nvidia do it with their gpu's - the good ones get called riva's or something and the not so good ones get a couple of pipelines disabled and labeled gforce (or something like taht anyway)
i'd guess (hope) that most if not all of the debian devs would move to other debian 'forks' if debian went the way of the dodo.
Ive been moving my desktop over from gentoo to kubuntu today and yesterday (keeping gentoo installed for a while, just incase) and i like what i see so far.
I was put off by debian because even testing and unstable seemed out of date (didn't have kde3.4 a week or two ago).
Anyway - its nice to have packages that i dont have to wait to compile, but im kinda missing my useflags:(.
the LGPL is an important license too. if you write a library and dont want those corporate types using your code without releasing the changes, but want them to beable to link with it (GTK for example), the LGPL is very useful.
"people want to figure out how to break the license to... use unauthorized copies... why else would you reverse engineer it?"
for interoprability maybe? even the draconian-mca allows for reverse enineering for interoprability.
or do you think reverse enineering is something to do with getting the source code? i suppose you're against samba, ximian connector and many other projects then?
My GF cant code to save her life (she's going into animal care), but if ive been spending hours and hours trying to debug something i get her to read it (tell her the basics of the language, explain what it basically does function by function).
She wouldn't spot stuff like "thats supposed to be a pointer to an int, not an int" but every time ive had her read my code she says "your missing a semicolon" or "you didn't close the bracket from that if statement".
If by construction you mean physical jobs, thats because women have generally smaller, weaker bodies than men (scientific fact - find an average girl who can beat me (average bloke) at anything strength related)
I suppose women in CS being less than woman in construction is odd, but maybe there are biological reasons to which feminists/'the PC crowd' refuse to accept.
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nvidia do it with their gpu's - the good ones get called riva's or something and the not so good ones get a couple of pipelines disabled and labeled gforce (or something like taht anyway)
i'd guess (hope) that most if not all of the debian devs would move to other debian 'forks' if debian went the way of the dodo.
:(.
Ive been moving my desktop over from gentoo to kubuntu today and yesterday (keeping gentoo installed for a while, just incase) and i like what i see so far.
I was put off by debian because even testing and unstable seemed out of date (didn't have kde3.4 a week or two ago).
Anyway - its nice to have packages that i dont have to wait to compile, but im kinda missing my useflags
the LGPL is an important license too. if you write a library and dont want those corporate types using your code without releasing the changes, but want them to beable to link with it (GTK for example), the LGPL is very useful.
i'd be chuffed to be a neanderthal - son, you have the ability to control tools including the kettle, i cant - make a bru.
according to microsofts propaganda machine the linux kernel infringes on over 200 patents
how about large fines (1% of a companies anual turnover?) for any patents not granted for any reason?
This would make them work hard to look for prior art. 1% isnt alot, but file 20 bogus patents a year and thats a hell of a lot of money.
IBM doesnt need its own distro, it can go to companies and say look, we are impartial to linux distros, so pay us to choose one for you
IBM making their own distro would be a pain for everybody, including IBM. If they want to spend more on linux, hire more devs.
note: i do know IBM owns large ammounts of shares in redhat and suse, but they are more impartial than redhat or suse themselves.
i think .mail will be useful but i dont see any tld's like .bank, .isp, etc so i dont think .travel is a good idea (who paid them for that?)
oops - i meant:
if you want to change the resolution, one way of doing it is this:
(i was going to suggest editing xorg.conf)
i'd still hate them unless they changed their business practices completely.
or they could just rename themselves to microsoft.net - then _everybody_ would know they're ace and they innovate.
if you want a root console without setting up the root account do this:
sudo bash
if you want to change the resolution, one way of doing it (config file unfortunately) is this:
sudo xorgconfig #this is an easy enough console based wizard
and edit the resolution bit.
Another option for the res is to use krandrtray (but im not sure if that can set the res permanantly unless your root or not).
iirc mandrake 9.0 was called dolphin, which my GF liked.
thank god i downloaded this a few days ago. bad slashdot-effect, bad.
i think the best comical insult is: "You bollock"
its not as if theyre being sponsored by hotmail, aol and that nigerian bloke who keeps trying to get me to give him money.
you mean like linux, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, etc?
or maybe openoffice, koffice, abiword (sortof), gnumeric (sortof), etc?
maybe mozilla, konqueror?
bochs/qemu?
bash/sh/csh/tsh?
are you serious?
... use unauthorized copies... why else would you reverse engineer it?"
"people want to figure out how to break the license to
for interoprability maybe? even the draconian-mca allows for reverse enineering for interoprability.
or do you think reverse enineering is something to do with getting the source code? i suppose you're against samba, ximian connector and many other projects then?
Didn't sony create CD's? If so, i dont think they'l sue anybody for that,
The overbudgettyness was because they were forced to build DRM into everything.
(no, im not serious)
i was taken in by this article until i read 'xbox'.
Maybe Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, FreeBSD and SCO Unix would have been more plausable.
no, its that country next to turkey, over the sea from iran.
I wonder if people from west america could find east america on a map.
ah, duh!
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Your still a judas for *mentioning* the blink tag on
My GF cant code to save her life (she's going into animal care), but if ive been spending hours and hours trying to debug something i get her to read it (tell her the basics of the language, explain what it basically does function by function).
She wouldn't spot stuff like "thats supposed to be a pointer to an int, not an int" but every time ive had her read my code she says "your missing a semicolon" or "you didn't close the bracket from that if statement".
If by construction you mean physical jobs, thats because women have generally smaller, weaker bodies than men (scientific fact - find an average girl who can beat me (average bloke) at anything strength related)
I suppose women in CS being less than woman in construction is odd, but maybe there are biological reasons to which feminists/'the PC crowd' refuse to accept.