Under copyright law you can do whatever you want with your copy of the copyrighted work. You can copy it, destroy it, play with it, you can even sell it. You can however not sell any copies of it. That's what copyright is about, the right to COPY. Get a fucking clue.
a) It has been years since software was packed such that you could not read the EULA before breaking the seal.
Huh? Most software I've seen might state on the box that there's an EULA inside, but there's no way they'll manage to get that lengthy thing printed on the box. In most cases you have to take it home, open it, insert the cd, and read the EULA when the installer comes up. I don't know what seal you're talking about, but I'm sure I've broken it already in that little sequence.
It's interesting to note here that there don't have to be any restrictions on you driving a gas guzzling monster. Though certain restrictions, especially imposing the use of filters for soot particles, are normal and I think logical, since it's a health issue. I just think it shouldn't be as cheap as it is in the US, i.e. the damage you do to the environment should be factored into the cost of the car, and not be presented to the taxpayer after the fact (when it gets so bad we need to spend billions of dollars trying to correct the problem).
People who don't want to compromise on their lifestyle can continue with their routine, but they should be paying the inherent cost of such a lifestyle. There's plenty of examples of instances where people didn't take into consideration the enormous ecological cost of their actions, resulting in a lot of expensive cleanup operations after the fact. The transportation mess is similar, and we should start upping the cost now, instead of in the future. I do believe this is sound economical practice.
Also, you don't have to get quite as exotic as Tesla Motors. Just look at the fuel efficiency in US cars compared to the rest of the world. All that's necessary to change the situation is to set a minimum fuel efficiency for new cars and increase taxes on inefficient engines, but the US government refuses to do that. That it would be bad for the car companies seems strange to me, since many of these companies are also active in Europe. They do have the know-how, so it shouldn't be too hard for them.
They can't see from your receipt who you voted for though. All you can lookup is whether the left or the right box was counted in the tallying. If your box asks you which one was the candidate you were supposed to vote for you can lie and tell him it's the one you colored.
Ironically, the military response is the only thing that kept the post-Katrina mess from becoming a humanitarian disaster.
I don't know how exactly you classify a humanitarian disaster, but we're talking about more than a 1000 dead here; not to mention the horrendous stories of what went on in the superdome and on the streets of New Orleans. You can alway argue scale, but it seems to me the term 'humanitarian disaster' is quite suitable here.
That's a ridiculous assertion. When you're infected by a virus, there's no way of knowing how far the infection goes back and (worse) if your backups are on the disk (as in this case) your backups might have been infected too. So your suggestion is completely worthless.
I mostly agree with you, but the main difference with a hardcore raiding guild is that I can completely blow my casual guild off. I can say "sorry guys I have better stuff to do for a while" and I'll come back 3 weeks later to check my bags and say hi, and I'll still be in the guild. Most hardcore raiding guilds have an attendance policy that makes this quite hard to do.
I don't blame them for doing this, you can't really get anywhere in raiding if you can't depend on any of your raiding members being there since you'll usually fall short of a couple of classes. But the "machine" associated with hardcore raiding guilds is not different from the ones casual guilds have simply because of some lack of interest of the casual gamers. It is so because casual gamers must set completely different requirements for their guild, even if individual members might play just as many hours as a hardcore player.
If all (geeky) people with ideas listened to the people telling them to get a life, innovation would be a foreign concept. What this guy wanted to do sounded like a cool little project to me and essentially some of the things you'd expect to find in a futuristic setup. (home of the future and all that)
I don't know where you come of telling random people on the internet to get a life, but seriously, get a life.;-)
What someone should really do is make the renderer run in its own thread instead of letting it lock up the entire browser UI, including all tabs, options and buttons, for several seconds. (e.g. Firefox)
I call bullshit. Holland has a sizable force in Afghanistan and (partly) supported the US's war on Iraq, it also had troops there for some period of time. To say that they are inoffensive to the 'Muslim head-choppers' (i.e. fundamentalist terrorists) only on the basis of their internal policy while totally disregarding their foreign policy is just plain wrong.
Wikipedia says it's 60/40 in favor of the dutch speaking part which sounds about right. Google indeed didn't remove all results, try googling for le soir and scrolling down:
In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.
Anyway, personally I don't know if I oppose this ruling. The way copyright is defined today it definitely sounds to me as if the newspapers have the law on their side in this. Google is effectively republishing their information. I think Google is most likely trying to justify it under citation rights which sounds about right to me, but we all know the interpretation by the courts is getting more and more conservative, following a worldwide move (led originally by the US btw) to a stricter copyright system. Which probably has a lot more to do with the music and movie industry than the print media.
First of all: Fedora Core? It might have come a long way but it used to be "development only".
mp3's etc: they can't be legally distributed on the cd, but all you have to do is read the manual (if fedora core even has such a thing) to find out about web repositories and install them from the web. That doesn't sound like more work than downloading winamp or whatever to me.
Why are you installing new kernels? There's no reason you should do this, except maybe for a security release which should be fairly infrequent (though still a bit too frequent). Distros like ubuntu have the nvidia drivers in their own repository. I don't know if Fedora Core has this, but if it doesn't, your choice of distro is just plain wrong.
Refresh rates for monitors etc. are to make them work optimum. Windows doesn't "just know", though it can probe some values in many cases (newer monitors). In most cases, you get a cd with drivers on them to make your monitor work decently in windows. X can't use these drivers, can probe for these values in most cases and sometimes that fails, that's why there's an option to provide them.
Now your point about a lack of decent file browser is debatable. Obviously your idea of a "decent" file browser is different from what the Gnome people think it is. I find nautilus easy to use in spatial mode, but I know a lot of people don't like it. That being said, I'm also pretty sure nautilus has a couple of options for "open with" etc. that you must have missed. Some other file browsers that you could try are out there but you'd have to look around your repository a bit.
Anyway I understand this doesn't look plausible to a beginner, but it seems to me you just chose the wrong distro and that a couple of your points are "gnome/kde/X are not MS Windows" or "I don't understand most of this and so it sucks". You have to expect there to be some bumps when you're just starting out with a new operating system, it wasn't any different to me when I first started using windows or mac os x or solaris.
The disabled normally don't make out a big or visible enough group for most companies to be concerned with things such as making their sites accessible. If you're weelchair bound, and nobody would be required to build ramps, you'd hardly be able to partake in public life. This is a bad thing simply because it's such an easy addition to a bar/restaurant/whatever and not doing it shuts out a small but still pretty sizable group, making them even more dependent on other people.
If you'd read the summary you would also know that this rule only applies to businesses. The thing about the ads and posters is just plain silly. There's a clear difference in purpose, effort and visibility. Plus, making the ad accessible hasn't got much to do with making the store more accessible.
Everyone here is assuming that fragmentation is a really bad thing. But I haven't seen much evidence to back that up. Sure, for FAT filesystems it would definitely create a problem, especially because fragmentation could make you run out of file space pretty fast in the old days. But on modern file systems such as NTFS I haven't seen much to support that fragmentation actually poses a performance hit, nor have I seen anything to support that defragmenting will actually help performance.
If anyone could maybe cite some sources on the subject, 'cause to me it just seems that nobody even questions the assumption anymore, just because windows has defragmenting tools and everyone tells everyone to defrag their hard drives.
It basically uses software mixing instead of hardware mixing, for the benefit of making flash sync. Your system might take a noticeable performance hit so that is probably the reason no-one is doing this by default. I do remember debian having wrappers to make flash work, not sure how that is implemented though.
Flash 9 will work with alsa which should fix some of these problems.
I've mainly seen a problem with rendering being a lot slower, but it seems much better now after a recent couple of updates in debian sid. I think there might have been some bugs in gtk itself affecting performance also but not too sure about that.
Damn it where are your modpoints when you need a -1 redundant?
If you don't want to get modded down, perhaps you shouldn't write pieces of flamebait like this; argumentum ad hominum (yes I had to look the spelling up) is considered a logical fallacy, and I personally feel it's more childish than wanting to be able to play a bought music file on your linux box, but then that's just me and 90% of slashdot it seems.
It's an interesting idea, but with game textures easily surpassing several megabytes in size and needing to be there for every frame you're calculating I'd say you'd be seeing a lot of memory traffic that would normally stay inside the graphics card and thus seriously damage your performance. This at least for raster based calculations. The author's point seems to be it works better with raytracing though I'm not sure I agree.
You can't write the support yourself since hardware is notoriously hard to program for, even if you have the interface. But the most important point I want to make here is that those 3% of users you cite are most likely what one would call "power users", "enthusiasts" or "early adopters". Companies like ATI who release cutting edge hardware at premium prices every x months need to sell to this market: to be able to make a profit _and_ to sell to the more conservative portion of the market. After all, when joe sixpack buys a new videocard, chances are he'll ask his 15 year old linux obsessed nephew what would be good. This is how tech gadgets get sold, and if we are switching over to nVidia en masse, ATI might have a problem.
I know at least that I won't buy any ATI cards in the future, nor will I recommend them to anyone. I think they're pieces of crap tbh, especially when it comes to the drivers that run them. This goes for both windows and linux for me, where I've seen a lot of really crappy driver problems that nVidia tends not to have. And I know some people might ask me for advice, and after getting that advice they'll go and buy nVidia. If all 3% were to go nVidia like me (with the caveat that they probably don't all feel like me, or the other posters in this thread) ATI would probably feel the beating. This is why they should shape up, put some resources in their drivers and convince us that they are at least capable of some standard of software and hardware engineering.
Of course without hard numbers I can't really make a prediction of anything, but it seems to me that the linux ati drivers are really hurting the brand.
Actually a lot of spam is being sent with forged from as @microsoft.com. I could imagine a linux kernel developer going 'hmm it's not like anyone is ever going to mail me from there...' and blocking all those.
True about the tree, but on debian you can just use a generic target (like "desktop system [x]") and let it install a load of stuff for you. Sure, you might want to trim the packages a little, but if you're doing that you also might just install the bare minimum and go from there, and then you're no longer a basic user.
I agree with you that graphical interfaces can make some things more easy. However, debian has traditionally focused on making the installer work on as many architectures as possible. I still think it's not quite a good installer (there are some bugs they never got ironed out before sarge) but it's supposed to work on a lot of comps. Debian's goals are just more technical than the other distros.
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Under copyright law you can do whatever you want with your copy of the copyrighted work. You can copy it, destroy it, play with it, you can even sell it. You can however not sell any copies of it. That's what copyright is about, the right to COPY. Get a fucking clue.
Huh? Most software I've seen might state on the box that there's an EULA inside, but there's no way they'll manage to get that lengthy thing printed on the box. In most cases you have to take it home, open it, insert the cd, and read the EULA when the installer comes up. I don't know what seal you're talking about, but I'm sure I've broken it already in that little sequence.
It's interesting to note here that there don't have to be any restrictions on you driving a gas guzzling monster. Though certain restrictions, especially imposing the use of filters for soot particles, are normal and I think logical, since it's a health issue. I just think it shouldn't be as cheap as it is in the US, i.e. the damage you do to the environment should be factored into the cost of the car, and not be presented to the taxpayer after the fact (when it gets so bad we need to spend billions of dollars trying to correct the problem).
People who don't want to compromise on their lifestyle can continue with their routine, but they should be paying the inherent cost of such a lifestyle. There's plenty of examples of instances where people didn't take into consideration the enormous ecological cost of their actions, resulting in a lot of expensive cleanup operations after the fact. The transportation mess is similar, and we should start upping the cost now, instead of in the future. I do believe this is sound economical practice.
Also, you don't have to get quite as exotic as Tesla Motors. Just look at the fuel efficiency in US cars compared to the rest of the world. All that's necessary to change the situation is to set a minimum fuel efficiency for new cars and increase taxes on inefficient engines, but the US government refuses to do that. That it would be bad for the car companies seems strange to me, since many of these companies are also active in Europe. They do have the know-how, so it shouldn't be too hard for them.
They can't see from your receipt who you voted for though. All you can lookup is whether the left or the right box was counted in the tallying. If your box asks you which one was the candidate you were supposed to vote for you can lie and tell him it's the one you colored.
In other words, RTFA.
So basically you're complaining that you didn't get the game for free? what the hell?
I don't know how exactly you classify a humanitarian disaster, but we're talking about more than a 1000 dead here; not to mention the horrendous stories of what went on in the superdome and on the streets of New Orleans. You can alway argue scale, but it seems to me the term 'humanitarian disaster' is quite suitable here.
That's a ridiculous assertion. When you're infected by a virus, there's no way of knowing how far the infection goes back and (worse) if your backups are on the disk (as in this case) your backups might have been infected too. So your suggestion is completely worthless.
I mostly agree with you, but the main difference with a hardcore raiding guild is that I can completely blow my casual guild off. I can say "sorry guys I have better stuff to do for a while" and I'll come back 3 weeks later to check my bags and say hi, and I'll still be in the guild. Most hardcore raiding guilds have an attendance policy that makes this quite hard to do.
I don't blame them for doing this, you can't really get anywhere in raiding if you can't depend on any of your raiding members being there since you'll usually fall short of a couple of classes. But the "machine" associated with hardcore raiding guilds is not different from the ones casual guilds have simply because of some lack of interest of the casual gamers. It is so because casual gamers must set completely different requirements for their guild, even if individual members might play just as many hours as a hardcore player.
If all (geeky) people with ideas listened to the people telling them to get a life, innovation would be a foreign concept. What this guy wanted to do sounded like a cool little project to me and essentially some of the things you'd expect to find in a futuristic setup. (home of the future and all that)
;-)
I don't know where you come of telling random people on the internet to get a life, but seriously, get a life.
What someone should really do is make the renderer run in its own thread instead of letting it lock up the entire browser UI, including all tabs, options and buttons, for several seconds. (e.g. Firefox)
I call bullshit. Holland has a sizable force in Afghanistan and (partly) supported the US's war on Iraq, it also had troops there for some period of time. To say that they are inoffensive to the 'Muslim head-choppers' (i.e. fundamentalist terrorists) only on the basis of their internal policy while totally disregarding their foreign policy is just plain wrong.
As a side remark: Tap water here has Evian quality.
That depends very much on the local quality of your pipes. Especially if you are renting a room in a particularly old building. :-)
Wikipedia says it's 60/40 in favor of the dutch speaking part which sounds about right. Google indeed didn't remove all results, try googling for le soir and scrolling down:
In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.
Anyway, personally I don't know if I oppose this ruling. The way copyright is defined today it definitely sounds to me as if the newspapers have the law on their side in this. Google is effectively republishing their information. I think Google is most likely trying to justify it under citation rights which sounds about right to me, but we all know the interpretation by the courts is getting more and more conservative, following a worldwide move (led originally by the US btw) to a stricter copyright system. Which probably has a lot more to do with the music and movie industry than the print media.
Okay I'll bite.
First of all: Fedora Core? It might have come a long way but it used to be "development only".
mp3's etc: they can't be legally distributed on the cd, but all you have to do is read the manual (if fedora core even has such a thing) to find out about web repositories and install them from the web. That doesn't sound like more work than downloading winamp or whatever to me.
Why are you installing new kernels? There's no reason you should do this, except maybe for a security release which should be fairly infrequent (though still a bit too frequent). Distros like ubuntu have the nvidia drivers in their own repository. I don't know if Fedora Core has this, but if it doesn't, your choice of distro is just plain wrong.
Refresh rates for monitors etc. are to make them work optimum. Windows doesn't "just know", though it can probe some values in many cases (newer monitors). In most cases, you get a cd with drivers on them to make your monitor work decently in windows. X can't use these drivers, can probe for these values in most cases and sometimes that fails, that's why there's an option to provide them.
Now your point about a lack of decent file browser is debatable. Obviously your idea of a "decent" file browser is different from what the Gnome people think it is. I find nautilus easy to use in spatial mode, but I know a lot of people don't like it. That being said, I'm also pretty sure nautilus has a couple of options for "open with" etc. that you must have missed. Some other file browsers that you could try are out there but you'd have to look around your repository a bit.
Anyway I understand this doesn't look plausible to a beginner, but it seems to me you just chose the wrong distro and that a couple of your points are "gnome/kde/X are not MS Windows" or "I don't understand most of this and so it sucks". You have to expect there to be some bumps when you're just starting out with a new operating system, it wasn't any different to me when I first started using windows or mac os x or solaris.
The disabled normally don't make out a big or visible enough group for most companies to be concerned with things such as making their sites accessible. If you're weelchair bound, and nobody would be required to build ramps, you'd hardly be able to partake in public life. This is a bad thing simply because it's such an easy addition to a bar/restaurant/whatever and not doing it shuts out a small but still pretty sizable group, making them even more dependent on other people.
If you'd read the summary you would also know that this rule only applies to businesses. The thing about the ads and posters is just plain silly. There's a clear difference in purpose, effort and visibility. Plus, making the ad accessible hasn't got much to do with making the store more accessible.
Everyone here is assuming that fragmentation is a really bad thing. But I haven't seen much evidence to back that up. Sure, for FAT filesystems it would definitely create a problem, especially because fragmentation could make you run out of file space pretty fast in the old days. But on modern file systems such as NTFS I haven't seen much to support that fragmentation actually poses a performance hit, nor have I seen anything to support that defragmenting will actually help performance.
If anyone could maybe cite some sources on the subject, 'cause to me it just seems that nobody even questions the assumption anymore, just because windows has defragmenting tools and everyone tells everyone to defrag their hard drives.
1. Break cookies/cache/autocompleting forms
2. Sell it as a "privacy enhancement"
3. ???
4. Profit!
I'm so getting modded redundant for this, but your post doesn't actually explain what the problem is, it just reiterates the problem itself...
It basically uses software mixing instead of hardware mixing, for the benefit of making flash sync. Your system might take a noticeable performance hit so that is probably the reason no-one is doing this by default. I do remember debian having wrappers to make flash work, not sure how that is implemented though.
Flash 9 will work with alsa which should fix some of these problems.
I've mainly seen a problem with rendering being a lot slower, but it seems much better now after a recent couple of updates in debian sid. I think there might have been some bugs in gtk itself affecting performance also but not too sure about that.
Damn it where are your modpoints when you need a -1 redundant?
If you don't want to get modded down, perhaps you shouldn't write pieces of flamebait like this; argumentum ad hominum (yes I had to look the spelling up) is considered a logical fallacy, and I personally feel it's more childish than wanting to be able to play a bought music file on your linux box, but then that's just me and 90% of slashdot it seems.
It's an interesting idea, but with game textures easily surpassing several megabytes in size and needing to be there for every frame you're calculating I'd say you'd be seeing a lot of memory traffic that would normally stay inside the graphics card and thus seriously damage your performance. This at least for raster based calculations. The author's point seems to be it works better with raytracing though I'm not sure I agree.
You can't write the support yourself since hardware is notoriously hard to program for, even if you have the interface. But the most important point I want to make here is that those 3% of users you cite are most likely what one would call "power users", "enthusiasts" or "early adopters". Companies like ATI who release cutting edge hardware at premium prices every x months need to sell to this market: to be able to make a profit _and_ to sell to the more conservative portion of the market. After all, when joe sixpack buys a new videocard, chances are he'll ask his 15 year old linux obsessed nephew what would be good. This is how tech gadgets get sold, and if we are switching over to nVidia en masse, ATI might have a problem.
I know at least that I won't buy any ATI cards in the future, nor will I recommend them to anyone. I think they're pieces of crap tbh, especially when it comes to the drivers that run them. This goes for both windows and linux for me, where I've seen a lot of really crappy driver problems that nVidia tends not to have. And I know some people might ask me for advice, and after getting that advice they'll go and buy nVidia. If all 3% were to go nVidia like me (with the caveat that they probably don't all feel like me, or the other posters in this thread) ATI would probably feel the beating. This is why they should shape up, put some resources in their drivers and convince us that they are at least capable of some standard of software and hardware engineering.
Of course without hard numbers I can't really make a prediction of anything, but it seems to me that the linux ati drivers are really hurting the brand.
Actually a lot of spam is being sent with forged from as @microsoft.com. I could imagine a linux kernel developer going 'hmm it's not like anyone is ever going to mail me from there...' and blocking all those.
True about the tree, but on debian you can just use a generic target (like "desktop system [x]") and let it install a load of stuff for you. Sure, you might want to trim the packages a little, but if you're doing that you also might just install the bare minimum and go from there, and then you're no longer a basic user.
I agree with you that graphical interfaces can make some things more easy. However, debian has traditionally focused on making the installer work on as many architectures as possible. I still think it's not quite a good installer (there are some bugs they never got ironed out before sarge) but it's supposed to work on a lot of comps. Debian's goals are just more technical than the other distros.