Read the GPL. It does not matter if you extend/modify/bork with the source. If you distribute a binary version you must make the source available. period.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:...
You have obviously not even read the GPL. So wtf are you doing spewing your ass all over/.? Hey CmdrTaco! We need a new tag, screw the karma shit, I want a MORON tag.
I wouldn't be suprised if some enterprising individuals started selling OS X distros of linux software ported/compiled to OS X with a pretty click/gui installer.
They don't need to, once all the graphic artists types upgrade their hw, Adobe will be forced to finish it or face the wrath of millions of people with the artistic skills and connections to really bash Adobe on websites the world over.
In real life you tell a couple of friends that Adobe sucks.
On the web you tell a couple hundred thousand friends that Adobe sucks in 40pt font.
Actually it costs Apple real $'s to support older HW. That cost is passed onto you the customer. You can always choose not to upgrade.
The original statement was somewhat correct, the OS and the features are designed for the current HW. Things like dvd movie making software drives sales of new HW. Thus the OS is in a sense a negative cost to Apple since it causes them to make money. (In theory)
As an example, human buildings are not 3D environments, they consist of several 2D planes stacked on top of each other.
Boy I feel stupid. All this time I thought it was due to gravity.
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This is an excellent post and also details the reasons that many memory management systems do a "on write" type of allocation. For instance, if you allocate 1GB of memory, and then only actually write to 1kB of it, then you will have only used one page of memory (typically 4kB). This is completely independent of swap space and does not actually consume 1GB of memory.
btw, the whole thing about Solaris and tmpfs being mounted in RAM is IMHO not a good thing to do. What you should instead rely on is the O/S's ability to do proper file caching. If you create a tempory file, it doesn't need to be flushed to disk right away. If you then delete it, it'll never need to be written to disk.
Also, creating a 1GB swap space is not a good thing to do if you're a developer. e.g., if the gcc people didn't have tons of swap space then they would have instantly noticed the problem where compiling certain things consumes massive quantities of ram.(or they would have at least been notified very quickly)
"Hey guys, I just added this cool new feature!"
g++ *.cpp
panic: out of memory.
"Doctor it hurts when I do this."
"Well then don't do that."
A big fuck you to the anomoyous dipshits like you. There are some of us who have actually have been around long enough to know the reasons that virtual memory came into existence in the first place. But for the mentally challenged such as yourself, I will explain it to you using small words so that you may follow along.
A long time ago there was not enough memory on computers. So they decided to save portions of memory to disk and "swap" between them. So now lets jump way into the future when computer systems with terabytes of RAM are common, will you still need swap to run your simple email program? Probably not. So that means at some point in time swap space became unnecessary. For me that has happened already. So why would I continue to use a temporary workaround that has implementation problems?
btw, swap space isn't the answer to the "I want to run programs that use a lot of memory" question since swap space is usually allocated before hand and is static in size. So there will always be programs that are too big for your system.
I personally turned off swap since I've been running the same system for so long that the size of my swap is now inadequate compared to my 3/4 gig of ram. At some point Linux had serious problems since it had an overcommit type of handling of swap and at I found that the swap would slowly fill up and then the kernel would panic even though I had lots of ram.
There's a very simple reason for that. I would probably do something very similar. The reason is that he doesn't have the resources to handle all architectures. He recognizes that there are other people who are competent and have the machines needed to actually test the patches. When you have decided to let someone else maintain some aspect of a project, you must do so unconditionally no matter how simple. o.w. the person who is in charge of that aspect will begin to feel unneeded.
This is NOT flamebait. This strikes on some very common annoyances with GNU software. For software that I do myself I always make -h, --help, -usage, etc... all synonyms for getting help. I don't sit on my high chair and scream "thou shalt read the GNU way and repent!"
The info viewer is a classic example of "in your face" GNU attitudes. Like it or not "man" has always supported basic vi movement commands. What does "info" do? It forces emacs cmds. That's a real good way to be supportive of your user base.
pinfo is a fabulous replacement for GNU info. If everyone starts using it, it will send a clear message to GNU to support their users.
This whole GNU/Linux business is ridiculous. Does no one remember HURD? GNU tried to make a kernel. They failed. End of story. It should be called just Linux because without Linux it was just GNU/Yawn. GNU has gained much from Linux.
I'm a troll? Funny, lets go back to my first comment where I clearly state where I'm coming from. Whereas you suddenly start spouting all kinds of seemingly factual numbers with nothing to back it up. What's to differentiate you from all the trolls? If you want people to take you seriously then you must back up your facts. Otherwise you're like cold fusion. Pop your head up and say all kinds of grandious things, details at 11.
Just look at some of the other comments here, there's one
that says that airport xrays are generally more powerful than medical xrays. So what is a person to do? I would be more of an idiot if I did not challenge your facts and force you to come up with hard evidence to back up your claim.
And btw, it is not safe to leave your film in your luggage. It depends on the speed of the film. Get some nice shiny 1600 speed film, take some kodak moments, then go through the airport xrays and develop it. Are you wondering where I got this information? You should be. Maybe I'm making it up. Don't worry, it's for real, trust me. That is in effect what you said to me.
And the comment about airports telling me it's safe... Reminds of the certain other large companies telling the public that, no really our product is safe. Trust us. You'll have to forgive my skepticism. Besides it's only "safe" if everything is within spec, not leaking, i.e. well maintained.
But, thanks for the genuinely useful links that contain real honest to goodness information from sources more reputable than a random comment on/., why if I was willing to moderate I'd mod you up, despite the gratuitous flame at the bottom.
Well let's see, the start of all this was about an xray of a powerbook which happens to have a Ti shell, so I wasn't thinking ten layers of cotton. I was thinking layers of metal. Let's put it this way, we know that the image of the Ti Pb was from a medical xray machine, do you honestly think the xray machines at the airport can't see it also? If it can then it has at least the same level of power. o.w. they'd see a black mass which they'd ask you to open up. And I've watched the screen as my stuff has gone through, they can see everything.
PS throwing numbers around is meaningless without backing them up.
Hmm... perhaps you should read up on the discovery of xrays. And how they used to radiate their hands and whatever going "ohh aahh... neat oh..." and such. Until of course the effects of all that radiation on the body became painfully obvious.
The hospital people stand far away cause they do that many times a day and the cumulative exposure would be a bad thing. The airport one however doesn't require lead aprons because the machine itself is probably lead lined.
I have no real knowledge other than common sense, and since this is/., I would guess the medical imager is weaker since the purpose is to scan people. Whereas the airport is not worried about radiating people, just seeing through laptops and such.Normal bomb/gun/knife stuff.
I love windows, I recently got windows and 20 various peripherals and plugged them all in! Luckily for me my neighbor is a windows guru, so while he was fixing it I was borking his lovely wife! Thank god for plug-n-play!
Those of us who are old timers remember all too well why it came about. User #378 above clearly remembers, whereas the newbie #240532 has no idea what he is talking about. His very message stating that the trolls will figure something out blah blah blah is bullshit. The trolls have not been able to do what used to happen. What would happen is that all you had to do was a create a long continuous line. The effect would be that the browser window would be about 50 billion pixels wide. Causing all messages to occupy exactly one line. And you would have to scroll horizontally by screen-fulls to read anything. It made/. completely unusable. To those of use who know what the lamness filter does, it is of no consequence. No worse then people with stupid mailers that wrap urls.
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Nah, just because the game developers took M$ money and spent 30% on an X-box port still proves that the Xbox is gonna flop. What would you do? Spend gobs of money for this xbox, or use the ps2 that you already have and just buy the game you really want?
It's like you said, the developers aren't stupid, either they're going to take a huge payoff to make their game xbox only, in which case the quality of the game doesn't matter, might as well use the money to work on the next version. Or take their money and make a ps2 game anyway?
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You have obviously not even read the GPL. So wtf are you doing spewing your ass all over /.? Hey CmdrTaco! We need a new tag, screw the karma shit, I want a MORON tag.
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In real life you tell a couple of friends that Adobe sucks.
On the web you tell a couple hundred thousand friends that Adobe sucks in 40pt font.
t.
The original statement was somewhat correct, the OS and the features are designed for the current HW. Things like dvd movie making software drives sales of new HW. Thus the OS is in a sense a negative cost to Apple since it causes them to make money. (In theory)
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As an example, human buildings are not 3D environments, they consist of several 2D planes stacked on top of each other.
Boy I feel stupid. All this time I thought it was due to gravity.
t.
btw, the whole thing about Solaris and tmpfs being mounted in RAM is IMHO not a good thing to do. What you should instead rely on is the O/S's ability to do proper file caching. If you create a tempory file, it doesn't need to be flushed to disk right away. If you then delete it, it'll never need to be written to disk.
Also, creating a 1GB swap space is not a good thing to do if you're a developer. e.g., if the gcc people didn't have tons of swap space then they would have instantly noticed the problem where compiling certain things consumes massive quantities of ram.(or they would have at least been notified very quickly)
"Hey guys, I just added this cool new feature!"
g++ *.cpp
panic: out of memory.
t.
"Well then don't do that."
A big fuck you to the anomoyous dipshits like you. There are some of us who have actually have been around long enough to know the reasons that virtual memory came into existence in the first place. But for the mentally challenged such as yourself, I will explain it to you using small words so that you may follow along.
A long time ago there was not enough memory on computers. So they decided to save portions of memory to disk and "swap" between them. So now lets jump way into the future when computer systems with terabytes of RAM are common, will you still need swap to run your simple email program? Probably not. So that means at some point in time swap space became unnecessary. For me that has happened already. So why would I continue to use a temporary workaround that has implementation problems?
btw, swap space isn't the answer to the "I want to run programs that use a lot of memory" question since swap space is usually allocated before hand and is static in size. So there will always be programs that are too big for your system.
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The info viewer is a classic example of "in your face" GNU attitudes. Like it or not "man" has always supported basic vi movement commands. What does "info" do? It forces emacs cmds. That's a real good way to be supportive of your user base. pinfo is a fabulous replacement for GNU info. If everyone starts using it, it will send a clear message to GNU to support their users.
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And I thought double negatives were bad... But really, it is either free speech or it is not. There are no degrees.
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And btw, it is not safe to leave your film in your luggage. It depends on the speed of the film. Get some nice shiny 1600 speed film, take some kodak moments, then go through the airport xrays and develop it. Are you wondering where I got this information? You should be. Maybe I'm making it up. Don't worry, it's for real, trust me. That is in effect what you said to me.
And the comment about airports telling me it's safe... Reminds of the certain other large companies telling the public that, no really our product is safe. Trust us. You'll have to forgive my skepticism. Besides it's only "safe" if everything is within spec, not leaking, i.e. well maintained.
But, thanks for the genuinely useful links that contain real honest to goodness information from sources more reputable than a random comment on /., why if I was willing to moderate I'd mod you up, despite the gratuitous flame at the bottom.
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PS throwing numbers around is meaningless without backing them up.
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Hmm... perhaps you should read up on the discovery of xrays. And how they used to radiate their hands and whatever going "ohh aahh... neat oh..." and such. Until of course the effects of all that radiation on the body became painfully obvious.
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I have no real knowledge other than common sense, and since this is /., I would guess the medical imager is weaker since the purpose is to scan people. Whereas the airport is not worried about radiating people, just seeing through laptops and such.Normal bomb/gun/knife stuff.
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This sounds very similar to an Xfiles episode. It would work in ferrous pipes too. You'd just need more power.
I love windows, I recently got windows and 20 various peripherals and plugged them all in! Luckily for me my neighbor is a windows guru, so while he was fixing it I was borking his lovely wife! Thank god for plug-n-play!
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It's like you said, the developers aren't stupid, either they're going to take a huge payoff to make their game xbox only, in which case the quality of the game doesn't matter, might as well use the money to work on the next version. Or take their money and make a ps2 game anyway?
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