Motherboards are so cheap nowadays that you may as well buy one and disable all the stuff you're not going to use. I guess it's because they are produced in such numbers, that onboard audio/network chips cost mere pennies. It would probably cost the manufacturer more to sell two products, one without the extras.
"The Apple Public Source License (APSL) version 2.0 qualifies as a free software license. Apple's lawyers worked with the FSF to produce a license that would qualify.... The FSF now considers the APSL to be a free software license with two major practical problems, reminiscent of the NPL:
* It is not a true copyleft, because it allows linking with other
files which may be entirely proprietary.
* It is incompatible with the GPL."
Debian-legal has reviewed the APSL 2.0, in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg00 527.html. It seems that the reason it is incompatible with the GPL, is also the reason it can not be considered DFSG-Free: it requires users of its software to distribute the source code available under certain circumstances.
Newsflash: people on Slashdot have different opinions! If more people understood this then the signal:noise ratio would be a lot higher around here...
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OH NOES TEH DLL ARE ENCRYPTED!!1one
The code must be decrypted at some point in order to be run. If what you said was true, we would have uncrackable copy protection.
Your scheme is a variant of DRM, and like all DRM schemes is fundamentally flawed, because the person you are trying to keep the data from, is the exact same person that you are making the data available to.
The reason I said "regardless of whether you think it is good or bad" was to ignore discussions such as this.
It is very simple: the BSD license is more free, because it grants more freedoms.
Yes, to take this to its logical extreme means that anarchy is maximum freedom. No, this would not be a good thing; but by trying to argue that the GPL is more free (when you should have said that it is better for the user of Person A's software) you have already accepted that unlimited freedom isn't such a good thing anyway.
Oh, there are no adults at these government schools. The word "school" is what such facilities would be called in newspeak. We might describe them as factories where future data subjects are prepared for their adulthood. If a crop fails to meet compliance targets, it can be written off. After all, we already have an overpopulation problem.
It must be nice to live in a world where it is so easy to determine whether a party is guilty of an alleged crime.
Most child abuse is comitted by a family member. Perhaps we should remove all children from their families at birth, to be raised by the government. This would have the additional advantage that most will be indoctrinated into being GPS tracked 24/7.
In addition to what the other guy said, it is possible to take an XML file and work out exactly what encoding it is in. This is not possible with a "plain text" file.
The default encoding for an XML file is UTF-8.
If encoded in UCS-16, XML files must begin with a byte order marker, which tells the reader whether bytes in the file are to be interpreted as little endian or big endian.
If any other encoding is used, it must be given in the XML prologue:
Finally, I forgot to include variations on the line separator character(s) in my list: are lines terminated by a CR, LF, or both?
What endianess is your system? How many bits in a byte? Are you talking EBCDIC, or ASCII? What do you use the 8th bit for, ANSI? A variant of ISO-8859? Windows-1252? Mac Roman? Or something more exotic like KIO8-r, EUC-JP or Shift_JIS? Or do you mean Unicode, in which case do you mean UCS 32 or 16? Or UTF-8 or UTF-7?
In future, I suggest you read at least the first section of http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/, seven times, before you go mouthing off about issues you don't understand .
But the Earth's orbit is not perfectly repeated year after year. Not to mention the fact that the sun is rotating around the centre of the milky way, which is moving through space relative to all the other galaxies... etc etc.
I maintain suspension of disbelief while reading time travelling stories by reasoning that time travel is pretty damn difficult, making sure you come out where you want to is probably easy by comparison.
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Motherboards are so cheap nowadays that you may as well buy one and disable all the stuff you're not going to use. I guess it's because they are produced in such numbers, that onboard audio/network chips cost mere pennies. It would probably cost the manufacturer more to sell two products, one without the extras.
If you want to restore Emacs key bindings, read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_(Firef ox)
You don't even have to take such a harsh stance. Ask them to amend the clause so that it is clear that it only applies to work done on company time.
Crap, you are totally right. How embarrassing! :)
From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html:
... The FSF now considers the APSL to be a free software license with two major practical problems, reminiscent of the NPL:
0 527.html. It seems that the reason it is incompatible with the GPL, is also the reason it can not be considered DFSG-Free: it requires users of its software to distribute the source code available under certain circumstances.
"The Apple Public Source License (APSL) version 2.0 qualifies as a free software license. Apple's lawyers worked with the FSF to produce a license that would qualify.
* It is not a true copyleft, because it allows linking with other
files which may be entirely proprietary.
* It is incompatible with the GPL."
Debian-legal has reviewed the APSL 2.0, in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg0
They were all used up on the people who thought it was a good idea to rely on a desktop operating system to run on a server.
Why would he want to make his mp3s executable? :)
But assuming he did, there are two ways of going about it:
find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
or if you must use xargs:
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
better throw in a --max-arguments to the invocation of xargs however, you don't know how many mp3s this guy has!
wxWidgets will tell the programmer which Win32 APIs aren't supported in Wine? :)
$ pmap $(pgrep firefox-bin) | grep png /libpng12.so.0.1.2.8 /libpng12.so.0.1.2.8
40736000 144K r-x--
4075a000 4K rw---
Newsflash: people on Slashdot have different opinions! If more people understood this then the signal:noise ratio would be a lot higher around here...
OH NOES TEH DLL ARE ENCRYPTED!!1one
The code must be decrypted at some point in order to be run. If what you said was true, we would have uncrackable copy protection.
Your scheme is a variant of DRM, and like all DRM schemes is fundamentally flawed, because the person you are trying to keep the data from, is the exact same person that you are making the data available to.
The reason I said "regardless of whether you think it is good or bad" was to ignore discussions such as this.
It is very simple: the BSD license is more free, because it grants more freedoms.
Yes, to take this to its logical extreme means that anarchy is maximum freedom. No, this would not be a good thing; but by trying to argue that the GPL is more free (when you should have said that it is better for the user of Person A's software) you have already accepted that unlimited freedom isn't such a good thing anyway.
> How is this less free than BSD?
Whether you think it's good or bad is irrelevant. The GPL is less free than BSD because it does not grant the licensee as many freedoms.
Maybe you farmed it out to Elbonia, and got back thinly-veiled rip of some Free Software code.
Erm... RTFL?
Oh, there are no adults at these government schools. The word "school" is what such facilities would be called in newspeak. We might describe them as factories where future data subjects are prepared for their adulthood. If a crop fails to meet compliance targets, it can be written off. After all, we already have an overpopulation problem.
Write out 10,000 times: The United States is not the only country in the world.
It must be nice to live in a world where it is so easy to determine whether a party is guilty of an alleged crime.
Most child abuse is comitted by a family member. Perhaps we should remove all children from their families at birth, to be raised by the government. This would have the additional advantage that most will be indoctrinated into being GPS tracked 24/7.
In addition to what the other guy said, it is possible to take an XML file and work out exactly what encoding it is in. This is not possible with a "plain text" file.
The default encoding for an XML file is UTF-8.
If encoded in UCS-16, XML files must begin with a byte order marker, which tells the reader whether bytes in the file are to be interpreted as little endian or big endian.
If any other encoding is used, it must be given in the XML prologue:
Finally, I forgot to include variations on the line separator character(s) in my list: are lines terminated by a CR, LF, or both?
For those of us who don't use Notepad, it's also fine.
Plain text eh?
What endianess is your system? How many bits in a byte? Are you talking EBCDIC, or ASCII? What do you use the 8th bit for, ANSI? A variant of ISO-8859? Windows-1252? Mac Roman? Or something more exotic like KIO8-r, EUC-JP or Shift_JIS? Or do you mean Unicode, in which case do you mean UCS 32 or 16? Or UTF-8 or UTF-7?
In future, I suggest you read at least the first section of http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/, seven times, before you go mouthing off about issues you don't understand .
Flamebait!? As far as I know:
Hibernate -> write contents of RAM to disk and power off; restore contents early during boot up and resume
Standby -> put CPU and other peripherals that eat power to sleep, maintain contents of RAM
But the Earth's orbit is not perfectly repeated year after year. Not to mention the fact that the sun is rotating around the centre of the milky way, which is moving through space relative to all the other galaxies... etc etc.
I maintain suspension of disbelief while reading time travelling stories by reasoning that time travel is pretty damn difficult, making sure you come out where you want to is probably easy by comparison.
Do you have any links that would be understandable to a layman? :)
If it were, US Patent #1 would be for a time machine. :)