You're missing the point. The point is there are at least seven ways of getting something that is called Win98 SE. And each way gets you something different. Some fix some bugs, other ways fix other bugs, some methods give new features, and some don't. But they all have the same name.
We're not talking here about WinNT vs Win9x vs Win3.1. When a customer buys one of those products, they know what they're getting, just as customers understand that SuSE and Redhat may be considerably different. But what about two Win98SE people, who each got it by a different method? Something might work for one, but not the other, because of subtleties related to the install. Confusing, no?
"What makes you so damn important or interesting? "
Depending on remaining unimportant enough that the govt isn't interested in you isn't very safe. All it takes is one cop, public official, or civil servant to take an interest in you....
I'd be stopped cold by your address-munge. Not because I can't fix it, but because I don't care to. If you want to make it more difficult for me to respond to you, I don't need to bother.
I don't know about others, but I don't percieve geocities pages as somehow more "legitimate" than pages on another server. In fact, I view geocities as a slum of the internet. There's precious little content that'll get me to click through to a geocities page in the first place, and there's almost none that has me coming back again. (Actually, in my bookmarks, there aren't any.)
Besides, the Geocities popup windows or the stupid bullet they put at the bottom of the page are very annoying.
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Yes, RMS has a different position on IP versus real property. IP can be copied infinitely with little or no effort. But you can't xerox your car.
My Sprint PCS phone has two "privacy" settings, normal and enhanced. I don't know if that means encryption... I'll have to bug customer service and find out.
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Digital cable sucks, too. Until I can run the cable through a splitter to my VCR and TV, and watch and tape different things, I'm sticking with analog.
(Fortunately, there was that FCC thing a while back which was supposed to have opened the way for TVs and VCRs to include tuners for digital cable, so there is hope.)
It would be very, very difficult to write a virus which would simultaneously damage a Win95 PC, a Solaris/Sparc box, a BeBox and an MVS mainframe. It would get insanely more difficult to damage all the different OSes there on all the different chips, somehow choosing the right bugs in each OS version to exploit to get privileges to do anything.
This isn't a matter of virus writers being dumb. It's a matter of the problem being nigh impossible. After all, how many apps do you know which can use the _same binary_ on all the different platforms around? And people actually want to run them....
The problem is, this could set a precedent that by posting _anything_ on the internet, you put yourself under the any jurisdiction your message passes through.
Say you post a recipe using sherry as an ingredient, and it passes through a jurisdiction which bans discussion of alcohol. Oops, you can be tried in their court.
This isn't just about libelous speech. It's about any speech, and how you could be vulnerable to any jurisdiction which doesn't like it, for any reason.
It's really a pretty low-end product. Just try dealing with GM with AutoCad parts? Do you think that the space station is being designed in AutoCad?
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Well, it was off-topic, so it might make sense to be moderated down.
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For example, bison outputs code from which a lot is verbatim from the bison.simple or bison.hairy files. That's part of the program, so running it would produce output which was based on the Program.
This meant that you could only use bison parsers in free software. (The FSF have since changed the bison license to allow use of bison parsers in non-free parsers.)
The bison info file (under copying) has a better explanation.
The only reason you could find one or the other "markedly inferior" is to judge them according to some set of needs and desires.
What is needed is a discussion of the two licenses that does not assume some set of needs and desires, and discusses how the licenses serve two different ends, discusses those ends, and discusses how it could affect use of your code. In other words, we need something to give "objective" information about the two licenses so that the _reader and developer_ can make an informed decision.
what on the CD the non GPL'd stuff ?? anyone
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If it's like RH5.2, there won't be any commercial software on it. A bunch of non-GPLed software, but all under various free licenses.
Download new redhat, make boot disks. Boot with disks, and it'll ask if you want to install new or upgrade an existing. (At least, that was the procedure for RH5.x and RH4.x.)
It's not reinventing PNG. It's reinventing JPEG. JPEG compressed photos are much smaller than PNGs... I have one 550K+ PNG which compresses to about 60K in JPEG. That's because PNG is lossless, and JPEG is lossy.
JPEG2000 just looks like it's adding more features of PNG to JPEG, so you can still have mega-compression of photos but keep transparency, etc.
CDs aren't an artifact of the unconnected days... not until we have tons more bandwidth than we have now.
"Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes" and don't underestimate the bandwidth of your local CD shop.
Most of the areas around where I live (STL), you _can't_ get cable modems or DSL. (Although SWB promises DSL sometime soon.... whatever.) And then figure in all those people who don't live in the city... burbs tend to be spotty and if you get any further out, give up.
Could you please enumerate "massive speedup... in most major cities"?
There's already a post here from someone in Seattle... no cable modem. Hardly anyone in the StL area has cable modems. Most areas in the chicago metro area don't have cable modems. That's three major cities already...
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You're missing the point. The point is there are at least seven ways of getting something that is called Win98 SE. And each way gets you something different. Some fix some bugs, other ways fix other bugs, some methods give new features, and some don't. But they all have the same name.
We're not talking here about WinNT vs Win9x vs Win3.1. When a customer buys one of those products, they know what they're getting, just as customers understand that SuSE and Redhat may be considerably different. But what about two Win98SE people, who each got it by a different method? Something might work for one, but not the other, because of subtleties related to the install. Confusing, no?
"What makes you so damn important or interesting? "
Depending on remaining unimportant enough that the govt isn't interested in you isn't very safe. All it takes is one cop, public official, or civil servant to take an interest in you....
I'd be stopped cold by your address-munge. Not because I can't fix it, but because I don't care to. If you want to make it more difficult for me to respond to you, I don't need to bother.
I don't know about others, but I don't percieve geocities pages as somehow more "legitimate" than pages on another server. In fact, I view geocities as a slum of the internet. There's precious little content that'll get me to click through to a geocities page in the first place, and there's almost none that has me coming back again. (Actually, in my bookmarks, there aren't any.)
Besides, the Geocities popup windows or the stupid bullet they put at the bottom of the page are very annoying.
Yes, RMS has a different position on IP versus real property. IP can be copied infinitely with little or no effort. But you can't xerox your car.
My Sprint PCS phone has two "privacy" settings, normal and enhanced. I don't know if that means encryption... I'll have to bug customer service and find out.
Digital cable sucks, too. Until I can run the cable through a splitter to my VCR and TV, and watch and tape different things, I'm sticking with analog.
(Fortunately, there was that FCC thing a while back which was supposed to have opened the way for TVs and VCRs to include tuners for digital cable, so there is hope.)
Ok, how do you propose to damage my Amiga with a JPEG JFIF?
It would be very, very difficult to write a virus which would simultaneously damage a Win95 PC, a Solaris/Sparc box, a BeBox and an MVS mainframe. It would get insanely more difficult to damage all the different OSes there on all the different chips, somehow choosing the right bugs in each OS version to exploit to get privileges to do anything.
This isn't a matter of virus writers being dumb. It's a matter of the problem being nigh impossible. After all, how many apps do you know which can use the _same binary_ on all the different platforms around? And people actually want to run them....
Bad example. People sign stuff they don't read all the time.
The problem is, this could set a precedent that by posting _anything_ on the internet, you put yourself under the any jurisdiction your message passes through.
Say you post a recipe using sherry as an ingredient, and it passes through a jurisdiction which bans discussion of alcohol. Oops, you can be tried in their court.
This isn't just about libelous speech. It's about any speech, and how you could be vulnerable to any jurisdiction which doesn't like it, for any reason.
Actually, it should be recursive too...
Maybe something like GNU Now Underneath?
It's really a pretty low-end product. Just try dealing with GM with AutoCad parts? Do you think that the space station is being designed in AutoCad?
Well, it was off-topic, so it might make sense to be moderated down.
For example, bison outputs code from which a lot is verbatim from the bison.simple or bison.hairy files. That's part of the program, so running it would produce output which was based on the Program.
This meant that you could only use bison parsers in free software. (The FSF have since changed the bison license to allow use of bison parsers in non-free parsers.)
The bison info file (under copying) has a better explanation.
The only reason you could find one or the other "markedly inferior" is to judge them according to some set of needs and desires.
What is needed is a discussion of the two licenses that does not assume some set of needs and desires, and discusses how the licenses serve two different ends, discusses those ends, and discusses how it could affect use of your code.
In other words, we need something to give "objective" information about the two licenses so that the _reader and developer_ can make an informed decision.
If it's like RH5.2, there won't be any commercial software on it. A bunch of non-GPLed software, but all under various free licenses.
Download new redhat, make boot disks. Boot with disks, and it'll ask if you want to install new or upgrade an existing. (At least, that was the procedure for RH5.x and RH4.x.)
It's not reinventing PNG. It's reinventing JPEG. JPEG compressed photos are much smaller than PNGs... I have one 550K+ PNG which compresses to about 60K in JPEG. That's because PNG is lossless, and JPEG is lossy.
JPEG2000 just looks like it's adding more features of PNG to JPEG, so you can still have mega-compression of photos but keep transparency, etc.
Sure, the more they resemble Sun, SGI, and the other commercial Unix vendors. Also, the more they resemble most large PC vendors.
But changing the BIOS won't necessarily mean you lose standard hardware, just that you have a custom bios in flash. And that's easy to replace.
CDs aren't an artifact of the unconnected days... not until we have tons more bandwidth than we have now.
"Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes" and don't underestimate the bandwidth of your local CD shop.
Most of the areas around where I live (STL), you _can't_ get cable modems or DSL. (Although SWB promises DSL sometime soon.... whatever.) And then figure in all those people who don't live in the city... burbs tend to be spotty and if you get any further out, give up.
Could you please enumerate "massive speedup ... in most major cities"?
There's already a post here from someone in Seattle... no cable modem. Hardly anyone in the StL area has cable modems. Most areas in the chicago metro area don't have cable modems. That's three major cities already...
Actually, xterm will do both, with one exception.
You probably don't want the terminal to scroll on page up/page down. Those are perfectly valid keys to the programs running inside the terminal.
xterm will scroll the buffer using Shift-Page-up and Shift-Page Down.
No, Nikita is cooler.
Then why is their software so buggy?
I bet their quality control system consists of:
* Check if it breaks 3rd party apps: OK
* Check if Word doesn't break writing letter to mom: OK
* Convert to hungarian notation: SHIP.