No. Firefox has 5 buttons but they're fricking huge in comparison. Opera has tiny buttons and text labels so small-but-perfectly-formed I wonder if they're hand-rendered pixmaps. The functions are generally useful, I find, the point is they make it easier to do what you want. Opera's definitely faster in responsiveness for me when in use, (that's possibly because I use kde and opera's qt while firefox is gtk, but I find opera more responsive than konqueror too) and renders pages faster (this is supported by independent benchmarks)
They need to have access to the device, windows 2000 doesn't give normal users enough. Unlike *nix you can't add them to a "burning" group, you need to give them root privs. More recent versions of cd burning apps come with a "run as" program that works like sudo, but for a while there was nothing like that, and if you can't afford the upgrade you're forced to have everyone admin.
If they don't include a valid way to contact them, there's no way they can make money out of it. I don't mean reply to them necessarily, just act as if you were going to buy it for as long as you can.
No, but I haven't heard anyone complaining about them. My friends with dsl are happy with it, my friends with dialup are mostly unhappy. I remember back when we used 2400 baud everyone was unhappy with it. I'm sure there are people who are unhappy with modern bandwidth, but I think they're in the minority now. I can't remember anyone complaining about their word processor 12 years ago. That's not to say there weren't such people, but by and large people were happy with it. If you were happy with it then you should be happy with it now, and I think over 90% of people were, and most people who want new word processes because of their features are just keeping up with the joneses, scared to admit that they don't need anything fancy because it makes them seem less advanced users.
Because for many of us the free browsers are worse. Even with the ad, opera manages (to me) to have a much more efficient UI and actually devote more screen real estate to the website itself. And performance-wise it zooms, especially compared to firefox. (The recent browser benchmarks back me up on this). To me the greater usability makes it worth my while having the ad.
This seems to especially be the case with floppy disks. Anyone know anyone who sells floppies where you'll actually get the data off more than a third of them? It all seems to be cheap junk, some of the floppies I buy won't even format out of the box.
Just monopoly preservation. The standard is open and published, they couldn't use OOo code to do it without making word gpl but the spec itself is free and I'd be surprised if there wasn't a bsd or at least lgpl library to use the format
How about their bios? Root can reflash it and make their computer completely unbootable, unless they're lucky enough to have a socketed one, even then it's going to cost them a lot to get it reflashed. Normal user can't.
Some of it's part of braindead windows design though. Win2k required you to have admin rights to burn cds! So of course users had to run as admin (I know there are now workarounds)
Spam relaying and virus mailing they can do, yes, but even your system wouldn't stop that - the email program needs to be able to access its address book and port 25 on the isp smtp server, and once it can do that it can forward itself to your adress book. But they can't do too much damage to files if you do what I do, and have a nightly backup that tars up important files and puts them in/root. Once you do that the worst non-root attackers can do is delete a day's work.
There are exploits for that too. Recently there was a buffer overflow in xine that let you execute arbitrary code by giving it the right stream - something you can do over the internet. It's not in the wild but iirc there was a proof-of-concept exploit available. I'd be willing to bet there's at least one arbitrary code vulnerability we don't know about in firefox, gaim, evolution or some other internet-facing program. If you're root, an exploit like that gets you 0wned. If you're a user, not so much. They can delete your latest data, but not your nightly backups. They can't install a rootkit because they have no access to the kernel image or init scripts. They can't change anything in/bin to trojan it.
In that case, no local exploit is needed--the attacker either uses sudo, or just sniffs the password the next time the user uses su (or whatever graphical equivalent pops up next time they try to upgrade some software).
That's why you're always told to use/bin/su rather than just typing su. They can change your.bash_profile to have your PATH pointing to trojan versions, but they can't get/bin/bash to execute something other than/bin/su when that's what you type, and they can't change/bin/su. Normal users have no ability to sudo on my system and probably many others, they don't need to. A determined attacker can probably get the root password somehow, but it makes it far harder, which is all you can hope for with security - make it so it's not worth an attacker's while to crack your system.
Whilst not every day, the sign of a great book or film is that I can watch it again anytime and it's still great. I think that's the sign of a great game too. Even with story games you can replay them if they're really great.
Simpler solution. Stop telling everyone "never reply to spammers". Instead, tell people "reply and string them along for a bit". If even 1 in 100 people did that it would stop spam dead.
Yes, but in a nicer way. I'll send you a C&D asking you to gpl your document or use another font. Since I'm not demanding money straight away and am standing up for the gpl, you're pretty sure to appear the villan.
If you go to the save freecraft page it links to that. It's set up as a separate project, but they used the freecraft source, the sibling post quoted a faq entry or something.
The code that it generates is not the code of the IDE though, it's not code I had to compile to get kdevelop to work, it's other code. It's the output of kdevelop, which is a different matter, legally, like, I don't know, html produced by dreamweaver or some other visual web development program. Which the maker of the program has no claim to.
I'd need to learn a lot more opengl before I could think about programming it, but none of that seems a huge problem. Make the tiles a bit bigger relative to the units, and make sure each tile has a flat space in the middle big enough for a unit. A mountain tile could have three mountains with a sort of plateau in the middle big enough for a unit. As for mines and things, I think it makes more sense to have them part of the tileset, but they could be handled by the same method. The world should be round, which handles the wraping much better than scrolling to the edges, something like populus, I'd love to be able to control a civ with a viewpoint like that. Hmm, that would mean distorting the shapes of the tiles near the poles though. I'll take a look at the wiki, and might try coding a demo up when I've learnt a bit more
That was why I mentioned mpeg compression ratio. 9x is probably enough to decompress the video server-side, then use an uncompressed streaming protocol (I'm sure vlc has something) to send it to the 486 which can just blit it to the screen
I normally buy a physical cd with an operating system on it (it was sold to me as the cd, so I don't care what the EULA says. I'll install it an alternate way, and since I'm using the product in its intended fashion and the way it was sold to me for use using it doesn't indicate my acceptance of the license. And I don't need a license to install it, because the only copies I make are essential for the intended running of the software, which means they're not infringing copyright). Therefore I can install it on as many computers as I want. Theoretically, I would have thought a corporation can do the same.
Someone could GPL their font exactly because they want to make documents using it gpled. To me it doesn't seem a good idea for the same reason gpling glibc doesn't make sense - there are plenty of fonts around, and it would just mean people don't use it - but I can see someone wanting to do it.
The fsf asserts it based on how it thinks the court interprets these things. Clearly many companies believe the same, otherwise they wouldn't for example license qt to make propriety products with it. My guess would be it's because the berne convention says you need permission from the copyright holder of every part of anything before you distribute it. The function bits included in the binary for a dynamic program are probably enough to be copyrightable, in which case the library copyright holder can dictate terms for the whole thing. Also, the program as a whole makes no sense without the library, so the library is clearly a part of it.
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No. Firefox has 5 buttons but they're fricking huge in comparison. Opera has tiny buttons and text labels so small-but-perfectly-formed I wonder if they're hand-rendered pixmaps. The functions are generally useful, I find, the point is they make it easier to do what you want. Opera's definitely faster in responsiveness for me when in use, (that's possibly because I use kde and opera's qt while firefox is gtk, but I find opera more responsive than konqueror too) and renders pages faster (this is supported by independent benchmarks)
They need to have access to the device, windows 2000 doesn't give normal users enough. Unlike *nix you can't add them to a "burning" group, you need to give them root privs. More recent versions of cd burning apps come with a "run as" program that works like sudo, but for a while there was nothing like that, and if you can't afford the upgrade you're forced to have everyone admin.
If they don't include a valid way to contact them, there's no way they can make money out of it. I don't mean reply to them necessarily, just act as if you were going to buy it for as long as you can.
No, but I haven't heard anyone complaining about them. My friends with dsl are happy with it, my friends with dialup are mostly unhappy. I remember back when we used 2400 baud everyone was unhappy with it. I'm sure there are people who are unhappy with modern bandwidth, but I think they're in the minority now. I can't remember anyone complaining about their word processor 12 years ago. That's not to say there weren't such people, but by and large people were happy with it. If you were happy with it then you should be happy with it now, and I think over 90% of people were, and most people who want new word processes because of their features are just keeping up with the joneses, scared to admit that they don't need anything fancy because it makes them seem less advanced users.
Because for many of us the free browsers are worse. Even with the ad, opera manages (to me) to have a much more efficient UI and actually devote more screen real estate to the website itself. And performance-wise it zooms, especially compared to firefox. (The recent browser benchmarks back me up on this). To me the greater usability makes it worth my while having the ad.
This seems to especially be the case with floppy disks. Anyone know anyone who sells floppies where you'll actually get the data off more than a third of them? It all seems to be cheap junk, some of the floppies I buy won't even format out of the box.
Just monopoly preservation. The standard is open and published, they couldn't use OOo code to do it without making word gpl but the spec itself is free and I'd be surprised if there wasn't a bsd or at least lgpl library to use the format
Rtf is an open as in freely published standard. It's controlled by MS, but anyone can implement it, like pdf and adobe.
I take it you didn't follow the anti-trust case then?
Other open apps are using it. Koffice is switching to it as default with 1.4
How about their bios? Root can reflash it and make their computer completely unbootable, unless they're lucky enough to have a socketed one, even then it's going to cost them a lot to get it reflashed. Normal user can't.
Some of it's part of braindead windows design though. Win2k required you to have admin rights to burn cds! So of course users had to run as admin (I know there are now workarounds)
Spam relaying and virus mailing they can do, yes, but even your system wouldn't stop that - the email program needs to be able to access its address book and port 25 on the isp smtp server, and once it can do that it can forward itself to your adress book. But they can't do too much damage to files if you do what I do, and have a nightly backup that tars up important files and puts them in /root. Once you do that the worst non-root attackers can do is delete a day's work.
There are exploits for that too. Recently there was a buffer overflow in xine that let you execute arbitrary code by giving it the right stream - something you can do over the internet. It's not in the wild but iirc there was a proof-of-concept exploit available. I'd be willing to bet there's at least one arbitrary code vulnerability we don't know about in firefox, gaim, evolution or some other internet-facing program. If you're root, an exploit like that gets you 0wned. If you're a user, not so much. They can delete your latest data, but not your nightly backups. They can't install a rootkit because they have no access to the kernel image or init scripts. They can't change anything in /bin to trojan it.
In that case, no local exploit is needed--the attacker either uses sudo, or just sniffs the password the next time the user uses su (or whatever graphical equivalent pops up next time they try to upgrade some software).
That's why you're always told to use /bin/su rather than just typing su. They can change your .bash_profile to have your PATH pointing to trojan versions, but they can't get /bin/bash to execute something other than /bin/su when that's what you type, and they can't change /bin/su. Normal users have no ability to sudo on my system and probably many others, they don't need to. A determined attacker can probably get the root password somehow, but it makes it far harder, which is all you can hope for with security - make it so it's not worth an attacker's while to crack your system.
Dosbox has linux as its primary platform, doesn't it?
Whilst not every day, the sign of a great book or film is that I can watch it again anytime and it's still great. I think that's the sign of a great game too. Even with story games you can replay them if they're really great.
Simpler solution. Stop telling everyone "never reply to spammers". Instead, tell people "reply and string them along for a bit". If even 1 in 100 people did that it would stop spam dead.
Yes, but in a nicer way. I'll send you a C&D asking you to gpl your document or use another font. Since I'm not demanding money straight away and am standing up for the gpl, you're pretty sure to appear the villan.
If you go to the save freecraft page it links to that. It's set up as a separate project, but they used the freecraft source, the sibling post quoted a faq entry or something.
The code that it generates is not the code of the IDE though, it's not code I had to compile to get kdevelop to work, it's other code. It's the output of kdevelop, which is a different matter, legally, like, I don't know, html produced by dreamweaver or some other visual web development program. Which the maker of the program has no claim to.
I'd need to learn a lot more opengl before I could think about programming it, but none of that seems a huge problem. Make the tiles a bit bigger relative to the units, and make sure each tile has a flat space in the middle big enough for a unit. A mountain tile could have three mountains with a sort of plateau in the middle big enough for a unit. As for mines and things, I think it makes more sense to have them part of the tileset, but they could be handled by the same method. The world should be round, which handles the wraping much better than scrolling to the edges, something like populus, I'd love to be able to control a civ with a viewpoint like that. Hmm, that would mean distorting the shapes of the tiles near the poles though. I'll take a look at the wiki, and might try coding a demo up when I've learnt a bit more
That was why I mentioned mpeg compression ratio. 9x is probably enough to decompress the video server-side, then use an uncompressed streaming protocol (I'm sure vlc has something) to send it to the 486 which can just blit it to the screen
I normally buy a physical cd with an operating system on it (it was sold to me as the cd, so I don't care what the EULA says. I'll install it an alternate way, and since I'm using the product in its intended fashion and the way it was sold to me for use using it doesn't indicate my acceptance of the license. And I don't need a license to install it, because the only copies I make are essential for the intended running of the software, which means they're not infringing copyright). Therefore I can install it on as many computers as I want. Theoretically, I would have thought a corporation can do the same.
Someone could GPL their font exactly because they want to make documents using it gpled. To me it doesn't seem a good idea for the same reason gpling glibc doesn't make sense - there are plenty of fonts around, and it would just mean people don't use it - but I can see someone wanting to do it.
The fsf asserts it based on how it thinks the court interprets these things. Clearly many companies believe the same, otherwise they wouldn't for example license qt to make propriety products with it. My guess would be it's because the berne convention says you need permission from the copyright holder of every part of anything before you distribute it. The function bits included in the binary for a dynamic program are probably enough to be copyrightable, in which case the library copyright holder can dictate terms for the whole thing. Also, the program as a whole makes no sense without the library, so the library is clearly a part of it.