My thoughts exactly - they did it because it's a vote, and theirs probably isn't going to change the result, so they're using it as a way to argue that they care about choice.
I didn't even bother reading that much, but I agree, it's so horribly ridiculously obvious that it's a shining example of how the patent system is broken. Someone clearly dropped the ball here, given how long it takes to informally invalidate this patent.
the subtle thing you're confusing, however, is that rm only would go into.. because it was explicitly specified on the command line, not because of recursion. The recursion behavior itself doesn't do silly things like trashing.., so if you ran/home/foo# rm -r.*, it would only trash/home, and not/home/...
Seems to me that at most, that would get rid of/home, not your entire system, unless it's all the hidden files in/root. It doesn't seem to happen anymore though, but I'm not inclined to do a live test.
For anyone wondering, if you want * to match hidden files, do shopt -s dotglob in bash, and then you can just do rm -r * for the rest of that session. I've been bitten by rm -r.* before:)
A tablet now costs somewhere in between one to two years' worth of textbooks, so it's debatable whether it's really that much of a burden. Whether or not everyone is using laptops, it irks me that schools don't seem to care about reducing backpack load for students that would prefer soft copies. Incidentally, some of my courses have used notes that were written in-house, in LaTeX, it appears, and I'm satisfied with those. They're cheaper, much more portable, usually more understandable, since they closely mirror the course content, and I could probably convince some of the profs involved to give me a soft copy, but I haven't tried yet. So basically, I'm annoyed that schools aren't actively trying to eliminate the current burden of overpriced textbooks that get obsoleted quickly, weigh much, and often aren't that useful anyway for more than example problems.
In response to your comment, perhaps there needs to be more research about how to use tablets to facilitate learning. It doesn't seem like there's any noise coming from that direction, and there's certainly room for new ideas, like shared virtual chalkboards and such.
If you think that it's incoherent for X windows to be in a different module than the kernel, there's something that you don't get. I understand that there's a confusing amount of choice for someone who wants to develop Linux software, but there never will be some kind of "BUILT-IN" Linux(tm) windowing system, the concept just doesn't make sense. However, it is true that a unified API that eases porting between different GUI kits would be nice.
Ok, I like Sun and all, and I don't disagree with any of the points you're raising, but how much is Sun paying you to be a Sunfanboy? Perhaps I could get in on this payola action..
Suing the USTPO is suing yourself -- the guv *is* your money afterall -- while an individual *might* "win" at suing the guv, the public and the economy *always* loses, so while lawyers win at this, you will (like the lottery) lose on averages
This isn't a valid argument - right now the public is bleeding money to lawyers, because of lawsuits over patents. If the patent office were made liable to pay for these damaging costs whenever they are the result of its own mistakes, then it would have an incentive to limit the amount of mistakes it makes.
Well, in this specific context, hardware shouldn't be an issue, since the networking would be wired, and no graphics acceleration would be required. In the absence of those issues, I'd say that Windows would be more tedious to set up, not the other way around. In any case, I'm just nit picking here, since it doesn't look like there's an easy solution on either platform.
Why would it be a requirement that the software has to run on Windows if you're using the laptops sole ly as displays? Even if you'd like to use the display with Windows, the laptops would be able to run whatever you like.
Mod parent funny, not troll, I laughed so hard! Besides, regardless of how much you love Debian, it's undeniable that there's room for improvement in how Debian is managed.
You sound like you've never developed to a competitive skill level with any FPS games using a mouse and keyboard. You don't need to put one against the other directly to see that it's impossible to achieve the same aiming ability with a gamepad using the current control schemes games use with them.
Or you can just segregate yourself into a gamepad only game if you don't wish to use a mouse, or play against people that have mice. You can't expect PC users to have or get gamepads for their FPS games, it just doesn't make sense considering that mouse+keyboard is undeniably better suited to the genre.
In my opinion, crossplay is best handled by differentiating mouse and gamepad users into different roles that are better suited to each input type, and then balancing them to get an even playing field.
oh yeah? well I use this product that removes the puffy border effect, has no crap installed at all. The inner workings of it are exposed and can be modified freely as I wish. It's called an abacus.
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My thoughts exactly - they did it because it's a vote, and theirs probably isn't going to change the result, so they're using it as a way to argue that they care about choice.
I didn't even bother reading that much, but I agree, it's so horribly ridiculously obvious that it's a shining example of how the patent system is broken. Someone clearly dropped the ball here, given how long it takes to informally invalidate this patent.
indeed, the first claim is so general, it's ludicrous..
You just made a mistake.
the subtle thing you're confusing, however, is that rm only would go into .. because it was explicitly specified on the command line, not because of recursion. The recursion behavior itself doesn't do silly things like trashing .., so if you ran /home/foo# rm -r .*, it would only trash /home, and not /home/...
Because if you're in someone's home directory, it will be /home/billyg/.. rather than just /home/..
wow, they're like little kids..
Seems to me that at most, that would get rid of /home, not your entire system, unless it's all the hidden files in /root. It doesn't seem to happen anymore though, but I'm not inclined to do a live test.
For anyone wondering, if you want * to match hidden files, do shopt -s dotglob in bash, and then you can just do rm -r * for the rest of that session. I've been bitten by rm -r .* before :)
A tablet now costs somewhere in between one to two years' worth of textbooks, so it's debatable whether it's really that much of a burden. Whether or not everyone is using laptops, it irks me that schools don't seem to care about reducing backpack load for students that would prefer soft copies. Incidentally, some of my courses have used notes that were written in-house, in LaTeX, it appears, and I'm satisfied with those. They're cheaper, much more portable, usually more understandable, since they closely mirror the course content, and I could probably convince some of the profs involved to give me a soft copy, but I haven't tried yet. So basically, I'm annoyed that schools aren't actively trying to eliminate the current burden of overpriced textbooks that get obsoleted quickly, weigh much, and often aren't that useful anyway for more than example problems.
In response to your comment, perhaps there needs to be more research about how to use tablets to facilitate learning. It doesn't seem like there's any noise coming from that direction, and there's certainly room for new ideas, like shared virtual chalkboards and such.
If you think that it's incoherent for X windows to be in a different module than the kernel, there's something that you don't get. I understand that there's a confusing amount of choice for someone who wants to develop Linux software, but there never will be some kind of "BUILT-IN" Linux(tm) windowing system, the concept just doesn't make sense. However, it is true that a unified API that eases porting between different GUI kits would be nice.
Ok, I like Sun and all, and I don't disagree with any of the points you're raising, but how much is Sun paying you to be a Sun fanboy? Perhaps I could get in on this payola action..
Check your spelling before you send your messages, you're hurting my eyes!
Sorry, I meant no 3D acceleration - I've come to take 2D acceleration for granted.
Well, in this specific context, hardware shouldn't be an issue, since the networking would be wired, and no graphics acceleration would be required. In the absence of those issues, I'd say that Windows would be more tedious to set up, not the other way around. In any case, I'm just nit picking here, since it doesn't look like there's an easy solution on either platform.
Why would it be a requirement that the software has to run on Windows if you're using the laptops sole ly as displays? Even if you'd like to use the display with Windows, the laptops would be able to run whatever you like.
Here's the actual mailing list posting: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-ann ounce/2007-April/000276.html
who the hell modded this troll? It's the truth!
Mod parent funny, not troll, I laughed so hard! Besides, regardless of how much you love Debian, it's undeniable that there's room for improvement in how Debian is managed.
You sound like you've never developed to a competitive skill level with any FPS games using a mouse and keyboard. You don't need to put one against the other directly to see that it's impossible to achieve the same aiming ability with a gamepad using the current control schemes games use with them.
Or you can just segregate yourself into a gamepad only game if you don't wish to use a mouse, or play against people that have mice. You can't expect PC users to have or get gamepads for their FPS games, it just doesn't make sense considering that mouse+keyboard is undeniably better suited to the genre. In my opinion, crossplay is best handled by differentiating mouse and gamepad users into different roles that are better suited to each input type, and then balancing them to get an even playing field.
OK, we get it, Wii is a colloquial term for penis. You can stop making annoying, retarded jokes about it now.
flouting the GPL! FLOUTING!
Way to waste words on a nonsensical analogy when you could have used them to actually support your currently unsubstantiated argument.
oh yeah? well I use this product that removes the puffy border effect, has no crap installed at all. The inner workings of it are exposed and can be modified freely as I wish. It's called an abacus.