But I'm letting a torrent run on my station at work just to be a nice guy.;)
Not that I suspect bandwidth is going to be a problem, I peaked at 2030 kB/s downloading. But I've always felt bad for mac users getting shafted and wanted to help.
Just don't tell my employer.. not sure they would be too impressed watching me output the 1300 kB/s I'm doing atm..
depends on your definition I suppose, I've heard it expressed both ways. In this case it comes down to how the SCO guy was counting lines, which is a variable we don't have access to.
Using the same command as above, but modifying to grep for semicolons, we get 1,169,312 lines.
Which doesn't get into stacking multiple expressions on each line, semicolons in comments, or anything like that.
So pick which number suits your fancy.;) I don't really care enough to get any more accurate.
> The only way to win against them is not to play > their game.
The skeptics do have a bit of responsibility, however, to educate those in the middle ground with the truth.
A great example of this is the bad astronomy site. Does it stop the conspiracy theorists? Of course not, that's not what it's there for. It exists for the folks who don't have the background separate fact from fiction and give them a reasonable counterpoint to the conspiracy theories.
You can't ignore these people any more than you can reason with them. Best you can do is prevent more folks from falling into the conspiracy camp.
> How is it that you can prove the earth is flat but > yet can't prove the goverment has been infiltrated > by aliens?
Because a conspiracy theorist, by their nature, will fabricate new situations that will support their belief. "Oh okay this base has no aliens, but I bet there's a secret military alien base somewhere else", or "well this guy isn't an alien, but I bet that guy down the hall is".
As regards the earth, this can be directly tested. In the extreme case, you can buzz up into orbit in a rocket and look back on the earth, or you can go on an ocean liner and see the curvature of the horizon out in the middle of the water, or you could test the theory mathematically.
The parent post gave one of the best descriptions of conspiracy buffs I've ever read, really. It's quite accurate.
> I don't get much SPAM on my cell either. The > occasional advertisement on a game/contest that my > cellphone provider offers, but apart from that.
You're missing the point though.. the concern isn't that people are getting "some" spam today, it's that in the future they will be getting a LOT of it if this problem isn't dealt with now.
Rewind ten years and ask how many people were concerned about email spam then apply that to this situation.
Precedents should be set now (no I don't mean in a legal sense but that would help I guess) so that spammers in the future are convinced it's just not worth the hassle.
Heh I totally forgot about the file format dependencies these people develop.. if you couldn't submit a file in a format that shop X wanted, you were pretty much SOL.
Of course, lots of them were willing to rebuild your files to the in-house format.. for a fee.;)
I sometimes miss the smell/sounds of a running press, but I really DON'T miss file format wars.
> Adobe's inDesign has effectively gobbled up all of > the old Quark marketshare, since it has had OSX > presence for over a year now...
You're failing to account for all the older prepress houses that pretty much cut their teeth using quark, and are still lagging behind using older installs that the last version ran on.
It's been years since I've had any contact with this industry but I know these people, this is how they work. Once they fixate on a given piece of software, that's all they use. The arguments of the virtues between pagemaker and quark got downright nasty sometimes.. a lot like the unix vi/emacs debate.
I think this new release will do just fine. Yeah the impact won't be as big as it could have been, but it's hardly to the point that quark is doomed.
Seems less like the room of the future, and more like the room of people with too much freakin' money in their bank account.
I think only the broadband access has a shot at becoming common, the rest of that stuff is just too filthy expensive for all but the most expensive hotels to be installing.. much less putting it into people's homes.
>...that they've only just performed this experiment.
You must not work for the government. EVERYTHING operates at a glacial speed.
It takes a month of meetings to decide on a course of action, two months to do any purchasing required, then another month to assemble the stuff that was bought.. then actually do the job that the meetings decided they should do.
You may think I'm kidding, but I'm not.:p This test is actually right on schedule.
In fact unless I've already lost track of the passage of time (yet another side effect of working for the government) they may actually be ahead of schedule.
Legitimacy? What are you talking about. His interview didn't claim at all that he was a "good guy", in fact he admitted quite bluntly that he's broken into people's machines in the past, and even detailed some of the methods he used.
No one here is "exposing" anything, because it was already out in the open.
No one who read that interview would have finished it thinking fyodor is completely blameless and one of the "good guys".
> Every job posting I recall coming across required > previous experience.
Takes a long time, but it will become a self-resolving problem. The existing "old guard" will eventually die out (either literally or via retirement) and create a demand in the market.
This will either cause companies to lower their standards or discard the old mainframes.
It would make good business sense to address the problem before it reaches critical mass (ie, so much of the old guard is gone that there's no way to train newbies), but if the Y2K problem was any indication, foresight isn't a prerequisite for running a business.
Another fun thing to do is toss in an extra ten or twenty dollar bill, just to see if they notice.
Other day I spent 29 bucks at the grocery store, handed the cashier three 20's. He gave me back 31 dollars in change.. never batted an eye. The 20 dollar bill I recieved was NOT one of the ones I had originally given to him either.;)
This movie doesn't do the article justice (it's mostly an ad for the website), but towards the bottom of the article they have a 15 second or so clip (wmv format) showing the ride in action.
I dunno.. record breaking is nice and all, but seems to me a longer slower ride, with more loops and swoops, would be much more fun overall.
> However, because they're using a third party's > intellectual property in the context of the > parody,
But they raise a good point in the text-based update, which the slashdot story didn't link to.
Basically there's certain icons that are corporate brands which have, basically, become integral parts of our society today. Mickey Mouse, McDonald's, Microsoft.. I mean the list is infinite in length, an encompasses things from niche appeal to mass appeal. Almost EVERYTHING we identify with in this day and age is some marketing symbol owned by a huge corporation.
So at what point should us people, who have accepted these icons into our society, be allowed to use them as vessels for communcation without risking legal action?
If this were a world run by idealism, wouldn't one think that after a symbol becomes so homogenized that it's a part of daily conversation that corporations should lose the right to prosecute for people using it as part of their speech?
Why would anyone use a vector-based animation format to show full motion video?
obviously it works, because the movie is viewable, but this seems akin to using a vw bug for hauling lumber. Just because it can work doesn't mean it should be done..:P
"the number of Internet users who look at blogs is " so small that it is not possible to draw statistically meaningful conclusions about who uses blogs.""
phew!
Considering how much they're talked about lately, I was afraid I was the only one that thought they were pointless.
torso breaks into limbs. limbs break into digits.. looks like a crude fractal to me.
But the lines are blurring..
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Ha-ha, yes it was intended. Anyways.
> gaming and graphics-intensive applications, where > the refresh rates of LCDs are not satisfactory yet
It's getting harder and harder these days to complain about refresh on an LCD. Granted it's not as good as a tried and true CRT, but the point is that LCD's running at native resolution are doing quite well. To the point that an average person won't notice any difference between a CRT and an LCD.
My better half owns a recent LCD. She plays plenty of games on it, from everquest to the latest sim city title to crappy web based flash games. I haven't yet taken the chance to "stress test" with a round of quake but for the most part I've been pleasantly surprised to how well the LCD responds to modern games. The images are bright, reasonably crisp, and it does all this over a crappy legacy analog vga port.
Maybe a "videophile" will find stuff to complain about, but I've found myself quite impressed by the performance an LCD can offer. These days I consider them equal to a CRT.
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my best guess suggests it will have something to do with a soldier's hygene.
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But I'm letting a torrent run on my station at work just to be a nice guy. ;)
Not that I suspect bandwidth is going to be a problem, I peaked at 2030 kB/s downloading. But I've always felt bad for mac users getting shafted and wanted to help.
Just don't tell my employer.. not sure they would be too impressed watching me output the 1300 kB/s I'm doing atm..
> you usually count semi-colons as LOCs
;) I don't really care enough to get any more accurate.
depends on your definition I suppose, I've heard it expressed both ways. In this case it comes down to how the SCO guy was counting lines, which is a variable we don't have access to.
Using the same command as above, but modifying to grep for semicolons, we get 1,169,312 lines.
Which doesn't get into stacking multiple expressions on each line, semicolons in comments, or anything like that.
So pick which number suits your fancy.
Over 3 million lines by my count, and that's not counting any header files or documentation.
./ -name "*.c"`; do cat $i; done | wc -l
[root@sether linux-2.4.20]# for i in `find
3333647
> The only way to win against them is not to play
:P
> their game.
The skeptics do have a bit of responsibility, however, to educate those in the middle ground with the truth.
A great example of this is the bad astronomy site. Does it stop the conspiracy theorists? Of course not, that's not what it's there for. It exists for the folks who don't have the background separate fact from fiction and give them a reasonable counterpoint to the conspiracy theories.
You can't ignore these people any more than you can reason with them. Best you can do is prevent more folks from falling into the conspiracy camp.
Sounds a bit like religion, doesn't it?
> How is it that you can prove the earth is flat but
> yet can't prove the goverment has been infiltrated
> by aliens?
Because a conspiracy theorist, by their nature, will fabricate new situations that will support their belief. "Oh okay this base has no aliens, but I bet there's a secret military alien base somewhere else", or "well this guy isn't an alien, but I bet that guy down the hall is".
As regards the earth, this can be directly tested. In the extreme case, you can buzz up into orbit in a rocket and look back on the earth, or you can go on an ocean liner and see the curvature of the horizon out in the middle of the water, or you could test the theory mathematically.
The parent post gave one of the best descriptions of conspiracy buffs I've ever read, really. It's quite accurate.
> I don't get much SPAM on my cell either. The
> occasional advertisement on a game/contest that my
> cellphone provider offers, but apart from that.
You're missing the point though.. the concern isn't that people are getting "some" spam today, it's that in the future they will be getting a LOT of it if this problem isn't dealt with now.
Rewind ten years and ask how many people were concerned about email spam then apply that to this situation.
Precedents should be set now (no I don't mean in a legal sense but that would help I guess) so that spammers in the future are convinced it's just not worth the hassle.
Heh I totally forgot about the file format dependencies these people develop.. if you couldn't submit a file in a format that shop X wanted, you were pretty much SOL.
;)
Of course, lots of them were willing to rebuild your files to the in-house format.. for a fee.
I sometimes miss the smell/sounds of a running press, but I really DON'T miss file format wars.
> Adobe's inDesign has effectively gobbled up all of
> the old Quark marketshare, since it has had OSX
> presence for over a year now...
You're failing to account for all the older prepress houses that pretty much cut their teeth using quark, and are still lagging behind using older installs that the last version ran on.
It's been years since I've had any contact with this industry but I know these people, this is how they work. Once they fixate on a given piece of software, that's all they use. The arguments of the virtues between pagemaker and quark got downright nasty sometimes.. a lot like the unix vi/emacs debate.
I think this new release will do just fine. Yeah the impact won't be as big as it could have been, but it's hardly to the point that quark is doomed.
Yes I know it's for the original unreal tournament, but I bet an interested soul could start a project to port it to UT2k3. ;)
4) Other's people's code is documented by monkies, if at all.
5) Integrating foreign code can be more work than just writing it yourself.
Seems less like the room of the future, and more like the room of people with too much freakin' money in their bank account.
I think only the broadband access has a shot at becoming common, the rest of that stuff is just too filthy expensive for all but the most expensive hotels to be installing.. much less putting it into people's homes.
> ...that they've only just performed this experiment.
:p This test is actually right on schedule.
You must not work for the government. EVERYTHING operates at a glacial speed.
It takes a month of meetings to decide on a course of action, two months to do any purchasing required, then another month to assemble the stuff that was bought.. then actually do the job that the meetings decided they should do.
You may think I'm kidding, but I'm not.
In fact unless I've already lost track of the passage of time (yet another side effect of working for the government) they may actually be ahead of schedule.
> disturbing issues surrounding fyodor's legitimacy.
Legitimacy? What are you talking about. His interview didn't claim at all that he was a "good guy", in fact he admitted quite bluntly that he's broken into people's machines in the past, and even detailed some of the methods he used.
No one here is "exposing" anything, because it was already out in the open.
No one who read that interview would have finished it thinking fyodor is completely blameless and one of the "good guys".
That would be GREAT. We could call it gasoline! :)
> Every job posting I recall coming across required
> previous experience.
Takes a long time, but it will become a self-resolving problem. The existing "old guard" will eventually die out (either literally or via retirement) and create a demand in the market.
This will either cause companies to lower their standards or discard the old mainframes.
It would make good business sense to address the problem before it reaches critical mass (ie, so much of the old guard is gone that there's no way to train newbies), but if the Y2K problem was any indication, foresight isn't a prerequisite for running a business.
Another fun thing to do is toss in an extra ten or twenty dollar bill, just to see if they notice.
;)
Other day I spent 29 bucks at the grocery store, handed the cashier three 20's. He gave me back 31 dollars in change.. never batted an eye. The 20 dollar bill I recieved was NOT one of the ones I had originally given to him either.
This movie doesn't do the article justice (it's mostly an ad for the website), but towards the bottom of the article they have a 15 second or so clip (wmv format) showing the ride in action.
I dunno.. record breaking is nice and all, but seems to me a longer slower ride, with more loops and swoops, would be much more fun overall.
> However, because they're using a third party's
> intellectual property in the context of the
> parody,
But they raise a good point in the text-based update, which the slashdot story didn't link to.
Basically there's certain icons that are corporate brands which have, basically, become integral parts of our society today. Mickey Mouse, McDonald's, Microsoft.. I mean the list is infinite in length, an encompasses things from niche appeal to mass appeal. Almost EVERYTHING we identify with in this day and age is some marketing symbol owned by a huge corporation.
So at what point should us people, who have accepted these icons into our society, be allowed to use them as vessels for communcation without risking legal action?
If this were a world run by idealism, wouldn't one think that after a symbol becomes so homogenized that it's a part of daily conversation that corporations should lose the right to prosecute for people using it as part of their speech?
It's something to think about anyways.
no 900k flash intro? one that gives me a thumping techno beat as the letters "w3c" flash into existence before my eyes?
not a terribly modern redesign, obviously. These people need to get with the program.
is it just me, or this beyond stupid?
:P
Why would anyone use a vector-based animation format to show full motion video?
obviously it works, because the movie is viewable, but this seems akin to using a vw bug for hauling lumber. Just because it can work doesn't mean it should be done..
I would have said the same thing, except you already did it. ;)
World needs more linux users like you.
"the number of Internet users who look at blogs is " so small that it is not possible to draw statistically meaningful conclusions about who uses blogs.""
phew!
Considering how much they're talked about lately, I was afraid I was the only one that thought they were pointless.
Or just look down at your body? :P
torso breaks into limbs. limbs break into digits.. looks like a crude fractal to me.
Ha-ha, yes it was intended. Anyways.
> gaming and graphics-intensive applications, where
> the refresh rates of LCDs are not satisfactory yet
It's getting harder and harder these days to complain about refresh on an LCD. Granted it's not as good as a tried and true CRT, but the point is that LCD's running at native resolution are doing quite well. To the point that an average person won't notice any difference between a CRT and an LCD.
My better half owns a recent LCD. She plays plenty of games on it, from everquest to the latest sim city title to crappy web based flash games. I haven't yet taken the chance to "stress test" with a round of quake but for the most part I've been pleasantly surprised to how well the LCD responds to modern games. The images are bright, reasonably crisp, and it does all this over a crappy legacy analog vga port.
Maybe a "videophile" will find stuff to complain about, but I've found myself quite impressed by the performance an LCD can offer. These days I consider them equal to a CRT.
insert crude toilet humor here.