Ummm no. Package management is about installing, removing and updating software. We're not talking about Mac app wrappers here. Synaptic is just a front end to apt-cache and apt-get. The apt-get man page makes it pretty damn clear that the operations you perform with it are install, upgrade and remove. That's what you're doing and that's what the menu option should offer the user.
So the OCaml compiler is supposed to figure out that there's a dynamic programming solution to the problem you have specified using higher order operators? That's a great idea. Let me know when you work that out cause I'd love to be able to just write a specification, press a button and get an optimised program. If you do manage to make this though, be sure not to tell those bastards who pay our salaries, they'll probably think we're not working anymore.
heh. Depends what you mean by "binary". Obviously everything on a modern computer is "binary" in some sense. It's due to this confusion that it's better to say "native instructions" when you want to distinquish the output of something like GCC to a compiler like javac (which you would say produces "bytecode instructions") or a pascal compiler (which produces "pcode instructions"). So no, not all compilers produce native instructions. Some compilers don't even produce instructions, for example, a database schema might be "compiled" into a listing of tables and foriegn key constraints. Quake mapping tools often have a compiler which converts brush information into bsp trees. A compiler is simply any tool which converts data from a "high" level of abstraction to a "low" level of abstraction. A decompiler does the opposite of a compiler. With that definition the more interesting question is: what is abstraction? Martin Ward has the answer.
No. I mean it's free to decompile and redistribute in "source" form. This is not legal today. If it were you would see OpenPhotoshop and OpenWord based on the output of a decompiler.
Hmm.. looking at this screenshot Hoary hasn't "fixed" this. Now, dare I go email someone at Ubuntu and get my head ripped off? Or should I go file a bug that will probably be ignored. Hmm.. which of these two options requires me to lower my cinicism levels the least.. filing a bug I guess.
I sure hope they changed the menu option for package management. Have a look at this screenshot. Everything on the System Configuration menu has a "nice" name that most anyone could understand. Except, that is, the package manager. The average user is going to be asking. Why is "Synaptic" in the menu option? Wtf is a "package manager" anyways? I'm not going to click on that. A better name for that menu option would have been: Install and Update Software.
Of course, another way to look at it is that neither you nor I have the pleasure of making up the laws and the fact that there are criminal copyright laws is certainly something we should all pay attention to. How oh how can we get the average joe to see that criminal copyright laws are a bad idea? I mean, kicking down their door, confiscating their equipment and sending them to jail doesn't seem to be getting their attention.
I hope the DAD team wins too. Just imagine, the geeks who made this system will be able to brag to all their friends that their DAD drives them everywhere and not be laughed at anymore.
Yep, the people who make MMORPGs for a living have no idea about online economies.. but you, random dude on Slashdot, has all the answers. Why do we even bother studying anything? All the answers are on Slashdot!
Oh, for the people who can't join the dots and see why this is relevant: Second Life is the supposed MMOG which "encourages" real world exchange for virtual world currency. The result is that no-one actually does anything in Second Life except try to figure out some way to make a buck. If games like WoW were to take a lenient stance against gold farming, WoW would become just as bad.
After running (and flying) around the various zones I came to a simple conclusion: it's one big shopping mall. There's absolutely no gameplay. Of course, there are properties you can go to and play slot machines. There may even be some "really interesting stuff" somewhere but no-one has a chance of finding it in 7 days. In a way it's kinda funny. The best way people could make money in Second Life would be to show people on their 7 day trial around the world. Of course, no-one does that.
Because it makes the game shit which results in everyone leaving your game. To make a stupid analogy, what you're asking is similar to asking why golf clubs don't offer a for-pay service to knock your ball closer to the hole before your competitors get close to the green.
This is true. It's great to be able to say to people "hey, you don't need to switch to Windows to have your freedoms trampled, we've got all the proprietary software you need right here on Linux!" Honestly, why would anyone rational person choose to use a proprietary product over an open source one if they're both technically equivilent? Oh wait, users aint rational.
Oh please. If Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux (and it would take them what, a week) you can be sure that millions of Linux users would happily pay for it. How can I possibily know?! Because the very same people pay for Adobe Photoshop and then use half baked solutions like WINE to run it.
Ummm.. duh! Everyone here knows that Slashdot picks up the "generated lots of pageviews" stories from OSNews. They don't even have to be good stories (500 people saying "that's braindead" is enough). I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a script.
SELECT story_text FROM OSNews WHERE count(comments) > 300"...
Linus and probably half the kernel hackers would like nothing more than what you suggest. The people who put together Debian would consider your proposal the exact opposite of what they want. You being an insulting little prick doesn't help either.
You're kiding right? You should be able to tell anyone you like that your "friend" is a spy. He shouldn't be telling you squat, but if he does it shouldn't, in any way, be your responsibility to keep his dirty secret.
Well that's the point of our whole argument... cracking and copying games is not a crime in Australia. Have you actually read anything about this case?
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Ummm no. Package management is about installing, removing and updating software. We're not talking about Mac app wrappers here. Synaptic is just a front end to apt-cache and apt-get. The apt-get man page makes it pretty damn clear that the operations you perform with it are install, upgrade and remove. That's what you're doing and that's what the menu option should offer the user.
I don't get it, if developers in the US who already have these laws don't do this, what makes you think developers in Europe will have to?
So the OCaml compiler is supposed to figure out that there's a dynamic programming solution to the problem you have specified using higher order operators? That's a great idea. Let me know when you work that out cause I'd love to be able to just write a specification, press a button and get an optimised program. If you do manage to make this though, be sure not to tell those bastards who pay our salaries, they'll probably think we're not working anymore.
heh. Depends what you mean by "binary". Obviously everything on a modern computer is "binary" in some sense. It's due to this confusion that it's better to say "native instructions" when you want to distinquish the output of something like GCC to a compiler like javac (which you would say produces "bytecode instructions") or a pascal compiler (which produces "pcode instructions"). So no, not all compilers produce native instructions. Some compilers don't even produce instructions, for example, a database schema might be "compiled" into a listing of tables and foriegn key constraints. Quake mapping tools often have a compiler which converts brush information into bsp trees. A compiler is simply any tool which converts data from a "high" level of abstraction to a "low" level of abstraction. A decompiler does the opposite of a compiler. With that definition the more interesting question is: what is abstraction? Martin Ward has the answer.
De Raadt is one open source developer who owns his own home. The DARPA grant gave him the finance to pay up the mortgage. I didn't start the rumour, I was merely repeating it.
It's the search for razor in RMS' bathroom cabinet.
funny you mention new homes, didn't Theo buy one last year with that DARPA money?
No. I mean it's free to decompile and redistribute in "source" form. This is not legal today. If it were you would see OpenPhotoshop and OpenWord based on the output of a decompiler.
Of course, then you go and actually look at the bug tracker and there it is.
Hmm.. looking at this screenshot Hoary hasn't "fixed" this. Now, dare I go email someone at Ubuntu and get my head ripped off? Or should I go file a bug that will probably be ignored. Hmm.. which of these two options requires me to lower my cinicism levels the least.. filing a bug I guess.
I sure hope they changed the menu option for package management. Have a look at this screenshot. Everything on the System Configuration menu has a "nice" name that most anyone could understand. Except, that is, the package manager. The average user is going to be asking. Why is "Synaptic" in the menu option? Wtf is a "package manager" anyways? I'm not going to click on that. A better name for that menu option would have been: Install and Update Software.
Using a "similar" name is still trademark infringement. They're using Apple's brand to sell their product.
Of course, another way to look at it is that neither you nor I have the pleasure of making up the laws and the fact that there are criminal copyright laws is certainly something we should all pay attention to. How oh how can we get the average joe to see that criminal copyright laws are a bad idea? I mean, kicking down their door, confiscating their equipment and sending them to jail doesn't seem to be getting their attention.
I hope the DAD team wins too. Just imagine, the geeks who made this system will be able to brag to all their friends that their DAD drives them everywhere and not be laughed at anymore.
Yep, the people who make MMORPGs for a living have no idea about online economies.. but you, random dude on Slashdot, has all the answers. Why do we even bother studying anything? All the answers are on Slashdot!
Oh, for the people who can't join the dots and see why this is relevant: Second Life is the supposed MMOG which "encourages" real world exchange for virtual world currency. The result is that no-one actually does anything in Second Life except try to figure out some way to make a buck. If games like WoW were to take a lenient stance against gold farming, WoW would become just as bad.
After running (and flying) around the various zones I came to a simple conclusion: it's one big shopping mall. There's absolutely no gameplay. Of course, there are properties you can go to and play slot machines. There may even be some "really interesting stuff" somewhere but no-one has a chance of finding it in 7 days. In a way it's kinda funny. The best way people could make money in Second Life would be to show people on their 7 day trial around the world. Of course, no-one does that.
Because it makes the game shit which results in everyone leaving your game. To make a stupid analogy, what you're asking is similar to asking why golf clubs don't offer a for-pay service to knock your ball closer to the hole before your competitors get close to the green.
This is true. It's great to be able to say to people "hey, you don't need to switch to Windows to have your freedoms trampled, we've got all the proprietary software you need right here on Linux!" Honestly, why would anyone rational person choose to use a proprietary product over an open source one if they're both technically equivilent? Oh wait, users aint rational.
Oh please. If Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux (and it would take them what, a week) you can be sure that millions of Linux users would happily pay for it. How can I possibily know?! Because the very same people pay for Adobe Photoshop and then use half baked solutions like WINE to run it.
Ummm.. duh! Everyone here knows that Slashdot picks up the "generated lots of pageviews" stories from OSNews. They don't even have to be good stories (500 people saying "that's braindead" is enough). I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a script.
...
SELECT story_text FROM OSNews WHERE count(comments) > 300"
Linus and probably half the kernel hackers would like nothing more than what you suggest. The people who put together Debian would consider your proposal the exact opposite of what they want. You being an insulting little prick doesn't help either.
ahh the irony.
You're kiding right? You should be able to tell anyone you like that your "friend" is a spy. He shouldn't be telling you squat, but if he does it shouldn't, in any way, be your responsibility to keep his dirty secret.
Well that's the point of our whole argument... cracking and copying games is not a crime in Australia. Have you actually read anything about this case?