Statement B: - 2.7 should be a development branch!
Now not that many people can fully appreciate or even take the least part in Statement A's be-or-not-to-be. But Statement B encourages people to have a say.
So, for those of us who don't happen to know the inner workings of the CFS patch, leave at least something we can discuss!
I maintain a hobby project for this reason, to have code that is my own.
Doesn't have to be anything fancy in that sense, just that it shows you know how to make use of classes, inheritance, templates, threading and whatever you want to show.
Then Microsoft's reputation would be tarnished if the copy is bad. Are you insinuating that there is actually a copy of a Microsoft product that isn't bad?
I found this a bit more interesting though:/* You can do whatever you like with this source file, though I would
prefer that if you modify it and redistribute it that you include
comments to that effect with your name and the date. Thank you. */
After the standard GPL stuff, the guy writes this. IANAL, but this clearly sais you can do whatever you want with the code, without asking.
So which one takes legal precedence, the standard GPL statement or his own personal addition to it.
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Apple's implementation of X is fast, stable, easy to install and blends very well into OS X. It's freely available and you can download it from apple.com.
Sure a native application would have been even better, but this is really very far away from "unusability".
It looks rather fragile, quite like the iRack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLEwZqcQI), and I dont think it would survive checking in on an airplane given how some suitcases looks like at baggage claim.
The One-Mousebutton-issue keeps reminding me of the Chewbacca defence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense)
It is just a stupid argument, is has no validation and makes no sense, but still lots of people just buy into it for some wierd reason. Guess South Park isn't that far from reality after all:)
He probably talks about "kernel modules", which are very far from KDE/Gnome stuff. They are runtime loadable parts of the kernel frequently used for device driver kernel code etc. Your kernel does not need to contain code allowing it to handle all NICs (network cards), only the ones you have physically connected at the moment.
Sorry for being a bit too obvious, but this thread already seen enough confusion:)
Quotes such as "It's the worst physics movie...ever...." and "...the movie's heroes are at least 335 bombs short...." just make me laugh everytime I read it
Actually, airlines are not paying for this directly. Airlines pay a fee for utilizing an airport as well as flying through a certain airspace, something you can often see on your bill nowdays (airport taxes). After that, it's up to the airport to provide approach and area control. Usually, many airports are co-owned, and share one or a few ACCs (Area Control Centers).
Think of it in the same way as with trains, you can start a train-business and start a route between city A and city B without building your own stations or tracks. About the same.
Quite a few "Democracy" experiments turned out quite well, especially when you compare the number of successful communist countries that turned out.. quite well...
Regarding the matter at hand, as the OP, i find it really scary that these guys felt the need to/were forced to replace the name "Democracy" because some people dont like what Mr Bush is doing. There are quite a few other democracies on this planet that are doing OK. The original greek democracy only included citizens of greece, thus excluding women and slaves (which made up a significant portion). If that was (and it was) a democracy, what we have now is paradise even though we have a few bummers here and there.
On the other hand, I never understood the name in the first place:-)
...who virtually cannot write by hand anymore? I can't even write a proper signature, haven't been using hand writing since I was playing RPGs 10+ years ago.
I'd say it would be pretty hard to determine how my digits would look like.
The whole concept of anti-cheating is based on making a chip comparing input on mouse/keyboard to input into the program.
So how about:
1: Software that wraps this chip, and returns "true" all the time ? 2: Cheats that does not emulate keyboard or mouse input ? (like radars, spike skins, you name it) 3: Software that generate keyboard/mouse interrupts ? 4: The fact that someone would not buy a CPU/MB with anticheat stuff in it if you intend to cheat. You'd just have a dummy driver emulating this hardware or something.
This only seems to be able to solve a very small portion of cheats.
Because many of these games aim to be realistic, that's why people play them. Adding an "aimbot" as a powerup is not something that would have happened the 101:rd airborne when they dropped down over normandy, so when you play that scenario, neither do you want it or should have it.
There is a huge difference between fair use and copyright crimes/theft.
What you are saying is that you want, say the new Die Hard movie, before they (MPAA et al) decides to release it to the public. Why would you have any right whatsoever to do so? This behavour is clearly not "right", regardless of how you see it. Or are you going to start hammering the door of Sir Elton John and yell "Give me your unreleased material, I dont want to wait until it is ready, i want it now!" ?
On the other hand, breaking copy protection to access the contents that you have payed for, is by many considered "fair use".
-- The Swedish public broadcast network, Sveriges Television, cited unnamed sources claiming that the raid was prompted by political pressure from the United States, which the Swedish government firmly denies. Specifically, the claim is that the Swedish government was threatened with WTO trade sanctions unless action was taken against The Pirate Bay.[16] There have been claims of ministerstyre (lit. "minister rule") in connection with this allegation.[citation needed] Ministerstyre -- when a politician pressures another government agency to take action -- is a crime in Sweden. --
Of course proves nothing, but "Sveriges Television" is about as a reliable source as you can get, it has no commercial interest (no advertisement etc), solely a public service payed by the tax payers.
There were also a lot of strange stuff going on when this raid took place, without the proper backing of the swedish law. At the time of the raid you could only get a search warrant if the presumed crime could lead to two or more years in swedish prison, something a copyright felony did not. Still the raid took place, and now one year later they are not even charging the people with the original presumed crime (copyright infrigement), but rather "preparations to perform copyright infrigment"
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You're missing the whole point of an open community!
Let's take two examples:
Statement A:
- if (id == boot_cpu_id) {
- int cache_line,cache_nlines;
- cache_line = 0x20;
- cache_line = prom_getintdefault(cpu_node, "ecache-line-size", cache_line);
- cache_nlines = 0x8000;
- cache_nlines = prom_getintdefault(cpu_node, "ecache-nlines", cache_nlines);
- max_cache_size = cache_line * cache_nlines;
- }
Statement B:
- 2.7 should be a development branch!
Now not that many people can fully appreciate or even take the least part in Statement A's be-or-not-to-be. But Statement B encourages people to have a say.
So, for those of us who don't happen to know the inner workings of the CFS patch, leave at least something we can discuss!
I maintain a hobby project for this reason, to have code that is my own.
Doesn't have to be anything fancy in that sense, just that it shows you know how to make use of classes, inheritance, templates, threading and whatever you want to show.
Yea, that's the whole point of the article, you should really try and read it ;-)
I found this a bit more interesting though: /* You can do whatever you like with this source file, though I would
prefer that if you modify it and redistribute it that you include
comments to that effect with your name and the date. Thank you. */
After the standard GPL stuff, the guy writes this. IANAL, but this clearly sais you can do whatever you want with the code, without asking.
So which one takes legal precedence, the standard GPL statement or his own personal addition to it.
Mm, or more to the point.
What sites are you most proud of slashdotting?
I dont see why that is such a big issue ?
Apple's implementation of X is fast, stable, easy to install and blends very well into OS X. It's freely available and you can download it from apple.com.
Sure a native application would have been even better, but this is really very far away from "unusability".
Well atleast we know that, In Soviet Russia, Linux is desktop ready ;-)
It looks rather fragile, quite like the iRack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLEwZqcQI), and I dont think it would survive checking in on an airplane given how some suitcases looks like at baggage claim.
Cool achievement nevertheless.
The ultimate book: The Prince (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince)
The One-Mousebutton-issue keeps reminding me of the Chewbacca defence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense)
:)
It is just a stupid argument, is has no validation and makes no sense, but still lots of people just buy into it for some wierd reason. Guess South Park isn't that far from reality after all
He probably talks about "kernel modules", which are very far from KDE/Gnome stuff. They are runtime loadable parts of the kernel frequently used for device driver kernel code etc. Your kernel does not need to contain code allowing it to handle all NICs (network cards), only the ones you have physically connected at the moment.
:)
Sorry for being a bit too obvious, but this thread already seen enough confusion
The Core (2003) http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/ was both educational and fun.
Atleast reading the movie physics review on it. http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html
Quotes such as "It's the worst physics movie...ever...." and "...the movie's heroes are at least 335 bombs short...." just make me laugh everytime I read it
No, but it's funny as hell to do so anyhow :D
Actually, airlines are not paying for this directly. Airlines pay a fee for utilizing an airport as well as flying through a certain airspace, something you can often see on your bill nowdays (airport taxes). After that, it's up to the airport to provide approach and area control. Usually, many airports are co-owned, and share one or a few ACCs (Area Control Centers).
Think of it in the same way as with trains, you can start a train-business and start a route between city A and city B without building your own stations or tracks. About the same.
That's taking it a bit too far i'd say.
:-)
Quite a few "Democracy" experiments turned out quite well, especially when you compare the number of successful communist countries that turned out.. quite well...
Regarding the matter at hand, as the OP, i find it really scary that these guys felt the need to/were forced to replace the name "Democracy" because some people dont like what Mr Bush is doing. There are quite a few other democracies on this planet that are doing OK. The original greek democracy only included citizens of greece, thus excluding women and slaves (which made up a significant portion). If that was (and it was) a democracy, what we have now is paradise even though we have a few bummers here and there.
On the other hand, I never understood the name in the first place
Creepy that so many people associate "Democracy" with bad things. Actually scares me...
...who virtually cannot write by hand anymore? I can't even write a proper signature, haven't been using hand writing since I was playing RPGs 10+ years ago.
I'd say it would be pretty hard to determine how my digits would look like.
The whole concept of anti-cheating is based on making a chip comparing input on mouse/keyboard to input into the program.
So how about:
1: Software that wraps this chip, and returns "true" all the time ?
2: Cheats that does not emulate keyboard or mouse input ? (like radars, spike skins, you name it)
3: Software that generate keyboard/mouse interrupts ?
4: The fact that someone would not buy a CPU/MB with anticheat stuff in it if you intend to cheat. You'd just have a dummy driver emulating this hardware or something.
This only seems to be able to solve a very small portion of cheats.
Because many of these games aim to be realistic, that's why people play them. Adding an "aimbot" as a powerup is not something that would have happened the 101:rd airborne when they dropped down over normandy, so when you play that scenario, neither do you want it or should have it.
Yea, you really got them this time!
There is a huge difference between fair use and copyright crimes/theft.
What you are saying is that you want, say the new Die Hard movie, before they (MPAA et al) decides to release it to the public. Why would you have any right whatsoever to do so? This behavour is clearly not "right", regardless of how you see it. Or are you going to start hammering the door of Sir Elton John and yell "Give me your unreleased material, I dont want to wait until it is ready, i want it now!" ?
On the other hand, breaking copy protection to access the contents that you have payed for, is by many considered "fair use".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
--
The Swedish public broadcast network, Sveriges Television, cited unnamed sources claiming that the raid was prompted by political pressure from the United States, which the Swedish government firmly denies. Specifically, the claim is that the Swedish government was threatened with WTO trade sanctions unless action was taken against The Pirate Bay.[16] There have been claims of ministerstyre (lit. "minister rule") in connection with this allegation.[citation needed] Ministerstyre -- when a politician pressures another government agency to take action -- is a crime in Sweden.
--
Of course proves nothing, but "Sveriges Television" is about as a reliable source as you can get, it has no commercial interest (no advertisement etc), solely a public service payed by the tax payers.
There were also a lot of strange stuff going on when this raid took place, without the proper backing of the swedish law. At the time of the raid you could only get a search warrant if the presumed crime could lead to two or more years in swedish prison, something a copyright felony did not. Still the raid took place, and now one year later they are not even charging the people with the original presumed crime (copyright infrigement), but rather "preparations to perform copyright infrigment"