The OSI's definition prevents discrimination against specific uses. You can still make money off of GPL'd software, you just can't prevent your competitors from doing the same.
If you want to use an analogy, DRM is like an advanced computer lock developed to protect Swiss Bank Accounts placed on a door constructed out of balsa wood.
It's immaterial to enough people that the media companies can't control it. The room is flooding, the cat is out of the bag and it's running away, and if the RIAA isn't smart enough the cat will reach escape velocity.
Well, you see, I need to use both the old driver for my old hardware and the new driver for my new hardware, but there's no overlap in kernel versions!
nVidia really has little reason not to open their source code to the public, unless they are doing something illegal or extremely unethical in their drivers. (Cheating at benchmarks, etc.) Actually, they do have a reason. They would have to remove all the code covered by SGI's patents(which they licence) not to mention all the other companies. If Nouveau gets off the ground and supplants nv they will move their engineers working on nv to Nouveau.
The problem with that is that AMD is bound by the same patent crap nVidia is on a lot of their 3D features and neither one can actually open their drivers because it wouldn't be worth the patent minefield to navigate around. But if Nouveau advances far enough to supplant nv, then nVidia will probably send a few engineers to contribute to Nouveau code like they currently do with nv and forcedeth(nForce network driver for Linux)
If you wish to see evidence of that, look at nForce. The default nVidia nForce drivers for Linux kinda sucked, so some open-source people developed forcedeth. When nVidia saw forcedeth was already better than their proprietary Linux drivers, they contributed a lot of code to forcedeth, helping it even more.
Are you fucking kidding me? Stargate is science fiction, and Hammer and Stern are adamant about not having science fiction on the science fiction channel, instead having crappy horror films and wrestling!
The ships looked better. No they didn't. I saw about 30 seconds of the original and my impression was that the Pegasus, and its commander, looked ridiculous. Admittedly you can barely see the ships in the new one(probably because the design of the alien ships in Stargate blew their ships out of the water) but they don't look as ridiculous.
Personally I think that better and easier than restricting their speech would be requiring Zack de la Rocha to be present as a speaker in every Republican Convention.
Twitter, read "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Now. Free software doesn't provide full protection. Nothing does. In fact, we're all already brainwashed by humanity's very behavior. And we always have.
I heard that watchmaking is mostly politics free, with the exception of the ethical validity of killing people with quartz crystal formations and/or telepathy in order to steal powers.
If you know the etymology of the term "nigger"(from the Latin niger, nigera, nigerum meaning black) you would know that the term has always been a reference to race/color. Though etymology is a horrible guide to modern usage("manufactured" comes from the Latin manufactus meaning "handmade") it's a good guide to historical usage. It never strictly referred to laziness. As for stopping its overall use, I'd be happy if we could bring Chris Rock onto all those TV shows that use it as a positive term and have the history of the word explained to them.
You don't have the right to not be offended by people claiming to be offended. And you don't have the right to censor people who want the government to censor.
Economic nationalism(tariff wall arms-race) and trickle-down economics(roughly defined as pissing on the heads of the poor), leading to overproduction and underconsumption under debt that everybody assumed they'd be able to pay off using the booming stocks. That was the cause of the Great Depression. Don't know how that ties into mercantilism or the destruction of private industry, but Harding/Coolidge/Hoover(really Mellon, he was the economic architect for those three presidents) can pretty well be blamed for the Great Depression.
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That sounds like a line out of a Perry Bible Fellowship comic.
The OSI's definition prevents discrimination against specific uses. You can still make money off of GPL'd software, you just can't prevent your competitors from doing the same.
If you want to use an analogy, DRM is like an advanced computer lock developed to protect Swiss Bank Accounts placed on a door constructed out of balsa wood.
It's immaterial to enough people that the media companies can't control it. The room is flooding, the cat is out of the bag and it's running away, and if the RIAA isn't smart enough the cat will reach escape velocity.
Well, you see, I need to use both the old driver for my old hardware and the new driver for my new hardware, but there's no overlap in kernel versions!
Even if they want to, they can't. Or rather, they don't want to enough to navigate through the patent minefield laid out by companies such as SGI.
The problem with that is that AMD is bound by the same patent crap nVidia is on a lot of their 3D features and neither one can actually open their drivers because it wouldn't be worth the patent minefield to navigate around. But if Nouveau advances far enough to supplant nv, then nVidia will probably send a few engineers to contribute to Nouveau code like they currently do with nv and forcedeth(nForce network driver for Linux)
If you wish to see evidence of that, look at nForce. The default nVidia nForce drivers for Linux kinda sucked, so some open-source people developed forcedeth. When nVidia saw forcedeth was already better than their proprietary Linux drivers, they contributed a lot of code to forcedeth, helping it even more.
Tight, limited series runs from the country that makes Doctor Who? :P
Are you fucking kidding me? Stargate is science fiction, and Hammer and Stern are adamant about not having science fiction on the science fiction channel, instead having crappy horror films and wrestling!
Personally I think that better and easier than restricting their speech would be requiring Zack de la Rocha to be present as a speaker in every Republican Convention.
Actually the one Molly can't see she called "worse than the boogieman". The boogieman was Sylar, whom she could see, and in fact did
What do Royal Botanical Gardens have to do with discrimination?
Calling Hillary Clinton liberal is like calling the Sun dark.
Voltage over current is futile. The phonetics of your speech segments will be changed for easier pronunciation.
Twitter, read "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Now. Free software doesn't provide full protection. Nothing does. In fact, we're all already brainwashed by humanity's very behavior. And we always have.
I'm trying to make sense of what you're trying to say. It's not working.
I heard that watchmaking is mostly politics free, with the exception of the ethical validity of killing people with quartz crystal formations and/or telepathy in order to steal powers.
A conical plot? What is that supposed to be?
If you know the etymology of the term "nigger"(from the Latin niger, nigera, nigerum meaning black) you would know that the term has always been a reference to race/color. Though etymology is a horrible guide to modern usage("manufactured" comes from the Latin manufactus meaning "handmade") it's a good guide to historical usage. It never strictly referred to laziness. As for stopping its overall use, I'd be happy if we could bring Chris Rock onto all those TV shows that use it as a positive term and have the history of the word explained to them.
You don't have the right to not be offended by people claiming to be offended. And you don't have the right to censor people who want the government to censor.
Economic nationalism(tariff wall arms-race) and trickle-down economics(roughly defined as pissing on the heads of the poor), leading to overproduction and underconsumption under debt that everybody assumed they'd be able to pay off using the booming stocks. That was the cause of the Great Depression. Don't know how that ties into mercantilism or the destruction of private industry, but Harding/Coolidge/Hoover(really Mellon, he was the economic architect for those three presidents) can pretty well be blamed for the Great Depression.