2) "My other system". Go around, and have each person tell about their "other system", that's taken apart/broken/being upgraded/too big to bring. "My other system has a 1TB raid 0 array - 2 4x100GB arrays, and a 2x100, all Software raided into a 1TB array. I'd bring it, but it's too big, what with it's 3 power supplies and all...".
Hah! My other system has a 1TB RAID array with 4x250MB drives, which fit in my case and run off one power supply!
Name a feature in MS Word that's not in Abiword 2.0 (which will be most likely be released in a few weeks). Then ask yourself if more than 1% of the user base cares about that feature. I think exchanging a few niche features for a $300 savings is quite a good deal.
No, saying that is just as wrong as saying all prime numbers are even, 50% of them are, or that none of them are. The truth is that the percentage is infinitly small, which is very very different from 0.000000000000001%.
Evolution 1.4 is pretty much feature-for-feature identical to 1.2, the only real difference is GTK2. Filtering in Evo 2.0 wouldn't surprise me, but they're really aiming at corporate clients who are likely to filter at the server level.
The question was, what would the difference be between downloading Ximian Gnome with Red Carpet and downloading Ximian Gnome from a (hypothetical) apt source.
I know that. A CD-RW acting like a CD-R doesn't work for storing persistant files between LiveCD sessions. For that, you need to be able to write to the files individually, without blanking the disk.
I'm aware that you can write files to a CD-RW. As I said, the current Linux kernel doesn't support packet writing, and even if it did, the reduction in capacity would not be acceptable on an already crammed LiveCD.
There are something like 500,000 works copyrighted per year. If 25% of them renew, that's $125,000 per year. $125,000 is easily enough to pay two or three employees to answer phones or whatever. As for maintaing a database, they're already maintaining one, so removing entries after 50 years wouldn't be a great burden. And in 50 years, I imagine the majority of people would want to renew over the Internet (or whatever system we have in 2053), which reduces paperwork costs significantly.
Therefore, anyone who has a copyright near expiration (or not near, for that matter) could just move it into the public domain if they wish. If they do care about the copyright, they won't release it anyway.
The point is that this puts the burden of maintaining the copyright on the copyright owner. As it is, if I write a paper, a PhD thesis maybe, no one else can publish it or distribute it. In 50 years, I may not even remember that thesis or realize that I have copyright on it. Under Lessig's system, it goes into the public domain, so if (in my dreams) I become some brilliant scientist who changes the world, people would be free to read my early works at will, just as they can read those of Einstein, Newton, or whoever. Under the current system, it stays copyrighted even though I am not distributing it and have no interest in owning it.
Otherwise they'll be nothing but forgotten garbage released into the public domain.
"Garbage" is subjective, and not all that is forgotten is garbage. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and anything added to the public domain is a good thing.
All video card drivers have algorithms to keep from rendering unneccessary portions of the map. What NVidia did, I believe, was to bypass those algorithms and hard-code into the driver the portions that needed to be rendered. That wouldn't work in a real game, where the card must decide what to render at run-time based on user input. Therefor, it's cheating, no different from including an MPEG of the entire 3Dmark demo and showing it in lieu of actually rendering it.
There is no such thing as a RW mode for CD-RWs. They can be written and blanked only. They cannot be used like a regular hard disk, unless you want to delve into proprietary systems like DirectCD, InCD, etc., none of which work under Linux.
There are legitimate reasons for a fast machine, but Mozilla isn't one of them. It runs fine (~5 second startup with quickstart, no noticable latency in the GUI) on a 266Mhz PII.
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As for why Mozilla needs recompiling for anti-aliased fonts, that's a problem with Mozilla; its X11 toolkit is just not very good.
Mozilla's X11 toolkit is gtk. The older (gtk1) builds need to be built with specifically xft support. The newer (gtk2) builds automatically support all of the X font goodness.
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Numerous features? Name one.
Hah! My other system has a 1TB RAID array with 4x250MB drives, which fit in my case and run off one power supply!
patents != copyrights
Name a feature in MS Word that's not in Abiword 2.0 (which will be most likely be released in a few weeks). Then ask yourself if more than 1% of the user base cares about that feature. I think exchanging a few niche features for a $300 savings is quite a good deal.
What about benchmarks?
No, saying that is just as wrong as saying all prime numbers are even, 50% of them are, or that none of them are. The truth is that the percentage is infinitly small, which is very very different from 0.000000000000001%.
I believe it was settled, and Apple Computer now has the rights to do whatever they want.
Evolution 1.4 is pretty much feature-for-feature identical to 1.2, the only real difference is GTK2. Filtering in Evo 2.0 wouldn't surprise me, but they're really aiming at corporate clients who are likely to filter at the server level.
The question was, what would the difference be between downloading Ximian Gnome with Red Carpet and downloading Ximian Gnome from a (hypothetical) apt source.
It would be funny if it wasn't posted several times in every story mentioning a product with a version number.
The iPod, at least, has a 32MB RAM buffer, so the hard disk spends very little time actually spinning.
mplayer natively decodes Sorenson, Sorenson 3, and MPEG-4. I don't know of any "newer" .mov files using anything else.
I know that. A CD-RW acting like a CD-R doesn't work for storing persistant files between LiveCD sessions. For that, you need to be able to write to the files individually, without blanking the disk.
Do you really think anyone cares about or trusts the signature on a web petition?
I'm aware that you can write files to a CD-RW. As I said, the current Linux kernel doesn't support packet writing, and even if it did, the reduction in capacity would not be acceptable on an already crammed LiveCD.
There are something like 500,000 works copyrighted per year. If 25% of them renew, that's $125,000 per year. $125,000 is easily enough to pay two or three employees to answer phones or whatever. As for maintaing a database, they're already maintaining one, so removing entries after 50 years wouldn't be a great burden. And in 50 years, I imagine the majority of people would want to renew over the Internet (or whatever system we have in 2053), which reduces paperwork costs significantly.
$1G? Would that be a gazillion dollars?
Does that mean that non-useful arts aren't covered under copyright?
The point is that this puts the burden of maintaining the copyright on the copyright owner. As it is, if I write a paper, a PhD thesis maybe, no one else can publish it or distribute it. In 50 years, I may not even remember that thesis or realize that I have copyright on it. Under Lessig's system, it goes into the public domain, so if (in my dreams) I become some brilliant scientist who changes the world, people would be free to read my early works at will, just as they can read those of Einstein, Newton, or whoever. Under the current system, it stays copyrighted even though I am not distributing it and have no interest in owning it.
Otherwise they'll be nothing but forgotten garbage released into the public domain.
"Garbage" is subjective, and not all that is forgotten is garbage. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and anything added to the public domain is a good thing.
All video card drivers have algorithms to keep from rendering unneccessary portions of the map. What NVidia did, I believe, was to bypass those algorithms and hard-code into the driver the portions that needed to be rendered. That wouldn't work in a real game, where the card must decide what to render at run-time based on user input. Therefor, it's cheating, no different from including an MPEG of the entire 3Dmark demo and showing it in lieu of actually rendering it.
There is no such thing as a RW mode for CD-RWs. They can be written and blanked only. They cannot be used like a regular hard disk, unless you want to delve into proprietary systems like DirectCD, InCD, etc., none of which work under Linux.
There are legitimate reasons for a fast machine, but Mozilla isn't one of them. It runs fine (~5 second startup with quickstart, no noticable latency in the GUI) on a 266Mhz PII.
Mozilla's X11 toolkit is gtk. The older (gtk1) builds need to be built with specifically xft support. The newer (gtk2) builds automatically support all of the X font goodness.
acme is native GNOME2 (although it should work with KDE) and provides an excellent gui for configuring/using those keys.
You can always remove a panel and set it up however you want.