My whole point was that without the kernel, software IN GENERAL is useless. I know that GNU tools work with other kernels and existed for many years before the linux kernel did. I was just pointing out the co-dependent nature of the relationship.
Just... wrong. I remember when I was little, running around the house with my Thundercats sword. Unfortunately, I also remember the first time I stumbled across some fan "art" of one of them giving Mumra a blowjob.
I'm going to go curl up in the corner in a fetal position and cry.
No, I don't have any facts to back it up. Like I said, I presume that most of the visitors are American due to the fact that this is a website run by Americans largely catering to the American IT crowd. Much as I wouldn't expect the Register to convert metric measurements into imperial, I wouldn't expect/. to do the reverse, especially on articles that they only link to.
This is going to sound really really pompous, but it's a lot easier to just KNOW the difference in the measurements than it is to convert between them. My previous job involved a lot of measuring stuff in millimeters, so I'm fairly familiar with the small end of the metric system now. Couldn't say the same before then though.
Probably because, if I dare to be so presumptious, the majority of people here are American. The site's run by Americans. It's like accusing the Register of being too biased towards stories from England.
And yes, everyone should be able to easily convert miles and kilometers to a certain degree. It's not like the labyrinth that is Fahrenheit/Celcius calculations, at least.
My guess is that 'technology preview' is the equivalent of alpha, not beta. Meaning they'll give you all the code for you to see how it works, but don't expect anything to be useful.
Tube amps haven't been abandoned at all, they just went upscale. All the high-grade 'audiophile' bullshit is tube. Guitar amps are still mostly tube. Basically, the only problem is that morons like you call them 'valves'. Damn Brits.;)
To give you a clue how high that is, Dave Purley survived a crash where he pulled 179 G's. He suffered 29 fractures, six dislocations, and six heart stoppages. It was the result of a near-instantaneous stop while hitting a wall at 108MPH (about 160kph, I think). IIRC, the Guinness book puts the time he sustained that g-force at a couple of thousandths of a second.
As another perspective, Top Fuel drivers in the NHRA cover a quarter of a mile in roughly 4.4 seconds, from a standing start, reaching speeds of over 320MPH. The 0-100 times are generally in the.10 second area. The max sustained g-force is about 7. If you've ever seen a dragster accelerate up close, you can extrapolate the violence yourself.:D
Yes, because people can't do simple conversions in their head. One kilometer is approximately 1.6 miles. Round off to 1.5 times and you have a good generalization.
They might just have to pay the FSF some money but D is responsible for G's actions
Okay, let's analyze this for a second. Company D breaks the GPL. Assuming that they are called on it, admit that they accidentally violated the terms, and settle out of court for a small yet signifigant sum, who gets the money? The FSF? The software's copyright holder? I don't know if this question has ever been raised before, but it's one that I think needs an answer pretty quickly.
"We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," McBride said in an interview."
There's only so many ways to do things. How many lines are matching? Five? Ten? Fifty? How many are techniques that are standard programming tools? Give us some evidence.
In addition, he said, "We're finding code that looks likes it's been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
Obfuscated the code? What in the name of flying baby shit does that mean? If the code isn't the same, THEN IT ISN'T THE SAME. You can't change something and HAVE IT REMAIN THE SAME, DIPSHIT. And again, what code? There are only a few ways to do things in C. Only so many ways to access serial ports, just a few ways to handle errors... again, what's your evidence?
"The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing. That's not the way we're going to go."
And in one sentence... SCO signs it's death warrant. This could have gone a lot differently, you know? They could have presented a list of places, WITH SOURCE CODE, where they believe IBM released code illegally. They could have then told the OSS community that they were immune from this and that they only wanted to go after companies that had violated their intellectual property rights. If they'd done that, everyone here would probably support them. As it is, SCO looks like a bunch of dumbass bullies that are too stupid to understand they're a 5' tall 90lb weakling going after the football team's linebacker. The fight will be short, painful, and end up with SCO hanging by it's underwear from the flagpole.
"This is not about 10 lines of code, it's about 20 years of extremely valuable intellectual property we're trying to protect...Am I supposed to lie down and not say anything about it?"
No, but you're expected to show some proof of violations. If anyone here thought they found violations of the GPL, they'd be racing to publish their findings. By keeping their supposed findings secret, SCO is doing nothing but digging their own grave.
They're not doing a fucking thing. Do not EVER expect ANYONE in the record industry to do a thing that would involve giving a flying shit about anyone or anything but their bottom line. I respect the fact that they're in it for the money, that's what a business is, but bending musicians over a barrel with bullshit contracts that leave them with maybe 10% of the money THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR EARNING is reprehensible. None of this money will go to artists. Fuck, none of it will ever be seen again (after all, $12,000 is nothing to these people).
Like the man said (I'm not sure which one, don't ask me. Could have been a woman, now that I think about it....), vote with your wallet. As of right now, I refuse to buy records from any label associated with the RIAA. If a band I like is on a major, I'll probably just download all their songs. I'll support bands I like by doing it the only way they actually make money... through merchandise sales. I'd much rather spend $20 on a badass shirt than $12 on any CD that funds fucktards like the RIAA.
Of course, by torch I assume you mean politely announce your displeasure to the nearest douchebag in a suit marketing fuck you can find. With a tack hammer.
Yes, Apple does. I wasn't talking about Apple specifically. I should have pointed that out. I meant taken as a whole, the DRM of stuff is just that DIGITAL rights management. As soon as it enters the analog world, they're screwed.
That's the thing right there. IF you get the whole CD. This isn't for people that buy the whole CD, if you can't tell. You can pick and choose whatever individual songs you want. My playlist is a couple of hundred songs comprised of DOZENS of artists off of probably 50 albums. I'd much rather buy 200 individual tracks than 50 full albums.
As long as there's an analog output somewhere, any and all protection of audio is so trivial it's almost mentally challenged. So what if your CD doesn't rip right? Just hook the output of your stereo up to your computer and hit PLAY. Record it in Soundforge or something and compress it. Done. No, it's not as easy as just throwing it in the drive and letting CDex do the work, but where's the fun in that?;)
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If the sample is recognisable as a major part of another song, it should have to be cleared for use by the artist. Simple as that.
My whole point was that without the kernel, software IN GENERAL is useless. I know that GNU tools work with other kernels and existed for many years before the linux kernel did. I was just pointing out the co-dependent nature of the relationship.
From what I understand, American McGee wasn't all that thrilled with it either.
No, GNU refers to a group of software published by the FSF. Without the kernel, it's all useless. Without the software, the kernel is useless.
GNU is the tools. Linux is the kernel. Redhat/Debian/Gentoo/Mandrake/whatever are the OS.
Just... wrong. I remember when I was little, running around the house with my Thundercats sword. Unfortunately, I also remember the first time I stumbled across some fan "art" of one of them giving Mumra a blowjob.
I'm going to go curl up in the corner in a fetal position and cry.
No, I don't have any facts to back it up. Like I said, I presume that most of the visitors are American due to the fact that this is a website run by Americans largely catering to the American IT crowd. Much as I wouldn't expect the Register to convert metric measurements into imperial, I wouldn't expect /. to do the reverse, especially on articles that they only link to.
This is going to sound really really pompous, but it's a lot easier to just KNOW the difference in the measurements than it is to convert between them. My previous job involved a lot of measuring stuff in millimeters, so I'm fairly familiar with the small end of the metric system now. Couldn't say the same before then though.
OH COME ON! It's a joke! Roger is slang for sex, you dolts! Holy hell...
Probably because, if I dare to be so presumptious, the majority of people here are American. The site's run by Americans. It's like accusing the Register of being too biased towards stories from England.
And yes, everyone should be able to easily convert miles and kilometers to a certain degree. It's not like the labyrinth that is Fahrenheit/Celcius calculations, at least.
Yes, sorry. Wrote it down wrong. 1 mile is approximately 1.6 kilometers. It's too damned early for unit conversion.
My guess is that 'technology preview' is the equivalent of alpha, not beta. Meaning they'll give you all the code for you to see how it works, but don't expect anything to be useful.
You might want to roger Redhat, but the rest of us prefer not to be so promiscuous.
Tube amps haven't been abandoned at all, they just went upscale. All the high-grade 'audiophile' bullshit is tube. Guitar amps are still mostly tube. Basically, the only problem is that morons like you call them 'valves'. Damn Brits. ;)
Yes, that was a joke.
To give you a clue how high that is, Dave Purley survived a crash where he pulled 179 G's. He suffered 29 fractures, six dislocations, and six heart stoppages. It was the result of a near-instantaneous stop while hitting a wall at 108MPH (about 160kph, I think). IIRC, the Guinness book puts the time he sustained that g-force at a couple of thousandths of a second.
.10 second area. The max sustained g-force is about 7. If you've ever seen a dragster accelerate up close, you can extrapolate the violence yourself. :D
As another perspective, Top Fuel drivers in the NHRA cover a quarter of a mile in roughly 4.4 seconds, from a standing start, reaching speeds of over 320MPH. The 0-100 times are generally in the
Yes, because people can't do simple conversions in their head. One kilometer is approximately 1.6 miles. Round off to 1.5 times and you have a good generalization.
Like the article said, it's a record for railed vehicles. RTFA, THEN post.
They might just have to pay the FSF some money but D is responsible for G's actions
Okay, let's analyze this for a second. Company D breaks the GPL. Assuming that they are called on it, admit that they accidentally violated the terms, and settle out of court for a small yet signifigant sum, who gets the money? The FSF? The software's copyright holder? I don't know if this question has ever been raised before, but it's one that I think needs an answer pretty quickly.
My money's on copyright holder, BTW.
"We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," McBride said in an interview."
There's only so many ways to do things. How many lines are matching? Five? Ten? Fifty? How many are techniques that are standard programming tools? Give us some evidence.
In addition, he said, "We're finding code that looks likes it's been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
Obfuscated the code? What in the name of flying baby shit does that mean? If the code isn't the same, THEN IT ISN'T THE SAME. You can't change something and HAVE IT REMAIN THE SAME, DIPSHIT. And again, what code? There are only a few ways to do things in C. Only so many ways to access serial ports, just a few ways to handle errors... again, what's your evidence?
"The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing. That's not the way we're going to go."
And in one sentence... SCO signs it's death warrant. This could have gone a lot differently, you know? They could have presented a list of places, WITH SOURCE CODE, where they believe IBM released code illegally. They could have then told the OSS community that they were immune from this and that they only wanted to go after companies that had violated their intellectual property rights. If they'd done that, everyone here would probably support them. As it is, SCO looks like a bunch of dumbass bullies that are too stupid to understand they're a 5' tall 90lb weakling going after the football team's linebacker. The fight will be short, painful, and end up with SCO hanging by it's underwear from the flagpole.
"This is not about 10 lines of code, it's about 20 years of extremely valuable intellectual property we're trying to protect...Am I supposed to lie down and not say anything about it?"
No, but you're expected to show some proof of violations. If anyone here thought they found violations of the GPL, they'd be racing to publish their findings. By keeping their supposed findings secret, SCO is doing nothing but digging their own grave.
They're not doing a fucking thing. Do not EVER expect ANYONE in the record industry to do a thing that would involve giving a flying shit about anyone or anything but their bottom line. I respect the fact that they're in it for the money, that's what a business is, but bending musicians over a barrel with bullshit contracts that leave them with maybe 10% of the money THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR EARNING is reprehensible. None of this money will go to artists. Fuck, none of it will ever be seen again (after all, $12,000 is nothing to these people).
Like the man said (I'm not sure which one, don't ask me. Could have been a woman, now that I think about it....), vote with your wallet. As of right now, I refuse to buy records from any label associated with the RIAA. If a band I like is on a major, I'll probably just download all their songs. I'll support bands I like by doing it the only way they actually make money... through merchandise sales. I'd much rather spend $20 on a badass shirt than $12 on any CD that funds fucktards like the RIAA.
Nobody gets jail time for copyright violations. You pay a fine, you say you're sorry, you move on and download more shit.
Of course, by torch I assume you mean politely announce your displeasure to the nearest douchebag in a suit marketing fuck you can find. With a tack hammer.
BAH! All of you... BAH! I'm sticking with my 1 baud acoustic modem and that's final.
Yes, Apple does. I wasn't talking about Apple specifically. I should have pointed that out. I meant taken as a whole, the DRM of stuff is just that DIGITAL rights management. As soon as it enters the analog world, they're screwed.
Someone... please... mod this up. It's someone that makes sense... ON SLASHDOT! You have to give him credit for that, at least.
That's the thing right there. IF you get the whole CD. This isn't for people that buy the whole CD, if you can't tell. You can pick and choose whatever individual songs you want. My playlist is a couple of hundred songs comprised of DOZENS of artists off of probably 50 albums. I'd much rather buy 200 individual tracks than 50 full albums.
As long as there's an analog output somewhere, any and all protection of audio is so trivial it's almost mentally challenged. So what if your CD doesn't rip right? Just hook the output of your stereo up to your computer and hit PLAY. Record it in Soundforge or something and compress it. Done. No, it's not as easy as just throwing it in the drive and letting CDex do the work, but where's the fun in that? ;)