I see the personal website as the virtual equivalent of the front of one's home, except that most virtual homes have large signs in the front yard that give a running play-by-play of the inhabitants. Just like one's home, it may be prone to vandalism, but it's far easier to make one's website be an expression of oneself, than to put up large signs outside!
Congradulations, CowboyNeal. You win the first anual Autopr0n.com torturued Analogy award. To wit, WTF?
The simplest law I can think of that would kill the GPL would be to say that you can not 'exclusively' give away copyrighted material. That is, you can't make something free for a certan class of people, but not others. So GPL haters can still use the source. Then, the law would also state that you can mix 'free' information with non-free information, and you only need to redistribute the original free content.
I think it'd be more likely to see laws protecting OSS these days, then killing it.
Last I checked, Intel had worked very hard to make their compiler comptatable with the Linux source code, and using said compiler would actualy give you improved performance over GCC.
GNU is more like the frame. Or maybe it's like the Steering wheel, Tail lights, break pads, cigarette lighter, etc. You need all that stuff to have a car, but by itself it's not one, and there a lot in a car that is not part of it as well. Lots of important stuff in a Distro is GNU, but lots of things of varying importance are not.
I'm all for bashing VASoftware and/., but the reason they own Slashdot is because they were always a Linux site. (Intresting, CmdrTaco wouldn't sell to VA or redhat, he wanted the site to maintain a Linus like independance. Eventualy, the site was sold to a small media company, and CT and Hemos were made board members. Then VA purchaced that company...)
For one thing, cable companies can keep pumping out analog signals if they want (which I doubt), for another, by 2k6 you'll probably be able to buy a DAC for like 20 bucks or something.
So couldn't the president theoretically appoint 3 republicans and three libertarians, for example? Not that republicans are very libertarian over-all, but they certainly are when it comes to regulation.
Thermodynamics also says that you lose non-heat energy in reversable systems as well. If you throw a ball into the air, you lose some energy from wind resistance, from converting chemical energy in your arm into mechanical energy, etc.
I mean, say you have a CMOS OR gate. If both of the inputs are high, then the NMOS transistors will close and the PMOS transistors will open. Energy is lost only when electrons 'leak through' when the gate changes (and of course, electrons that leak through but don't affect the computation, which I guess happens all the time). How would reversing the computation affect this? Maybe if you were using plain PMOS or something...
It seems to me that what they are saying is that most of the heat comes from memory elements being discharged. What about energy spent by fliping a CMOS gate? Isn't that where most of the power is lost? I mean, even CPUs that only have very small on-die caches still generate a lot of heat.
Security is the real killer these days. Lots and lots of non computer literate people have seriously Spyware infested machines. I honestly believe that non-computer literate people should not use Windows anymore. Windows should only be used by people knowledgeable enough to keep their machines secure and Spyware free. I was infected with Spyware once, an obnoxious dealy called "surferbar" or something (the file was called 'win32.dll' and didn't actually have then word 'surferbar' in any files, just a graphic.) I had to go through the registry myself to kill it. Ad-aware didn't detect it at all. I don't know how it got installed, since I didn't remember clicking 'yes' on any Active-x security queries, and I switched to Mozilla right away.
I've looked at a few people's computers and they are a huge mess. On one person's machine, spybot cleaned it. On another, all the stuff came right back. She's told me she runs spybot every day but everything comes back. (and she's a CS grad student... *sigh*).
It's really frustrating and disgusting, and I think it should be as illegal as any hacking. But it happens, and until it stops computer illiterates would be much better off using Linux.
Whats the rational for not including GCC? Even if you're not doing your own development, you need GCC to make install lots of software packages out there. Without GCC, you're really sunk if you want to install anything from code, and it can be hard to find RPMs or whatever lots of OSS software.
It used to be that you had a choice between BSDi, Solaris, Irix, AIX, DIGITAL UNIX, HP/UX, and, erm SCO. No one complained about 'too many choices', because they were products of competing companies. And they were much less cross-compatable then various Linux flavors.
Big corps will simply standardize internally on one of the large distros, just like they did with UNIX.
She prefers it to windows xp because "it has better games", "cooler menus", and "no blue screens!"
Windows XP blue screens? What are you trying to run it on, a p200? I think I've seen my win2k install blue screen like 2 or 3 times in as many years. I've also never seen (or heard people complaining about) XP blue screening.
Oh, but maybe it's all those memories of windows 95/NT from when she was what, 4?
This money will all go directly to people's family members, and be transferred around like that. Unless we have some sort of giant government registration for "artists", and if you're not good enough, you can't be paid for your work.
Where I work we got this thing called the "Graphics station 12" which was like 6 2U rackmounted Linux boxes running as a graphics cluster. It was so useless that we unracked the machines and set them up as workstations (dual 1ghz Xeons)
Apperantly they were all diffrent inside, and had signs of manual re-wireing. We may very well have the only one in existance:P
Between a company that once fucked up and caused people problems (and tried to make things right) and makes pretty dependable hardware in general, or companies that make shit products, steal open source software, or fuck around with HTTP by inserting their advertizements right into the stream?
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I see the personal website as the virtual equivalent of the front of one's home, except that most virtual homes have large signs in the front yard that give a running play-by-play of the inhabitants. Just like one's home, it may be prone to vandalism, but it's far easier to make one's website be an expression of oneself, than to put up large signs outside!
Congradulations, CowboyNeal. You win the first anual Autopr0n.com torturued Analogy award. To wit, WTF?
The simplest law I can think of that would kill the GPL would be to say that you can not 'exclusively' give away copyrighted material. That is, you can't make something free for a certan class of people, but not others. So GPL haters can still use the source. Then, the law would also state that you can mix 'free' information with non-free information, and you only need to redistribute the original free content.
I think it'd be more likely to see laws protecting OSS these days, then killing it.
Last I checked, Intel had worked very hard to make their compiler comptatable with the Linux source code, and using said compiler would actualy give you improved performance over GCC.
GNU is more like the frame. Or maybe it's like the Steering wheel, Tail lights, break pads, cigarette lighter, etc. You need all that stuff to have a car, but by itself it's not one, and there a lot in a car that is not part of it as well. Lots of important stuff in a Distro is GNU, but lots of things of varying importance are not.
EFF != FSF.
I'm all for bashing VASoftware and /., but the reason they own Slashdot is because they were always a Linux site. (Intresting, CmdrTaco wouldn't sell to VA or redhat, he wanted the site to maintain a Linus like independance. Eventualy, the site was sold to a small media company, and CT and Hemos were made board members. Then VA purchaced that company...)
I say, if we didn't have an FCC in the first place, we wouldn't have this problem.
Yeah, all we would have is static. Do you really think people would be able to freely share a frequency 'commons' without any regulation?
For one thing, cable companies can keep pumping out analog signals if they want (which I doubt), for another, by 2k6 you'll probably be able to buy a DAC for like 20 bucks or something.
So couldn't the president theoretically appoint 3 republicans and three libertarians, for example? Not that republicans are very libertarian over-all, but they certainly are when it comes to regulation.
Thermodynamics also says that you lose non-heat energy in reversable systems as well. If you throw a ball into the air, you lose some energy from wind resistance, from converting chemical energy in your arm into mechanical energy, etc.
I mean, say you have a CMOS OR gate. If both of the inputs are high, then the NMOS transistors will close and the PMOS transistors will open. Energy is lost only when electrons 'leak through' when the gate changes (and of course, electrons that leak through but don't affect the computation, which I guess happens all the time). How would reversing the computation affect this? Maybe if you were using plain PMOS or something...
It seems to me that what they are saying is that most of the heat comes from memory elements being discharged. What about energy spent by fliping a CMOS gate? Isn't that where most of the power is lost? I mean, even CPUs that only have very small on-die caches still generate a lot of heat.
Developers also want to be able to compile Boost.
If he has a friend at M$, he can get his friend to do internal purchasing and get all that software for free.
You can also run OpenOffice on Windows.
Security is the real killer these days. Lots and lots of non computer literate people have seriously Spyware infested machines. I honestly believe that non-computer literate people should not use Windows anymore. Windows should only be used by people knowledgeable enough to keep their machines secure and Spyware free. I was infected with Spyware once, an obnoxious dealy called "surferbar" or something (the file was called 'win32.dll' and didn't actually have then word 'surferbar' in any files, just a graphic.) I had to go through the registry myself to kill it. Ad-aware didn't detect it at all. I don't know how it got installed, since I didn't remember clicking 'yes' on any Active-x security queries, and I switched to Mozilla right away.
I've looked at a few people's computers and they are a huge mess. On one person's machine, spybot cleaned it. On another, all the stuff came right back. She's told me she runs spybot every day but everything comes back. (and she's a CS grad student... *sigh*).
It's really frustrating and disgusting, and I think it should be as illegal as any hacking. But it happens, and until it stops computer illiterates would be much better off using Linux.
Whats the rational for not including GCC? Even if you're not doing your own development, you need GCC to make install lots of software packages out there. Without GCC, you're really sunk if you want to install anything from code, and it can be hard to find RPMs or whatever lots of OSS software.
It used to be that you had a choice between BSDi, Solaris, Irix, AIX, DIGITAL UNIX, HP/UX, and, erm SCO. No one complained about 'too many choices', because they were products of competing companies. And they were much less cross-compatable then various Linux flavors.
Big corps will simply standardize internally on one of the large distros, just like they did with UNIX.
She prefers it to windows xp because "it has better games", "cooler menus", and "no blue screens!"
Windows XP blue screens? What are you trying to run it on, a p200? I think I've seen my win2k install blue screen like 2 or 3 times in as many years. I've also never seen (or heard people complaining about) XP blue screening.
Oh, but maybe it's all those memories of windows 95/NT from when she was what, 4?
Corps don't want people mucking around with their desktops. Hell, they probably won't even give them root anyway.
What the corps would really love would be the ability to change configs site wide at the 'click of a button' or a few command line commands.
So nokia didn't do anything special with their hardware, it's just a standard J2ME system? That seems pretty stupid...
Now that I think about it, that's basicaly what MS did with the Xbox. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to play those games on a standard PC?
This money will all go directly to people's family members, and be transferred around like that. Unless we have some sort of giant government registration for "artists", and if you're not good enough, you can't be paid for your work.
Where I work we got this thing called the "Graphics station 12" which was like 6 2U rackmounted Linux boxes running as a graphics cluster. It was so useless that we unracked the machines and set them up as workstations (dual 1ghz Xeons)
:P
Apperantly they were all diffrent inside, and had signs of manual re-wireing. We may very well have the only one in existance
IANAL, but I don't think that's an issue with most Solaris apps.
What on earth does that have to do with you being a lawyer?
I'm assuming that the page is loaded from ROM, with a "POST" method if you submit data, and a request to the router's IP if you want to disable it.
Between a company that once fucked up and caused people problems (and tried to make things right) and makes pretty dependable hardware in general, or companies that make shit products, steal open source software, or fuck around with HTTP by inserting their advertizements right into the stream?