No food, no sleep, brain constantly active for a number of days... of course you're gonna die! They did tests on rats a couple of years back, depriving them on sleep for days on end. The poor little things just rolled over and dropped dead.
The open source community will produce a better alternative under the GPL without using their software. Just like Windows is not the developer enviroment for the kernel, BitKeeper will not be the revision control software used for Subversion.
This isn't the issue, however.
The problem was that the developer of Subversion was also a kernel developer. I don't think that they were using Bitkeeper for developing Subversion - but the developer used Bitkeeper to check patches into the kernel. Now he cannot use Bitkeeper at all, and hence it is more difficult for him to work on Linux
No, it's not Bitmover who is at fault here - it's a problem caused by using non-free software to develop Linux.
I always wanted a job where I wouldn't have to feel guilty about slacking off, being incompetent and generally causing the organisation who I'm working for to collapse...
Putting libraries in their own subdirectories make look tidier, but it means you're going to have a huge LD_LIBRARY_PATH, unless every application has the path to its particular library compiled in. I hate to think about the lookup times on that.
Presumably they have symlinks to/usr/lib to avoid this? If so, the whole idea of putting them in separate directories is redundant.
Building a tuner isn't all that hard. Feed the output of that into a computer, and handle the rest in software. As I said, if the various specs are available it can be done reasonably easily.
...that the standards being proposed for digital television transmission were open, and that the specs could be obtained somewhere (possibly the FCC). Hence it shouldn't be all that hard to build your own system to get around all the "don't copy" bits, etc.
Anyone know of any open hardware designs of MP3 players (ie, circuit schematics available) that don't use a specialised MP3 decoder chip? I'd like to examine one and then modify it to play Ogg instead.
Specifically I'm after a circuit primarily designed for a single task like this - I don't want to modify something that is otherwise a full-blown PC.
It did say "internet attacks". There's not much point knowing the name and address of the person running a website if you're going to attack them over the net...
Basically, it all sounds a little pointless to me. Security via obscurity.
Emigrate. There's better countries to live in. They're not perfect either, but the US is definitely taking the wrong path.
Government is controlled by big business. The two big parties have very few differences between them. Even when elections do happen, they are a sham, as can be seen in the last presidential election.
...I'm now utterly convinced that the notion of patents is evil and should be obliterated from society.
I can understand the reason they came about: to protect small, private inventors from having their ideas stolen by large companies. But if, as most of the comments suggest, it is pretty much mandatory to be spending in the order of $5000 on patent lawyers in order to just file the thing without screwing up, and God knows on protecting the thing once you've actually got it, then it's really moved out of the league of the small, private inventor and into the realm of something that only big business can get.
And if only big business can get it, then it's sure as hell that the value to society of having inventors protected by this is being completely out-weighed by the manner in which this stifles creativity.
I earn well over $150000 a year, but I'd still think twice about spending $5000 on lawyers, just to get a patent.
It's so stupid. They can spend as much money as they like on advertising, but that's not going to change people's taste.
When given an equal choice, I'm still going to buy Coke rather than Pepsi.
What's so good about AIM, anyway?
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While typically I keep my real-time messaging to IRC, I do use ICQ (well, licq) to talk to one or two non-tech people who can't cope with IRC. I've tried using AIM a couple of times, but I really didn't like it - it seemed to have fewer features than I was used to in ICQ.
So, other than the fact that AIM has many more users than ICQ, what is the advantage of using it instead?
...however, is the size of the code. I'm not trying to troll here - I do love KDE - but it's just so big.
Have there been any attempts to optimise the code? I switched my laptop (PIII 750, 128Mb mem) to KDE3 a month or so ago, and the thing just crawls. So then I changed to fvwm, and it was truely amazing - like I'd bought a brand new machine. Now obviously I'm not silly enough to think that there isn't a price to be paid for the extra functionality of KDE, but my laptop isn't _that_ old, surely KDE should be able to run adequately on such hardware?
So, if we convince everyone in the world to have some sort of dissenting information on it, they'll have to block everything, which will soon become unworkable.
Now, onto some other matters... Iraq, a belligerent dictatorship with no regard for human rights, may have nuclear weapons and big George is threatening to knock his block off. China, on the other hand, is a belligerent dictatorship with no regard for human rights that definately has nuclear weapons. Why ain't big George waving his stick at them too?
You think the corporate world has a monopoly on research and development? How about all those government funded universities out there in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand?
Just because the current political line of thinking involves downsizing governmental activities, it doesn't mean that public institutions can't do it, or that we've even got the optimal system.
For what it's worth, the Soviets achieved just as much as the US under their system, without any help from the corporate world. Of course, the inherent corruption, autocratic nature of their government and lack of freedom meant that it would become the basket case that it did, but don't ever think that the corporate world has given you everything you want.
The biggest problem at the moment is that while everything has been moved into the hands of the corporations, there's not actually much competition left to keep them honest. The level of ownership is very incestuous and there's far too many politicians willing to sell out voters on behalf of their rich mates.
And one day we're gonna wake up and find that everything we want to do is illegal, because it infringes their rights to do business. And since citizens can't vote for who runs the corporations... well, hey, this is sounding like the Soviet system all over again, ain't it?
The more they cap usage, the less people will use (obviously). Then content providers such as streaming radio stations will start to drop off as it becomes more expensive for users to access them.
After that it becomes a vicious circle, with fewer content providers, there's no reason for users to keep their service. Then the ISPs go broke.
Take a look at the Australian example. Almost all broadband providers have a 3Gb monthly cap. The ABC has just started an internet-only radio station, but I really wonder why. It wouldn't take too many days of listening to it for a user to totally max out their cap. I predict the station will be closed due to lack of interest, within a year.
I'm not saying that free market business shouldn't exist. I'm saying that it shouldn't run unchecked, and that corporations shouldn't be able to run roughshod over individuals as they do now.
Why should the corporate world get a better system of representation in court, merely because they can pay for better lawyers than the average citizen can?
Why should my rights to use a free, open computing platform be diminished because a few media companies wish to protect their merchandise (by paying off corrupt politicians)?
Why can any given service provider change the terms of their contract at any time they see fit, yet an individual can't do something similar with their own homeloan?
Why do only two political parties get enough funding to ever be able to pay for the level of advertising needed to get themselves elected?
People like you have been telling us for years to be afraid of the "communists", but driving us into the arms of corporations who are just as autocratic and corrupt.
I abhor communism, but I also abhor corporatism. My life is my own and I'm damned if I'm giving up rights to someone else simply because they are richer than me.
And how did I get from point a to point b today? I caught a government owned and operated tram.
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...the world give in to all of the US's increasingly insane demands?
After all, they didn't vote for the US president or congress.
No food, no sleep, brain constantly active for a number of days... of course you're gonna die! They did tests on rats a couple of years back, depriving them on sleep for days on end. The poor little things just rolled over and dropped dead.
This isn't the issue, however.
The problem was that the developer of Subversion was also a kernel developer. I don't think that they were using Bitkeeper for developing Subversion - but the developer used Bitkeeper to check patches into the kernel. Now he cannot use Bitkeeper at all, and hence it is more difficult for him to work on Linux
No, it's not Bitmover who is at fault here - it's a problem caused by using non-free software to develop Linux.
Is this also the case if you've actually paid for a licence for BitKeeper?
Could you imagine the furore if a Windoze licence stated that you weren't allowed to use it to develop another OS?
...South Africa didn't have too much regard for citizens' rights in the past. Looks like their now democratic government still doesn't.
The sad part is that you think you're voting in someone to liberate you, but you always just get left with a corrupt politician.
I always wanted a job where I wouldn't have to feel guilty about slacking off, being incompetent and generally causing the organisation who I'm working for to collapse...
Putting libraries in their own subdirectories make look tidier, but it means you're going to have a huge LD_LIBRARY_PATH, unless every application has the path to its particular library compiled in. I hate to think about the lookup times on that.
Presumably they have symlinks to /usr/lib to avoid this? If so, the whole idea of putting them in separate directories is redundant.
Building a tuner isn't all that hard. Feed the output of that into a computer, and handle the rest in software. As I said, if the various specs are available it can be done reasonably easily.
...that the standards being proposed for digital television transmission were open, and that the specs could be obtained somewhere (possibly the FCC). Hence it shouldn't be all that hard to build your own system to get around all the "don't copy" bits, etc.
Anyone know of any open hardware designs of MP3 players (ie, circuit schematics available) that don't use a specialised MP3 decoder chip? I'd like to examine one and then modify it to play Ogg instead.
Specifically I'm after a circuit primarily designed for a single task like this - I don't want to modify something that is otherwise a full-blown PC.
It did say "internet attacks". There's not much point knowing the name and address of the person running a website if you're going to attack them over the net...
Basically, it all sounds a little pointless to me. Security via obscurity.
...hide the contents of the websites too?
Not much point hiding the whois information of a domain if its accompanying website tells the whole world who and where they are...
Emigrate. There's better countries to live in. They're not perfect either, but the US is definitely taking the wrong path.
Government is controlled by big business. The two big parties have very few differences between them. Even when elections do happen, they are a sham, as can be seen in the last presidential election.
...I'm now utterly convinced that the notion of patents is evil and should be obliterated from society.
I can understand the reason they came about: to protect small, private inventors from having their ideas stolen by large companies. But if, as most of the comments suggest, it is pretty much mandatory to be spending in the order of $5000 on patent lawyers in order to just file the thing without screwing up, and God knows on protecting the thing once you've actually got it, then it's really moved out of the league of the small, private inventor and into the realm of something that only big business can get.
And if only big business can get it, then it's sure as hell that the value to society of having inventors protected by this is being completely out-weighed by the manner in which this stifles creativity.
I earn well over $150000 a year, but I'd still think twice about spending $5000 on lawyers, just to get a patent.
Outlaw patents. Now.
...more planets for the RIAA to spread their tentacles to, when they're finished with us.
There is nothing illegal about time shifting.
Money doesn't buy you friends.
It's so stupid. They can spend as much money as they like on advertising, but that's not going to change people's taste.
When given an equal choice, I'm still going to buy Coke rather than Pepsi.
While typically I keep my real-time messaging to IRC, I do use ICQ (well, licq) to talk to one or two non-tech people who can't cope with IRC. I've tried using AIM a couple of times, but I really didn't like it - it seemed to have fewer features than I was used to in ICQ.
So, other than the fact that AIM has many more users than ICQ, what is the advantage of using it instead?
...however, is the size of the code. I'm not trying to troll here - I do love KDE - but it's just so big.
Have there been any attempts to optimise the code? I switched my laptop (PIII 750, 128Mb mem) to KDE3 a month or so ago, and the thing just crawls. So then I changed to fvwm, and it was truely amazing - like I'd bought a brand new machine. Now obviously I'm not silly enough to think that there isn't a price to be paid for the extra functionality of KDE, but my laptop isn't _that_ old, surely KDE should be able to run adequately on such hardware?
Yeah, but if I said that, I'd be told I was trolling :)
Maybe. But in the long term, I see China as being more dangerous than Iraq will ever be.
So, if we convince everyone in the world to have some sort of dissenting information on it, they'll have to block everything, which will soon become unworkable.
Now, onto some other matters... Iraq, a belligerent dictatorship with no regard for human rights, may have nuclear weapons and big George is threatening to knock his block off. China, on the other hand, is a belligerent dictatorship with no regard for human rights that definately has nuclear weapons. Why ain't big George waving his stick at them too?
You think the corporate world has a monopoly on research and development? How about all those government funded universities out there in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand?
Just because the current political line of thinking involves downsizing governmental activities, it doesn't mean that public institutions can't do it, or that we've even got the optimal system.
For what it's worth, the Soviets achieved just as much as the US under their system, without any help from the corporate world. Of course, the inherent corruption, autocratic nature of their government and lack of freedom meant that it would become the basket case that it did, but don't ever think that the corporate world has given you everything you want.
The biggest problem at the moment is that while everything has been moved into the hands of the corporations, there's not actually much competition left to keep them honest. The level of ownership is very incestuous and there's far too many politicians willing to sell out voters on behalf of their rich mates.
And one day we're gonna wake up and find that everything we want to do is illegal, because it infringes their rights to do business. And since citizens can't vote for who runs the corporations ... well, hey, this is sounding like the Soviet system all over again, ain't it?
The more they cap usage, the less people will use (obviously). Then content providers such as streaming radio stations will start to drop off as it becomes more expensive for users to access them.
After that it becomes a vicious circle, with fewer content providers, there's no reason for users to keep their service. Then the ISPs go broke.
Take a look at the Australian example. Almost all broadband providers have a 3Gb monthly cap. The ABC has just started an internet-only radio station, but I really wonder why. It wouldn't take too many days of listening to it for a user to totally max out their cap. I predict the station will be closed due to lack of interest, within a year.
More bullshit black and white arguments.
I'm not saying that free market business shouldn't exist. I'm saying that it shouldn't run unchecked, and that corporations shouldn't be able to run roughshod over individuals as they do now.
People like you have been telling us for years to be afraid of the "communists", but driving us into the arms of corporations who are just as autocratic and corrupt.
I abhor communism, but I also abhor corporatism. My life is my own and I'm damned if I'm giving up rights to someone else simply because they are richer than me.
And how did I get from point a to point b today? I caught a government owned and operated tram.