You have a number of good points, but you got the part about DLL wrong. While ld.conf doesn't include the current path in the normal search-path, you can in fact easily make applications that use it, simply by setting rpath, expressing the share libraries using relative path, OR whoever starts the application can explicitly preload libraries that override the system search path. So Linux is no more secure than Windows based on the shared library philosophies.
Sorry you _are_ rambling... Diesel is cheaper than gasolin. It is only more expensive in the US, properbly because so little is sold of it screwing up the quantity part of import and sales. Also while it used to be more dirty (having more micro-particles), this is a problem that has been solved for more than 20 years, and are required in all European cars (ships though are still unfiltered and dirty!). So having higher MPG and producing less CO2 per mile, it is currently much cleaner than gasolin. The problem is expensive engines, that perform better than gasolin below 100km/h, but worse at speeds higher than 100km/h unless you have a turbo on it.
No. I would argue your definitional of "economically conservative" is also contaminated by US politics. Economically conservative means not changing the economic status quo, keeping the money with "the powers that be". Economical liberalism and libertarianism has the basic idea that the free market would challenge old structures, constantly keeping the market healthy through competition. Competition is however the exact opposite of what a convervative wants. So if you believe in this mechanism of a free market a conservative would oppose economical liberalism (which they did 100 years ago). As you may have observed though, non-intervention seems to benefit existing econmic powers more than it benefits entrepreneurs, which is why the same idea of economic freedom is often embraced by both conservatives and liberals.
No, economically liberal, would be letting people do whatever they want with their money, lower taxes and smaller govenment. Social liberal -> the government should not interfere in our social lives. Economically liberal -> the government should not interfere in our economic lives.
Economical liberalism is sometimes also known as libertarianism in the US, because the term "liberal" in general have been contaminated with the politics of a single US party. This is not the case outside the US, and could be argued to be a misuse of the term.
Any make, any model. And the best seller is... me. I'll just wipe it and put Linux on one that came with windows pre-installed.
But you probably wont sell it 50$ cheaper than the Windows model. There are plenty of Linux netbooks. The great feature with are that they are exactly 50$ cheaper than the corresponding Windows model. 250$ with windows -> 200$ with linux. 200$ with windows -> 150$ with linux.
How the patch works is described by the patch readme file and the forums threads that offer it for download:
It overrides the detection of the video-card and forces the face-render tool to select an efficient engine for all cards. The problem was that most NVidia cards had problems, but a few didn't. If you faked the other cards to be one of those without problems, the problem went away.
I thought the walk-buttons was just there because no-one bothered to remove them, and later because they shared house with the beeper that helped blind people. So a lot of crossing had walk-buttons simply because they had beepers, even if the walk button wasn't connected.
No actually you _do_ loose depth in the final image. Only two cameras are used, which means they can only have one point where the perspective lines meet and form a focused 3D image. The rest of the scene would be doubled if naively composed, but to avoid having the audience seeing double, everything out of 3D focus is often postprocessed to a blur - or in the bad 3D movies: still double...:(
While tight focus is common in soap operas and romantic comidies, big epic movies like LoTR usually has a everything in focus except in zoomed in melee battles. Big epic style movies, is where 3D fails big. Unfortunately it is where they tried to start.
Not a problem, most modern editors has these functions. Kate/kwrite/kdevelop (same editor in different sheels), has all of those, and many other editors do as well.
Phonon is one example. Another brought up in the discussion was QPrinter vs KPrinter, though that has an entirely different background. With QPrinter, KDE was forced to make a suboptimal decision because KPrinter had no maintainer and it seemed unlikely to be even get ported to Qt4, let alone well integrated, before KDE4 was to be released.
KDElibs is LGPL and has always been LGPL, common libraries in KDE have always been required to be LGPL so that they could be used by "unfree software" (as you write). Only KDE applications are usually GPL to protect themselves better.
The idea was to merge the parts that would be usefull in Qt, so that answers the questions: Yes, for the parts that makes sense it would be a benefit: Better datetime classes, better config system, asynchronous IO, MIME parsing etc.
It is also obvious that some parts of kdelibs (especially runtime parts, such as ), really wouldn't make sense in Qt anyway.
Ofcourse you can resell it. Most companies will not advertise the option, but they are forced to offer it in most western countries, so if the producer wants to sell the game in most of Europe, they will have a procedure to reregister a resold game. This is not just limited to Europe either, several US states require the same, all you have to do is insist.
What??? The deniers are now denying the existance of deniers..
Wow, you are really knee-deep in this denial thing..
Check a few posts next to yours, there are plenty of people denying these simple facts, even if you are not. Nobody said you were one of the mentioned deniers, the only thing you seem to be denying is the existance of deniers, and their existance is easily proven by simply reading other comments in this thread.
You are not considering the statistically aspect of it.. Imagine there are 1 billions combinations, but only 10 of them does anything useful. Given random genetic drift most changes to something useful will make it drift to become useless. Only natural selection will keep up the selection pressure to make up for the inherent negative force of genetic drift. Features that are not either useful or a biproduct of something useful will have a general tendency to disappear or be rendered useless.
The great strength of the BFS are all the indexes which unix filesystems usually don't have. The indexes makes searching and ordering much faster bug makes changing meta-data much more difficult as each index needs to be updated atomically, essentially requiring either a large set of small locks or a big giant lock.
Yes, of course. I figured this out in kindergarden. You can get much further in rounders if you succesfully predict and select the correct base to aim at. There is no reason for baseball players to experiment with this, any 9 year old european already know this. But why the fuck are adults still playing this kiddie game?
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You have a number of good points, but you got the part about DLL wrong. While ld.conf doesn't include the current path in the normal search-path, you can in fact easily make applications that use it, simply by setting rpath, expressing the share libraries using relative path, OR whoever starts the application can explicitly preload libraries that override the system search path. So Linux is no more secure than Windows based on the shared library philosophies.
Sorry you _are_ rambling... Diesel is cheaper than gasolin. It is only more expensive in the US, properbly because so little is sold of it screwing up the quantity part of import and sales. Also while it used to be more dirty (having more micro-particles), this is a problem that has been solved for more than 20 years, and are required in all European cars (ships though are still unfiltered and dirty!). So having higher MPG and producing less CO2 per mile, it is currently much cleaner than gasolin. The problem is expensive engines, that perform better than gasolin below 100km/h, but worse at speeds higher than 100km/h unless you have a turbo on it.
No. I would argue your definitional of "economically conservative" is also contaminated by US politics. Economically conservative means not changing the economic status quo, keeping the money with "the powers that be". Economical liberalism and libertarianism has the basic idea that the free market would challenge old structures, constantly keeping the market healthy through competition. Competition is however the exact opposite of what a convervative wants. So if you believe in this mechanism of a free market a conservative would oppose economical liberalism (which they did 100 years ago). As you may have observed though, non-intervention seems to benefit existing econmic powers more than it benefits entrepreneurs, which is why the same idea of economic freedom is often embraced by both conservatives and liberals.
No, economically liberal, would be letting people do whatever they want with their money, lower taxes and smaller govenment. Social liberal -> the government should not interfere in our social lives. Economically liberal -> the government should not interfere in our economic lives.
Economical liberalism is sometimes also known as libertarianism in the US, because the term "liberal" in general have been contaminated with the politics of a single US party. This is not the case outside the US, and could be argued to be a misuse of the term.
But you probably wont sell it 50$ cheaper than the Windows model. There are plenty of Linux netbooks. The great feature with are that they are exactly 50$ cheaper than the corresponding Windows model. 250$ with windows -> 200$ with linux. 200$ with windows -> 150$ with linux.
So, you don't want me to stop you now?
Which is why you don't mod down. If you find an already modded comment with serious flaws, you find a good response and mod that up instead.
I thought it looked like it was blinking intentionally slow. I would not be surprised if it had bedroom eyes on purpose.
How the patch works is described by the patch readme file and the forums threads that offer it for download:
It overrides the detection of the video-card and forces the face-render tool to select an efficient engine for all cards. The problem was that most NVidia cards had problems, but a few didn't. If you faked the other cards to be one of those without problems, the problem went away.
The same problem affects ATI by the way.
Is it really intentional?
I thought the walk-buttons was just there because no-one bothered to remove them, and later because they shared house with the beeper that helped blind people. So a lot of crossing had walk-buttons simply because they had beepers, even if the walk button wasn't connected.
No actually you _do_ loose depth in the final image. Only two cameras are used, which means they can only have one point where the perspective lines meet and form a focused 3D image. The rest of the scene would be doubled if naively composed, but to avoid having the audience seeing double, everything out of 3D focus is often postprocessed to a blur - or in the bad 3D movies: still double... :(
While tight focus is common in soap operas and romantic comidies, big epic movies like LoTR usually has a everything in focus except in zoomed in melee battles. Big epic style movies, is where 3D fails big. Unfortunately it is where they tried to start.
Yes, I know that. I didn't adress that part on purpose. That is a political discussion, something that Nokia may or may not decide to change.
Qt is already LGPL, they have essentially already accepted that income "loss" in order to promote wider use of Qt.
If I remember correctly the BOM was undefined for UTF-8, but it is a useful extension from its defined use in UTF-16
Not a problem, most modern editors has these functions. Kate/kwrite/kdevelop (same editor in different sheels), has all of those, and many other editors do as well.
Phonon is one example. Another brought up in the discussion was QPrinter vs KPrinter, though that has an entirely different background. With QPrinter, KDE was forced to make a suboptimal decision because KPrinter had no maintainer and it seemed unlikely to be even get ported to Qt4, let alone well integrated, before KDE4 was to be released.
KDElibs is LGPL and has always been LGPL, common libraries in KDE have always been required to be LGPL so that they could be used by "unfree software" (as you write). Only KDE applications are usually GPL to protect themselves better.
The idea was to merge the parts that would be usefull in Qt, so that answers the questions: Yes, for the parts that makes sense it would be a benefit: Better datetime classes, better config system, asynchronous IO, MIME parsing etc.
It is also obvious that some parts of kdelibs (especially runtime parts, such as ), really wouldn't make sense in Qt anyway.
Ofcourse you can resell it. Most companies will not advertise the option, but they are forced to offer it in most western countries, so if the producer wants to sell the game in most of Europe, they will have a procedure to reregister a resold game. This is not just limited to Europe either, several US states require the same, all you have to do is insist.
Don't quote Sherlock Holmes, until you have considered all other possibilities.
What??? The deniers are now denying the existance of deniers..
Wow, you are really knee-deep in this denial thing..
Check a few posts next to yours, there are plenty of people denying these simple facts, even if you are not. Nobody said you were one of the mentioned deniers, the only thing you seem to be denying is the existance of deniers, and their existance is easily proven by simply reading other comments in this thread.
You are not considering the statistically aspect of it.. Imagine there are 1 billions combinations, but only 10 of them does anything useful. Given random genetic drift most changes to something useful will make it drift to become useless. Only natural selection will keep up the selection pressure to make up for the inherent negative force of genetic drift. Features that are not either useful or a biproduct of something useful will have a general tendency to disappear or be rendered useless.
It would all have been resolved in BTTF 3.. IF IT HAD EVER BEEN MADE. Too bad no one ever made a sequal to The Matrix either.
The great strength of the BFS are all the indexes which unix filesystems usually don't have. The indexes makes searching and ordering much faster bug makes changing meta-data much more difficult as each index needs to be updated atomically, essentially requiring either a large set of small locks or a big giant lock.
Yes, of course. I figured this out in kindergarden. You can get much further in rounders if you succesfully predict and select the correct base to aim at. There is no reason for baseball players to experiment with this, any 9 year old european already know this. But why the fuck are adults still playing this kiddie game?