Reverse engineering is *hard*. Reverse engineering video harder. I know, I've tried. There are few people in the world with the skill to do what he does (not in this case, but in general), and probably fewer with the time and motivation to do it for free. You're also seeing the effects of selective reporting - people make more of a fuss when a "celebrity" hacker like him does something like this than some random foreigner noone's heard of.
How about a benchmark for GUI responsiveness? Java can be as fast as anything at running functions and adding, but that doesn't matter to me as a user. Java GUIs are incredibly slow. It's not an inherent property of the Java GUI, just swing. It's not even the swing API, just Sun's particular implementation of it. However, if you don't use Swing for the GUI you lose the whole WORA point of Java, and thanks to the restrictive license Sun's implementation is the only one there is. So the end result is that Java GUI apps suck.
I find the feel of KDE better. Yes it is overloaded with options, but that means I've got a choice about things, rather than having choices I don't want forced on me. I think KDE doesn't try to mimic anything specifically, but rather be as configurable as possible - you can get it to be very macos like, more than I've seen gnome being.
I know based on having tried using GTK, Qt and Wx. Qt was the best. The rosegarden developer does a good piece on why it's better than gtkmm from the point of view of someone trying to actually write a program, though I haven't seen a similar thing for Wx.
Does Pakistan really only have one link to the Internet, and an undersea one at that? I can understand there wouldn't be links to India, or perhaps China, but aren't there reasonably friendly countries to the west? Heck, can't someone lay a fiber cable (one of the 10km ones) to another country for the moment?
Huh? It's easier. I ran "X -configure", and watched it find both my cards, both my monitors, and set up a working config with both active, wheras in windows I got a nice "windows has detected this monitor, if you want to actually use it go into control panel and display and enable it" message on the second screen. I do wish they'd sort the xinerama/xrandr incompatibility though.
Distributing TV/music/movies in violation of copyright = making more free copies of things. Violating the GPL = stopping people making more free copies of things. Supporting the former but not the latter is only inconsistent if you're under the misapprehension that I give a fuck about the law.
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Did you even read the post you replied to? The only legal basis for *copyright* is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. So if people taking your Awesome-o-matic would in the long run promote science and the useful arts more than letting you keep and sell it, that's what should be done. If you don't like it you can move somewhere else, because that's the *constitution*.
Yes, but not necessarily maliciously. They were stuck on an old version of the protocol (didn't want to upgrade for some reason) and the new one was incompatible. Grokster kept moving with the protocol and is (afaik) still on fasttrack (as are a number of reverse-engineered clients like mldonkey and gift).
The court found that it hadn't been shown beyond all reasonable doubt that he had done it, not that he hadn't done it. (In fact he lost the civil suit for compensation, where it only has to be shown on the balance of probabilities).
AIUI the essence of his suit is that the company gave merchandising etc. deals to members of the same conglomerate when they could have made more money on the film by opening them up for competition. If he wins we should see more contracts being opened up for everyone to bid on, and possibly more separation of the big media conglomerates.
The sun has been getting steadily brighter over the last 5 billion years or so. At the same time CO2 levels have been going down as plants absorb it and lock it into the ground, keeping things about equal. Unfortunately, it doesn't work the other way, the sun won't get dimmer if we pump the CO2 pack into the atmosphere.
Silicon is the second most common element on the Earth. There may not be enough factories etc. to make them at the moment, but there's enough resources to build some and then use their energy to build more and so on, and there's enough raw material to build as many as we nee.
The server doesn't contain the IP logs though, that was what they were originally asked for and they said they didn't have them. Is there a law that says you must be able to trace who wrote anything you published?
And they're getting in trouble for it. The US only gets away with it with some flimsy justification about violation of UN resolutions, and there is a backlash happening. Now, the fact that sealand isn't diplomatically respected could be a problem for them, but you can't invade sovereign nations willy-nilly.
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Reverse engineering is *hard*. Reverse engineering video harder. I know, I've tried. There are few people in the world with the skill to do what he does (not in this case, but in general), and probably fewer with the time and motivation to do it for free. You're also seeing the effects of selective reporting - people make more of a fuss when a "celebrity" hacker like him does something like this than some random foreigner noone's heard of.
How about taking down people who offered RSS feeds of google news?
Maybe he likes coding C#? I write little scripts that could easily be done with shell in python, because I prefer coding in it.
I think you forgot the clearest example, which is Ruby. Complete language running on the JVM.
How about a benchmark for GUI responsiveness? Java can be as fast as anything at running functions and adding, but that doesn't matter to me as a user. Java GUIs are incredibly slow. It's not an inherent property of the Java GUI, just swing. It's not even the swing API, just Sun's particular implementation of it. However, if you don't use Swing for the GUI you lose the whole WORA point of Java, and thanks to the restrictive license Sun's implementation is the only one there is. So the end result is that Java GUI apps suck.
I find the feel of KDE better. Yes it is overloaded with options, but that means I've got a choice about things, rather than having choices I don't want forced on me. I think KDE doesn't try to mimic anything specifically, but rather be as configurable as possible - you can get it to be very macos like, more than I've seen gnome being.
I know based on having tried using GTK, Qt and Wx. Qt was the best. The rosegarden developer does a good piece on why it's better than gtkmm from the point of view of someone trying to actually write a program, though I haven't seen a similar thing for Wx.
Iran's pretty stable, also Muslim, you'd have thought they could route a 'net pipe through there.
You wouldn't have thought they could hold a backhoe with them claws
Does Pakistan really only have one link to the Internet, and an undersea one at that? I can understand there wouldn't be links to India, or perhaps China, but aren't there reasonably friendly countries to the west? Heck, can't someone lay a fiber cable (one of the 10km ones) to another country for the moment?
/not trying to start a flamewar, honest
you misspelled odours.
Huh? It's easier. I ran "X -configure", and watched it find both my cards, both my monitors, and set up a working config with both active, wheras in windows I got a nice "windows has detected this monitor, if you want to actually use it go into control panel and display and enable it" message on the second screen. I do wish they'd sort the xinerama/xrandr incompatibility though.
Distributing TV/music/movies in violation of copyright = making more free copies of things. Violating the GPL = stopping people making more free copies of things. Supporting the former but not the latter is only inconsistent if you're under the misapprehension that I give a fuck about the law.
Did you even read the post you replied to? The only legal basis for *copyright* is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. So if people taking your Awesome-o-matic would in the long run promote science and the useful arts more than letting you keep and sell it, that's what should be done. If you don't like it you can move somewhere else, because that's the *constitution*.
The dot is just a separator, like in IP addresses, it's not a decimal point.
Why do you need 8 to surround you? Wouldn't 4 do, making 6 total for 3D, one in each cardinal direction?
Yes, but not necessarily maliciously. They were stuck on an old version of the protocol (didn't want to upgrade for some reason) and the new one was incompatible. Grokster kept moving with the protocol and is (afaik) still on fasttrack (as are a number of reverse-engineered clients like mldonkey and gift).
The court found that it hadn't been shown beyond all reasonable doubt that he had done it, not that he hadn't done it. (In fact he lost the civil suit for compensation, where it only has to be shown on the balance of probabilities).
AIUI the essence of his suit is that the company gave merchandising etc. deals to members of the same conglomerate when they could have made more money on the film by opening them up for competition. If he wins we should see more contracts being opened up for everyone to bid on, and possibly more separation of the big media conglomerates.
The sun has been getting steadily brighter over the last 5 billion years or so. At the same time CO2 levels have been going down as plants absorb it and lock it into the ground, keeping things about equal. Unfortunately, it doesn't work the other way, the sun won't get dimmer if we pump the CO2 pack into the atmosphere.
You're standing on a number of tonnes of Silicon which would look silly if I were to write it out in full.
Silicon is the second most common element on the Earth. There may not be enough factories etc. to make them at the moment, but there's enough resources to build some and then use their energy to build more and so on, and there's enough raw material to build as many as we nee.
The server doesn't contain the IP logs though, that was what they were originally asked for and they said they didn't have them. Is there a law that says you must be able to trace who wrote anything you published?
And they're getting in trouble for it. The US only gets away with it with some flimsy justification about violation of UN resolutions, and there is a backlash happening. Now, the fact that sealand isn't diplomatically respected could be a problem for them, but you can't invade sovereign nations willy-nilly.