Well I can play most (not all) divx's without problems on my celeron 300; mplayer uses 40-50% cputime. That is with software scaling to 1280x960. So I guess this box won't have too much trouble with it...and when it does it can use framedrop (and so can you on your laptop).
4 American scientists granted political asylym AMSTERDAM - 4 American scientists were granted political asylum in the Netherlands. They applied for it in december after they were being prosecuted for publishing scientific work which has become illegal under the DMCA which became effective in 1998. The situation for [computer and math] scientists in the USA has become comparable to the situation in the USSR during the cold war. More scientists are expected to follow these 4.
IANAL but I think scientists (which are being prosecuted) that would apply for asylum right now would make a good chance. Someone should just try it; it'll wake the US up.
Probably the costs for implementing such a system to keep all the data, keeping that system up and running, changing the billing system and enlarging the helpdesk (variable bills will cause more calls) are also a huge factor, I think. And I don't think the bandwidth is the most expensive part; keeping their own network online is much more expensive. And the more users there are, the lower the costs per user will be and that's probably why they don't want you to give your neighboors access to your uplink (as you've promised when signing the contract).
Yes but that's about sensing your moving relative to the swing. That's pretty hard without knowing exactly where the swing is; that's what you need your eyes for in the swing-case. Also human balance-organ (or what's it called) cannot sense a large range of accelerations as this chip is said to be able to do. And this chip has to be REALLY precise for this type of usage if you want it built in a mobile GPS receiver which will probably move a lot in all directions when you're walking with it.
Well the KDE-situation most certainly changed completely when QT became GPL. That RMS did insult them back then doesn't mean that he has any bad feelings for them now...although insulting is always a bad idea. Knowing that, I don't see why RMS would not be the right person to push co-operation. I think the KDE people will understand his change in opinion and I think that his change of opinion clearly shows that he's really behind his idea's and is reasonable about them.
This was not a merge; it was a regular update to the "stable" kernel which was then chosen as the base for the new development-branch. I sure hope they start 2.7 as soon as 2.6 comes out.
A few weeks ago there was something about a company reselling parts of products of another company. The EULA said this was not allowed, but when taken to court it was said that in order to take parts from a bundle of software, you don't have to install it and therefore you may not have read the license and most certainly not have clicked `i agree'. Actually this situation resembles the MPlayer-situation a bit. It's waaay to easy to install MPlayer without ever reading about some license. Most source-files are totally license-less. I wonder what would have happened if this particular case would have been taken to court...but I'm glad that wasn't necessary.
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As far as I know/understand, QT is GPL and GTK is LGPL so you can't make a closed-source application based on QT unless you buy a license from Trolltech.
#1: good point, but you don't have to make them available to everybody; it's probably pretty easy to make them available to adults only.
#2: By only making them available at the Lib of Congr, you effectively censor the access to the material AND keep it under government control which may totally change in a few years and then decide to destroy all offensive material in their library (doom scenario, but why take the risk?).
$0.01 #1: Penthouse is offensive to most (some) of us (ok others:P), but e.g. an antropologist writing about the sexual habits in different cultures may find it very interesting scientific material. This does not mean children should have access to it (although I don't see how it can harm them), ofcourse. My point: what's offensive to some, is very interesting to other.
$0.01 #2: Penthouse is a very important aspect of our culture wether you like it or not. Censoring this in libraries is like denying that it exists and thereby not keeping a complete view of what live's like today. In libraries you will probably find `scientific' books about late 19th century pornography; this is considered historical important to some. In 100 years these aspects of our society may be just as interesting.
$0.01 #3: Penthouse is a bad example for my point:)
Well; then engine-failure is probably not the reason for these things falling out of the sky, but computer etc. can also fail... and parachutes only help those inside (if they have enough time, that is) and not those at risk of getting the thing on their head. No matter how you put it: flying will always be a lot more dangerous than driving a car because cars won't fall out of the sky and cars only drive on 2D-roads, not 3D-unpaved-skies.
Well that seems a bit like they thought to late of a nice version numbering scheme:) O wait it already does if you look at the ftp-directories:) After M9 comes 0.6:) Anyway. I suggest 0.9.8.7.6.5....
I totally agree with you, but when looking to the situation from the point of view of the ones that will have to decide on this, it's a bit more complicated; how would the department of education react when you've decided NOT to accept an offer that will give education a huge boost? They will not be happy and will give a shit about this so-called-monopoly-problem-they-dont-understand. I think for those that will have to decide on this, this is going to be an incredibly tough decision which will raise a lot of critic no matter what the outcome is...
Well I don't think having open source software stimulates chrildren to read the source; most software's source is waaay to complex to be suitable for educational purposes. Software that is suitable for eductional purposes can also be viewed using Microsoft software.
Apart from that I totally agree with you; giving these schools Microsoft software will make them and the children more dependant on Microsoft software and will therefore not only strengthen Microsoft's monopoly but it will also make those children a lot less free in their choice of an OS when they get to choose (buy) one themselves.
Roger that. I work at a company where 15 ppl work. 4 of them are regular mountainbikers. I've also found that apart from those, a relatively large share of the mountainbikers I know, are IT-workers. But then again: mountainbiking requires at least some hills:) And yes: I usually drink beers after work with my collegues.
Hmmm indeed. That's very nice, but completely ridiculous at the same time; this section of the DMCA states that it is legal to perform encryption research in certain cases, while (IANAL) the whole point of the DMCA was to prevent this research... this law is starting to make less sence every day. O wait... it didn't make sense in the beginning. I guess wether this section applies or not is totally up to the randomness of justice in the USA nowadays.
eh..well..i meant that the server should only be expected to be up on that particular day. So it wasn't even supposed to be up today since there are only 24 hours:)
Well...there's only one day a year which has 25 hours: the day we switch to from daylightsaving time to winter-time. So it's even more reliable than it sounds:)
If I were a terrorist and I'd want to do something bad but it's hard to find the information to do bad thing X, I'll just do bad thing Y. While doing that I also encourage the government of my victims to pass legislation that will further lessen their freedom.
I think such legislation won't help a fuck against terrorism but it most certainly will abridge the freedom of all americans so in a way the terrorists have reachad a part of their goal with the help of the government.
Well...I wasn't around then:( But I only know about the quality of dutch cannabis and in the coffeeshop around the corner I can usually choose between about 10 different types of weed/hash and there sure is some cheap shit among them, but also a lot of good stuff... I figure that in countries where cannabis is still illegal, the quality is probably a lot less because there's a lot less competition between the dealers so the quality doesn't really matter. Or isn't this the case?
In a sense it isn't the cocaine that's the problem, it is how the end user funds his habit.
...and that it's not a habit but an addiction and that it causes much more severe physical damage which lasts much longer. Comparing cannabis to harddrugs makes no sense. Some governments need to learn that.
But that's not what it's about, it's about this dudes broken box:(
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Well I can play most (not all) divx's without problems on my celeron 300; mplayer uses 40-50% cputime. That is with software scaling to 1280x960. So I guess this box won't have too much trouble with it...and when it does it can use framedrop (and so can you on your laptop).
AMSTERDAM - 4 American scientists were granted political asylum in the Netherlands. They applied for it in december after they were being prosecuted for publishing scientific work which has become illegal under the DMCA which became effective in 1998. The situation for [computer and math] scientists in the USA has become comparable to the situation in the USSR during the cold war. More scientists are expected to follow these 4.
IANAL but I think scientists (which are being prosecuted) that would apply for asylum right now would make a good chance. Someone should just try it; it'll wake the US up.
Probably the costs for implementing such a system to keep all the data, keeping that system up and running, changing the billing system and enlarging the helpdesk (variable bills will cause more calls) are also a huge factor, I think. And I don't think the bandwidth is the most expensive part; keeping their own network online is much more expensive. And the more users there are, the lower the costs per user will be and that's probably why they don't want you to give your neighboors access to your uplink (as you've promised when signing the contract).
Yeah he was pretty offensive back then so I think you're right; he fucked up. But in theory it's possible:P
Yes but that's about sensing your moving relative to the swing. That's pretty hard without knowing exactly where the swing is; that's what you need your eyes for in the swing-case. Also human balance-organ (or what's it called) cannot sense a large range of accelerations as this chip is said to be able to do. And this chip has to be REALLY precise for this type of usage if you want it built in a mobile GPS receiver which will probably move a lot in all directions when you're walking with it.
Well the KDE-situation most certainly changed completely when QT became GPL. That RMS did insult them back then doesn't mean that he has any bad feelings for them now...although insulting is always a bad idea. Knowing that, I don't see why RMS would not be the right person to push co-operation. I think the KDE people will understand his change in opinion and I think that his change of opinion clearly shows that he's really behind his idea's and is reasonable about them.
This was not a merge; it was a regular update to the "stable" kernel which was then chosen as the base for the new development-branch. I sure hope they start 2.7 as soon as 2.6 comes out.
A few weeks ago there was something about a company reselling parts of products of another company. The EULA said this was not allowed, but when taken to court it was said that in order to take parts from a bundle of software, you don't have to install it and therefore you may not have read the license and most certainly not have clicked `i agree'. Actually this situation resembles the MPlayer-situation a bit. It's waaay to easy to install MPlayer without ever reading about some license. Most source-files are totally license-less. I wonder what would have happened if this particular case would have been taken to court...but I'm glad that wasn't necessary.
As far as I know/understand, QT is GPL and GTK is LGPL so you can't make a closed-source application based on QT unless you buy a license from Trolltech.
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#2: By only making them available at the Lib of Congr, you effectively censor the access to the material AND keep it under government control which may totally change in a few years and then decide to destroy all offensive material in their library (doom scenario, but why take the risk?).
$0.01 #2: Penthouse is a very important aspect of our culture wether you like it or not. Censoring this in libraries is like denying that it exists and thereby not keeping a complete view of what live's like today. In libraries you will probably find `scientific' books about late 19th century pornography; this is considered historical important to some. In 100 years these aspects of our society may be just as interesting.
$0.01 #3: Penthouse is a bad example for my point:)
Well; then engine-failure is probably not the reason for these things falling out of the sky, but computer etc. can also fail... and parachutes only help those inside (if they have enough time, that is) and not those at risk of getting the thing on their head. No matter how you put it: flying will always be a lot more dangerous than driving a car because cars won't fall out of the sky and cars only drive on 2D-roads, not 3D-unpaved-skies.
Well that seems a bit like they thought to late of a nice version numbering scheme:) O wait it already does if you look at the ftp-directories:) After M9 comes 0.6 :) Anyway. I suggest 0.9.8.7.6.5....
I totally agree with you, but when looking to the situation from the point of view of the ones that will have to decide on this, it's a bit more complicated; how would the department of education react when you've decided NOT to accept an offer that will give education a huge boost? They will not be happy and will give a shit about this so-called-monopoly-problem-they-dont-understand. I think for those that will have to decide on this, this is going to be an incredibly tough decision which will raise a lot of critic no matter what the outcome is...
Apart from that I totally agree with you; giving these schools Microsoft software will make them and the children more dependant on Microsoft software and will therefore not only strengthen Microsoft's monopoly but it will also make those children a lot less free in their choice of an OS when they get to choose (buy) one themselves.
If I remember correctly, Dmitri's prosecution is not supported by Adobe either (anymore). He's still prosecuted though...
Roger that. I work at a company where 15 ppl work. 4 of them are regular mountainbikers. I've also found that apart from those, a relatively large share of the mountainbikers I know, are IT-workers. But then again: mountainbiking requires at least some hills:) And yes: I usually drink beers after work with my collegues.
Hmmm indeed. That's very nice, but completely ridiculous at the same time; this section of the DMCA states that it is legal to perform encryption research in certain cases, while (IANAL) the whole point of the DMCA was to prevent this research... this law is starting to make less sence every day. O wait... it didn't make sense in the beginning. I guess wether this section applies or not is totally up to the randomness of justice in the USA nowadays.
eh..well..i meant that the server should only be expected to be up on that particular day. So it wasn't even supposed to be up today since there are only 24 hours:)
Well...there's only one day a year which has 25 hours: the day we switch to from daylightsaving time to winter-time. So it's even more reliable than it sounds:)
I think such legislation won't help a fuck against terrorism but it most certainly will abridge the freedom of all americans so in a way the terrorists have reachad a part of their goal with the help of the government.
Well...I wasn't around then:( But I only know about the quality of dutch cannabis and in the coffeeshop around the corner I can usually choose between about 10 different types of weed/hash and there sure is some cheap shit among them, but also a lot of good stuff... I figure that in countries where cannabis is still illegal, the quality is probably a lot less because there's a lot less competition between the dealers so the quality doesn't really matter. Or isn't this the case?
...and that it's not a habit but an addiction and that it causes much more severe physical damage which lasts much longer. Comparing cannabis to harddrugs makes no sense. Some governments need to learn that.
But that's not what it's about, it's about this dudes broken box:(
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