1) Refrain from obtaining money from people by illegally exploiting your monoploy power, thereby leaving millions of individuals and companies more money to use as they see fit.
to
2) Illegally exploit your monopoly to gain much more money than you would have otherwise had, and then give some of it to charity so people think they are nice.
And how did you determine for sure that it was reiserfs that screwed up? nvidia drivers have been known to write over kernel memory they shouldn't touch.
Running binary only drivers that are not supported or tested by your vendor (or any drivers that are not supported for that matter) on a machine that has valuable data on is insanity.
"it is important that we do not pretend that an entitlement card would be an overwhelming factor in combating international terrorism" - David Blunkett 3 July 2002
(entitlement card was the proposed name for ID card back then)
There are no cutting edge games because not enough users would buy them because not enough users can use them because the drivers are no good[1] because the h/w companies don't care enough about linux because there are no cutting edge games driving sales of cards.
It's a vicious circle. It has to be broken somewhere. If I could break it by writing great games I would. If I could break it by making graphics cards I would.
I'm making a difference where I can. I will only buy a card that has an open source driver. My last purchse was an ATI9200 which happens to be good enough for me. But if there had been no open source driver I would not have bought it.
[1] good enough varies from person to person. For me it means open source and actively maintained.
The DMCA prevents circumventing a technical measure that is in place to prevent copyright infringement. If your reverse engineering circumvents such a measure then it's a problem, but its hard to imagine how a file format alone can contain one.
And the kernel developers want to protect their "IP" also.
If the only way that can happen is for no drivers to be released by that vendor then that's what must happen. I'm not saying it's ideal - of course it's not. But the solution is not for the linux developers to give in and the manufacturers to get their way.
Do you actually understand how unworkable linux would be if all the manufacturers only released binary drivers? I don't think you have the slightest idea how hard it can be to debug a kernel running ONE binary driver, let alone multiple ones.
no one loves the "kernel tainted" message, but at the end of the day, is it really that much of a deal
For developers _YES_
How many times have you tried to debug the kernel? And how namy times have you done to without access to all the source code? (ie, with modules loaded for which you don't have the source.)
Seriously, either the organization doesn't know any better, or the open source product lack sufficient goodness... or the commercial product vendor knows the playing field is not level because they have a near monopoly in said market and people want to send each other documents.
If their product was 5x the price, the inconvenience of not being able to read ms-word documents prefectly may well be out weighed.
My point is that they don't have to match price with the open source product even if both products have equal "goodness" because folks naturally want what everyone else has all other things being equal. It's the reason monopolies form in the first place.
For wireless cards, the FCC effectively prohibits it.
No, the FCC says the card cannot do certain things. Putting these restrictions in the drivers of each individual OS is not a good plan. The restrictions belong in the firmware. This is a safer way to ensure FCC compliance at the same time as allowing open source drivers.
The linux kernel developers need to get over their fanaticism about open-source drivers.
Who the hell are you to tell the kernel developers what they should care about? The kernel is licensed and written the way it is because the developers want it like that. If 3rd parties aren't prepared to play along, then they don't have to release linux drivers. They can't have it both ways.
Some believe that Microsoft only offer it cheaper to charities because if they didn't then open source would ne used instead, and they would rather reduce the price just enough to stop that happening.
According to Blunkett, it will help "combat terrorism".
He is trying to keep up with Blair on the u-turns:
"it is important that we do not pretend that an entitlement card would be an overwhelming factor in combating international terrorism." - David Blunkett 3rd July 2002
A driving license might contain your id, but that's not why you are showing it. You are verifying your AGE not your ID.
So I ask the question, why not?
Because the police and other authorities already have no problem identifying people, so it doesn't give us anything we don't already have but it will cost the equivalent of 600 new schools to implement.
Stop asking "why not?" and start asking "why?"
The notion that a government should do things just because people can't thing of a reason not to is luncacy. There must be a reason behing their actions or else they are wasting our money and their time.
That survey was commisioned by an IT company with a vested interest.
Besides, the home office has previously discounted such surveys as not representitive. To get a true representation of public opinion they ran a public consultation lasting several months. In that, the majority of respondents were against the cards, but the home office fudged the figures to say otherwise.
When I wrote to them the reply from Beverley Hughes said they had chosen to ignore a huge number of email responses because they were not proper responses. (don't ask me why)
Re:Course in physics by counter-examples, probably
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- A car jumps over something and flies straight into the air, and lands flat (real cars tip forward when they do that)
I agree with the main point that it tips forward while in the air, but that doesn't guarantee how it will land.
That depends on how it was launched.
There are many ways it could land as long as angular momentum is conserved.
When using a ramp, gravity will have spent longer accelerating the front of the car towards the ground than the back simply because the front is unsupported by the ramp for longer. This means the cars front will tip forward as you suggest, but depending on the launch angle and speed (and other factors such as car length and mass) it could land flat if it touched the ground before it had tipped enough. Conversely if might not tip enough and could hit the ground with the back first.
Another example could be a car jumping from a great height. If calculated properly it could complete one or more full "somersaults" in the air before landing flat (of course any normal car would be smashed to pieces in doing so because it would be in the air for so long and reach such a high downward speed)
What, go round their house and take their cd collection, do you?:)
Sorry to have to bring this up for what seems like the millionth time, but when you are copying without a licence from the copyright holder you are breaking the law, but it IS NOT STEALING! It's not even the same type of law breaking (civil vs criminal)
You can argue about whether its the moral equivalent or not for ever, but I am in favour of calling things what they are.
Slashdot Mirror
you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly,
More usefully, you can fold an a4 piece of paper in half and it will fit nicely in an a5 envelope.
I prefer:
1) Refrain from obtaining money from people by illegally exploiting your monoploy power, thereby leaving millions of individuals and companies more money to use as they see fit.
to
2) Illegally exploit your monopoly to gain much more money than you would have otherwise had, and then give some of it to charity so people think they are nice.
> The report warns governments
..
Since the government is
You may find, if you check, that there is more than one government in the world. Some may unfortunately be listening to this kind of nonsense.
... fiddling with an nvidia driver...
And how did you determine for sure that it was reiserfs that screwed up? nvidia drivers have been known to write over kernel memory they shouldn't touch.
Running binary only drivers that are not supported or tested by your vendor (or any drivers that are not supported for that matter) on a machine that has valuable data on is insanity.
"it is important that we do not pretend that an entitlement card would be an overwhelming factor in combating international terrorism" - David Blunkett 3 July 2002
(entitlement card was the proposed name for ID card back then)
I agree with you on the whole, but....
1) They can show he had the ability to write it.
WTF!?
Are you seriously suggesting that suspicion should be cast upon someone just because they have the ability to do something?
You people scare me.
It's not elitism, its obfuscation. The plan is not to have my email address harvested.
Obviously, in doing that I was trusting folks not to be wankers by posting the plain text address.
None of the mirrors listed there have this version yet. The page linked even says so.
There are no cutting edge games because not enough users would buy them because not enough users can use them because the drivers are no good[1] because the h/w companies don't care enough about linux because there are no cutting edge games driving sales of cards.
It's a vicious circle. It has to be broken somewhere. If I could break it by writing great games I would. If I could break it by making graphics cards I would.
I'm making a difference where I can. I will only buy a card that has an open source driver. My last purchse was an ATI9200 which happens to be good enough for me. But if there had been no open source driver I would not have bought it.
[1] good enough varies from person to person. For me it means open source and actively maintained.
.. once I discovered echo and echopoint
I haven't looked back since.
To sum echo up:
Write web applications using a swing like API.
yes.
The DMCA prevents circumventing a technical measure that is in place to prevent copyright infringement. If your reverse engineering circumvents such a measure then it's a problem, but its hard to imagine how a file format alone can contain one.
they want to protect there IP
And the kernel developers want to protect their "IP" also.
If the only way that can happen is for no drivers to be released by that vendor then that's what must happen. I'm not saying it's ideal - of course it's not. But the solution is not for the linux developers to give in and the manufacturers to get their way.
Do you actually understand how unworkable linux would be if all the manufacturers only released binary drivers? I don't think you have the slightest idea how hard it can be to debug a kernel running ONE binary driver, let alone multiple ones.
no one loves the "kernel tainted" message, but at the end of the day, is it really that much of a deal
For developers _YES_
How many times have you tried to debug the kernel? And how namy times have you done to without access to all the source code? (ie, with modules loaded for which you don't have the source.)
For more info, read LKML archives.
Seriously, either the organization doesn't know any better, or the open source product lack sufficient goodness. .. or the commercial product vendor knows the playing field is not level because they have a near monopoly in said market and people want to send each other documents.
If their product was 5x the price, the inconvenience of not being able to read ms-word documents prefectly may well be out weighed.
My point is that they don't have to match price with the open source product even if both products have equal "goodness" because folks naturally want what everyone else has all other things being equal. It's the reason monopolies form in the first place.
For wireless cards, the FCC effectively prohibits it.
No, the FCC says the card cannot do certain things. Putting these restrictions in the drivers of each individual OS is not a good plan. The restrictions belong in the firmware. This is a safer way to ensure FCC compliance at the same time as allowing open source drivers.
The linux kernel developers need to get over their fanaticism about open-source drivers.
Who the hell are you to tell the kernel developers what they should care about? The kernel is licensed and written the way it is because the developers want it like that. If 3rd parties aren't prepared to play along, then they don't have to release linux drivers. They can't have it both ways.
The Microsoft charity licensing is pretty nice.
Well it seems nice on the face of it.
Some believe that Microsoft only offer it cheaper to charities because if they didn't then open source would ne used instead, and they would rather reduce the price just enough to stop that happening.
The ironic thing is that email is usually less anonymous than postal mail. Email contains a from address.
According to Blunkett, it will help "combat terrorism".
He is trying to keep up with Blair on the u-turns:
"it is important that we do not pretend that an entitlement card would be an overwhelming factor in combating international terrorism." - David Blunkett 3rd July 2002
(for context see here)
When going to certain pubs/nightclubs
A driving license might contain your id, but that's not why you are showing it. You are verifying your AGE not your ID.
So I ask the question, why not?
Because the police and other authorities already have no problem identifying people, so it doesn't give us anything we don't already have but it will cost the equivalent of 600 new schools to implement.
Stop asking "why not?" and start asking "why?"
The notion that a government should do things just because people can't thing of a reason not to is luncacy. There must be a reason behing their actions or else they are wasting our money and their time.
That survey was commisioned by an IT company with a vested interest.
Besides, the home office has previously discounted such surveys as not representitive. To get a true representation of public opinion they ran a public consultation lasting several months. In that, the majority of respondents were against the cards, but the home office fudged the figures to say otherwise.
When I wrote to them the reply from Beverley Hughes said they had chosen to ignore a huge number of email responses because they were not proper responses. (don't ask me why)
- A car jumps over something and flies straight into the air, and lands flat (real cars tip forward when they do that)
I agree with the main point that it tips forward while in the air, but that doesn't guarantee how it will land.
That depends on how it was launched.
There are many ways it could land as long as angular momentum is conserved.
When using a ramp, gravity will have spent longer accelerating the front of the car towards the ground than the back simply because the front is unsupported by the ramp for longer. This means the cars front will tip forward as you suggest, but depending on the launch angle and speed (and other factors such as car length and mass) it could land flat if it touched the ground before it had tipped enough. Conversely if might not tip enough and could hit the ground with the back first.
Another example could be a car jumping from a great height. If calculated properly it could complete one or more full "somersaults" in the air before landing flat (of course any normal car would be smashed to pieces in doing so because it would be in the air for so long and reach such a high downward speed)
All systems can have errors.
The best system is the one where it's easiest to tell when errors have occured.
Touchscreen voting (in its current form) isn't it.
All patents are published. That's one of the conditions of them being granted.
What's your definition of a submarine patent then?
stealing their cds instead of buying
:)
What, go round their house and take their cd collection, do you?
Sorry to have to bring this up for what seems like the millionth time, but when you are copying without a licence from the copyright holder you are breaking the law, but it IS NOT STEALING! It's not even the same type of law breaking (civil vs criminal)
You can argue about whether its the moral equivalent or not for ever, but I am in favour of calling things what they are.
Look at all the vigourous debate about linux, about licensing, and about the war has been generated here as a result of hit resignation.
I think he achieved his aim very well indeed.