Problem is that MSI is such a hideous and opaque file format (just what we're used to from MS really).
Conversely, if I want to install a Debian package, but I don't trust it--well, if I have dpkg on the system I can extract its contents with dpkg-deb, and if I don't, I can extract it with ar and tar.
Well, you can use rhythmbox, amarok, gtkpod, and others. You're not solely limited to iTunes.
Of course, it still sucks that you can't just use rsync or unison to synchronise your music. This is a major deficiency and is one of the reasons I won't buy an iPod.
Well, I didn't say that it had to be a cryptographically secure hash. I assumed someone would eventually think up some kind of "good enough" video hash... good enough for them to show that they had made reasonable efforts to keep the content offline, that is. Honestly, these DMCA prats really annoyed me. They got exactly the law that they wanted--now they want Youtube to do their job for them!
At least I'm not the only one who this bugs. Every time I have to install a new program or piece of hardware on a Windows machine I fret about what files and registry keys their "installer" will crap out all over the system. Give me Debian any day!
If each channel is represented by a number in the range 0 to 2^6 - 1 then I don't see how they get round the fact that each pixel can only have 2^18 possible values.
By the same logic, they could claim that a 1024x768 pixel display can show 2^(1024*768*2^18) different colours, as long as you squint hard enough, or stand far enough away, and only want to display one "pixel" at a time.
It obviously doesn't work fine; the feature where you can use 'apt-get source' to obtain the source code for any component of the system appears to be broken.
It's too bad they break printer browsing. If not for that then the Apple hardware that people bring into the house would be able to print to my CUPS-shared printer without *any* configuration at all. As it is the users have to manually enter the printer's URL--oh well.
Hah. The last printer I needed to install on Windows took me about two hours. First of all, the installer was like 150 MB! Then of course it didn't work because the installer (actually, as it turns out, the installer that installs the installer) assumed that Windows was installed to the C: drive. It didn't occur to HP that people would end up with Windows on F:, oh no, that is impossible!
Only parts of it. Many parts are 'GPLv2 or later'. In addition, there is a hell of a lot of user-space code that is 'GPLv2 or later', including everything owned by the FSF.
A lot of the software that they distribute is licensed under "GPLv2 or later". Novel can't just arbitrarily chanage the license of software they distribute.
While fine for managing system-level processes and settings (e.g., the sysctl that disabled the flushing of uncommitted data to disk every five seconds), the users/session-level processes like beagled are probably more suitably managed by gnome-power-manager in GNOME, KDE's equivalent in KDE, etc.
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Problem is that MSI is such a hideous and opaque file format (just what we're used to from MS really).
Conversely, if I want to install a Debian package, but I don't trust it--well, if I have dpkg on the system I can extract its contents with dpkg-deb, and if I don't, I can extract it with ar and tar.
Well, you can use rhythmbox, amarok, gtkpod, and others. You're not solely limited to iTunes.
Of course, it still sucks that you can't just use rsync or unison to synchronise your music. This is a major deficiency and is one of the reasons I won't buy an iPod.
Well, I didn't say that it had to be a cryptographically secure hash. I assumed someone would eventually think up some kind of "good enough" video hash... good enough for them to show that they had made reasonable efforts to keep the content offline, that is. Honestly, these DMCA prats really annoyed me. They got exactly the law that they wanted--now they want Youtube to do their job for them!
They could record hashes of any removed content, and compare new uploads with the list of banned hashes.
OK then, it is a work of the government, paid for by the tax payers, and so should be in the public domain.
But... Win32 programming teaches us that both "32" and "64 bit" processors have a 16-bit WORD length...
Unless the answers you get are transcripts from a court case, they will be meaningless.
At least I'm not the only one who this bugs. Every time I have to install a new program or piece of hardware on a Windows machine I fret about what files and registry keys their "installer" will crap out all over the system. Give me Debian any day!
Wait, run that by me again?
If each channel is represented by a number in the range 0 to 2^6 - 1 then I don't see how they get round the fact that each pixel can only have 2^18 possible values.
By the same logic, they could claim that a 1024x768 pixel display can show 2^(1024*768*2^18) different colours, as long as you squint hard enough, or stand far enough away, and only want to display one "pixel" at a time.
It obviously doesn't work fine; the feature where you can use 'apt-get source' to obtain the source code for any component of the system appears to be broken.
It's too bad they break printer browsing. If not for that then the Apple hardware that people bring into the house would be able to print to my CUPS-shared printer without *any* configuration at all. As it is the users have to manually enter the printer's URL--oh well.
Hah. The last printer I needed to install on Windows took me about two hours. First of all, the installer was like 150 MB! Then of course it didn't work because the installer (actually, as it turns out, the installer that installs the installer) assumed that Windows was installed to the C: drive. It didn't occur to HP that people would end up with Windows on F:, oh no, that is impossible!
How na+AO8-ve!
Only parts of it. Many parts are 'GPLv2 or later'. In addition, there is a hell of a lot of user-space code that is 'GPLv2 or later', including everything owned by the FSF.
A lot of the software that they distribute is licensed under "GPLv2 or later". Novel can't just arbitrarily chanage the license of software they distribute.
I think it may be even easier than that. Simply repeal the (DRM-related portions of the) DMCA, and let the market take care of the rest.
But the human eye can only distinguish between 20-100 frame per second (depending on what you are looking at & measuring)...
While fine for managing system-level processes and settings (e.g., the sysctl that disabled the flushing of uncommitted data to disk every five seconds), the users/session-level processes like beagled are probably more suitably managed by gnome-power-manager in GNOME, KDE's equivalent in KDE, etc.
Gib is just short for Gigabinary.
"Does anyone know if the M70 can handle 8 Gigabinary sticks?"
But I've never heard anyone use either the full form or any of its abreviations ever anyway.
Well I guessed that, I just don't see why it's something magic and special that has to be added to the word processor...
MS has a patent that covers outlining?
WTF is outlinng anyway?
I'm surprised it isn't. I wonder how one files an RFP for an Ubuntu package...
And the ability to spell "loyality" correctly.
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