Question: With this now GPL2 and open source, will this fix one of the problems of XEN?
XEN can only be run on certain processors when used with particular OSes, XP, namely. And, as I understood it, it was because of the threading. If XEN incorporates this into their system, will this open the door?
Then try Linux, and you'll never complain about the Windows driver situation again...
How dare you, sir? How dare you?
I hope you go to GNU/Hell for such slander and heresy. I hereby declare GNU/Fudwah upon you.
The Prophet, holiness and peace be upon RMS, will surely smite thee in the name of the All Sharing GNU. There is but one GOD and GNU is its name, and RMS is its Prophet, and its Holy Writ is GPL (now in the GNU and IMPROVED, heretic ass-kicking, version 3, call now GNU/Operators are standing by).
"Uh, just one question, what does GOD need with a driver?" - James T. Kirk, Star Trek
GNU/Linux, although written by a heretic and apostate, is GOD's perfect design the Prophet has claimed as His own, GNU/Peace be upon his posterior. It is the weapon to crush the Infidels of Redmond and their Satanic Gospel of Commerce and Property.
Face east, kneel, and pray towards MIT before it is too late.
Oh, please, you know that you mention MS in an article on/. that there are tons of calls to bone doctors because knees jerk so hard they jam them under desks. Some of these people should read/. standing up because it would entertain others with their funny walks.
If MS were to fold up and get sucked into the near-by "Mel's Hole", 10% of/. readers would go insane because they had nothing more to bitch about, another 10% would have to enter monastaries, Buddhist or otherwise, because that's what they promised (g)God(s) they would do, and 20% would start looking around for a good lawyer to see if a pact signed with the Evil One (aka RMS) signed in blood was binding.
Perhaps that is what those whose goal in life is to bitch endlessy about MS want?
Do you really find that makes sense
Oh, please, you know that you mention MS in an article on/. that there are tons of calls to bone doctors because knees jerk so hard they jam them under desks. Some of these people should read/. standing up because it would entertain others with their funny walks.
If MS were to fold up and get sucked into the near-by "Mel's Hole", 10% of/. readers would go insane because they had nothing more to bitch about, another 10% would have to enter monastaries, Buddhist or otherwise, because that's what they promised (g)God(s) they would do, and 20% would start looking around for a good lawyer to see if a pact signed with the Evil One (aka RMS) signed in blood was binding.
Well thanks for the links, and already having seen them, except for one, I really must compliment you on providing a well rounded set of links that present both sides of the argument. Why, all of those are surprisingly non-slanted. Dammit, why doesn't HTML have a <Sarcasm> tag?
So, you want to find out about Jews? Try reading "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
I understand the argument, people are afraid that if the OOXML standard is accepted, even with ODF, that the popularity of the MS Office products will eventually drown out ODF. In an open market of ideas, that's how it works. But, if you mean "Freedom" as in RMS version of Freedom where the choice is made for you so you are Free From Making the Choice.
I like the "Mile of Cars", there are good cars and bad cars. Hummers, Volkswagons, used Yugos and Chevettes. I get to choose and in the MoC, I have thousands of them.
I prefer choice. Having an ODF standard should not exclude an OOXML standard. With both standards published, it is possible then for developers to include support for each. Just like good syndicated news readers have the ability to handle both ATOM and RSS x.x.
In the end, its about choice. With standared, published formats it is possible. Or, would you rather the MS Office document standard to remain closed? (Perhaps that is what those whose goal in life is to bitch endlessy about MS want?)
Actually HTML5 is largely a result of work by the main browser makers, except Microsoft I believe. Hixie from Opera is the project lead of the WhatWG which was created to extend HTML to make it more applicable for web applications. It fixes a lot of the problems with both HTML 4 and XHTML, and its backwards compatible with *both*.
Excuse me, but it must be pointed out.
When you start talking standards and you gather a group of browser/client makers to discuss new standards, you really do need to have the giant on the block represented. Otherwise, you get a set of standards that run the real possibility of being ignored, or worse, supplanted by the giant's idea.
When the combined numbers of the "others" don't even come close to trumping the giant's numbers, you are heading to failure. In this case MS, like it or not, is the giant. The easiest way to stop this crazy, "IE only partially implements html x.0/css x.1/xhtml x.x" crap is to involve them.
Of course, this is just crazy talk, right. Oh heavens, we might actually run into the problem of MS taking over the standard. You know what, when you have a formation marching down the street, and 70% are on one heel beat, and the other 30% are out of step with the 70% and aren't even in step with themselves, its the 30% that need to get with the beat.
Failure to accept this is only going to widen the gulf, unless MS, through largesse or coincidence follows the new standard.
Isn't anyone concerned that the forking of our current Time-Space-Continuum Thingy into the Multiverse will lessen the likelyhood of our stream being selected as the Earth Prime? Someone, please, stop all this forking.
Starting right now, everyone, stop making decisions.
O.K., now, don't think about, just stop...o.k. now, wait, no, now...on second thought....NOW.
And someone else brought up fish and environmental hypocrisy earlier in this obvious environmental thread. Oh, wait, its only off-topic if I'm not pointing out that the Emporer is Naked.
In his obviously "You are either with us, or against us" mentality, he thinks one can.
But, if he had bothered to check, I'm all with this bio-fuel, I'm very much for the environment. But, if you check Akahige's Rules of Causes you will see that I triggered his Messiah Defender action. I referenced an article that mentions the Humane Society criticizing Al Gore for serving a threatened species at his daughter's wedding.
Akahige States:
For every cause, there exists spokespersons who produce more negative images, feelings, press, and other sundry effects regarding the cause.
The most extreme elements of that cause will tout the same spokesperson(s) as the saviour of the movement.
The same spokesperson is usually the loudest voice in the room and if not chosen as the saviour of the movement, will appoint themselves as such.
If the saviour of the movement is criticized, questioned, or it appears they are challenged by others, the backers of that saviour will attack, excoriate, deride the perceived attackers. (emphasis added)
Once a Saviour of the Movement has been appointed/annointed the cause becomes religious in nature and has less to do with reason and more to do with jihadist fervor.
With the higher quality, the trade of is higher yeild with more effort.
With the wild algae, you have to use more space.
So, in the interest of saving the planet, we create a mutant strain of algae, it gets released to the wild, it takes over, gets elected President...Sorry, I was on the X-Files thread. Nevermind.
Hey, if it saves the planet, then I say screw the Netherlands.
Now, seriously, if this is the strain of algae I'm thinking about, it is very high in oil content. Not all algae are. It is also very sensitive, and other more aggresive forms of algae are prone to force it out. So, like wine making, it has to be done in the right conditions where the wrong airborne yeast getting into the mix will turn your wine into garbage, or worse, Gallo, letting the wrong algae get into the ponds will be bad.
But, why not go cubic with the ponds? Build huge production plants that are like greenhouses. Stack ponds ontop of each other, and give them a certain level of clean room control.
It would be nice to have a movie based on the original season and a half. Before they started with the mythology. Sure, there was smoking man, but I don't think Carter had it worked out at that point.
The horrible thing was, I watched the first few seasons, then my company sent me out to Tokyo to take over Far East training. When I finally got back to the states, I had missed a year and a half of the series and I was lost on all the black filmy eyes. By the time the movie came out, I didn't care. I've tried to watch the movie a few times and just can't.
That's not outrage, it's ridicule. Not getting the joke is a different kind of problem.
Thank you. You may or may not agree with me, but getting the joke is important. Some don't see it as a joke. Exactly why I use Akahige's Rules of Causes
For every cause, there exists spokespersons who produce more negative images, feelings, press, and other sundry effects regarding the cause. The most extreme elements of that cause will tout the same spokesperson(s) as the saviour of the movement. The same spokesperson is usually the loudest voice in the room and if not chosen as the saviour of the movement, will appoint themselves as such. If the saviour of the movement is criticized, questioned, or it appears they are challenged by others, the backers of that saviour will attack, excoriate, deride the perceived attackers. Once a Saviour of the Movement has been appointed/annointed the cause becomes religious in nature and has less to do with reason and more to do with jihadist fervor.
The GNU/Prophet, holiness on his name, has decreed and the GNU/Word of GNU, There is But One GOD, GNU is its Name and Stallman is its Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him.
The GNU/Word of GNU/God is GPL3. Stallman has declared GNU/FUDwah on the heretic Linus for crimes against the GNU/Faith:
For not changing his name to GNU/Linus and likewise naming his baby, GNU/Linux
For not adopting GPL3
For actually working for a living and participating in the evil capitalist system
Face Berkeley, kneel, and pray.
GNU/Holiness to GNU/God. GNU/Peace to the GNU/Prophet. GNU/Terminate to the Disbelievers, GPL2 Apostates, Other-Than-GPL Open License Perverts, Intellectual Property Holders, Copyright Defenders, Capitalists, for they have given themselves over to be the Children of the Greater and Lesser Closed Satans, Bill Gates and the U.S.A., respectively.
Perhaps you need dots connected. By using an unrelated and but not too dissimilar look at an idealogic driven movement, the idea is to remove the idealogue from his/her argument far enough to enable those to review their situation from a distance. Those unable to see it, do need dots connected, but then it then becomes more difficult for the idealogue to take a fresh look at their position.
Incredible that a post can engender such feelings. Are you sure you are stable? Are you under a physician's care?
Really now, if my post caused you that much grief, perhaps you feel that it was too much of a threat to your beliefs and that perhaps you are not that sure of validity of your beliefs?
The point of the post is to draw that exact point.
The Mormon kids I grew up with sought validation by all those points. Only those who are comfortable in their faith and beliefs stop seeking validation.
The/. community, and much of the OSS community are the same. Count how many "Yay, MS is failing" and "Yay, X government is adopting..." articles there have been on/. lately. It sends fanboys into ecstacy. But, point it out and they scream "heretic" and talk about emotional damage.
Everytime I see a/. article "X Chooses Open Source", "Country Y Goes Linux", "Province B Going MS Free", I'm reminded of some of my Mormon friends.
Everytime some celebrity converted, they crowed about how their church was gaining ground and would encompass the world.
Everytime some new temple complex was found in Central or South America, they'd claim it was evidence of Nephite civilization.
Everytime there was a "gentile" event that paid homage to the Mormons, they go into theological orgasms.
The facts are: For every 4 converts, 3 stop going to church within a year. There still is no proof of Nephites. Yes, Mitt Romney is Mormon, but so is Harry Reid, and both just look like slimy used car salesmen.
What you're missing is the copyright on the GPL itself.
Oh, the ever loving irony of this crowd.
Tell you what, I'm release an app soon, it free, its open source. But, it is truly free, not just "lip service" free. The user will be able to use it on a closed system if they choose, they are free to incorporate into an open or closed system. They can develop it further into an open or closed system.
Of, crap, I forgot, the one they the license says is they cannot turn it into a GPL3 product.
God, is Copyright evil or not?
Is the license open or not?
Is the user free or not to do with the software what they want?
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Question: With this now GPL2 and open source, will this fix one of the problems of XEN?
XEN can only be run on certain processors when used with particular OSes, XP, namely. And, as I understood it, it was because of the threading. If XEN incorporates this into their system, will this open the door?
<sarcasm>
O.K., I'm flummerghasted. Are you trying to be informative, ironic, funny, or inflamatory?
Surely you aren't suggesting there are non-GNU drivers in GNU/Linux?
H E R E S Y
F U D W A H
</sarcasm>
How dare you, sir? How dare you?
I hope you go to GNU/Hell for such slander and heresy. I hereby declare GNU/Fudwah upon you.
The Prophet, holiness and peace be upon RMS, will surely smite thee in the name of the All Sharing GNU. There is but one GOD and GNU is its name, and RMS is its Prophet, and its Holy Writ is GPL (now in the GNU and IMPROVED, heretic ass-kicking, version 3, call now GNU/Operators are standing by).
"Uh, just one question, what does GOD need with a driver?" - James T. Kirk, Star Trek
GNU/Linux, although written by a heretic and apostate, is GOD's perfect design the Prophet has claimed as His own, GNU/Peace be upon his posterior. It is the weapon to crush the Infidels of Redmond and their Satanic Gospel of Commerce and Property.
Face east, kneel, and pray towards MIT before it is too late.
GNU/Fudwah has been proclaimed.
Oh, please, you know that you mention MS in an article on /. that there are tons of calls to bone doctors because knees jerk so hard they jam them under desks. Some of these people should read /. standing up because it would entertain others with their funny walks.
If MS were to fold up and get sucked into the near-by "Mel's Hole", 10% of /. readers would go insane because they had nothing more to bitch about, another 10% would have to enter monastaries, Buddhist or otherwise, because that's what they promised (g)God(s) they would do, and 20% would start looking around for a good lawyer to see if a pact signed with the Evil One (aka RMS) signed in blood was binding.
Oh, please, you know that you mention MS in an article on /. that there are tons of calls to bone doctors because knees jerk so hard they jam them under desks. Some of these people should read /. standing up because it would entertain others with their funny walks.
If MS were to fold up and get sucked into the near-by "Mel's Hole", 10% of /. readers would go insane because they had nothing more to bitch about, another 10% would have to enter monastaries, Buddhist or otherwise, because that's what they promised (g)God(s) they would do, and 20% would start looking around for a good lawyer to see if a pact signed with the Evil One (aka RMS) signed in blood was binding.
Well thanks for the links, and already having seen them, except for one, I really must compliment you on providing a well rounded set of links that present both sides of the argument. Why, all of those are surprisingly non-slanted. Dammit, why doesn't HTML have a <Sarcasm> tag?
Really, thats alot like saying, "Here, read all about the Mormons at http://www.whymormonismisevil.com/".
So, you want to find out about Jews? Try reading "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
I understand the argument, people are afraid that if the OOXML standard is accepted, even with ODF, that the popularity of the MS Office products will eventually drown out ODF. In an open market of ideas, that's how it works. But, if you mean "Freedom" as in RMS version of Freedom where the choice is made for you so you are Free From Making the Choice.
I like the "Mile of Cars", there are good cars and bad cars. Hummers, Volkswagons, used Yugos and Chevettes. I get to choose and in the MoC, I have thousands of them.
I prefer choice. Having an ODF standard should not exclude an OOXML standard. With both standards published, it is possible then for developers to include support for each. Just like good syndicated news readers have the ability to handle both ATOM and RSS x.x.
In the end, its about choice. With standared, published formats it is possible. Or, would you rather the MS Office document standard to remain closed? (Perhaps that is what those whose goal in life is to bitch endlessy about MS want?)
Next step from the Pro-H1B Lobby is to get hiring American workers made illegal.
Excuse me, but it must be pointed out.
When you start talking standards and you gather a group of browser/client makers to discuss new standards, you really do need to have the giant on the block represented. Otherwise, you get a set of standards that run the real possibility of being ignored, or worse, supplanted by the giant's idea.
When the combined numbers of the "others" don't even come close to trumping the giant's numbers, you are heading to failure. In this case MS, like it or not, is the giant. The easiest way to stop this crazy, "IE only partially implements html x.0/css x.1/xhtml x.x" crap is to involve them.
Of course, this is just crazy talk, right. Oh heavens, we might actually run into the problem of MS taking over the standard. You know what, when you have a formation marching down the street, and 70% are on one heel beat, and the other 30% are out of step with the 70% and aren't even in step with themselves, its the 30% that need to get with the beat.
Failure to accept this is only going to widen the gulf, unless MS, through largesse or coincidence follows the new standard.
It works in IE. Maybe you should try it?
Isn't anyone concerned that the forking of our current Time-Space-Continuum Thingy into the Multiverse will lessen the likelyhood of our stream being selected as the Earth Prime? Someone, please, stop all this forking.
Starting right now, everyone, stop making decisions.
O.K., now, don't think about, just stop...o.k. now, wait, no, now...on second thought....NOW.
And someone else brought up fish and environmental hypocrisy earlier in this obvious environmental thread. Oh, wait, its only off-topic if I'm not pointing out that the Emporer is Naked.
In his obviously "You are either with us, or against us" mentality, he thinks one can.
But, if he had bothered to check, I'm all with this bio-fuel, I'm very much for the environment. But, if you check Akahige's Rules of Causes you will see that I triggered his Messiah Defender action. I referenced an article that mentions the Humane Society criticizing Al Gore for serving a threatened species at his daughter's wedding.
Akahige States:
It was /.ed when I tried to get to it.
With the higher quality, the trade of is higher yeild with more effort.
With the wild algae, you have to use more space.
So, in the interest of saving the planet, we create a mutant strain of algae, it gets released to the wild, it takes over, gets elected President...Sorry, I was on the X-Files thread. Nevermind.
Harder, not impossible. Try reflective surfaces. Also, pyramid shapes are good.
If you are all about saving the planet, is it o.k. to eat an endangered, or near endangered species?
Hey, if it saves the planet, then I say screw the Netherlands.
Now, seriously, if this is the strain of algae I'm thinking about, it is very high in oil content. Not all algae are. It is also very sensitive, and other more aggresive forms of algae are prone to force it out. So, like wine making, it has to be done in the right conditions where the wrong airborne yeast getting into the mix will turn your wine into garbage, or worse, Gallo, letting the wrong algae get into the ponds will be bad.
But, why not go cubic with the ponds? Build huge production plants that are like greenhouses. Stack ponds ontop of each other, and give them a certain level of clean room control.
That, or we really flood the Netherlands.
Hell, flood them anyways.
It would be nice to have a movie based on the original season and a half. Before they started with the mythology. Sure, there was smoking man, but I don't think Carter had it worked out at that point.
The horrible thing was, I watched the first few seasons, then my company sent me out to Tokyo to take over Far East training. When I finally got back to the states, I had missed a year and a half of the series and I was lost on all the black filmy eyes. By the time the movie came out, I didn't care. I've tried to watch the movie a few times and just can't.
Thank you. You may or may not agree with me, but getting the joke is important. Some don't see it as a joke. Exactly why I use Akahige's Rules of Causes
I know, I typed it, almost struck it out, then decided, GNU/Hell Yeah! Glad to see someone got it.
The GNU/Prophet, holiness on his name, has decreed and the GNU/Word of GNU, There is But One GOD, GNU is its Name and Stallman is its Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him.
The GNU/Word of GNU/God is GPL3. Stallman has declared GNU/FUDwah on the heretic Linus for crimes against the GNU/Faith:
Face Berkeley, kneel, and pray.
GNU/Holiness to GNU/God. GNU/Peace to the GNU/Prophet. GNU/Terminate to the Disbelievers, GPL2 Apostates, Other-Than-GPL Open License Perverts, Intellectual Property Holders, Copyright Defenders, Capitalists, for they have given themselves over to be the Children of the Greater and Lesser Closed Satans, Bill Gates and the U.S.A., respectively.
Perhaps you need dots connected. By using an unrelated and but not too dissimilar look at an idealogic driven movement, the idea is to remove the idealogue from his/her argument far enough to enable those to review their situation from a distance. Those unable to see it, do need dots connected, but then it then becomes more difficult for the idealogue to take a fresh look at their position.
Incredible that a post can engender such feelings. Are you sure you are stable? Are you under a physician's care?
Really now, if my post caused you that much grief, perhaps you feel that it was too much of a threat to your beliefs and that perhaps you are not that sure of validity of your beliefs?
The point of the post is to draw that exact point.
The Mormon kids I grew up with sought validation by all those points. Only those who are comfortable in their faith and beliefs stop seeking validation.
The /. community, and much of the OSS community are the same. Count how many "Yay, MS is failing" and "Yay, X government is adopting..." articles there have been on /. lately. It sends fanboys into ecstacy. But, point it out and they scream "heretic" and talk about emotional damage.
Everytime I see a /. article "X Chooses Open Source", "Country Y Goes Linux", "Province B Going MS Free", I'm reminded of some of my Mormon friends.
Everytime some celebrity converted, they crowed about how their church was gaining ground and would encompass the world.
Everytime some new temple complex was found in Central or South America, they'd claim it was evidence of Nephite civilization.
Everytime there was a "gentile" event that paid homage to the Mormons, they go into theological orgasms.
The facts are: For every 4 converts, 3 stop going to church within a year. There still is no proof of Nephites. Yes, Mitt Romney is Mormon, but so is Harry Reid, and both just look like slimy used car salesmen.
Oh, the ever loving irony of this crowd.
Tell you what, I'm release an app soon, it free, its open source. But, it is truly free, not just "lip service" free. The user will be able to use it on a closed system if they choose, they are free to incorporate into an open or closed system. They can develop it further into an open or closed system.
Of, crap, I forgot, the one they the license says is they cannot turn it into a GPL3 product.
God, is Copyright evil or not?
Is the license open or not?
Is the user free or not to do with the software what they want?
Or, is it just lip service?