There's more to it than that. Running on a newer kernel doesn't make it BASED on that kernel. For that, you'd have to upgrade to ext3/reiser, DevFS, iptables, etc. etc.
It's all much easier if the official disks support it so I don't have to spend hours doing it myself - that's why distros exist in the first place.
Ford has the equipment, knowledge and $$$ to do this, but if they do Honda WILL fill a law suit aleging lots of patents and copyright infringment. As a result Ford rathers design theyr own models.
Know, what kind of equipment do you need to make a perfect copy of a software ? how much does it cost ?
They don't compare; Ford can't replicate cars at will, they have to copy the design and rebuild it from scratch. Warez kiddies don't see Word and quickly code up a clone, they replicate a new copy.
That was about mining it.. there was, AFAIK, another one about which country the Moon belongs to (kinda like some islands belong to countries on the other side of the planet).
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The United Nations (news - web sites)' 1979 Moon Treaty, one of several international outer space agreements, attempted to define the scope of private space activity. However, it was never ratified by some major powers such as Russia and the United States
Who says who owns what when it comes to non-Earth bodies? I always thought the Moon was nobody's property/territory due to some international treaty. Mining the thing kinda implies someone does have claim/authority to it... nobody ever asked me if I want a big hole in our Moon.
To start with, all products that have some sort of builtin mechanism that
prevents such things as fair use, need to have a clear and obvious label
I'd like to see it be the choice of the producer: claim copyright and allow full access, or don't claim copyright and take your chances with whatever technological access controls you can devise. Breaking access controls shouldn't be illegal, which makes it time limited just like copyright, except once it's broken, you can't do shit about it, you already gave up your copyright.
And what about the firewall code? I don't know about you guys, but I just love spending a large chunk of a weekend learning the new firewall every time a new kernel series arrives. It just wouldn't be the same if it didn't fsck up my firewall scripts...
There are also issues of licences. I don't know how hard it is to get a pilot's licence, but it looks like in order for something like this to work, they're going to have to make it easier, or find some way to intice people to get them
Holy shit! It's already WAY to easy to get a drivers' license (IMO). I can't begin to imagine the car-nage if any old nob could also fly a plane. Ultra-lights would be crashing into things like paper darts in a substitute teacher class.
Really, it's not the skill that's the problem with flying. It's the cost, and the time required to learn.
say that airplanes are the safest way to travel, but it seems to me they can make that claim because there are WAY fewer airplanes than cars
And the pilots are highly qualified professionals, flying well maintained aircraft (also by professionals, not Uncle Bob's Dodgy Aircraft Chop Shop).
Is it just me, or does ext3 sound like FAT16 > FAT32 and VFS, in that it's for all the little nancy boys who are too chicken/lazy to upgrade to a much better filesystem (and OS, while they're at it)?
Not that the work done by the ext2/ext3 people isn't excellent, it's just that time is coming for extX to move on (be incompatible), or move aside.
Er, what error-correction data? IIRC, CDs have 2352 (or something weird like that) bytes per sector. CD-Audio uses the full sector for audio, but Data tracks use 2048 bytes for the data, and the leftovers for error correction.
As for Windows' DA mode:
Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Rightclick/Properties on your CDROM drive > Properties (tab) > Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device.
It's disabled on mine.. I don't remember if that's the default or not though.
Stuff like MP3s that don't ever change is easily Archived (as opposed to backed-up) by using an Incoming structure. New stuff goes in/Incoming, when you get 650 meg of it, burn to CD and toss them into/MP3 or/Archived or whatever.
No need to waste time and space including MP3s in your regular backup schedule.
But that other OS would... 'forget' patents at random. Hmm... perhaps instead instead of patents expiring after 20 years, they should expire by act of lottery?
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I'd like to listen in on what they have to say after drinking some of them. I mean, the 'pollution' level in my intestines has to be pretty severe...
Being that they're your neighbours, you can always invite them over, or they can invite themselves over, to watch it..
There's more to it than that. Running on a newer kernel doesn't make it BASED on that kernel. For that, you'd have to upgrade to ext3/reiser, DevFS, iptables, etc. etc.
It's all much easier if the official disks support it so I don't have to spend hours doing it myself - that's why distros exist in the first place.
IE shows PNG just fine..
inter-cubicle warfare. woohoo! your chia pet is toast, punk.
That was about mining it.. there was, AFAIK, another one about which country the Moon belongs to (kinda like some islands belong to countries on the other side of the planet).
1979 was a looong time ago. Any news since then?
Who says who owns what when it comes to non-Earth bodies? I always thought the Moon was nobody's property/territory due to some international treaty. Mining the thing kinda implies someone does have claim/authority to it... nobody ever asked me if I want a big hole in our Moon.
I'd like to see it be the choice of the producer: claim copyright and allow full access, or don't claim copyright and take your chances with whatever technological access controls you can devise. Breaking access controls shouldn't be illegal, which makes it time limited just like copyright, except once it's broken, you can't do shit about it, you already gave up your copyright.
And what about the firewall code? I don't know about you guys, but I just love spending a large chunk of a weekend learning the new firewall every time a new kernel series arrives. It just wouldn't be the same if it didn't fsck up my firewall scripts...
Holy shit! It's already WAY to easy to get a drivers' license (IMO). I can't begin to imagine the car-nage if any old nob could also fly a plane. Ultra-lights would be crashing into things like paper darts in a substitute teacher class.
Really, it's not the skill that's the problem with flying. It's the cost, and the time required to learn.
And the pilots are highly qualified professionals, flying well maintained aircraft (also by professionals, not Uncle Bob's Dodgy Aircraft Chop Shop).
Is it just me, or does ext3 sound like FAT16 > FAT32 and VFS, in that it's for all the little nancy boys who are too chicken/lazy to upgrade to a much better filesystem (and OS, while they're at it)?
Not that the work done by the ext2/ext3 people isn't excellent, it's just that time is coming for extX to move on (be incompatible), or move aside.
Er, what error-correction data? IIRC, CDs have 2352 (or something weird like that) bytes per sector. CD-Audio uses the full sector for audio, but Data tracks use 2048 bytes for the data, and the leftovers for error correction.
As for Windows' DA mode:
Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Rightclick/Properties on your CDROM drive > Properties (tab) > Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device.
It's disabled on mine.. I don't remember if that's the default or not though.
Stuff like MP3s that don't ever change is easily Archived (as opposed to backed-up) by using an Incoming structure. New stuff goes in /Incoming, when you get 650 meg of it, burn to CD and toss them into /MP3 or /Archived or whatever.
No need to waste time and space including MP3s in your regular backup schedule.
But that other OS would... 'forget' patents at random. Hmm... perhaps instead instead of patents expiring after 20 years, they should expire by act of lottery?
Jesus, who pissed in your wheaties this morning?! Desperate attempt at humor/smartass remark != troll...
Unix is obviously evil.