Okay, I'll do my best. I'll admit I did find some links that mentioned there have been some research trips to the ark, but there are just as many like these:
joined with me in applying to the Turkish government for permission to excavate the boat-shaped formation. The Turkish authorities declined to give us a permit at that time. We got the same reply after a second request. We were stymied.source
Want to go look for yourself? It's not easy. Although guided treks up Mount Ararat were allowed during the 1970s, after several grim incidents the government forbade them because of very real danger from smugglers and other outlaws, Kurdish terrorists, severe weather and wild beasts.source
The Turkish government in Ankara would not give them permission to climb or fly around Mount Ararat. The government authorities "claimed" that they had received 100's of permit applications to climb Mount Ararat, and they believed most of them were bogus applications sent by the PKK. Most people believed this was a poor excuse to keep people off the mountain. But why? Is there a geniune concern for public safety? Tourism? Or does the Turkish government know something? Like where the ark is located?source
The Great Mount of Ararat which had been a favorite for climbers until 1980 was closed for climbing purposes. Then in 2001 it was reopened to visitors since the security in the area was reestablished. Nevertheless, to ensure continuance of security, visits to Mount Ararat are now under strict government control.source
If I remember correctly, the Turkish government has been fairly hostile in the past to the idea of anyone from outside the country exploring for the ark, plus they've refused to go searching for it themselves. The government allowing a team in to do this is pretty significant.
Whenever I read articles like this I get very upset, but it's difficult to do anything about it. Why? Because try stopping a dozen random people and asking them what their position is on software patents. It's not like abortion or gun control or taxation, stuff people hear about all the time. And even if you could communicate to them what it is, you still can't show them the negative effects. Sure, you can describe the effects, but not at a this-will-affect-you level where you can say "this will take $$$ out of your wallet" or "this will cause somebody physical harm."
Incidently, most people I've asked who do know what a software patent is have told me that they just pretend they don't exist.
They broke something in ALSA going to 2.6.3 and haven't managed to fix it yet. I tried 2.6.5 last night to check, and it doesn't cause lockups anymore but there's still no volume. Wait and see I guess.
I've got an SB Audigy and use the emu10k1 drivers. With 2.6.3, anything that accesses sound causes the CPU usage to go through the roof. When I start KDE, I get this message: "sound driver not responding -- CPU overload." Everything slows to a crawl until I kill everything sound related. Switched back to 2.6.2 and things were fine, so I'm sticking with it until I see some ALSA patches. I have a friend with the same problem on a different system, so I know it's not just me.
2.6.2 => 2.6.3 completely broke ALSA on my system. I haven't seen any ALSA patches go in after 2.6.3. Anybody have info on that? Is there another big ALSA merge coming soon?
It's a tool. Bad analogy time: one person breaks into a house with a baseball bat, and another using a hammer. Why would we need a law that said using one over the other should lead to a different sentence?
Better analogy time. One person destroys data by hacking into the system and deleting the data, the other physically walks to where the data is kept and pulls out a magnet. Why should that be a different sentence?
Unfortunately when I tried the d220 all I got was 157, and the other guy rolled a 192, so I died.
Seriously though, now would be a great time to unleash an ad campaign for this and claim "this computer is immune to all the recent viruses you've seen on the news."
If you do not want this pattern to continue, simply do not apply for research funding from Microsoft. Furthermore, reject all donations from Microsoft and never do any consulting work for them or their research division. That has been my plan for quite some time.
Really. I bet we could think of some great questions. They obviously couldn't comment directly on SCO, but answers to general questions like "how seriously do you take email from random people suggesting you investigate a company" would be interesting.
The GPL has no effect if you do not distribute the software. The GPL does not cover the output of the program. Therefore a modified but undistributed GCC does not require them to give you the source.
The source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
The only way I could see that falling under the GPL is if their source is essentially useless because only their unreleased compiler can compile it, to the extent that you couldn't change the code to work with an available compiler. Sounds pretty weak to me.
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I lost my instruction book for one of those games once and decided I was going to find my own way to play without asking for another book. This was in the early 90s. With a lot of those old programs, the words from the book were stored in a memory buffer that was not cleared when the program exited. So even on a non-multitasking OS like DOS, you could quit the program, followed by running another program that just searched main memory and dumped the entire list of words. Then you just made yourself a table and proceeded with a dictionary attack against the program. Takes a while to get going, but eventually you find out answers to the most common questions and can stop.
This will also prevent me from buying crap like REM's Up.
Sorry, but as an REM fan who has a lot of their CDs, I have to say that Up is my favorite album. If you don't like REM at all, fine, call it crap...but if you actually have other stuff by them that you like, and then bought Up and are calling it crap, you need to be more open and listen to it more. It is different, yes, but crap, no.
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Hop on over there if you want the whole thing.
Okay, I'll do my best. I'll admit I did find some links that mentioned there have been some research trips to the ark, but there are just as many like these:
joined with me in applying to the Turkish government for permission to excavate the boat-shaped formation. The Turkish authorities declined to give us a permit at that time. We got the same reply after a second request. We were stymied. source
Want to go look for yourself? It's not easy. Although guided treks up Mount Ararat were allowed during the 1970s, after several grim incidents the government forbade them because of very real danger from smugglers and other outlaws, Kurdish terrorists, severe weather and wild beasts. source
The Turkish government in Ankara would not give them permission to climb or fly around Mount Ararat. The government authorities "claimed" that they had received 100's of permit applications to climb Mount Ararat, and they believed most of them were bogus applications sent by the PKK. Most people believed this was a poor excuse to keep people off the mountain. But why? Is there a geniune concern for public safety? Tourism? Or does the Turkish government know something? Like where the ark is located? source
The Great Mount of Ararat which had been a favorite for climbers until 1980 was closed for climbing purposes. Then in 2001 it was reopened to visitors since the security in the area was reestablished. Nevertheless, to ensure continuance of security, visits to Mount Ararat are now under strict government control. source
Judge for yourself.
If I remember correctly, the Turkish government has been fairly hostile in the past to the idea of anyone from outside the country exploring for the ark, plus they've refused to go searching for it themselves. The government allowing a team in to do this is pretty significant.
Whenever I read articles like this I get very upset, but it's difficult to do anything about it. Why? Because try stopping a dozen random people and asking them what their position is on software patents. It's not like abortion or gun control or taxation, stuff people hear about all the time. And even if you could communicate to them what it is, you still can't show them the negative effects. Sure, you can describe the effects, but not at a this-will-affect-you level where you can say "this will take $$$ out of your wallet" or "this will cause somebody physical harm."
Incidently, most people I've asked who do know what a software patent is have told me that they just pretend they don't exist.
Hey buddy, what are you in for?
I wrote a program that used an illegal data structure.
Woah. Dude. Stay away from me!
They broke something in ALSA going to 2.6.3 and haven't managed to fix it yet. I tried 2.6.5 last night to check, and it doesn't cause lockups anymore but there's still no volume. Wait and see I guess.
I've got an SB Audigy and use the emu10k1 drivers. With 2.6.3, anything that accesses sound causes the CPU usage to go through the roof. When I start KDE, I get this message: "sound driver not responding -- CPU overload." Everything slows to a crawl until I kill everything sound related. Switched back to 2.6.2 and things were fine, so I'm sticking with it until I see some ALSA patches. I have a friend with the same problem on a different system, so I know it's not just me.
2.6.2 => 2.6.3 completely broke ALSA on my system. I haven't seen any ALSA patches go in after 2.6.3. Anybody have info on that? Is there another big ALSA merge coming soon?
Mod the parent up, not this one. Just helping to call attention to it.
So what's your penalty for multiclassing?
When I was living at home, I used some of the methods above to keep certain data safe (e.g. IMs with my girlfriend)
Dude, you made your girlfriend chat with you using ROT-13? I bet that took some doing.
It does make it a bitch for compiler writers. Writing one for C++ is difficult enough. I don't think I'd ever touch this one.
It's a tool. Bad analogy time: one person breaks into a house with a baseball bat, and another using a hammer. Why would we need a law that said using one over the other should lead to a different sentence?
Better analogy time. One person destroys data by hacking into the system and deleting the data, the other physically walks to where the data is kept and pulls out a magnet. Why should that be a different sentence?
Many of the STL classes do this already...it's called pointer specialization.
Seriously.
Unfortunately when I tried the d220 all I got was 157, and the other guy rolled a 192, so I died.
Seriously though, now would be a great time to unleash an ad campaign for this and claim "this computer is immune to all the recent viruses you've seen on the news."
If you do not want this pattern to continue, simply do not apply for research funding from Microsoft. Furthermore, reject all donations from Microsoft and never do any consulting work for them or their research division. That has been my plan for quite some time.
Really. I bet we could think of some great questions. They obviously couldn't comment directly on SCO, but answers to general questions like "how seriously do you take email from random people suggesting you investigate a company" would be interesting.
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Why not just wait for this to come out?
The Art of Unix Programming
The GPL has no effect if you do not distribute the software. The GPL does not cover the output of the program. Therefore a modified but undistributed GCC does not require them to give you the source.
The source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
The only way I could see that falling under the GPL is if their source is essentially useless because only their unreleased compiler can compile it, to the extent that you couldn't change the code to work with an available compiler. Sounds pretty weak to me.
I lost my instruction book for one of those games once and decided I was going to find my own way to play without asking for another book. This was in the early 90s. With a lot of those old programs, the words from the book were stored in a memory buffer that was not cleared when the program exited. So even on a non-multitasking OS like DOS, you could quit the program, followed by running another program that just searched main memory and dumped the entire list of words. Then you just made yourself a table and proceeded with a dictionary attack against the program. Takes a while to get going, but eventually you find out answers to the most common questions and can stop.
That was great. I haven't thought of that commercial in a long time but I always like it. "This is the book that got Bubba cooked..."
You left out the gesture for when the browser crashes.
This will also prevent me from buying crap like REM's Up.
Sorry, but as an REM fan who has a lot of their CDs, I have to say that Up is my favorite album. If you don't like REM at all, fine, call it crap...but if you actually have other stuff by them that you like, and then bought Up and are calling it crap, you need to be more open and listen to it more. It is different, yes, but crap, no.