This only means that people who can't tell the difference will get a deal, and audiophiles will softly (or not so softly) cry whenever they are forced to listen to someone else's shitty, digitally artifacted music.
No thanks.
Riding with a friend in a car while she blissfully listens to music with muted highs, muffled singing, and dotted with encoder artifacts is enough to make me wish that MP3 encoders didn't work below 192kbps VBR.
Standard Oil *did* buy competitors, and modified them so that that their subsidiaries did not compete with each other, and kept profits from all. That's not vertical integration; that's horizontal integration, which is the classic monopolistic practice.
Vertical integration is making everything part of the same product line and wringing out the profits from the whole thing, and paying nobody else in the process of producing your product.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but due to their shared GPLv2 license, the below-mentioned "huge amount of embecded knowledge on how PC hardware works buried in the Linux code" can be leveraged for use in the HURD. This could be a boon for HURD development, because unlike the other Free OS Linux compatibility modes, the HURD can lift such code straight from the Linux kernel, giving it a significant advantage in that matter over others.
Maybe with a little work even proprietary drivers like NVidia and ATI drivers could be made to work. That would give it the huge advantage of being one of 3 Free OSs that has accellerated modern 3D hardware
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that a drop from 100Mbps WLAN to 11Mbps WLAN would not affect the average home cable/DSL connection.
Most people who use LAN data transfers enough to notice the difference between 100Mbps with lots of interference and a clear 11 Mbps signal will know enough to change their WiFi passwords.
What kind of vegetarian hippie bullshit is this?
If you don't eat meat, you are thumbing your nose at the millenia of evolution man has gone through to fight his way to the top of the food chain.
The original Windows ran on top of DOS, on 16/32 bit x86 only. The original Windows NT, which I think you are really talking about, was released in 1993 and supported 386 and MIPS, with later Alpha support. Linux was up to version 0.96 at that point.
You are not *forced* to redistribute your modifications to others. Keeping your modifications private is a very important part of the GPL licensing scheme.
However, if you give your program to others, the others have a right to the source code, just as you did when you recieved the base work.
Look into these things first, before disseminating misinformation.
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Kernel interface changes (was Re: cdrecord problems on Date: 7 Feb 1999 08:15:24 GMT
In article <79g5bu$spd$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote: > >* Linus Torvalds has no interest whatsoever in developing such a > plug-in ABI. Someone else is welcome to do it.
No, it's even more than that.
I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
Hannu Savolainen tried to add some layering to make the sound modules more "portable" among Linux kernel versions, and I disliked it for two reasons:
- extra layers decrease readability, and sometimes make for performance
problems. The readability thing is actually the larger beef I had
with this: I just don't want to see drivers start using some strange
wrapper format that has absolutely nothing to do with how they work.
- I _want_ people to expect that interfaces change. I _want_ people to
know that binary-only modules cannot be used from release to release.
I want people to be really really REALLY aware of the fact that when
they use a binary-only module, they tie their hands.
Note that the second point is mainly psychological, but it's by far the most important one.
Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules, it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
Why? Because I'm a prick, and I want people to suffer? No.
Because I _know_ that I will eventually make changes that break modules. And I want people to expect them, and I never EVER want to see an email in my mailbox that says "Damn you, Linus, I used this binary module for over two years, and it worked perfectly across 150 kernel releases, and Linux-5.6.71 broke it, and you had better fix your kernel".
See?
I refuse to be at the mercy of any binary-only module. And that's why I refuse to care about them - not because of any really technical reasons, not because I'm a callous bastard, but because I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
I allow binary-only modules, but I want people to know that they are _only_ ever expected to work on the one version of the kernel that they were compiled for. Anything else is just a very nice unexpected bonus if it happens to work.
And THAT, my friend, is why when somebody complains about AFS, I tell them to go screw themselves, and not come complaining to me but complain to the AFS buys and girls. And why I'm not very interested in changing that.
Linus
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I'm just saying... my last install has been up since I put it on the computer (as its first BSD install).
I don't want to invoke any envy or pecker-measuring... I'm just saying that was the last one I installed.
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But what about all the good things Hitler did?
I was hoping for the analog one...
Purple is Mace Windu!
So Apple was betrayed by the red (Microsoft) quite early on whilst trying to lead the way to a bright future?
...they forget that slighted geeks are the most difficult people in the world to turn back to your side.
You've obviously never sufficiently angered a woman. "Hell hath no such fury" as is said.
Actually, no. It doesn't.
Quit propogating lies.
Yep... lunch is a looot more expensive now :-)
This only means that people who can't tell the difference will get a deal, and audiophiles will softly (or not so softly) cry whenever they are forced to listen to someone else's shitty, digitally artifacted music. No thanks. Riding with a friend in a car while she blissfully listens to music with muted highs, muffled singing, and dotted with encoder artifacts is enough to make me wish that MP3 encoders didn't work below 192kbps VBR.
My thoughts exactly. This looks *much* more like a sales pitch than "stuff that matters".
maybe he's just talking IRC.
Standard Oil *did* buy competitors, and modified them so that that their subsidiaries did not compete with each other, and kept profits from all. That's not vertical integration; that's horizontal integration, which is the classic monopolistic practice.
Vertical integration is making everything part of the same product line and wringing out the profits from the whole thing, and paying nobody else in the process of producing your product.
Can't Linux drivers be ported to the HURD?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but due to their shared GPLv2 license, the below-mentioned "huge amount of embecded knowledge on how PC hardware works buried in the Linux code" can be leveraged for use in the HURD. This could be a boon for HURD development, because unlike the other Free OS Linux compatibility modes, the HURD can lift such code straight from the Linux kernel, giving it a significant advantage in that matter over others.
Maybe with a little work even proprietary drivers like NVidia and ATI drivers could be made to work. That would give it the huge advantage of being one of 3 Free OSs that has accellerated modern 3D hardware
KHTML has been Apple-backed ever since Safari development started.
Just FYI.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that a drop from 100Mbps WLAN to 11Mbps WLAN would not affect the average home cable/DSL connection.
Most people who use LAN data transfers enough to notice the difference between 100Mbps with lots of interference and a clear 11 Mbps signal will know enough to change their WiFi passwords.
prolly to dumb
Oh, the irony!
"meat addicts"?
What kind of vegetarian hippie bullshit is this?
If you don't eat meat, you are thumbing your nose at the millenia of evolution man has gone through to fight his way to the top of the food chain.
We didn't come this far to eat salads.
...
No. It wasn't. Linux = 1991; Windows NT = 1993.
End. Of. Story.
Bullshit alert!
The original Windows ran on top of DOS, on 16/32 bit x86 only. The original Windows NT, which I think you are really talking about, was released in 1993 and supported 386 and MIPS, with later Alpha support. Linux was up to version 0.96 at that point.
Does anyone else have the sudden urge to run off to Kinko's and get the giant master benchmark charts printed off as posters?
...Or is that just me? : - )
You are not *forced* to redistribute your modifications to others. Keeping your modifications private is a very important part of the GPL licensing scheme.
However, if you give your program to others, the others have a right to the source code, just as you did when you recieved the base work.
Look into these things first, before disseminating misinformation.
source: http://lwn.net/1999/0211/a/lt-binary.html
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: Kernel interface changes (was Re: cdrecord problems on
Date: 7 Feb 1999 08:15:24 GMT
In article <79g5bu$spd$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>
>* Linus Torvalds has no interest whatsoever in developing such a
> plug-in ABI. Someone else is welcome to do it.
No, it's even more than that.
I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
Hannu Savolainen tried to add some layering to make the sound modules
more "portable" among Linux kernel versions, and I disliked it for two
reasons:
- extra layers decrease readability, and sometimes make for performance
problems. The readability thing is actually the larger beef I had
with this: I just don't want to see drivers start using some strange
wrapper format that has absolutely nothing to do with how they work.
- I _want_ people to expect that interfaces change. I _want_ people to
know that binary-only modules cannot be used from release to release.
I want people to be really really REALLY aware of the fact that when
they use a binary-only module, they tie their hands.
Note that the second point is mainly psychological, but it's by far the
most important one.
Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
Why? Because I'm a prick, and I want people to suffer? No.
Because I _know_ that I will eventually make changes that break modules.
And I want people to expect them, and I never EVER want to see an email
in my mailbox that says "Damn you, Linus, I used this binary module for
over two years, and it worked perfectly across 150 kernel releases, and
Linux-5.6.71 broke it, and you had better fix your kernel".
See?
I refuse to be at the mercy of any binary-only module. And that's why I
refuse to care about them - not because of any really technical reasons,
not because I'm a callous bastard, but because I refuse to tie my hands
behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have
It Coming To You".
I allow binary-only modules, but I want people to know that they are
_only_ ever expected to work on the one version of the kernel that they
were compiled for. Anything else is just a very nice unexpected bonus if
it happens to work.
And THAT, my friend, is why when somebody complains about AFS, I tell
them to go screw themselves, and not come complaining to me but complain
to the AFS buys and girls. And why I'm not very interested in changing
that.
Linus
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I'm just saying... my last install has been up since I put it on the computer (as its first BSD install).
I don't want to invoke any envy or pecker-measuring... I'm just saying that was the last one I installed.
the guy honestly looks like Bram Cohen.
;-)
Being associated with Bittorrent doesn't get you the chicks... the non-digital ones, anyway
Spanish 100:
El/La means "the".
When converting to English, chop off the trailing vowel for a word, and, if necessary, interperet it loosely.
Using these two steps, we get:
"the rest"
I find this feeling is most pronounced in long, drawn-out RTS games like Warcraft II/III or Starcraft.
I am SUPER pissed and in a really shitty mood after I lose a few games in a row, and winning a few games in a row could make my day.