Actually, Apple is in the same boat. If Apple buys a record company, it puts Apple in violation of its settlement with Apple Corps, Ltd., the record company (known for, among other things, being the Beatles' label) with which it agreed not to go into the music business with, and possibly also it's license agreement with McIntosh amplifiers.
lots of people. remember when their stock took a hit a year or so ago and people were wondering what the fate of apple would be? then also remember that news came out they had over 12 billion in cash assets. yeah apple is a huge company. they may not have market share yet in the OS world but they are a very very large company. make no mistake.
According to this, AAPL has only about $2 billion in cash and cash equivalents and their total current assets are only worth about $5 billion or so, as of Dec 28, 2002. So I don't know where you're getting 12 billion in cash assets. They couldn't have gotten THAT much cash ($10 billion) in 2 months without triggering a major FTC investigation, if you know what I mean;)
HAH! The fact you mentioned the gimp shows you know naught of which you speak. I assure you, all graphic designers who work professionally as a designer, use trinitron screens. A few these days might use the really high end sony lcds, but they're mainly for DTP, not design, as even the top of the line mac screens are still not as good as a crt for colour matching.
I assure you that all blanket statements are false.;)
I have worked professionally as a graphic designer, and I did not use Trinitron screens as the company I worked used only Apple OEM hardware -- it was a matter of IT policy. (And I wasn't working in IT officially at the time)
Actually, SunOS 4.x is the older, more BSD flavoured, version of their operating system. SunOS 5.x is the version of their operating system that we normally associate with the Solaris environment. So, Solaris 2.4 would be running SunOS 5.4, not SunOS 4. Solaris 2.5.1 ran SunOS 5.5.1, etc. Note that Sun did eventually rename the older SunOS 4.x operating environment Solaris 1.x just to confuse people even more.:-)
Thanks for clearing that up.:) You can clearly see why even I, who had more of a clue than the parent poster, was still confused.:)
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Well, broadband *is* the opposite of baseband. Broadband is a modulated analog signal, while baseband is a digital signal.
Ethernet is baseband. Despite the fact that Ethernet is from 10mbps-1gbps, it is NOT broadband because there's no modulation/demodulation that occurs in the signal.
Broadband != fast. 56K dialup modem is broadband.;)
First the abrupt jump from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8,
Just to pick nits, but the jump was from Solaris 2.6 to 7, not 8. SunOS went from version 4 to 'Solaris 2.4' So Solaris 2.4 is SunOS 4, Solaris 2.5 is SunOS 5, Solaris 2.6 is SunOS 5.6, though. I don't get it either.
I run 2.6 on my servers at work except for one because some clueless droid at Ford insists that I-DEAS 9.x MUST be served from a Solaris 8 server. (Ermm, yeah, whatever.)
There *are* differences. Most of those differences, however, involve stuff we don't use or even need.:)
Well I like the fact that microsoft is looking at adopting mozilla like (i think) licences. But "Of course, they want copies of the changes". Do they inherit the copyright to the changes? Can they then release your code as their own? Can they use your code in other products?
From the article:
Yesterday, Microsoft chief technology officer Craig Mundie said the company won't charge companies to participate in the program, despite the word "Premium" in its name. Microsoft will receive a royalty for each copy of CE that is distributed, whether it is altered or not. (emphasis mine)
Although there is no charge to particpate in the program, and you *can* alter the program and distribute it, but you can't redistribute the source -- altered or not-- like the rest of the shared source program. Also, as noted, Microsoft receives a royalty for each copy of CE, so no, they don't inherit the copyright, nor can they release the code as their own.
In other words, you have a license that's almost exactly -- but not quite -- entirely unlike the MPL. (With apologies to the late Douglas Adams.:)
Yes, you read that right: author wants free software developers to abandon Qt. Claims that "Qt still has licensing problems, being non-Free for commercial applications" - the fact is that Qt is licensed under the GPL. So it is perfectly fine for commercial applications. However, if you want to build proprietary application on top of it, you have to pay TrollTech.
Which of course is stupid because while GTK+ is LGPL, the gnome libaries are not, they're GPL. So people wanting to develop proprietary GNOME applications (as opposed to GTK+ apps) are actually out of luck. GLIB is also GPL, not LGPL.
Exactly. Which is why I tend to gravitate towards distros that let me pick and choose what software I want to install. If I'm setting up a Web server, I will not need, nor will I even want, X to be installed on the box.
If I'm setting up a box as a workstation, what I install on it GUI-wise will depend on what I'm doing. If I'm setting up a box to do Web development, why would I want to install the full set of KDE, GNOME, etc.? I just need a text editor and a couple of different Web browsers. At most, I might want a partial KDE install to get Konqueror and Quanta Plus running. But there's no reason to install *everything*.
One thing I've noticed, regardless of the CPU, is that the Sun graphics cards have a very high-quality output. For example, my old Creator 3D-based workstation has great anti-aliasing in Pro/E, but a high-end Compaq/Windows NT workstation I saw about a year ago had absolutely terrible anti-aliasing. My experience with PC graphics is limited, so enough time researching PC cards would probably turn up a winner eventually.
I agree...I'm looking an Ultra 60 with an Elite 3D graphics card and it's output is in many ways better than the NVidia card on the workstation next to it, running the same software (I-DEAS 9.2)
THe right to *KEEP* (own) and *BEAR* (carry around) arms.
Constitutionally speaking, you have the right to own any arms of your choice, and you have the right to carry them around with you. In other words, laws banning the carrying of firearms are unconstitional.
I just spit my coffee all over the place! That's gotta be the funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. The scary part is -- you're not joking. My monitor thanks you.:)
Exactly...there is no "The Government." We have a government of for and by the people right? So the government is just PEOPLE. Would YOU trust a bunch of people you never met and didn't even know with YOUR personal info? *That's* what the question people should be asking this Heather MacDonald wacko.
FrontPage is fine if you're using IIS and ASP. But if you're like the increasing number of sites out there, you're not running IIS. You're running Apache or one of it's various commercial descendants on Linux or *BSD. One site I manage runs Zeus (commercial server based on Apache) on a Solaris box. We make heavy use of PHP and MySQL. FrontPage just isn't going to get it for us. I personally use AceHTML Pro 5 (on Windows) and Quanta Plus (on Linux). Ace has a nice PHP preview mode if you have PHP installed on the box. Very nice. I can preview my page on the local box with the output from the PHP code *before* I upload the resulting page to the site. It's just nice.
Yeah, but try explaining that to the clueless PHBs who think that Wintel workstations outperform Unix RISC workstations for CAD based on the clock frequency.:( Not only that but there's also the claim that Wintel boxes are *cheaper*. (In initial cost, yes, in TCO, no way.)
Which it is, or might as well be. Until gcj came along (and it's not there yet) there were no free implementations of Java, and any development you did could at any time have been razed had Sun decided not to give their JVM away for free.
The parent-parent never said it was EULA, they said it was parts purchase contract and my message was more intended for the parent than for you, but you already started to make my point, so I replied to you.:)
I agree, EULA's are basically meaningless unless the state you're in has adopted UCITA.
Imagine if you went out and bought that F150 and afterwards found a piece of paper sitting in the back seat saying that by driving the truck you thereby agree not to resell it to anyone else or publish negative reviews about it. You'd think that was the stupidest thing you've ever heard. It sounds equally stupid when you find such papers in boxes of software you already own.
Not the same thing the parent-parent is talking about.
It's more like if you go to a Ford dealership to buy an F-150, but in order to buy the F-150, the dealer makes you sign a purchase agreement that says that you will agree not to resell it or publish negative reviews about it. If you refuse to sign the purchase agreement, the dealer refuses to sell you the truck.
This is *quite* legal and *quite* binding and is used everyday, for instance, when magazines such as "Car and Driver" buy a vehicle before they go on sale to the general public for purposes of review.
Not with a "normal" DVD burner: they can't write the keys to the appropriate track, it seems. The CSS keys are stored in a special area, which cannot even be read with normal DVD drives directly: you have to go through a cryptographic dance with the hardware (css_auth) before you can read that track. Consumer-type DVD recorders cannot write to that track, and ISTR it's not writable on standard blanks either - you need a special "mastering" recorder and blank. Since those recorders are aimed at movie studios, and priced accordingly, with the blanks costing more than pre-recorded DVDs, that idea is pretty much a non-starter for piracy: it's cheaper to buy legit copies in a store!
So what stops someone from playing back the movie, capturing the data rather than actually playing it back, then recording the result onto a non-encrypted DVD?
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Actually, Apple is in the same boat. If Apple buys a record company, it puts Apple in violation of its settlement with Apple Corps, Ltd., the record company (known for, among other things, being the Beatles' label) with which it agreed not to go into the music business with, and possibly also it's license agreement with McIntosh amplifiers.
;)
So the question is: which one is the evil twin?
lots of people. remember when their stock took a hit a year or so ago and people were wondering what the fate of apple would be? then also remember that news came out they had over 12 billion in cash assets. yeah apple is a huge company. they may not have market share yet in the OS world but they are a very very large company. make no mistake.
;)
According to this, AAPL has only about $2 billion in cash and cash equivalents and their total current assets are only worth about $5 billion or so, as of Dec 28, 2002. So I don't know where you're getting 12 billion in cash assets. They couldn't have gotten THAT much cash ($10 billion) in 2 months without triggering a major FTC investigation, if you know what I mean
HAH! The fact you mentioned the gimp shows you know naught of which you speak. I assure you, all graphic designers who work professionally as a designer, use trinitron screens. A few these days might use the really high end sony lcds, but they're mainly for DTP, not design, as even the top of the line mac screens are still not as good as a crt for colour matching.
;)
I assure you that all blanket statements are false.
I have worked professionally as a graphic designer, and I did not use Trinitron screens as the company I worked used only Apple OEM hardware -- it was a matter of IT policy. (And I wasn't working in IT officially at the time)
Actually, SunOS 4.x is the older, more BSD flavoured, version of their operating system. SunOS 5.x is the version of their operating system that we normally associate with the Solaris environment. So, Solaris 2.4 would be running SunOS 5.4, not SunOS 4. Solaris 2.5.1 ran SunOS 5.5.1, etc. Note that Sun did eventually rename the older SunOS 4.x operating environment Solaris 1.x just to confuse people even more. :-)
:) You can clearly see why even I, who had more of a clue than the parent poster, was still confused. :)
Thanks for clearing that up.
Well, broadband *is* the opposite of baseband. Broadband is a modulated analog signal, while baseband is a digital signal.
;)
Ethernet is baseband. Despite the fact that Ethernet is from 10mbps-1gbps, it is NOT broadband because there's no modulation/demodulation that occurs in the signal.
Broadband != fast. 56K dialup modem is broadband.
First the abrupt jump from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8,
:)
Just to pick nits, but the jump was from Solaris 2.6 to 7, not 8. SunOS went from version 4 to 'Solaris 2.4' So Solaris 2.4 is SunOS 4, Solaris 2.5 is SunOS 5, Solaris 2.6 is SunOS 5.6, though. I don't get it either.
I run 2.6 on my servers at work except for one because some clueless droid at Ford insists that I-DEAS 9.x MUST be served from a Solaris 8 server. (Ermm, yeah, whatever.)
There *are* differences. Most of those differences, however, involve stuff we don't use or even need.
Well I like the fact that microsoft is looking at adopting mozilla like (i think) licences. But "Of course, they want copies of the changes".
:)
Do they inherit the copyright to the changes? Can they then release your code as their own? Can they use your code in other products?
From the article:
Yesterday, Microsoft chief technology officer Craig Mundie said the company won't charge companies to participate in the program, despite the word "Premium" in its name. Microsoft will receive a royalty for each copy of CE that is distributed, whether it is altered or not.
(emphasis mine)
Although there is no charge to particpate in the program, and you *can* alter the program and distribute it, but you can't redistribute the source -- altered or not-- like the rest of the shared source program. Also, as noted, Microsoft receives a royalty for each copy of CE, so no, they don't inherit the copyright, nor can they release the code as their own.
In other words, you have a license that's almost exactly -- but not quite -- entirely unlike the MPL. (With apologies to the late Douglas Adams.
I'd like to mod you as both funny AND insightful, but the system won't let me. :)
It's 10 bucks cheaper at Amazon, compared to BN.
/me rolls eyes
Yeah... it's because that 1-click technology saves them so much money.
Yes, you read that right: author wants free software developers to abandon Qt. Claims that "Qt still has licensing problems, being non-Free for commercial applications" - the fact is that Qt is licensed under the GPL. So it is perfectly fine for commercial applications. However, if you want to build proprietary application on top of it, you have to pay TrollTech.
Which of course is stupid because while GTK+ is LGPL, the gnome libaries are not, they're GPL. So people wanting to develop proprietary GNOME applications (as opposed to GTK+ apps) are actually out of luck. GLIB is also GPL, not LGPL.
At least with Qt there is some sort of choice.
Exactly. Which is why I tend to gravitate towards distros that let me pick and choose what software I want to install. If I'm setting up a Web server, I will not need, nor will I even want, X to be installed on the box.
If I'm setting up a box as a workstation, what I install on it GUI-wise will depend on what I'm doing. If I'm setting up a box to do Web development, why would I want to install the full set of KDE, GNOME, etc.? I just need a text editor and a couple of different Web browsers. At most, I might want a partial KDE install to get Konqueror and Quanta Plus running. But there's no reason to install *everything*.
Sorry to nitpick, but the program will compile without the include. In C, functions that aren't declared will be assumed to return int.
Sure, it'll compile without the include. But it won't print "Hello World." Hence the program has a bug.
One thing I've noticed, regardless of the CPU, is that the Sun graphics cards have a very high-quality output. For example, my old Creator 3D-based workstation has great anti-aliasing in Pro/E, but a high-end Compaq/Windows NT workstation I saw about a year ago had absolutely terrible anti-aliasing. My experience with PC graphics is limited, so enough time researching PC cards would probably turn up a winner eventually.
I agree...I'm looking an Ultra 60 with an Elite 3D graphics card and it's output is in many ways better than the NVidia card on the workstation next to it, running the same software (I-DEAS 9.2)
Rights to own arms. (Note not just guns.)
THe right to *KEEP* (own) and *BEAR* (carry around) arms.
Constitutionally speaking, you have the right to own any arms of your choice, and you have the right to carry them around with you. In other words, laws banning the carrying of firearms are unconstitional.
I just spit my coffee all over the place! That's gotta be the funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. The scary part is -- you're not joking. My monitor thanks you. :)
Exactly...there is no "The Government." We have a government of for and by the people right? So the government is just PEOPLE. Would YOU trust a bunch of people you never met and didn't even know with YOUR personal info? *That's* what the question people should be asking this Heather MacDonald wacko.
FrontPage is fine if you're using IIS and ASP. But if you're like the increasing number of sites out there, you're not running IIS. You're running Apache or one of it's various commercial descendants on Linux or *BSD. One site I manage runs Zeus (commercial server based on Apache) on a Solaris box. We make heavy use of PHP and MySQL. FrontPage just isn't going to get it for us. I personally use AceHTML Pro 5 (on Windows) and Quanta Plus (on Linux). Ace has a nice PHP preview mode if you have PHP installed on the box. Very nice. I can preview my page on the local box with the output from the PHP code *before* I upload the resulting page to the site. It's just nice.
I think more people should smile more often, don't you?
Yeah, but try explaining that to the clueless PHBs who think that Wintel workstations outperform Unix RISC workstations for CAD based on the clock frequency. :( Not only that but there's also the claim that Wintel boxes are *cheaper*. (In initial cost, yes, in TCO, no way.)
*sigh*
Bluefish isn't WYSIWYG ... It requires you to edit HTML tags, unlike FrontPage which lets you edit your page in WYSIWYG (graphical) editing modes ...
... it's not FrontPage, but it's not half bad. :)
I'm not sure why more people don't consider Mozilla COmposer...I tried it out, it's not half bad
newer Athlon XPs put off more heat per area than the sun
;)
I didn't believe you so I actually tested it. And you're right! My Athlon 2600 XP box puts off WAYYY more heat than my Ultra 80!
Which it is, or might as well be. Until gcj came along (and it's not there yet) there were no free implementations of Java, and any development you did could at any time have been razed had Sun decided not to give their JVM away for free.
Ummm...Blackdown?
The parent-parent never said it was EULA, they said it was parts purchase contract and my message was more intended for the parent than for you, but you already started to make my point, so I replied to you. :)
I agree, EULA's are basically meaningless unless the state you're in has adopted UCITA.
Imagine if you went out and bought that F150 and afterwards found a piece of paper sitting in the back seat saying that by driving the truck you thereby agree not to resell it to anyone else or publish negative reviews about it. You'd think that was the stupidest thing you've ever heard. It sounds equally stupid when you find such papers in boxes of software you already own.
Not the same thing the parent-parent is talking about.
It's more like if you go to a Ford dealership to buy an F-150, but in order to buy the F-150, the dealer makes you sign a purchase agreement that says that you will agree not to resell it or publish negative reviews about it. If you refuse to sign the purchase agreement, the dealer refuses to sell you the truck.
This is *quite* legal and *quite* binding and is used everyday, for instance, when magazines such as "Car and Driver" buy a vehicle before they go on sale to the general public for purposes of review.
Not with a "normal" DVD burner: they can't write the keys to the appropriate track, it seems. The CSS keys are stored in a special area, which cannot even be read with normal DVD drives directly: you have to go through a cryptographic dance with the hardware (css_auth) before you can read that track. Consumer-type DVD recorders cannot write to that track, and ISTR it's not writable on standard blanks either - you need a special "mastering" recorder and blank. Since those recorders are aimed at movie studios, and priced accordingly, with the blanks costing more than pre-recorded DVDs, that idea is pretty much a non-starter for piracy: it's cheaper to buy legit copies in a store!
So what stops someone from playing back the movie, capturing the data rather than actually playing it back, then recording the result onto a non-encrypted DVD?