What Linux (and other UNIX OS's) do is send SIGTERM to all processes which allow them to clean up before shutting down. Then it sends SIGKILL which effectively kills the remaining processes that don't feel like terminating quickly enough.* If Windows would send some sort of SIGKILL after a certain amount of time, programs like Acrobat wouldn't be able to give a shit about being terminated since the kernel would deallocate its memory and shut that fucker down.
* Of course, there's the rc init scripts that need to be shut down in a specific order and possibly some other shutdown shit I'm forgetting, but the SIGTERM/SIGKILL is the last step of the halting process.
RMS would be the pope obviously. Linus doesn't seem to give two shits about the free software movement; he just wants to code and maintain his Linux kernel like many [software] engineers like to do.
What are you saying, "IP is a capitalist concept"!? IP is anything but! IP (copyrights, patents, and trademarks) includes government-granted monopolies over non-tangible items (i.e. ideas, thoughts); that's socialist by definition. If it were capitalist, everything would be public domain, and anyone could publish anything and would thus compete on the basis of price, quality, etc. For example, if The Pirate Bay were a legal organisation in the US that was allowed to compete with double-A companies over their copyrighted works, that would be an example of capitalism (PB competing based on price obviously).
Most high school students are under 18 and thus can't legally sign a contract by themselves. Besides, EULA's are typically unenforceable due to some contract law stuff (ask a contract lawyer for more info).
Just like on Slashdot, all technological explanations can be simplified to a car analogy.
Takeda: Of course, the issue of performance was not secondary. Anyone can realise low performance with low power. Others tend to aim for high performance with high power. With Wii however, Nintendo alone has pursued high performance with low power consumption. So, while Wii embraces cutting-edge technology and high performance, the direction it is aiming in is completely different from that of previous systems. When we look at the automobile industry, not every car is following the same evolutionary course. While some are trying to make faster cars, others are gathering public attention around the world with their hybrid engines. If automobiles can be used a metaphor, our industry has always been trying to compete over horsepower, even though not all cars are made to compete in F1 races.
Wait, the pirate or the RIAA not paying the artist? I'm pretty sure regardless of whether the pirate buys the CD, the artist still doesn't get paid [well].
I'm sure Gnome has some CD ripper crap. I just prefer the command line...
Ah, a true GNOME user! One of AKAImBatman's 3 types of GNOME users ("meh, I just use the command line all the time anyhow"). Hell if I could find the damn post he made it in, though.
Just adding to the consensus that MPlayer owns. I use it to rip DVDs (mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.vob dvd://) for instance. MEncoder is great as well, but I find myself using external codecs (e.g. XviD, LAME, Vorbis) rather than lavc, although if I put more effort into researching lavc options (they're "tersely documented in the source code" according to the man page, so I'll have to check that out sometime), I'd probably use it instead.
Did you know that many of the developers for MPlayer are also developers for xine and VLC?
I didn't think it'd get accepted, so I figured I'd at least write a journal about it so I could show my friends. It sucks writing something for here and getting it rejected (especially when a much worse version gets accepted the next week).
Wyoming can go fuck itself because it doesn't represent the majority of American's interests. So be it if 10 cities make up a majority of the US; that's where most of the US is...
I just watched the movie today, and I can completely agree. This is what made the movie (and comic) so magnificent: it parallels today's downfall trend to fascism in the US. Although, it does seem to mirror what happened with Hitler far more than it does Bush.
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What Linux (and other UNIX OS's) do is send SIGTERM to all processes which allow them to clean up before shutting down. Then it sends SIGKILL which effectively kills the remaining processes that don't feel like terminating quickly enough.* If Windows would send some sort of SIGKILL after a certain amount of time, programs like Acrobat wouldn't be able to give a shit about being terminated since the kernel would deallocate its memory and shut that fucker down.
* Of course, there's the rc init scripts that need to be shut down in a specific order and possibly some other shutdown shit I'm forgetting, but the SIGTERM/SIGKILL is the last step of the halting process.
RMS would be the pope obviously. Linus doesn't seem to give two shits about the free software movement; he just wants to code and maintain his Linux kernel like many [software] engineers like to do.
What are you saying, "IP is a capitalist concept"!? IP is anything but! IP (copyrights, patents, and trademarks) includes government-granted monopolies over non-tangible items (i.e. ideas, thoughts); that's socialist by definition. If it were capitalist, everything would be public domain, and anyone could publish anything and would thus compete on the basis of price, quality, etc. For example, if The Pirate Bay were a legal organisation in the US that was allowed to compete with double-A companies over their copyrighted works, that would be an example of capitalism (PB competing based on price obviously).
Most high school students are under 18 and thus can't legally sign a contract by themselves. Besides, EULA's are typically unenforceable due to some contract law stuff (ask a contract lawyer for more info).
Good news! It's a suppository!
I think it's a joke; there's nothing in the PS3 since it doesn't exist! :O
Oh, that'd be an awesome trip to see the world flip back and forth as you do that.
Wait, the pirate or the RIAA not paying the artist? I'm pretty sure regardless of whether the pirate buys the CD, the artist still doesn't get paid [well].
Just adding to the consensus that MPlayer owns. I use it to rip DVDs (mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.vob dvd://) for instance. MEncoder is great as well, but I find myself using external codecs (e.g. XviD, LAME, Vorbis) rather than lavc, although if I put more effort into researching lavc options (they're "tersely documented in the source code" according to the man page, so I'll have to check that out sometime), I'd probably use it instead.
Did you know that many of the developers for MPlayer are also developers for xine and VLC?
It's not an iff relationship here. I have private details of my life that I would like to keep private from random schmoes in the gubmint.
OT, but your post ID is awesome (16141614).
-O3 -march=foo
That works pretty well in my experience...
Because record labels hate innovation and try to legislate it out of existence if it has anything to do with music.
The Chicago expressways are maintained, but that's also a problem: construction. Nothing creates a huge traffic jam faster than construction!
Hybrids are awesome (I own a Civic hybrid), but I haven't even seen another person around here (Chicago) with one. :(
I didn't think it'd get accepted, so I figured I'd at least write a journal about it so I could show my friends. It sucks writing something for here and getting it rejected (especially when a much worse version gets accepted the next week).
Wyoming can go fuck itself because it doesn't represent the majority of American's interests. So be it if 10 cities make up a majority of the US; that's where most of the US is...
Uh, it's the name of the fucking article in question. I think it worked just fine.
I just watched the movie today, and I can completely agree. This is what made the movie (and comic) so magnificent: it parallels today's downfall trend to fascism in the US. Although, it does seem to mirror what happened with Hitler far more than it does Bush.
This is Slashdot, remember? That post goes against the established stereotype!
Oh my, I never thought of tracking like that. Ouch...
I'm sure you'd find just as many porn sites in their history as users who blindly enable JS for everything.
What's on port 100? :/