Point out ONE emulator that doesn't emulate the CPU. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
If you're running on the same CPU family, you may use glue/compatability code for the OS interfaces, but that is NOT emulation by any stretch of the imagination.
I suppose, at least in theory, that you could emulate some specialized hardware that's not available on other machines, but I've never heard of that being done.
The sheer volume of idiocy and wishful thinking on Slashdot about software licensing today is sickening.
One poster even claimed that you don't need a license for GPL software. Hellllooooo!?!?!?!? "General Public LICENSE".
Then there are the huge number of people who think they "own" the software they buy. Only the copyright holder "owns" software; everyone else is, at best, a licensed user.
All the wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding in the world won't change those facts.
And yes, you can write whatever you want into your licenses when you own the copyright on software. Someone may test it in court, but you as the OWNER have the right to require and defend any license terms you deam suitable.
The act of purchasing a copy gives you the right to install it.
No it does not. It gives you the right to RETURN the software if you decide you don't agree with it's license. It does NOT give you the right to IGNORE the license.
The Apple license explicitly forbids installation on non-Apple hardware. You may not agree with those terms, but that does not give you the legal right to IGNORE those terms.
One reason we don't have many (if any) MPAA/RIAA "copyright infringement" lawsuits up here is that our courts award sane damages based on real lost revenue and injuries. Which is to say, ONE lost sale.
SVG is graphics done in XML. Do you have any idea how much bigger SVG files would be than textures if you tried to do that, in order to get the same level of image detail.
Thanks for the laugh. That was the funniest thing I've read in days.
Century 21 usually has exclusive listing contracts, which means that no one else can sell the house for commission without getting sued out of their commission. I don't see the profit for the scraping company.
I don't see any claims in their page that sounds any different than using VMs to run a bunch of operating systems at the same time, other than that they seem to have set it up with hotkeys to switch between full-screen VM displays. What am I missing? Or is this just another attempt to rebrand old technology as something new?
3D support is not and will not be a common requirement for a long time, so it makes sense to use an optional plugin rather than bloating the browser with crap most people will never need.
I seem to recall several attempts at 3D plugins and interfaces over the years, all of which withered and blew away in the winds of "who gives a shit."
Games are one of those areas where the web will not be able to compete with local processing power for a very, very long time. Sure you can do some primitive demos, but the sheer bandwidth required to transfer the textures for modern video games are way beyond the capabilities of current internet technology.
Even Second Life with it's shading instead of textures still uses a native client.
Protection from the arbitrary decisions of the leadership is exactly what the 5th is supposed to protect citizens from. You're right -- there is no "slippery slope." Obama's administration leaped over the cliff and willingly ignored the constitution. Again.
If Brazil wants to play on the international markets, they'll have to do something about their customs procedures.
Tax breaks for companies moving into an area are pretty much standard nowadays, unfortunately. I wish I could demand tax breaks like corporations do.
I wonder if the Brazilian government is trying to pin Foxconn down to provide suicide prevention services before they're allowed to depress and demoralize the Brazilian employees.
I first hit Usenet in 1984. The spam and crap were already there, sorry to say. People always have rose-coloured glasses when remembering "the good old days."
Unlike civil engineering, there are no rules for software development. There are suggestions, guidelines, methodologies, samples, etc., but no rules.
Liability only works if there is a way to make things bullet-proof, which is what engineering and construction standards do for their profession. But software is a house of cards, and the finger pointing and blame-mongering that go on when there's a critical system failure make it pretty much impossible to assign blame.
Arbitrarily blaming the software creator instead of the database provider, systems configuration, hardware problems, etc. is asinine.
There is no such thing as perfect software.
Businesses want liability so they can sue someone when things go wrong, and liability means you'd be responsible for their business losses, not just the value of the software. If you want to kill the software industry, go ahead and impose liability.
Me, I'll keep the "not suited" disclaimers in my code, and to hell with any American customers if the US decides to put through such an asinine proposal.
Whether you're a public or private provider, discrimination based on accent is either legal or it is not. But do you expect the Indian wage slaves to complain about language training if it gets them a job?
Only in America would people think their rights are being violated when they're told to speak clearly in English when doing a job that requires communication. Oh, and Quebec, of course -- they'd have an issue with the "English" part of it. *LOL*
The simple fact of the matter is that if you just want to use Linux as a desktop, all the distributios provide some sort of GUI interface for doing the basics of system configuration.
But if you're running a server, you are going to HAVE to get down to the CLI and edit configuration files, install software, test startup scripts, etc. At least SOME knowledge is required to run a server, and if you're not willing to learn, you're just wasting everyone's time -- your's, your potential user's, and whoever tries to help you along the way. Buckle up and stop whining about needing to use the CLI.
Yeah, so now you get a Java VM exception caught and reported by the code that invoked your main. If you don't try-catch the nulls and typecasts throughout your code, all that happens is you get a high-level exception handler reporting the exception. Your program still crashes and burns.
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I stand corrected. Thanks for providing an example. I hate it when people make claims and don't back them up with examples.
Point out ONE emulator that doesn't emulate the CPU. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
If you're running on the same CPU family, you may use glue/compatability code for the OS interfaces, but that is NOT emulation by any stretch of the imagination.
I suppose, at least in theory, that you could emulate some specialized hardware that's not available on other machines, but I've never heard of that being done.
The sheer volume of idiocy and wishful thinking on Slashdot about software licensing today is sickening.
One poster even claimed that you don't need a license for GPL software. Hellllooooo!?!?!?!? "General Public LICENSE".
Then there are the huge number of people who think they "own" the software they buy. Only the copyright holder "owns" software; everyone else is, at best, a licensed user.
All the wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding in the world won't change those facts.
And yes, you can write whatever you want into your licenses when you own the copyright on software. Someone may test it in court, but you as the OWNER have the right to require and defend any license terms you deam suitable.
No it does not. It gives you the right to RETURN the software if you decide you don't agree with it's license. It does NOT give you the right to IGNORE the license.
Man, the slashdotters are sure keeping me laughing today. Why in the world would you EMULATE an x86 PC on x86 hardware?
Man, I got tears in my eyes from that one...
The Apple license explicitly forbids installation on non-Apple hardware. You may not agree with those terms, but that does not give you the legal right to IGNORE those terms.
One reason we don't have many (if any) MPAA/RIAA "copyright infringement" lawsuits up here is that our courts award sane damages based on real lost revenue and injuries. Which is to say, ONE lost sale.
There was never any question that Pystar was in the wrong. Their activities were blatantly and obviously illegal.
Their whole market was based on selling hardware to run software that wasn't licensed to run on that hardware.
Their lawyers would have had to be completely incompetent buffoons to lose the case.
SVG is graphics done in XML. Do you have any idea how much bigger SVG files would be than textures if you tried to do that, in order to get the same level of image detail.
Thanks for the laugh. That was the funniest thing I've read in days.
Century 21 usually has exclusive listing contracts, which means that no one else can sell the house for commission without getting sued out of their commission. I don't see the profit for the scraping company.
Just a windows developer that doesn't want to learn OpenGL.
I don't see any claims in their page that sounds any different than using VMs to run a bunch of operating systems at the same time, other than that they seem to have set it up with hotkeys to switch between full-screen VM displays. What am I missing? Or is this just another attempt to rebrand old technology as something new?
Whatever in the world gives you the idea that you have to open source HTML5 applications?
That may be, but I don't see how such a generic industry standard term as "timeline" was ever accorded trademark status in the first place.
Then again, MicroSquishy got away with "Windows", and Apple is trying their damnedest to do the same thing to "App Store".
3D support is not and will not be a common requirement for a long time, so it makes sense to use an optional plugin rather than bloating the browser with crap most people will never need.
I seem to recall several attempts at 3D plugins and interfaces over the years, all of which withered and blew away in the winds of "who gives a shit."
Games are one of those areas where the web will not be able to compete with local processing power for a very, very long time. Sure you can do some primitive demos, but the sheer bandwidth required to transfer the textures for modern video games are way beyond the capabilities of current internet technology.
Even Second Life with it's shading instead of textures still uses a native client.
Protection from the arbitrary decisions of the leadership is exactly what the 5th is supposed to protect citizens from. You're right -- there is no "slippery slope." Obama's administration leaped over the cliff and willingly ignored the constitution. Again.
If Brazil wants to play on the international markets, they'll have to do something about their customs procedures.
Tax breaks for companies moving into an area are pretty much standard nowadays, unfortunately. I wish I could demand tax breaks like corporations do.
I wonder if the Brazilian government is trying to pin Foxconn down to provide suicide prevention services before they're allowed to depress and demoralize the Brazilian employees.
I first hit Usenet in 1984. The spam and crap were already there, sorry to say. People always have rose-coloured glasses when remembering "the good old days."
There was a time when patches were distributed via usenet. I haven't touched it since technology shifted to web interfaces, subversion clients, etc.
But as far as I can recall, it was always rife with spam, offtopic posts, script kiddies, porn, and illegal binaries.
I won't mourn usenet any more than I mourn the kermit protocols.
Sad that another company's business is going the way of the dodo, but that's life.
Unlike civil engineering, there are no rules for software development. There are suggestions, guidelines, methodologies, samples, etc., but no rules.
Liability only works if there is a way to make things bullet-proof, which is what engineering and construction standards do for their profession. But software is a house of cards, and the finger pointing and blame-mongering that go on when there's a critical system failure make it pretty much impossible to assign blame.
Arbitrarily blaming the software creator instead of the database provider, systems configuration, hardware problems, etc. is asinine.
There is no such thing as perfect software.
Businesses want liability so they can sue someone when things go wrong, and liability means you'd be responsible for their business losses, not just the value of the software. If you want to kill the software industry, go ahead and impose liability.
Me, I'll keep the "not suited" disclaimers in my code, and to hell with any American customers if the US decides to put through such an asinine proposal.
Yoghurt to cut the burn has been a staple of East Indian cooking for millenia. Plus a nice mango lassi to top off a meal is tasty.
Whether you're a public or private provider, discrimination based on accent is either legal or it is not. But do you expect the Indian wage slaves to complain about language training if it gets them a job?
Only in America would people think their rights are being violated when they're told to speak clearly in English when doing a job that requires communication. Oh, and Quebec, of course -- they'd have an issue with the "English" part of it. *LOL*
The simple fact of the matter is that if you just want to use Linux as a desktop, all the distributios provide some sort of GUI interface for doing the basics of system configuration.
But if you're running a server, you are going to HAVE to get down to the CLI and edit configuration files, install software, test startup scripts, etc. At least SOME knowledge is required to run a server, and if you're not willing to learn, you're just wasting everyone's time -- your's, your potential user's, and whoever tries to help you along the way. Buckle up and stop whining about needing to use the CLI.
Yeah, so now you get a Java VM exception caught and reported by the code that invoked your main. If you don't try-catch the nulls and typecasts throughout your code, all that happens is you get a high-level exception handler reporting the exception. Your program still crashes and burns.