It is required for the user interface if you want to be sure what you are doing. If you just enter "slashdot.org", it would be just as acceptable for a browser to assume FTP as it would be for it to assume HTTP or reject parsing it at all.
No, it is only technically required on the user interface. Protocols don't mess with URIs at all.
If an FTP client doesn't recognise "ftp://", then it obviously isn't using URIs. Nothing *requires* a program to use URIs. Most of the time, URIs are used because programs support multiple protocols and actions.
For example, KDE uses URIs in all appplications because they can all open/save documents to not only local disks (file://), but also over HTTP, FTP, SFTP, Samba, and many other protocols.
Good point... I believe legally one can copy/"preview" 10 (or is it 30?) seconds without being bothered by all this. So as long as you only send 10 seconds of any one song to someone, they can't sue you over it... Then, a downloader could get a different 10 seconds from everyone who has the song and recombine them.
Since copyright only covers copying, the reconstruction of the original song wouldn't be illegal either... Is this a music-only solution to legal sharing?
I don't like the way the RIAA is reacting to digital music, but that does not give me the right to steal music. If you don't think someone is offering their music fairly, then boycott them. That is a time-honored legal method of protesting.
And "civil disobedience" is a time-honoured *illegal* method of protesting.
Calling downloading "civil disobedience" is an insult to those, like the civil rights protesters and the protesters in Tiananmen Square, who have used civil disobedience to try to right the wrongs of society.
Which is the same thing happening here...
File sharing is stealing to avoid paying the cost, not civil disobedience--
File sharing is not stealing anything.
it directly benefits the protester.
So the people you are referring to disobeyed the law in a way that had no direct benefit to themselves? I highly doubt that...
Civil rights protesters did not directly benefit from their protests. The only thing they got was a change in the laws--the whole point of their protest..
And hopefully, in the end, Copyright laws will be abolished or replaced with something more ethical.
If you steal music, then, as a law breaker, what right do you have to complain about the RIAA?
As many people have pointed out, it is not possible to steal music. Are you sure that he even downloaded music under the RIAA's authority? Not every artist in the world wants the RIAA suing their fans.
Probably because the scheme ("http://") is *not* an optional part of a URI. If you do not have "http://" at the beginning, it's not a valid URI and would be rejected by any strict browser (Konqueror Embedded is one such example).
Of course, I like shortcuts that allow me to omit semi-obvious things, so I rarely ever actually enter "http://", but I think it is important that people are aware that it is technically required.
Except that proper laws would require that source code be available under GPL-like terms.
The middle-ground (no source requirements as above *and* no copyrights) would hurt GPL, but proper software laws including the one above would simply make the GPL redundant.
Not sure what you are saying... They can run at 600 MHz (400 MHz overclocked), so CPU isn't a big issue. 4 GB is plenty of space for a complete KDE/GNU/Linux system.
Applications will have some form of screenshots and such, though probably not with a single URI... many apps benefit from multiple screenshots of different UIs areas.
Thanks for the suggestion, though!
Maybe not released, but I'm pretty sure it's tagged... and I'm relatively sure my last checkout was either right before or after the tagging, so if it's not final, it's certainly close.
Have you considered that maybe such systems are not 5 year old hardware? The new Zaurus SL-C3000 (released within the past 6 months) computers all have 64 MB of RAM (along with 4 GB HD and 400 MHz overclockable to ~600 MHz). So where exactly do you suggest I find a similar system with better specs for *any* price (let alone something affordable)?
How do you pull this off? I've got two systems running KDE 3.4... The first one (running 3.4 final) has 1 GB of physical RAM. There is never a time when KDE is running that it isn't using at least 1.5 GB of RAM (including swap, discluding cache). The other one (running 3.4 rc1) has 256 MB of physical RAM. It is almost consistently maxing out while care is taken to be running only the minimum services/programs.
So... how did you get KDE working properly with a mere 128 MB of RAM?
Not sure whether you were joking by posting an image of OSX's configuration interface, but a similar one is actually being considered:
http://www.icefox.net/gallery/pictures/2005/System %20Preferences/system_preferences8.png
Emails don't take up much space. I have every email I received going back quite a number of years (at least 5) and it hasn't even reached 1 GB yet.
IRC, logs, though... I stay out of #gentoo and #linux else they would fill my disk:/
Then those people are not really married and would be in just as much sin as any homosexuals would be if they had sexual relations.
In general, I don't expect that the representatives of the Church are going to actually *test* to make sure the couple can procreate, but it is a requirement that is vowed.
Inability to procreate *is* grounds for an annulment (which is simply the declaration that there never was a valid marriage to begin with) in the universal Catholic Church, no matter what heresys may be in England or wherever you live.
If two people cannot procreate, they cannot marry, whether they be the same sex or opposite sexes. Those who do not desire to procreate should not marry, since marriage is comprised of a free, total, faithful, and *fruitful* commitment. Any married couple avoiding pregnancy without a very good reason does so wrongly.
Just because 97% or however many people do something doesn't make it right. Masturbation is still wrong...
What Christians have you had these conversations with? Their beliefs seem to suggest they are all protestants. I suggest talking to some Catholics (true Christians).. not just people who claim to be Catholic, either-- real Catholics.
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The GPL states that either the source must be included with the binaries or that an offer be included to give the source to *anyone* who asks for it.
It is required for the user interface if you want to be sure what you are doing. If you just enter "slashdot.org", it would be just as acceptable for a browser to assume FTP as it would be for it to assume HTTP or reject parsing it at all.
No, it is only technically required on the user interface. Protocols don't mess with URIs at all. If an FTP client doesn't recognise "ftp://", then it obviously isn't using URIs. Nothing *requires* a program to use URIs. Most of the time, URIs are used because programs support multiple protocols and actions. For example, KDE uses URIs in all appplications because they can all open/save documents to not only local disks (file://), but also over HTTP, FTP, SFTP, Samba, and many other protocols.
Good point... I believe legally one can copy/"preview" 10 (or is it 30?) seconds without being bothered by all this. So as long as you only send 10 seconds of any one song to someone, they can't sue you over it... Then, a downloader could get a different 10 seconds from everyone who has the song and recombine them. Since copyright only covers copying, the reconstruction of the original song wouldn't be illegal either... Is this a music-only solution to legal sharing?
Probably because the scheme ("http://") is *not* an optional part of a URI. If you do not have "http://" at the beginning, it's not a valid URI and would be rejected by any strict browser (Konqueror Embedded is one such example). Of course, I like shortcuts that allow me to omit semi-obvious things, so I rarely ever actually enter "http://", but I think it is important that people are aware that it is technically required.
Not much moreso than "computer" = Windows to some people.
PC means Personal Computer. This deals with usage, not software or hardware.
Except that Sveasoft is violating the GPL (or at least using a loophole).
Except that proper laws would require that source code be available under GPL-like terms. The middle-ground (no source requirements as above *and* no copyrights) would hurt GPL, but proper software laws including the one above would simply make the GPL redundant.
Not sure what you are saying... They can run at 600 MHz (400 MHz overclocked), so CPU isn't a big issue. 4 GB is plenty of space for a complete KDE/GNU/Linux system.
Applications will have some form of screenshots and such, though probably not with a single URI... many apps benefit from multiple screenshots of different UIs areas. Thanks for the suggestion, though!
Swap may be all good on x86, but disk I/O is extremely slow on x86_64 and PPC (even with DMA enabled on the x86_64) for swap.
Maybe not released, but I'm pretty sure it's tagged... and I'm relatively sure my last checkout was either right before or after the tagging, so if it's not final, it's certainly close.
Have you considered that maybe such systems are not 5 year old hardware?
The new Zaurus SL-C3000 (released within the past 6 months) computers all have 64 MB of RAM (along with 4 GB HD and 400 MHz overclockable to ~600 MHz).
So where exactly do you suggest I find a similar system with better specs for *any* price (let alone something affordable)?
How do you pull this off? I've got two systems running KDE 3.4...
The first one (running 3.4 final) has 1 GB of physical RAM. There is never a time when KDE is running that it isn't using at least 1.5 GB of RAM (including swap, discluding cache).
The other one (running 3.4 rc1) has 256 MB of physical RAM. It is almost consistently maxing out while care is taken to be running only the minimum services/programs.
So... how did you get KDE working properly with a mere 128 MB of RAM?
...502884197169399... (that's as far as I can go from memory)
It's not any different. Ethernet firmware and microcode should be Free also.
Not sure whether you were joking by posting an image of OSX's configuration interface, but a similar one is actually being considered: http://www.icefox.net/gallery/pictures/2005/System %20Preferences/system_preferences8.png
His point is that the BIOS is not hardware.
Emails don't take up much space. I have every email I received going back quite a number of years (at least 5) and it hasn't even reached 1 GB yet. IRC, logs, though... I stay out of #gentoo and #linux else they would fill my disk :/
Then those people are not really married and would be in just as much sin as any homosexuals would be if they had sexual relations. In general, I don't expect that the representatives of the Church are going to actually *test* to make sure the couple can procreate, but it is a requirement that is vowed. Inability to procreate *is* grounds for an annulment (which is simply the declaration that there never was a valid marriage to begin with) in the universal Catholic Church, no matter what heresys may be in England or wherever you live.
Zaurii are handheld computers, not PDAs.
Not much correct info in your post...
If two people cannot procreate, they cannot marry, whether they be the same sex or opposite sexes. Those who do not desire to procreate should not marry, since marriage is comprised of a free, total, faithful, and *fruitful* commitment. Any married couple avoiding pregnancy without a very good reason does so wrongly.
Just because 97% or however many people do something doesn't make it right. Masturbation is still wrong...
What Christians have you had these conversations with? Their beliefs seem to suggest they are all protestants. I suggest talking to some Catholics (true Christians).. not just people who claim to be Catholic, either-- real Catholics.
My wife has given me permission (conditional on that she can use it sometimes)! Now if only I knew how to build one...