If it's a Cisco firewall, you can use vpnc. It's what I use to get into our VPN. But our admin and most of our company actually supports Linux, even if it's only on a few desktops. It runs our Java software MUCH faster on the server than Windows does, even using the same hardware.
Well, yes. I suppose I should have clarified it with "self-sustaining biofuels", as in they store and create more energy than we have to put into them, which means we're capturing net energy from the sun through the plants, which is kinda the point of biofuels I thought. At least the long-term point... politicians are suckers for subsidies;)
70 years? Hah! Only if the author died immediately after writing it. Copyright is nearly infinite here in the US, as far as anything useful is concerned.
Except analogies with physical "taking" and "giving" don't exactly work with "infinite" goods like software. GPL and BSD both give, but GPL expects anyone that wants to use it as a base to also show people the same consideration they were given. BSD doesn't. And that's it.
No, they can't roll his code into their product. They could take some of the ideas, but if the code matched, there would be some issues unless they bought the rights from Bob (he releases it under the GPL due to the license he got the code under... if they negotiate a different license between the two parties, there's no problem). Any other questions?
Gnome? GPL. KDE? GPL. Whoops, that's both of the major DE's, and most of the smaller ones are also GPL'd. You're stuck with text mode if you only want non-GPL software.
So don't base your work on GPL work. It sounds like you want to take the GPL work and use it for whatever you want, without allowing the creator of THAT work to do whatever he wants with his rights.
And while you saved that whole block of a walk, you wasted an hour circling expensive parking lots trying to find a spot.
Really, I drive for anything that's much over a mile, or if the weather's nasty, and I'll still drive to the light-rail or bus stop where there's free parking versus dealing with the pain in the ass that is downtown parking and navigation, what with idiots not signaling and going way too fast for small streets, people jaywalking without looking first, and parking that's upwards of $5/hr that puts me in your mythical "1 block". For reasonable parking (something more like $2/hr), you've gotta park 5-10 blocks out of the central areas, so there's no reason to NOT take the bus/light-rail/subway.
Not like they'll be built in California. Or elsewhere. Too much NIMBYism. Not to mention the stupid moratorium on nuclear plants. Can't build oil or coal plants since they're dirty, can't build hydro plants since it hurts the fish, and we can't build nuke plants since "nukular" is a scary thing.
Bio fuels are, to borrow an overused phrase, carbon-neutral. We aren't introducing anything into the environment that wasn't there. With fossil fuels, we're releasing stored carbon that would otherwise stay locked away, hence the environmental impact. Biofuels, if they gain critical mass, are at least relatively neutral, you just have to wait for plants to re-absorb the carbon your vehicle emits.
I could come up with a thousand little stupid and boring things to fix on Windows, too. Ever see the font install dialog? Oh yeah, it's the same in Vista as it was in Windows 3.1, which means it has the same limitations of 8.3 filenames and so on. How about file browsing dialogs in Windows that don't have a horizontal scrollbar? Those still exist.
Don't act like Windows or OSX are paragons of perfection while KDE and Gnome are the only DE's that have any issues. Because you're wrong. And the chance of fixing open-source problems is a hell of a lot higher than it is with Windows or OSX.
No, people want a free version of Windows. They don't want to use open-source software. They just want to pay less than they're paying now without having to work at it.
The problem is that open source doesn't work without the bug reports, or without realizing that the person developing the software is doing so to "scratch an itch", they're not generally doing it for a paycheck. So if it works good enough for them, well, why do a whole lot more? Open source developers act like adults. They just have different motivations than you would like them to, but hey, that's your problem. Don't try to make it ours.
Yes, there is. If it's easy to use, it's a guided system of some sort. The new 'ribbon' in Microsoft Office is very discoverable, very easy for a new user to figure things out. But the actual advanced features are hidden and take more work for an advanced user to get to, all in the name of making things more discoverable. A job that used to take a few clicks in the older versions now takes many more clicks of the mouse. That's not a "powerful" interface, that's an accessible one.
You have to limit the power of the interface if you make so that it works without having to know anything about it. A CAD program will be much less productive if you make a user click 5 times to get the same effect as if they just type a hotkey, or have to have some knowledge about the system that may not be completely discoverable. You can make a very powerful interface that's very discoverable, but you won't be able to get any work done because it'll take forever to navigate it.
Just because you consider 3 inches "long" doesn't make it so. I'm glad you don't listen to the FCC. I'm happy for you, really. But the vast majority of people who use the Internet realize that 512Kbps isn't really broadband. A half megabit, while faster than dialup, and faster than other options you have, is still not "broadband". Broadband shouldn't be defined by the fastest thing available to a person, it should be defined as a baseline that everyone can agree on. The FCC's number is the closest thing to that that we have.
The FCC currently defines broadband as 768Kbps or faster. So even if he has a 512K ADSL line, he's still not on broadband. And I'd agree with him that much of the "broadband" in the US really shouldn't be called that, especially compared to the baseline connections in the rest of the developed world.
Calling someone a troll when you're so woefully misinformed only makes you look stupid and mean.
Wouldn't it be slightly healthier to set a recurring alarm or something that'd tell you to stand up and stretch and wander around? Let the computer watch the clock for you, rather than waiting to notice yourself twitching and needing a cig?
Most LED clocks flicker at 60Hz (or 50 if you're in the UK/Europe) because it's just simpler to not put in the AC->DC converters and smooth it out, I'd guess that it's just a simple rectifier that preserves some of the flickering if they don't use LED's that can handle AC in the first place.
SSD's only use power when they're being read from or written to, so there's no need to separately power them down. As a side-effect of them being non-volatile flash memory, they don't need a "running" charge like a hard drive needs to keep spinning.
I don't know about perfectly... it's still a little flaky. But it does work. I'd still rather have it run in native mode than as a 32bit program inside a 64bit wrapper.
...turn it into a television set? Man, you're right! All I need is a 16MHz text-processing machine, I don't need that fancy "multi-media" bullshit!
Flash has it's uses. There's communication viable via computers and video that isn't with a television... that's valuable. Look at some of the more serious Youtube videos, that provide information and such. It's not all just videos of people getting kicked in the crotch and Rick Astley. If textual, search-style data is hidden in Flash, I agree that it's a bad thing. But your argument is more like "All we ever needed for information transfer was horses... why would anyone need one of them noisy automobiles?"
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If it's a Cisco firewall, you can use vpnc. It's what I use to get into our VPN. But our admin and most of our company actually supports Linux, even if it's only on a few desktops. It runs our Java software MUCH faster on the server than Windows does, even using the same hardware.
Well, yes. I suppose I should have clarified it with "self-sustaining biofuels", as in they store and create more energy than we have to put into them, which means we're capturing net energy from the sun through the plants, which is kinda the point of biofuels I thought. At least the long-term point... politicians are suckers for subsidies ;)
So, BSD advocates like reinventing the wheel, and GPL advocates would rather advance the state of the art?
Yeah, it's a bit of a trollish statement, but it's what your argument boils down to.
70 years? Hah! Only if the author died immediately after writing it. Copyright is nearly infinite here in the US, as far as anything useful is concerned.
Except analogies with physical "taking" and "giving" don't exactly work with "infinite" goods like software. GPL and BSD both give, but GPL expects anyone that wants to use it as a base to also show people the same consideration they were given. BSD doesn't. And that's it.
Don't let me stop you from trolling, though :)
No, they can't roll his code into their product. They could take some of the ideas, but if the code matched, there would be some issues unless they bought the rights from Bob (he releases it under the GPL due to the license he got the code under... if they negotiate a different license between the two parties, there's no problem). Any other questions?
I think he actually probably meant "ipso facto", which makes a little more sense.
Gnome? GPL. KDE? GPL. Whoops, that's both of the major DE's, and most of the smaller ones are also GPL'd. You're stuck with text mode if you only want non-GPL software.
So don't base your work on GPL work. It sounds like you want to take the GPL work and use it for whatever you want, without allowing the creator of THAT work to do whatever he wants with his rights.
The door swings both ways, kiddo.
And while you saved that whole block of a walk, you wasted an hour circling expensive parking lots trying to find a spot.
Really, I drive for anything that's much over a mile, or if the weather's nasty, and I'll still drive to the light-rail or bus stop where there's free parking versus dealing with the pain in the ass that is downtown parking and navigation, what with idiots not signaling and going way too fast for small streets, people jaywalking without looking first, and parking that's upwards of $5/hr that puts me in your mythical "1 block". For reasonable parking (something more like $2/hr), you've gotta park 5-10 blocks out of the central areas, so there's no reason to NOT take the bus/light-rail/subway.
Not like they'll be built in California. Or elsewhere. Too much NIMBYism. Not to mention the stupid moratorium on nuclear plants. Can't build oil or coal plants since they're dirty, can't build hydro plants since it hurts the fish, and we can't build nuke plants since "nukular" is a scary thing.
Bio fuels are, to borrow an overused phrase, carbon-neutral. We aren't introducing anything into the environment that wasn't there. With fossil fuels, we're releasing stored carbon that would otherwise stay locked away, hence the environmental impact. Biofuels, if they gain critical mass, are at least relatively neutral, you just have to wait for plants to re-absorb the carbon your vehicle emits.
I could come up with a thousand little stupid and boring things to fix on Windows, too. Ever see the font install dialog? Oh yeah, it's the same in Vista as it was in Windows 3.1, which means it has the same limitations of 8.3 filenames and so on. How about file browsing dialogs in Windows that don't have a horizontal scrollbar? Those still exist.
Don't act like Windows or OSX are paragons of perfection while KDE and Gnome are the only DE's that have any issues. Because you're wrong. And the chance of fixing open-source problems is a hell of a lot higher than it is with Windows or OSX.
No, people want a free version of Windows. They don't want to use open-source software. They just want to pay less than they're paying now without having to work at it.
The problem is that open source doesn't work without the bug reports, or without realizing that the person developing the software is doing so to "scratch an itch", they're not generally doing it for a paycheck. So if it works good enough for them, well, why do a whole lot more? Open source developers act like adults. They just have different motivations than you would like them to, but hey, that's your problem. Don't try to make it ours.
Yes, there is. If it's easy to use, it's a guided system of some sort. The new 'ribbon' in Microsoft Office is very discoverable, very easy for a new user to figure things out. But the actual advanced features are hidden and take more work for an advanced user to get to, all in the name of making things more discoverable. A job that used to take a few clicks in the older versions now takes many more clicks of the mouse. That's not a "powerful" interface, that's an accessible one.
You have to limit the power of the interface if you make so that it works without having to know anything about it. A CAD program will be much less productive if you make a user click 5 times to get the same effect as if they just type a hotkey, or have to have some knowledge about the system that may not be completely discoverable. You can make a very powerful interface that's very discoverable, but you won't be able to get any work done because it'll take forever to navigate it.
Just because you consider 3 inches "long" doesn't make it so. I'm glad you don't listen to the FCC. I'm happy for you, really. But the vast majority of people who use the Internet realize that 512Kbps isn't really broadband. A half megabit, while faster than dialup, and faster than other options you have, is still not "broadband". Broadband shouldn't be defined by the fastest thing available to a person, it should be defined as a baseline that everyone can agree on. The FCC's number is the closest thing to that that we have.
Do you have neighbors? Might they be in the same boat and you could get a T1 and share the cost?
I'd have given him a +1 MelBrooksian mod myself...
The FCC currently defines broadband as 768Kbps or faster. So even if he has a 512K ADSL line, he's still not on broadband. And I'd agree with him that much of the "broadband" in the US really shouldn't be called that, especially compared to the baseline connections in the rest of the developed world.
Calling someone a troll when you're so woefully misinformed only makes you look stupid and mean.
Like?
Wouldn't it be slightly healthier to set a recurring alarm or something that'd tell you to stand up and stretch and wander around? Let the computer watch the clock for you, rather than waiting to notice yourself twitching and needing a cig?
Most LED clocks flicker at 60Hz (or 50 if you're in the UK/Europe) because it's just simpler to not put in the AC->DC converters and smooth it out, I'd guess that it's just a simple rectifier that preserves some of the flickering if they don't use LED's that can handle AC in the first place.
SSD's only use power when they're being read from or written to, so there's no need to separately power them down. As a side-effect of them being non-volatile flash memory, they don't need a "running" charge like a hard drive needs to keep spinning.
I don't know about perfectly... it's still a little flaky. But it does work. I'd still rather have it run in native mode than as a 32bit program inside a 64bit wrapper.
...turn it into a television set? Man, you're right! All I need is a 16MHz text-processing machine, I don't need that fancy "multi-media" bullshit!
Flash has it's uses. There's communication viable via computers and video that isn't with a television... that's valuable. Look at some of the more serious Youtube videos, that provide information and such. It's not all just videos of people getting kicked in the crotch and Rick Astley. If textual, search-style data is hidden in Flash, I agree that it's a bad thing. But your argument is more like "All we ever needed for information transfer was horses... why would anyone need one of them noisy automobiles?"