Sure, I would be glad to donate most of the processing power of my 2x1.5 Athlons. But I don't run any proprietary software. It seems utterly ridiculous that a project designed to allow Free Software to run on an x-box (since surely the point of the project isn't simply to run cracked proprietary games -- that would be illegal), is not itself Free Software.
Sure, there are risks in making the client Free Software -- that is, that someone will submit lots of bogus data. But given the forces who want this to fail -- that is, every proprietary game company who makes games for x-box, plus Microsoft -- I don't think not having source code will stop the submission of bogus data. And the forces who usually submit bogus data -- that is, bored 15 year olds -- will actually want this project to suceed.
So, make the client Free Software, and I'll start cracking.
ObOnTopic: Get your FSF membership number before we run out of 3-digit numbers -- your low number will be worth serious geek cred in the future. But not as much as mine, which is #3;)
I haven't gone to a major studio movie in years. Most of my friends are going to TTT tomorow, while I'm not. When I did the same for FOTR, I *dreamed* about it.
It hurts. It hurts to hear your friends laughing and going on about the wonders of this and that and the other movie. I *want* to see LOTR, movies made from books I love. I *want* to see Solaris, despite Lem's objections. I *want* to see lots of movies.
But I don't see them.
I know that few of my friends want to hear about why I'm not going. Sure, it's partly cognitive dissonance -- they care about fair use, but not enough to do anything. It saddens me that few care enough to consider the point. But I still get joy out of not doing wrong. And I still have many wonderful books and used or independent CDs.
I know that I am quite unlikely to change the minds of anyone at the movie or recording industries. But as long as there are laws like the SSSCA and CBDTPA, policies like those proposed by BPDG, and cases like DVDCCA v. Pavlovitch and Okokrim (sp?!) v. Jon Johansen, I cannot give any support to the organizations that lobby for them -- the eight companies that make movies, and the five companies that make music.
To those who say that a drop in movie viewership would give weight to the studios' arguments, I merely point you to 1998 and 1999, when music sales were *up*, and the recording industry blamed Napster for its decline. And anyway, one can hardly be responsible for the lies of one's political enemies.
You can download all of the speeches and essays from www.gnu.org. If you find one missing, it's an oversight. Write to me at the FSF (novalis at nospam fsf.org) and it'll be fixed.
Re:CMYK, and GIMP UI vs. drop-down menus
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"* If I want to drag a selection, that means I'm moving the selection, not the pixels!"
Hold down alt, IIRC.
"* Fix the damn popup right-click menu to something faster to navigate-- top of screen is good; maybe pie menus would be better. What's his name, that Fitts guy, has a point, y'know."
Fitts's law: closer + bigger = easier. What could be closer than right under your mouse button?
Judge Saris, at the preliminary injunction hearing, kept mangling the pronounciation -- my ess kweeee el, mysquuuul, I think even mysquirrel at one point.
The problem is that it depends on a specific implementation of collections, in this case associative arrays
Actually, @ means non-associative arrays in Perl. If you want to write your own classes which work like (associative or non-associative) arrays, you can (either in C or in Perl, although Perl's easier). And foreach works with associative arrays too, if you write foreach (keys %a) {...}. In Perl 6, I believe, you won't need to say keys; each element that foreach returns for a hash will be a key-value pair.
My personal favorite solution is to use databases to manage collections instead of code.
Actually, that just moves the code to someone else's plate. And the interface for database iteration is rarely the same as for non-database iteration, so you still have the problem.
Dominus gave a hilarious and insightful talk at YAPC 2002 about Design Patterns, titled, Design Patterns Aren't.
Re:Yes, lets Set the record straight
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Hi. I'm a GPL Compliance Engineer for the Free Software Foundation. Part of my job is to find GPL violations and help enforce the GPL.
It looks like the Virgin Webplayer violation is years old and no longer ongoing. So, there's not much that can be done about it now.
It's true that two years ago, we pursued fewer GPL violations than we do now. This was before I started working for the foundation. Now, we pursue every report that we receive. We can't do much on software where we don't hold copyright, but almost all violations include one of gcc, glibc, gzip, or bash. I've solved dozens of violations in the eight or so months I've been working on it, and it's quite rewarding.
Instead of complaining that nobody ever does anything about GPL violations, why not help? Send violation reports to lv@fsf.org, with as much detail as possible.
I do licensing stuff for the Free Software Foundation.
Twice in the last few months, I've received notices from companies being sold that they're transfering their copies of Bash, etc. Often, they fuck up and claim that we own Perl (simply because one of Perl's two licenses has our name on it).
We at the FSF are saddened by this GPL violation. Because we do not hold copyright on Xvid, we can't act directly. We support the Xvid developers' effort to get full GPL compliance from Sigma. If you're interested in how we enforce the GPL when we hold copyright, please see our attorney Eben Moglen's essay, Enforcing the GPL.
Note: The original source for this recipe is long lost (but don't worry, because recipes are mostly not copyrightable (yes, I know the exceptions), and I rewrote this one's instructions). This has about half the fat of the original, but it's still delicious.
Makes: 1 9" loaf or 6 large or 12 smaller muffins.
mix in bowl A 1/2c yellow corn meal 1 c white flour 1/3 c sugar 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp baking powder
mix in bowl B: 2 eggs 1/2 cup shortening (I use 1/4th c melted butter and 1/4th c oil) 1 1/2 c milk
Pour bowl B into bowl A. Mix gently.
400 degree oven 8x12 shallow pan 30 minutes or 9x5x3 pan 45 minutes or 375 degree oven muffin tins ~15 minutes
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Sure, I would be glad to donate most of the processing power of my 2x1.5 Athlons. But I don't run any proprietary software. It seems utterly ridiculous that a project designed to allow Free Software to run on an x-box (since surely the point of the project isn't simply to run cracked proprietary games -- that would be illegal), is not itself Free Software.
Sure, there are risks in making the client Free Software -- that is, that someone will submit lots of bogus data. But given the forces who want this to fail -- that is, every proprietary game company who makes games for x-box, plus Microsoft -- I don't think not having source code will stop the submission of bogus data. And the forces who usually submit bogus data -- that is, bored 15 year olds -- will actually want this project to suceed.
So, make the client Free Software, and I'll start cracking.
My computer came with Emacs and GNU/Linux.
;)
ObOnTopic: Get your FSF membership number before we run out of 3-digit numbers -- your low number will be worth serious geek cred in the future. But not as much as mine, which is #3
I haven't gone to a major studio movie in years. Most of my friends are going to TTT tomorow, while I'm not. When I did the same for FOTR, I *dreamed* about it.
It hurts. It hurts to hear your friends laughing and going on about the wonders of this and that and the other movie. I *want* to see LOTR, movies made from books I love. I *want* to see Solaris, despite Lem's objections. I *want* to see lots of movies.
But I don't see them.
I know that few of my friends want to hear about why I'm not going. Sure, it's partly cognitive dissonance -- they care about fair use, but not enough to do anything. It saddens me that few care enough to consider the point. But I still get joy out of not doing wrong. And I still have many wonderful books and used or independent CDs.
I know that I am quite unlikely to change the minds of anyone at the movie or recording industries. But as long as there are laws like the SSSCA and CBDTPA, policies like those proposed by BPDG, and cases like DVDCCA v. Pavlovitch and Okokrim (sp?!) v. Jon Johansen, I cannot give any support to the organizations that lobby for them -- the eight companies that make movies, and the five companies that make music.
To those who say that a drop in movie viewership would give weight to the studios' arguments, I merely point you to 1998 and 1999, when music sales were *up*, and the recording industry blamed Napster for its decline. And anyway, one can hardly be responsible for the lies of one's political enemies.
Yes, you can get texinfo sources from anonymous CVS at: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rms-essays
And you can download the texinfo sources from anonymous CVS -- see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rms-essays for details.
Lo and behold, for our commercial use, we have to pay for [MySQL]
That's not actually true -- it's under the GPL. Only for proprietary distribution do you have to get a non-GPL license.
You can download all of the speeches and essays from www.gnu.org. If you find one missing, it's an oversight. Write to me at the FSF (novalis at nospam fsf.org) and it'll be fixed.
What about Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom?
"* If I want to drag a selection, that means I'm moving the selection, not the pixels!"
Hold down alt, IIRC.
"* Fix the damn popup right-click menu to something faster to navigate-- top of screen is good; maybe pie menus would be better. What's his name, that Fitts guy, has a point, y'know."
Fitts's law: closer + bigger = easier. What could be closer than right under your mouse button?
Judge Saris, at the preliminary injunction hearing, kept mangling the pronounciation -- my ess kweeee el, mysquuuul, I think even mysquirrel at one point.
BTW, thanks for the donation, MySQL.
These days, non-sexist language is preferred. At least, if you don't want Douglas Hofstadter to write a hilarious essay mocking you.
The problem is that it depends on a specific implementation of collections, in this case associative arrays
Actually, @ means non-associative arrays in Perl. If you want to write your own classes which work like (associative or non-associative) arrays, you can (either in C or in Perl, although Perl's easier). And foreach works with associative arrays too, if you write foreach (keys %a) {...}. In Perl 6, I believe, you won't need to say keys; each element that foreach returns for a hash will be a key-value pair.
My personal favorite solution is to use databases to manage collections instead of code.
Actually, that just moves the code to someone else's plate. And the interface for database iteration is rarely the same as for non-database iteration, so you still have the problem.
Dominus gave a hilarious and insightful talk at YAPC 2002 about Design Patterns, titled, Design Patterns Aren't.
Hi. I'm a GPL Compliance Engineer for the Free Software Foundation. Part of my job is to find GPL violations and help enforce the GPL.
It looks like the Virgin Webplayer violation is years old and no longer ongoing. So, there's not much that can be done about it now.
It's true that two years ago, we pursued fewer GPL violations than we do now. This was before I started working for the foundation. Now, we pursue every report that we receive. We can't do much on software where we don't hold copyright, but almost all violations include one of gcc, glibc, gzip, or bash. I've solved dozens of violations in the eight or so months I've been working on it, and it's quite rewarding.
Instead of complaining that nobody ever does anything about GPL violations, why not help? Send violation reports to lv@fsf.org, with as much detail as possible.
I do licensing stuff for the Free Software Foundation.
Twice in the last few months, I've received notices from companies being sold that they're transfering their copies of Bash, etc. Often, they fuck up and claim that we own Perl (simply because one of Perl's two licenses has our name on it).
I laugh and recycle the notices.
I wonder if Microsoft laughs and files suit?
That's not a preliminary injunction! It's a motion (i.e. request) for a preliminary injunction!
Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co., 42 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1930, 25 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1856 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)
The case, being post-Feist, supports your view.
For non-Windows users, try PyDDR.
Yes, that is correct. But they could assign copyright to FSF Europe, which doesn't have software patents.
We at the FSF are saddened by this GPL violation. Because we do not hold copyright on Xvid, we can't act directly. We support the Xvid developers' effort to get full GPL compliance from Sigma. If you're interested in how we enforce the GPL when we hold copyright, please see our attorney Eben Moglen's essay, Enforcing the GPL.
You also have the source code for WinCE, but it's not Free Software either.
Play pinball and support the FSF at the Full Tilt For Software Freedom in San Francisco during LinuxWorld.
Note: The original source for this recipe is long lost (but don't worry, because recipes are mostly not copyrightable (yes, I know the exceptions), and I rewrote this one's instructions). This has about half the fat of the original, but it's still delicious.
Makes: 1 9" loaf or 6 large or 12 smaller muffins.
mix in bowl A
1/2c yellow corn meal
1 c white flour
1/3 c sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
mix in bowl B:
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening (I use 1/4th c melted butter and 1/4th c oil)
1 1/2 c milk
Pour bowl B into bowl A. Mix gently.
400 degree oven
8x12 shallow pan
30 minutes
or
9x5x3 pan
45 minutes
or
375 degree oven
muffin tins
~15 minutes
Oops, missed a character. Yes, I know it's Dante. I have a (slightly altered) diagram of the Inferno on my wall.
If you're losing it, you're in good company. Dane put fraud further down in Hell than murder, with betrayal at the very bottom.