Exactly. You don't have to use so-called "free software" when you can use more free software, such as PostgreSQL.
Laudable goals of the free software world aside, the real practical problem is that there are many situations when one must do GPL-incompatible things without even coming close to breaking the spirit of free software. The GPL has a real practical problem in this regard, and that's why its general use is unacceptable.
Maybe, but it healed quickly. Even among some of the people jumping up and down the most over Sklyarov, very few harbor significant ill will toward Adobe today.
I think the collective event memory of those who care is a good deal shorter-lived than you give it credit for.
This part is not at all surprising. Even one single bit difference in two files would give radically different MD5 hashes.
Right, but I figured, maybe the bit differences might disappear in the encoding, some wacky things you can only determine empirically:-)
Two different rips, same software, same CD, give different results on different drives. I think cd paranoia says something about "digital jitter" whatever the heck that means?
Not sure about "digital jitter" myself, but I do know that pretty much all discs have errors all over the place (I backup my audio CDs with cdrdao, which tells me just how many CRC errors it had -- not seen a disc with less than a hundred yet), and the difference probably lies mostly in error correction strategies employed by the drives themselves. I don't know this for sure though.
I see "biological process modeling". I don't see "biological weapons modeling". Besides, wouldn't it be a good thing to know everything possible about said weaponry if it helps develop a defense of some sort?
Different drives, with the same disc, and identical software, certainly do give different results. Just tested. Identical versions of cdparanoia live on both systems.
I also ran lame with default settings (makes a 128K CBR) on both WAVs and got different sums there as well.
Scratches on CDs don't affect the audio. They can make the audio skip because part of it is unreadable, but if that happened you would get an error while ripping the track. So a flaw on the CD would not affect a rip.
Well, except that most decent rippers these days use paranoia or something similar, using algorithms to interpolate the corrupt stuff. The interpolation is going to sound good but it's almost certainly not going to be the same bit-for-bit. And bit-for-bit is what matters.
Nintendo is, today, doing a lot of classic game resuscitation, though it mostly seems to be for the GBA.
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They say that only 5 percent of game players today complete a game to a developer intended "finish." So clearly a change toward shorter games would be beneficial.
My biggest problem with this change is that games are getting too short. If I don't finish a story-oriented game, the real reason is that the game has suddenly become extremely difficult for no good reason and frustrating, not because I lack the patience to finish it.
It's not the "standard problem"; it's a combination of exim trying to parse headers it really doesn't need to and fetchmail bailing out for no good reason instead of moving along when it gets a 5xx.
Yes, it's a bug, and yes, someone probably could fix it, but I don't even have that setup anymore anyway.
Debian has defaulted to exim as long as I can remember. exim tends to choke pretty seriously on some of my mail, though... (fetchmail'd from an Exchange server) sendmail has never had any such trouble, and I suspect Postfix, based on my previous experience with it, also would not.
So, use OpenOffice 1.1. Exports PDFs right there on the File menu. Also, essentially any Linux app that prints prints PostScript, which is just a ps2pdf away from PDF -- the caveat being, of course, that you actually have to execute ps2pdf filename.ps.
A suit needs a plaintiff and a defendant. You can't be both. Otherwise, what's to keep you from suing yourself, getting a large judgment, and asking your insurers to pay you off.
Umm... the insurance company?
I don't know any insurance company that'd buy that scheme, unless maybe some execs there were on the dole...
The relevant clause SCO is breaking is the redistribution clause. Under the gpl, if SCO does not accept gpl it cannot redistribute gpl-ed programs.
Yes, but no. SCO can only not redistribute the program that it has broken the license agreement for. So they cannot distribute Linux, but could still distribute Samba, GCC, et al. unless they made similar moves against them.
Err, what Mozilla are you using? My copy of 1.4 has no trouble. Mind you, it's not pretty, but neither are any of the Google-autoconverted PDFs; this looks similar to one of those. Perfectly readable though.
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Exactly. You don't have to use so-called "free software" when you can use more free software, such as PostgreSQL.
Laudable goals of the free software world aside, the real practical problem is that there are many situations when one must do GPL-incompatible things without even coming close to breaking the spirit of free software. The GPL has a real practical problem in this regard, and that's why its general use is unacceptable.
I hope they go out and find respectable jobs, rather than providing labor for a scum industry.
Yes.
You're right, my bad. Must read more closely.
If it were my day, I'd give you points.
Maybe, but it healed quickly. Even among some of the people jumping up and down the most over Sklyarov, very few harbor significant ill will toward Adobe today.
I think the collective event memory of those who care is a good deal shorter-lived than you give it credit for.
That's an interesting thought. I wonder if I could get the two rips to match if I stripped samples off both ends until they matched.
Of course, this is all far too much work. :-)
Right, but I figured, maybe the bit differences might disappear in the encoding, some wacky things you can only determine empirically :-)
Not sure about "digital jitter" myself, but I do know that pretty much all discs have errors all over the place (I backup my audio CDs with cdrdao, which tells me just how many CRC errors it had -- not seen a disc with less than a hundred yet), and the difference probably lies mostly in error correction strategies employed by the drives themselves. I don't know this for sure though.
Why I'm taking this bait is beyond me, but...
I see "biological process modeling". I don't see "biological weapons modeling". Besides, wouldn't it be a good thing to know everything possible about said weaponry if it helps develop a defense of some sort?
Different drives, with the same disc, and identical software, certainly do give different results. Just tested. Identical versions of cdparanoia live on both systems.
I also ran lame with default settings (makes a 128K CBR) on both WAVs and got different sums there as well.
No tags involved.
Well, except that most decent rippers these days use paranoia or something similar, using algorithms to interpolate the corrupt stuff. The interpolation is going to sound good but it's almost certainly not going to be the same bit-for-bit. And bit-for-bit is what matters.
Nintendo is, today, doing a lot of classic game resuscitation, though it mostly seems to be for the GBA.
My biggest problem with this change is that games are getting too short. If I don't finish a story-oriented game, the real reason is that the game has suddenly become extremely difficult for no good reason and frustrating, not because I lack the patience to finish it.
My wife is quite capable of handing me my ass at Mario Kart. It's rather embarassing.
It's not the "standard problem"; it's a combination of exim trying to parse headers it really doesn't need to and fetchmail bailing out for no good reason instead of moving along when it gets a 5xx.
Yes, it's a bug, and yes, someone probably could fix it, but I don't even have that setup anymore anyway.
Debian has defaulted to exim as long as I can remember. exim tends to choke pretty seriously on some of my mail, though... (fetchmail'd from an Exchange server) sendmail has never had any such trouble, and I suspect Postfix, based on my previous experience with it, also would not.
Yeah, I know, it's so awful, I don't even walk out my front door to the car without my bulletproof vest.
Idiot.
I suppose if they've got a large bank account ready to go -- one that's spendable with impugnity, then sure.
So, use OpenOffice 1.1. Exports PDFs right there on the File menu. Also, essentially any Linux app that prints prints PostScript, which is just a ps2pdf away from PDF -- the caveat being, of course, that you actually have to execute ps2pdf filename.ps.
Erm, which is why grandparent said "under the GPL", perhaps?
Legally? Yeah. Morally? Most certainly not.
Umm... the insurance company?
I don't know any insurance company that'd buy that scheme, unless maybe some execs there were on the dole...
Yes, but no. SCO can only not redistribute the program that it has broken the license agreement for. So they cannot distribute Linux, but could still distribute Samba, GCC, et al. unless they made similar moves against them.
Err, what Mozilla are you using? My copy of 1.4 has no trouble. Mind you, it's not pretty, but neither are any of the Google-autoconverted PDFs; this looks similar to one of those. Perfectly readable though.