And why exactly does a video codec have to run as anything other than a userland app in the first place? I understand why (some) drivers have to do this but pure software routines?
So you say if I use ssh to admin my server all the text output of the programs I use and have not written myself can be decrypted by everyone without legal problems because I do not own the copyright?
You forgot the Gnu/ to please RMS
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but it's fundamentally wrong for the government to infringe on ANY company's rights to do what they feel allows them to best compete and gain market share.
So you wouldn't mind if the Government stood and watched if MS (or anyone else for that matter) would go from house to house with machine guns and threatened people to kill them if they don't buy as many copies of Windows as they can afford?
A simple cron-job that creates a file every week and issues some action if the file is still there a week later should do the trick. A few line in the programming language of you choice or a small shell script should provide that simple logic.
Actually this shouldn't pose a problem since mails are just text or in the worst (useful mail) case html. Of course your mail viruses would still work in Outlook 2064 since I don't think MS will fix the "stupid user - automatic script running on doubleclick" bug combination anytime soon.
Most relevant emails for family history should involve two people that know each other in RL. If one (sender or receiver) dies the other still can give the mails to the family if it is important.
So, where is the problem. We simply use Apache 2 with one of the better scripting languages like perl, python or ruby that mysteriously manage to link against all the libraries you mention while at the same time they support threads.
It would be strange to call the new time GMT (G=Greenwich , a place in the UK) and align it to another continent.
If we turn the time system inside out I would also strongly recommend to get rid of the hours, minutes,... and use some system that uses either binary or decimal numbers with which time-calculations are easier.
The Registry? A bloated filesystem-like addon with lots and lots of keys of which nobody knows the purpose AND suffering from the same problems you describe (problems with two parallel versions of the same app and no clue where the config info for any given app is located if you are not the author).
Perhaps you should propose a solution for this (without a global unique-name-giving authority)
What you are describing are script languages. They already work today but they do not work for propietary shit because they are afraid someone would steal their source code if they gave it to the users.
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And why don't you archive all old mail after a while like anyone else?
Actually the one time I tried Evolution I immediately closed it again since it reminded me so much of Outlook.
And why exactly does a video codec have to run as anything other than a userland app in the first place? I understand why (some) drivers have to do this but pure software routines?
And why are apps able to touch hardware directly?
And why can malicious ones crash the system?
I heard there are lots of legal uses for Google...
[nerd] Isn't Tor a small Roswell Alien that poses as a God but really is the Supreme Commander of the Asgard Forces? [/nerd]
So you say if I use ssh to admin my server all the text output of the programs I use and have not written myself can be decrypted by everyone without legal problems because I do not own the copyright?
Or you could tunnel your traffic through ssh through tor...
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If only one could ignore the bureaucracy in other areas as easily as the formal methods in software engineering...
I second that.
A simple cron-job that creates a file every week and issues some action if the file is still there a week later should do the trick. A few line in the programming language of you choice or a small shell script should provide that simple logic.
Actually this shouldn't pose a problem since mails are just text or in the worst (useful mail) case html. Of course your mail viruses would still work in Outlook 2064 since I don't think MS will fix the "stupid user - automatic script running on doubleclick" bug combination anytime soon.
Most relevant emails for family history should involve two people that know each other in RL. If one (sender or receiver) dies the other still can give the mails to the family if it is important.
So, where is the problem. We simply use Apache 2 with one of the better scripting languages like perl, python or ruby that mysteriously manage to link against all the libraries you mention while at the same time they support threads.
You don't know what a MUD is, do you?
If you take everything posted as "news" on /. for fact you should go and visit a doctor :)
It would be strange to call the new time GMT (G=Greenwich , a place in the UK) and align it to another continent.
If we turn the time system inside out I would also strongly recommend to get rid of the hours, minutes,... and use some system that uses either binary or decimal numbers with which time-calculations are easier.
For (binary) simplicity we should make it 32 hours.
And what does Windows provide?
The Registry? A bloated filesystem-like addon with lots and lots of keys of which nobody knows the purpose AND suffering from the same problems you describe (problems with two parallel versions of the same app and no clue where the config info for any given app is located if you are not the author).
Perhaps you should propose a solution for this (without a global unique-name-giving authority)
Or you could just use the commandline options for another config file path (usually -c)
What you are describing are script languages. They already work today but they do not work for propietary shit because they are afraid someone would steal their source code if they gave it to the users.
If in doubt don't ever target Gnome or KDE directly. You will lose the other half. It is much better to target GTK than to target Gnome.