I agree with you completely about the screen size. I would far rather have a GSM card in a PDA, than PIM software built into a phone. That being said, a GSM card in a PDA makes for a phone which is a bit awkward to hold. What I really want is a phone with nothing but a phone, plus Bluetooth and GPS.:-)
I would be happier with Ericsson's new phones if any of them looked like being the successor to the P900. Right now I have higher hopes for the Motorola A780, which should be a favourite amongst all geeks really.;-)
That's why there is a button which you usually only have to press once or twice to switch between predictive text and manual entry. That way you can use the faster system depending on what word you're entering.
Then they're not standard. Is it so hard to understand that when you use a class that isn't in the Profile you're supposed to be developing for, that it won't work on other devices?
All I know is my Debian stable eventually ended up in a state where dpkg would report successful installs without placing the files onto the disk. At that point I knew it was time to give up.
I've seen some pretty insane things even at the primary school level in some private schools. In particular, the school I used to go to which absolutely sucked for computing (they had old Macs everywhere) switched to supplying laptops for students pretty soon after we left.:-/
If you can make bootable DVDs, then you could probably make a bootable UDF DVD. And UDF can be written back to, with the right modules loaded.
Or you could just boot Knoppix from the CD, and have it mount a USB drive from there. Actually I've used Knoppix to recover my Gentoo system more often than the actual Gentoo LiveCD. X-D
That's nuts. Even a Pentium II will have USB ports. How old are their machines, exactly? There is definitely a problem with the BIOSes of the era not being able to boot from USB, but I don't see any problem using it to access data.
I suppose this is why a lot of schools have just started giving entire laptops to students. That way the laptop is the portable storage...:-/
That's making a pretty bold statement that people must dispose of their computers after 3 years of use. I have a server at home where the floppy is the only way to boot, due to the box being a PII bought in the dark ages. And for a machine which does such simple tasks as this one, I would rather be spending a couple hundred on extra hard drives than forking out $500 for a complete upgrade.
I've found that Debian Testing is more "stable" than Debian Stable. I suppose the corollary is that Debian Testing is about as stable, or more stable, than RedShat.
Disclaimer: I think they're both scum, and that Gentoo should rule the universe.
Off-topic, I know, but most people's job is actually to make themselves look good. There's no point working your arse off if the only person who gets the benefit is the boss.:-)
I suppose the irony is that Microsoft can't even decide on a standard for Windows. The Windows family is defined by a complete lack of standardisation, outside of running the exact same version all through the office.
A particular example of the stdin/stdout issue is in xpdf, which maintains that using its command-line tools in any fashion counts as a derivative. As for this one...
"the sound waves produced by my speaker are a derivative work of this copyrighted song"
Have you noticed that buying a CD doesn't give you the right to play it to an "audience"? I wonder what counts as an audience here, but it always did look like a pretty stupid thing to have in a license. Crazy shit.:-/
Right now, I could take a program which accepts text input and gives text output, which is GPL, and attach to its standard input and output. There is no linkage from that program to mine, but most people would agree that my program constitutes a derivative work.
Now, put the program on the other end of a network connection. There is still no linkage from the program to mine, and the results of my program are still the same, so it is still a derivative work. If it isn't, then I can use this trick as a loophole for any GPL software which accepts standard input and output! I can just write a server, have it listen on localhost, and then everything will work just as before.
Now, make the network protocol XML over HTTP. Why is the client still not a derivative work here?
I say that in the end, the program author decides what a derivative work is. If I decide that connecting to my web service with a client makes that client a derivative work of the service, then it is a derivative work. Whether or not it technically stops users abusing the license is irrelevant, as people will abuse licenses forever.
That's completely different. In web services, you need the WSDL file in order to actually access the service at all. It becomes something like a library which you use to access the service. A web browser served from an Apache server... first of all, Apache isn't GPL, and second of all, the page isn't required to implement your web browser.
If the WSDL file which is served up by the server has a GPL license attached to it, then no client software would be able to use this "code" without themselves being GPL software.
Right?
But I suppose a mechanism other than WSDL might be harder to protect in a similar fashion.
Actually, you will notice integrity as soon as you copy the file back off the device. Unless you think that somehow the checksums are still going to work. And fuck, it IS as easy as tossing in a few more codecs. How many devices on the market now can support more than one format? Pretty much EVERY device. If it's so hard to do, nobody would have done it.
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If it's the company phone doing the forwarding to the personal phone, why doesn't the company pay for the forwarding? The stingy motherfuckers!
But think yourself lucky. My last three phones, not a single one even supported one SIM, let alone two. :-)
..when you write Java applications, you should only use the STANDARD libraries.
And it's also why people who write libraries should ensure that the libraries remain backwards compatible for older apps!
I agree with you completely about the screen size. I would far rather have a GSM card in a PDA, than PIM software built into a phone. That being said, a GSM card in a PDA makes for a phone which is a bit awkward to hold. What I really want is a phone with nothing but a phone, plus Bluetooth and GPS. :-)
I would be happier with Ericsson's new phones if any of them looked like being the successor to the P900. Right now I have higher hopes for the Motorola A780, which should be a favourite amongst all geeks really. ;-)
That's why there is a button which you usually only have to press once or twice to switch between predictive text and manual entry. That way you can use the faster system depending on what word you're entering.
Then they're not standard. Is it so hard to understand that when you use a class that isn't in the Profile you're supposed to be developing for, that it won't work on other devices?
All I know is my Debian stable eventually ended up in a state where dpkg would report successful installs without placing the files onto the disk. At that point I knew it was time to give up.
I've seen some pretty insane things even at the primary school level in some private schools. In particular, the school I used to go to which absolutely sucked for computing (they had old Macs everywhere) switched to supplying laptops for students pretty soon after we left. :-/
If you can make bootable DVDs, then you could probably make a bootable UDF DVD. And UDF can be written back to, with the right modules loaded.
Or you could just boot Knoppix from the CD, and have it mount a USB drive from there. Actually I've used Knoppix to recover my Gentoo system more often than the actual Gentoo LiveCD. X-D
Who needs yet another way to do the exact same thing, when entire labs full of of computers in universities already boot off Ethernet?
That's nuts. Even a Pentium II will have USB ports. How old are their machines, exactly? There is definitely a problem with the BIOSes of the era not being able to boot from USB, but I don't see any problem using it to access data.
I suppose this is why a lot of schools have just started giving entire laptops to students. That way the laptop is the portable storage... :-/
That's making a pretty bold statement that people must dispose of their computers after 3 years of use. I have a server at home where the floppy is the only way to boot, due to the box being a PII bought in the dark ages. And for a machine which does such simple tasks as this one, I would rather be spending a couple hundred on extra hard drives than forking out $500 for a complete upgrade.
I've found that Debian Testing is more "stable" than Debian Stable. I suppose the corollary is that Debian Testing is about as stable, or more stable, than RedShat.
Disclaimer: I think they're both scum, and that Gentoo should rule the universe.
Off-topic, I know, but most people's job is actually to make themselves look good. There's no point working your arse off if the only person who gets the benefit is the boss. :-)
I suppose the irony is that Microsoft can't even decide on a standard for Windows. The Windows family is defined by a complete lack of standardisation, outside of running the exact same version all through the office.
If you introduced them to GoboLinux, they would have several spasms before collapsing in a dead heap.
A particular example of the stdin/stdout issue is in xpdf, which maintains that using its command-line tools in any fashion counts as a derivative. As for this one...
"the sound waves produced by my speaker are a derivative work of this copyrighted song"
Have you noticed that buying a CD doesn't give you the right to play it to an "audience"? I wonder what counts as an audience here, but it always did look like a pretty stupid thing to have in a license. Crazy shit. :-/
Look at it this way:
Right now, I could take a program which accepts text input and gives text output, which is GPL, and attach to its standard input and output. There is no linkage from that program to mine, but most people would agree that my program constitutes a derivative work.
Now, put the program on the other end of a network connection. There is still no linkage from the program to mine, and the results of my program are still the same, so it is still a derivative work. If it isn't, then I can use this trick as a loophole for any GPL software which accepts standard input and output! I can just write a server, have it listen on localhost, and then everything will work just as before.
Now, make the network protocol XML over HTTP. Why is the client still not a derivative work here?
I say that in the end, the program author decides what a derivative work is. If I decide that connecting to my web service with a client makes that client a derivative work of the service, then it is a derivative work. Whether or not it technically stops users abusing the license is irrelevant, as people will abuse licenses forever.
That's completely different. In web services, you need the WSDL file in order to actually access the service at all. It becomes something like a library which you use to access the service. A web browser served from an Apache server... first of all, Apache isn't GPL, and second of all, the page isn't required to implement your web browser.
The question is, is Eclipse's compiler faster or slower than Jikes, which everyone has been using with Tomcat for years?
If the WSDL file which is served up by the server has a GPL license attached to it, then no client software would be able to use this "code" without themselves being GPL software.
Right?
But I suppose a mechanism other than WSDL might be harder to protect in a similar fashion.
We already have gmailfs... now we just need it in the kernel!
And then you realise ATI doesn't work with Cedega at all, and that you have to re-buy your graphics card to get the Cedega support.
Bah. There are far more than 150 Pokemon, so 150 articles wouldn't come close to covering the range of topics in that area.
Actually, you will notice integrity as soon as you copy the file back off the device. Unless you think that somehow the checksums are still going to work. And fuck, it IS as easy as tossing in a few more codecs. How many devices on the market now can support more than one format? Pretty much EVERY device. If it's so hard to do, nobody would have done it.