So...what actually could fall under the NDA that is not GPLed?
File locations? Config files? Any code that UL has added on.
So what if the beta people get gcc, the kernel and bash and redistribute that or get the source code - probably the same from the gnu site.
Nothing lost to UL. But one should not assume that EVERYTHING on the system is GPL'ed. Perhaps UL has written some uber-cool init scripts that aren't GPL'ed.
It doesn't sound like UL is even giving them that much leeway though, but it does make for an easy out for UL.
But if they are not the original copyright holders on the code (ie te Linux kernel) then they can not modify the license that code is under.
Sure...they can say that they are giving the testers the code under the NDA, but that does not change the license that the kernel, gcc, etc... comes under in anyway. Since UL is using the GPL'd code, they MUST pass those rights on to whoever they distribute it to - with not further restrictions - or not use the code.
So if they sign the NDA, that can't invalidate the GPL clauses.
Since at least NT, SP's have also been used to add functionality. Want more than 2 IDE drives in NT4, put SP3 on. Want more directx ability, put SP6 on, etc...
Getting way off topic here, but I know the first time my wife saw a picture of H, she was all gaga.
Then again, they do have a lot of fun and lack that angst that you seem to need today to make it.
Probably what I miss the most about 80s music, and at least like about Britney Spears - they seem to be having fun doing it.
Anyway - definatly get Afraid of Sunlight as well. If you heard Marillion in the 80's (not that it's bad) and din't like their sound, these two albums are a departure from the old "punchy synth" sound. One of the tracks on Afraid is even just in mono...real cool.
Part of the problem I'm sure is the high rent rates stores like Sam Goody's, Camelot, or whatever have to pay for their space in the mall. Even going to Best Buy (shudder) is a lot cheaper than the mall.
I prefer to go to the second hand stores, even for new stuff if possible - much friendlier staff, nicer environment, etc...
I take offense at that assumption. I've been doing some video editing lately of some old projects I did, family videos, etc...
Pulling the source material in from the miniDV takes up a LOT of disk space. I could easily fill up 320GB and can't afford to buy some huge system to back it up.
I agree with what you said about I can always reaquire the data from the source, but it would be nice to be able to save the work in progress.
However, in 15 years, I've only had one hard drive bite the dust on me.
While I am convinced that the default option on InstallShield is to prompt the user to reboot, cause it seems almost every win install does just that - needing it or not, the windows install process is still a major pain that doesn't need to be.
I am trying to think why you would need to do anything other than move the files in place. On the Mac you just drag and drop. While install scripts may complicate things on Unix systems somewhat, they basically boil down to "move these files from the CD or this location to the final location." If it wasn't for the whole make process, most software installed boil down to "cp -R ./opt/whatever"
Simplicity.
So why are windows installs so horrendus? I can see driver installs needing to do something special, but registry settings can be setup the first time the program is run, registrations/proof-of-purchase/warez-serials can be done at the first run of the app.
In fact, if decompression from a file is the only reason to run an install program, I'd prefer it if they just left the files on the CD as they need to be. That way, if I was to hose photoshop.dll, I could just recopy it from the CD and not have to reinstall.
If you need to dumb it down a bit, make the autorun say "you just put in this CD - wanna install it?" and if they choose to do so, then make a directory and copy the files there...nothing arcane needed.
Why must they make all these shows? There is ton of stuff (some crap, some good) out there. Just buy the rights to broadcast it. TV Land and Nick at Night seem to be doing pretty good based on this method.
About as likely to happen as uunet kicking Ziff-Davis off for violation of their anti-spam policy when they kept sending me all the comdex crap a few years ago and I complained.
Big money/companies like this get a whole other set of rules to play by. Probably a PR step to make ICANN look like heroes.
Who here had their boss decide to register two domains before anyone else took them (not that they would want them) and decide instead of talking to the local DNS person, register them with Verisign and decide to use the halfpricehosting.com Verisign partner.
Internal SCSI connection - 3. Same problems as IDE (except for length limitation), plus additional confusion over terminations, ID numbers, and incompatible speeds and widths.
I've never seen ID numbers being a problem with SCSI cables...it's usually the drive:)
Yeah...would be nice to be able to control my house from the iPaq and wireless connection, but what I really want is to be able to be able to walk out of the bathroom, say "flush the toilet", walk into the living room say "play cd 5" (which would turn on the receiver, cd player and play that cd), say "oven on at 450" and "lights on".
Much better than walking around trying to punch little buttons on the iPaq. Of course I want all the voice recognition to work just fine with the cd player turned up to 11.
The idea is not to bounce it off the airbag. The idea is to use the ship/rocket to push the astroid and the catchers mit to gently hold the astroid while pushing it.
Think of it this way. Someone using a lot of force pushing you away with a pin point hurts. Someone using the same amount of force pushing you away with a pillow is much nicer.
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Only problem is it keeps the settings in the registry. Put them in an ini file for easier reconfiging and it'd be 100% perfect.
Though will people new to open source need putty for anything?
Wish I could find the source from the 60s talking about how with computers we'll be able to work 3 6 hour days and call it a week.
Anytime they start to build a better mousetrap, they add in tons of complexity to make other people happy and basically just spin the wheels.
Yeah...I live in Georgia and we tried this back in the 1800's. Turns out the feds weren't none to happy about it.
So...what actually could fall under the NDA that is not GPLed?
File locations? Config files? Any code that UL has added on.
So what if the beta people get gcc, the kernel and bash and redistribute that or get the source code - probably the same from the gnu site.
Nothing lost to UL. But one should not assume that EVERYTHING on the system is GPL'ed. Perhaps UL has written some uber-cool init scripts that aren't GPL'ed.
It doesn't sound like UL is even giving them that much leeway though, but it does make for an easy out for UL.
But if they are not the original copyright holders on the code (ie te Linux kernel) then they can not modify the license that code is under.
Sure...they can say that they are giving the testers the code under the NDA, but that does not change the license that the kernel, gcc, etc... comes under in anyway. Since UL is using the GPL'd code, they MUST pass those rights on to whoever they distribute it to - with not further restrictions - or not use the code.
So if they sign the NDA, that can't invalidate the GPL clauses.
Since at least NT, SP's have also been used to add functionality. Want more than 2 IDE drives in NT4, put SP3 on. Want more directx ability, put SP6 on, etc...
I agree with waiting to see though!!!!
Getting way off topic here, but I know the first time my wife saw a picture of H, she was all gaga.
Then again, they do have a lot of fun and lack that angst that you seem to need today to make it.
Probably what I miss the most about 80s music, and at least like about Britney Spears - they seem to be having fun doing it.
Anyway - definatly get Afraid of Sunlight as well. If you heard Marillion in the 80's (not that it's bad) and din't like their sound, these two albums are a departure from the old "punchy synth" sound. One of the tracks on Afraid is even just in mono...real cool.
Beat me to it...if you have never listened to Brave by Marillion - do so now.
Finally - something the RIAA wants to do that I could go for!!! Well, as long as this also applies to automobiles.
The other part of the article mentioned the PIV running at 4.7Ghz. They need to get a PIV at 4.77Ghz and an 8088 at 4.77Mhz side by side.
It'd make a neat statement.
There is a pac-man level I played in counterstrike. No ghosts, but you could teleport. Pretty cool.
Part of the problem I'm sure is the high rent rates stores like Sam Goody's, Camelot, or whatever have to pay for their space in the mall. Even going to Best Buy (shudder) is a lot cheaper than the mall.
I prefer to go to the second hand stores, even for new stuff if possible - much friendlier staff, nicer environment, etc...
I take offense at that assumption. I've been doing some video editing lately of some old projects I did, family videos, etc...
Pulling the source material in from the miniDV takes up a LOT of disk space. I could easily fill up 320GB and can't afford to buy some huge system to back it up.
I agree with what you said about I can always reaquire the data from the source, but it would be nice to be able to save the work in progress.
However, in 15 years, I've only had one hard drive bite the dust on me.
Packet sniffing?
arp who-has cpu53 tell cpu4
arp who-has ram1G-2G tell cpu3
While I am convinced that the default option on InstallShield is to prompt the user to reboot, cause it seems almost every win install does just that - needing it or not, the windows install process is still a major pain that doesn't need to be.
/opt/whatever"
I am trying to think why you would need to do anything other than move the files in place. On the Mac you just drag and drop. While install scripts may complicate things on Unix systems somewhat, they basically boil down to "move these files from the CD or this location to the final location." If it wasn't for the whole make process, most software installed boil down to "cp -R .
Simplicity.
So why are windows installs so horrendus? I can see driver installs needing to do something special, but registry settings can be setup the first time the program is run, registrations/proof-of-purchase/warez-serials can be done at the first run of the app.
In fact, if decompression from a file is the only reason to run an install program, I'd prefer it if they just left the files on the CD as they need to be. That way, if I was to hose photoshop.dll, I could just recopy it from the CD and not have to reinstall.
If you need to dumb it down a bit, make the autorun say "you just put in this CD - wanna install it?" and if they choose to do so, then make a directory and copy the files there...nothing arcane needed.
Why must they make all these shows? There is ton of stuff (some crap, some good) out there. Just buy the rights to broadcast it. TV Land and Nick at Night seem to be doing pretty good based on this method.
About as likely to happen as uunet kicking Ziff-Davis off for violation of their anti-spam policy when they kept sending me all the comdex crap a few years ago and I complained.
Big money/companies like this get a whole other set of rules to play by. Probably a PR step to make ICANN look like heroes.
Who here had their boss decide to register two domains before anyone else took them (not that they would want them) and decide instead of talking to the local DNS person, register them with Verisign and decide to use the halfpricehosting.com Verisign partner.
What a pain in the ass to get them moved to us.
I'm guessing perhaps adobe, thinking they had the contract to use the fonts, went ahead and used some tool like mentioned to toggle this bit.
"what's playdough"
I'll let my 3 year old answer that one.
Yummy.
X-10 makes cameras? Wow...I wish I knew that...you'd think I would have seen some advertising about them on the web. :)
Internal SCSI connection - 3. Same problems as IDE (except for length limitation), plus additional confusion over terminations, ID numbers, and incompatible speeds and widths.
:)
I've never seen ID numbers being a problem with SCSI cables...it's usually the drive
But I'll agree - way to many scsi standards.
Remember asking my dad the same thing when I was about 12. His answer was "think about it".
For some reason it had never occured to me before then.
Yeah...would be nice to be able to control my house from the iPaq and wireless connection, but what I really want is to be able to be able to walk out of the bathroom, say "flush the toilet", walk into the living room say "play cd 5" (which would turn on the receiver, cd player and play that cd), say "oven on at 450" and "lights on".
Much better than walking around trying to punch little buttons on the iPaq. Of course I want all the voice recognition to work just fine with the cd player turned up to 11.
The idea is not to bounce it off the airbag. The idea is to use the ship/rocket to push the astroid and the catchers mit to gently hold the astroid while pushing it.
Think of it this way. Someone using a lot of force pushing you away with a pin point hurts. Someone using the same amount of force pushing you away with a pillow is much nicer.