We don't have software patents in Europe (yet). I'd be happy for Linus, OSDL or any other trusted third party to file a defensive patent on my behalf (and pay for all the required searches!). I'm also looking for a new job if someone wants to hire a +4 Insightful mind who has ideas as good as that every morning in the shower. Hardly ever at work, granted, but in the shower, yes.
..like the business of not storing deltas to files
Actually, that's a feature. One of Linus' main objections to existing SCMs was that they're too slow -- and most of that sluggishness comes from the time necessary to calculate and resolve deltas in the ubiquitous RCS files.
Obviously what needs to be taken into account is that is isn't necessary to do the delta creation at the point of check-in etc, a background process could promote 'clone' type mods into 'delta' type mods at its leisure, maybe even with a delay so only patches unlikely to get reverted are folded down to delta format.
That way the workload gets distributed as well as the actual development.
Well... My Cobalt Qube 2 does not have a display, nor does one of my current projects at work... Now, what would be the point of making sure KDE or Gnome work on these devices
Surely it doesn't need a 'display', it just needs a DISPLAY ? Think Xvnc...
Surely Microsoft products don't have the ability to write to PDF files *because* Adobe pay Microsoft (in kind, in patent cross-licensing, whatever) *not* to include features which would compete with their for-money offerings.
Even in interactive variants of EDI there are no menus and selections as described by this patent. The patent sucks pustulent bunnies, but EDI isn't a remotely applicable piece of prior art.
> A few things that would make me switch to Ogg in a second would be if: > It supported gapless playback between one file and the next (something mp3 is spotty at),
You have one second to switch to Ogg Vorbis! This is one of the design decisions these guys got right. The format was designed for streaming from the start, so this was a pre-requisite.
You can even cat two Ogg Vorbis files together and they'll play seamlessly...
Power consumption will probably be comparable with the fixed (not floating) point implementations (like Tremor).
The player vendors need to be aware of Ogg Vorbis before they can consider the market for it.
Interesting article in UK magazine....
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There's an interesting article in the May/June 2003 issue of SIGS Application Development Advisor here
which discusses a problem in example code which Microsoft advocate for locking / synchronisation (aka critical sections in W32) where the 'this' object reference is used to handle the lock.
What amounts to a D.O.S exploit is explained, where client code locks the same object and never releases it.
The suggested workaround is (of course) to use a private member object within your class to use for synchronisation.
Hmm... 8-)
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you insensitive clod!
Where's the 'I'm feeling like a cheapskate bastard - show me the free stuff' button?
We don't have software patents in Europe (yet). I'd be happy for Linus, OSDL or any other trusted third party to file a defensive patent on my behalf (and pay for all the required searches!). I'm also looking for a new job if someone wants to hire a +4 Insightful mind who has ideas as good as that every morning in the shower. Hardly ever at work, granted, but in the shower, yes.
Obviously what needs to be taken into account is that is isn't necessary to do the delta creation at the point of check-in etc, a background process could promote 'clone' type mods into 'delta' type mods at its leisure, maybe even with a delay so only patches unlikely to get reverted are folded down to delta format.
That way the workload gets distributed as well as the actual development.
He's still a cunt though
However, I believe Grevious is the model of a modern (like, major) General.
But Lucas has been using very stupid names since before Star Wars (episode 4, whatever). His original pitch described the film as:
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"the story of Mace Windu, a revered Jedi-bendu of Ophuchi who was related to Usby C.J. Thape, a padawaan leader to the famed Jedi"
Twat.
> When are we just gonna admit that the easiest, nay only, fix is to just have a shitload less people?
Well volunteered. Do you have a gun in the house?
Surely it doesn't need a 'display', it just needs a DISPLAY ? Think Xvnc...
> A $50 CD player would probably play mp3s.
Absolutely, there's no problem with putting 50 hours of spoken-word material on one CD-R.
> There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh?
Too right, how many people with five hands do you know?
Ah, that'd be Microsoft's patented idea?
Surely Microsoft products don't have the ability to write to PDF files *because* Adobe pay Microsoft (in kind, in patent cross-licensing, whatever) *not* to include features which would compete with their for-money offerings.
Even in interactive variants of EDI there are no menus and selections as described by this patent. The patent sucks pustulent bunnies, but EDI isn't a remotely applicable piece of prior art.
You can often set up any account as a 'bill payment' and then administer them through any cashpoint / ATM.
I used to pay my rent this way and my wife and I fund our joint a/c for bills like this.
There's an HTML version of the last SWAG release from 11/29/1997 here http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG/
Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity. Unless you're talking about Microsoft. On Slashdot.
Does anyone have MP3s / Oggs of the Finnish radio series (i.e. the radio series from Finland, not the last episode or anything).
I suspect it would be a fabulous way to learn the language.
Nope, I think it's that one is slightly smaller.
Panti pinti.
Why are some countries allowed nuclear power and weapons and not others then? Where do you live?
And other self-appointed community leaders.
In what way is Slashdotting SCO not a denial of service attack?
it'll be easy to get into!
> A few things that would make me switch to Ogg in a second would be if:
> It supported gapless playback between one file and the next (something mp3 is spotty at),
You have one second to switch to Ogg Vorbis! This is one of the design decisions these guys got right. The format was designed for streaming from the start, so this was a pre-requisite.
You can even cat two Ogg Vorbis files together and they'll play seamlessly...
Power consumption will probably be comparable with the fixed (not floating) point implementations (like Tremor).
The player vendors need to be aware of Ogg Vorbis before they can consider the market for it.
What amounts to a D.O.S exploit is explained, where client code locks the same object and never releases it. The suggested workaround is (of course) to use a private member object within your class to use for synchronisation. Hmm... 8-)
Wow, ESR's really pissed that CML2 didn't make it into 2.6, ain't he?