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Europe will STILL have to have a separate set of games because they use PAL instead of NTSC anyway
It's actually the other way around. The US, Canada and Japan are pretty much the only places that use NTSC. Almost everything else (a few exceptions) uses PAL.
While copyright infringement is part of IP theft, it spans a few more things, including 'business methods' and 'industrial processes' which I believe software development could fall under.
I suppose you can point to any *legal* document that refers to copyright/patent/trademark/whatever infringement as "theft". I doubt you will find any, simply because it's not theft (although it's illegal, and possibly unethical too). If I punch you in the face (not that I'd want to, just an example!) and break your nose, would you call it "esthetical theft"?
How can we convince businesses that using the GPL and open source is a GOOOD THING if one of the main characters is in effect condoning IP theft if done for the 'right reasons'?
I hope you make the difference between ethical and legal. RMS never said it was legal or that peopel should to it (he specifically says it wouldn't work). He simply things it would be ethical if allowed by law. It just shows how the sense of ethics is different between people. Nothing to see here.
Oh, and there's no such thing as "IP theft", no matter what big copyright holders tell you. It's simply called copyright infringement. It's illegal, but it's not theft. The closest I can think of "IP theft" is doing some kind of fraud to steel copyright/patent titles from someone.
They say that those you will trade freedom for security deserve neither... Wonder what happens to those who will give up freedom and security at the same time?
I'm perfectly bilingual but will never do that. The incentive of open-source is that a lot of people will benefit from your work
Think how many poor Iraqis would benefit from your work. Band new bombs delivered right to their door step.</sarcasm> Yes, I also have a hard time imagining why any arabic-speaking (muslim or not) person would want to contribute to the American intelligence effort.
He's right, these $100 computers are not going to do anything to feed these people.
It's not going to feed these people. It will help *educating* them better so they can eventually feed themselves better. There's more to Africa than the need for food.
Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.
I've just been to both linux.conf.au and FOSDEM and in both cases, Google has been recruiting really aggressively. By that, I mean someone you've never met just popping in with "Hello, have you considered working for Google?".
BTW, I'm not sure exactly what the vi mode does, but there's a lot of things that can be done with the keyboard in the LyX equation editor, including _ and ^ for indices and exponents, but also commends like \sin...
Actually, I used to do plain LaTeX with Xemacs. When I switched to LyX, I noticed the equation editor took more time than it previously took me to write the LaTeX equations... However, the main advantage I got was that it became a lot faster to *read* and understand my equations that it would take with LaTeX, where you need to mentally parse all the brackets. Overall, LyX is faster for me as soon as my stuff gets a little complicated.
I guess it's a Windows thing. On Linux, all the stuff is already there and most distros even include LyX. Despite this, if you're doing any scientific writing, it's definitely worth going through this. Makes life so much easier.
If you like notepad text+CSS, I recommend you have a loot at LyX. It's a LaTeX frontend and I've been using it for everything technical for about 10 years now. Using LaTeX means I can have any kind of output, from html to whatever format a journal/conference uses.
AMD should set their CPUID to "GenuineIntel". It's for interoperability grounds - Intel have shown they will use it to try and damage the performance of programs on AMD machines - so there shouldn't be any trademark issue, and it would stop this kind of crap once and for all.
Actually, they should have a "setcpuid" instruction. I guess the only (sort of) technical problem would be that it couldn't work on a per-application basis unless the OS knows about it and saves the "cpuid register" during context switch.
...but the more intensive task of mixing those 10 audio streams requires (according to the very page you linked to) a 1GHz G4, dual 800 MHz G4, any G5 or Intel Core.
Still bullshit, Speex can do a lot more than 10 channels at a time (typically 50-200) on a recent machine and I don't believe iSAC and iLBC would be *that* much slower. As for doing IP send/receive, it's even lower in CPU (think how many connections a webserver handles). Oh, and signalling is not CPU intensive either -- SER can do thousands of SIP connections on a PDA.
One of the negative legacies of the Iran-Kuwait Gulf War was the success of smart weapons. Even though during that conflict, civilians still died... for some reason, people now expect war to be "clean" in so far as only intended targets will die.
The US military *claimed* that Gulf War I smart weapons were a success. In practice, they still killed a lot of civilians. Same for the Patriot missiles supposed to protect Israel. They were claimed to be a big success just after the war. It turned out that more people got killed by fallin Patriot missiles than by the scud missiles they were supposed to stop.
The collateral damage issue is interesting. It seems to me that US forces already tries to avoid collateral damage. It sounds more like you're calling for elimination of collateral damage - and that's a fantasy.
No, the problem is that the US forces pretend it's OK to do X "because we only target terrorists with our very precise weapons", then civilians die and they say "well, shit happens, it's collateral damage". What if they were really up-front about it. Bush would have announced in 2003 "OK, we're going to invade Iraq. In the process, we will probably will 100,000 [insert whatever you consider to be the true number] people, but we don't care". Somehow, I think it would have been a bit less convincing...
Although it's never good when islamic dictatorships get nuclear weapons, I can easily understand *why* they're racing to get the bomb. Face it, the main reason the US attacked Iraq and not North Korea is nukes. If I were on the Iranian government, I'd definitely want to have nukes too. Of course, having Israel (with nukes and fighters within reach) in the area is also a very good reason (at least for them) to want nukes. That being said, I doubt even the current Iranian govt would ever dare use nukes (at least for fear of consequences).
As much as all us hate spam, child porno, junk mail, ads, laywers, etc, we must live them. It's something most people call "society".
Spam is still (in itself) legal, so are ads and lawyers. Child porno is *not* legal (at least in most countries) and certainly not something you must learn to live with.
It's actually the opposite. With a CD, you can do whatever you like in terms of portable player (no matter what the RIAA wants you to believe). With DRM-protected music, you'll end up buying the same music several times, which is *exactly* what the RIAA wants. That's probably the only way they can sustain your business. If you don't produce anything new, your only hope is to keep selling the old stuff.
There comes a time when frustration wins and the attitude of, "Do something, anything, even if it's wrong." takes hold. I'm about there.
Then throw your computer out the window and cancel your Internet service. Problem solved much more efficiently. I hate this attitude that change is always good even if you don't know what you're doing. Remember, things can always be worse, even if you think they can't.
Also watch mailing lists disappear. Oh, and look how the spammers that are now using zombies to send spam now use them to send email to their account so they can make even more money while doing even more damage. I think you could check most of the options on the standard "your approach will not work" checklist.
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Europe will STILL have to have a separate set of games because they use PAL instead of NTSC anyway
It's actually the other way around. The US, Canada and Japan are pretty much the only places that use NTSC. Almost everything else (a few exceptions) uses PAL.
While copyright infringement is part of IP theft, it spans a few more things, including 'business methods' and 'industrial processes' which I believe software development could fall under.
I suppose you can point to any *legal* document that refers to copyright/patent/trademark/whatever infringement as "theft". I doubt you will find any, simply because it's not theft (although it's illegal, and possibly unethical too). If I punch you in the face (not that I'd want to, just an example!) and break your nose, would you call it "esthetical theft"?
How can we convince businesses that using the GPL and open source is a GOOOD THING if one of the main characters is in effect condoning IP theft if done for the 'right reasons'?
I hope you make the difference between ethical and legal. RMS never said it was legal or that peopel should to it (he specifically says it wouldn't work). He simply things it would be ethical if allowed by law. It just shows how the sense of ethics is different between people. Nothing to see here.
Oh, and there's no such thing as "IP theft", no matter what big copyright holders tell you. It's simply called copyright infringement. It's illegal, but it's not theft. The closest I can think of "IP theft" is doing some kind of fraud to steel copyright/patent titles from someone.
They say that those you will trade freedom for security deserve neither... Wonder what happens to those who will give up freedom and security at the same time?
I get a gut feeling that efforts would better be expended on getting widespread adoption of a more secure, universal SMTP protocol.
Damn, you better tell that idea to the IETF guys ASAP. I'm sure they've never thought of doing *that*!
I'm perfectly bilingual but will never do that. The incentive of open-source is that a lot of people will benefit from your work
Think how many poor Iraqis would benefit from your work. Band new bombs delivered right to their door step.</sarcasm> Yes, I also have a hard time imagining why any arabic-speaking (muslim or not) person would want to contribute to the American intelligence effort.
Teenagers being murdered isn't right either. Yet, showing it in a movie (or TV show) never caused any problem (as long as it's rated 13 or so).
He's right, these $100 computers are not going to do anything to feed these people.
It's not going to feed these people. It will help *educating* them better so they can eventually feed themselves better. There's more to Africa than the need for food.
With a bit of OS support (context switch and all), I think it's possible and actually has already been done (could be wrong, though).
Really, how hard is it to blow up a building?
You are now suspect. Please fill in this "Am I a terrorist?" form and mail it back to us. (See how efficient we are at hunting down terrorists?)
Just curious, why are you giving up on having suspend2 merged in mainline?
Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.
I've just been to both linux.conf.au and FOSDEM and in both cases, Google has been recruiting really aggressively. By that, I mean someone you've never met just popping in with "Hello, have you considered working for Google?".
BTW, I'm not sure exactly what the vi mode does, but there's a lot of things that can be done with the keyboard in the LyX equation editor, including _ and ^ for indices and exponents, but also commends like \sin ...
Actually, I used to do plain LaTeX with Xemacs. When I switched to LyX, I noticed the equation editor took more time than it previously took me to write the LaTeX equations... However, the main advantage I got was that it became a lot faster to *read* and understand my equations that it would take with LaTeX, where you need to mentally parse all the brackets. Overall, LyX is faster for me as soon as my stuff gets a little complicated.
I guess it's a Windows thing. On Linux, all the stuff is already there and most distros even include LyX. Despite this, if you're doing any scientific writing, it's definitely worth going through this. Makes life so much easier.
If you like notepad text+CSS, I recommend you have a loot at LyX. It's a LaTeX frontend and I've been using it for everything technical for about 10 years now. Using LaTeX means I can have any kind of output, from html to whatever format a journal/conference uses.
AMD should set their CPUID to "GenuineIntel". It's for interoperability grounds - Intel have shown they will use it to try and damage the performance of programs on AMD machines - so there shouldn't be any trademark issue, and it would stop this kind of crap once and for all.
Actually, they should have a "setcpuid" instruction. I guess the only (sort of) technical problem would be that it couldn't work on a per-application basis unless the OS knows about it and saves the "cpuid register" during context switch.
...but the more intensive task of mixing those 10 audio streams requires (according to the very page you linked to) a 1GHz G4, dual 800 MHz G4, any G5 or Intel Core.
Still bullshit, Speex can do a lot more than 10 channels at a time (typically 50-200) on a recent machine and I don't believe iSAC and iLBC would be *that* much slower. As for doing IP send/receive, it's even lower in CPU (think how many connections a webserver handles). Oh, and signalling is not CPU intensive either -- SER can do thousands of SIP connections on a PDA.
One of the negative legacies of the Iran-Kuwait Gulf War was the success of smart weapons. Even though during that conflict, civilians still died... for some reason, people now expect war to be "clean" in so far as only intended targets will die.
The US military *claimed* that Gulf War I smart weapons were a success. In practice, they still killed a lot of civilians. Same for the Patriot missiles supposed to protect Israel. They were claimed to be a big success just after the war. It turned out that more people got killed by fallin Patriot missiles than by the scud missiles they were supposed to stop.
The collateral damage issue is interesting. It seems to me that US forces already tries to avoid collateral damage. It sounds more like you're calling for elimination of collateral damage - and that's a fantasy.
No, the problem is that the US forces pretend it's OK to do X "because we only target terrorists with our very precise weapons", then civilians die and they say "well, shit happens, it's collateral damage". What if they were really up-front about it. Bush would have announced in 2003 "OK, we're going to invade Iraq. In the process, we will probably will 100,000 [insert whatever you consider to be the true number] people, but we don't care". Somehow, I think it would have been a bit less convincing...
Although it's never good when islamic dictatorships get nuclear weapons, I can easily understand *why* they're racing to get the bomb. Face it, the main reason the US attacked Iraq and not North Korea is nukes. If I were on the Iranian government, I'd definitely want to have nukes too. Of course, having Israel (with nukes and fighters within reach) in the area is also a very good reason (at least for them) to want nukes. That being said, I doubt even the current Iranian govt would ever dare use nukes (at least for fear of consequences).
As much as all us hate spam, child porno, junk mail, ads, laywers, etc, we must live them. It's something most people call "society".
Spam is still (in itself) legal, so are ads and lawyers. Child porno is *not* legal (at least in most countries) and certainly not something you must learn to live with.
It's actually the opposite. With a CD, you can do whatever you like in terms of portable player (no matter what the RIAA wants you to believe). With DRM-protected music, you'll end up buying the same music several times, which is *exactly* what the RIAA wants. That's probably the only way they can sustain your business. If you don't produce anything new, your only hope is to keep selling the old stuff.
There comes a time when frustration wins and the attitude of, "Do something, anything, even if it's wrong." takes hold. I'm about there.
Then throw your computer out the window and cancel your Internet service. Problem solved much more efficiently. I hate this attitude that change is always good even if you don't know what you're doing. Remember, things can always be worse, even if you think they can't.
And watch the spam disappear.
Also watch mailing lists disappear. Oh, and look how the spammers that are now using zombies to send spam now use them to send email to their account so they can make even more money while doing even more damage. I think you could check most of the options on the standard "your approach will not work" checklist.