With this reasonning, it seems like that the "fast-forward" function would be banned too. As it is, if for some reason you don't like the content of a scene, you just fast-forward it and it's you're right to do it. As some people say, it's much better to have people do their own "censorship" (it's not really censorship since you're not forced).
I can't comment on the lkml specifically, but I think I've got an idea to explain part of the bad attitude towards newbies. I think it comes from the fact that many start by commenting about how they would do/change things without even understanding the software first. This is the best way to annoy developers and after a while some of the developers might get a "bias against newbies".
By accident, I mean their system screwing up and destroying their own data, some cracker finding a way to do it and causing billions of $ of damage, or them destroying some mafia computers and getting a contract on them...
I think these silly idea are just meant to direct people's attention away from the real dangerous (DMCA-like) laws. They have no intention to pass this law, just to make the others look "not that bad". That why I say that stpuid things like that *are* safe to ignore because I doubt that even the *AA would really want that passed (e.g. they don't want their whole office shut down in case an accident happens).
Can you give some sources for that? Sorry, never heard of these laws.
all employees can only work 35 hours weeks.
That's a French law, AFAIK all EU countries have different laws. Besides, I think 35 hours/week is a good idea. Creates jobs, employees more productive, employees have more free time, which means they have more occasion to spend money and make economy run.
The funny thing about the Celine Dion CD (for which I couldn't convince my mom to take it back to the store) is that it wouldn't *play* in a PC player, but on the same PC, cdparanoia made a perfect rip. Conclusion: the "copy protection" forces you to copy the CD if you want to listen to it!
Don't know if it's better or worse... You get to choose: global warming or skin cancer. Actually, if you use methanol-based fuel-cells, you might actually get both (CH3OH->H2 creates CO2 and likely leaks some H2).
I'm particularly interested in when the first major lawsuit against Microsoft will appear for lost business due to mass internet slowdowns from Outlook virus propogation.
Actually, I hadn't tought of it before but it may actually happen. I always saw the EULA as meaning you agree not to sue MS even if everything breaks by their own fault. But if MS software causes problems to others who haven't signed the EULA (e.g. DDOS), then perhaps there's something to do about it... or maybe not?
This may depend on the actual code you have. If your code is spending most of its time doing matrix manipulations (which should be the case), then Matlab and Octave should have almost the same speed. The reason is simply that both use the ATLAS and FFTW libraries for most of the stuff. (BTW, make sure Octave is indeed compiled with those libraries and not generic stuff)
There's a difference between copyright law and DMCA. I don't know whether this guy is guilty of copyright infringement or theft (though I think not), but I don't see a problem with the DMCA. The DMCA says you can't circumvent a copy protection system. First this guy didn't make a copy in the first place. Second, there's no copy protection system involved anyway.
BTW, as far as I understand the law, if I make bit-exact copies of DVD's it's blatent copyright infringement, but it's not a DMCA violation since I didn't bypass anything. Of course that doesn't mean they wouldn'y try to use the DMCA anyway, but that's another thing.
Exactly. I wouldn't be suprised to learn that the real goal behind such law is exactly that: make sure people keep buying SUV's and keep burning tons of fuel... After all, it make the economy better, no?
Well, that just means the computer is crashed and non-crashed at the same time. Same for the results: you get to know if they're good only after you submit the paper.
I'm doing my Ph.D. at a mobile robotics lab. Most (all?) of the robots we bought, (either from iRobot or ActivMedia) came with Linux pre-installed. I don't think we could even have Windows if we wanted it. I think this is going to be much more frequent in the future. For things that don't have a display anyway (no we don't have 17" monitors on our robots!) what's the point of running Windows?
That's not what I said. I just said that if there's code in Linux that can't be distributed freely, then NOBODY is allowed to distribute Linux (including SCO) because of the GPL. Of course that's until said code is removed.
I'm just saying that you can't "license" Linux. If you can't distribute freely, under the GPL, then you can't distribute it AT ALL. Of course it's bad for Linux, but there's no way SCO can extort any money out of that and they probably know it.
Do you intend at any point to begin offering licenses to Linux users? We would hope as quickly as possible to develop solutions with the industry to allow customers to move forward with whatever platforms they wanted to choose, so long as the appropriate intellectual property foundation is in place.
And I guess they don't even realize that the statement is completely incompatible with the GPL... Linux is Free or it is Not.
Wouldn't want to contradict you but methane is CH4 and the reaction is: CH4 + H2O => CO + 3H2 H2O + CO => CO2 + H2 which means at the end: CH4 + 2H2O => CO2 + 4H2 see: http://www.howstuffworks.com/fuel-processor2.htm
Well, it's almost the same because IBM is now so much on Linux that attacking Linux is like attacking IBM (even if the lawsuit is not directed toward IBM).
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Actually, what I've often seen is: small, regular, medium, large. How the **** am I supposed to know which one of medium and regular is the largest??
With this reasonning, it seems like that the "fast-forward" function would be banned too. As it is, if for some reason you don't like the content of a scene, you just fast-forward it and it's you're right to do it. As some people say, it's much better to have people do their own "censorship" (it's not really censorship since you're not forced).
I can't comment on the lkml specifically, but I think I've got an idea to explain part of the bad attitude towards newbies. I think it comes from the fact that many start by commenting about how they would do/change things without even understanding the software first. This is the best way to annoy developers and after a while some of the developers might get a "bias against newbies".
By accident, I mean their system screwing up and destroying their own data, some cracker finding a way to do it and causing billions of $ of damage, or them destroying some mafia computers and getting a contract on them...
I think these silly idea are just meant to direct people's attention away from the real dangerous (DMCA-like) laws. They have no intention to pass this law, just to make the others look "not that bad". That why I say that stpuid things like that *are* safe to ignore because I doubt that even the *AA would really want that passed (e.g. they don't want their whole office shut down in case an accident happens).
...that no employee can ever be fired
Can you give some sources for that? Sorry, never heard of these laws.
all employees can only work 35 hours weeks.
That's a French law, AFAIK all EU countries have different laws. Besides, I think 35 hours/week is a good idea. Creates jobs, employees more productive, employees have more free time, which means they have more occasion to spend money and make economy run.
The funny thing about the Celine Dion CD (for which I couldn't convince my mom to take it back to the store) is that it wouldn't *play* in a PC player, but on the same PC, cdparanoia made a perfect rip. Conclusion: the "copy protection" forces you to copy the CD if you want to listen to it!
Don't know if it's better or worse... You get to choose: global warming or skin cancer. Actually, if you use methanol-based fuel-cells, you might actually get both (CH3OH->H2 creates CO2 and likely leaks some H2).
Mafia just won't stop their illegal activities.
Yeh, still trying to figure out what is new in that. It's like: "Cure for Cancer discovered! No in fact, it doesn't work. Never mind.".
I'm particularly interested in when the first major lawsuit against Microsoft will appear for lost business due to mass internet slowdowns from Outlook virus propogation.
Actually, I hadn't tought of it before but it may actually happen. I always saw the EULA as meaning you agree not to sue MS even if everything breaks by their own fault. But if MS software causes problems to others who haven't signed the EULA (e.g. DDOS), then perhaps there's something to do about it... or maybe not?
This may depend on the actual code you have. If your code is spending most of its time doing matrix manipulations (which should be the case), then Matlab and Octave should have almost the same speed. The reason is simply that both use the ATLAS and FFTW libraries for most of the stuff. (BTW, make sure Octave is indeed compiled with those libraries and not generic stuff)
There's a difference between copyright law and DMCA. I don't know whether this guy is guilty of copyright infringement or theft (though I think not), but I don't see a problem with the DMCA. The DMCA says you can't circumvent a copy protection system. First this guy didn't make a copy in the first place. Second, there's no copy protection system involved anyway.
BTW, as far as I understand the law, if I make bit-exact copies of DVD's it's blatent copyright infringement, but it's not a DMCA violation since I didn't bypass anything. Of course that doesn't mean they wouldn'y try to use the DMCA anyway, but that's another thing.
Exactly. I wouldn't be suprised to learn that the real goal behind such law is exactly that: make sure people keep buying SUV's and keep burning tons of fuel... After all, it make the economy better, no?
Well, that just means the computer is crashed and non-crashed at the same time. Same for the results: you get to know if they're good only after you submit the paper.
I'm doing my Ph.D. at a mobile robotics lab. Most (all?) of the robots we bought, (either from iRobot or ActivMedia) came with Linux pre-installed. I don't think we could even have Windows if we wanted it. I think this is going to be much more frequent in the future. For things that don't have a display anyway (no we don't have 17" monitors on our robots!) what's the point of running Windows?
That's not what I said. I just said that if there's code in Linux that can't be distributed freely, then NOBODY is allowed to distribute Linux (including SCO) because of the GPL. Of course that's until said code is removed.
I'm just saying that you can't "license" Linux. If you can't distribute freely, under the GPL, then you can't distribute it AT ALL. Of course it's bad for Linux, but there's no way SCO can extort any money out of that and they probably know it.
And that's exactly what SCO wants: get either IBM or MS to buy them. I don't think they have any hope of winning a lawsuit...
I wonder how many of these are blank lines at the end of the file :)
Do you intend at any point to begin offering licenses to Linux users? We would hope as quickly as possible to develop solutions with the industry to allow customers to move forward with whatever platforms they wanted to choose, so long as the appropriate intellectual property foundation is in place.
And I guess they don't even realize that the statement is completely incompatible with the GPL... Linux is Free or it is Not.
Well, Vorbis support is already under way. It'll be announced when Monty is done porting Vorbis to the device.
Wouldn't want to contradict you but methane is CH4 and the reaction is:
CH4 + H2O => CO + 3H2
H2O + CO => CO2 + H2
which means at the end:
CH4 + 2H2O => CO2 + 4H2
see: http://www.howstuffworks.com/fuel-processor2.htm
Just imagine (no, not a beowulf!) someone breaking into the Phoenix site and instructing every HD to wipe itself. Now Nimbda looks like a joke...
Well, it's almost the same because IBM is now so much on Linux that attacking Linux is like attacking IBM (even if the lawsuit is not directed toward IBM).