ah yes the "educational" version... which if you read the eula carefully you will discover that you are only licensed to use it while you remain a student and also you are not allowed to do paid work with it...
cos he's had to pass an exam to get that precious license to use those reserved frequencies... he's probably bemoaning about the morse requirement being dropped because it means that more people can get through the exam...
he probably thinks his precious spectrum will be like usenet the day after AOL let their subscribers in...
well, software radio won't be like that, because, unlike usenet, where a message gets to every server in the world that carries that group, software radio will only send a message as far as the recipient and with only enough power to reach him/her... and if things are set up right, then we'll have an interlocking mesh of nodes so the power requirements can be kept extremely low purely for node-to-node message passing.
we have a testing machine... connected to the internet of all things... AND connected to the same network the production system is running on... and evidently it's running on ms-windows...
piracy hurts the open source movement because there is little incentive to use things like OpenOffice or The Gimp when joe user can pick up keygens or cracked versons of MS Office, Adobe Photoshop or whatever the current must have application du jour is, for next to nothing at the car-boot sale or download them off the web.
Piracy helps Bill Gates and others because it means fewer people are forced to choose between stumping up for a genuine product or going without and using an OSS, freeware or shareware alternative.
the cool things may happen on the Mac or Linux, but you can bet your last dollar that you will NOT be able to legally play any of these DRM'd videos on those boxes...
As far as Microsoft are concerned, Linux developers and users == hobbyists... that's all this is intended to do, lock Linux users out of the Microsoft garden... prevent them from legally viewing that premium content.
actually as a shareware developer you should be concerned... because the widescale availability of cheap/free warezed major apps is undercutting your lifeblood. Why even try/register a shareware app to do something when you can pick up the warezed major app for peanuts. Warezed apps for ms windows are also preventing adoption of Linux/FOSS alternatives as it removes the major cost factor of ms windows apps to the general public. Why use the Gimp for Windows when you can pick up a keygen or whatever for Photoshop CS off the web...
hah, even maintaining the status quo leaves them in a pickle... every time Microsoft upissue Office, things change... and you can bet your bottom dollar that things will change in the proprietary extensions to "Office Open XML" format that Microsoft will keep a tight patent-mined rein on...
I have been trying to download the episode with both safari and Firefox , however I seem to be having no luck.
Looks like you have to be using windows , so perhaps mac users are out of luck . though I could be wrong and just having problems on my end.
aha... you've failed the test. Please surrender your Geek pass to security on the way out...:) a true geek would have tried an alternate approach such as cutting & pasting and replacing mms:// with http:///
we know the codebase is NOT new... because the first security update for the beta was for the.wmf vulnerability... who knows what other nightmares are still ticking away in it.
Steve is an insane perfectionist who insists upon authoring all
of our software in assembly language. Assembly language is tied
directly to the processor chip in the computer, thus none of our
software CAN be moved from the PC to the Mac. It's completely tied
to the Intel processor platform.
hah... bad news for him then... the Mac is coming to HIS chip... no more excuse.
correct, the proposed V3 will put limitations on fields of endeavour and effectively breach Freedom 0
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
basically, V3 is saying you can use the software in any way you want, but you can't add DRM into it for your own program that you want to distribute... because it would curtail your users from using that program for any purpose... but this restriction is restricting your own use... arghhh... logical paradox loop... brain hurtz...
"With this new technology, based on highly esoteric mathematics, the software can be distributed to many machines on the Internet, not necessarily trusted or highly secure. The software works by analyzing all of the data and then having the appearance of putting all the data into a 'secure box.' A secret filter inside the box dismisses some data as useless and collects only relevant data according to the confidential criteria that can be programmed into the software. And because it's all done inside encrypted code, it's not apparent which, if any, of the data has been selected and kept, except by the person who has deployed the filter and has the decryption key."
methinks this will be stuck into VISTA and possibly forced onto XP users via a mandatory update.
What happens if Him Upstairs has full backups? What if he decides he doesn't like the direction things are going and rolls back to an earlier saved state? How would we ever know if he did?
I also find it unsettling that Linux users keep buying peripherals without checking compatability first, and end up/rewarding/ manufacturers that don't support Linux.
don't go down the high street then... search out guys like these, and use them... they actually test the things and make sure they work with Linux...
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ah yes the "educational" version... which if you read the eula carefully you will discover that you are only licensed to use it while you remain a student and also you are not allowed to do paid work with it...
that would be nice, but it wouldn't get rid of those link farms that scrape content from other websites
I will eat my hat if it does turn out to have been running Linux and it was a Linux virus... I feel pretty safe however...
Occam's fscking razor...
I can concur with that sentiment... time to swap out the dirty with the clean...
nice reply, saved me the trouble...
he's probably bemoaning about the morse requirement being dropped because it means that more people can get through the exam...
he probably thinks his precious spectrum will be like usenet the day after AOL let their subscribers in...
well, software radio won't be like that, because, unlike usenet, where a message gets to every server in the world that carries that group, software radio will only send a message as far as the recipient and with only enough power to reach him/her... and if things are set up right, then we'll have an interlocking mesh of nodes so the power requirements can be kept extremely low purely for node-to-node message passing.
try and patent it... the Devil has prior art... he get's people to sign the contract with their own blood
we have a testing machine... connected to the internet of all things... AND connected to the same network the production system is running on... and evidently it's running on ms-windows...
piracy hurts the open source movement because there is little incentive to use things like OpenOffice or The Gimp when joe user can pick up keygens or cracked versons of MS Office, Adobe Photoshop or whatever the current must have application du jour is, for next to nothing at the car-boot sale or download them off the web.
Piracy helps Bill Gates and others because it means fewer people are forced to choose between stumping up for a genuine product or going without and using an OSS, freeware or shareware alternative.
the cool things may happen on the Mac or Linux, but you can bet your last dollar that you will NOT be able to legally play any of these DRM'd videos on those boxes...
As far as Microsoft are concerned, Linux developers and users == hobbyists... that's all this is intended to do, lock Linux users out of the Microsoft garden... prevent them from legally viewing that premium content.
you really, really have to work at it to fuck up a Linux box... with windows, just going online can be enough...
actually as a shareware developer you should be concerned... because the widescale availability of cheap/free warezed major apps is undercutting your lifeblood. Why even try/register a shareware app to do something when you can pick up the warezed major app for peanuts. Warezed apps for ms windows are also preventing adoption of Linux/FOSS alternatives as it removes the major cost factor of ms windows apps to the general public. Why use the Gimp for Windows when you can pick up a keygen or whatever for Photoshop CS off the web...
GPS guided Pidgeon poop... fer heck's sake though, wake me up when they put frickkin lasers on their heads...
hey Dennis Zhidkov... come on down, we know it's you...
hah, even maintaining the status quo leaves them in a pickle... every time Microsoft upissue Office, things change... and you can bet your bottom dollar that things will change in the proprietary extensions to "Office Open XML" format that Microsoft will keep a tight patent-mined rein on...
aha... you've failed the test. Please surrender your Geek pass to security on the way out... :) a true geek would have tried an alternate approach such as cutting & pasting and replacing mms:// with http:///
you do realise there's a Red Screen of Death now...
Quality product, On time, Under budget... "Good, Fast, Cheap" is just too open to misinterpretation... Especially the "Fast" bit...
we know the codebase is NOT new... because the first security update for the beta was for the .wmf vulnerability... who knows what other nightmares are still ticking away in it.
basically, V3 is saying you can use the software in any way you want, but you can't add DRM into it for your own program that you want to distribute... because it would curtail your users from using that program for any purpose... but this restriction is restricting your own use... arghhh... logical paradox loop... brain hurtz...
methinks this will be stuck into VISTA and possibly forced onto XP users via a mandatory update.
Deja vu...
don't go down the high street then... search out guys like these, and use them... they actually test the things and make sure they work with Linux...