GIF's were already in use from a long time. Even the patents didn't scare ppl because unisys hasnt been relentless in pursuing them.
So people kept on using GIF's. And very few people used PNG. There is a popular saying "Its not what its worth, its how it is marketed"
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Who the hell else is under consideration? SCO's CEO?
Nope, Actually SCO's CEO's wife ran of with Linus and they produced Linux. Thats why he wants revenge;-)
Yea the SCO is firing on all counts against Linux. But there are certain strange anomalies as far as their India Division is concerned. SCO India is apprently still pusihing linux!
The May Issue of Linux for You India has interview of SCO India Head in which that guy is pushing linux and says linux is the key focus of SCO with they wanting to contribute to the Linux Community by way of more software. Isnt that a bit odd!
Seems like SCO is in a bigger soup. They want to go against commercial linux. But SCO also used to supply linux distribution and it used to be under "GPL".
Now if a company releases proprietry code owned by it under GPL then anybody can use it! So it wont matter wether linux copies unix or whatever FUD they want to spread, all their linux code they released under GPL, so this will hardly stand in court.
On the other hand, this could be an acid test for GPL, coz if commercial Linux vendors prove that the above said code which is supposedly copied was actually released by SCO itlelf under GPL, the whole case will fall flat.
I went to libranet site to see download options. The Downloads are not free!!. This is certainly a first from a linux distro. I doubt i will pay to download isos!!
Patent something domestically and someone in a country with cheap labour will copy your idea and outproduce you.
American companies have been patenting commonly grown stuff and known medicines in poor eastern countries. If global patents were in place then lots of people will lose their right to practice something which their forefathers have done since ages.
What stops an american corporate to patent a traditional chinese or indian mixture of herbs as its own creation. Most small scale industries now dont have the idea that they are violating patent.
Such stuff has happened before.
Examples
Texamati : A variety of rice which is same as basmati which has been grown in india since more than 300 years
Neem extracts : Historical texts have explained the usage since 2000BC
Tulsi : Patent pending, used as a releif from flu and common cold since thousands of years.
No thanks we dont want american patents to be slapped on us, unless the American patent office takes full responsibility for any bogus patents filed and gives compensation. Neem patent was defeated after Indian Govt intervention, and even after presenting the office with historical docs, it took more than a year.
I guess the guys being too hopeful. Even if it is micro-biological life, it needs some time to form out of basic building blocks.
Up in the clouds the conditions are too violent and volatile and material transfer is past, so life may land up there, but it is difficult for it to develop from there, unless the whole cloud is made of primodial soup, like the depths of jupiter where there is thich murky cloud where scientists think life is possible.
But life forming in clouds like venus has, sorry i dont bite.
Actually most DSL models nowadays support upto 10-11Mbps on short loops with around 4-5Mbps avg. This seems more to do with the ISP/line quality than the modem.
Actually most phone line systems are quite old and they have link coils installed to improve voice clarity, which is not good for DSL as the device works by filtering out high frequency which DSL uses for transmission. If your are has newer telephone lines and you are within 9000Kft of your phone company which has a high performace gateway 4-5Mbs is achievable.
The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate.
Scientists debate on wether universe is finite or infinite
There is debate on uniformity of matter also, mostly it is thought that matter is distributed uniformaly over observable space
So the debate lives on! And i guess calling these as parallel universe is a misnomer, this is the same universe, not in another dimension(like we have the in the movie "The One")
"Wake," as a pure search engine (rather than a search-engine-plus-file-sharing-system, as Napster was), is protected by the DMCA, a fact which the RIAA does not address.
I couldnt agree with you less. The issue is the broad reaching implications of such a case. Wake is a search engine which searches for files. You can use google also to search for files on internet using advanced search. Does this make search engines illegal. I guess this is a chance to take RIAA head on. Give examples of google, Lycos search, Hotbot.... all these are search engines.
What RIAA says amounts to like, "This guy built the road on which trucks ferry pirated CD's... Arrest him!!"
Whoa what is it all coming to! I Hope the guy wins, or it will set a very very very bad precident. Meanwhile a stronger public campaign is needed against RIAA.Dont Buy CDs
In 1984, Winston Smith lives in London which is part of the country Oceania. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by Big Brother, which censors everyone's behavior, even their thoughts. Winston is disgusted with his oppressed life and secretly longs to join the fabled Brotherhood, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the government. Winston meets Julia and they secretly fall in love and have an affair, something which is considered a crime. One day, while walking home, Winston encounters O'Brien, an inner party member, who gives Winston his address. Winston had exchanged glances with O'Brien before and had dreams about him giving him the impression that O'Brien was a member of the Brotherhood. Since Julia hated the party as much as Winston did, they went to O'Brien's house together where they were introduced into the Brotherhood. O'Brien is actually a faithful member of the Inner-Party and this is actually a trap for Winston, a trap that O'Brien has been cleverly setting for seven years. Winston and Julia are sent to the Ministry of Love which is a sort of rehabilitation center for criminals accused of thoughtcrime. There, Winston was separated from Julia, and tortured until his beliefs coincided with those of the Party. Winston denounces everything he believed him, even his love for Julia, and was released back into the public where he wastes his days at the Chestnut Tree drinking gin.
Yes you have nothing to worry, the govt is just and will not harras you. We dont need ACLU... period
Welcome to the real world. Lawmakers, authorities etc are people, not ideal machines. Suppose there was somebody in FBI who hated you and your family, just imagine what all could he do if he had information about your whole life....Or a more grimmer scenario... Somebody in the police wants to harm you.... some govt employee who has acess to this database desparately needs money... so if you are rich enough he could compile a list of the rich and money in their banks and sell them to mafia so that they can demand extortion
Well these are the "real" issues, then come the moral issue of what right does the govt have to know of who I am. We dont want a police state you see
Nice Troll,
I'll bite I only wish it wouls support me. I've purchased ~10 distros, dating back to SuSE 6.1, RedHat 6.3, Mandrake 7.1, 8.0, 8.2, just to name a few.
Hmm linux sucks, eh? Thats why you keep on buying Distros, though they are available for free, I seriously doubt buddy
Well I *did* RTFM and the FM didn't help, this is why I was posting to your Linux forum!
This is not a linux forun, this is a news site. Perhaps you posted to mandrake forum. If the FM didn't help you wouldn't ne told to do it. Maybe you went to Advanced developers forum, there are lot of Linux newbie forums too.
I have yet to see an install of the aforementioned distros install successfully (and by that I mean see all my hardware) on any machine I care to throw at it. BeOS however (and MS, but that goes without saying) sees the hardware just fine.
Hmm, most if not all hardware is supported with a few exceptions. However if BeOs detects it fine, I doubt linux wont detect it.
I want to like Linux, I really do, but all I ever see from them is copying/playing catchup to MS
Linux is a unix...
Trying to catch up MS.... thats a new one!
Here in india we are not that power consious. So a 90-95mph top speed car(diesal) gives around 20Km/ltr on long trips, thats about 12.5 miles to a litre or more than 60 MPG!. So if you are willing to sacrifice power, its easy to get economy
SCO wants to be bought. Either by M$ or by IBM.... Only Satan know what will M$ do with this if they buy SCO... If IBM buys them... well thats another story.
Forever
Reason?
People will use headlights for another 50 years...Lights will be integral part of cities... Unless they ban flashing of lights.... this cant be outlawed
Consider this, when you flash your lights to an oncoming vehical, you are conveying information, or atleast acknowleding its presense, the tech was already there, its the 400 MBPs that is wow!
But I wonder how robust or secure is this.... can an airplane with flashing lights bring down your server.....?
From Article: It wants mandatory filtering by internet service providers (ISPs), but with those aged over 18 able to opt out.
It seems they want to regulate content mainly for minors and people who want regulation.... Nothing really wrong with that.
The head of the Internet Industry Association, Peter Coroneos, said mandatory filtering had been ruled out because "some families just don't have an issue with it".
"We feel the decision is best left in the hands of parents." He said the opt-out clause "could work" but feared routine filtering could seriously slow down the internet.
Dosent seem doomsday here....... "Be very afraid. huh" Classic example of sensationalism... where it is not required
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So people kept on using GIF's. And very few people used PNG. There is a popular saying "Its not what its worth, its how it is marketed"
Who the hell else is under consideration? SCO's CEO? ;-)
Nope, Actually SCO's CEO's wife ran of with Linus and they produced Linux. Thats why he wants revenge
The May Issue of Linux for You India has interview of SCO India Head in which that guy is pushing linux and says linux is the key focus of SCO with they wanting to contribute to the Linux Community by way of more software. Isnt that a bit odd!
"The biggest achievement of the internet is that it reduces a nuclear war to nothing more than a series of routing errors"
--Anon
Now if a company releases proprietry code owned by it under GPL then anybody can use it! So it wont matter wether linux copies unix or whatever FUD they want to spread, all their linux code they released under GPL, so this will hardly stand in court.
On the other hand, this could be an acid test for GPL, coz if commercial Linux vendors prove that the above said code which is supposedly copied was actually released by SCO itlelf under GPL, the whole case will fall flat.
hmmm, I was thinking about my new marketing project:
Frag While you crap
Never mind i will work on something else
I went to libranet site to see download options.
The Downloads are not free!!. This is certainly a first from a linux distro. I doubt i will pay to download isos!!
If someone were to break into my Hotmail account they would find out all the secret ways that I make my penis and breasts larger.
Wow that would be bad, after all you must be a real miracle since you got both!American companies have been patenting commonly grown stuff and known medicines in poor eastern countries. If global patents were in place then lots of people will lose their right to practice something which their forefathers have done since ages.
What stops an american corporate to patent a traditional chinese or indian mixture of herbs as its own creation. Most small scale industries now dont have the idea that they are violating patent.Such stuff has happened before.
No thanks we dont want american patents to be slapped on us, unless the American patent office takes full responsibility for any bogus patents filed and gives compensation. Neem patent was defeated after Indian Govt intervention, and even after presenting the office with historical docs, it took more than a year.Examples
Texamati : A variety of rice which is same as basmati which has been grown in india since more than 300 years
Neem extracts : Historical texts have explained the usage since 2000BC
Tulsi : Patent pending, used as a releif from flu and common cold since thousands of years.
Up in the clouds the conditions are too violent and volatile and material transfer is past, so life may land up there, but it is difficult for it to develop from there, unless the whole cloud is made of primodial soup, like the depths of jupiter where there is thich murky cloud where scientists think life is possible.
But life forming in clouds like venus has, sorry i dont bite.Actually most phone line systems are quite old and they have link coils installed to improve voice clarity, which is not good for DSL as the device works by filtering out high frequency which DSL uses for transmission. If your are has newer telephone lines and you are within 9000Kft of your phone company which has a high performace gateway 4-5Mbs is achievable.
How do you move mount fuji
mv /mnt/fuji /mnt/whatever /mnt/fuji /mnt/whatever
But the Perfect Solution is this:In case this is not allowed then do this
ln -s
#cd
#mkdir
#cp
#umount
Make sure you use xemacs coz vim may not work
Somebody said "Common sense is very uncommon "
and currently most of our horses are after the carts...
- Scientists debate on wether universe is finite or infinite
- There is debate on uniformity of matter also, mostly it is thought that matter is distributed uniformaly over observable space
So the debate lives on! And i guess calling these as parallel universe is a misnomer, this is the same universe, not in another dimension(like we have the in the movie "The One")Welcome to slashdot.... News for nerds. Stuff that Hammers... and that too in 32 ways with NUMA enabled Q times
I couldnt agree with you less. The issue is the broad reaching implications of such a case. Wake is a search engine which searches for files. You can use google also to search for files on internet using advanced search. Does this make search engines illegal. I guess this is a chance to take RIAA head on. Give examples of google, Lycos search, Hotbot.... all these are search engines.
What RIAA says amounts to like, "This guy built the road on which trucks ferry pirated CD's... Arrest him!!"
Whoa what is it all coming to! I Hope the guy wins, or it will set a very very very bad precident. Meanwhile a stronger public campaign is needed against RIAA.Dont Buy CDsFor those who are not really familiar.. A summary
In 1984, Winston Smith lives in London which is part of the country Oceania. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by Big Brother, which censors everyone's behavior, even their thoughts. Winston is disgusted with his oppressed life and secretly longs to join the fabled Brotherhood, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the government. Winston meets Julia and they secretly fall in love and have an affair, something which is considered a crime. One day, while walking home, Winston encounters O'Brien, an inner party member, who gives Winston his address. Winston had exchanged glances with O'Brien before and had dreams about him giving him the impression that O'Brien was a member of the Brotherhood. Since Julia hated the party as much as Winston did, they went to O'Brien's house together where they were introduced into the Brotherhood. O'Brien is actually a faithful member of the Inner-Party and this is actually a trap for Winston, a trap that O'Brien has been cleverly setting for seven years. Winston and Julia are sent to the Ministry of Love which is a sort of rehabilitation center for criminals accused of thoughtcrime. There, Winston was separated from Julia, and tortured until his beliefs coincided with those of the Party. Winston denounces everything he believed him, even his love for Julia, and was released back into the public where he wastes his days at the Chestnut Tree drinking gin.Welcome to the real world. Lawmakers, authorities etc are people, not ideal machines. Suppose there was somebody in FBI who hated you and your family, just imagine what all could he do if he had information about your whole life....Or a more grimmer scenario... Somebody in the police wants to harm you.... some govt employee who has acess to this database desparately needs money... so if you are rich enough he could compile a list of the rich and money in their banks and sell them to mafia so that they can demand extortion
Well these are the "real" issues, then come the moral issue of what right does the govt have to know of who I am. We dont want a police state you seeI only wish it wouls support me. I've purchased ~10 distros, dating back to SuSE 6.1, RedHat 6.3, Mandrake 7.1, 8.0, 8.2, just to name a few.
Hmm linux sucks, eh? Thats why you keep on buying Distros, though they are available for free, I seriously doubt buddy
Well I *did* RTFM and the FM didn't help, this is why I was posting to your Linux forum!
This is not a linux forun, this is a news site. Perhaps you posted to mandrake forum. If the FM didn't help you wouldn't ne told to do it. Maybe you went to Advanced developers forum, there are lot of Linux newbie forums too.
I have yet to see an install of the aforementioned distros install successfully (and by that I mean see all my hardware) on any machine I care to throw at it. BeOS however (and MS, but that goes without saying) sees the hardware just fine.
Hmm, most if not all hardware is supported with a few exceptions. However if BeOs detects it fine, I doubt linux wont detect it.I want to like Linux, I really do, but all I ever see from them is copying/playing catchup to MS
Linux is a unix... Trying to catch up MS.... thats a new one!Normally basic internet set top boxes cost around Rs 5000 here (100-120 $$), however this may be around 150-200$$ Max
Here in india we are not that power consious. So a 90-95mph top speed car(diesal) gives around 20Km/ltr on long trips, thats about 12.5 miles to a litre or more than 60 MPG!. So if you are willing to sacrifice power, its easy to get economy
Sadly, you are right, all the lawyers are with satan
SCO wants to be bought. Either by M$ or by IBM.... Only Satan know what will M$ do with this if they buy SCO... If IBM buys them... well thats another story.
Reason?
People will use headlights for another 50 years...Lights will be integral part of cities... Unless they ban flashing of lights.... this cant be outlawed
Consider this, when you flash your lights to an oncoming vehical, you are conveying information, or atleast acknowleding its presense, the tech was already there, its the 400 MBPs that is wow!
But I wonder how robust or secure is this.... can an airplane with flashing lights bring down your server.....?
From Article: It wants mandatory filtering by internet service providers (ISPs), but with those aged over 18 able to opt out.
It seems they want to regulate content mainly for minors and people who want regulation.... Nothing really wrong with that.The head of the Internet Industry Association, Peter Coroneos, said mandatory filtering had been ruled out because "some families just don't have an issue with it".
Dosent seem doomsday here......."We feel the decision is best left in the hands of parents." He said the opt-out clause "could work" but feared routine filtering could seriously slow down the internet.
"Be very afraid. huh"
Classic example of sensationalism... where it is not required