Nice troll, but the GPL specifically states that you have to provide the source in machine readable format, namely a disc or something (a medium customarily used for software interchange). Sorry, moron. Try again.
From the GPL:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Are you smoking crack? Personal use? They're using (maybe) MPlayer's source SO THAT THIER PRODUCT WILL SELL. That's not personal use. That's comercial use.
And not costing MPlayer a penny? No. But you can't copy the source or binaries unless you accept the GPL which says you have to release your modified code. Frankly, if the Mplayer team found strings in there then they didn't do much modifying of the code, eh? So they can just put mplayer.tar.bz2 on their website and everyone will be happy.
I think you know that though. Your post read like you were trying to be `funny' by comparing/parodying slashdotter's views on compying mp3s. Frankly, that IS fair use because 1) there's no license and 2) they're raping you by charging too much money. Mplayer costs exactly $0.00 to use in your product. See the difference?
I can say that I'm not worried about SCO. Think about it like this. If Linux becomes "illegal" it will be illegal just like all the warez and pr0n on kazaa. And God knows that nobody makes or downloads those.
In other words, nothing will change because nothing CAN change. As long as people want to work on Linux, they will. The Internet and the minds of its members are not property of SCO. So too bad for them.
It's only illegal (or will only be illegal) in the United States. In developed countries, it's still legal. Once again, the world does not revolve around US. I can't wait until I can get out of here and live in a country where people have rights.
Evolution is good to use for mail if you need Calendar, Tasks, and Contacts. Those features are very well done in Evolution (much better than jpilot, anyway). However, I don't see what "Tasks" has to do with email; they should be seperate but interoperating programs. But I'll take what I can get:)
> Everytime I hear someone bitch about the economy, I ask what kind of car they drive. If they say Toyota, Hyundai or Volkswagen then they can kiss my ass.
And there aren't any tariffs on those, now are they? Oh wait. More % of that car purchase goes straight to the Feds. Where they can invest money in the economy. Hmm.
And while Fixing Or Repairing Daily may be good for the economy, it's not good for me. So fuck American car companies. I'll buy the best product.
Windows! Why isn't Windows on there? What other operating system almost brings down the Internet every month because it's hosting 129873 viruses? Bob didn't do that, and it made the list.
Note to moderators: The DB tool that this guy's sig refers to is a program he wrote designed to find posts that will get him Karma (he posts other people's comments). Please don't mod him up.
It would be immature of me to suggest that you crap flood his site, but why not. Fight fire with fire.
Yup. How about "lowest common denominator". If you think about that, it's always one. All numbers share 1 as a common denominator. Maybe people mean "least common multiple" or "greatest common denominator". Number theory should be part of grade school math, methinks:)
That's a good point, but the meaning IMO has changed from 'laughing out loud' to 'heh'. It's not an acronym anymore, but an actual word. Not a very good word, though:)
Words that sound like English are fine. Metrosexual? Fine. I don't know what it means, but it doesn't irritate. Bling bling? Don't you just laugh when you hear that? Or want to injure someone? It's not a word, it's just stupid. We educated folk (or those who think they are;) need to draw the line somewhere.
Next thing we know, Bush is going to "glork glork" the Iraqi people. Have fun misunderestimating that.
Yeah, you're right. I can tolerate (and even use) lol and rofl and the like (IIRC RTFM IANAL IMHO). But when someone says "u r chattin to [WITH!] sum1 and ur comp is like whoa dude" I draw the line. U, R, chattin (add the fucking g. it's one letter!), etc. make me MAD. 1 is not the same as one (it can be, but one must not confuse 'one thing' with 'someone'). UR is NOT how you spell your.
I can see people abbreivating things like i18n to avoid typing internationalization. But typing u to save yourself the two keystrokes seems lazy and uneducated. Anybody else agree?
I agree with you, especially with the "intensive purposes". I think people say that because they can see a purpose as being intensive, while they cannot see intents and purposes. Actually, they probably have never read anything other than an online forum, so they haven't picked up any language idioms. I often read my friends' papers and they read like an online forum... if you're in an online forum, write like it (like I'm doing now) but otherwise, DON'T! I'm worried that good writing will be shunned by my generation (like dude, whoa, that's a big word. is that on the SAT?).
Actually, I don't think lol is such a bad expression. To me, it means something like "heh" or more like breathing out and saying "is that right?"* in real life. Since you can't express those emotions in words, we made one for use online. OTOH, people misuse lol and say it after everything. That in and of itself is not bad, if there's a funny conversation it seems right to use lol instead of a smiley. I liked smileys back when they weren't turned into gay (sorry, that's a word that needs to go) yellow things. So lol stays as text and works out better.
In summary, replace "LOL" with "gay" as an adjective. That would be better.
Also, anyone who says "bling-bling" is going to be shot by me. And anyone who writes in the passive voice.
Wow, the first time a grammar nazi-like post has been on topic. I'll go now:) [lol, heh, rofl]
-- * Actually, 'lol ok' == 'is that right?' IMO. My friends and I have shortened that to lok, which is more efficient (save on bandwidth, my friends) than 'is that right?'
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> a lower priced bottle can be ... much less cost.
:)
I hate it when the higher priced ones are at much less cost. That confuses me
Nice troll, but the GPL specifically states that you have to provide the source in machine readable format, namely a disc or something (a medium customarily used for software interchange). Sorry, moron. Try again.
From the GPL:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Are you smoking crack? Personal use? They're using (maybe) MPlayer's source SO THAT THIER PRODUCT WILL SELL. That's not personal use. That's comercial use.
And not costing MPlayer a penny? No. But you can't copy the source or binaries unless you accept the GPL which says you have to release your modified code. Frankly, if the Mplayer team found strings in there then they didn't do much modifying of the code, eh? So they can just put mplayer.tar.bz2 on their website and everyone will be happy.
I think you know that though. Your post read like you were trying to be `funny' by comparing/parodying slashdotter's views on compying mp3s. Frankly, that IS fair use because 1) there's no license and 2) they're raping you by charging too much money. Mplayer costs exactly $0.00 to use in your product. See the difference?
I can say that I'm not worried about SCO. Think about it like this. If Linux becomes "illegal" it will be illegal just like all the warez and pr0n on kazaa. And God knows that nobody makes or downloads those.
In other words, nothing will change because nothing CAN change. As long as people want to work on Linux, they will. The Internet and the minds of its members are not property of SCO. So too bad for them.
I don't think you need i18n. So you're probably at 180M, which is not that bad. (200000M is $150 these days).
DOS the keyservers, then. You can't verify the key if you don't have it :)
Damn it, I think they've got us beat. OTOH, I haven't read a spam for quite a while, so I don't really care. SpamAssassin works REALLY WELL for me.
Ok, that makes sense now. I thought you meant that you gave consumer-type people those Linksys routers and didn't tell them the password :)
But for companies, that's a great idea. What do they need access to the router for?
*looks at laptop*
:)
*looks at road*
*looks at laptop quickly*
Driver: Whoa, man. Is that a typedef!?
Passenger: LOOK AT THE ROAD LOOK AT THE
*crash*
Moral of the story? Use java
That's not really spam. I think they call it an arp flood?
It could be someone using ettercap to sniff on a switched network. Good stuff, ettercap is.
Umm... press the reset button (with a pen) for 30 seconds and the password is reset to "admin".
Anyway, if you made me sign a concent form, I would 1) tell you to fuck off, and 2) get another ISP.
You mean 1 Kib, not 1 Kb.
It's only illegal (or will only be illegal) in the United States. In developed countries, it's still legal. Once again, the world does not revolve around US. I can't wait until I can get out of here and live in a country where people have rights.
Evolution is good to use for mail if you need Calendar, Tasks, and Contacts. Those features are very well done in Evolution (much better than jpilot, anyway). However, I don't see what "Tasks" has to do with email; they should be seperate but interoperating programs. But I'll take what I can get :)
> Everytime I hear someone bitch about the economy, I ask what kind of car they drive. If they say Toyota, Hyundai or Volkswagen then they can kiss my ass.
And there aren't any tariffs on those, now are they? Oh wait. More % of that car purchase goes straight to the Feds. Where they can invest money in the economy. Hmm.
And while Fixing Or Repairing Daily may be good for the economy, it's not good for me. So fuck American car companies. I'll buy the best product.
Iomega is worse than SCO!? I'd better delete zip-drive.c right now!
Windows! Why isn't Windows on there? What other operating system almost brings down the Internet every month because it's hosting 129873 viruses? Bob didn't do that, and it made the list.
:) Hey that's catchy.
Shame on you, yahoo.
Note to moderators: The DB tool that this guy's sig refers to is a program he wrote designed to find posts that will get him Karma (he posts other people's comments). Please don't mod him up.
It would be immature of me to suggest that you crap flood his site, but why not. Fight fire with fire.
Yup. How about "lowest common denominator". If you think about that, it's always one. All numbers share 1 as a common denominator. Maybe people mean "least common multiple" or "greatest common denominator". Number theory should be part of grade school math, methinks :)
That's a good point, but the meaning IMO has changed from 'laughing out loud' to 'heh'. It's not an acronym anymore, but an actual word. Not a very good word, though :)
Words that sound like English are fine. Metrosexual? Fine. I don't know what it means, but it doesn't irritate. Bling bling? Don't you just laugh when you hear that? Or want to injure someone? It's not a word, it's just stupid. We educated folk (or those who think they are ;) need to draw the line somewhere.
Next thing we know, Bush is going to "glork glork" the Iraqi people. Have fun misunderestimating that.
Yeah, you're right. I can tolerate (and even use) lol and rofl and the like (IIRC RTFM IANAL IMHO). But when someone says "u r chattin to [WITH!] sum1 and ur comp is like whoa dude" I draw the line. U, R, chattin (add the fucking g. it's one letter!), etc. make me MAD. 1 is not the same as one (it can be, but one must not confuse 'one thing' with 'someone'). UR is NOT how you spell your.
I can see people abbreivating things like i18n to avoid typing internationalization. But typing u to save yourself the two keystrokes seems lazy and uneducated. Anybody else agree?
>> Since you can't express those emotions in words
> What do you mean I can't? You might not be able to, but I most certainly can.
True. You may be able to, but I cannot. I should have made that clear.
I agree with you, especially with the "intensive purposes". I think people say that because they can see a purpose as being intensive, while they cannot see intents and purposes. Actually, they probably have never read anything other than an online forum, so they haven't picked up any language idioms. I often read my friends' papers and they read like an online forum... if you're in an online forum, write like it (like I'm doing now) but otherwise, DON'T! I'm worried that good writing will be shunned by my generation (like dude, whoa, that's a big word. is that on the SAT?).
> In summary, replace "LOL" with "gay" as an adjective. That would be better.
:)
I mean delete LOL from the list and add gay. Although the other way could work too
Actually, I don't think lol is such a bad expression. To me, it means something like "heh" or more like breathing out and saying "is that right?"* in real life. Since you can't express those emotions in words, we made one for use online. OTOH, people misuse lol and say it after everything. That in and of itself is not bad, if there's a funny conversation it seems right to use lol instead of a smiley. I liked smileys back when they weren't turned into gay (sorry, that's a word that needs to go) yellow things. So lol stays as text and works out better.
:) [lol, heh, rofl]
In summary, replace "LOL" with "gay" as an adjective. That would be better.
Also, anyone who says "bling-bling" is going to be shot by me. And anyone who writes in the passive voice.
Wow, the first time a grammar nazi-like post has been on topic. I'll go now
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* Actually, 'lol ok' == 'is that right?' IMO. My friends and I have shortened that to lok, which is more efficient (save on bandwidth, my friends) than 'is that right?'