Linus sometimes sounds like an asshole, but I think he has a point. There are basically two rights we want to preserved: 1, The right to see, modify and distribute source code. Every users of the software should have it. 2, The right to install modified software on a piece of hardware. The owner of that piece of hardware should enjoy it. GPLv2 only deals with right #1, but GPLv3 also deals with right #2. This is where it steps out of bound of what a copyright licence should do. I hate DRM as much as RMS do, but I think GPLv3 either place onerous burden to the hardware vender (think about some hardware that do not have reporgrammability at all) or is hard to enforce (the two entities situation).
High quality analog filter (usually SAW filters) is bulky, expensive, and have other complication well. In the RF industry, people are going through all the trouble to eliminate every one of them.
How about, err, just run all the applications on the same box if you really want to consolidate them? You know, a (well designed) application can be moved with minimal disrruption as well? The only point I can see is for proprietary softwares that have really annoying requirements and do not play well with others. For well designed free softwares virtualization does not give you much.
How do I get a zebra to make out with a hyena?
Seriously, mixing free software with proprietary software is painful. You better make some well defined boundary to somewhat isolate the two worlds.
Well, if you do not research on yourself you tend to forget how to do it very soon. Also please remember no one is obligated to help you in the first place, so if you can do some research by yourself first, then you are more likely to ask intelligent questions and the chances of getting help is much higher because intelligent questions benefit the people you asked too.
I don't think it has anything to do with linux or software at all; it is only about whether you simply want to get things done or to learn how to do it. If you simply want to get the thing done just pay someone to do it for you for god's sake.
Small correction:
One inverter cannot oscillate. Think of it this way: An inverter must have some delay by itself, so the phase shift from input to the output must be higher than 180 degree. However, it can never reach 360 degree too; otherwise it is not a inverter anymore. So the minimum number is 3, with each stage shifting the phase by 240 dgree for a total of 720 degree shift to complete the circle.
You underestimated CCP. CCP is changing too; When its transformation is complete, it will just take all the credit from the actual freedom fighters and claim it invented free speech.
I don't think convincing the PHBs to use free software is as big a problem as a few years back; just show them the number (money saved). A bigger problem I can see is the management do not want to give anything back to the community; they just want to be a leech for as long as possible. For example, in where I work, we are not allowed to contribute the local mod we made to some free software back to the community.
Note: local private mod is permited in GPL.
I thought the molecule of oxygen (O2) is not polarized, so it should not absorb EM wave at any frequency by resonance? H2O and CO2 are polarized, and they obsorb 2.45GHz and 915MHz respectively.
My chemistry is rusty though.
Slavery was dying a long painful death in many parts of the world since more than a thousand years ago. The achievement of western civilization was reviving slavery by creating a huge market (America) then covering up a few hundred years later.
Strange, I am Chinese and speak several dialects nontheless, I still don't know what are you talking about. Given the fact that the Chinese language has internal variations that rival the whole Latin family, I wouldn't be surprised though; if you want to play the game, most Chinese names (or any name) can be transliterated into something that has derogatory meaning in some dialect of Chinese. I didn't grow up in America and I don't feel offended by the word "chink", however I wouldn't blame someone of being overly sensitive if (s)he were repeatly teased by this word during the childhood.
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Linus sometimes sounds like an asshole, but I think he has a point. There are basically two rights we want to preserved:
1, The right to see, modify and distribute source code. Every users of the software should have it.
2, The right to install modified software on a piece of hardware. The owner of that piece of hardware should enjoy it.
GPLv2 only deals with right #1, but GPLv3 also deals with right #2. This is where it steps out of bound of what a copyright licence should do.
I hate DRM as much as RMS do, but I think GPLv3 either place onerous burden to the hardware vender (think about some hardware that do not have reporgrammability at all) or is hard to enforce (the two entities situation).
High quality analog filter (usually SAW filters) is bulky, expensive, and have other complication well. In the RF industry, people are going through all the trouble to eliminate every one of them.
How about, err, just run all the applications on the same box if you really want to consolidate them? You know, a (well designed) application can be moved with minimal disrruption as well?
The only point I can see is for proprietary softwares that have really annoying requirements and do not play well with others. For well designed free softwares virtualization does not give you much.
How do I get a zebra to make out with a hyena? Seriously, mixing free software with proprietary software is painful. You better make some well defined boundary to somewhat isolate the two worlds.
Well, if you do not research on yourself you tend to forget how to do it very soon. Also please remember no one is obligated to help you in the first place, so if you can do some research by yourself first, then you are more likely to ask intelligent questions and the chances of getting help is much higher because intelligent questions benefit the people you asked too. I don't think it has anything to do with linux or software at all; it is only about whether you simply want to get things done or to learn how to do it. If you simply want to get the thing done just pay someone to do it for you for god's sake.
Small correction: One inverter cannot oscillate. Think of it this way: An inverter must have some delay by itself, so the phase shift from input to the output must be higher than 180 degree. However, it can never reach 360 degree too; otherwise it is not a inverter anymore. So the minimum number is 3, with each stage shifting the phase by 240 dgree for a total of 720 degree shift to complete the circle.
You underestimated CCP. CCP is changing too; When its transformation is complete, it will just take all the credit from the actual freedom fighters and claim it invented free speech.
I don't think convincing the PHBs to use free software is as big a problem as a few years back; just show them the number (money saved). A bigger problem I can see is the management do not want to give anything back to the community; they just want to be a leech for as long as possible. For example, in where I work, we are not allowed to contribute the local mod we made to some free software back to the community.
Note: local private mod is permited in GPL.
I thought the molecule of oxygen (O2) is not polarized, so it should not absorb EM wave at any frequency by resonance? H2O and CO2 are polarized, and they obsorb 2.45GHz and 915MHz respectively. My chemistry is rusty though.
Slavery was dying a long painful death in many parts of the world since more than a thousand years ago. The achievement of western civilization was reviving slavery by creating a huge market (America) then covering up a few hundred years later.
Strange, I am Chinese and speak several dialects nontheless, I still don't know what are you talking about. Given the fact that the Chinese language has internal variations that rival the whole Latin family, I wouldn't be surprised though; if you want to play the game, most Chinese names (or any name) can be transliterated into something that has derogatory meaning in some dialect of Chinese.
I didn't grow up in America and I don't feel offended by the word "chink", however I wouldn't blame someone of being overly sensitive if (s)he were repeatly teased by this word during the childhood.