umm, 1) the OS guys don't have to write the driver, anyone who knows how to program a driver can 2) If a company so wanted to, features can be added to the generic one 3) Its not like the hardware company can't write their own driver and do a binary dist. 4) You CAN use non open source drivers under linux
Overall linux device drivers are more robust and stable. While windows ones are horrid. Even thou they force device driver programmers to do thigns their way its still a bad system. INF PNF SYS files and the registry make for one BAD design.
Nothing at all. Its just the people who use the GNU license DON"T want that to happen and thats their view. They want people who extend and work on their code to give the results back.
Now whats wrong with someone wanting that??
Also take note that if you pick something up and improve it for personal gain, you don't have to give the changes back, UNLESS you starting giveing binaries away to people.
THou i did know someone who messed up their speedometer by changeing the tires so maybe thats why some people claim their speedometer is incorrect, it isn't set to their tire's dimensions or something like that.
and again, how would it have helped the customers to shred their docs? i can see how it would benifit a company as thats a good palce to dumpsterdive, but a home?
There cannot be compared to one another. Giveing out tickets for speeding doesn't improve poeples skills, or make them slow down. And speeding is bad driveing. If police gave out tickets for bad driveing i'd be a very happy man. ie for going slower then traffic, leaveing signals on, not signaling, cutting people off, stuff that actualy results in accidents. speeding accounts for 1%, something like 45% just happen, drivers wern't doing anything wrong, because well, accidents happen!
and i'm going to assume your good drivers here. AS a good driver your prepared and arn't startled by the cops.
But most people are NOT good drivers, hell most suck. So they see cops and freak, "OMG i'm doing 55 in a 50 zone!! gotta slow down". Speeding isn't bad driveing. dangerous speeding is, and yes there is a diffrence.
I follow all the rules except speed limits, because i know i can handle my car, and i know my cars limits and i only go what i feel is safe (either above or below the limit)
>Highway speed limit is not than 100 kmph. You rarely (onlt when traffic is jammed) see someone driving below 110 kmph, typically all at 120. Result? They speed untill someone is crashed and then all they move slowly as traffic is jammed. Everyone complain about traffic jams. Isn't it stupid?
Well in ALL my life i've only seen 1 highway accident. and i go on the highway all the time. speedlimit is 90, avg speed is 100-110 dureing non rush hour day, 120-140 later at night, and the fools going 90 at all times screwing it up for everyone
>When you move at exactly speed limit (100 kmph) on the right lane, someone will tale-gate you.
Yes because you are not moveing at the speed the rest of the traffic is going and thus increaseing accident risk. Its people like you who cause the traffic jams (i've seen it, 1 or 2 slow people fuck it all up as people merge and change lanes to get infront of you) Yea sure your going the speed limit (At least!! poeple who go under in heavy traffic should be shot) but its not the speed everyone else is going and your a problem.
People who go slower then traffic problabey cause more accidents then people who speed as poeple start getting mad/tailgateing/passing/changeing lanes
dunno wtf your talking about "lines" thous. if you talking about lanes, here in BC its not like that, if you don't signal your a fool and your driveing is bad and chances are you going to get hit (i almsot hit someone who did what you did a week ago) Here if you signal 9/10 times they will either let you in, or speed up to make room.
except "americas most wanted" and "crimestoppers" do arm robberies and more serious crimes, you know REAL crimes, the stuff that either kills/endangers poeple.
way off topic i bet, but i feel like commenting on your stop sign example:
>Many drivers "slide" through stop lines [specially in residential areas where kids and such walk]
personally i do it (when i feel i don't have to stop and its safe to "slide" thru), and so do most drives, when you come to a 4 way stop you can easily see if there are any kids/cars and if you need to stop or not and you know the poeple in the crossing scrett are going to slowdown/stop. 2 way you don't so stoping is a good idea unless youc an see the road in each direction for a fair ways.
I think the reason that the law says your supposed to come to a complete stop is to make it easy for the cops to get you for running a stop sign when its dangerous and your really should have stopped. ie, if it was "slow down and only stop if you feel you need to" you'd get to many stupid drivers fucking up and then claiming "i thought it was safe". With as it is now its simpely "you ran the stop sign so you at fault" so its much easier to prove.
speeding is not as bad as some people claim, but the problem is you get stupid fucks who don't know how to drive doing it. I could go on but i've typed enough about stop signs already lol
but: >merge without signaling, change langes inappropriate
is just plain bad driveing and endangerous/pisses off others. i hate people who do that with a passion, because how bloody hard is it to put you signal on?? Hell i'll be going 140 on a highway with no one in sight and if i change lanes i'll put my signal on!... wow i rambled on way to much.. ah well, i've written it so i might as well post it
THe point of GPL is so when a big company comes along and takes the code and improves on it, they have to release the changed back instead of hoarding them in private code like they do with BSD.
If it wasn't for GPL IBM could take the linux source, improve on it greatly and then never give anything back to linux.
"ut the standarisation of netowrking protocols that resulted in the internet would never have happened since that commercial software wouldn't have had the ice option of using BSD code for it, and GPL code would not have been usable."
umm no. From what i've heard alls that allowed was MS to steal the BSD TCP/IP stack and finally have a good network stack instead of the crap they had in 98.
Most other people implemented thier own. ANd if it had been GPL they would just have to look at it, then reimplement it and they would be all in the clear.
personally if i lived in the states and this law went tru i'd start shoplisting, not only is there less punishment you get more back, a CD, music, the CD book thingy.
And if your smart about it shoplifting is pretty damn easy to get away with, and if you don't you run/get a slap on the wrist.
And unlike downloading music, once you steal a real copy of the CD no ones going to buy the CD after they smpaled that stolen CD like many would after sampleing downlaoded "stolen ip"
I think that its harder then that, would a court bend to their will with such a flimsy case?
"It wasn't me" "I didn't know my computer was shareing anything" "I owned all thoses at 1 point, but well... someone stole em" "my friends computer was hooked up at the time" ect ect
if they didn't download anything > "They are just files of random junk, i put em up for fun"
If they can blindy accuse poeple with so little evidance and win... then everyones lost. Whatever happpen to haveing to prove guilt?
And i don't think they'd be breaking down doors, thats crimanal, they are talking about civil. And they are hopeing to win via fear. I dn't think they would win if a case actauly went to court.
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'thorn' key?
While the company is out of biz, amazon might be selling it to recoup the cost of buying the software back when the company was in biz.
And if they can't deliver the profits to anyone they problably keep them so thats why it would still be for sale.
How does it comepare to RAR thou? Out of everything i've tested/tried/used winRAR gets thee best compression, and thats with 5% recovery record to
umm,
1) the OS guys don't have to write the driver, anyone who knows how to program a driver can
2) If a company so wanted to, features can be added to the generic one
3) Its not like the hardware company can't write their own driver and do a binary dist.
4) You CAN use non open source drivers under linux
Overall linux device drivers are more robust and stable. While windows ones are horrid. Even thou they force device driver programmers to do thigns their way its still a bad system. INF PNF SYS files and the registry make for one BAD design.
And probley download em instead eh?
Instead of driveing people away from P2P they are driveing people away from the stores lol
now why oh why do you use tiffs????
use PNG and you'll save ALOT of space!
Nothing at all. Its just the people who use the GNU license DON"T want that to happen and thats their view. They want people who extend and work on their code to give the results back.
Now whats wrong with someone wanting that??
Also take note that if you pick something up and improve it for personal gain, you don't have to give the changes back, UNLESS you starting giveing binaries away to people.
ahh, doesn't get checked here (cananda).
THou i did know someone who messed up their speedometer by changeing the tires so maybe thats why some people claim their speedometer is incorrect, it isn't set to their tire's dimensions or something like that.
and again, how would it have helped the customers to shred their docs? i can see how it would benifit a company as thats a good palce to dumpsterdive, but a home?
There cannot be compared to one another.
Giveing out tickets for speeding doesn't improve poeples skills, or make them slow down. And speeding is bad driveing. If police gave out tickets for bad driveing i'd be a very happy man. ie for going slower then traffic, leaveing signals on, not signaling, cutting people off, stuff that actualy results in accidents. speeding accounts for 1%, something like 45% just happen, drivers wern't doing anything wrong, because well, accidents happen!
and i'm going to assume your good drivers here. AS a good driver your prepared and arn't startled by the cops.
But most people are NOT good drivers, hell most suck. So they see cops and freak, "OMG i'm doing 55 in a 50 zone!! gotta slow down". Speeding isn't bad driveing. dangerous speeding is, and yes there is a diffrence.
I follow all the rules except speed limits, because i know i can handle my car, and i know my cars limits and i only go what i feel is safe (either above or below the limit)
Maybe you just have a good, newer, car?
and look at the autobaun, its got no bloody speed limit and i don't see them putting one in, so 100+ can't be dangerous if 200+ isn't
>Highway speed limit is not than 100 kmph. You rarely (onlt when traffic is jammed) see someone driving below 110 kmph, typically all at 120. Result? They speed untill someone is crashed and then all they move slowly as traffic is jammed. Everyone complain about traffic jams. Isn't it stupid?
Well in ALL my life i've only seen 1 highway accident. and i go on the highway all the time. speedlimit is 90, avg speed is 100-110 dureing non rush hour day, 120-140 later at night, and the fools going 90 at all times screwing it up for everyone
>When you move at exactly speed limit (100 kmph) on the right lane, someone will tale-gate you.
Yes because you are not moveing at the speed the rest of the traffic is going and thus increaseing accident risk. Its people like you who cause the traffic jams (i've seen it, 1 or 2 slow people fuck it all up as people merge and change lanes to get infront of you) Yea sure your going the speed limit (At least!! poeple who go under in heavy traffic should be shot) but its not the speed everyone else is going and your a problem.
People who go slower then traffic problabey cause more accidents then people who speed as poeple start getting mad/tailgateing/passing/changeing lanes
dunno wtf your talking about "lines" thous. if you talking about lanes, here in BC its not like that, if you don't signal your a fool and your driveing is bad and chances are you going to get hit (i almsot hit someone who did what you did a week ago) Here if you signal 9/10 times they will either let you in, or speed up to make room.
except "americas most wanted" and "crimestoppers" do arm robberies and more serious crimes, you know REAL crimes, the stuff that either kills/endangers poeple.
way off topic i bet, but i feel like commenting on your stop sign example:
:
... wow i rambled on way to much.. ah well, i've written it so i might as well post it
>Many drivers "slide" through stop lines [specially in residential areas where kids and such walk]
personally i do it (when i feel i don't have to stop and its safe to "slide" thru), and so do most drives, when you come to a 4 way stop you can easily see if there are any kids/cars and if you need to stop or not and you know the poeple in the crossing scrett are going to slowdown/stop. 2 way you don't so stoping is a good idea unless youc an see the road in each direction for a fair ways.
I think the reason that the law says your supposed to come to a complete stop is to make it easy for the cops to get you for running a stop sign when its dangerous and your really should have stopped. ie, if it was "slow down and only stop if you feel you need to" you'd get to many stupid drivers fucking up and then claiming "i thought it was safe". With as it is now its simpely "you ran the stop sign so you at fault" so its much easier to prove.
speeding is not as bad as some people claim, but the problem is you get stupid fucks who don't know how to drive doing it. I could go on but i've typed enough about stop signs already lol
but
>merge without signaling, change langes inappropriate
is just plain bad driveing and endangerous/pisses off others. i hate people who do that with a passion, because how bloody hard is it to put you signal on?? Hell i'll be going 140 on a highway with no one in sight and if i change lanes i'll put my signal on!
yea, every time i try to figure out how to use usenet i give up and go back to p2p/IRC lol
Don't know anyone who uses it so i'm outta luck when it comes to usenet warez=/
well in MS's case its because whatever they change was pushed upon to to many computers and everyone else has to deal with their crappy ass software.
But aside from them i don't think it applies to anyone else
THe point of GPL is so when a big company comes along and takes the code and improves on it, they have to release the changed back instead of hoarding them in private code like they do with BSD.
If it wasn't for GPL IBM could take the linux source, improve on it greatly and then never give anything back to linux.
"ut the standarisation of netowrking protocols that resulted in the internet would never have happened since that commercial software wouldn't have had the ice option of using BSD code for it, and GPL code would not have been usable."
umm no. From what i've heard alls that allowed was MS to steal the BSD TCP/IP stack and finally have a good network stack instead of the crap they had in 98.
Most other people implemented thier own. ANd if it had been GPL they would just have to look at it, then reimplement it and they would be all in the clear.
personally if i lived in the states and this law went tru i'd start shoplisting, not only is there less punishment you get more back, a CD, music, the CD book thingy.
And if your smart about it shoplifting is pretty damn easy to get away with, and if you don't you run/get a slap on the wrist.
And unlike downloading music, once you steal a real copy of the CD no ones going to buy the CD after they smpaled that stolen CD like many would after sampleing downlaoded "stolen ip"
I know a couple libraries up here that allow one to take out videos as well as books....
StegFS ??
and all to fact, going by how english should be spoken, if you do not know the gender as in the sentance you pointed out, you are supposed to use he.
I think that its harder then that, would a court bend to their will with such a flimsy case?
"It wasn't me"
"I didn't know my computer was shareing anything"
"I owned all thoses at 1 point, but well... someone stole em"
"my friends computer was hooked up at the time"
ect ect
if they didn't download anything >
"They are just files of random junk, i put em up for fun"
If they can blindy accuse poeple with so little evidance and win... then everyones lost. Whatever happpen to haveing to prove guilt?
And i don't think they'd be breaking down doors, thats crimanal, they are talking about civil. And they are hopeing to win via fear. I dn't think they would win if a case actauly went to court.
You can always make them, just a big coil of wire aroud a iron core, and alot of electricy going thru thoses wires:)
Thou a good place for big electromagnets is big electric moters.