The problem is that the QPL is *still* not compatible with the GPL. Therefore, linking KDE, which is covered by the GPL, with Qt, which is covered by the QPL, is a violation of the GPL. If a company were to do this, they could be sued by any of the people who have contributed GPLd code to KDE, or whose GPLd code KDE has taken (there is a lot of GPLd code from the GNU project in there...the Free Software Foundation suing a corporation over it is unlikely, but it's still a technical possibility).
One example, albeit extreme, of what happens when God is removed from the way we live and what we think is Hitler. It is a well-known fact that Nietzsche's writings became the cornerstone of the Nazi Party and Hitler's personal philosophy. And we all know what atrocities he did in killing millions of people. But again with no God, life really has no basis for value.
That's a completely invalid argument. You're saying that since Hitler liked Nietzche's philosphy, and Hitler killed people, therefore Nietzche's philosophy causes people to be murderers. Take a logic class, please.
By your reasoning, all religions (especially Christianity) would be likewise invalidated, as Christianity is what caused people to kill others (Crusades, Reformation, etc.), knowingly send innocent children to their death (Children's Crusade).
One example, albeit extreme, of what happens when God is removed from the way we live and what we think is Hitler. It is a well-known fact that Nietzsche's writings became the cornerstone of the Nazi Party and Hitler's personal philosophy. And we all know what atrocities he did in killing millions of people. But again with no God, life really has no basis for value./i.
That's a completely invalid arguments. You're saying that since Hitler liked Nietzche's philosphy, and Hitler killed people, therefore Nietzche's philosophy causes people to be murderers. Take a logic class, please.
By your reasoning, all religions (especially Christianity) would be likewise invalidated, as Christianity is what caused people to kill others (Crusades, Reformation, etc.), knowingly send innocent children to their death (Children's Crusade).
Okay, I'm confused. As i mentioned above, it's a exe->C conversion, not the actual source code. However, if he used any halfway decent exe->c "decompiler," the source, while virtually unreadable, would still compile. Why does his source not compile?
Uhh, this isn't the source code. This is an exe->c conversion using one of the many decompilers out there (none of which are very good). It's basically the disassembled asm code turned into C by a conversion utility.
I need a 3 button mouse so I can cut and paste, silly. And also because button 2 is open-link-in-new-window in netscape.
Hmm, i suppose it could make life easier. I have a 3-button mouse, but I never use the middle button. I'm too used to using the keyboard for cut/paste I suppose.
I need X. I use remote displaying on probably 4 to 10 machines a day. It really beats the crap out of going back to my room to run matlab or to a Sparc or HP to do data analysis or intensive processing. I even run my window manager remotely on some of the machines.
Ok, I'll give you that much. That's pretty much the only justification I've seen for using X. There really isn't any other windowing system I know of that provides that type of networking functionality, but as a single-computer desktop windowing system, there are many better choices than X.
I have yet to see a Mac with focus-follows mouse or come with a more-than-one-button-mouse.
Hmm, I can't seem to find a focus-follows mouse for MacOS either in my brief search. Odd, considering that Windows 95 has it. If Win95 can do it with a tiny utility, i don't see why MacOS can't, but then again I don't know the internals of either OS too well.
Can I really get a bugfix release from 7.X to 8.X? Apple claims that 8.X is more stable -- that means it fixes bugs in 7.X. So how is it going to be any different if they change the BSD4.4 core in OS X to a BSDX core (x > 4.4)? Or what if they change to svr4? The GNU project seems to like mach.
You can get fixes for bugs in the form of patches from Apple for free. You can't get a major version number upgrade for free. Sure, it is more stable, but that's more due to much of the core OS being completely rewritten than to any specific bugs in the previous version.
Yes, HURD is built on Mach. I still don't like it. Too slow, and I'm not sure that there are really any benefits.
Yeah, it seems a bit disappointing at the moment. However, as machines progress in speed, the speed disadvantage of Mach vs. a monolithic kernel will become less and less significant, and the advantages of the microkernel technology will be able to be more fully utilized. Mach should do fairly well on a 2 Ghz CPU:P
MacOS has quite a bit over 20 million users, not 15 million. Probably closer to 25-35 million, possibly more. Also note how you can buy lots of MacOS software at a local software store, but you cannot buy much in the way of Linux software.
For what? If you really do need one, you can purchase one.
I need X.
Uhh, why? Unless you have a need for the networking capability of X (running graphical apps remotely), it has no advantages (and quite a few disadvantages, such as crappy font support).
I need focus-follows-mouse.
Even Windows95/98 has this as an option (see the PowerToys included on the Win98 CD or on www.microsoft.com), so it shouldn't be too hard to add as an option in MacOS.
I need something that runs on better-price-performance (Read: Intel) hardware.
You mean AMD:P Intel is overpriced.
I need something that lets me upgrade my software to fix bugs for free (Upgrade to OS8! It's more stable? Why should I have to pay for stability?)
you can get bugfixes for free from apple. This is not a bugfix, it's a new OS with many new features, and largely rewritten.
I don't like mach. It's slow. Forces too much stuff into the server world (you know, server==parts of the kernel not in the kernel, like filesystems and networking and stuff)
I suppose that's a matter of preference. The GNU project seems to like mach.
He mentioned both license and looks. Your work-around takes care of looks, but not license. Linking something GPLd such as KDE with lesstif is actually legal, while linking KDE with Qt is not.
Uhh, GNU/Linux is not exactly innovative in and of itself. It has quite a few innovative features, but the basic OS is still a UNIX clone, not something Linus dreamed up one day thinking of how to make an innovative OS.
Opera 3.5 here, running on Win95, displays the quotes correctly according to the standard as ? while Netscape and IE both display them as ' (incorrectly, though how the author of the page intended them to be seen). So it can't be merely Windows's fault if Opera on Windows displays the pages according to the standards.
Perhaps somebody needs to fix this in mozilla.
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I know both C and C++, although I'll admit I've used C a lot more than C++, so perhaps I'm biased. I can see the usefulness of classes and data-hiding with large multi-programmer projects, where you want the AI team to be able to program without having to know anything about the graphics programming, and vice-versa, but for a one-programmer project (such as most of the stuff I do), having classes and data-hiding is pretty much useless. Plus "pass by reference" in C++ is just a crutch for people who don't know how to use pointers. I could name other things, such as how damn slow multiple inheritence and polymorphism makes your program. Also, the string class really encourages inefficient programming. In C, if you wanted to keep changing the length of a string (char array), you knew you were doing so. In C++, it does it for you, so you could be constantly allocating and deallocating char arrays without being as aware of it. Basically, C++ makes it easier to write inefficient code, and to write said code faster.
Anyway, my point is that I can see a limited use for it, but for most programs, it introduces unneeded complexity, as well as providing various crutches that keep programmers from having to write efficient programs.
You don't have to do the various capitalization and punctuation combinations. Just use a normal dictionary search, and you'll likely find several people who don't have any capital letters or punctuation in their passwords.
the people over at ajax.org, themselves previously the victims of one of these disputes, have set up a Domain Defence Assistance thing to help out others in similar situations. Read the page here or subscribe to the mailing list (put "subscribe" in the subject body).
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I'd call that a strike *against* Europeans, not for. All that C++ does is mess up a perfectly good language (which, incidentally, was created by americans:P)
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L. Torvalds developed an OS called Linux which is based on Unix while a graduate student in Finland.
And where exactly do you think UNIX was developed? Couldn't be the US, could it?
IMHO, this type of news belongs here. It's not general abortion news or general freedom of speech news, but specifically about freedom of speech on the internet. Slashdot has typically posted all sorts of internet-related stuff, especially regarding government regulation of the internet, and this is no different.
Well, if that hit list was a threat against the doctors, could their incitement to nuclear civil war be considered a threat against myself? More importantly, can I get lots of money in damages?
Actually, the main reason Macs caught on in schools is because they're the logical extension of the Apple ][ series. Most schools in the US had Apple ][, ][+, and ][e computers, because the alternatives (PCs with CP/M or MS-DOS) were not very appealing. They also built up a huge software library. I remember my intermediate school bought Macs (LC IIs) specifically so they could run their old ][e software (with an add-on card...basically the entire ][e system on a card).
Well, this law wouldn't "get porn off the net" anyway, it would only get porn hosted on US-based servers by a corporation off the net. All foreign porn would remain completely legal, as would US-based porn put up by people not trying to make money off it.
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USB is 12 mbps, not Mbps. Big difference (factor of 8)
No, USB is in fact 12 Mbps (12 Megabits per second). What it is not would be 12 MBps (12 Megabytes per second).
The problem is that the QPL is *still* not compatible with the GPL. Therefore, linking KDE, which is covered by the GPL, with Qt, which is covered by the QPL, is a violation of the GPL. If a company were to do this, they could be sued by any of the people who have contributed GPLd code to KDE, or whose GPLd code KDE has taken (there is a lot of GPLd code from the GNU project in there...the Free Software Foundation suing a corporation over it is unlikely, but it's still a technical possibility).
One example, albeit extreme, of what happens when God is removed from the way we live and what we think is Hitler. It is a well-known fact that Nietzsche's writings became the cornerstone of the Nazi Party and Hitler's personal philosophy. And we all know what atrocities he did in killing millions of people. But again with no God, life really has no basis for value.
That's a completely invalid argument. You're saying that since Hitler liked Nietzche's philosphy, and Hitler killed people, therefore Nietzche's philosophy causes people to be murderers. Take a logic class, please.
By your reasoning, all religions (especially Christianity) would be likewise invalidated, as Christianity is what caused people to kill others (Crusades, Reformation, etc.), knowingly send innocent children to their death (Children's Crusade).
One example, albeit extreme, of what happens when God is removed from the way we live and what we think is Hitler. It is a well-known fact that Nietzsche's writings became the cornerstone of the Nazi Party and Hitler's personal philosophy. And we all know what atrocities he did in killing millions of people. But again with no God, life really has no basis for value./i.
That's a completely invalid arguments. You're saying that since Hitler liked Nietzche's philosphy, and Hitler killed people, therefore Nietzche's philosophy causes people to be murderers. Take a logic class, please.
By your reasoning, all religions (especially Christianity) would be likewise invalidated, as Christianity is what caused people to kill others (Crusades, Reformation, etc.), knowingly send innocent children to their death (Children's Crusade).
Okay, I'm confused. As i mentioned above, it's a exe->C conversion, not the actual source code. However, if he used any halfway decent exe->c "decompiler," the source, while virtually unreadable, would still compile. Why does his source not compile?
Uhh, this isn't the source code. This is an exe->c conversion using one of the many decompilers out there (none of which are very good). It's basically the disassembled asm code turned into C by a conversion utility.
What about EIDE?
I need a 3 button mouse so I can cut and paste, silly. And also because button 2 is open-link-in-new-window in netscape.
:P
Hmm, i suppose it could make life easier. I have a 3-button mouse, but I never use the middle button. I'm too used to using the keyboard for cut/paste I suppose.
I need X. I use remote displaying on probably 4 to 10 machines a day. It really beats the crap out of going back to my room to run matlab or to a Sparc or HP to do data analysis or intensive processing. I even run my window manager remotely on some of the machines.
Ok, I'll give you that much. That's pretty much the only justification I've seen for using X. There really isn't any other windowing system I know of that provides that type of networking functionality, but as a single-computer desktop windowing system, there are many better choices than X.
I have yet to see a Mac with focus-follows mouse or come with a more-than-one-button-mouse.
Hmm, I can't seem to find a focus-follows mouse for MacOS either in my brief search. Odd, considering that Windows 95 has it. If Win95 can do it with a tiny utility, i don't see why MacOS can't, but then again I don't know the internals of either OS too well.
Can I really get a bugfix release from 7.X to 8.X? Apple claims that 8.X is more stable -- that means it fixes bugs in 7.X. So how is it going to be any different if they change the BSD4.4 core in OS X to a BSDX core (x > 4.4)? Or what if they change to svr4? The GNU project seems to like mach.
You can get fixes for bugs in the form of patches from Apple for free. You can't get a major version number upgrade for free. Sure, it is more stable, but that's more due to much of the core OS being completely rewritten than to any specific bugs in the previous version.
Yes, HURD is built on Mach. I still don't like it. Too slow, and I'm not sure that there are really any benefits.
Yeah, it seems a bit disappointing at the moment. However, as machines progress in speed, the speed disadvantage of Mach vs. a monolithic kernel will become less and less significant, and the advantages of the microkernel technology will be able to be more fully utilized. Mach should do fairly well on a 2 Ghz CPU
MacOS has quite a bit over 20 million users, not 15 million. Probably closer to 25-35 million, possibly more. Also note how you can buy lots of MacOS software at a local software store, but you cannot buy much in the way of Linux software.
I need a three-button mouse.
:P Intel is overpriced.
For what? If you really do need one, you can purchase one.
I need X.
Uhh, why? Unless you have a need for the networking capability of X (running graphical apps remotely), it has no advantages (and quite a few disadvantages, such as crappy font support).
I need focus-follows-mouse.
Even Windows95/98 has this as an option (see the PowerToys included on the Win98 CD or on www.microsoft.com), so it shouldn't be too hard to add as an option in MacOS.
I need something that runs on better-price-performance (Read: Intel) hardware.
You mean AMD
I need something that lets me upgrade my software to fix bugs for free (Upgrade to OS8! It's more stable? Why should I have to pay for stability?)
you can get bugfixes for free from apple. This is not a bugfix, it's a new OS with many new features, and largely rewritten.
I don't like mach. It's slow. Forces too much stuff into the server world (you know, server==parts of the kernel not in the kernel, like filesystems and networking and stuff)
I suppose that's a matter of preference. The GNU project seems to like mach.
Interesting
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the holodeck to be invented. Unfortunately, it'll probably cost even more than the holographic storage.
Is that an IDE hardware limitation, or a kernel IDE support limitation?
He mentioned both license and looks. Your work-around takes care of looks, but not license. Linking something GPLd such as KDE with lesstif is actually legal, while linking KDE with Qt is not.
Uhh, GNU/Linux is not exactly innovative in and of itself. It has quite a few innovative features, but the basic OS is still a UNIX clone, not something Linus dreamed up one day thinking of how to make an innovative OS.
Opera 3.5 here, running on Win95, displays the quotes correctly according to the standard as ? while Netscape and IE both display them as ' (incorrectly, though how the author of the page intended them to be seen). So it can't be merely Windows's fault if Opera on Windows displays the pages according to the standards.
Perhaps somebody needs to fix this in mozilla.
I know both C and C++, although I'll admit I've used C a lot more than C++, so perhaps I'm biased. I can see the usefulness of classes and data-hiding with large multi-programmer projects, where you want the AI team to be able to program without having to know anything about the graphics programming, and vice-versa, but for a one-programmer project (such as most of the stuff I do), having classes and data-hiding is pretty much useless. Plus "pass by reference" in C++ is just a crutch for people who don't know how to use pointers. I could name other things, such as how damn slow multiple inheritence and polymorphism makes your program. Also, the string class really encourages inefficient programming. In C, if you wanted to keep changing the length of a string (char array), you knew you were doing so. In C++, it does it for you, so you could be constantly allocating and deallocating char arrays without being as aware of it. Basically, C++ makes it easier to write inefficient code, and to write said code faster.
Anyway, my point is that I can see a limited use for it, but for most programs, it introduces unneeded complexity, as well as providing various crutches that keep programmers from having to write efficient programs.
You don't have to do the various capitalization and punctuation combinations. Just use a normal dictionary search, and you'll likely find several people who don't have any capital letters or punctuation in their passwords.
the people over at ajax.org, themselves previously the victims of one of these disputes, have set up a Domain Defence Assistance thing to help out others in similar situations. Read the page here or subscribe to the mailing list (put "subscribe" in the subject body).
I'd call that a strike *against* Europeans, not for. All that C++ does is mess up a perfectly good language (which, incidentally, was created by americans :P)
L. Torvalds developed an OS called Linux which is based on Unix while a graduate student in Finland.
And where exactly do you think UNIX was developed? Couldn't be the US, could it?
It's not really a zine, as the Smug people noted in that article. More of a news site.
IMHO, this type of news belongs here. It's not general abortion news or general freedom of speech news, but specifically about freedom of speech on the internet. Slashdot has typically posted all sorts of internet-related stuff, especially regarding government regulation of the internet, and this is no different.
Well, if that hit list was a threat against the doctors, could their incitement to nuclear civil war be considered a threat against myself? More importantly, can I get lots of money in damages?
Actually, the main reason Macs caught on in schools is because they're the logical extension of the Apple ][ series. Most schools in the US had Apple ][, ][+, and ][e computers, because the alternatives (PCs with CP/M or MS-DOS) were not very appealing. They also built up a huge software library. I remember my intermediate school bought Macs (LC IIs) specifically so they could run their old ][e software (with an add-on card...basically the entire ][e system on a card).
Well, this law wouldn't "get porn off the net" anyway, it would only get porn hosted on US-based servers by a corporation off the net. All foreign porn would remain completely legal, as would US-based porn put up by people not trying to make money off it.