The point was that it shouldn't be licensed at all. Just put it out there in the public domain. Do with it as you please. It could end up in a closed source project, or an GPL project, or even a BSD licensed project. The government shouldn't help any company, there are exceptions, but should just put it out there for everyone to use as they see fit.
If microsoft can't get ahold of it neither can people who want to release under a BSD style license.
It makes you follow a GPL license, something people might not want to do
On your machine the W98+IE5 are dog slow. That sucks mine works just fine. Its also works pretty fast as long as I don't open up around 20 IE windows. I think your system might need some tuning if that combination doesn't work to well.
Sure ballmer could have distinguised between the licenses, but I think he was mainly talking about the GPL. When he said if you use open source software, all of your software has to been open source. I read it to mean that if I use some opensourec code in Program Alpha I have to realease all the code to Alpha, which is what I have to do by law. However others on the forum are reading it as though if I use GPL'd code for Alpha, I have to release Beta through Omega as well under the GPL, which is incorrect. I think Ballmer could have reworded or clarified but I hope I'm reading it right or Microsoft needs to bring some people to decipher what the GPL actually says
He is right companies can't use it. What is the point of a company trying to sell something, which is what most companies do, when they have to, by law, release their additional work to the public for free. There can be no profit in that. So if Microsoft wants to keep making money, which I'm sure it does, so GPL'd code is out of the question. As for other open source, they do use it look at the ftp clients, based on bsd licensed software
Where is my mod points when I need them
As far as his statement goes I think he is right. Any code funded by the US govt. should be under public domain meaning anyone can use for their purposes regardless. This is brought up by a fellow poster farther down.
This comment is probably the most well thought out I have seen today, and he gets a troll. Oh yeah I forgot dis the GPL and blammo your hit hard on slashdot.
Oh well if you want to mark something as a troll come and get me.
Inertia: refining a 20 year old operating system for use in the home, something it was not meant for.
Innovation: I have to give it to BeOS or AtheOS. Sure Windows can do most of what these can do, but they started fresh, and made people go "kick ass"
I work as an network admin for a local college. Its one member of 4 sister campuses. We get our marching orders from a head admin. While at the main office they use a few versions of UNIX, everything at the campus level is Windows, and it looks like it will stay that way.
I still boot linux, but win2k is a great OS. Some people will say that it crashes but my machine has been up for the past 6 months (damn extended power outage), and the only thing that has crashed is Netscape.
Windows is very easy to install, and I've done it a few hundred times. Turn on machine, place cd in drive, boot from cd, enter a few numbers. Not to difficult.
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Actually the popular science articles were not talking about how to accelerate to a speed that fast but as a way around the whole notion of classical motion. The theories they had listed were the ability to bend space so much that you could fold space so that where you are and where you wanted to go where right next to each other. After you move to the new spot you allow space to reform and you have seeming moved faster than light speed
At home I run windows on Pentium 200MHZ processor with 64MB of ram. Windows runs fine. I use for almost all of my computer tasks. I don't know what kind of (ab)use you put your machine through but it might not be configured properly.
I personally like a few anime shows that aren't being released for a US audience at all. However thanks to a few good souls I usually get a subtitled copy a couple days after it originally aired in Japan. As for people saying that DivX quality sucks, well the episodes I get are excellent quality. And when played back on a 21 inch monitor, you never want to see it on a tv.
However, this doesn't change the fact that the boy committed suicide which is a deplorable incident. To the family I give my sympathy.
If foo is right I think the punishment was lenient. However, I'd say the school is blameless for the boy's death. Its good to see students showing such a strong interest in computers but the enthusiasm needs to be harnassed. In HS I was taking a typing class and I could hunt and peck better than most could touch type so I used all that extra time to start programming using GW-Basic, Turbo C, whatever was on the machine. The teacher saw what I was doing and instead of just punishing he gave me free reign and introduced me to the school sys admin. By the end of HS I could pretty much walk out of a class and just say computer work and be let go.
Direction is the key. The boy was apparently given none, so he did his own thing. Is it the schools fault for him breaking into the computer system? No. Is it the schools fault for him commiting suicide? No.
The Bose-Einstein condensate has nothing to do with computers, as a component anyway at least not yet. A Bose-Einstein condensate is what happens when a collection of molecules gets chilled to near 0K. Since there is almost no motion of molecules in the condensate the group is hoping to use it to perform tests on the molecules, atoms or anything else they can hit.
Let me get this straigt. You are saying Microsoft should have strongarmed even more and made people make computers to certain standards. Damn, no wonder Microsoft can't win. One minute they are being critized for having questionable practices and then the next being told they should have gone further.
He put it for sale on ebay. But the catch is he doesn't own it. He put it on lay-a-way and when the money comes in he gets it out and sends it on its way
Oh and I forgot, if they actually try to do this you can probably expect a wait for the game to start as the system loads the interpreter and then begins to load the game
I've been interested in the field of emulation for a long time. I've been using ARDI's Executor to emulate a mac as well as game system emulators. I understand the fact that to emulate a machine on a computer is a hard task to accomplish. However, Tesser, another slashdotter, has to be on the right idea. Capcom would have to have a little interpreter in the rom image so it could run the game. This sounds like a rough task, but once you have a interpreter done for one machine you could just use it for all games you want to release on that system. High initial startup costs and then its all easy going
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The point was that it shouldn't be licensed at all. Just put it out there in the public domain. Do with it as you please. It could end up in a closed source project, or an GPL project, or even a BSD licensed project. The government shouldn't help any company, there are exceptions, but should just put it out there for everyone to use as they see fit.
If microsoft can't get ahold of it neither can people who want to release under a BSD style license. It makes you follow a GPL license, something people might not want to do
On your machine the W98+IE5 are dog slow. That sucks mine works just fine. Its also works pretty fast as long as I don't open up around 20 IE windows. I think your system might need some tuning if that combination doesn't work to well.
Sure ballmer could have distinguised between the licenses, but I think he was mainly talking about the GPL. When he said if you use open source software, all of your software has to been open source. I read it to mean that if I use some opensourec code in Program Alpha I have to realease all the code to Alpha, which is what I have to do by law. However others on the forum are reading it as though if I use GPL'd code for Alpha, I have to release Beta through Omega as well under the GPL, which is incorrect. I think Ballmer could have reworded or clarified but I hope I'm reading it right or Microsoft needs to bring some people to decipher what the GPL actually says
He is right companies can't use it. What is the point of a company trying to sell something, which is what most companies do, when they have to, by law, release their additional work to the public for free. There can be no profit in that. So if Microsoft wants to keep making money, which I'm sure it does, so GPL'd code is out of the question. As for other open source, they do use it look at the ftp clients, based on bsd licensed software
Where is my mod points when I need them As far as his statement goes I think he is right. Any code funded by the US govt. should be under public domain meaning anyone can use for their purposes regardless. This is brought up by a fellow poster farther down. This comment is probably the most well thought out I have seen today, and he gets a troll. Oh yeah I forgot dis the GPL and blammo your hit hard on slashdot. Oh well if you want to mark something as a troll come and get me.
Inertia: refining a 20 year old operating system for use in the home, something it was not meant for. Innovation: I have to give it to BeOS or AtheOS. Sure Windows can do most of what these can do, but they started fresh, and made people go "kick ass"
And the original post said nothing about on board computers. I think thats probably all proprietary software thats in a rom somewhere.
I work as an network admin for a local college. Its one member of 4 sister campuses. We get our marching orders from a head admin. While at the main office they use a few versions of UNIX, everything at the campus level is Windows, and it looks like it will stay that way.
I still boot linux, but win2k is a great OS. Some people will say that it crashes but my machine has been up for the past 6 months (damn extended power outage), and the only thing that has crashed is Netscape.
Windows is very easy to install, and I've done it a few hundred times. Turn on machine, place cd in drive, boot from cd, enter a few numbers. Not to difficult.
Actually the popular science articles were not talking about how to accelerate to a speed that fast but as a way around the whole notion of classical motion. The theories they had listed were the ability to bend space so much that you could fold space so that where you are and where you wanted to go where right next to each other. After you move to the new spot you allow space to reform and you have seeming moved faster than light speed
And thanks to Steve and AOL filing friends of the court briefs, noone would ever expect them AOL and MS to team up
At home I run windows on Pentium 200MHZ processor with 64MB of ram. Windows runs fine. I use for almost all of my computer tasks. I don't know what kind of (ab)use you put your machine through but it might not be configured properly.
I personally like a few anime shows that aren't being released for a US audience at all. However thanks to a few good souls I usually get a subtitled copy a couple days after it originally aired in Japan. As for people saying that DivX quality sucks, well the episodes I get are excellent quality. And when played back on a 21 inch monitor, you never want to see it on a tv.
However, this doesn't change the fact that the boy committed suicide which is a deplorable incident. To the family I give my sympathy. If foo is right I think the punishment was lenient. However, I'd say the school is blameless for the boy's death. Its good to see students showing such a strong interest in computers but the enthusiasm needs to be harnassed. In HS I was taking a typing class and I could hunt and peck better than most could touch type so I used all that extra time to start programming using GW-Basic, Turbo C, whatever was on the machine. The teacher saw what I was doing and instead of just punishing he gave me free reign and introduced me to the school sys admin. By the end of HS I could pretty much walk out of a class and just say computer work and be let go. Direction is the key. The boy was apparently given none, so he did his own thing. Is it the schools fault for him breaking into the computer system? No. Is it the schools fault for him commiting suicide? No.
The Bose-Einstein condensate has nothing to do with computers, as a component anyway at least not yet. A Bose-Einstein condensate is what happens when a collection of molecules gets chilled to near 0K. Since there is almost no motion of molecules in the condensate the group is hoping to use it to perform tests on the molecules, atoms or anything else they can hit.
Let me get this straigt. You are saying Microsoft should have strongarmed even more and made people make computers to certain standards. Damn, no wonder Microsoft can't win. One minute they are being critized for having questionable practices and then the next being told they should have gone further.
I want the Got Root? shirt.
He put it for sale on ebay. But the catch is he doesn't own it. He put it on lay-a-way and when the money comes in he gets it out and sends it on its way
Actually you could run winNT 4.0 on PPC hardware
I happened to have a trident card lying around and installed it on my win98 box. They installed without a problem.
Oh and I forgot, if they actually try to do this you can probably expect a wait for the game to start as the system loads the interpreter and then begins to load the game
I would say that a loader program would emulate an "equal playing field" for the code they want to run.
I've been interested in the field of emulation for a long time. I've been using ARDI's Executor to emulate a mac as well as game system emulators. I understand the fact that to emulate a machine on a computer is a hard task to accomplish. However, Tesser, another slashdotter, has to be on the right idea. Capcom would have to have a little interpreter in the rom image so it could run the game. This sounds like a rough task, but once you have a interpreter done for one machine you could just use it for all games you want to release on that system. High initial startup costs and then its all easy going