Re:Finally Learning From The Open Source Community
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The main reason users tend to form a community around Open Source projects is that there is direct communication
No The reason users for a community around Open Source is beacue Open Source doesen't try to scew them with vendor-lock in, buggy software and illegal business practices. Face it, Microsoft is not liked amung computing profesionals due to Microsofts bad behavour to its customers.
We are jelous of the popularity of Microsoft either: Apache is the most used web-server and everybody likes them. Cicso is popular, and we like them as well. Hell, we like Nintendo of all companies, better than Microsoft.
From where I sit, Stmantec's Norton Utilities won't detect much anyways - not without making the poor Windows computer slow to a crawl. Who needs a virus to make a compuer crash and hang when thers Notont's 'Antivirus' to do it for you?
My personal opinion is that much of the Microsoft bashing goes on for a few reasons:
We bash Microsoft because most of us are computing professionals. I'm sure a lot of McDonald's bashing goes on in kitchens, and a lot of KIA bashing goes on in garages.
Vinyl has frequency content out to 30+ kHz. Have the graphs to prove it.
If you ignore the fact that most music pressed on vinyl these days is recorded and mixed on DIGITAL equipment - you still have to contend with the fact that even if your hypothetical "30+" kHz sensitive vinyl was true, most of the subtle variations in the vinyl would be SCRAPED OFF BY A DIAMOND NEEDLE the first time around.
What next - you're gonna tell me that your Honda Civic is faster than a Corvette?
If somthing can run Linux, it means the manufacturer hasen't locked the device down with propriatary mechanisims to keep you from using it in the way *you* see fit. It means the device is open. It means that you actually own it, and not mearly renting permently from the manufacturer.
And with the majority of the press controlled by a handful of multi-national mega-corps
Actually, indivduall access to differing viewpoints is greater now than at any time in history. Not only do we have access to divering types of media, but every people can now self-publish at increasingly cheaper prices. In the 1300's, it took months to hand make a book. Now it takes you twenty bucks at the local Kinkos - or better yet, put it on a web page for almost nothing. Hell, we're having this discussion right now, and you or I don't own a press do we.
Do NOT give this watch as a gift to any farm vetrinatrian you know. The shutter button is too easily triggered if you know what I mean.
Tristan: "Seigfreid, come take a look at this photo on my wrist watch.."
Seigfreid: "My god! Is that Mr. Crowleys cow?"
Tristan: "I'm afraid so. I nip back out there and lance that abcess right away."
Seigfried: "And while you're at it, you might want to tidy up your watch - it's a bit rancid."
You have a point, but if they're passing an encrypted message allong, then it's pointless.
The could tell where the things are used though:
I took delivery of my Motoroal 9505 Iridium phone a few months ago and went to southern France, made a call and poped ofer the border into Spain and made a call. I was only 500 meteres into Spain. Imagine my supprise when I came home and the bill was neatly catagorised by country of origin. Kinda creapy that they are that accurate.
I wish I could by the 9505 voice-encryption module for the back of the phone, but then I'm not a spook;)
Good. Most people now use the Iridium satellite service, of wich the US State Department has a $70,000,000 contract with. I imagine our govenrment gets to listen on any conversation they want to. I don't know about Imarsat though - lugging around a suitcase dosent seem portable anymore.
If they don't have ID, then they probably are in the US illegally and should be deported.
I wasen't clear - it's the Somlians in Somaila that don't have any id. Western Union is happy to take money here is the state - their one office in Somlia won't hand the money over without photo-id.
Most Somalis here in Seattle are pretty cool people, they will be an asset to our country. Unlike some other immigrent populations that I won't name.
It's even muckerier than that: Al Barakaats services are really needed - a lot of Somali immigrents here in Seattle need the service to wire money to their *starving* families at home. Western Union charges too much and requires ID to hand over the money - ID is something that most Somalis don't have. It's a difficult situation, with no easy answers. Hopefully, andother comapny will fill the void.
Personally - I think that killing Al-Barakatt as a company is ligitimate. The world would be a better place if we had a corporate death penelty for companies that are guilty of murder. Al-Barakaat should be joind with RJR Tabacco and BMW Jewish-Slave-Labor-Vehicles.
Al-barakatt is the Somali version of Western Union - they take money and 'wire' it over to Somalia for delivery. Unfortunatly, the terrorists are taking a cut of all transfers:
US Government View
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01110 71 1.htm
Al-barakatt is an ISP, kind of like how the mafia is a security firm.
I imagine the "Blame America First" crowd it running around gleeful: Look America is crushing open communication in Somalia.
Well no actually, not for servers. I got sick and tired of the IIS exploit of the week, and made the switch more robust operating systems. It's a good desktop though, a shame they reiened the good design of 3.51 and started cramming the drivers into kernal space for the speed.
Wrong. Well kinda. XP does NetBIOS, it's just wrapped with TCP/IP. Then they just renamed the NetBios filesharing CIFS to fool people. It's still the same crappy SMB.
Interesting. Should I read that as "Just enough OpenGL to run the Quake 3 engine?";) To be fair, NVidia has been robust in their OpenGL support.
it's a creative use of the PS2's vector processors
I imagine an Xbox developer is trying to get the hard-drive seek motor to thrash about, creating the Ultimate-Console-Rumble-Pack(tm).:)
I'd love to peek at the vector code - if they were really clever and if it diden't require full use of the unit, they could split the vector pipeline in half and use one half for the sound and the other half for 'other'. I have no idea on the types of operations performed for 3d sound, so I have no idea if the sound transformations would be usefull for any other type of data at the same time. On second thought, I'd rather not look at the vector code, it makes my head hurt. PS2 developers have my sympathy.
I just see too much putting-down of things people don't fully understand on this site, and your line just looked like blanket 'if it can't do this it's appalling'.
Sorry if I was seemed I was picking on the Xbox.
The conflict between freeform and constraned design is always interesting. Sometimes a freeform design is inspireing; it's the diferance between Legos and GI Joe. Unfortunalty though, freeform designs can lead to a mess; the diference between the Pontiac Aztec and any normal car.
With video-game consoles, for a consumer, it's easy:Buy them all!
Deveopers have to be carefull that the type of game they are making fits the desing of the console or operaring system, there's nothing noble about making life difficult.
Eight years ago I played 4 hours of Doom, daily, on a 486-33. Four years ago I played 4 hours of Quake, daily, on a P2-300. Today I play 4 hours of Wolfenstein, daily, on a P4-2000
Where is the gain in time?
You're ping times have gone down. That's a time savings that your online foes appreciate!;)
I'm posting withouth the +1 bonus because my comment about the NetBEUI shoulden't have been moderated as 'Informative' - it's was ment as a joke. NetBEUI - was Microsoft and IBM kludge of a networking protocall for small evironments. Think Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Microsoft still can's break away from NetBEUI - Windows still uses it, it's just wrapped in a TCP/IP layer to hide it's suckyness.
A lot of older technology is just fune - a car form the 1970's can keep up with trafic, and an kitchen stove from 1960's may even be better than a modern one. But a refrigerator from the 1970's is almost twice as inefficent as a moden one, and the price a new one will be quickly recuouped through electrical bill savings. Computers are a technology that isn't stagnating, and an increase of speed saves you time. Time, truly, is one of the most important tings to save; it's you life.
You'r a smart guy - run down to a local Goodwill/Salvation Army and get a newer computer. Even if it's just a Pentium 200, the savings in your time would justify it's $50 cost in a few months. Quite frankly, KDE on a p90 would suck, I'd stick to emacs myslef.
"Inflexible" and "wonderful". Failing english should be unpossible for someone who's been speaking it as long as you have.
I always thought that Slashdot needed a spell check, but who need a spell check nowadays, when there are so many useless people with so much time on their hands that they voluntarily correct your postings for you?
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The main reason users tend to form a community around Open Source projects is that there is direct communication
No The reason users for a community around Open Source is beacue Open Source doesen't try to scew them with vendor-lock in, buggy software and illegal business practices. Face it, Microsoft is not liked amung computing profesionals due to Microsofts bad behavour to its customers.
We are jelous of the popularity of Microsoft either: Apache is the most used web-server and everybody likes them. Cicso is popular, and we like them as well. Hell, we like Nintendo of all companies, better than Microsoft.
Symantec Will Not Detect Magic Lantern
From where I sit, Stmantec's Norton Utilities won't detect much anyways - not without making the poor Windows computer slow to a crawl. Who needs a virus to make a compuer crash and hang when thers Notont's 'Antivirus' to do it for you?
After finding the manuals for him - do you think he's smart enough to read them?
Check out "Dan"'s deluxe web site at http://www.datalinesolutions.com/
Some pretty sweet coding there. Or somthing.
My personal opinion is that much of the Microsoft bashing goes on for a few reasons:
We bash Microsoft because most of us are computing professionals. I'm sure a lot of McDonald's bashing goes on in kitchens, and a lot of KIA bashing goes on in garages.
Vinyl has frequency content out to 30+ kHz. Have the graphs to prove it.
If you ignore the fact that most music pressed on vinyl these days is recorded and mixed on DIGITAL equipment - you still have to contend with the fact that even if your hypothetical "30+" kHz sensitive vinyl was true, most of the subtle variations in the vinyl would be SCRAPED OFF BY A DIAMOND NEEDLE the first time around.
What next - you're gonna tell me that your Honda Civic is faster than a Corvette?
The whole universe was not put here so that we could carefully destroy planets one at a time.
Earth First!
We'll mine the other planets later!
Why does everything have to run Linux?
If somthing can run Linux, it means the manufacturer hasen't locked the device down with propriatary mechanisims to keep you from using it in the way *you* see fit. It means the device is open. It means that you actually own it, and not mearly renting permently from the manufacturer.
And with the majority of the press controlled by a handful of multi-national mega-corps
Actually, indivduall access to differing viewpoints is greater now than at any time in history. Not only do we have access to divering types of media, but every people can now self-publish at increasingly cheaper prices. In the 1300's, it took months to hand make a book. Now it takes you twenty bucks at the local Kinkos - or better yet, put it on a web page for almost nothing. Hell, we're having this discussion right now, and you or I don't own a press do we.
Do NOT give this watch as a gift to any farm vetrinatrian you know. The shutter button is too easily triggered if you know what I mean.
Tristan: "Seigfreid, come take a look at this photo on my wrist watch.."
Seigfreid: "My god! Is that Mr. Crowleys cow?"
Tristan: "I'm afraid so. I nip back out there and lance that abcess right away."
Seigfried: "And while you're at it, you might want to tidy up your watch - it's a bit rancid."
You have a point, but if they're passing an encrypted message allong, then it's pointless.
;)
The could tell where the things are used though:
I took delivery of my Motoroal 9505 Iridium phone a few months ago and went to southern France, made a call and poped ofer the border into Spain and made a call. I was only 500 meteres into Spain. Imagine my supprise when I came home and the bill was neatly catagorised by country of origin. Kinda creapy that they are that accurate.
I wish I could by the 9505 voice-encryption module for the back of the phone, but then I'm not a spook
This won't prevent satellite internet access
Good. Most people now use the Iridium satellite service, of wich the US State Department has a $70,000,000 contract with. I imagine our govenrment gets to listen on any conversation they want to. I don't know about Imarsat though - lugging around a suitcase dosent seem portable anymore.
If they don't have ID, then they probably are in the US illegally and should be deported.
I wasen't clear - it's the Somlians in Somaila that don't have any id. Western Union is happy to take money here is the state - their one office in Somlia won't hand the money over without photo-id.
Most Somalis here in Seattle are pretty cool people, they will be an asset to our country. Unlike some other immigrent populations that I won't name.
It's even muckerier than that: Al Barakaats services are really needed - a lot of Somali immigrents here in Seattle need the service to wire money to their *starving* families at home. Western Union charges too much and requires ID to hand over the money - ID is something that most Somalis don't have. It's a difficult situation, with no easy answers. Hopefully, andother comapny will fill the void.
Personally - I think that killing Al-Barakatt as a company is ligitimate. The world would be a better place if we had a corporate death penelty for companies that are guilty of murder. Al-Barakaat should be joind with RJR Tabacco and BMW Jewish-Slave-Labor-Vehicles.
What do you do if you [Canada] don't have a successful harvest?
Thats easy! They blame Quebec.
Al-barakatt is the Somali version of Western Union - they take money and 'wire' it over to Somalia for delivery. Unfortunatly, the terrorists are taking a cut of all transfers:
US Government View
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/0111
Al-barakatt is an ISP, kind of like how the mafia is a security firm.
I imagine the "Blame America First" crowd it running around gleeful: Look America is crushing open communication in Somalia.
I take it that you don't use Windows 2000.
Well no actually, not for servers. I got sick and tired of the IIS exploit of the week, and made the switch more robust operating systems. It's a good desktop though, a shame they reiened the good design of 3.51 and started cramming the drivers into kernal space for the speed.
XP doesn't include it all.
Wrong. Well kinda. XP does NetBIOS, it's just wrapped with TCP/IP. Then they just renamed the NetBios filesharing CIFS to fool people. It's still the same crappy SMB.
You can use OpenGL too (with nVidia extensions).
;) To be fair, NVidia has been robust in their OpenGL support.
:)
Interesting. Should I read that as "Just enough OpenGL to run the Quake 3 engine?"
it's a creative use of the PS2's vector processors
I imagine an Xbox developer is trying to get the hard-drive seek motor to thrash about, creating the Ultimate-Console-Rumble-Pack(tm).
I'd love to peek at the vector code - if they were really clever and if it diden't require full use of the unit, they could split the vector pipeline in half and use one half for the sound and the other half for 'other'. I have no idea on the types of operations performed for 3d sound, so I have no idea if the sound transformations would be usefull for any other type of data at the same time. On second thought, I'd rather not look at the vector code, it makes my head hurt. PS2 developers have my sympathy.
I just see too much putting-down of things people don't fully understand on this site, and your line just looked like blanket 'if it can't do this it's appalling'.
Sorry if I was seemed I was picking on the Xbox.
The conflict between freeform and constraned design is always interesting. Sometimes a freeform design is inspireing; it's the diferance between Legos and GI Joe. Unfortunalty though, freeform designs can lead to a mess; the diference between the Pontiac Aztec and any normal car.
With video-game consoles, for a consumer, it's easy:Buy them all!
Deveopers have to be carefull that the type of game they are making fits the desing of the console or operaring system, there's nothing noble about making life difficult.
Eight years ago I played 4 hours of Doom, daily, on a 486-33. Four years ago I played 4 hours of Quake, daily, on a P2-300. Today I play 4 hours of Wolfenstein, daily, on a P4-2000
;)
Where is the gain in time?
You're ping times have gone down. That's a time savings that your online foes appreciate!
I'm posting withouth the +1 bonus because my comment about the NetBEUI shoulden't have been moderated as 'Informative' - it's was ment as a joke. NetBEUI - was Microsoft and IBM kludge of a networking protocall for small evironments. Think Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Microsoft still can's break away from NetBEUI - Windows still uses it, it's just wrapped in a TCP/IP layer to hide it's suckyness.
A Followup to explain myself:
A lot of older technology is just fune - a car form the 1970's can keep up with trafic, and an kitchen stove from 1960's may even be better than a modern one. But a refrigerator from the 1970's is almost twice as inefficent as a moden one, and the price a new one will be quickly recuouped through electrical bill savings. Computers are a technology that isn't stagnating, and an increase of speed saves you time. Time, truly, is one of the most important tings to save; it's you life.
Xbox's Ethernet port is not set to receive an IP from a DHCP server
;)
It's not even TCP/IP! It uses Microsoft's new NetBEUI-2001 protocall. I know it's true, 'cause my OS/2 LanManager server says so!
You'r a smart guy - run down to a local Goodwill/Salvation Army and get a newer computer. Even if it's just a Pentium 200, the savings in your time would justify it's $50 cost in a few months. Quite frankly, KDE on a p90 would suck, I'd stick to emacs myslef.
"Inflexible" and "wonderful". Failing english should be unpossible for someone who's been speaking it as long as you have.
I always thought that Slashdot needed a spell check, but who need a spell check nowadays, when there are so many useless people with so much time on their hands that they voluntarily correct your postings for you?