No, why would it? Just because an online store goes out of business, why would that signify the collapse of all e-commerce? Everytime a furniture store has "going out of business" commercials on TV, does that signify the collapse of normal retail stores? Of course not.
E-commerce (dammit, I hate that word, as well as anything starting with e- or i- besides e-mail) definately has some kinks to work out before it works as well as physical stores, but there's no reason at all why it shouldn't. It's just like a normal store, only the cost of running it is a bit cheaper. No different than mail-order stores, really. --
The S/390 is a big mainframe, correct? If so, then Linux on that thing is phat. Not as the main operating system, of course - but as another operating system running on the same machine. That's what so cool about these things - you can run several operating systems at the same time on the hardware. So you could have the main OS serving up huge databases or whatever and then have Linux with Apache serving up web pages, Samba serving up shares, etc. I want one. --
This is a tough call - on one hand, I'd love to see spammers get bitchslapped, but on the other hand I hate to see the government (or anybody else) do stuff like this. Remember the big uproar that was caused by that group in North Carolina (I think, I could be completely wrong) that was paying kids to turn in potentially dangerous kids? Same basic idea goes here - it's just not the right way to handle things.
I know that this is a completely different situation, but the same basic idea applies.
It would take some cajones to do this considering the risk, but if someone developed a "killer" Linux only game, it may persuade many people to go out and install Linux just to play the game.
It'll never happen (at least, not until Linux has much more marketshare than it does now.) Even if every single Linux gamer bought the game, it still wouldn't beat the sales of even a mediocre-selling game for both Linux and Windows. --
My company is developing a few games (some really cool stuff) and focusing on Linux as the primary platform, with the secondary platforms being Windows, MacOS, and BeOS. The Linux gaming market is practically untapped, and we see great potential in this area (as well as BeOS.) By the time the first game (a first-person shooter like no other... think Halo meets Saving Private Ryan, and you have a pretty good idea) is released, OpenGL support on Linux will be up to speed with that of Windows, or at least close. --
It didn't screw up the code, it most likely blasted the hell out of the MySQL servers, and the code doesn't do a whole hell of a lot of error checking. --
You really think that the U.S. Government doesn't have detailed databases about every citizen? Who are you joking. They probably know what you had for lunch yesterday. --
Am I the only one who thinks that trying to control a game by barking commands would be rather annoying? I mean, think about how annoying it is when you're playing Quake and you click the mouse button and it doesn't fire. Now imagine you yell a command (say, "attack.") and the computer misinterprets it as something else (say, "go back.") You're about to blow the hell out of a Klingon ship or whatever, and instead you start retreating and get shot in the ass. --
This country is fucked up. Not as fucked up as most, but still very fucked up. I'd say we need another revolution here, but they're in the process of taking our guns away anyway. --
Great editorial... it really does a good job explaining what's going on, as well as your stance on the issue. Is this going to be reprinted anywhere else?
Man, I was really not very confident about Slashdot's future since Andover's buyout, but this issue has made me change my mind. Keep up the good work! --
Some fucking troll figured out how to make posts wider than the screen, and so of course he had to do it to piss everybody off, since it makes ALL posts that wide now. --
Heh... I saw an ad for this yesterday when I was smoking pot and watching DigiMon. Which they promptly interrupted for that god damn Elian Gonzales bullshit. I'm fucking sick of that little kid interrupting my damn TV shows. What's the big deal, anyway?
Oh, happy days. Miramax is our saviour. Now we can download low-quality videos (Windows Media Player) of low-quality movies (Miramax) and watch them in our low-quality operating systems (Windows 98.) Welcome to the new millenium.
The problem is that even small parts of a GPLd program can infect a larger program. If a programmer at a small company (say Microsoft) takes 10 lines of code from a GPLd project - even without Microsoft's consent - the whole library or program could be forced into a GPL licence; I personally do not believe that such a small infraction could stand up in court. While large portions of the program should not be taken and incorporated, the GPL has an incredibly viralistic quality.
This works fine - if it's such a small piece of code, it will be easily rewritten once the GPL violation is discovered, and there will be no need to release the whole program under the GPL. However, if it's a larger piece of code, or code which would be a pain in the ass to rewrite, it should not be allowed in a closed-source product without the original author's [of the GPL'd code] consent.
Sorry for the semi-offtopic post, but I can't take it anymore. This is in response to all the people in this article and the article from Bruce Perens who keep saying "Use the BSD license, the GPL takes away freedoms."
The GPL takes away a few freedoms, but in the process ensures that the most important freedoms will remain forever. It takes away the freedom of people who wish to take your code and add their own proprietary extensions and then keep the source closed. However, by disallowing this, it preserves the freedom of people who wish to take the new code and add extensions to that. It ensures that the code which is released under it will remain free forever and will always be available for people to build on and extend.
How is this different from the BSD license? The BSD license allows people to take your code, add their own extensions, and then keep the source closed. So what happens if you want to take the new extended code and change it a bit? Whoops - you can't! D'oh. True, the BSD license allows for a little bit more freedom. However, this freedom stops with the first person who wants to make a quick buck off of your hard work.
For all the people who say that people should have the right to use open source code in proprietary projects without giving back to the community - how is this in any way beneficial to anybody except the people who take the code? Short answer - it's not. You are now at the mercy of the people who stole the code and added a few extensions. And why should they be allowed to do that? If they want to cut back on a little bit of work and use other people's code, they should be forced to release their code in case somebody else wants to reuse it as well. If they want to keep their code to themselves and not give back to the community, it should be just that - THEIR CODE. They should not be allowed to do this with other people's code. They are not being forced to use other people's code. If they want the functionality a piece of GPL'ed code provides, they should either adhere to the GPL, or write it themselves. Novel concept, huh?
Are you running imwheel? If so, try not running it - the mouse wheel works in enough Linux programs now that it's not necessary anymore. It works fine in most GTK programs (since it's supported natively by the toolkit) and works great in Mozilla. But it won't work in Mozilla if you have imwheel running.
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Can someone please tell me how to make a GNOME launcher for Mozilla?
So what's the story on BeZilla? I haven't heard anything about it in awhile, and I just started using BeOS again. NetPositive is alright, but it doesn't render a whole lot of pages correctly, and I can't *stand* Opera.
Now, while I'm not boycotting the MPAA, seems like most people here seem to *say* they are and are not. I have a DVD decoder card that happens to work great under Linux (Creative DXR-2) so I really don't care about DeCSS and all that crap. I understand the freedom issues at stake here, but I paid 200 bucks for this damn thing, and fuck if I'm not gonna use it.
You all bitched when Episode 1 came out - everybody went on for hundreds and hundreds of comments about how much it sucks. And every time a story about the MPAA is posted, there are hundreds and hundreds of comments about how much they suck and how you're all boycotting them.
So why the fuck are you all bitching about how you can't get Episode 1 (a bad movie by most accounts) on DVD (an evil format by most accounts)??? You need to either stick to your convictions or stop bitching about things.
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No, why would it? Just because an online store goes out of business, why would that signify the collapse of all e-commerce? Everytime a furniture store has "going out of business" commercials on TV, does that signify the collapse of normal retail stores? Of course not.
E-commerce (dammit, I hate that word, as well as anything starting with e- or i- besides e-mail) definately has some kinks to work out before it works as well as physical stores, but there's no reason at all why it shouldn't. It's just like a normal store, only the cost of running it is a bit cheaper. No different than mail-order stores, really.
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The S/390 is a big mainframe, correct? If so, then Linux on that thing is phat. Not as the main operating system, of course - but as another operating system running on the same machine. That's what so cool about these things - you can run several operating systems at the same time on the hardware. So you could have the main OS serving up huge databases or whatever and then have Linux with Apache serving up web pages, Samba serving up shares, etc. I want one.
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This is a tough call - on one hand, I'd love to see spammers get bitchslapped, but on the other hand I hate to see the government (or anybody else) do stuff like this. Remember the big uproar that was caused by that group in North Carolina (I think, I could be completely wrong) that was paying kids to turn in potentially dangerous kids? Same basic idea goes here - it's just not the right way to handle things.
I know that this is a completely different situation, but the same basic idea applies.
Ahh... fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.
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It would take some cajones to do this considering the risk, but if someone developed a "killer" Linux only game, it may persuade many people to go out and install Linux just to play the game.
It'll never happen (at least, not until Linux has much more marketshare than it does now.) Even if every single Linux gamer bought the game, it still wouldn't beat the sales of even a mediocre-selling game for both Linux and Windows.
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My company is developing a few games (some really cool stuff) and focusing on Linux as the primary platform, with the secondary platforms being Windows, MacOS, and BeOS. The Linux gaming market is practically untapped, and we see great potential in this area (as well as BeOS.) By the time the first game (a first-person shooter like no other... think Halo meets Saving Private Ryan, and you have a pretty good idea) is released, OpenGL support on Linux will be up to speed with that of Windows, or at least close.
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Huh. I did not know that. Wierd.
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It didn't screw up the code, it most likely blasted the hell out of the MySQL servers, and the code doesn't do a whole hell of a lot of error checking.
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I never watched that show until just recently, but it's pretty damn interesting. At least I have another show to watch reruns of after midnight :-)
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cat database | grep "18 years old, blonde, big boobs, loves Linux" > /dev/me
LOL! You forgot to specify "female." I'm sure there are plenty of male Slashdot readers who fit that description.
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You really think that the U.S. Government doesn't have detailed databases about every citizen? Who are you joking. They probably know what you had for lunch yesterday.
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Am I the only one who thinks that trying to control a game by barking commands would be rather annoying? I mean, think about how annoying it is when you're playing Quake and you click the mouse button and it doesn't fire. Now imagine you yell a command (say, "attack.") and the computer misinterprets it as something else (say, "go back.") You're about to blow the hell out of a Klingon ship or whatever, and instead you start retreating and get shot in the ass.
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Ok. Once I make my first $billion, I know exactly where that money's going: One of these connections between my house and www.cybererotica.com
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This country is fucked up. Not as fucked up as most, but still very fucked up. I'd say we need another revolution here, but they're in the process of taking our guns away anyway.
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Hey Emmett
Great editorial... it really does a good job explaining what's going on, as well as your stance on the issue. Is this going to be reprinted anywhere else?
Man, I was really not very confident about Slashdot's future since Andover's buyout, but this issue has made me change my mind. Keep up the good work!
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Some fucking troll figured out how to make posts wider than the screen, and so of course he had to do it to piss everybody off, since it makes ALL posts that wide now.
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The article said that you need a special graphics card for an alpha. Can you use all your other pci cards on an alpha?
Yup... I'm using an Alpha right now with a Matrox Millenium II PCI.
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Woohoo! I'm the first one to gain root access! I posted this by hand using vi!
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Hahahaha oh, I see. So vi can now insert rows into MySQL tables, eh?
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Heh... I saw an ad for this yesterday when I was smoking pot and watching DigiMon. Which they promptly interrupted for that god damn Elian Gonzales bullshit. I'm fucking sick of that little kid interrupting my damn TV shows. What's the big deal, anyway?
Oh, happy days. Miramax is our saviour. Now we can download low-quality videos (Windows Media Player) of low-quality movies (Miramax) and watch them in our low-quality operating systems (Windows 98.) Welcome to the new millenium.
The problem is that even small parts of a GPLd program can infect a larger program. If a programmer at a small company (say Microsoft) takes 10 lines of code from a GPLd project - even without Microsoft's consent - the whole library or program could be forced into a GPL licence; I personally do not believe that such a small infraction could stand up in court. While large portions of the program should not be taken and incorporated, the GPL has an incredibly viralistic quality.
This works fine - if it's such a small piece of code, it will be easily rewritten once the GPL violation is discovered, and there will be no need to release the whole program under the GPL. However, if it's a larger piece of code, or code which would be a pain in the ass to rewrite, it should not be allowed in a closed-source product without the original author's [of the GPL'd code] consent.
Sorry for the semi-offtopic post, but I can't take it anymore. This is in response to all the people in this article and the article from Bruce Perens who keep saying "Use the BSD license, the GPL takes away freedoms."
The GPL takes away a few freedoms, but in the process ensures that the most important freedoms will remain forever. It takes away the freedom of people who wish to take your code and add their own proprietary extensions and then keep the source closed. However, by disallowing this, it preserves the freedom of people who wish to take the new code and add extensions to that. It ensures that the code which is released under it will remain free forever and will always be available for people to build on and extend.
How is this different from the BSD license? The BSD license allows people to take your code, add their own extensions, and then keep the source closed. So what happens if you want to take the new extended code and change it a bit? Whoops - you can't! D'oh. True, the BSD license allows for a little bit more freedom. However, this freedom stops with the first person who wants to make a quick buck off of your hard work.
For all the people who say that people should have the right to use open source code in proprietary projects without giving back to the community - how is this in any way beneficial to anybody except the people who take the code? Short answer - it's not. You are now at the mercy of the people who stole the code and added a few extensions. And why should they be allowed to do that? If they want to cut back on a little bit of work and use other people's code, they should be forced to release their code in case somebody else wants to reuse it as well. If they want to keep their code to themselves and not give back to the community, it should be just that - THEIR CODE. They should not be allowed to do this with other people's code. They are not being forced to use other people's code. If they want the functionality a piece of GPL'ed code provides, they should either adhere to the GPL, or write it themselves. Novel concept, huh?
So now which license sounds more free to you?
Damn straight! My mouse wheel STILL doesn't work
Are you running imwheel? If so, try not running it - the mouse wheel works in enough Linux programs now that it's not necessary anymore. It works fine in most GTK programs (since it's supported natively by the toolkit) and works great in Mozilla. But it won't work in Mozilla if you have imwheel running.
Can someone please tell me how to make a GNOME launcher for Mozilla?
/path/to/mozilla/package && ./run-mozilla.sh
Easy - create a shell script that contains:
#!/bin/bash
cd
Now point the gnome launcher to the shell script (don't forget to "chmod +x" the shell script first)
So what's the story on BeZilla? I haven't heard anything about it in awhile, and I just started using BeOS again. NetPositive is alright, but it doesn't render a whole lot of pages correctly, and I can't *stand* Opera.
Now, while I'm not boycotting the MPAA, seems like most people here seem to *say* they are and are not. I have a DVD decoder card that happens to work great under Linux (Creative DXR-2) so I really don't care about DeCSS and all that crap. I understand the freedom issues at stake here, but I paid 200 bucks for this damn thing, and fuck if I'm not gonna use it.
You all bitched when Episode 1 came out - everybody went on for hundreds and hundreds of comments about how much it sucks. And every time a story about the MPAA is posted, there are hundreds and hundreds of comments about how much they suck and how you're all boycotting them.
So why the fuck are you all bitching about how you can't get Episode 1 (a bad movie by most accounts) on DVD (an evil format by most accounts)??? You need to either stick to your convictions or stop bitching about things.