I'd like to see them do this, and encompass the myriad of different protocols and formats that abound on the web today, plus the ones that will be designed just to break it.
I think that simple passwords, encryption, steganography, and file-sharing will each be enough to defeat this, but who knows, maybe we'll have to go to something really sophisticated, like trading over IRC, or ratioed ftp...
Companies that base their business model over scare tactics just crack me up... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, I used to have a program that would send a "high-res" fax, at 300dpi. (or 300x100? 300x150? I'm confused...)
But yeah, I mentioned about the anti-aliasing, I think that would make up for most of it. Not true color printing at 600dpi or greater, but on a lit screen I'm sure it would look amazing, much like HDTV's do.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs? That's a new one on me...
I've read the Foundation Series, and the Le Guin books; I need to read the Robot books, and the other stuff still...:)
Re:Leiber--I could never get into the "Swords" stuff; I read that a long time ago, in the big book club edition.
And while we're Offtopic, have you read the Amber books? It's probably not Sci-Fi, but it could be; it's definitely pulp. I love those, and just about everything else I've read by Zelazny.
Thanks for the other authors; I love the older stuff, but never know which ones are good. (Do you remember "The Stars, Like Dust"? That was fun...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
This sounds great; we're up to fax-quality dpi, but in full color. Not quite up to the "virtual paper" level yet, but probably really close, especially with a little anti-aliasing.
And even though these aren't available to the public yet... How much do they cost, and when can we expect to see these in the home? The answer had better not be "2010" still.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Let me guess, you wish the Lisp machines have taken over. For some people, Unix *is* natural, and for a lot more people, AI Languages are very non-intuitive. Unix was natural for me, and I like it quite a bit. I wish someone had introduced me to it sooner. I have nothing against AI Languages either, (well, Lisp is pretty ugly; I like Scheme a lot better) but I haven't been able to get any real work done in them yet--it makes common system programming tasks pretty clumsy.
I used DOS for a long time, and although I liked it a lot, it was missing some functionality that I wanted. I wrote a few commands of my own, basically re-implementing stuff like "which", "df", "touch", and "ls -R"... before I ever knew about Unix! Therefore, when I found all it had to offer, I was thrilled.
If you think Unix is bad with the "worse-is-better" philosophy, then you of all people should understand why we'd prefer Unix over Windows. The MIT Approach is to the New Jersey approach as the New Jersey Approach is to the Redmond approach. Also, Lisp machines are dead, Unix is alive and kicking, and Windows is dominant. Given the choice between Windows and Unix, I'd rather have Unix.
As there is no free version of Windows, and there are free versions of Unix, I'd say that Unix itself is quite a bit less proprietary and commercial than Windows. Is the Windows source open yet? No. What about Unix? Not only are there many implementations of Unix out there with source code available, (including Solaris, by the way) but you can even buy a book, and read about the original source and its design, with comments, as a teaching tool!
It's a good, simple, straightforward design, and I'm glad people are starting to realize that. All the major players in the OS market today owe a lot to Unix. Apple and Microsoft both sold Unix distributions at one point in time or another, and many of the new features that Microsoft has added to Windows were already in Unix in some form or another; that's innovation for you... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First, check your *link*. For a site that only has ten stories a day on its front page, quality control is horrible!
Second, your choice of links didn't help me figure this one out anyhow, since I hadn't heard of the player. I found some info in the slashdot comments too--looks like a cheap-o Cyrix-based box...
Third, I'm glad it's dead, even though I like Virgin in general. I found Virgin Radio soon after I found RealAudio, and I thought their station was pretty cool. (We USians find those UKians so quaint sometimes!:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Dude, almost all web-browsers are file managers as well. This isn't new. You might as well cover w3m, Konqueror, Mozilla, or just about anything else.
If you like it, so be it. Use it, submit code for it, whatever. I'm just not very impressed.
You're right, there is no point in trying to smear GNOME on slashdot; they'll just keep posting stories about it. It *is* News for Nerds, but it's also pretty biased. I don't use either one, but this makes me want to check on the progress of KDE2... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The canonical number for NT 4.0 is just under $5,000, but it's really hard to compare once you start talking about Terminal Server, and Licensing.
Anything that comes with a standard Red Hat installation won't have anything like a per-seat (or per-ponnection or per-whatever) license fee; that model doesn't exist. So figure out what is the maximum amount of traffic or users that box can handle, and charge the equivalent amount on NT.
Of course they *both* cost something to implement. The difference under Linux is that if you do it right, it should cost significantly less to maintain. I've seen both boxes in use, and it's pretty hard to debug an NT bluescreen from the ColdFusion service because of some user that calls it with a Perl application... Under Linux, the box tends to stay up, and the users call if they have a problem...
But of course, that's just *my* experience with it.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Dude, punk isn't dead; it's healthier than it's been for a while!
By your reasoning, you could argue that Unix and Linux were dead for a long time before they were ever alive; I can only hope that MacOS is dead too.:)
Does MiniDisc specify a compression format? The big mistake Sony always makes is making their stuff proprietary; then, the entire industry develops alternatives. But when it does pay off for Sony, it pays off big (like the PlayStation). --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Heck, I stil have 360k floppies and 100MB Zip disks and MFM HD's...
A friend of mine still watches movies on LD and CED; (a CD is sorta like a 'video record') those formats are massively more dead than MD will be for a while.
Is Ask Slashdot dead? Yeah, probably.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Anyhow, user numbers shouldn't count for anyone who was on slashdot before we had them, and mholve and I both fall in that category... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
"I hope you know /
that this will go down /
on your permanent record... /
...Oh yeah?"
-- The Violent Femmes
I'd be amazed if any of this were enough to generate a *real* permanent record, (an FBI file, that is...) but it would be very silly and entertaining as hell if someone had something this stupid catch up with them.
("Mr. Bush, we have here that you got suspended in high school and later tried to have that record expunged. Is that true? You DO know that you have a suspension on your PERMANENT RECORD, right? I'm sorry, but America cannot in good conscience elect a President with such a black mark on his PERMANENT RECORD. We all understand about the drugs and the alcohol and not wanting to serve in the military, that's just business as usual. But MY GOD, MAN, why did you have to get suspended in High School?") --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Hundreds of comments, and everyone here thinks Stallman hasn't written an OS. I guess no one has heard of emacs (EMACSMakes AComputer Slow...)
I'm sickened by the current generation of slashdotters and their pathetic post; will no one build a Beowulf Cluster of these things? Where are my GRITS???:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That actually doesn't look so bad, but thanks for the link!
A Contributor may choose to distribute the Program in object code form under its own license agreement, provided that:
[...]
b) its license agreement:
[...]
iv) states that source code for the Program is available from such Contributor, and informs licensees how to obtain it in a reasonable manner on or through a medium customarily used for software exchange.
That isn't actually so different from the GPL. It can be distributed binary-only, as long as you can *still* get the source code; that's fine.
I suppose next week, we'll argue over whether it's DFSG compliant, or DEAHTHIS compliant or whatever, but until then, it looks fine for me. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot Mirror
Ha ha ha ha ha...
:)
Oh well, at least they let you use 'fucken'.
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Didn't I hear something about Square getting patents on a method for doing this quickly for the Final Fantasy movie?
Well, I probably saw it on slashdot at some point, if I know me...
Oh man, I can't wait for that movie...
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Yeah, right.
I'd like to see them do this, and encompass the myriad of different protocols and formats that abound on the web today, plus the ones that will be designed just to break it.
I think that simple passwords, encryption, steganography, and file-sharing will each be enough to defeat this, but who knows, maybe we'll have to go to something really sophisticated, like trading over IRC, or ratioed ftp...
Companies that base their business model over scare tactics just crack me up...
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Well, I used to have a program that would send a "high-res" fax, at 300dpi. (or 300x100? 300x150? I'm confused...)
:)
But yeah, I mentioned about the anti-aliasing, I think that would make up for most of it. Not true color printing at 600dpi or greater, but on a lit screen I'm sure it would look amazing, much like HDTV's do.
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Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs? That's a new one on me...
:)
I've read the Foundation Series, and the Le Guin books; I need to read the Robot books, and the other stuff still...
Re:Leiber--I could never get into the "Swords" stuff; I read that a long time ago, in the big book club edition.
And while we're Offtopic, have you read the Amber books? It's probably not Sci-Fi, but it could be; it's definitely pulp. I love those, and just about everything else I've read by Zelazny.
Thanks for the other authors; I love the older stuff, but never know which ones are good. (Do you remember "The Stars, Like Dust"? That was fun...)
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This sounds great; we're up to fax-quality dpi, but in full color. Not quite up to the "virtual paper" level yet, but probably really close, especially with a little anti-aliasing.
:)
And even though these aren't available to the public yet... How much do they cost, and when can we expect to see these in the home? The answer had better not be "2010" still.
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Let me guess, you wish the Lisp machines have taken over. For some people, Unix *is* natural, and for a lot more people, AI Languages are very non-intuitive. Unix was natural for me, and I like it quite a bit. I wish someone had introduced me to it sooner. I have nothing against AI Languages either, (well, Lisp is pretty ugly; I like Scheme a lot better) but I haven't been able to get any real work done in them yet--it makes common system programming tasks pretty clumsy.
I used DOS for a long time, and although I liked it a lot, it was missing some functionality that I wanted. I wrote a few commands of my own, basically re-implementing stuff like "which", "df", "touch", and "ls -R"... before I ever knew about Unix! Therefore, when I found all it had to offer, I was thrilled.
If you think Unix is bad with the "worse-is-better" philosophy, then you of all people should understand why we'd prefer Unix over Windows. The MIT Approach is to the New Jersey approach as the New Jersey Approach is to the Redmond approach. Also, Lisp machines are dead, Unix is alive and kicking, and Windows is dominant. Given the choice between Windows and Unix, I'd rather have Unix.
As there is no free version of Windows, and there are free versions of Unix, I'd say that Unix itself is quite a bit less proprietary and commercial than Windows. Is the Windows source open yet? No. What about Unix? Not only are there many implementations of Unix out there with source code available, (including Solaris, by the way) but you can even buy a book, and read about the original source and its design, with comments, as a teaching tool!
It's a good, simple, straightforward design, and I'm glad people are starting to realize that. All the major players in the OS market today owe a lot to Unix. Apple and Microsoft both sold Unix distributions at one point in time or another, and many of the new features that Microsoft has added to Windows were already in Unix in some form or another; that's innovation for you...
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Damn stupid moderators.
Moderators: please mod down ALL Larry Niven / Ringworld references, and show everyone what humorless, discussion-stifling bastards you all are.
P.S. Do not try to post useful discussion here, or start discussions. You will be ignored, moderated down, and eventually bitchslapped.
Thank you.
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What about RCS? SCCS? Aegis?
If that doesn't work for you, follow some links. Go to freshmeat. Do a search.
Heck, there are whole books written about this stuff, even by O'Reilly!
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First, check your *link*. For a site that only has ten stories a day on its front page, quality control is horrible!
:)
Second, your choice of links didn't help me figure this one out anyhow, since I hadn't heard of the player. I found some info in the slashdot comments too--looks like a cheap-o Cyrix-based box...
Third, I'm glad it's dead, even though I like Virgin in general. I found Virgin Radio soon after I found RealAudio, and I thought their station was pretty cool. (We USians find those UKians so quaint sometimes!
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Do they really think *that* makes it secure?
;)
Well, if they do, they can feel free to release it.
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Since you'll never get equal time on slashdot, here's another filemanager.
It's just a file manager, it doesn't try to be a web browser.
Oh, and it's for KDE.
Disclaimer: I don't use either one, but the Open Zealotry(tm) here is starting to piss me off.
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Dude, almost all web-browsers are file managers as well. This isn't new. You might as well cover w3m, Konqueror, Mozilla, or just about anything else.
If you like it, so be it. Use it, submit code for it, whatever. I'm just not very impressed.
You're right, there is no point in trying to smear GNOME on slashdot; they'll just keep posting stories about it. It *is* News for Nerds, but it's also pretty biased. I don't use either one, but this makes me want to check on the progress of KDE2...
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Now they have Gore winning.
Why don't we all wait a bit before trying to call this one?
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The canonical number for NT 4.0 is just under $5,000, but it's really hard to compare once you start talking about Terminal Server, and Licensing.
:)
Anything that comes with a standard Red Hat installation won't have anything like a per-seat (or per-ponnection or per-whatever) license fee; that model doesn't exist. So figure out what is the maximum amount of traffic or users that box can handle, and charge the equivalent amount on NT.
Of course they *both* cost something to implement. The difference under Linux is that if you do it right, it should cost significantly less to maintain. I've seen both boxes in use, and it's pretty hard to debug an NT bluescreen from the ColdFusion service because of some user that calls it with a Perl application... Under Linux, the box tends to stay up, and the users call if they have a problem...
But of course, that's just *my* experience with it.
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If you assume that the RISC core is *running* the CISC core in the first place, then the problem is solved.
:)
Thank you, Transmeta!
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Dude, punk isn't dead; it's healthier than it's been for a while!
:)
By your reasoning, you could argue that Unix and Linux were dead for a long time before they were ever alive; I can only hope that MacOS is dead too.
Does MiniDisc specify a compression format? The big mistake Sony always makes is making their stuff proprietary; then, the entire industry develops alternatives. But when it does pay off for Sony, it pays off big (like the PlayStation).
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It feels fine. It's going to take a walk now...
:)
Is CD dead? No, we have CD *and* DVD.
Is MD dead? No, we'll have MD *and* MD2.
Heck, I stil have 360k floppies and 100MB Zip disks and MFM HD's...
A friend of mine still watches movies on LD and CED; (a CD is sorta like a 'video record') those formats are massively more dead than MD will be for a while.
Is Ask Slashdot dead? Yeah, probably.
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What, I don't count? Drat! :)
Anyhow, user numbers shouldn't count for anyone who was on slashdot before we had them, and mholve and I both fall in that category...
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"I hope you know /
...Oh yeah?"
that this will go down /
on your permanent record... /
-- The Violent Femmes
I'd be amazed if any of this were enough to generate a *real* permanent record, (an FBI file, that is...) but it would be very silly and entertaining as hell if someone had something this stupid catch up with them.
("Mr. Bush, we have here that you got suspended in high school and later tried to have that record expunged. Is that true? You DO know that you have a suspension on your PERMANENT RECORD, right? I'm sorry, but America cannot in good conscience elect a President with such a black mark on his PERMANENT RECORD. We all understand about the drugs and the alcohol and not wanting to serve in the military, that's just business as usual. But MY GOD, MAN, why did you have to get suspended in High School?")
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I agree. Read the frickin' guidelines, guys.
First, you should moderate Jon Katz down for not posting this under his account!
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Mod that up!
I just tell everyone that aliens have stolen his brain...
Man, that's funny...
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I'm using Arla now because it compiles on 2.4, but arla isn't terribly stable yet even as a client, and I've heard that it's even worse as a server.
Too bad ARLA won't be able to use code from OpenAFS...
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Hundreds of comments, and everyone here thinks Stallman hasn't written an OS. I guess no one has heard of emacs (EMACS Makes A Computer Slow...)
:)
I'm sickened by the current generation of slashdotters and their pathetic post; will no one build a Beowulf Cluster of these things? Where are my GRITS???
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That isn't actually so different from the GPL. It can be distributed binary-only, as long as you can *still* get the source code; that's fine.
I suppose next week, we'll argue over whether it's DFSG compliant, or DEAHTHIS compliant or whatever, but until then, it looks fine for me.
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