Undoubtedly the best of those IBM ads is the one that in plain Engish answers for a wide audience one of the biggest questions surrounding Linux: one of the execs is watching footage of the "Linux" player, while a second exec is explaining that he plays nearly for free. The first exec asks why on Earth he'd do that, and the second responds, staring at the screen: "Loves the game."
Has anybody with a video capture card snagged any of the IBM linux ads?
As for the 2nd Am, I'm not sure it hasn't been invoked in Court cases.
There has not yet been enough case law on the 2nd Amendment, afaik (ianal) to make for any sort of precedents.
IMHO, "well regulated" means what it did at the time of writing -- well adjusted sights (sighted-in/zeroed in modern parlance). The alternative meaning of "subjected to rules and regulations" would need some proving to convince me. But others might be more easily convinced.
I agree with you on that. I'd call the odds better than even that the Supreme Court rules pro-gun if it goes to them. But think about this: it's not a gamble that I'm not necessarily willing to take. It's an all-or nothing bet (and the all might not actually be all).
I would hope that if this came before a Court, they would dismiss the complaint...
However, that's never going to happen? Why? Who files the suit? Will New Line (and thus AOL TW) file suit to end this? No, because it may disband the MPAA. That is something no one in the industry wants.
It's similar to the unwritten rule that the Second Amendment is never brought up in gun control cases in court. There's no precedents involving it. Since it's a core Constitutional interpretation (what does "well-regulated" mean?, among other issues), it would go to the Supreme Court. No one wants that, because it would settle the gun control debate once and (for all intents and purposes) for all. The NRA and its allies don't want to take the gamble that the interpretation will not be theres, but neither do the gun-control advocates.
It thought most people were aware this movie was in development for a while, so why has it taken so long for MGM to move on it?
Since the MPAA has no say over film production, only US distribution & promotion, MGM has nowhere to complain. This isn't a court case, it's an internal movie industry squabble. Once a trailer was released, then MGM can fight this to their heart's content.
Well, not quite. They may get shot down by the MPAA on this, or they might not.
This has beeen discussed ad infinitum on alt.fan.james-bond many times before. This isn't a copyright or trademark dispute. It's a standard part of the MPAA.
Basically, MGM has a problem with how Goldmember is being marketed (the trailer comes too close to some of the sight gags in Goldfinger, mainly). They're not suing New Line; they've complained to the MPAA panel that governs member's promotions and titling and so forth and convinced them to bar New Line from promoing the film until they work out their differences.
I think MGM/Danjaq/EON are being morons, but this is not a threat to parodies of Bond films outside the MPAA. If you want to make a homemade porn film titled "GoldenCock", you can.
That said, it is nice to see the Bond series getting some play on Slashdot. Enough of those crap Sci-Fi series like Star Trek and Star Wars...
Does Mandrake handle their dependencies any better/as well as Debian seems to?
In my experience with Mandrake only, Mandrake doesn't get pissy about dependencies, as long as you pretty much stay with the Mandrake made rpms. They seem to do a good job of keeping all the packagers on the same page.
On a related note, that is the only real advantage apt has over rpm: the fact that there are stringent guidelines for apt. But Mandrake rpm is very close in functionality and quality to apt (what with urpmi, rpmdrake, etc.). The only apt-get option that has no Drake equivalent is dist-upgrade, at least of the apt-get options I know.
RPM's problem, in essence, is how much of a crappy job Red Hat did with its implementation./p
I have a question. Are there _any_ distributions that set up and use ALSA as the default and main sound system?
Mandrake includes the alsa patches in their kernels, iirc. They also include OSS, because there are a variety of apps that can't use ALSA.
Mandrake also wants you to use esound a fair amount (mpg123 and a few of the other sound programs have been compiled to use esound). The problem with this is that esd is started only when GNOME/KDE start. I had to tweak my/etc/rc3.d/S99local to get esd started automagically. While this is no problem, per se, the newbie installing Mandrake would not be able to do this.
This of course can be pretty trying at times for more advanced Linux users. Mandrake defaults an install without telnet, ssh, or ftp servers, and a High Security firewall. Mandrake is geared more towards a workstation machine, so if you are looking to run a server you will have some work to do after the install.
It's easy to get ssh up (I had it installed from the start on Mandrake 7.2-8.1). Just do an Expert Mode install (which is the install that any self-respecting advanced Linux user would do). Select the proper class of packages (network computer server for ssh, for instance) and individual package selection. I think telnet has to be explicitly selected, but who in their right mind uses telnet in lieu of ssh?
This is a Good Thing. The average newbie shouldn't be running ftp or telnet because it's a service through which they can easily be h4x0red. If their machine gets h4x0red, they blame it on Linux, especially if it was through a service that was activated by default.
How would they go about doing this, being that NAT makes all data coming in and out look as if it was coming from a single IP?
Since NAT works by using assorted port numbers, they could look for lots of traffic bound to strange ports at their routers. Since I only have the vaguest of ideas wrt NAT, I could be wrong, though.
I seem to remember that commercial versions of Mandrake up to 8.0 had IBM ViaVoice... I haven't bought a full commercial edition of 8.1, so I don't know if they still do that, though.
Considering how Linux is used by a higher percentage of AMD customers than Intel customers, AMD should have paid more attention to an important segment of its customer base.
On the desktop, that's probably true. But the vast majority of Linux installs are on servers. What's Intel's server market share advantage over AMD? It's highly unlikely that any Linux user advantage that AMD has over Intel in desktops/workstations obviates Intel's huge lead in the server domain.
Now that would be a stupid design, so lets assumme I can just put "alt+F in my program does frob" and it works on all normal setups. But what if somebody has said "alt+F is Copy". Either Copy does not work in my program, or it is impossible to get "frob". You lose in either case.
There is one approach that works: One of the calls would take a keycode and determine if a standard message is bound to that key. Then, in your example, you would have your handler for Alt-F would merely call your frob code. In GTK-- (my current toolkit of choice), this code could do it:
if (isBound(ALTF)) {
kbinput.altf.pressed.connect(slot(&Frob));
}//Or something akin to this...
And alot have moved to satellite for just that reason.
DirecTV is a no-brainer. I was paying $45/month for crappy cable (analog, no MTV2/Fox News/Comedy Central). I now get DirecTV for c.$40/month, with the above listed channels, plus even more. The only advantage cable might have is the 'net connection (if you're in a community that has that).
I've been thinking about doing my own packaging system for a while. The great deficiency with apt and rpm (as far as I can tell) is that they're based on binaries (and in their source forms, they're not that hard).
My idea involves wrapping a source tarball with the RPM-type overhead and unifying the./configure options so that they're saved to a central DB.
Basically, the idea is to combine the strength of source tarballs with the dependency-checking and autoconfing of rpm/apt.
MS (thanks in part to the large number of good schools in the state) has has a large number of software startups. Many of them went on to do things that were bundled with Windows and are now no more.
Mississippi has good schools? What crack are you smoking?
Or are you talking about Massachusetts, which has the postal abbreviation MA?
Then again, for boat registrations, Massachusetts' code is MS...
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I remember a few years ago when we were saying the same thing, only s/Mac OSX/BeOS/.
Has anybody with a video capture card snagged any of the IBM linux ads?
Red Hat's annual report mentions the number of kernel hackers they employ.
And Mandrake rarely hesitates to mention that Jay Beale (one of the two lead developers of Bastille Linux) is on their payroll.
There has not yet been enough case law on the 2nd Amendment, afaik (ianal) to make for any sort of precedents.
I agree with you on that. I'd call the odds better than even that the Supreme Court rules pro-gun if it goes to them. But think about this: it's not a gamble that I'm not necessarily willing to take. It's an all-or nothing bet (and the all might not actually be all).
However, that's never going to happen? Why? Who files the suit? Will New Line (and thus AOL TW) file suit to end this? No, because it may disband the MPAA. That is something no one in the industry wants.
It's similar to the unwritten rule that the Second Amendment is never brought up in gun control cases in court. There's no precedents involving it. Since it's a core Constitutional interpretation (what does "well-regulated" mean?, among other issues), it would go to the Supreme Court. No one wants that, because it would settle the gun control debate once and (for all intents and purposes) for all. The NRA and its allies don't want to take the gamble that the interpretation will not be theres, but neither do the gun-control advocates.
Since the MPAA has no say over film production, only US distribution & promotion, MGM has nowhere to complain. This isn't a court case, it's an internal movie industry squabble. Once a trailer was released, then MGM can fight this to their heart's content.
Well, not quite. They may get shot down by the MPAA on this, or they might not.
This has beeen discussed ad infinitum on alt.fan.james-bond many times before. This isn't a copyright or trademark dispute. It's a standard part of the MPAA.
Basically, MGM has a problem with how Goldmember is being marketed (the trailer comes too close to some of the sight gags in Goldfinger, mainly). They're not suing New Line; they've complained to the MPAA panel that governs member's promotions and titling and so forth and convinced them to bar New Line from promoing the film until they work out their differences.
I think MGM/Danjaq/EON are being morons, but this is not a threat to parodies of Bond films outside the MPAA. If you want to make a homemade porn film titled "GoldenCock", you can.
That said, it is nice to see the Bond series getting some play on Slashdot. Enough of those crap Sci-Fi series like Star Trek and Star Wars...
I'll get me coat then...
In my experience with Mandrake only, Mandrake doesn't get pissy about dependencies, as long as you pretty much stay with the Mandrake made rpms. They seem to do a good job of keeping all the packagers on the same page.
On a related note, that is the only real advantage apt has over rpm: the fact that there are stringent guidelines for apt. But Mandrake rpm is very close in functionality and quality to apt (what with urpmi, rpmdrake, etc.). The only apt-get option that has no Drake equivalent is dist-upgrade, at least of the apt-get options I know.
RPM's problem, in essence, is how much of a crappy job Red Hat did with its implementation./p
Gotta love ZooMass! I still haven't found an active LUG out in this neck of the woods...
I added your view of telnetd to my fortune-cookie file...
Mandrake includes the alsa patches in their kernels, iirc. They also include OSS, because there are a variety of apps that can't use ALSA.
Mandrake also wants you to use esound a fair amount (mpg123 and a few of the other sound programs have been compiled to use esound). The problem with this is that esd is started only when GNOME/KDE start. I had to tweak my /etc/rc3.d/S99local to get esd started automagically. While this is no problem, per se, the newbie installing Mandrake would not be able to do this.
Uh, Mandrake's had Reiser support since 7.1 (at least). It's had ext3 since (iirc) 8.0. XFS has been in a while, also.
It's easy to get ssh up (I had it installed from the start on Mandrake 7.2-8.1). Just do an Expert Mode install (which is the install that any self-respecting advanced Linux user would do). Select the proper class of packages (network computer server for ssh, for instance) and individual package selection. I think telnet has to be explicitly selected, but who in their right mind uses telnet in lieu of ssh?
This is a Good Thing. The average newbie shouldn't be running ftp or telnet because it's a service through which they can easily be h4x0red. If their machine gets h4x0red, they blame it on Linux, especially if it was through a service that was activated by default.
Can You Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Distributed Keypress Counters?
Since NAT works by using assorted port numbers, they could look for lots of traffic bound to strange ports at their routers. Since I only have the vaguest of ideas wrt NAT, I could be wrong, though.
I seem to remember that commercial versions of Mandrake up to 8.0 had IBM ViaVoice... I haven't bought a full commercial edition of 8.1, so I don't know if they still do that, though.
Another case of MS Kerberos-itis?
On the desktop, that's probably true. But the vast majority of Linux installs are on servers. What's Intel's server market share advantage over AMD? It's highly unlikely that any Linux user advantage that AMD has over Intel in desktops/workstations obviates Intel's huge lead in the server domain.
Reason #20996 to use GRUB: No need to use append=
You know, some things just shouldn't go together....
There is one approach that works: One of the calls would take a keycode and determine if a standard message is bound to that key. Then, in your example, you would have your handler for Alt-F would merely call your frob code. In GTK-- (my current toolkit of choice), this code could do it:
DirecTV is a no-brainer. I was paying $45/month for crappy cable (analog, no MTV2/Fox News/Comedy Central). I now get DirecTV for c.$40/month, with the above listed channels, plus even more. The only advantage cable might have is the 'net connection (if you're in a community that has that).
I havent's even started on anything yet. If I do, it's a good 3-6 months away, at least.
I've been thinking about doing my own packaging system for a while. The great deficiency with apt and rpm (as far as I can tell) is that they're based on binaries (and in their source forms, they're not that hard).
My idea involves wrapping a source tarball with the RPM-type overhead and unifying the ./configure options so that they're saved to a central DB.
Basically, the idea is to combine the strength of source tarballs with the dependency-checking and autoconfing of rpm/apt.
Mississippi has good schools? What crack are you smoking?
Or are you talking about Massachusetts, which has the postal abbreviation MA?
Then again, for boat registrations, Massachusetts' code is MS...