the author is, obviously, allowed to do whatever he wants to with the code. however, since that previous version was released under the gpl, so are you. as long as you use code from a release that was done under the gpl, you're allowed to do whatever you like with it, provided that it doesn't violate the gpl. so the short answer to your question is "yes, you can."
no way in hell i'm paying a 60 cent cd-r tax. i burn them too damn frequently, and i remember paying $3/each for them back when i got my first burner. their damn tax is the reason why cassette tapes are so expensive. if i'm gonna be paying a 60 cent cd-r tax, i'll just stop buying them.
but there *would* be an alternative way. let's assume that aimster encrypts every file transfer, be it the communcations by the users, file trading, etc (i have no idea, as i've never used it). the person on the recieving end has to *decrypt* the information in whatever way - by putting in a password, etc. since it's being viewed, is this not "an alternative way to access the material without circumventing the encryption"?
if that's the case, then that, coupled with personal privacy laws, should make it a pretty good case for aimster/etc.
what's wrong with "recycling" licenses? if i'm a company and i have 500 computers, and 4 of them get dropped in a move and busted and so i have to buy 4 more, what's wrong with installing with the site license i already have? i've already paid for the operating system 500 times, so why should i have to buy it again?
just because that's what the license says doesn't mean that it's right. back in 1776 it was legal to tax mercilessly without representation, but that didn't make it *right*...
microsoft's pitch is to "help you help your customers be compliant" by having a properly licensed operating system preinstalled on their computer. i wonder what MSFT is going to do?
they're sending the information to the license enforcement division, but they certainly couldn't "enforce" anything - just try and sell them the operating system, i guess.
i can see employees getting fired for forwarding this information on to microsoft, though, as it is a breach of privacy. interesting to see how this turns out, but i, for one, am not worried about anything.
touche:) however, it *is* a "slab" that's laid down... i'm not sure if "block" and "slab" can be used interchangeably... but yes, i hadn't thought of that before posting...
Has Google bragged about how much electricity they are consuming to run 8,000 electrical heaters? Have they boasted about how much pollution their power consumption generates? - they haven't bragged about *anything* - an article was simply written by an outside source which gave some details of their setup. They also note that they have hundreds of copies of the index, so that the redundancy is there - if one server goes down, another hops back up. Google *is* a business, and they need to be reliable. They're out to a) provide a useful service and b) make money. It's not useful if you can't get to it.
They're using 8,000 computers to accomplish a pretty amazing feat, and they're doing this instead of buying a pretty huge farm of larger and faster computers anyway. Sometimes more smaller parts are better - you don't have one big machine that fails, separate parts are replaceable (say 10 or 20 machines instead of a few larger servers).
You don't build a house starting with a large block of concrete - you use bricks. Google is doing the same thing. Cut them some slack.
Although it's a cute idea, you can't get more power out than you put in. We'd need some sort of fusion or something to sort of amplify the power output, but even so, it's highly unlikely something like this could ever work. Oh well...
they're not necessarily kept out. the offer is only being extended to certain persons, and they're free to decline it and show up for work on their scheduled first day.
Employment contracts with Intel are "at will" - meaning that the employer *or* the employee is able to terminate the employment at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. This is noted in the article as well.
yeah. but if he shows up at work and just stands out in the dining room for a few minutes (like he did back in december), she can call the police and have him arrested for violating it. personally, i'm not as worried about it as she is... 'cause it's died off a huge bit now and we're going to be moving in together (down in va, where he won't even know where we are) in a month... but hey... all the more safety, the better...
the restraining order is going to happen soon, pepper spray is with her but in her car usually. concealed carry permit is (unfortunately) pretty much impossible because the state in question is Maryland and although I work in VA (and could get one), Maryland is pretty well run by democrats and concealed carry permits are extremely hard to come by. go figure.
I may be dissenting, but I can understand the school's reaction here. My girlfriend has an ex-boyfriend that is very threatening, and we live in fear that he may one day corner her as she's leaving work (she's a manager at a restaurant and typically closes up, meaning she leaves later than everyone else). I don't have children yet, but if anyone threatened their life - with *any* weapon - I would be seriously concerned. The fact of the matter is, we have our free speech as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others. And by threatening like that, it comes damn close, if not actually infringing. No one would be dumb enough to say "If I had a real gun, you'd be dead by now." to the President of the United States, so why should it be allowed and okay to say it to some kids?
When you take into account the current climate in schools, with kids being shot on an almost regular basis, there really isn't a place for comments like these. I, for one, know that if there was someone at work that I bullied a lot and they threatened to kill me, I would be worried. Is it terrible that he's getting bullied? Yes. I took a lot of that shit in elementary and middle school, and some my freshman year in high school. From then on, I was made fun of because I was smart. But none of that excuses anyone for threatening someone's life.
They have made every effort to have a compatible client available for you. -- Not really. The AIM *beta* for Linux is hardly functional. File transfer is not supported. Until recently, you couldn't change away messages. The beta hasn't been updated since December. It's usability is severely limited. As for the Java client, the same problems plague that, add Java's extreme resource requirements and you have a client that's not very useful on a number of not-so-out-of-date machines. Enter Gaim, my client of choice. It offers the TOC protocol as well as Oscar, and since I use TOC now, I'm on firm ground. But I used to use Oscar. Why? Because the TOC protocol is severely limited as well. There's no away message checking. File transfer is a hack job. AOL *could* change this, but they haven't. So please don't say that they've made every effort - they certainly have not.
Add to that the fact that they're seemingly unwilling to have any talks about this, any negotiations about a new protocol, and your above referenced argument looks absurd.
What it boils down to is that it's in AOL's best interest to support alternative operating systems, at the very least, by allowing us Linux and BeOS users to connect. If you're on Windows or Mac, use that client. I'll stick to Gaim. And increase the AIM userbase, so AOL can tell their advertisers "We have 30 zillion users." - I'm a part of that if I can connect. If I can't, I'm not.
i did that one time. the fan in my power supply died and i didn't want anything to overheat, so i took the cover of the case off and set up a box fan right beside it. kept the system nice and cool:)
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As a long time Linux supporter (and a long time Red Hat and Debian user), I've never been very interested in Windows - until now, with the coming of Windows XP, which, quite honestly, appears as though it will completely head us off at the desktop. My question is this - what do you think the viability is of dedicating *serious* work to a project to make Linux *the* desktop. Example: work on the USB support in the kernel, as well as support for digital cameras and additions to GIMP so that a user could open a picture directly off a camera in GIMP (or whatever app) instead of first downloading them? Add a completely integrated File Manager that is both powerful and easy to use (we really don't have this yet). Graphical configuration of *EVERYTHING*, and make it *simple* for the end user. A group of very talented hackers would need to be set up to do this, and it would probably require some forks, but if OEM support could be leveraged and Windows programs could be run using WINE (but the end user wouldn't need to *know* we were using WINE), it's possible we could make serious ground. Do you think this could ever happen?
gaim supports it at runtime, yes. you can also log on with multiple screen names using your choice of protocols. and just about anything else you could possibly imagine. damn rob and eric been crankin' it out...
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because many people attempt to start flame wars by asking such questions. "i heard windows makes a better server than linux?" - "what should i use - iis or apache?" - "gnome is better than kde, right?" - questions that are generally asked not to get an answer so much as to start debate. it's called trolling. and that's why it was moderated as such.
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the author is, obviously, allowed to do whatever he wants to with the code. however, since that previous version was released under the gpl, so are you. as long as you use code from a release that was done under the gpl, you're allowed to do whatever you like with it, provided that it doesn't violate the gpl. so the short answer to your question is "yes, you can."
no way in hell i'm paying a 60 cent cd-r tax. i burn them too damn frequently, and i remember paying $3/each for them back when i got my first burner. their damn tax is the reason why cassette tapes are so expensive. if i'm gonna be paying a 60 cent cd-r tax, i'll just stop buying them.
if that's the case, then that, coupled with personal privacy laws, should make it a pretty good case for aimster/etc.
just because that's what the license says doesn't mean that it's right. back in 1776 it was legal to tax mercilessly without representation, but that didn't make it *right*...
actually, you must turn in customers that submitted a request for quote for at least 250 machines...
they're sending the information to the license enforcement division, but they certainly couldn't "enforce" anything - just try and sell them the operating system, i guess.
i can see employees getting fired for forwarding this information on to microsoft, though, as it is a breach of privacy. interesting to see how this turns out, but i, for one, am not worried about anything.
touche :) however, it *is* a "slab" that's laid down... i'm not sure if "block" and "slab" can be used interchangeably... but yes, i hadn't thought of that before posting...
They're using 8,000 computers to accomplish a pretty amazing feat, and they're doing this instead of buying a pretty huge farm of larger and faster computers anyway. Sometimes more smaller parts are better - you don't have one big machine that fails, separate parts are replaceable (say 10 or 20 machines instead of a few larger servers).
You don't build a house starting with a large block of concrete - you use bricks. Google is doing the same thing. Cut them some slack.
Although it's a cute idea, you can't get more power out than you put in. We'd need some sort of fusion or something to sort of amplify the power output, but even so, it's highly unlikely something like this could ever work. Oh well...
they're not necessarily kept out. the offer is only being extended to certain persons, and they're free to decline it and show up for work on their scheduled first day.
Employment contracts with Intel are "at will" - meaning that the employer *or* the employee is able to terminate the employment at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. This is noted in the article as well.
yeah. but if he shows up at work and just stands out in the dining room for a few minutes (like he did back in december), she can call the police and have him arrested for violating it. personally, i'm not as worried about it as she is... 'cause it's died off a huge bit now and we're going to be moving in together (down in va, where he won't even know where we are) in a month... but hey... all the more safety, the better...
the restraining order is going to happen soon, pepper spray is with her but in her car usually. concealed carry permit is (unfortunately) pretty much impossible because the state in question is Maryland and although I work in VA (and could get one), Maryland is pretty well run by democrats and concealed carry permits are extremely hard to come by. go figure.
When you take into account the current climate in schools, with kids being shot on an almost regular basis, there really isn't a place for comments like these. I, for one, know that if there was someone at work that I bullied a lot and they threatened to kill me, I would be worried. Is it terrible that he's getting bullied? Yes. I took a lot of that shit in elementary and middle school, and some my freshman year in high school. From then on, I was made fun of because I was smart. But none of that excuses anyone for threatening someone's life.
yes, but i wasn't saying it was our choice. i'm saying to block everyone else is a *stupid* choice.
the way checksumming is done, you can't reconstruct the original file. it's mathematically impossible. read more on md5 for information.
Add to that the fact that they're seemingly unwilling to have any talks about this, any negotiations about a new protocol, and your above referenced argument looks absurd.
What it boils down to is that it's in AOL's best interest to support alternative operating systems, at the very least, by allowing us Linux and BeOS users to connect. If you're on Windows or Mac, use that client. I'll stick to Gaim. And increase the AIM userbase, so AOL can tell their advertisers "We have 30 zillion users." - I'm a part of that if I can connect. If I can't, I'm not.
i did that one time. the fan in my power supply died and i didn't want anything to overheat, so i took the cover of the case off and set up a box fan right beside it. kept the system nice and cool :)
adding to the other reply to parent post - check out www.ageofconsent.com.
As a long time Linux supporter (and a long time Red Hat and Debian user), I've never been very interested in Windows - until now, with the coming of Windows XP, which, quite honestly, appears as though it will completely head us off at the desktop. My question is this - what do you think the viability is of dedicating *serious* work to a project to make Linux *the* desktop. Example: work on the USB support in the kernel, as well as support for digital cameras and additions to GIMP so that a user could open a picture directly off a camera in GIMP (or whatever app) instead of first downloading them? Add a completely integrated File Manager that is both powerful and easy to use (we really don't have this yet). Graphical configuration of *EVERYTHING*, and make it *simple* for the end user. A group of very talented hackers would need to be set up to do this, and it would probably require some forks, but if OEM support could be leveraged and Windows programs could be run using WINE (but the end user wouldn't need to *know* we were using WINE), it's possible we could make serious ground. Do you think this could ever happen?
gaim supports it at runtime, yes. you can also log on with multiple screen names using your choice of protocols. and just about anything else you could possibly imagine. damn rob and eric been crankin' it out...
because many people attempt to start flame wars by asking such questions. "i heard windows makes a better server than linux?" - "what should i use - iis or apache?" - "gnome is better than kde, right?" - questions that are generally asked not to get an answer so much as to start debate. it's called trolling. and that's why it was moderated as such.