It would still be wrong, as Darwin
and therefore Mac OS/X are based off
of FreBSD 3.4-RELEASE.
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If you can't see the difference between
NFS and Napster, you're lying to yourself. Here's
the difference: NFS is a protocol. How it's used
is what determines its legality. Now, some will tell you that Napster is a protocol too, which is it, but that's not what is being attacked. The Napster SERVICE is what is in trouble, because it's geared for and dominated by illegal traffic.
If Napster were at least making _some_ attempt to filter out copyright material, I'd have sympathy for Napster- but they don't. Comeon, a few regexp statements could block out the major
names in music no sweat.
Production of most IP has some expense. If that can't be recooperated, and then compensated for the labor, it surely wouldn't be as popular. You wouldn't like such a world, bitch.
The GPL doesn't force distribution of code. So MontaVista could have kept the Linux code to themself.
On the other hand, yes, they would be able to distribute a closed binary based on FreeBSD. So what? They suffer from increased merging cost, decreased popularity, decreased peer review, and more expensive development. So really only stupid programmers wouldn't release back in that scenario, and try to take FreeBSD "head-on". Are you afraid of stupid programmers?
The GPL thrives on the delusion that someone who
programs for a living (or their bosses, etc) is a monopolistic idiot that can't embrace open source. That's not true; release back the majority of your changes, and if you must, hold on to that 1% that gives you the definite advantage to your competitors.
Perhaps he's using a PCI video card, in which
case the bus may be filled up with video traffic- hence the soundcard's buffers empty and you get a skip.
Solution? AGP. Or two PCI buses. But good luck finding the latter for your Athlon;)
When I was a "reckless youth" the worst I did was tresspassing. Cutting across someone's yard in the middle of the night is a bit different than several felonies for computer-related crimes.
I'm sure the six year old in Chicago who murdered a child was on a "reckless streak" too. There are laws in this society, and you need to observe them. Minor infratcions can be forgiven easily, but most felonies will stick with you for the rest of your life- and they should.
The powers that be should consider stopping the +1 from being
automatic, and make the user actually
request it when they think they are saying
something insightful. Look, this
comment is acceptable and all I guess, but it certainly isn't worthy to start out at 2.
Did Jobs swear on his mother's grave that they'd reach that deadline? No, he didn't. But everyone at Apple is trying like hell to get the public beta out at that date, and it wouldn't surprise me if they do it.
Jobs does the same thing Linus does, but he maintains a level of professionalism:)
It's a shame if Darwin and then Mac OS/X don't upgrade to more of a FreeBSD 4.x core, because the improved VM subsystem would result in a noticably faster machine.
Of course, that'd also require a lot of time merging code. Apple has the resources, don't they?:)
Informal deadlines started in the Fall of '99. That was one year ago. And I quote, from a CNET article:
Citing the need for smaller, more incremental upgrades to the open-
source operating system, Torvalds says he is trying to roll out the
next major Linux release, version 2.4, by this fall.
But when a big company does it, it's evil.
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They performed experiments with 7Hz waves
(which is the resonant frequency of many
cells in our body) in France, but it resulted in a few accident deaths.
Anyhow, as the laws of acoustics dictate, to generate such a low tone at a moderate amplitude, you need a very large object. The french government used modified jet engines.
It's not terribly practical for war. Bullets
are easier, and cheaper (think power).
There were cold war devices that generated
high frequency sound to disturb people mentally, instilling feelings of paranoia and in extreme cases mental breakdowns (temporary of course) that I believe got bad enough to cause vertigo. There are some products I believe out there that use this principle for self-defense.
The high-frequency method started in Nazi Germany, with Hitler using it for mind control. They'd have a very high frequency sound in an auditorium that'd make everyone uncomfortable, and then when Hitler entered, they'd stop the sound. Operant conditioning at its best.
you need a very large object to reverb
They will never be merged, as BSDi plans
on keeping them separate products for different
groups. So far, the most important changes
coming to FreeBSD by way of BSDi is the next-generation SMP, in which Chuck Paterson of BSDi is contributing.
This shouldn't have been moderated down. Although he ruins it at the end being quite rude, he still
has a valid point- someone is asking how to fix a problem that they've never experienced, and have only heard exists.
But it's quite a scary thought that with the coming of the Crusoe and perhaps StrongARM replacing x86 for many usage, the world will lose out on the x86 processors biggest advantage.. distilling booze. So even when the computer crashes, you won't care- you'll be drunk off your horse!
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VMware and Plex86 do not emulate the x86 processor. That's what separates virtualization from emulation. There are some wonderful whitepapers on the plex86 website if you're interested in learning more.
Bochs is in a separate category from Plex86 and VMWare!
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[nt] stands for no text, people.
It would still be wrong, as Darwin and therefore Mac OS/X are based off of FreBSD 3.4-RELEASE.
If Napster were at least making _some_ attempt to filter out copyright material, I'd have sympathy for Napster- but they don't. Comeon, a few regexp statements could block out the major names in music no sweat.
If you have only three friends, that's a good solution. But for the rest of us, there's too much inertia to fight.
Production of most IP has some expense. If that can't be recooperated, and then compensated for the labor, it surely wouldn't be as popular. You wouldn't like such a world, bitch.
I don't see relevance; most GPL and BSD-licensed work is not for embedded systems deep in an every day appliance.
On the other hand, yes, they would be able to distribute a closed binary based on FreeBSD. So what? They suffer from increased merging cost, decreased popularity, decreased peer review, and more expensive development. So really only stupid programmers wouldn't release back in that scenario, and try to take FreeBSD "head-on". Are you afraid of stupid programmers?
The GPL thrives on the delusion that someone who programs for a living (or their bosses, etc) is a monopolistic idiot that can't embrace open source. That's not true; release back the majority of your changes, and if you must, hold on to that 1% that gives you the definite advantage to your competitors.
What's the difference? The only one that comes to mind is that MS pays for the team to work on NT, and MontaVista funds the work on Linux.
Solution? AGP. Or two PCI buses. But good luck finding the latter for your Athlon ;)
Want to see if I'm new? Compare our User Ids- yours is nearly three times mine ;)
I'm sure the six year old in Chicago who murdered a child was on a "reckless streak" too. There are laws in this society, and you need to observe them. Minor infratcions can be forgiven easily, but most felonies will stick with you for the rest of your life- and they should.
The powers that be should consider stopping the +1 from being automatic, and make the user actually request it when they think they are saying something insightful. Look, this comment is acceptable and all I guess, but it certainly isn't worthy to start out at 2.
Despite what some folks at Mozilla may want you to believe, the apperance of the browser isn't the most important thing to consider ;)
Not sure if you're talking about Jobs or Linus.. clarify please?
Jobs does the same thing Linus does, but he maintains a level of professionalism :)
Of course, that'd also require a lot of time merging code. Apple has the resources, don't they? :)
Maybe the naming of an actual day is a bit unrealistic, but a quarter, month, or week are all realistic and should be used.
As for missing deadlines, let's talk about how long the linux 2.4 kernel has been promised.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=linux+2.4
Informal deadlines started in the Fall of '99. That was one year ago. And I quote, from a CNET article:
Citing the need for smaller, more incremental upgrades to the open- source operating system, Torvalds says he is trying to roll out the next major Linux release, version 2.4, by this fall.
But when a big company does it, it's evil.
Anyhow, as the laws of acoustics dictate, to generate such a low tone at a moderate amplitude, you need a very large object. The french government used modified jet engines.
It's not terribly practical for war. Bullets are easier, and cheaper (think power).
There were cold war devices that generated high frequency sound to disturb people mentally, instilling feelings of paranoia and in extreme cases mental breakdowns (temporary of course) that I believe got bad enough to cause vertigo. There are some products I believe out there that use this principle for self-defense.
The high-frequency method started in Nazi Germany, with Hitler using it for mind control. They'd have a very high frequency sound in an auditorium that'd make everyone uncomfortable, and then when Hitler entered, they'd stop the sound. Operant conditioning at its best. you need a very large object to reverb
Why'd you put FreeBSD in the "some others" category?
Just like pkg_add -r on FreeBSD. Minus the fact that they obtain the location of packages in different ways, it's superficially the same.
They will never be merged, as BSDi plans on keeping them separate products for different groups. So far, the most important changes coming to FreeBSD by way of BSDi is the next-generation SMP, in which Chuck Paterson of BSDi is contributing.
This shouldn't have been moderated down. Although he ruins it at the end being quite rude, he still has a valid point- someone is asking how to fix a problem that they've never experienced, and have only heard exists.
But it's quite a scary thought that with the coming of the Crusoe and perhaps StrongARM replacing x86 for many usage, the world will lose out on the x86 processors biggest advantage.. distilling booze. So even when the computer crashes, you won't care- you'll be drunk off your horse!
Bochs is in a separate category from Plex86 and VMWare!
BSD/OS and FreeBSD will remain separate products. They will share some code, however.