To my knowledge, SGI was the only major company to use them... and as far as I know, that tradition is over. SGI is either using sparc or powerpc processors. Further, I seem to recall thinking that the reason this was going was because the MIPS processors were no longer available.
SGI machines still use MIPS processors not PowerPC or SPARC processors. Up until two years ago MIPS Technologies was a subsidiary of SGI at which point they were spun off into an independent company. MIPS processors are clearly still available and many companies are using them.
Linux won't be ready for the desktop until there's a unified cut and paste across all of the applications. Cutting from one application and then not being able to paste into another is a big problem.
This is not the impression anyone gets from reading the GPL license. It is not the impression anyone gets when they get the source code laid on them. It is not the impression they get when they are confronted with the alphabet soup of OSS licenses.
So what? They're legal documents. Sometimes it takes a lawyer to interpret them. I have far more licenses that I've agreed to use on all the software on my Windows systems than any open source system. Each Windows program comes with a different license. Even programs from Microsoft all have different licenses save for Office which has one. The number of licenses that the various open source software packages use is far less.
This is not about formalities and legalities.
Of course it is. We're talking about a legal document and what it means.
It is purely about impressions and OSS zealots like yourself who continue to spout off about distribution and granting of rights and adding zero restrictions are not helping. The GPL quiz is evidence that the GPL cannot be easily understood by the "experts", much less the layman.
What experts? Lawyers? Or a bunch of programmers? When you get out of high school and into the real world, you're going to encounter a lot of legal documents that you probably won't understand. More than likely you'll have to consult with a lawyer to help you understand the legal language in these documents. And these documents are going to be everywhere. You'll have to deal with them when you rent an apartment, buy a house, get a job, open a bank account, get a credit card, buy a car, get insurance, etc. So are you going to rant about zealotry when you reach a point in your life where you have to deal with such documents?
With regards to OSS tools, there are two choices. Use them or not. Using them entails following the GPL which adds all sorts of weird, non-obvious restrictions. Not using them means
they can get on with their normal routine.
The GPL adds exactly zero restrictions to using a piece of software. The GPL is a distribution license. It affects what you have to do to redistribute GPL'd software. If you aren't distributing software, then you can throw the GPL out the window and get on with using the software.
So, the Norwegians arrest one of their own for cracking CSS so he can watch DVDs on his home computer, but when they lose the password to their database, they call on all the "hackers" to come and rescue them? The hypocrisy is staggering. I wouldn't lift a finger to help on mere principle.
This sort of thing works both ways and the powers that be aren't going to learn that if you come to their rescue. They'll eventually figure out the password, but if you let them do it on their own, and you tell them why you aren't going to assist them then maybe, just maybe, they'll learn a lesson. Something about doing to others as you would have them do to you.
2) I'd say 2 times, assuming you know the initial state of the lights, 3 times otherwise.
I could do it in one. Turn on the first and second switches. Wait a minute and then turn the second one off. Now go into the room. The first light will be on. The second light will be off but will be hot. The third light will be off and will not be hot.
In this rare public appearance, he'll join MacHack's crowd of developers for a lively discussion that will range from his adventures building the online community that Slashdot has become to open source issues and where ever else the freeform gathering might lead.
I know you guys don't follow links to stories but this is a little ridiculous. But, now you know what to do.
One of the best things I ever did for myself was uninstall flash from all my browsers. 99% of the time Flash is just needless eyecandy, IMO. I also set my activex settings in IE to disable activex entirely. That way I don't even get prompted over and over to install it.
No, I see your point, but I think you're missing mine. If you want your users to pay for your site, then you need to give them the kind of site that they want to read. Otherwise, they will go somewhere else and take their money with them. Granted, it is your site so do what you want. But remember who made your site what it is -- your users.
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How is that an advantage? KDE let's you choose your window manager, too.
I hope you don't let ISS write the patch! ;-)
Linux won't be ready for the desktop until there's a unified cut and paste across all of the applications. Cutting from one application and then not being able to paste into another is a big problem.
This already exists: http://www.openpatents.org/
Nice 3com logo ripoff PTR has!
You must not know how to lock the door.
It was John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cypherpunks cryptography discussion list.
Heh. True.
Let's learn the lesson taught by "Unbreakable Oracle." In short, it was broken.
This sort of thing works both ways and the powers that be aren't going to learn that if you come to their rescue. They'll eventually figure out the password, but if you let them do it on their own, and you tell them why you aren't going to assist them then maybe, just maybe, they'll learn a lesson. Something about doing to others as you would have them do to you.
Yeah, you'd think they'd know how to type "rollback."
We are the screenshots? Why don't companies that sell software put up screenshots?
I always thought they were saying "Me Now." :-)
You can find information on how to uninstall Flash here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documen ts/remove_player.htm
Just like open source software "deadlines" she was waiting to send then answers when they were ready. :-)
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the question that I was answering. Thanks for playing.
For 85-90% of the documents out there, RTF format will work just fine.