IANAL so take this with whatever condiments you prefer: the distinction between using opensource software and actually distributing it is obvious to anyone, even a lawyer. I am fairly certain it would qualify as a "legal" distinction; it certainly is clearly stated that way in the GPL.
The money you spend filling your tank with gas goes to some fairly nasty people who don't do oil-industry-related stuff exclusively. Supporters of terrorism, organized crime, extortion, kidnapping, murder. So, stfu. Just because everyone and their sister uses gasoline in the US doesn't mean it's a good thing. It's pretty clear -- people who use gasoline to power their motorcoaches should be incarcerated.
Dude, we're gonna make a giant art project out of them! We're going to play "When Animals Attack" simultaneously on some of them and Hummer commercials on the others, and we're gonna make a giant billboard in space with all these TV sets playing this stuff, using them like LED's to spell out "Man vs. Nature: Countdown to Victory!"
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Acording to wikipedia, network email existed prior to 1971
I finally broke down and bought a treo - I was waiting for the perfect phone/pda combo to come out (or at least one that doesn't suck) and got sick of waiting. If the Palm LifeDrive had a phone that might be slightly better for my purposes, but the Treo will do for the time being. The keyboard is not ideal, and I miss Grafitti, but it's more than usable. The form factor is not ideal - it's heavy and bulky and awkward to make calls with. But it works. I like PalmOS better than any other PDA OS I've used; it does email passably and web browsing from just about anywhere (and SprintPCS offers unlimited internet usage for $10/month). I also use pssh and PalmVNC pretty regularly on this device; it's nice to be able to ssh in from anywhere as well as to use VNC when necessary to remotely control another computer. DocumentsToGo is nice too since you can look at documents you've created with Word or Excel (but don't expect too much control over the docs; Word for example won't let you see or edit footnotes for example). I got a 512M card which is more than enough for my purposes - it's nice to be able to listen to mp3s on this once in a while but you're crazy if you want this to replace your music player. People laugh about the camera, but it's useful for documenting things when you don't have a real camera around, and associating phone numbers with photos is a great feature if you exchange phone numbers with lots of people (particularly people you meet, umm, drunk)... The biggest problem is finding a reasonable way to carry this thing; it's too bulky for a pocket and I'm not doing the gunslinger look.
I recall a long time ago seeing one of those "animals attack" shows and it showed some sort of big cat attacking a much larger prey by running alongside it and pouncing on its belly from underneath and using its legs in a manner similar to what is described above. That sucker was disemboweled, that's for sure.
You go to a bar. Someone buys you ten beers. So your intoxication was free as in beer. Then you get pulled over and get a breathalyzer test which gets thrown out of court because the software was not free as in speech. So then you walk out of court, free as in Willy!
Is there any remaining BeOS-on-old-ppc-hardware community? I have an old 604-based machine that still has BeOS on one of its partitions... I know Apple killed any BeOS-on-G4 hopes long ago but I wonder if those of us with 603s and 604s could find updated versions of BeOS software to run on these things if we were so inclined. Hehehe... not that I'd actually boot it up and use it, but it would be nice to know that I could if I wanted to:)
Thing about wikipedia is the licensing virtually guarantees that when someone wants encyclopedia-like content for a hardcopy book or website, the wikipedia will be there. While the wikipedia itself may not become the basic repository of human knowledge, many of its articles will be reproduced in various forms and built upon by people creating specialized encyclopedias or other sources of information. Journalists will pull quotes from wikipedia articles when writing stories, and though the quotes may be accurate and factual, they will represent idiosyncratic choices on the part of wikipedia editors. That is neither good nor bad inherently, but it does present the wikipedia as a significantly influential phenomenon, quite apart from its reliability.
now it is all settled. Such compromise is not always possible but it is much of the time and the system usually works.
Except that "compromise" is not always the best way to produce a truthful article. If one person is correct and the other incorrect, what benefit is there to "compromise" other than getting the two to stop bickering? Often the compromises produce pages that are at best schizophrenic ("Some say X while others say Z") and at worst, factually incorrect, just to please some bozo who insists on something that is demonstrably incorrect. The schizo articles are not necessarily unreasonable but often misleading because they present a "balance" of viewpoints even if the only people saying Z are complete fanatics or otherwise discredited sources.
I mean, it's so easy. All you have to do is go to your linux box, preferably with a custom Knoppix installation optimized for mythTV, but a red hat installation will do, just make sure you rebuild the kernel issuing all the right mantras.... then set up your partitions (be sure to choose the right filesystem), download and configure the appropriate mythTV packages that you wish to install (check your hardware of course and be sure you have the right video drivers and take a look at the docs for your sound card). Obviously check dependencies on all the components and also you might want to edit the usual files for something like this such as/etc/modprobe.conf. Make sure you get all the MythTV components, there should be 94 packages if you're installing on redhat, and check the dependencies for each one. You'll probably want an IR receiver so you can use remote too; find, download, configure, and install those packages too; you might want to fiddle with/etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules. Of course you'll have to set up MySQL to run at startup and issue the usual commands, things like mysql -u root -p </usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1/database/mc.sql to get things running; the rest will be handled after you set up mythTV. Then populate the database (check dependencies first!) and if all goes well, all you need to do is edit your crontab to take care of mythfilldatabase every night and then you can configure automatic startup. Configure whatever MythTV addons you want and you're done! It's that simple! Problems? Read the documentation! Then just think of all the many things you can buy with the $2 that you just saved with these simple steps.
I mean, it's so easy. All you have to do is go to your linux box, preferably with a custom Knoppix installation optimized for mythTV, but a red hat installation will do, just make sure you rebuild the kernel issuing all the right mantras.... then set up your partitions (be sure to choose the right filesystem), download and configure the appropriate mythTV packages that you wish to install (check your hardware of course and be sure you have the right video drivers and take a look at the docs for your sound card). Obviously check dependencies on all the components and also you might want to edit the usual files for something like this such as/etc/modprobe.conf. Make sure you get all the MythTV components, there should be 94 packages if you're installing on redhat, and check the dependencies for each one. You'll probably want an IR receiver so you can use remote too; find, download, configure, and install those packages too; you might want to fiddle with/etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules. Of course you'll have to set up MySQL to run at startup and issue the usual commands, things like mysql -u root -p documentation! Then just think of all the many things you can buy with the $2 that you just saved with these simple steps.
On tv shows such as 24 and Spooks, you know how when a bad guy uses his credit card at a gas station and they can immediately pull up the CCTV footage of him doing it?
Yeah... yet they still have to keep a perp on the line at least 3 minutes to trace the call:^/
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IANAL so take this with whatever condiments you prefer: the distinction between using opensource software and actually distributing it is obvious to anyone, even a lawyer. I am fairly certain it would qualify as a "legal" distinction; it certainly is clearly stated that way in the GPL.
No; he really meant bad Czech writers. It was a reference to Tedd Sallay and Josef Simanek.
free as in speech or free as in Kevin?
The money you spend filling your tank with gas goes to some fairly nasty people who don't do oil-industry-related stuff exclusively. Supporters of terrorism, organized crime, extortion, kidnapping, murder. So, stfu. Just because everyone and their sister uses gasoline in the US doesn't mean it's a good thing. It's pretty clear -- people who use gasoline to power their motorcoaches should be incarcerated.
Dude, we're gonna make a giant art project out of them! We're going to play "When Animals Attack" simultaneously on some of them and Hummer commercials on the others, and we're gonna make a giant billboard in space with all these TV sets playing this stuff, using them like LED's to spell out "Man vs. Nature: Countdown to Victory!"
That's easily fixed; just edit Wikipedia.
I finally broke down and bought a treo - I was waiting for the perfect phone/pda combo to come out (or at least one that doesn't suck) and got sick of waiting. If the Palm LifeDrive had a phone that might be slightly better for my purposes, but the Treo will do for the time being. The keyboard is not ideal, and I miss Grafitti, but it's more than usable. The form factor is not ideal - it's heavy and bulky and awkward to make calls with. But it works. I like PalmOS better than any other PDA OS I've used; it does email passably and web browsing from just about anywhere (and SprintPCS offers unlimited internet usage for $10/month). I also use pssh and PalmVNC pretty regularly on this device; it's nice to be able to ssh in from anywhere as well as to use VNC when necessary to remotely control another computer. DocumentsToGo is nice too since you can look at documents you've created with Word or Excel (but don't expect too much control over the docs; Word for example won't let you see or edit footnotes for example). I got a 512M card which is more than enough for my purposes - it's nice to be able to listen to mp3s on this once in a while but you're crazy if you want this to replace your music player. People laugh about the camera, but it's useful for documenting things when you don't have a real camera around, and associating phone numbers with photos is a great feature if you exchange phone numbers with lots of people (particularly people you meet, umm, drunk)... The biggest problem is finding a reasonable way to carry this thing; it's too bulky for a pocket and I'm not doing the gunslinger look.
I recall a long time ago seeing one of those "animals attack" shows and it showed some sort of big cat attacking a much larger prey by running alongside it and pouncing on its belly from underneath and using its legs in a manner similar to what is described above. That sucker was disemboweled, that's for sure.
You go to a bar. Someone buys you ten beers. So your intoxication was free as in beer. Then you get pulled over and get a breathalyzer test which gets thrown out of court because the software was not free as in speech. So then you walk out of court, free as in Willy!
Of course not.
What, you want Apple's legal staff to starve?
A quick look at his contributors confirms the point.
You forgot Poland!
Is there any remaining BeOS-on-old-ppc-hardware community? I have an old 604-based machine that still has BeOS on one of its partitions... I know Apple killed any BeOS-on-G4 hopes long ago but I wonder if those of us with 603s and 604s could find updated versions of BeOS software to run on these things if we were so inclined. Hehehe... not that I'd actually boot it up and use it, but it would be nice to know that I could if I wanted to :)
Interesting. Please share your definition of "popular."
These little mischievous Scandanavians had a practice of writing "f1rst p0st" under the bridges where they hung out.
Thing about wikipedia is the licensing virtually guarantees that when someone wants encyclopedia-like content for a hardcopy book or website, the wikipedia will be there. While the wikipedia itself may not become the basic repository of human knowledge, many of its articles will be reproduced in various forms and built upon by people creating specialized encyclopedias or other sources of information. Journalists will pull quotes from wikipedia articles when writing stories, and though the quotes may be accurate and factual, they will represent idiosyncratic choices on the part of wikipedia editors. That is neither good nor bad inherently, but it does present the wikipedia as a significantly influential phenomenon, quite apart from its reliability.
Except that "compromise" is not always the best way to produce a truthful article. If one person is correct and the other incorrect, what benefit is there to "compromise" other than getting the two to stop bickering? Often the compromises produce pages that are at best schizophrenic ("Some say X while others say Z") and at worst, factually incorrect, just to please some bozo who insists on something that is demonstrably incorrect. The schizo articles are not necessarily unreasonable but often misleading because they present a "balance" of viewpoints even if the only people saying Z are complete fanatics or otherwise discredited sources.
No, you have it all wrong.
They're just out to get you.
Yeah -- look, it got him mentioned on slashdot!
So Al Gore was with him?
I mean, it's so easy. All you have to do is go to your linux box, preferably with a custom Knoppix installation optimized for mythTV, but a red hat installation will do, just make sure you rebuild the kernel issuing all the right mantras.... then set up your partitions (be sure to choose the right filesystem), download and configure the appropriate mythTV packages that you wish to install (check your hardware of course and be sure you have the right video drivers and take a look at the docs for your sound card). Obviously check dependencies on all the components and also you might want to edit the usual files for something like this such as /etc/modprobe.conf. Make sure you get all the MythTV components, there should be 94 packages if you're installing on redhat, and check the dependencies for each one. You'll probably want an IR receiver so you can use remote too; find, download, configure, and install those packages too; you might want to fiddle with /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules. Of course you'll have to set up MySQL to run at startup and issue the usual commands, things like mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1/database/mc.sql to get things running; the rest will be handled after you set up mythTV. Then populate the database (check dependencies first!) and if all goes well, all you need to do is edit your crontab to take care of mythfilldatabase every night and then you can configure automatic startup. Configure whatever MythTV addons you want and you're done! It's that simple! Problems? Read the documentation! Then just think of all the many things you can buy with the $2 that you just saved with these simple steps.
I mean, it's so easy. All you have to do is go to your linux box, preferably with a custom Knoppix installation optimized for mythTV, but a red hat installation will do, just make sure you rebuild the kernel issuing all the right mantras.... then set up your partitions (be sure to choose the right filesystem), download and configure the appropriate mythTV packages that you wish to install (check your hardware of course and be sure you have the right video drivers and take a look at the docs for your sound card). Obviously check dependencies on all the components and also you might want to edit the usual files for something like this such as /etc/modprobe.conf. Make sure you get all the MythTV components, there should be 94 packages if you're installing on redhat, and check the dependencies for each one. You'll probably want an IR receiver so you can use remote too; find, download, configure, and install those packages too; you might want to fiddle with /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules. Of course you'll have to set up MySQL to run at startup and issue the usual commands, things like mysql -u root -p documentation! Then just think of all the many things you can buy with the $2 that you just saved with these simple steps.
Yeah... yet they still have to keep a perp on the line at least 3 minutes to trace the call :^/
I bet you're loads of fun at parties!
they're getting free weed there!