Yeah, that would give a whole new meaning to the expression "GPL virus". I can already picture it: I create virus, GPL it's DNA, and then release it. You get the virus, get contaminated, and now you are required to release your DNA specs for everyone to see! Yeah! Go, GPL, go!
The comment I'm replying to is not a troll, though it is factually incorrect.
It's perfectly ok for someone to say one could use _another_ OS if one wants that feature.
Of course, Linux doesn't have decent SMP for years now, and, as a matter of fact, they still don't have SMP at the level FreeBSD is now pushing for.
What Linux _does_ have is, at the present, and for the past year or so (in the development branch), a much better SMP implementation than FreeBSD's present SMP implementation.
I'm afraid the BSD/OS-inspired SMP will be raising the stakes, though. Mind you, for the first time since 2.0, FreeBSD's current branch will experience a continuous period of high instability for months. That's quite a price to pay...
If you can't think of anything other than feds, then YOU are paranoid.
Just take a look at all the hard disks stolen from Los Alamos, at all the notebooks stolen in a number of places. Espionage, including industrial espionage, exists.
If you keep your data encrypted, you decrease the chance of having it just stolen. But if the data is left unencrypted in the swap...
Ok, you have probably received HUNDREDS of good suggestions of old stuff. There just ain't no such thing as essential anime... there is too much of it.
So let me talk about some of the stuff from last year and this year I have seen, *not yet available in English*.
In the fabulous Gundam series, there is Turn-A Gundam. This is your basic "your is bad" anime, like pretty much all Gundam series. It is SUPERBLY done. When it comes out, get it. Never mind the mecha, they do not interfere with the core of the story.
In the same universe as BubbleGum Crisis (I'm assuming the latest BubbleGum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 is already available in english -- GREAT stuff), there is A.D. Police. A.D. Police is much grimmer than BGC. This is one of these animes the bad guys keep winning, and the good guys die like flies. On my favorite episode, the family of one AD policeman is kidnapped, and strapped to explosives. Through the whole episode, we see all squad trying various things to locate either the family or the kidnapper, and all the strain resulting from it. Though this is basically cool, it serves one other purpose: it gets you to empathize with the guy who's family got kidnapped. Because, in the end, they get to save the family, but the guy is killed by the bomb. All this was done just to keep AD Police busy while some smuggling was going on, of course.
Eden's Bowy: this is a very cool story in a fantasy/sf setting. The world is divided between a rural, almost medieval age "ground", where most people live, and a few flying cities with very advanced technology. In the midst of a number of different plots, a boy protected by the Gods makes a great journey, and live through many adventures.
Excel Saga: this is a very insane anime. Excel is a very active person. Alas, hyperactive indeed. She is so annoyingly hyperactive, that the Evil Master Overlord of whom she is a minion kills her in the first episode! Four times, in fact.:-) Lots of non-sense and black humour mixed in this one. The ending theme is sung by a cat ("meow, meow meow meow, meow,..."), with legends translating it.:-)
Infinite Ryvius: This is the most hard s.f. anime I have ever seen. As a space station suffers an "accident" that puts them in deep trouble, it's young crew make every effort to get back to safety, and keep the "passengers" from harm. Meanwhile, life goes on for the passengers, with a number of subplots. (Ok, this description sucks, but the stuff is really good, trust me!:)
NieA_7: from the creators of Lain. 'nuff said.
Gokudo-kun: Gokudo is a mercenary and a thief. All he wants is get rich quickly and easily. He has NO morals, and even makes a point of it. Now, you'd think finding a djinn would be all he ever wanted from life, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, said djinn wants to make Gokudo into a good man! Gokudo also gets, against his will, a very cute girl companion, with higher moral standards, though sometimes put in check because of her greed. This is a very funny series, in the style, I'd say, of Slayers (btw, Slayers Gorgeous, the movie, is fabulous).
Love Hina: this one has the plot of a japanese porn game.:-) All young Keitaro wants in life is to enter the prestigious Tokyo University (law, no less:), find his kindergarten sweetheart to whom he promised they'd enter Tokyo U together, and live happily ever after. He is not even a perv or anything, just a common guy. But. He ends up becoming the supervisor for the Hinata Female Hot Spring, as he studies for another year, after having failed his first try. There he manages to get himself into ALL sort of sexually charged situations, and he pays very dearly for each one of them, as it seems the girls there are all eightth dan black belts or something.:-) This one is insanely hilarious, with a superb sound track.
Blue Gender, Cyberstar, Ordian: cool mecha anime. If you like mecha, these are very good ones. Avoid Big Guard.:-)
Though there are many others likely to please, these are the ones most likely to be enjoyed by all (IMHO).
While the removal of the link is prepostereous, and the removal of the work around the protection of the specification is hateful but likely necessary under DCMA, there ought to be no question that copyrighted material ought not to be reproduced without permission.
Even GPL sets forth conditions you have to obey to be allowed the reproduction of the copyrighted material. How can one complain about companies not respecting GPL license when reproducing GPLed code and, at the same time, disrespect Microsoft's copyright?
First, begin by ditching/proc from Linux, since BSD developers have all reached the conclusion/proc sucks very badly. When you are done with that, we can begin transplanting BSD's vm/buffer cache (of course, we'll need at least two user-selectable versions, to accomodate the way Net and FreeBSD does this), getting a decent FFS into Linux so you can finally ditch ExtFS, get rid of that horrible glibc and use the trustworthy BSD libc, get rid of this SysVism rc Linux use for the good old BSD-style rc and...
Well, ditch/proc, and then we can get into more details into how we are going to ditch all the other bad things in Linux until it looks exactly like BSD. I just don't know why go to such trouble to get a BSD called "Linux", but...
I'm completely aghast that they did not include a single OS beyond a Linux distribution. I'm happy to see they'll include OpenBSD in their next study, though I wonder why they chose OpenBSD instead of NetBSD, which is larger. And I wonder why not include FreeBSD too, whose developers base is quite different from that of Open and NetBSD.
Um, yes. If your Apache explodes and you suffer physical, emotional or financial harm, the Apache writers would be held LIABLE, unless they could show that they took reasonable steps to ensure Apache would not explode.
Alas, Apache isn't licensed under GPL, so I don't understand what it have to do with this.:-)
By this rationale, if I gave up on the rights to redistribute the software, I'd be able to sue the ass off anyone who wrote it, as the disclaimer in the license would not apply.
Sharp has handheld devices that will let you input kanji and get both hiragana and english out of it. Actually, the devices do a LOT more than that, of course.:-) I have an old model, PI-7000, which has been phased out already. It's about 15x9cm, and has a plastic "pen" with which you write the characters on the screen.
Are you japanese? Japanese don't appreciate irony much, and frequently miss it entirely. And you certainly missed the irony of my comment... I was saying the same thing as you!
Five symbols? Then it's not the same keyboard. TWO symbols: two accents. If it has more than that, it's not a keyboard designed for language with accents.
You missed the point of the poster. Japanese change the _meaning_ of the words, in addition to constrain them to their characteristic pronounciation (something they do on purpose and explicitly, too).
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Yeah, that would give a whole new meaning to the expression "GPL virus". I can already picture it:
I create virus, GPL it's DNA, and then release it. You get the virus, get contaminated, and now you are required to release your DNA specs for everyone to see! Yeah! Go, GPL, go!
It _is_ an ADSL address, and the owner probably got upset with his bandwidth being eaten by being slashdotted.
:-)
I better stay clear from him for a few months...
Well, not exactly. They use a Mach kernel, so they can't use FreeBSD code, but it has some of the same issues wrt to spl and locking.
They do plan having kick-ass SMP, of course. That's a requirement nowadays.
'nugh said.
Isn't sourceforge inspired by all these BSD projects which have always used CVS?
Participants were:
Look also at http://ziplok.dyndns.org/msmith/SMPng/.
That URL does discuss other stuff. But, still, it is not a general overview.
That's *NOT* the general plan. That's just Dillon's part in it.
:-)
And, just to correct something in the article, that's not "FreeBSD core team". Dillon isn't core, for instance.
Because it's a plan, not a fact. It hasn't been done yet. When it is, it will surely deserv the first page.
Mind you, Linux needed a section of it's own, because much of the stuff about it that comes to the first page really doesn't belong there.
The comment I'm replying to is not a troll, though it is factually incorrect.
It's perfectly ok for someone to say one could use _another_ OS if one wants that feature.
Of course, Linux doesn't have decent SMP for years now, and, as a matter of fact, they still don't have SMP at the level FreeBSD is now pushing for.
What Linux _does_ have is, at the present, and for the past year or so (in the development branch), a much better SMP implementation than FreeBSD's present SMP implementation.
I'm afraid the BSD/OS-inspired SMP will be raising the stakes, though. Mind you, for the first time since 2.0, FreeBSD's current branch will experience a continuous period of high instability for months. That's quite a price to pay...
If you can't think of anything other than feds, then YOU are paranoid.
Just take a look at all the hard disks stolen from Los Alamos, at all the notebooks stolen in a number of places. Espionage, including industrial espionage, exists.
If you keep your data encrypted, you decrease the chance of having it just stolen. But if the data is left unencrypted in the swap...
I haven't followed the link, but I hope the winner was:
1. Turn on TV
2. Watch Until bored
3. Change channel
4. Go back to 2
Ok, you have probably received HUNDREDS of good suggestions of old stuff. There just ain't no such thing as essential anime... there is too much of it.
:-) Lots of non-sense and black humour mixed in this one. The ending theme is sung by a cat ("meow, meow meow meow, meow, ..."), with legends translating it. :-)
:)
:-) All young Keitaro wants in life is to enter the prestigious Tokyo University (law, no less :), find his kindergarten sweetheart to whom he promised they'd enter Tokyo U together, and live happily ever after. He is not even a perv or anything, just a common guy. But. He ends up becoming the supervisor for the Hinata Female Hot Spring, as he studies for another year, after having failed his first try. There he manages to get himself into ALL sort of sexually charged situations, and he pays very dearly for each one of them, as it seems the girls there are all eightth dan black belts or something. :-) This one is insanely hilarious, with a superb sound track.
:-)
So let me talk about some of the stuff from last year and this year I have seen, *not yet available in English*.
In the fabulous Gundam series, there is Turn-A Gundam. This is your basic "your is bad" anime, like pretty much all Gundam series. It is SUPERBLY done. When it comes out, get it. Never mind the mecha, they do not interfere with the core of the story.
In the same universe as BubbleGum Crisis (I'm assuming the latest BubbleGum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 is already available in english -- GREAT stuff), there is A.D. Police. A.D. Police is much grimmer than BGC. This is one of these animes the bad guys keep winning, and the good guys die like flies. On my favorite episode, the family of one AD policeman is kidnapped, and strapped to explosives. Through the whole episode, we see all squad trying various things to locate either the family or the kidnapper, and all the strain resulting from it. Though this is basically cool, it serves one other purpose: it gets you to empathize with the guy who's family got kidnapped. Because, in the end, they get to save the family, but the guy is killed by the bomb. All this was done just to keep AD Police busy while some smuggling was going on, of course.
Eden's Bowy: this is a very cool story in a fantasy/sf setting. The world is divided between a rural, almost medieval age "ground", where most people live, and a few flying cities with very advanced technology. In the midst of a number of different plots, a boy protected by the Gods makes a great journey, and live through many adventures.
Excel Saga: this is a very insane anime. Excel is a very active person. Alas, hyperactive indeed. She is so annoyingly hyperactive, that the Evil Master Overlord of whom she is a minion kills her in the first episode! Four times, in fact.
Infinite Ryvius: This is the most hard s.f. anime I have ever seen. As a space station suffers an "accident" that puts them in deep trouble, it's young crew make every effort to get back to safety, and keep the "passengers" from harm. Meanwhile, life goes on for the passengers, with a number of subplots. (Ok, this description sucks, but the stuff is really good, trust me!
NieA_7: from the creators of Lain. 'nuff said.
Gokudo-kun: Gokudo is a mercenary and a thief. All he wants is get rich quickly and easily. He has NO morals, and even makes a point of it. Now, you'd think finding a djinn would be all he ever wanted from life, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, said djinn wants to make Gokudo into a good man! Gokudo also gets, against his will, a very cute girl companion, with higher moral standards, though sometimes put in check because of her greed. This is a very funny series, in the style, I'd say, of Slayers (btw, Slayers Gorgeous, the movie, is fabulous).
Love Hina: this one has the plot of a japanese porn game.
Blue Gender, Cyberstar, Ordian: cool mecha anime. If you like mecha, these are very good ones. Avoid Big Guard.
Though there are many others likely to please, these are the ones most likely to be enjoyed by all (IMHO).
Now, if the X Free people would just fix the root exploit on 4.0 so I could run it on FreeBSD...
While the removal of the link is prepostereous, and the removal of the work around the protection of the specification is hateful but likely necessary under DCMA, there ought to be no question that copyrighted material ought not to be reproduced without permission.
Even GPL sets forth conditions you have to obey to be allowed the reproduction of the copyrighted material. How can one complain about companies not respecting GPL license when reproducing GPLed code and, at the same time, disrespect Microsoft's copyright?
... since "eu", in portuguese, means "I". :-)
Well, ditch /proc, and then we can get into more details into how we are going to ditch all the other bad things in Linux until it looks exactly like BSD. I just don't know why go to such trouble to get a BSD called "Linux", but...
YOU keep missing the point. If someone uses something YOU provided and damage result from it, you are LIABLE. This is NOT related to warranty.
I'm completely aghast that they did not include a single OS beyond a Linux distribution. I'm happy to see they'll include OpenBSD in their next study, though I wonder why they chose OpenBSD instead of NetBSD, which is larger. And I wonder why not include FreeBSD too, whose developers base is quite different from that of Open and NetBSD.
Um, yes. If your Apache explodes and you suffer physical, emotional or financial harm, the Apache writers would be held LIABLE, unless they could show that they took reasonable steps to ensure Apache would not explode.
Alas, Apache isn't licensed under GPL, so I don't understand what it have to do with this. :-)
By this rationale, if I gave up on the rights to redistribute the software, I'd be able to sue the ass off anyone who wrote it, as the disclaimer in the license would not apply.
Sharp has handheld devices that will let you input kanji and get both hiragana and english out of it. Actually, the devices do a LOT more than that, of course. :-) I have an old model, PI-7000, which has been phased out already. It's about 15x9cm, and has a plastic "pen" with which you write the characters on the screen.
Are you japanese? Japanese don't appreciate irony much, and frequently miss it entirely. And you certainly missed the irony of my comment... I was saying the same thing as you!
Five symbols? Then it's not the same keyboard. TWO symbols: two accents. If it has more than that, it's not a keyboard designed for language with accents.
You missed the point of the poster. Japanese change the _meaning_ of the words, in addition to constrain them to their characteristic pronounciation (something they do on purpose and explicitly, too).