You are incorrect. You can enhance the product all you like without distributing anything. If you distribute a derived work in binary form, you must give your changes to whomever you distribute the binary to. There is no requirement to give your changes to whomever or whatever you got the original from, unless they acquire a copy of the modified binaries and request said source from you.
The GPL does not prohibit you from selling your work in any way. What it does, is compel you to give the source code to any derived work to anyone that also receives the binaries, and you are allowed to charge a modest fee for *THAT*. It says nothing about selling the original work, only that the source must be available at no cost or for a minimal distribution fee.
You're kidding me. xclipboard is a horrible hack designed to overcome the limitations I mentioned. It creates a new window that you can temporarily copy stuff into. This would be no different from you opening up a small text editor and copying data into it to use elsewhere. You still have to fumble with the clipboard selection weirdness, and it doesn't automatically remove stuff from the clipboard to allow stack popping.
In any event, the large number of different and incompatible clipboard options offered by different applications is just making it difficult to implement any of them.
Oh, and tagging data types doesn't allow the clip source to convert the data to the type requested by the clip destination. It only allows the app to know if it understands the type or not.
It's certainly not the fastest way. The author has benchmarks that his "HyperQueues" are 3x faster than both domain sockets and System V shared memory. I'm sure that there are other more efficient mechanisms than domain sockets as well.
Hmm.. I fail to see how you can possibly think that X selections aren't broken. 2 simple examples that, AFAIK can't be accomplished with X selections but can in other OS's.
1) Select a bit of text, copy it to clipboard, switch to another app, highlight a bit of text you want replaced with your clipboard selection and past it in, replacing the newly highlighted text. Can't do this with X selections because highlighting the new text loses the old selection.
2) Clipboard stack, where you can copy multiple selections, the paste them into your document in reverse order.
This isn't even getting into the mechanism that other OS's use to translate clipboard entries to acceptable formats (for instance, copy Visio diagram, paste it into word and it can convert it to a bitmap image instead).
GSM works in the US as well. Several phone companies now use GSM. Around here, T-Mobile is GSM and AT&T has recently went to GSM. The problem with AT&T though is that they've simply added GSM to their TDMA towers, and GSM is a lower wattage, thus needs towers to be closer together than TDMA, so AT&T's coverage pretty much sucks.
As for Metric versus English units, It's true that some are just plain stupid (teaspoons, tablespoons, etc..) but Others make a lot more sense than their metric counterparts.
For instance, Farenheight makes more sense to me than Celsius/Centigrade. Basically, the "habital zone" is between 0 and 100. If it's higher than 100, or below 0, stay inside. Celsius just means you get negative temperatures during typical weather, or you have to figure out whether 42 degrees is too hot to go outside in.
While the "mile" is somewhat arbitrary, and Kilomoters are probably as good a measure as anything. Why is there no equivelent of a "foot"? Does anyone actually measure stuff in "decameters"? You basically have the centimeter and the meter. There's a lot of ground in between, so to speak. You're either dealing in 100's of centimeters, or fractions of meters.. just too much to get your head around.
And what about metric time? I've heard it exists, but NOBODY uses it.
Fact is, many kinds of english measurements make sense to the brain. It's a lot easier to break things up into different fractions when your measurement is 12 or 16 based (like inches or pounds) With base 16 you can easily do 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/8th, etc. With base 12 you get 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 and 1/12th pretty easily. With base 10, it's only easy to measure 1/2, 1/5, and 1/10th without going into more detailed fractions.
I *LIKE* most english measurements. They make sense to me without a lot of calculation. If you're some rainman, you probably don't care, but most of us aren't human calculators.
Driving on the left side of the road was common for many centuries. The reason, was that when two people met on a road, your sword hand would be facing your opponent.
In a civilization where people do not carry such weapons, driving on the left is not anywhere near as important as things like swerving to avoid accidents (which would likely be to the right for right handed people, which would move you into oncoming traffic if driving on the left).
Actually, UPnP has nothing to do with USB. USB is a transmission protocol, while UPnP is just an ordinary application protocol that rides on TCP or UDP or USB or whatever other protocol you choose to use.
XP didn't initially support USB 2 because XP's feature set was frozen prior to USB 2's finalization.
The problem is one of the USB forum's own making (well, both of them really). The problem is that people are confused by what the difference is between 1.1 and 2.0. People think 1.1 is incompatible with 2.0. What they should have done was simply removed the number altogether, and just renamed them something like USB Standard and USB Hi-Speed.
This is not the problem you think it is. The problem you are seeing is not because background processes are stealing CPU, it's because the shell is spawning new processes, and is blocked until the spawn is completed (synchronous process execution).
It does this so that it can notify you if a program in it's startup process fails to start for whatever reason.
If you have no programs being started by the shell, the shell becomes useable almost instantly when it appears (this includes the Run* keys in the registry, not just the Startup folders), even though background services are still starting.
This is somewhat exacerbated by some anti-virus programs which somehow block input until anti-virus is fully running.
Windows runs about 50% of all public web servers (servers, not hostnames. The netcraft survey normally counts hostnames not physical servers)
You can chalk this up to whatever you want, but it's still a fact that Windows runs the majority of web servers, and as such SQL Server probably runs the most DBMS's, at least for public services.
I think what most BSD proponents are upset about is that few GPL advocates truly understand the nature of the GPL, or what the politics are behind it.
I can't count the number of times I've talked to someone about the GPL and they think it means the software is public domain, or that it is something similar to a BSD license. Some even think that the GPL means you can't charge for software.
The fact is, the GPL is probalby more misunderstood than any commercial license, while the BSD license is incredibly straight forward
Actually, it's more likely for two reasons. The first (and already mentioned) reason is one of safety. It can't accidentally fall into the hole. But the second, is that a round cover uses less surface area and thus less iron.
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Go into the services MMC applet and stop the UPnP service, then set it to "Manual" or "Disabled". Shouldn't effect anything if you don't need or want UPnP. I've had it disabled since the third or 4th day I was using XP (when I stumbled across the open ports and tracked them down to UPnP).
You're off by several orders of magnitude. At last count, there were 36,458,394 responding sites on hostnames (according to netcraft). While this doesn't count sites such as home pages (domain.dom/~site or geocities) and the like, those sites aren't likely to be of interest to much of anyone. Of those 36 million hostnames, there are about 12 million which are "Active" (carry more than just a default page or are not just synonyms for the same site).
Still, 125,000 out of 12 million is roughtly 1%, which is statistically enough to gain a good sampling. If you visit 100 sites, you probably will visit 1 site with Hitbox.
Browserwatch tends not to be a good site because it's a little too self-selecting. It tends to attract people looking to validate their browser statistics, so it tends to have a higher alternative browser/os ratio than a more general site (such as cnn.com).
While the WebSideStory statistics aren't true representation for interesting reasons, they are probably not all that inaccurate (I mean, The difference between.25 and.50 may be 100% it's still less than 1% of the total).
Now, why do I say that? Well, There are still relative few companies that give their average user full power to surf the internet, which means that many corporate desktops, no matter what they're running, won't be counted. Also, many desktop users simply don't surf the net. So those are two major statistical variations not accounted for.
Of course, the same thing can be said about any statistic. Nielson ratings only select a certain subset of the population. Various polls are equally self-selecting.
However, statistical theory holds that random selections of people should be accurate within a certain percentage. So while it may not be completely accurate, it does have accuracy withing a certain range.
Now, unless all the sites polled were techical sites appealing only to technical types, chances are they were sites that average out to appeal to an average web surfer. There migh have been technical sites, or general news sites, or public forum sites, or they might have been ISP sites, with thousands of different sites running within them.
I think it's wrong to dismiss the findings as bogus. Unless the sites were specifically selected to appeal to only Mac and Windows users, chances are that it would average out in the end. There is no evidence that this is the case, so why claim it must be? Just because you don't like the numbers? That's equally as bad.
As far as IDC's corporate statistics. That may be true. 2% of corporate desktops may account to less than.25% of total desktops (remember, those are large corporations. There are easily as many small business desktops as total corporate desktops, plus there are easily as many non-corporate desktops as corporate and non-corporate combined. And that's not taking into account outside the US).
Last you checked, you weren't thinking about the real problem. The problem was not MS's OS licensing provisions. This was *BEFORE* all that. The problem was that IBM was a competitor to all the major OEM's, and none of them wanted to line their competitors pocket and be dependant upon them for their livelyhood.
Microsoft was OEM agnostic, IBM was not. That's what doomed OS/2.
Everyone is taking the easy stuff. How about some lesser known sources?
Here's mine. The very first "Buck Rogers" story in 1928 - called Armageddon-2419. It was originally published in Amazing Stories, and then published as a Novella shortly after.
The book, written by Philip Francis Nowlan, accurately predicted the bazooka, the jet plane, walkie-talkie for warfare, the infra-red ray gun for fighting at night, as well as dozens of other advances that are not here yet but are on their way.
It was interesting in that their ships were anti-gravity ships powered by a mineral called "Upsium" or something like that in which the mineral was antigravity because it was drawn to the nearest perfect vacuum (Hoover hadn't been invented yet I guess;)
I think the story author is missing the boat about books after WWII. By WWII, most theoretical science was well known. It's the stuff prior to WWII that is the most prescient.
Kinda like the Allchin, Balmer and Gates rants: All we want is for publically funded development to not be released under the GPL - not like that *ever* happens - but now we'll use that as a segue into a reant on the evils of the GPL.
The thing to keep in mind is that MS is not specifically targeting the GPL on this, but all licenses which have viral natures, some of which may or may not include provisions for GPLing code used by them.
Take Kylix for instance. Borland has stated specifically that any software developed with the "free" version of Kylix must be GPL'd, whether or not you include Kylix provided code in it. Merely using the Free Kylix IDE gives you an obligation to GPL your code.
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You are incorrect. You can enhance the product all you like without distributing anything. If you distribute a derived work in binary form, you must give your changes to whomever you distribute the binary to. There is no requirement to give your changes to whomever or whatever you got the original from, unless they acquire a copy of the modified binaries and request said source from you.
The GPL does not prohibit you from selling your work in any way. What it does, is compel you to give the source code to any derived work to anyone that also receives the binaries, and you are allowed to charge a modest fee for *THAT*. It says nothing about selling the original work, only that the source must be available at no cost or for a minimal distribution fee.
You're kidding me. xclipboard is a horrible hack designed to overcome the limitations I mentioned. It creates a new window that you can temporarily copy stuff into. This would be no different from you opening up a small text editor and copying data into it to use elsewhere. You still have to fumble with the clipboard selection weirdness, and it doesn't automatically remove stuff from the clipboard to allow stack popping.
In any event, the large number of different and incompatible clipboard options offered by different applications is just making it difficult to implement any of them.
Oh, and tagging data types doesn't allow the clip source to convert the data to the type requested by the clip destination. It only allows the app to know if it understands the type or not.
Er.. I meant System V message queues, not shared memory.
It's certainly not the fastest way. The author has benchmarks that his "HyperQueues" are 3x faster than both domain sockets and System V shared memory. I'm sure that there are other more efficient mechanisms than domain sockets as well.
Hmm.. I fail to see how you can possibly think that X selections aren't broken. 2 simple examples that, AFAIK can't be accomplished with X selections but can in other OS's.
1) Select a bit of text, copy it to clipboard, switch to another app, highlight a bit of text you want replaced with your clipboard selection and past it in, replacing the newly highlighted text. Can't do this with X selections because highlighting the new text loses the old selection.
2) Clipboard stack, where you can copy multiple selections, the paste them into your document in reverse order.
This isn't even getting into the mechanism that other OS's use to translate clipboard entries to acceptable formats (for instance, copy Visio diagram, paste it into word and it can convert it to a bitmap image instead).
GSM works in the US as well. Several phone companies now use GSM. Around here, T-Mobile is GSM and AT&T has recently went to GSM. The problem with AT&T though is that they've simply added GSM to their TDMA towers, and GSM is a lower wattage, thus needs towers to be closer together than TDMA, so AT&T's coverage pretty much sucks.
As for Metric versus English units, It's true that some are just plain stupid (teaspoons, tablespoons, etc..) but Others make a lot more sense than their metric counterparts.
For instance, Farenheight makes more sense to me than Celsius/Centigrade. Basically, the "habital zone" is between 0 and 100. If it's higher than 100, or below 0, stay inside. Celsius just means you get negative temperatures during typical weather, or you have to figure out whether 42 degrees is too hot to go outside in.
While the "mile" is somewhat arbitrary, and Kilomoters are probably as good a measure as anything. Why is there no equivelent of a "foot"? Does anyone actually measure stuff in "decameters"? You basically have the centimeter and the meter. There's a lot of ground in between, so to speak. You're either dealing in 100's of centimeters, or fractions of meters.. just too much to get your head around.
And what about metric time? I've heard it exists, but NOBODY uses it.
Fact is, many kinds of english measurements make sense to the brain. It's a lot easier to break things up into different fractions when your measurement is 12 or 16 based (like inches or pounds) With base 16 you can easily do 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/8th, etc. With base 12 you get 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 and 1/12th pretty easily. With base 10, it's only easy to measure 1/2, 1/5, and 1/10th without going into more detailed fractions.
I *LIKE* most english measurements. They make sense to me without a lot of calculation. If you're some rainman, you probably don't care, but most of us aren't human calculators.
Driving on the left side of the road was common for many centuries. The reason, was that when two people met on a road, your sword hand would be facing your opponent.
In a civilization where people do not carry such weapons, driving on the left is not anywhere near as important as things like swerving to avoid accidents (which would likely be to the right for right handed people, which would move you into oncoming traffic if driving on the left).
Actually, UPnP has nothing to do with USB. USB is a transmission protocol, while UPnP is just an ordinary application protocol that rides on TCP or UDP or USB or whatever other protocol you choose to use.
XP didn't initially support USB 2 because XP's feature set was frozen prior to USB 2's finalization.
The problem is one of the USB forum's own making (well, both of them really). The problem is that people are confused by what the difference is between 1.1 and 2.0. People think 1.1 is incompatible with 2.0. What they should have done was simply removed the number altogether, and just renamed them something like USB Standard and USB Hi-Speed.
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This is not the problem you think it is. The problem you are seeing is not because background processes are stealing CPU, it's because the shell is spawning new processes, and is blocked until the spawn is completed (synchronous process execution).
It does this so that it can notify you if a program in it's startup process fails to start for whatever reason.
If you have no programs being started by the shell, the shell becomes useable almost instantly when it appears (this includes the Run* keys in the registry, not just the Startup folders), even though background services are still starting.
This is somewhat exacerbated by some anti-virus programs which somehow block input until anti-virus is fully running.
Actually, IIS *IS* the most popular web server, or at least variants of it (Even Microsofts Personal Web Server for Win9x is based on IIS Code).
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Windows runs about 50% of all public web servers (servers, not hostnames. The netcraft survey normally counts hostnames not physical servers)
You can chalk this up to whatever you want, but it's still a fact that Windows runs the majority of web servers, and as such SQL Server probably runs the most DBMS's, at least for public services.
I think what most BSD proponents are upset about is that few GPL advocates truly understand the nature of the GPL, or what the politics are behind it.
I can't count the number of times I've talked to someone about the GPL and they think it means the software is public domain, or that it is something similar to a BSD license. Some even think that the GPL means you can't charge for software.
The fact is, the GPL is probalby more misunderstood than any commercial license, while the BSD license is incredibly straight forward
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Actually, it's more likely for two reasons. The first (and already mentioned) reason is one of safety. It can't accidentally fall into the hole. But the second, is that a round cover uses less surface area and thus less iron.
Go into the services MMC applet and stop the UPnP service, then set it to "Manual" or "Disabled". Shouldn't effect anything if you don't need or want UPnP. I've had it disabled since the third or 4th day I was using XP (when I stumbled across the open ports and tracked them down to UPnP).
You're off by several orders of magnitude. At last count, there were 36,458,394 responding sites on hostnames (according to netcraft). While this doesn't count sites such as home pages (domain.dom/~site or geocities) and the like, those sites aren't likely to be of interest to much of anyone. Of those 36 million hostnames, there are about 12 million which are "Active" (carry more than just a default page or are not just synonyms for the same site).
Still, 125,000 out of 12 million is roughtly 1%, which is statistically enough to gain a good sampling. If you visit 100 sites, you probably will visit 1 site with Hitbox.
Browserwatch tends not to be a good site because it's a little too self-selecting. It tends to attract people looking to validate their browser statistics, so it tends to have a higher alternative browser/os ratio than a more general site (such as cnn.com).
While the WebSideStory statistics aren't true representation for interesting reasons, they are probably not all that inaccurate (I mean, The difference between .25 and .50 may be 100% it's still less than 1% of the total).
.25% of total desktops (remember, those are large corporations. There are easily as many small business desktops as total corporate desktops, plus there are easily as many non-corporate desktops as corporate and non-corporate combined. And that's not taking into account outside the US).
Now, why do I say that? Well, There are still relative few companies that give their average user full power to surf the internet, which means that many corporate desktops, no matter what they're running, won't be counted. Also, many desktop users simply don't surf the net. So those are two major statistical variations not accounted for.
Of course, the same thing can be said about any statistic. Nielson ratings only select a certain subset of the population. Various polls are equally self-selecting.
However, statistical theory holds that random selections of people should be accurate within a certain percentage. So while it may not be completely accurate, it does have accuracy withing a certain range.
Now, unless all the sites polled were techical sites appealing only to technical types, chances are they were sites that average out to appeal to an average web surfer. There migh have been technical sites, or general news sites, or public forum sites, or they might have been ISP sites, with thousands of different sites running within them.
I think it's wrong to dismiss the findings as bogus. Unless the sites were specifically selected to appeal to only Mac and Windows users, chances are that it would average out in the end. There is no evidence that this is the case, so why claim it must be? Just because you don't like the numbers? That's equally as bad.
As far as IDC's corporate statistics. That may be true. 2% of corporate desktops may account to less than
Last you checked, you weren't thinking about the real problem. The problem was not MS's OS licensing provisions. This was *BEFORE* all that. The problem was that IBM was a competitor to all the major OEM's, and none of them wanted to line their competitors pocket and be dependant upon them for their livelyhood.
Microsoft was OEM agnostic, IBM was not. That's what doomed OS/2.
Everyone is taking the easy stuff. How about some lesser known sources?
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Here's mine. The very first "Buck Rogers" story in 1928 - called Armageddon-2419. It was originally published in Amazing Stories, and then published as a Novella shortly after.
The book, written by Philip Francis Nowlan, accurately predicted the bazooka, the jet plane, walkie-talkie for warfare, the infra-red ray gun for fighting at night, as well as dozens of other advances that are not here yet but are on their way.
It was interesting in that their ships were anti-gravity ships powered by a mineral called "Upsium" or something like that in which the mineral was antigravity because it was drawn to the nearest perfect vacuum (Hoover hadn't been invented yet I guess
I think the story author is missing the boat about books after WWII. By WWII, most theoretical science was well known. It's the stuff prior to WWII that is the most prescient.
Kinda like the Allchin, Balmer and Gates rants: All we want is for publically funded development to not be released under the GPL - not like that *ever* happens - but now we'll use that as a segue into a reant on the evils of the GPL.
Of course it happens. This government created code is GPL'd
You are making the mistake of thinking that the GPL is the only license that's viral.
I can create a license today that requires any code you write with my editor to belong to me. Or, (as borland has done) make the code GPL'd.
Using the Free Kylix IDE causes any code you develop with it to be GPL'd. Borland employees have stated that specifically on their newsgroups.
The thing to keep in mind is that MS is not specifically targeting the GPL on this, but all licenses which have viral natures, some of which may or may not include provisions for GPLing code used by them.
Take Kylix for instance. Borland has stated specifically that any software developed with the "free" version of Kylix must be GPL'd, whether or not you include Kylix provided code in it. Merely using the Free Kylix IDE gives you an obligation to GPL your code.
I wish someone would tell RMS that. Recall the KDE/QT debacle? RMS said that QT was in violation of the GPL because QT was linked with KDE.
In fact, RMS basically forced TrollTech to relicense QT to a GPL license.