It should be friendly by default, because people who don't want it to be friendly can easily turn it off, but people who want it friendlier wouldn't know how to make it so.
Eventually the accreation disk (that does the radiating) will all get sucked in, and then there will be no more "wind", so more matter can be pulled in.
There are several problems with those things though. For a start, they're pretty useless in space. We have replacements for most of them - motors, wires, and ICs. The Octopus' main advantage is whatever its equivalent is for our hindbrain - the hardwired bit that has had millions of years of evolution to optimise it. In a way it's the OS, with the higher brain being the application. What we need is to write one.
I'm sorry, no, saying "you should not go to that site" is not good enough. For a start, it makes your security equal to the worst of every random web admin for any site you use, not a good situation to be in. But even then, I should be able to visit untrusted sites. Because it's the whole internet out there. The whole point of it is to connect me to people I don't know. A web browser should be safe, and certainly can be safe. Using konqueror on linux I have no need to worry about whether I trust the sites I'm visiting. There is no way for them to affect my actual computer without explicit permission from me, just what is temporally displayed on my screen and played through my speakers. Why can't windows be the same?
It's not quite theft of service either. And it's not because we think it not being theft makes it right. It's because we think theft is significantly worse than it.
No, hacking people's arms off is not OK. But it's a helluva lot better than murdering. If you went around cutting people's arms off and people went around calling it murder, wouldn't you correct them? Not because it makes it OK, but because it makes it less bad.
That last is not true. Although there is no fair use right, there is a fair dealing rule that does give you some rights, although nowhere near as many as in the US. But you are allowed to make temporary copies which are necessary for a technical procedure the sole purpose of which is lawful use. So provided those files are only on the ipod temporarily and the sole reason they are there is to let you listen to your music, you're fine.
Antialiasing being turned on or off? It's a personal thing really, antialiasing makes things smoother but blurrier.
Did you remember the USE flag to enable the patented bits in freetype? (They help with hinting rather than actual font display, if your letters are looking incorrectly positioned that's why)
Yes, Y! messenger does not have as many features on linux. But at least it has some. It supports file transfer reliably, which is more than most linux IM clients do. And at least yahoo cared to make one at all. Which is more than all the other IM companies. We should salute them.
IIRC this may be Heinlein, but anyway I read it somewhere: what you pay the house is the price of your night out. View it as an evening's entertainment. If you're betting red/black on roulette you only lose 1/37 of what you bet, at minimum bet it probably adds up to less than what you'd spend going to the cinema or a restaurant. As long as you don't get addicted, or bet money you don't have, you're fine.
But they're distributing it for others to use, not using it in ways that affect others. I can't imagine the government having an objection to you publicly selling rocket engine kits for people to use in private.
I don't think it is reaching that point though. It is improving, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Like the wine guys said, 90% of calls are to 10% of the API, but the other 10% are all over the place. It is, and always has been the case IME that a random program won't work unless the wine guys have used it and made it work. The number of apps for which they have done that is rising, but they're still nowhere near having most of the api done, and as such a "random program" still doesn't work.
But the point is this is not the public highway. It's helping people to modify their own personal games. If I only use the car on my own personal racetrack, I can and should be able to legally do all the things you mention. The same is true of a game I only use on my own personal computer.
The only reason modifying your property is illegal is when it affects others, as in the example you give, or with building codes.
With KDE you could do what you can in that situation with only one PC. And wine doesn't work at all on my system, and even when it did you couldn't expect things to work "by default".
Only some browsers do. It won't work in konqueror. So it's sort of impressive that they've persuaded IE and gecko to behave in the same way when it's a non-standard thing they're doing.
You get that in any largish program. I was rather surprised after getting the Homeworld source when I came across FalkosFuckedUpTutorialFlag accidentally. A grep/wc shows there's swearing every ~100k of source. I think it's just a normal thing for programmers.
Help out. Even if you don't use linux, just make sure you ask about linux support for everything you buy, and make concerned noises when there isn't support. If you have two choices, always go for the one with linux support. If enough people do this, the manufacturers should start improving linux support.
Believe it or not, some are, just because of the hardware support, and also games. I certainly wish that KDE would run on windows so that I could run games without having to reboot.
Ports of cdrecord and mkisofs already exist, possibly using cygwin, and are sometimes used as backends. Look at the boot disks/windows live cd websites, quite a few recommend mkisofs because it is the only iso maker that can do --boot-info-table
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It should be friendly by default, because people who don't want it to be friendly can easily turn it off, but people who want it friendlier wouldn't know how to make it so.
Not necessarily. Turn on PCI hotplugging and use a mobo which supports it.
Eventually the accreation disk (that does the radiating) will all get sucked in, and then there will be no more "wind", so more matter can be pulled in.
There are several problems with those things though. For a start, they're pretty useless in space. We have replacements for most of them - motors, wires, and ICs. The Octopus' main advantage is whatever its equivalent is for our hindbrain - the hardwired bit that has had millions of years of evolution to optimise it. In a way it's the OS, with the higher brain being the application. What we need is to write one.
I'm sorry, no, saying "you should not go to that site" is not good enough. For a start, it makes your security equal to the worst of every random web admin for any site you use, not a good situation to be in. But even then, I should be able to visit untrusted sites. Because it's the whole internet out there. The whole point of it is to connect me to people I don't know. A web browser should be safe, and certainly can be safe. Using konqueror on linux I have no need to worry about whether I trust the sites I'm visiting. There is no way for them to affect my actual computer without explicit permission from me, just what is temporally displayed on my screen and played through my speakers. Why can't windows be the same?
Then they will learn to make the movies cheaper. Either that, or they will die. Because data is free by its very nature.
No, hacking people's arms off is not OK. But it's a helluva lot better than murdering. If you went around cutting people's arms off and people went around calling it murder, wouldn't you correct them? Not because it makes it OK, but because it makes it less bad.
That last is not true. Although there is no fair use right, there is a fair dealing rule that does give you some rights, although nowhere near as many as in the US. But you are allowed to make temporary copies which are necessary for a technical procedure the sole purpose of which is lawful use. So provided those files are only on the ipod temporarily and the sole reason they are there is to let you listen to your music, you're fine.
Did you remember the USE flag to enable the patented bits in freetype? (They help with hinting rather than actual font display, if your letters are looking incorrectly positioned that's why)
Yes, Y! messenger does not have as many features on linux. But at least it has some. It supports file transfer reliably, which is more than most linux IM clients do. And at least yahoo cared to make one at all. Which is more than all the other IM companies. We should salute them.
IIRC this may be Heinlein, but anyway I read it somewhere: what you pay the house is the price of your night out. View it as an evening's entertainment. If you're betting red/black on roulette you only lose 1/37 of what you bet, at minimum bet it probably adds up to less than what you'd spend going to the cinema or a restaurant. As long as you don't get addicted, or bet money you don't have, you're fine.
Now maybe some of the "Linux fonts are awful" trolls will stop.
But they're distributing it for others to use, not using it in ways that affect others. I can't imagine the government having an objection to you publicly selling rocket engine kits for people to use in private.
I don't think it is reaching that point though. It is improving, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Like the wine guys said, 90% of calls are to 10% of the API, but the other 10% are all over the place. It is, and always has been the case IME that a random program won't work unless the wine guys have used it and made it work. The number of apps for which they have done that is rising, but they're still nowhere near having most of the api done, and as such a "random program" still doesn't work.
Are you saing playing a game at home on your personal computer is more akin to driving on the public highway than on a private race track?
The only reason modifying your property is illegal is when it affects others, as in the example you give, or with building codes.
With KDE you could do what you can in that situation with only one PC. And wine doesn't work at all on my system, and even when it did you couldn't expect things to work "by default".
Linked page says it is not yet announced
Well, in konqueror I can't see any map at all, unfortunately. So no use to me for the time being.
Only some browsers do. It won't work in konqueror. So it's sort of impressive that they've persuaded IE and gecko to behave in the same way when it's a non-standard thing they're doing.
You get that in any largish program. I was rather surprised after getting the Homeworld source when I came across FalkosFuckedUpTutorialFlag accidentally. A grep/wc shows there's swearing every ~100k of source. I think it's just a normal thing for programmers.
Help out. Even if you don't use linux, just make sure you ask about linux support for everything you buy, and make concerned noises when there isn't support. If you have two choices, always go for the one with linux support. If enough people do this, the manufacturers should start improving linux support.
Believe it or not, some are, just because of the hardware support, and also games. I certainly wish that KDE would run on windows so that I could run games without having to reboot.
Ports of cdrecord and mkisofs already exist, possibly using cygwin, and are sometimes used as backends. Look at the boot disks/windows live cd websites, quite a few recommend mkisofs because it is the only iso maker that can do --boot-info-table
Yes, I did, and I realised my typo as soon as I posted it. Sorry.