Everyone knows that any law that the government can abuse, it will abuse. Can anyone dispute the fact that it'll be using these backdoors routinely, if illegally, a few years down the line?
BTW, SECOND POST BITCHES!!!
Shut up. Until you've felt the pain of having family ripped from your clutches, shut up. Shut up, until you've had your country attacked by strange people who you've never met. Just shut up. You don't know how we feel, and you have no right to tell those who live in the United States what to do.
I heard an anecdote today, a little tale that should warm your heart and give you an example of the horror this country is in right now. A woman who worked in the World Trade Center received a phone call today, a phone call not out of the ordinary at all. A simple call from her husband, who had just called to say that he loved her. Right after the converstation, the floor collapsed beneath her feet.
Would you tell that man to forgive his wife's murderers? Would you tell that woman's children, if she has any, to stop crying, because we can still have peace? I realize that these things don't really have any connection to your topic, and so I apologize to the readers of Slashdot. Your blatant disregard for the feelings of those who have to live through this is just sickening, and so I decided to reply.
It's not going Windows only. It's not going completely closed source. If you go to their website, it is referring to an OEM deal to package
Tux Racer 1.0 with their computers. Naturally, they are only planning to let the OEMs distribute the Windows version, as that's all that they'd want or
need. The Linux version will be sold in a box,
with binaries for Windows and Linux, and Macintosh
as a possibility. They are planning to release
the source to version 1.0 some time after the binary-only release, presumably after they've made
a modicum of money on the product.
Internet Explorer isn't integrated into the kernel of Windows, but the shell. It is also a set of ActiveX components which are used by MANY applications, for HTML parsing, etc. If you don't use any apps which use IE components, then you CAN get rid of it totally. The shell will revert to Windows 95 style, however.
Yes, people like you are really going to win them over to a new operating system. Nevermind that the one they have works just fine. Nevermind that they don't care. Nevermind that they probably wouldn't even want to look at a geek, especially if he looks (or smells) as bad as ESR or RMS. It's a computer, who gives a shit?
Easy, KDE was around first, so GNOME should go away. We can have all the Free Software we want with KDE, and laugh when proprietary vendors have to either:
a) Pay > $1000 bucks to sell proprietary software
or
b) Use pure Xlib or Xaw. *shudder*
Either way, they suffer the pain.
Oh, BTW, QT is well worth the cost of a professional license, just ask Borland, who are developing Kylix with it.
The reason hackers are often misrepresented as "crackers" in the movies is simple. People don't understand the difference. What really is the difference between someone who breaks the law about DVDs and someone who breaks the law about infiltrating a server? People just see that someone is breaking the law, with a computer, and they get scared. What if he uses his '1337' skillz to hurt my computer? Another aspect of the fear, though unrelated, is the socialistic aspect of many parts of hacker society. (the GPL, for instance) People (in America, at least) don't like Communism and are likely to be wary of anything resembling it.
SDL has very good performance. On Linux, it uses the framebuffer or X depending on how it's compiled. In X it uses DGA, a 2D graphics acceleration mechanism. Note that SDL does not do 3D graphics, but has hooks for OpenGL in it, which does do 3D. In Win32, it looks first for the DirectX libs when compiling. If it finds them, all it's blitting operations are performed through DirectDraw. In all x86 platforms which support it, MMX instructions are used for optimization. You could have found this out too, if you had simply looked at the code instead of "Asking Slashdot".
That's because Apple did give the necessary info to Linux developers. Hell, they even made their own port/variant, MKLinux, which is based on Mach and a userspace Linux. (Now that Mach is part of their new OS, it's clear why they did, for practice using Mach) Since that info is GPL'd, Be couldn't use it, so they were still screwed.
Why would anyone want to make a 64 bit processor backwards compatible? This (backward compatibility) is why all x86 chips are trash nowadays! Let's see, a 64 bit chip which boots into REAL MODE. Laughable.
No one would use this, you ninny. I don't know about you, but I use AIM to communicate to my friends on AOL. Without that feature, there would be no reason to use AIM in the first place.
I think that the penis bird perfectly expressespeoples thoughts on the situation of technology. It's either a tool, or a toy. No Joe Blow takes it as crucial to life. They either create amusing things like penis birds, or do their work with it.
QT is Free Software, you incompetant ninny. QT is THE BEST graphical toolkit for UNIX PERIOD. So what if they want the ability to make money from it? The only "freedom" they are denying you by GPL'ing it is the ability to make proprietary software. So you're saying, basically, they should:
a) Stop offering proprietary QT and LGPL the Free one. (Which are, by the way, exactly the same in every way except license)
Whoops, there goes QT developement.
b) Allow OTHER people to use there hard work in creating this wonderful FREE (speech and beer) software to create proprietary works.
You are a selfish prig. How can I even describe it. You want someone to allow you to create proprietary software with their toolkit, using the argument that their toolkit is "proprietary" to flame it.
You're a dumbass. You are talking about NT 4, which isn't fair to Microsoft. They have 2000 now, which is *gasp* really good. Now, they might not be able to scale to 64 bits, but I don' think they'd be THAT dumb. 64 bits will be, instead of being a total victory, a new beginning, where both are fighting on almost even turf. Linux has the advantage of being first, and having to simply recompile it's software, Microsoft the benefit of barrels of money.
Use MOSIX. It is a single Linux patch ( to 2.2.18 or 2.2.17 ) which allows clustering of normal applications. Beowulf apps have to be specially written to take advantage of the cluster, with MOSIX, any process or thread can be scheduled on another cluster member.
The reason for this email law is so copyrighted works won't be reproduced without permission. Now, I can still imagine problems with trying abuse@*.* from (now-copyrighted) spam, but those lame jokes and chain-letters that everyone forwards never have copyright notices. Letters don't, mailing list messages don't. Don't piss yourselves over this. Besides, Austrailia was formed as a penal colony, do you really think anyone there will give a shit what the law says?;-)
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Everyone knows that any law that the government can abuse, it will abuse. Can anyone dispute the fact that it'll be using these backdoors routinely, if illegally, a few years down the line?
BTW, SECOND POST BITCHES!!!
Shut up. Until you've felt the pain of having family ripped from your clutches, shut up. Shut up, until you've had your country attacked by strange people who you've never met. Just shut up. You don't know how we feel, and you have no right to tell those who live in the United States what to do.
I heard an anecdote today, a little tale that should warm your heart and give you an example of the horror this country is in right now. A woman who worked in the World Trade Center received a phone call today, a phone call not out of the ordinary at all. A simple call from her husband, who had just called to say that he loved her. Right after the converstation, the floor collapsed beneath her feet.
Would you tell that man to forgive his wife's murderers? Would you tell that woman's children, if she has any, to stop crying, because we can still have peace? I realize that these things don't really have any connection to your topic, and so I apologize to the readers of Slashdot. Your blatant disregard for the feelings of those who have to live through this is just sickening, and so I decided to reply.
It's not going Windows only. It's not going
completely closed source. If you go to their
website, it is referring to an OEM deal to package
Tux Racer 1.0 with their computers.
Naturally, they are only planning to let the
OEMs distribute the Windows version, as that's
all that they'd want or
need. The Linux version will be sold in a box,
with binaries for Windows and Linux, and Macintosh
as a possibility. They are planning to release
the source to version 1.0 some time after the
binary-only release, presumably after they've made
a modicum of money on the product.
Cheers.
ummm...Verizon is not Sprint. Verizon is the company that resulted when Bell Atlantic and GTE merged.
*tip*
Internet Explorer isn't integrated into the kernel of Windows, but the shell. It is also a set of ActiveX components which are used by MANY applications, for HTML parsing, etc. If you don't use any apps which use IE components, then you CAN get rid of it totally. The shell will revert to Windows 95 style, however.
Also, most people who have Linux have Windows also.
Ever checked slashdot HTML source? GIFs all over!
I'm curious as to it's theming abilities. Other slashdot articles have hinted, but what exactly can it do in that department?
Yes, people like you are really going to win them over to a new operating system. Nevermind that the one they have works just fine. Nevermind that they don't care.
Nevermind that they probably wouldn't even want to look at a geek, especially if he looks (or smells) as bad as ESR or RMS.
It's a computer, who gives a shit?
Easy, KDE was around first, so GNOME should go away. We can have all the Free Software we want with KDE, and laugh when proprietary vendors have to either: a) Pay > $1000 bucks to sell proprietary software or b) Use pure Xlib or Xaw. *shudder* Either way, they suffer the pain. Oh, BTW, QT is well worth the cost of a professional license, just ask Borland, who are developing Kylix with it.
The reason hackers are often misrepresented as "crackers" in the movies is simple. People don't understand the difference. What really is the difference between someone who breaks the law about DVDs and someone who breaks the law about infiltrating a server? People just see that someone is breaking the law, with a computer, and they get scared. What if he uses his '1337' skillz to hurt my computer? Another aspect of the fear, though unrelated, is the socialistic aspect of many parts of hacker society. (the GPL, for instance) People (in America, at least) don't like Communism and are likely to be wary of anything resembling it.
SDL has very good performance. On Linux, it uses the framebuffer or X depending on how it's compiled. In X it uses DGA, a 2D graphics acceleration mechanism. Note that SDL does not do 3D graphics, but has hooks for OpenGL in it, which does do 3D. In Win32, it looks first for the DirectX libs when compiling. If it finds them, all it's blitting operations are performed through DirectDraw. In all x86 platforms which support it, MMX instructions are used for optimization.
You could have found this out too, if you had simply looked at the code instead of "Asking Slashdot".
That's because Apple did give the necessary info to Linux developers.
Hell, they even made their own port/variant, MKLinux,
which is based on Mach and a userspace Linux.
(Now that Mach is part of their new OS, it's clear why they did, for practice using Mach)
Since that info is GPL'd, Be couldn't use it, so they were still screwed.
My point is, everyone SHOULD use linux or other Free Software products, because it's morally wrong to use proprietary software.
GNU
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Why would anyone want to make a 64 bit processor backwards compatible? This (backward compatibility) is why all x86 chips are trash nowadays! Let's see, a 64 bit chip which boots into REAL MODE. Laughable.
No one would use this, you ninny. I don't know about you, but I use AIM to communicate to my friends on AOL. Without that feature, there would be no reason to use AIM in the first place.
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QT is Free Software, you incompetant ninny. QT is THE BEST graphical toolkit for UNIX PERIOD. So what if they want the ability to make money from it? The only "freedom" they are denying you by GPL'ing it is the ability to make proprietary software. So you're saying, basically, they should:
a) Stop offering proprietary QT and LGPL the Free one. (Which are, by the way, exactly the same in every way except license)
Whoops, there goes QT developement.
b) Allow OTHER people to use there hard work in creating this wonderful FREE (speech and beer) software to create proprietary works.
You are a selfish prig. How can I even describe it. You want someone to allow you to create proprietary software with their toolkit, using the argument that their toolkit is "proprietary" to flame it.
You're a dumbass. You are talking about NT 4, which isn't fair to Microsoft. They have 2000 now, which is *gasp* really good. Now, they might not be able to scale to 64 bits, but I don' think they'd be THAT dumb. 64 bits will be, instead of being a total victory, a new beginning, where both are fighting on almost even turf. Linux has the advantage of being first, and having to simply recompile it's software, Microsoft the benefit of barrels of money.
Use MOSIX. It is a single Linux patch ( to 2.2.18 or 2.2.17 ) which
allows clustering of normal applications.
Beowulf apps have to be specially written to take advantage of the cluster, with MOSIX,
any process or thread can be scheduled on another cluster member.
Since Star Trek takes place in a vacuum, one can presume that it will suck, a lot.
The reason for this email law is so copyrighted works won't be reproduced without permission. Now, I can still imagine problems with trying abuse@*.* from (now-copyrighted) spam, but those lame jokes and chain-letters that everyone forwards never have copyright notices. Letters don't, mailing list messages don't. Don't piss yourselves over this. Besides, Austrailia was formed as a penal colony, do you really think anyone there will give a shit what the law says? ;-)