Mario Bros. movie is closer to a Final Fantasy movie than to a Mario Bros one. Crystals, meteor hits and splits the world in light and dark... it's even more FFesque than Epirits within.
It's not the fact of preserving the server's bandwidth what makes "better" to download just patches. The fact of not downloading redundant information is.
Please notice that I'm speaking on an strictly scientific context; probably on the "real world" perspective pulling 1M or 40M (exaggerating) wouldn't do difference (as currently downloading 1k or 40k, even for a dialup, doesn't really do) but it still is "better practice" not using resources when they're not needed.
And while they are on regulating a hobbist's work they may as well set rules about playing football in your backyard.
"No warranties" for Free Software means something like "I'm doing this on my own; if you like it take it - just don't complain later if it's not good enough". On the football example, it'd be like people watching a game between friends complained if they decided to leave the game at the middle. The players had no compromise to end the game; the programmer releasing code on good will has not any compromise with the end user either.
If this is the way that Open Source treats its friends...
For the eleventh time: neither Eric nor any other single institution represents Open Source! This is the way Eric S. Raymond treats people, nothing more, nothing less.
Personally I'd prefer 99+% of the downloaders using the patch. This time is about 2M, and sometimes is smaller. No use in downloading full sources every time, and 2M is not exactly what BT is designed to distribute. Still, for the few first timers who need the first "big" tarball it would be a good return to the bandwidth pool.
Nah, they're due to 0) Identity. When trolls like you complain about it they are just denying an identity to the project, which is as far as I know a bad thing, because it's just a bit short of expecting its destruction.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Apache Foundation Open Source Initiative (OSI) Gnome Foundation KDE.ORG The Python Software Foundation SourceForge.net
Even if I would like to redirect 100% to an organization, say, a couple months, still requires a valid paypal account's email address.
Not that I think I could bring donations, but just to experiment a while it would be useful to have a chance to re-donate without the mess of creating a paypal account (I code just for fun, I may change my mind later but right now that's what I would like to do: redirect a 100% just to see what happens).
I don't think I would mind having non-encumbered, free redistribution, free modification, full source available shareware. If it can still be called that way:)
A couple.
For all the rest life will simply go on. These couple will have better opportunities. No loss.
What if MS released the windows 98 source code under the GPL or a BSD or Apache style license? Probably that 0.000000000001% of developers who care enough will take it, fix some of the annoying bugs and features in it and create a windows 99 release
You silly, it would be used to create libwin32.so.98 and some kernel modules, and native windows applications would run about anywhere.
No problem (I'm guessing: I don't do win32 drivers). Windows can't either write to the flash reader without extra drivers. If windows kernel land is even remotely like Linux, the CD with the hardware driver may have too the file system driver.
I didn't simply meant "suicide bombing". "Terrorism" as in "blowing things up" mentioned on the above post is about killing innocent people to gain political grants. "Attacking the power stations" may be labeled of terrorism on a dystopia, but would just be trivial sabotage (and possibly a legit act of war). To be real terrorism that would need to be an arbitrary bombing.
The problem with current terrorism is simple: when the terrorist kills innocent people is also killing a prospective of improvement. You know, these dead people on the walls will not code for freedom anymore.
Pieces of blood and guts embedded on the walls can't code. Can't fight for freedom either. I'd feel pretty useless being a couple of red spots on the ceiling.
When people interact with a computer, they're interacting with the OS
Actually the OS interacts with the programs; the programs interact then with people. People never interact with the OS.
Which lead us to: the OS with W is not really "popular" (in the sense of "Accepted by or prevalent among the people in general"), but user level applications built upon it are; with your "they just wanna nuke their burrito" you're completely right just in the same sense. ITRON can then be the "most popular" for the people that matters: the ones that implement application for the OS.
Actually, this new release claims to include ATI VCR1/VCR2 decoding, which are the most obscure and useless formats I have ever met - not even after going to ATI site and hacking my way to a non-ATI card codec for Windows was I able to view a downloaded video which was on VCR2. Now, if I could just remember where I did left it...
I don't know what factors would make cdparanoia change the checksum but in this case that didn't happen. Of course, to consider this a valid test we need another user of the same cdparanoia version with Picture Perfect Morning (same edition) to verify the results.
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One doesn't "choose" the law. It's agreed upon by lots of people, the great majority ont oneself.
Mario Bros. movie is closer to a Final Fantasy movie than to a Mario Bros one. Crystals, meteor hits and splits the world in light and dark... it's even more FFesque than Epirits within.
A couple days after MS releases the Windows source code. win32.dll would have to be just slightly modified to handle pass-through to Linux modules.
In short: get companies to develop for Linux. Give them as incentive all the LGPL libraries already available and not ported or better maintained.
Then convince them that the 95% market share of Windows is not a problem, since the app will run in Windows anyway.
It's not the fact of preserving the server's bandwidth what makes "better" to download just patches. The fact of not downloading redundant information is.
Please notice that I'm speaking on an strictly scientific context; probably on the "real world" perspective pulling 1M or 40M (exaggerating) wouldn't do difference (as currently downloading 1k or 40k, even for a dialup, doesn't really do) but it still is "better practice" not using resources when they're not needed.
Perhaps because it promotes the bad practice of pulling the whole tarball instead of the patch.
And while they are on regulating a hobbist's work they may as well set rules about playing football in your backyard.
"No warranties" for Free Software means something like "I'm doing this on my own; if you like it take it - just don't complain later if it's not good enough". On the football example, it'd be like people watching a game between friends complained if they decided to leave the game at the middle. The players had no compromise to end the game; the programmer releasing code on good will has not any compromise with the end user either.
If this is the way that Open Source treats its friends...
For the eleventh time: neither Eric nor any other single institution represents Open Source! This is the way Eric S. Raymond treats people, nothing more, nothing less.
Personally I'd prefer 99+% of the downloaders using the patch. This time is about 2M, and sometimes is smaller. No use in downloading full sources every time, and 2M is not exactly what BT is designed to distribute. Still, for the few first timers who need the first "big" tarball it would be a good return to the bandwidth pool.
Nah, they're due to 0) Identity. When trolls like you complain about it they are just denying an identity to the project, which is as far as I know a bad thing, because it's just a bit short of expecting its destruction.
From admin->donate, on the project page:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Apache Foundation
Open Source Initiative (OSI)
Gnome Foundation
KDE.ORG
The Python Software Foundation
SourceForge.net
And one can set a percentage between 5% and 100%
Even if I would like to redirect 100% to an organization, say, a couple months, still requires a valid paypal account's email address.
Not that I think I could bring donations, but just to experiment a while it would be useful to have a chance to re-donate without the mess of creating a paypal account (I code just for fun, I may change my mind later but right now that's what I would like to do: redirect a 100% just to see what happens).
Sounds more like shareware
:)
I don't think I would mind having non-encumbered, free redistribution, free modification, full source available shareware. If it can still be called that way
A couple.
For all the rest life will simply go on. These couple will have better opportunities. No loss.
...why not concentrate on implementing IE's version of DHTML? (...) MS doesn't follow set "standards" in this department
You know, answering your own questions is not the best way to create conversation.
What if MS released the windows 98 source code under the GPL or a BSD or Apache style license? Probably that 0.000000000001% of developers who care enough will take it, fix some of the annoying bugs and features in it and create a windows 99 release
You silly, it would be used to create libwin32.so.98 and some kernel modules, and native windows applications would run about anywhere.
Windows can't read them without extra drivers
No problem (I'm guessing: I don't do win32 drivers). Windows can't either write to the flash reader without extra drivers. If windows kernel land is even remotely like Linux, the CD with the hardware driver may have too the file system driver.
For the computer-illiterate home user, Windows is fine
:)
It is, if you expect him/her to stay that way. Of course that couldn't be good for the advance of civilization
you interpret "class action" as "class KAction" and attempt to derive from it and put it on a toolbar.
That's it, I'm going to bed.
I didn't simply meant "suicide bombing". "Terrorism" as in "blowing things up" mentioned on the above post is about killing innocent people to gain political grants. "Attacking the power stations" may be labeled of terrorism on a dystopia, but would just be trivial sabotage (and possibly a legit act of war). To be real terrorism that would need to be an arbitrary bombing.
The problem with current terrorism is simple: when the terrorist kills innocent people is also killing a prospective of improvement. You know, these dead people on the walls will not code for freedom anymore.
Pieces of blood and guts embedded on the walls can't code. Can't fight for freedom either. I'd feel pretty useless being a couple of red spots on the ceiling.
So no, I wouldn't.
When people interact with a computer, they're interacting with the OS
Actually the OS interacts with the programs; the programs interact then with people. People never interact with the OS.
Which lead us to: the OS with W is not really "popular" (in the sense of "Accepted by or prevalent among the people in general"), but user level applications built upon it are; with your "they just wanna nuke their burrito" you're completely right just in the same sense. ITRON can then be the "most popular" for the people that matters: the ones that implement application for the OS.
Remember "What SCO wants, SCO gets"? Same author. Don't expect any love from him.
That page is useless to just about anyone other than hackers or microsoft.
Exactly, just like the disclosure of a senator's fraud charges is only useful to the supreme court, right?
Actually, this new release claims to include ATI VCR1/VCR2 decoding, which are the most obscure and useless formats I have ever met - not even after going to ATI site and hacking my way to a non-ATI card codec for Windows was I able to view a downloaded video which was on VCR2. Now, if I could just remember where I did left it...
With Picture Perfect Morning/Edie Brickell (the first disk I had to hand) I performed the following operations:
$ cdparanoia --version
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
$ cdparanoia 1
$ mv cdda.wav cdda.wav.bak
$ cdparanoia 1
$ md5sum cdda.wav
e4b3334b8f63601fa6f337ba4faa14e8 cdda.wav
$ md5sum cdda.wav.bak
e4b3334b8f63601fa6f337ba4faa14e8 cdda.wav.bak
I don't know what factors would make cdparanoia change the checksum but in this case that didn't happen. Of course, to consider this a valid test we need another user of the same cdparanoia version with Picture Perfect Morning (same edition) to verify the results.