No. Ubuntu went from the distro where everything "just works!" to the distro where everything now "just doesn't work!". Adding to that the idea of hidding option and details from the users, means that not only doesn't anything work out-of-box, you can't even fix it yourself.
I have had needed drivers in the last decade. I need to install printer-drivers whenever I use Windows, but from Linux all printers just work right out of the box without the need to download or install drivers.
I haven't seen a printer for 5 years that couldn't print from Linux. USB printing is standard, and if they don't connect with USB, they connect via ethernet, and Linux supports all the options there as well. The printer thing is a red herring and shows somebody hasn't updated their anti-linux trolling.
So you have an incoming ballistic projectile coming at you and you shoot it with you laser.. You now have a molten superheated projectile of the exact same mass and velocity coming at you.. It is very convinient to be able to detonate warheads before impact, but the enemy will stil have old-fashioned mass-based weapons to shoot you with.
Open systems brings a lot of value to customers. Imagine being able to transfer files over USB or bluetooth...
For instance, I can play HD MPEG4 videos on my Samsung TV off my 4 year old nokia phone. Not because the phone has power enough to decode HD video, has MPEG4 hardware decoding, or has HDMI output, but because it uses _open standards_ such as USB, so does my TV, and a TV already has the hardware to decode HD MPEG4 (because modern digital cabel-signals are MPEG4), all it needs is a data-source, which it can get from any device implementing the open USB data-source standard.
Isn't it wonderful when everything just works and can be pluged-in together across all brands? - Well, all across brands except Apple.
The same phone was originally shiped with 512Mbyte of storage. That is not a lot for DVDs, now fortunately it supports _open standards_ such as SDHC cards, which has made it possible for me to upgrade its storage from ½Gbyte to 16Gbyte for 100€
Apple is not closed because it is closed software, it is closed, because it closes off opportunities for the user.
Well, actually there is a warning about blinding sun. It is called DAYLIGHT and THE SUN! Sorry, driving while blinded is negligent in itself, it is not an excuse, just another crime to get busted for.
You can always spoof a from address. That is the easiest trick in the book, and it doesn't matter WHO your email provided is. From adresses are not authenticated. I would say the access to old emails making it possible to use the same language and tone, was much more important
Shifting goal-posts, sure, but I see them shift in the other direction. People have always assumed that making computers talk and do natural language was hard. Currently it seems it is MUCH easier to teach them emotions than language. Tell that to any sci-fi book, movie, TV-show from 1930 to 1990
Anyway determinism is a stupid concept when dealing with recursive and self-influencial systems. Any assumptions of determinism in such a system leads to paradoxes.
True. The part that covers BSD. Is that BSD requires the license to be distributed with the _source_ code, and since the license text defines the license, the BSD does put requirements on the license of redestributed source-code.
I don't think MS intented the BSD or LGPLv2 to be excluded, because they used such code everywhere themselves, but BSD does put requirements on the redistribution and derived works of the software, just only on the source-code form of the software, but it is a requirement on (some forms of) redistribution. So they vague terms MS uses here does seem to forbid the BSD as well. Probably unintended though.
Funny, I distribute several libraries under closed source terms
Soooo..... I am free to relicense your libraries under any terms I want. I don't have to obey by your license, and I don't need to pay you??
That is very kind of you, but that isn't what we called closed software. Closed software is just as viral or more so than the GPL. You just don't think about it about, because you want the nice GPL things to be free for you to use as you please without paying the developers.
But they use the text: Whole application or part of application. You can not relicense anything that is not yours, you may however use BSD-licensed code it in a derived work under a different license, but then original BSD part of the larger work is technically still under BSD license.
Actually it forbids any licence that *allows* the right to redistribute the source. I don't see how they could ever enforce that though, but it is what it says.
The US is not in a position to impose sanctions. As long as you not only live of imports but live of imported money, a trade war is the last thing the US can afford.
If you quit your job in Europe, or even better; get fired, you usually have at least 3 months of severence, where you either have to continue to work, or simply get the entire severance in exchange for not showing up at work anymore.
Actually I have a 20$ phone most people would consider a dumb phone. It has internet connectivity MP3 player, calender, in fact when the iPhone first came out, my phone had considerable more features. They are just not very accesible or useful, but then again, this primarly a phone and it does being a phone very well.
If you want a GT5 equivalent, let's call it Race Car Hero, it would involve watching a pre-recorded race that happens the same no matter what you do, and you just have to press the buttons you're told to press while watching it. But otherwise if you press right instead of left when told, you lose some points but the car on the screen still does the pre-recorded left turn.I think pretty much everyone would agree that such a game would be frakking retarded.
That sounds almost like called quick time events. It is retarded, but surprisingly common.
To be fair, Beck might not have raped and killed a girl in 1990. But the fact remains that many Americans are asking the question: "Did he rape and kill a girl in 1990?"
And why won't he deny it?
I am not accusing him of anything, I am just asking questions, but isn't it interesting: Why are we the only ones asking these questions? what the rest of the media trying to hide? The big journalistic rape and murder gang-bang of 1990? - I don't know, how would I, I am not a rape-murdering TV-personality.
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No. Ubuntu went from the distro where everything "just works!" to the distro where everything now "just doesn't work!". Adding to that the idea of hidding option and details from the users, means that not only doesn't anything work out-of-box, you can't even fix it yourself.
You can dial 911 on any GSM phone without service, you don't even need a SIM-card. It is required by the standard.
I have had needed drivers in the last decade. I need to install printer-drivers whenever I use Windows, but from Linux all printers just work right out of the box without the need to download or install drivers.
I haven't seen a printer for 5 years that couldn't print from Linux. USB printing is standard, and if they don't connect with USB, they connect via ethernet, and Linux supports all the options there as well. The printer thing is a red herring and shows somebody hasn't updated their anti-linux trolling.
So you have an incoming ballistic projectile coming at you and you shoot it with you laser.. You now have a molten superheated projectile of the exact same mass and velocity coming at you.. It is very convinient to be able to detonate warheads before impact, but the enemy will stil have old-fashioned mass-based weapons to shoot you with.
Open systems brings a lot of value to customers. Imagine being able to transfer files over USB or bluetooth...
For instance, I can play HD MPEG4 videos on my Samsung TV off my 4 year old nokia phone. Not because the phone has power enough to decode HD video, has MPEG4 hardware decoding, or has HDMI output, but because it uses _open standards_ such as USB, so does my TV, and a TV already has the hardware to decode HD MPEG4 (because modern digital cabel-signals are MPEG4), all it needs is a data-source, which it can get from any device implementing the open USB data-source standard.
Isn't it wonderful when everything just works and can be pluged-in together across all brands? - Well, all across brands except Apple.
The same phone was originally shiped with 512Mbyte of storage. That is not a lot for DVDs, now fortunately it supports _open standards_ such as SDHC cards, which has made it possible for me to upgrade its storage from ½Gbyte to 16Gbyte for 100€
Apple is not closed because it is closed software, it is closed, because it closes off opportunities for the user.
But why are Apple is not allowing Bluetooth or USB data-transfer then(*)? Could it be that Apple is just trying to usurb the gatekeeping "franchise"?
(*) USB-transfer besides pictures.
Unless you get an electric engine heater, or an airconditioner with good climate-control.
Well, actually there is a warning about blinding sun. It is called DAYLIGHT and THE SUN! Sorry, driving while blinded is negligent in itself, it is not an excuse, just another crime to get busted for.
You can always spoof a from address. That is the easiest trick in the book, and it doesn't matter WHO your email provided is. From adresses are not authenticated. I would say the access to old emails making it possible to use the same language and tone, was much more important
sorry, I meant: People has always assumed making computers talk and do natural language was easy
Shifting goal-posts, sure, but I see them shift in the other direction. People have always assumed that making computers talk and do natural language was hard. Currently it seems it is MUCH easier to teach them emotions than language. Tell that to any sci-fi book, movie, TV-show from 1930 to 1990
How do you know the rules are fixed?
Anyway determinism is a stupid concept when dealing with recursive and self-influencial systems. Any assumptions of determinism in such a system leads to paradoxes.
True. The part that covers BSD. Is that BSD requires the license to be distributed with the _source_ code, and since the license text defines the license, the BSD does put requirements on the license of redestributed source-code.
I don't think MS intented the BSD or LGPLv2 to be excluded, because they used such code everywhere themselves, but BSD does put requirements on the redistribution and derived works of the software, just only on the source-code form of the software, but it is a requirement on (some forms of) redistribution. So they vague terms MS uses here does seem to forbid the BSD as well. Probably unintended though.
Soooo..... I am free to relicense your libraries under any terms I want. I don't have to obey by your license, and I don't need to pay you??
That is very kind of you, but that isn't what we called closed software. Closed software is just as viral or more so than the GPL. You just don't think about it about, because you want the nice GPL things to be free for you to use as you please without paying the developers.
But they use the text: Whole application or part of application. You can not relicense anything that is not yours, you may however use BSD-licensed code it in a derived work under a different license, but then original BSD part of the larger work is technically still under BSD license.
Actually it forbids any licence that *allows* the right to redistribute the source. I don't see how they could ever enforce that though, but it is what it says.
The LGPL and BSD licenses are not incompatible with app stores, but MS has banned them all*
(*) depending on your interpretation of the words used which seems deliberately vague.
The US is not in a position to impose sanctions. As long as you not only live of imports but live of imported money, a trade war is the last thing the US can afford.
Nice job. Though the problem off cross-talking has been solved for a long time using TDMA or CDMA.
If you quit your job in Europe, or even better; get fired, you usually have at least 3 months of severence, where you either have to continue to work, or simply get the entire severance in exchange for not showing up at work anymore.
Why would you go a brick and mortar store in the first place? That is like saying a smart phone is useful if you live in the stone ages.
Actually I have a 20$ phone most people would consider a dumb phone. It has internet connectivity MP3 player, calender, in fact when the iPhone first came out, my phone had considerable more features. They are just not very accesible or useful, but then again, this primarly a phone and it does being a phone very well.
That sounds almost like called quick time events. It is retarded, but surprisingly common.
And why won't he deny it?
I am not accusing him of anything, I am just asking questions, but isn't it interesting: Why are we the only ones asking these questions? what the rest of the media trying to hide? The big journalistic rape and murder gang-bang of 1990? - I don't know, how would I, I am not a rape-murdering TV-personality.