is simplier to enforce 'native' patents.
Except that the US has trade agreements with numerous other countries that include, among other things, promises to mutually respect each other's patents. Furthermore, prior art is not limited to 'prior art owned by US citizens.' If IBM can prove a certain technology that SCO claims to own was in use in, say, Japan, years beforehand, SCO's claim in invalid.
They haven't gone out of their way to cripple Darwin, though. It's just that all the graphics layer stuff (which is really what make Mac OS X good for desktops, obviously). What someone needs to do is write a drop in replacement for cocoa that runs on top of X. Plus, I'd be willing to bet there is an x86 port of some kind, floating around Apple (just because that seems to fit the sense of humor over there). You're right though, Apple currently sees itself as a hardware company, and always has. I think, as an arm-chair commentator, that they would do better for themselves if they didn't limit their vision so.
You can't really "quietly" revive it, because when you revive it, the effects will show as soon as the ISPs start updating their DNS caches. I mean, this time, we didn't notice it because of some big public announcement, we noticed it because all of the sudden these sitefinder sites started showing up when we typoed stuff.
yes there called americans:) They're. Secondly, I'd be willing to bet that you are american, like 90% of the america bashers of slashdot. I don't care either way, I think the whole thing is artificial, but I do know that it is irrelevant.
gcc 3.x is _very_ different than two, to the point that gcc 3 won't compile some things that 2.96 will and vice-versa. IIRC, support for the platform in question was dropped completely in the 3 series.
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MPlayer has matured, both in code and attitude over the last year or so, or at least I've found it to be true. I never really had trouble installing it in the first place (all you had to do was *gasp* read the directions and follow them), but the install has gotten easier. I find that it also works better on my PC now. Additionally, their teams seems to had lost a bit of the attitude-- a quick glance over the docs doesn't reveal any references to how stupid the average mplayer user is:). Maybe they finally realized that attitude was offending some people,and hurting the project, so they got over themselves.
That is evolution. The purpose of language is not to have a set of words that corresponds one to one with the set of concepts. It is to allow communication. In this case, the term 'hacker' has been adopted by people (including the media) to mean something different than it did originally. Why? Probably because most people don't care enough about the hacker/cracker distinction to keep two different lexicon entries for them. Thus, the natural progression (or evolution) is towards one word.
Welcome to the wonderful world of linguistics. Languages evolve. Clearly, people shouldn't go around speaking "french" or "spanish", because really, they are just misusing Latin. They are wrong, and they should be stopped, damnit!
Ah, but what of my dual processors with HT? That's four logical cores. As more and more commodity CPUs start to use stuff like HT, performance of OSes written for MP will increase on the desktop. Anyway, I'm willing to take a little bit of a speed hit if it brings sufficiently valuable features with it.
Only, that's still retreivable. In fact, it's probably 80-90% retrievable by skilled hands. I don't care if your os doesn't have an 'undelete' ability, you still read to over write the drive several times, completely, with a suitably random stream of ones and zeros. Even then, the best measure would be to melt it...
ones-complement portion of the crypto engine fails when X=0 Some conversions for the interested, of zero into four bit binary of various types: 0000 (1's complement), 0000 (signed magnitude), 0000 (2's complement)... Uh, what was I doing again?
The difference though is the download time, and the fact that all you get in the end is a burned CD with a sharpie label. A lot of people don't have broadband and a lot of people want their liner notes, or at least would prefer a solution where they could get them... then again, there might be a market in liner note sharing software...
The way I see it, the RIAA is helping file sharing. Firstly, they're giving it the best press money can buy. A lot of filesharing networks are noticing spikes in usage due to all of these RIAA press releases. The idea of thousands of 'criminals' distributing 'stolen' music for free just sounds too good for a lot of people for them to pass it up because of the miniscule chance they might be sued. Secondly, they are pushing the software along. More measures are being taken to produce software that can not only handle the increased usage, but also can ensure the privacy of the users. The only way I see for the RIAA to combat this is for record stores to have kiosks where you can burn a CD with songs you pick and chose, print out an attractive label and liner notes, for an affordable price. They may be too afraid of the new technology and the (temporary) profit losses to act however...
And how many full time employees do *you* have working on GPL stuff? Or, to be more fair, how about the company you work for? Now, I dislike the freeloaders as much as anyone but a) they are allowed by law to freeload if they want:) b) they aren't. I mean, are you arguing that they should hire programmers until they reach $0 profit? I say, 12 programmers working on open source for the forseeable future is better than 500 working on open source for the next quarter, until the investors pull out and the company collaspses.
But why should they have to pay more per dollar than anyone else? People go around preaching equality, but then argue that tax rates should be higher for rich people. Bill Gates and his ilk, like them or not, did something for that wad of cash. So, you argue, Bill Gates didn't write Windows, why did he get rich off of it? Because, simply, he's the head of the company that made windows. That means he makes the rules for microsoft. If the developers don't like them, they can go elsewhere. Not that anyone is actually going to give them profit sharing as compensation... The point is, Billy G has a job, just like yours, and you would be absolutly *pissed* if you had to pay those kind of taxes.
The point is that the people paying them are doing so they will keep fighting. More than 15 mil of that 15.3 came from sun and microsoft, both of which have big interest in seeing linux squashed.
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Except that the post was a reply to a thread about foreign patents and whether or not they are relevant to this case. And, that isn't the only patent in the case. Even assuming IBM's foriegn IP portfolio doesn't become an issue, there are at least three other relevant patents. Good job figuring out how to copy and paste though. I guess you finally read "Windows for Dummies."
This is true, if you want your invention to be protected in countries without such trade agreements with the US. I'm not sure which ones they are... many companies still get patents they don't technically need anyway, because it is simplier to enforce 'native' patents.
Except that the US has trade agreements with numerous other countries that include, among other things, promises to mutually respect each other's patents. Furthermore, prior art is not limited to 'prior art owned by US citizens.' If IBM can prove a certain technology that SCO claims to own was in use in, say, Japan, years beforehand, SCO's claim in invalid.
They haven't gone out of their way to cripple Darwin, though. It's just that all the graphics layer stuff (which is really what make Mac OS X good for desktops, obviously). What someone needs to do is write a drop in replacement for cocoa that runs on top of X. Plus, I'd be willing to bet there is an x86 port of some kind, floating around Apple (just because that seems to fit the sense of humor over there). You're right though, Apple currently sees itself as a hardware company, and always has. I think, as an arm-chair commentator, that they would do better for themselves if they didn't limit their vision so.
You can't really "quietly" revive it, because when you revive it, the effects will show as soon as the ISPs start updating their DNS caches. I mean, this time, we didn't notice it because of some big public announcement, we noticed it because all of the sudden these sitefinder sites started showing up when we typoed stuff.
yes there called americans :)
They're. Secondly, I'd be willing to bet that you are american, like 90% of the america bashers of slashdot. I don't care either way, I think the whole thing is artificial, but I do know that it is irrelevant.
gcc 3.x is _very_ different than two, to the point that gcc 3 won't compile some things that 2.96 will and vice-versa. IIRC, support for the platform in question was dropped completely in the 3 series.
MPlayer has matured, both in code and attitude over the last year or so, or at least I've found it to be true. I never really had trouble installing it in the first place (all you had to do was *gasp* read the directions and follow them), but the install has gotten easier. I find that it also works better on my PC now. Additionally, their teams seems to had lost a bit of the attitude-- a quick glance over the docs doesn't reveal any references to how stupid the average mplayer user is :). Maybe they finally realized that attitude was offending some people,and hurting the project, so they got over themselves.
That is evolution. The purpose of language is not to have a set of words that corresponds one to one with the set of concepts. It is to allow communication. In this case, the term 'hacker' has been adopted by people (including the media) to mean something different than it did originally. Why? Probably because most people don't care enough about the hacker/cracker distinction to keep two different lexicon entries for them. Thus, the natural progression (or evolution) is towards one word.
Welcome to the wonderful world of linguistics. Languages evolve. Clearly, people shouldn't go around speaking "french" or "spanish", because really, they are just misusing Latin. They are wrong, and they should be stopped, damnit!
The new Python-based approach will make booting faster
Oh wait, we forgot to convert back from decades... uh, nothing to see here.
Also, I remember reading somewhere, back when this originally happened, that it was removed for technical, not legal reasons.
Works fine on my g5 laptop too. Err, um, THERE IS NO THING TO SEE HERE... move along.
Ah, but what of my dual processors with HT? That's four logical cores. As more and more commodity CPUs start to use stuff like HT, performance of OSes written for MP will increase on the desktop. Anyway, I'm willing to take a little bit of a speed hit if it brings sufficiently valuable features with it.
No, because that's OpenBSD. Duh.
Oh wait...
Actually, I find the formatting a bit more horrible than the flagrant copyright abuse...
Only, that's still retreivable. In fact, it's probably 80-90% retrievable by skilled hands. I don't care if your os doesn't have an 'undelete' ability, you still read to over write the drive several times, completely, with a suitably random stream of ones and zeros. Even then, the best measure would be to melt it...
ones-complement portion of the crypto engine fails when X=0
Some conversions for the interested, of zero into four bit binary of various types: 0000 (1's complement), 0000 (signed magnitude), 0000 (2's complement)... Uh, what was I doing again?
I was wondering, if you had to go back and rewrite American Gods today, are there any new gods that you would add?
The difference though is the download time, and the fact that all you get in the end is a burned CD with a sharpie label. A lot of people don't have broadband and a lot of people want their liner notes, or at least would prefer a solution where they could get them... then again, there might be a market in liner note sharing software...
The way I see it, the RIAA is helping file sharing. Firstly, they're giving it the best press money can buy. A lot of filesharing networks are noticing spikes in usage due to all of these RIAA press releases. The idea of thousands of 'criminals' distributing 'stolen' music for free just sounds too good for a lot of people for them to pass it up because of the miniscule chance they might be sued.
Secondly, they are pushing the software along. More measures are being taken to produce software that can not only handle the increased usage, but also can ensure the privacy of the users.
The only way I see for the RIAA to combat this is for record stores to have kiosks where you can burn a CD with songs you pick and chose, print out an attractive label and liner notes, for an affordable price. They may be too afraid of the new technology and the (temporary) profit losses to act however...
And how many full time employees do *you* have working on GPL stuff? Or, to be more fair, how about the company you work for? Now, I dislike the freeloaders as much as anyone but a) they are allowed by law to freeload if they want :) b) they aren't. I mean, are you arguing that they should hire programmers until they reach $0 profit? I say, 12 programmers working on open source for the forseeable future is better than 500 working on open source for the next quarter, until the investors pull out and the company collaspses.
But why should they have to pay more per dollar than anyone else? People go around preaching equality, but then argue that tax rates should be higher for rich people. Bill Gates and his ilk, like them or not, did something for that wad of cash. So, you argue, Bill Gates didn't write Windows, why did he get rich off of it? Because, simply, he's the head of the company that made windows. That means he makes the rules for microsoft. If the developers don't like them, they can go elsewhere. Not that anyone is actually going to give them profit sharing as compensation... The point is, Billy G has a job, just like yours, and you would be absolutly *pissed* if you had to pay those kind of taxes.
No wonder I'm always using that register...
The point is that the people paying them are doing so they will keep fighting. More than 15 mil of that 15.3 came from sun and microsoft, both of which have big interest in seeing linux squashed.