Even if knowingly were necessary, Caldera HAD to know what was in the Linux kernel because their Linux distros use a special Caldera-patched version of the kernel. So it's not like they didn't look at the code, they had to in order to create a special patched kernel right?
Goodbye, karma.;) And, realistically, what does it matter? If two cards are similar in performance, but one is just a little bit faster, in reality it's not going to make *that* much of a difference. You probably wouldn't even notice the difference in performance between the new nVidia card and the ATI 9800, so what all the fuss is about, I have no clue.
Exactly. Now, if you are the copyright holder on the GPL code, then you may choose the release the code under a different license, but once your code is out there in GPL the version that's licensed under GPL will always be available under GPL. The GPL is basically a hack of the copyright law...it makes sure that Free software, once released under the license, will ALWAYS be Free, as long as it's available from somewhere.
Funny as it may be, you wouldn't be arrested under the USPA. The Patriot act lets them tap your phone because you downloaded that evil pinko RedHat 9 ISO, but you broke other laws......or they tap your phone because you were talking about counterfeiting...
Seriously, I'm not knocking you... but it's sad that today's youth doesn't know who would investigate.
Actually, I'm well aware of who would investigate. And I only wish I was 'today's youth'... at best I'm 'yesterday's youth' or perhaps 'last millenium's youth';)
I also know that most color copiers add a sort of 'digital watermark' to anything copied off the machine that can be tracked back to that specific machine. What I've been wondering is -- now that color inkjet printers are capable of producing very good quality conterfeit bills, do these devices do something similar? And if so is this a function of the printer driver or the firmware in the printer?
Heh. It looks horrid, I know. I actually designed something similar to this around '95. I started out with a design remarkably similar to that and as soon as I realized it looked like a Medieval torture device, I redesigned it to look something like those old 'sit-down' style arcade games, only much more comfortable. Then I realized that no one would ever have enough room in their house for something like that and totally gave up on the project. But the same basic ideas are there -- the computer becomes built-in to the enviroment, it become part of the environment.
Maybe I actually should have followed through on that idea after all? <shrug>
Hey! Come to think of it, I *am* still a registered Caldera OpenLinux user. Back in the days when all I had was dialup, I went out and bought Caldera because RedHat didn't include KDE at the time (and, in fact, Caldera was the only major distro including KDE at the time).
Okay, I hereby grant a license to any non-SCO user to make derivative works of all SCO GPL code to IBM, RedHat, etc.
Oh, and while I'm at it, I hereby revoke SCO's license to its own code, citing violations of the GNU General Public License, which basically says that those that violate the license have no license to use it, so there.:-P
Agreed, but that's why I put 'Mozilla Application Suite' in quotes...'Mozilla Application Suite' is *their* terminology for what most people call Mozilla, that is 'Navigator/Communicator without the AOL adverts and bloat and crap'
Isn't this just going to cause confusion? Many people currently refer to the browser component of the 'Mozilla Application Suite' as the 'Mozilla browser' and changing the name of Firebird to 'Mozilla Browser' will just confuse things even worse than they already are.
People tend to think Mozilla='Mozilla Application Suite' and they tend to think of Phoenix/Firebird/Mozilla Browser/whatever-they're-calling-themselves-this-w eek as a separate application.
You need SANE, a scanner supported by SANE, The GIMP, a modern printing system (CUPS is pretty good), and a good inkjet printer supporting on your printing system of choice.
First you... &^&*^(*^%^&%*&%%*%* %%^T&(
THIS USER HAS BEEN ARRESETED UNDER THE U.S. PATRIOT ACT. MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
And while gigabyte ethernet would be infinitely cool (until terabyte ethernet came out), you probably mean gigabit.:^)
Yes that was a typo.;)
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The problem with that is that no one really *knows* how the brain works beyond a very, very basic and limited understanding. No one has ever been able to satisfactorily create/reproduce one. There's more going on than just synapses in there, that much most scientists can agree on. What they don't agree on is *what* else is going on in there.
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The problem with AI, IMHO, is that computers, for the most part, are a just billions and billions of switches. You'll never have real, true intelligence because computers don't 'know' anything except on and off. You can try to simulate that, but so far simulation consists of what amounts to a gazillion 'if' tests, which is how any program works, really. All AI is is a larger, more complex set of 'if' tests than your average program.
Gigabyte makes a nice 400 FSB board, the G7VAXP has on board 10/100 LAN and awesome audio with SPDIF support. Abit makes a similar board with gigabyte ethernet, I believe.
Personally, I never buy a new chip when it first comes out. I always stay behind a generation or too, that's the sweet spot in terms of bang/$.
You're right. Neither party manages budgets well. I personally think the whole income tax scheme should be abolished, social programs should be outright removed, and government should be made a fraction of the size it is.
But then again, being a Libertarian I guess you could see why I'd take that stance.;)
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Even if knowingly were necessary, Caldera HAD to know what was in the Linux kernel because their Linux distros use a special Caldera-patched version of the kernel. So it's not like they didn't look at the code, they had to in order to create a special patched kernel right?
Goodbye, karma. ;) And, realistically, what does it matter? If two cards are similar in performance, but one is just a little bit faster, in reality it's not going to make *that* much of a difference. You probably wouldn't even notice the difference in performance between the new nVidia card and the ATI 9800, so what all the fuss is about, I have no clue.
Exactly. Now, if you are the copyright holder on the GPL code, then you may choose the release the code under a different license, but once your code is out there in GPL the version that's licensed under GPL will always be available under GPL. The GPL is basically a hack of the copyright law...it makes sure that Free software, once released under the license, will ALWAYS be Free, as long as it's available from somewhere.
LOL. I'd give you all my mod points if I had any. That's funny. ;)
Funny as it may be, you wouldn't be arrested under the USPA. The Patriot act lets them tap your phone because you downloaded that evil pinko RedHat 9 ISO, but you broke other laws... ...or they tap your phone because you were talking about counterfeiting...
... at best I'm 'yesterday's youth' or perhaps 'last millenium's youth' ;)
Seriously, I'm not knocking you... but it's sad that today's youth doesn't know who would investigate.
Actually, I'm well aware of who would investigate. And I only wish I was 'today's youth'
I also know that most color copiers add a sort of 'digital watermark' to anything copied off the machine that can be tracked back to that specific machine. What I've been wondering is -- now that color inkjet printers are capable of producing very good quality conterfeit bills, do these devices do something similar? And if so is this a function of the printer driver or the firmware in the printer?
Heh. It looks horrid, I know. I actually designed something similar to this around '95. I started out with a design remarkably similar to that and as soon as I realized it looked like a Medieval torture device, I redesigned it to look something like those old 'sit-down' style arcade games, only much more comfortable. Then I realized that no one would ever have enough room in their house for something like that and totally gave up on the project. But the same basic ideas are there -- the computer becomes built-in to the enviroment, it become part of the environment.
Maybe I actually should have followed through on that idea after all? <shrug>
Naming it Lazarus would just be more of the same mess.
Erm, ahem, erm, um, just exactly who are you calling a 'gal'?
Hey! Come to think of it, I *am* still a registered Caldera OpenLinux user. Back in the days when all I had was dialup, I went out and bought Caldera because RedHat didn't include KDE at the time (and, in fact, Caldera was the only major distro including KDE at the time).
:-P
Okay, I hereby grant a license to any non-SCO user to make derivative works of all SCO GPL code to IBM, RedHat, etc.
Oh, and while I'm at it, I hereby revoke SCO's license to its own code, citing violations of the GNU General Public License, which basically says that those that violate the license have no license to use it, so there.
Agreed, but that's why I put 'Mozilla Application Suite' in quotes...'Mozilla Application Suite' is *their* terminology for what most people call Mozilla, that is 'Navigator/Communicator without the AOL adverts and bloat and crap'
Isn't this just going to cause confusion? Many people currently refer to the browser component of the 'Mozilla Application Suite' as the 'Mozilla browser' and changing the name of Firebird to 'Mozilla Browser' will just confuse things even worse than they already are.
w eek as a separate application.
People tend to think Mozilla='Mozilla Application Suite' and they tend to think of Phoenix/Firebird/Mozilla Browser/whatever-they're-calling-themselves-this-
I'm confused just talking about it.
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Hmmm... seem to remember that some 'comm' program (that's what we called them then) that I used back in the BBS days had Minitel emulation.
I can't remember the name of it now, though. Was it maybe Telix? (I seem to remember this was produced by a French company)
Shouldn't that be,
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You need SANE, a scanner supported by SANE, The GIMP, a modern printing system (CUPS is pretty good), and a good inkjet printer supporting on your printing system of choice.
... &^&*^(*^%^&%*&%%*%* %%^T&(
First you
THIS USER HAS BEEN ARRESETED UNDER THE U.S. PATRIOT ACT. MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
And while gigabyte ethernet would be infinitely cool (until terabyte ethernet came out), you probably mean gigabit. :^)
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Yes that was a typo.
That's all you need for good pr0n anyway. ;)
The problem with that is that no one really *knows* how the brain works beyond a very, very basic and limited understanding. No one has ever been able to satisfactorily create/reproduce one. There's more going on than just synapses in there, that much most scientists can agree on. What they don't agree on is *what* else is going on in there.
The problem with AI, IMHO, is that computers, for the most part, are a just billions and billions of switches. You'll never have real, true intelligence because computers don't 'know' anything except on and off. You can try to simulate that, but so far simulation consists of what amounts to a gazillion 'if' tests, which is how any program works, really. All AI is is a larger, more complex set of 'if' tests than your average program.
Thanks for the info. I didn't think any motherboards 'officially' supported it, but then I don't read Tom's Hardware as often as I should.
Gigabyte makes a nice 400 FSB board, the G7VAXP has on board 10/100 LAN and awesome audio with SPDIF support. Abit makes a similar board with gigabyte ethernet, I believe.
Personally, I never buy a new chip when it first comes out. I always stay behind a generation or too, that's the sweet spot in terms of bang/$.
Hmph. With no iLoo, where will users put there er, 'Longhorns'?
No, but UN*X is. Maybe someone should mention this to esr, since you tend tosee *nix more than UN*X.
Another person who assumes I'm a Republican. I don't like Bush either. See my previous post somewhere in this thread ....
You're right. Neither party manages budgets well. I personally think the whole income tax scheme should be abolished, social programs should be outright removed, and government should be made a fraction of the size it is.
;)
But then again, being a Libertarian I guess you could see why I'd take that stance.
Have these guys TAKEN math courses? There's two sides to this equation!
Money_Taken_In - Money_Spent = Budget_Surplus_Or_Deficit
Negative values of Budget_Surplus_Or_Deficit are deficits.
Why don't they try SPENDING LESS rather than TAKING IN MORE?
Oh, I forgot, the California is on the LEFT coast.