> But, I simply don't like MS. I would never, ever work there. It's not anything I desire or wish. I love my current job and, thank $DIETY, I make enough money to support my side business and take care of my family without my wife having to work.
> oooh but just think, if you had a subscription you could've seen it even before the rest of us!
I often do see problems with the stories, e-mail the editors, and watch as they do absolutely nothing. One time, they were duping a story that was already on the front page. I e-mailed them about it... and the story was posted 30 minutes later. The first 100 comments were like, "OMFG you duped the story right under this one". *sigh*
That could have been avoided if they had just read their damn e-mail!
(Fortunately, it looks like the/. editors are doing something. They recently added "tagging" for subscribers... so you can tag articles as "dupe" or "typo" or "slashvertisement". Some day, we'll be able to filter on these keywords. Definitely a cool idea.)
> so long as you aren't... decompiling it and telling people what you found
Whoa whoa whoa. This is perfectly legal.
I "reverse engineered" QuickTime and found that the stack looks like this:
#0 0x8f54d7dc in ACMP4AACDecoder_ProduceOutputPackets () #1 0x8f2f108c in ACAppleDRMDecoder::ProduceOutputPackets () #2 0x8f69ce44 in ACCodecDispatch () #3 0x90b5a684 in CallComponent () #4 0x9420ba58 in AudioCodecProduceOutputPackets () #5 0x9410f364 in CodecConverter::DecoderFillBuffer () #6 0x940f7268 in BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes () #7 0x940f70e8 in CBRConverter::RenderOutput () #8 0x940f6e5c in BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer () #9 0x940f7268 in BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes () #10 0x940f70e8 in CBRConverter::RenderOutput () #11 0x940f6e5c in BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer () #12 0x940f6fd8 in AudioConverterChain::RenderOutput () #13 0x940f6e5c in BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer () #14 0x940f6ce8 in AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer () #15 0x8ed8d0b0 in converterDecodeAndQueue () #16 0x8ed8d824 in AudioPrepTaskEntry () #17 0x8ed7f728 in prepClientThreadTaskPrep () #18 0x8ed8f788 in audioprepThreadEntry () #19 0x8f2045b0 in start_thread () #20 0x9002b1e0 in _pthread_body ()
when QuickTime is decrypting a DRM'd file. Freedom of speech and the right of first sale apply even if Apple doesn't want them to!
(I can decompile, too, by typing "disassemble" in gdb. Too bad if Apple doesn't like it.)
Wrong. The EULA is meaningless. The GPL is not an EULA, it's some extra rights above and beyond the rights granted to you by copyright law. Copyright law forbids you from distributing copies of software, but the GPL allows it under certain conditions. Hence, if you don't accept the GPL, you simply can't distribue the software -- which you couldn't have done anyway.
Apple's EULA is unenforceable because by buying the CD, you can do whatever you want with the software. You don't need any additional rights above and beyond copyright law to allow you to run the program. So if you disagree with the EULA, fine... you lose nothing.
> In the United States, once you own a copy of a program, you can back it up, compile it, run it, and even modify it as necessary, without permission from the copyright holder. See 17 USC 117.
> "Except in America, where we will fight tooth-and-nail against doing something like this because this will result in a chilling effect on Google's Business and users trust."
That's fine with me. America is where I live, and if Google wants to stand up to my rights, more power to them. America has a history of fighting for rights whereas China has always been (in modern times) under tyrannical control. It's a cultural difference, really... Google is trying to do what the Chinese want in China, and doing what Americans want in America. That's part of being a multinational corporation.
(If I were to start a search engine, I wouldn't censor it in China. But I'm sure that the instant the authorities found out, my site would be blocked in China. Therein lies Google's problem. You don't get ad revenue when your site is blocked by an entire country.)
> Corporations are largely like normal people when it comes to the government. They push, bend, break the laws till they get caught. Instead of doing it with Speeding or drinking or other drugs, the Corps do it with taxes, tariffs, pollution laws and so forth.
In other words, corporations do really bad things that are a detriment to the planet as a whole and then get a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, someone smoking some weed goes to jail for the rest of his life.
If that's not "hand in hand skipping through the flowers", I don't know what is.
> Vista is expected to run just fine on the Intel-based Macs.
Microsoft and Apple have both said that they're not going to make any effort to allow Vista to run on the intel macs. As it stands right now, Vista assumes that EFI has a lot more features than Apple's EFI has. So someone is either going to have to rewrite Vista to not need these features (ha), or they'll have to rewrite Apple's EFI implementation to support these features (also ha). In other words, this isn't going to happen.
>> what feature will I get that I don't already have in Mac OS X 10.4?
> Compatibility with more games. > Compatibility with more peripherals > Compatibility with more vertical-market apps such as the one used by your employer. > Compatibility with web sites that are made exclusively for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Which one of these is a feature, again?
(In other words, some people don't give a damn about any of that. If that's all M$ has to offer, they'll be irrelevant in another 5-10 years.)
Maybe not. 1 good AA battery is 2.5AH @ 1.5V = 3.7Wh. 4 of these makes 14.8Wh. Over 24 hours, these batteries would last with a 617mA load. The amplifier draws probably no more than 70mA, so it's possible that the speakers would produce something resembling sound for 24 hours on one set of NiMH batteries. I'm not sure how audio power correlates with electrical power... but I do know that most desktop listening is under 1W (of audio power)... so, like I said, the quoted figure is possible.
I don't see the problem. If you were encouraged to work in groups, then obviously people are going to come up with the same result. "Work in groups to come up with completely different solutions, " was probably not what the professor said.
I taught a Perl class a few years ago, and I had two students who decided to turn in the same assignment. I was amazed at what great lengths they went to to make the programs seem unique. Different variable names, different ordering of functions in the source file, i++ replaced with ++i,/foo/ replaced with m{foo}, different spacing, different indenting, etc., etc. I received a good number of correct programs, and each one was slightly different in implementation. These two were exactly the same in what they did (same regexes, same "order of operations", same algorithm, etc.), so it was easy to tell that they were copied. The two students involved were equally amazed that I figured things out.;)
Exactly. IE doesn't have to be open source just because it talks to Apache (or a pure-GPL web server).
MySQL is the server, and right now the only client library is GPL'd. Nothing is stopping anyone from making a non-GPL client library, and linking their proprietary app to that. Kind of shitty ethics-wise, but still possible.
I remember signing the license agreement and having it notarized. Oh wait... it's just some words inside an envelope. If you're so sure that EULA's are real, then here:
> By reading this post, you have to pay me eleventy billion dollars. If you can't do that, you have to nuke your > computer.
In other words... once you pay money for something, it's yours. You can hack it, or run it over with your car... BECAUSE YOU OWN IT. Anything else is reality only in lawyer wet-dream land.
Subversion was moving away from BDB in favor of fsfs anyway. The fact of the matter, though, is that BDB has all the features OpenLDAP and Subversion need... so even if SleepyCat doesn't release any more updates it doesn't really mean much to the individual projects. They can fork BDB and life will move on.
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> You just wait! Perl 6 is coming... Any minute now... should be here soon... really... oh heck...
What features of Perl 6 are you waiting for? Many are already available for Perl 5 on the CPAN.
> But, I simply don't like MS. I would never, ever work there. It's not anything I desire or wish. I love my current job and, thank $DIETY, I make enough money to support my side business and take care of my family without my wife having to work.
Translation: I wuv my mommie.
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OS X actually comes in two flavours, OS X Client and OS X Server.
> How [sic] does legal music piracy look like?
Like this.
> oooh but just think, if you had a subscription you could've seen it even before the rest of us!
/. editors are doing something. They recently added "tagging" for subscribers... so you can tag articles as "dupe" or "typo" or "slashvertisement". Some day, we'll be able to filter on these keywords. Definitely a cool idea.)
I often do see problems with the stories, e-mail the editors, and watch as they do absolutely nothing. One time, they were duping a story that was already on the front page. I e-mailed them about it... and the story was posted 30 minutes later. The first 100 comments were like, "OMFG you duped the story right under this one". *sigh*
That could have been avoided if they had just read their damn e-mail!
(Fortunately, it looks like the
> That's like saying an apple with a cyanide pill in it is food like any other food.
Keep in mind that apple seeds contain cyanide.
> so long as you aren't ... decompiling it and telling people what you found
Whoa whoa whoa. This is perfectly legal.
I "reverse engineered" QuickTime and found that the stack looks like this:
#0 0x8f54d7dc in ACMP4AACDecoder_ProduceOutputPackets ()
#1 0x8f2f108c in ACAppleDRMDecoder::ProduceOutputPackets ()
#2 0x8f69ce44 in ACCodecDispatch ()
#3 0x90b5a684 in CallComponent ()
#4 0x9420ba58 in AudioCodecProduceOutputPackets ()
#5 0x9410f364 in CodecConverter::DecoderFillBuffer ()
#6 0x940f7268 in BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes ()
#7 0x940f70e8 in CBRConverter::RenderOutput ()
#8 0x940f6e5c in BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer ()
#9 0x940f7268 in BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes ()
#10 0x940f70e8 in CBRConverter::RenderOutput ()
#11 0x940f6e5c in BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer ()
#12 0x940f6fd8 in AudioConverterChain::RenderOutput ()
#13 0x940f6e5c in BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer ()
#14 0x940f6ce8 in AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer ()
#15 0x8ed8d0b0 in converterDecodeAndQueue ()
#16 0x8ed8d824 in AudioPrepTaskEntry ()
#17 0x8ed7f728 in prepClientThreadTaskPrep ()
#18 0x8ed8f788 in audioprepThreadEntry ()
#19 0x8f2045b0 in start_thread ()
#20 0x9002b1e0 in _pthread_body ()
when QuickTime is decrypting a DRM'd file. Freedom of speech and the right of first sale apply even if Apple doesn't want them to!
(I can decompile, too, by typing "disassemble" in gdb. Too bad if Apple doesn't like it.)
Wrong. The EULA is meaningless. The GPL is not an EULA, it's some extra rights above and beyond the rights granted to you by copyright law. Copyright law forbids you from distributing copies of software, but the GPL allows it under certain conditions. Hence, if you don't accept the GPL, you simply can't distribue the software -- which you couldn't have done anyway.
Apple's EULA is unenforceable because by buying the CD, you can do whatever you want with the software. You don't need any additional rights above and beyond copyright law to allow you to run the program. So if you disagree with the EULA, fine... you lose nothing.
From http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html:
> In the United States, once you own a copy of a program, you can back it up, compile it, run it, and even modify it as necessary, without permission from the copyright holder. See 17 USC 117.
Meanwhile, I work in academia where we try to do things correctly, for the sake of being correct.
XHTML solved this problem. Using obsolete technology to power modern devices is stupid.
> "Except in America, where we will fight tooth-and-nail against doing something like this because this will result in a chilling effect on Google's Business and users trust."
That's fine with me. America is where I live, and if Google wants to stand up to my rights, more power to them. America has a history of fighting for rights whereas China has always been (in modern times) under tyrannical control. It's a cultural difference, really... Google is trying to do what the Chinese want in China, and doing what Americans want in America. That's part of being a multinational corporation.
(If I were to start a search engine, I wouldn't censor it in China. But I'm sure that the instant the authorities found out, my site would be blocked in China. Therein lies Google's problem. You don't get ad revenue when your site is blocked by an entire country.)
> Corporations are largely like normal people when it comes to the government. They push, bend, break the laws till they get caught. Instead of doing it with Speeding or drinking or other drugs, the Corps do it with taxes, tariffs, pollution laws and so forth.
In other words, corporations do really bad things that are a detriment to the planet as a whole and then get a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, someone smoking some weed goes to jail for the rest of his life.
If that's not "hand in hand skipping through the flowers", I don't know what is.
> Use a standards complaint browser to break the rules!
What rules are being broken?
The server is breaking the rules by sending different content to different user agents.
> Vista is expected to run just fine on the Intel-based Macs.
Microsoft and Apple have both said that they're not going to make any effort to allow Vista to run on the intel macs. As it stands right now, Vista assumes that EFI has a lot more features than Apple's EFI has. So someone is either going to have to rewrite Vista to not need these features (ha), or they'll have to rewrite Apple's EFI implementation to support these features (also ha). In other words, this isn't going to happen.
>> what feature will I get that I don't already have in Mac OS X 10.4?
> Compatibility with more games.
> Compatibility with more peripherals
> Compatibility with more vertical-market apps such as the one used by your employer.
> Compatibility with web sites that are made exclusively for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Which one of these is a feature, again?
(In other words, some people don't give a damn about any of that. If that's all M$ has to offer, they'll be irrelevant in another 5-10 years.)
> "You said at some point you fell asleep, right?"
Wow, I didn't know they passed a law saying that if you fell asleep you could have your stuff stolen! Time to stock up on chloroform.
Tell them what you want them to hear. I don't think they can really check up on these types of things.
Maybe not. 1 good AA battery is 2.5AH @ 1.5V = 3.7Wh. 4 of these makes 14.8Wh. Over 24 hours, these batteries would last with a 617mA load. The amplifier draws probably no more than 70mA, so it's possible that the speakers would produce something resembling sound for 24 hours on one set of NiMH batteries. I'm not sure how audio power correlates with electrical power... but I do know that most desktop listening is under 1W (of audio power)... so, like I said, the quoted figure is possible.
I don't see the problem. If you were encouraged to work in groups, then obviously people are going to come up with the same result. "Work in groups to come up with completely different solutions, " was probably not what the professor said.
/foo/ replaced with m{foo}, different spacing, different indenting, etc., etc. I received a good number of correct programs, and each one was slightly different in implementation. These two were exactly the same in what they did (same regexes, same "order of operations", same algorithm, etc.), so it was easy to tell that they were copied. The two students involved were equally amazed that I figured things out. ;)
I taught a Perl class a few years ago, and I had two students who decided to turn in the same assignment. I was amazed at what great lengths they went to to make the programs seem unique. Different variable names, different ordering of functions in the source file, i++ replaced with ++i,
> Prohibition 2
You mean "The War on Drugs".
This means that IE needs to be open sourced if it accesses a GPL'd webserver.
Exactly. IE doesn't have to be open source just because it talks to Apache (or a pure-GPL web server).
MySQL is the server, and right now the only client library is GPL'd. Nothing is stopping anyone from making a non-GPL client library, and linking their proprietary app to that. Kind of shitty ethics-wise, but still possible.
I remember signing the license agreement and having it notarized. Oh wait... it's just some words inside an envelope. If you're so sure that EULA's are real, then here:
> By reading this post, you have to pay me eleventy billion dollars. If you can't do that, you have to nuke your
> computer.
In other words... once you pay money for something, it's yours. You can hack it, or run it over with your car... BECAUSE YOU OWN IT. Anything else is reality only in lawyer wet-dream land.
Subversion was moving away from BDB in favor of fsfs anyway. The fact of the matter, though, is that BDB has all the features OpenLDAP and Subversion need... so even if SleepyCat doesn't release any more updates it doesn't really mean much to the individual projects. They can fork BDB and life will move on.