As I understand it, nobody claims that contributing to a GPL project means forfeiting your copyright (now, some projects request that you do so before they accept your patches, a practice which I disagree with but is rather unrelated to licensing I think). In fact, it should be perfectly legitimate to make patches for a GPL project that are licensed entirely differently.e
The issue of licensing comes up when you begin to distribute your code with their code, in which case you need to abide by the distribution license of whatever you're distributing.
Again, correct me if I'm wrong. I personally prefer to usually not really get involved with this crap, much too emotional.
I believe the short story that you're refering too is part of Accelerando. The part that always stood out best in my mind was the motorized combat boots the one guy had, and the sentient lobsters that acted as computers or something...
I remember it being in a collection entitled something like "Best Sci-Fi of 2004" (or something to that effect, forget the year too) Good story though:)
If you believe your local religious nutball, it will be sooner than that. 2012 (for those confused in their religiosity, mixing Mayan and Christian myth)
Judging by his wording, I'd say he's implying "most" breeds. Sounds to me he isn't really making a blanket statement about domesticated dogs in general, but is merely stating that most breeds of dogs have smaller brains (which may or may not be true, I'm not a dog expert).
The biggest problem with aging materials is their propensity to leak. Take your mother, for example. When I first met her, she was in her 60's and had an ass like a drum. But after a decade of giving her the old backdoor to and fro, she now leaks like a sieve. I'd recommend taking her to get fitted for a colostomy bag, but that's your family's business, not mine.
As a KDE user I can say that Konqueror sucks hard for modern webbrowsing and uses the KHTML engine instead of Webkit. I strongly advocate anyone using KDE use Arora, the difference in propering rendering alone is worth it.
As to why Opera was listed and Konqueror wasn't I can't say. I'd guess though it has something to do with the authors probably deciding there was a good reason Konqueror wasn't popular;)
It's good to see Arora getting some more attention now. I've been using it now for more than half a year and I must say it's the first webbrowser I have actually liked in several. I would definetly consider it the best OSS webbrowser on linux right now, particularly if you're running KDE (although Arora is desktop agnostic, it is Qt). I've been fed up with Firefox's bloat (ever try comparing Firefox and Seamonkey these days? Guess which is heavier...) for some time and Arora is a nice change from that.
It's good to see Arora getting some more attention now. I've been using it now for more than half a year and I must say it's the first webbrowser I have actually liked in several. I would definetly consider it the best OSS webbrowser on linux right now, particularly if you're running KDE (although Arora is desktop agnostic, it is Qt). I've been fed up with Firefox's bloat (ever try comparing Firefox and Seamonkey these days? Guess which is heavier...) for some time and Arora is a nice change from that.
Not to mention making a reasonably UNIX compliant operating system.
It's not just "reasonably UNIX compliant", it is officially UNIX. (Disclaimer: I hate Apple about as much as anyone could and don't own any of their products, but still give them credit where due;))
if it cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop, then spending $10K to get it patented (or whatever amount is appropriate) would be worth it. If you only spent $1000 to produce it, the dang thing shouldn't be patented anyway.
That's absurd. That would limiting the use of the patent system to large companies (the guys currently abusing the system) and completely destroy the notion of the independant inventor. Brilliant and patentable ideas don't have to be expensive.
Their DNS Hijacking is Opt-out, no different from Comcast's. The service as a whole may be opt-in but in a discussion about DNS hijacking, mentioning OpenDNS as a good alternative is offtopic at best.
So I mixed up the details a bit, but it'll still be a pain in the ass for laptop users (using their dynamic-update client imho is still a pain in the ass).
DNS hijacking isn't evil because the companies that do it is evil. It's evil because it breaks standards, and therefore breaks all sorts of other crap.
It doesn't matter what company does it, it's still fucked up. To suggest that OpenDNS breaking standards is any better than Comcast breaking standards is just plain stupid and clearly missing the point entirely.
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Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Really, there is no good excuse to not be using PNG these days.
Won't this make my hobby of scanning folded pieces of paper harder?
Yeah, because GPS coordinates are really relevant to crash data...
As I understand it, nobody claims that contributing to a GPL project means forfeiting your copyright (now, some projects request that you do so before they accept your patches, a practice which I disagree with but is rather unrelated to licensing I think). In fact, it should be perfectly legitimate to make patches for a GPL project that are licensed entirely differently.e
The issue of licensing comes up when you begin to distribute your code with their code, in which case you need to abide by the distribution license of whatever you're distributing.
Again, correct me if I'm wrong. I personally prefer to usually not really get involved with this crap, much too emotional.
I think the collection was part of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year's_Best_Science_Fiction I'm not sure which year though.
I believe the short story that you're refering too is part of Accelerando. The part that always stood out best in my mind was the motorized combat boots the one guy had, and the sentient lobsters that acted as computers or something...
I remember it being in a collection entitled something like "Best Sci-Fi of 2004" (or something to that effect, forget the year too) Good story though :)
VT extensions work with my T60p, though it's of course disabled by default in the BIOS (that is the sane default...)
It'd be lame as hell if T400's really couldn't enable it.
There's a Dinosaur Comics for that!
(Today's comic actually, and very very relevant. :)
they tend to have a larger
Judging by his wording, I'd say he's implying "most" breeds. Sounds to me he isn't really making a blanket statement about domesticated dogs in general, but is merely stating that most breeds of dogs have smaller brains (which may or may not be true, I'm not a dog expert).
BadAnalogyGuy, you are officially my hero.
Just the "Deductive Reasoning" award of the week, congrats! ;P
No really, this is offtopic, posted to the wrong article.
As a KDE user I can say that Konqueror sucks hard for modern webbrowsing and uses the KHTML engine instead of Webkit. I strongly advocate anyone using KDE use Arora, the difference in propering rendering alone is worth it.
As to why Opera was listed and Konqueror wasn't I can't say. I'd guess though it has something to do with the authors probably deciding there was a good reason Konqueror wasn't popular ;)
It's good to see Arora getting some more attention now. I've been using it now for more than half a year and I must say it's the first webbrowser I have actually liked in several. I would definetly consider it the best OSS webbrowser on linux right now, particularly if you're running KDE (although Arora is desktop agnostic, it is Qt). I've been fed up with Firefox's bloat (ever try comparing Firefox and Seamonkey these days? Guess which is heavier...) for some time and Arora is a nice change from that.
It's good to see Arora getting some more attention now. I've been using it now for more than half a year and I must say it's the first webbrowser I have actually liked in several. I would definetly consider it the best OSS webbrowser on linux right now, particularly if you're running KDE (although Arora is desktop agnostic, it is Qt). I've been fed up with Firefox's bloat (ever try comparing Firefox and Seamonkey these days? Guess which is heavier...) for some time and Arora is a nice change from that.
So you're saying that steering wheels are a design flaw of cars because of car accidents?
It's not just "reasonably UNIX compliant", it is officially UNIX. (Disclaimer: I hate Apple about as much as anyone could and don't own any of their products, but still give them credit where due ;))
As any semi-competent C programmer will tell you, that's a feature.
if it cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop, then spending $10K to get it patented (or whatever amount is appropriate) would be worth it. If you only spent $1000 to produce it, the dang thing shouldn't be patented anyway.
That's absurd. That would limiting the use of the patent system to large companies (the guys currently abusing the system) and completely destroy the notion of the independant inventor. Brilliant and patentable ideas don't have to be expensive.
It might not be fair, but that doesn't change the fact that physics isn't a better, more scientific science.
Even by your metric, OpenDNS is still doing the "bad" kind of DNS hijacking.
In addition to doing their stupid malware stuff, they also return their "search" page instead of NXDOMAIN.
You know, that's the best damned idea I've heard of in a long time...
Their DNS Hijacking is Opt-out, no different from Comcast's. The service as a whole may be opt-in but in a discussion about DNS hijacking, mentioning OpenDNS as a good alternative is offtopic at best.
So I mixed up the details a bit, but it'll still be a pain in the ass for laptop users (using their dynamic-update client imho is still a pain in the ass).
DNS hijacking isn't evil because the companies that do it is evil. It's evil because it breaks standards, and therefore breaks all sorts of other crap.
It doesn't matter what company does it, it's still fucked up. To suggest that OpenDNS breaking standards is any better than Comcast breaking standards is just plain stupid and clearly missing the point entirely.