I see two reasons. One, the FSF is probably better armed when it comes to kicking the snot out of someone when copyright is infringed.
The second, which applies especially well to huge projects with hundreds of authors, is that the lead maintainers/authors don't need to do the whole 'who wrote what' game everytime there is a question of copyright and/or license exception. If I, as the PM of something as huge as Xfree or emacs, would not want to have to deal with even one disgruntled submitter of code six months after the fact. One of the lead assumptions in the second is that the FSF is merely a 'puppet' for the authors, and would abide by their decisions in the matters of copyright.
Well, I lied. I can think of a third. Orphan programs. Stuff abandoned by the copyright holder but still maintained by others, that needs an updated license (eg, a hole has been found in the 1.0 GPL it was released under). If I can't find all of the authors, I can't say 'This, and all later revs, are GPL v3.2'. I can't make an exception for the greater good and grant a conditionless license. (remember Corel?)
I've done some CD bending, and the easiest way is to use a small torch. Rubber nosed locking pliers, a 2x4 and a C clamp work great for crisp folds. Clamp the CD and the 2x4 to your desk/etc, and clip the pliers to the exposed CD. The weight of the pliers makes the CD bend when you have it warm enough, and the 2x4 protects the desk. Combine with a Dremel tool for cutting, and you can make anything out of CDs. I've done parabolic coasters, square ashtrays, bookends, and numerous other things with CDs.
I showed the source to one of the PM's down the hall, after running it through a formatting filter. Didn't tell him it was the virus.. His response was; 'If one of my employees had written this, they wouldn't work here.. The code is muddled, there are variables that shouldn't exist, and he changes his mind about far too many things midstream. All in all, a pretty poor clone of that I-LUV-U virus. The only thing done correctly is the indentation.'
They're words. Get over it you twit. I suppose you tune out black people whan they invoke a cultural colloquilism as well. If something is bad enough to deserve the label, I'll damn well use it!
You know how, after working on a certain type of system enough, you get this internal jive with it? The way the shell responds, the constant momentary lag when you ps.. The feel of the machine.. They feel BSDish. Actually, they feel just like System 3000, which was kind of a SysV / 4.4BSD halfbreed with compat bolt-ons in both directions..
Too much work for the casual poster, and far to much for the addicts.. I don't want to have to contemplate the intricate use of moderation points with each and every post. And a lot of users would just dump their points on themselves. Profanity is a perfectly good way to express yourself. I personally tend to mix four letter profanity with three-letter acronyms for a rather interesting spectatorial effect.. Slashdot needs a good fuck once in a while to get it going..
Anonymous Coward's "You get what you pay for" actof 1992
There you have it, folks.. Independant confirmation of what I have told all of you time and time again. Ted Kennedy is the hot grits guy.
Did you believe me after I told you the shocking but true news that Bruce Wayne was Batman? No, you waited for that bitch from the Gotham Gazette to tell you. Or back in '84 when I told y'all that Bill Gates was a megalomaniac that wanted to corner the tech market? No again.. You waited for The Wall Street Journal and Judge Jackson to spoonfeed you!
If there are any that doubt that Ted Kennedy is the hot grits guy, speak now so I may beat you down with other stellar prognostications come true. Yeah, Elfbabe, you can just stay out of this one. We all know you're really Maria Shriver. No defending Uncle Ted...
Xfree handles multiple displays pretty well. On par with NT, ahead of Win98 but definitly behind Mac.. I'm on a heterogeneous three-headed box right now (One G200, two S3 ViRGE) Try it. And what is the hypothetical NT machine doing? If nothing, and on rock solid hardware, I'll give you a month of uptime and raise you a week. If it is required to consistantly run computations of heartrate/blood sugar/etc at a constant 60% utilization on commodity hardware, I'll give the box two weeks.
But what do you see at 0? Chaff and trashtalk.. Everyone that has something useful to say gets an account!
And why this draconian moderation system, with -1 trolls and +1 karma whores? There are too many of us to be a true community. When/. had smaller readership, you could tell the good from the bad by the name attached to it. I knew Taz ran Debian, that FiberBurn was a MCSE that hated Microsoft, etc.. Moderation and karma were meant to replace that need for built up trust. You could look at a users information and see what his peers thought.. A newbie could tell that Shoeboy, while a Microsoft employee and thus hated by all, was also well-regarded. This was especially useful in the uncharted flamewars to tell which side was slinging shit.
Hell, the only reason I know you've been here before is that your moniker was also used by a local gamer for years and stuck in my head.
[looks at the UnixWare 7 box on the shelf and laughs]
I've seen some impressive uptimes and some seemingly bulletproof implementations, but tt's not my ball of wax either.. It's BSD for servers and Linux for playtime..
Yeah.. mp3.com had a rather, ehrrm, fecally proficient defense. The transformative time-shift argument was a good one though.. So, when is the next episode of 'RIAA vs. Sanity' going to be on?
Hey, I wouldn't be complaining if SCO pushed a couple of demo copies of OS and UW into my hands.. Their products do rock in a old-school, BSDish sort of way..
Besides, they were salesmen. They make more money per unit off their commercial offerings than the VAS they provide for Linux. Until the model changes, they'll push OpenServer and UnixWare first and foremost.
Reasons to choose Kassandra 216 over New Jersey: 1. The air is better for you. We may not have any, but at least it isn't a carcinogen! 2. Fewer pissed off commuters. You need more than a rusted out El Camino to make it here! 3. No chance of seeing Hillary Clinton on the Channel 3 news. 200 million miles precludes seeing any network television at all!! 4. We have only the finest quality low G accomidations! Well, since we have the ONLY low G accomidations.. 5. Tell your grandkids about it! "When I was your age, we had to hop a leaky Russian capsule for four years, then we had to eat a lump of dry poison." 6. Complimentary Continental breakfast for the first 100 visitors!
A high quality copy needs a high quality source recording.. I have a couple of CD's worth of AIFF soundfiles from an ad agency, and some of them sound like the were sampled on a SB-8 from a mag faded mono reel.
These were hardcore professionals. If the database were made up of user contributions houw could the quality be guaranteed when the profs don't even manage it all of the time? Most samples would be made by amateurs by a consumer soundcard from an analog recording made on some of the worst equipment imaginable.
Mabye it's the fine Jamaican lager talking but that was so funny I just mailed it off to a few non-Slashdotters. Good work, and keep it up! Sadly, it would probably see more use than some of the insane Mini-HOWTOS in my Suse 6.4 disc..
Virus treating you badly?;) Nothing like a few hundred love letters in your morning mail and the satisfaction that every Windows user is cursing Bill Gates while you laugh..
Correct me if I'm wrong (That's why I'm posting) but a Bussard ramjet is one of those kooky hydrox collecter craft thought up in the sixties, right? A giant funnel with a couple ramjets on the back of it and the capability to make single digit fractional light in a few hundred years.
I work for a leasing company, and have my pick of year old equipment. We have a dozen skids of unused IBM monitors from the Air Force coming in Thursday and a shitload of SGI on hand. I'm not terribly worried about warranty;) Just wondering whether the 'state of the art' was so much terribly better than what I am accustomed to..
Setting up multihead under XF86 isn't terrible. Run the X binary with the --configure flag, alter one or two lines (screen placement) and copy the autogenerated config to/etc/X11..
I'm working on a NEC flat tube now. At 1600x1200 it gets a bit fuzzy, but the color range is good. The single SGI I have stays 100% crisp (you can see crisp pixels at 16x12 on a Matrox), but the colors can get slightly washed. Imperceptable unless you just had a look at the NEC. Thanks!
Vastly O/T: I'm in the market for a couple of new 21s.. How would the highend iiyama compare to say, an IBM made Trinitron tubed 21 or one of the standard SOG units off of an Octane2?
A completely objective ratings system would leave much to be desired. If you were labelling for sexual content, violence, and illegal drugs my copy of Elton John's 'Goodbye, Yellowbrick Road' and The Beatles' 'White Album' would earn the same label as Kid Rock's 'Devil Without a Cause'. 'All Quiet on the Western Front' would earn the same label as 'Starship Troopers' or 'Saving Private Ryan'. 'Rogue' would rate as badly as 'Diablo'. No six year old should be listening to the (unbleeped) Kid Rock album nor watching Starship Troopers, but I would have no problem with my kid sitting through either Elton John or The Beatles.
I own a couple of those encouraged bootlegs. They're so old Dave Mustaine is still singing backup. (If you can call it that;) The quality sucks, and not only because they're obviously spending every cent from the gig on their bar tab.
Are they going to go after me for giving away awful copies of Phantom Lord that they themselves told people to copy fifteen years ago?
Several file trading programs have become available that remove any central authority (there is no Napster, Inc in the middle of it to remove users or to sue). The people that are stealing your music today via Napster will simply change to one of these and continue tomorrow. No technical tricks (SDMI, non-Redbook CDs) can stop them as long as CD prices stay as high as they are.
How can you hope to combat piracy when you can't find the people doing it?
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I see two reasons. One, the FSF is probably better armed when it comes to kicking the snot out of someone when copyright is infringed.
The second, which applies especially well to huge projects with hundreds of authors, is that the lead maintainers/authors don't need to do the whole 'who wrote what' game everytime there is a question of copyright and/or license exception. If I, as the PM of something as huge as Xfree or emacs, would not want to have to deal with even one disgruntled submitter of code six months after the fact. One of the lead assumptions in the second is that the FSF is merely a 'puppet' for the authors, and would abide by their decisions in the matters of copyright.
Well, I lied. I can think of a third. Orphan programs. Stuff abandoned by the copyright holder but still maintained by others, that needs an updated license (eg, a hole has been found in the 1.0 GPL it was released under). If I can't find all of the authors, I can't say 'This, and all later revs, are GPL v3.2'. I can't make an exception for the greater good and grant a conditionless license. (remember Corel?)
I've done some CD bending, and the easiest way is to use a small torch. Rubber nosed locking pliers, a 2x4 and a C clamp work great for crisp folds. Clamp the CD and the 2x4 to your desk/etc, and clip the pliers to the exposed CD. The weight of the pliers makes the CD bend when you have it warm enough, and the 2x4 protects the desk. Combine with a Dremel tool for cutting, and you can make anything out of CDs. I've done parabolic coasters, square ashtrays, bookends, and numerous other things with CDs.
I showed the source to one of the PM's down the hall, after running it through a formatting filter. Didn't tell him it was the virus.. His response was; 'If one of my employees had written this, they wouldn't work here.. The code is muddled, there are variables that shouldn't exist, and he changes his mind about far too many things midstream. All in all, a pretty poor clone of that I-LUV-U virus. The only thing done correctly is the indentation.'
They're words. Get over it you twit. I suppose you tune out black people whan they invoke a cultural colloquilism as well. If something is bad enough to deserve the label, I'll damn well use it!
You know how, after working on a certain type of system enough, you get this internal jive with it? The way the shell responds, the constant momentary lag when you ps.. The feel of the machine.. They feel BSDish. Actually, they feel just like System 3000, which was kind of a SysV / 4.4BSD halfbreed with compat bolt-ons in both directions..
Too much work for the casual poster, and far to much for the addicts.. I don't want to have to contemplate the intricate use of moderation points with each and every post. And a lot of users would just dump their points on themselves. Profanity is a perfectly good way to express yourself. I personally tend to mix four letter profanity with three-letter acronyms for a rather interesting spectatorial effect.. Slashdot needs a good fuck once in a while to get it going..
Anonymous Coward's "You get what you pay for" actof 1992
There you have it, folks.. Independant confirmation of what I have told all of you time and time again. Ted Kennedy is the hot grits guy.
Did you believe me after I told you the shocking but true news that Bruce Wayne was Batman? No, you waited for that bitch from the Gotham Gazette to tell you. Or back in '84 when I told y'all that Bill Gates was a megalomaniac that wanted to corner the tech market? No again.. You waited for The Wall Street Journal and Judge Jackson to spoonfeed you!
If there are any that doubt that Ted Kennedy is the hot grits guy, speak now so I may beat you down with other stellar prognostications come true. Yeah, Elfbabe, you can just stay out of this one. We all know you're really Maria Shriver. No defending Uncle Ted...
Xfree handles multiple displays pretty well. On par with NT, ahead of Win98 but definitly behind Mac.. I'm on a heterogeneous three-headed box right now (One G200, two S3 ViRGE) Try it. And what is the hypothetical NT machine doing? If nothing, and on rock solid hardware, I'll give you a month of uptime and raise you a week. If it is required to consistantly run computations of heartrate/blood sugar/etc at a constant 60% utilization on commodity hardware, I'll give the box two weeks.
But what do you see at 0? Chaff and trashtalk.. Everyone that has something useful to say gets an account!
/. had smaller readership, you could tell the good from the bad by the name attached to it. I knew Taz ran Debian, that FiberBurn was a MCSE that hated Microsoft, etc.. Moderation and karma were meant to replace that need for built up trust. You could look at a users information and see what his peers thought.. A newbie could tell that Shoeboy, while a Microsoft employee and thus hated by all, was also well-regarded. This was especially useful in the uncharted flamewars to tell which side was slinging shit.
And why this draconian moderation system, with -1 trolls and +1 karma whores? There are too many of us to be a true community. When
Hell, the only reason I know you've been here before is that your moniker was also used by a local gamer for years and stuck in my head.
[looks at the UnixWare 7 box on the shelf and laughs]
I've seen some impressive uptimes and some seemingly bulletproof implementations, but tt's not my ball of wax either.. It's BSD for servers and Linux for playtime..
Yeah.. mp3.com had a rather, ehrrm, fecally proficient defense. The transformative time-shift argument was a good one though.. So, when is the next episode of 'RIAA vs. Sanity' going to be on?
Hey, I wouldn't be complaining if SCO pushed a couple of demo copies of OS and UW into my hands.. Their products do rock in a old-school, BSDish sort of way..
Besides, they were salesmen. They make more money per unit off their commercial offerings than the VAS they provide for Linux. Until the model changes, they'll push OpenServer and UnixWare first and foremost.
Reasons to choose Kassandra 216 over New Jersey: 1. The air is better for you. We may not have any, but at least it isn't a carcinogen! 2. Fewer pissed off commuters. You need more than a rusted out El Camino to make it here! 3. No chance of seeing Hillary Clinton on the Channel 3 news. 200 million miles precludes seeing any network television at all!! 4. We have only the finest quality low G accomidations! Well, since we have the ONLY low G accomidations.. 5. Tell your grandkids about it! "When I was your age, we had to hop a leaky Russian capsule for four years, then we had to eat a lump of dry poison." 6. Complimentary Continental breakfast for the first 100 visitors!
A high quality copy needs a high quality source recording.. I have a couple of CD's worth of AIFF soundfiles from an ad agency, and some of them sound like the were sampled on a SB-8 from a mag faded mono reel.
These were hardcore professionals. If the database were made up of user contributions houw could the quality be guaranteed when the profs don't even manage it all of the time? Most samples would be made by amateurs by a consumer soundcard from an analog recording made on some of the worst equipment imaginable.
Mabye it's the fine Jamaican lager talking but that was so funny I just mailed it off to a few non-Slashdotters. Good work, and keep it up! Sadly, it would probably see more use than some of the insane Mini-HOWTOS in my Suse 6.4 disc..
Virus treating you badly? ;) Nothing like a few hundred love letters in your morning mail and the satisfaction that every Windows user is cursing Bill Gates while you laugh..
Correct me if I'm wrong (That's why I'm posting) but a Bussard ramjet is one of those kooky hydrox collecter craft thought up in the sixties, right? A giant funnel with a couple ramjets on the back of it and the capability to make single digit fractional light in a few hundred years.
I work for a leasing company, and have my pick of year old equipment. We have a dozen skids of unused IBM monitors from the Air Force coming in Thursday and a shitload of SGI on hand. I'm not terribly worried about warranty ;) Just wondering whether the 'state of the art' was so much terribly better than what I am accustomed to..
Setting up multihead under XF86 isn't terrible. Run the X binary with the --configure flag, alter one or two lines (screen placement) and copy the autogenerated config to /etc/X11..
No problem!
I'm working on a NEC flat tube now. At 1600x1200 it gets a bit fuzzy, but the color range is good. The single SGI I have stays 100% crisp (you can see crisp pixels at 16x12 on a Matrox), but the colors can get slightly washed. Imperceptable unless you just had a look at the NEC. Thanks!
That would almost be funny if I hadn't woken up to 900 of those fuckers..
.vbs attachments?
Question: How many times do you have to tell the lusers not to open
Answer: None. It's futile.
Vastly O/T: I'm in the market for a couple of new 21s.. How would the highend iiyama compare to say, an IBM made Trinitron tubed 21 or one of the standard SOG units off of an Octane2?
A completely objective ratings system would leave much to be desired. If you were labelling for sexual content, violence, and illegal drugs my copy of Elton John's 'Goodbye, Yellowbrick Road' and The Beatles' 'White Album' would earn the same label as Kid Rock's 'Devil Without a Cause'. 'All Quiet on the Western Front' would earn the same label as 'Starship Troopers' or 'Saving Private Ryan'. 'Rogue' would rate as badly as 'Diablo'. No six year old should be listening to the (unbleeped) Kid Rock album nor watching Starship Troopers, but I would have no problem with my kid sitting through either Elton John or The Beatles.
I own a couple of those encouraged bootlegs. They're so old Dave Mustaine is still singing backup. (If you can call it that ;) The quality sucks, and not only because they're obviously spending every cent from the gig on their bar tab.
Are they going to go after me for giving away awful copies of Phantom Lord that they themselves told people to copy fifteen years ago?
First of all, thanks for Master of Puppets.
My question is this:
Several file trading programs have become available that remove any central authority (there is no Napster, Inc in the middle of it to remove users or to sue). The people that are stealing your music today via Napster will simply change to one of these and continue tomorrow. No technical tricks (SDMI, non-Redbook CDs) can stop them as long as CD prices stay as high as they are.
How can you hope to combat piracy when you can't find the people doing it?