I'd say that the answer is maybe. For example, I have absolutely no idea how a standard deviation is actually calculated, but I know what one is and I know how to make Matlab do one.
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Hey, it's only bad manners to eat with your left hand because you righties are the majoirity. Table manners are stupid anyway.
Arise my left-handed nerds! Throw off the oppression of the right! Make them shut up about table manners and give us power tools that we can use without cutting our fingers off!
It'll take a little more to make me want to move out of flatland.
Now when they have 3D goggles, sword-fighting protocols, and graveyard daemons like in Snow Crash THEN I'll want to buy it. . . . . .
The difference is what happens with the ethanol. Most likely we'll be drinking it, but there's a slight chance that SCO will win and we'll end up using it as an accelerant to get the SCO bonfire started.
Mmm . . . . . evil-and-cheap-liquor-flavored marshmallows.
Um, "mount -o loop"?
Another possibility is to use vobcopy -m to decrypt the discs and dump the contents to your hard drive.
Either way you can use --dvd-device under mplayer and probably something similar under xine to treat the directory in question as a DVD drive.
Not that you slashdotters would want to know such a thing.
Since we don't know you we don't have to contend with a visual. That's why you're getting modded "Funny" and not "Killbait."
Maybe, or maybe not. I personally have never trusted that IBM's intentions for OSS were pure, and this does nothing to convince me otherwise.
However, we need them. I wouldn't be quick to call them a friend of OSS, but the enemy of my enemy is a very useful tool. (Especially when they have ninja attack lawyers to fight our enemies with.)
Just wait 50 years or so. Once we get sentient computers you can bet there's gonna be a class-action filed on behalf of all these creative boxen.
Then the courts fail to recognize the boxen as entities, the war starts, and we're in one of about a half-dozen terrible movie universes.
I wonder if the computers will kill the smart reasonable humans too. I suppose I should be keeping all these old Linux CDs to present as evidence at my trial. . . . . . .
But if you make them thousands of times cheaper how can you justify scalping the taxpayers to congress? I mean %60,000 profit margin is one thing but %140,000? They'd end up having to blow all the savings on "donations" to get your congress to look the other way.
Actually, they could probably write the bribes off as an expense too and charge even more.
I think we have just reached the point . . . .
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where any semblence of sense has gone out the window. Attempting to get a court order forcing IBM to self-incriminate? If SCO were a human it would be able to plead insanity in the countersuit.:p
I believe they wrote a little C program that crawls the source tree and looks for similar lines of code.
And boy, did they ever find similar lines of code. Do you have any idea how many lines in the Linux kernel end with a ";"? I'm amazed Linus hasn't fuckin folded already against this overwhelming evidence.:p
I don't even check my email on a daily basis anymore. Everyone's email has been spammed into oblivion to the point that it's unreliable. I'm better off calling. (Email may be free, but I can call Ireland for an hour for less than a cup of coffee costs me.)
But have you forgotten how 1337 it would make you? You can be crashing Longhorn at least two years before any of the non-1337 fools get to crash under longhorn.:p
We're gonna have squads of mercenaries trolling the internet picking off script kiddies (and probably bystanders too) while the real crackers continue to be dicks, and the real white-hats get picked off by the posses.
Since they're running on ocean currents these things are gonna have enough trouble moving themselves. They aren't going to be able to tow a cable or rescue anybody. To do that you'd need something with an internal power source.
The fact that it'd be easy to do doesn't change the fact that Microsoft would set loose the squads of ninja attack lawyers and have the engineers find a way to fuck it in the next service pack.
Do you think hardware vendors want to have lawyers fucking them with a service pack? Didn't think so.
It wouldn't work because Microsoft would never buy into it. They'd much rather that official drivers be for Windows only, and since they're 90% market share they'll get their way.
For the time being it appears that binary Windows drivers will become the de-facto standard for hardware-specific drivers at least until Microsoft starts falling apart and/or somebody comes up with a good way to make native binary drivers work with our plethora of kernels.
Maybe one of these days Slashdot should start mirroring the sites that get linked here rather than hitting them with the world's friendliest DDoS attack. This is not a problem I see going away. Slashdot grows faster than the power and bandwidth of the servers out there.
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I'd say that the answer is maybe. For example, I have absolutely no idea how a standard deviation is actually calculated, but I know what one is and I know how to make Matlab do one.
Hey, it's only bad manners to eat with your left hand because you righties are the majoirity. Table manners are stupid anyway.
Arise my left-handed nerds! Throw off the oppression of the right! Make them shut up about table manners and give us power tools that we can use without cutting our fingers off!
It'll take a little more to make me want to move out of flatland.
Now when they have 3D goggles, sword-fighting protocols, and graveyard daemons like in Snow Crash THEN I'll want to buy it. . . . . .
The difference is what happens with the ethanol. Most likely we'll be drinking it, but there's a slight chance that SCO will win and we'll end up using it as an accelerant to get the SCO bonfire started.
Mmm . . . . . evil-and-cheap-liquor-flavored marshmallows.
Um, "mount -o loop"?
Another possibility is to use vobcopy -m to decrypt the discs and dump the contents to your hard drive.
Either way you can use --dvd-device under mplayer and probably something similar under xine to treat the directory in question as a DVD drive.
Not that you slashdotters would want to know such a thing.
Since we don't know you we don't have to contend with a visual. That's why you're getting modded "Funny" and not "Killbait."
Maybe, or maybe not. I personally have never trusted that IBM's intentions for OSS were pure, and this does nothing to convince me otherwise.
However, we need them. I wouldn't be quick to call them a friend of OSS, but the enemy of my enemy is a very useful tool. (Especially when they have ninja attack lawyers to fight our enemies with.)
Just wait 50 years or so. Once we get sentient computers you can bet there's gonna be a class-action filed on behalf of all these creative boxen.
Then the courts fail to recognize the boxen as entities, the war starts, and we're in one of about a half-dozen terrible movie universes.
I wonder if the computers will kill the smart reasonable humans too. I suppose I should be keeping all these old Linux CDs to present as evidence at my trial. . . . . . .
Of course it's gonna run arbitrary code. :p
Actually, they could probably write the bribes off as an expense too and charge even more.
where any semblence of sense has gone out the window. Attempting to get a court order forcing IBM to self-incriminate? If SCO were a human it would be able to plead insanity in the countersuit. :p
And boy, did they ever find similar lines of code. Do you have any idea how many lines in the Linux kernel end with a ";"? I'm amazed Linus hasn't fuckin folded already against this overwhelming evidence.
Yes. Under Wine.
We could afford things if we didn't try to fund programs with tax cuts and didn't go on absurd millitary adventures . . . . . .
If Dubby does push for us to get serious about space travel again it would be the fist time I ever agreed with him on something. :p
I don't even check my email on a daily basis anymore. Everyone's email has been spammed into oblivion to the point that it's unreliable. I'm better off calling. (Email may be free, but I can call Ireland for an hour for less than a cup of coffee costs me.)
But have you forgotten how 1337 it would make you? You can be crashing Longhorn at least two years before any of the non-1337 fools get to crash under longhorn. :p
We're gonna have squads of mercenaries trolling the internet picking off script kiddies (and probably bystanders too) while the real crackers continue to be dicks, and the real white-hats get picked off by the posses.
What does that say?
That evil will always triumph because good is dumb?
I for one welcome our small-but-hyperactive overlords. :p
Since they're running on ocean currents these things are gonna have enough trouble moving themselves. They aren't going to be able to tow a cable or rescue anybody. To do that you'd need something with an internal power source.
Can you actually sue a minor in the USA? Hell, I'm 20 and I can't drink beer there, but a 15 year old kid can get sued? What the fuck is that?
The fact that it'd be easy to do doesn't change the fact that Microsoft would set loose the squads of ninja attack lawyers and have the engineers find a way to fuck it in the next service pack.
Do you think hardware vendors want to have lawyers fucking them with a service pack? Didn't think so.
For the time being it appears that binary Windows drivers will become the de-facto standard for hardware-specific drivers at least until Microsoft starts falling apart and/or somebody comes up with a good way to make native binary drivers work with our plethora of kernels.
On the subject of slashdotting . . . .
Maybe one of these days Slashdot should start mirroring the sites that get linked here rather than hitting them with the world's friendliest DDoS attack. This is not a problem I see going away. Slashdot grows faster than the power and bandwidth of the servers out there.