When they discovered that ball point pens don't work in micro-gravity, NASA spent millions developing one that did.
The Russians, when faced with the same problem used a pencil.
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Red Hat decided to not include mp3 libraries on their OS.
Be paid that $50-60,000 USD needed to include mp3s on its BeOS back in year 2000,
These two comments shows she has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to the mp3 issue. The company that licences the mp3 patent (which I have no hope of even a reasonable spelling of) have recently changed the wording of the licence. They may claim that the intent of the licence hasn't changed but that is completely irrelevant. It's the wording that matters and as it stands RedHat is in a very murky area of the licence which the totally free as in beer distros don't have to worry about. One of these days the open source community is going to realise that good intentions aren't worth shit (as has been proven again and again). If it's not explicitly written down then you may as well start wearing your pants around your ankles and practice bending over.
The second point about Be doesn't apply to RedHat either. The licencing on BeOS was such that if you paid for it then you couldn't redistribute it but if you didn't pay for it then you could. This is allowed by the mp3 licence in that they are only interested if money changes hands and at that point they want some. This allowed Be to buy the unlimited mp3 licence and be done with it.
RedHat can't do this because they can't restrict the redistribution of the software without being in violation of licence and so can't distribute it at all. Also they can't buy the unlimited licence because that is not transferable and only applies to them (so others can't redistribute their distribution, back to square one).
The author seems to think RedHat is in a pretty good financial position and if they are to stay that way then they can't trust the good intentions of PR people and walk into legal minefields and get their arses sued off when it turns out the PR people are full of shit (a rarity but it does happen).
"Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place, and the Itanium is exactly that," said Gordon Bell, a veteran computer designer and a Microsoft researcher."
"That's why here at Microsoft we just rip off everyone elses ideas and release OSs every year"
Personally, I see some games making people more angry and edgy.
The problem isn't the game, it's the anger management issues they have. Getting frustrated when you lose means anything competitive is not going to calm you down.
P.S. Camping with the awp=sniping(fair, and expected). Camping with the mp5=camping(cheap).
The definition of camping has changed since it was first used. Early multiplayer FPS were pretty much everyone against everyone affairs or at best one group of people against another group of people. Winner is the player/team with the most kills. Camping in this situation is lame because it enhances your score without requiring very much skill.
Ever since team games starting getting objectives and ways of winning other than killing the opposing team the rules have changed. You can now win by defending an objective and so what is lame in free for all games is now good tactics. But this only applies to the side that can win by running out the clock. ie counter terrorists in blow stuff up missions or terrorists in protect the VIP mission (guarding the exit routes). If T camp in blow stuff up missions then what the CT should do is just sit tight. They'll eventually win. Sure this makes for boring games but that the Ts fault for not attacking.
The weapon you are using has nothing to do with it.
The GPL allows you to distribute a closed-source modification of a GPL, as long as the distribution is within the organization making the modification. One could argue that by placing beta testers under an NDA, they're making those testers part of their organization. Who knows? Maybe they're giving them membership cards.
Ummm, no. The reason you can distribute GPL code internally in a corporation is (as far as I understand it) because in the eyes of the law the corporation is a person. Giving binary only GPL'd stuff to yourself isn't a violation so distributing around a corporation isn't either.
As for this being a loophole, I think closing it would be a bad thing. Getting Free software on the inside of a company is a Good Thing.
People who use computers at home are only one segment of the market. There's a huge area called the business world where pretty much everyone has a computer as well as somebody to look after it for them. Macs have nearly a zero market share here but linux is ideally suited. Being able (much less required to) admin a work machine is not necessary. If it breaks, call helpdesk and somebody will fix it for you. Of course it's much better if it doesn't break and/or can be fixed by somebody else remotely both of which are pluses for linux over Windows and Mac.
This is the market where linux will gain it's market share and it could quite easily surpass Macs in the near future. The home market will be niche for linux for quite a while but it'll still be there for geeks and family/friends of said.
while other write software for a certain company that changes the direction of computing world wide...
I agree the certain company has changed the direction of computing. Before Microsoft discovered the internet we used to laugh at people who thought you could get a computer virus through email.
Well, you usually hear this as an off-topic troll,...
If the shoe fits...
Linux rarely gets used on big iron.
They may be a reason for that that has nothing to do with linux's stability. Such as maintanence contracts for instance. Companies that sell big iron are very much interested in selling you support for their operating system.
The only time you'll hear about some fast set of machines is in something like a cluster, for non-mission-critical applications.
Such as a render wall in a special effects company? Oh wait, that is mission critical to them.
Anyone who has used Linux for more than a week has had an Ext2 filesystem get corrupted.
Ahhh. Quite an advanced troll we have here. Make an unsubstantiated claim for which one person cannot refute is a great tactical troll.
In my experience (I've been using linux for 5 years now) I've never had an ext2 filesystem become corrupt because of any reason other than power failure and even then I've only ever had to manually intervene in an fsck once and that was to press y a couple of times.
And yes, your example is outdated. Linux has several journalling filesystems now.
... gives you tons of kernel modules that are unuseable.
What would you propose? Linus doesn't control the hardware linux runs on so can't limit the options that way. Auto detect what is the current machine? Kinda makes it hard to compile stuff for a different machine not to mention making modules for hardware that isn't installed yet.
Fact is linux probably supports more hardware than any other operating system other than Windows. NetBSD may support more architectures but linux has more device drivers.
I can't speak for anyone else (although it statistically looks like I do)...
74% of all statistics are made up on the spot so statistically speaking yours are probably among them.
... I don't think Linux has a chance against stable, secure, consistent, high-performance systems.
Say for instance you pulled your head out of your arse for a minute. You may actually realise that without the free nixes, the Real Unix world would be in deep shit. Windows wouldn't have any competition in the low to mid range. Universities are already starting to drop *nix as a teaching plateform and with *nix relegated to the high end this could only happen faster. With generations of IT Professionals only having used Windows it's only a matter of time before the *nix vendors start dropping it and His Billness rules the world.
If nothing else linux is introducing a new generation of computer techies to *nix. It's a shit load cheaper than your Real Unix and despite your pondering (seeing as you admit to not actually using linux) linux is quite stable and reliable.
Unlike the baseball "World" Series, Cricket's World Cup can actually claim more than two competeing countries. There are the top teams, England, Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand and also some newer, not quite so good teams, Kenya, Bandladesh (sp?) Zimbabwe (actual New Zealand probably should be put in the second list:)
A better example would be Aussie Rules Football except that there has never been a "World" anything and it's called "Aussie" rules.
And for the poster above, neither Ireland or Scotland have world class cricket teams. Not sure what they play in Scotland but Ireland play a game called Curling I believe. It's sort of an unusual cross between field hockey, soccer, rugby and war.
[In reference to charging licence fees] For commercially sold decoders - primarily hardware mp3 players
Keyword, "primarily" meaning mostly but not only hardware decoders. Also:
Therefore, there is no change in our licensing policy
Keyword, "policy" meaning yes the licence has changed but our intent currently remains the same.
Basically Thompson have said they currently don't plan to sue anyone making a software decoder but they don't grant you the right to use their patent either. Nobody selling or planning on selling software can use their patent without risk of infringement (and compensation pays triple if you knowingly infringe a patent) and being sued by Thompson in the future.
What some PR flack said doesn't change that. It's only what's in the licence that counts.
Next time, when you post a story that's clearly going to cause paranoia and misunderstanding, try to be a bit more adult about it.
Next time when you are clearing posting to spread misinformation and crap, try posting as you so you can get modded down for it.
Had nothing to do with working together but everything to do with being online. The teacher just threatened to tell their parents what "browser history" was, where to find it and that http://www.goatse.cx/ was not a foreign language site.
BSD wouldn't do it either, because BSD allows the program to be sold, too. What you need is one of those non-free shareware licenses: "You may do whatever you want non-commercially" or "you may not sell this."
A BSD style licence is ok from your point of view as it doesn't restrict what somebody else can do with the code and you don't have to give that guarentee.
I understand that Thompson wants to make money, but their licensing practices wrt free software leave much to be desired.
Free software is now in the same position as MS. MS is currently bitching about governments requiring source code so they can check it and how this is incompatible with their business model. This is the same deal with Open Source.
For the original release. If somebody then sells it as part of another product they have to pay the royalty. It's consistant from an original release point of view (which mp3 encoders/decoders released under GPL aren't) and whoever sells it has to pay for selling it. Unfortunately this doesn't help Red Hat.
Does this mean that open source free ware is still...well...free??
Only for non-profit organisations which unfortunately doesn't include the commercial distros. It will probably include Debian but it may have to be moved into non-free because of the limited use problems.
To put things into perspective, 12ish million of the 19 million people answered some form of Christianity. Now I know quite a few people and nowhere near that proportion of them could call themselves Christian. My parents probably would have answered Christian and they are only religious on Christmas, Easter and when something bad happens.
The fact is if they start going after people who tell lies on this question on the census form they are going to have to go after quite a few more than the 70,000 or so Jedis out there.
An interesting fact (pointed out by Will Anderson of the TripleJ morning show and The Glasshouse on ABC for the Australians in the audience) is that every question where no or none is a valid response, the no or none option was first. Every question that is except the religion question where they had half a dozen Christian options first.
I think what this shows more than anything else is that Australians really don't give a crap about this stuff. It's just something the government makes us do every five years.
"Close enough is good enough if it makes the maths easier". Closely related to the "measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an axe" method of experimentation.
Anyway, I think something called the AU should be measure something a bit more dinkum Aussie. Like the size of Ian Thorpes feet.
The common theory of how man came down from the trees and conquered tha planes with their superior intellect (*bashes chest with tarzan yell*) could well be crap. What appears to be a possibility is that the weakling man was forced into marginal environments and had to adapt to survive. The best candidate for that was living around water.
Humans actually share a lot in common with sea mammals. We can hold our breath, we have a downward pointing nose (useful to prevent your wind pipe filling up with water, unlike other primates), fat bonds to our skin rather than muscle (like other sea mammels and unlike most other land mammals except those that live in very cold climates, bonding to the skin provides better boyancy and keeps you warm), being hairless (much better hydrodynamics) and the odd reflex new borns have when placed in water. They hold their breath and do a breast stroke action. Better chance of survival if they happen to accidently fall into the water.
The Bible, while some may disagree, has never been proven wrong. Even though throughout history, people have tried everything to disprove it, it has overcome.
That is simply because when pushed religious people simply say "you have to have faith" and then ignore everything else you have to say. By the same token it has never been proven right either.
If Evolution is possible, then where are the fossils from all of the missing links between evolutionary stages? That would be proof. Where is it?
So we have two distinct species, a and b (see why animals have big long scientific names yet?) The creationists cry "Where's the missing link?" We find it. The creationists cry "Now were are the two missing links?" We find two more missing links. The creationists cry "What! There are now four missing links? This is just getting more and more unlikely!" Are you seeing the problem yet?
People using this argument aren't looking for missing links, they are looking for a frigging family tree.
Am I to believe that every evolutionary stage between Entity A and Entity B died without leaving a single fossil?
And people who use this argument don't understand how unlikely fossilisation is. To be fossilised an animal not only had to die (a fairly likely occurence), it had to die in such a way that it's bones weren't exposed to the elements, scavengers, bacteria etc. The chances are one in millions if not billions. So yes, it's quite likely a whole group of animals lived and died without leaving a single identifiable fossil.
I think that the theory exists simply because many of us need to find a way to disprove the Bible, so that they can sleep soundly at night thinking that they will not have to answer for their actions to some supreme being.
And I think that religion exists because most people can't believe that life is as pointless as it is. You live, you breed (maybe), you die. Deal with it.
... a dragon-like, fire-breathing, sea monster (dinosaur).
No comment necessary I don't think.
Gee, isn't the great flood a global disaster?
Ahhh, you've hit on something that real science has gone to work on. There's quite a lot of evidence to suggest that the great flood actually happened. Except it wasn't a world wide disaster, it didn't even happen to the ancestors of the Jews and there was no ark. It is most likely the flooding of the Black Sea after the last ice age. When all the ice melted, sea levels rose which left the black sea (which was then fresh water) seperated from the Mediterainian sea by a high dam of mountains. Eventually these gave way and flooded the black sea. The people who fled this kept the stories and became the Assyrians. The Jews got the story from them.
Not exactly a world wide disaster but a good example of how an actual event becomes "biblical".
Dr. Bert Thompson is a brilliant man who has devoted most of his life to the study of scientific "fact" versus Biblical "fact".
That is not research. Research requires you come up with a theory that fits with the evidence and then find more evidence to see if it's correct. If it's not then you throw out the theory and find a new one that better fits with the evidence. Christian "Science" works on the presumption that the bible is correct and then finds evidence to "prove" it. Thing is you can prove anything correct if you ignore enough of the evidence. No, something somebody wrote in a book a couple of thousand years ago cannot explain away the massive body of evidence to support evolution.
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Just tell them what they are doing right and everything else they are doing wrong.
Is triggered because it does contain the virus code (or enough of it for the scanner to recognise it). You have to inject code into the other programs address space and the virus code does something useful. On *nix you would use something that opened up a shell (which would now have root priveleges) but under Windows a shell is about as useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition so he used something else.
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Of course if you'd read the article (specifically the only bit in red, I know it's hard to miss) you'd know this.
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Don't rush into being an adult - you'll get there soon enough, and then you'll be stuck with it.
Growing old is required. Growing up is optional. Become a software engineer and forever be around people who also think nerf guns are ace and other childish traits.
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The Russians, when faced with the same problem used a pencil.
The second point about Be doesn't apply to RedHat either. The licencing on BeOS was such that if you paid for it then you couldn't redistribute it but if you didn't pay for it then you could. This is allowed by the mp3 licence in that they are only interested if money changes hands and at that point they want some. This allowed Be to buy the unlimited mp3 licence and be done with it.
RedHat can't do this because they can't restrict the redistribution of the software without being in violation of licence and so can't distribute it at all. Also they can't buy the unlimited licence because that is not transferable and only applies to them (so others can't redistribute their distribution, back to square one).
The author seems to think RedHat is in a pretty good financial position and if they are to stay that way then they can't trust the good intentions of PR people and walk into legal minefields and get their arses sued off when it turns out the PR people are full of shit (a rarity but it does happen).
Ever since team games starting getting objectives and ways of winning other than killing the opposing team the rules have changed. You can now win by defending an objective and so what is lame in free for all games is now good tactics. But this only applies to the side that can win by running out the clock. ie counter terrorists in blow stuff up missions or terrorists in protect the VIP mission (guarding the exit routes). If T camp in blow stuff up missions then what the CT should do is just sit tight. They'll eventually win. Sure this makes for boring games but that the Ts fault for not attacking.
The weapon you are using has nothing to do with it.
Email me for a licence on "Method and apperatus for disseminating a plurality of absence of content via online bitching servers".
Thanks.
As for this being a loophole, I think closing it would be a bad thing. Getting Free software on the inside of a company is a Good Thing.
This is the market where linux will gain it's market share and it could quite easily surpass Macs in the near future. The home market will be niche for linux for quite a while but it'll still be there for geeks and family/friends of said.
That's inovation for you.
I can destroy a linux workstation with one command:
sudo rm -rf /
OMG! OMG! OMG!
Idiot.
In my experience (I've been using linux for 5 years now) I've never had an ext2 filesystem become corrupt because of any reason other than power failure and even then I've only ever had to manually intervene in an fsck once and that was to press y a couple of times.
And yes, your example is outdated. Linux has several journalling filesystems now.
What would you propose? Linus doesn't control the hardware linux runs on so can't limit the options that way. Auto detect what is the current machine? Kinda makes it hard to compile stuff for a different machine not to mention making modules for hardware that isn't installed yet.Fact is linux probably supports more hardware than any other operating system other than Windows. NetBSD may support more architectures but linux has more device drivers.
74% of all statistics are made up on the spot so statistically speaking yours are probably among them. Say for instance you pulled your head out of your arse for a minute. You may actually realise that without the free nixes, the Real Unix world would be in deep shit. Windows wouldn't have any competition in the low to mid range. Universities are already starting to drop *nix as a teaching plateform and with *nix relegated to the high end this could only happen faster. With generations of IT Professionals only having used Windows it's only a matter of time before the *nix vendors start dropping it and His Billness rules the world.If nothing else linux is introducing a new generation of computer techies to *nix. It's a shit load cheaper than your Real Unix and despite your pondering (seeing as you admit to not actually using linux) linux is quite stable and reliable.
You sir are a troll.
A better example would be Aussie Rules Football except that there has never been a "World" anything and it's called "Aussie" rules.
And for the poster above, neither Ireland or Scotland have world class cricket teams. Not sure what they play in Scotland but Ireland play a game called Curling I believe. It's sort of an unusual cross between field hockey, soccer, rugby and war.
I think we have an unwitting participant here.
Basically Thompson have said they currently don't plan to sue anyone making a software decoder but they don't grant you the right to use their patent either. Nobody selling or planning on selling software can use their patent without risk of infringement (and compensation pays triple if you knowingly infringe a patent) and being sued by Thompson in the future.
What some PR flack said doesn't change that. It's only what's in the licence that counts.
Next time when you are clearing posting to spread misinformation and crap, try posting as you so you can get modded down for it.Had nothing to do with working together but everything to do with being online. The teacher just threatened to tell their parents what "browser history" was, where to find it and that http://www.goatse.cx/ was not a foreign language site.
For the original release. If somebody then sells it as part of another product they have to pay the royalty. It's consistant from an original release point of view (which mp3 encoders/decoders released under GPL aren't) and whoever sells it has to pay for selling it. Unfortunately this doesn't help Red Hat.
The fact is if they start going after people who tell lies on this question on the census form they are going to have to go after quite a few more than the 70,000 or so Jedis out there.
An interesting fact (pointed out by Will Anderson of the TripleJ morning show and The Glasshouse on ABC for the Australians in the audience) is that every question where no or none is a valid response, the no or none option was first. Every question that is except the religion question where they had half a dozen Christian options first.
I think what this shows more than anything else is that Australians really don't give a crap about this stuff. It's just something the government makes us do every five years.
Anyway, I think something called the AU should be measure something a bit more dinkum Aussie. Like the size of Ian Thorpes feet.
Humans actually share a lot in common with sea mammals. We can hold our breath, we have a downward pointing nose (useful to prevent your wind pipe filling up with water, unlike other primates), fat bonds to our skin rather than muscle (like other sea mammels and unlike most other land mammals except those that live in very cold climates, bonding to the skin provides better boyancy and keeps you warm), being hairless (much better hydrodynamics) and the odd reflex new borns have when placed in water. They hold their breath and do a breast stroke action. Better chance of survival if they happen to accidently fall into the water.
People using this argument aren't looking for missing links, they are looking for a frigging family tree.
And people who use this argument don't understand how unlikely fossilisation is. To be fossilised an animal not only had to die (a fairly likely occurence), it had to die in such a way that it's bones weren't exposed to the elements, scavengers, bacteria etc. The chances are one in millions if not billions. So yes, it's quite likely a whole group of animals lived and died without leaving a single identifiable fossil. And I think that religion exists because most people can't believe that life is as pointless as it is. You live, you breed (maybe), you die. Deal with it. No comment necessary I don't think. Ahhh, you've hit on something that real science has gone to work on. There's quite a lot of evidence to suggest that the great flood actually happened. Except it wasn't a world wide disaster, it didn't even happen to the ancestors of the Jews and there was no ark. It is most likely the flooding of the Black Sea after the last ice age. When all the ice melted, sea levels rose which left the black sea (which was then fresh water) seperated from the Mediterainian sea by a high dam of mountains. Eventually these gave way and flooded the black sea. The people who fled this kept the stories and became the Assyrians. The Jews got the story from them.Not exactly a world wide disaster but a good example of how an actual event becomes "biblical".
That is not research. Research requires you come up with a theory that fits with the evidence and then find more evidence to see if it's correct. If it's not then you throw out the theory and find a new one that better fits with the evidence. Christian "Science" works on the presumption that the bible is correct and then finds evidence to "prove" it. Thing is you can prove anything correct if you ignore enough of the evidence. No, something somebody wrote in a book a couple of thousand years ago cannot explain away the massive body of evidence to support evolution.Just tell them what they are doing right and everything else they are doing wrong.
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Of course if you'd read the article (specifically the only bit in red, I know it's hard to miss) you'd know this.
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