They give all their code back, but their hardware is not even close to related to the GPL.
That is the problem. It's not their hardware, it is my hardware! While I guess it's their right to try to keep me from using my hardware as I see fit, it definitely goes against the spirit of the GPL, and I support the change.
Note that GNU was started because Richard Stallman was unable to modify the proprietary software in a printer, to be able to fix a bug. Now, after twenty or so years of successful GPLed software, he still wouldn't be able to fix the bug, because they might well lock down (sign and verify) the GPLed software in the printer!
But as a general rule, it's as a designation of ownership would make sense. John's computer, the computer's mouse, all make sense. Why not it's buttons? Using its in sentences like that is a special case that has to be memorised, because it does not make sense.
Yes, just like hi's, her's, your's, and their's. Oops...
I wonder if people that read this actually know how close to the truth it is. Sony tried to kill the VCR when it came out.
Umm, you seem to have your history a little bit screwed up. It was Sony who was sued for selling VCRs, not the other way around. It was only later that Sony became a content producer, and turned to the dark side...
I think Apple should go after them for more than just "trade secret revealing and developer coercing" but also libel and malicious intent.
What have they said that was libelous (keeping in mind that libel must be something that is untrue)?
Also, where in the world did you get the idea that there is anything actionable about "malicious intent"? "Malicious intent" is expected, even encouraged, in the business world -- it's called capitalism! Hint: you don't think that Apple orders their actions (advertising, pricing, marketing, etc.) so that Rio will have a bad quarter? Sounds like "malicious intent" to me...
I'm one of the bigger "Apple fanboys" that there are (spending three days at MacWorld next week), but a little bit of objectivity is encouraged. If you find that your feelings change when you substitute "Microsoft" for "Apple" in any situation, then you aren't being objective...
I use the UW IMAP server to handle all of my mail, and it supports MH folders. I could then drag them into local folders, but don't, because it is quite nice to be able to access all of my mail from anywhere that has access to my IMAP server...
All typewriters of that day had caps lock keys. One of the contributing reasons was because telegrams, that used uppercase only, were still the technology of choice for high speed long distance messaging. Another was carryover from manual typewriter design but that's too long a story for this post.
To be pedantic, typewriters had a shift lock, not a caps lock. So hitting the "3" key while locked would generate a "#" (lots of the numeric shift mappings were different between typewriters and current computer mapping, but I think that "3" and "#" were the same...).
OK, I hate to be rude, but I live in China, I have these DVDs in front of me, and you don't. I think I'm in a better position to be "sure" than you. The whole world does not have a single set price, especially not things where the cost of manufacture is negligible.
Actually, a good way to tell, that I've found, is that, if the disks are region-encoded, they're legit. If they're region-free, they're bootlegs.
My ex-girlfriend is from China, and she bought a bunch when she was last over there. When she got back, it was somewhat ironic that she could play the illegal discs, but not the legal ones! (At least, until I bought her a player with "loopholes"...)
The immediate problem I can see with this, is the same as using references in C++. There is no indication in the calling procedure that the variable passed in can be changed by the called procedure. In C, you can only do this by passing pointers, and as such you know that foo(&bar); can change the bar. (or that the variable you are passing in is a pointer, and thus can change what it's pointed too).
I'm not sure why the brain-dead moderator modded this as "flamebait" (though my post now pretty much is...). This is a good point, and while some may not agree with it, it is hardly "flamebait".
For the reason you mentioned, in my C++ code, I never use non-const reference function arguments (and I strongly encourage others to do the same; I think that there should be a g++ warning for this). As you noted, it is important to be able to read code, and have a pretty good idea of what it is doing, without having to look up the definition of every function that is being called. And seeing foo(&bar) versus foo(bar) makes it very evident that the former can change its argument...
Yes, my head is full of useless trivia (sure wish that I could replace it with something useful)! I could spend hours regurgitating the Apple ]['s memory map...
In California, Zero Emission Vehicles (not the Prius, but now-obsolete electric cars) can drive in the diamond lane with only one driver.
On the other hand, up here in Oregon, they increased (doubled?) the vehicle registration fees for hybrids, because those vehicles "don't pay their fair share of gas taxes". I kid you not!
If it were to be one of my children who could be "monitored" as such, I would make it clear (i) I wouldn't make use of such a tool, and (ii) the school did not have my permission to broadcast images of my children to other parents...
I'm about as far from a Mac basher as you can get, but you are completely off-base.
ECC can *detect* two-bit errors, and can *repair* single-bit errors. ECC memory is *not* the same as parity memory!
And ECC is not designed to catch "bad" memory, it is designed to handle bit errors that occur naturally with "good" memory.
All memory has a bit-error rate, which is incredibly low. However, given a system with gigabytes of RAM, you can expect a bit error every couple of days. Hopefully this error will be in an area that is non-criticle, but multiply this by a thousand or so processors, and there is a real risk.
And, since your message was so inflammatory, how about you do some f*cking research before you spout off next time...
When SCO first started making these claims, everyone said "Why doesn't some big name come out and say 'You're full of shit'". And now RedHat has done that with this lawsuit. And the same folks are saying this is a bad thing.
No, everyone did not say that. Some people said that. Why does everybody think that Slashdot is a collective with a single viewpoint. Sheesh!
Your government doesn't have a free e-filing service? Every tax program in Canada will generate a.tax file which you can then upload to the government's site.
Try to explain to me how such a free service could possibly benefit a corporation, and you'll see why such a free service isn't offered...
strcmp unfortunatly seems to be the logical eqivelant of strncmp(string1,string2, strlen(string1)) And many coders think at first glance that it will not return a match if the strings aren't the same length.
This is simply not true. Not that a counterexample disproves your statement (but this, combined with the manual page pretty much does), but this program:
#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h>
int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
printf("Compare is %d\n", strcmp("a", "ab"));
return 0; }
Produces the output:
Compare is -1
which is correct. Remember that "strcmp" produces a trinary output!
It's amazing how hard it is to get a good over-the-air signal. From my apartment I can SEE the actual antennas on the tower that transmit HDTV for my area, but the signal still goes in and out with a normal indoor UHF antenna.
Actually, the problem is likely that you are too close to the transmitters; you are probably being affected multipath distortion, which 8VSB (the modulation scheme used for HDTV) doesn't handle too well.
If you tune to an analog UHF channel, do you get significant ghosting? Ghosting is the analog manifestation of multipath; your HDTV receiver is having to deal with the same issue.
hmm well my TV is 4:3 and does 1080i it's a Panasonic CT-32HX42. I would imagine that a tv that does 1080i is hdtv.
It's very unlikely that your 4:3 television will display a full 1080 lines in the 16x9 area (or even at all) -- i.e. it will decimate the picture. At least as of a few months ago, there were no consumer (i.e. not professional) 4:3 televisions that would do this.
Note also that very few sets will resolve every horizontal pixel in a 1920x1080i display. (My rather highly-rated Pioneer projection set will resolve around 1350).
Maybe I'm missing the joke, but that last bit is Xenophoic and rude. H1B's have skills (or they wouldn't be here). Not knowing English that well doesn't make one illiterate - it makes them non-speakers of English. My Spanish sucks, but it would be a mistake to call me illiterate.
Bullshit!
Illiterate means "not literate", or, loosely, unable to read. I can say with all conviction that I am illiterate in Spanish, French, German, as well as in hundreds of African dialects.
That consistently results in c == -1, at least on every C compiler I've used for the last 20-odd years. But if that behavior isn't actually part of the standard, then I guess we'd need to define some standard macros for unsigned time_t math to produce correct results portably.
This works because your system uses two's complement arithmetic. It would fail on a system with a different arithmetic system. It's unlikely that you'll ever work on such a system, but they could exist (and, more importantly, could exist, which is why the operation is undefined in the C standard!).
I agree. I am NOT a photographer and my living doesn't demand perfect colors, etc, but I can easily see the defficiencies.
As for sharpness, I think a good CRT does fine. It might take going into service mode to fine tune the beam focus.
As long as you realize that some of us think that the sharpness on CRTs (even a well-adjusted top-of-the-line Sony) is subpar when compared to an LCD, while the color rendering of current LCDs is sufficient.
My work involves writing software for professional video systems, and there are a lot of video editors who use Final Cut Pro on a Mac, connected to their (beautiful, IMO) LCD monitors.
It's difficult to state such absolute judgements as "color rendition is poor, but sharpness is okay" -- people have different priorities, and it's important to take those into account before making such absolute statements.
Myself, I sit in front of code all day, and love the sharpness of an LCD (though I don't have one yet, since I won't settle for less than 1600x1200, and those are still too expensive), and frankly don't care how accurate the colors are, as long as red looks different than blue...
Stupid people have obviously never worked with big, complicated software before. Take something like gcc or gdb. You have a bunch of functions that you implement to support a new target and give them to gdb so it can call them. These have a defined API so you have to implement them with the same arguments. If you don't use one of the arguments, you get a compiler warning. Hence a=a. The compiler will optimize all that redundancy out anyway.
I've never seen a compiler that would flag unused function arguments as errors. However, if I were to encounter such a beast, I think that using:
But then there are people driving 0.5 miles to the local WalMart with their Ford Excursions. Not only do they take up 1 1/3 parking spaces, but they make it impossible to see oncoming traffic when I'm trying to back out of my space.
DMCA doesn't make any distinction between copying and listening. DMCA talks about access. It applies here.
Besides the fact that some butthead lawyer set a precedent sometime back, by deciding that copying data/programs from the hard disk into memory is covered by copyright law...
MS can't win on Slashdot. If they raise their prices they get accused of being a monopoly and abusing it. If they lower their prices they get accused of "dumping" and undercutting the competition.
Microsoft is not lowering its (their?) prices. They're just offering better pricing to those accounts who they believe might switch (and presumably are big enough to make them care). This is a big difference IMO...
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Which makes it nearly impossible for Linux to be licensed under GPLV3 anyway...
That is the problem. It's not their hardware, it is my hardware! While I guess it's their right to try to keep me from using my hardware as I see fit, it definitely goes against the spirit of the GPL, and I support the change.
Note that GNU was started because Richard Stallman was unable to modify the proprietary software in a printer, to be able to fix a bug. Now, after twenty or so years of successful GPLed software, he still wouldn't be able to fix the bug, because they might well lock down (sign and verify) the GPLed software in the printer!
Yes, just like hi's, her's, your's, and their's. Oops...
Umm, you seem to have your history a little bit screwed up. It was Sony who was sued for selling VCRs, not the other way around. It was only later that Sony became a content producer, and turned to the dark side...
What have they said that was libelous (keeping in mind that libel must be something that is untrue)?
Also, where in the world did you get the idea that there is anything actionable about "malicious intent"? "Malicious intent" is expected, even encouraged, in the business world -- it's called capitalism! Hint: you don't think that Apple orders their actions (advertising, pricing, marketing, etc.) so that Rio will have a bad quarter? Sounds like "malicious intent" to me...
I'm one of the bigger "Apple fanboys" that there are (spending three days at MacWorld next week), but a little bit of objectivity is encouraged. If you find that your feelings change when you substitute "Microsoft" for "Apple" in any situation, then you aren't being objective...
I use the UW IMAP server to handle all of my mail, and it supports MH folders. I could then drag them into local folders, but don't, because it is quite nice to be able to access all of my mail from anywhere that has access to my IMAP server...
Actually, a good way to tell, that I've found, is that, if the disks are region-encoded, they're legit. If they're region-free, they're bootlegs.
My ex-girlfriend is from China, and she bought a bunch when she was last over there. When she got back, it was somewhat ironic that she could play the illegal discs, but not the legal ones! (At least, until I bought her a player with "loopholes"...)
For the reason you mentioned, in my C++ code, I never use non-const reference function arguments (and I strongly encourage others to do the same; I think that there should be a g++ warning for this). As you noted, it is important to be able to read code, and have a pretty good idea of what it is doing, without having to look up the definition of every function that is being called. And seeing foo(&bar) versus foo(bar) makes it very evident that the former can change its argument...
I think that you mean PR #3
Yes, my head is full of useless trivia (sure wish that I could replace it with something useful)! I could spend hours regurgitating the Apple ]['s memory map...
In California, Zero Emission Vehicles (not the Prius, but now-obsolete electric cars) can drive in the diamond lane with only one driver.
On the other hand, up here in Oregon, they increased (doubled?) the vehicle registration fees for hybrids, because those vehicles "don't pay their fair share of gas taxes". I kid you not!
If it were to be one of my children who could be "monitored" as such, I would make it clear (i) I wouldn't make use of such a tool, and (ii) the school did not have my permission to broadcast images of my children to other parents...
I'm about as far from a Mac basher as you can get, but you are completely off-base.
ECC can *detect* two-bit errors, and can *repair* single-bit errors. ECC memory is *not* the same as parity memory!
And ECC is not designed to catch "bad" memory, it is designed to handle bit errors that occur naturally with "good" memory.
All memory has a bit-error rate, which is incredibly low. However, given a system with gigabytes of RAM, you can expect a bit error every couple of days. Hopefully this error will be in an area that is non-criticle, but multiply this by a thousand or so processors, and there is a real risk.
And, since your message was so inflammatory, how about you do some f*cking research before you spout off next time...
When SCO first started making these claims, everyone said "Why doesn't some big name come out and say 'You're full of shit'". And now RedHat has done that with this lawsuit. And the same folks are saying this is a bad thing.
No, everyone did not say that. Some people said that. Why does everybody think that Slashdot is a collective with a single viewpoint. Sheesh!
Try to explain to me how such a free service could possibly benefit a corporation, and you'll see why such a free service isn't offered...
This is simply not true. Not that a counterexample disproves your statement (but this, combined with the manual page pretty much does), but this program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
printf("Compare is %d\n", strcmp("a", "ab"));
return 0;
}
Produces the output:
Compare is -1
which is correct. Remember that "strcmp" produces a trinary output!
Actually, the problem is likely that you are too close to the transmitters; you are probably being affected multipath distortion, which 8VSB (the modulation scheme used for HDTV) doesn't handle too well.
If you tune to an analog UHF channel, do you get significant ghosting? Ghosting is the analog manifestation of multipath; your HDTV receiver is having to deal with the same issue.
(Note that I have the same problem).
It's very unlikely that your 4:3 television will display a full 1080 lines in the 16x9 area (or even at all) -- i.e. it will decimate the picture. At least as of a few months ago, there were no consumer (i.e. not professional) 4:3 televisions that would do this.
Note also that very few sets will resolve every horizontal pixel in a 1920x1080i display. (My rather highly-rated Pioneer projection set will resolve around 1350).
Bullshit!
Illiterate means "not literate", or, loosely, unable to read. I can say with all conviction that I am illiterate in Spanish, French, German, as well as in hundreds of African dialects.
What did you think that "illiterate" meant?
This works because your system uses two's complement arithmetic. It would fail on a system with a different arithmetic system. It's unlikely that you'll ever work on such a system, but they could exist (and, more importantly, could exist, which is why the operation is undefined in the C standard!).
My work involves writing software for professional video systems, and there are a lot of video editors who use Final Cut Pro on a Mac, connected to their (beautiful, IMO) LCD monitors.
It's difficult to state such absolute judgements as "color rendition is poor, but sharpness is okay" -- people have different priorities, and it's important to take those into account before making such absolute statements.
Myself, I sit in front of code all day, and love the sharpness of an LCD (though I don't have one yet, since I won't settle for less than 1600x1200, and those are still too expensive), and frankly don't care how accurate the colors are, as long as red looks different than blue...
I've never seen a compiler that would flag unused function arguments as errors. However, if I were to encounter such a beast, I think that using:
(void) a;
is a lot clearer than is:
a = a;
Can't you just look under them?
Besides the fact that some butthead lawyer set a precedent sometime back, by deciding that copying data/programs from the hard disk into memory is covered by copyright law...
Microsoft is not lowering its (their?) prices. They're just offering better pricing to those accounts who they believe might switch (and presumably are big enough to make them care). This is a big difference IMO...