Well, people tried to go around the licensing back in the day, too (and succeeded, as they still do). So I still fail to see how this relates to your earlier comments.
Obfuscation slows some people down, a little. For others, it merely creates an incentive to crack. Software which, otherwise, they'd have had no interest in, becomes their target, just for the challenge of it. And it ends up being circulated more widely than if there were no obfuscation in the first place.
It was a question, really, not an argument. My point was that I fail to see your point. It was a different era... but obfuscated/hidden source isn't any more useful now than it was then. If you think it is, then please explain how. I interpreted your remarks as best I could; maybe it's not what you were trying to get at, but I wasn't setting up a straw man.
Wikipedia can sometimes help in these situations, too. For example, I was doing much what Ebb did -- using Wikipedia to look up the official names of some languages -- and in the process, I learned for the first time that the term "Español", though commonplace in the western hempisphere, is controversial within Spain itself.
However, there's no reason that "can't obfuscate" should translate into "must open-source". Yeah, you have to provide source, because it's an interpreted language. But the license is whatever you want it to be. There was a time, you know, when most programs came with source, but were under commercial licenses.
Even with compiled languages, source hiding is just lame.
This device does 4-bit greyscale... a laser printer is 1-bit. It may even be that the "greyscale" pixels are just groups of four monochrome dots, and it's addressed as 1024x768 greyscale for convenience. With antialiased text, it should come out looking pretty similar.
Seriously, have you ever used Gnome or KDE? They aren't just window managers.
My Gnome desktop in Ubuntu is probably more unified than my Mac or Windows desktops. Consider Windows: The Media Player sticks out like a sore thumb, and Office doesn't conform to anything but itself. (Actually I don't use Office, but I can't let that stand in the way of a rhetorical point.) And in Mac OS X, the apps can't agree on whether they want to be Pinstriped, Brushed, or Unified.
I assume you meant "elegance". Anyway, what you want is one of the GrApple themes from http://takebacktheweb.org/ . You can't tell me with a straight face that Firefox with an appropriate GrApple theme looks any worse than Safari.
Why only 48 bits?
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Why not go all the way to 64 bits now, and thereby avoid further changes for the forseeable future? In one of the messages linked from the article, it's suggested that 1024 PB, obscene as it sounds, may only be good enough for another decade.
I went to the local "nice A/V shops" before settling on a plasma TV from Circuit City. They were dumps -- overpriced, poor selection, poor setup of the equipment. And I saw no evidence that the employees were any more knowledgable; but then, I didn't rely on them for my information, so I didn't ask a lot of questions. (I research online.)
I've read speculation that the unusual friendliness of dolphins towards humans stems from our being fishing partners long ago. (Also, speculation that human hairlessness and "blubber" is the result of our ancestors spending a great deal of time in the water.)
I once burned some HD video in DVD format and stuck it in a $10 player. To my surprise, it sort-of worked -- I got the upper left portion of the picture, with some breakup. The sound was perfect. (I also tried it in several other players, and got nothing. This was my cheapest player.)
What made this game stand out in its day were "graphics" that couldn't be rendered in real time, back then. But today, they could be. Imagine the look of the original, but with fully interactive gameplay -- that's what I'd like to see.
I used to be set to "Light Mode", which seems to have been translated to the combination of "Simple Design" and "Low Bandwidth" in the new design. This also changed considerably with the resdesign... but I still have a serif font. (I think just because it's my default.) The settings are under "Preferences", "Homepage".
I think the portion of the population that's even heard of this case is really tiny. We don't see that, because it's immensely important to us. But I doubt that Darl McBride has much trouble going about his daily life.
Point 2: The judge in the SCO/IBM case is being very, very, very careful indeed not to give SCO any grounds for appeal when they ultimately get spanked.
Do we really know that? Is there evidence for it, beyond the wishful thinking of our side? Is that standard operating procedure for judges, or for this judge?
How does one save an extension on one's system for later installation?
Right-click on the "install" link, and you can save it to disk like any other link. You can then install it by drag-and-drop, or from the File menu, or from the location bar.
Well, theoretically, at some point the older branches will stop receiving bug fixes, while new exploits may still be developed. At that point, it would no longer be safe to run the old version. But we're talking about a no-security OS here, so maybe that doesn't really matter...
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BTW, if you post links in the comments (as opposed to the article summary), it does not, in my experience, lead to slashdotting.
Beautiful.
So, what's the issue with a desalinator?
Well, people tried to go around the licensing back in the day, too (and succeeded, as they still do). So I still fail to see how this relates to your earlier comments.
Obfuscation slows some people down, a little. For others, it merely creates an incentive to crack. Software which, otherwise, they'd have had no interest in, becomes their target, just for the challenge of it. And it ends up being circulated more widely than if there were no obfuscation in the first place.
It was a question, really, not an argument. My point was that I fail to see your point. It was a different era... but obfuscated/hidden source isn't any more useful now than it was then. If you think it is, then please explain how. I interpreted your remarks as best I could; maybe it's not what you were trying to get at, but I wasn't setting up a straw man.
Wikipedia can sometimes help in these situations, too. For example, I was doing much what Ebb did -- using Wikipedia to look up the official names of some languages -- and in the process, I learned for the first time that the term "Español", though commonplace in the western hempisphere, is controversial within Spain itself.
Indeed it was! So, are you seriously maintaining that obfuscated source is a security feature? LOL.
Anyone who paid for this was a sucker.
However, there's no reason that "can't obfuscate" should translate into "must open-source". Yeah, you have to provide source, because it's an interpreted language. But the license is whatever you want it to be. There was a time, you know, when most programs came with source, but were under commercial licenses.
Even with compiled languages, source hiding is just lame.
Looks may be skin deep, but they're what we're talking about here. Do you want to rephrase that?
What problems do you perceive in the themes?
Have you actually tried a GrApple theme?
There's no need for a backlight with this screen tech. That's the entire point of it. Backlights are for screens that aren't readable in direct light.
It supports DRM; that doesn't mean that you can only read DRM'd documents. You can read whatever you want.
This device does 4-bit greyscale... a laser printer is 1-bit. It may even be that the "greyscale" pixels are just groups of four monochrome dots, and it's addressed as 1024x768 greyscale for convenience. With antialiased text, it should come out looking pretty similar.
Seriously, have you ever used Gnome or KDE? They aren't just window managers.
My Gnome desktop in Ubuntu is probably more unified than my Mac or Windows desktops. Consider Windows: The Media Player sticks out like a sore thumb, and Office doesn't conform to anything but itself. (Actually I don't use Office, but I can't let that stand in the way of a rhetorical point.) And in Mac OS X, the apps can't agree on whether they want to be Pinstriped, Brushed, or Unified.
I assume you meant "elegance". Anyway, what you want is one of the GrApple themes from http://takebacktheweb.org/ . You can't tell me with a straight face that Firefox with an appropriate GrApple theme looks any worse than Safari.
Why not go all the way to 64 bits now, and thereby avoid further changes for the forseeable future? In one of the messages linked from the article, it's suggested that 1024 PB, obscene as it sounds, may only be good enough for another decade.
I guess we'll be on to ext5 or 6 by then, though.
I went to the local "nice A/V shops" before settling on a plasma TV from Circuit City. They were dumps -- overpriced, poor selection, poor setup of the equipment. And I saw no evidence that the employees were any more knowledgable; but then, I didn't rely on them for my information, so I didn't ask a lot of questions. (I research online.)
I've read speculation that the unusual friendliness of dolphins towards humans stems from our being fishing partners long ago. (Also, speculation that human hairlessness and "blubber" is the result of our ancestors spending a great deal of time in the water.)
I once burned some HD video in DVD format and stuck it in a $10 player. To my surprise, it sort-of worked -- I got the upper left portion of the picture, with some breakup. The sound was perfect. (I also tried it in several other players, and got nothing. This was my cheapest player.)
What made this game stand out in its day were "graphics" that couldn't be rendered in real time, back then. But today, they could be. Imagine the look of the original, but with fully interactive gameplay -- that's what I'd like to see.
I used to be set to "Light Mode", which seems to have been translated to the combination of "Simple Design" and "Low Bandwidth" in the new design. This also changed considerably with the resdesign... but I still have a serif font. (I think just because it's my default.) The settings are under "Preferences", "Homepage".
I think the portion of the population that's even heard of this case is really tiny. We don't see that, because it's immensely important to us. But I doubt that Darl McBride has much trouble going about his daily life.
You mean, the way they cancelled valuable unmanned missions to make room in the budget for questionable manned missions? Yeah, that's great.
Well, theoretically, at some point the older branches will stop receiving bug fixes, while new exploits may still be developed. At that point, it would no longer be safe to run the old version. But we're talking about a no-security OS here, so maybe that doesn't really matter...