Perhaps they have violated the spirit, but I don't beleive they have actually violated GPL. The requirement is to share code, not share code that can be "effectively backported." They have given proper credit to Konqueror and the developers, and that's all the "FOSS community" really asks for. This is like the "I bought her a nice dinner and she won't put out!" argument. It may be irritating, but its not theivery.
Apple hardware is reliable, and lately their customer suppport has been very good, as opposed to cheap X86 boxes. On the other hand, I just don't trust Apple software in the long run. I believe open source OSes keeps OS X competitive, if Apple "drops the ball" on any issues, I want to be able to turn to a "free" un*x
1. Don't want to pay $129 to upgrade OS
2. Minimize Server OS- Decrease boot time
3. Tighten Security- Yes, I know there's few (none?) viruses, but I don't want lusers to even try to install games,chat,etc so I turn to OpenBSD.
Good News! There is a still lot of hate for lots of different religions! It may seem more politically correct to bash Christianity because its easier to dismiss Western, liberal anti-Christians as kooks or malcontents. But labelling harmless, if ignorant, criticism as "hate," doesn't help. If you want to defend your religious tradition, don't lash out at skeptics. (That's not the "Christian" thing to do, either, is it?)
There's also an issue about Darwin not really utilizing its microkernel, but running processes on a subsystem as though on a monolithic kernel. What does it all mean? I assume an optimized microkernel would make little difference.
Damn! When was I whining? I have my fantasies about not having to know how to spell, you have yours about the dire "costs" of not learning spelling. Whateva! To boldly go...
Actually, spelling seems to be only an issue for English writers. I've learned that spelling is much less of an problem in Spanish, and I have been told Russians and Finns never need to ask how to spell words in their own language. Frankly, I think it would be better to learn another language(the type humans speak) than to learn to spell in English. Of course, I'm only re-emphasizing your basic point.
Even if you move to India, in the future, both hardware and software will be done by robots. Go into automotive technology, so you can learn to service our future mechanical overlords.
Actually Scandisk was introduced in Dos 6.2 http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.shtml
Although Mediaplayer existed, it was packaged seperately. Also Windows 3.x was a 16-bit system- there were some awful memory hacks to keep that kludge going
After the article and captions, I was expecting more. Smoke over Bagdad- who'd a thunk it? Cars parked at a stadium- what are the chances of that? This is more like reality television meets satellite photos. Yawn.
I've seen your name on some interesting posts on/. and your absolutely correct on your definitions, you deserve better. BTW Yellow Dog is ahead of others for Apple hardware support. I wouldn't want to use any other linux on PPC for that reason.
After the lawsuits (yes, plural) about product leaks I don't think you'll be getting many "informed" persons commenting. I imagine Apple also wants to maintain a lock on Airport Express and Air Tunes products, as they're tying them to the successful iPod.
I thought you might have been the original poster who was looking to "save the world." Its interesting that you find fault in my logic. The original criticism in this thread, was of the homemade house of computer parts (which we also aren't in a position do much about,) and That's what I was comparing to Las Vegas etc. As far as personal responsibility- we're a small part of a huge mass of people. We'd have to spend a large amount of time and resources to change everyone's habits. Wouldn't it be more efficient to lobby various companies and corporations to be less wasteful? Eh, poopy?
I don't know the details, but google treats common words like "wildcards" rather than ignoring them altogether. Replacing "is" with "it" will give you the same results, for example. Google is omitting the "search terms," but taking into account that some sort of combination of letters there. Its like searching for "** there * God" as opposed to "there God"
http://www.avantbrowser.com/ Is this a reliable condom for IExploder? Its not open source, but its free, and seems to work as advertised, and if I have to keep IE on XP anyway...
Maybe you're not new, but you if there's one thing you can count on at/., its for fsck'd moderation. Best you can hope for is an occassionally helpful link. If you want to continue to use IE (I beleive its neccessary for windows updates), try http://www.avantbrowser.com/ its a free "upgrade" for IE
If/. still had a thinking audience this would be modded up. The meme about old computers wasting electricity is pretty resilient though. I think its an old marketing gimmick to sell new computers that gotta outta hand. I don't see nearly as much attention paid to the electricity use of CRT monitors, or other peripherals, just "electricity-wasting computers"
I'm the hippy??? I'm calling on you to shut off your goddamn hair dryer, and cut your hair, candy ass!
I'm saying attention is better focussed on other things. And you knew what you were talking about, you'd know its the CRTs, not "computers" that use significant energy. Preach to fuktards somewhere else m'kay.
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Perhaps they have violated the spirit, but I don't beleive they have actually violated GPL. The requirement is to share code, not share code that can be "effectively backported." They have given proper credit to Konqueror and the developers, and that's all the "FOSS community" really asks for. This is like the "I bought her a nice dinner and she won't put out!" argument. It may be irritating, but its not theivery.
Was first post on a non-duped Slashdot story on part of the demands?
Think about this one- clones of yourself running around, posting on Slashdot... The Horror, the Horror!
Apple hardware is reliable, and lately their customer suppport has been very good, as opposed to cheap X86 boxes. On the other hand, I just don't trust Apple software in the long run. I believe open source OSes keeps OS X competitive, if Apple "drops the ball" on any issues, I want to be able to turn to a "free" un*x
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/TV402UMac. htm
Not exactly what you're looking for, but..
Eye TV for Mac OSX PVR software: proprietary
1. Don't want to pay $129 to upgrade OS 2. Minimize Server OS- Decrease boot time 3. Tighten Security- Yes, I know there's few (none?) viruses, but I don't want lusers to even try to install games,chat,etc so I turn to OpenBSD.
http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/ I'm not sure if its brilliant or just an incredible waste of time and effort...
Some Japanese guy programmed Pac-Man to run in Excel 5.0! Here's more Pac-mans (pac-men?)http://www.flamingmayo.com/firstchurchof pacman/false_idols.htm
Good News! There is a still lot of hate for lots of different religions! It may seem more politically correct to bash Christianity because its easier to dismiss Western, liberal anti-Christians as kooks or malcontents. But labelling harmless, if ignorant, criticism as "hate," doesn't help. If you want to defend your religious tradition, don't lash out at skeptics. (That's not the "Christian" thing to do, either, is it?)
There's also an issue about Darwin not really utilizing its microkernel, but running processes on a subsystem as though on a monolithic kernel. What does it all mean? I assume an optimized microkernel would make little difference.
Damn! When was I whining? I have my fantasies about not having to know how to spell, you have yours about the dire "costs" of not learning spelling. Whateva! To boldly go...
Actually, spelling seems to be only an issue for English writers. I've learned that spelling is much less of an problem in Spanish, and I have been told Russians and Finns never need to ask how to spell words in their own language. Frankly, I think it would be better to learn another language(the type humans speak) than to learn to spell in English. Of course, I'm only re-emphasizing your basic point.
Even if you move to India, in the future, both hardware and software will be done by robots. Go into automotive technology, so you can learn to service our future mechanical overlords.
For the hell of it I put an email address to get google updates- and I was redirected to Yahoo Groups for Google Friends Group! kinda strange
Actually Scandisk was introduced in Dos 6.2 http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.shtml Although Mediaplayer existed, it was packaged seperately. Also Windows 3.x was a 16-bit system- there were some awful memory hacks to keep that kludge going
It still has Solitaire, right?
After the article and captions, I was expecting more. Smoke over Bagdad- who'd a thunk it? Cars parked at a stadium- what are the chances of that? This is more like reality television meets satellite photos. Yawn.
I've seen your name on some interesting posts on /. and your absolutely correct on your definitions, you deserve better. BTW Yellow Dog is ahead of others for Apple hardware support. I wouldn't want to use any other linux on PPC for that reason.
After the lawsuits (yes, plural) about product leaks I don't think you'll be getting many "informed" persons commenting. I imagine Apple also wants to maintain a lock on Airport Express and Air Tunes products, as they're tying them to the successful iPod.
I thought you might have been the original poster who was looking to "save the world." Its interesting that you find fault in my logic. The original criticism in this thread, was of the homemade house of computer parts (which we also aren't in a position do much about,) and That's what I was comparing to Las Vegas etc. As far as personal responsibility- we're a small part of a huge mass of people. We'd have to spend a large amount of time and resources to change everyone's habits. Wouldn't it be more efficient to lobby various companies and corporations to be less wasteful? Eh, poopy?
I don't know the details, but google treats common words like "wildcards" rather than ignoring them altogether. Replacing "is" with "it" will give you the same results, for example. Google is omitting the "search terms," but taking into account that some sort of combination of letters there. Its like searching for "** there * God" as opposed to "there God"
http://www.avantbrowser.com/ Is this a reliable condom for IExploder? Its not open source, but its free, and seems to work as advertised, and if I have to keep IE on XP anyway...
Maybe you're not new, but you if there's one thing you can count on at /., its for fsck'd moderation. Best you can hope for is an occassionally helpful link. If you want to continue to use IE (I beleive its neccessary for windows updates), try http://www.avantbrowser.com/ its a free "upgrade" for IE
If /. still had a thinking audience this would be modded up. The meme about old computers wasting electricity is pretty resilient though. I think its an old marketing gimmick to sell new computers that gotta outta hand. I don't see nearly as much attention paid to the electricity use of CRT monitors, or other peripherals, just "electricity-wasting computers"
I'm the hippy??? I'm calling on you to shut off your goddamn hair dryer, and cut your hair, candy ass! I'm saying attention is better focussed on other things. And you knew what you were talking about, you'd know its the CRTs, not "computers" that use significant energy. Preach to fuktards somewhere else m'kay.