Who the heck will remember the order to hit and release keys? That's the sort of shit you take bagpipe lessons for!
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I always thought that glibc/startup code was LGPL for that very reason. LGPL allows you to link against otherwise "gpl'ed" code but without the restriction that your application becomes GPL'ed [or LGPL'ed] itself. If I'm not mistaken that even allows static linking.
Having not seen THIS video yet, I've seen previous talks, and yes, he's normally not very presentable and doesn't really have any shame. Reason being? He's been sheltered from the "real world" ever since he stepped foot inside uni.
This is how he can have a totally polar draconian view of commercial software. He doesn't have to rely on selling it to make a living. And since he doesn't have to win over customers ever, he doesn't have to act tactfully in public. I mean, I rarely dress up, but I at least shave, bathe, comb my friggin hair and act polite when guests/customers are around. It isn't selling out to have proper manners and hygiene...
That said, copyright is hardly as big a problem as people make it out to be. The DMCA [and similar laws] are, but they're not required for copyright to exist and be useful. And at anyrate I'd worry more about patents [especially on math and software] then copyrights.
I don't know much about cars, doesn't mean "all them parts in the car are stupid." It means I take the car to a shop and get it looked at.
If you [self-admittedly] don't know squat about computers you should let others set them up for you. Or god forbid take a weekend and learn how to install a good distro yourself. Once you go through the motions once it's a lot easier for any subsequent times.
...especially when any idiot can post whatever drivel they want with precisely zero facts to back up their assertions.
This. I don't know why people consider diaries [I refuse to say weblog in sentences anymore] to be authoritative. Any jackass can write whatever they want, and provided it's not violating an NDA, court order, or libel, it's probably perfectly legal.
I mean I could start a diary tomorrow and write about how Apple is merging with Star bucks so they can sell laptops with their Vente coffees. Doesn't make it true.
As for the general premise as to "too many distros kill the party," I think it's false. Many tools are being developed against portable libraries that are offered in most distros. I doubt all of the developers of Firefox use Gentoo, yet here I am, using it just fine in Gentoo. Imagine that.
Welcome to opposite opposite land. I JUST tried YESTERDAY to switch my house address at rogers.com. It didn't work with Firefox in Gentoo. It kept saying the Province and Postal code were wrong [even though the province is a DROP DOWN BOX].
I tried to change the address on my driver license last week. It didn't work in Firefox, even in Windows I had to use IE to get the damn forms to submit.
Pizza Pizza is flash driven, but even then the "order online" link never works [even in windows] unless I'm on IE.
I guess you live in opposite opposite land or something...
Who said rebooting? My workstation is Gentoo only. It's my laptop that is dual boot and it's off most of the time.
To be honest, I'd rather take the 30 seconds to boot my laptop than talk with a human. Ordering Pizza [or dealing with most phone staff] is right up there with having my nails forcefully removed in terms of things I'd enjoy doing. Pizza phone folk are so f'ing stupid that it usually takes 3 times as long as simply clicking a few buttons on their website.
Yeah, well I view many PDFs from differing sources like Acrobat Writer, OpenOffice, pdftex, etc. They all work. But for whatever reason the Rogers ones are horrible. It could be a font substitution problem who knows.
But there are other things on Rogers that suck. Like you need flash for half it, and I couldn't submit forms [e.g. change address] as it kept bitching that completed fields were "invalid" [one of which was a drop down menu].
The Rogers website works very poorly with Firefox [especially without flash], and the PDFs they send out don't render with xpdf, gs, or evince. It's also as if they go out of their way to break things on non-Windows platforms. The Canadian government is going the same way sadly. CRA, MOT and a few others don't render at all in Firefox, or when they do select elements fail and make the pages useless.
And the worse part is though they have to go out of their way to break things. I mean there is enough HTML/CSS/etc in common between the two [IE and Netscape/Moz] that every website should at least be functional on both, if not presentable.
Pizza Pizza also doesn't work in Linux which means I have to boot my Windows laptop to get some chow...:-(
It's just a farking book. Selling for like $20. And all this reporting on the frenzy of the release is solely designed to DRUM UP SALES. Like totally for sure I like gotta have a copy yes I do...If I were to read it [which I won't, I'll see the movie but that's about it] I'd just spend the $20 for a dead-tree edition instead of trying to read a poorly photographed copy off some bt.
I wonder what people will do after Harry Potter is done with. Go all frenzied over the the next release of the cable guide?
b) is misleading though. Sure there is a "brightest spot" but the other cells are still active. Try turning off a warm tv in a pitch black room, you can see the light [albeit unfocused] for at least a minute or so.
Someone needs a hug. Seriously. Being a prick doesn't win you any "cool guy" awards. it just re-enforces your already negative attitudes and makes you annoying to be around. I'm sure all of your friends just love being jived and ripped on all the time.
um that's not how LCDs work. They're not magnetic. They turn opaque as you run a current through them. If they were magnetic then magnetics would affect them as they are NOT SHIELDED (hint, they're between glass and covered in rubber usually).
I wonder if you realize that CRTs have a fade-out effect. Try swapping a pixel from full on to full off [any of the colours] and see what the observed waveform looks like. Hint: It's not square.
As opposed to an LCD which truly is at a given level, there is no fade out.
Sure your CRT may refresh at 200Hz but the phosphor coating doesn't.
let's see... 1600x1200=1.92M tiny magnetic fields spaced roughly 0.2mm or so apart. Yup. Totally feasible and affordable. Yes, that's me laughing my ass off in the corner.
Final Fantasy and Megaman both outgrew the NES/SNES.
Point is, no platform is immune from sequels. But who cares if they have new elements/stories/etc. Mario 1-3 are all basically the same story [well except USA #2], but they're still fun. So were the SNES and N64 versions of "the same game."
Nothing wrong with a fresh sequel. It's when they re-use story/graphics/maps/levels/etc wholesale that it becomes a ripoff [e.g. bomberman 1 vs. 2].
The Wii is sold at a profit. And it's not just an overclocked [hint: they're stable] GC. It also has the motes, SD slot, bluetooth, etc... and it's GC compatible.
The Wii is sold at a profit AND is cheaper than the PS3 AND is a better party console.
Well it has several improvements you can't get in a game cube. therefore it's not a gamecube. It has more memory, a faster cpu/gpu, bluetooth, SD slot, and can use Motes. None of which the GC can.
And you don't think the Wii price will go down? I recall the GC being $300 when it was new. I believe Nintendo is trying to "make a profit" [good ol' econ 101] while demand is high.
Demand is low[er] for the PS3 so you'd think they'd adjust the price accordingly. Would you rather loose $100 to a sale made or $600 to a PS3 left on a shelf?
Actually if you checked my posting history I also blasted the iphone too.
So STFU. I'm all for toys, but people need perspective. "ooh a cell processor" so what. The wii with it's "lame" graphics still manages to entertain crowds at parties. And frankly more of my friends are into the Wii for it's approachability then they are into the xbox or playstation.
Sure shiny graphics are nice and all, but if the games don't entertain my friends what's the point? When I'm alone I can play games? woopy
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Who the heck will remember the order to hit and release keys? That's the sort of shit you take bagpipe lessons for!
I always thought that glibc/startup code was LGPL for that very reason. LGPL allows you to link against otherwise "gpl'ed" code but without the restriction that your application becomes GPL'ed [or LGPL'ed] itself. If I'm not mistaken that even allows static linking.
Tom
Being first to market with an unstable platforms seems to be NOT how to run a business. Taking notes....
Having not seen THIS video yet, I've seen previous talks, and yes, he's normally not very presentable and doesn't really have any shame. Reason being? He's been sheltered from the "real world" ever since he stepped foot inside uni.
This is how he can have a totally polar draconian view of commercial software. He doesn't have to rely on selling it to make a living. And since he doesn't have to win over customers ever, he doesn't have to act tactfully in public. I mean, I rarely dress up, but I at least shave, bathe, comb my friggin hair and act polite when guests/customers are around. It isn't selling out to have proper manners and hygiene...
That said, copyright is hardly as big a problem as people make it out to be. The DMCA [and similar laws] are, but they're not required for copyright to exist and be useful. And at anyrate I'd worry more about patents [especially on math and software] then copyrights.
Tom
People like you is why there are IT departments.
I don't know much about cars, doesn't mean "all them parts in the car are stupid." It means I take the car to a shop and get it looked at.
If you [self-admittedly] don't know squat about computers you should let others set them up for you. Or god forbid take a weekend and learn how to install a good distro yourself. Once you go through the motions once it's a lot easier for any subsequent times.
Tom
...especially when any idiot can post whatever drivel they want with precisely zero facts to back up their assertions.
This. I don't know why people consider diaries [I refuse to say weblog in sentences anymore] to be authoritative. Any jackass can write whatever they want, and provided it's not violating an NDA, court order, or libel, it's probably perfectly legal.
I mean I could start a diary tomorrow and write about how Apple is merging with Star bucks so they can sell laptops with their Vente coffees. Doesn't make it true.
As for the general premise as to "too many distros kill the party," I think it's false. Many tools are being developed against portable libraries that are offered in most distros. I doubt all of the developers of Firefox use Gentoo, yet here I am, using it just fine in Gentoo. Imagine that.
Welcome to opposite opposite land. I JUST tried YESTERDAY to switch my house address at rogers.com. It didn't work with Firefox in Gentoo. It kept saying the Province and Postal code were wrong [even though the province is a DROP DOWN BOX].
I tried to change the address on my driver license last week. It didn't work in Firefox, even in Windows I had to use IE to get the damn forms to submit.
Pizza Pizza is flash driven, but even then the "order online" link never works [even in windows] unless I'm on IE.
I guess you live in opposite opposite land or something...
Who said rebooting? My workstation is Gentoo only. It's my laptop that is dual boot and it's off most of the time.
To be honest, I'd rather take the 30 seconds to boot my laptop than talk with a human. Ordering Pizza [or dealing with most phone staff] is right up there with having my nails forcefully removed in terms of things I'd enjoy doing. Pizza phone folk are so f'ing stupid that it usually takes 3 times as long as simply clicking a few buttons on their website.
Tom
Yeah, well I view many PDFs from differing sources like Acrobat Writer, OpenOffice, pdftex, etc. They all work. But for whatever reason the Rogers ones are horrible. It could be a font substitution problem who knows.
But there are other things on Rogers that suck. Like you need flash for half it, and I couldn't submit forms [e.g. change address] as it kept bitching that completed fields were "invalid" [one of which was a drop down menu].
The Rogers website works very poorly with Firefox [especially without flash], and the PDFs they send out don't render with xpdf, gs, or evince. It's also as if they go out of their way to break things on non-Windows platforms. The Canadian government is going the same way sadly. CRA, MOT and a few others don't render at all in Firefox, or when they do select elements fail and make the pages useless.
... :-(
And the worse part is though they have to go out of their way to break things. I mean there is enough HTML/CSS/etc in common between the two [IE and Netscape/Moz] that every website should at least be functional on both, if not presentable.
Pizza Pizza also doesn't work in Linux which means I have to boot my Windows laptop to get some chow
Tom
It's just a farking book. Selling for like $20. And all this reporting on the frenzy of the release is solely designed to DRUM UP SALES. Like totally for sure I like gotta have a copy yes I do...If I were to read it [which I won't, I'll see the movie but that's about it] I'd just spend the $20 for a dead-tree edition instead of trying to read a poorly photographed copy off some bt.
I wonder what people will do after Harry Potter is done with. Go all frenzied over the the next release of the cable guide?
b) is misleading though. Sure there is a "brightest spot" but the other cells are still active. Try turning off a warm tv in a pitch black room, you can see the light [albeit unfocused] for at least a minute or so.
Someone needs a hug. Seriously. Being a prick doesn't win you any "cool guy" awards. it just re-enforces your already negative attitudes and makes you annoying to be around. I'm sure all of your friends just love being jived and ripped on all the time.
um that's not how LCDs work. They're not magnetic. They turn opaque as you run a current through them. If they were magnetic then magnetics would affect them as they are NOT SHIELDED (hint, they're between glass and covered in rubber usually).
You fail.
I love you.
I wonder if you realize that CRTs have a fade-out effect. Try swapping a pixel from full on to full off [any of the colours] and see what the observed waveform looks like. Hint: It's not square.
As opposed to an LCD which truly is at a given level, there is no fade out.
Sure your CRT may refresh at 200Hz but the phosphor coating doesn't.
Tom
let's see ... 1600x1200=1.92M tiny magnetic fields spaced roughly 0.2mm or so apart. Yup. Totally feasible and affordable. Yes, that's me laughing my ass off in the corner.
Tom
fear is good. It stops us from doing stupid things.
Like posting without RTFA.
Tom
I'm 25. I'm not a kid. I've heard "oh snap" since I WAS a kid. It's not a new thing.
Final Fantasy and Megaman both outgrew the NES/SNES.
Point is, no platform is immune from sequels. But who cares if they have new elements/stories/etc. Mario 1-3 are all basically the same story [well except USA #2], but they're still fun. So were the SNES and N64 versions of "the same game."
Nothing wrong with a fresh sequel. It's when they re-use story/graphics/maps/levels/etc wholesale that it becomes a ripoff [e.g. bomberman 1 vs. 2].
there is simply so much more money to be had in blasé games and infinite sequels.
...
I can't wait to buy Halo 3 and GTA IV
Oh snap, that's the sound of your point flying out the window.
The Wii is sold at a profit. And it's not just an overclocked [hint: they're stable] GC. It also has the motes, SD slot, bluetooth, etc... and it's GC compatible.
The Wii is sold at a profit AND is cheaper than the PS3 AND is a better party console.
CONSOLE WARS!
Besides the PS3 is just an overclocked PS2.
Well it has several improvements you can't get in a game cube. therefore it's not a gamecube. It has more memory, a faster cpu/gpu, bluetooth, SD slot, and can use Motes. None of which the GC can.
And you don't think the Wii price will go down? I recall the GC being $300 when it was new. I believe Nintendo is trying to "make a profit" [good ol' econ 101] while demand is high.
Demand is low[er] for the PS3 so you'd think they'd adjust the price accordingly. Would you rather loose $100 to a sale made or $600 to a PS3 left on a shelf?
Tom
Actually if you checked my posting history I also blasted the iphone too.
So STFU. I'm all for toys, but people need perspective. "ooh a cell processor" so what. The wii with it's "lame" graphics still manages to entertain crowds at parties. And frankly more of my friends are into the Wii for it's approachability then they are into the xbox or playstation.
Sure shiny graphics are nice and all, but if the games don't entertain my friends what's the point? When I'm alone I can play games? woopy
Tom
$600 for a video game console is still too much. Newsflash Sony, you suck. ... still waiting to get a Wii ...
Tom