The guy's name is Heisenberg. Sorry for nitpicking, but three posts in a row mispelling his name is a bit too much. The school I went to was named after him, incidently.
Oh? Care to point out the portion of the copyright legislature that implicitly forbids lending or distribution rights?
No. If you want concise legal advice, hire a lawyer. But you can take my word that authors automatically get a copyright on their works that prohibits others from copying it without their expressed consent. Note that we were talking about copying ("making copies for all of his friends", see above), not lending, I don't know where that came from.
While you're at it, could you contrast this with the GPL, BSD, etc. style licenses?
Gladly. The GPL is a license that, as far as I can tell, does exactly what I pointed out above: expressed consent from the owner of a certain intellectual property to copy something. The GPL grants you - among other things - the right to redistribute, under certain conditions. (For more details, check out the GPL.)
Now the fun thing about the GPL - and this is basically being pointed out everytime people talk about the license on Slashdot - is that it grants you rights above and beyond what you get under normal copyright laws. This is very different from the EULA you get with most proprietary software, which does the opposite, take away rights you would have under normal copyright law, such as the right to lend. Note that it is, as far as I know, still not certain whether such rights can actually be taken away. Note also that the legal effectiveness of EULAs, as Slashdot readers never tire to point out, is also still very much in doubt. This is, however, not an argument against the GPL, because as mentioned above it grants you extra rights. Don't accept it and you don't get those rights, simple as that.
So, in short: If you don't agree to any license, normal copyright laws still apply. However, if you do agree to a license, it can include passages that differ from the normal copyright laws - granting you extra rights as in the GPL, or limiting your rights as in various commercial licensing schemes.
I'm not about to argue with you, but comitting crimes that make you the number one enemy of the strongest military in the world sounds kinda risky to me.;)
He was, and he has returned as an evil authoring zombie by popular and publisher request. You can see the post was made by a zombie; its evil bit is set.
As if there ever was a question whether the Iraq could stand up to the United States militarily. Not even the Iraqi government claimed any chance to defend the country indefinitely.
The US might well sport the most dominant military force in all history, but the fact that you can - surprise, surprise - bomb the hell out of a repressed, deprived and embargo'ed third wirld country certainly doesn't entail that you can do the same to other countries. The goal should not be to "free" Iraq, if anything the goal should be to "free" Iraq with certain other premises: few to no civilian casualties, low to no damage to civilian infrastructure, effective ways to bring in humanitary aid, a smooth transition to a just post-war system.
Also, the United States have bought what you call the most dominant military force at a time when a dominant military force has lost many of its uses: you can't (and don't need to) conquer the world with it, and you can't even defend American citizens with it - an army is no use against domestic terrorism.
news flash, the guy gave $5000 to an orginization suspected of funding terrorism
Are you an American resident paying taxes? Well, then so do you. SCNR.
Exactly, they should have a Premium Support section, like the non-OS software companies (well, and the open source ones, too) have: 3 years of Linux Duke 3D support at only $499 p.a. I'd approach them with the idea, but alas, I'm not allowed to mail them.
But there is information given about him: he's a member of FreeBSD Release Engineering Team. If you've got a serious inquiry related to the postponed release date, he might be the guy to mail. And, of course, FreeBSD freaks probably can associate something with the name itself, they don't require additional information.
However, I'd agree that putting his email address there isn't incredibly helpful to anyone, because there are usually better places to mail inquiries to, like a mailing list.
Nice calculation, but you're probably quite off: the number of game days includes the time your characters spend resting. IIRC, the minimum time your party sleeps is 8 hours, and more, if your healing capacity requires it. How much of your total time is spent resting I couldn't say, but chances are it's a significant amount. For me, it is. Of course, there's no doubt the original Baldur's Gate was an incredible time sink. I played it daily for two months, too. Same goes for BG2, I think. Took me one or two weeks to play through NWN with a friend. However, I have not yet touched on any of the expansion modules, although I intend to: many are considered to be better than the original campaign, which was already good but did not come close to BG's drama.
(On a sidenote, neither of these games is the ultimate timesink. If I was to name one, I'd name EverQuest - or any other MMRPG for that matter. We're talking months of actual in-game time here - not me though.)
The point is, nobody is saying that. People aren't saying 2 GB is enough for everybody in 15 years, what people are saying is 2 GB is enough for most people at the moment. And that certainly appears to be true. I don't think anybody thinks that 64-bit computers will never rule supreme - it's pretty clear they will, the argument is whether that time is now.
The display certainly isn't 3D, I don't see why the GUI would want to be. That said, I'd love to see a working concept for a useful 3D computer GUI. So far, all I've seen was terrible.
Sadly, r3mix is outdated and kind of obsolete by now. The alt-preset modes of LAME (as noted elsewhere) are recommended now. One of the web's centers of encoding discussion is Hydrogen Audio. They have very good FAQs available on the topic of LAME tweaking (although the conclusion is usually "use alt-preset-x). They're also an awesome resource on anything else related to PC audio, and they host the best Windows audio player available right now, Foobar 2000.
Um, re-read parent. He said, if - contrary to what he thinks - Sendmail does listen to anything but localhost, then and only then this is a remote root exploit.
According to that logic, and with all the bugs found in Sendmail during its history, it should long ago have evolved something like a hive mind and fixed its own holes.
Huh? The last time I was there, they certainly had MP3s. Granted they weren't exactly convenient to get at, what with forced registration (bogus data galore) and all, but I got lots of them in the end.
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The guy's name is Heisenberg. Sorry for nitpicking, but three posts in a row mispelling his name is a bit too much. The school I went to was named after him, incidently.
Gosh, so that's how it works!!
You should have pointed out that when you were replying to someone who talked about copying, not lending.
Now the fun thing about the GPL - and this is basically being pointed out everytime people talk about the license on Slashdot - is that it grants you rights above and beyond what you get under normal copyright laws. This is very different from the EULA you get with most proprietary software, which does the opposite, take away rights you would have under normal copyright law, such as the right to lend. Note that it is, as far as I know, still not certain whether such rights can actually be taken away.
Note also that the legal effectiveness of EULAs, as Slashdot readers never tire to point out, is also still very much in doubt. This is, however, not an argument against the GPL, because as mentioned above it grants you extra rights. Don't accept it and you don't get those rights, simple as that.
So, in short: If you don't agree to any license, normal copyright laws still apply. However, if you do agree to a license, it can include passages that differ from the normal copyright laws - granting you extra rights as in the GPL, or limiting your rights as in various commercial licensing schemes.
I'm not about to argue with you, but comitting crimes that make you the number one enemy of the strongest military in the world sounds kinda risky to me. ;)
Osama Bin Laden did not pilot any plane, nor did he detonate himself in a cafe. Desperate situations take desperate means, I think.
He was, and he has returned as an evil authoring zombie by popular and publisher request. You can see the post was made by a zombie; its evil bit is set.
As if there ever was a question whether the Iraq could stand up to the United States militarily. Not even the Iraqi government claimed any chance to defend the country indefinitely.
The US might well sport the most dominant military force in all history, but the fact that you can - surprise, surprise - bomb the hell out of a repressed, deprived and embargo'ed third wirld country certainly doesn't entail that you can do the same to other countries. The goal should not be to "free" Iraq, if anything the goal should be to "free" Iraq with certain other premises: few to no civilian casualties, low to no damage to civilian infrastructure, effective ways to bring in humanitary aid, a smooth transition to a just post-war system.
Also, the United States have bought what you call the most dominant military force at a time when a dominant military force has lost many of its uses: you can't (and don't need to) conquer the world with it, and you can't even defend American citizens with it - an army is no use against domestic terrorism.
Yes, they can. No noticable slowdown at all.
news flash, the guy gave $5000 to an orginization suspected of funding terrorism Are you an American resident paying taxes? Well, then so do you. SCNR.
Exactly, they should have a Premium Support section, like the non-OS software companies (well, and the open source ones, too) have: 3 years of Linux Duke 3D support at only $499 p.a. I'd approach them with the idea, but alas, I'm not allowed to mail them.
But there is information given about him: he's a member of FreeBSD Release Engineering Team. If you've got a serious inquiry related to the postponed release date, he might be the guy to mail. And, of course, FreeBSD freaks probably can associate something with the name itself, they don't require additional information.
However, I'd agree that putting his email address there isn't incredibly helpful to anyone, because there are usually better places to mail inquiries to, like a mailing list.
186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.
Nice calculation, but you're probably quite off: the number of game days includes the time your characters spend resting. IIRC, the minimum time your party sleeps is 8 hours, and more, if your healing capacity requires it. How much of your total time is spent resting I couldn't say, but chances are it's a significant amount. For me, it is.
Of course, there's no doubt the original Baldur's Gate was an incredible time sink. I played it daily for two months, too. Same goes for BG2, I think. Took me one or two weeks to play through NWN with a friend. However, I have not yet touched on any of the expansion modules, although I intend to: many are considered to be better than the original campaign, which was already good but did not come close to BG's drama.
(On a sidenote, neither of these games is the ultimate timesink. If I was to name one, I'd name EverQuest - or any other MMRPG for that matter. We're talking months of actual in-game time here - not me though.)
It is even water-proof!
The point is, nobody is saying that. People aren't saying 2 GB is enough for everybody in 15 years, what people are saying is 2 GB is enough for most people at the moment. And that certainly appears to be true. I don't think anybody thinks that 64-bit computers will never rule supreme - it's pretty clear they will, the argument is whether that time is now.
The display certainly isn't 3D, I don't see why the GUI would want to be. That said, I'd love to see a working concept for a useful 3D computer GUI. So far, all I've seen was terrible.
Actually, that is not the best quote ever about Micheal Moore, it's the best quote ever about the sad state of the (American) universities.
Emerging it in Gentoo was absolutely trivial, as well.
Sadly, r3mix is outdated and kind of obsolete by now. The alt-preset modes of LAME (as noted elsewhere) are recommended now. One of the web's centers of encoding discussion is Hydrogen Audio. They have very good FAQs available on the topic of LAME tweaking (although the conclusion is usually "use alt-preset-x). They're also an awesome resource on anything else related to PC audio, and they host the best Windows audio player available right now, Foobar 2000.
Next time, there'll be a song! ;)
Um, re-read parent. He said, if - contrary to what he thinks - Sendmail does listen to anything but localhost, then and only then this is a remote root exploit.
According to that logic, and with all the bugs found in Sendmail during its history, it should long ago have evolved something like a hive mind and fixed its own holes.
Huh? The last time I was there, they certainly had MP3s. Granted they weren't exactly convenient to get at, what with forced registration (bogus data galore) and all, but I got lots of them in the end.