I like Apple as much as the next guy (I have a TiBook, G5, iLampShade, and an iPod). However, these draconian licensing terms are the reason I cancelled iTunes after the first week. I've been a happy BuyMusic.com customer ever since they opened. Using standrd wma oversome proprietary format makes the open source zealot in me happy.
Sony used to use Transmeta chips in their subnotebooks. This can't be good news for TMTA. It's good that Linus could read the writing on the wall, but I feel bad for their other employees... facing unemployment in this economy. And, let's be honest, even if they do find work elsewhere, few companies have as much potential as Transmeta had.
For those that don't know, Corel used WineLib to recompile thwir Windows Wares under linux. They also contributed a fair amount of code and bug fixes to Wine.
However, if htey become private (closed), it's likely to put a stop to their linux activities.
Closed companies have generally been less receptive to Open Source (VA Linux, IBM, and Red Hat are all public companies). The threat of shareholder lawsuits is usually enough to make sure public companies use Linux to save money, and adopt Open Source ideals. Private companies, sadly, often end up being microsoft-only shops.
Donald Knuth wrote, about TeX, that a programmer should also do QA, use the program, and write the manual.
I don't know about other places, but where I work, QA, support, development, and documentation are different groups. Anecdotally, and intuitively, if the development team had to support the product after it was released, they'd fix a LOT of bugs that they don't consider important from their ivory tower.
In the open source world, everything seems less hierarchial. Users are more likely to be developers, or track down bugs and submit a patch, and the main developers are more likely to accept it.
let's be honest here... the 'class' will get jack shit if this case is successful. A few seconds worth of looking at ads? Even at lawyerly rates that's pennies. The only people tjhat could walk away better off (financially) are the lawyers.
On the other hand, if it takes an ambulance chasing laywer to stop these practices, that's not entirely bad. Except that they don't have the consumer's best interest in mind, they have their own best interest in mind.
Legislation through Litigation is the wrong answer. If they really did soemthing illegal or wrong, there are appropriate gov't agencies to deal with it.
MacOS (HFS) had alternate file streams -- but hardcodded for 2 (resource fork and data fork) since 1985/86 or so. ProDOS (apple II computers) supported data/resource forks since the late 80s as well.
MacOS allowed you to access the resurce fork with the same API as the data fork for read/write/open (you just specified it was the resource fork vs the data fork), but that was frowned upon -- there is a separate resouce manager that stored data in a structured format.
BeOS (BFS) allowed for an arbitrary number of streams (attributes) which were identified by name but also had a typecode identifier (so you could tell if it was an integer, a mime type, a string, an image, etc). These attributes were optimized for small chunks of data, but could hold large chunks of data as well. This was in the time frame between NT 4 and Windows 2k.
In BeOS, you had to open the main file directly first, then used a different API to get a listing of attributes or read/write/delete them.
BeOS attributes were influenced by SGI's XFS, IIRC, so they may have had a similar feature before NTFS as well.
I was thinking of Darwin (no OS X). I'd be willing to bet there are more x86 darwin boxes than HURD boxes. (I don't know why anyone would run Darwin on a PPC unless maybe they have a machine too old for OS X.)
searching might not be the problem. Google uses an algorithm to choose which ads to display (if you read their ad overview, you can et more info).
Basically, ads show based on how much an advertiser pays but also how often their ad gets clicked... so popular ad-sites get top ranking with less cost, and unpopular ad-sites have to pay more to get to the top.
If Overtures patents cover a system like that, it could cost google.
Linux may be GPL, but it's not GNU -- leading to absurdities like "GNU/Linux" and the bitkeeper jack-off sessions.
While it's true that linux depends on GNU, it's also true that GNU depends on Linux. Linux is "just" a kernel, but it's the most important part (besides the compiler). It's obviously burning up RMS that GNU depends on something which isn't GNU.
It also has to be frustrating when your baby, TURD (oops, HURD), is a wallflower to the darling Linux.
I think those people that hate bitkeeper, or make sure you GNUter Linux would be more productive if they worked on HURD instead. The acceptance of Darwin shows that people are interested in microkernels and alternative to alternative OSs.
you are so fucking funny. BitKeeper exists because open source programs didn't cut it.
are you writing this open source program that will be as good as bitkeeper, or are you waiting for someone else to do it, or are you telling people that CVS is good enough?
Could this utility be used to convert gif imageds to png? I understand this is very difficult (since Slashdot still uses gif images), but hopefully, someday there will be a way to convert gifs to png format.
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I wonder if the ACL haters will have a foxhole conversion.
What good is excellent karma if you won't post shit at +2
I guess after you publish a 6th grade book report as a review, there's no point left in pretending to have any shame.
Talk about being a pretentious prick!
Really? Then why did draft dodgers in the 60s run to Canada?
I like Apple as much as the next guy (I have a TiBook, G5, iLampShade, and an iPod). However, these draconian licensing terms are the reason I cancelled iTunes after the first week. I've been a happy BuyMusic.com customer ever since they opened. Using standrd wma oversome proprietary format makes the open source zealot in me happy.
hey! you're a reasonably cute girl! What the hell are yu doing posting to slashdot?!?!?!?!
Maybe next they can determine if pouring hot grits down your pants has any effect on petrifying a naked Natalie Portman.
maybe you don't pay taxes, or donate to your retirement account. For those of us that do, it can easily cut your paycheck in half.
I can name 2 more types of consumer printers (although they are now rare and obsolete): thermal, and daisy wheel (similar to a typewriter).
About 1/14th of a stone.
Sony used to use Transmeta chips in their subnotebooks. This can't be good news for TMTA. It's good that Linus could read the writing on the wall, but I feel bad for their other employees... facing unemployment in this economy. And, let's be honest, even if they do find work elsewhere, few companies have as much potential as Transmeta had.
However, if htey become private (closed), it's likely to put a stop to their linux activities.
Closed companies have generally been less receptive to Open Source (VA Linux, IBM, and Red Hat are all public companies). The threat of shareholder lawsuits is usually enough to make sure public companies use Linux to save money, and adopt Open Source ideals. Private companies, sadly, often end up being microsoft-only shops.
I wonder how many only have 1 user...
I don't know about other places, but where I work, QA, support, development, and documentation are different groups. Anecdotally, and intuitively, if the development team had to support the product after it was released, they'd fix a LOT of bugs that they don't consider important from their ivory tower.
In the open source world, everything seems less hierarchial. Users are more likely to be developers, or track down bugs and submit a patch, and the main developers are more likely to accept it.
On the other hand, if it takes an ambulance chasing laywer to stop these practices, that's not entirely bad. Except that they don't have the consumer's best interest in mind, they have their own best interest in mind.
Legislation through Litigation is the wrong answer. If they really did soemthing illegal or wrong, there are appropriate gov't agencies to deal with it.
Is that how Sammy Davis Jr lost his eye?
MacOS allowed you to access the resurce fork with the same API as the data fork for read/write/open (you just specified it was the resource fork vs the data fork), but that was frowned upon -- there is a separate resouce manager that stored data in a structured format.
BeOS (BFS) allowed for an arbitrary number of streams (attributes) which were identified by name but also had a typecode identifier (so you could tell if it was an integer, a mime type, a string, an image, etc). These attributes were optimized for small chunks of data, but could hold large chunks of data as well. This was in the time frame between NT 4 and Windows 2k.
In BeOS, you had to open the main file directly first, then used a different API to get a listing of attributes or read/write/delete them.
BeOS attributes were influenced by SGI's XFS, IIRC, so they may have had a similar feature before NTFS as well.
GNUDarwin.
I was thinking of Darwin (no OS X). I'd be willing to bet there are more x86 darwin boxes than HURD boxes. (I don't know why anyone would run Darwin on a PPC unless maybe they have a machine too old for OS X.)
Basically, ads show based on how much an advertiser pays but also how often their ad gets clicked... so popular ad-sites get top ranking with less cost, and unpopular ad-sites have to pay more to get to the top.
If Overtures patents cover a system like that, it could cost google.
While it's true that linux depends on GNU, it's also true that GNU depends on Linux. Linux is "just" a kernel, but it's the most important part (besides the compiler). It's obviously burning up RMS that GNU depends on something which isn't GNU.
It also has to be frustrating when your baby, TURD (oops, HURD), is a wallflower to the darling Linux.
I think those people that hate bitkeeper, or make sure you GNUter Linux would be more productive if they worked on HURD instead. The acceptance of Darwin shows that people are interested in microkernels and alternative to alternative OSs.
are you writing this open source program that will be as good as bitkeeper, or are you waiting for someone else to do it, or are you telling people that CVS is good enough?
That's nice of you to tell us all about MS's earnings. Maybe you could post a story about VA Linux's [lack of] earnings sometime.
Could this utility be used to convert gif imageds to png? I understand this is very difficult (since Slashdot still uses gif images), but hopefully, someday there will be a way to convert gifs to png format.