There is no longer a separate locale file, it is incorporated into the main library. As an aside, you will have regenerate your locale database when upgrading to glibc 2.1.3.
Here in the UK we have moved away from using telephone exchange names to using numeric telephone numbers. So whereas in the past a phone number might have been WHItehall 1212 it would now be (something like) 02079181212
Blind people can use a computer. When I first started work as a programmer 20 years ago, the place where I worked had 3 blind programmers (one was a section leader and later became a department head) who used Braille terminals. Their productivity and accuracy was just as good as us sighted programmers (and better than some!)
Did Amazon pioneer the process of providing recommendations based on past purchase and ratings? I first encountered this idea quite about 5 or 6 years ago when the AI lab at MIT (I think it was MIT) had an email based music recommendation system where you rated albums and it provided recommendations for you. This seems a very similar idea to the one Amazon use.
I don't think that we have royalties on blank media here in the UK. I think that the music indutry (read record labels) tried to have it introduced but did not succeed.
Allowing them to patent something they have created, probably an "improvement" over nature, is one thing, but I do not think that they should be allowed to patent naturally ocurring things. So, if they artificially create a better crop then let them patent their improvements, but forbid them from patenting already existing natural varieties.
As well as the moral question, there is also the question of 'prior art'.
And they could put page numbers on the advertisment pages. Even if you know that the article continues on page X, it does not help if there are tens of advertisment pages with no numbers.
It is not just computer mags. Looking back to the early to middle 70's, there were such publications (in the UK) as Practical Wireless & Practical electronics which as their title suggested about the practical side of wireless and electronics. They mainly contained constructional articles with theory tutorials etc. There were a few equipment reviews but not many. Now, they are almost exclusively (commercial) equipment reviews.
It seems as though most of the 'tinkerer' and (to use a car analogy) mechanic magazines in all subjects have been replaced by those for users and drivers. Magazines don't seem to cater any more for those of us interested in what happens 'under the hood' and who want to try and tweek things.
Why do you need to find an RPM for Redhat when you compile from source for deb? Is there some reason why, having made the initial installation using a given distribution (and in many cases made choices as to which packages/programs to install) that you must make all subsequent upgrades using that distribution's packaging scheme rather than from source?
Think about it, for Windows, you just buy InstallShield or Wise and most of the problems of OS differences are taken care of. Not true for Linux today.
Isn't it? What about a script something like? ./configure make make install
Would this not do the same thing for Linux as installshield does for Windows? This is just a very simplistic script, software companies could write much more complex ones if they wished. Because *nix scripting is much superior to that on Windows (though you can run a decent, eg bash, shell in Windows if you want) the functionality of Installshield can be done with scripting.
It is not the artists which are the problem. In many cases the artist is being hamstrung in the same was as the consumers. Just one example. I belong to a mailing list dedicated to a singer songwriter (which the artist reads and sometimes participates). She has her own website which at the moment has MP3s of songs she has written and performed, but which are not on a single or album. She has recently signed up with a new record company and there has been an announcement that, for copyright reasons, her record company will not allow her to publish any new MP3s on her website.
The same argument works the other way. If I believe in IP, I have to protect it adequatly. Reverse engineering a panel means I still have to be competitive in producing and marketing it - there are significant real costs. Breaking the DVD protection means that (barring other copying problems) the market for content breaks down.
Surely in this case the opposite is true. Breaking the protection enables the DVD to be viewed on systems which would otherwise be unable to do so. This will increase the market for content in DVD format.
If you want to compare physical space a DOS take, compare MS-DOS 6's COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS to the Windows VFAT.*, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS. Forget the COMMAND.COM, it can be bypassed completely (although really not recommended). Not only can command.com be bypassed, I would recommend replacing it by JP Software's 4DOS which offer superior facilities.
edit was/is not part of the DOS operating system. The DOS operating system consisted of 2 files, msdos.sys (or pcdos.sys for the IBM version) and IO.SYS. The status of himem.sys & emm386.sys in later DOS versions is a little greyer. Everything else, including command.com, was just bundled applications.
I would say that even the shell is not part of the Operating System. It is possible to build a turnkey system running *nix (or other OS) which has no shell at all.
Even under MSDOS (version >1), the user interface shell(command.com) was not part of the OS it was just another application. It could be replaced by one giving similar functionality (eg 4DOS) or any other application (eg a game or a turnkey application)
Those posters didn't send 'illegal' source code to Slashdot, they posted links. Big difference. Is there much difference. As part of the (recent) libel action involving Demon Internet, 11 customers had their news posting priviledges revoked because when they replied to a news posting they quoted part of the original news item which itself contained the url point to an an article archived on deja.com which was claimed to be libelous. So in that case, posting a link to the offending item was counted as being equivalent to have actually posted the item itself.
Yes, you can install ipchains on your Linux box if you are using kernel 2.2.x. If you using 2.0.x then you need ipfwadm and if you are using 2.3.x you need netfilter/iptables.
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There is no longer a separate locale file, it is incorporated into the main library. As an aside, you will have regenerate your locale database when upgrading to glibc 2.1.3.
Here in the UK we have moved away from using telephone exchange names to using numeric telephone numbers. So whereas in the past a phone number might have been WHItehall 1212 it would now be (something like) 02079181212
Actually EU consumers are probably being screwed even more than those in the USA, as the prices charged in the EU are higher than those in the USA.
Blind people can use a computer. When I first started work as a programmer 20 years ago, the place where I worked had 3 blind programmers (one was a section leader and later became a department head) who used Braille terminals. Their productivity and accuracy was just as good as us sighted programmers (and better than some!)
Did Amazon pioneer the process of providing recommendations based on past purchase and ratings? I first encountered this idea quite about 5 or 6 years ago when the AI lab at MIT (I think it was MIT) had an email based music recommendation system where you rated albums and it provided recommendations for you. This seems a very similar idea to the one Amazon use.
4. Create DVD's of original material to which you hold the copyright
I know that currently this is not a very likely scenario, but when DVDRs and media become more common and less expensive it may become an issue.
I don't think that we have royalties on blank media here in the UK. I think that the music indutry (read record labels) tried to have it introduced but did not succeed.
As well as the moral question, there is also the question of 'prior art'.
So maybe the science fiction stories about the world (or galaxy) being ruled by mega-corporations might not be far off beam.
And they could put page numbers on the advertisment pages. Even if you know that the article continues on page X, it does not help if there are tens of advertisment pages with no numbers.
It is not just computer mags. Looking back to the early to middle 70's, there were such publications (in the UK) as Practical Wireless & Practical electronics which as their title suggested about the practical side of wireless and electronics. They mainly contained constructional articles with theory tutorials etc. There were a few equipment reviews but not many. Now, they are almost exclusively (commercial) equipment reviews.
It seems as though most of the 'tinkerer' and (to use a car analogy) mechanic magazines in all subjects have been replaced by those for users and drivers. Magazines don't seem to cater any more for those of us interested in what happens 'under the hood' and who want to try and tweek things.
Why do you need to find an RPM for Redhat when you compile from source for deb? Is there some reason why, having made the initial installation using a given distribution (and in many cases made choices as to which packages/programs to install) that you must make all subsequent upgrades using that distribution's packaging scheme rather than from source?
Isn't it? What about a script something like?
./configure
make
make install
Would this not do the same thing for Linux as installshield does for Windows? This is just a very simplistic script, software companies could write much more complex ones if they wished. Because *nix scripting is much superior to that on Windows (though you can run a decent, eg bash, shell in Windows if you want) the functionality of Installshield can be done with scripting.
It is not the artists which are the problem. In many cases the artist is being hamstrung in the same was as the consumers. Just one example. I belong to a mailing list dedicated to a singer songwriter (which the artist reads and sometimes participates). She has her own website which at the moment has MP3s of songs she has written and performed, but which are not on a single or album. She has recently signed up with a new record company and there has been an announcement that, for copyright reasons, her record company will not allow her to publish any new MP3s on her website.
Surely in this case the opposite is true. Breaking the protection enables the DVD to be viewed on systems which would otherwise be unable to do so. This will increase the market for content in DVD format.
If you are not using the domain name by way of trade, how can it be an infringement of someone else's trademark?
If you want to compare physical space a DOS take, compare MS-DOS 6's COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS to the Windows VFAT.*, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS. Forget the COMMAND.COM, it can be bypassed completely (although really not recommended).
Not only can command.com be bypassed, I would recommend replacing it by JP Software's 4DOS which offer superior facilities.
edit was/is not part of the DOS operating system. The DOS operating system consisted of 2 files, msdos.sys (or pcdos.sys for the IBM version) and IO.SYS. The status of himem.sys & emm386.sys in later DOS versions is a little greyer. Everything else, including command.com, was just bundled applications.
I would say that even the shell is not part of the Operating System. It is possible to build a turnkey system running *nix (or other OS) which has no shell at all.
Even under MSDOS (version >1), the user interface shell(command.com) was not part of the OS it was just another application. It could be replaced by one giving similar functionality (eg 4DOS) or any other application (eg a game or a turnkey application)
When the source is released, hopefully it might be a simple recompile to make it work with glibc2.1
Not much different from the (cinema) projectionist who has to change reels multiple times during the performance.
Those posters didn't send 'illegal' source code to Slashdot, they posted links. Big difference.
Is there much difference. As part of the (recent) libel action involving Demon Internet, 11 customers had their news posting priviledges revoked because when they replied to a news posting they quoted part of the original news item which itself contained the url point to an an article archived on deja.com which was claimed to be libelous.
So in that case, posting a link to the offending item was counted as being equivalent to have actually posted the item itself.
Yes, you can install ipchains on your Linux box if you are using kernel 2.2.x. If you using 2.0.x then you need ipfwadm and if you are using 2.3.x you need netfilter/iptables.
In which case, if a 17 year old showed up with written consent from his parents for marketting data to be collected, would that make a difference?