Believe it or not, I'm not a soapdodging open source hippie. I couldn't give a shit if it's open or not. I should have known some anti-open-source wanker like you would jump on my saying " proprietary". I wasn't complaining that it was proprietary. Just using the term to refer to it.
They are using BSD as a reference. Whee. That happens everywhere. IT doesn't have the feature set of fbsd, though, does it.. it's more restrictive than that.
The point was, just because apple has a neat desktop doesn't make it 'the best unix ever'.
As much as I agree with you completely... and I most certainly do.. the fact remains.
In many countries, including the USA, if Microsoft has reasonably suspicion that you are in violation... say perhaps because you refused to show them an audit, they will show up with federal marshalls, or some such equivalent authority, and a court order signed by a judge in good standing, and WILL shut you down.
So, as much as you can whine about how they need to prove it first, they will destroy your business beforehand.
Unfortunately, looking at a company, it's not hard to find out if they use MS products, and it's not hard for MS to find out if they aren't on file.
"IN almost all cases, owning lunar material is illegal unless you can show a clear paper trail back to nasa" is kind of scary.
What they are implying is not that posession of moon rocks is restricted, but that, unless you can show clearly how you got it, it was probably stolen (because if it wasn't, you'd be able to prove how you got it).
This scares me a bit, though. How long until we are required to show chain of custody documetns & receipts for every single object we own, lest the government sieze them as stolen?
And whatever happened to posession being 9/10ths of the law?
But.. regarding instability... most, if not all, fighter aircraft are designed this way.
Example: A small cesna.. you can let go of the stick, set the throttle at a reasonable level, and it will basically fly itself. A very aerodynamically stable configuration.
An F18... without constant correction would go way out of control.
The difference is the less table it is, the more manoeverable it is, and vice-versa.
There is no law requiring me to make sure your phone works in my establishment.
In fact, I can most likely put shielding in to make it specifically NOT work. As long as I am not *TRANSMITTING* anything, (active jamming), I'm not breaking any communiation laws.
And just because you have your little cellular phone doens't mean you have a god given right to use it.
If you were downloading with something that uses TCP, it is not possible that you could have kept others from 'getting bandwidth' unless your router had some kind of priority queuing mechanism for your traffic and not theirs.
Now, if you were using something like good old fsp or some udp based protocol, yeah, then you would require packet shaping.
Though we can all look at the pricing model and see howt he cable compnay will lose money.. they didn't SELL you "1Mbps of bandwidth". They most likely sold you a cable modem, and hooked it up to their cable network, and said "It's our internet package".
They probably never mentioned speed in the contract.
If they can show the agreement that shows how these people ripped them off, if they modified stuff on the cable company's end, then I agree with you.
If they modified a modem they bought and paid for, that does NOT belong to the cable company...
Yeah. But did MS tell you what to do with your XBOX? No. They told someone who used their SDK in violation of the SDK license they agreed to that they would be in shit.
They can charge whatever they want for selling those copies of GPL binaries. They are not in any way restricted in this.
What you mean is they are not charging you for a license to the binaries, but for the copy itself. That's the GPL.
You seem to be implying that they can't charge much because it's only a copying fee; that isn't so; I can take GPL stuff, modify it, and charge enormous sums of money for copies.
This will also turn the computer and everything in it into a molten blob of junk. It doesn't matter if the thermite is in a working drive or non-working drive.
The tweening is so the image looks smoother and more realistic, not to change what happened.
The matrix used tweening to calculate the images between images to make things look smoother and more pleasant instead of jerky.
Yes, it's an educated guess.. but the tweening doesn't place a guy in a room when he's not there, or make him open up a door that he never really touched.. it just makes it look better and more natural.
Slashdot Mirror
Believe it or not, I'm not a soapdodging open source hippie. I couldn't give a shit if it's open or not. I should have known some anti-open-source wanker like you would jump on my saying " proprietary". I wasn't complaining that it was proprietary. Just using the term to refer to it.
They are using BSD as a reference. Whee. That happens everywhere. IT doesn't have the feature set of fbsd, though, does it.. it's more restrictive than that.
The point was, just because apple has a neat desktop doesn't make it 'the best unix ever'.
As much as I agree with you completely... and I most certainly do.. the fact remains.
In many countries, including the USA, if Microsoft has reasonably suspicion that you are in violation... say perhaps because you refused to show them an audit, they will show up with federal marshalls, or some such equivalent authority, and a court order signed by a judge in good standing, and WILL shut you down.
So, as much as you can whine about how they need to prove it first, they will destroy your business beforehand.
Unfortunately, looking at a company, it's not hard to find out if they use MS products, and it's not hard for MS to find out if they aren't on file.
\
Mr. Smarty-man football genius..
What's he SUPPOSED to do, read the other player's mind a split second before he himself decides where he's kicking hte ball?
The reason they guess is because YOU CAN'T TELL WHERE THEY GOING TO KICK IT.
Worst played.. I think YOU better get in goal for a while and then judge.
"IN almost all cases, owning lunar material is illegal unless you can show a clear paper trail back to nasa" is kind of scary.
What they are implying is not that posession of moon rocks is restricted, but that, unless you can show clearly how you got it, it was probably stolen (because if it wasn't, you'd be able to prove how you got it).
This scares me a bit, though. How long until we are required to show chain of custody documetns & receipts for every single object we own, lest the government sieze them as stolen?
And whatever happened to posession being 9/10ths of the law?
Can you show any evidence that OS X is one of the " best unix implementations ever written?"
I mean, other than the proprietary desktop that doesn't even speak X...what makes OSX a GOOD unix?
(I did not say " good OS" I said " GOOD UNIX"
F15 was the first fly-by-wire, I think...
But.. regarding instability... most, if not all, fighter aircraft are designed this way.
Example: A small cesna.. you can let go of the stick, set the throttle at a reasonable level, and it will basically fly itself. A very aerodynamically stable configuration.
An F18... without constant correction would go way out of control.
The difference is the less table it is, the more manoeverable it is, and vice-versa.
it's not like this is open source or anything. IT's not like the users could get patches themselves from apache and install them.
I mean, if you want to rely on a vendor supplied package based on an open project, of COURSE there is going to be a lag.
things will work much better freedom-wise when the consumer starts buying bandwidth by the byte.
Sure, it's more complex.. but it also reflects the actual limited resource being used.
There is no law requiring me to make sure your phone works in my establishment.
In fact, I can most likely put shielding in to make it specifically NOT work. As long as I am not *TRANSMITTING* anything, (active jamming), I'm not breaking any communiation laws.
And just because you have your little cellular phone doens't mean you have a god given right to use it.
Packet shaping nothing.. this is about TCP.
If you were downloading with something that uses TCP, it is not possible that you could have kept others from 'getting bandwidth' unless your router had some kind of priority queuing mechanism for your traffic and not theirs.
Now, if you were using something like good old fsp or some udp based protocol, yeah, then you would require packet shaping.
Though we can all look at the pricing model and see howt he cable compnay will lose money.. they didn't SELL you "1Mbps of bandwidth". They most likely sold you a cable modem, and hooked it up to their cable network, and said "It's our internet package".
They probably never mentioned speed in the contract.
If they can show the agreement that shows how these people ripped them off, if they modified stuff on the cable company's end, then I agree with you.
If they modified a modem they bought and paid for, that does NOT belong to the cable company...
That $45/month is what they charge their customers, and they cap you at 1Mbps.. fine.
That doesn't mean everyone uses 1Mbps 24/7.
1Mbps sustained for 1 Day is about 10.5 GB/day.
If they sustaied 10 Mbps instead... because they uncapped their modem...
105 GB/day
At , say, $5/GB, that's $500/day in bandwidth fees.
30 days in a month.
That's $15,000 a month.
Some cable modems are faster than 10Mbps.
Yeah. But did MS tell you what to do with your XBOX? No.
They told someone who used their SDK in violation of the SDK license they agreed to that they would be in shit.
so it does what X does.
Gotcha.
How innovative.
It's not necessarily 'correct'.
It's one way of rounding, I *think* used with large statistical sets to reduce overall rounding errors.
It also creates problems though, so using it to say, rounding for sigdigs is wrong.
Okay... so my reasoning on why voltage increase is a squared relationship was still correct...
And that explains the clock rate.
THanks.
They *are* a limited resource. It is not increasingly becoming 'untrue'. It will NEVER be untrue.
They will ALWAYS be a limited resource.
The only thing changing is that we can make more efficient use of them, and have to take a fresh look at how we use them.
They can charge whatever they want for selling those copies of GPL binaries. They are not in any way restricted in this.
What you mean is they are not charging you for a license to the binaries, but for the copy itself.
That's the GPL.
You seem to be implying that they can't charge much because it's only a copying fee; that isn't so; I can take GPL stuff, modify it, and charge enormous sums of money for copies.
Wasn't Ransom Love a character out of some old sci-fi from the 60's or 70's? I'm sure I have the book....
Doesn't anyone remember the Hitchiker's Guide? They like scotland because it has good liquor.
What is the relationship?
I mean, if voltage is doubled, you end up using 4x the power becaue:
P=EI
I=ER
-------
P=E^2R
R is constant.. so...
P is linearly related to E^2
Anyone lay it out for clock speed? I forget. It's not as simple...
how about the fact that there is such a vast increase in the amount of techie music out there?
That has to account for some of it.
This will also turn the computer and everything in it into a molten blob of junk. It doesn't matter if the thermite is in a working drive or non-working drive.
Really? why not?
The camera saw the bag from several angles over time as the guy walked away.
You then use a computer to model what the bag should look like from whatever angle. You aren't displaying anything you don't already know.
Conclusive proof of what?
The tweening is so the image looks smoother and more realistic, not to change what happened.
The matrix used tweening to calculate the images between images to make things look smoother and more pleasant instead of jerky.
Yes, it's an educated guess.. but the tweening doesn't place a guy in a room when he's not there, or make him open up a door that he never really touched.. it just makes it look better and more natural.