You simply can not get the kind of quality that makes for an enjoyable listening experience with a volunteer mom recording WAV files onto her PC with a Compaq built-in-the-monitor microphone.
Enjoyable listening experience is subjective. You would certainly get better then running these books through a text-to-sound program. Whether it's good enough or not is up to you. The children of that mom have probably never said "Don't read to us; just put in the CD because it will should better."
Even if you submit a whole subsection to a peice of code..... the language you submitted it to me really DOES matter. IF you gave me a patch, and said "here, if you want ot include this in the project". You just GAVE it to me... you just assumed I was going to publicly release it in the GPL version. I still retain copyright, even if I include the code you gave me.
Whether or not you have exclusive copyright over the whole thing is not for you to say; it's a matter of law, to be decided by a court. Small patches ( 10 lines) are probably fine in most cases, but anything much larger and a court will probably rule against you.
No World map or Atlas I checked gives Russia as European, but Asian
Russia is a big country; it's neither purely Asia or European. St. Petersberg and Moscow is part of Europe; Siberia is part of Asia. The Urals are usually given as the dividing line.
Let's see if I can put the lessons learned from Harry Potter into a practical form for you: From what one learns from Harry and his mates, if you are speeding down the highway and pass a police cruiser, the officer will not do more than maybe issue a warning. The reality is that unless you are in the Boston area (like Rt 128), you will likely be issued a speeding ticket that will cost you a pretty penny.
That's one lesson that could be learned from Harry Potter (and, say, Tom Sawyer). Of course, the Cat in the Hat would teach you that the officer won't even notice you. I guess that's not in your pile of acceptable literature.
But you're missing a bunch of other lessons: that it's our actions that shape who we are, that being rich doesn't make you a better person, that people can change, that doing the right thing is more important then winning, that standing by your friends is important.
Considering that George W. hasn't ruled out attacking Syria, that he hasn't ruled out some kind of retaliation in regards to France, that he isn't some wimp whose hobbies include "having his penis washed by White House interns", might choose to act on this info
George Bush wants World War III? I think he has a half a brain in there, or at least between him and his cabinet and aides, there might be half a brain, so he won't retaliate against France or Russia. Even if these reports about Russia are true, the worst anyone remotely sane would do is pound their shoe on a desk at the UN.
(BTW, I'd be much more impressed about Bush's non-wimpness if he had ever served in the military, or was taking any personal risk in bombing of Iraqis.)
Simple. Except for the minor fact that except for short periods during lift off, no modern spaceship comes near 1 g for extended periods of time, because it takes a shitload of fuel to do so.
I refuse to allow my kids to read the Harry Potter books for reasons that include, but are not restricted to, what is taught in the Bible.
What do you let them read then, besides the Left Behind series? Anything by Mark Twain is right out, as is Alice in Wonderland. E. Rice Burroughs' works all seems too anarchic for you to let your children read. I'm not finding much classic literature that fits what you've expressed here.
Free speech does not imply that other people have to listen to you. Since the students were a captive audience, they had no choice but to be subjected to the religious messages, even if only so far as to decide to throw them away.
So if someone walks up to you on the street and hands you a pamphlet about religion, your rights have been violated, because you had no choice but to be subjected to the message? Or if you're in a subway car, and someone starts talking to you? Or worse yet, the person next to you or across from you? This was not someone exploiting school time to give extended lectures; she gave them something that at worst is the equivelent of a pamphlet, something that could have been in any enviroment against the will of the person getting the pamphlet.
What if she had said grace in the lunch room? Everyone around her would have been subjected to her religious messages, then too.
There is no right not to be offended; sometimes, in school and elsewhere, you have to tolerate other people's expression of their beliefs.
how much of the genome is devoted to racial characteristics
What's a racial characteristic? Any gene variant is going to appear in a different percentage of people in different groups. Sickle cell amenia is common in north Africans and Italians, but not southern Africans. Black skin is common in Africans but not Italians. Why is black skin a racial characteristic and sickle cell amenia isn't?
The population of Utah is 2,316,256 vs. a population of 288,368,698, which means that Utah represents 0.00803227 of the US. Less than one percent.
0.8% of the population, but 2% of the senate.
If you are going to sit there and blame entire STATES,
Blame? It's a simple fact: Utah is mostly Mormons, who believe in strong religious values. Oklahoma is possibly not as strongly religious, but when I moved from Nevada to Oklahoma, I went from classes where no one believed in strict creationism to where most people believed in strict creationism. Again, the fact is that a Judge in West Virginia got elected because of his posting the ten commandments in his court (which his TV commericals focused heavily on.)
YOU are as intolorant as you claim conservatives are.
My post doesn't really claim that conservatives are intolerant. You seem to be whaling on strawmen here.
Libertarians ARE conservative on most issues, and more conservative than Repuplicans by a long shot. You should go read about them
I know what libertarians are. This seems to be mostly a definitional argument: one of the defining characteristics of a conservative in the American system to me is an emphasis on strict moral values.
I am not a christian, yet a conservative.
So? Large groups of Muslims would line up with the Christians protesting drinking and drugs and pornography and "evil" music, as would some Jews. As far as I know, other religions have different emphasises, but I wouldn't be surprised to find people of any religion (including atheists and agnostics) in those groups. (I understand some hippies got a rude awakening by the Hopi, who didn't approve of thier lifestyle any more then the "Man" did. As another example, there's a group of atheist feminists who vehemently attack pornography.) It's an attitude about morality and how and what should be enforced by the law, rather than strictly about religion.
I have been nice enough to tolorate your intolorance against the entire populations of Oklahoma, Utah and West Virgina,
Well, I am pretty intolerant towards myself (Oklahoma State University, class of 2002), but I know many nice Oklahomans, all over the political spectrum, some of whom I agree with politically and some I don't. (And actually, you haven't been very tolerant at all.)
Morgan's fellow students were basically a captive audience as Morgan distributed her individually-targetted religious messages to them.
Other students don't necessarily believe what you do; that's a deep truth. They could have thrown away the message, or ignored it. Even children can tell the difference between something coming from the teacher, and something coming from another student. There's no justification to silence her speech; even as children, there's no right not to be faced with differing opinions.
I agree with your point that some religous extremists want to control our lives. I agree that its stupid to ban books, and would extend it to say immoral to ban books, and it's an attack on all things American. I disagree with your assumption that anything more than a tiny minority of conservatives think this way.
The problem is, it's not a tiny minority. Utah consistently elects senators that think this way, as does Oklahoma, and a scary part of the rest of the US. I believe it was West Virgina where a Judge got elected because he posted the Ten Commandments in the his court room, and promised to post them conspicously in the judicial building.
(And since when have Ayn Rand followers been conservative? Randian philosophy is generally considered libertarian, strongly because it doesn't believe the "good community values" of conservativism.)
the "hero" [Harry Potter] and his pals basically harbor a complete disregard for authority, and when they are caught
Because Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have full respect for authority. Part of the problem of juvenile fiction is that it needs adventure, but the whole point of many of the restrictions on children is so they don't do adventures things.
I strongly question putting hero in quotes, too. The characters repeatedly put themselves into harm's way for others. Ron Weasly sacrifices his piece (at great personal harm) in live-action chess because it's the only way to get past the challenge. They go into the home of a basklisk to protect their friends and school. Harry Potter risks losing a very important (Olympic-level?) game to rescue the other player's hostages. At the last segment of that game, he shares victory with another player, because it's the right thing to do. Over and over the characters do great, noble things worthy of the title hero.
The problem is, the greatness of a film really cannot be measured in U.S. dollars. Every time a "crowd pleaser" like Kangaroo Jack or the latest Adam Sandler epic is slapped together, it means that a great amount of time and effort was diverted away from another, better film. You know, one that people might actually remember fifty years down the road.
Most of the 1960's era movies I remember either aren't losing money to stuff like Kangaroo Jack (Disney's Alice in Wonderland or Fantasia) or weren't in competition with such high budget films in the first place ("Incubus", "Little Shop of Horrors"). Perhaps the intellectuals aren't getting the films they like, but that's the reality of capitalism.
The US has had rough times, but for being one of the youngest countries,
One of the youngest countries? We're older then most of the African countries, most of the eastern European countries (controlled by Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Ottoman Empire in 1800), the Middle Eastern nations (all put together at the end of WWI and WWII), Germany, and India to start with. This isn't to mention all the nations that have had multiple revolutions since 1778 (or even 1865).
People who think we want to occupy and control Iraq are deluded.
The US is not an imperalistic nation. Instead, US usually sets up puppet governments and supports evil governments (Noriega, Hussian) that support the US. (The "our son of a bitch" policy.) The Iraqis know this.
The simple fact is, Dude, Where's My Car may have been stupid, but it was fun. And enough people agreed with me that it made enough money to justify a sequel. It's easy to mock movies, but if they sell, they have succeeded in their goal, no matter how stupid and worthless you may think it is.
(apart from region coding, which is trivial to remove on most all players, and only effects a small segment of the population)
Only affects a small segment of the American population. From what I've heard, in Australia and other places, a DVD doesn't sell if they don't advertise it as Region-free. Hollywood just doesn't care about prompt, cheap releases to make buying only local DVD's feasable.
We were too cowardly/politically-savvy to attack Iran, so we gave Iraq a bunch of stuff so they could attack Iran. Any guilt from that action adheres to us as much as them.
How do people ignore the long list of reports from exiled Iraqis and other sources about the horrid crimes the regime has committed against even its own people?
America executes idiots and children, and the rest of the world excoriates us for it. If you're black and poor, you get jail time for drugs; if you're white and rich, you go to a clinic. Do they have the right to invade the US for those crimes?
Maybe you think it's their problem, and they should overthrow their own government without our help. It's probably pretty difficult to do that when you're not allowed to assemble to even plan such a futile action.
And somehow the East Germans managed it, as did the rest of eastern Europe. As did the Irish and Indians and the Russians and many other cultures throughout history. We can't put a government in power that will be acceptable to the Iraqis; it'll be considered just another American puppet, like Hussian was before he pissed us off. Perhaps letting people chose their own destiny is better.
Algorithms are computer science. Computer scientists can use mathematics too.
Computer scientists study computers, like biologists study life. When a biologist studies the interaction of two chemicals in the absence of life, he's doing chemistry; when a computer scientists studies P=NP in the absence of a computer, he's doing mathematics. (P=NP is independent of the TM model; perhaps studying P=NP in the model of general recursive functions makes it more obviously math.)
As I know there is only one distrib, which contains mplayer in whole.
Think about that statement. The distributions have no motivation to provide broken software to their users, so if only one distribution provides a whole mplayer, that's probably mplayer's fault.
To include a compiler, that nobody else uses, in a distrib is like a well known companies strategy.
The comparison to Hitl... I mean, Microsoft is totally uncalled for. Anyone else could have used GCC 2.96, and in fact Debian did for the Itanium part of the distribution. RedHat chose to use what they thought was the best compiler for the job. Right or wrong, better or worse, that was their choice and they had to make it.
Debian seemed to be hostile and not mplayer. The mplayer team just couldn't understand, why debian has rejected including mplayer in the distrib.
From what I've read of those discussions, mplayer has historically be a mess of bad licensing decisions. The fact that people nitpick what has been a historical source of problems is not surprising. The fact that the mplayer people could not understand it was because they weren't interested in understanding it; they'd rather attack Debian for not including mplayer.
Send letters, rather than emails. Emails are too easy to ignore.
Letters may never get there; after this whole anthrax thing, no one on Capitol Hill wants to touch a letter until it's been dunked in acid a few times.
Then keep your trade secrets, don't burn a million CDs and send them to anyone who's willing to pay twenty bucks. If you've given someone a copy of your trade secrets without an associated contract (a real contract, not a EULA), you have no real expectations of secrecy. A car company doesn't complain when another company disassembles its cars; it patents what it can, and realizes it can't protect the rest.
If you think reverse engineering protocols is computer science, you don't know what computer science is. Try proving P = NP. Now that's computer science.
No, P = NP is mathematics. Applicable to computer science, but still mathematics. How to solve problems using computers is computer science, and one way to do that is to study how other people solved the problem.
Reverse engineering hardware where no encryption or protocols is involved is different from looking at what chips a computer is made of. The latter doesn't violate the DMCA.
Yes, but the first PCs had to reverse engineer the BIOS. If there were the DMCA then, they would have just tossed trivial encryption on the BIOS and cryed fowl when someone decrypted it.
how many opera users out there are quietly giggling and counting how many ways there are to switch between tabs
Because that's exactly what I need - four different ways to switch between tabs.
Please -- save yourself some time, get opera
And instead of adding a minor improvement to an existing browser, or reading the documentation, I should go to a completely different, proprietary, browswer. No thanks.
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You simply can not get the kind of quality that makes for an enjoyable listening experience with a volunteer mom recording WAV files onto her PC with a Compaq built-in-the-monitor microphone.
Enjoyable listening experience is subjective. You would certainly get better then running these books through a text-to-sound program. Whether it's good enough or not is up to you. The children of that mom have probably never said "Don't read to us; just put in the CD because it will should better."
Even if you submit a whole subsection to a peice of code..... the language you submitted it to me really DOES matter. IF you gave me a patch, and said "here, if you want ot include this in the project". You just GAVE it to me... you just assumed I was going to publicly release it in the GPL version. I still retain copyright, even if I include the code you gave me.
Whether or not you have exclusive copyright over the whole thing is not for you to say; it's a matter of law, to be decided by a court. Small patches ( 10 lines) are probably fine in most cases, but anything much larger and a court will probably rule against you.
No World map or Atlas I checked gives Russia as European, but Asian
Russia is a big country; it's neither purely Asia or European. St. Petersberg and Moscow is part of Europe; Siberia is part of Asia. The Urals are usually given as the dividing line.
Let's see if I can put the lessons learned from Harry Potter into a practical form for you: From what one learns from Harry and his mates, if you are speeding down the highway and pass a police cruiser, the officer will not do more than maybe issue a warning. The reality is that unless you are in the Boston area (like Rt 128), you will likely be issued a speeding ticket that will cost you a pretty penny.
That's one lesson that could be learned from Harry Potter (and, say, Tom Sawyer). Of course, the Cat in the Hat would teach you that the officer won't even notice you. I guess that's not in your pile of acceptable literature.
But you're missing a bunch of other lessons: that it's our actions that shape who we are, that being rich doesn't make you a better person, that people can change, that doing the right thing is more important then winning, that standing by your friends is important.
Considering that George W. hasn't ruled out attacking Syria, that he hasn't ruled out some kind of retaliation in regards to France, that he isn't some wimp whose hobbies include "having his penis washed by White House interns", might choose to act on this info
George Bush wants World War III? I think he has a half a brain in there, or at least between him and his cabinet and aides, there might be half a brain, so he won't retaliate against France or Russia. Even if these reports about Russia are true, the worst anyone remotely sane would do is pound their shoe on a desk at the UN.
(BTW, I'd be much more impressed about Bush's non-wimpness if he had ever served in the military, or was taking any personal risk in bombing of Iraqis.)
let's try a simple 1 gravity instead.
Simple. Except for the minor fact that except for short periods during lift off, no modern spaceship comes near 1 g for extended periods of time, because it takes a shitload of fuel to do so.
I refuse to allow my kids to read the Harry Potter books for reasons that include, but are not restricted to, what is taught in the Bible.
What do you let them read then, besides the Left Behind series? Anything by Mark Twain is right out, as is Alice in Wonderland. E. Rice Burroughs' works all seems too anarchic for you to let your children read. I'm not finding much classic literature that fits what you've expressed here.
Free speech does not imply that other people have to listen to you. Since the students were a captive audience, they had no choice but to be subjected to the religious messages, even if only so far as to decide to throw them away.
So if someone walks up to you on the street and hands you a pamphlet about religion, your rights have been violated, because you had no choice but to be subjected to the message? Or if you're in a subway car, and someone starts talking to you? Or worse yet, the person next to you or across from you? This was not someone exploiting school time to give extended lectures; she gave them something that at worst is the equivelent of a pamphlet, something that could have been in any enviroment against the will of the person getting the pamphlet.
What if she had said grace in the lunch room? Everyone around her would have been subjected to her religious messages, then too.
There is no right not to be offended; sometimes, in school and elsewhere, you have to tolerate other people's expression of their beliefs.
how much of the genome is devoted to racial characteristics
What's a racial characteristic? Any gene variant is going to appear in a different percentage of people in different groups. Sickle cell amenia is common in north Africans and Italians, but not southern Africans. Black skin is common in Africans but not Italians. Why is black skin a racial characteristic and sickle cell amenia isn't?
The population of Utah is 2,316,256 vs. a population of 288,368,698, which means that Utah represents 0.00803227 of the US. Less than one percent.
0.8% of the population, but 2% of the senate.
If you are going to sit there and blame entire STATES,
Blame? It's a simple fact: Utah is mostly Mormons, who believe in strong religious values. Oklahoma is possibly not as strongly religious, but when I moved from Nevada to Oklahoma, I went from classes where no one believed in strict creationism to where most people believed in strict creationism. Again, the fact is that a Judge in West Virginia got elected because of his posting the ten commandments in his court (which his TV commericals focused heavily on.)
YOU are as intolorant as you claim conservatives are.
My post doesn't really claim that conservatives are intolerant. You seem to be whaling on strawmen here.
Libertarians ARE conservative on most issues, and more conservative than Repuplicans by a long shot. You should go read about them
I know what libertarians are. This seems to be mostly a definitional argument: one of the defining characteristics of a conservative in the American system to me is an emphasis on strict moral values.
I am not a christian, yet a conservative.
So? Large groups of Muslims would line up with the Christians protesting drinking and drugs and pornography and "evil" music, as would some Jews. As far as I know, other religions have different emphasises, but I wouldn't be surprised to find people of any religion (including atheists and agnostics) in those groups. (I understand some hippies got a rude awakening by the Hopi, who didn't approve of thier lifestyle any more then the "Man" did. As another example, there's a group of atheist feminists who vehemently attack pornography.) It's an attitude about morality and how and what should be enforced by the law, rather than strictly about religion.
I have been nice enough to tolorate your intolorance against the entire populations of Oklahoma, Utah and West Virgina,
Well, I am pretty intolerant towards myself (Oklahoma State University, class of 2002), but I know many nice Oklahomans, all over the political spectrum, some of whom I agree with politically and some I don't. (And actually, you haven't been very tolerant at all.)
Morgan's fellow students were basically a captive audience as Morgan distributed her individually-targetted religious messages to them.
Other students don't necessarily believe what you do; that's a deep truth. They could have thrown away the message, or ignored it. Even children can tell the difference between something coming from the teacher, and something coming from another student. There's no justification to silence her speech; even as children, there's no right not to be faced with differing opinions.
I agree with your point that some religous extremists want to control our lives. I agree that its stupid to ban books, and would extend it to say immoral to ban books, and it's an attack on all things American. I disagree with your assumption that anything more than a tiny minority of conservatives think this way.
The problem is, it's not a tiny minority. Utah consistently elects senators that think this way, as does Oklahoma, and a scary part of the rest of the US. I believe it was West Virgina where a Judge got elected because he posted the Ten Commandments in the his court room, and promised to post them conspicously in the judicial building.
(And since when have Ayn Rand followers been conservative? Randian philosophy is generally considered libertarian, strongly because it doesn't believe the "good community values" of conservativism.)
the "hero" [Harry Potter] and his pals basically harbor a complete disregard for authority, and when they are caught
Because Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have full respect for authority. Part of the problem of juvenile fiction is that it needs adventure, but the whole point of many of the restrictions on children is so they don't do adventures things.
I strongly question putting hero in quotes, too. The characters repeatedly put themselves into harm's way for others. Ron Weasly sacrifices his piece (at great personal harm) in live-action chess because it's the only way to get past the challenge. They go into the home of a basklisk to protect their friends and school. Harry Potter risks losing a very important (Olympic-level?) game to rescue the other player's hostages. At the last segment of that game, he shares victory with another player, because it's the right thing to do. Over and over the characters do great, noble things worthy of the title hero.
The problem is, the greatness of a film really cannot be measured in U.S. dollars. Every time a "crowd pleaser" like Kangaroo Jack or the latest Adam Sandler epic is slapped together, it means that a great amount of time and effort was diverted away from another, better film. You know, one that people might actually remember fifty years down the road.
Most of the 1960's era movies I remember either aren't losing money to stuff like Kangaroo Jack (Disney's Alice in Wonderland or Fantasia) or weren't in competition with such high budget films in the first place ("Incubus", "Little Shop of Horrors"). Perhaps the intellectuals aren't getting the films they like, but that's the reality of capitalism.
The US has had rough times, but for being one of the youngest countries,
One of the youngest countries? We're older then most of the African countries, most of the eastern European countries (controlled by Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Ottoman Empire in 1800), the Middle Eastern nations (all put together at the end of WWI and WWII), Germany, and India to start with. This isn't to mention all the nations that have had multiple revolutions since 1778 (or even 1865).
People who think we want to occupy and control Iraq are deluded.
The US is not an imperalistic nation. Instead, US usually sets up puppet governments and supports evil governments (Noriega, Hussian) that support the US. (The "our son of a bitch" policy.) The Iraqis know this.
Dude, Where's My Car?
The simple fact is, Dude, Where's My Car may have been stupid, but it was fun. And enough people agreed with me that it made enough money to justify a sequel. It's easy to mock movies, but if they sell, they have succeeded in their goal, no matter how stupid and worthless you may think it is.
(apart from region coding, which is trivial to remove on most all players, and only effects a small segment of the population)
Only affects a small segment of the American population. From what I've heard, in Australia and other places, a DVD doesn't sell if they don't advertise it as Region-free. Hollywood just doesn't care about prompt, cheap releases to make buying only local DVD's feasable.
warring with Iran
We were too cowardly/politically-savvy to attack Iran, so we gave Iraq a bunch of stuff so they could attack Iran. Any guilt from that action adheres to us as much as them.
How do people ignore the long list of reports from exiled Iraqis and other sources about the horrid crimes the regime has committed against even its own people?
America executes idiots and children, and the rest of the world excoriates us for it. If you're black and poor, you get jail time for drugs; if you're white and rich, you go to a clinic. Do they have the right to invade the US for those crimes?
Maybe you think it's their problem, and they should overthrow their own government without our help. It's probably pretty difficult to do that when you're not allowed to assemble to even plan such a futile action.
And somehow the East Germans managed it, as did the rest of eastern Europe. As did the Irish and Indians and the Russians and many other cultures throughout history. We can't put a government in power that will be acceptable to the Iraqis; it'll be considered just another American puppet, like Hussian was before he pissed us off. Perhaps letting people chose their own destiny is better.
Algorithms are computer science. Computer scientists can use mathematics too.
Computer scientists study computers, like biologists study life. When a biologist studies the interaction of two chemicals in the absence of life, he's doing chemistry; when a computer scientists studies P=NP in the absence of a computer, he's doing mathematics. (P=NP is independent of the TM model; perhaps studying P=NP in the model of general recursive functions makes it more obviously math.)
As I know there is only one distrib, which contains mplayer in whole.
... I mean, Microsoft is totally uncalled for. Anyone else could have used GCC 2.96, and in fact Debian did for the Itanium part of the distribution. RedHat chose to use what they thought was the best compiler for the job. Right or wrong, better or worse, that was their choice and they had to make it.
Think about that statement. The distributions have no motivation to provide broken software to their users, so if only one distribution provides a whole mplayer, that's probably mplayer's fault.
To include a compiler, that nobody else uses, in a distrib is like a well known companies strategy.
The comparison to Hitl
Debian seemed to be hostile and not mplayer.
The mplayer team just couldn't understand, why debian has rejected including mplayer in the distrib.
From what I've read of those discussions, mplayer has historically be a mess of bad licensing decisions. The fact that people nitpick what has been a historical source of problems is not surprising. The fact that the mplayer people could not understand it was because they weren't interested in understanding it; they'd rather attack Debian for not including mplayer.
Send letters, rather than emails. Emails are too easy to ignore.
Letters may never get there; after this whole anthrax thing, no one on Capitol Hill wants to touch a letter until it's been dunked in acid a few times.
Every company is entitled to keep trade secrets.
Then keep your trade secrets, don't burn a million CDs and send them to anyone who's willing to pay twenty bucks. If you've given someone a copy of your trade secrets without an associated contract (a real contract, not a EULA), you have no real expectations of secrecy. A car company doesn't complain when another company disassembles its cars; it patents what it can, and realizes it can't protect the rest.
If you think reverse engineering protocols is computer science, you don't know what computer science is. Try proving P = NP. Now that's computer science.
No, P = NP is mathematics. Applicable to computer science, but still mathematics. How to solve problems using computers is computer science, and one way to do that is to study how other people solved the problem.
Reverse engineering hardware where no encryption or protocols is involved is different from looking at what chips a computer is made of. The latter doesn't violate the DMCA.
Yes, but the first PCs had to reverse engineer the BIOS. If there were the DMCA then, they would have just tossed trivial encryption on the BIOS and cryed fowl when someone decrypted it.
If you can't understand how to compile something, then why are you downloading something and trying to do it yourself? It makes so much sense to me.
Because the mplayer team is also actively hostile to distributions including mplayer?
how many opera users out there are quietly giggling and counting how many ways there are to switch between tabs
Because that's exactly what I need - four different ways to switch between tabs.
Please -- save yourself some time, get opera
And instead of adding a minor improvement to an existing browser, or reading the documentation, I should go to a completely different, proprietary, browswer. No thanks.