Keep in mind that Duff's Device came around as a way to speed up an animation playback program at Lucasarts. Small optimizations make huge differences.
I've seen that phrase quoted several times here. The problem is that is does not state that anything that isn't included in a normal distribution HAS TO BE provided with the source. A compiler is not a script to control compilation. It is a completely separate binary. The paragraph above specifically states what is required. Header files, makefiles (if used), shell scripts of any kind that control compilation. It does NOT mention anything about compilers.
And if it does, then every copy of every piece of GPL code that can be used on Windows needs to have MSVC included with it.
It's entirely possible, given the excessively convoluted nature of the GPL, for one file to be GPL'd and another to not be GPL'd. It's all in how it's linked. If not all of the source HAS to be GPL'd, then I don't see where it's wrong that they DON'T GPL it.
The GPL makes no mention of what language the provided source has to be in. If I write something in a language I came up with and I GPL the code, I don't have to release my compiler OR the source in a different language. Machine readable means no paper copies.
If you're going to start shit, have the balls to do it when logged in you pussy-ass bastard. Then again, you can't spell and apparently have no clue what the shift key is for so I doubt you're anything more than a fucktarded troll. Go blow some goats.
I'd rather lose to the tune of a page with sponsored links than lose to 18 popups, gator, and having my homepage changed. There are some levels of BS you have to put up with, and I'll take SiteFinder over Netster any day of the week.
I don't see how that's a privacy concern any more than any other website logging IP's is. What, are the Internet Police going to come and beat my ass for misspelling 'slashdot.org'?;)
Okay, serious now. I've run into Sitefinder a few times. I really don't see what the big deal is about. When you make a mistake it redirects you to a page that lists domain names close to what you were looking for. I find this a lot better than register.com's popup laden crap, or anyone elses for that matter. I don't see how tracking the number of occurences and origin of a misspelling is a privacy concern. I'm sorry, none of this makes any dent on my web browsing and if it doesn't bug me (a techie) then why the hell should the general public (who don't care about anything technical about the internet) give a rat's arse?
Exactly how the hell is this any different from Register.com's redirected stuff? Or any other webhosts for that matter? Is it ONLY because VeriSign runs the domain names for.net and.com? I really don't understand why this is a problem, and I can guarantee you the overwhelming majority of people seriously don't give a s**t. Can anyone explain it without bringing down showers of FUD?
Third Official: Well most things we do for pleasure nowadays are taxed, except one.
Politician: What do you mean?
Third Official: Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not... thingy.
Politician: Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?
First Official: Poo poo's?
Third Official: No.
First Official: Thank God for that. Excuse me for a moment. (leaves)
Third Official: No, no, no - thingy.
Second Official: Number ones?
Third Official: No, thingy.
Politician: Thingy!
Second Official: Ah, thingy. Well it'll certainly make chartered accountancy a much more interesting job.
Yes, that's a real patent. However, it is an example of a BAD patent. Hyperlinks themselves should not be patentable, as they are an IDEA, but software for a new way of handling them SHOULD be, as long as it is sufficiently evolutionary. Not the code itself, that is copyrighted, but the way the code works.
AH! Good example. Duff's Device. You all know it, right? I don't see it as patentable, but things of that nature should be. A way of doing things differently than anyone else has thought of before. THAT is what patents are for.
MOD. PARENT. UP. Exactly right. Software patents are not a problem. The real problem is the over-generic patents such as "a way of linking from one document to another".
So what DOES the internet have to offer me? It doesn't cook me dinner, take out the trash, or even clean up its room. Screw this, I'm going outside.
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Would you give up a portion of your privacy and freedom in exchange for less time in prision?
Umm... you mean would I trade a prison sentence where I have NO privacy and NO freedom for a life on the outside where my movement would be monitored but not very restricted? What kind of stupid not-thought-out question is this, dude? I really hope I'm just misunderstanding your intent.
Because those are base 10 measurements, not base 2. Correction to my original statement for nitpicky twerps: In the computer world, in the things that are prudent to this discussion, a kilo has always equaled 1024.
There wasn't any confusion until the drive makers decided to change a standard that was in place for dozens of years. In the computer world kilo has always equaled 1024. Strict SI prefixes might make sense if computers worked that way, but they don't.
Not really. If enough people are pissed and feel they've been misled, then that is strong grounds for a court case. It's no different than suing a car manufacturer if their 500HP supercar ends up putting out 150HP. It's false and misleading.
I doubt it. Megabyte and Gigabyte are used in the computer industry to denote specific sizes, and have been for many years. This is like getting screwed over at a gas station because some dumbass decided that a gallon was equal to a pint because some Sumerian chicken measurements used a GAL prefix or something equally stupid.
IgnoreEDID is something to keep the nVidia drivers from trying to detect something that doesn't allow X to start. I'm not too sure about the specifics, and I don't care to find out. It's not a bug in the driver, it's something to do with my monitor being shite.
If your computer is rebooting because of your vidcard drivers, I daresay you have a conflict somewhere. Mine did the same thing after I upgraded to XP a while back (before I switched to Linux). I ended up having to completely wipe out all sound and video drivers and have XP automatically detect everything again, then install all the updated drivers. Total PITA.
In my experience, Red Hat DOES have the most idiot proof install, if you want it to. Your friend wanted the easy install to act like a custom install. He should have known better. He should also have had his network card drivers handy on a CD if he knew that the Red Hat CD didn't have them. I keep all the software I know I'll need after a reinstall on a CD (nVidia drivers, java, a couple of programs I like, etc.) and your friend would be well advised to do the same.
Your dad certainly sounds like an exception to me. Let me guess, he either has an engineering degree or has been using computers for a few decades.
Actually, my dad is an auto mechanic. While some of the equipment they use nowdays would snap in half the brains of most computer users, it's not exactly an MCSE equivalent, is it? Then again, he does have the ability to RTFM and figure out problems on his own.
Try finding some people who have never used computers before or have only used computers for simple things like word processing--people who have never tried to install anything, and try to get them to install Windows by themselves.
And what will that prove? That's like saying I can't drive a car on the highway because I couldn't beat Michael Schumacher in an F1 race. All it proves is that a newbie can't do something technically complicated. My dad being able to install Windows doesn't surprise me, he isn't a computer guy. A computer guy being unable to install Windows consistently... that's just stupid.
Doubt it. Say something worthwile and the mods
might reconsider. I may be a brash asshole, but
at least I make a good point. More importantly,
I have the guts to do it when logged in.
Actually, now that you mention it, a friend of
mine has been playing with acetylene torches since
he was 12 or so. His dad taught him to weld, so
I'm not too sure if that counts.;)
I'm several years older than most of my friends.
I've known most for quite a few years. A couple
are constantly kicked out of their house, several
have alcoholic parents, a couple are shoplifters,
one or two are stoners, and that's just what I
know about. Most of their parents truly don't give
a shit about them, and that's the plain truth.
Several times one of my friends has found himself
thrown out of both his parents houses (his parents
are divorced) and ended up spending a couple of
weeks bouncing from friend's house to friend's house.
It's this kind of bullshit that's the result of
people that never properly grew up (children of
the 70's and 80's) having to raise kids of their
own. They don't have the patience or understanding
to deal with anything so they throw their excitable
eight year olds on Ritalin, dose themselves with
Prozac, and hope it all gets better.
I'm 22 years old. I am not a child, but I flat
refuse ever being called an adult. Most of the
'adults' I know are more petulant than any four
year old I've ever seen. They ignore their
children then blame everyone else when their kid
fucks up. The fact that these are the people that
run things tells you more than you'd ever want
to know about this country.
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Figures I just ran out of mod points. :(
Keep in mind that Duff's Device came around as a way to speed up an animation playback program at Lucasarts. Small optimizations make huge differences.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html
This is why I hate the GPL.
I've seen that phrase quoted several times here. The problem is that is does not state that anything that isn't included in a normal distribution HAS TO BE provided with the source. A compiler is not a script to control compilation. It is a completely separate binary. The paragraph above specifically states what is required. Header files, makefiles (if used), shell scripts of any kind that control compilation. It does NOT mention anything about compilers.
And if it does, then every copy of every piece of GPL code that can be used on Windows needs to have MSVC included with it.
It's entirely possible, given the excessively convoluted nature of the GPL, for one file to be GPL'd and another to not be GPL'd. It's all in how it's linked. If not all of the source HAS to be GPL'd, then I don't see where it's wrong that they DON'T GPL it.
The GPL makes no mention of what language the provided source has to be in. If I write something in a language I came up with and I GPL the code, I don't have to release my compiler OR the source in a different language. Machine readable means no paper copies.
No, it's analogous to taking a free sample then getting bitchslapped by the person giving them away because you failed to eat it the right way.
If you're going to start shit, have the balls to do it when logged in you pussy-ass bastard. Then again, you can't spell and apparently have no clue what the shift key is for so I doubt you're anything more than a fucktarded troll. Go blow some goats.
I'd rather lose to the tune of a page with sponsored links than lose to 18 popups, gator, and having my homepage changed. There are some levels of BS you have to put up with, and I'll take SiteFinder over Netster any day of the week.
I don't see how that's a privacy concern any more than any other website logging IP's is. What, are the Internet Police going to come and beat my ass for misspelling 'slashdot.org'? ;)
Okay, serious now. I've run into Sitefinder a few times. I really don't see what the big deal is about. When you make a mistake it redirects you to a page that lists domain names close to what you were looking for. I find this a lot better than register.com's popup laden crap, or anyone elses for that matter. I don't see how tracking the number of occurences and origin of a misspelling is a privacy concern. I'm sorry, none of this makes any dent on my web browsing and if it doesn't bug me (a techie) then why the hell should the general public (who don't care about anything technical about the internet) give a rat's arse?
Exactly how the hell is this any different from Register.com's redirected stuff? Or any other webhosts for that matter? Is it ONLY because VeriSign runs the domain names for .net and .com? I really don't understand why this is a problem, and I can guarantee you the overwhelming majority of people seriously don't give a s**t. Can anyone explain it without bringing down showers of FUD?
Third Official: Well most things we do for pleasure nowadays are taxed, except one. Politician: What do you mean? Third Official: Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not ... thingy.
Politician: Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?
First Official: Poo poo's?
Third Official: No.
First Official: Thank God for that. Excuse me for a moment. (leaves)
Third Official: No, no, no - thingy.
Second Official: Number ones?
Third Official: No, thingy.
Politician: Thingy!
Second Official: Ah, thingy. Well it'll certainly make chartered accountancy a much more interesting job.
Yes, that's a real patent. However, it is an example of a BAD patent. Hyperlinks themselves should not be patentable, as they are an IDEA, but software for a new way of handling them SHOULD be, as long as it is sufficiently evolutionary. Not the code itself, that is copyrighted, but the way the code works.
AH! Good example. Duff's Device. You all know it, right? I don't see it as patentable, but things of that nature should be. A way of doing things differently than anyone else has thought of before. THAT is what patents are for.
MOD. PARENT. UP. Exactly right. Software patents are not a problem. The real problem is the over-generic patents such as "a way of linking from one document to another".
Alright! I can talk to people! Umm... you know, I can do that outside too... this internet thing keeps getting worse and worse...
;D
So what DOES the internet have to offer me? It doesn't cook me dinner, take out the trash, or even clean up its room. Screw this, I'm going outside.
Would you give up a portion of your privacy and freedom in exchange for less time in prision?
Umm... you mean would I trade a prison sentence where I have NO privacy and NO freedom for a life on the outside where my movement would be monitored but not very restricted? What kind of stupid not-thought-out question is this, dude? I really hope I'm just misunderstanding your intent.
Because those are base 10 measurements, not base 2. Correction to my original statement for nitpicky twerps: In the computer world, in the things that are prudent to this discussion, a kilo has always equaled 1024.
There wasn't any confusion until the drive makers decided to change a standard that was in place for dozens of years. In the computer world kilo has always equaled 1024. Strict SI prefixes might make sense if computers worked that way, but they don't.
Not really. If enough people are pissed and feel they've been misled, then that is strong grounds for a court case. It's no different than suing a car manufacturer if their 500HP supercar ends up putting out 150HP. It's false and misleading.
I doubt it. Megabyte and Gigabyte are used in the computer industry to denote specific sizes, and have been for many years. This is like getting screwed over at a gas station because some dumbass decided that a gallon was equal to a pint because some Sumerian chicken measurements used a GAL prefix or something equally stupid.
So.... you're a dork. ;)
You confuse the phrases "can't handle" and "don't give two shits about".
IgnoreEDID is something to keep the nVidia drivers from trying to detect something that doesn't allow X to start. I'm not too sure about the specifics, and I don't care to find out. It's not a bug in the driver, it's something to do with my monitor being shite.
If your computer is rebooting because of your vidcard drivers, I daresay you have a conflict somewhere. Mine did the same thing after I upgraded to XP a while back (before I switched to Linux). I ended up having to completely wipe out all sound and video drivers and have XP automatically detect everything again, then install all the updated drivers. Total PITA.
In my experience, Red Hat DOES have the most idiot proof install, if you want it to. Your friend wanted the easy install to act like a custom install. He should have known better. He should also have had his network card drivers handy on a CD if he knew that the Red Hat CD didn't have them. I keep all the software I know I'll need after a reinstall on a CD (nVidia drivers, java, a couple of programs I like, etc.) and your friend would be well advised to do the same.
Your dad certainly sounds like an exception to me. Let me guess, he either has an engineering degree or has been using computers for a few decades.
Actually, my dad is an auto mechanic. While some of the equipment they use nowdays would snap in half the brains of most computer users, it's not exactly an MCSE equivalent, is it? Then again, he does have the ability to RTFM and figure out problems on his own.
Try finding some people who have never used computers before or have only used computers for simple things like word processing--people who have never tried to install anything, and try to get them to install Windows by themselves.
And what will that prove? That's like saying I can't drive a car on the highway because I couldn't beat Michael Schumacher in an F1 race. All it proves is that a newbie can't do something technically complicated. My dad being able to install Windows doesn't surprise me, he isn't a computer guy. A computer guy being unable to install Windows consistently... that's just stupid.
Doubt it. Say something worthwile and the mods might reconsider. I may be a brash asshole, but at least I make a good point. More importantly, I have the guts to do it when logged in.
Actually, now that you mention it, a friend of mine has been playing with acetylene torches since he was 12 or so. His dad taught him to weld, so I'm not too sure if that counts. ;)
I'm several years older than most of my friends. I've known most for quite a few years. A couple are constantly kicked out of their house, several have alcoholic parents, a couple are shoplifters, one or two are stoners, and that's just what I know about. Most of their parents truly don't give a shit about them, and that's the plain truth. Several times one of my friends has found himself thrown out of both his parents houses (his parents are divorced) and ended up spending a couple of weeks bouncing from friend's house to friend's house. It's this kind of bullshit that's the result of people that never properly grew up (children of the 70's and 80's) having to raise kids of their own. They don't have the patience or understanding to deal with anything so they throw their excitable eight year olds on Ritalin, dose themselves with Prozac, and hope it all gets better.
I'm 22 years old. I am not a child, but I flat refuse ever being called an adult. Most of the 'adults' I know are more petulant than any four year old I've ever seen. They ignore their children then blame everyone else when their kid fucks up. The fact that these are the people that run things tells you more than you'd ever want to know about this country.