I see this as a good thing, if only because it will reduce the number of weakly-differentiated distros out there. Now I've got nothing against every man and his dog having their own distribution, but as someone's sig says, to have the right to do something is not the same as being right in doing it - the current situation can be chaotic and confusing (bug or feature?).
I think what we are starting to see, and what this development may reinforce, is certain distros becoming dominant in certain niches. We have:
The business market, nicely covered by Red Hat.
The newbie distro, currently dominated by Mandrake, some competition from Lycoris
The Pure distribution, Debian, guardians of the free software spirit and all that
The source based distro. Gentoo is doing very well, slackware is dying (jk), sorcerer seems to have forked in a million directions, LFS is the choice of the hardcore.
Specialised distros, eg tailored to some country/language, mini-firewalls etc
Now I have to admit, I don't know where SuSE fits in here (I hear it has a strong German following). Perhaps there's another category: nice graphical desktops for users who want control.
Anyway I'm sure I had a point when I started rambling but it's 1am and I had no coffee yesterday...
Amusingly enough, sections 3f and 3g actually give the SDK user the legal obligation to debug their code!
Where their code is the user's code, not macromedia's (had me worried for a minute).
This is not unreasonable (unlike certain other EULAs I could mention). This is a case where if you don't like the EULA, don't use the SDK. This is macromedia trying to help people without destroying their image. (Think of what microsoft's broken java did to people's perception of formerly 'universal' java applets/applications)
Stick the video and sound assets into a seperate file (like iD did with their.pak files with quake). This may have other benefits, but in particular it means that the assets don't have to be GPL'd, so you're in compliance with the letter of the law. If you want to (and I presume you do), provide compressed versions of the assets (eg make the asset library a simple zip file). Technically now the assets wouldn't be covered by the GPL, just everything else. If you are concerned about that, just write an exception into your copy of the GPL. It's sacred, but not *that* sacred.:)
Dunno if it'd be worse for me to be right and nitpicking, or wrong and stupid, but wouldn't c 'increasing' by 10% be equivalent to the universe 'shrinking' or compressing by 10%. It would seem that moving around faster is the same as everything being smaller...
did Einstein think C would be constant in his calculations?
Relativity arose largely due to the mystery of the (short-term) constancy of c. It is this constancy that implies contraction at high velocities, dilation etc.
So not only is the computer broken because you didn't see the fine print and tried to play a cd in it,
No, it is broken because you tried to use a product designed to look like something useful (a trojan horse) but break your computer, sort of a hardware equivalent to a trojan horse. Imagine you plug in a monitor and immediately the big internal batteries deliver a huge voltage to your motherboard through the (onboard) video.
but you have to pay for the repairs.
What is certain is _apple_ does not have to pay for the repairs, as their product is not at fault. In the (farfetched) example above, would the computer or 'monitor' company have to pay?
Virtual Machines such as Bochs and VM-Ware will eventually be the only choice for running x86 applications.
Isn't VM-ware an x86 application:)
Reminds me of the famous scientist who was informed that the world was a plate on a giant tortoise. What was the tortoise standing on? Another tortoise...
I don't have rpm installed, but I found a program that was only available as rpm. So I ran rpm2targz on it and then tar xvzf. It then extracted a whole bunch of files into a new usr folder in my current working directory, as I had forgotten to cd/. I was still root. So now to get rid of the directory I tried to type:
Slashdot Mirror
Oops... 2.9, 2900 whats the difference
I think what we are starting to see, and what this development may reinforce, is certain distros becoming dominant in certain niches. We have:
Now I have to admit, I don't know where SuSE fits in here (I hear it has a strong German following). Perhaps there's another category: nice graphical desktops for users who want control.
Anyway I'm sure I had a point when I started rambling but it's 1am and I had no coffee yesterday...
grammar nazi has posted a comment in reply to your comment. Re:Clarification:
Where their code is the user's code, not macromedia's (had me worried for a minute).
This is not unreasonable (unlike certain other EULAs I could mention). This is a case where if you don't like the EULA, don't use the SDK. This is macromedia trying to help people without destroying their image. (Think of what microsoft's broken java did to people's perception of formerly 'universal' java applets/applications)
KDE Look
Stick the video and sound assets into a seperate file (like iD did with their .pak files with quake). This may have other benefits, but in particular it means that the assets don't have to be GPL'd, so you're in compliance with the letter of the law. If you want to (and I presume you do), provide compressed versions of the assets (eg make the asset library a simple zip file). Technically now the assets wouldn't be covered by the GPL, just everything else. If you are concerned about that, just write an exception into your copy of the GPL. It's sacred, but not *that* sacred. :)
No, that's just the CPUs warming up...
Great, but what about the second?
Say you can crawl only 1 meter in 10 seconds. Then the speed of the car=8000(1/10)=800m/s=2.9km/hr! Where do I buy this car?
There's always one...
Was it was a typo for 128kbps?
Benevolent and bullshit both start with B...
Look at me, mom! I'm going at three seconds a second! Wheeee!
Dunno if it'd be worse for me to be right and nitpicking, or wrong and stupid, but wouldn't c 'increasing' by 10% be equivalent to the universe 'shrinking' or compressing by 10%. It would seem that moving around faster is the same as everything being smaller...
Relativity arose largely due to the mystery of the (short-term) constancy of c. It is this constancy that implies contraction at high velocities, dilation etc.
Instead of ads on pages, why not have a slashdot referrer thingy for links to amazon.com in book reviews/discussions?
And not the fact that you used the passive voice, but the fact that the passive voice was used by you.
No, it is broken because you tried to use a product designed to look like something useful (a trojan horse) but break your computer, sort of a hardware equivalent to a trojan horse. Imagine you plug in a monitor and immediately the big internal batteries deliver a huge voltage to your motherboard through the (onboard) video.
but you have to pay for the repairs.
What is certain is _apple_ does not have to pay for the repairs, as their product is not at fault. In the (farfetched) example above, would the computer or 'monitor' company have to pay?
Isn't VM-ware an x86 application :)
Reminds me of the famous scientist who was informed that the world was a plate on a giant tortoise. What was the tortoise standing on? Another tortoise...
Jeez, read between the lines! 'Directly Emailing', 'Direct marketing by email' what's the difference?
I don't have rpm installed, but I found a program that was only available as rpm. So I ran rpm2targz on it and then tar xvzf. It then extracted a whole bunch of files into a new usr folder in my current working directory, as I had forgotten to cd /. I was still root. So now to get rid of the directory I tried to type:
rm -r usr/
What I actually typed was this:
rm -r /usr
Oops!
And you even put in the spelling error for them! Ungrateful sods...
Doesn't mozilla do MathML?
Scantily clad? All she was wearing was the watch!
Will there be ad breaks? I just know I'm gonna be in the bathroom when the most exciting goal is scored...
WTF?