It blows my mind that anyone would want to drive for any non-trivial distance without cruise control.
Let me guess: American, Canadian or Australian?
At least in Germany, cruise control _can_ be helpful when you go with the flow. But if all lanes have different speeds and you actually want to go as fast as traffic permits, cruise control sucks.
Now, if you used Celsius, people outside of the United States, Belize, Burma and Liberia would be able to understand the temperatures you are talking about:)
Sure, it would be nice if everything was as interchangeable (to some extent) as the CPU, RAM and HDD. But if you stop and think about it, pretty much everything else needs custom drivers geared towards whatever chip is running it.
Did they consider using Debian along with the very well documented and reliable method to create local.deb files? They should maybe pin the kernel, but other than that...
If the various authors waived their rights (where possible. Impossible in Germany, for example) or similar when contributing, Nexuiz is within their rights.
If a single commit was made under the GPL exclusively, they need to ask the contributors to re-license, to re-implement or omit the relevant parts or they must not re-license the whole thing.
I don't know about the project's internals so I can not decide either way, but theory behind this is trivial.
Because your freedom seems to come with restrictions.
Your freedom to walk down the street unharmed restricts me from punching you in the face.
Total, absolute freedom might work in the self-regulating anarchisms Robert A. Heinlein wrote about, but even there, people were restricting themselves. By their own free will, granted; but still.
The moral: There are _always_ restrictions. And that is a good thing. Which particular set you prefer... Now _that_ is open for debate:)
Right, BSD licensing does not give the freedom to license BSD code under a different license just because you make modifications to it. No license allows that, so you can't really call it a restriction.
Putting something into the public domain does allow re-licensing. And yes, the public domain _is_ a form of licence.
So while you have free use of the code in question, everyone else has free use of any changes you may make to it.
Wrong. Only if you give them the resulting binaries do you have to make them a written offer to give them the code through the same means they received the binaries with.
While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
This might be true (though grammatically wrong) but you are disregarding about seven to nine orders of magnitude ($1,000 to $10,000 vs $100,000,000,000 to $1,000,000,000,000). And if we are talking buying someone a beer we are down to $2 to $5.
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It blows my mind that anyone would want to drive for any non-trivial distance without cruise control.
Let me guess: American, Canadian or Australian?
At least in Germany, cruise control _can_ be helpful when you go with the flow. But if all lanes have different speeds and you actually want to go as fast as traffic permits, cruise control sucks.
...the US is still behind the rest of half the world. 35.5 mpg == 6.6 liter / 100 km
Europe: 5 l/100 km by 2012
Japan: 6.7 l/100 km by 2010
Australia: 6.7 l/100 km by 2010
China: 5.7 l/100 km since 2008
Better late than never, though.
Uhh, MS?
...and so is everyone else on /.
Give them a month or two and see what happens.
Guarding against crackers that have a limited amount of time might be a worthwhile goal, but it _must not_ be the standard you design by.
Germany: No speed limit; fatality & accident rates amongst the lowest world-wide.
You were saying?
...is for Google to tell Mr. Boner Gaylord to go bone his gay lord.
Seriously, even though his children will be teased anyway even offering this is wrong. Period.
Maybe he does not have internet connectivity where he is? And a 'no camera' policy does not exactly spell 'please store your data off-site' to me.
Now, if you used Celsius, people outside of the United States, Belize, Burma and Liberia would be able to understand the temperatures you are talking about :)
The DNS Whitelist for IPv6 would be used to serve content to these IP addresses via IPv6 rather than through IPv4.
Let me guess, those would be IPv6 addresses? ;)
That obvious joke being made, I will now go read the article as the news blurb is useless, yet sounds interesting.
I don't see how that helps with this part:
they couldn't legally pre-install the NVidia drivers
Try this part: "the very well documented and reliable method to create local .deb files". I.e. make it part of the local installation scripts.
Why don't we have a generic driver format
We do. It's called VESA.
Sure, it would be nice if everything was as interchangeable (to some extent) as the CPU, RAM and HDD. But if you stop and think about it, pretty much everything else needs custom drivers geared towards whatever chip is running it.
Why should I go through all that? Windows does things one way, Linux another.
apt-get/aptitude is my one-stop solution for all software installation/upgrade/removal and, sometimes, downgrade.
Same as the Linux kernel is my one-stop solution for all drivers. Everything, that is, besides 3D drivers.
Did they consider using Debian along with the very well documented and reliable method to create local .deb files? They should maybe pin the kernel, but other than that...
Lookie here: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
Where can I buy that stuff?
(1) It instantly blisters skin on contact
But not the skin on your tongue?
(2) it's very expensive to buy over the internet because it has to be shipped as a hazardous materiel.
Well, duh. It _is_ dangerous.
(3) Not only is it good for eating, but it works great as a caustic agent for degreasing driveways, engines, etc.
B-b-b-bullshit. Oil/grease is a solvent for capsicum, not the other way round.
For what it's worth, I have a sauce that is rated at 1.5 million Scoville, but I tend to use it sparingly.
Yes.
Hopefully, MRAM or similar will do away with all of them, and RAM, at some point.
Selective quoting ftw!
If the various authors waived their rights (where possible. Impossible in Germany, for example) or similar when contributing, Nexuiz is within their rights.
If a single commit was made under the GPL exclusively, they need to ask the contributors to re-license, to re-implement or omit the relevant parts or they must not re-license the whole thing.
I don't know about the project's internals so I can not decide either way, but theory behind this is trivial.
So I'm free to use GPL code in a closed source game without giving out the source?
Yes. But you will not be able to distribute it.
Because your freedom seems to come with restrictions.
Your freedom to walk down the street unharmed restricts me from punching you in the face.
Total, absolute freedom might work in the self-regulating anarchisms Robert A. Heinlein wrote about, but even there, people were restricting themselves. By their own free will, granted; but still.
The moral: There are _always_ restrictions. And that is a good thing. Which particular set you prefer... Now _that_ is open for debate :)
Right, BSD licensing does not give the freedom to license BSD code under a different license just because you make modifications to it. No license allows that, so you can't really call it a restriction.
Putting something into the public domain does allow re-licensing. And yes, the public domain _is_ a form of licence.
So while you have free use of the code in question, everyone else has free use of any changes you may make to it.
Wrong. Only if you give them the resulting binaries do you have to make them a written offer to give them the code through the same means they received the binaries with.
While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
This might be true (though grammatically wrong) but you are disregarding about seven to nine orders of magnitude ($1,000 to $10,000 vs $100,000,000,000 to $1,000,000,000,000). And if we are talking buying someone a beer we are down to $2 to $5.
By "worse", I meant "no one would know about it, no one would write to support you, no one would give a damn".