"The poor elderly couple who drives their car to the store a couple of miles round trip once a week would pay exactly the same as the semi truck driver who drives thousands of miles in a month."
The poor elderly couple should sign on for Netzero. I signed a contract with my cable provider. I could give two shits what the rest of the people that I "share" my bandwidth with think. If I want to download the linux kernel source over and over and over constantly, well that's my business. Am I ruining it for the rest of the world? No. The cable companies are. It's no one's fault but theirs that they can't manage their network. The users aren't "bad" they're just utilizing a service that they've contracted for. There is NOTHING wrong with that.
Whatever. No one here is going to avoid Sony because of this. Final Fantasy ("Finally final and we finally really mean it this time") 10 will keep most from caring. And it's not like Sony isn't within their rights doing this. Sure the chip can be used for things other than playing copied games, but that is NOT what it was designed for. (This is easily tested. See how many of these chips sell with that feature disabled.) Sorta like a bomb is made for blowing shit up, but also makes an acceptable door stop.
HUH? If "People should not mess with what they don't understand." THEN HOW THE HELL DID YOU LEARN TO TYPE? Just because you have a keyboard, it dosn't automatically follow that you should post to slashdot.
You should just leave that to people who understand what they are doing.
I thought mesa3d was the answer until I went to their site:
Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL.* To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc.(SGI).
Can Microsoft keep them from emulating the state machine and syntax. I don't have an answer for that, but if they can, then non-MS 3d graphics are truly in trouble.
This is definately a double edged sword. This could bite anyone on the ass. MS doesn't hold a monopoly on crap code (arguable). What happens to people who don't sell the software, but wrote and make money on its support? (I'm thinking of Apache here).
Napster will need to do more than charge for what others are giving away. Some form of intuitive categorization would be the ONLY thing I could see saving napster. Something along the lines of "I like Bob Dylan, Acoustic Hooka and The Misfits, what else will I like?"
Andrew argues that much of the code generated for scientific research is based on previously written, non-open source software, and this requirement would cause a huge amount of this research to be either abandoned or started from scratch.
According to M-W.com Patriotism is "love for or devotion to one's country." There was no mention of lip service. By your definition Free software "is about promoting the rights of users and creating an open and free environment to work in. " From what I understand of my country, freedom and the promotion of some basic rights are important ideals. Perhaps my analogy was not a perfect coorespondence, but I don't believe your flippant, cynical reply shed any light on the topic at hand, nor offered a clearer or better analogy.
I imagine you'd have a hard sell anywhere if you were trying to put your emphasis on the freedom of choice/speach side of Linux/OSS use in government.
See, I think that the whole freedom/choice/spirit of America road would be a good one to investigate. Especially now. It's the "free OS for a free country..." I guess some people might not equate free software choice and patriotism...
They're not going to be interested in what the software can do for them. They will be interested in fact that a significant amount of money will be freed in the budget. Don't go promising tax refunds or anything, but I think the financial benefit will be the most tangible to non-technical folk.
How akward was that first merge anyhow! The M.A.N.'s dongle slipped into the wrong port and caused a CRC failure. (To say the least). And since the 'merging' had an unexpected product (due to an unshielded cable), the M.A.N. is now obliged to support the W.O.M.A.N. until either one or the other reaches the end of it's lifecycle.
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I'm cutting off my nose to spite my face as we speak.
"The poor elderly couple who drives their car to the store a couple of miles round trip once a week would pay exactly the same as the semi truck driver who drives thousands of miles in a month."
The poor elderly couple should sign on for Netzero. I signed a contract with my cable provider. I could give two shits what the rest of the people that I "share" my bandwidth with think. If I want to download the linux kernel source over and over and over constantly, well that's my business. Am I ruining it for the rest of the world? No. The cable companies are. It's no one's fault but theirs that they can't manage their network. The users aren't "bad" they're just utilizing a service that they've contracted for. There is NOTHING wrong with that.
"This line also appeared in the article about my [censored]."
They wrote an article about your ego?
Cache != Performance. K62 had a crapload of cache compared to it's contemporaries yet still underperformed.
Taco, I'll see you in hell... For Commandment 11 was surely, "Thou shalt not slashdot my website."
Whatever. No one here is going to avoid Sony because of this. Final Fantasy ("Finally final and we finally really mean it this time") 10 will keep most from caring. And it's not like Sony isn't within their rights doing this. Sure the chip can be used for things other than playing copied games, but that is NOT what it was designed for. (This is easily tested. See how many of these chips sell with that feature disabled.) Sorta like a bomb is made for blowing shit up, but also makes an acceptable door stop.
ipfilter is so much easier to use than netfilter/iptables ... Any word on whether the licensing issues have been re-thought or resolved?
How DARE you tell it like it is! This is Slashdot!
HUH? If "People should not mess with what they don't understand." THEN HOW THE HELL DID YOU LEARN TO TYPE? Just because you have a keyboard, it dosn't automatically follow that you should post to slashdot.
You should just leave that to people who understand what they are doing.
I thought mesa3d was the answer until I went to their site:
Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL.* To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc.(SGI).
Can Microsoft keep them from emulating the state machine and syntax. I don't have an answer for that, but if they can, then non-MS 3d graphics are truly in trouble.
This is definately a double edged sword. This could bite anyone on the ass. MS doesn't hold a monopoly on crap code (arguable). What happens to people who don't sell the software, but wrote and make money on its support? (I'm thinking of Apache here).
Arg!! My Kingdom for a Mod Point!!
Napster will need to do more than charge for what others are giving away. Some form of intuitive categorization would be the ONLY thing I could see saving napster. Something along the lines of "I like Bob Dylan, Acoustic Hooka and The Misfits, what else will I like?"
The argument against:
Andrew argues that much of the code generated for scientific research is based on previously written, non-open source software, and this requirement would cause a huge amount of this research to be either abandoned or started from scratch.
According to M-W.com Patriotism is "love for or devotion to one's country." There was no mention of lip service. By your definition Free software "is about promoting the rights of users and creating an open and free environment to work in. " From what I understand of my country, freedom and the promotion of some basic rights are important ideals. Perhaps my analogy was not a perfect coorespondence, but I don't believe your flippant, cynical reply shed any light on the topic at hand, nor offered a clearer or better analogy.
Andrew
I imagine you'd have a hard sell anywhere if you were trying to put your emphasis on the freedom of choice/speach side of Linux/OSS use in government.
See, I think that the whole freedom/choice/spirit of America road would be a good one to investigate. Especially now. It's the "free OS for a free country..." I guess some people might not equate free software choice and patriotism...
They're not going to be interested in what the software can do for them. They will be interested in fact that a significant amount of money will be freed in the budget. Don't go promising tax refunds or anything, but I think the financial benefit will be the most tangible to non-technical folk.
Goodbye Viagra, Hello Nanorect! .... erm....
These robots join to become VOLTRON... At which point they (it) exit(s) the body in the same manner as the spider nasty in Alien.
Subject verb agreement can be a pain.
No part of robots (no matter how itty bitty) exiting me, via my urethra, sounds appealing.
Thanks, but no.
I really wish this guy wasn't right... But Java on Linux blows greased weasel butt.
So... what you're saying is, in the future, wars will be decided with a game of Rock em Sock em Robots?
The hell's wrong with that?
You're kind of an asshole... Did you know that?
How akward was that first merge anyhow! The M.A.N.'s dongle slipped into the wrong port and caused a CRC failure. (To say the least). And since the 'merging' had an unexpected product (due to an unshielded cable), the M.A.N. is now obliged to support the W.O.M.A.N. until either one or the other reaches the end of it's lifecycle.
"Or you can 'do something worthwhile' like subsidize pregnant 15 years old junkies and drunken bumbs."
I'm sure all of your points are valid... But judging by your last post, I think we should spend some more on education first...