They are the guys that fuck people over royally, not the internet, nor the people on it. Try to explain creativity to people who *only* care for the mighty $$$...
The internet has the possibility of setting music free, and for artists to find new nice ways of making a living, without record companies. Is that what old artists and record companies find so horrific about the internet? That they are *gasp* being replaced? Or can it be that the biggest myspace page isn't/SirEltonJohn ?
It is what people do, not what the "internet" do...
Start profiling the damn thing! Write performance tests, good ones, write really evil stress tests, stress the crap out of it, and then you will know what is *wrong*. Might not be the kernel at all, in fact, I think that a lot will be because of applications (always a huge source for problems), the UI/Graphics subsystem (again, huge source for trouble, X11, drivers, UI toolkits, they all tend to be far from perfect) and such.
But pissing and moaning won't do you any good. At least Con did try to write stuff, but not being a professional software engineer hurt his efforts I'm assuming. The guy would probably make a good technical manager though. It is a shame he felt he had to quit, it would have been much better if he could have gotten a few other kernel hackers on with him to go on. I think he ended up with a lot of users backing him, but no coders:(
Not that I am a Linux person, but I always find it sad to see people who are really into something quitting for bad reasons (bad in the sense that the shouldn't have to, not that he did something unwise).
When can I buy a Wifi phone without an OS? And then put whatever is out there on it? Perhaps... a linux distro with hardware support? THEN it would be a heck of a lot more interesting. Because whether or not they breach the license or not won't change anyone but the lawyers lives. I hardly think that anything in that skype phone is worth getting back to be honest.
I want an open piece of hardware, because I quite frankly don't care about 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, nor any-freakin'-G. I want Wifi, only, and sensible sync and everything else.
Or they can just throw GSM/whatever-G out of the iPhone and fill it up with WiFi software instead of what you get from GSM (Call, SMS). That would work outside of the US, without the need to crack it, and make me happy:)
It seems extremely dangerous that a user can install something like that, with that kind of effects. Very insecure indeed. Can anyone explain why in the whole world something like this could ever happen, or is in fact an exploit/virus/worm?
Programming languages like Haskell and Erlang has very little problems with using a massive amounts of CPUs/cores. Look them up and learn about them, and you'll see that they can, without any fuss, spread over many many threads without any special code at all.
Well, that's it, read up and then maybe we can get some more interesting Slashdot postings about new computers:)
And it is quite amazing that Sun hasn't picked up on this. Their little Java thingie doesn't scale that well after all:)
...bought myself a MacBook and it runs OS X beautifully. I used to be a Microsoft fanboy, Vista turned me into an Apple fanboy instead (Linux in turn turned me into a Microsoft one, and before that it was the Amiga, hmm, fickle is the love for OSes).
Because a fairly good developer can never really comprehend the idea of good design, and there are far more crappy developers out there than good ones, and great ones, not many at all. It takes discipline and talent to produce good design and without it you will be lost, no chance of recovery, sorry.
That being said I've heard very good words about llvm (www.llvm.org) so go check that out if you are interested in possibly good code.
Design is really the key here, changing development methodologies, programming languages, or whatever won't buy you good design. Too bad today's tools for design is HORRIBLE:(
I have never, even once, needed to replace a better on a mobile phone, nor have I never bothered to use extra ones since the charge on them is good enough. Is this really, truly, a problem for people? Besides, $80 or whatever for a device that will set you back $499 - $599 plus 24 x $59.99. That's like up to around $2000, plus any other extras you buy and use and whatnot. Is the difference between $2000 and $2080 that high?
There are way too many people out there who wants to hate the iPhone because it is not specially made for them (as if any other phone was...) and makes up these completely stupid stories about absolutely nothing. Do not buy the iPhone if you do not like it. Let the number of devices sold speak instead, OK?
The government has no reason to care about the whole IP debacle really. What it really is a question of is an old industry with awfully rich people in charge (don't give me crap about starving artists, the fat cats that took their money in the first place could starting paying it back...) that has grown accustomed to ripping artists and consumers alike off. Music survived an awful long time before the RIAA, and so did acting before MPAA. It is a transition, which no government should interfere with. The industry and the artist and consumers alike must find a new balance. I've heard that people pay to listen to live music for instance, maybe that is how music should pay the bills, not recordings of it? Who knows but the future.
What the government *SHOULD* interfere with is price fixing, Mafia tactics, scare tactics, extortion, invading of privacy, breaking the law, etc. Which these bloody people are doing all the time. This what is getting to me, why should any government on earth be allowed to persecute individuals the way RIAA/MPAA and their friends are doing. I do not live in the US, but please please, everyone, do read this Wikipedia entry and really think about what it says. If what the RIAA/MPAA is doing isn't cruel and unusual, nothing else. When beating and raping people is seen as a lesser crime than copying certain combinations of 1s and 0s, this are both cruel, and soon getting all to usual!
If we are talking about some kind of crappy webbased horrid low resolution crap, who cares? I want it directly to my TV in at least 720p and preferably 1080p with high quality surround sound.
Besides, iTunes is not the big competitor, the torrent/ftp/etc sites are the big competitors, they have the nuts.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
I think this text is interesting in conjunction with the current patent situation...
(If you want to know who wrote what I quoted, I recommend googling it, you might learn something:) )
Question is, can we can non-DRMed TV and movies out of iTunes? Music seems to be on its way, especially if it outsells DRMed music (money talks). I think Apple should compete with being better, and I am eagerly awaiting AppleTV 2, with 1080p and no DRM in sight:)
If you own stocks, and if your friends also owns stocks, and a whole lotta nerdy little Linux users owns stocks, they can make demands. Isn't stranger than that:)
The first who can get 720p/1080p high bitrate surround sound TV series on the net, in a way that is fairly priced, is bound to make a huge amount of bucks, and make it a hell of a lot easier to start convincing people to pay instead of pirate. It is about two things first and foremost:
1. Convenience. I can watch it when I want, where I want, with no commercials or similar horrors. 2. Quality. TV/iTunes just doesn't cut it. I want full widescreen 720/1080 HDTV with full quality surround and top notch bitrate choices (I'll pay the double for 2x the bitrate). (3. Price)
Ever heard of, if you can't beat them, join them? I'd hire the big boys in torrent/ftp to run my systems instead of trying to give them jailtime. They are sure to run a tight ship (they didn't even get paid before! well, kinda not at least:)) and they will be sure to upset the other nets so they can get more profit:) I'd pay them by the download ofcourse:)
Take a quick look at everything that is illegal in Sweden, take a look at all the laws (seriously, do), and I can tell you that this doesn't really make a difference. Just because you make something illegal doesn't mean it will go away, something they refuse to realize in this country of mine...
In this case it doesn't in one important way. Programming is the same regardless of language, since humans are the same regardless of language. What you need to write good software (again, why just secure? Why focus on a certain aspect, why not just generalize?) is skills/knowledge and good habits. My best advice here is to make sure you give yourself good coding habits. Don't say things like "I'll clean that up later" or "I will add error checks later" or something equally damaging. Give yourself good, sensible, habits and follow them. Any average programmer must know what buffer overflow means, and how to correct it. You can't even be an average programmer unless you know. So why is such insecure code written in C/C++ then? My thinking is plain mistakes and bad habits.
There is no need to code your GUI with todays environments. Simply design it, "draw it", in an editor. If youre doing.NET, Cocoa, or Java it should be a breeze. Doing it all in code will basicly just take time, time you could spend on something better.
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They are the guys that fuck people over royally, not the internet, nor the people on it. Try to explain creativity to people who *only* care for the mighty $$$...
/SirEltonJohn ?
The internet has the possibility of setting music free, and for artists to find new nice ways of making a living, without record companies. Is that what old artists and record companies find so horrific about the internet? That they are *gasp* being replaced? Or can it be that the biggest myspace page isn't
It is what people do, not what the "internet" do...
Start profiling the damn thing! Write performance tests, good ones, write really evil stress tests, stress the crap out of it, and then you will know what is *wrong*. Might not be the kernel at all, in fact, I think that a lot will be because of applications (always a huge source for problems), the UI/Graphics subsystem (again, huge source for trouble, X11, drivers, UI toolkits, they all tend to be far from perfect) and such.
:(
But pissing and moaning won't do you any good. At least Con did try to write stuff, but not being a professional software engineer hurt his efforts I'm assuming. The guy would probably make a good technical manager though. It is a shame he felt he had to quit, it would have been much better if he could have gotten a few other kernel hackers on with him to go on. I think he ended up with a lot of users backing him, but no coders
Not that I am a Linux person, but I always find it sad to see people who are really into something quitting for bad reasons (bad in the sense that the shouldn't have to, not that he did something unwise).
Since I assume that the data-rate costs are pretty astronomical in most countries. Or a people starting to want to pay to pirate now? :)
When can I buy a Wifi phone without an OS? And then put whatever is out there on it? Perhaps... a linux distro with hardware support? THEN it would be a heck of a lot more interesting. Because whether or not they breach the license or not won't change anyone but the lawyers lives. I hardly think that anything in that skype phone is worth getting back to be honest.
:)
I want an open piece of hardware, because I quite frankly don't care about 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, nor any-freakin'-G. I want Wifi, only, and sensible sync and everything else.
Or they can just throw GSM/whatever-G out of the iPhone and fill it up with WiFi software instead of what you get from GSM (Call, SMS). That would work outside of the US, without the need to crack it, and make me happy
It seems extremely dangerous that a user can install something like that, with that kind of effects. Very insecure indeed. Can anyone explain why in the whole world something like this could ever happen, or is in fact an exploit/virus/worm?
Berkeley? Isn't that the BSD/Devil? Surely you mean face GNU/RMS!
Programming languages like Haskell and Erlang has very little problems with using a massive amounts of CPUs/cores. Look them up and learn about them, and you'll see that they can, without any fuss, spread over many many threads without any special code at all.
Well, that's it, read up and then maybe we can get some more interesting Slashdot postings about new computers:)
And it is quite amazing that Sun hasn't picked up on this. Their little Java thingie doesn't scale that well after all:)
...bought myself a MacBook and it runs OS X beautifully. I used to be a Microsoft fanboy, Vista turned me into an Apple fanboy instead (Linux in turn turned me into a Microsoft one, and before that it was the Amiga, hmm, fickle is the love for OSes).
John
Because a fairly good developer can never really comprehend the idea of good design, and there are far more crappy developers out there than good ones, and great ones, not many at all. It takes discipline and talent to produce good design and without it you will be lost, no chance of recovery, sorry.
:(
That being said I've heard very good words about llvm (www.llvm.org) so go check that out if you are interested in possibly good code.
Design is really the key here, changing development methodologies, programming languages, or whatever won't buy you good design. Too bad today's tools for design is HORRIBLE
...is to go to lunch. Man I'm hungry by 11:30!
The art of computer software is turning caffeine into code, and that sure doesn't make you fall asleep in the evening!
I have never, even once, needed to replace a better on a mobile phone, nor have I never bothered to use extra ones since the charge on them is good enough. Is this really, truly, a problem for people? Besides, $80 or whatever for a device that will set you back $499 - $599 plus 24 x $59.99. That's like up to around $2000, plus any other extras you buy and use and whatnot. Is the difference between $2000 and $2080 that high?
There are way too many people out there who wants to hate the iPhone because it is not specially made for them (as if any other phone was...) and makes up these completely stupid stories about absolutely nothing. Do not buy the iPhone if you do not like it. Let the number of devices sold speak instead, OK?
The government has no reason to care about the whole IP debacle really. What it really is a question of is an old industry with awfully rich people in charge (don't give me crap about starving artists, the fat cats that took their money in the first place could starting paying it back...) that has grown accustomed to ripping artists and consumers alike off. Music survived an awful long time before the RIAA, and so did acting before MPAA. It is a transition, which no government should interfere with. The industry and the artist and consumers alike must find a new balance. I've heard that people pay to listen to live music for instance, maybe that is how music should pay the bills, not recordings of it? Who knows but the future.
What the government *SHOULD* interfere with is price fixing, Mafia tactics, scare tactics, extortion, invading of privacy, breaking the law, etc. Which these bloody people are doing all the time. This what is getting to me, why should any government on earth be allowed to persecute individuals the way RIAA/MPAA and their friends are doing. I do not live in the US, but please please, everyone, do read this Wikipedia entry and really think about what it says. If what the RIAA/MPAA is doing isn't cruel and unusual, nothing else. When beating and raping people is seen as a lesser crime than copying certain combinations of 1s and 0s, this are both cruel, and soon getting all to usual!
If we are talking about some kind of crappy webbased horrid low resolution crap, who cares? I want it directly to my TV in at least 720p and preferably 1080p with high quality surround sound.
Besides, iTunes is not the big competitor, the torrent/ftp/etc sites are the big competitors, they have the nuts.
<insert clever comment about SCO>
Great, you just turned our mission to Mars into Big Brother... Thank you very much!
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. ...
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
I think this text is interesting in conjunction with the current patent situation...
(If you want to know who wrote what I quoted, I recommend googling it, you might learn something:) )
Question is, can we can non-DRMed TV and movies out of iTunes? Music seems to be on its way, especially if it outsells DRMed music (money talks). I think Apple should compete with being better, and I am eagerly awaiting AppleTV 2, with 1080p and no DRM in sight :)
What about CSI:Atlantis? :)
If you own stocks, and if your friends also owns stocks, and a whole lotta nerdy little Linux users owns stocks, they can make demands. Isn't stranger than that :)
If someone wants to give me a job in Minnesota, you can find my detailed info by pressing my name in this post.
Just so you guys know, I want to go over there:)
The first who can get 720p/1080p high bitrate surround sound TV series on the net, in a way that is fairly priced, is bound to make a huge amount of bucks, and make it a hell of a lot easier to start convincing people to pay instead of pirate. It is about two things first and foremost:
1. Convenience. I can watch it when I want, where I want, with no commercials or similar horrors.
2. Quality. TV/iTunes just doesn't cut it. I want full widescreen 720/1080 HDTV with full quality surround and top notch bitrate choices (I'll pay the double for 2x the bitrate).
(3. Price)
Ever heard of, if you can't beat them, join them? I'd hire the big boys in torrent/ftp to run my systems instead of trying to give them jailtime. They are sure to run a tight ship (they didn't even get paid before! well, kinda not at least:)) and they will be sure to upset the other nets so they can get more profit:) I'd pay them by the download ofcourse:)
Take a quick look at everything that is illegal in Sweden, take a look at all the laws (seriously, do), and I can tell you that this doesn't really make a difference. Just because you make something illegal doesn't mean it will go away, something they refuse to realize in this country of mine...
In this case it doesn't in one important way. Programming is the same regardless of language, since humans are the same regardless of language. What you need to write good software (again, why just secure? Why focus on a certain aspect, why not just generalize?) is skills/knowledge and good habits. My best advice here is to make sure you give yourself good coding habits. Don't say things like "I'll clean that up later" or "I will add error checks later" or something equally damaging. Give yourself good, sensible, habits and follow them. Any average programmer must know what buffer overflow means, and how to correct it. You can't even be an average programmer unless you know. So why is such insecure code written in C/C++ then? My thinking is plain mistakes and bad habits.
Why not MoPho instead? Has kind of a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Come on, let's go for MoPho everyone!
There is no need to code your GUI with todays environments. Simply design it, "draw it", in an editor. If youre doing .NET, Cocoa, or Java it should be a breeze. Doing it all in code will basicly just take time, time you could spend on something better.