Of course. All technology more advanced than the wheel is merely a toy. (No mousewheel puns please.) (Did I mention my mouse has a really cool dark turquoisy colour buttons?)
Actually, that's very much a karma/mojo thing. I've had netscape for linux installs that crashed as soon as you loaded a page, but my current installation hasn't crashed in months (!). And I use it quite frequently...
3? Pah! 4 buttons, two wheels, minimally. (Let's not start about the fact you can only get 1 wheel and 3 buttons to work with X, that has nothing to do with it.:-) )
SK did _NOT_ use street performer protocol. With SPP there's a fixed target for the release of the next part, and if the target isn't reached in time you get your money back. This makes SPP much more attractive for customers than SK's way of doing business.
That's what I said. The stability of unices is because the OS doesn't allow one app to interfere with another. On win, it's a completely different story. As for wine: wine does some very dark voodoo, which can indeed be non-nice to X.
I really don't think the stability of unices is thanks to the apps. Unices are built so that an app can't screw up the system, but I don't think I can say I've noticed unix apps are more stable or less stable than windows/mac apps.
Are you sure that's true? aren't covers covered by fair use or something? Otherwise there could be some major sewage/sueage out there, after all, even the biggest bands do many covers, some of songs by artists who are currently not rich at all, and could use the $$$
exactly. If the supermarket once sells something slightly illegal, they get a slap on the wrist and are allowed to continue. However, if it's 90% illegal, matters change.
Then the national brand files a suit againts the supermarket chain for being a jam trading hub and illegally allowing people to give stolen samples of the national brand jam away. The judge then bars all jam sales at the supermarket. Now the big national brand can still get their jam to your area via other supermarkets (and you can too but you had a good relationship and following at that market).
So far, I'd say: fair enough. As long as the crime was severe enough, it's fair to shut the supermarket down.
Now to top it off you have to pay the national jam maker, who you are competing against, a fee passed by congress for each and every jam jar you use for bottling.
Irrelevant, we're talking internet distribution here. (Though I agree, it is ludicrous).
Now the question is is the supermarket responsible for allowing the people who stole the jam from the national maker to trade, or are the people stealing the jam to give it away responsible?
Stealing to give away socially responsible is still illegal. It may be morally right, it may be civil disobedience, but it's still illegal. And as long as the law isn't changed, it remains that way.
And is it really fair to tax the slight competition you have and line your pockets under the guise of trying to prevent the theft of your jam?
That doesn't make a difference. it still comes down to if napster is guilty of illegal music distribution. If the cornershop sells the delicious strawberry jam I make, but the show owner also sells illegal weapons (nukes and the like), the shop will still get shut down. No matter if your stuff was legal (I don't want to touch on the legality of strawberry jam here). I'm sure that seems perfectly fair to everone here, so I don't see why this is any different. Sure, those suing are competition, but still, if they're illegal it is logical to shut em down.
Haha, suddenly root logged in, started editing/etc/passwd and all login shells where terminated with signal 9. I admire the quick response, I wish my isp was as quick.
Nice idea, but I don't think they'll survive for long. Even if the content system works, giving out what is essentially a free shell account will certainly kill em. (mind you, while it lasts it's a nice shell to have, ('SunOS vux2 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250' in case anyone wondered:-) ). But at least the pw can't be changed with a simple 'passwd':-). Still, there are 1001 methods to fsck up the account for others...
I've got an encrypted partition, but encrypted swap? Do you have any idea how slow that is?? Then again, if you really had something to hide it would prolly be worth it. Then again, if you really had something to hide, you shouldn't be such a cheepskate, and just shell out for a few extra dimms.
This sounds more or less like a pressrelease for a piece of software nobody really wants.../. turning into freshmeat.net ok, but I more or less expected to see 'this advertisment was payed for by...' under this item...
Could someone please explain how exactly a solar sail works, because classical physics is apparently not helping me on this one..
The basic idea as I see it is: photon hits sail, gives part of momentum to sail, sail goes forward. However, photons have no mass (right?), and momentum is mass*speed. So the momentum should be zero... (unless speed is infinite, which it obviously isn't)....
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Of course. All technology more advanced than the wheel is merely a toy. (No mousewheel puns please.) (Did I mention my mouse has a really cool dark turquoisy colour buttons?)
Actually, that's very much a karma/mojo thing. I've had netscape for linux installs that crashed as soon as you loaded a page, but my current installation hasn't crashed in months (!). And I use it quite frequently...
postage and handling.
3? Pah! 4 buttons, two wheels, minimally. (Let's not start about the fact you can only get 1 wheel and 3 buttons to work with X, that has nothing to do with it. :-) )
SK did _NOT_ use street performer protocol. With SPP there's a fixed target for the release of the next part, and if the target isn't reached in time you get your money back. This makes SPP much more attractive for customers than SK's way of doing business.
That's what I said. The stability of unices is because the OS doesn't allow one app to interfere with another. On win, it's a completely different story. As for wine: wine does some very dark voodoo, which can indeed be non-nice to X.
haha, 'kns' for me, I aliassed it. :-). But in all honesty, netscape's instable on anything.
Come on people, it's a friggin' ANALOGY! No, an mp3 is not the same as strawberry jam. SO?
It doesn't matter if people are making money off it, as long as it's illegal it's illegal. Seems easy enough...
Exactly. That's why that part of the analogy is not applicable to this discussion.
I really don't think the stability of unices is thanks to the apps. Unices are built so that an app can't screw up the system, but I don't think I can say I've noticed unix apps are more stable or less stable than windows/mac apps.
Are you sure that's true? aren't covers covered by fair use or something? Otherwise there could be some major sewage/sueage out there, after all, even the biggest bands do many covers, some of songs by artists who are currently not rich at all, and could use the $$$
exactly. If the supermarket once sells something slightly illegal, they get a slap on the wrist and are allowed to continue. However, if it's 90% illegal, matters change.
So far, I'd say: fair enough. As long as the crime was severe enough, it's fair to shut the supermarket down.
Now to top it off you have to pay the national jam maker, who you are competing against, a fee passed by congress for each and every jam jar you use for bottling.
Irrelevant, we're talking internet distribution here. (Though I agree, it is ludicrous).
Now the question is is the supermarket responsible for allowing the people who stole the jam from the national maker to trade, or are the people stealing the jam to give it away responsible?
Stealing to give away socially responsible is still illegal. It may be morally right, it may be civil disobedience, but it's still illegal. And as long as the law isn't changed, it remains that way.
And is it really fair to tax the slight competition you have and line your pockets under the guise of trying to prevent the theft of your jam?
nope, but that's not relevant out of meatspace.
That doesn't make a difference. it still comes down to if napster is guilty of illegal music distribution. If the cornershop sells the delicious strawberry jam I make, but the show owner also sells illegal weapons (nukes and the like), the shop will still get shut down. No matter if your stuff was legal (I don't want to touch on the legality of strawberry jam here). I'm sure that seems perfectly fair to everone here, so I don't see why this is any different. Sure, those suing are competition, but still, if they're illegal it is logical to shut em down.
Hardly. more of a 'root notices a lot of logins, logs in, looks around, kills the account' kind of thing.
Haha, suddenly root logged in, started editing /etc/passwd and all login shells where terminated with signal 9. I admire the quick response, I wish my isp was as quick.
woohoo. When I logged in I was the only one using that account. within 5 mins there are now 7... Let's see how soon they shut the account down :-).
Nice idea, but I don't think they'll survive for long. Even if the content system works, giving out what is essentially a free shell account will certainly kill em. (mind you, while it lasts it's a nice shell to have, ('SunOS vux2 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250' in case anyone wondered :-) ). But at least the pw can't be changed with a simple 'passwd' :-). Still, there are 1001 methods to fsck up the account for others...
I've got an encrypted partition, but encrypted swap? Do you have any idea how slow that is?? Then again, if you really had something to hide it would prolly be worth it. Then again, if you really had something to hide, you shouldn't be such a cheepskate, and just shell out for a few extra dimms.
that would be $1 000 000, right? :-)
And if the licenses had permitted it, we (using the broadest term of 'we' possible here) would have implemented those things in the original programs.
This sounds more or less like a pressrelease for a piece of software nobody really wants... /. turning into freshmeat.net ok, but I more or less expected to see 'this advertisment was payed for by ...' under this item...
Could someone please explain how exactly a solar sail works, because classical physics is apparently not helping me on this one..
The basic idea as I see it is: photon hits sail, gives part of momentum to sail, sail goes forward. However, photons have no mass (right?), and momentum is mass*speed. So the momentum should be zero... (unless speed is infinite, which it obviously isn't)....
If you want it private, shut the gate. Pull the plug on your router.
And, you run 200 traceroutes in parallel, and you're set to have the whole thing done in a few months.