The biggest single group of large scale developers with Motif is not the operating system vendors producing various workbench products, but very large commercial companies who make and distribute very large Motif applications in-house for their own purposes.
Umm, can't anyone who is developing in-house applications use, say, gtk and achieve the same results without having the cost of Motif? The GPL only covers distribution, not use within an organization.
You have the right to privacy by default, even if it is not specifically spelled out. As the ninth amendment (or is it the 10th?) says, just because a right isn't listed in the constitution doesn't mean that you don't have it. The constitution defines what the government is allowed to do, not individuals.
Hmm. I just downloaded a 75 meg mp3 (a live dj set) in 15 minutes on a regular old cable modem. Maybe you are using the wrong client...
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OSS is not a business model, it is a way of developing software that tends to have better results than any other method. Sure, any company can spend billions of dollars trying to match it, but in the end it won't matter at all because they aren't really competing against anything but progress itself.
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The software 'industry' is as doomed as the big record companies. When there is no longer any need to buy any needed functionality because it is available for free, there will be no need for software companies. It is inevitable. If you choose to be in a business where the competition is giving away the same product, don't expect to last too long.
The article says that most of the increase in lines of code came in the form of device drivers. How is this news? Linux supports a much wider variety of devices in 2.4 than in 2.2. Would you expect fewer lines for more device support?
Don't worry, consider this preparation for when you get out 'into the real world'. Out here, things are just about as bad as being on any group project you ever had in school. In a group of 5, there are usually 2 who know whats goin on, 1 that can muddle by, and 2 that are clueless. Give the clueless ones tasks like talking to management and they become bearable.
Yeah, lets not forget speed, either. It can take a long time to build all of those database objects compared to just looking up the data and pulling it out of the tables...
All you have to do is send a letter to your isp stating that you aren't trading any copyrighted materials. Then they are obligated to keep you connected - you have removed the liability from them. Of course the next step the studios would have to take after that would be filing suit against you...fuck em!
Oh, and the nets do all talk to each other because of the transience of the connections within them. Have you ever sat and watched the number of hosts that connect and disconnect from you when you are running limewire. It usually takes 20 minutes before it settles down on a set of stable connections, and even then, it is very unusual for any single client to stay connected for more than an hour.
The total interconnectedness of all the nets doesn't really matter that much. As long as you are able to search a few thousand neighbors, you are generally going to find just about anything you want. Adding more users at this point is not going to degrade the performance of the network, only make more of them.
I'm not sure what you mean by the statement that gnutella has problems scaling. It has been humming along just fine for the past few months. I'm making a Beatles cd for my dad, and did a search this morning on 'Beatles mp3' and got back 1832 matches. Gnutella is doing just fine.
> I meant can I send you a compressor and several compressed files whose
> total file size is less than the original uncompressed file and from
> which I can regenerate the original uncompressed file
>
> Patrick
Sure -- but you send me a *decompressor*, I don't need the compressor.
When one makes this sort of challenge, he should be sure that the wording is unambiguous. Mike really should have seen it coming when he was asked about splitting up the file. To threaten legal action was just asinine.
I don't think you are wrong, you just have a really overactive imagination. I've known at least 50 very regular e users and haven't seen a single one go through anything like what you describe.
According to the government's own studies (like this one), alcohol is the only psychoactive drug that has been shown to be linked to violence because of its pharmacology. Sure, some people can't handle any drug, but it is the person who is responsible, not the drug.
The doseage level for MDMA where neurotoxixity has been observed in rats is about twice the typical recrational doseage level for people.
You kind of shifted gears there. First you were talking about LD50 values, and then the level at which some brain changes occur. Not that your information is wrong, but comparing apples and oranges is a bit misleading.
EVERYONE can become addicted to ANYTHING (sex, pot, etc).
I don't believe that that is true. Some people are way more likely to become addicted to things in general than others. I mean, I would have to make a concerted effort to become addicted to alcohol because I just don't like it enough, and that is a reasonably addictive substance. As for pot or e, there is just no way. Now, programming, that's an addiction!
Dude, you sound like you shouldn't be doing any drug. If you are doing it every other day, you don't even really get any of its good effects - it just makes you feel sick. I mean, if you can become addicted to X, you can become addicted to just about anything. Huff gasoline or something cheaper...
Unlike methamphetamine, X does not destroy neurons. It is thought to damage axon terminals. Sometimes this damage corrects itself, sometimes it doesn't. Either way, no actual longterm effects have been conclusively observed.
The deaths in Chicago were caused by PMA, a chemical that was being substituted for MDMA. The only deaths that have been attributed to MDMA are caused by people having heat stroke and water poisoning, not because of the action of the dug itself.
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Just let them keep thinking that (and you can too, if you like). Meanwhile, I'm downloading anything you'd care to think of.
...and it would be equally ok to use any microsoft software without paying for it, so it would hardly matter where they got the code.
You have the right to privacy by default, even if it is not specifically spelled out. As the ninth amendment (or is it the 10th?) says, just because a right isn't listed in the constitution doesn't mean that you don't have it. The constitution defines what the government is allowed to do, not individuals.
Hmm. I just downloaded a 75 meg mp3 (a live dj set) in 15 minutes on a regular old cable modem. Maybe you are using the wrong client...
OSS is not a business model, it is a way of developing software that tends to have better results than any other method. Sure, any company can spend billions of dollars trying to match it, but in the end it won't matter at all because they aren't really competing against anything but progress itself.
The software 'industry' is as doomed as the big record companies. When there is no longer any need to buy any needed functionality because it is available for free, there will be no need for software companies. It is inevitable. If you choose to be in a business where the competition is giving away the same product, don't expect to last too long.
The article says that most of the increase in lines of code came in the form of device drivers. How is this news? Linux supports a much wider variety of devices in 2.4 than in 2.2. Would you expect fewer lines for more device support?
Don't worry, consider this preparation for when you get out 'into the real world'. Out here, things are just about as bad as being on any group project you ever had in school. In a group of 5, there are usually 2 who know whats goin on, 1 that can muddle by, and 2 that are clueless. Give the clueless ones tasks like talking to management and they become bearable.
Anyone know where I can download a version compiled for a k6? The i686 build gives me a lot of seg faults.
Yeah, lets not forget speed, either. It can take a long time to build all of those database objects compared to just looking up the data and pulling it out of the tables...
All you have to do is send a letter to your isp stating that you aren't trading any copyrighted materials. Then they are obligated to keep you connected - you have removed the liability from them. Of course the next step the studios would have to take after that would be filing suit against you...fuck em!
Oh, and the nets do all talk to each other because of the transience of the connections within them. Have you ever sat and watched the number of hosts that connect and disconnect from you when you are running limewire. It usually takes 20 minutes before it settles down on a set of stable connections, and even then, it is very unusual for any single client to stay connected for more than an hour.
The total interconnectedness of all the nets doesn't really matter that much. As long as you are able to search a few thousand neighbors, you are generally going to find just about anything you want. Adding more users at this point is not going to degrade the performance of the network, only make more of them.
I'm not sure what you mean by the statement that gnutella has problems scaling. It has been humming along just fine for the past few months. I'm making a Beatles cd for my dad, and did a search this morning on 'Beatles mp3' and got back 1832 matches. Gnutella is doing just fine.
When one makes this sort of challenge, he should be sure that the wording is unambiguous. Mike really should have seen it coming when he was asked about splitting up the file. To threaten legal action was just asinine.
I don't think you are wrong, you just have a really overactive imagination. I've known at least 50 very regular e users and haven't seen a single one go through anything like what you describe.
According to the government's own studies (like this one), alcohol is the only psychoactive drug that has been shown to be linked to violence because of its pharmacology. Sure, some people can't handle any drug, but it is the person who is responsible, not the drug.
The doseage level for MDMA where neurotoxixity has been observed in rats is about twice the typical recrational doseage level for people.
You kind of shifted gears there. First you were talking about LD50 values, and then the level at which some brain changes occur. Not that your information is wrong, but comparing apples and oranges is a bit misleading.
EVERYONE can become addicted to ANYTHING (sex, pot, etc).
I don't believe that that is true. Some people are way more likely to become addicted to things in general than others. I mean, I would have to make a concerted effort to become addicted to alcohol because I just don't like it enough, and that is a reasonably addictive substance. As for pot or e, there is just no way. Now, programming, that's an addiction!
Dude, you sound like you shouldn't be doing any drug. If you are doing it every other day, you don't even really get any of its good effects - it just makes you feel sick. I mean, if you can become addicted to X, you can become addicted to just about anything. Huff gasoline or something cheaper...
Unlike methamphetamine, X does not destroy neurons. It is thought to damage axon terminals. Sometimes this damage corrects itself, sometimes it doesn't. Either way, no actual longterm effects have been conclusively observed.
Prohibition didn't work
And you think it is working now?
The deaths in Chicago were caused by PMA, a chemical that was being substituted for MDMA. The only deaths that have been attributed to MDMA are caused by people having heat stroke and water poisoning, not because of the action of the dug itself.