If it was totally free, then someone could instantly take it and GPL a slightly changed version. So you still would get a GPL one.
But I think this is because they would like anyone who uses it to add to it. It's to make sure public property stays public.
Dogs are definitely bright enough to learn sounds as commands. My dogs even learned to get excited at the word "walk" without anyone meaning to teach them, by just listening to people saying "lets take the dogs for a walk". I can tell one of my dogs to "Get the ball" and she will remember where she left it and bring it.
Can this dog get grammer, etc., or is it just very good at what I said above?
Hadn't realised that -- and I copied that idea from someone else.
I suppose they think that sigs would be too confusing to anyone other than regular users, or to those with normal senses of humor.... I need a new sig now...
Slightly OT, but shred is great for floppies that have junk on them that confuses stupid formatting software.
shred -n 0 -z/dev/fd0
and every bit on the disk is set to 0. (The -n 0 means no random passes, the -z makes one 0 pass, to hide the erased data normally.) It's quicker than whatever the equivalent dd line is.
Is there going to be anything to stop Microsoft associating media files with a little program that says something like: "You do not have Windows Media Player installed. Windows Media Player is required to view media. Click here to download Windows Media Player."?
That was sort of my point. You get no choice with Windows. Nothing is really bundled under Linux in the way it is with windows. In windows you *must* install the browser, media player, email client, IM software, text editor, etc. just to install the OS.
I guess thats the diffence between windows and Linux, to some extent in windows, you get a browser, a media player and various other stuff (it is actually impossible to install winXP without IE, WMP, MS instant messaging, OE, various other stuff. the IM can be turned off, but not uninstalled). In Linux, you don't get these installed automatically, but you can chose any other player/browser yourself. You can see this as freedom, or just as more hassle than accepting the bundled stuff.
I am not really blaming people for not knowing things, but for being scared of change. If some people got their way, they would still be on windows 3.1, or something older.
Also, on second thoughts there is some hope, becuase if AOL is really behind their version of Netscape, a lot of the same users will probably switch over. Not for the right reasons, but because AOL will say that the browser they pretend they make will be the only one that works with "the Internet", which they also seem to claim they make.
I have an irritating suspicion that the dummies (read unknowing spam proxy, worm infected, has a hotmail account and uses a 1GB RAM machine for emails and surfing - in short the majority of lusers) will continue to use IE until they get whatever they get in Longhorn O$, even if all new websites display funny.(They just resist change. I know people who would switch to Linux if the different window decorations didn't scare them.)
(I'm not sure, but doesn't it just start playing a sound when it's told too and keep playing it till it finishes, so that any animation delay causes it to get out of synch? I'm sure I've seen things get out of synch the first time and play alright the 2nd when they are actaully in the cache.)
Linux users are not the only ones harmed by Microsoft's monopoly. IBM is just using Linux as it's weapon against Microsoft. If in the process IBM can be Linux users' weapon against Microsoft, that seems OK to me.
Corporations don't just do good things for no profit, it's just that sometimes they might have an agenda thats compatible with ours.
Round the back of the BBC has, AFAIK, power, analog monitor and and a place to plug in a tape recorder (standard audio cassettes, don't know the data capacity. The FS is probably just "file starts" and "file ends"). Keyboard integrated, no mouse.
A network connection would have to emulate the line out of a tape player and a microphone port (not that hard, use a sound card), and there would probably be no way to use it for anything other than what the tapes are for anyway (transfer of documents and BASIC programs) because software installation for anything other than BASIC scripts on a BBC involves opening the case and permanently inserting an extra ROM chip.
There is no HD. BASIC is also the primary shell, which is a bit wierd.
I could be a bit confused, it was my fathers computer when it was actaully used and I don't know how to use it for much except BASIC. But definitely no networking. I don't think is has a real kernel, as it just runs whatever ROM it's told to run.
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If it was totally free, then someone could instantly take it and GPL a slightly changed version. So you still would get a GPL one.
But I think this is because they would like anyone who uses it to add to it. It's to make sure public property stays public.
Dogs are definitely bright enough to learn sounds as commands. My dogs even learned to get excited at the word "walk" without anyone meaning to teach them, by just listening to people saying "lets take the dogs for a walk".
I can tell one of my dogs to "Get the ball" and she will remember where she left it and bring it.
Can this dog get grammer, etc., or is it just very good at what I said above?
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Well, you asked for it, and I don't know how else to get it in this story.
Yeah! We can prove that people got out of bed, breathed and thought long before these processes were patented!
And to do lists...
Hadn't realised that -- and I copied that idea from someone else.
I suppose they think that sigs would be too confusing to anyone other than regular users, or to those with normal senses of humor....
I need a new sig now...
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Bloatware, of course!
Thats not even funny. It's a bad pun. Mod down.
I'm all confused now...
MacDonald's is meant to be evil...
This restrictions has got to be hackable on an open source product, surely?
How easy would it be to actaully get the paid for version by compiling this stuff?
Maybe they do something like distributing various seperated bits of source that would be complicated to compile, if you ask them?
Just a guess...
And how do other companies (RedHat, MandrakeSoft) get away with the non free (beer) versions?
This looks like an attempt to cash in, betrayal of principles etc., but in the end this will probably migrate more non-geeks from windows.
And now we are even trying to slashdot phone lines...
Where will it end?
2 things:
AOL disks have a paper label.
Don't use CDs/floppies anyway. They can suddenly let light through "pinhole" type inperfections, and the probably don't filter enough light anyway.
But, if you have to use something geeky, try looking through an HD. They block a lot more light
Is there going to be anything to stop Microsoft associating media files with a little program that says something like: "You do not have Windows Media Player installed. Windows Media Player is required to view media. Click here to download Windows Media Player."?
Then all the normal users would still use WMP.
That was sort of my point. You get no choice with Windows. Nothing is really bundled under Linux in the way it is with windows. In windows you *must* install the browser, media player, email client, IM software, text editor, etc. just to install the OS.
I guess thats the diffence between windows and Linux, to some extent in windows, you get a browser, a media player and various other stuff (it is actually impossible to install winXP without IE, WMP, MS instant messaging, OE, various other stuff. the IM can be turned off, but not uninstalled). In Linux, you don't get these installed automatically, but you can chose any other player/browser yourself. You can see this as freedom, or just as more hassle than accepting the bundled stuff.
I am not really blaming people for not knowing things, but for being scared of change. If some people got their way, they would still be on windows 3.1, or something older. Also, on second thoughts there is some hope, becuase if AOL is really behind their version of Netscape, a lot of the same users will probably switch over. Not for the right reasons, but because AOL will say that the browser they pretend they make will be the only one that works with "the Internet", which they also seem to claim they make.
I have an irritating suspicion that the dummies (read unknowing spam proxy, worm infected, has a hotmail account and uses a 1GB RAM machine for emails and surfing - in short the majority of lusers) will continue to use IE until they get whatever they get in Longhorn O$, even if all new websites display funny.(They just resist change. I know people who would switch to Linux if the different window decorations didn't scare them.)
I've noticed this in windows.
Blame the SWF file...
(I'm not sure, but doesn't it just start playing a sound when it's told too and keep playing it till it finishes, so that any animation delay causes it to get out of synch? I'm sure I've seen things get out of synch the first time and play alright the 2nd when they are actaully in the cache.)
Who needs a mouse? Or even a cursor?
Linux users are not the only ones harmed by Microsoft's monopoly. IBM is just using Linux as it's weapon against Microsoft. If in the process IBM can be Linux users' weapon against Microsoft, that seems OK to me. Corporations don't just do good things for no profit, it's just that sometimes they might have an agenda thats compatible with ours.
Er, it was a joke.
Round the back of the BBC has, AFAIK, power, analog monitor and and a place to plug in a tape recorder (standard audio cassettes, don't know the data capacity. The FS is probably just "file starts" and "file ends"). Keyboard integrated, no mouse.
A network connection would have to emulate the line out of a tape player and a microphone port (not that hard, use a sound card), and there would probably be no way to use it for anything other than what the tapes are for anyway (transfer of documents and BASIC programs) because software installation for anything other than BASIC scripts on a BBC involves opening the case and permanently inserting an extra ROM chip.
There is no HD. BASIC is also the primary shell, which is a bit wierd.
I could be a bit confused, it was my fathers computer when it was actaully used and I don't know how to use it for much except BASIC. But definitely no networking. I don't think is has a real kernel, as it just runs whatever ROM it's told to run.