Suppose you "copyright" the first hundred million digits of PI. You put them in a database. Are you saying that it's ok to prevent me from calculating my own hundred million digits of PI? This is ludicrous, but you can't deny that digits of PI are indeed facts and can be put in a dictionary. So your "reasonable" analysis is really (probably unwittingly) justifying a truly evil proposition.
Looks like Linus's trip "down under" inspired this kernel release...
It was more than inspiration. Linus did a charitable fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis, and offered to name the next release after the Austrialian animal of the highest bidder's choice. Someone gave a few thousand dollars ($3600 to be exact) to choose this name. Next Linux kernel to get Aussie name
I live in Charleston, SC, which is one of the lucky cities to have the Flexplay discs available for sale. Not that I have ever bought one--nor have I ever even seen one available in stores--but I thought it worth mentioning.
However, our local video store charges $1.59 for old movies and DVDs. New releases are $3.50. So to answer your question, $2 DVD rentals do exist.
Yes, Linux is a suitable desktop replacement. I still don't see a significant number of people making the switch. What is the motivation for the average user who has invested time in learning Windows to switch?
Well, I have some experience here. My mom ran windows for the last 3 years. She doesn't know computers, but that's what her DELL had on it. She has been it with virii and recently some adware that prominently displayed itself on her desktop.
Her computer runs slower and she doesn't know why. Probably unknown background processes chewing up CPU. All she does is email and surf the web, but the computer crashes and she is annoyed beyond belief with it.
She is begging me to put something better on her machine, and she SPECIFICALLY asked for linux. She knows about linux as an alternative because I've mentioned that it's what I run on my machines. Her problems with windows have led her to conclude that she'd rather try something--anything--than continue running what she has. Oh yeah, she has paid "her guru" to come over and fix problems several times, and is tired of hiring someone to fix things that shouldn't be broken.
So, an unstable, unreliable, virus-ridden, expensive operating system is its own incentive to switch. At least for MY mom.
at that moment a large chuck if not all of the Windows source code would fall under the auspices of the GPL.
No it wouldn't! They would be in violation of the GPL and would have options: GPL their code, or correct the problem (by removing the GPL'd code.) They would probably have fines associated as well.
See
this article for details.
He's discussing class invariants, and how they help one design interfaces, and how they must be maintained. But he's refused to put that into C++!
He doesn't refuse. (He isn't the whole committee anyway.) He does oppose adding features that will have overhead on classes that don't use them, and is against changing the core language in ways that could break backwards compatibility.
If you want invariants, I don't see your proposal before the committee. Why not? Rather than just ask vaguely for a feature, specify it. How would you go about this, meeting the above requirements?
People are working on this and I have seen some proposals... but most are flawed in some way.
If you can implement it in g++ as a reference implementation, that will give your proposal more weight as well. Is it really that important to you? If so then get to work.
No, it's not like that, because it's not a murder weapon.
There is no such thing as a murder weapon except after a murder occurs, in which case whatever was used was the murder weapon. One absolutely can commit murder with a knife, and it has happened probably millions of times throughout history.
PS, you called me Jesus. I am afraid you are confused.
How can this be lega.?
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It'd ludicrous to think of paying in advance a "tax" to the RIAA for blank media because we might use it to copy their music. Applying that logic to other areas, why not stipulate brief jailtime for anyone buying a knife, because they might use it to kill somebody?
..or was the Apple ]['s openapple-control-reset first? I know that the Apple ][ came out in 1977, but I'm not sure if it had implemented the three-key sequence yet or if it had borrowed that idea from the alt-ctrl-delete that was noted here.
Apple ][ Plus shipped with a hard "RESET" button not requiring any additional keys in combination. It had to be pushed pretty hard to make it depress, though. Unfortunately, it was somewhat close to "ESC" and occationally did get hit inadvertantly.
Then on the Apple ][e they fixed this problem by making the key-sequence be open-apple/reset in combination.
You could catch this interrupt in software though, and ignore it. From a basic program, you could cause this interrupt to kill the program, reboot, or be ignored. It was just a few POKEs.
> Nothing scares these kinds of lawyers like an organised and informed public!
This is mearly posturing. The show itself is meaningless. Seats are limited to 50 people per show!! The point of the roadshow is to tell people who ARE NOT THERE what they missed, and to make SCO appear to be a big, vibrant operation that requires road shows. When they talk about it, they won't mention that it was a volkswagon bus with 1 stoned driver talking to 50 sleeping people. The'll make it sound like you missed the world if you weren't there.
It's all an illusion, smoke and mirrors, because they're banking on the fact that most people are ignorant, and have no clue what a farce their company has become. Future customers--but especially future investors who don't know SCO-- might be impressed by this circus act.
First we're told that some Fortune 500 company licenced SCO's code. Later, we hear HP is indemnifying customers, much like Sun is (who also licensed the code.) Speculation that HP was that mysterious licensee seems to have been true.
HP wouldn't take the risk unless they knew they were safe, and since you can only run their version on their hardware, it's no wonder. Their promotion of linux was purely for marketing reasons, and their licensing of SCO code was a clever way to profit from SCO's foibles.
The only part of this that does not make sense is that HP is sponsoring the SCO parade. Perhaps having a close tie-in to sco is how they can ensure that they won't have to actually protect any of their indemnified customers.
I wonder how much the SCO suit has to do with this.
Considering there were remarkably few in real numbers, perhaps this is true. But it's also silly to think that ALL linux users are happy. Some people don't know enough about linux to be effient or comfortable using it. Maybe their frustrations with some configuration problem was motive to switch.
Personally, I think anybody running a website on anything other than Apache on some *nix like OS should be shot.
Don't forget that the monoculture argument applies to all systems, not just when the monoculture is microsoft. If everything is the same, then everything is equally vulnerable at the same time. Diversity is a good thing. IIS has its place, but it needs a lot of work, along with the OS in which it runs.
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Suppose you "copyright" the first hundred million digits of PI. You put them in a database. Are you saying that it's ok to prevent me from calculating my own hundred million digits of PI? This is ludicrous, but you can't deny that digits of PI are indeed facts and can be put in a dictionary. So your "reasonable" analysis is really (probably unwittingly) justifying a truly evil proposition.
It was more than inspiration. Linus did a charitable fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis, and offered to name the next release after the Austrialian animal of the highest bidder's choice. Someone gave a few thousand dollars ($3600 to be exact) to choose this name. Next Linux kernel to get Aussie name
However, our local video store charges $1.59 for old movies and DVDs. New releases are $3.50. So to answer your question, $2 DVD rentals do exist.
Well, I have some experience here. My mom ran windows for the last 3 years. She doesn't know computers, but that's what her DELL had on it. She has been it with virii and recently some adware that prominently displayed itself on her desktop.
Her computer runs slower and she doesn't know why. Probably unknown background processes chewing up CPU. All she does is email and surf the web, but the computer crashes and she is annoyed beyond belief with it. She is begging me to put something better on her machine, and she SPECIFICALLY asked for linux. She knows about linux as an alternative because I've mentioned that it's what I run on my machines. Her problems with windows have led her to conclude that she'd rather try something--anything--than continue running what she has. Oh yeah, she has paid "her guru" to come over and fix problems several times, and is tired of hiring someone to fix things that shouldn't be broken. So, an unstable, unreliable, virus-ridden, expensive operating system is its own incentive to switch. At least for MY mom.
No it wouldn't! They would be in violation of the GPL and would have options: GPL their code, or correct the problem (by removing the GPL'd code.) They would probably have fines associated as well. See this article for details.
He doesn't refuse. (He isn't the whole committee anyway.) He does oppose adding features that will have overhead on classes that don't use them, and is against changing the core language in ways that could break backwards compatibility.
If you want invariants, I don't see your proposal before the committee. Why not? Rather than just ask vaguely for a feature, specify it. How would you go about this, meeting the above requirements? People are working on this and I have seen some proposals... but most are flawed in some way.
If you can implement it in g++ as a reference implementation, that will give your proposal more weight as well. Is it really that important to you? If so then get to work.
There is no such thing as a murder weapon except after a murder occurs, in which case whatever was used was the murder weapon. One absolutely can commit murder with a knife, and it has happened probably millions of times throughout history.
PS, you called me Jesus. I am afraid you are confused.
It'd ludicrous to think of paying in advance a "tax" to the RIAA for blank media because we might use it to copy their music. Applying that logic to other areas, why not stipulate brief jailtime for anyone buying a knife, because they might use it to kill somebody?
Apple ][ Plus shipped with a hard "RESET" button not requiring any additional keys in combination. It had to be pushed pretty hard to make it depress, though. Unfortunately, it was somewhat close to "ESC" and occationally did get hit inadvertantly.
Then on the Apple ][e they fixed this problem by making the key-sequence be open-apple/reset in combination. You could catch this interrupt in software though, and ignore it. From a basic program, you could cause this interrupt to kill the program, reboot, or be ignored. It was just a few POKEs.
This is mearly posturing. The show itself is meaningless. Seats are limited to 50 people per show!! The point of the roadshow is to tell people who ARE NOT THERE what they missed, and to make SCO appear to be a big, vibrant operation that requires road shows. When they talk about it, they won't mention that it was a volkswagon bus with 1 stoned driver talking to 50 sleeping people. The'll make it sound like you missed the world if you weren't there.
It's all an illusion, smoke and mirrors, because they're banking on the fact that most people are ignorant, and have no clue what a farce their company has become. Future customers--but especially future investors who don't know SCO-- might be impressed by this circus act.
HP wouldn't take the risk unless they knew they were safe, and since you can only run their version on their hardware, it's no wonder. Their promotion of linux was purely for marketing reasons, and their licensing of SCO code was a clever way to profit from SCO's foibles.
The only part of this that does not make sense is that HP is sponsoring the SCO parade. Perhaps having a close tie-in to sco is how they can ensure that they won't have to actually protect any of their indemnified customers.
I wonder how much the SCO suit has to do with this. Considering there were remarkably few in real numbers, perhaps this is true. But it's also silly to think that ALL linux users are happy. Some people don't know enough about linux to be effient or comfortable using it. Maybe their frustrations with some configuration problem was motive to switch. Personally, I think anybody running a website on anything other than Apache on some *nix like OS should be shot. Don't forget that the monoculture argument applies to all systems, not just when the monoculture is microsoft. If everything is the same, then everything is equally vulnerable at the same time. Diversity is a good thing. IIS has its place, but it needs a lot of work, along with the OS in which it runs.