Why aren't I free to take a piece of GPL software, make a few improvements, and then redistribute the whole thing under the BSD license?
The GPL removes my freedom to do that! It restricts me - places constraints on what I can do. Why? Why does the orignal author if I relicense the code? It doesn't affect them anymore than the branching that the GPL already allows.
So we should hold back any new ideas, in case they make it easier for a virus to get in? Someone go back in time and stop the internet being created! Quick!
Certainly radical...
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This is certainly a radical approach, and if it was some kind of research project I would love to have a look at it. If you ignore that it's Microsoft it seems to be a really good idea - all programs would be able to access all data from all sources if everything was in this kind of database they are talkking about - today we worry about copy and paste, drag and drop working correctly. Think about how smoothly everything would work!
I agree with this. I can imagine your children being asked to do something simple in Windows, and looking like right little retards, even though they could do it in Linux.
I always understood that *any* copy protection of media such as this is useless, because at some point the content has to be decoded to analog so that the speakers can physically create the sound. At this point you can capture the analog signal and encode it in any digital format you like.
A simple (and ineffective due to quality issues) example is connecting a line-in cable from your CD player's head phones jack to your PC's line-in, and then recording and encoding to ogg.
Why would you want to run MacOS X as a server? Why not simply run the Darwin core on it's own. As I understand all MacOS X does is add a GUI to this core, so what does that add in a server enviroment? It's not even as if you could use the GUI remotely, like with X.
Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
Actually, I read an article sometime (not sure where, sorry) that the best, professional, chess players have a large stock of stratergies that they remember and apply to the game in hand, and that amateurs form sratergies during the game.
I'm not sure about this, however, as young gifted children, with very little experience, can also be exceptional players.
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That should be IP/H2O as in this case IP is running over the H2O technology, as with TCP/IP where TCP runs over IP.
Have we replaced car manafacturers with Makefiles?
Will people please stop the "my two cents" rubbish? It's an overused phrase and doesn't actually convey any useful information.
"Maybe geeks and slashdotters understand why Linux is so appealing"
No, geeks and slashdotter think Linux is appealing. It isn't a fact that it is, some people just think it is.
Why aren't I free to take a piece of GPL software, make a few improvements, and then redistribute the whole thing under the BSD license?
The GPL removes my freedom to do that! It restricts me - places constraints on what I can do. Why? Why does the orignal author if I relicense the code? It doesn't affect them anymore than the branching that the GPL already allows.
You are exactly right here. The GPL is missing one important freedom - the freedom to apply whichever license you want.
So we should hold back any new ideas, in case they make it easier for a virus to get in? Someone go back in time and stop the internet being created! Quick!
This is certainly a radical approach, and if it was some kind of research project I would love to have a look at it. If you ignore that it's Microsoft it seems to be a really good idea - all programs would be able to access all data from all sources if everything was in this kind of database they are talkking about - today we worry about copy and paste, drag and drop working correctly. Think about how smoothly everything would work!
I've seen loads of leaked screenshots. Why should I believe this are not faked like they rest?
I agree with this. I can imagine your children being asked to do something simple in Windows, and looking like right little retards, even though they could do it in Linux.
Gates/Ballmer
Gates wants us to know Ballamer wouldn't work without him :)
And how many trojans come with EULAS? I don't think your argument applies here...
You get all that with wx and it's GPL.
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Works fine for me
I'm British, so all I know is BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV and Channel 4. How does the US TV system usually work?
I always understood that *any* copy protection of media such as this is useless, because at some point the content has to be decoded to analog so that the speakers can physically create the sound. At this point you can capture the analog signal and encode it in any digital format you like.
A simple (and ineffective due to quality issues) example is connecting a line-in cable from your CD player's head phones jack to your PC's line-in, and then recording and encoding to ogg.
What's stopping people doing this?
She's just balanced. You couldn't throw Microsoft to the geeks. It's not about the technology, it's about the legality.
It's ironic because they took the piss out of the Queen on her 25th jubilee.
Why would you want to run MacOS X as a server? Why not simply run the Darwin core on it's own. As I understand all MacOS X does is add a GUI to this core, so what does that add in a server enviroment? It's not even as if you could use the GUI remotely, like with X.
Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
Yeah.... but what is it? P2P? Blogger? Messenger?
"I think we can understand him"
Don't count it on, this is slashdot...
All BIOSs have support for mice, you can use int 33h to get the mouse's position, show hide a cursor and various other basic things.
Actually, I read an article sometime (not sure where, sorry) that the best, professional, chess players have a large stock of stratergies that they remember and apply to the game in hand, and that amateurs form sratergies during the game.
I'm not sure about this, however, as young gifted children, with very little experience, can also be exceptional players.
But the Romulan ship is new a cool, and the Klingon ship is an old design, so it must have come first.