The license itself is here, if you are too lazy to look for it.
I just read through the license, and really I don't see anything that restrictive or unusual here. It seems to hold to the spirit of OSS; namely, that you can modify & release your modifications to your hearts content, and they can do the same. I don't see anything where they can release your modifications under a different license. Any release of modified code would fall under the license itself, which prohibits releasing non-open code. So, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks pretty legit.
Maybe I am just tired, but your comment doesn't make any sense. Perhaps if you had a few negatives in your bullet points? Such as, the gov't would not tell us? Also, there is nothing they could do about it? That would make much more sense in conjunction with your final quote.
Re:Even if the physics are out of this world...
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Maybe I am just a bit neurotic, but I spend lots of time living in the "real world" and am fairly familiar with its physics, and I notice almost every single time they violate physics. This site makes me feel so much better, as it seems that other people notice, too!:)
My favorite "bad physics" moment was in Eraser, where Arnie shoots the pickup truck several times with two rail guns held in each hand, which causes it to fly up and over him. Never mind the physics of the railgun firing in and of itself, in order to lift the truck off of the ground, the momentum must be provided by Arnie himself, transferred by the bullets to the car. So, essentially, Arnie picked a speeding pickup up and threw it over his head. (sigh). This really makes suspension of disbelief hard. Also, I don't remember exactly what they said, but they had the four DNA bases wrong in "Mission To Mars"...the correct abbreviations are A, C, T, and G (U if you are talking about RNA), but they had some wack-ass base instead of G.
Did you read the artcle?? The FIRST paragraph contains, "Graphics giant NVIDIA today announced Cg, an initiative with participation from Microsoft to create a cross-platform, hardware-independent, high-level Pixel and Vertex Shader programming language."
If you happened to read the rest of the article, it notes that this will work fine on Radeons, in particular.
My God...and intelligent, well-reasoned post! On Slashdot, no less!:) Seriously, I am not hugely familiar with FCC regulations, so I appreciate the clarification. Seems like this won't even be a problem. I'd mod you up if I had points today...
Gnucleus is implementing a hashing algorithm, which is more useful than a CRC. That way, an MP3 is identified uniquely, no matter what you name it. If your particular file-sharing app supports swarming as well, all you see is a list of unique tracks with the first name listed. I imagine that hashing and swarming will be supported by most filesharing clients in the near future.
Have you EVER used Mozilla? And, as the above poster mentioned, may I please have some of whatever you are smoking? A few points-
One example of this problem is Mozilla's extremely slow development cycle
Have you compared the relative quality of IE 1.0 to Mozilla 1.0? Many people are comparing IE6.0 to Mozilla 1.0 in a favorable manner...certainly comparing the 1.0 releases of both products would be silly. The "slow" dev cycle is based on an entirely different design philosophy: the code is released when it is ready, not when some arbitrary date arrives.
Mozilla has no paying customer or management to answer to, the browser suffers from innumerable problems. It's a RAM hog [...] Its default user interface emphasizes form over function [...] It does not support the current generation of Web-related standards. It's slow.
On my current machine (Win2K Pro), Mozilla is using 21,272k. I am not worried about this, as I have a gig of ram in this box. However, I have *no* other apps open (even in the tray), and currently 181meg of my memory is being used. How much of that is IE? We will never know. Obviously iexplore.exe is not all of IE, as Microsoft has repeatedly informed us that IE is integrated into the OS. As to the slowness, you would be best to go peruse the reviews linked in the article. All of them show Mozilla being at least as fast as IE. Are you sure you have your l33t Solaris box configured properly? I used Mozilla and IE (where possible) on my 7 machines, which are a mix of Win2K and various flavors of Linux, and Mozilla is the same or better than IE on every single one. As to web standards, you have no idea what you are talking about. Go read some of the info on Mozilla's web site. Mozilla is the most standards-complaint browser on the market. The problems that you see are its incomplete handling of IE-specific extensions to W3C standards.
But I think that the most laughable thing of the farse that is the Mozilla project is that no one said "no" to any feature requests [...] the project is so disorganized that basic web browser functionality was often ignored so that developers could work on their favorite "cool" features. A good example is the mail client [...] development on such a client should not have began until the browser was finished [...] I simply don't understand why Mozilla implements a completely custom widget set...
This long, ranting paragraph basically says that you would have developed Mozilla differently. Apparantly, the people who actually worked on Mozilla (it is pretty obvious that you are not a developer, but merely a whiny user) favored certain features that you do not find useful. Please bear in mind that if you do not like how Mozilla was developed, then you certainly could have lent a hand, rather than criticizing the years of hard work that the devs put into Mozilla. Provided, of course, that you can be dragged away from your "Real UNIX Work" on your "Solaris Box That Cost More Than Slashdot Makes In A Year."
And Windows users have even less reason to be impressed with Mozilla, because most of its "features" seem even more unecessary in a Windows environment. For example, the mail client is absolutely useless, because almost all Windows business users use Outlook or Outlook Express.
Hundreds of virus writers worldwide are alternately laughing or thanking you profusely for your endorsement of Outlook.
Gecko violates Windows user interface conventions, making it look more like some college student's "intro to VB let's see all of the cool buttons and colors that I can add to my app" project than an application that is actually intended for use in the real world
If you don't like how Mozilla looks, go grab a different skin. I did (Lo-Fi). I only wish that I could make the rest of Windows look like my Mozilla skin, which I find simple, clear, and easy to use. Sadly, I can't change the look and feel of my Windows machines as easily as I can the Linux ones.
Internet Explorer is superior to Mozilla
Again, I have my opinions, so do many others, but I really think you should do some research before stating them as fact. Go read the reviews linked in the article.
Mozilla has also lost on the UNIX platform. Internet Explorer is faster and more standards compliant
Could you please provide a link to the GNU/Linux binaries for IE? Oh, wait, by UNIX you mean Solaris...and of course, Solaris is taking over the desktop market.
In all honesty, this reply has been a complete waste of my time. You are obviously trolling here, more interested in spewing invectives about Mozilla than any useful discussion. In reality, noone is even going to see your reply, as it will be moderated down below 1. However, I hope that you will indeed take the time to reconsider your opinions and maintain a bit more of an open mind concerning your software.
What's really scary is, the letter might read instead:
"However, the bug that caused this crash has been classified as merely "Critical", and therefore will not be necessarily be fixed. Should crash reports continue to be added to this bug ID, it may be upgraded to "Very Critical", and therefore fixed in the near future. We apologize for you loss, and thank you for flying Major Airline! Hope to see you again soon!"
Re:Litter doesn't decompose quickly.
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I am not sure that your green sofa would decompose in your living room...unless your living room happened to be a dark, moist, warm area, filled with microbes and available nutrients. My living room is clean and dry, and I do what I can to keep things from rotting:) The fact is, *I* would rot pretty quickly if placed in a landfill, even assuming I was still alive, whereas I have survived more than 22 years so far without rotting in my environment. The environments that the decomposition takes place in are very different from the use environments. By your logic, paper towels would not exist. After all, they get mushy and disintegrate shortly after contact with water, so of course they would not last months in storage! As one who buys the things in bulk (being clumsy & kind of messy), I can of course attest to the fact that they store quite nicely, even without the plastic wrap, provided that you *don't soak them in water*!:)
Nope. Breaking and entering is illegal, owning a lockpick is not. I own a set of lockpicks, and use them on a regular basis when I lock myself out, or to help other people who lock themselves out. Thankfully, meatspace lockpicks are not covered under the same laws as electronic ones:)
Although, of course, you would measure 4', cut the board, measure another 4', and so, as you are removing an unknown amount of wood with each cut, and therefore must remeasure after every cut. This, however, only serves to reinforce your argument to reset to a known state:)
I hope by "insane" you mean cheap!:) My watercooling setup has cost well over $1,000 all told, and I don't get nearly that level of performance.
Overclocking is fun!:) I hosed my main box a while back (the supercooled one), but at the time, I owned a 1.2Ghz Athlon (the fastest chip availible, anywhere, at the time) and had it running around 1580Mhz. Nothing like having one of the fastest, if not THE fastest, desktop machine in the world. THAT is the appeal of overclocking.
This is really starting to bother me...exactly what machine are you using in your daily life that 17MB is a huge chunk of your memory? An Atari? Even my archaic p2-266 that runs as my MP3 server has 192meg. Any machine running a fairly modern OS (ie, any recent version of linux, win98+, etc) with less than 64 meg is going to be almost completely useless anyway. Go buy some memory! Don't have the cash? Check between your couch cushins!
Emergency situation?? What are you talking about!! Could you be referring to this new-fangled technology that allows home users to record sounds on wax cylinders, or shiny compact discs ("CD"'s)?? Please explain yourself, because you come across sounding highly clueless.
From THE ARTICLE, That is, if you don't count the $4.95 "shipping" charge. Of course, that would be a mistake. Buried in the shipping charge is the secret ingredient: a modest profit. Less costs of $2.31, the company nets $2.64 on each "free" disc, half of which goes to the artist.
Amazing how many redundant questions can be answerd by a bit of reading...
I don't know anything about the MS OLE plugin, but I have Flash 5 running happily on my Mozilla setup...it took me about 17s to get it installed. Go download the plugin and read the instructions!:)
Mmmm...I had a sudden flash of playing Tribes 4 on servers with people on XBox2's, PS3's, and computers.....of course, some problems arise. If you have traditional computer controls, the people using console are going to be completely outclassed, and if you dumb the computer controls down to console levels (try to take away my mouse and I'll cut off your hand), computer users would revolt. Still, it would be cool.
Continuing the off topic bit, I was thinking how cool it would be to have a GPRS cell phone with Bluetooth support. Then, I would just have the machines near the cell phone connect as necessary, w/o cables or anything....it just seemed like a cool idea.
There are good ways to prevent spam...people have mentioned several on this page, another good one is sneakemail (www.sneakemail.com)....infinite, disposable email aliases. I use different aliases every time I give out an email address, and all incoming messages are tagged with which email address it was sent to. So, when you start getting spam, you know who is spamming you, and can easily just delete the alias. Poof, no more spam! Then, I filter all of my friends (and sneakemail aliases) into my *real* inbox, so I never have to see the small amount of spam that actually has my real email address.
I've always used none@nowhere.com; a few months ago I read a little blurb somewhere with the guy who owns nowhere.com, and he says that he has more than 15,000 denied emails per day...guess I wasn't as origional as I thought...
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The license itself is here, if you are too lazy to look for it.
I just read through the license, and really I don't see anything that restrictive or unusual here. It seems to hold to the spirit of OSS; namely, that you can modify & release your modifications to your hearts content, and they can do the same. I don't see anything where they can release your modifications under a different license. Any release of modified code would fall under the license itself, which prohibits releasing non-open code. So, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks pretty legit.
Maybe I am just tired, but your comment doesn't make any sense. Perhaps if you had a few negatives in your bullet points? Such as, the gov't would not tell us? Also, there is nothing they could do about it? That would make much more sense in conjunction with your final quote.
Maybe I am just a bit neurotic, but I spend lots of time living in the "real world" and am fairly familiar with its physics, and I notice almost every single time they violate physics. This site makes me feel so much better, as it seems that other people notice, too! :)
My favorite "bad physics" moment was in Eraser, where Arnie shoots the pickup truck several times with two rail guns held in each hand, which causes it to fly up and over him. Never mind the physics of the railgun firing in and of itself, in order to lift the truck off of the ground, the momentum must be provided by Arnie himself, transferred by the bullets to the car. So, essentially, Arnie picked a speeding pickup up and threw it over his head. (sigh). This really makes suspension of disbelief hard. Also, I don't remember exactly what they said, but they had the four DNA bases wrong in "Mission To Mars"...the correct abbreviations are A, C, T, and G (U if you are talking about RNA), but they had some wack-ass base instead of G.
Did you read the artcle?? The FIRST paragraph contains, "Graphics giant NVIDIA today announced Cg, an initiative with participation from Microsoft to create a cross-platform, hardware-independent, high-level Pixel and Vertex Shader programming language."
If you happened to read the rest of the article, it notes that this will work fine on Radeons, in particular.
My God...and intelligent, well-reasoned post! On Slashdot, no less! :) Seriously, I am not hugely familiar with FCC regulations, so I appreciate the clarification. Seems like this won't even be a problem. I'd mod you up if I had points today...
Who are you sir, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Gnucleus is implementing a hashing algorithm, which is more useful than a CRC. That way, an MP3 is identified uniquely, no matter what you name it. If your particular file-sharing app supports swarming as well, all you see is a list of unique tracks with the first name listed. I imagine that hashing and swarming will be supported by most filesharing clients in the near future.
Have you EVER used Mozilla? And, as the above poster mentioned, may I please have some of whatever you are smoking? A few points-
One example of this problem is Mozilla's extremely slow development cycle
Have you compared the relative quality of IE 1.0 to Mozilla 1.0? Many people are comparing IE6.0 to Mozilla 1.0 in a favorable manner...certainly comparing the 1.0 releases of both products would be silly. The "slow" dev cycle is based on an entirely different design philosophy: the code is released when it is ready, not when some arbitrary date arrives.
Mozilla has no paying customer or management to answer to, the browser suffers from innumerable problems. It's a RAM hog [...] Its default user interface emphasizes form over function [...] It does not support the current generation of Web-related standards. It's slow.
On my current machine (Win2K Pro), Mozilla is using 21,272k. I am not worried about this, as I have a gig of ram in this box. However, I have *no* other apps open (even in the tray), and currently 181meg of my memory is being used. How much of that is IE? We will never know. Obviously iexplore.exe is not all of IE, as Microsoft has repeatedly informed us that IE is integrated into the OS. As to the slowness, you would be best to go peruse the reviews linked in the article. All of them show Mozilla being at least as fast as IE. Are you sure you have your l33t Solaris box configured properly? I used Mozilla and IE (where possible) on my 7 machines, which are a mix of Win2K and various flavors of Linux, and Mozilla is the same or better than IE on every single one. As to web standards, you have no idea what you are talking about. Go read some of the info on Mozilla's web site. Mozilla is the most standards-complaint browser on the market. The problems that you see are its incomplete handling of IE-specific extensions to W3C standards.
But I think that the most laughable thing of the farse that is the Mozilla project is that no one said "no" to any feature requests [...] the project is so disorganized that basic web browser functionality was often ignored so that developers could work on their favorite "cool" features. A good example is the mail client [...] development on such a client should not have began until the browser was finished [...] I simply don't understand why Mozilla implements a completely custom widget set...
This long, ranting paragraph basically says that you would have developed Mozilla differently. Apparantly, the people who actually worked on Mozilla (it is pretty obvious that you are not a developer, but merely a whiny user) favored certain features that you do not find useful. Please bear in mind that if you do not like how Mozilla was developed, then you certainly could have lent a hand, rather than criticizing the years of hard work that the devs put into Mozilla. Provided, of course, that you can be dragged away from your "Real UNIX Work" on your "Solaris Box That Cost More Than Slashdot Makes In A Year."
And Windows users have even less reason to be impressed with Mozilla, because most of its "features" seem even more unecessary in a Windows environment. For example, the mail client is absolutely useless, because almost all Windows business users use Outlook or Outlook Express.
Hundreds of virus writers worldwide are alternately laughing or thanking you profusely for your endorsement of Outlook.
Gecko violates Windows user interface conventions, making it look more like some college student's "intro to VB let's see all of the cool buttons and colors that I can add to my app" project than an application that is actually intended for use in the real world
If you don't like how Mozilla looks, go grab a different skin. I did (Lo-Fi). I only wish that I could make the rest of Windows look like my Mozilla skin, which I find simple, clear, and easy to use. Sadly, I can't change the look and feel of my Windows machines as easily as I can the Linux ones.
Internet Explorer is superior to Mozilla
Again, I have my opinions, so do many others, but I really think you should do some research before stating them as fact. Go read the reviews linked in the article.
Mozilla has also lost on the UNIX platform. Internet Explorer is faster and more standards compliant
Could you please provide a link to the GNU/Linux binaries for IE? Oh, wait, by UNIX you mean Solaris...and of course, Solaris is taking over the desktop market.
In all honesty, this reply has been a complete waste of my time. You are obviously trolling here, more interested in spewing invectives about Mozilla than any useful discussion. In reality, noone is even going to see your reply, as it will be moderated down below 1. However, I hope that you will indeed take the time to reconsider your opinions and maintain a bit more of an open mind concerning your software.
What's really scary is, the letter might read instead:
"However, the bug that caused this crash has been classified as merely "Critical", and therefore will not be necessarily be fixed. Should crash reports continue to be added to this bug ID, it may be upgraded to "Very Critical", and therefore fixed in the near future. We apologize for you loss, and thank you for flying Major Airline! Hope to see you again soon!"
I am not sure that your green sofa would decompose in your living room...unless your living room happened to be a dark, moist, warm area, filled with microbes and available nutrients. My living room is clean and dry, and I do what I can to keep things from rotting :) The fact is, *I* would rot pretty quickly if placed in a landfill, even assuming I was still alive, whereas I have survived more than 22 years so far without rotting in my environment. The environments that the decomposition takes place in are very different from the use environments. By your logic, paper towels would not exist. After all, they get mushy and disintegrate shortly after contact with water, so of course they would not last months in storage! As one who buys the things in bulk (being clumsy & kind of messy), I can of course attest to the fact that they store quite nicely, even without the plastic wrap, provided that you *don't soak them in water*! :)
Nope. Breaking and entering is illegal, owning a lockpick is not. I own a set of lockpicks, and use them on a regular basis when I lock myself out, or to help other people who lock themselves out. Thankfully, meatspace lockpicks are not covered under the same laws as electronic ones :)
Although, of course, you would measure 4', cut the board, measure another 4', and so, as you are removing an unknown amount of wood with each cut, and therefore must remeasure after every cut. This, however, only serves to reinforce your argument to reset to a known state :)
I hope by "insane" you mean cheap! :) My watercooling setup has cost well over $1,000 all told, and I don't get nearly that level of performance.
:) I hosed my main box a while back (the supercooled one), but at the time, I owned a 1.2Ghz Athlon (the fastest chip availible, anywhere, at the time) and had it running around 1580Mhz. Nothing like having one of the fastest, if not THE fastest, desktop machine in the world. THAT is the appeal of overclocking.
Overclocking is fun!
This is really starting to bother me...exactly what machine are you using in your daily life that 17MB is a huge chunk of your memory? An Atari? Even my archaic p2-266 that runs as my MP3 server has 192meg. Any machine running a fairly modern OS (ie, any recent version of linux, win98+, etc) with less than 64 meg is going to be almost completely useless anyway. Go buy some memory! Don't have the cash? Check between your couch cushins!
I can't seem to find this...would you mind posting your link? This sounds like a fairly major dear...
Emergency situation?? What are you talking about!! Could you be referring to this new-fangled technology that allows home users to record sounds on wax cylinders, or shiny compact discs ("CD"'s)?? Please explain yourself, because you come across sounding highly clueless.
As your post illustrates, I think they have pretty much decided which end of the spectrum they prefer.
Read the damn article!!
From THE ARTICLE, That is, if you don't count the $4.95 "shipping" charge. Of course, that would be a mistake. Buried in the shipping charge is the secret ingredient: a modest profit. Less costs of $2.31, the company nets $2.64 on each "free" disc, half of which goes to the artist.
Amazing how many redundant questions can be answerd by a bit of reading...
I don't know anything about the MS OLE plugin, but I have Flash 5 running happily on my Mozilla setup...it took me about 17s to get it installed. Go download the plugin and read the instructions! :)
Mmmm...I had a sudden flash of playing Tribes 4 on servers with people on XBox2's, PS3's, and computers.....of course, some problems arise. If you have traditional computer controls, the people using console are going to be completely outclassed, and if you dumb the computer controls down to console levels (try to take away my mouse and I'll cut off your hand), computer users would revolt. Still, it would be cool.
Continuing the off topic bit, I was thinking how cool it would be to have a GPRS cell phone with Bluetooth support. Then, I would just have the machines near the cell phone connect as necessary, w/o cables or anything....it just seemed like a cool idea.
How about:
Nothing is better than heaven, but,
a ham sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than heaven!
There are good ways to prevent spam...people have mentioned several on this page, another good one is sneakemail (www.sneakemail.com)....infinite, disposable email aliases. I use different aliases every time I give out an email address, and all incoming messages are tagged with which email address it was sent to. So, when you start getting spam, you know who is spamming you, and can easily just delete the alias. Poof, no more spam! Then, I filter all of my friends (and sneakemail aliases) into my *real* inbox, so I never have to see the small amount of spam that actually has my real email address.
I've always used none@nowhere.com; a few months ago I read a little blurb somewhere with the guy who owns nowhere.com, and he says that he has more than 15,000 denied emails per day...guess I wasn't as origional as I thought...