So if I decide I don't like the terms of the GPL, I can just take their software and violate their copyright?
Some laws are good, some are bad and should be stricken down. Some copyright claims are good, some are bad and should not be upheld. Why is this so hard to understand?
At work we're putting each of our demos on a bootable CD (using knoppix) to prevent bit rot. Some of our older demos haven't been ported to newer versions of our framework, config files get changed for other projects, etc.
Also we mostly develop on Linux anyways (scientific stuff), but some of the people who do presentations aren't linux-savy or don't even have Linux on their laptops (can you imagine?!)
None of thinks of each demo disk as a specialized distro, it's just an all-in-one demo disk.
I will believe what you say when I see the first monopolist local phone company tell the govt. to "take this job and shove it," and pull out of the market. Think about that, if monopolies were fairly regulated, they'd go out of business or get bought just as often as competitive companies. Wake me up when we get there.
Too true! And I'm wondering who will fill in the other half of the orchestra. No doubt the Musicians Union will be picketing the show. Good luck to any scabs trying to sneak past with a double bass!
Yes, I'm sure the engineers that work for the major auto manufacturers were a tad lazy when tuning the chips for optimum efficiency and safety.
You've unwittingly hit the nail right on the head. It's easy to improve the car (for you) if what you want is different than what the engineers designed for. Some people want maxium efficiency, safety, and reliability. People who chip their cars have other priorities.
Next you're going to say that putting on softer-compound tires is a horrible idea because the stock tires were chosen for maximum tread life and fuel efficiency. No kidding. But some people want higher performance and are willing to pay for it. What do you care?
I'm a gamer, sure, but thats not what laptops are for. LCDs suck for gaming, as does laptop keyboards, and requiring a real usb mouse.
"That's not what laptops are for" is the conventional wisdom they're challenging with this machine. From the benchmarks I'd say there's some credibility to their attempt. And an upgradeable video card is a great feature for a gamer.
They don't state the response time of the screen, but LCDs have come a long way. Regardless, I'm sure it has a vga output just like every other laptop and desktop system out there, so if you still find the need to haul your CRT with you, go right ahead. I don't see the problem with a laptop keyboard for WASDX. As for the mouse, I trust it has a USB port!
Who knows what 15% means. I probably only compile 15% of the linux kernel source, because most of the source is drivers for devices I don't own. So the MS leak could be the kernel and GUI, or not.
Very true, but birth rates in first world countries are dropping, often below replacement levels, and this will cause serious problems for those countries with ageing populations. Some countries (Italy) have gone as far as offering cash payments to parents who have a second child.
Well, that's not a problem for world population as a whole. Of course it will bring changes. Whites are on the way out. (Though not entirely of course). Europe in a few more generations will look very, very different than it does now. The US already does look substantially different than it used to (it's not a nation of 88% Whites and 12% Blacks anymore) and that will escalate. The fall of traditional European culture won't be from a peacetime invasion or anything like that; the 50% abortion rate has much more to do with it (about half of all babies conceived never see the light of day). For all the sophistication and refinement whites think we see in pursuing riches and "culture" over raising kids, it isn't a very good evolutionary strategy. Other races will follow the same path as they get richer too, but the last race to flinch will be most numerous. None of which matters if don't think race is an important distinction anyways.
I forgot to say,the reason I ask is because I looked at WineHQ's supported applications list and there are only 9 apps listed as working properly? And none of them is Office, which the story summary specifically claims works! There is another database of supported applications at wineHQ, but you have to register which it isn't worth doing just to decide whether to download Wine at all.
I'd think it would be a nightmare compared to a standalong product like Office because you have to log into a windows domain (or do you?)
Also, like perhaps many others my laptop dual-boots to Linux on one side and Windows XP on the other. Can I use Wine to run things from the (read-only, under linux) NTFS Windows-XP partition? That would be fantastic. (Currently I do this with VMware but the boot time is annoying and the memory usage of course is ridiculous).
Thank you Crossover. Of course, without free code from the community Crossover would never have gotten over the hump.
This makes WINE an interesting case study in the difference between the GPL and BSD licenses. (Wine is "lesser GPL" which allows linking to non-free software (eg MS Office) but requires source code distribution for the library (eg Wine)).
Maybe I'm just too hardwired into how binary works, but what exactly would the benefit of this be? Yes/No/Maybe?
The advantage is simply that you can express more values with fewer digits using a higher base. A binary system has only 1 bit of information per digit. A hexadecimal system has 4 bits of information per digit. A ternary system has 1.585-odd bits per digit. The question is, can you make 3 (or more)-way transistors that aren't just correspondingly bigger and more power-hungry?
If you just want to store a single binary value, base-three doesn't help you. You'd probably just leave the value '2' unused, or interpret it as "true." But you aren't worried about conserving bits unless you want to store a whole bunch of values, say a long sequence of bits. This table shows how a three digit binary value can be represented as a 2-digit ternary number.
Comcast, America's largest cable TV company, today launched an audacious and
hostile takeover bid to buy the Walt Disney company in a deal worth 37bn.
(emphacis mine)
But I guess you're saying comcast isn't serous, and is just messing with people's heads?
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Normally, people that would do hacking, credit card fraud or just plain spamming would be traceable,
No they wouldn't. It's silly to try and preserve the Internet as a clean, safe private network when it never was one in the first place. There were already lots of ways to get online without divulging your identity to the world.
Anyways this isn't the dilemma you make it out to be. I don't recall *ever* seeing an online credit card form that didn't use ssl, at least not in the last 5 years. And most businesses simply provide webmail over ssl to their travellers.
Finally, the Chicken Little attitude towards wireless is pointless since the wired Internet offers no guarantee of privacy anways; if you want to talk to somebody securely, you need to use encryption regardless of whether your access is wired or wireless. If you are plugging into a wired LAN at a hotel and sending secure data unencrypted, I suggest you're being too trusful of all the strangers on your ethernet segment, the curious and bored nerd watching the front counter downstairs, and everybody else in between you and the other end.
I've met CS majors who still don't quiet get that AIM is part of the internet. They'll send me a message and say "my internet is down".
"...how did you send me this message?"
Then again that instant message probably never leaves the campus network which already existed before it was ever connected to the Internet.
It's still "just" a difference of degree. Even basic mathematics itself is founded on axioms for which the only "proof" is common sense, faith, or whatever you want to call it.
The only Disney movies I've actually paid to see in the last few years were all Pixar animations.
To be quite honest, you don't matter to Disney (unless you are a parent). They market their tripe to the mass-market of parents. Good, wholesome family values. They get parents to buy every friggin thing they put out with this method.
Honestly, what is your point? From what I can see, most of "Disney's" recent big commercial successes have been the high quality ones - from Pixar. Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, not Atlantis et. al.
The fact that the better shows have also been by far the biggest moneymakers is no coincidence, even if that is an insult to your superiority complex.
(And yes, I am a parent with good wholesome family values, and yes I do have taste).
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Also we mostly develop on Linux anyways (scientific stuff), but some of the people who do presentations aren't linux-savy or don't even have Linux on their laptops (can you imagine?!)
None of thinks of each demo disk as a specialized distro, it's just an all-in-one demo disk.
I will believe what you say when I see the first monopolist local phone company tell the govt. to "take this job and shove it," and pull out of the market. Think about that, if monopolies were fairly regulated, they'd go out of business or get bought just as often as competitive companies. Wake me up when we get there.
Too true! And I'm wondering who will fill in the other half of the orchestra. No doubt the Musicians Union will be picketing the show. Good luck to any scabs trying to sneak past with a double bass!
Then again, look how much mileage we've gotten from UPC symbols, which any printer of any kind can produce.
Next you're going to say that putting on softer-compound tires is a horrible idea because the stock tires were chosen for maximum tread life and fuel efficiency. No kidding. But some people want higher performance and are willing to pay for it. What do you care?
They don't state the response time of the screen, but LCDs have come a long way. Regardless, I'm sure it has a vga output just like every other laptop and desktop system out there, so if you still find the need to haul your CRT with you, go right ahead. I don't see the problem with a laptop keyboard for WASDX. As for the mouse, I trust it has a USB port!
Who knows what 15% means. I probably only compile 15% of the linux kernel source, because most of the source is drivers for devices I don't own. So the MS leak could be the kernel and GUI, or not.
The same reason smallpox killed more Indians that Pilgrims.
I forgot to say ,the reason I ask is because I looked at WineHQ's supported applications list and there are only 9 apps listed as working properly? And none of them is Office, which the story summary specifically claims works! There is another database of supported applications at wineHQ, but you have to register which it isn't worth doing just to decide whether to download Wine at all.
Also, like perhaps many others my laptop dual-boots to Linux on one side and Windows XP on the other. Can I use Wine to run things from the (read-only, under linux) NTFS Windows-XP partition? That would be fantastic. (Currently I do this with VMware but the boot time is annoying and the memory usage of course is ridiculous).
This makes WINE an interesting case study in the difference between the GPL and BSD licenses. (Wine is "lesser GPL" which allows linking to non-free software (eg MS Office) but requires source code distribution for the library (eg Wine)).
Here's a question for you: what's wrong with killing adults who have no friends or loved ones so long as it's quick and painless?
You're right. I guess I was thinking of email, or a university IRC server, or UNIX "talk", but he did say AIM.
The advantage is simply that you can express more values with fewer digits using a higher base. A binary system has only 1 bit of information per digit. A hexadecimal system has 4 bits of information per digit. A ternary system has 1.585-odd bits per digit. The question is, can you make 3 (or more)-way transistors that aren't just correspondingly bigger and more power-hungry?
If you just want to store a single binary value, base-three doesn't help you. You'd probably just leave the value '2' unused, or interpret it as "true." But you aren't worried about conserving bits unless you want to store a whole bunch of values, say a long sequence of bits. This table shows how a three digit binary value can be represented as a 2-digit ternary number.
00 000
01 001
02 010
10 011
11 100
12 101
20 110
21 111
22
Though here we're wasting the ternary number 22, because 1.585-something is kind of a messy number.
I guess impulse purchasing with a Credit Card is AOK then... no delayed gratification there!
But I guess you're saying comcast isn't serous, and is just messing with people's heads?
Anyways this isn't the dilemma you make it out to be. I don't recall *ever* seeing an online credit card form that didn't use ssl, at least not in the last 5 years. And most businesses simply provide webmail over ssl to their travellers.
Finally, the Chicken Little attitude towards wireless is pointless since the wired Internet offers no guarantee of privacy anways; if you want to talk to somebody securely, you need to use encryption regardless of whether your access is wired or wireless. If you are plugging into a wired LAN at a hotel and sending secure data unencrypted, I suggest you're being too trusful of all the strangers on your ethernet segment, the curious and bored nerd watching the front counter downstairs, and everybody else in between you and the other end.
Of course, a *new* space-based telescope would presumably be even better, but does that argue *for* or *against* continuing to nurse the Hubble?
He could expect or not expect whatever he likes, what difference does it make? Opera works better on the hardware he has.
It's still "just" a difference of degree. Even basic mathematics itself is founded on axioms for which the only "proof" is common sense, faith, or whatever you want to call it.
The fact that the better shows have also been by far the biggest moneymakers is no coincidence, even if that is an insult to your superiority complex.
(And yes, I am a parent with good wholesome family values, and yes I do have taste).