but given he's a communist - yes, the ideals behind the GPL are communism, no matter how much many out there would prefer to deny it
The key word to the whole show - which is absent from your post entirely - is "control". The GPL is designed to stop anyone being able to take or exert control over the software in a way that cannot be subverted by anyone who feels strongly enough about it. I guess you can draw a line between that kind of egalitarian thought and the dictionary definition of communism, but its kind of meaningless, since all the communist states I know of are from the start run by a clique which took control and ruthlessly maintained it pretty much indistinguishably from a Fascist state. The GPL's built in prinicple of enshrining subversion makes a comparison either way useless.
Sadly, Stallman's driven to destroy the livelihood of an entire section of the IT world. I guess the programmers who want to earn a living will have to move to India to become call-centre support staff
Yes, a lot of software which is paid-for at the moment is going to get replaced by GNU software as you imply. But then programmers can springboard off these enhanced resources at zero cost to make greater progress than is possible if every little thing has to be paid for. Americans are famed for being able to be enterpreneurial, positive and to find opportunities in difficult situations: why not consider the possibilities opened to you by these kind of free resources for you to do what you like with? Because thanks to the work and ideas of Stallman, you've got a blank cheque to use fantastic GPL stuff like the GNU toolchain, the whole Linux kernel to make your money with.
I think the problems are coming from issues of "Intellectual Hygiene"... RMS parses Linux as something that gnu facilitated, and in his worldview gnu is more important and overarching than Linux is. (In the longer term, he may be right). So I guess he feels some cognitive dissonance when its Linux this and Linux that, whereas the FSF and gnu are less honoured.
Hopefully in the future historians will write this time up as a radical return to the concept of the Public Domain for Public Good, something that has been almost destroyed by Greedy Corporate Fucks. Linux is feted for its direct effects today on the GCFs, as its the most visible sign of the battle, but its the GPL and the gnu concepts that are actually driving it underneath and changing the agenda, IMHO.
Still, even appreciating this, GNU/Linux is a bit of a mouthful:-)
Thanks for the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 tip, Crossover Office being broken had killed support for Quickbooks. This was driving me nuts. I found that this was enough to make it work fine. Thanks again.
If you're a C++ programmer and don't use templates, you're not doing your job. ... I would certainly never hire a "C++ developer" that don't at the very least have thorough experience with the STL, and preferrably understand how to write (and when to write) templates
As it happens most of my work is done down near the hardware. So those peksy issues of the relationship of compiled code to the hardware - which cut directly across things like having 24 copies of each method in a class because the class is templated across 24 types - are very important.
Sure for some types of work the longevity and conciseness of the code is more important than the efficiency, I understand that. And in those types of work you can basically forget that you are running on real hardware with real limitations, since time and memory will 'stretch' for you. But just like it sounds you wouldn't hire me, I don't think for my kind of work I would hire you:-)
I have used C+ for several years, and love its abilities to model layers of belongingness with its OO principles: but I assessed templates as evil and have never used them. My understanding is that the template mechanism is like a super #define, that is, the compiler spawns multiple implementations of templated classes.
The seemed to me a recipe for bloat/cache thrashing/ugliness. I did not see bloat addressed in the review. In my reactionary way I continue to believe my prejudices.
Does anyone who has used templates have anything to say about templates and bloat?
The most difficulty is in the abridgement -- especially for an amateur cast -- the author doing the shortening had better be good.
That's a good insight into the problem right there. Also most litereary works are full of narrative not dialogue. Somehow the information that is not spoken by the characters needs to be conveyed in the audio.
A major part of the effort would be creating good quality scripts that all the actors liked before recording was started.
Someone else mentioned there would be a lack of interaction with the voices recorded separately, but you could imaging some kind of realtime conference call type thing going on if people had broadband.
I have to say this sounds like a brilliant idea. Especially about the old Science Fiction stories someone else pointed out as being ripe for redoing.
You are very wrong. For music, films, and literary works, the counterbalance of the temporary monopoly of copyright is the permanent state of the work being in the Public Domain when the copyright period expires. Try Google.
So the public - your country as a culture - has EVERY right to someone's work. No person has the right to forever withold or limit distribution of these works from enriching everyone else. Although certain greedy corporations are attempting to achieve this state of affairs.
While I myself vote LibDem in the UK, I really dislike seeing people spraying their fear at others by labelling their views 'socialist' or 'communist' as if that weakens the argument or the person one tiny bit. It sounds to me like its a frightened pocketbook talking rather than a brain.
And no way to get your existing MP3s into the box, or the ripped WMAs out of it. MS don't want you to do that, so you can't. No way to play video media other than DVD either.
Only if you get either a hacked native BIOS, so you can run unsigned native apps, or you run Linux through cromwell or a hacked native BIOS, can you actually do what you want with the box you paid for.
There are some amazing unsigned native apps out there, like XBMP, but they are made with warez-ed MS tools. All respect to them for the quality of the results, but it sits badly with me that they are made with MS libraries, spreading MS proprietary APIs, and prepping the programmers really only for continuing the dominance of MS OSes. I hope as Linux on the Xbox gets more mature they'll consider moving over.
However, some information: on the Xbox, the motherboard flash containing the BIOS is not writeable by default. You have to take out the motherboard and short out a couple of links with solder before it can be written. So MS cannot trash or update the original BIOS.
Most commercial modchips feature a write protect line which you physically have to switch to allow writes to the mod flash. Even those that don't are externally reprogrammable from a PC printer port. So this is no kind of crisis.
What is more possible to imagine in the future though are new games linked with a new version of the MS libraries which seek out and shit on assets on the HDD that MS don't approve of.
There are two big reasons why this is interesting.
1) Because modchips can now ship with a fully legal clean BIOS, it is very hard for MS to suppress or chill their development any more. Cromwell, the Linux booting BIOS, is only capable to boot Linux, there can be no copyright-based complaints. Ozxchips have made a micro-distro (~2MB ISO) which boots and reflashes the BIOS. In the future, I expect mods with multiple BIOSes in one flash, with Cromwell used to manage and reflash the other parts, but being itself read-only/protected.
2) Because Cromwell can boot off the Linux install CDs, perform the install and then subsequently boot direct into Linux, the increased availability of the BIOS suggests that more people will be encouraged to try Linux. And considering these are mainly kids who otherwise face a sterile, uncreative and useless relationship with games on the Xbox, that's a good thing. Again, in the future we can expect Cromwell to be a static feature of mods, the option to boot into Linux always being available.
You've been able to run Linux on the Xbox for some time now, this doesn't really change that. What's different is that you can now run Linux without using any MS code in the BIOS, whereas before Linux required the use of a hacked native BIOS to get it started. So the big difference is that you can run Linux without any copyright infringement.
That has ramifications for the MS trend to try to suppress modchips.
Well, happily straightening your opinions out isn't my problem.
However, again with the ass-backwardness:
''Without patents, the big companies will fuck you''
Hello?!?! I refer the honourable gentleman to the story these comments are posted under.
''The original post should be locked away, never to see the light of day. It was absolutely stupid, assinine, and paranoid''
Something about the 'post...locked away' (presumably in case people might agree with it) makes me assume you are or have been a beneficiary of the Patent system. That's fine for you and of course that colours your opinion of the system. But 99.999% of people will never own a patent, instead they suffer the results of the non-competitive market the patent system encourages. The original poster on this thread was considering their/our point of view, as a mental exercise you should give it a try.
That's all the time I have for you, I'm off to bed.
Wow, you really didn't understand what the parent was getting at.
''If there were no patents in place, than innovation would be halted''
Without copyright, people would still write music and songs. And without patents, for other market-led reasons, people will still create and improve designs. Can you imagine that?
''The bigger companies in existence would bully the small inventors and entrepeneurs out of the market and then who would keep the information open?''
This wins the ass-backward award for today. Did you read the story about what SCO are trying to do WITH patents? Don't you think that creating a $100+ Linux tax because they filed some obvious software tricks first is 'bullying smaller inventors' and keeping them 'out of the market' WITH patents?
Please have a good old cogitate on the points in the original post, it deserves +5 insightful, you should re-examine your thoughts on the matter.
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Similar technology could even make clothes that double as video screens
New! Look bigger in jeans!
but given he's a communist - yes, the ideals behind the GPL are communism, no matter how much many out there would prefer to deny it
The key word to the whole show - which is absent from your post entirely - is "control". The GPL is designed to stop anyone being able to take or exert control over the software in a way that cannot be subverted by anyone who feels strongly enough about it. I guess you can draw a line between that kind of egalitarian thought and the dictionary definition of communism, but its kind of meaningless, since all the communist states I know of are from the start run by a clique which took control and ruthlessly maintained it pretty much indistinguishably from a Fascist state. The GPL's built in prinicple of enshrining subversion makes a comparison either way useless.
Sadly, Stallman's driven to destroy the livelihood of an entire section of the IT world. I guess the programmers who want to earn a living will have to move to India to become call-centre support staff
Yes, a lot of software which is paid-for at the moment is going to get replaced by GNU software as you imply. But then programmers can springboard off these enhanced resources at zero cost to make greater progress than is possible if every little thing has to be paid for. Americans are famed for being able to be enterpreneurial, positive and to find opportunities in difficult situations: why not consider the possibilities opened to you by these kind of free resources for you to do what you like with? Because thanks to the work and ideas of Stallman, you've got a blank cheque to use fantastic GPL stuff like the GNU toolchain, the whole Linux kernel to make your money with.
I think the problems are coming from issues of "Intellectual Hygiene"... RMS parses Linux as something that gnu facilitated, and in his worldview gnu is more important and overarching than Linux is. (In the longer term, he may be right). So I guess he feels some cognitive dissonance when its Linux this and Linux that, whereas the FSF and gnu are less honoured.
:-)
Hopefully in the future historians will write this time up as a radical return to the concept of the Public Domain for Public Good, something that has been almost destroyed by Greedy Corporate Fucks. Linux is feted for its direct effects today on the GCFs, as its the most visible sign of the battle, but its the GPL and the gnu concepts that are actually driving it underneath and changing the agenda, IMHO.
Still, even appreciating this, GNU/Linux is a bit of a mouthful
The goatse.cx guy was obviously a betatester.
AND Windows
Thanks for the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 tip, Crossover Office being broken had killed support for Quickbooks. This was driving me nuts. I found that this was enough to make it work fine. Thanks again.
AMD make flash. Nowhere in the article does it talk about Static RAM.
:-)
When talk exceeds the bounds of the talker's knowledge, there ought to be a segfault
The DMCA wasn't aimed at printer cartridges. But there it is.
In Europe? Get ready for the EUCD.
...
I would certainly never hire a "C++ developer" that don't at the very least have thorough experience with the STL, and preferrably understand how to write (and when to write) templates
As it happens most of my work is done down near the hardware. So those peksy issues of the relationship of compiled code to the hardware - which cut directly across things like having 24 copies of each method in a class because the class is templated across 24 types - are very important.
Sure for some types of work the longevity and conciseness of the code is more important than the efficiency, I understand that. And in those types of work you can basically forget that you are running on real hardware with real limitations, since time and memory will 'stretch' for you. But just like it sounds you wouldn't hire me, I don't think for my kind of work I would hire you :-)
I have used C+ for several years, and love its abilities to model layers of belongingness with its OO principles: but I assessed templates as evil and have never used them. My understanding is that the template mechanism is like a super #define, that is, the compiler spawns multiple implementations of templated classes.
The seemed to me a recipe for bloat/cache thrashing/ugliness. I did not see bloat addressed in the review. In my reactionary way I continue to believe my prejudices.
Does anyone who has used templates have anything to say about templates and bloat?
64,000 LOCs/day!?!?!
What happens when it goes past 65,535 LOCs/day!!!
Does IPv6 fix this?
"Olympic swimming pools"? What's that in Libraries of Congress?
Everything you do to your parents now, your offspring are going to do to you in 25 years time
That's a good insight into the problem right there. Also most litereary works are full of narrative not dialogue. Somehow the information that is not spoken by the characters needs to be conveyed in the audio.
A major part of the effort would be creating good quality scripts that all the actors liked before recording was started.
Someone else mentioned there would be a lack of interaction with the voices recorded separately, but you could imaging some kind of realtime conference call type thing going on if people had broadband.
I have to say this sounds like a brilliant idea. Especially about the old Science Fiction stories someone else pointed out as being ripe for redoing.
You are very wrong. For music, films, and literary works, the counterbalance of the temporary monopoly of copyright is the permanent state of the work being in the Public Domain when the copyright period expires. Try Google.
So the public - your country as a culture - has EVERY right to someone's work. No person has the right to forever withold or limit distribution of these works from enriching everyone else. Although certain greedy corporations are attempting to achieve this state of affairs.
While I myself vote LibDem in the UK, I really dislike seeing people spraying their fear at others by labelling their views 'socialist' or 'communist' as if that weakens the argument or the person one tiny bit. It sounds to me like its a frightened pocketbook talking rather than a brain.
Prohibition.
Not MP3.
Proprietary WMA.
And no way to get your existing MP3s into the box, or the ripped WMAs out of it. MS don't want you to do that, so you can't. No way to play video media other than DVD either.
Only if you get either a hacked native BIOS, so you can run unsigned native apps, or you run Linux through cromwell or a hacked native BIOS, can you actually do what you want with the box you paid for.
There are some amazing unsigned native apps out there, like XBMP, but they are made with warez-ed MS tools. All respect to them for the quality of the results, but it sits badly with me that they are made with MS libraries, spreading MS proprietary APIs, and prepping the programmers really only for continuing the dominance of MS OSes. I hope as Linux on the Xbox gets more mature they'll consider moving over.
This is a good point.
However, some information: on the Xbox, the motherboard flash containing the BIOS is not writeable by default. You have to take out the motherboard and short out a couple of links with solder before it can be written. So MS cannot trash or update the original BIOS.
Most commercial modchips feature a write protect line which you physically have to switch to allow writes to the mod flash. Even those that don't are externally reprogrammable from a PC printer port. So this is no kind of crisis.
What is more possible to imagine in the future though are new games linked with a new version of the MS libraries which seek out and shit on assets on the HDD that MS don't approve of.
There are two big reasons why this is interesting.
1) Because modchips can now ship with a fully legal clean BIOS, it is very hard for MS to suppress or chill their development any more. Cromwell, the Linux booting BIOS, is only capable to boot Linux, there can be no copyright-based complaints. Ozxchips have made a micro-distro (~2MB ISO) which boots and reflashes the BIOS. In the future, I expect mods with multiple BIOSes in one flash, with Cromwell used to manage and reflash the other parts, but being itself read-only/protected.
2) Because Cromwell can boot off the Linux install CDs, perform the install and then subsequently boot direct into Linux, the increased availability of the BIOS suggests that more people will be encouraged to try Linux. And considering these are mainly kids who otherwise face a sterile, uncreative and useless relationship with games on the Xbox, that's a good thing. Again, in the future we can expect Cromwell to be a static feature of mods, the option to boot into Linux always being available.
You've been able to run Linux on the Xbox for some time now, this doesn't really change that. What's different is that you can now run Linux without using any MS code in the BIOS, whereas before Linux required the use of a hacked native BIOS to get it started. So the big difference is that you can run Linux without any copyright infringement.
That has ramifications for the MS trend to try to suppress modchips.
Really interesting link
Well, happily straightening your opinions out isn't my problem.
However, again with the ass-backwardness:
''Without patents, the big companies will fuck you''
Hello?!?! I refer the honourable gentleman to the story these comments are posted under.
''The original post should be locked away, never to see the light of day. It was absolutely stupid, assinine, and paranoid''
Something about the 'post...locked away' (presumably in case people might agree with it) makes me assume you are or have been a beneficiary of the Patent system. That's fine for you and of course that colours your opinion of the system. But 99.999% of people will never own a patent, instead they suffer the results of the non-competitive market the patent system encourages. The original poster on this thread was considering their/our point of view, as a mental exercise you should give it a try.
That's all the time I have for you, I'm off to bed.
Wow, you really didn't understand what the parent was getting at.
''If there were no patents in place, than innovation would be halted''
Without copyright, people would still write music and songs. And without patents, for other market-led reasons, people will still create and improve designs. Can you imagine that?
''The bigger companies in existence would bully the small inventors and entrepeneurs out of the market and then who would keep the information open?''
This wins the ass-backward award for today. Did you read the story about what SCO are trying to do WITH patents? Don't you think that creating a $100+ Linux tax because they filed some obvious software tricks first is 'bullying smaller inventors' and keeping them 'out of the market' WITH patents?
Please have a good old cogitate on the points in the original post, it deserves +5 insightful, you should re-examine your thoughts on the matter.
Actually you do get a 'God given right' to copy things that are a 'few' years old, its called the Public Domain after the copyright period expires.
Microsoft not required.