- For the first couple years, they'd still have their monopoly on x86 OS's and Office Suites.
- This would forcibly make the current versions of these products a standard, companys would buy them specifically because they wouldn't change.
- Microsoft's other markets, such as hardware, games, etc. would still make an ass load of money for them.
I'm against this plan for reason #2, but it wouldn't kill the company.
The goal of posting DeCSS randomly on slashdot is to A.) Make the code easy to copy and paste. B.) Make the code easy to run. C.) Make the code easy enough to understand
that someone can more easily reverse engineer
this code than create DeCSS again from scratch.
The short perl code solves A and B well and C poorly. The C code above solves A and B poorly and C better.
Kids damn well *should* qualify for darwin awards. Just because their parents have already managed to reproduce doesn't mean that the defective genes should be allowed to propogate further.
If more than 40% of what you say is true, it wouldn't be economically feasable to run a *single* nuclear power plant *anywhere*. I've got two within 60 miles of me...
Abiword seems to use some sort of weird, non-standard, built in fonts scheme. It looks like they were trying to make it *work* with the top 4 or 5 MS Word fonts reguardless of if they are properly installed or not, but I've actually got "Times New Roman", "Arial", etc properly installed on my system , but Abiword blatantly ignores the fact that X has a font system and uses it's own.
If you break *any part* of the licence then you loose the licence... you may no longer copy or redistribute that GPLed work. Since you need to have distribued the work to not comply with the GPL, if you break it, the owner can sue you for copyright infringement.
If you're playing 3D game like Heavy Gear II or something, it could eat the keypress to switch workspaces - nothing seems to eat the keypress to switch virtual consoles.
Here's a case where the free-as-in-beer aspect of free software becomes more important.
It seems significantly more reasonable to hold large company charging loads of money Microsoft liable than it does to hold poor starving Linus Torvalds who's giving away his software for no money liable.
When I was working a Unix Tech support job a couple months back, I was running Debian on my desktop at work. I ran two X servers: :0 on VT7 for games :1 on VT8 for work
When I had to hide my game and get back to work, I just hit Ctrl+Alt+F8.
I run debian unstable. I have a 56k dialup connection. Every month or so, I run apt-get dist-upgrade, which updates *every* package on my system that has a new version, which ends up being a good chunk of them since debian unstable includes the newest beta versions of a lot of stuff.
Since I know that this process is going to take a while, I usually do it right before I plan to go to bed. It will say things like 157 packages will be updated, 187 meg to download. Ready [Y/N]?
I say "y" and go to sleep. When I get up in the morning, the system is done upgrading. For an especially big download, it might take longer than I sleep... in that case I eat breakfast, go do something else, and eventually it finishes. Even 800 meg downloads only take a couple days over dialup.
A web browser can *expect* to get fed absolute crap as input. The purpoise of a compiler is to compile valid code. The purpoise of a browser is to read in the random gibberish that is the web and help the user make some sense out of it. A web browser should *always* safely recover from any invalid input from the outside world - anything else could be a security issue.
Sig:All who want games in linux will sign up to Transgaming,All who dont sign up to Transgaming dont want games
False. Untrue. Incorrect.
I want Linux games, not Windows games in Linux.
Transgaming merely sends the message to game makers "Go ahead and write your game for Windows. I, a Linux user, will buy it anyway, and I can easily cope with any bugs in Direct X or the emulation layer that I might happen to encounter."
I will not sign up for transgaming, and I will work on completing my purchase of the games that Loki released before they went under, as well as any other good games I may find that are released for Linux natively, thereby hopefully sending the message "If you write a game worth buying, I will buy it just as soon as you release a version of it built to run on my computer."
That's the compatible hardware issue. You wouldn't complain when you go to install WinXP on your iMac and it doesn't work. You really shouldn't expect the software to magically work with incompatible hardware.
No, the point being made is that we don't have to. We need only look in the McAfee anti-virus code to pull out the public keys/checksums/whatever to find the identifying characteristics that must be shared by all the ML code in order for McAfee to ignore it.
We don't get source code to McAffe anti-virus eithor. Unfortunately, reverse engineering binary
software code is obnoxiously difficult. I doubt we'll be able to find the Magic Lantern clues that easily.
This is one of the reasons I havent switched over to Linux full time lately... And if I was a novice, I would be real hesitant to switch . It seems like everybody who uses linux has to join to Kernel of the week club. And it's not like these bugs are minor annoyances, some of them have been straight out pain-in-the-ass ones.
I used to run linux steadily a couple of years ago, but ever since I saw development type bugs showing up in 'Stable' releases, I got the hell out of there...
You will only hit problems like this if you join the "Kernel of the Week Club". If you just rely on your distribution's kernel packages you can straight out avoid problems like this.
If you randomly mess with your operating system's kernel and things break, it's your own damn fault. It doesn't matter what OS you're running.
I hate it when people install Linux, try to do something that they can't do at all on Windows but have no need to do on Linux, mess things up, and then complain (It let me do X but it was hard and I broke something, this is way to unreliable, I'm going back to Windows.)
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- For the first couple years, they'd still have their monopoly on x86 OS's and Office Suites. - This would forcibly make the current versions of these products a standard, companys would buy them specifically because they wouldn't change. - Microsoft's other markets, such as hardware, games, etc. would still make an ass load of money for them. I'm against this plan for reason #2, but it wouldn't kill the company.
I bet you have. When you do that, for all you know, the Makefile says this:
The goal of posting DeCSS randomly on slashdot is to A.) Make the code easy to copy and paste.
B.) Make the code easy to run.
C.) Make the code easy enough to understand
that someone can more easily reverse engineer
this code than create DeCSS again from scratch.
The short perl code solves A and B well and C poorly. The C code above solves A and B poorly and C better.
The forces that they are talking about are basically insignificant.
"The Gravitron" that you can ride on at a carnival maxes out at about 3 gees, and a ride on that is sustained at 2-3 gees for about 5 minutes.
Using a similar device, I've personally experianced sustained force on the order of 4-5 gees for 10 minute blocks.
A couple of seconds at 4 gees just isn't going to cause damage.
Kids damn well *should* qualify for darwin awards. Just because their parents have already managed to reproduce doesn't mean that the defective genes should be allowed to propogate further.
Bullshit.
If more than 40% of what you say is true, it wouldn't be economically feasable to run a *single* nuclear power plant *anywhere*. I've got two within 60 miles of me...
Abiword seems to use some sort of weird, non-standard, built in fonts scheme. It looks like they were trying to make it *work* with the top 4 or 5 MS Word fonts reguardless of if they are properly installed or not, but I've actually got "Times New Roman", "Arial", etc properly installed on my system , but Abiword blatantly ignores the fact that X has a font system and uses it's own.
That's *ANNOYING*.
If you break *any part* of the licence then you loose the licence... you may no longer copy or redistribute that GPLed work. Since you need to have distribued the work to not comply with the GPL, if you break it, the owner can sue you for copyright infringement.
If you're playing 3D game like Heavy Gear II or something, it could eat the keypress to switch workspaces - nothing seems to eat the keypress to switch virtual consoles.
Here's a case where the free-as-in-beer aspect of free software becomes more important.
It seems significantly more reasonable to hold large company charging loads of money Microsoft liable than it does to hold poor starving Linus Torvalds who's giving away his software for no money liable.
When I was working a Unix Tech support job a couple months back, I was running Debian on my desktop at work. I ran two X servers:
:0 on VT7 for games
:1 on VT8 for work
When I had to hide my game and get back to work, I just hit Ctrl+Alt+F8.
If your problem is people doing then disallow nonlocal referrs on .jpg files.
.html file, that should be a *good thing*.
If the problem is people coming to your website, downloading the images, and posting them on their website, make sure that the image comment (most image files have an editable comment field) contains "Copyright © 2002 Your Site, Inc." and sue them for copyright infringment.
In no case do you need to sue someone for linking to your site. If they're linking to an
The problem with that is onUnload="break_computer()"
The only safe thing that can be done with IE is running mke2fs on the partition that it's on.
I run debian unstable. I have a 56k dialup connection. Every month or so, I run apt-get dist-upgrade, which updates *every* package on my system that has a new version, which ends up being a good chunk of them since debian unstable includes the newest beta versions of a lot of stuff.
Since I know that this process is going to take a while, I usually do it right before I plan to go to bed. It will say things like
157 packages will be updated, 187 meg to download. Ready [Y/N]?
I say "y" and go to sleep. When I get up in the morning, the system is done upgrading. For an especially big download, it might take longer than I sleep... in that case I eat breakfast, go do something else, and eventually it finishes. Even 800 meg downloads only take a couple days over dialup.
A web browser can *expect* to get fed absolute crap as input. The purpoise of a compiler is to compile valid code. The purpoise of a browser is to read in the random gibberish that is the web and help the user make some sense out of it. A web browser should *always* safely recover from any invalid input from the outside world - anything else could be a security issue.
No chance of that.
Under certain state law underage photographic nudity is fine as long as it isn't in "sexual situations".
False. Untrue. Incorrect.
I want Linux games, not Windows games in Linux.
Transgaming merely sends the message to game makers "Go ahead and write your game for Windows. I, a Linux user, will buy it anyway, and I can easily cope with any bugs in Direct X or the emulation layer that I might happen to encounter."
I will not sign up for transgaming, and I will work on completing my purchase of the games that Loki released before they went under, as well as any other good games I may find that are released for Linux natively, thereby hopefully sending the message "If you write a game worth buying, I will buy it just as soon as you release a version of it built to run on my computer."
In a few years, when it becomes impossible to puchase a PC that BeOS will run on, no one will have the source to port it to the new hardware.
The post gets modded up to 5, and then someone mods it down "Troll", then someone else mods it back up "underrated".
That's the compatible hardware issue. You wouldn't complain when you go to install WinXP on your iMac and it doesn't work. You really shouldn't expect the software to magically work with incompatible hardware.
We don't get source code to McAffe anti-virus eithor. Unfortunately, reverse engineering binary software code is obnoxiously difficult. I doubt we'll be able to find the Magic Lantern clues that easily.
You will only hit problems like this if you join the "Kernel of the Week Club". If you just rely on your distribution's kernel packages you can straight out avoid problems like this.
If you randomly mess with your operating system's kernel and things break, it's your own damn fault. It doesn't matter what OS you're running.
I hate it when people install Linux, try to do something that they can't do at all on Windows but have no need to do on Linux, mess things up, and then complain (It let me do X but it was hard and I broke something, this is way to unreliable, I'm going back to Windows.)
If you had waited for that on 2.0 vs 2.2, you still wouldn't get to upgrade. I think that it's 2.0.32 and 2.2.20 at the moment.