I like to think I was answering the underlying question "why should any update require me to go save all the places my web browser is on, save up drafts fo email I'm writing, remember all the stuff I was in the middle of...and reboot". (of corse it would be nice if my web browser and other apps could just be told to "re-open the way you are now!")
I must have missed the dialog saying "Ok, done, but you have to reboot. now. RIGHT NOW. WITH NO DELAY. I'LL GIVE YOU THREE SECONDS"
If you're so bothered, compile your own, it's not hard. Remember 90% of the users of OSX aren't gonna have Apache and SSH running, so it isn't a concern...
One thing I would really play on is the personal customer service you can offer - One thing that always worries me about 'mom and pop' buying computers is that they don't really know how to use them.
Sure, their son Jim knows a bit, or the guy across the road can point them in the right direction, but I don't think there is anything like someone being able to run down to a store and get a knowledgable person being able to run through it with them...
In fact, if you want to push it even further, include a couple of hours home tuition with it. They aren't gonna get that down at Walmart...
But if you want to start a conspiracy - Ethernet, MAC address, globally uniqueq... Serial number, globally unique... They know what shop you bought it in... Shops have CCTV... THEY HAVE PICTURES OF YOU! A
MS realise that if development/hacking on the xbox becomes big, it's only a matter of time before all it really becomes is a very cheap, medium-spec PC.
Plus to be able to target the Xbox from a compiler, you're going to need to do a fair bit of reverse engineering, so they have you covered from that angle.
Development/hacking on the GBA is a little different - Nintendo don't really have anything to lose by letting you play with the hardware, you're not going to undermine their whole console business. Anyway, if you did come up with something amazing on the GBA, they would contact you. But only to offer to distribute it for you...
You obviously don't understand the mindset of these people. It doesn't matter that there is an easy option. It doesn't matter that they can run MAME on the PC they already own, under all 32898 operating systems that they could install on it. It matters that no-one else has done this before, that it's a challenge, and possibly because it's-oh-so-naughty to do it.
Or maybe it's nothing to do with that, perhaps they just have a perverse liking of lawyers...
You're going to need their Xbox to compile up the source. And then you are bound by their terms and conditions, which you can bet includes "no unauthorised distribution of binaries".
But then Sony does this with their SDK too ($50,000 for the PS2 developers kit last time I noticed, nice), so let's look at it being console makers trying to protect themselves rather than Microsoft trying to fuck over the X-box owning public.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP operation system.
Cool! Brain surgery out of the box!
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
I remember the days, sitting at home, on my Windows 98 box, waiting for the day when deleting of data from my hard drive would become possible. Finally, Microsoft has answered my prayers. Thank you Bill Gates, thank you!
Have we tried this with AIDS yet? Might be that a male with AIDS and a female with AIDS produces a child without AIDS. Interesting story
anyways.
Actually, this is possible. No child in France for over 10 years whose mother was HIV positive has been born HIV positive. I find this amazing that this is possible.
At any rate, why do people assume that because I'm a geek
and have a high IQ, that I shouldn't be able to bench press my weight or that I think sports are pointless?
Works for me, and I've certainly never registered with 'em. Funny though, since I couldn't get to another partners.nytimes.com article a couple of days ago...
Read the f* license. You do not need to accept GPL unless you plan to distribute your program. That is GPL explicitly allows you to make changes to the GPL code
without releasing them as long as you don't redistribute it. Once again: GPL covers redistribution, not use. This is a very important distinction. All proprietary licenses
I've seen "grant" you the "right to use" a piece of software. Well, guess what? this is a false premise. The copyright law covers *distribution*, not *use*.
How does this affect web sites using GPLed code behind the scenes? Since I am not distributing the code, or the binary, or in fact any part of the web site, all I am doing is sending the output of the code to various clients around the world, does this mean that I can keep the code behind the web site closed source?
Why not use Postgres? It's a real database,
real locking etc., commits/rollbacks (called "Transactions" to you msql/mysql boys)
and it doesn't have a communist licence.
OK, I concede it doesn't have "real locking", but check out the MySQL site and you shall see that "commits/rollbacks (called 'Transactions' to us msql/mysql boys) are there, and the communist license is actually the GPL.
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The information was gained illegally, so the possession or use of this information becomes illegal. The US judicial system does frown upon
corporate espionage, which is how this would be considered. I believe that this would be illegal in most EU countries in regards to copyright
laws.
Still, the fact the information was gained illegally doesn't mean anything - Compare with DeCSS, for example...
If *nix is a superior OS to Windows, and you have the source code for *nix, then where is the desire to have the microsoft source? This would
be a step backwards, which in the software world, is downright stupid.
How would having the Windows code be a step backwards. Having it would be very useful, having as much reference material as possible is good. It doesn't mean people are suddenly going to drop their current kernel code tree and start using the Windows one... We can do that by installing Windows now.
I see what you mean, although it might not be actually a straight correspondance, there's probably a higher percentage who have / use
computers and don't also have internet access.
Oh, I agree completely, there are probably more people with computers, but I suspect the point that only 5% of non-English speakers have computers holds.
...but even throughout most of europe, the internet is only just now starting to get the kind of attention it did in N.A. around
'97.
I agree with you here, but since by now the Internet is a proven thing rather than a "new fangled" thing, the take up has been much quicker, and growing quicker and quicker. A third of the UK are on the 'net, and largely speaking, that number has gotten online in the past 18 months, and the numbers are increasing all the time. Not as impressive as the 50% of Americans that the numbers seem to show are online, but as you say, we are perhaps 3 or 4 years behind you in terms of the attention given to the Internet.
If you can imagine if the take up in countries "new" to the Internet is as quick, or even quicker, it follows that within a few years from now, we're going to have a massive %age of the world's population on-line (We are approaching 5% at the moment), and as the figures in this discussion show, English is only the third (Or it's predicted in 2010, the fourth) most spoken language throughout the world, and it'll soon lose it's label of the "Internet Global Language"...
I would guess that your typical Japanese person retains about as much English from school as a typical American retains from a few years of
high school French. (Not much.)
I wouldn't say that is true. I imagine that there is a lot of English speaking on the TV, well, certainly more that French speaking on US TV, so I think the retention of English for Japanese people would be higher.
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I like to think I was answering the underlying question "why should any update require me to go save all the places my web browser is on, save up drafts fo email I'm writing, remember all the stuff I was in the middle of...and reboot". (of corse it would be nice if my web browser and other apps could just be told to "re-open the way you are now!")
I must have missed the dialog saying "Ok, done, but you have to reboot. now. RIGHT NOW. WITH NO DELAY. I'LL GIVE YOU THREE SECONDS"
If you're so bothered, compile your own, it's not hard. Remember 90% of the users of OSX aren't gonna have Apache and SSH running, so it isn't a concern ...
One thing I would really play on is the personal customer service you can offer - One thing that always worries me about 'mom and pop' buying computers is that they don't really know how to use them.
...
...
Sure, their son Jim knows a bit, or the guy across the road can point them in the right direction, but I don't think there is anything like someone being able to run down to a store and get a knowledgable person being able to run through it with them
In fact, if you want to push it even further, include a couple of hours home tuition with it. They aren't gonna get that down at Walmart
Actually, the OS isn't totally proprietary http://www.xbox365.com/stories/xdkcomplete.shtml.
... Serial number, globally unique ... They know what shop you bought it in ... Shops have CCTV ... THEY HAVE PICTURES OF YOU! A
But if you want to start a conspiracy - Ethernet, MAC address, globally uniqueq
MS realise that if development/hacking on the xbox becomes big, it's only a matter of time before all it really becomes is a very cheap, medium-spec PC.
...
Plus to be able to target the Xbox from a compiler, you're going to need to do a fair bit of reverse engineering, so they have you covered from that angle.
Development/hacking on the GBA is a little different - Nintendo don't really have anything to lose by letting you play with the hardware, you're not going to undermine their whole console business. Anyway, if you did come up with something amazing on the GBA, they would contact you. But only to offer to distribute it for you
Of about 528? What, 527.7? 528.1? What?
You obviously don't understand the mindset of these people. It doesn't matter that there is an easy option. It doesn't matter that they can run MAME on the PC they already own, under all 32898 operating systems that they could install on it. It matters that no-one else has done this before, that it's a challenge, and possibly because it's-oh-so-naughty to do it.
...
Or maybe it's nothing to do with that, perhaps they just have a perverse liking of lawyers
You're going to need their Xbox to compile up the source. And then you are bound by their terms and conditions, which you can bet includes "no unauthorised distribution of binaries".
But then Sony does this with their SDK too ($50,000 for the PS2 developers kit last time I noticed, nice), so let's look at it being console makers trying to protect themselves rather than Microsoft trying to fuck over the X-box owning public.
Well, get the source and do it yourself :)
... Just ain't enough time in the day!
Actually, this is something I've been meaning to do, I'm in the same boat as you, and yep, it's annoying
if (!scp->r_io)
...
goto failure;
BASIC kicks ass
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP operation system.
Cool! Brain surgery out of the box!
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
I remember the days, sitting at home, on my Windows 98 box, waiting for the day when deleting of data from my hard drive would become possible. Finally, Microsoft has answered my prayers. Thank you Bill Gates, thank you!
Did they not get around that by including YABasic on the demo CD that comes with the PS2?
Well, I think the word is word ...
I bet you're not as pissed as some innocent victims were two weeks ago.
Have we tried this with AIDS yet? Might be that a male with AIDS and a female with AIDS produces a child without AIDS. Interesting story anyways.
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Actually, this is possible. No child in France for over 10 years whose mother was HIV positive has been born HIV positive. I find this amazing that this is possible.
At any rate, why do people assume that because I'm a geek and have a high IQ, that I shouldn't be able to bench press my weight or that I think sports are pointless?
/s/people/slashdot readers
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Works for me, and I've certainly never registered with 'em. Funny though, since I couldn't get to another partners.nytimes.com article a couple of days ago ...
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Read the f* license. You do not need to accept GPL unless you plan to distribute your program. That is GPL explicitly allows you to make changes to the GPL code without releasing them as long as you don't redistribute it. Once again: GPL covers redistribution, not use. This is a very important distinction. All proprietary licenses I've seen "grant" you the "right to use" a piece of software. Well, guess what? this is a false premise. The copyright law covers *distribution*, not *use*.
How does this affect web sites using GPLed code behind the scenes? Since I am not distributing the code, or the binary, or in fact any part of the web site, all I am doing is sending the output of the code to various clients around the world, does this mean that I can keep the code behind the web site closed source?
Why not use Postgres? It's a real database, real locking etc., commits/rollbacks (called "Transactions" to you msql/mysql boys) and it doesn't have a communist licence.
.iMMersE
OK, I concede it doesn't have "real locking", but check out the MySQL site and you shall see that "commits/rollbacks (called 'Transactions' to us msql/mysql boys) are there, and the communist license is actually the GPL.
The information was gained illegally, so the possession or use of this information becomes illegal. The US judicial system does frown upon corporate espionage, which is how this would be considered. I believe that this would be illegal in most EU countries in regards to copyright laws.
...
... We can do that by installing Windows now.
.iMMersE
Still, the fact the information was gained illegally doesn't mean anything - Compare with DeCSS, for example
If *nix is a superior OS to Windows, and you have the source code for *nix, then where is the desire to have the microsoft source? This would be a step backwards, which in the software world, is downright stupid.
How would having the Windows code be a step backwards. Having it would be very useful, having as much reference material as possible is good. It doesn't mean people are suddenly going to drop their current kernel code tree and start using the Windows one
I see what you mean, although it might not be actually a straight correspondance, there's probably a higher percentage who have / use computers and don't also have internet access.
...but even throughout most of europe, the internet is only just now starting to get the kind of attention it did in N.A. around
'97.
...
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Oh, I agree completely, there are probably more people with computers, but I suspect the point that only 5% of non-English speakers have computers holds.
I agree with you here, but since by now the Internet is a proven thing rather than a "new fangled" thing, the take up has been much quicker, and growing quicker and quicker. A third of the UK are on the 'net, and largely speaking, that number has gotten online in the past 18 months, and the numbers are increasing all the time. Not as impressive as the 50% of Americans that the numbers seem to show are online, but as you say, we are perhaps 3 or 4 years behind you in terms of the attention given to the Internet.
If you can imagine if the take up in countries "new" to the Internet is as quick, or even quicker, it follows that within a few years from now, we're going to have a massive %age of the world's population on-line (We are approaching 5% at the moment), and as the figures in this discussion show, English is only the third (Or it's predicted in 2010, the fourth) most spoken language throughout the world, and it'll soon lose it's label of the "Internet Global Language"
Dough head!
... Correct them if you know better ...)
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%age of world population that don't speak English (roughly) = 5 billion.
50.4% of internet users are non-English speakers = 100 million.
5% of 5 billion = 250 million
So, less than 5% of non-English speaking people have access to a computer! Duh!
(Yes, I know the numbers are approximate, but I don't think wholely inaccurate, but they illustrate my point
Not as annoyed as if you'd called him "Canadian", I'm sure!
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It wasn't modded down - Anonymous Coward postings are given score:0
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I made exactly the same error as you a couple of weeks ago
I would guess that your typical Japanese person retains about as much English from school as a typical American retains from a few years of high school French. (Not much.)
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I wouldn't say that is true. I imagine that there is a lot of English speaking on the TV, well, certainly more that French speaking on US TV, so I think the retention of English for Japanese people would be higher.