Cut and paste between Netscape and Emacs works fine for me, though netscape has the bad habit of killing the clipboard when you deselect text. What, exactly are you trying to do that won't work ?
Err, if you look at the results of this test, in 7/19 musical selections, there is no statistically significant difference between the MP3 and CD versions of the same music. For two more songs, the difference is very small by any scale. For song but one, at least some of the audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between the MP3 and the CD.
I don't think the above results qualify as 'rather evident'. 'Almost no difference' is a much better description.
Once UCITA gets passed, software companies could do something similar to what DIVX players did. Require the program to contact some central server once a month or so. If the customer is still allowed to use the program, the central server will send the program the insanely large private key that goes with the correct one of a large sequence of public keys stored by the program. If the private key matches the public key, then the program will continue to work. Else, the program will shut down until someone feeds it that private key.
The strength of this plan is that it requires action on the part of the installed program. So simply blocking communication between the installed program and the central server will not help you escape the restrictions. Similar safe guards could be used to make sure that you don't just reinstall the program (every freshly installed program needs to contact the central server for a new set of keys, etc).
Nothing is completely secure, but the above setup could be made very hard to circumvent.
One of the main reasons the UCITA is required for shrink wrap licenses to work is that shrink wrap licenses break one of the primary requirements of any contract -- that both sides have to be aware of the terms of the contract before agreeing to it. With shrink wrap licenses, you basically agree to the license before even getting the chance to read it (since it is inside the shrink wrap and becomes effective as soon as the shrink wrap is broken).
Therefore, you can't just refuse to buy stuff that has outrageous licenses, because you won't know what the license is until *after you buy it*.
Err, distributed.net is not open. The fact that the distributed.net client was hacked demonstrates, once again, that security through obscurity does not work. In other words, trying to make it more difficult to hack the client by only publishing the object code rather than the source code as well is a much worse solution than figuring out some way to guarantee that bad blocks cannot be submitted, regardless of the functionality of the client.
For one thing, it's a free speech issue. If I can't link directly to another site, can I post the url in plain text and let people paste it into their location boxes ? If I can't do that, can I send a url to my buddy with the url in it as a link ? as plain text ? Can I publish a book with the url in it ?
The fact is that the trailers are publically accessible resources for which the poor defendant is simply publishing the location. If Universal doesn't want the resource to be publically available, they should make it so (as other posts have indicated), rather than throwing it up there for anyone to look at and then trying to legally prevent people from speaking about where it is and how to get to it.
Because you need a bigger screen to get higher resolutions. The iBook screen would be fantastic if it could reach a reasonable resolution, but it can't. It can only do 800x600, which is simply unacceptable for regular use by nearly all geeks and most normal users. The 4M of RAM is just for displaying to an external monitor.
Er, the judge can do whatever he wants in his home. He can wallpaper his walls (inside and out) with Bible scripture and scream the ten commandments at the top of his lungs all day outside of the courtroom, because he's acting on his own behalf outside the courtroom.
Inside the courtroom, he is acting *as a representative of the government*. As such, all of his powers and all of the guidelines which direct those powers come from the government. We decided quite a while ago that the government should allow freedom of religion, and therefore should not favor one religion over another in such important matters as judicial decisions.
You are wrong. You should take the time to learn a bit about CPU's and how they work.
The reason a lot of Pentiums and 486's came in multiples of 33 is that the busses for the chips were 33 or 66, and the chip was rated in multiples (1, 1.5, 2,...) of the bus speed. A 50Mhz bus was also used, thus the P100 and P150. Today, a 100Mhz bus is used, thus the increments of 50Mhz.
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FYI, there has been a disturbing trend in the US lately, in which professional team owners demand large amounts of money from local (city and state) governments to build new stadiums and then move their teams if the governments refuse. Sometimes the governments simply build entire stadiums at the cost of 100's of millions of dollars, while other times they give large, debt free loans to the owners to build the stadiums themselves (amounting to 10's of millions of dollars). In either case, substantial amounts of money are involved, even though the national government is rarely involved.
Even though the given sentence's grammar is poor, so is your criticism.
For the purposes of our analysis, the sentence has one subject, one verb, one participial phrase serving as an adjective, one prepositional phrase serving as an adjective, and one adverb modifying the prepositional phrase. Mistaking a partipial phrase for a verb is bad enough, but mistaking the prepositional phrase / adverb for a verb is patently foolish, since the "currently in the quater billion dollar range" doesn't even contain a word that could act as a verb !
In fact, the sentence only requires two simple corrections.
Hemos should change "nanotech research" to "the nanotech research budget," and
he should add commas around "currently in the quarter billion dollar range," since this phrase is paranthetical.
After those corrections, the sentence would read:
Announced a few days ago, the nanotech research budget, currently in the quarter billion dollar US range, is set to be doubled by the Federal Government over the next few years.
The above sentence is not brilliant, but it is grammatically correct, which is more than most people expect from informal web forums like slashdot.
I certainly agree that the world would benefit from a better understanding and use of grammatical rules. However, a better understanding of the basic principles of sentence construction is both the means and the end to improving one's grammar (just as a better of understanding of computers can be both the means and the end of using Linux !). Your critique only further confuses basic principles (like the definition of a verb).
If you are going to choose the promotion of grammatical correctness as one of you crusades, please at least take the time to treat the subject with care, rather than just taking enough time to belittle (and confuse) those who offend your grammatical sense.
And I hate the term 'browse the Internet'. The Internet is not the same thing as the Web. Way too many people fail to grasp the difference, and such phrases only increase the confusion.
While I don't agree with RMS' constant, aggressive demands that Linux be called GNU/Linux, I see nothing hypocritical in his stance. He has never said that we should use other people's code without crediting them. He has consistently said that hoarding software for personal profit at the expense of the convenience of others as well as the quality of software is bad.
He has never even hinted that Linux should stop using GNU tools, nor has he taken any action to take the GNU tools out of Linux. He simply wants credit for the work that the GNU project has done.
You could certainly argue that he's just an arrogant fool who wants everyone to acknowledge his greatness. I wouldn't argue it, but the argument could be made. But, regardless, humility is not a part of RMS Free Software ideology.
I had the fortune to use a ricochet modem with my linux box about a year and a half ago. Setup was ridiculously easy. I just plugged it into my serial port and treated it like a modem. Speed was only fair (about 19K), but I was in the middle of a big concrete apartment building, so I figured the reception was to blame. Unfortunately, I had to give the demo unit back when the school I worked for refused to allow the ricochet folks to use our rooftop for an antenna.
Err, remember that the discussion is about GPL vs. BSD. Companies are actually more likely to use a license similar to the GPL than one similar to the BSD license, since the GPL at least protects them from someone else changing and selling the program with proprietary extensions. I'm guessing that's why commercial licenses like the MPL are more similar to the GPL than to the BSD license (the MPL is basically the GPL with a provision that allows Netscape to fold contributed changes back into its proprietary products).
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You should actually have a really good case to get a refund on your DIVX machine, especially if you bought it recently. Pretty much every state (maybe even every one) has a law that attaches an implied warranty of merchantibility to anything you buy. Since the ability to buy unlimited playing on disks was a major selling feature of DIVX players, Circuit City (and the manufacturer) must either support this feature or give you your money back.
Don't vaguely threaten a class action law suit. Instead, tell them you'll take them to small claims court. If you convince them you're serious, they're likely just to give you your money back insted of having to deal with hiring a lawyre et al. Also, in some states (like Massachusetts), you can actually sue for double or triple damages in small claims consumer cases, so they'd be even more inclined to just give you your money back rather than risking having to pay you three times its value.
Did you read the bios of the starbridge guys ? The president was a car salesman (the bio spends much space bragging about his ability to build cars since a young age). The CTO, who is supposedly doing all of the technical work, doesn't have any references other than typical wiz kid has been programming computers with one hand tied behind his back since he was 6 months old type stuff.
Transmeta, on the other hand, is run by a former Sun executive, backed by a Microsoft cofounder, and employs a gaggle of engineers with awesome track records (ala Linus).
Starbridge may very well be the next greatest thing, but there is considerable reason to doubt that they will amount to anything. Transmeta may not be the next best thing, but they've got as good a chance as anyone to do something interesting.
I don't do any work on the kernel, but I appreciate its free nature every day beause that free nature has allowed those who do have an inclination to improve Linux to do so. I don't have to work on the kernel myself to appreciate the benefits of its free nature.
The mere fact that some other product may, at some distant future point, gain dominance over a market does not indicate that a monopoly does not exist *now*. The fact that Microsoft could, right now, double the price of its Windows 98 without losing a significant portion of the desktop OS market is an indication of its monopoly power. Whether it can sustain its monopoly position for an extended period of time is another question.
No application should be able to crash a server, period. Even thought the port of apache may be crappy, it should, at worst, simply kill itself, never the whole operating system.
This is the status last time I checkes: Linux supports reading CD's through DVD drives. There is an alpha stage driver to read DVD's through DVD drives. There is no support for decoding DVD movies.
On deja news (which should nearly always be your first stop for answers to linux questions that aren't in any of the pieces of standard documentation to your knowledge).
Here's a relevant post:
install the package freetype-1.2-6.i386.rpm
then cd to where your TrueTypes fonts are and/usr/sbin/ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale -p
'/usr/sbin/chkfontpath --add [dir]', where [dir] is the name of the dir with the true type fonts
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart (don't xfs stop and xfs start, it messes up running X sessions awful) and you're ready to go
(based on a deja news post from Alexandre Blanchette
Installing true type fonts is much easier in RH6.0, since it installs a fonts server that supports true type fonts by default. You still have to download and install the fonts yourself, but the process now takes only 4 or so steps (instead of 10 or 15).
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Cut and paste between Netscape and Emacs works fine for me, though netscape has the bad habit of killing the clipboard when you deselect text. What, exactly are you trying to do that won't work ?
Err, if you look at the results of this test, in 7/19 musical selections, there is no statistically significant difference between the MP3 and CD versions of the same music. For two more songs, the difference is very small by any scale. For song but one, at least some of the audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between the MP3 and the CD.
I don't think the above results qualify as 'rather evident'. 'Almost no difference' is a much better description.
No, creating a web page with a doctored screen shot of an N64 running Linux as an April Fool's joke is "too much free time".
OTOH, that many people are still falling for the joke, some three (?) years later, indicates that maybe it was worth the time invested ...
The strength of this plan is that it requires action on the part of the installed program. So simply blocking communication between the installed program and the central server will not help you escape the restrictions. Similar safe guards could be used to make sure that you don't just reinstall the program (every freshly installed program needs to contact the central server for a new set of keys, etc).
Nothing is completely secure, but the above setup could be made very hard to circumvent.
Therefore, you can't just refuse to buy stuff that has outrageous licenses, because you won't know what the license is until *after you buy it*.
Err, distributed.net is not open. The fact that the distributed.net client was hacked demonstrates, once again, that security through obscurity does not work. In other words, trying to make it more difficult to hack the client by only publishing the object code rather than the source code as well is a much worse solution than figuring out some way to guarantee that bad blocks cannot be submitted, regardless of the functionality of the client.
For one thing, it's a free speech issue. If I can't link directly to another site, can I post the url in plain text and let people paste it into their location boxes ? If I can't do that, can I send a url to my buddy with the url in it as a link ? as plain text ? Can I publish a book with the url in it ?
The fact is that the trailers are publically accessible resources for which the poor defendant is simply publishing the location. If Universal doesn't want the resource to be publically available, they should make it so (as other posts have indicated), rather than throwing it up there for anyone to look at and then trying to legally prevent people from speaking about where it is and how to get to it.
Because you need a bigger screen to get higher resolutions. The iBook screen would be fantastic if it could reach a reasonable resolution, but it can't. It can only do 800x600, which is simply unacceptable for regular use by nearly all geeks and most normal users. The 4M of RAM is just for displaying to an external monitor.
Er, the judge can do whatever he wants in his home. He can wallpaper his walls (inside and out) with Bible scripture and scream the ten commandments at the top of his lungs all day outside of the courtroom, because he's acting on his own behalf outside the courtroom.
Inside the courtroom, he is acting *as a representative of the government*. As such, all of his powers and all of the guidelines which direct those powers come from the government. We decided quite a while ago that the government should allow freedom of religion, and therefore should not favor one religion over another in such important matters as judicial decisions.
You are wrong. You should take the time to learn a bit about CPU's and how they work.
The reason a lot of Pentiums and 486's came in multiples of 33 is that the busses for the chips were 33 or 66, and the chip was rated in multiples (1, 1.5, 2, ...) of the bus speed. A 50Mhz bus was also used, thus the P100 and P150. Today, a 100Mhz bus is used, thus the increments of 50Mhz.
FYI, there has been a disturbing trend in the US lately, in which professional team owners demand large amounts of money from local (city and state) governments to build new stadiums and then move their teams if the governments refuse. Sometimes the governments simply build entire stadiums at the cost of 100's of millions of dollars, while other times they give large, debt free loans to the owners to build the stadiums themselves (amounting to 10's of millions of dollars). In either case, substantial amounts of money are involved, even though the national government is rarely involved.
Even though the given sentence's grammar is poor, so is your criticism.
For the purposes of our analysis, the sentence has one subject, one verb, one participial phrase serving as an adjective, one prepositional phrase serving as an adjective, and one adverb modifying the prepositional phrase. Mistaking a partipial phrase for a verb is bad enough, but mistaking the prepositional phrase / adverb for a verb is patently foolish, since the "currently in the quater billion dollar range" doesn't even contain a word that could act as a verb !
In fact, the sentence only requires two simple corrections.
After those corrections, the sentence would read:
The above sentence is not brilliant, but it is grammatically correct, which is more than most people expect from informal web forums like slashdot.
I certainly agree that the world would benefit from a better understanding and use of grammatical rules. However, a better understanding of the basic principles of sentence construction is both the means and the end to improving one's grammar (just as a better of understanding of computers can be both the means and the end of using Linux !). Your critique only further confuses basic principles (like the definition of a verb).
If you are going to choose the promotion of grammatical correctness as one of you crusades, please at least take the time to treat the subject with care, rather than just taking enough time to belittle (and confuse) those who offend your grammatical sense.
- a proud grammar geek
And I hate the term 'browse the Internet'. The Internet is not the same thing as the Web. Way too many people fail to grasp the difference, and such phrases only increase the confusion.
While I don't agree with RMS' constant, aggressive demands that Linux be called GNU/Linux, I see nothing hypocritical in his stance. He has never said that we should use other people's code without crediting them. He has consistently said that hoarding software for personal profit at the expense of the convenience of others as well as the quality of software is bad.
He has never even hinted that Linux should stop using GNU tools, nor has he taken any action to take the GNU tools out of Linux. He simply wants credit for the work that the GNU project has done.
You could certainly argue that he's just an arrogant fool who wants everyone to acknowledge his greatness. I wouldn't argue it, but the argument could be made. But, regardless, humility is not a part of RMS Free Software ideology.
I had the fortune to use a ricochet modem with my linux box about a year and a half ago. Setup was ridiculously easy. I just plugged it into my serial port and treated it like a modem. Speed was only fair (about 19K), but I was in the middle of a big concrete apartment building, so I figured the reception was to blame. Unfortunately, I had to give the demo unit back when the school I worked for refused to allow the ricochet folks to use our rooftop for an antenna.
Err, remember that the discussion is about GPL vs. BSD. Companies are actually more likely to use a license similar to the GPL than one similar to the BSD license, since the GPL at least protects them from someone else changing and selling the program with proprietary extensions. I'm guessing that's why commercial licenses like the MPL are more similar to the GPL than to the BSD license (the MPL is basically the GPL with a provision that allows Netscape to fold contributed changes back into its proprietary products).
Don't vaguely threaten a class action law suit. Instead, tell them you'll take them to small claims court. If you convince them you're serious, they're likely just to give you your money back insted of having to deal with hiring a lawyre et al. Also, in some states (like Massachusetts), you can actually sue for double or triple damages in small claims consumer cases, so they'd be even more inclined to just give you your money back rather than risking having to pay you three times its value.
Did you read the bios of the starbridge guys ? The president was a car salesman (the bio spends much space bragging about his ability to build cars since a young age). The CTO, who is supposedly doing all of the technical work, doesn't have any references other than typical wiz kid has been programming computers with one hand tied behind his back since he was 6 months old type stuff.
Transmeta, on the other hand, is run by a former Sun executive, backed by a Microsoft cofounder, and employs a gaggle of engineers with awesome track records (ala Linus).
Starbridge may very well be the next greatest thing, but there is considerable reason to doubt that they will amount to anything. Transmeta may not be the next best thing, but they've got as good a chance as anyone to do something interesting.
It doesn't matter what you or I think. It matter what the SEC thinks.
I don't do any work on the kernel, but I appreciate its free nature every day beause that free nature has allowed those who do have an inclination to improve Linux to do so. I don't have to work on the kernel myself to appreciate the benefits of its free nature.
The mere fact that some other product may, at some distant future point, gain dominance over a market does not indicate that a monopoly does not exist *now*. The fact that Microsoft could, right now, double the price of its Windows 98 without losing a significant portion of the desktop OS market is an indication of its monopoly power. Whether it can sustain its monopoly position for an extended period of time is another question.
No application should be able to crash a server, period. Even thought the port of apache may be crappy, it should, at worst, simply kill itself, never the whole operating system.
This is the status last time I checkes: Linux supports reading CD's through DVD drives. There is an alpha stage driver to read DVD's through DVD drives. There is no support for decoding DVD movies.
On deja news (which should nearly always be your first stop for answers to linux questions that aren't in any of the pieces of standard documentation to your knowledge).
Here's a relevant post:
(based on a deja news post from Alexandre Blanchette
Installing true type fonts is much easier in RH6.0, since it installs a fonts server that supports true type fonts by default. You still have to download and install the fonts yourself, but the process now takes only 4 or so steps (instead of 10 or 15).