I was going to mod you down, but decided to reply instead.
This is why when you add a GPL license to your code, you either say "Placed under the GPL version X" or you say "Placed under the GPL version X or later".
Since the license is versioned, you can change the GPL, and not run into problems with changing the license on code people didn't want the license changed on..
Ditto. I was having another look at xserver, and just chewing over what it would take to use compression on the buffers to reduce memory overhead. I probably won't do anything, but certaintly would if xserver suddenly had to be released.
What part of it is AI? The vison modules tell you what is around you, where you can go and where you can't. Then you use standard algorithms to find the shortest path given the obstacles.
Okay first of all - yes there will always be cost associated. Cost of the machine, cost of electricity, cost of your internet connection possibly and so on.
The Free as in speech bit is the important bit. Anyone with access to a machine and internet connection can download debian etc, modify any part of GB's of code, and so on. There's no problem in distro's charging for their service. After all you can download redhat (well thread anyway), debian, and a few other major distro's 'free of charge'.
I used to sell sliding and folding wall partitions. A good partition will reduce sound by 80db. It's very difficult to reduce by 100db since it will go through the ceiling.
So a rough measure of your office - step outside and close the door. If you can still hear the noise, then chances are you are around 90db, give or take 10db.
Your last point sums it up - "when in the hands of a competant programmer". I think that explains why flash has such a bad rap. I personally won't use a flash website because it's so rare that it is done right.
An interesting point of view. Personally I believe that it's the people as much as the software that sells something. So you don't want to come across as an extremist. Instead come across as someone who has thought it through and come up with the right decission.
This is the political game that for example greenpeace had to learn (well, until they screwed things up, but that's another story.)
1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
When you 'steal' music, you aren't depriving the artist of the thing you steal. The second one doesn't really fit either.
I follow what you say, but disagree. I think that even if you think that, you should perhaps not jump to saying it. It makes people nervous that you might be an extremist. It can also offend people.
In regards to the second point, you make an interesting argument. But I can think of lots of "necessary steps" that I might have to take to listen to my music. (decrypt it to listen to it - against the dmca (well equiv in the uk)., or going extreme, what about the necessary step of stealing some speakers because I can't afford any?)
Many years back, Linus was talking about how great MS were, because of their good bug reports. Admittedly, he said, they reported them in the wall street journel instead of the mailing list, but at least they were trying.:)
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I was going to mod you down, but decided to reply instead.
This is why when you add a GPL license to your code, you either say "Placed under the GPL version X" or you say "Placed under the GPL version X or later".
Since the license is versioned, you can change the GPL, and not run into problems with changing the license on code people didn't want the license changed on..
Ditto. I was having another look at xserver, and just chewing over what it would take to use compression on the buffers to reduce memory overhead. I probably won't do anything, but certaintly would if xserver suddenly had to be released.
If you think that she would have gotten inflamed by you saying that, then you either don't know her very well, or you need to find someone else :)
What part of it is AI?
The vison modules tell you what is around you, where you can go and where you can't. Then you use standard algorithms to find the shortest path given the obstacles.
Yeah I guess I am then.
If you're broke, and manage to get her something, tell her that.
I didn't follow why you couldn't tell her you got them for free...
The latter part though seems unreasonable.
This valentines I bought my ex-gf a large cuddly valentines bear. She loved it, but kept asking why had I bought it etc.
oh well.
Okay first of all - yes there will always be cost associated. Cost of the machine, cost of electricity, cost of your internet connection possibly and so on.
The Free as in speech bit is the important bit. Anyone with access to a machine and internet connection can download debian etc, modify any part of GB's of code, and so on.
There's no problem in distro's charging for their service. After all you can download redhat (well thread anyway), debian, and a few other major distro's 'free of charge'.
Even funnier if this is true:
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couldn't you distil it or just add more alcohol afterwards to make it stronger?
Some sound card drivers don't support /dev/dsp
I think some of the intel chipsets for one, check your kernel docs.
Just so people get a feel for what that is..
I used to sell sliding and folding wall partitions. A good partition will reduce sound by 80db. It's very difficult to reduce by 100db since it will go through the ceiling.
So a rough measure of your office - step outside and close the door. If you can still hear the noise, then chances are you are around 90db, give or take 10db.
Your last point sums it up - "when in the hands of a competant programmer". I think that explains why flash has such a bad rap.
I personally won't use a flash website because it's so rare that it is done right.
You can do mass renaming in programs like krename. Which is most excellent - you can rename on meta data and all kinds of stuff.
hmm, would that make God your agent?
An interesting point of view. Personally I believe that it's the people as much as the software that sells something. So you don't want to come across as an extremist. Instead come across as someone who has thought it through and come up with the right decission.
This is the political game that for example greenpeace had to learn (well, until they screwed things up, but that's another story.)
Even the 'theft' is a bit overstretched.
1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
When you 'steal' music, you aren't depriving the artist of the thing you steal. The second one doesn't really fit either.
you just learnt this? wasn't it obvious?
but either way, you are admitting that people used the word software piracy to compare it to robbery committed at sea. My argument holds.
I follow what you say, but disagree. I think that even if you think that, you should perhaps not jump to saying it. It makes people nervous that you might be an extremist.
It can also offend people.
In regards to the second point, you make an interesting argument. But I can think of lots of "necessary steps" that I might have to take to listen to my music. (decrypt it to listen to it - against the dmca (well equiv in the uk)., or going extreme, what about the necessary step of stealing some speakers because I can't afford any?)
Yes. I'm sure that when they first talked about software piracy they were refering to that defintion, and not comparing it robbery committed at sea.
uh probably best not to compare it to slavery. It's not on the same magnitude of seriousness at all.
(Same with music copying and priracy).
Many years back, Linus was talking about how great MS were, because of their good bug reports. Admittedly, he said, they reported them in the wall street journel instead of the mailing list, but at least they were trying. :)
Yeah I miswrote. I went to correct it, but then ran into the problem that I have to wait 2 mins, and then forgot about it ;)
no shit - it was all over the news here in the uk about that french facist guy getting in. Even we were worried about it.
um a better equivalent would be gzip. And there is a competing standard to that - bzip :)
(but they both have their uses. bzip is 'better', but doesn't work on streams like gzip can. It uses blocks.)
It was badly done sarcasm.
I missed it too at first.