I remember reading that Steve Balmer and Bill Gates specifically FORBID any MS employees from reading / accessing GPL'ed code unless given express permission from somewhere high up.
They had their "don't touch gpl" rule in place for quite a few years now. But they can access BSD licensed code and incorporate them freely.
Just because they had access doesn't mean MS employees are out to break the law...
it works in reverse too. To microsoft, all this free linux code floating around on the net is a huge temptation for its employees to cut some corners and potentially land ms in big legal trouble... sounds familiar to all these conspiracy theories floating around about the leaked win2k source, doesn't it?
i think inflexable is the postfixed form of
inflex (ie inflexion)... to conjugate for cases, plurality, etc.
inflexable means: able to inflex
so it might be a correctly spelled word. It doesn't matter if it's actually in the dictionary or not, because natural languages are flexible (young children can form sensible words that are not part of the dictionary language), and the dictionary is just an after the fact description of the language. Think of it as a filesystem snapshot. By the time you are actually talking, speaking, and using the words, the snapshot / dictionary is already 10, 30, or even 100 years old.
I am studying English literature, and the people in my department, especially the grammarians, care a lot about misspellings, because they eventually filter into the mainstream language and enter the Oxford English Dictionary as a standard word. This process has been happening over the last few centuries. One assignment we got was to compare Shakespeare's and Marlow's use of English to our current language, and see where they differ. Some of the words that we use nowadays are actually derived from misspellings found in "bad" and "pirated" copies of Shakespeare manuscripts. The originals have spellings that seem entirely foreign to our modern eyes.
In the experimental poetry / fiction department, all they do is come up with new words with different spellings. Knowing how to spell badly is definately an asset on a resume for that kind of job.
regardless of whether freebsd 5 is in osx or not, OS X does have various features of Freebsd 5 integrated into darwin. for example, softupdates was a FreeBSD 4.x thing... that's been integrated. in Freebsd 5, there is the background fsck and filesystem snapshots work that resulted directly from the work on softupdates.
that is being integrated into OS X for those snappy power-on to usable times for Mac OS X. OS X powers on, checks all the devices, then just loads into the User interface. The fsck'ing happens in the background... so that is an example of a part of FreeBSD 5.x getting backported into OS X
would MRTG do everything that iptraf does? i'm thinking that iptraf might be wedded too closely to the linux net implementation.. maybe that's why it hasn't been ported.
it's probably not worth porting, but it's worth rewriting to fit the bsd platform. porting sometimes just gets damned hard... hard enough that rewriting is simple by comparison.
but sun discontinued the Cube, just when they could just alter it a little to cut costs, and offer it as a simple network server for regular consumers...
sun's thinking too much about the corporate world. I'd like to see how apple would handle something like this... probably turn it into a fashion item
i'm using 4.9 and i never had to recompile to get my nat box working. I'm using the ipf / ipnat combination, and they were already installed. I just had to configure them, and put it in the starup scripts. The recompiling part is for purists who would rather have them in kernel vs. loading them as modules. For noncritical work, modules are fine. I looked into ipfw / natd, but the configuration is too nasty. ipf/ipnat is in comparison so much simpler.
The freebsd handbook *always* wants you to recompile. That's not the case if you just want to use the modules.
but that is repression already.... repressing the truth, which is that Chen ShuiBian is a democratically elected, popular leader... repressing the fact that the next president will also be a democratically elected, popular leader.
people always say things aren't that bad in China... it only gets bad when you say something bad about it (you get lock up in jail where no one will hear about how bad it is...)
The computer industry simply depends on that area. If tomorrow there is war, and taiwan is blown up by nuc's, then there will be no chips. No if's, no buts. a future's market is NOT going to help you if 70 % of the world's motherboards get blown up.
It's simply interdependence at its tightest.
Here's a little thought I had...
SCO has been pressing IBM to show them IBM's code in their discovery documents. SCO wants every single last drop of code in IBM's entire repository. AIX, Dynix, all the operating systems even remotely related to the issue at hand. Could it be that once SCO has acquired the code, they could dissemble it illegally, and spread it out into the public domain, as "payback" for what they consider Linux has done to SCO code, which is to spread out trade secrets and code. Since SCO is already deep in grey legal territory, it's a small step to just toss *all* and *any* code IBM will release in Discovery to a safe Russian, or Chinese FTP site, and have it aired out like laundry
IBM refuses to show any code whatsoever because the IBM code is extremely valuable. The judge is now forcing SCO to show infringing code first, so the scheme is temporarily halted. But with the instability of SCO, I think something is still going on....
On CNN Liu Di (Stainless steel mouse) is 27, yet on reuters she's 23... maybe she's been locked away for 5 years???
Wondering if anyone knows anything about this...
One question that's been nagging me is how passive the judicial system is in this case. I've never seen a court case like this where "motions" or "admendments" get passed around in the media, and where the major battles are fought in popular media (ie slashdot, fortune, etc) rather than in the courts. Has the judge actually said anything about this case? Everyone keeps on waiting for the moment the judge "laughs and throws out the court case", but when is that going to be? Wait for another year or so until the case gets into the court system?
The law firms seem to be parrying and answering each other's accusations in a media hosted court, kinda like a medieval shouting match (aristotle vs. whatever tyrant of the day), and the US law system seems unable to do anything to bring decorum or even a sense of respectability and responsibility to what's comming out of these lawyer's mouths.
That's what bothers me about all this.
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People do pay for those inferior knock-offs though...
just think of those chinese Harry Potter fan fic books. I've seen some at the local chinese market... they're huge, and lots of ppl are gobling them up
Yes I would be very upset if that happened. Don't go comparing spam to being arrested by police and having your family and friends worry about you just because you "provided the terrorists with housing and shelter." I've been arrested before. Wrongfully. And I would think that the case you present for example is also wrongful arrest.
Any why exactly does NX compression not come from the XConsortium? Because all the existing X bureaucracy keep on saying that there's no problem with network transparency & X... so now innovations must come from outside.
Hey, does anyone know if Ransom Love is still at SCO / Caldera? He seems to be the bigshot tech developer lead / head at caldera, and he was doing all these interviews about how great it was that caldera bought sco. Can anyone reach him for a comment, maybe from inside sco, now that it's gone evil?
In Singapore, English in one of the official languages. It is taught to kindergarden kids. Don't think that just because a person is in Asia that English should not be his/her first language.
Well, the Multia RAN slashdot during it's formative years... I also though of getting one when it was making it's rounds on ebay... missed the chance then...
One idea in my head is that the architect is part of the machine, so why should neo trust him? For all that BS the old white guy was spewing out, both doors might lead to the exact same outcome. Thus the "illusion" of choice that the system needed. It's like tossing a coin with heads on both sides. No matter what happens, the machine wins.
Why do all of us take the architect's BS on face value? The oracle was just leading Neo on, and I think the whole movie series is just some action scenes, and some cool music, but not especially interesting to think about after my 2 year long (still unsucessful) grappling with Satre's ideas, (a real french guy)
yes X is not the gui, but x and the infrastructure around x IS the sore point around slow performance in gui apps.
you say use lightweight wm's.... but they don't support nearly as many features as kde / gnome. The MS Windows GUI has just as many features as KDE/gnome, but manages to be faster. So what? Ask people to not use Mozilla? Ask everyone to fall back to FVWM (piece of crap UI wise if u ask me...)?
X is not the GUI, so maybe we can send 0's and 1's into the x sockets by hand... that'll be very fast indeed
We can start by inproving the implementations of X... optimizing some of the algorithms, cut the elitist thinking that X has no problem. If X is so great, it should be the easiest part to get *right* and fast
by the way, "dearth" as a noun actually means a lack of something. So by saying that Xbox has "Halo, a dearth of sports games...." you are actually saying that the xbox is lacking in sports games, which is probably the opposite of what you actually meant. I've seen this word misused on slashdot so many times, and just decided to speak out.
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I remember reading that Steve Balmer and Bill Gates specifically FORBID any MS employees from reading / accessing GPL'ed code unless given express permission from somewhere high up.
...
... sounds familiar to all these conspiracy theories floating around about the leaked win2k source, doesn't it?
They had their "don't touch gpl" rule in place for quite a few years now. But they can access BSD licensed code and incorporate them freely.
Just because they had access doesn't mean MS employees are out to break the law
it works in reverse too. To microsoft, all this free linux code floating around on the net is a huge temptation for its employees to cut some corners and potentially land ms in big legal trouble
i think inflexable is the postfixed form of inflex (ie inflexion) ... to conjugate for cases, plurality, etc.
inflexable means: able to inflex
so it might be a correctly spelled word. It doesn't matter if it's actually in the dictionary or not, because natural languages are flexible (young children can form sensible words that are not part of the dictionary language), and the dictionary is just an after the fact description of the language. Think of it as a filesystem snapshot. By the time you are actually talking, speaking, and using the words, the snapshot / dictionary is already 10, 30, or even 100 years old.
I am studying English literature, and the people in my department, especially the grammarians, care a lot about misspellings, because they eventually filter into the mainstream language and enter the Oxford English Dictionary as a standard word. This process has been happening over the last few centuries. One assignment we got was to compare Shakespeare's and Marlow's use of English to our current language, and see where they differ. Some of the words that we use nowadays are actually derived from misspellings found in "bad" and "pirated" copies of Shakespeare manuscripts. The originals have spellings that seem entirely foreign to our modern eyes.
In the experimental poetry / fiction department, all they do is come up with new words with different spellings. Knowing how to spell badly is definately an asset on a resume for that kind of job.
regardless of whether freebsd 5 is in osx or not, OS X does have various features of Freebsd 5 integrated into darwin. for example, softupdates was a FreeBSD 4.x thing ... that's been integrated. in Freebsd 5, there is the background fsck and filesystem snapshots work that resulted directly from the work on softupdates.
that is being integrated into OS X for those snappy power-on to usable times for Mac OS X. OS X powers on, checks all the devices, then just loads into the User interface. The fsck'ing happens in the background ... so that is an example of a part of FreeBSD 5.x getting backported into OS X
would MRTG do everything that iptraf does? i'm thinking that iptraf might be wedded too closely to the linux net implementation .. maybe that's why it hasn't been ported.
it's probably not worth porting, but it's worth rewriting to fit the bsd platform. porting sometimes just gets damned hard ... hard enough that rewriting is simple by comparison.
but sun discontinued the Cube, just when they could just alter it a little to cut costs, and offer it as a simple network server for regular consumers ...
sun's thinking too much about the corporate world. I'd like to see how apple would handle something like this... probably turn it into a fashion item
i'm using 4.9 and i never had to recompile to get my nat box working. I'm using the ipf / ipnat combination, and they were already installed. I just had to configure them, and put it in the starup scripts. The recompiling part is for purists who would rather have them in kernel vs. loading them as modules. For noncritical work, modules are fine. I looked into ipfw / natd, but the configuration is too nasty. ipf/ipnat is in comparison so much simpler.
The freebsd handbook *always* wants you to recompile. That's not the case if you just want to use the modules.
but that is repression already.... repressing the truth, which is that Chen ShuiBian is a democratically elected, popular leader ... repressing the fact that the next president will also be a democratically elected, popular leader.
people always say things aren't that bad in China ... it only gets bad when you say something bad about it (you get lock up in jail where no one will hear about how bad it is...)
The computer industry simply depends on that area. If tomorrow there is war, and taiwan is blown up by nuc's, then there will be no chips. No if's, no buts. a future's market is NOT going to help you if 70 % of the world's motherboards get blown up. It's simply interdependence at its tightest.
That's the IDSoft way of doing things. Just patent the engine, and license it to gamemakers.
Here's a little thought I had ...
SCO has been pressing IBM to show them IBM's code in their discovery documents. SCO wants every single last drop of code in IBM's entire repository. AIX, Dynix, all the operating systems even remotely related to the issue at hand. Could it be that once SCO has acquired the code, they could dissemble it illegally, and spread it out into the public domain, as "payback" for what they consider Linux has done to SCO code, which is to spread out trade secrets and code. Since SCO is already deep in grey legal territory, it's a small step to just toss *all* and *any* code IBM will release in Discovery to a safe Russian, or Chinese FTP site, and have it aired out like laundry
IBM refuses to show any code whatsoever because the IBM code is extremely valuable. The judge is now forcing SCO to show infringing code first, so the scheme is temporarily halted. But with the instability of SCO, I think something is still going on ....
On CNN Liu Di (Stainless steel mouse) is 27, yet on reuters she's 23 ... maybe she's been locked away for 5 years???
Wondering if anyone knows anything about this ...
it's not al gore we're talking about ... it's gore vidal, some wierd person
One question that's been nagging me is how passive the judicial system is in this case. I've never seen a court case like this where "motions" or "admendments" get passed around in the media, and where the major battles are fought in popular media (ie slashdot, fortune, etc) rather than in the courts. Has the judge actually said anything about this case? Everyone keeps on waiting for the moment the judge "laughs and throws out the court case", but when is that going to be? Wait for another year or so until the case gets into the court system? The law firms seem to be parrying and answering each other's accusations in a media hosted court, kinda like a medieval shouting match (aristotle vs. whatever tyrant of the day), and the US law system seems unable to do anything to bring decorum or even a sense of respectability and responsibility to what's comming out of these lawyer's mouths. That's what bothers me about all this.
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People do pay for those inferior knock-offs though ... ... they're huge, and lots of ppl are gobling them up
just think of those chinese Harry Potter fan fic books. I've seen some at the local chinese market
Yes I would be very upset if that happened. Don't go comparing spam to being arrested by police and having your family and friends worry about you just because you "provided the terrorists with housing and shelter." I've been arrested before. Wrongfully. And I would think that the case you present for example is also wrongful arrest.
Don't talk about stuff you have no idea about.
Any why exactly does NX compression not come from the XConsortium? Because all the existing X bureaucracy keep on saying that there's no problem with network transparency & X ... so now innovations must come from outside.
Hey, does anyone know if Ransom Love is still at SCO / Caldera? He seems to be the bigshot tech developer lead / head at caldera, and he was doing all these interviews about how great it was that caldera bought sco. Can anyone reach him for a comment, maybe from inside sco, now that it's gone evil?
In Singapore, English in one of the official languages. It is taught to kindergarden kids. Don't think that just because a person is in Asia that English should not be his/her first language.
Well, the Multia RAN slashdot during it's formative years ... I also though of getting one when it was making it's rounds on ebay ... missed the chance then ...
How about the complete works of Shakespeare?
Nothing beats a nice assortment of Elizabethan plays.
One idea in my head is that the architect is part of the machine, so why should neo trust him? For all that BS the old white guy was spewing out, both doors might lead to the exact same outcome. Thus the "illusion" of choice that the system needed. It's like tossing a coin with heads on both sides. No matter what happens, the machine wins.
Why do all of us take the architect's BS on face value? The oracle was just leading Neo on, and I think the whole movie series is just some action scenes, and some cool music, but not especially interesting to think about after my 2 year long (still unsucessful) grappling with Satre's ideas, (a real french guy)
yes X is not the gui, but x and the infrastructure around x IS the sore point around slow performance in gui apps. you say use lightweight wm's .... but they don't support nearly as many features as kde / gnome. The MS Windows GUI has just as many features as KDE/gnome, but manages to be faster. So what? Ask people to not use Mozilla? Ask everyone to fall back to FVWM (piece of crap UI wise if u ask me ...)?
X is not the GUI, so maybe we can send 0's and 1's into the x sockets by hand ... that'll be very fast indeed
We can start by inproving the implementations of X ... optimizing some of the algorithms, cut the elitist thinking that X has no problem. If X is so great, it should be the easiest part to get *right* and fast
by the way, "dearth" as a noun actually means a lack of something. So by saying that Xbox has "Halo, a dearth of sports games ...." you are actually saying that the xbox is lacking in sports games, which is probably the opposite of what you actually meant. I've seen this word misused on slashdot so many times, and just decided to speak out.