1. There is only one Cell in a PS3 2. You had access to the main cores and all but on of it's vector processing units 3. The GFX chip is what was cut out.
And it's my opinion that current copyright laws are too far reaching and that bankrupting people for downloading a few films is cruel and disproportionate.
If you support fining people up to 50 grand for downloading a movie then you're an asshole. Pure and simple.
Checkout "Dolphin", it's a GC and Wii emulator for the PC. I believe they've got a few games up to playable level but have a way to go.
Being able to Wiimulate on the 360 would be a major thing. Why buy a Wii if you can get a 360 + bluetooth dongle + replacement sensor bar (it's just a couple of LEDs) and a controller or two, then have have both Wii and 360?
You wrote to the UK authorities and expect anything other than a response to say "We're right, shut up" ?
I've given up after many times having had to wait for months for a reply and then have it made quite, quite clear to me that not only have they not taken on board my concerns, they haven't even bothered to read them.
I wonder if this update is why my 360 has started to RRoD in the last few days?
I got one of the first ones available in the UK and it's been fine until now. On friday it started to RRoD pretty much on alternate days, with no way to persuade it not to except leaving it. A dodgy, rushed low-level code update could explain its behaviour....
Yeah, was linked further down the thread and I have read it now.
It *is* an interesting situation, and if it was only ever distributed, all the way down the chain to the last person, as source and never as a binary, then that might be ok, but the moment a single binary is swapped between friends with that link in place, the GPL kicks in.
What license was clisp under before?
It basically comes down to the way I've always understood the GPL - you don't make any use of GPL'd components if you're not prepared to put everything under GPL, that is the intent of the license. Any deliberate workaround is just dangerous legal ground.
I'm sorry, did they include the use of a GPL library without understanding the license?
Well they deserve what they got. Like any other license. If you don't want to GPL your stuff, you don't make use of GPL components, at all, end of story.
"This would mean that if someone built an application using GPL libraries, he is bound to distribute the source of the libraries, but in the current case he should not be bound to make available his own sources under the GPL."
I know a lot of people would love that, but it is precisely the sort of situation the GPL seeks to prevent. People use the GPL because they don't want you (or SCO, or MS, or anyone else) to be able to use them without contributing back their code.
The whole idea is that you play the same game or you don't get to play at all.
Sure, your suggestion would mean more people using some of the libraries, expecially in commercial apps. It would also lead to companies keeping their proprietary workarounds, patches and fixes in separate, closed pieces of code that they are under no obligation to show anyone, and the GPL scene suffers as a result.
If you are writing open source and you like this idea (many do) then the BSD license is for you. GPL is specifically aimed at preventing this.
If you've done something quite unique in the client app and you don't want to GPL it, you shouldn't be using GPL libraries and using an elaborate hack to try to cheat your way around the licensing restrictions.
Don't want to GPL it, don't use other folk's GPL code. Them's the rules.
Yes, the GPL applies in that case because your code is a derivative work, regardless of what goes on in memory, you have created a derivative work based on a GPL library and you are distributing it.
The distribution is not hard-drive to memory, it's that you are distributing your code that is already a derivative work at this point, regardless of whether you distribute the library to other people
If they were using the GPL then they'd have a point. I'm not familiar with their license, but under the GPL you are a derivative work if you're using their library, so you need to GPL your code too.
I'm more interested in the size of the device. A 9" machine is fantastic for portability. I don't give much of a crap about watching HD content on it at that size, yet it's still far bigger and better than anything the airlines provide.
Except your strawman falls apart when it turns out that, looking at oter parts of the world, these things don't happen. What happens when the protections are removed is that more people live in poverty and are paid less.
US citizens have far less holiday time than Europeans, but as yet there is no evidence of them being more productive. Anecdotally they seem less so.
And as for individual negotiations, that may work for you or I, with degrees and experience, but anyone without that is screwed. No thanks, government exists to negotiate for the little man and he gets a better life out of it.
The needy among us are the ones that suffer as they will work in any conditions for any money at all. Take your objectivism and stuff it.
On my Sony Vaio SZ-670N I had sound problems with ubuntu. On first install the alsa system was broken and I had to rebuild from source to get it to work. And on upgrade it happened again. And again.
I switched to debian, now everything works perfectly.
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It's free as in beer, AFAICT, but not open. That seems strange to me.
YOU can, because you know what NAT is and how to port-forward and various other things.
Most people don't. Leave them in their little walled gardens, it's safer for them there.
1. There is only one Cell in a PS3
2. You had access to the main cores and all but on of it's vector processing units
3. The GFX chip is what was cut out.
I've got one of the ones with hardware back-compat.
Unfortunately I bought it in the far east and live in Europe.
So it won't play any of *my* old games library. Damn them.
I repeat - if you HAVE an xBox then getting it to do extra makes financial sense.
If you *have* an Xbox, then why not make it do both if it's possible? The you don't have to buy a Wii, saving you money.
That article you link to is remarkably well timed though. I've had mine from just after release date and it failed last week...
And it's my opinion that current copyright laws are too far reaching and that bankrupting people for downloading a few films is cruel and disproportionate.
If you support fining people up to 50 grand for downloading a movie then you're an asshole. Pure and simple.
The amount I actually use Xbox live, who cares?
Not everyone gives much of a $&*# about online play.
Unfortunately I got mine about six months too early for that to be of any use to me now. But for others it may be useful.
Checkout "Dolphin", it's a GC and Wii emulator for the PC. I believe they've got a few games up to playable level but have a way to go.
Being able to Wiimulate on the 360 would be a major thing. Why buy a Wii if you can get a 360 + bluetooth dongle + replacement sensor bar (it's just a couple of LEDs) and a controller or two, then have have both Wii and 360?
You wrote to the UK authorities and expect anything other than a response to say "We're right, shut up" ?
I've given up after many times having had to wait for months for a reply and then have it made quite, quite clear to me that not only have they not taken on board my concerns, they haven't even bothered to read them.
I wonder if this update is why my 360 has started to RRoD in the last few days?
I got one of the first ones available in the UK and it's been fine until now. On friday it started to RRoD pretty much on alternate days, with no way to persuade it not to except leaving it. A dodgy, rushed low-level code update could explain its behaviour....
Yeah, was linked further down the thread and I have read it now.
It *is* an interesting situation, and if it was only ever distributed, all the way down the chain to the last person, as source and never as a binary, then that might be ok, but the moment a single binary is swapped between friends with that link in place, the GPL kicks in.
What license was clisp under before?
It basically comes down to the way I've always understood the GPL - you don't make any use of GPL'd components if you're not prepared to put everything under GPL, that is the intent of the license. Any deliberate workaround is just dangerous legal ground.
I'm sorry, did they include the use of a GPL library without understanding the license?
Well they deserve what they got. Like any other license. If you don't want to GPL your stuff, you don't make use of GPL components, at all, end of story.
"This would mean that if someone built an application using GPL libraries, he is bound to distribute the source of the libraries, but in the current case he should not be bound to make available his own sources under the GPL."
I know a lot of people would love that, but it is precisely the sort of situation the GPL seeks to prevent. People use the GPL because they don't want you (or SCO, or MS, or anyone else) to be able to use them without contributing back their code.
The whole idea is that you play the same game or you don't get to play at all.
Sure, your suggestion would mean more people using some of the libraries, expecially in commercial apps. It would also lead to companies keeping their proprietary workarounds, patches and fixes in separate, closed pieces of code that they are under no obligation to show anyone, and the GPL scene suffers as a result.
If you are writing open source and you like this idea (many do) then the BSD license is for you. GPL is specifically aimed at preventing this.
No, it's simple.
If you've done something quite unique in the client app and you don't want to GPL it, you shouldn't be using GPL libraries and using an elaborate hack to try to cheat your way around the licensing restrictions.
Don't want to GPL it, don't use other folk's GPL code. Them's the rules.
Yes, the GPL applies in that case because your code is a derivative work, regardless of what goes on in memory, you have created a derivative work based on a GPL library and you are distributing it.
The distribution is not hard-drive to memory, it's that you are distributing your code that is already a derivative work at this point, regardless of whether you distribute the library to other people
If they were using the GPL then they'd have a point. I'm not familiar with their license, but under the GPL you are a derivative work if you're using their library, so you need to GPL your code too.
I'm more interested in the size of the device. A 9" machine is fantastic for portability. I don't give much of a crap about watching HD content on it at that size, yet it's still far bigger and better than anything the airlines provide.
It's not exactly great, but I've had mine playing 720p using debian and mplayer. That said, it was futurama.
Except your strawman falls apart when it turns out that, looking at oter parts of the world, these things don't happen. What happens when the protections are removed is that more people live in poverty and are paid less.
Your worldview is based on fiction.
He didn't say about the job, he said about the same things the team were passionate about.
I'm a terrible geek and I love technology. I get on well with my cow-orkers because we're all passionate about computers and beer.
If you're in software engineering and you're not passionate about computers in some way, you'll stick out as the fake that you are sooner or later.
Bull-shit.
US citizens have far less holiday time than Europeans, but as yet there is no evidence of them being more productive. Anecdotally they seem less so.
And as for individual negotiations, that may work for you or I, with degrees and experience, but anyone without that is screwed. No thanks, government exists to negotiate for the little man and he gets a better life out of it.
The needy among us are the ones that suffer as they will work in any conditions for any money at all. Take your objectivism and stuff it.
On my Sony Vaio SZ-670N I had sound problems with ubuntu. On first install the alsa system was broken and I had to rebuild from source to get it to work. And on upgrade it happened again. And again.
I switched to debian, now everything works perfectly.
Does the economy keep you warm at night?
Does the economy give you time to experience life?
Seriously, good for you, powerhouse economy (don't mention the debt!), if that's what floats your boat. Me, I'll take a more relaxed life.