The thing about looking a horse in mouth is not about beauty, it's about age. When buying a horse people checked the wear of the back teeth to estimate the horse's age, just to be sure that the horse dealer was not lying about the age of the beast. That would be a very impolite thing to do when receiving a gift, because it means that you were trying to guess the value of the horse.
You really can't/shouldn't make software/licenes a moral warfare or a means for social reform.
If I write the software I can license it anyway I please (such as "this software can only be used by politheists").
For you there is no need of a GPL v3, v2 is enough. I don't have any problem with using the v2 software you wrote.
But for me v2 is not enough. I want a license that protects my software from being subverted by DRM. I can write my own license, but it would be nice if the FSF provides me one. What is your problem with that?
Your internal users must have access to the source
No, the company is the legal entity using the software, any internal use is not redistribution. There is only one user in this scenario, the company. But IANAL...
What Torvalds should, at the time, have considered was an FSF-style "If you want to contribute to the core version of Linux, you must assign copyrights to me" policy, would would have side-stepped this all to begin with, and also allowed him more flexibility in terms of ensuring the code can be used with other code licensed under GPL-incompatable licences.
That would have turned him into a perfect target for all kinds of legal assaults... Right now there is no reward in attacking him personaly. If he held all the copyrights there would be a legal single point of failure. Not what we want, is it?
> On the second point, sociology is science, and religion is part of sociology.
No, it isn't. You second point is "Teaching religion as theory". Religious ideas such as ID are the subject of Theology. Religion as a social phenomenon can be studied by sociology, but that is not what you are talking about.
Since more than 60 kinds of pterosaurs are known even a few fragments of a new species can provide enough information to support an hypothesis about their size. You don't have to be a paleontologist to understand that.
Not dead, but loosing the mindset wars
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The issue is not whether the PC is dying or not [insert Netcraft joke here], but that the landscape around it has changed. Gates is correct when he talks about a "rich ecosystem", but he isn't able to support is idea that the PC will remain the dominate force in the future.
He also isn't able to justify how can the PC bring more productivity to the office. I haven't seen any signs of that lately, but maybe I've been working in the wrong places. I can see increases in productivity in replacing the PC in many situations, though.
It is hard to defend that the PC era is just beginning when so many of us already dont have some of our most important information on a PCs: our email, contacts, personal photo archives are often elsewhere.
The article is a bit strange because it identifies real trends, but jumps to illogical conclusions. It is a sign of the times that Bill Gates can't offer any clear vision of the future and that the reality that he describes can exist without Microsoft.
> The curious thing is why (s)he made everything look like
> the whole shebang was 13,000,000,000 years old.
I wonder about this myself. If the creationists are right that means the Creator is at least a malicious trickster, or something more evil.
Why would he create the Universe as a charade? Does he/she/it want to puzzle us, to play tricks on us? Think about it: reality is faked! The universe is just a prop.
I guess most/. readers know by now that these institutions are just FUD mills, but they must be effective somehow, since so much money is spent on them. We all know how vulnerable the press is to this sort of misinformation.
I wonder if we could pull a mega prank by creating one of these things. What would it take besides an official looking web site and a fax number? How far could we push our own FUD?
It would be nice to see the Wall Street Journal quote the "Institute for Proprietary Software" recognizing that Linux is cheaper/better/safer than Windows after all...
In true Slashdot fashion most posters didn't bother to reac the specs as announced by Via. This thing has 2USB ports, compact flash and 802.11b. Of course it's just an initial reference and I also have my doubts if this will ever see the daylight... Still it is a very interesting gadget and it shows a bit of what kind of things Via can do with its technologies. Maybe we can expect Via to bring out similar products directed to different markets?
System: 533 MHz Eden-N Processor
133MHz Bus SSE and MMX instruction Set support 128MB DDR266 SDRAM High-Performance 64-bit DDR SDRAM Controller 20GB Hard Drive - Data transfer rates of up to 133 MB/s
Graphics: VIA CN400 Digital Media Chipset - Integrates S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro Graphics Core
200Mhz Graphics Engine Clock 128-bit 3D Graphics Engine
o Pixel rate up to 200 million pixels per second, 2 textures each
o Triangle rate up to 4.5 million triangles per second o Microsoft DirectX 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 compatible
o Microsoft DirectX Texture Compression (DXTC, S3TC) o OpenGL(TM) Support o Z-bias, LOD-bias, Polygon Offset, Edge Anti-aliasing and Alpha Blending o Specular Lighting
MPEG2 & MPEG4 Hardware decoding
Audio: VIA Vinyl Six-channel Audio Full Immerzio(TM) Gaming support
o EAX® 1.0, EAX® 2.0 o DirectSound3D®
o I3DL2(TM) o A3D® 1.0
LCD Display The Eve Mobile Gaming Console integrates a 4, 640x480 TFT LCD screen. In supporting up to 640x480 resolutions, the Eve Console can easily play all PC games natively.
Hard Drive The Eve Console includes a single 1.8 20GB hard drive for storing the OS and the game data. This is sufficient to store a large library of games and digital media content. This is transferred to the system either via wireless LAN or by USB2.0 pass-through to a PC.
Batteries Prismatic Lithium-Ion batteries are the current favorite choice for the console. Two packs of batteries are provided so that the batteries can be hot-swapped for continuous, uninterrupted play.
Port List The ports that are user-accessible on the Eve Console include:
Power jack (DC barrel type) 2x USB 2..0 jacks (Type A host style)
1x Compact FLASH type II slot 2x battery slots (as specified as handgrips)
1x smartcard card slot (15mm x 1mm slot) 2x 1/8" stereo jack for headphones out & microphone in
1x 1/8" stereo jack for composite video out 802.11b wireless LAN
Button List D-pad (WASD) L/R triggers
Cluster of 4 action buttons Line of 6 auxiliary function buttons
And I also hope that Yarro and friends have a nice little cell in their PMITA prison, preferably with a hugely popular LUG consisting mainly of ethnic guys who work out a lot.
Ethnic guys? Who would be the non-ethnic guys? Man, you've got to control those prison rape fantasies, they're clouding your judgement!
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Can you name them, please? Just post here a list of names with references to the research they have done.
Nope, when you submit your code your are licensing it to MS on their own terms, not a license of your choice. Great, eh?
Oracle support sucks (1). You should have been modded "Funny".
(1) Except for the core database.
Extreme nitpicking follows...
The thing about looking a horse in mouth is not about beauty, it's about age. When buying a horse people checked the wear of the back teeth to estimate the horse's age, just to be sure that the horse dealer was not lying about the age of the beast. That would be a very impolite thing to do when receiving a gift, because it means that you were trying to guess the value of the horse.
You really can't/shouldn't make software/licenes a moral warfare or a means for social reform.
If I write the software I can license it anyway I please (such as "this software can only be used by politheists").
For you there is no need of a GPL v3, v2 is enough. I don't have any problem with using the v2 software you wrote.
But for me v2 is not enough. I want a license that protects my software from being subverted by DRM. I can write my own license, but it would be nice if the FSF provides me one. What is your problem with that?
Your internal users must have access to the source
No, the company is the legal entity using the software, any internal use is not redistribution. There is only one user in this scenario, the company. But IANAL...
Because artists would rather write books or direct movies.
>IBM owns Novell
No, they don't.
however, i also think that evolution is a matter of prototyping, and the design process
Interesting, but that is not the way evolution works.
There are no prototypes, only fully functional species.
There is no improvement or design, only change and selection.
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That would have turned him into a perfect target for all kinds of legal assaults... Right now there is no reward in attacking him personaly. If he held all the copyrights there would be a legal single point of failure. Not what we want, is it?
I don't own a TV set you insensitive clod!
> On the second point, sociology is science, and religion is part of sociology.
No, it isn't. You second point is "Teaching religion as theory". Religious ideas such as ID are the subject of Theology. Religion as a social phenomenon can be studied by sociology, but that is not what you are talking about.
I think you are too confusing to be a good troll.
Since more than 60 kinds of pterosaurs are known even a few fragments of a new species can provide enough information to support an hypothesis about their size. You don't have to be a paleontologist to understand that.
He also isn't able to justify how can the PC bring more productivity to the office. I haven't seen any signs of that lately, but maybe I've been working in the wrong places. I can see increases in productivity in replacing the PC in many situations, though.
It is hard to defend that the PC era is just beginning when so many of us already dont have some of our most important information on a PCs: our email, contacts, personal photo archives are often elsewhere.
The article is a bit strange because it identifies real trends, but jumps to illogical conclusions. It is a sign of the times that Bill Gates can't offer any clear vision of the future and that the reality that he describes can exist without Microsoft.
Please stop deriding that old and respectable profession!
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Because it's a better OS?
> the whole shebang was 13,000,000,000 years old.
I wonder about this myself. If the creationists are right that means the Creator is at least a malicious trickster, or something more evil.
Why would he create the Universe as a charade? Does he/she/it want to puzzle us, to play tricks on us? Think about it: reality is faked! The universe is just a prop.
Where have I seen this movie?
I wonder if we could pull a mega prank by creating one of these things. What would it take besides an official looking web site and a fax number? How far could we push our own FUD?
It would be nice to see the Wall Street Journal quote the "Institute for Proprietary Software" recognizing that Linux is cheaper /better /safer than Windows after all...
Nobody? No, all the karma whores rush instantly to the site to post the full article or to make mirrors, "just in case it goes down"...
OK, you are half right, they also don't RTFA, but they do visit the sites.
System:
Graphics:533 MHz Eden-N Processor
133MHz Bus
SSE and MMX instruction Set support
128MB DDR266 SDRAM
High-Performance 64-bit DDR SDRAM Controller
20GB Hard Drive - Data transfer rates of up to 133 MB/s
VIA CN400 Digital Media Chipset - Integrates S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro Graphics Core
200Mhz Graphics Engine Clock
128-bit 3D Graphics Engine o Pixel rate up to 200 million pixels per second, 2 textures each
o Triangle rate up to 4.5 million triangles per second
o Microsoft DirectX 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 compatible
o Microsoft DirectX Texture Compression (DXTC, S3TC)
o OpenGL(TM) Support
o Z-bias, LOD-bias, Polygon Offset, Edge Anti-aliasing and Alpha Blending
o Specular Lighting
MPEG2 & MPEG4 Hardware decoding
Audio:
VIA Vinyl Six-channel Audio
Full Immerzio(TM) Gaming support
o EAX® 1.0, EAX® 2.0
o DirectSound3D®
o I3DL2(TM)
o A3D® 1.0
LCD Display
The Eve Mobile Gaming Console integrates a 4, 640x480 TFT LCD screen. In supporting up to 640x480 resolutions, the Eve Console can easily play all PC games natively.
Hard Drive
The Eve Console includes a single 1.8 20GB hard drive for storing the OS and the game data. This is sufficient to store a large library of games and digital media content. This is transferred to the system either via wireless LAN or by USB2.0 pass-through to a PC.
Batteries
Prismatic Lithium-Ion batteries are the current favorite choice for the console. Two packs of batteries are provided so that the batteries can be hot-swapped for continuous, uninterrupted play.
Port List
The ports that are user-accessible on the Eve Console include:
Power jack (DC barrel type)
2x USB 2..0 jacks (Type A host style)
1x Compact FLASH type II slot
2x battery slots (as specified as handgrips)
1x smartcard card slot (15mm x 1mm slot)
2x 1/8" stereo jack for headphones out & microphone in
1x 1/8" stereo jack for composite video out
802.11b wireless LAN
Button List
D-pad (WASD)
L/R triggers
Cluster of 4 action buttons
Line of 6 auxiliary function buttons
Ethnic guys? Who would be the non-ethnic guys? Man, you've got to control those prison rape fantasies, they're clouding your judgement!
Have you been living under a rock? The USA have sent people into orbit since the 60s.
Great, a repressive country that hates the entire planet, has nuclear weapons, is mentally unstable, and now can send people into orbit.
The safety of the world just went down a few notches.. ( or at least will next week )
I have found vegetarians to be sweeter, other girls are more sour.
I have experienced changes in the flavour of girlfriends when they started their eating/smoking habits.
Has anyone found corroborating evidence to support my findings?