3. Hence, the patent license for free (as in beer) MP3 decoders is not compatible with the GPL;
If John Q. Hacker makes a GPL'd MP3 encoder / decoder.... it's ok.. as long as he doesn't charge for it. The patent license is compatable with some (but not all) uses of the GPL.
RedHat could refrain from distributing the software, but still make an easily accesable link available so a user could get it from the author's site.
Software is always a few years behind the hardware... and for good reasons.
1) Developing software takes time. 2) If your software only runs on ONLY top of the line hardware (i.e. crawls w/out a 2.53 GHz P4 and a gig of RAM) , who are you going to sell it to? By keeping the CPU/GPU/ect requirements low (by removing features), you give youself a higher number of potential buyers (at the risk of your product being less apealing to the customer). 3) How much flash animation / animated what-have-you did you see 5-6 years ago? The incresed power of processors makes new, ever more annoying ads / websites posible.
As time goes by, the power of the "averege" system goes up. More features are put in software, incresing the hardware requirements. People buy new hardware, allowing the cycle to continue. There are also advantages to geting a more powerful system:
1) You buy a more powerful system so it will be longer until you have to upgrade. The same system that ran the original UT well will probly be hard pressed to run UT 2003 faster than 5fps. 2) The time before it becomes unusable w/ modern software will be longer: Old Pentium processors will just choke on Windoze XP and Office 2000 won't run too well on a 486. It's not that you won't ever use that CPU power... You just don't use it now....
Thank goodnes.... could this be the end of that @#$%! annoying kid that runs around saying "Dude! You're getting a Dell!" After all... if they don't depend on mail order / corparate orders anymore...
I wonder if this means that Desktop multiprocessing will become commonplace. It looked pretty dim until M$ finaly got of their rear end and brought the NT kernel to the desktop (and even now, XP home edition is only single processor). Both AMD and Intel's newer processors seem to be geared towards taking advantage of the parallelisim offered by running multiple threads / processes. Will we ever be able to buy premade multiprocessor machines anytime soon. I mean, who wouldn't want to run Quake IV on a quad processor machine?
Like, AOL is soooooo totaly cool dude. It's the bomb! Why run some lame story about, like totaly loosing our right of fair use and being force under the thumb of the entertainment industry, when you could have a story on how that "You've got mail" voice is or how AIM is like having "A verbal chat electronicly". Someone at/. needs to get their priorities straight.
What linux needs more right now is closer integration of applications. It is the kind of thing that would make a famly distrobution possible. This one place where windows is a bit better than linux.
To get star office to open files in Nautilus, for example, I have to edit the file assocations. What would be nice if there were a standard, abstract, and dynamic interface to the "window manager" / "desktop enviroment" for all apps. Having this would allow much MUCH closer integration and communication of posibly hetrogenious apps as long as both are standard compliant. True, adding a modular abstraction layer to EVERYTHING would be painful, but the result would be astounding: power and flexability. Isn't that what linux (or rather free software) is all about?
Also... RPM should DO SOMETHING about the package dependancies it finds. It is capable of being a nice, flexable, easy tool for managing your system.... better then this "add/remove program" BS in windows. It's good now - it could be better
p.s. Please don't waste time telling me I should get up and do something... I've only been using Linux for about six months... I'm still geting used to all the lovely development tools....
Have these men no decency? Is nothing sacred?
Why not just completely integrate the adds into the shows......
"And now Barbara Walters reports on how using Mobil can cut your car repair costs in half?"
or
"Captain, long-range sensors are picking up extra fluffy toilet paper ahead. It has ripples!!!!"
and so forth
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3. Hence, the patent license for free (as in beer) MP3 decoders is not compatible with the GPL;
.... it's ok .. as long as he doesn't charge for it. The patent license is compatable with some (but not all) uses of the GPL.
If John Q. Hacker makes a GPL'd MP3 encoder / decoder
RedHat could refrain from distributing the software, but still make an easily accesable link available so a user could get it from the author's site.
Software is always a few years behind the hardware ... and for good reasons.
... You just don't use it now....
1) Developing software takes time.
2) If your software only runs on ONLY top of the line hardware (i.e. crawls w/out a 2.53 GHz P4 and a gig of RAM) , who are you going to sell it to? By keeping the CPU/GPU/ect requirements low (by removing features), you give youself a higher number of potential buyers (at the risk of your product being less apealing to the customer).
3) How much flash animation / animated what-have-you did you see 5-6 years ago? The incresed power of processors makes new, ever more annoying ads / websites posible.
As time goes by, the power of the "averege" system goes up. More features are put in software, incresing the hardware requirements. People buy new hardware, allowing the cycle to continue.
There are also advantages to geting a more powerful system:
1) You buy a more powerful system so it will be longer until you have to upgrade. The same system that ran the original UT well will probly be hard pressed to run UT 2003 faster than 5fps.
2) The time before it becomes unusable w/ modern software will be longer: Old Pentium processors will just choke on Windoze XP and Office 2000 won't run too well on a 486.
It's not that you won't ever use that CPU power
Thank goodnes .... could this be the end of that @#$%! annoying kid that runs around saying "Dude! You're getting a Dell!" After all ... if they don't depend on mail order / corparate orders anymore ...
I wonder if this means that Desktop multiprocessing will become commonplace. It looked pretty dim until M$ finaly got of their rear end and brought the NT kernel to the desktop (and even now, XP home edition is only single processor). Both AMD and Intel's newer processors seem to be geared towards taking advantage of the parallelisim offered by running multiple threads / processes. Will we ever be able to buy premade multiprocessor machines anytime soon.
I mean, who wouldn't want to run Quake IV on a quad processor machine?
I wouldn't be suprised at all if they designed it to be modular ... if a /. reader can see that, don't you think that AMD's engineers can too?
You have it all wrong.... Hardware Extreme has, in fact, been desighning microprocessors for quite some time now ....
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Like, AOL is soooooo totaly cool dude. It's the bomb! Why run some lame story about, like totaly loosing our right of fair use and being force under the thumb of the entertainment industry, when you could have a story on how that "You've got mail" voice is or how AIM is like having "A verbal chat electronicly". Someone at /. needs to get their priorities straight.
To get star office to open files in Nautilus, for example, I have to edit the file assocations. What would be nice if there were a standard, abstract, and dynamic interface to the "window manager" / "desktop enviroment" for all apps. Having this would allow much MUCH closer integration and communication of posibly hetrogenious apps as long as both are standard compliant. True, adding a modular abstraction layer to EVERYTHING would be painful, but the result would be astounding: power and flexability. Isn't that what linux (or rather free software) is all about?
Also... RPM should DO SOMETHING about the package dependancies it finds. It is capable of being a nice, flexable, easy tool for managing your system.... better then this "add/remove program" BS in windows. It's good now - it could be better
p.s. Please don't waste time telling me I should get up and do something... I've only been using Linux for about six months... I'm still geting used to all the lovely development tools....
Have these men no decency? Is nothing sacred? Why not just completely integrate the adds into the shows...... "And now Barbara Walters reports on how using Mobil can cut your car repair costs in half?" or "Captain, long-range sensors are picking up extra fluffy toilet paper ahead. It has ripples!!!!" and so forth
But "point, click and drag and drag to the recycle bin" is SOOOOO much more elegant than using 'rm' and regular expressions.......
Who would want to spend the seconds it takes to type "rm blahblahblah" when you could spend minutes moving stuff to the recycle bin....