Of course it does. In fact, if you read the preamble, you'd have seen: "To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it."
The fact that you release code under the GPL automatically restricts how it can be used. If you want to place NO restrictions on its use, you need to use a different license.
For one thing, compiling takes time. It would take about a week of compiling non-stop to set up a full desktop
That only needs to be done once by someone with a website. After that, anyone can download the recompiled applications. This is no different from providing PPC/Intel/ARM binaries for the same app. They're all just different versions of the binary.
And some things MUST be
binaries. For example, boot sectors and bootable CDs
Those are also the kind of things that would not benefit from binary compatibility at all, as they are not run on top of the OS.
It's interesting to see slashdot wonder about binary compatibility, since the typical slashdot reader is into "free" software. Why bother with binary compatibility when the source is available for recompiling?
There are currently about 5 million high tech jobs. There are about.5 million H-1B workers currently in the US. The majority of H-1B visas are issued for high tech jobs. If every H-1B worker took a job away from an American, half a million American high tech workers would be out of a job, representing 10% of the total. Let's play with those numbers a bit more, and consider Silicon Valley. Let's pretend that Santa Clara county's record 7.9% unemployment rate applies to the entire SF Bay Area, that all 5 million hightech jobs are available there, and all.5 million H-1B workers work there, taking jobs away from Americans. In this worst-case scenario, we have 5 million total jobs, with 4.5 million of those occupied by Americans, and.5 million occupied by H-1B workers. Since unemployment rate is 7.9% we can calculate that there is a total of 4,886,000 American workers available, 386,000 of them (7.9%) being unemployed in this sector. You could theoretically achieve 100% employment by sending home 386,000 H-1B employees, and replacing them with Americans. You would still need 114,000 H-1B employees to fill all jobs. However, if we consider that even an extremely healthy economy will have an unemployment rate of 1-2%, we don't need to go that far. In order to bring unemployment among American high tech workers down to 1%, you would send 337,000 H-1B workers away. You would then have 4,837,000 American workers, 163,000 H-1B employees, and 49000 high tech unemployed Americans. Of course, the US economy is not healty at all. If we restate our goal to reducing unemployment in the high tech sector to the same level as the rest of the economy, the numbers change again. In order to bring unemployment in our high tech example down to 5% (nationwide average is 5.8), we only need to send home 142,000 H-1B workers, leaving 358,000 H-1B workers, 4,642,000 Americans working, and 244,000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Seeing as how George has already stated he wants the international community to help rebuild Iraq, I'd say the US will just go in, secure "their" oil, and then leave the mess for others to clean up.
Does the Slashdot community have any points that I can give my grandfather to present to the Board next month?
Your grandfather should tell the board that students that don't know how to use Microsoft products are useless in the workplace, and that therefore it is the college's duty to make sure their students are familiar with Microsoft products. Completely ridding the place of all things Microsoft is not the way to do that.
Is "Homeland Security" really dumb enough to think that they can catch terrorists by getting this information from airlines? Well, they think they can catch terrorists by asking immigrants from certain countries to re-register with the INS, so I guess they really ARE THAT dumb...
This is another useless measure. The US can't even keep the drugs out of their country. What makes them think they can keep terrorists out? What makes them even think that terrorists would give themselves away like by not ordering pork? The 9/11 hijackers were clean-shaven and drank alcohol the nights before 9/11. Meanwhile US "intelligence"
was on the lookout for devout muslims (who don't drink alcohol) with long beards. Religious jews don't eat pork either, BTW.
The bill that was signed does not say that programmers who make less than $41 per hour must be paid overtime. Quite the opposite: the bill specifically creates overtime-exemptions for certain employees who make more than $41. You might think that is the same, however it is not.
The bill creates an exemption for (some) hourly-paid professionals, where previously only salaried employees (those who are not paid by the hour) were exempt. All programmers I know are salaried. If you happen to be a programmer at a company where you need to punch in and out every day, and your hours are counted, then you might be entitled to overtime pay, however this bill has little to do with that (as it is about creating exemptions to the right to paid overtime).
Users will be able to download from the Internet at speeds up to 3M bps (bits per second) and upload, initially, at speeds up to 128K bps, according to Lufthansa.
That's probably marketing speak for: "a single 3M/128K connection will be shared among all users".
Dual-licensing is nothing new. But even if dual-licensing works for some, the fact still remains that you are giving away your product for everyone to look at. Companies that consider their code trade-secrets will never do this.
Did I say MPEG sucks? Did I mention Ogg? Do you always jump to conclusions like that?
All I meant to say was that instead of MPEG, which you would have to decode and then encode again in order to lower the bitrate, some other format could be used where you can "peel away" part of the data. This would have the advantage of not degrading the quality more than necessary, and not being CPU intensive, so it could be done on the device itself.
...I think global warming falls into the same category, trendy pseudo-science.
Global warming is undeniably real. What's a matter of debate is whether humanity contributes significantly to it, or if it's just part of the normal cycle.
Two things. First of all, there's only one (or at most two) MPEG encoder ASIC's in a PVR, so you'd only be able to transcode shows while the encoder was not in use. My TiVo is busy just about all the time, either recording stuff I asked for or stuff it thinks I'll like. So that won't work.
That is assuming that the DEcoder hardware can decode in such a way that the ENcoder hardware can access the decoded data in the first place. That's why I proposed having the recoding done on another machine (the TiVo's host CPU is too feeble). I guess you missed that part of my comment...
Second, low-bit-rate MPEG transcoded to even-lower-bit-rate MPEG comes out looking like hammered shit. TiVo's picture quality is bad enough without multiple generations of increasingly constrained encoding making things even worse.
Having crappy video still beats having no video at all. For next-gen boxes, they could consider using a different format that supports bitrate peeling. That would degrade quality more gracefully (the quality of a reduced-rate stream would be the same as if it had been recorded at that rate in the first place).
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Of course it does. In fact, if you read the preamble, you'd have seen: "To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it." The fact that you release code under the GPL automatically restricts how it can be used. If you want to place NO restrictions on its use, you need to use a different license.
Nonsense. AMD can develop their own anti-overclocking technology, as long as it's different from Intel's.
If anything, AMD should use this as a marketing ploy: "Want to overclock? Use AMD!".
Righ here
I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that all versions of MacOS running on Intel will be binary compatible with each other. Do you?
That only needs to be done once by someone with a website. After that, anyone can download the recompiled applications. This is no different from providing PPC/Intel/ARM binaries for the same app. They're all just different versions of the binary.
And some things MUST be binaries. For example, boot sectors and bootable CDs
Those are also the kind of things that would not benefit from binary compatibility at all, as they are not run on top of the OS.
It's interesting to see slashdot wonder about binary compatibility, since the typical slashdot reader is into "free" software. Why bother with binary compatibility when the source is available for recompiling?
Oh yes you do...
There are currently about 5 million high tech jobs. There are about .5 million H-1B workers currently in the US. The majority of H-1B visas are issued for high tech jobs. If every H-1B worker took a job away from an American, half a million American high tech workers would be out of a job, representing 10% of the total. .5 million H-1B workers work there, taking jobs away from Americans. In this worst-case scenario, we have 5 million total jobs, with 4.5 million of those occupied by Americans, and .5 million occupied by H-1B workers. Since unemployment rate is 7.9% we can calculate that there is a total of 4,886,000 American workers available, 386,000 of them (7.9%) being unemployed in this sector. You could theoretically achieve 100% employment by sending home 386,000 H-1B employees, and replacing them with Americans. You would still need 114,000 H-1B employees to fill all jobs.
Let's play with those numbers a bit more, and consider Silicon Valley. Let's pretend that Santa Clara county's record 7.9% unemployment rate applies to the entire SF Bay Area, that all 5 million hightech jobs are available there, and all
However, if we consider that even an extremely healthy economy will have an unemployment rate of 1-2%, we don't need to go that far. In order to bring unemployment among American high tech workers down to 1%, you would send 337,000 H-1B workers away. You would then have 4,837,000 American workers, 163,000 H-1B employees, and 49000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Of course, the US economy is not healty at all. If we restate our goal to reducing unemployment in the high tech sector to the same level as the rest of the economy, the numbers change again. In order to bring unemployment in our high tech example down to 5% (nationwide average is 5.8), we only need to send home 142,000 H-1B workers, leaving 358,000 H-1B workers, 4,642,000 Americans working, and 244,000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Seeing as how George has already stated he wants the international community to help rebuild Iraq, I'd say the US will just go in, secure "their" oil, and then leave the mess for others to clean up.
Your grandfather should tell the board that students that don't know how to use Microsoft products are useless in the workplace, and that therefore it is the college's duty to make sure their students are familiar with Microsoft products. Completely ridding the place of all things Microsoft is not the way to do that.
Doing a reverse search quickly turned up that the person living at that address is one H.A. Berns.
Also, the zipcode listed above is wrong.
Full data:
Berns, H.A
Jacobus van 't Hoffstraat 69
6533MS Nijmegen
tel. 024-3556088
- Get the pork, but don't eat it
- Don't use a credit card
- Wear western clothes
- Shave
- Travel with a hot babe in skimpy clothing
Is "Homeland Security" really dumb enough to think that they can catch terrorists by getting this information from airlines? Well, they think they can catch terrorists by asking immigrants from certain countries to re-register with the INS, so I guess they really ARE THAT dumb...This is another useless measure. The US can't even keep the drugs out of their country. What makes them think they can keep terrorists out? What makes them even think that terrorists would give themselves away like by not ordering pork? The 9/11 hijackers were clean-shaven and drank alcohol the nights before 9/11. Meanwhile US "intelligence" was on the lookout for devout muslims (who don't drink alcohol) with long beards. Religious jews don't eat pork either, BTW.
The bill that was signed does not say that programmers who make less than $41 per hour must be paid overtime. Quite the opposite: the bill specifically creates overtime-exemptions for certain employees who make more than $41. You might think that is the same, however it is not.
The bill creates an exemption for (some) hourly-paid professionals, where previously only salaried employees (those who are not paid by the hour) were exempt. All programmers I know are salaried. If you happen to be a programmer at a company where you need to punch in and out every day, and your hours are counted, then you might be entitled to overtime pay, however this bill has little to do with that (as it is about creating exemptions to the right to paid overtime).
Some people might voice some objections, but when push comes to shove they'll all give in, if that's what it takes to get a driving license.
According to the specs the thing has a 24-bit address-space, which would limit it to 16 MB of memory...
Do you even know the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption, or are you just trolling?
The word "downloading" takes on a whole different meaning when you're 6 miles up in the air...
That's probably marketing speak for: "a single 3M/128K connection will be shared among all users".
Dual-licensing is nothing new. But even if dual-licensing works for some, the fact still remains that you are giving away your product for everyone to look at. Companies that consider their code trade-secrets will never do this.
Ah yes, I forgot... Posting on slashdot is about "karma", not about saying something meaningful...
Did I say MPEG sucks? Did I mention Ogg? Do you always jump to conclusions like that?
All I meant to say was that instead of MPEG, which you would have to decode and then encode again in order to lower the bitrate, some other format could be used where you can "peel away" part of the data. This would have the advantage of not degrading the quality more than necessary, and not being CPU intensive, so it could be done on the device itself.
Global warming is undeniably real. What's a matter of debate is whether humanity contributes significantly to it, or if it's just part of the normal cycle.
That is assuming that the DEcoder hardware can decode in such a way that the ENcoder hardware can access the decoded data in the first place. That's why I proposed having the recoding done on another machine (the TiVo's host CPU is too feeble). I guess you missed that part of my comment...
Second, low-bit-rate MPEG transcoded to even-lower-bit-rate MPEG comes out looking like hammered shit. TiVo's picture quality is bad enough without multiple generations of increasingly constrained encoding making things even worse.
Having crappy video still beats having no video at all. For next-gen boxes, they could consider using a different format that supports bitrate peeling. That would degrade quality more gracefully (the quality of a reduced-rate stream would be the same as if it had been recorded at that rate in the first place).