I know, this all seems really...sad, especially for tech schools. I got to Southern Polytechnic and we have a nice web based interface that lets us do everything online, except, annoyingly, pay with credit cards. And the only reason that's not set up is our business office is on crack. And we have web access in the dorms and everything.
The only thing that sucks is they're turning off our telnet access to our AIX mailserver, for no reason I can see.:(
You don't have to have your signature be your full name. In fact, most people's signatures do not include a middle name. And, legally, some people sign with an X.
Ah, but DVDs don't have any EULA. Which is part of what this entire fuss is about. They're just protected by standard copyright law, like a book or a song.
Yeah, but the great thing is, having an operator listen and decline fake names costs more then just letting then go though. Letting them go though costs the phone company like 1 cent, whereas they have to pay an operator a bit more then that, even for 10 seconds.:)
...but why don't you just get her to mail the check in, and give her cash...or, even better, go to the bank, and deposit in the night depository. I still trying to wrap my mind around how this is the easiest way. I suppose it could be, it just seems really inprobable.:)
Okay, you make no sense. You may live 15 miles form the back, but if your girlfriend is giving you the check, why are you mailing it? I'm getting really confused here. Why doesn't she just give you cash? Why doesn't you just deposit the check where one of you get cash? I've never heard of two people living together, but having to use the US Postal service to transfer money, and I can't think of any way it could happen.
And you have to look at it from the point of view of order. We aren't supposed to know Palpatine is Sidious. Sure, everyone has figured it out, but that's only because they now know Palpatine becomes a Sith Master.
If you look just at the first movie, you see hints, but nothing that makes it obvious. This was an amazingly subtle movie, if you haven't seen the rest of them.
You're right except that the 'message' isn't encoded twice, it's encoded once with a random key, using non-public key algorythms, which is then encoded with your key and the ADK.
And, pre-encoding your message completely defeats the public-private key scheme. If you're going to do that, just tell PGP to encode to a password, which, at least, I know 2.6.2 can do.
Idea: A company could set up an internal auto-ADK-adding keyserver for its employees to use, and of course they have access to the outgoing mail spool.
Of course, an actual ethical company would just give its public keys to their employees, and have them add the ADK themselves. Actually, this bug gives them a neat way of doing it automatically, assuming there is a key server. They still should inform the employees, though.
Actually, the time machine used electricity. A hell of a lot of it. The plutonium was just to run the nuclear reactor (presumably just a normal fission reactor of some sort) in the back to get the electricity.
Like I said in the next paragraph, yes, OSS doesn't lend itself to game design. And, yes, ATM, Windows is a better platform for writing a game on, because more people have it. However, if people bother to port, they have an instant market because people will buy the game just to support Linux games.
I can pretend to be a cop by walking around in uniform. I cannot arrest anyone or act in any offical capacity, or say I'm a cop except to people I know already know I'm not. (Think TV shows here.) Likewise, I can pretend to be a lawyer by walking around in a suit, having people introduce me as a lawyer, and handing out business cards. I cannot actually do any law work, though, or even give off-handed legal advice.
You usually don't find commercial shops run by a bunch of newbie programmers. There are old hands with an eye on things. I find it's pretty typical for new programmers to jump onto a project with all sorts of great ideas...ideas that show they don't really understand the architecture, or that show they aren't thinking about reliability. Most open source projects are completely lacking the experience factor.
Like I said, 90% of anything is crap.;) Most of them certainly are lacking in experience. It's like web pages. Most of them are crap. That doesn't make the WWW a bad idea.
And, may I point out, the games you listed are classic games. People like them because they grew up with them.
No. People write them because they are unable to think of anything else. I don't know why open source programmers are devoid of creativity, but, sadly, it seems to be the case.
Bzzzt. The reason those games are coded is because people grew up with them, period. No one would play Missile Command instead of DOOM otherwise. They deliberately have the same graphics and everything. In fact, many of them are copyright violations, or would be if the company cared.
As for other open source games, you're right. OSS doesn't lead itself well to games. However, in other catagories, OSS does have inovation. YOu mentioned Apache above...one of the first web servers, what Apache is based off of, is was the OSS NSCA's httpd. Perl has always been open source, and it's pretty damned original too. PHP3 is also original. If you look at news and mail readers, almost all of them have been open source since the start. EMACS is really, really original, even if you don't like it. (Wait, did that start out not OSS? Or was it just BSD'd at one time? I kow there are non OSS version out there...)
The Linux kernel isn't original at all, true, but, then again, it kinda would defeat the point of being a Unix compatible OS if it was. And, actually, now that I think of it, many things in the kernel are original, like ReiserFS, and devfs (AFAIK, but some Unix I am unaware of might have it), and software RAID support, and ipchains (Erm, some *BSD may have come up with that, but it was still OSS.),and soundmodem support (making sound cards act like radio modems) and many other things, which is pretty good for just an OS.
Of course, many reasons that Linux doesn't need to come up with 'new ideas' is that BSD already came up with them, in its long history.
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-David T. C.
The only thing that sucks is they're turning off our telnet access to our AIX mailserver, for no reason I can see. :(
-David T. C.
You don't have to have your signature be your full name. In fact, most people's signatures do not include a middle name. And, legally, some people sign with an X.
-David T. C.
You mean like all the people putting up links to DeCSS code? I think most of the .sigs are pretty traceable back to human beings.
-David T. C.
It was a metaphor, we all know that actually is the law.
-David T. C.
Ah, but DVDs don't have any EULA. Which is part of what this entire fuss is about. They're just protected by standard copyright law, like a book or a song.
-David T. C.
Yeah, but the great thing is, having an operator listen and decline fake names costs more then just letting then go though. Letting them go though costs the phone company like 1 cent, whereas they have to pay an operator a bit more then that, even for 10 seconds. :)
-David T. C.
For all those who feel like responding to this flamebait, please don't. This idiot knows full well no one is claiming any rights to their software.
-David T. C.
-David T. C.
Okay, you make no sense. You may live 15 miles form the back, but if your girlfriend is giving you the check, why are you mailing it? I'm getting really confused here. Why doesn't she just give you cash? Why doesn't you just deposit the check where one of you get cash? I've never heard of two people living together, but having to use the US Postal service to transfer money, and I can't think of any way it could happen.
-David T. C.
If you look just at the first movie, you see hints, but nothing that makes it obvious. This was an amazingly subtle movie, if you haven't seen the rest of them.
-David T. C.
No no no, the response is something like 'Forget it, he's on a roll.'
-David T. C.
/sbin/halt should stop Linux if you're having a problem with it not stopping. So will the power switch.
-David T. C.
Someone at where you work needs to either learn what 'annual' means or learn to count.
-David T. C.
And, pre-encoding your message completely defeats the public-private key scheme. If you're going to do that, just tell PGP to encode to a password, which, at least, I know 2.6.2 can do.
-David T. C.
Of course, an actual ethical company would just give its public keys to their employees, and have them add the ADK themselves. Actually, this bug gives them a neat way of doing it automatically, assuming there is a key server. They still should inform the employees, though.
-David T. C.
Germans?
-David T. C.
Actually, the time machine used electricity. A hell of a lot of it. The plutonium was just to run the nuclear reactor (presumably just a normal fission reactor of some sort) in the back to get the electricity.
-David T. C.
Or are you just putting us on?
-David T. C.
Like I said in the next paragraph, yes, OSS doesn't lend itself to game design. And, yes, ATM, Windows is a better platform for writing a game on, because more people have it. However, if people bother to port, they have an instant market because people will buy the game just to support Linux games.
-David T. C.
I can pretend to be a cop by walking around in uniform. I cannot arrest anyone or act in any offical capacity, or say I'm a cop except to people I know already know I'm not. (Think TV shows here.) Likewise, I can pretend to be a lawyer by walking around in a suit, having people introduce me as a lawyer, and handing out business cards. I cannot actually do any law work, though, or even give off-handed legal advice.
-David T. C.
A record of all of it is the best idea I've heard.
-David T. C.
Like I said, 90% of anything is crap. ;) Most of them certainly are lacking in experience. It's like web pages. Most of them are crap. That doesn't make the WWW a bad idea.
And, may I point out, the games you listed are classic games. People like them because they grew up with them.
No. People write them because they are unable to think of anything else. I don't know why open source programmers are devoid of creativity, but, sadly, it seems to be the case.
Bzzzt. The reason those games are coded is because people grew up with them, period. No one would play Missile Command instead of DOOM otherwise. They deliberately have the same graphics and everything. In fact, many of them are copyright violations, or would be if the company cared.
As for other open source games, you're right. OSS doesn't lead itself well to games. However, in other catagories, OSS does have inovation. YOu mentioned Apache above...one of the first web servers, what Apache is based off of, is was the OSS NSCA's httpd. Perl has always been open source, and it's pretty damned original too. PHP3 is also original. If you look at news and mail readers, almost all of them have been open source since the start. EMACS is really, really original, even if you don't like it. (Wait, did that start out not OSS? Or was it just BSD'd at one time? I kow there are non OSS version out there...)
The Linux kernel isn't original at all, true, but, then again, it kinda would defeat the point of being a Unix compatible OS if it was. And, actually, now that I think of it, many things in the kernel are original, like ReiserFS, and devfs (AFAIK, but some Unix I am unaware of might have it), and software RAID support, and ipchains (Erm, some *BSD may have come up with that, but it was still OSS.),and soundmodem support (making sound cards act like radio modems) and many other things, which is pretty good for just an OS.
Of course, many reasons that Linux doesn't need to come up with 'new ideas' is that BSD already came up with them, in its long history.
-David T. C.
So we may all fufill our destiny and become Morlocks! Woooo!
-David T. C.
I think I have too much free time on my hands.
-David T. C.