looking at the table some more, the other popular (that is, expensive) words are gay, lesbian, anal, and self. I don't even want to attempt to put them into above sentence. Britney Spears, however, appears to quite cheap...
The one thing I hate about vim/gvim is the inability to do MDI. I want to be able to edit multiple documents at a time and copy/paste text between them. The split window just sucks. If you open two separate vim windows, then the only way to copy paste is with the mouse. Then there is some funky way to cycle between open files in the same window, but then you actually need to save the current file and open the next one. All of these methods suck. So, is there or are there any plans for a *real* MDI in vim? I'd like that even more than KDE integration.
So let me ask again: If I have a propietary licence which does allow me to install the program on as many computers as I like, as long as it is only used by a single person at a time, can all employees of a company use the program simultaneously?
I have never seen such a license myself, but even if it did exist, I would say no. The license would likely say that it applies to people, not organizations. Even if it did not say it explicitly, it would be trivial to show in court that this is the meaning. A corporation is a legal person but not a natural person. There is a difference. That, of course, is just my opinion. I would like to know what RMS thinks.
P.S. remember that a license is a *contract*. There is more to it than just copyright. Notice that all of the proprietary licenses contain provisions that are not normally the rights of the copyright holder(s). GPL, however, is based entirely in copyright law: it does not attempt to make you accept a contract as a condition to using the software.
4) piping and redirection works more or less exactly like in UNIX with the same syntax even
How do I redirect stderr? What about stdout+stderr? Is there an equivalent for tee?
Yes, some tings are there but most are not. You may be able to get them somewhere, but that's just the thing -- you need to hunt around for them; you need to know they exist in the first place. In Unix you get all of that installed by default.
I don't think you understand the difference between proprietary "licenses" and a real license, such as GPL. All proprietary licenses are actually unilateral contracts: they require you to agree to their terms as a condition to using the software. In that way, instead of granting you privileges (which is what license is -- a grant of rights you don't normally have), they proceed to take away your rights.
GPL, however, does no such thing. You can do whatever you want with a piece of software that is distributed under GPL and you are not required to agree to any "license". The only restriction is that should you decide to distribute the software yourself, you must include the source (in a way spelled out in the GPL). So, GPL does in fact grant you more rights than you normally have -- you are normally not allowed to distribute someone else's copyrighted code.
Whether, in the case of proprietary software, there is distribution is a moot point -- the terms of the contract forbid you from using one copy on multiple machines or by multiple people, and put other restrictions on the use of the software. Whether such terms are enforcible is a subject of a different discussion, but these are the reasons for the difference between proprietary "licenses" and GPL.
I don't think the GPL distiguishes between public distribution and distribution within an organisation.
It doesn't. But a corporation is a legal person, so all employees comprise one entity. When a piece of software is distributed internally, it never leaves the entity, so there is no distribution.
Your comparison with a proprietary license makes absolutely no sense.
Fraud. Several prolific warez kiddies figured out how to change their MAC address to bill their service to their neighbors or even to our own router (!). We're still not sure exactly how that happened.
Well, duh! You should not assume that MAC address is set in stone (cause it's not). Instead you need to correlate the IP address to the user. Keep a lookup table and update it whenever DHCP lease is renewed. That would be a lot harder to defeat.
Billing issues. People who obviously ran up a very high bandwidth bill would call us and complain when they got their statements, asking us to lower their bills. Our position was that it wasn't our responsibility that they couldn't figure out how to close Napster or stop downloading porn. When they paid with credit card we would sometimes lose the dispute, but things were okay when they paid with cash or check.
I'd say: not my problem; you knew the extra charge for abusing bandwidth, you downloaded gigabytes of warez -- pay up. I don't understand how you lost the credit card disputes, but if that happened, I'd just cut off the user until they pay. (otherwise you are losing money).
Expectation of quality. As you know, a cable modem is a shared medium and cable companies are not at fault for your neighbors' downloading habits. However, it was considered a potential legal liability to be providing a service of varying quality.
Nope, games (and your windows probably) run at 24-bit colour, 32 bits per pixel, and they simply waste one byte per pixel because it's much faster to access the pixels when aligned on a 4 byte boundary.
ehh, no. The color is RGBA. The last byte is used for the alpha channel (determines the pixel's transparency).
The installed base of CDs is just too huge. CDs provide excellent quality sound so any further improvement is be superficial (*). So if the new media provides no advantages, consumers will not be so eager to buy the new players which will not be compatible with their existing CD collection. The music industry (err, I mean "the copyright industry", as Jack Valenti recently described it) simply cannot force the consumers to switch to the new media and they know it. CDs will remain the de facto standard for years to come. (**) Think before you post.
(*) I am sure some audiophile will claim that CDs don't sound right. I am talking about the normal people here (you know, like 99% of the audience, the once who listen to the music not the sound).
(**) I think the only thing that can change that is a massive switch to online distribution of music, in which case the question of media becomes moot. It remains to be seen how well this will play out. And for some reason I don't have a good feeling about it... hmmm wonder why? Probably something to do with the copy control crap.
Stability - Rip out the CPU fan, these would still run till kingdom come.
This is the biggest pile of shit ever to come out of the Intel fanboys. Let's get the story right: Intel CPUs cannot run without a CPU & heat sink. If you are so sure that it will, why don't you try it on your pentium 4?
Now I want to preempt replies from morons who will point out the Tom's video. I saw it. The heat sink and fan were removed for 2 seconds and subsequently put back. There is simply no way you can run pentium 4 without HS & fan for an extended period of time.
Speaking of which, I do not understand Tom's point. Heat sinks & fans do not spontaneously "fall off". But that's anoter rant altogether...
The only thing that makes MSFT's an issue is that after a company has achieved a certain amount of market share it may be unfair for them to have exclusive deals with other vendors because it may effectively shut down the competition.
Let's say it more specifically: Microsoft has a monopoly in desktop operating systems, therefore it is illegal for Microsoft to make exclusive deals with OEMs. There, that's better.
However it is up to the courts to decide whether there was anything inappropriate about these OEM deals and if so to come up with a decision.
The courts *have* decided: it's illegal. Read the ruling. Or does your employer screen your internet access?;-)
Likening it to racketeering on the other hand is a gross exagerration and implies that you think that MSFT forces
Yeah, and if I tell you that you should do business with me or else, you know, accidents happen, I'm not really forcing you, am I?
Sorry to confuse you with the FACTS, but what you are referring to is contrary to the Copyright Act and is a criminal offence. At least - that's what I learned at *my* law school.
Maybe you should have gone to a better law school.
See guide to copyrights. Quoting from page 11: [example of non-infringement use] "borrowing a musical tape from a friend to copy onto a blank tape for private use".
Filling 2^64 bytes of memory, over a 66MHz/64 bit bus would take about 132 billion (10^9) seconds.
What the hell are you talking about? By the time computers have that much memory the data bus would certainly be a LOT faster than 66 MHz/64 bit (duh!), so all you've presented is some completely useless statistics. At the rate the memory requirements are progressing, 64 bit address space is going to be enough for a looooong time. Probably 30-40 years.
Kessel is exactly right: you cannot sue on someone else's behalf. So FSF cannot, for example, sue NuSphere on MySQL AB's behalf. (They can, however, testify as an expert witness). That is the reason FSF requests the assignment of copyright, contrary to what certain trolls claim.
Actually, AMD is supposed to release Thoroughbred in Q3, AFAIK. It's basically the Palomino core shrunk to.13 micron. This will allow AMD to get much higher clock speeds. Also, Clawhammer will come out by the end of the year. It's certainly going to be interesting to watch.
Interestingly, Tom says that the overclocked P4s he tested are not supposed to be released until Q3! That means we'll probably see the 2666MHz P4 and Athlon 2666+ released around the same time. I guess Intel is waiting for the Rambus and/or motherboard support.
Yeah, in that article a 2666/533MHz Pentium 4 manages to outperform Athlon XP 2000+ (which actually runs at 1666/266MHz). What a great achievement! How do you think Athlon XP 2666+ would change the picture? Notice that 2000+ consistently shows very strong performance relative to 2000MHz and even 2200MHz P4.
The antitrust decision was about BUNDLING, not about exclusive agreements.
False. It was not just about bundling. Exclusive agreements were explicitly addressed and found illegal. (And, as someone else pointed out, the bundling charge was remanded to the lower court). Again I say: you'd do well to actually get a clue before spouting nonsense.
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thanks a lot! That's what I was looking for. Now is there a way to have it list all the class names and/or use class member complestion?
looking at the table some more, the other popular (that is, expensive) words are gay, lesbian, anal, and self. I don't even want to attempt to put them into above sentence. Britney Spears, however, appears to quite cheap...
this post costs $1.85 per click. These are the most popular words, apparently.
The one thing I hate about vim/gvim is the inability to do MDI. I want to be able to edit multiple documents at a time and copy/paste text between them. The split window just sucks. If you open two separate vim windows, then the only way to copy paste is with the mouse. Then there is some funky way to cycle between open files in the same window, but then you actually need to save the current file and open the next one. All of these methods suck. So, is there or are there any plans for a *real* MDI in vim? I'd like that even more than KDE integration.
I have never seen such a license myself, but even if it did exist, I would say no. The license would likely say that it applies to people, not organizations. Even if it did not say it explicitly, it would be trivial to show in court that this is the meaning. A corporation is a legal person but not a natural person. There is a difference. That, of course, is just my opinion. I would like to know what RMS thinks.
P.S. remember that a license is a *contract*. There is more to it than just copyright. Notice that all of the proprietary licenses contain provisions that are not normally the rights of the copyright holder(s). GPL, however, is based entirely in copyright law: it does not attempt to make you accept a contract as a condition to using the software.
How do I redirect stderr? What about stdout+stderr? Is there an equivalent for tee?
Yes, some tings are there but most are not. You may be able to get them somewhere, but that's just the thing -- you need to hunt around for them; you need to know they exist in the first place. In Unix you get all of that installed by default.
I don't think you understand the difference between proprietary "licenses" and a real license, such as GPL. All proprietary licenses are actually unilateral contracts: they require you to agree to their terms as a condition to using the software. In that way, instead of granting you privileges (which is what license is -- a grant of rights you don't normally have), they proceed to take away your rights.
GPL, however, does no such thing. You can do whatever you want with a piece of software that is distributed under GPL and you are not required to agree to any "license". The only restriction is that should you decide to distribute the software yourself, you must include the source (in a way spelled out in the GPL). So, GPL does in fact grant you more rights than you normally have -- you are normally not allowed to distribute someone else's copyrighted code.
Whether, in the case of proprietary software, there is distribution is a moot point -- the terms of the contract forbid you from using one copy on multiple machines or by multiple people, and put other restrictions on the use of the software. Whether such terms are enforcible is a subject of a different discussion, but these are the reasons for the difference between proprietary "licenses" and GPL.
It doesn't. But a corporation is a legal person, so all employees comprise one entity. When a piece of software is distributed internally, it never leaves the entity, so there is no distribution.
Your comparison with a proprietary license makes absolutely no sense.
QT is *not* free on windows. You might be able to compile it under cygwin though.
Well, duh! You should not assume that MAC address is set in stone (cause it's not). Instead you need to correlate the IP address to the user. Keep a lookup table and update it whenever DHCP lease is renewed. That would be a lot harder to defeat.
Billing issues. People who obviously ran up a very high bandwidth bill would call us and complain when they got their statements, asking us to lower their bills. Our position was that it wasn't our responsibility that they couldn't figure out how to close Napster or stop downloading porn. When they paid with credit card we would sometimes lose the dispute, but things were okay when they paid with cash or check.
I'd say: not my problem; you knew the extra charge for abusing bandwidth, you downloaded gigabytes of warez -- pay up. I don't understand how you lost the credit card disputes, but if that happened, I'd just cut off the user until they pay. (otherwise you are losing money).
Expectation of quality. As you know, a cable modem is a shared medium and cable companies are not at fault for your neighbors' downloading habits. However, it was considered a potential legal liability to be providing a service of varying quality.
Sooooo?? How does that affect metered bandwidth?
One of the things Debian people were supposed to fix was the abyssmally slow release cycle. Well, it's still abyssmally slow.
Duh, einstein! RGBA color is used in intermediate calculations, but it's ultimately rendered as RGB. Now did you have something informative to say?
ehh, no. The color is RGBA. The last byte is used for the alpha channel (determines the pixel's transparency).
The installed base of CDs is just too huge. CDs provide excellent quality sound so any further improvement is be superficial (*). So if the new media provides no advantages, consumers will not be so eager to buy the new players which will not be compatible with their existing CD collection. The music industry (err, I mean "the copyright industry", as Jack Valenti recently described it) simply cannot force the consumers to switch to the new media and they know it. CDs will remain the de facto standard for years to come. (**)
Think before you post.
(*) I am sure some audiophile will claim that CDs don't sound right. I am talking about the normal people here (you know, like 99% of the audience, the once who listen to the music not the sound).
(**) I think the only thing that can change that is a massive switch to online distribution of music, in which case the question of media becomes moot. It remains to be seen how well this will play out. And for some reason I don't have a good feeling about it... hmmm wonder why? Probably something to do with the copy control crap.
This is the biggest pile of shit ever to come out of the Intel fanboys. Let's get the story right: Intel CPUs cannot run without a CPU & heat sink. If you are so sure that it will, why don't you try it on your pentium 4?
Now I want to preempt replies from morons who will point out the Tom's video. I saw it. The heat sink and fan were removed for 2 seconds and subsequently put back. There is simply no way you can run pentium 4 without HS & fan for an extended period of time.
Speaking of which, I do not understand Tom's point. Heat sinks & fans do not spontaneously "fall off". But that's anoter rant altogether...
Let's say it more specifically: Microsoft has a monopoly in desktop operating systems, therefore it is illegal for Microsoft to make exclusive deals with OEMs. There, that's better.
However it is up to the courts to decide whether there was anything inappropriate about these OEM deals and if so to come up with a decision.
The courts *have* decided: it's illegal. Read the ruling. Or does your employer screen your internet access? ;-)
Likening it to racketeering on the other hand is a gross exagerration and implies that you think that MSFT forces
Yeah, and if I tell you that you should do business with me or else, you know, accidents happen, I'm not really forcing you, am I?
They'd be required to make the french version.
Oh my God! The dead have risen from their graves and are supporting Microsoft!
Maybe you should have gone to a better law school. See guide to copyrights. Quoting from page 11: [example of non-infringement use] "borrowing a musical tape from a friend to copy onto a blank tape for private use".
Americans already have Mickey Mouse as president: look here.
What the hell are you talking about? By the time computers have that much memory the data bus would certainly be a LOT faster than 66 MHz/64 bit (duh!), so all you've presented is some completely useless statistics. At the rate the memory requirements are progressing, 64 bit address space is going to be enough for a looooong time. Probably 30-40 years.
Kessel is exactly right: you cannot sue on someone else's behalf. So FSF cannot, for example, sue NuSphere on MySQL AB's behalf. (They can, however, testify as an expert witness). That is the reason FSF requests the assignment of copyright, contrary to what certain trolls claim.
Actually, AMD is supposed to release Thoroughbred in Q3, AFAIK. It's basically the Palomino core shrunk to .13 micron. This will allow AMD to get much higher clock speeds. Also, Clawhammer will come out by the end of the year. It's certainly going to be interesting to watch.
Interestingly, Tom says that the overclocked P4s he tested are not supposed to be released until Q3! That means we'll probably see the 2666MHz P4 and Athlon 2666+ released around the same time. I guess Intel is waiting for the Rambus and/or motherboard support.
Yeah, in that article a 2666/533MHz Pentium 4 manages to outperform Athlon XP 2000+ (which actually runs at 1666/266MHz). What a great achievement! How do you think Athlon XP 2666+ would change the picture? Notice that 2000+ consistently shows very strong performance relative to 2000MHz and even 2200MHz P4.
False. It was not just about bundling. Exclusive agreements were explicitly addressed and found illegal. (And, as someone else pointed out, the bundling charge was remanded to the lower court). Again I say: you'd do well to actually get a clue before spouting nonsense.