He will be recognized as a hero for defending the constitution, like those civil rights advocates who once violated state/local ordinances on segregation.
Unfortunately, today is not that day. But he is a true hero none the less.
why the fuck would he buy a reader he knows won't work in his machine? That's a stupid fucking question, even if it was rhetorical.
Exactly. I am buying or probably building a new desktop machine and was considering a Blu-Ray capable drive when it looked like there was an open source fix, hence hope of seeing Blu-Ray support for open source players. Instead, I will stick with a tried and true DVD. Until this is fixed, Blu-Ray is useless to me. The solution of "buy a stand alone player" and switch cables around on my monitor makes as much sense as installing a MS-Vista partition just so I can watch movies.
With our embattled prime minister basically shutting down Parliament until end of January, at which time he is likely to get turfed in a confidence motion, I don't think this proposal will see the light of day.
In fact, (crosses fingers) I don't think given how the opposition finally grew some gonads and ganged up to toss him out of his chair, he will dare re-introduce a C-61 clone either.
Why not design the car yourself - using bits and pieces found at your local junkyard? Better yet - smelt the metal in your garage and take up blacksmithing to make all the bits. Sort of like building your own computer from discrete transistors.
I'll continue to write because writers have a need to write but I won't release future work to the public.
If that is the price to pay for not having my ISP spy on me, and all of my electronics crippled to enforce somebody else's business model, I'll call it a bargain.
I always thought it would be a cold day in hell when I would vote NDP, but I am now wondering if their nanny state tax & spend socialism is a lesser evil than facing astronomical fines for playing my DVDs under Linux, unlocking my cellphone or watching foreign DVDs on region free players.
If Bob Barr ever gives up on the US of A, I wonder if he would be inclined to help start/resurrect the libertarian party of Canada.
> The buck will stop with me, because I will be the president.
So far Mr. (wannabe) president, I haven't been impressed with some of your decisions, including this one. You are not the savior you have been made out to be.
No, it is a theory, but by far the best one we have that fits the observable universe. But if you choose to believe the universe was created by the flying spagetti monster 75 years ago as the pastafarians do, or some variant thereof by all means, be my guest. Just don't pass it off as science.
If you have done some research that radically overturns an established theory, (say quantum mechanics) great - publish it. But your theory had better fit the observable universe better than than the established one. (Quantum mechanics does)
Actually, we are multithreaded. We have several billion neurons in our brain,. most of which operate independently. I don't have to stop typing or talking to breathe, regulate my heartbeat or body temperature. I can read your posting while drinking my morning coffee. And while all of this is going on, I can listen to my.mp3s
But it would be totally cool if I could get a brain upgrade that would allow me to think about several problems at once, even if I only have two hands to type. Eventually, I would need a USB-3 or optical fibre jack in the back of my head to get around the physical I/O limitations of our bodies. Our grandkids are going to get some pretty cool upgrades.
Maybe it is just who I hang around, but with C-61 looming in Canada, the educated, under 30 crowd seems to be very aware of the issues involved. Not the majority to be sure, but enough of a vocal minority to make a substantial push back against corporate interests.
We'll know for sure after the upcoming by-election how large this issue looms.
Unfortunately, the liberals introduced C-60 which was almost as bad, and died on the order table. More information ( and chance to leave comments) on the CBC web page
(The NDP and Greens have come out solidly against changes to our copyright law)
The one weapon we have is the knowledge that MPs want to keep their jobs and a small number of swing votes can make a difference in a minority government. Call your MPs office and book a meeting regardless what party they are to discuss your opposition to C-61. Show up at any public meetings or town halls they may hold. Let them know that this decides your vote, and you will not be swayed. C-61 must die. If more than a few people do it they will clue in that this is a major issue they could lose their seats over. Eventually even the tories will be beaten with a cluestick thick enough to realize that in pleasing their american masters they have poisoned their chances of re-election. This is not an obscure issue for the under 30 crowd, they are well aware of what they stand to lose.
This is going to end up, (already ending up really) like prohibition in the 1930, where certain narrow interests managed to get laws in place that the silent majority refused to follow.
You may be right about the global warming part because of the extra CPU cycles burned encrypting/decrypting the encrypted "user hostile" video and audio paths.
You speed it up by rewriting sequential algorithms to run in parallel. It is surprising the number of algorithms you would swear are inherently sequential that can be rewritten to operate in parallel. Beyond that, you can have cores engaged in speculative execution, where the results may or may not be used. I could imaging a spell checker where multiple words and sentence fragments are dispatched to numerous cores for spelling/grammar checking. A compiler could devote a separate core to compiling/linking/optimizing each individual module or function.
Programmers don't think massively parallel and most programming languages (excluding hardware design languages such as Verilog/VHDL) are sequential in nature.
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Then Linus must have joined Salman Rushdie in hiding after this rant:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918
He will be recognized as a hero for defending the constitution, like those civil rights advocates who once violated state/local ordinances on segregation.
Unfortunately, today is not that day. But he is a true hero none the less.
Does this mean I will continue to get paid for software I wrote 70 years ago?
I claim copyright for that code breaking software I wrote back in WW2 for the Turing Bombe!
why the fuck would he buy a reader he knows won't work in his machine? That's a stupid fucking question, even if it was rhetorical.
Exactly. I am buying or probably building a new desktop machine and was considering a Blu-Ray capable drive when it looked like there was an open source fix, hence hope of seeing Blu-Ray support for open source players. Instead, I will stick with a tried and true DVD. Until this is fixed, Blu-Ray is useless to me. The solution of "buy a stand alone player" and switch cables around on my monitor makes as much sense as installing a MS-Vista partition just so I can watch movies.
The problem is I can't watch the damned thing under Linux, until BD+ is forever broken.
You think this guy grasps the more advanced pieces of C++?
http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/
That's when the CEO realized that "Casual Dress Fridays" may not be such a good idea.
With our embattled prime minister basically shutting down Parliament until end of January, at which time he is likely to get turfed in a confidence motion, I don't think this proposal will see the light of day.
In fact, (crosses fingers) I don't think given how the opposition finally grew some gonads and ganged up to toss him out of his chair, he will dare re-introduce a C-61 clone either.
Why not design the car yourself - using bits and pieces found at your local junkyard? Better yet - smelt the metal in your garage and take up blacksmithing to make all the bits. Sort of like building your own computer from discrete transistors.
I'll continue to write because writers have a need to write but I won't release future work to the public.
If that is the price to pay for not having my ISP spy on me, and all of my electronics crippled to enforce somebody else's business model, I'll call it a bargain.
I always thought it would be a cold day in hell when I would vote NDP, but I am now wondering if their nanny state tax & spend socialism is a lesser evil than facing astronomical fines for playing my DVDs under Linux, unlocking my cellphone or watching foreign DVDs on region free players.
If Bob Barr ever gives up on the US of A, I wonder if he would be inclined to help start/resurrect the libertarian party of Canada.
Actually, I like their technology policy - they plan to mandate FOSS and open formats wherever possible in government. (As well as being against C-61)
And I will be joining you my friend. As will many of the 91,000 facebook users. I wonder how many of them were former Tories like us?
If any candidate has the stones to show up at my door, I will let them know what issues matters for me.
> The buck will stop with me, because I will be the president.
So far Mr. (wannabe) president, I haven't been impressed with some of your decisions, including this one. You are not the savior you have been made out to be.
Just in case you think I am a McCain troll:
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/
There is an alternative:
You can vote with your conscience instead of throwing your vote away on the republicrats:
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/
No, it is a theory, but by far the best one we have that fits the observable universe. But if you choose to believe the universe was created by the flying spagetti monster 75 years ago as the pastafarians do, or some variant thereof by all means, be my guest. Just don't pass it off as science.
If you have done some research that radically overturns an established theory, (say quantum mechanics) great - publish it. But your theory had better fit the observable universe better than than the established one. (Quantum mechanics does)
Actually, we are multithreaded. We have several billion neurons in our brain,. most of which operate independently. I don't have to stop typing or talking to breathe, regulate my heartbeat or body temperature. I can read your posting while drinking my morning coffee. And while all of this is going on, I can listen to my .mp3s
But it would be totally cool if I could get a brain upgrade that would allow me to think about several problems at once, even if I only have two hands to type. Eventually, I would need a USB-3 or optical fibre jack in the back of my head to get around the physical I/O limitations of our bodies. Our grandkids are going to get some pretty cool upgrades.
Didn't see your response right away. (Vacation)
Maybe it is just who I hang around, but with C-61 looming in Canada, the educated, under 30 crowd seems to be very aware of the issues involved. Not the majority to be sure, but enough of a vocal minority to make a substantial push back against corporate interests.
We'll know for sure after the upcoming by-election how large this issue looms.
Unfortunately, the liberals introduced C-60 which was almost as bad, and died on the order table. More information ( and chance to leave comments)
on the CBC web page
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/08/17/copyright-battle.html
(The NDP and Greens have come out solidly against changes to our copyright law)
The one weapon we have is the knowledge that MPs want to keep their jobs and a small number of swing votes can make a difference in a minority government. Call your MPs office and book a meeting regardless what party they are to discuss your opposition to C-61. Show up at any public meetings or town halls they may hold. Let them know that this decides your vote, and you will not be swayed. C-61 must die. If more than a few people do it they will clue in that this is a major issue they could lose their seats over. Eventually even the tories will be beaten with a cluestick thick enough to realize that in pleasing their american masters they have poisoned their chances of re-election. This is not an obscure issue for the under 30 crowd, they are well aware of what they stand to lose.
This is going to end up, (already ending up really) like prohibition in the 1930, where certain narrow interests managed to get laws in place that the silent majority refused to follow.
You may be right about the global warming part because of the extra CPU cycles burned encrypting/decrypting the encrypted "user hostile" video and audio paths.
Thanks to the upcoming C-61, anybody picking "digital locks" placed on their own damned phone is liable to a $20,000 fine!
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3025/125/
First Canada gets C-61, this is where ACTA now takes the stage.
You speed it up by rewriting sequential algorithms to run in parallel. It is surprising the number of algorithms you would swear are inherently sequential that can be rewritten to operate in parallel. Beyond that, you can have cores engaged in speculative execution, where the results may or may not be used. I could imaging a spell checker where multiple words and sentence fragments are dispatched to numerous cores for spelling/grammar checking. A compiler could devote a separate core to compiling/linking/optimizing each individual module or function.
Programmers don't think massively parallel and most programming languages (excluding hardware design languages such as Verilog/VHDL) are sequential in nature.
That is why on the NYT registration page I am a 16 year old female attorney from Afghanistan named Osama Bin Laden. Honest!