As a businessman, what perspective do you have on Gnome anyway? [snip] As a businessman, I think you can't appreciate what GNU is about, what Gnome can be, and what is important for the project.
These are some really bigoted statements, and I'm disappointed that enough people agree with you that you got this moderated up to a 5. Since when did Free Software come to mean "business people have no rights"? Under the GPL, business people have the same rights to the software as anyone else does. They are also free to join the Gnome Foundation and have a role in Gnome's future.
Don't forget that Miguel de Icaza, the founder of Gnome, is also the co-founder of Ximian, and hence is a businessman. Should we tell him, as well as all the valuable and hard-working Gnome developers at Ximian, Red Hat, and Sun, to simply shut up (but keep forking over their code), their input into the direction of Gnome isn't important? If you want to kill the Gnome project, singling out these developers for abuse would be a good way to do it.
Remember, everyone is free to use and contribute to Free Software, as long as their contibutions are Free as well. Businesses are no different from hobbyists in this regard. In fact, they have contributed lots of good stuff so far, and have been, with very few exceptions, polite and respectful of our community. Why do you wish to ostracize them like this?
With the inclusion of non-free software in the official GNOME release, now GNOME is the mixed bag.
I just looked through the latest stable Gnome release, and as far as I know, all of this software is available under the GPL or LGPL. Which packages specifically have a non-free license? I'm sure there are proprietary apps out there that link to the Gnome libs, but that is their privilege under the LGPL. I know that Stallman dislikes the LGPL these days, but neither GNU nor the Gnome Foundation have the right to change the license now, because they do not hold the copyrights to all the code. I don't see what you (or RMS) think the problem is here. Or, if your problem is the LGPL, what you think can be done to change it.
Actually, RH 7.2 uses the "data=ordered" mode, not the "data=journal" mode. The data is not stored in the journal, but it is written before to changes in the metadata are written (according to the article, that is). This should guarantee data consistency, and is faster than full data and metadata journaling, but still gives a minor performance hit.
FWIW, I have tried both reiserfs and ext3fs on the same system, and haven't noticed a significant speed difference. Both seemed to work well for me.
I looked up DIME on Google
and this looks to be a protocol developed by Microsoft specifically for use with SOAP, and by extension.NET. Is this going to be an open standard, approved by the W3C or another body? Now that the anti-trust threat has mostly been eliminated, I can see this becoming a typical MS-style moving-target type of "standard" that is nearly impossible for third-parties to implement well. I'm trying not to be paranoid, but this makes me a bit nervous to think of this as the successor to HTTP.
You misunderstand DJB's license. I agree that djbdns and qmail put files in some pretty bizarre places. It is a simple matter to put the binaries somewhere else. I put the binaries for qmail and djbdns in/usr/local/djbtools, for instance. You have the source code, and you can modify it however you want. Of course, he's not going to give you that reward if you change the code, file locations, etc.:^)
The only problem is that if you make modifications, you cannot distribute these changes built-in; they can only be distributed in patch form. DJB's code must be distributed in an unchanged state. Yes, this a PITA (especially for distros), but still less frustrating than running sendmail and BIND.
By the way,/var isn't just for log files. Any data that changes frequently, such as mail and printer spools, also goes there (Interestingly, qmail has the binaries in/var by default, but not the email itself. Go figure). Unless you really can't spare more disk space, 64MB is living dangerously IMO. If you're not very careful you can easily use that much space for legitimate reasons, and leave your system feeling none too happy as a result.
Show me where, in the Constitution, one has a right to private communication with one's lawyer.
Just because a right in not specifically mentioned in the Constitution does not mean that it is not an actual right. Try reading the 9th amendment, which deals with this situation. Of course, some might say that the 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination covers this situation as well.
Actually, you are only partially correct. Microsoft didn't write DOS originally. They bought it from Seattle Computer. Back then, it was called QDOS (the Quick and Dirty Operating System), and was a bad knock-off of CPM. Microsoft bought the OS, polished it up a little, renamed it MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM as one of the three OS's that were available for the IBM PC. It was much worse than the other OS's, but was also much cheaper, so it caught on. The rest is history.
No, this is an older, slot-based athlon. The heat sink, as far as I can tell, is built right into the packaging. And it was not a returned version, because it was shrink-wrapped, I bought several (all of which looked the same) and the company I bought them from did not accept returns on CPUs. That's why I bought the retail version (so I'd have the warranty from AMD).
I *have* seen socket-based retail CPUs that came with a built-on heatsink/fan, but these were from Intel.
Generally, the retail (boxed and shrink-wrapped) version comes with a heatsink/fan already attached. I have such an athlon, and the fan is hideously noisy.
The OEM version doesn't come with any extra stuff because Original Equipment Manufacturers usually want to make their own decisions on things like this. However, end users (even inexperienced ones) often buy OEM CPUs because they're cheaper, and occasionally have problems such as fried CPUs as a result.
Loki:"Well if you want games, you either buy the games you already own on windows again and from us, or you can use windows"
That is simply not true. For instance, if you have the windows version of quake3, you can set it up to run on Linux by downloading the Linux demo and copying some files from your windows partition. Loki explains how to do this on their site, even though it doesn't benefit them financially.
What's in it for him is a death-grip on the identities of the entire country.
This sounds suspiciously like the racket Internic/Network Solutions/Verisign has with the domain name database. They get a sweet deal (gov't enforced monopoly) to manage a bunch of data, then claim that they actually *own* the data. I hope the gov't actually learned something from their prior dealings of this sort, but I'm not optimistic.
Sun is an American company, Gnome is an American product.
Actually, Miguel de Icaza, who is Mexican, is generally credited with starting Gnome. Not that this really matters, though. Both KDE and Gnome have developers from many countries For instance, there are plenty of important Gnome developers from Europe, though a number of them are now living in the US. It's hard to say that either of them is the product of a particular country.
Things I've heard that are complete crap from the net in the past month:... I think I'll stick to television.
I saw nearly all these "stories" covered in other media as well (TV and newspaper). They are certainly not unique to the internet, though a number of them probably originated there. The thing about the internet is that anyone can put up any information, but anyone else can debunk it (as you did with your references to snopes2.com). With TV, the power to diseminate or discredit information is in the hands of a select few, and we really have no idea what criteria they use in making their judgements. I would rather leave the power to judge the validity of the information in my own hands. I think that most poeple (myself included) have a good enough built-in BS detector to see the examples that you gave for what they really are. We don't need some talking head to tell us what to believe.
when I run the latest builds the fonts appear anti-aliased
Yeah, I noticed this too. It looks good on the large fonts, as you demonstrated in your screenshot, but the smaller fonts look horrible. They are so blurry that I'm sure I would get a headache from looking at a document for long. Does anyone know if you can turn AA off,just for the smaller fonts if possible? I know that this is possible for Qt and Gtk(with AA add-on) by editing a prefs file. Does OpenOffice use the same method?
The reason ide cables have traditionally been ribbon-shaped is to minimize cross-talk. Perhaps the round cables use some sort of pair-twisting scheme, or maybe they use shielding. Or perhaps they just decided that cross-talk wasn't really as much of a problem as the engineers originally thought.
If that's the way you feel, then this license is not for you. However, for people who care solely about the art, this license is great.
The free exchange of ideas in classical music led to some great artistic achievements that would not have occurred had strict, modern copyright laws been in place then. For instance, when JS Bach was young, he left his job as a church organist and walked 200 miles (no internet in those days:^) ) so that he could hear the music of Dietrich Buxtehude. He ended up staying several months, studying and transcribing as much of Buxtehude's music as he could. This had a profound influence on Bach's development as a composer. I shudder to think about how Western music would have been affected if Buxtehude, worried about retaining credit for his work, sicked some IP lawyers on Bach and forced him to go away. It is ironic that today, Buxtehude is mostly remembered because of the transcriptions that Bach made. If he had sought to protect his reputation, he probably would have vanished into history by now.
Similarly, Bach may have vanished as well had not a small number of 19th century composers such as Felix Mendelssohn rescued him from obscurity. Though long dead, Bach has mainly remained famous through the interest of other musicians who want to reinterpret his music. My favorite example of this is Bach's Chaccone in D Minor for violin, which has been arranged for piano by Johannes Brahms and for guitar by Andres Segovia, as well as several others. These three versions are all sublime pieces of music, yet only one of them would exist if the current copyright laws existed then. These are not isolated occurences, I could go on for ages about all of the pieces with names like "Variations on a Theme by Some Other Composer", but I think you get the idea.
Anyway, to reiterate my point, fiercely guarding credit for the music you create may not be the best way to establish your reputation. Using this license is not likely to damage anyone's standing as an artist. However, if one only wants to make money off of their music, the OAL may not be a good idea, but the indusrty standard way of doing things hasn't exactly lined the pockets of many musicians either.
The distiction you are trying to make between a CD-ROM drive and a "standard" cd player is fallacious. CD-ROM drives are standard players. That is, they adhere to the Redbook audio standard and carry the "Compact Disc" logo. This new CD does not adhere to any standard, as far as I know. If the packaging for the CD carries the Compact Disc logo, but does not meet the relevant standard, then it seems to me that it is being sold fraudulently. Whether it can actually be played on some standard cd players is irrelevent.
When they shrink the die size, why don't they also release some of the lower clock speeds? Like an 800MHz chip that would only need passive cooling, and a 250W power supply.. Yes, I could underclock one of the new ones. But, I want one that's tested & confirmed to work with passive cooling.
I'll second that. I've really been wanting to build a quiet, low-heat system, but have been hesitant to use a chip like the Via C3. Having a duron/athlon with these characteristcs would be great. Who needs a 1.4 GHz chip? Give me a quiet and cool one at 700 MHz.
I think you are missing the point of the guy's example. If it were rendered according to the spec, you should be able to read the "Hello world". Since IE's CSS implementation is case insensitive, it thinks that the class called CL and the class called cl are the same thing. Thus, IE renders the page incorrectly.
Yeah, I don't know what that guy was thinking. Mozilla ( and galeon and skipstone, by extension), was written with at least a P-233, 64MB RAM in mind (see here), and all the binaries I've seen have actually been optimized for i686. It wouldn't surprise me if the other browsers were similar.
I tried this in Galeon-0.12pre3 and the link loads fine. Maybe the problem you are experiencing has been fixed. I imagine 0.12 will be out fairly soon, since pre3 seems pretty solid.
I started with the same type of computer as Linus Torvalds, the Commodore VIC-20. As a small child, I spent hour upon hour writing amazingly cheesy programs for its built in BASIC interpreter, and saving the best of them to a glacially slow tape drive. Unfortunately, I never gained the type of skill that Linus did.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in gnutella having problems with freeloaders?
Yes, the irony was deliberate. I was hoping that someone would notice, but perhaps I didn't spell it out clearly enough. --------------------------
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
This is true, but practically speaking, patents work almost the same way. We see it all the time; someone gets handed a ridiculous patent because the USPTO does no research on prior art. The patent can later be overturned in court. Likewise, a copyright can be invalidated in court, if, for instance, the copyright holder turns out to have copied someone else's work.
In the example discussed above, let's assume that the USB specifications are so detailed that there is only one way to implement it. I would say that the code is therefore not an original work, as it is really just copied from the spec. Therefore, such a copyright could justifiably be overturned in court. Bear in mind though that IANAL, so I don't know how such proceedings would actually work. I'm just speaking hypothetically.
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She may not be too pleased that her husband didn't vote for her, either! :-)
These are some really bigoted statements, and I'm disappointed that enough people agree with you that you got this moderated up to a 5. Since when did Free Software come to mean "business people have no rights"? Under the GPL, business people have the same rights to the software as anyone else does. They are also free to join the Gnome Foundation and have a role in Gnome's future.
Don't forget that Miguel de Icaza, the founder of Gnome, is also the co-founder of Ximian, and hence is a businessman. Should we tell him, as well as all the valuable and hard-working Gnome developers at Ximian, Red Hat, and Sun, to simply shut up (but keep forking over their code), their input into the direction of Gnome isn't important? If you want to kill the Gnome project, singling out these developers for abuse would be a good way to do it.
Remember, everyone is free to use and contribute to Free Software, as long as their contibutions are Free as well. Businesses are no different from hobbyists in this regard. In fact, they have contributed lots of good stuff so far, and have been, with very few exceptions, polite and respectful of our community. Why do you wish to ostracize them like this?
Actually, RH 7.2 uses the "data=ordered" mode, not the "data=journal" mode. The data is not stored in the journal, but it is written before to changes in the metadata are written (according to the article, that is). This should guarantee data consistency, and is faster than full data and metadata journaling, but still gives a minor performance hit.
FWIW, I have tried both reiserfs and ext3fs on the same system, and haven't noticed a significant speed difference. Both seemed to work well for me.I looked up DIME on Google and this looks to be a protocol developed by Microsoft specifically for use with SOAP, and by extension .NET. Is this going to be an open standard, approved by the W3C or another body? Now that the anti-trust threat has mostly been eliminated, I can see this becoming a typical MS-style moving-target type of "standard" that is nearly impossible for third-parties to implement well. I'm trying not to be paranoid, but this makes me a bit nervous to think of this as the successor to HTTP.
You misunderstand DJB's license. I agree that djbdns and qmail put files in some pretty bizarre places. It is a simple matter to put the binaries somewhere else. I put the binaries for qmail and djbdns in /usr/local/djbtools, for instance. You have the source code, and you can modify it however you want. Of course, he's not going to give you that reward if you change the code, file locations, etc. :^)
The only problem is that if you make modifications, you cannot distribute these changes built-in; they can only be distributed in patch form. DJB's code must be distributed in an unchanged state. Yes, this a PITA (especially for distros), but still less frustrating than running sendmail and BIND.
By the way, /var isn't just for log files. Any data that changes frequently, such as mail and printer spools, also goes there (Interestingly, qmail has the binaries in /var by default, but not the email itself. Go figure). Unless you really can't spare more disk space, 64MB is living dangerously IMO. If you're not very careful you can easily use that much space for legitimate reasons, and leave your system feeling none too happy as a result.
Just because a right in not specifically mentioned in the Constitution does not mean that it is not an actual right. Try reading the 9th amendment, which deals with this situation. Of course, some might say that the 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination covers this situation as well.
Actually, you are only partially correct. Microsoft didn't write DOS originally. They bought it from Seattle Computer. Back then, it was called QDOS (the Quick and Dirty Operating System), and was a bad knock-off of CPM. Microsoft bought the OS, polished it up a little, renamed it MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM as one of the three OS's that were available for the IBM PC. It was much worse than the other OS's, but was also much cheaper, so it caught on. The rest is history.
No, this is an older, slot-based athlon. The heat sink, as far as I can tell, is built right into the packaging. And it was not a returned version, because it was shrink-wrapped, I bought several (all of which looked the same) and the company I bought them from did not accept returns on CPUs. That's why I bought the retail version (so I'd have the warranty from AMD).
I *have* seen socket-based retail CPUs that came with a built-on heatsink/fan, but these were from Intel.
Generally, the retail (boxed and shrink-wrapped) version comes with a heatsink/fan already attached. I have such an athlon, and the fan is hideously noisy.
The OEM version doesn't come with any extra stuff because Original Equipment Manufacturers usually want to make their own decisions on things like this. However, end users (even inexperienced ones) often buy OEM CPUs because they're cheaper, and occasionally have problems such as fried CPUs as a result.
I saw nearly all these "stories" covered in other media as well (TV and newspaper). They are certainly not unique to the internet, though a number of them probably originated there. The thing about the internet is that anyone can put up any information, but anyone else can debunk it (as you did with your references to snopes2.com). With TV, the power to diseminate or discredit information is in the hands of a select few, and we really have no idea what criteria they use in making their judgements. I would rather leave the power to judge the validity of the information in my own hands. I think that most poeple (myself included) have a good enough built-in BS detector to see the examples that you gave for what they really are. We don't need some talking head to tell us what to believe.
The reason ide cables have traditionally been ribbon-shaped is to minimize cross-talk. Perhaps the round cables use some sort of pair-twisting scheme, or maybe they use shielding. Or perhaps they just decided that cross-talk wasn't really as much of a problem as the engineers originally thought.
If that's the way you feel, then this license is not for you. However, for people who care solely about the art, this license is great.
The free exchange of ideas in classical music led to some great artistic achievements that would not have occurred had strict, modern copyright laws been in place then. For instance, when JS Bach was young, he left his job as a church organist and walked 200 miles (no internet in those days :^) ) so that he could hear the music of Dietrich Buxtehude. He ended up staying several months, studying and transcribing as much of Buxtehude's music as he could. This had a profound influence on Bach's development as a composer. I shudder to think about how Western music would have been affected if Buxtehude, worried about retaining credit for his work, sicked some IP lawyers on Bach and forced him to go away. It is ironic that today, Buxtehude is mostly remembered because of the transcriptions that Bach made. If he had sought to protect his reputation, he probably would have vanished into history by now.
Similarly, Bach may have vanished as well had not a small number of 19th century composers such as Felix Mendelssohn rescued him from obscurity. Though long dead, Bach has mainly remained famous through the interest of other musicians who want to reinterpret his music. My favorite example of this is Bach's Chaccone in D Minor for violin, which has been arranged for piano by Johannes Brahms and for guitar by Andres Segovia, as well as several others. These three versions are all sublime pieces of music, yet only one of them would exist if the current copyright laws existed then. These are not isolated occurences, I could go on for ages about all of the pieces with names like "Variations on a Theme by Some Other Composer", but I think you get the idea.
Anyway, to reiterate my point, fiercely guarding credit for the music you create may not be the best way to establish your reputation. Using this license is not likely to damage anyone's standing as an artist. However, if one only wants to make money off of their music, the OAL may not be a good idea, but the indusrty standard way of doing things hasn't exactly lined the pockets of many musicians either.
The distiction you are trying to make between a CD-ROM drive and a "standard" cd player is fallacious. CD-ROM drives are standard players. That is, they adhere to the Redbook audio standard and carry the "Compact Disc" logo. This new CD does not adhere to any standard, as far as I know. If the packaging for the CD carries the Compact Disc logo, but does not meet the relevant standard, then it seems to me that it is being sold fraudulently. Whether it can actually be played on some standard cd players is irrelevent.
I'll second that. I've really been wanting to build a quiet, low-heat system, but have been hesitant to use a chip like the Via C3. Having a duron/athlon with these characteristcs would be great. Who needs a 1.4 GHz chip? Give me a quiet and cool one at 700 MHz.
I think you are missing the point of the guy's example. If it were rendered according to the spec, you should be able to read the "Hello world". Since IE's CSS implementation is case insensitive, it thinks that the class called CL and the class called cl are the same thing. Thus, IE renders the page incorrectly.
Just trying to be helpful ;^)
Yeah, I don't know what that guy was thinking. Mozilla ( and galeon and skipstone, by extension), was written with at least a P-233, 64MB RAM in mind (see here), and all the binaries I've seen have actually been optimized for i686. It wouldn't surprise me if the other browsers were similar.
I tried this in Galeon-0.12pre3 and the link loads fine. Maybe the problem you are experiencing has been fixed. I imagine 0.12 will be out fairly soon, since pre3 seems pretty solid.
And by the way, yes, you can turn off pop-ups.
I started with the same type of computer as Linus Torvalds, the Commodore VIC-20. As a small child, I spent hour upon hour writing amazingly cheesy programs for its built in BASIC interpreter, and saving the best of them to a glacially slow tape drive. Unfortunately, I never gained the type of skill that Linus did.
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"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
This is true, but practically speaking, patents work almost the same way. We see it all the time; someone gets handed a ridiculous patent because the USPTO does no research on prior art. The patent can later be overturned in court. Likewise, a copyright can be invalidated in court, if, for instance, the copyright holder turns out to have copied someone else's work.
In the example discussed above, let's assume that the USB specifications are so detailed that there is only one way to implement it. I would say that the code is therefore not an original work, as it is really just copied from the spec. Therefore, such a copyright could justifiably be overturned in court. Bear in mind though that IANAL, so I don't know how such proceedings would actually work. I'm just speaking hypothetically.
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"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."