>I agree, but all I am saying is his comment makes me think he is not preparing for any sort of legal battle
Why should he?
Bittorent doesn't help you search for and download pirated material. It's simply a way of dristributing the download load accross multple clients....effectively an application layer multicasting, but AFTER you've already looked for and found the content you want to download. Bittorent plays exactly the same role as HTTP, FTP, SMB, or any other delivery protocol.
The one thing that _would_ make him a target for lawsuits is something he explicitly said he wouldn't implement - searching.
someone learning the language would see there, their and they're as three completely different words that just happen to be pronounced very similar....
A native english speaker hears the words first and thinks of them as the same word, spelt slightly different depending on context.
In the artical Futremark mentioned that they noticed a discrepancy (though not large) with ATI's drivers too, and that they're still investigating them.
Also, ATI's "optimization" of Quake3 didn't work when you named the executeable anything other than quake.exe - so therefore it did not benefit any other games based on the Quake3 engine.
The point is that, if SCO is to be believed, then even if they never so much as touched Linux (much less distributed it), then everyone distributing it would be infringing on their copyright...
The fact that they also distributed it is irrelevant, since they were unaware that their code was in it.
They were not the ones violating the GPL...the party that took code they had no right to, and put it in with GPL'd code was both violating SCOs copyright, and the GPL at the same time.
However, I really doubt that someone did take SCOs code and put it in to Linux....so untill they actually show us the supposed infringing code, the argument is fairly pointless
The point I'm making is that the code they recieved was infiringing before they received it.
It already contained their code, not under the GPL, put there without their permission. (If their claims are true that is....I'm not convinced, myself)
You know, if you have an infinite amount of time...you don't need an infinite amount of processors, you could use just one...and instead spend the infinite amount of money you'd need to buy an infinite amount of processors having an infinite amount of fun while you wait for the result;)
Or you could just get the infinite amount of processors and get the result in no time.
That's right... My father works for Unisys, and I remember him telling me about it at the time... It really wasn't a big thing...it was pretty much that their lawyers discovered the patent, and the fact that GIF was being used widley, and thought "Free Money!".
The thing that suprised me was that they kept it up to the end, even with the backlash.....but I guess the people that were complaining weren't really their target market, so they didn't particularly care....
See, I look at a game that says 20 hours, and I think, 20 hours?, is that all?, that's $5 an hour, I'm loathe to spend $AU100 on something I could finish in a week...I want a game that will last me a month or more.
I'm sure we're all used to complicated DHTML pages causing weird behaviour or crashes on other browsers, so it's kind of amusing that 1 single line of straight HTML can crash IE.
Though to be fair, it's the sort of mistake anyone can make (and probably has, many times), and the code the crashes it is not valid html ( with an invalid type outside the tag).
Why should every card in a totaly new range perform better than every card in the previous range?
This card is the extreme buget end of the market...the 4200 was the midrange.
Model numbers mean nothing and age means nothing.
There are only three things that matter - features, performance and price. People looking for a video card will put one of those as their priority Those looking for performance won't be looking at this card. but that's ok, because those looking for price and features will.
If you're looking for a cheap DX9 card, then the 4200 is out of the equation, so it's irrelevant how much better it might perform.
Branding is very important if you want people to use your product, whether it be open source, or proprietry.
It doesn't help you attract new users if they hear great things about your product under one name, but by the time they try to check it out, it's got a different name. How do they know it's the same product?
StarTeam is a nice idea, but it's executed poorly...
The interface is an abortion, and it's too flexible, to the point where it puts flexibility above useablilty.
It lets you do too many things that are just wrong (like changing the default working directory for every folder in the tree individually), and doesn't give you enough ways to lock it down so that those in your team that don't understand how it works can't fuck it up....
However, it is cross platform (it uses java internally), I'm fairly successfully using it to manage a product that works on Windows / Linux and Solaris. But I experience pain whenever I have to check out someone else's project since it's almost aways set up wrong.
It also provides a Java and COM C++ APIs, and the Java one seems fairly useable to me. The API provided is the one they use to write all the frontends.
Personally I think something like Sourceforge, or your own combination of CVS or Subversion and Bugzilla is a better alternative, but it's not broken enough for it to be worth moving off it now that we've got it.
The point is, that because Debian are so fanatical about freedom, distros like Knoppix are possible.
Which is exactly how debian want it..they provide a complete free operating system, and then others can take that and make a derivative from it, and know that they are free to modify and redistribute everything.
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>I agree, but all I am saying is his comment makes me think he is not preparing for any sort of legal battle
Why should he?
Bittorent doesn't help you search for and download pirated material.
It's simply a way of dristributing the download load accross multple clients....effectively an application layer multicasting, but AFTER you've already looked for and found the content you want to download. Bittorent plays exactly the same role as HTTP, FTP, SMB, or any other delivery protocol.
The one thing that _would_ make him a target for lawsuits is something he explicitly said he wouldn't implement - searching.
> void main {
do I even need to say anything?
It almost has to be a native speaker thing...
someone learning the language would see there, their and they're as three completely different words that just happen to be pronounced very similar....
A native english speaker hears the words first and thinks of them as the same word, spelt slightly different depending on context.
> Java was once called Oak and was planned to be used on embedded devices.
An embedded device is not likely to be running a general purpose operating system, that then has to start a JVM for every command...
It's likely to be running the JVM from power on to power off, and the single application will run in that JVM for the whole time.
Also, looking at the flaws of J2SE in that regard, and assuming they apply to J2ME is a little naive...
That's not software....that's a feature of the Cheque stock used to print the cheque on in the first place.
> I've browsed through a fair bit of the code, and everything I've seen is GPL
yes but is it _right_?
I'm sure the intention of publishing it was so we could audit for license violations.....we already knew it was GPL before they published it....
oh, so that's ok then...
ATI are only lying a little bit, so it's ok.
They're BOTH lying...just 'cause nVidia is more blantant about it doesn't mean that ATI has a clear concience....
In the artical Futremark mentioned that they noticed a discrepancy (though not large) with ATI's drivers too, and that they're still investigating them.
Also, ATI's "optimization" of Quake3 didn't work when you named the executeable anything other than quake.exe - so therefore it did not benefit any other games based on the Quake3 engine.
The point is that, if SCO is to be believed, then even if they never so much as touched Linux (much less distributed it), then everyone distributing it would be infringing on their copyright...
The fact that they also distributed it is irrelevant, since they were unaware that their code was in it.
They were not the ones violating the GPL...the party that took code they had no right to, and put it in with GPL'd code was both violating SCOs copyright, and the GPL at the same time.
However, I really doubt that someone did take SCOs code and put it in to Linux....so untill they actually show us the supposed infringing code, the argument is fairly pointless
The point I'm making is that the code they recieved was infiringing before they received it.
It already contained their code, not under the GPL, put there without their permission. (If their claims are true that is....I'm not convinced, myself)
but in 2, they were accepting the GPL under the assumption that they weren't distributing their own code with it.
I don't think you can say they gave away rights to code that they didn't know was in there when they accepted the GPL for the rest.
And I also don't think it's up to them to scan every line of code, on the off chance that somehow their code got in there...
The GPL is not an EULA, it's a distribution license...
You know, if you have an infinite amount of time...you don't need an infinite amount of processors, you could use just one...and instead spend the infinite amount of money you'd need to buy an infinite amount of processors having an infinite amount of fun while you wait for the result ;)
Or you could just get the infinite amount of processors and get the result in no time.
>Program did not crash all the time vs my windows machine.
I wouldn't be touting the Amiga's stability too much....
The Amiga was brilliant for it's time... but my first experiences with the Amiga introduced me to two new concepts -
Viruses, and operating system crashes (Guru Meditations!)
Though I must admit that all I had to compare it with were the 8 bit machines I'd used
That's right...
My father works for Unisys, and I remember him telling me about it at the time...
It really wasn't a big thing...it was pretty much that their lawyers discovered the patent, and the fact that GIF was being used widley, and thought "Free Money!".
The thing that suprised me was that they kept it up to the end, even with the backlash.....but I guess the people that were complaining weren't really their target market, so they didn't particularly care....
See, I look at a game that says 20 hours, and I think, 20 hours?, is that all?, that's $5 an hour, I'm loathe to spend $AU100 on something I could finish in a week...I want a game that will last me a month or more.
do?....
what is this "do" you speak of?
So you won't believe it exists if it doesn't run linux??
you must live in a interesting world...where 95% of the world's computer using population don't actually have a computer....
I don't think anyone's up in arms about it...
I think they just think it's kind of funny...
I'm sure we're all used to complicated DHTML pages causing weird behaviour or crashes on other browsers, so it's kind of amusing that 1 single line of straight HTML can crash IE.
Though to be fair, it's the sort of mistake anyone can make (and probably has, many times), and the code the crashes it is not valid html ( with an invalid type outside the tag).
Why should every card in a totaly new range perform better than every card in the previous range?
This card is the extreme buget end of the market...the 4200 was the midrange.
Model numbers mean nothing and age means nothing.
There are only three things that matter
- features, performance and price.
People looking for a video card will put one of those as their priority
Those looking for performance won't be looking at this card. but that's ok, because those looking for price and features will.
If you're looking for a cheap DX9 card, then the 4200 is out of the equation, so it's irrelevant how much better it might perform.
Yet somehow complete morons with no business even going near a computer somehow manage to locate and install the DivX;) codec.
Why should vorbis be any different?
He's not claiming to be Bezos' son, he's claiming to be Burt Rutan's son, and the picture he has is therefore of Rutan's SpaceShipOne.
As mentioned in the article (By Bezos himself), Blue Origin haven't actually done anything noteworthy yet.
From the Article:
Bezos himself says, "It's way premature for Blue to say or comment on anything because we haven't done anything worthy of comment."
Branding is very important if you want people to use your product, whether it be open source, or proprietry.
It doesn't help you attract new users if they hear great things about your product under one name, but by the time they try to check it out, it's got a different name.
How do they know it's the same product?
StarTeam is a nice idea, but it's executed poorly...
The interface is an abortion, and it's too flexible, to the point where it puts flexibility above useablilty.
It lets you do too many things that are just wrong (like changing the default working directory for every folder in the tree individually), and doesn't give you enough ways to lock it down so that those in your team that don't understand how it works can't fuck it up....
However, it is cross platform (it uses java internally), I'm fairly successfully using it to manage a product that works on Windows / Linux and Solaris. But I experience pain whenever I have to check out someone else's project since it's almost aways set up wrong.
It also provides a Java and COM C++ APIs, and the Java one seems fairly useable to me. The API provided is the one they use to write all the frontends.
Personally I think something like Sourceforge, or your own combination of CVS or Subversion and Bugzilla is a better alternative, but it's not broken enough for it to be worth moving off it now that we've got it.
The point is, that because Debian are so fanatical about freedom, distros like Knoppix are possible.
Which is exactly how debian want it..they provide a complete free operating system, and then others can take that and make a derivative from it, and know that they are free to modify and redistribute everything.