I can cut out bits of the picture and use it to make my own art if I like, I can even sell it. Just like I can take my car apart and sell all the individual nuts and bolts, or something I have made out of them.
I can also make a copy of the picture as a backup.
I would expect that I can also hand the original picture wherever I want, just like I can drive up and down the strip my jag picking up all the girls.
Basically I can do anything that doesn't break copyright laws, well in the EU at least!.
It's a good job that you can't sign away your rights here in Europe.
I just ignore them, European law also sides with the signatory not the author if there's any doubt as to what was meant, since it's the authors responsibility to make sure the signatory understands the contract.
Your running kernel version 1 and the drivers in kernel version 1.2 and version 1.2 has some API changes that the driver uses.
Kernel 1.2 also has a very new VM that causes no amount of grief (as do the new changes in the API) so it's not an option to just download the driver and compile.
You could probably hack the driver to work, but then it would could be buggy and it would be hard to benefit from other bug fixes etc...
The drivers and the kernel need to be seperated for the good of Linux, what happens in a few years when we've got twice the number of drivers to maintain and how can you expect a comercial(one that makes money!) opertion to try and hit such a moving target.
Except when it's a working falling off the empire state building. or your a doctor doing an op that you think will probably kill the patient. Hell you even told then there's a 90% change I'm going to kill you, premeditated or what.
1 movie lasts 2 hours, 1 video game lasts more than 12, so at any one time more people are viewing/playing new release video games than watching new release movies.
2) sort out the indentation when you review, it makes you look at every single line.
3) don't you mean make you code modular? I've seen some people who take the whole small thing to extreams and you end up chasing you tail trying to debug the stuff.
4) prolog, xsl, c++, lisp. go on then.
8) I have more errors writing blind code than using an IDE, modern ide's do. Refactoring, real-time highlighting of errors, code compleation, code graphing, wysiwyg designers for gui's, graphical component designers (EJB and struts etc..) as well as syntax highlighting, autoformatting.
Your a fool if you use a text editor, even my friend hell bent of emacs switched.
9) don't write blind code, use a good IDE, get you errors down 50%.
If you can't trust programs I'd love to know what you write. You can generally sandbox or analise and software you worried about.
and one you missed off. Now that IDE's do code-compleation theres no excuse to name variables things like d, or a or even x, even if you are trolltech.
Quite a good call, but..... 1: use javascript and a web browser if you want an interpreter, it's quite easy to setup and it's a skill you can take home and play with.
2: You can teach pointers in java, or at least memory addressing using lookups into arrays, which is close to protected mode than the flat memory model you get with C.
3: no way, I wrote java on a 486 years ago, ok I didn't write eclipse, but goto ebay, $50 in hand and get a pc that can run java.
4: I know how a computer works, I could buld one out of.... lego... if I wanted to but I don't really use it that much when programming (that much) things like being able to proof a quick sort are much more important to the speed of you application then the odd extra memory allocation.
5: VM's are getting better all the time, profiling VM's should be able to outstrip pre-compiled code shortly, they could even profile you object useage and get rid of those extra memory allocations.
6: I still programm in C++, and prototype in XSL, Javascript, Java, Basic, bash or whatever seems to be the quickest turn around.
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8bits are fine, until you want to do anything.
As soon as I modify the image I've lost quality that I can never get back, 8bits to 7 bits to 6bits...., so I'm limited with the about of work I can do on an 8bit image until it becomes unworkable.
If I started out with a 12 bit image instead of an 8 bit one I could do 16 times more work on it before I run out of bits.
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' you have to wonder if your work will be different enough to be considered a new work'
But don't you get rights of first sale, you can resell the picture if you want, or half the picture or the picture cut up into little pieces.
It would have to be a 'one-off' so I couldn't make copies of it. (unless de minimis applied)
I can cut out bits of the picture and use it to make my own art if I like, I can even sell it.
Just like I can take my car apart and sell all the individual nuts and bolts, or something I have made out of them.
I can also make a copy of the picture as a backup.
I would expect that I can also hand the original picture wherever I want, just like I can drive up and down the strip my jag picking up all the girls.
Basically I can do anything that doesn't break copyright laws, well in the EU at least!.
I don't think that as a user I can write a product that isn't GPL that links against a GPL library, even if I don't distribute that library.
Otherwise QT would be screwed!
It's a good job that you can't sign away your rights here in Europe.
I just ignore them, European law also sides with the signatory not the author if there's any doubt as to what was meant, since it's the authors responsibility to make sure the signatory understands the contract.
Except that the hair-dryer will melt the Gum so you can open and re-seal the box.
Well here (in the UK) the customer is allowed a 'cooling down' period, just incase they were hood winked into signing the contract.
hmmm... I not quite sure how 'fair use' fits in here.
Can I take a CD, record it to MP3 on my pc at home, my pc at work and my ipod.
So if I buy a picture from a shop should I poke around for a EULA first, if I don't find one have I installed it into my house in the wrong way.
I just used scissors instead of a knife to open the package, I thought it would be ok.
have you seen the size of some of the EULA's, you'll need a manual not just a sticker.
If in doubt just bring a biro along to the shop with you can cross out anything you don't agree to, that's how contract work isn't it?
Your running kernel version 1 and the drivers in kernel version 1.2 and version 1.2 has some API changes that the driver uses.
Kernel 1.2 also has a very new VM that causes no amount of grief (as do the new changes in the API) so it's not an option to just download the driver and compile.
You could probably hack the driver to work, but then it would could be buggy and it would be hard to benefit from other bug fixes etc...
The drivers and the kernel need to be seperated for the good of Linux, what happens in a few years when we've got twice the number of drivers to maintain and how can you expect a comercial(one that makes money!) opertion to try and hit such a moving target.
Theirs work to get better support for blind users in KDE/QT.
At the moments it's only intergration with things like festival and not full blown screen readers.
I've also offered to sort out the kde-apps and kde-look web sites (at least get them upto bobby standards) but no reply as yet.
I would prefer something like jikl, my pinkie isn't quite up to navigation, and I can zip around doom with awsd which isn't too much different.
(I don't use home keys either so I'm quite quick on a PDA with a pen but I do get a hell of a lot of typos.)
Except when it's a working falling off the empire state building. or your a doctor doing an op that you think will probably kill the patient.
Hell you even told then there's a 90% change I'm going to kill you, premeditated or what.
I'm sure you'll find HJKL real easy to navigate with.
It may seem strange at first, but years down the line that little bit of pain will be worth it.
Why the hell did they use HJKL?
A projector. At least the bulbs are easy to replace when they go.
Half open the blinds, and project porn onto them so that the whole street can watch!.
ID make doom 3, doom 3 just shows off their game engine that they will then license to other companies for a bit more than $50.
I expect that they will also do some expansion packs, followed up by bundelinng doom 3 with doom 4, and a ID this mega-box set 5 years from now.
1 movie lasts 2 hours,
1 video game lasts more than 12, so at any one time more people are viewing/playing new release video games than watching new release movies.
2) sort out the indentation when you review, it makes you look at every single line.
3) don't you mean make you code modular? I've seen some people who take the whole small thing to extreams and you end up chasing you tail trying to debug the stuff.
4) prolog, xsl, c++, lisp. go on then.
8) I have more errors writing blind code than using an IDE, modern ide's do.
Refactoring, real-time highlighting of errors, code compleation, code graphing, wysiwyg designers for gui's, graphical component designers (EJB and struts etc..) as well as syntax highlighting, autoformatting.
Your a fool if you use a text editor, even my friend hell bent of emacs switched.
9) don't write blind code, use a good IDE, get you errors down 50%.
If you can't trust programs I'd love to know what you write. You can generally sandbox or analise and software you worried about.
and one you missed off.
Now that IDE's do code-compleation theres no excuse to name variables things like d, or a or even x, even if you are trolltech.
Quite a good call, but.....
1: use javascript and a web browser if you want an interpreter, it's quite easy to setup and it's a skill you can take home and play with.
2: You can teach pointers in java, or at least memory addressing using lookups into arrays, which is close to protected mode than the flat memory model you get with C.
3: no way, I wrote java on a 486 years ago, ok I didn't write eclipse, but goto ebay, $50 in hand and get a pc that can run java.
4: I know how a computer works, I could buld one out of.... lego... if I wanted to but I don't really use it that much when programming (that much) things like being able to proof a quick sort are much more important to the speed of you application then the odd extra memory allocation.
5: VM's are getting better all the time, profiling VM's should be able to outstrip pre-compiled code shortly, they could even profile you object useage and get rid of those extra memory allocations.
6: I still programm in C++, and prototype in XSL, Javascript, Java, Basic, bash or whatever seems to be the quickest turn around.
8bits are fine, until you want to do anything.
As soon as I modify the image I've lost quality that I can never get back, 8bits to 7 bits to 6bits...., so I'm limited with the about of work I can do on an 8bit image until it becomes unworkable.
If I started out with a 12 bit image instead of an 8 bit one I could do 16 times more work on it before I run out of bits.
Instead of just doing a head match on the list do a regexp match.
so instead given the list
United Arrab Emerates
United Kingdom
United States of America
'u s a' would match 'u*s*a*' and go streight to 'United States of America'
Why re-invent the wheel, why you can have a rocket ship.
Is it composite that's slow, or xrender?
What's the performance using open-GL/ open gl overlays instead of xrender?
Why not just script the whole lot with dcop, at least you know that the images in the documentation will be upto date.
I was going to enter the comp, but KSVG doesn't support filter, anmation and SVG text, shame that.
Cool, sounds like my dog may be it's own 'person' in the not to distant future and I won't get fined for the next child it kills.