Remember: If you want to show how evil Apple is, you don't need to refer to reality. You can just make up a story inside your head, and use that to prove how evil they are.
What really surprises me is, despite this, so many physicists have jumped on the bandwagon.
This is because it is the simplest theory which fits available data. There are simpler theories, but they do not fit available data, and thus are of little value.
Average Slashdotters have been more skeptical of they dark matter theory than physicists, from what I've seen.
This is because average Slashdotters do not have even the beginnings of a clue about astrophysics, but think they are expert at every subject they ever heard mentioned on the internet.
You can detect dark matter. If it exists, we have already indirectly detected it. We have not yet directly detected it, but that is not because it not possible to do so, just that we have not succeeded yet. We are currently trying to do so.
If you buy the copyright to a GPL'd work, it is yours. You can change the license to anything you want. You can't change the already released versions, of course, but anything from that point onwards is entirely up to you.
They bought CUPS fair and square, so they own the copyright, and they could close it if they wanted. They didn't want to.
And there certainly was never any "long fight" about giving any changes back for WebKit. Source was released, as required, as soon as it shipped. What KDE complained about was that they wanted more than the license required, which is feature-specific diffs. This is not trivial to provide, after re-writing so much of the original source. Apple was in no way required to provide this, but they did anyway.
The funniest part of this incredibly horrible summary is the bit where it calls the post by Google "odd", because it contradicts the story they've decided on.
Obviously, not only are Google EVIL for KILLING OFF THIS IMPORTANT SOFTWARE, they are also INSANE because they seem to be saying that they are not killing it off!
Uzbl is embedding a piece of software designed to be embeddable. That is a very different task from maintaining a diverging fork.
You can't just "periodically merge" with Firefox in this kind of situation, either, as they will keep making changes that are incompatible with your version. Every merge will require more and more work.
They can't render it at different angles. They can only render it at the sam angle, and placed on a grid. They can also scale by powers of two. You can easily see all of this in their video. Just look for all the ninety-degree angles.
That's all things you get for free when you use a sparse voxel octtree, like they clearly do.
The fork by some guy who thinks he can take on a whole web browser project by himself because he's too inflexible to adjust to a slightly different UI. The fork which will last about five minor releases before the guy gets sick of it.
You actually think any company would pay another company without knowing what they are paying for, and without getting any kind of contrat that specifies what exactly they are getting?
That's a pretty contradictory conclusion, no? To extort anyone, they'd have to show the patents. As long as they don't show them they can not extort anyone.
Slashdot Mirror
Typically, salt and hash are stored together as one string, and each password will have its own randomly selected salt.
Salting is for defending against precomputed dictionary attacks. You're not supposed to keep the salt secret.
Well, then you will be happy to learn that Apple does not. in fact, have this data.
Using similar methods, there was a time when you could "detect" epicycles, too.
You're going to have to explain what exactly the epicycle equivalents of these experiments were: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Direct_detection_experiments
It may or it may not exist. However, if it exists, it can be detected, as opposed to the what earlier poster claimed.
Remember: If you want to show how evil Apple is, you don't need to refer to reality. You can just make up a story inside your head, and use that to prove how evil they are.
Your chronology and your facts are wrong.
Yes, I guess I mistakenly explained what happened in reality and not what happened inside your head. Sorry.
Thank you for posting a clarification about how the world inside your head works, though.
What really surprises me is, despite this, so many physicists have jumped on the bandwagon.
This is because it is the simplest theory which fits available data. There are simpler theories, but they do not fit available data, and thus are of little value.
Average Slashdotters have been more skeptical of they dark matter theory than physicists, from what I've seen.
This is because average Slashdotters do not have even the beginnings of a clue about astrophysics, but think they are expert at every subject they ever heard mentioned on the internet.
You can detect dark matter. If it exists, we have already indirectly detected it. We have not yet directly detected it, but that is not because it not possible to do so, just that we have not succeeded yet. We are currently trying to do so.
If you buy the copyright to a GPL'd work, it is yours. You can change the license to anything you want. You can't change the already released versions, of course, but anything from that point onwards is entirely up to you.
They bought CUPS fair and square, so they own the copyright, and they could close it if they wanted. They didn't want to.
And there certainly was never any "long fight" about giving any changes back for WebKit. Source was released, as required, as soon as it shipped. What KDE complained about was that they wanted more than the license required, which is feature-specific diffs. This is not trivial to provide, after re-writing so much of the original source. Apple was in no way required to provide this, but they did anyway.
Broken how?
The funniest part of this incredibly horrible summary is the bit where it calls the post by Google "odd", because it contradicts the story they've decided on.
Obviously, not only are Google EVIL for KILLING OFF THIS IMPORTANT SOFTWARE, they are also INSANE because they seem to be saying that they are not killing it off!
Uzbl is embedding a piece of software designed to be embeddable. That is a very different task from maintaining a diverging fork.
You can't just "periodically merge" with Firefox in this kind of situation, either, as they will keep making changes that are incompatible with your version. Every merge will require more and more work.
Well, no, not at all. Phoenix was not a fork. It was an entirely new project, using bits of the old codebase.
It was also created due to a lack of change, not because of a fear of change. That part is pretty crucial, too.
They can't render it at different angles. They can only render it at the sam angle, and placed on a grid. They can also scale by powers of two. You can easily see all of this in their video. Just look for all the ninety-degree angles.
That's all things you get for free when you use a sparse voxel octtree, like they clearly do.
So when challenged to provide sources for what you're saying, all you come back with is snark.
Not doing a very good job of convincing anyone that you are worth listening to, there.
The fork by some guy who thinks he can take on a whole web browser project by himself because he's too inflexible to adjust to a slightly different UI. The fork which will last about five minor releases before the guy gets sick of it.
And the fact that the MPEG-LA has never done anything like that is clearly not any kind of obstacle for you believing this?
Which is an entirely different thing than "extortion".
SCO was about copyrights, not patents. Entirely different things.
Where did you get that crazy idea?
You actually think any company would pay another company without knowing what they are paying for, and without getting any kind of contrat that specifies what exactly they are getting?
This smells like more bullshit extortion.
That's a pretty contradictory conclusion, no? To extort anyone, they'd have to show the patents. As long as they don't show them they can not extort anyone.
Did you find a player that can't play MP3 yet?
Translation: "I never question things I want to be true, I just call them common sense instead."