That being said, I think the artists do need some sort of union to prevent widespread piracy. It's just that the [SCO|MS] has stepped far beyond its boundaries. Methinks labor unions shouldn't be exempt from antitrust laws.
Error correction cannot be copy protection, since it is not encryption, copying the error-coded dots is trivial, and stripping the error codes from the data is easy.
... or so the defendant would want you to believe, dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury. Of course, his arguments seem plausible and logical, but let me show you one thing: *rolls down poster of wookie*
Was not Linux merely a hacked version of unix?
Yes, yes, I know they are not the same. But neither is 32mb and 2gb.
Wait a second... Assume Data Structures A and B (c-style pseudo code):
struct A {
byte filename[255];
int directoryId
int clusterId
bit length[12];
bit hidden;
bit system;
bit readonly; //... }
struct B {
byte filename[255];
int directoryId
int clusterId
bit length[16];
bit hidden;
bit system;
bit readonly; //... }
And take Operating Systems X and Y, where Y is implemented from scratch to work similar to X. Please take into account that the source tree of Y currently is over 200 MB (2.6.5-mm1, unpacked).
Do you seriously want to claim that the difference between A and B is anywhere close to the difference between X and Y?
IMO that's a bit like telling me that accidentially inhaling (and thereby killing) a fly in my sleep is pretty similar to the holocaust. Or claiming that a single molecule of Water is pretty similar to the atlantic ocean. Or claiming that the "word" "GATC" is pretty similar to all of mankind.
The problem is, when faced with a new task, you need a new GUI. On the commandline you pipe things together yourself.
A GUI is like a nice, shiny toy castle. A commandline is like lego: build castles, space stations, houses, elvis busts, porn scenes, rooms from quake, anything you want.
For example, after restoring a backup from a FAT filesystem to an EXT3 one, some directory names got mangled and CVS ceased to work on my source tree.
My source tree was very wide and branchy (big java project, lots and lots of directories), and in each directory of the source tree was a directory called "cvs" that had to be renamed to "CVS".
Doing so was a task that was incredibly easy on the commandline (after 5 minutes of reading the "find" man page), but would have been boring as hell and probably way slower with a standard GUI.
That's exactly what is happening: the software is cached. From their website: "I've only got dial-up; can I still use Zero Install? Yes! Run each program you want while on-line and it will be cached. When you're off-line, the cached copy is used automatically."
If the info was outdated then it's doubtful you studied CS.
But those books were back from the time when they didn't have linked lists, let alone double-linked lists. Hash tables were furniture in shady bars in Amsterdam, and don't even get me started on quicksort. They didn't have quicksort back then, they had to bubblesort for miles through snow and ice, barefoot and uphill both ways.
This is one of the other reasons business people don' care for Linux - the attitude, and excuses, of the immature geek community.
Those business people should spend less time on slashdot and more on forums.gentoo.org then. (And there are probably a few dozen other forums/newsgroups with a non-attitude, non-excuses, non-immature community like that.)
In other news, the IFPI announced that for their Second Wave they plan to eradicate all illegal file sharing from all major US cities, starting with Los Angeles.
(The second season of 24 is running over here at the moment, so to me that joke seems hilarious.)
Idiots using the word forced it to become a word in the dictionary.
How do you think new words get introduced into a language? Does god hand them down from heaven? Are they discovered by wordologists in the sands of the sahara desert? Are they invented by licensed WordInventors in top-secret high-tech laboratories?
Or are they created by people just starting to use them?
Slashdot Mirror
result:
yeah. makes sense.
This *points to poster* is Chewbacca.
Wait a second... Assume Data Structures A and B (c-style pseudo code):And take Operating Systems X and Y, where Y is implemented from scratch to work similar to X. Please take into account that the source tree of Y currently is over 200 MB (2.6.5-mm1, unpacked).
Do you seriously want to claim that the difference between A and B is anywhere close to the difference between X and Y?
IMO that's a bit like telling me that accidentially inhaling (and thereby killing) a fly in my sleep is pretty similar to the holocaust. Or claiming that a single molecule of Water is pretty similar to the atlantic ocean. Or claiming that the "word" "GATC" is pretty similar to all of mankind.
Well, there IS a reason why password entrance fields usually only give asterisks as feedback.
so the bad thing is that linux usually comes without "copy protection"?
And we all know that all the important decisions in the world are made without even the most miniscule trace of reason.
I found out that you can't really trust newsreports until up to ten days after April 1st, so
.. aiming for "+1, Funny" here, not for "-1, lacking basic math skills".
Anything confirming that it's not an April Fools' joke which was published at least ten days after the 1st of April?
The problem is, when faced with a new task, you need a new GUI. On the commandline you pipe things together yourself.
A GUI is like a nice, shiny toy castle. A commandline is like lego: build castles, space stations, houses, elvis busts, porn scenes, rooms from quake, anything you want.
1 = odd ....
1+2 = odd
1+2+4 = odd
any whole number doubled = even
1 (the starting number) = odd
n even numbers + one odd number = odd
see?
For example, after restoring a backup from a FAT filesystem to an EXT3 one, some directory names got mangled and CVS ceased to work on my source tree.
My source tree was very wide and branchy (big java project, lots and lots of directories), and in each directory of the source tree was a directory called "cvs" that had to be renamed to "CVS".
Doing so was a task that was incredibly easy on the commandline (after 5 minutes of reading the "find" man page), but would have been boring as hell and probably way slower with a standard GUI.
... why should i buy it?
Sounds a lot like Java Net Start to me.
But those books were back from the time when they didn't have linked lists, let alone double-linked lists. Hash tables were furniture in shady bars in Amsterdam, and don't even get me started on quicksort. They didn't have quicksort back then, they had to bubblesort for miles through snow and ice, barefoot and uphill both ways.
Those business people should spend less time on slashdot and more on forums.gentoo.org then. (And there are probably a few dozen other forums/newsgroups with a non-attitude, non-excuses, non-immature community like that.)
In other news, the IFPI announced that for their Second Wave they plan to eradicate all illegal file sharing from all major US cities, starting with Los Angeles.
(The second season of 24 is running over here at the moment, so to me that joke seems hilarious.)
damn lack of caffeine, i misread that as scummary. not that that would be false or anything.
Oh my GOD! The patented DNS!
/etc/hosts for me?
You Bastards!
I won't pay. No, no, no. Anyone got a complete
How do you think new words get introduced into a language? Does god hand them down from heaven? Are they discovered by wordologists in the sands of the sahara desert? Are they invented by licensed WordInventors in top-secret high-tech laboratories?
Or are they created by people just starting to use them?
Hitler should have been stopped by the germans themselves the minute he illegalized the communist and socialist party.
Hitler should have been stopped by the germans themselves the minute they finished reading "Mein Kampf".
Ah fuck, if they only had accepted him at Art University.
Yeah, but judging by the geographic skills that USians (stereo)typically exhibit, they'll probably bomb austria or romania instead.
(Yes, I know that the latter isn't even an EU member (yet)).
IE astonishingly bad? Is that like an astonishingly round circle?
Now that will make them bitchen' about management.
So longhorn will be...
A slow, bloated, unstable variant of DOS with a mouse and a pretty blue default background that cannot be copied to another machine?
that's bitchen, not bitches.