Categorically opposing DRM may be perceived as downright anti-commercial by a number of people, and it's a move that I fear will only hurt the FSF and the GPL without changing anything about the fact that DRM is here to stay.
Fact? Why don't we give the FSF the chance to fight the good fight and see how it turns out? Do any of us really want to see a corporate dominated DRM world? The FSF already has a good track record (e.g. GCC, Perl, and Linux all use the GPL) so lets not write them off yet.
In my Chemistry mid-term one student came in about 10-15 minutes. After sitting down he took one look at the test, signed his name to it, handed it in, and then walked out! To this day none of us can figure out why he even showed up.
In Music Appreciation several of the multiple choice answers were Star Trek references. Hmm, was it Patrick Stewart or Bach who walked over 200 miles to Lübeck?;-) In the same class I stopped studying for the tests (except the listening portion) and my test scores actually went up! Meanwhile, one of the baseball players and some hot girl hitting on him were flunking the class. It's beyond my comprehension how that was even possible! I mean, I would have to conciously decided to flunk!!
Video drivers will likely see better support since they are modules now too. That means faster bug fixes for existing drivers and a much quicker release schedule for new drivers.
The freedom of the language has nothing to do with its syntactic cleanliness. I don't know what makes you say Python dictates how you express yourself.
What about Perl Poetry? Or JAPH's? Here's a really good JAPH example: Latent JAPH. Obviously Python's forced tabs do indeed restrict expression.
. . . they had to _buy_ a company that had managed to do it (Citrix, i think it was - someone correct me, here).
They tried to do a hostile takeover but Citrix managed to prevent that from happening (the did whatever the had to to buy back enough of their stock to prevent it). So instead Microsoft was forced to license the technology from them. Poor Microsoft! *cough cough*:-)
BTW, how is the GPL *not* an EULA? Doesn't it impose conditions on the use of software as a condition of use? Don't forget that modifying source code is a form of "use", as is distribution. And, finally, to the extent that the copyright laws ensure certain rights for authors, the GPL *is* a restrictive license.
The GPL is based on copyright law while EULAs are not (maybe contract law instead?). The GPL also gives the recipent more rights than she would normally have under copyright law while EULAs take away rights. One of the reasons it has not really been challenged in court is the strong underpinning that copyright law provides.
Obviously the final result, a dubiously functional installation is not really groundbreaking for end-users
Well, Mine Sweeper probably runs better!!! =:-)
But seriously, I wonder how many single-player games would run and how much better would performance be? Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines or Half-Life 2 come to mind.
"The decision was made on Monday to pull the presentation because
we wanted to make sure the research was fully baked."
In other words, the research was not even finished yet. Isn't that a little impatient, and might there be a little chance that the researcher in question would have liked the attention he would've gotten if he presented this information at Black Hat, which was part of why he made the decision to pull out the information anyway ?
Why are you (and so many others) assuming that what Cisco and ISS say is the gospel truth? Do you think they are going to come out and say they are trying to cover it up???? How do we know Michael Lynn is not the one telling the truth? It certainly took more guts for him to do what he did knowing he would be sued.
Thin clients were a dumb idea in the 80s, and they're still a dumb idea now. A full 20+ years of hype for them hasn't made them catch on, so give it up already.
Actually, they are catching on. Not always as a desktop replacement, but as a supplement. Especially for UNIX systems. Why go with Exceed when you could go with MetaFrame for UNIX? If you have casual UNIX users you will save a bundle on licenses (one copy of Exceed per user vs. Users/4 Citrix licenses).
And would you rather maintain e.g. 50 Solaris workstations or just one? Let me tell you that managing one or two Sun Ray servers is a heck of a lot nicer than tons of workstations. And Sun Rays have been very nice thin clients for several years now. You should give one a test drive. [BTW, SUN uses them a lot internally as well. ]
Oh, and lets not forget about the increasing use of Microsoft Terminal Services. I suspect you will find that some form of thin client is used at a lot of businesses that have tons of branch offices (we are doing a huge rollout here).
But what do I know? I've just been using and admining Sun Rays and MetaFrame for UNIX for over five years now. Let me know how the crow tastes....
- proper package management (not that red hat provides that, but compared pkgadd anything seems good)
Agreed.
- real command line utils (GNU), ie:
- color ls
- tar with gzip, bzip support (no need for piping)
SUN has been shipping the Software Companion CD (filled with GNU tools, extra window managers, etc.) since Solaris 8 which goes back several years now. The stuff is installed to/opt/sfw (Sun Freeware). Some stuff is now included with the OS under/usr/sfw. Most of the tools are preffixed with a 'g' so you would either want to do aliases or symbolic links if you wanted to "replace" the Solaris equivalent.
I'd like to see better summaries of research published; something available in between reading all the abstracts and interesting papers in the top journals of the field and just reading the occasional flasgship paper in/Science/ or/Nature/
And if you're doing work for a US company which does business where it's illegal to disclose said records, said company bound you to an NDA where you can't talk about the records. So if you break the contract, YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW
Actually, they broke the contract by failing to pay her. So she would no longer be bound by that contract.
SUN Ray Server Software (SRSS) 3.0 runs on Linux, though it is missing a lot of functionality that the Solaris version has including Non Smart Card Mobile sessions. SUN also has a Soft Ray Java based SUN Ray client but unfortuantely it has not been released yet.
For whatever reason Citrix does not seem to want to make a Linux version of MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX. For those who think X11 is good enough try running it over a dial-up line sometime. Suddenly MPSU looks a lot better (it's also better than e.g. using Exceed on a Windows box on a LAN).
However, one of Citrix's competitors does support Linux. Have you looked into Tarantella? Might be what you are looking for.
It is quite incredible that somebody would think that I meant turning the graphic on it's side, or turning it on it's side and rotating the letters back.
Kdevelop (and I guess Kate) in Ideal mode rotates the text for the vertical toolbars.
But I guess it proves my point that the horizontal menubar has brainwashed the masses into believing that no alternative is possible . . . !
Vertical toolbars with unrotated text will usually use more screen realestate than horizontal ones since we write left to right (horizontal). I suppose if you tried to group all of the toolbars on the left or the right you might be able to make it work out to about the same screen realestate.
Photoshop and Painter (8+) both use vertical (and horizontal) toolbars. And various 3D apps let you place things all over the place.
Testing is what's going to be the new stable when it's done being tested, and isn't current. Unstable is more like current, but is, as the name implies, somewhat often unstable, in every sense of the word. It's the front line of new releases, and sometimes there are casualties
Sorry, but that's wrong. There is no general purpose exception for backups. But please feel free to find a section of the law that supports your claim. Don't feel bad though -- a lot of people make this mistake. Just be sure to not keep on making it.
I thought the Berne Convention allowed for backups? Or does the DMCA trump this? If so then is this a gray area for the courts to decide (CD/DVD rot sure makes for a compelling argument)?
A spokesman for MS claimed it "will be the most realistic train simulator ever!".
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Is there a way to port block the ad server? Or 127.0.0.1 the adserver's name in %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts?
Fact? Why don't we give the FSF the chance to fight the good fight and see how it turns out? Do any of us really want to see a corporate dominated DRM world? The FSF already has a good track record (e.g. GCC, Perl, and Linux all use the GPL) so lets not write them off yet.
So why isn't someone at SONY facing felony charges???
In my Chemistry mid-term one student came in about 10-15 minutes. After sitting down he took one look at the test, signed his name to it, handed it in, and then walked out! To this day none of us can figure out why he even showed up.
;-) In the same class I stopped studying for the tests (except the listening portion) and my test scores actually went up! Meanwhile, one of the baseball players and some hot girl hitting on him were flunking the class. It's beyond my comprehension how that was even possible! I mean, I would have to conciously decided to flunk!!
In Music Appreciation several of the multiple choice answers were Star Trek references. Hmm, was it Patrick Stewart or Bach who walked over 200 miles to Lübeck?
Video drivers will likely see better support since they are modules now too. That means faster bug fixes for existing drivers and a much quicker release schedule for new drivers.
What about Perl Poetry? Or JAPH's? Here's a really good JAPH example: Latent JAPH. Obviously Python's forced tabs do indeed restrict expression.
They tried to do a hostile takeover but Citrix managed to prevent that from happening (the did whatever the had to to buy back enough of their stock to prevent it). So instead Microsoft was forced to license the technology from them. Poor Microsoft! *cough cough* :-)
The GPL is based on copyright law while EULAs are not (maybe contract law instead?). The GPL also gives the recipent more rights than she would normally have under copyright law while EULAs take away rights. One of the reasons it has not really been challenged in court is the strong underpinning that copyright law provides.
Correct URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_gas_tragedy (no trailing slash).
Well, Mine Sweeper probably runs better!!! =:-)
But seriously, I wonder how many single-player games would run and how much better would performance be? Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines or Half-Life 2 come to mind.
In other words, the research was not even finished yet. Isn't that a little impatient, and might there be a little chance that the researcher in question would have liked the attention he would've gotten if he presented this information at Black Hat, which was part of why he made the decision to pull out the information anyway ?
Why are you (and so many others) assuming that what Cisco and ISS say is the gospel truth? Do you think they are going to come out and say they are trying to cover it up???? How do we know Michael Lynn is not the one telling the truth? It certainly took more guts for him to do what he did knowing he would be sued.
In the Mid-west and South Creationism is being pushed heavily over Evolution.
Actually, they are catching on. Not always as a desktop replacement, but as a supplement. Especially for UNIX systems. Why go with Exceed when you could go with MetaFrame for UNIX? If you have casual UNIX users you will save a bundle on licenses (one copy of Exceed per user vs. Users/4 Citrix licenses).
And would you rather maintain e.g. 50 Solaris workstations or just one? Let me tell you that managing one or two Sun Ray servers is a heck of a lot nicer than tons of workstations. And Sun Rays have been very nice thin clients for several years now. You should give one a test drive. [BTW, SUN uses them a lot internally as well. ]
Oh, and lets not forget about the increasing use of Microsoft Terminal Services. I suspect you will find that some form of thin client is used at a lot of businesses that have tons of branch offices (we are doing a huge rollout here).
But what do I know? I've just been using and admining Sun Rays and MetaFrame for UNIX for over five years now. Let me know how the crow tastes....
ipfilter comes with Solaris 10
- proper package management (not that red hat provides that, but compared pkgadd anything seems good)
Agreed.
- real command line utils (GNU), ie:
- color ls
- tar with gzip, bzip support (no need for piping)
SUN has been shipping the Software Companion CD (filled with GNU tools, extra window managers, etc.) since Solaris 8 which goes back several years now. The stuff is installed to /opt/sfw (Sun Freeware). Some stuff is now included with the OS under /usr/sfw. Most of the tools are preffixed with a 'g' so you would either want to do aliases or symbolic links if you wanted to "replace" the Solaris equivalent.
You mean like Science News?
Isn't it amazing how gas proces can jump up 10 cents or even 20 cents in one day yet take months to fall back down?
Check out Java Directory Server 5.2 (a.k.a. Netscape/iPlanet/SUN One DS).
Are you providing leadership in distributed computing?
Check out Solaris Containers in Solaris 10 (formerly called N1 Grid Containers).
I ask Sun, where are you innovating now?
I'd say that dtrace has to count. Maybe you should read up on Solaris 10 instead of spreading FUD?
Actually, they broke the contract by failing to pay her. So she would no longer be bound by that contract.
For whatever reason Citrix does not seem to want to make a Linux version of MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX. For those who think X11 is good enough try running it over a dial-up line sometime. Suddenly MPSU looks a lot better (it's also better than e.g. using Exceed on a Windows box on a LAN).
However, one of Citrix's competitors does support Linux. Have you looked into Tarantella? Might be what you are looking for.
Kdevelop (and I guess Kate) in Ideal mode rotates the text for the vertical toolbars.
But I guess it proves my point that the horizontal menubar has brainwashed the masses into believing that no alternative is possible . . . !
Vertical toolbars with unrotated text will usually use more screen realestate than horizontal ones since we write left to right (horizontal). I suppose if you tried to group all of the toolbars on the left or the right you might be able to make it work out to about the same screen realestate.
Photoshop and Painter (8+) both use vertical (and horizontal) toolbars. And various 3D apps let you place things all over the place.
Then how about the following?
Stable
Release Candidate
Development
The MSN web email interface is . . . Hotmail. But MSN users can also use SMTP/POP3.
I thought the Berne Convention allowed for backups? Or does the DMCA trump this? If so then is this a gray area for the courts to decide (CD/DVD rot sure makes for a compelling argument)?
A spokesman for MS claimed it "will be the most realistic train simulator ever!".
Computer Gaming World usually has a good balance of reviews. Sometimes there are even more negative reviews than good ones. I think one issue a couple years ago had only 3.5 stars or less reviews in it (out of 5 stars).