My two most important tools are a label writer and a knife. The latter to open boxes, tape and cable holders with. The former should be fairly obvious.
I use these more than screwdrivers,
Legally, they could very well be seen as a transcript of a performance, which might be a form of IP infringement. In real life, however, it is ridiculous. To go to class means for a teacher to share information with students. That fact is taken for granted by all who would teach or learn anything. But maybe it's been taken for granted to the point where there is no law regulating it. Quite an interesting problem.
I don't recall there being a part of the GPL that says you have to put your source on a web server. If they send it to you upon contacting them that would suffice, right?
Yeah, it's the latest fetish for swedish IP fanatics. Except that noone can give you licenses for *all* you can download of the net (well, government could, but they won't, as they are mafiaa puppets just like everyone else), uploading will still be illegal (so if people followed the law, the system wouldn't work) and the money will be distributed to all the wrong people (sortof like STIM, if you know what that is).
Many people today state "insufficient hardware support" as a major disadvantage of linux.
While I don't quite agree with them on internal hardware (where, as opposed to windows, things usually "just work"), let's for the sake of discussion say that that's so. This is not the linux developers' fault. indeed, they have done a great deal of work to get hardware working where microsoft would just say "install the drivers from the included CD"
Windows has the major market share, so most hardware companies will only spend money on creating windows drivers.
Windows does not have superior hardware support. It has superior popularity. This will hopefully change in time, but until then, the best thing to do is to get more linux people and write/RE drivers.
Lasers are probably our best shot at stopping these missles
Except that defense against nuclear missiles upsets the nuclear balance of power. I wouldn't trust any nuke-armed contry with such an advantage.
Of course, sooner or later, every contry worth blowing up will have it, and then maybe we could talk about getting rid of most of the nukes in the world,
but the immediate danger is one contry with nukes and no way to strike at them. At that point, it won't matter wether it's a commie terrorist dictatorship, your favorite EU state or the USA, enough power will turn anyone bad. I can only hope that this technology is developed in several countries at the same time.
Posts like these sometimes make me confused. I've administered Linux and Windows boxes, and while the windows ones break, get infected, fail to install, reboot spontaneously and BSOD (legal upgraded WinXPSP2), the Linux boxes run forever, simple to update, maintain and extend. And that's using Portage, the single most buggy and failure-prone package-distribution platform there is. Compared to that, APT is the stuff of gods. I've seen people with no linux experience pick up ubuntu, try it and fall for it. Actually, it seems easier to get non-computer-oriented people to like linux. Why could that be? Could it possibly be that it takes time to learn Windows as well? computer noobs learn whatever interface you throw at them, while powerpoint-geeks yell 'Where is the Start menu?'.
Granted, building your own kernel requires some hardware knowledge, some time, guts and a few attempts the first time you do it, but try modifying NTKRNL. It's just not that simple. Further more, if you've gone through one of the lib-etc-opt-var maze to find what links where and what reads what, take a little time with the windows registry. Makes me want to kill myself every time. You might say: But that's the beauty of Windows! Most users just want an enviroment where everything comes with a default behaviour that just works(TM). Here, I'd say that it doesn't and you'll probably say that it does, but going back to the subject: This is what Ubuntu is.
Ubuntu is an effort to create that environment where you get a default full-featured graphical interface that just works. The project might still be far away from their goal (for example, the driver for radeon cards > 9250 needs to be fixed, or replaced by FGLRX), but it's a move in the right direction.
To this you say: Linux is not yet ready for desktop use.
this has always filled me with sadness. shure, X is bloated and memory hungry. But normal people with overpowered hardware won't notice this. Shure it takes time and effort to learn how to use xterm, shure the graphical tools for configuring and using the system have some way yet to go, but if we don't give linux to theese beginners, how will we ever know what to improve? Simple installing is created by assigning "dpkg -i" or "rpm -i" to open package files, prompting for a password (maybe one would have to write a graphical version of SU or SUDO, or steal the existing ones from fedora/ubuntu. The mentality is improved by filling the community with beginners, so that when somebody asks a simple question, there will always be those who don't think it's stupid.
Oh, and please stop with the "I'm hated, so I'll get modded down" attitude. You're currently at (3, Insightful), which doen't reflect any hostility at all in my eyes. There was a time when/. was only linux fanatics. That time has long passed, and the massive amount of people who complain about it are proof.
I'd say it's the other way around. When quality decreases, people feel less obliged to pay.
and concerning pirates: You're wrong. Most pirates that I know think constantly of how the artist should be rewarded. It's just that paying $30 only to have $9 of it go into hunting down their friens. $9 of it going into corrupting democracy, and $10 going to people who run a DEPRECATED distribution method, only so that the artist could recieve $2 or less is a joke.
Paying record companies for music is imoral. If you get the chance to pay artists directly for their music, then by all means, do so. But remember: every time you pay the RIAA guys for a piece of music, God kills a kitten.
If they only release EXEs, they break the GPL. you must supply the sources of the OSS you've used. That is one of the reasons apple built their OS from BSD instead of Linux.
as for what Microsoft's aim is, I have no idea. GPL is a hard nut to crack, seeing as how any changes they make must be positive, or will never be accepted.
To have a say in the developement of OSS, what you do must be positive for the project. That's the overwhelming beuaty of the Open Source model.
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My two most important tools are a label writer and a knife. The latter to open boxes, tape and cable holders with. The former should be fairly obvious. I use these more than screwdrivers,
Legally, they could very well be seen as a transcript of a performance, which might be a form of IP infringement. In real life, however, it is ridiculous. To go to class means for a teacher to share information with students. That fact is taken for granted by all who would teach or learn anything. But maybe it's been taken for granted to the point where there is no law regulating it. Quite an interesting problem.
I don't recall there being a part of the GPL that says you have to put your source on a web server. If they send it to you upon contacting them that would suffice, right?
That would give an exponential gain in the cpu time it takes to break it, right?
15M^2=2.25*10^14.
Shouln't be that hard to implement either.
Yeah, it's the latest fetish for swedish IP fanatics. Except that noone can give you licenses for *all* you can download of the net (well, government could, but they won't, as they are mafiaa puppets just like everyone else), uploading will still be illegal (so if people followed the law, the system wouldn't work) and the money will be distributed to all the wrong people (sortof like STIM, if you know what that is).
Broadband tax is not a solution, sorry.
Many people today state "insufficient hardware support" as a major disadvantage of linux.
While I don't quite agree with them on internal hardware (where, as opposed to windows, things usually "just work"), let's for the sake of discussion say that that's so.
This is not the linux developers' fault. indeed, they have done a great deal of work to get hardware working where microsoft would just say "install the drivers from the included CD"
Windows has the major market share, so most hardware companies will only spend money on creating windows drivers.
Windows does not have superior hardware support. It has superior popularity. This will hopefully change in time, but until then, the best thing to do is to get more linux people and write/RE drivers.
...the original, that is.
Of course it's not the only way! They could always supply pirated Windows copies.
Posts like these sometimes make me confused. I've administered Linux and Windows boxes, and while the windows ones break, get infected, fail to install, reboot spontaneously and BSOD (legal upgraded WinXPSP2), the Linux boxes run forever, simple to update, maintain and extend. And that's using Portage, the single most buggy and failure-prone package-distribution platform there is. Compared to that, APT is the stuff of gods. I've seen people with no linux experience pick up ubuntu, try it and fall for it. Actually, it seems easier to get non-computer-oriented people to like linux. Why could that be? Could it possibly be that it takes time to learn Windows as well? computer noobs learn whatever interface you throw at them, while powerpoint-geeks yell 'Where is the Start menu?'. Granted, building your own kernel requires some hardware knowledge, some time, guts and a few attempts the first time you do it, but try modifying NTKRNL. It's just not that simple. Further more, if you've gone through one of the lib-etc-opt-var maze to find what links where and what reads what, take a little time with the windows registry. Makes me want to kill myself every time. You might say: But that's the beauty of Windows! Most users just want an enviroment where everything comes with a default behaviour that just works(TM). Here, I'd say that it doesn't and you'll probably say that it does, but going back to the subject: This is what Ubuntu is. Ubuntu is an effort to create that environment where you get a default full-featured graphical interface that just works. The project might still be far away from their goal (for example, the driver for radeon cards > 9250 needs to be fixed, or replaced by FGLRX), but it's a move in the right direction. To this you say: Linux is not yet ready for desktop use. this has always filled me with sadness. shure, X is bloated and memory hungry. But normal people with overpowered hardware won't notice this. Shure it takes time and effort to learn how to use xterm, shure the graphical tools for configuring and using the system have some way yet to go, but if we don't give linux to theese beginners, how will we ever know what to improve? Simple installing is created by assigning "dpkg -i" or "rpm -i" to open package files, prompting for a password (maybe one would have to write a graphical version of SU or SUDO, or steal the existing ones from fedora/ubuntu. The mentality is improved by filling the community with beginners, so that when somebody asks a simple question, there will always be those who don't think it's stupid. Oh, and please stop with the "I'm hated, so I'll get modded down" attitude. You're currently at (3, Insightful), which doen't reflect any hostility at all in my eyes. There was a time when /. was only linux fanatics. That time has long passed, and the massive amount of people who complain about it are proof.
I'd say it's the other way around. When quality decreases, people feel less obliged to pay. and concerning pirates: You're wrong. Most pirates that I know think constantly of how the artist should be rewarded. It's just that paying $30 only to have $9 of it go into hunting down their friens. $9 of it going into corrupting democracy, and $10 going to people who run a DEPRECATED distribution method, only so that the artist could recieve $2 or less is a joke. Paying record companies for music is imoral. If you get the chance to pay artists directly for their music, then by all means, do so. But remember: every time you pay the RIAA guys for a piece of music, God kills a kitten.
If they only release EXEs, they break the GPL.
you must supply the sources of the OSS you've used.
That is one of the reasons apple built their OS from BSD instead of Linux.
as for what Microsoft's aim is, I have no idea. GPL is a hard nut to crack,
seeing as how any changes they make must be positive, or will never be accepted.
To have a say in the developement of OSS, what you do must be positive for the
project. That's the overwhelming beuaty of the Open Source model.