You'll find that the "*nix community" isn't going to be the only bunch of people using Linux in the near future. There are plenty of businesses who'd love to dump NT if they still get to run Office.
And btw, do yourself a favor and download and use icab instead of IE.
Aqua is the themed gui. Quartz is the display engine (pdf-based, in the same way display postscript was used in Nextstep/etc.).
You're wrong about X, not that it matters in the present instance. John Carmack of id fame is working on porting the X windowing system to Darwin and hence to OS X.
Your paragraph about Carbon isn't too conherent, but I'll just assume you didn't contradict yourself and that you do agree that MS will be porting it via Carbon -- with the choice of Carbon and Yellobox/Cocoa, it's a nobrainer for them (which is a perfect opportunity for a cheap shot, but I'll let it pass).
Have you seriously tried using WinCE? The desktop startmenu/etc. paradigm doesn't translate into a good handheld interface. Half of Palm's success has been in avoiding this problem and coming up with a different interface.
One of the "laymen" I know who tried WinCE (who'd be royally pissed off if she knew someone called her a *man;) has moved on to an ibook. The interface was one of her many gripes with WinCE.
Actually, I'm "funny". I'm surprised no one responded and said "I don't get it; Linux is a *nix variant!", to which I'd have to respond "Ah, but the original post said '*nix' and we all know that linux is spelled "Linux, not 'Linix."
This isn't anything new -- it's been the same for years with compilers and other programs whose output is being sold rather than the program itself. Fortunately it hasn't prevented most people from contributing source, and even if it did, I'd challenge you to write a liscense that would require as much and still be enforceable -- It's hard enough to find GPL violations when you have the actual binary, so how the heck are you going to do it remotely with someone's website?
The author/owner can release it under any liscense he wants, including a modified version of the GPL. The idea that you can't modify the GPL is only binding on people who don't own the copyright in question and have to use the software in a manner consistent with its liscense, although it would be a courtesy for all involved not to call it "GPL" if it's really a modified version.
People have demonstrated that they're more than willing to settle for lossy mp3s instead of cd tracks. And besides, there are driver-level hacks that can get around the need for digital-analog-digital converting.
Religions like Christianity have always been popular for a bunch of reasons, and the Romans had very little to do with it. Drugs have been popular since before homo sapiens sapiens was evolved, as humans aren't even the only species to use them. You're closest to the truth when you cite rock music, but there's hardly anything unique about that movement.
And by the way, the correct idiom is "forbidden fruit", not "forbidden apple".
Me, Myself, and Irene might be good, if it's more like Truman than Jim's older movies.
Any movie that confuses the difference between schizophrenia and multiple-personality disorder reeks of crap.
Last year Jakob the Liar was released, and it was excellent.
Trust me, the original (Jakob der Lüger, East German, 1975) version kicks Robin William's hiney any day. But someone who likes a remake rarely appreciates the original as much.
From the conclusion: This architecture offers many advantages over previous designs, particularly in the areas of expandability, flexibility, and maintenance, and represents a new approach to logical volume management.
Whether or not it lives up to that praise will have to be closely examined.
As long as it's released under a liscense like the GPL, we don't need to trust them -- it's out of their hands and into ours if it's a good piece of code. In general, we should trust them about as much as any other self-serving corporate interest, although they get bonus points for having given something to the community in the past and for being the enemy of our enemy (MS).
But if copyright were done away with, then there'd be nothing to prevent the purchaser from distributing the binaries once he got past whatever contract/liscense was involved. Copyright doesn't just apply to the source. And need I remind you that there's been plenty of free software under BSD style liscenses for years even though it doesn't "prevent others from closing the source back up" (not that I prefer BSD to GPL, but it's there).
I have to wonder what the stenographers think about this.
Lots of them aren't thinking about it at all, since their minds aren't processing the words flying by any more than is necessary to translate them into shorthand/etc. It's like how it used to be with telegraph operators, especially the ones who were surprised to learn from the papers that Lincoln had been shot when in fact they themselves were the ones who had previously decoded the transmission that reported as much.
If copyright is done away with, then the GPL is no longer necessary, because the only viable software model with then be free software. Something to think about.
I have five brothers, all with children and grandchildren, and will be emailing them as well as posting to the family website my strong recommendation that they boycott Mattel and the reasons why.
Awww, crap. You mean now? When I'm halfway to the sweet water rapids and just pulled off a 500 lbs of food for 3 oxen trade? I suppose I could always go Donnor Party and call it quits, but....
IE has something like 70% of the browser market now, mainly because it just browses, nothing else.
If you've been following the trial, then you'd remember that IE is actually more than just a browser (it's also a shell/file-manager/etc.). If you've been following the trial, then you'd also realize that IE is in some tricky legal waters right now and is likely to be ripped out of Windows within a couple months.*** During all that confusion/whatever, Mozilla might just swoop in and pick up the pieces. In any event, they have a little longer to get things right the first time -- they've already been overhyped, and the last thing they want is to release a stable but incomplete browser and look all the more foolish for having taken so long to get there. You also have to remember that AOL is calling the shots now, and they don't particularly care that much about non-AOL users -- they have other plans.
***This, however, will not much affect MS's current installed user base. I haven't seen much analysis of that point.
The lag is pretty bad, as you would know if you've examined satellite internet connections lately. Most likely, it'll be controlled by an astronaut sitting inside the shuttle rather than from the ground.
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You'll find that the "*nix community" isn't going to be the only bunch of people using Linux in the near future. There are plenty of businesses who'd love to dump NT if they still get to run Office.
And btw, do yourself a favor and download and use icab instead of IE.
Aqua is the themed gui. Quartz is the display engine (pdf-based, in the same way display postscript was used in Nextstep/etc.).
You're wrong about X, not that it matters in the present instance. John Carmack of id fame is working on porting the X windowing system to Darwin and hence to OS X.
Your paragraph about Carbon isn't too conherent, but I'll just assume you didn't contradict yourself and that you do agree that MS will be porting it via Carbon -- with the choice of Carbon and Yellobox/Cocoa, it's a nobrainer for them (which is a perfect opportunity for a cheap shot, but I'll let it pass).
After all, if you go to bed with the patent owner, the market is your oyster.
Yes, but you then have to pay child support for the bastard offspring, and the alimony payments can get a little steep as well.
Have you seriously tried using WinCE? The desktop startmenu/etc. paradigm doesn't translate into a good handheld interface. Half of Palm's success has been in avoiding this problem and coming up with a different interface.
One of the "laymen" I know who tried WinCE (who'd be royally pissed off if she knew someone called her a *man;) has moved on to an ibook. The interface was one of her many gripes with WinCE.
Actually, I'm "funny". I'm surprised no one responded and said "I don't get it; Linux is a *nix variant!", to which I'd have to respond "Ah, but the original post said '*nix' and we all know that linux is spelled "Linux, not 'Linix."
This isn't anything new -- it's been the same for years with compilers and other programs whose output is being sold rather than the program itself. Fortunately it hasn't prevented most people from contributing source, and even if it did, I'd challenge you to write a liscense that would require as much and still be enforceable -- It's hard enough to find GPL violations when you have the actual binary, so how the heck are you going to do it remotely with someone's website?
That's why we're all running Linux. Duh. ;-)
The author/owner can release it under any liscense he wants, including a modified version of the GPL. The idea that you can't modify the GPL is only binding on people who don't own the copyright in question and have to use the software in a manner consistent with its liscense, although it would be a courtesy for all involved not to call it "GPL" if it's really a modified version.
People have demonstrated that they're more than willing to settle for lossy mp3s instead of cd tracks. And besides, there are driver-level hacks that can get around the need for digital-analog-digital converting.
Post hoc ergo procter hoc.
Religions like Christianity have always been popular for a bunch of reasons, and the Romans had very little to do with it. Drugs have been popular since before homo sapiens sapiens was evolved, as humans aren't even the only species to use them. You're closest to the truth when you cite rock music, but there's hardly anything unique about that movement.
And by the way, the correct idiom is "forbidden fruit", not "forbidden apple".
Me, Myself, and Irene might be good, if it's more like Truman than Jim's older movies.
Any movie that confuses the difference between schizophrenia and multiple-personality disorder reeks of crap.
Last year Jakob the Liar was released, and it was excellent.
Trust me, the original (Jakob der Lüger, East German, 1975) version kicks Robin William's hiney any day. But someone who likes a remake rarely appreciates the original as much.
From the conclusion:
This architecture offers many advantages over previous designs, particularly in the areas of expandability, flexibility, and maintenance, and represents a new approach to logical volume management.
Whether or not it lives up to that praise will have to be closely examined.
As long as it's released under a liscense like the GPL, we don't need to trust them -- it's out of their hands and into ours if it's a good piece of code. In general, we should trust them about as much as any other self-serving corporate interest, although they get bonus points for having given something to the community in the past and for being the enemy of our enemy (MS).
Small, medium, and large, without any of the fine detail in between.
You completely missed my point. The GPL would be unenforceable but unnecessary. That which is not necessary needn't be enforceable.
Besides what Wah pointed out, you'll also find such methods don't qualify as "viable".
But if copyright were done away with, then there'd be nothing to prevent the purchaser from distributing the binaries once he got past whatever contract/liscense was involved. Copyright doesn't just apply to the source. And need I remind you that there's been plenty of free software under BSD style liscenses for years even though it doesn't "prevent others from closing the source back up" (not that I prefer BSD to GPL, but it's there).
Attorney-client privilege. He's just informing him of his right not to compromise that privilege.
I have to wonder what the stenographers think about this.
Lots of them aren't thinking about it at all, since their minds aren't processing the words flying by any more than is necessary to translate them into shorthand/etc. It's like how it used to be with telegraph operators, especially the ones who were surprised to learn from the papers that Lincoln had been shot when in fact they themselves were the ones who had previously decoded the transmission that reported as much.
If copyright is done away with, then the GPL is no longer necessary, because the only viable software model with then be free software. Something to think about.
I have five brothers, all with children and grandchildren, and will be emailing them as well as posting to the family website my strong recommendation that they boycott Mattel and the reasons why.
Awww, crap. You mean now? When I'm halfway to the sweet water rapids and just pulled off a 500 lbs of food for 3 oxen trade? I suppose I could always go Donnor Party and call it quits, but....
j/k
AOL is still pointing the Mozilla team in the direction best for AOL.
IE has something like 70% of the browser market now, mainly because it just browses, nothing else.
If you've been following the trial, then you'd remember that IE is actually more than just a browser (it's also a shell/file-manager/etc.). If you've been following the trial, then you'd also realize that IE is in some tricky legal waters right now and is likely to be ripped out of Windows within a couple months.*** During all that confusion/whatever, Mozilla might just swoop in and pick up the pieces. In any event, they have a little longer to get things right the first time -- they've already been overhyped, and the last thing they want is to release a stable but incomplete browser and look all the more foolish for having taken so long to get there. You also have to remember that AOL is calling the shots now, and they don't particularly care that much about non-AOL users -- they have other plans.
***This, however, will not much affect MS's current installed user base. I haven't seen much analysis of that point.
I would've thought it would have been Microsoft who'd be asking for a .rob TLD. You know, right up there with .rape, .pillage, .extend, and .extinguish.
The lag is pretty bad, as you would know if you've examined satellite internet connections lately. Most likely, it'll be controlled by an astronaut sitting inside the shuttle rather than from the ground.