All the stuff with Ext4 strikes me as amazingly arrogant, and ignorant of the past. The issue that FS authors, well any authors of any system programs/tools/etc need to understand is that your tool being usable is the #1 important thing.
That sounds amazingly arrogant to me. There might be people who don't want a production ready product, but rather an experimental prototype for research. It's not purely the fault of ext4 if applications don't synchronise their data.
Groups which operate illegally and try to achieve their goals with non legal means might use non legal means to finance themselves! What an important information! What's next? The money gained by robbing a bank might land in the hands of criminals?
There is a small difference though: A company that sells a device (building is not the problem here;) ), that runs an embedded GPL app, is bound by the GPL, because copyright says so (selling a device bundled with the app is distribution of said app, and for distribution you need a license of the rights holder).
But an entity that lets someone link to another link (yes, this was already agreed on in this case, that TPB provides links to links to something that might be falling unter copyright law, not a direct link to the alleged something) does not fall under copyright law.
These are things that could not be done, hadn't Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn the idea with TCP/IP, or Robert Noyce with the microprocessor or Tim Berners-Lee that of the WWW or Bram Cohen the idea with the BitTorrent protocol...
If you buy software, your contract is with the seller of the software, and with no one else. A second contract with the software company was not part of the sale, and any EULAs are void due to the "Erschoepfungsgrundsatz" (First Sale doctrin).
Doesn't work in this case. I know because I have the configuration data of the phone system right here;) (Yes, sometimes I administer big Siemens PBXes... and no, I don't change it there, because the customer's policy clearly state that I shouldn't.)
... which in fact it is? It's the remainings of a large volcano, and the islands in the center are the newly formed volcanos Nea Kameni (the large one) and Palaia Kameni (the smaller one).
I am often working in a basement (sic!) on a large customer site with virtually no mobile phone reception, but with a customer provided phone I can use. This one has caller ID blocked. So when I have to make a call there I am using the customer phone, and with this one not being under my control (in a technical sense it is under my control, from a procedural point of view it is not), I am not allowed to switch off caller ID.
On the other hand, the customer is a large health center, and by policy all phones have caller ID blocked (which makes sense because the patients shouldn't be called back. No one outside the hospital knows when they are reachable, and with certainity most calls from outside directly to them will be disturbing either to them, to the staff or to the other patients in the same room).
So how do I have to call you from there if necessary?
I still don't have a replacement for the PalmOS application together with the antenna to measure the DECT field strength in the environment. I'm using it all the time to plan a DECT roll out and to define the mount points for the DECT base stations.
Probably messed it up with DNS providers (S and A sit right next to each other). And interestingly though in German "DNS" means "DNA";) (the S standing for "Saeure" = "Acid").
Who else should have the final say in a damage claim? Parents accuse the producer of the vaccine to have done damage to their children by causing their autism with the vaccine. The producer claims to be innocent. That's definitely something for a court to decide.
But the disorder has already a name derived from the psychologists who first described and measured it. And they even state that it is a very common and normal behaviour for incompetent people. So why name it after a single person who happens to do something Dunning and Kruger measured as being average behaviour?
80% of all motorists consider themselves being better than average drivers. So why not call it after a person having a car accident?
For instance yes. It could also be a blob in a data base. Or just the page of memory the object lives in gets written bit by bit to the hard disk. A file is just a special method to make a sequence of data persistent.
A file handle is a special case of a reference to a special case of an object and requires a strict handling of methods. You have to open it first, you have to write to it to create persistance and you have to close it after usage.
The references are just pointers to an object, and it is automatically persistent due to the Phantom OS underneath. So opening, writing and closing are no longer required, but they are done implicitely if necessary.
No, I think rather not, and if yes, it was only indirectly.
At a time when most teenage activities were outside and involved lots of excercise, fat kids stayed rather inside because they were the last ones elected into the ball team.
But with the videogames for the first time fat kids had a chance to be actually good in something teenagers like to engage in. So being a fat kid no longer disqualifies you completely, which leads to some better acceptance.
We have adult obesity since the 70ies as a problem, and now the kids of those obese parents are grown up, and their kids are living in a world where all generations are fat. So I put the problem of obesity a generation earlier.
To think that people are not affected by their environment at all is just as bad as thinking every violent act leads back to a video game.
As far as I know playing a challenging videogame (most of them are violent though) increases your stress level, your aggessivity and your blood adrenaline. The effect is easily measured. So far no problem.
But: Drinking coffeine does the same. A normal cup of coffee (a normal one, not the super size latte mocha) has the same effect on your blood pressure and adrenaline level as 30 min of a videogame. We can't prove that every violent murderer has excessively played video games during his life. But we can be pretty sure that 99% of them drank coffeine, as coffee or as soda, or were eating it in chocolate bars. So before banning video games to reduce violent crime, maybe we should start with coffeine. Sounds more effective to me.
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All the stuff with Ext4 strikes me as amazingly arrogant, and ignorant of the past. The issue that FS authors, well any authors of any system programs/tools/etc need to understand is that your tool being usable is the #1 important thing.
That sounds amazingly arrogant to me. There might be people who don't want a production ready product, but rather an experimental prototype for research. It's not purely the fault of ext4 if applications don't synchronise their data.
418 I'm a teapot!
Groups which operate illegally and try to achieve their goals with non legal means might use non legal means to finance themselves! What an important information! What's next? The money gained by robbing a bank might land in the hands of criminals?
There is a small difference though: A company that sells a device (building is not the problem here ;) ), that runs an embedded GPL app, is bound by the GPL, because copyright says so (selling a device bundled with the app is distribution of said app, and for distribution you need a license of the rights holder).
But an entity that lets someone link to another link (yes, this was already agreed on in this case, that TPB provides links to links to something that might be falling unter copyright law, not a direct link to the alleged something) does not fall under copyright law.
These are things that could not be done, hadn't Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn the idea with TCP/IP, or Robert Noyce with the microprocessor or Tim Berners-Lee that of the WWW or Bram Cohen the idea with the BitTorrent protocol...
Because in Germany for instance, they aren't.
If you buy software, your contract is with the seller of the software, and with no one else. A second contract with the software company was not part of the sale, and any EULAs are void due to the "Erschoepfungsgrundsatz" (First Sale doctrin).
But... Ireland is one of the British Islands... not Great Britain though, but definitely british.
Doesn't work in this case. I know because I have the configuration data of the phone system right here ;) (Yes, sometimes I administer big Siemens PBXes... and no, I don't change it there, because the customer's policy clearly state that I shouldn't.)
Sans Francisco bay? The Bay Without Francisco?
... which in fact it is? It's the remainings of a large volcano, and the islands in the center are the newly formed volcanos Nea Kameni (the large one) and Palaia Kameni (the smaller one).
Thankfully, here in Europe we have saner laws.
No worries, ACTA will solve that problem.
I am often working in a basement (sic!) on a large customer site with virtually no mobile phone reception, but with a customer provided phone I can use. This one has caller ID blocked. So when I have to make a call there I am using the customer phone, and with this one not being under my control (in a technical sense it is under my control, from a procedural point of view it is not), I am not allowed to switch off caller ID.
On the other hand, the customer is a large health center, and by policy all phones have caller ID blocked (which makes sense because the patients shouldn't be called back. No one outside the hospital knows when they are reachable, and with certainity most calls from outside directly to them will be disturbing either to them, to the staff or to the other patients in the same room).
So how do I have to call you from there if necessary?
Because the suit was filed in 2007, and at this time the patent was valid.
I still don't have a replacement for the PalmOS application together with the antenna to measure the DECT field strength in the environment. I'm using it all the time to plan a DECT roll out and to define the mount points for the DECT base stations.
Probably messed it up with DNS providers (S and A sit right next to each other). And interestingly though in German "DNS" means "DNA" ;) (the S standing for "Saeure" = "Acid").
Who else should have the final say in a damage claim? Parents accuse the producer of the vaccine to have done damage to their children by causing their autism with the vaccine. The producer claims to be innocent. That's definitely something for a court to decide.
No. Other primates have a different hair structure.
But the disorder has already a name derived from the psychologists who first described and measured it. And they even state that it is a very common and normal behaviour for incompetent people. So why name it after a single person who happens to do something Dunning and Kruger measured as being average behaviour?
80% of all motorists consider themselves being better than average drivers. So why not call it after a person having a car accident?
I don't know about a behavioural psychologist named "Obama", one could name this effect after.
Ok, lets rephrase that: "If you are not in the U.S., your rights under U.S. law do not apply."
I preferred the C=64-Version...
LOAD "VMLINUZ",8,1
Fond memories...
But there's an old saying:
"In war and before a court you are in God's hands." (E.g. no one can predict the outcome.)
Persisted to a file?
For instance yes. It could also be a blob in a data base. Or just the page of memory the object lives in gets written bit by bit to the hard disk. A file is just a special method to make a sequence of data persistent.
A file handle is a special case of a reference to a special case of an object and requires a strict handling of methods. You have to open it first, you have to write to it to create persistance and you have to close it after usage.
The references are just pointers to an object, and it is automatically persistent due to the Phantom OS underneath. So opening, writing and closing are no longer required, but they are done implicitely if necessary.
It's probably had a hand in teenage obesity.
No, I think rather not, and if yes, it was only indirectly.
At a time when most teenage activities were outside and involved lots of excercise, fat kids stayed rather inside because they were the last ones elected into the ball team.
But with the videogames for the first time fat kids had a chance to be actually good in something teenagers like to engage in. So being a fat kid no longer disqualifies you completely, which leads to some better acceptance.
We have adult obesity since the 70ies as a problem, and now the kids of those obese parents are grown up, and their kids are living in a world where all generations are fat. So I put the problem of obesity a generation earlier.
To think that people are not affected by their environment at all is just as bad as thinking every violent act leads back to a video game.
As far as I know playing a challenging videogame (most of them are violent though) increases your stress level, your aggessivity and your blood adrenaline. The effect is easily measured. So far no problem.
But:
Drinking coffeine does the same. A normal cup of coffee (a normal one, not the super size latte mocha) has the same effect on your blood pressure and adrenaline level as 30 min of a videogame. We can't prove that every violent murderer has excessively played video games during his life. But we can be pretty sure that 99% of them drank coffeine, as coffee or as soda, or were eating it in chocolate bars. So before banning video games to reduce violent crime, maybe we should start with coffeine. Sounds more effective to me.