The idea of the Duff's device is to use switch to jump to a label depending on the value of a variable (in a portable way). You could use 'goto' with a bunch of conditions, but using switch will make cleaner code (as far as jumping around to arbitrary places in your code goes), and the compiler will probably make a jump table in most cases, which is faster.
That's what Duff 'discovered', and it's the trick they're using here.
All the joking is nice, but _how_ will they be spending this money? Will it be all magazine/tv/whatever advertising? Sotfware donations to universities (doesn't really count, but whatever)? How does a regular programmer get some of it thrown his way? (not that I'm too interested.. I imagine the strings attached would be too much for the general open source crowd).
I hope this catches on too.. It's not that tv.com has imcomplete information (actually it seems to be as complete as tvtom was), but they way they just squashed tvtome to put their sell-out portal, and the fact that I can actually feel my CPU making an extra effort every time I try to scroll the page were just too annoying... And it really sucked to have to go to IMDB to look stuff up, they're just not prepared for TV shows. This is great news.
I have a lightsaber in my pocket right now. You can't see it tho, because you're not worthy, and I only use it to protect myself from really dangerous stuff anyway, so you will probably never see it.
If that's not enough for you, then you should also be demanding proof from the other guys who claim there's a guy in heaven sitting on a cloud throwing thuders or whatever (but you can't see him either).
Granted, this isn't available to the average customer
Do they 'discourage' it? If I try to ssh into the phone , will I find some propietary lock that was put there specifically to stop me from doing it? and if I actually do it, will they come after me with some lawsuit?
or is it just the regular 'warranty void' disclaimer? (I don't mind that)
what we need is a mix between freenet and i2p. This 'bouncing' thing is nice, but it slows down the transfer, because I don't know if the guys between me and the source of the warez have good connections.. It would be nice to have a network like freenet, where everyone holds a random bit of the data on a semi-permanent basis, and to be able to choose the ammount of hops I want to have between me and the people I want to connect to, like on i2p. If I choose to have 0 hops, and the other guy chooses to have 0 hops, we'd be connecting directly, but still we have no way of knowing it (because the other guy could have >0 hops before him). And even if we knew it, we would have plausible deniability; the other guy is just holding a piece of random data, he doesn't know what it is.
This would be the first step in the evolution to anonymous p2p, it's a good compromise, and way better than the current method, where everything is done in plain view. If (or more likely, when) the thought police starts attacking this, _then_ we can move to the fully paranoid networks.
speaking of 'any country', are there any considerations being made for people in countries where it's _not_ summer? I know "summer of code" is just a name, but the whole thing seems to be about using the free time to do something, and I see on the FAQ they might consider helping 'full time' students out.. what about people who don't actually have that free time (summer _just_ ended a couple of months ago;)
The patent pledge is important: it removes the uncertainty that Nokia might find its (already) patented tech in Linux, and sue; Nokia guarantees they wouldn't
I think the whole point is to send a message to nokia (and everyone else) that they don't actually own any of the ideas that are used regularly in software development (also known as patents).
I don't know exactly what nokia has patented, but suppose Bill Gates says "because I'm such a nice guy, I'll let you use the IsNot operator (for wich I own a patent) on your open source project, free of charge". If we said "omg thank you!", we'd be validating his position of ownership over the IsNot operator.. I'd rather see a "we don't need your steenking patents" type response from the OS community, like Stallman did to Nokia.
I don't think so.. Argentina is doing a similar thing, except they sell the $300 computer for $700 (around $17/month for 40 months), with "Windows XP® Home Edition" (whatever, I'm just pasting from the website). Microsoft is one of the main sponsors of this thing.. My point is, if they're spending all that money, they're more likely to buy some politicians so they can institute something like this (and get a nice return on their investment). They're not a charity.
Some trivia: the name of the program is "Programa Mi PC". "Mi PC" is the name they use for the "My Computer" icon on the spanish version of windows.
the simputer seemed to be the only option for a (low priced) PDA with linux and a USB host port.. I bet there's a lot of early adopters in the 'first world' that are willing to buy the first batch in order to archieve the volume they want..
Missing from the FAQ: is there a tool that will convert my alredy existing package (in my case a.deb) into this autopackage format? I assume it shouldn't be too complicated since this thing seems to understand most distros..
I alredy have the.deb working, and I don't really feel like making all the work again for every person that comes up with 'OMG TEH ULTIMATE PACKAGINGN SOLUTION LOL!' (no offense;)
yes, this is all nice and good, but did you know that INTEL COPIED THE INSTRUCTION SET FROM AMD AND DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT IT?!?!?!!11? HUH??? DID YOU???????
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It might be Sony, but how exactly is it a 'red flag'? If this is the same shit I saw a couple of months ago, it's just a video of a guy sitting on his windows xp computer using mirc to talk to his buddies about how he's ripping some DVD. It's not a documentary, it's not real.
The company can have all the GPL code they want; as long as they don't distribute it, the source can remain 'secret'. However, if you have knowledge that they're distributing this code without the sources (as you state on the article), you have an obligation to report it; it's a clear violation of the GPL.
No matter what you signed, you have no power to give them the IP of any code that is GPL, and they have no right to take it. So there's the question of 'plausible deniability' on their part: did they know that the code you brought was GPL? Did you try to tell them?
can anyone provide more information about this 'DNS cache poisoning' thing? the article and wikipedia (and several other pages I got from google) don't explay how this 'attack' is done.. it sounds serious.
This keyboard has just 53-keys (instead of 101) and offers user-friendly benefits and quick data entry.
Is anyone still making actual '101 keys' keyboards anymore? you know, without the annoying extra keys between ctrl and alt, and all the other "extras" found on the standard keyboard of today? I'd love to be able to buy a keyboard and not have to take a screw driver to it to yank out some of the keys that get in the way.
A world where there are no jobs for everyone isn't necessarily a bad thing, if societies are rearranged so that a decent living is provided for everyone and people start defining themselves not by their profession but by some other attributes.
Bill : This idea is both fair and democratic. Dave : Yes, it is. Bill : And I want no part of it. It reeks of communism.
well, it's an industry that pays millons to the main actors and director.. If the first thing to give after a little piracy is the painter's pay, then I do feel really sorry for the guy.. they should get a union or something..
It almost makes you whish they'd just put the actors to whine in front of the camera.. "I used to make millions, and now thanks to those evil pirates, I get paid less than the painter.. the fucking PAINTER!!"
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That's what Duff 'discovered', and it's the trick they're using here.
All the joking is nice, but _how_ will they be spending this money? Will it be all magazine/tv/whatever advertising? Sotfware donations to universities (doesn't really count, but whatever)? How does a regular programmer get some of it thrown his way? (not that I'm too interested.. I imagine the strings attached would be too much for the general open source crowd).
I hope this catches on too.. It's not that tv.com has imcomplete information (actually it seems to be as complete as tvtom was), but they way they just squashed tvtome to put their sell-out portal, and the fact that I can actually feel my CPU making an extra effort every time I try to scroll the page were just too annoying... And it really sucked to have to go to IMDB to look stuff up, they're just not prepared for TV shows. This is great news.
Then maybe the way to end this bullshit lawsuit problem is to boycott public transportation all over again.
If that's not enough for you, then you should also be demanding proof from the other guys who claim there's a guy in heaven sitting on a cloud throwing thuders or whatever (but you can't see him either).
Do they 'discourage' it? If I try to ssh into the phone , will I find some propietary lock that was put there specifically to stop me from doing it? and if I actually do it, will they come after me with some lawsuit?
or is it just the regular 'warranty void' disclaimer? (I don't mind that)
I have about 200GB of pr0n. What the best way to store it?
See? That was easier.. no need to come up with some elaborate story about raw DV files and SLR cameras.
This would be the first step in the evolution to anonymous p2p, it's a good compromise, and way better than the current method, where everything is done in plain view. If (or more likely, when) the thought police starts attacking this, _then_ we can move to the fully paranoid networks.
speaking of 'any country', are there any considerations being made for people in countries where it's _not_ summer? I know "summer of code" is just a name, but the whole thing seems to be about using the free time to do something, and I see on the FAQ they might consider helping 'full time' students out.. what about people who don't actually have that free time (summer _just_ ended a couple of months ago ;)
I think the whole point is to send a message to nokia (and everyone else) that they don't actually own any of the ideas that are used regularly in software development (also known as patents).
I don't know exactly what nokia has patented, but suppose Bill Gates says "because I'm such a nice guy, I'll let you use the IsNot operator (for wich I own a patent) on your open source project, free of charge". If we said "omg thank you!", we'd be validating his position of ownership over the IsNot operator.. I'd rather see a "we don't need your steenking patents" type response from the OS community, like Stallman did to Nokia.
does this have anything to do with the fact that INTEL STOLE THE 64 BIT INSTRUCTIONS FROM AMD??? The article just looked familiar, I don't know why...
it's my totally insightful comment on this same story from last week: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144848&cid=121 31116
I don't think so.. Argentina is doing a similar thing, except they sell the $300 computer for $700 (around $17/month for 40 months), with "Windows XP® Home Edition" (whatever, I'm just pasting from the website). Microsoft is one of the main sponsors of this thing.. My point is, if they're spending all that money, they're more likely to buy some politicians so they can institute something like this (and get a nice return on their investment). They're not a charity.
Some trivia: the name of the program is "Programa Mi PC". "Mi PC" is the name they use for the "My Computer" icon on the spanish version of windows.
the simputer seemed to be the only option for a (low priced) PDA with linux and a USB host port.. I bet there's a lot of early adopters in the 'first world' that are willing to buy the first batch in order to archieve the volume they want..
Missing from the FAQ: is there a tool that will convert my alredy existing package (in my case a .deb) into this autopackage format? I assume it shouldn't be too complicated since this thing seems to understand most distros..
.deb working, and I don't really feel like making all the work again for every person that comes up with 'OMG TEH ULTIMATE PACKAGINGN SOLUTION LOL!' (no offense ;)
I alredy have the
yes, this is all nice and good, but did you know that INTEL COPIED THE INSTRUCTION SET FROM AMD AND DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT IT?!?!?!!11? HUH??? DID YOU???????
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It might be Sony, but how exactly is it a 'red flag'? If this is the same shit I saw a couple of months ago, it's just a video of a guy sitting on his windows xp computer using mirc to talk to his buddies about how he's ripping some DVD. It's not a documentary, it's not real.
The company can have all the GPL code they want; as long as they don't distribute it, the source can remain 'secret'. However, if you have knowledge that they're distributing this code without the sources (as you state on the article), you have an obligation to report it; it's a clear violation of the GPL.
No matter what you signed, you have no power to give them the IP of any code that is GPL, and they have no right to take it. So there's the question of 'plausible deniability' on their part: did they know that the code you brought was GPL? Did you try to tell them?
lesbian FOX teen drama. Although knowing TV's track record so far, it might all be just a cruel sweeps stunt :(
can anyone provide more information about this 'DNS cache poisoning' thing? the article and wikipedia (and several other pages I got from google) don't explay how this 'attack' is done.. it sounds serious.
Is anyone still making actual '101 keys' keyboards anymore? you know, without the annoying extra keys between ctrl and alt, and all the other "extras" found on the standard keyboard of today? I'd love to be able to buy a keyboard and not have to take a screw driver to it to yank out some of the keys that get in the way.
It almost makes you whish they'd just put the actors to whine in front of the camera.. "I used to make millions, and now thanks to those evil pirates, I get paid less than the painter.. the fucking PAINTER!!"
The don't worry! you can just do "emerge -sync world --WUSDFJADKRWwejufw", and.. oh, nevermind, wrong article.