1. Own (buy?) shares in American (and Saudi?) oil producers. 2. Declare war on oil producing nations, under guise of counter-terrorism. 3. Supply of foriegn oil decreases, American and Saudi oil supplies stay as they were. 3. Less oil being traded, but yours is worth more. 4. Profit!
Damn, I've been waiting for that for years, I guess the big thing is emulating OpenGL or somehow passing it through to X, but you'll still have the problems with DirectX that you get with Wine or Cedega or actual windows. When will people realise that DirectX is rubbish and learn to code in OpenGL.
The EULA attempts to be a contract and sets terms as to how you may use the software, but many believe it is not binding as you are supposed to sign a contract. The GPL only grants permissions to distribute the software, but has terms to nullify the license if you do not follow the terms.
In short IANAL, and the GPL doesn't attempt to tell you how you can use the software only how you can distribute it. And AFAIK, at least where I live (NZ), copyright law reproducing copyrighted works, but not how you may use a work.
I think... Definitely talk to a lawyer before basing a business off of breaking the EULA.
I'm not sure you should be touting the general purpose computer market as anything but niche. There are far more embedded processors then desktop/laptops/servers.
Especially given that most pc's have several embedded computers built into them, think ATA, RAID, FDC (do computer's still have those?), system watch dogs, some lan cards, printers and tv tuners, for a start.
American electronic transactions must be quite strange. Here in New Zealand, other than web based transactions, (almost) all Credit Card and Eftpos* (sorta like bank/debit card I guess?) are done through an eftpos terminal, which is seperate from the POS system, and only (optionally) communicates with the POS to get the amount to charge and verify that the transaction was completed.
Eftpos terminals are certified and each one has a unique id and certificate, and verify the transaction at the point-of-sale via X.25, either with a modem, or in larger stores via frame-relay/ATM.
Not to mention their proprietery(sic?) Blowfish CBC cracker. Oh the humor that comes from dim-witted script writers trying to use words and phrases they clearly don't understand.
Would it surprise you to learn that grammar is always spelled with an "a", and that regardless of whether you are british or american or something else you spelt grammar wrong.
You're one of those bastards that rents dvd's from the store and throws them on the concrete for fun, aren't you? I swear one in four dvd's I rent won't play all the way through because of dip-shits that can't manage, take out of case, put in tray, watch, take out of tray, put in case, or maybe some of those are the other dip-shits that buy $30 DVD players from the supermarket.
Anyway, how hard is it to not break media, I have never unintentionally broken media. Intentinal breakage is a whole nother matter.
Actually selling the original CD's can never be copyright infringement as you are not making a copy. Using a the original cd's that you bought from someone else however could be considered illegal, but only if the EULA is a legal contract, which in most places it isn't.
Yes, a registry done right can be fast, since it really is just a file-system with very small files. No, a registry is not a good idea, it is non-transparent, non-compact, and generally very confusing. Flat configuration files are the best option, as they stick with both the KISS rule, and the Unix design philosophy. It also means you can edit configuration's with all your favourite tools, like perl and grep.
I am on the verge of dumping Gnome purely because the gconf registry needlessly complex and non-transparent.
I can't be sure of the OP's intent, but I assume he was talking about Visuals, cinema audio has been digital from 3 CD-ROM's for about 20 years (SDSS((SDDS?)), DTS anyone?),it drops back to Optical sound (off the film) if the DTS unit fails, and you really would notice the difference if that happened(I would probably ask for a refund).
Anyway, on to the subject of digital cinema (video), typical telecine for post-production is done at 8K (64MP frame animorphic) or 16K (256MP frame animorphic) fields, which means that pretty much all (analog) film you watch is going to have a maximum resolution of 16K, as pretty much every film these days is digitally touched up and printed. As I understand it, a digital-cinema projector has a 4K horizontal field and a 1.92K vertical field, so there is a decrease in resolution over Analog film, assuming the Analog projector and film can provide the same resolution as the digital print system. However I very much doubt the vast majority of film viewers would notice any difference.
Disclaimer, I don't work in the film industry, however I have read a lot on the subject, feel free to correct me.
You generally can run old linux programs on current Distros, but you need to install the relevant libc/glibc/uclibc compatibility layer. You can even run many Solaris and BSD binaries on Gnu/Linux with the right compatibility layers.
The thing most windows users don't get is that windows has those compatibility layers there by default, whereas most Distro's don't install them as so few users actually need them.
The Same goes for BSD, FreeBSD 5 can run FreeBSD 1.0 binaries, but you need to install the relevant compatibility packages.
On the other hand, some operating systems do have consistent ABI's, Solaris and MVS (now known as zVM?), But (in the case of Solaris) it's only really an advantage to those few suckers that got stuck with Binary-only software and no upgrade path.
Anyway, don't buy custom software without the source code, you *will* get shafted.
Somehow I imagine IBM and Lenovo will work out a deal to purchase PCs without Vista. You don't think IBM buys desktop systems and laptops from Dell, do you?
It's entirely possible.
Since Lenovo is a seperate company, if Dell/HP can provide better pricing, there is no reason why IBM would be obligated to purchase from Lenovo.
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>And we have $75 a barell oil....
1. Own (buy?) shares in American (and Saudi?) oil producers.
2. Declare war on oil producing nations, under guise of counter-terrorism.
3. Supply of foriegn oil decreases, American and Saudi oil supplies stay as they were.
3. Less oil being traded, but yours is worth more.
4. Profit!
Damn, I've been waiting for that for years, I guess the big thing is emulating OpenGL or somehow passing it through to X, but you'll still have the problems with DirectX that you get with Wine or Cedega or actual windows. When will people realise that DirectX is rubbish and learn to code in OpenGL.
The EULA attempts to be a contract and sets terms as to how you may use the software, but many believe it is not binding as you are supposed to sign a contract. The GPL only grants permissions to distribute the software, but has terms to nullify the license if you do not follow the terms.
In short IANAL, and the GPL doesn't attempt to tell you how you can use the software only how you can distribute it. And AFAIK, at least where I live (NZ), copyright law reproducing copyrighted works, but not how you may use a work.
I think...
Definitely talk to a lawyer before basing a business off of breaking the EULA.
February isn't a bug, it's a gotcha. Bugs are variance from the specification, gotchas are variance from expectation.
I'm not sure you should be touting the general purpose computer market as anything but niche. There are far more embedded processors then desktop/laptops/servers.
Especially given that most pc's have several embedded computers built into them, think ATA, RAID, FDC (do computer's still have those?), system watch dogs, some lan cards, printers and tv tuners, for a start.
American electronic transactions must be quite strange. Here in New Zealand, other than web based transactions, (almost) all Credit Card and Eftpos* (sorta like bank/debit card I guess?) are done through an eftpos terminal, which is seperate from the POS system, and only (optionally) communicates with the POS to get the amount to charge and verify that the transaction was completed.
Eftpos terminals are certified and each one has a unique id and certificate, and verify the transaction at the point-of-sale via X.25, either with a modem, or in larger stores via frame-relay/ATM.
What proof do you have that the slashdot "editors" are actually people, how can you be sure they aren't infact perl scripts.
Not to mention their proprietery(sic?) Blowfish CBC cracker. Oh the humor that comes from dim-witted script writers trying to use words and phrases they clearly don't understand.
Would it surprise you to learn that grammar is always spelled with an "a", and that regardless of whether you are british or american or something else you spelt grammar wrong.
You're one of those bastards that rents dvd's from the store and throws them on the concrete for fun, aren't you? I swear one in four dvd's I rent won't play all the way through because of dip-shits that can't manage, take out of case, put in tray, watch, take out of tray, put in case, or maybe some of those are the other dip-shits that buy $30 DVD players from the supermarket.
Anyway, how hard is it to not break media, I have never unintentionally broken media. Intentinal breakage is a whole nother matter.
Actually selling the original CD's can never be copyright infringement as you are not making a copy. Using a the original cd's that you bought from someone else however could be considered illegal, but only if the EULA is a legal contract, which in most places it isn't.
Yes, a registry done right can be fast, since it really is just a file-system with very small files. No, a registry is not a good idea, it is non-transparent, non-compact, and generally very confusing. Flat configuration files are the best option, as they stick with both the KISS rule, and the Unix design philosophy. It also means you can edit configuration's with all your favourite tools, like perl and grep.
I am on the verge of dumping Gnome purely because the gconf registry needlessly complex and non-transparent.
I can't be sure of the OP's intent, but I assume he was talking about Visuals, cinema audio has been digital from 3 CD-ROM's for about 20 years (SDSS((SDDS?)), DTS anyone?),it drops back to Optical sound (off the film) if the DTS unit fails, and you really would notice the difference if that happened(I would probably ask for a refund).
Anyway, on to the subject of digital cinema (video), typical telecine for post-production is done at 8K (64MP frame animorphic) or 16K (256MP frame animorphic) fields, which means that pretty much all (analog) film you watch is going to have a maximum resolution of 16K, as pretty much every film these days is digitally touched up and printed. As I understand it, a digital-cinema projector has a 4K horizontal field and a 1.92K vertical field, so there is a decrease in resolution over Analog film, assuming the Analog projector and film can provide the same resolution as the digital print system. However I very much doubt the vast majority of film viewers would notice any difference.
Disclaimer, I don't work in the film industry, however I have read a lot on the subject, feel free to correct me.
You generally can run old linux programs on current Distros, but you need to install the relevant libc/glibc/uclibc compatibility layer. You can even run many Solaris and BSD binaries on Gnu/Linux with the right compatibility layers.
The thing most windows users don't get is that windows has those compatibility layers there by default, whereas most Distro's don't install them as so few users actually need them.
The Same goes for BSD, FreeBSD 5 can run FreeBSD 1.0 binaries, but you need to install the relevant compatibility packages.
On the other hand, some operating systems do have consistent ABI's, Solaris and MVS (now known as zVM?), But (in the case of Solaris) it's only really an advantage to those few suckers that got stuck with Binary-only software and no upgrade path.
Anyway, don't buy custom software without the source code, you *will* get shafted.
you mean you didn't install it system wide? CRAZY!
Most people in my country.
That's all very well and good, until you remember that most people still have dynamic IP addresses, even on cable/dsl.
Man, what were his parents thinking?!
Yeah, why couldn't they of given him a real name like "Sunbeam Wind Child", or "Tiffonia".
Thoes messages are on My Name is Earl, and were also on Dharma and Greg. They can also be viewed with a decent vcr.
Somehow I imagine IBM and Lenovo will work out a deal to purchase PCs without Vista. You don't think IBM buys desktop systems and laptops from Dell, do you?
It's entirely possible.
Since Lenovo is a seperate company, if Dell/HP can provide better pricing, there is no reason why IBM would be obligated to purchase from Lenovo.
What makes you think IBM pays off-the-shelf prices for Windows? I would say it would be closer to $20 a client.
Yes, because Cisco IOS, Catalyst and Rapier are so much more obvious as to what they do :P .
I think the idea is you assign copyright anonymously to DVD Jon, he now has copyright over it, and releases it under his copyright.
True, True, I'd do it just for the experience, woot.
The Plan9 License forbids use in the development of Armaments, and distribution to US-Embargoed countries.