Sorry to take so long to reply! I've been in training, barf, and don't have quick and dirty generator with me. this page http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj/misc/luxury.f9 0 looks like it has a better tested bunch of routines, which could return 64 bits with little modification. Note that the serries WILL REPEAT for a given seed. Also note that there are many free random number generators available on Linux and BSD platforms and that allmost any FORTRAN compiler will have a random number generator call that you can check out.
I don't know much about crypto, but I do know a little about generating random numbers.
Random numbers that are useful are not really random. If they really were random, they could not be used to test out new systems and programs because you could not be sure you ran the same process to compare results! You can generate non repeating random numbers by using two numbers, a seed and modular division. The seed determines the next seed ad barf. For the same two numbers and seed on the same machine you will get the same answers every time. Using simple these simple methods and FORTRAN, I've generated billions of 64 bit non repeating numbers in a sequence.
By using psuedo random numbers you can notice missing packets even with a strange looking serries of numbers. These numbers can change with machine and compiler though.
You are right, as Bill Gates was when he claimed that Software is the limiter of a computer's functionality. He of course was implying that he would fill that functionality rather than block it. Those that impeed are removed. This effort does not really stand a chance, but neither does MS does it?
The choice of Linux won't be a disadvantage because "there are more than 100,000 active programmers for the Linux, which is more than double the number of those for Microsoft," said Uno.
You will soon see the benefits Linux offers. Microsoft is dead, long live free software!
Shoeboy, you flaming troll! Just in case anyone takes this obvious -1 flamebait seriously:
Why should he bother to learn MS-SQL? For all the money he spent on it, it should'nt require all that. If it does, he might as well use the free standard.
A friend of mine who is a VB adict warned me about viruses for Linux three years ago. He claimed that the OS wars had spawned enough hatred for people to actually write viruses for OSes they did not like. He even said that people at MS proper were working on them.
It scared me a little. This was when I was first looking into Linux and did not know much better. At the same time, I figured he knew his friends. Looking around here, I see the same thing from time to time as this little beauty from message #33 by Fross (+5 interesting) "But for now, it should only affect the terminally stupid or extremely unwary:) and Windows users to boot!;)". Nod nod, wink wink, not very funny.
I actually get paid for writing VB (OK, feel free to moderate me -1, "Spawn of Satan")
Oh my, a VB troll. Spawn of Satan? You really overrate yourself. Oh well, at least you did not call that money sucking, point and click activity "programing". If you really do use VB, I'm supprised you could keep a browser stable long enough to post.
Well, a private commercial company is not accountable to its consumers when it is in a situation of control over a monopoly. It is only accountable to its shareholders, and it makes very few people with respect to the Internet users.
These people are being accused, not convicted, of a crime.
These people are being forbiden to share files that MIGHT be copyrighted by some one else. No leagal body has been involved, becuse the action is not really legal. To use your poor analogy, this is like being punished for wearing a ski mask because a robber was wearing one. We are outraged at the presumption of guilt, the punishment that followed and the reasons for such behavior.
The goal is to restrict distribution of music, and other original content to the world's big five publishers. All other distribution channels will be bought, destroyed or made hoplessly inconvenient and socially stigmatized.
I've got news for you and your friends, it is not going to work. Good content will become available from alternate sources, artists will make money, and the big five will crumple into the land of dead media as revenue plumets. Those of you who would be abitrars of taste had better start looking for alternate employment, and lean humility. People demand more than your corrupt little radio, tv, and cable racket was able to provide. Good riddance, dinosaurs.
Banning method patents is not as difficult as you think. Let's look at your example.
This is exactly what a software claim would look like. And if their lawyer had needed to, changing this claim to a hardware claim is trivial. Merely make reference to the processor/memories that perform each of these actions.
Those things already have patents, sometimes silly, but always more justified patents on how to manipulate things that were designed to be manipulated generally. I drive my car with great syle, give me a patent, is the collection of jokes at the end of the article. If those methods for putting golf balls, hitting tennis balls and what not are valid, so are software patents and the patent office is as RMS called it, incompetent and insane.
Damn! Here I was thinking I might get a cool new extoskeleton from all my blubber. With a kevlar scafolding, I was gonna be one bad mutha. Oh well, the diet must continue and I'm still just a weak, fat engineer.
The early twentieth century geek bit the head off chickens in a circus for a living. Later geeks displayed testicular irregularities and became eunichs. How these people became computer programers and engineers, I'll never know.
No. A better analogy would be if I had a sign on my door, meant for a visting friend, which said "Come on in and have a beer". If a stranger sees it and comes in and helps himself to a cold one, has he done anything morally or legally wrong?
Nothing wrong with drinking a beer, but I'd be pissed off if he took my stereo or raped my wife. Not to equate mp3 file copying with, rape or theft, but it is wrong to load someone's hard disk with crap without their consent when that crap might bring cease and desist letters down on their heads.
Think! You know where you belong, and you know what you own. Walking into a stranger's house is a very ballsy thing to do. Here in Louissiana you can be legally shot doing that. Sneaking Britany Spears onto someone else's hard disk is not nice. An open door is not an excuse for abuse.
The lawyers seem to always try to re-word everything so that things are selectively illeagal or wrong. Personally, I'm getting tired of the bullshit with the lawyers in America, but that is another topic.
Yeh, me too.
What remains to be seen is: who is liable for the (alleged) illeagal material on one of the public shares? Is the user reasonably expected to make sure the material is legal?
The poster (assinine) is responsible. This is no different any other public share or common carrier. Putting Britany Spears on someone else's computer is an abuse in more ways than one.
I hate being called ignorant for believing in God, and other maters of faith which can neither be proved or disproved. Funny though, that you would advocate the devil.
Okay, I will agree with this statement but add that the GPL adds a 'string'. It requires that I am not allowed to use that code in an unrestricted manner (ie. a Closed Source project)
That would depend on your dependencies! Who's code are we talking about? These strings are meant to protect all of us. Let's first look at it from the original programer's point of view, then a vendor's.
If I write code for the state that's all mine GPL it you have to come to me to close it up, OK and we might both be happy. I might not want to do that because I'd hate to have your company use the money you make off my code to tell me to cease and dessist one day. Still, if it's all mine, I'm sure we can do this.
If I do the same thing using other people's code, I can't give you permission to republish their work, except as GPL'd code. That's because I'm not the only orignial programer. I've benefited from other people's work and passed it on. You should too, or convince all the other nice people to agree with you. If they were all forced to GPL their code, it might not be as hard as it looks.
Now let's say I want to make money off this thing, and I had nothing to do with it's creation. Hey, I've got some good ideas and I can extend your work, should'nt I get something for that? Not really. I'm just a crummy vendor at this point, looking to steal someone else's work and make a buck on it. Would'nt it be better if I just contributed and made my money as a consultant, like lawers, doctors and engineers? Nothing is hidden in those fields, why should this one be any different?
Do you forbid the author from further development of his software or something?
If you own a platform, you can make it so that only your modified version will ever work. Because you can keep these trivial and harmful modifications to yourself, the original authors will loose control of their work on your platform. This way, only you will make money selling the original work.
Failing that, or at the same time, you get a bunch of lawyers to threaten, harass and finaly ruin the original author. After all, his "free" product might interfere with your earnings. Anything is possible in a world with one click shopping.
In order for our world to function, it is sometimes necessary to conflate the "advertised" figure with the "what can be reasonably sustained under most circumstances". This requires some element of judgement (horrors!), but generally allows society to actually function at something close to peak efficiency. After all, if everything we built/advertised had to survive every possible contingency, we'd be in big trouble.
Ever heard of honesty? If you make a promise, you had better deliver. If I'm promised 128k upload, I expect it. Judgement has to be exercised in the advert and that's not my job. The economy depends on trust. People who violate trust deserve the burn they eventually get.
The cable modem people oversubscribed my neighborhood and have a sucky ToS. Do I blame my neighbors who might be serving Quake? No, I don't. I blame the cable company for oversubscribing or not enforcing their ToS. I'm dumping them for DSL.
Like most people who don't understand the time value of money, you have been suckered into a serries of payments. Look up the total present value of $20/month for a couple of years some time. $800 and a series of payments is not a good deal.
What's sinister is that the makers might try to make the computer ONLY work with the subscription service. Think of it as the "Naked PC" reaction taken to it's logical conclusion. Such a box would be a finacial liability, security risk and would end up pushing adverts on you, as long as you want to use it and MS supports it.
No thanks. I'll stick to my free subscription service, Debian.
Bill Gates says, "Thanks for your interest in working for MS. As you gave us your best idea, we'll forgoe paying you. We look forward to screwing you again."
Those costs can be further reduced by eliminating paper distribution. Paper publishers of current information are going away. Their medium is obsolete.
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Sorry to take so long to reply! I've been in training, barf, and don't have quick and dirty generator with me. this page http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj/misc/luxury.f9 0 looks like it has a better tested bunch of routines, which could return 64 bits with little modification. Note that the serries WILL REPEAT for a given seed. Also note that there are many free random number generators available on Linux and BSD platforms and that allmost any FORTRAN compiler will have a random number generator call that you can check out.
Random numbers that are useful are not really random. If they really were random, they could not be used to test out new systems and programs because you could not be sure you ran the same process to compare results! You can generate non repeating random numbers by using two numbers, a seed and modular division. The seed determines the next seed ad barf. For the same two numbers and seed on the same machine you will get the same answers every time. Using simple these simple methods and FORTRAN, I've generated billions of 64 bit non repeating numbers in a sequence.
By using psuedo random numbers you can notice missing packets even with a strange looking serries of numbers. These numbers can change with machine and compiler though.
Yeah, I feel that way about the code I write most of the time, but what kind of code does a troll like you write? The paper clip from hell?
You are right, as Bill Gates was when he claimed that Software is the limiter of a computer's functionality. He of course was implying that he would fill that functionality rather than block it. Those that impeed are removed. This effort does not really stand a chance, but neither does MS does it?
The choice of Linux won't be a disadvantage because "there are more than 100,000 active programmers for the Linux, which is more than double the number of those for Microsoft," said Uno.
You will soon see the benefits Linux offers. Microsoft is dead, long live free software!
Why should he bother to learn MS-SQL? For all the money he spent on it, it should'nt require all that. If it does, he might as well use the free standard.
It scared me a little. This was when I was first looking into Linux and did not know much better. At the same time, I figured he knew his friends. Looking around here, I see the same thing from time to time as this little beauty from message #33 by Fross (+5 interesting) "But for now, it should only affect the terminally stupid or extremely unwary :) and Windows users to boot! ;)". Nod nod, wink wink, not very funny.
Thankfully, nothing bad ever happened.
Oh my, a VB troll. Spawn of Satan? You really overrate yourself. Oh well, at least you did not call that money sucking, point and click activity "programing". If you really do use VB, I'm supprised you could keep a browser stable long enough to post.
Shareholder: Do we have them by the shorhairs?
Board Member: Yes we do!
Shareholder: Cool, we can make tons of money!
Board Member: We?
I feel so empowered by my shares, how about you?
These people are being accused, not convicted, of a crime.
These people are being forbiden to share files that MIGHT be copyrighted by some one else. No leagal body has been involved, becuse the action is not really legal. To use your poor analogy, this is like being punished for wearing a ski mask because a robber was wearing one. We are outraged at the presumption of guilt, the punishment that followed and the reasons for such behavior.
The goal is to restrict distribution of music, and other original content to the world's big five publishers. All other distribution channels will be bought, destroyed or made hoplessly inconvenient and socially stigmatized.
I've got news for you and your friends, it is not going to work. Good content will become available from alternate sources, artists will make money, and the big five will crumple into the land of dead media as revenue plumets. Those of you who would be abitrars of taste had better start looking for alternate employment, and lean humility. People demand more than your corrupt little radio, tv, and cable racket was able to provide. Good riddance, dinosaurs.
This is exactly what a software claim would look like. And if their lawyer had needed to, changing this claim to a hardware claim is trivial. Merely make reference to the processor/memories that perform each of these actions.
Those things already have patents, sometimes silly, but always more justified patents on how to manipulate things that were designed to be manipulated generally. I drive my car with great syle, give me a patent, is the collection of jokes at the end of the article. If those methods for putting golf balls, hitting tennis balls and what not are valid, so are software patents and the patent office is as RMS called it, incompetent and insane.
Oh my, RMS is right.
Damn! Here I was thinking I might get a cool new extoskeleton from all my blubber. With a kevlar scafolding, I was gonna be one bad mutha. Oh well, the diet must continue and I'm still just a weak, fat engineer.
The early twentieth century geek bit the head off chickens in a circus for a living. Later geeks displayed testicular irregularities and became eunichs. How these people became computer programers and engineers, I'll never know.
Nothing wrong with drinking a beer, but I'd be pissed off if he took my stereo or raped my wife. Not to equate mp3 file copying with, rape or theft, but it is wrong to load someone's hard disk with crap without their consent when that crap might bring cease and desist letters down on their heads.
Think! You know where you belong, and you know what you own. Walking into a stranger's house is a very ballsy thing to do. Here in Louissiana you can be legally shot doing that. Sneaking Britany Spears onto someone else's hard disk is not nice. An open door is not an excuse for abuse.
Yeh, me too.
What remains to be seen is: who is liable for the (alleged) illeagal material on one of the public shares? Is the user reasonably expected to make sure the material is legal?
The poster (assinine) is responsible. This is no different any other public share or common carrier. Putting Britany Spears on someone else's computer is an abuse in more ways than one.
I hate being called ignorant for believing in God, and other maters of faith which can neither be proved or disproved. Funny though, that you would advocate the devil.
To your maker, you resemble an earthworm.
Nothing new here, nothing solved, get back to work.
That would depend on your dependencies! Who's code are we talking about? These strings are meant to protect all of us. Let's first look at it from the original programer's point of view, then a vendor's.
If I write code for the state that's all mine GPL it you have to come to me to close it up, OK and we might both be happy. I might not want to do that because I'd hate to have your company use the money you make off my code to tell me to cease and dessist one day. Still, if it's all mine, I'm sure we can do this.
If I do the same thing using other people's code, I can't give you permission to republish their work, except as GPL'd code. That's because I'm not the only orignial programer. I've benefited from other people's work and passed it on. You should too, or convince all the other nice people to agree with you. If they were all forced to GPL their code, it might not be as hard as it looks.
Now let's say I want to make money off this thing, and I had nothing to do with it's creation. Hey, I've got some good ideas and I can extend your work, should'nt I get something for that? Not really. I'm just a crummy vendor at this point, looking to steal someone else's work and make a buck on it. Would'nt it be better if I just contributed and made my money as a consultant, like lawers, doctors and engineers? Nothing is hidden in those fields, why should this one be any different?
If you own a platform, you can make it so that only your modified version will ever work. Because you can keep these trivial and harmful modifications to yourself, the original authors will loose control of their work on your platform. This way, only you will make money selling the original work.
Failing that, or at the same time, you get a bunch of lawyers to threaten, harass and finaly ruin the original author. After all, his "free" product might interfere with your earnings. Anything is possible in a world with one click shopping.
Sure they do, but if I only get up to 28k upload, I've been lied to.
MS won't last another 10 years.
Ever heard of honesty? If you make a promise, you had better deliver. If I'm promised 128k upload, I expect it. Judgement has to be exercised in the advert and that's not my job. The economy depends on trust. People who violate trust deserve the burn they eventually get.
The cable modem people oversubscribed my neighborhood and have a sucky ToS. Do I blame my neighbors who might be serving Quake? No, I don't. I blame the cable company for oversubscribing or not enforcing their ToS. I'm dumping them for DSL.
trolls are a DoS
Like most people who don't understand the time value of money, you have been suckered into a serries of payments. Look up the total present value of $20/month for a couple of years some time. $800 and a series of payments is not a good deal.
What's sinister is that the makers might try to make the computer ONLY work with the subscription service. Think of it as the "Naked PC" reaction taken to it's logical conclusion. Such a box would be a finacial liability, security risk and would end up pushing adverts on you, as long as you want to use it and MS supports it.
No thanks. I'll stick to my free subscription service, Debian.
Bill Gates says, "Thanks for your interest in working for MS. As you gave us your best idea, we'll forgoe paying you. We look forward to screwing you again."
Those costs can be further reduced by eliminating paper distribution. Paper publishers of current information are going away. Their medium is obsolete.