Running into competitors in an internet based game where there is 0 consequences and 0 accountability makes for hundreds if not thousands of people looking to ruin your fun.
No consequences or accountability? You'd think they'd find a way to incorporate that into the game. Certainly on servers where roleplaying is popular, there'd be social consequences, wouldn't there?
I'll admit I don't play MMORPGs...I've got family that do, though.
I can run Qt/KDE programs under Gtk/GNOME, and vise versa. A developer need only select the toolkit/desktop that best fulfills their development needs.
Of course he has ulterior motives. In fact, I've been led to all-but believe it's pratically illegal for the CEO of a publically-traded company not to have ulterior motives.
If he didn't he wouldn't be acting in the interests of the shareholders, would he?
I know what you mean; I've run into the same problem trying to get permission to put module format songs to Stepmania steps. And I've managed to find valid email addresses for most of the people I've tried to contact.
Basically, you search for the email adress or username they used, and see if they made posts anywhere else using that same identity, possibly associating it with another email adress, another alias, or even a Real Name. (Google and Usenet are great for this.)
So it's not quite a non-issue, but the fact that material isn't under a useful license isn't a show-stopper for someone who wants to commercially distribute it. And there's still the "verbatim" term.
If someone wants to commercially distribute said GPL app, they need only contact the original authors of the samples to get permission to do so.
Or, if a lawyer got together with the company's devel team, they could take advantage of the term "verbatim", and compress or bundle the samples in a format that limits their usefulness to the task at hand.
Even if you got around the intentional security measures, would Linux even run on a machine with an number of processors not 2^n? If so, I've never heard of it before...
1, 2, 4, 8, even 32 processors, sure. The only non power-of-two systems I've heard of were clusters, which typically have a different task-distribution model.
I've actually using one of those keyboard on my Linux desktop, and it's great. Most of the extra buttons show up as odd keyscan codes, wich are easily mappable using GNOME's Keyboard Shortcuts app.
I've got the media keys bound appropriately, and they tie in well with XMMS and totem. The volume and mute buttons directly control my master volume through GNOME's functionality. I don't use some of the buttons, but that's not a problem.
The only thing I don't like is that some of the buttons, the ones that would be app shortcut buttons under Windows, don't seem to produce scancodes like the others, so I haven't found a way to bind them. The only clue I have is that the keyboard shows up as having two subdevices. I can only assume those buttons are on the other subdevice.
I've never gotten the extra indicator lights to do anything, but if I knew how, they might be useful to tie in to scripts to indicate progress. (Like knowing what stage a kernel compile was in without having to check it, or knowing when input was required. IIRC, the suspend LED on this keyboard is amber, which would make it fairly visible.)
Intercepting USB data isn't hard, it just requires know-how.
maybe running SetPoint under VMWare, and intercepting the data between VMWare and the hardware? Or, on a sufficiently fast machine, use something like bochs. If, of course, bochs supports libusb. There's a Linux Journal article on snooping libusb traffic.
Could you take on some computer myths? Like whether or not it was ever possible for a virus to destroy old monitors? It was rumored that if a virus could change the refresh rates to a too low or too high setting, you could fry some of the internal circuitry.
I'd have to argue that having one company in control of the standard is actually better, in some ways, than a multi-company committee.
Within a well-organized company, an internal committee can be pressured to put aside politics and bickering, and get a product out the door. And different departments won't hold different patents. In a committee where multiple companies are represented, each company will be pushing to get their own patented techniques included in the final version, leading to a hodgepodge standard that's expensive to license.
There's the OSS side of it, too: If one company controls the committee, it also controls the patent. It can license those patents, as a group, for use under OSS projects. With multiple companies, it becomes more difficult to get everyone to release their patents under the same license.
Class action lawsuits are often used by lawyers to collect huge chunks of settlement money. Now, I like the EFF, I've donated, and I like what they do, but I've got this ingrained bias against that sort of fundraising.
So, how to end this comment? Praise them for taking action against a greedy company? Or criticize them for using a strategy that's well, normally associated with asinine lawsuits?
Right now, the Submitter's name doesn't have to be that of a real Slashdot account. In fact, it often isn't. If I wanted, I could probably write a book review as honestpuck and submit it, and only he'd be the wiser, at least at first.
For an older/smaller/cheaper mobile phone, desktop-intended OS's aren't ideal.
I wouldn't say that Linux is a desktop-intended kernel. It certainly didn't start out that way, and wasn't intended to.
Many of the distributions are intended for the desktop. And many are intended to be run as servers. And a fair few are intended to be run in embedded systems.
The Linux kernel has a lot of developers working on making it suit their specific needs. In this way, it can be all things to most people and most things to (virtually) all people. Probably its greatest advantage is the portability of code that's written for it. A telnet daemon written to run on my K7 Athlon can be recompiled to run on someone's Linux-based PDA. Or an ethernet-enabled PlayStation 2. Or my brother's DSL router/modem. That's why cross-scale development of the Linux kernel is important.
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That shouldn't prevent you from communicating with others on different networks.
Try GAIM, whether you're on Linux or Windows; Then you'll be able to communicate with a lot more people.
I'd find it interesting if they allowed family and kids. After all, the larger starships and stations had them.
Running into competitors in an internet based game where there is 0 consequences and 0 accountability makes for hundreds if not thousands of people looking to ruin your fun.
No consequences or accountability? You'd think they'd find a way to incorporate that into the game. Certainly on servers where roleplaying is popular, there'd be social consequences, wouldn't there?
I'll admit I don't play MMORPGs...I've got family that do, though.
then having multiple groups around is a problem.
Running into competitors in a D&D game makes for a great potential villain. Or at least a comparable entity that alternates between friend and foe.
Good for gameplay and storyline.
I can run Qt/KDE programs under Gtk/GNOME, and vise versa. A developer need only select the toolkit/desktop that best fulfills their development needs.
Of course he has ulterior motives. In fact, I've been led to all-but believe it's pratically illegal for the CEO of a publically-traded company not to have ulterior motives.
If he didn't he wouldn't be acting in the interests of the shareholders, would he?
rational, rhetoric-free debate
And you're reading Slashdot?
It still takes me 30 minutes to burn a CDROM, because SCSI emulation doesn't seem to work on my computer.
Well, lately, neither the SCSI nor ATAPI methods seem to work. I suspect a bad drive, but don't have a replacement drive to test with.
What's so funny? Even 1 is a power of two. (2^0)
I'll admit to a certain lack of knowledge about how kernel internals deal with different numbers of processors, but does that warrant a -1 Funny?
So, what, it'll take 10 times longer to burn than a full DVD?
Great...And I still haven't bothered to get a DVD burner, partly for the same reason with respect to CDs.
I use GNOME's Keyboard Shortcuts. The media keys are picked up by either XMMS or totem, depending on which I have open.
I know what you mean; I've run into the same problem trying to get permission to put module format songs to Stepmania steps. And I've managed to find valid email addresses for most of the people I've tried to contact.
Basically, you search for the email adress or username they used, and see if they made posts anywhere else using that same identity, possibly associating it with another email adress, another alias, or even a Real Name. (Google and Usenet are great for this.)
So it's not quite a non-issue, but the fact that material isn't under a useful license isn't a show-stopper for someone who wants to commercially distribute it. And there's still the "verbatim" term.
If someone wants to commercially distribute said GPL app, they need only contact the original authors of the samples to get permission to do so.
Or, if a lawyer got together with the company's devel team, they could take advantage of the term "verbatim", and compress or bundle the samples in a format that limits their usefulness to the task at hand.
Even if you got around the intentional security measures, would Linux even run on a machine with an number of processors not 2^n? If so, I've never heard of it before...
1, 2, 4, 8, even 32 processors, sure. The only non power-of-two systems I've heard of were clusters, which typically have a different task-distribution model.
I've actually using one of those keyboard on my Linux desktop, and it's great. Most of the extra buttons show up as odd keyscan codes, wich are easily mappable using GNOME's Keyboard Shortcuts app.
I've got the media keys bound appropriately, and they tie in well with XMMS and totem. The volume and mute buttons directly control my master volume through GNOME's functionality. I don't use some of the buttons, but that's not a problem.
The only thing I don't like is that some of the buttons, the ones that would be app shortcut buttons under Windows, don't seem to produce scancodes like the others, so I haven't found a way to bind them. The only clue I have is that the keyboard shows up as having two subdevices. I can only assume those buttons are on the other subdevice.
I've never gotten the extra indicator lights to do anything, but if I knew how, they might be useful to tie in to scripts to indicate progress. (Like knowing what stage a kernel compile was in without having to check it, or knowing when input was required. IIRC, the suspend LED on this keyboard is amber, which would make it fairly visible.)
Intercepting USB data isn't hard, it just requires know-how.
maybe running SetPoint under VMWare, and intercepting the data between VMWare and the hardware? Or, on a sufficiently fast machine, use something like bochs. If, of course, bochs supports libusb. There's a Linux Journal article on snooping libusb traffic.
*laughs*
That's a real knee-slapper, that is.
Please, do not equate HTTP connections with sex. I'd hate to loath my computer for getting more than me.
*looks at his connection speed* Hm. 28.8kbps.
IME, 56k modems rarely, rarely connect higher than 28.8. Care to revise your estimate?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Really, this is a blank comment.
OK, it isn't. But Slashdot ruined my joke by not letting me post one.
Could you take on some computer myths? Like whether or not it was ever possible for a virus to destroy old monitors? It was rumored that if a virus could change the refresh rates to a too low or too high setting, you could fry some of the internal circuitry.
I'd have to argue that having one company in control of the standard is actually better, in some ways, than a multi-company committee.
Within a well-organized company, an internal committee can be pressured to put aside politics and bickering, and get a product out the door. And different departments won't hold different patents. In a committee where multiple companies are represented, each company will be pushing to get their own patented techniques included in the final version, leading to a hodgepodge standard that's expensive to license.
There's the OSS side of it, too: If one company controls the committee, it also controls the patent. It can license those patents, as a group, for use under OSS projects. With multiple companies, it becomes more difficult to get everyone to release their patents under the same license.
Now I'm conflicted.
Class action lawsuits are often used by lawyers to collect huge chunks of settlement money. Now, I like the EFF, I've donated, and I like what they do, but I've got this ingrained bias against that sort of fundraising.
So, how to end this comment? Praise them for taking action against a greedy company? Or criticize them for using a strategy that's well, normally associated with asinine lawsuits?
Right now, the Submitter's name doesn't have to be that of a real Slashdot account. In fact, it often isn't. If I wanted, I could probably write a book review as honestpuck and submit it, and only he'd be the wiser, at least at first.
There's not much preventing that kind of abuse.
For an older/smaller/cheaper mobile phone, desktop-intended OS's aren't ideal.
I wouldn't say that Linux is a desktop-intended kernel. It certainly didn't start out that way, and wasn't intended to.
Many of the distributions are intended for the desktop. And many are intended to be run as servers. And a fair few are intended to be run in embedded systems.
The Linux kernel has a lot of developers working on making it suit their specific needs. In this way, it can be all things to most people and most things to (virtually) all people. Probably its greatest advantage is the portability of code that's written for it. A telnet daemon written to run on my K7 Athlon can be recompiled to run on someone's Linux-based PDA. Or an ethernet-enabled PlayStation 2. Or my brother's DSL router/modem. That's why cross-scale development of the Linux kernel is important.