From what I understand, it's a Jewish thing--only my Jewish friends do it.
From what I last heard, one is not supposed to write out the name of God where it can be erased, because one is not supposed to erase it. The famous workaround is that everyone writes G-d to mean "God" and don't have to worry about erasing the name.
I have no clue if it's law or superstition or custom or whatnot.
I love my Trackman, although mine is an older model. Plus with my Kinesis Advantage USB keyboard, no one attempts to use my computer when I'm not around.;)
However, you have to clean the thing almost daily. I guess I leave a lot of skin cells on the ball. However until it's totally covered in groad you can usually still use it.
DRM is an encryption scheme where the recipient is also considered one of the attackers--you HAVE to give the key to the recipient to unlock the media but attempt to tell the recipient how to use the file, which is not technically feasable. An open-source version will simply tell the attacker/recipient how to use the key to unlock the media even faster!
If the source-code is revealed, it ceases to be DRM, because the encrypted key is visible and any protection on the file can be stripped.
My s/o and I live in an area that had Adelphia, pre-merger.
We had to "provision" twice.
The second time was quite fun. As I can't use Firefox to provision my machine because they only support IE on the provisioning app, and I only run gNewSense and Ubuntu, I had to call technical support and have them provision.
Forty-five minutes into the call:
"Lady, I have 12 Ubuntu (GNU/)Linux computers in my apartment. I can boot any of them, hook them up with a straight Cat-5 cable to the cable modem, type sudo dhclient eth0, and have them pick up a lease from your provisioning server, because I was able to do that with two different machines before I even called.
Why are you still trying, after 45 minutes, to get my girlfriend's sole Windows machine to attempt to find your provisioning server, when it's clear that the Windows networking just doesn't want to find it, after multiple reboots and reconfiguration?"
She didn't have a good answer; told me to boot the Linux machine, then set everything up on her end.
Everything just worked; haven't had a problem since. The problem isn't technology--it's wetware.
(at least as far as I can tell, you cant add CDMA to it and get it to work with sprint/verizon/cricket)
CDMA doesn't seem to be "open" hardware in the slightest, you need new firmware per carrier, at least that's what it seems like.
You'd also be paying some high patent premiums for that hardware to Qualcomm.
That and while it would be awesome in theory, most of those carriers (esp. Verizon) would rather lock everyone out of everything that doesn't use their network. It's going to take a lot of market force that's not there right now to get that to change (there are other ways but they all have huge drawbacks.)
No one is putting a gun to your head and demanding that you use this code, you know. You don't like the terms, don't use the software! You do have the freedom not to use it; you get your desired permissiveness, act the opportunity costs of having to build or find similar code.
The "forced publication" you speak of is the cost of using GPL'd software--if you do not like those terms, pay someone else something else. You didn't "simply" use GPL code--you must make a concious decision to.
It's not like copy-paste happens on accident, unless your mousing skills really suck under X.
Those drivers actually have firmware in them--lots of binary blobs. Not exactly the "preferred form for editing the work"; the R300s are not supported, only the R200 cards are according to your link. Someone not update that page in a while?
GPL reverses more restrictions that copyright law places upon you (can't run, can't modify, can't distribute) in exchange for some requirements if you perform certain activities (distributing source with binaries.)
MS EULA reverses less restrictions that copyright law places upon you (can't run) in exchange for more onerous requirements.
They're the same sort of thing but GPL has less restrictions upon you if you are in compliance--things you can't even do under MS EULA. Hence GPL = good , MS EULA = bad.
There are patent restrictions on MP3 and the patents are actively licensed. However for home/personal use there is no restrictions on decoding.
The reason I don't use MP3 is that there are restrictions on encoding. I make music, and I'm not going to use some patented format and have to pay royalties for distribution.
I was told by a senior engineer on one of my first days of college:
If you're working at a company and your superiors make you do something you know is illegal, unethical, or will kill or injure people, leave. You don't want to be working there anyway.
---
Even though you were "overruled" and "following orders" if the company gets caught, the fingers of blame are initially going to be pointed at you.
I understand that it's not easy to put ethics above feeding your family--start looking for a new job now.
Some of that is to prevent actual abuses of the school system. I've done quite a few ISS's in my time; mostly for fighting. Then again, I was always guilty.
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XFree86 was never GPL. It was MIT-licensed.
From what I understand, it's a Jewish thing--only my Jewish friends do it.
From what I last heard, one is not supposed to write out the name of God where it can be erased, because one is not supposed to erase it. The famous workaround is that everyone writes G-d to mean "God" and don't have to worry about erasing the name.
I have no clue if it's law or superstition or custom or whatnot.
Don't tell us. Tell NoOOXML.org.
I think this sort of thing needs to be brought into the bright spotlight and the corruption exposed.
I love my Trackman, although mine is an older model. Plus with my Kinesis Advantage USB keyboard, no one attempts to use my computer when I'm not around. ;)
However, you have to clean the thing almost daily. I guess I leave a lot of skin cells on the ball. However until it's totally covered in groad you can usually still use it.
Not really. The 9200's are supported, but that's it.
Plus the 'open-source' 9200 driver is a rat's nest of firmware.
You can't make an open-source version of DRM.
DRM is an encryption scheme where the recipient is also considered one of the attackers--you HAVE to give the key to the recipient to unlock the media but attempt to tell the recipient how to use the file, which is not technically feasable. An open-source version will simply tell the attacker/recipient how to use the key to unlock the media even faster!
If the source-code is revealed, it ceases to be DRM, because the encrypted key is visible and any protection on the file can be stripped.
My s/o and I live in an area that had Adelphia, pre-merger.
We had to "provision" twice.
The second time was quite fun. As I can't use Firefox to provision my machine because they only support IE on the provisioning app, and I only run gNewSense and Ubuntu, I had to call technical support and have them provision.
Forty-five minutes into the call:
"Lady, I have 12 Ubuntu (GNU/)Linux computers in my apartment. I can boot any of them, hook them up with a straight Cat-5 cable to the cable modem, type sudo dhclient eth0, and have them pick up a lease from your provisioning server, because I was able to do that with two different machines before I even called.
Why are you still trying, after 45 minutes, to get my girlfriend's sole Windows machine to attempt to find your provisioning server, when it's clear that the Windows networking just doesn't want to find it, after multiple reboots and reconfiguration?"
She didn't have a good answer; told me to boot the Linux machine, then set everything up on her end.
Everything just worked; haven't had a problem since. The problem isn't technology--it's wetware.
(at least as far as I can tell, you cant add CDMA to it and get it to work with sprint/verizon/cricket)
CDMA doesn't seem to be "open" hardware in the slightest, you need new firmware per carrier, at least that's what it seems like.
You'd also be paying some high patent premiums for that hardware to Qualcomm.
That and while it would be awesome in theory, most of those carriers (esp. Verizon) would rather lock everyone out of everything that doesn't use their network. It's going to take a lot of market force that's not there right now to get that to change (there are other ways but they all have huge drawbacks.)
If OOXML is more superior at storing legacy documents, then how can you have a 100% convertor to ODF?
4. GIMP has really bad startup time, and performance, compared to commercial graphics editors (such as Photoshop)
Only under Win32, and mostly in the font loading spectrum. It's a hell of a lot faster in a native GNOME.
No one is putting a gun to your head and demanding that you use this code, you know. You don't like the terms, don't use the software! You do have the freedom not to use it; you get your desired permissiveness, act the opportunity costs of having to build or find similar code.
The "forced publication" you speak of is the cost of using GPL'd software--if you do not like those terms, pay someone else something else. You didn't "simply" use GPL code--you must make a concious decision to.
It's not like copy-paste happens on accident, unless your mousing skills really suck under X.
"I open my code up for audit purposes only. That is Open Source in my book with the intent of what my license allows."
Microsoft calls that "Shared Source"; try using that term instead.
Ubuntu 7.05? Get your facts straight, it's 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
Try nano, it's usually installed or installable in most modern distros and has a 'better' license.
The pirate bay used to have an artificial screenshot generator. You might be able to find it with a quick search.
Here's a fun trick:
Download an ogg vorbis file (or install mp3 support and use an mp3 file) somewhere.
View that folder in Nautilus with Icon view turned on (or just use the desktop.)
Hover your mouse cursor over the file and it will begin playing, as a sort of 'preview' functionality.
Those drivers actually have firmware in them--lots of binary blobs. Not exactly the "preferred form for editing the work"; the R300s are not supported, only the R200 cards are according to your link. Someone not update that page in a while?
GPL reverses more restrictions that copyright law places upon you (can't run, can't modify, can't distribute) in exchange for some requirements if you perform certain activities (distributing source with binaries.)
MS EULA reverses less restrictions that copyright law places upon you (can't run) in exchange for more onerous requirements.
They're the same sort of thing but GPL has less restrictions upon you if you are in compliance--things you can't even do under MS EULA. Hence GPL = good , MS EULA = bad.
44.1, not 41.1. CD's were supposed to be able to record 22,050 hz sounds, which means a 44,100 hz sample rate.
There are patent restrictions on MP3 and the patents are actively licensed. However for home/personal use there is no restrictions on decoding.
The reason I don't use MP3 is that there are restrictions on encoding. I make music, and I'm not going to use some patented format and have to pay royalties for distribution.
Bwahaha, bravo, turning that one on its head. (And me without mod points.)
I was told by a senior engineer on one of my first days of college:
If you're working at a company and your superiors make you do something you know is illegal, unethical, or will kill or injure people, leave. You don't want to be working there anyway.
---
Even though you were "overruled" and "following orders" if the company gets caught, the fingers of blame are initially going to be pointed at you.
I understand that it's not easy to put ethics above feeding your family--start looking for a new job now.
Buying something second hand still influences the primary market--people on the edge will buy it if they can resell it when they tire of the device.
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Some of that is to prevent actual abuses of the school system. I've done quite a few ISS's in my time; mostly for fighting. Then again, I was always guilty.
Nothing on my machine. Old MSI 6163 mainboard. Must be your newfangled Vista-licensed OEM Bioses