Not everything that is in a concept stage is vaporware. Things take time to evolve. Magical technologies dont just get off the drafting board and into consumer hands overnight. Its unfair to label it vaporware because you have the ecomomic attention span of a walnut. *Patience*, under development does not mean vaporware.
BSD is not dying. I am both a Linux and a FreeBSD user, and I can assure you that its not dying. Those anti-BSD "trolls" are nothing more than ignorant Windows lusers that have carried over their misinformed ideas from anti-apple/mac to anti-BSD. As Linux gets easier to use, there will be an ever growing stream of these morons.
Just go to netcraft.net and take a look at the top 50 uptimes. Only 3 times does any non-BSD OS appear there (BTW, Linux does not appear once). BSD is not dying, Linux has just stolen the spotlight for a few moments. Sure Linux has the spotlight, but BSD remains running on all of the mission critical servers. It doesnt matter how popular Linux gets, there will always be a place for BSD; this marketshare is not really being stolen from BSD, its being stolen from Windoze and others.
It doesnt matter how many millions of dollars some useless company is worth, the OS will still be pretty much the same. You cant just pump money into an OS and expect it to be better. BSD is a good product because of its age, and the truley devoted programmers. 1 free programmer doing what they truley love is the equivelant of 10 hired/commerical programmers. Quality, not quantity.
There are some things that Linux is good at, and some that BSD is good at. No amount of advocacy will change it. Advocacy is not the answer in most cases, it just turns into a flame fest. Once people see the statistics they will know in their heart.
yah, you could get instant on as far as maybe a cli. I would really like to see someone fit a non ancient version of X on one of these things though. That would be worth seeing.
UGHHHHH!!! I hate people who blame others for their problems. I also hate people who sue other people as well.... 99% of the time their case is bullshit and they just want money to buy a new sports car or whatever. If this is what our society has become now, I say all the LESS STUPID people (ie, geeks) move to another world (somehow) where we dont have to deal with useless people. This kinda thing pisses me off so much!!! GROWL!
I would rather see the big corporations get it than Celine Dion! Anyways, you got a good point there though. Probably more than 50% of the tax will go to the government to pay for whatever method they have of collecting. Useless government waste!
The simple answer is NO, but you can legally copy your friend's audio CD for YOUR OWN use.
To paraphrase the introduction to the Copyright Board's ruling:
On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the Copyright Act came into force. Until then, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright.
Part VIII legalizes one such activity: copying of sound recordings of musical works onto recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy.
It does not matter whether you own the original sound recording (on any medium), you can legally make a copy for your own private use.
To emphasize this point, endnote 4 of the Copyright Board's ruling says:
Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works. It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else.
Well, since we have the tax now in Canada, it is kinda legal to do this. We now have the right for casual copying. This means basically, I lend you any CD you want and you can copy it. I can also make copies for myself (duh). However, I cannot make copies for you, you physically have to make the copy.
This is logical, because whats to stop people from just starting their own pirating business? It works nicely, people have the right to lend CDs out to friends and let them copy 'em. It may not seem like a lot, but it allows the music companies to actually distribute "their" music while giving consumers the rights they deserve with the content they purchased.
"Prohibition leads to dealing, dealing leads to expensive pot, expensive pot leads to crime, crime leads to suffering"
Well sorry, yoda!
On another note; where I live (Vancouver, Canada) weed is really really really really really cheap. Its not like I smoke any of it though, anyone who needs drugs to make them feel happy/sad/num/depressed/excited/mellow has problems.
Well duh, you only assume that I was comparing by MHz because I made some "wild" assumption based on MHz rating. Well the truth is, my friend, that my decision was based on my biased opinion towards AMD Athlons, and nothing else. So, you can take your baseless claim that I am a hypocrite and stuff it up the ass of the guy from the goatse.cx pic..
"My question, though, stems from the fact that (like it or not) software companies are within their rights to get paid for software they write, and to set up their own price structure,"
Well, the truth is, corporations dont have the liberty to partake in such things as industry wide price fixing. In my view, CPRM (or whatever the hell it is) is exactly the same abuse of power by corporate collaborations. They are using their collective power to screw consumers out of their freedoms (instead of their money, in this case)
" and to prosecute those who steal their software."
This is a whole other topic right here. Under only one circumstance do I see real "stealing". This is when, and only when, someone pirates the software they were intending to purchase beforehand or in any time in the future and does not pay for it. Most people pirate software that they would never in a million years purchase at the prices software distributors charge. These software companies write these off as "lost revenue" and attach a price tag to these "lost sales" when they would never had a sale in the first place. You cant actually steal something without depriving someone of something that they have ownership or rights to. When you download some "warez" to decide if you want to use it or not, or just use it forever but dont actually need it nor would have payed for it, you are really not taking money out of the pockets of anyone. Its a grey area when it comes to non tangible goods, there is no fine line that distinctively seperates stealing.
Comparing an Athlon 500 to a G4 500 is not really fair. The amount of money spent on a same megahertz G4 compared to an Athlon will be much higher. If you want a comparison, try the amount of money spent. An Athlon 1GHz compared to a G4 500 (~ same price, me guestimates), the Athlon would kill the G4. Dont compare MHz, compare prices.
You should realize that our society relies on standards, and if you dont follow standards bad stuff happens. If you do even basic physics problems, you will find you are dealing with many different weird and akward units. Its best to keep everything standard. Its not good enough, in my view, to just "realize what context you are in"; it basically limits the addition of more different units and creates unessesary trouble. I am quite aware of what he meant by "k" and "K", but standards are there for a reason.
No its not actually. However, if you find me a text of some sort then maybe i'll beleive you. BTW, please restrain from personal attacks; it only shows how much of an egotistical arrogant asshole you are. Calling people "idiots" and not having any proof to back yourself up is pretty dumb. Maybe you are the one that is the "idiot"?
Well, the real reason they aren't using DRI is because they are making a close-as-possible port of the Windows drivers. I guess they think this method is much more superior; it may be, but I dont like it one bit. However, they could be total bastards and not release anything at all.
PS: if there is any FreeBSD + NVIDIA people out there that can code drivers you may be interested in that NVIDIA will be happy to rebuild the closed sourced parts of the drivers if someone will port over all the agp/interrupt code of the open linux module. I am not sure of the status as of yet (last i heard about it was 2 weeks ago), but contact madcat' or ripperda on #nvidia (irc.openprojects.net) if you want to do this.
Thats nice and all, but Microsoft, Lotus, and Borland are all making money off their designs. Themes.org is not making money from them (directly), so it should be someone's right to do whatever they want with something as long as they arent making money off of it or slandering it.
What if you tried to do something like this on your own website? would you take this kind of bullshit from apple?
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Not everything that is in a concept stage is vaporware. Things take time to evolve. Magical technologies dont just get off the drafting board and into consumer hands overnight. Its unfair to label it vaporware because you have the ecomomic attention span of a walnut. *Patience*, under development does not mean vaporware.
BSD is not dying. I am both a Linux and a FreeBSD user, and I can assure you that its not dying. Those anti-BSD "trolls" are nothing more than ignorant Windows lusers that have carried over their misinformed ideas from anti-apple/mac to anti-BSD. As Linux gets easier to use, there will be an ever growing stream of these morons.
Just go to netcraft.net and take a look at the top 50 uptimes. Only 3 times does any non-BSD OS appear there (BTW, Linux does not appear once). BSD is not dying, Linux has just stolen the spotlight for a few moments. Sure Linux has the spotlight, but BSD remains running on all of the mission critical servers. It doesnt matter how popular Linux gets, there will always be a place for BSD; this marketshare is not really being stolen from BSD, its being stolen from Windoze and others.
It doesnt matter how many millions of dollars some useless company is worth, the OS will still be pretty much the same. You cant just pump money into an OS and expect it to be better. BSD is a good product because of its age, and the truley devoted programmers. 1 free programmer doing what they truley love is the equivelant of 10 hired/commerical programmers. Quality, not quantity.
There are some things that Linux is good at, and some that BSD is good at. No amount of advocacy will change it. Advocacy is not the answer in most cases, it just turns into a flame fest. Once people see the statistics they will know in their heart.
256kb = 32kB
4Mb = 512kB
yah, you could get instant on as far as maybe a cli. I would really like to see someone fit a non ancient version of X on one of these things though. That would be worth seeing.
UGHHHHH!!! I hate people who blame others for their problems. I also hate people who sue other people as well.... 99% of the time their case is bullshit and they just want money to buy a new sports car or whatever. If this is what our society has become now, I say all the LESS STUPID people (ie, geeks) move to another world (somehow) where we dont have to deal with useless people. This kinda thing pisses me off so much!!! GROWL!
Sure its not a tri-athlon system?
I would rather see the big corporations get it than Celine Dion! Anyways, you got a good point there though. Probably more than 50% of the tax will go to the government to pay for whatever method they have of collecting. Useless government waste!
Can I now legally copy audio CDs for my friends?
The simple answer is NO, but you can legally copy your friend's audio CD for YOUR OWN use.
To paraphrase the introduction to the Copyright Board's ruling:
On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the Copyright Act came into force. Until then, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright.
Part VIII legalizes one such activity: copying of sound recordings of musical works onto recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy.
It does not matter whether you own the original sound recording (on any medium), you can legally make a copy for your own private use.
To emphasize this point, endnote 4 of the Copyright Board's ruling says:
Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works. It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else.
Please think before you flame
Well, since we have the tax now in Canada, it is kinda legal to do this. We now have the right for casual copying. This means basically, I lend you any CD you want and you can copy it. I can also make copies for myself (duh). However, I cannot make copies for you, you physically have to make the copy.
This is logical, because whats to stop people from just starting their own pirating business? It works nicely, people have the right to lend CDs out to friends and let them copy 'em. It may not seem like a lot, but it allows the music companies to actually distribute "their" music while giving consumers the rights they deserve with the content they purchased.
Well sorry, yoda!
On another note; where I live (Vancouver, Canada) weed is really really really really really cheap. Its not like I smoke any of it though, anyone who needs drugs to make them feel happy/sad/num/depressed/excited/mellow has problems.
Well duh, you only assume that I was comparing by MHz because I made some "wild" assumption based on MHz rating. Well the truth is, my friend, that my decision was based on my biased opinion towards AMD Athlons, and nothing else. So, you can take your baseless claim that I am a hypocrite and stuff it up the ass of the guy from the goatse.cx pic. .
Well, the truth is, corporations dont have the liberty to partake in such things as industry wide price fixing. In my view, CPRM (or whatever the hell it is) is exactly the same abuse of power by corporate collaborations. They are using their collective power to screw consumers out of their freedoms (instead of their money, in this case)
" and to prosecute those who steal their software."
This is a whole other topic right here. Under only one circumstance do I see real "stealing". This is when, and only when, someone pirates the software they were intending to purchase beforehand or in any time in the future and does not pay for it. Most people pirate software that they would never in a million years purchase at the prices software distributors charge. These software companies write these off as "lost revenue" and attach a price tag to these "lost sales" when they would never had a sale in the first place. You cant actually steal something without depriving someone of something that they have ownership or rights to. When you download some "warez" to decide if you want to use it or not, or just use it forever but dont actually need it nor would have payed for it, you are really not taking money out of the pockets of anyone. Its a grey area when it comes to non tangible goods, there is no fine line that distinctively seperates stealing.
Comparing an Athlon 500 to a G4 500 is not really fair. The amount of money spent on a same megahertz G4 compared to an Athlon will be much higher. If you want a comparison, try the amount of money spent. An Athlon 1GHz compared to a G4 500 (~ same price, me guestimates), the Athlon would kill the G4. Dont compare MHz, compare prices.
teledildonics? does that have anything to do with an extendable dildo?
Contact your MP :)
there is already a bit of discussion at arstechnica on the message boards
You should realize that our society relies on standards, and if you dont follow standards bad stuff happens. If you do even basic physics problems, you will find you are dealing with many different weird and akward units. Its best to keep everything standard. Its not good enough, in my view, to just "realize what context you are in"; it basically limits the addition of more different units and creates unessesary trouble. I am quite aware of what he meant by "k" and "K", but standards are there for a reason.
No its not actually. However, if you find me a text of some sort then maybe i'll beleive you. BTW, please restrain from personal attacks; it only shows how much of an egotistical arrogant asshole you are. Calling people "idiots" and not having any proof to back yourself up is pretty dumb. Maybe you are the one that is the "idiot"?
um, k = kilo, K = kelvin
Thus:
KB = kelvinbytes (which is nothing)
kB = kilobytes
Kb = kelvinbits (which is nothing)
kb = kilobits
MB = megabytes
Mb = megabits
300K = 300 kelvin
2400k = 2400 kilo = 2,400,000 units
750k = 750 kilo = 750,000 units
100k = 100 kilo = 100,000 units
(I just wanted to get that straight for you guys)
Well, the real reason they aren't using DRI is because they are making a close-as-possible port of the Windows drivers. I guess they think this method is much more superior; it may be, but I dont like it one bit. However, they could be total bastards and not release anything at all.
PS: if there is any FreeBSD + NVIDIA people out there that can code drivers you may be interested in that NVIDIA will be happy to rebuild the closed sourced parts of the drivers if someone will port over all the agp/interrupt code of the open linux module. I am not sure of the status as of yet (last i heard about it was 2 weeks ago), but contact madcat' or ripperda on #nvidia (irc.openprojects.net) if you want to do this.
Dont worry, I count at least 5 grammatical errors; this includes the huge run-on sentance connected by a kilometer of commas.
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Thats nice and all, but Microsoft, Lotus, and Borland are all making money off their designs. Themes.org is not making money from them (directly), so it should be someone's right to do whatever they want with something as long as they arent making money off of it or slandering it.
What if you tried to do something like this on your own website? would you take this kind of bullshit from apple?
Can you say "Holy HTML error Batman!"?