Its more likely that the Valve update included a binary update that conflicted with Cedega/Wines Win32 implementation, which is more likely than a conspiracy about deliberate breakages. Remember here folks, Cedega/Wine is a reimplementation without all the documentation, I wouldnt be surprised if this happens a lot but doesnt get reported on slashdot because theres no obvious target.
currently, because we do not have the resources currently to shift a sizeable portion of our population to another planet, or even to orbit. Having 100 people on Mars as a backup plan incase Earth gets hit by an asteroid accomplishes nothing, as the offworld population size isnt big enough to sustain itself in the environment available, you need a sizeable number in an environment that can sustain them. To talk about this publically is really just incitement to public panic, or plain fantasy, ie 'Heres a possible disaster scenario that will kill billions and theres little to nothing we can do, discuss'. Talking about it wont speed up the required technology acquisition in order to make a sensible and fulfillable solution possible.
Unfortunately, with several recent laws that presumption of innocence is being deminished. Hell, Labour is even trying to take away our right to a trial by jury, and so far its made it possible to jail foreign terrorist suspects without trial, allow the prosecution to present evidence to the Judge without making that evidence available to the defence or defendant. These are jsut a few of the really bad laws recently passed.
Opensource is a bigger movement than Linux and Operating Systems in general. Opensource on Windows does have a positive effect.... for the application being used and opensource in general. It increases the userbase of that application, which increases the visability and thus brings more possibility of contributors to the project, while introducing people to opensource.
Not all of us interested/involved in opensource are Linux fanatics, you know. Not everything opensource developers do is supposed to be viewed with a 'how does this help linux', and indeed why the hell should it? These people mainly do it for personal reasons, not political. Its just unfortunate that only the politically orientated people get into the limelight.
If you bounce it back at the time of delivery, you are just telling the sending STMP server 'No, dont want this email' instead of 'Ok, all done, thankyou'. Thus the bounce should actually go back to the spammer as undeliverable rather than be fully accepted and then bounced after the sending SMTP server has disconnected. If its checked while the sending SMTP server is still connected, you can tell it there and then that its undeliverable, rather than bouncing the message to the From: address.
its those bastards that are filling my mailbox up is it? I get nearly 300 Rolex spams a day alone, and like a good little boy I eat all of them, no bouncing no unsubscribing. Why isnt there a SMTP server that checks it as it comes in and refuses it there and then, telling the sending server to bugger off? That might get you taken off the list, whereas bouncing only annoys some poor sap whoes had their email address hijacked, and unsubscribing just announces that the address reaches a human.
Well, thinking of the number of girls that I know of college age (around 30), and then thinking of the number of THOSE girls that are bisexual (around 20), Id say breasts interest them as well:) Seriously, Im shocked at how many college age females have had gay sexual experiences, it seems to be becoming the norm.
You could always license the patent to other people for $0 and acceptance of the GPL, and keep the threat of breach of license:) If you own the patent, you own the right to let other people use the patent, just like you do copyright.
The suggestion, incidentally, that this has to do with defeating the GPL, is patently absurd (patently, geddit? arf arf!) The GPL can be rewritten within this regime to force all use of patented technologies to be released with source and with all other patented technologies in the same product open too. Additionally, with patents requiring details of implementation, we'll see a lot more source code, documentation on proprietary formats, etc.
The problem is that to gain copyright on your code, you have to do... nothing. To gain patents on your code, you have to spend money. This is why very few opensource coders have applied for patents, the cost barrier.
To say the GPL could just be rewritten to work off patents leaves a big hole, in that the way the current GPL can be enforced is through the 'by default' granting of copyright on the code, and if someone violates the GPL then they violate the copyright. If copyright was withdrawn, then theres nothing protecting this code by default, so how would you punish someone for violating the GPL? Patents are too costly to apply for for everything on sourceforge, and indeed the majority of OSS code isnt patentable anyway.
For example, the Linux kernel. You cant patent it in its entirety. You would have to find something patentable within it, and then you loose all protections of this patent if the person decides to rip that part out. Its simply unenforcable.
Ahh that might be it then, we do have to pay for incoming if we go international with the phone, but thats starting to change, since the telecommunications watchdog has told the various telecoms companies to bring down the charges on fixed-to-mobile calls. That said, our mobile number range is completely different to fixed lines (07*** verses 01***, with 08*** for non geographic calls), whereas Ive been told the US has it all mixed in, same range for both fixed and mobile?
I cant beleive that 'free incoming minutes' is a selling point for you guys in the states! Ive never ever had a contract which made me pay for incoming anything (calls, data, sms), and ive had a mobile phone for going on 10 years. Where am I? The UK. My current contract costs me less than $30 per month including insurance for the phone, 200 free any time any network minutes per month, and 30 sms messages per month, and the phone (Samsung E700) was completely free.
NASA cancelled the Crew Return Vehicle project that was to act as the lifeboat for up to seven people on the ISS. Without this CRV, the soyuz currently acting as a lifeboat can only support 3 people, with 2 being the minimum crew required to maintain the ship. With all the time taken up on pure station maintenance, theres no time for sience, and they cant put a third person up as the supply missions cannot carry enough goods. This situation has little to do with Russia being unable to supply the 'bells and whistles'.
From the article, it would seem that the jukebox software isnt presenting the ripped DVDs 'as is' but is infact altering the content to directly play the main feature among other things. I guess that that is what they are complaining about.
No, the overall story arc was written when JMS pitched the idea at the start, but each season was written as the season was being filmed - at one point JMS was throwing out scripts 48 hours before filming started, rewriting them in 24 hours.
Im pretty sure he was talking about it not working after you burn it back out to DVD. That wont work, for precisely the reason he states. What you do will work, because what you are essentially creating is a virtual DVD drive.
Uhm, by the very definition, if the money isnt there then its not a viable platform. Gamespy is a company, and needs to stay profitable, and supporting a customerbase that is costing it more money than it stands to make isnt a good financial move for any company. The reason the competition is so small is that the market jsut isnt there.
It has a 32mb buffer that it reads songs into, so long as you dont continuously skip songs, and allow it to play stuff back from this buffer, it can handle rigorous exercise such as jogging very well. The hard disk is resilient on its own due to its smaller size (the arms become more rigid the smaller they are, so less susceptable to shocks), and spins down when the buffer doesnt need filling.
The thing that amuses me about this post is that someone probably said this exact thing way back in the 1980s when GNU put together the project to write their own c compiler, unix replacement etc. When will people understand that some people view the GPL in the same manner as those GPL evangelists view commercial licenses - not free enough. Ideology is great, but you have to realise that everyones ideological views are the same - an opinion, and yours may not be the same as mine.
OpenBSD will stop using GCC when the Tendra Project has reached a satisfactory level of maturity. The OpenBSD team work under the premise that GPLed items are 'free enough for them' until a replacement can be found, just like Linus works under the same premise (see Bitkeeper).
And sometimes it happens the other way round. Currently Battlestar Galactica Season 1 is showing on Monday nights on Sky 1, but (to my knowledge) has yet to air in the states. As to your last point, in my mind, theres no compelling arguement to download it at all, you are just deluding yourself.
How about (c) We havent 'explored' even 0.0001% of Mars yet, and already we are drawing conclusions? It would be pretty easy for an alien civilisation to drop probes on earth and conclude that the planet is covered by water, sand and rock, has little to no life at all. If you think that our current explorations of mars is a definitive study, then you need educating a little more:)
He had to remain within the temple and continue to drink from the grail to sustain immortality, it wasnt a one time only thing. The knights brother that left to leave the clues, died now didnt he?
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Its more likely that the Valve update included a binary update that conflicted with Cedega/Wines Win32 implementation, which is more likely than a conspiracy about deliberate breakages. Remember here folks, Cedega/Wine is a reimplementation without all the documentation, I wouldnt be surprised if this happens a lot but doesnt get reported on slashdot because theres no obvious target.
currently, because we do not have the resources currently to shift a sizeable portion of our population to another planet, or even to orbit. Having 100 people on Mars as a backup plan incase Earth gets hit by an asteroid accomplishes nothing, as the offworld population size isnt big enough to sustain itself in the environment available, you need a sizeable number in an environment that can sustain them. To talk about this publically is really just incitement to public panic, or plain fantasy, ie 'Heres a possible disaster scenario that will kill billions and theres little to nothing we can do, discuss'. Talking about it wont speed up the required technology acquisition in order to make a sensible and fulfillable solution possible.
Unfortunately, with several recent laws that presumption of innocence is being deminished. Hell, Labour is even trying to take away our right to a trial by jury, and so far its made it possible to jail foreign terrorist suspects without trial, allow the prosecution to present evidence to the Judge without making that evidence available to the defence or defendant. These are jsut a few of the really bad laws recently passed.
Opensource is a bigger movement than Linux and Operating Systems in general. Opensource on Windows does have a positive effect .... for the application being used and opensource in general. It increases the userbase of that application, which increases the visability and thus brings more possibility of contributors to the project, while introducing people to opensource.
Not all of us interested/involved in opensource are Linux fanatics, you know. Not everything opensource developers do is supposed to be viewed with a 'how does this help linux', and indeed why the hell should it? These people mainly do it for personal reasons, not political. Its just unfortunate that only the politically orientated people get into the limelight.
If you bounce it back at the time of delivery, you are just telling the sending STMP server 'No, dont want this email' instead of 'Ok, all done, thankyou'. Thus the bounce should actually go back to the spammer as undeliverable rather than be fully accepted and then bounced after the sending SMTP server has disconnected. If its checked while the sending SMTP server is still connected, you can tell it there and then that its undeliverable, rather than bouncing the message to the From: address.
its those bastards that are filling my mailbox up is it? I get nearly 300 Rolex spams a day alone, and like a good little boy I eat all of them, no bouncing no unsubscribing. Why isnt there a SMTP server that checks it as it comes in and refuses it there and then, telling the sending server to bugger off? That might get you taken off the list, whereas bouncing only annoys some poor sap whoes had their email address hijacked, and unsubscribing just announces that the address reaches a human.
Well, thinking of the number of girls that I know of college age (around 30), and then thinking of the number of THOSE girls that are bisexual (around 20), Id say breasts interest them as well :) Seriously, Im shocked at how many college age females have had gay sexual experiences, it seems to be becoming the norm.
Now, *that* would be Stallmans wet dream, opening code that no opensource developers touched, tons of code for little effort! :) (I only half kid)
You could always license the patent to other people for $0 and acceptance of the GPL, and keep the threat of breach of license :) If you own the patent, you own the right to let other people use the patent, just like you do copyright.
The suggestion, incidentally, that this has to do with defeating the GPL, is patently absurd (patently, geddit? arf arf!) The GPL can be rewritten within this regime to force all use of patented technologies to be released with source and with all other patented technologies in the same product open too. Additionally, with patents requiring details of implementation, we'll see a lot more source code, documentation on proprietary formats, etc.
The problem is that to gain copyright on your code, you have to doTo say the GPL could just be rewritten to work off patents leaves a big hole, in that the way the current GPL can be enforced is through the 'by default' granting of copyright on the code, and if someone violates the GPL then they violate the copyright. If copyright was withdrawn, then theres nothing protecting this code by default, so how would you punish someone for violating the GPL? Patents are too costly to apply for for everything on sourceforge, and indeed the majority of OSS code isnt patentable anyway.
For example, the Linux kernel. You cant patent it in its entirety. You would have to find something patentable within it, and then you loose all protections of this patent if the person decides to rip that part out. Its simply unenforcable.
Ahh that might be it then, we do have to pay for incoming if we go international with the phone, but thats starting to change, since the telecommunications watchdog has told the various telecoms companies to bring down the charges on fixed-to-mobile calls. That said, our mobile number range is completely different to fixed lines (07*** verses 01***, with 08*** for non geographic calls), whereas Ive been told the US has it all mixed in, same range for both fixed and mobile?
I cant beleive that 'free incoming minutes' is a selling point for you guys in the states! Ive never ever had a contract which made me pay for incoming anything (calls, data, sms), and ive had a mobile phone for going on 10 years. Where am I? The UK. My current contract costs me less than $30 per month including insurance for the phone, 200 free any time any network minutes per month, and 30 sms messages per month, and the phone (Samsung E700) was completely free.
Im an athiest and I have a Bible. Why? Because the stories in there are fantastic, if you take them at just that :)
NASA cancelled the Crew Return Vehicle project that was to act as the lifeboat for up to seven people on the ISS. Without this CRV, the soyuz currently acting as a lifeboat can only support 3 people, with 2 being the minimum crew required to maintain the ship. With all the time taken up on pure station maintenance, theres no time for sience, and they cant put a third person up as the supply missions cannot carry enough goods. This situation has little to do with Russia being unable to supply the 'bells and whistles'.
From the article, it would seem that the jukebox software isnt presenting the ripped DVDs 'as is' but is infact altering the content to directly play the main feature among other things. I guess that that is what they are complaining about.
No, the overall story arc was written when JMS pitched the idea at the start, but each season was written as the season was being filmed - at one point JMS was throwing out scripts 48 hours before filming started, rewriting them in 24 hours.
Im pretty sure he was talking about it not working after you burn it back out to DVD. That wont work, for precisely the reason he states. What you do will work, because what you are essentially creating is a virtual DVD drive.
Uhm, by the very definition, if the money isnt there then its not a viable platform. Gamespy is a company, and needs to stay profitable, and supporting a customerbase that is costing it more money than it stands to make isnt a good financial move for any company. The reason the competition is so small is that the market jsut isnt there.
It has a 32mb buffer that it reads songs into, so long as you dont continuously skip songs, and allow it to play stuff back from this buffer, it can handle rigorous exercise such as jogging very well. The hard disk is resilient on its own due to its smaller size (the arms become more rigid the smaller they are, so less susceptable to shocks), and spins down when the buffer doesnt need filling.
The thing that amuses me about this post is that someone probably said this exact thing way back in the 1980s when GNU put together the project to write their own c compiler, unix replacement etc. When will people understand that some people view the GPL in the same manner as those GPL evangelists view commercial licenses - not free enough. Ideology is great, but you have to realise that everyones ideological views are the same - an opinion, and yours may not be the same as mine.
OpenBSD will stop using GCC when the Tendra Project has reached a satisfactory level of maturity. The OpenBSD team work under the premise that GPLed items are 'free enough for them' until a replacement can be found, just like Linus works under the same premise (see Bitkeeper).
And sometimes it happens the other way round. Currently Battlestar Galactica Season 1 is showing on Monday nights on Sky 1, but (to my knowledge) has yet to air in the states. As to your last point, in my mind, theres no compelling arguement to download it at all, you are just deluding yourself.
Unfortunately her blog renders badly on this install of firefox, anyone else getting overlapping between the two panes?
How about (c) We havent 'explored' even 0.0001% of Mars yet, and already we are drawing conclusions? It would be pretty easy for an alien civilisation to drop probes on earth and conclude that the planet is covered by water, sand and rock, has little to no life at all. If you think that our current explorations of mars is a definitive study, then you need educating a little more :)
He had to remain within the temple and continue to drink from the grail to sustain immortality, it wasnt a one time only thing. The knights brother that left to leave the clues, died now didnt he?