I won't use any product that uses ActiveSync, even if it's got Theo, RMS, Linus, Steve Jobs, and the whole FreeBSD core team recommending it.
I wouldn't use anything that has all those people recommending it. Because at that point, you know the aliens have begun employing their mind control devices!
Bruce was actually one of the most vocal advocates of the LGPL license back when he initiated the UserLinux project. The main reason UserLinux had picked GNOME and GTK as the primary desktop and GUI toolkit for UserLinux revolved around GTK's LGPL license (Qt was not available under this license at the time)
Okay, but before we hooked up, my wife used to blame her computer manufacturer, not Microsoft. To her, the reason she had "viruses" was that eMachines makes garbage. I mean, yeah, eMachines makes garbage, but the problem with the malware and the zombification of her system really had nothing to do with eMachines.
To her it couldn't have been Microsoft's fault because everyone has Microsoft. There's no other option.
Note: Her current machines are a custom-built AMD Athlon 64 x2 desktop and a Dell Vostro loaded with Ubuntu 8.10. But she no longer blames computer manufacturers.;)
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Agreed. As a former SysOp and echo co-moderator, I recognize that managing an online forum isn't a technical process, it's a social process. It's always been a social process. A lot of people seem to think you can create a few policies, put a few technical controls in place and let the crowd moderate itself and that's just going to magically work. Not that I know anyone like that around here...
And Apple would shoulder the blame if a crappy $10 sound card doesn't work with OS X, just as Microsoft does now.
Nobody with any sense is going to blame Microsoft if a crappy $10 sound card doesn't work with Vista or XP. OTOH, people will blame Microsoft -- and rightly so -- if a large number of sound cards (or other hardware) that used to work XP don't work on Vista.
But Apple isn't Microsoft. Apple develops OS X for their own computers, not everyone elses -- after all, Microsoft doesn't sell computers. People will rightly realize that Apple tests their OS only with their own hardware or that of Apple's close partners.
Apple doesn't have to support Psystar or anybody else. Obviously it would be up to third parties to provide drivers and hardware support for computers that Apple doesn't make.
And those DRM-laden tracks are going to keep working? Keep in mind that removing the DRM on a track -- even if you legally purchased it -- is illegal in the United States and other countries that have laws similar to the DMCA. It's also possible to to interpret the law to mean that once the DRM stops working, the tracks you illegally removed the DRM from are also considered pirated material.
There isn't a shortage of the more skilled people to do the more technically advanced work either.
Why, yes there is! There's such a shortage of technically skilled people, we're having to import them from India and China through H1B visas! That's because all you tech guys are all already employed, amiright?
Everyone keeps saying only two companies can license the technology. This is incorrect. If you're talking about x86-64, then yes, you're right. If you're talking about just the 32-bit x86 instruction set, AFAIK, the patents have expired on this.
Anyway, there are several companies that probably still have licenses: National Semiconductor (who acquired Cyrix some years ago), IBM, NEC, and VIA.
Of those, probably NatSemi, IBM and NEC can still sublicense.
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Why do you know this?
The AC must've been Kathleen Fent.
Red Flag is based on RHEL, right? So there's not much difference basing it on Fedora.
... 'cause I think the partially nude woman in the car at the back of the scene was a bit unnecessary
Don't forget to look up. The shot of the people screwing on the balcony is priceless.
I won't use any product that uses ActiveSync, even if it's got Theo, RMS, Linus, Steve Jobs, and the whole FreeBSD core team recommending it.
I wouldn't use anything that has all those people recommending it. Because at that point, you know the aliens have begun employing their mind control devices!
*dons Google Tinfoil Hat Perpetual Beta*
We're not evil! Honest injun! We licnsed ActiveSync to Google, who is also not evil!
Okay, I can't keep a straight face now for some reason... :-?
Uh oh.
No, I think that one's already taken by Macrumors.com.
Do you really want to use a tinfoil hat in perpetual beta?
Uh, no, that really is Bruce Perens.
Bruce was actually one of the most vocal advocates of the LGPL license back when he initiated the UserLinux project. The main reason UserLinux had picked GNOME and GTK as the primary desktop and GUI toolkit for UserLinux revolved around GTK's LGPL license (Qt was not available under this license at the time)
Okay, but before we hooked up, my wife used to blame her computer manufacturer, not Microsoft. To her, the reason she had "viruses" was that eMachines makes garbage. I mean, yeah, eMachines makes garbage, but the problem with the malware and the zombification of her system really had nothing to do with eMachines.
To her it couldn't have been Microsoft's fault because everyone has Microsoft. There's no other option.
Note: Her current machines are a custom-built AMD Athlon 64 x2 desktop and a Dell Vostro loaded with Ubuntu 8.10. But she no longer blames computer manufacturers. ;)
Don't forget searching posts. No, I mean one that actually works, not this decrepit pile of dung that stopped being useful ca. 1997..
Okay, so like 2020 at the soonest?
Agreed. As a former SysOp and echo co-moderator, I recognize that managing an online forum isn't a technical process, it's a social process. It's always been a social process. A lot of people seem to think you can create a few policies, put a few technical controls in place and let the crowd moderate itself and that's just going to magically work. Not that I know anyone like that around here...
Sure. I volunteer to collect all the money. Just send in your share+S/H+3% to my PayPal account.
Online forums need to be managed? And is there a chapter in there on trolls?
Yeah. I heard it was written posthumously by the head of the GNAA...
Slashdot is a forum? o_O
And Apple would shoulder the blame if a crappy $10 sound card doesn't work with OS X, just as Microsoft does now.
Nobody with any sense is going to blame Microsoft if a crappy $10 sound card doesn't work with Vista or XP. OTOH, people will blame Microsoft -- and rightly so -- if a large number of sound cards (or other hardware) that used to work XP don't work on Vista.
But Apple isn't Microsoft. Apple develops OS X for their own computers, not everyone elses -- after all, Microsoft doesn't sell computers. People will rightly realize that Apple tests their OS only with their own hardware or that of Apple's close partners.
Apple is still a small company with limited programming resources.
Most people would hardly describe a company with market capitalization larger than Dell, HP, Sun, Sony, and Intel and 32,000 full-time employees as 'small'.
Poor Apple. They're such a lonely little company.
Apple doesn't have to support Psystar or anybody else. Obviously it would be up to third parties to provide drivers and hardware support for computers that Apple doesn't make.
car companies will issue a study saying that people mostly use the first four gear and that they'll change extra for fifth gear.
They already do this on some models: 5-speed transmission is an 'option'.
Over half the world's population owns an iPod? Really? Wow. I guess we're beating all those global poverty and hunger issues, huh?
And those DRM-laden tracks are going to keep working? Keep in mind that removing the DRM on a track -- even if you legally purchased it -- is illegal in the United States and other countries that have laws similar to the DMCA. It's also possible to to interpret the law to mean that once the DRM stops working, the tracks you illegally removed the DRM from are also considered pirated material.
There isn't a shortage of the more skilled people to do the more technically advanced work either.
Why, yes there is! There's such a shortage of technically skilled people, we're having to import them from India and China through H1B visas! That's because all you tech guys are all already employed, amiright?
First off, you don't know all the stuff I'm interested in, do you? No, didn't think so.
Lesson learned the hard way: geek girls aren't all they're cracked up to be. Geek girls are like geek guys only they're girls.
Everyone keeps saying only two companies can license the technology. This is incorrect. If you're talking about x86-64, then yes, you're right. If you're talking about just the 32-bit x86 instruction set, AFAIK, the patents have expired on this.
Anyway, there are several companies that probably still have licenses: National Semiconductor (who acquired Cyrix some years ago), IBM, NEC, and VIA.
Of those, probably NatSemi, IBM and NEC can still sublicense.