Not yet. I'll wait a while and see if that rumour about pre-installed linux HD kits is true. Then wait a bit longer for someone to port Python and Pygame. Then wait a bit for the price to come down.
Then, I'll maybe get one. But I might not *buy* a lot of PS3 games.
... or I end up having to add additional validation after submit.
Of course you ALWAYS use server-side validation, don't you? Client-side validation is a convenience for the user so they don't have to wait for another page to load when they enter something wrongly. It's not to be trusted.
I totally agree, but I worry that Spielberg is not going to give a film version of War of the Worlds any depth whatsoever. Plus, he won't set it in Victorian England (or my God, I hope he doesn't if Cruise has to do an accent!).
As for meeting a more 'fun' enemy, my hope would be for someone to get around to making a film set in the universe of David Brin's 'Uplift' novels, or Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'.
I hear Greg Bear's 'Forge of God' is destined to become a (possibly sucky) film, but if I had a few million to spend, I'd personally pay to have them shrink it to a 10-minute prologue of the much better 'Anvil of the Stars'.
We havent even SEEN the "evidence" yet. what if SCO really does have a case, and they suddenly start suing every colo firm that runs linux?
Erm, this has got to be a joke? OK, maybe you've been spending a lot of "quality time" with yourself under your bridge and have only just noticed that something's going on outside. When you get a moment, click over to Groklaw and bone up on some facts, if you like.
But really, don't try to convince anyone that a CEO would be in his right mind to make a decision with as much potential downside, and no discernible upside, using reasoning so vacuous.
So... what does the general pornographic license stipulate? You must offer for download the script for the implausible dialogue as a text file and the cheesy background music as an ABC or lilypond source file?
It's maybe more to do with the court of public opinion than a court of law.
Legally speaking, SCO have a valid license to distribute nmap - the GPL.
If (and this is a big if) enough challenges from developers of GPL software force SCO to admit that the GPL is valid, it will make them look even more confused than they already do. And maybe a few investors might hear what's going on too.
In the courts of course, their stance on the GPL will not last a day's hard scrutiny anyway.
Assuming you are using Linux this is probably easy.
How about this...
dd if=/dev/dvdrom of=/some/file/somewhere.dvd
Then mount the raw file on/mnt/dvdloop (say) using the loopback device. It will look like a DVD filing system, in other words, like a DVD drive.
Then point ogle or whatever other DVD viewing software there instead of the real DVD drive, and you're laughing. Menus and everything, but from the HD.
(This is more or less what I did with Masters of Orion II so I could play it under WINE without having to have the game CD in the drive.)
I hadn't heard that to be so. Mind you the walrus has been known to 'play with itself' up against the window of its enclosure. Is that sort of behaviour so controversial in Florida, though?
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Right you are.
But anyone holding SCO stock and expecting it to still be worth much after Friday is delusional.
For rational, informed speculation about what might happen at the hearing on the 6th, go read Groklaw.
Besides my digital camera cost only $200 last year, and since then I've never paid for film or developing, but I've had great fun messing with the photos on my own computer. Now why the hell would you pay someone else for access to your own work, even if they gave you the camera for free? It's stupid.
I hope no other companies try to enter the same market - it would mean that they have no respect for the intelligence or ownership rights of their potential customers.
My current solution (since I'm in the shell as often as the desktop) is to run popcheck before downloading my mail. I just look at the subject lines and mark all the obvious spams (detected by the neural net between my ears) for deletion, and if there are any left I run Mozilla to read them. Most of the junk doesn't even get downloaded from the server...
Well I guess you have to mention features that the vast majority of computer users don't use if they are features Windows lacks. If you will pardon the expression - duh! A couple of those mentioned are so genuinely useful that I doubt you can honestly disparage them from a position of understanding.
Ironically, your.sig calls for a group of geeks to stand up for what they believe in. Note that the Debian project is just that, and Debian has probably the most consistently well-thought out policy for where and how everything gets installed. The only problem is, it's different from everyone else's. Still, it works. If what you were suggesting is all Linux distributions aim for compliance with Debian policy, I'm behind you all the way. Or ahead of you, whatever;)
I also remember a Bruce Sterling story where there was a distributed untraceable organised attack on a bank or something. Like the flash mob thing only much nastier.
Hmm - now I couldn't possibly condone such a thing, but if IBM fails to take out SCO legally, I wonder...
BTW. under UK anti-terrorist laws I had better make that clearer. It would be a terrible bad thing for 1000 criminals to just turn up in Utah one day and destroy a certain office within 10 minutes, then disappear without trace. I for one would want no part in such a thing, and I think we should all be told what date it is not going to happen, so we can all stay away and not be involved in it;-)
I don't know that we need one specific site to register prior art, but maybe we need to evangelise another benefit of opening your source code, for those of us who work in industries other than shrink-wrapped software:
If your useful in-house software is published on the web (or even just parts of it - no need to give away all your latest innovations to your competitors) you have protected it from future patent attacks by making it prior art.
This is not ideology any more - it's due diligence. There is literally no more cost-effective way of defending yourself.
And since nobody will be able to apply for software patents until after the law passes, the time to get the prior art out there is NOW. If you try to do the same with defensive patents, it will cost you big time and you can't even start until it may already be too late - some predator may have got there first.
Now don't let's have anyone whining that you can't fight a patent suit by finding prior art because the big software companies have more money than you. Remember - this is Europe we are talking about, not the US. In many EU countries it may be perfectly possible to defend against litigation without having deeper pockets than your opponent - as long as the facts are on your side.
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Not yet. I'll wait a while and see if that rumour about pre-installed linux HD kits is true. Then wait a bit longer for someone to port Python and Pygame. Then wait a bit for the price to come down.
Then, I'll maybe get one. But I might not *buy* a lot of PS3 games.
Indeed.
Numquat, no longer do the dance of joy! Do the dance of shame!
Erm, no.. floating point numbers do exactly what floating point binary numbers are supposed to do.
If this is just about 0.1 being printed out as
0.10000000000000001 well, just format it for goodness' sake.
>>> print "%.6f" % 0.1
0.100000
>>> print str(0.1)
0.1
Of course you ALWAYS use server-side validation, don't you? Client-side validation is a convenience for the user so they don't have to wait for another page to load when they enter something wrongly. It's not to be trusted.
subject says it all...
Well, read between the lines. I assumed he meant "if your program is free software, that aspect of it (i.e. its license) is ethical".
:)
Or just mentally delete all sentences containing the word "basically" and everything you read will be more concise and seem more well thought out.
One question: you read slashdot, and you complain about the effort of reading the articles? WTF?
No, only round tomatoes. Plum tomatoes are oval, therefore they must be planetoids.
I totally agree, but I worry that Spielberg is not going to give a film version of War of the Worlds any depth whatsoever. Plus, he won't set it in Victorian England (or my God, I hope he doesn't if Cruise has to do an accent!).
As for meeting a more 'fun' enemy, my hope would be for someone to get around to making a film set in the universe of David Brin's 'Uplift' novels, or Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'.
I hear Greg Bear's 'Forge of God' is destined to become a (possibly sucky) film, but if I had a few million to spend, I'd personally pay to have them shrink it to a 10-minute prologue of the much better 'Anvil of the Stars'.
Oh well.
But really, don't try to convince anyone that a CEO would be in his right mind to make a decision with as much potential downside, and no discernible upside, using reasoning so vacuous.
So... what does the general pornographic license stipulate? You must offer for download the script for the implausible dialogue as a text file and the cheesy background music as an ABC or lilypond source file?
Er.. not that I know anything about porn.
It's maybe more to do with the court of public opinion than a court of law.
Legally speaking, SCO have a valid license to distribute nmap - the GPL.
If (and this is a big if) enough challenges from developers of GPL software force SCO to admit that the GPL is valid, it will make them look even more confused than they already do. And maybe a few investors might hear what's going on too.
In the courts of course, their stance on the GPL will not last a day's hard scrutiny anyway.
chotto chigaimasu ga, rinukusu deshou ne?
Assuming you are using Linux this is probably easy.
/mnt/dvdloop (say) using the loopback device. It will look like a DVD filing system, in other words, like a DVD drive.
How about this...
dd if=/dev/dvdrom of=/some/file/somewhere.dvd
Then mount the raw file on
Then point ogle or whatever other DVD viewing software there instead of the real DVD drive, and you're laughing. Menus and everything, but from the HD.
(This is more or less what I did with Masters of Orion II so I could play it under WINE without having to have the game CD in the drive.)
Right you are.
But anyone holding SCO stock and expecting it to still be worth much after Friday is delusional.
For rational, informed speculation about what might happen at the hearing on the 6th, go read Groklaw.
Anything further I might add would just be noise.
If you ask me, any disposable camera is indecent.
Besides my digital camera cost only $200 last year, and since then I've never paid for film or developing, but I've had great fun messing with the photos on my own computer. Now why the hell would you pay someone else for access to your own work, even if they gave you the camera for free? It's stupid.
I hope no other companies try to enter the same market - it would mean that they have no respect for the intelligence or ownership rights of their potential customers.
That too is stupid, and inevitably doomed.
No popunder for me. What's wrong with your browser, man? Not got popup blocking :) ?
Anyone running a system that can't handle Python (SpamBayes) or perl (POPfile)
doesn't really count.
My current solution (since I'm in the shell as often as the desktop) is
to run popcheck before downloading my mail.
I just look at the subject lines and mark all the obvious spams (detected by
the neural net between my ears) for deletion, and if there are any left I run
Mozilla to read them.
Most of the junk doesn't even get downloaded from the server...
Well I guess you have to mention features that the
vast majority of computer users don't use if they
are features Windows lacks.
If you will pardon the expression - duh!
A couple of those mentioned are so genuinely useful
that I doubt you can honestly disparage them from
a position of understanding.
Ironically, your .sig calls for a group of geeks to stand up for what ;)
they believe in.
Note that the Debian project is just that, and Debian has probably the
most consistently well-thought out policy for where and how everything gets
installed.
The only problem is, it's different from everyone else's. Still, it
works. If what you were suggesting is all Linux distributions aim for
compliance with Debian policy, I'm behind you all the way. Or ahead of
you, whatever
I also remember a Bruce Sterling story where there was a distributed
;-)
untraceable organised attack on a bank or something. Like the flash mob
thing only much nastier.
Hmm - now I couldn't possibly condone such a thing, but if IBM fails to
take out SCO legally, I wonder...
BTW. under UK anti-terrorist laws I had better make that clearer. It
would be a terrible bad thing for 1000 criminals to just turn up in
Utah one day and destroy a certain office within 10 minutes, then
disappear without trace. I for one would want no part in such a thing,
and I think we should all be told what date it is not going to happen,
so we can all stay away and not be involved in it
I don't know that we need one specific site to register prior art, but
maybe we need to evangelise another benefit of opening your source code, for
those of us who work in industries other than shrink-wrapped software:
If your useful in-house software is published on the web (or even just
parts of it - no need to give away all your latest innovations to your
competitors) you have protected it from future patent attacks by making it
prior art.
This is not ideology any more - it's due diligence. There is literally no
more cost-effective way of defending yourself.
And since nobody will be able to apply for software patents until after
the law passes, the time to get the prior art out there is NOW. If you try to
do the same with defensive patents, it will cost you big time and you can't even
start until it may already be too late - some predator may have got there
first.
Now don't let's have anyone whining that you can't fight a patent suit
by finding prior art because the big software companies have more money
than you. Remember - this is Europe we are talking about, not the US. In
many EU countries it may be perfectly possible to defend against litigation
without having deeper pockets than your opponent - as long as the facts are
on your side.