For the life of me I can't understand why slashdot is still so backward in terms of standards compliance. For somewhere filled with zealots the slashdot staff certainly don't seem to be noticing..
I'm of the opinion that the more difficult Windows and it's applications become to pirate (or even use fairly) the more people will turn to Linux and other free software solutions.
My friends' primary arguments for not trying Linux: "But I can already get everything for 'free'!" Oh how uninformed.. sigh.
For the moderator with the twitchy offtopic trigger finger who just doesn't get it try visiting rot13.com and entering MikeXpop's sig, "Lbh unir whfg ivbyngrq gur QZPN". You'll see that yourself and I have infact just broken the DMCA. I hate to explain jokes but desperate retardation calls for desperate measures.
These guys obviously have access to the net as they send and read the mails.. How come none of them have seen any of the baiting sites and realised that if you're asked to do something dumb or hold up a placard you are most probably being messed with? You'd think as they need to have an english dictionary to reply to the emails they'd use the same dictionary to find out what the signs they were holding were.. dumb dumb dumb.
Yes I am!! First off it's not a money issue what so ever but an enviromental one. Screensavers are the most pointless things in existance in this day and age of power saving monitors. People are free to spend their money on what they want but as long as we all have to share this miniscule world we should all do our part in seeing that our currently limited energy resources are put to good use.
I'm sorry but factorisation problems and SETI really infuriate me. Firstly we can calculate how long something will take to compute with ease using simple the simple CS complexity analysis we all learnt at university.. then theres the SETI people.. not that I don't want to know whether there's life on other planets but to be honest there is so much we don't understand on our own planet that could have far greater reward for us all. Things I'm talking about might be research into climate, new fuels, medicines. The only distributed task I contribute to is folding@home because all others don't seem worth the extra energy and heat my PC will put out.
Surely a complexity calculation would suffice? After running a few iterations of the solver surely they could just calculate how long the key space would take to cover and divide by two.. why the need to run it until completion?
I believe it's called Corporate Responsibility, it's been suggested that as corporations power and reach overtakes that of most governments they will need to take on the governments responsibilities to sustain a health market place. You can look at it from another point of view if we all die or get fat or whatever) who's going to be around to buy mobo/burgers/stuff's then?
This is why we should move to procedurally generated textures where by the user can pick their own trade off between image quality and texture sizes at install time. Plus this make for a much smaller game distribution size and allow for some immense texture sizes making games more future proof (if that's the right expression)
The only "impact" will be "we have to start using VPNs, boys!"
Although I probably oh the warez community for getting me through university I personally wish that it weren't so publically accessible and would tone down a little and go back underground.. warez is the primary reason none of my friends will try free software.
"Why should I want to try free-software I already get all my software for free?"
The way I see it if DRM does stop software piracy then that can only strengthen free software.
That is not the result of the procedures being stored procedurally but merely due to having a highly (size) optimised engine. If you look at the quality of the textures you will see that that aren't subpar.. the delights of procedurally stored textures as opposed to bitmap textures include smaller file sizes and when careful written, full scalability. It has parallels with vector graphics icon sets versus bitmap icon sets.
No so much a compression algorithm as a way of procedurally generating textures. Theoretically using this technique a games company could ship a game and the user could decide at the other end what size and detail they want their textures to be. This would have benefits as the textures would be scalable to suit users hardware and only one set would need be distributed in a small vector/algorithm/macro form. If more game distribution was moved to online electronic form then this would certainly be something worthy of consideration by the developers.
You say you can't trust Fedora.. is this based on an particular reports or just conjecture?
Who has upgraded to Fedora from RH9 and how have you found it? I have a RH9 box and would like to upgrade to FC2 when it comes out.. how hard will that be and what are the dangers? (Talking updates here no a full new install.. otherwise I'd have Gentoo on there already)
Slashdot Mirror
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyeclipse
There's certainly one for Ruby so I'm guess Perl and Python shouldn't be far behind.
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For the life of me I can't understand why slashdot is still so backward in terms of standards compliance. For somewhere filled with zealots the slashdot staff certainly don't seem to be noticing..
Seems some of the work has already been done for them http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashdot/
Anyone know of any efforts to actually do something about this?
Is this a mistake or do pilots really have control over their attitude?
I'm of the opinion that the more difficult Windows and it's applications become to pirate (or even use fairly) the more people will turn to Linux and other free software solutions.
My friends' primary arguments for not trying Linux: "But I can already get everything for 'free'!" Oh how uninformed.. sigh.
For the moderator with the twitchy offtopic trigger finger who just doesn't get it try visiting rot13.com and entering MikeXpop's sig, "Lbh unir whfg ivbyngrq gur QZPN". You'll see that yourself and I have infact just broken the DMCA. I hate to explain jokes but desperate retardation calls for desperate measures.
These guys obviously have access to the net as they send and read the mails.. How come none of them have seen any of the baiting sites and realised that if you're asked to do something dumb or hold up a placard you are most probably being messed with? You'd think as they need to have an english dictionary to reply to the emails they'd use the same dictionary to find out what the signs they were holding were.. dumb dumb dumb.
Who ever modded this as Offtopic clearly hasn't decoded the sig for themselves.. Meta-mods please do your job.
for good 419 sport try Ebola Monkey Man (n.b. site is in no way racist despite the name)
Arghh yip t'was ROT13.. /me goes into hiding.
Gimme a clue what I'm doing here.. ROT13?
Yes I am!! First off it's not a money issue what so ever but an enviromental one. Screensavers are the most pointless things in existance in this day and age of power saving monitors. People are free to spend their money on what they want but as long as we all have to share this miniscule world we should all do our part in seeing that our currently limited energy resources are put to good use.
So Nah!
I'm sorry but factorisation problems and SETI really infuriate me. Firstly we can calculate how long something will take to compute with ease using simple the simple CS complexity analysis we all learnt at university.. then theres the SETI people.. not that I don't want to know whether there's life on other planets but to be honest there is so much we don't understand on our own planet that could have far greater reward for us all. Things I'm talking about might be research into climate, new fuels, medicines. The only distributed task I contribute to is folding@home because all others don't seem worth the extra energy and heat my PC will put out.
Surely a complexity calculation would suffice? After running a few iterations of the solver surely they could just calculate how long the key space would take to cover and divide by two.. why the need to run it until completion?
Couldn't agree more.. but from what I see they didn't use a distributed client.
I believe it's called Corporate Responsibility, it's been suggested that as corporations power and reach overtakes that of most governments they will need to take on the governments responsibilities to sustain a health market place. You can look at it from another point of view if we all die or get fat or whatever) who's going to be around to buy mobo/burgers/stuff's then?
This is why we should move to procedurally generated textures where by the user can pick their own trade off between image quality and texture sizes at install time. Plus this make for a much smaller game distribution size and allow for some immense texture sizes making games more future proof (if that's the right expression)
Owe.. not oh.. doh.
The only "impact" will be "we have to start using VPNs, boys!"
Although I probably oh the warez community for getting me through university I personally wish that it weren't so publically accessible and would tone down a little and go back underground.. warez is the primary reason none of my friends will try free software.
"Why should I want to try free-software I already get all my software for free?"
The way I see it if DRM does stop software piracy then that can only strengthen free software.
That is not the result of the procedures being stored procedurally but merely due to having a highly (size) optimised engine. If you look at the quality of the textures you will see that that aren't subpar.. the delights of procedurally stored textures as opposed to bitmap textures include smaller file sizes and when careful written, full scalability. It has parallels with vector graphics icon sets versus bitmap icon sets.
No so much a compression algorithm as a way of procedurally generating textures. Theoretically using this technique a games company could ship a game and the user could decide at the other end what size and detail they want their textures to be. This would have benefits as the textures would be scalable to suit users hardware and only one set would need be distributed in a small vector/algorithm/macro form. If more game distribution was moved to online electronic form then this would certainly be something worthy of consideration by the developers.
You say you can't trust Fedora.. is this based on an particular reports or just conjecture?
Who has upgraded to Fedora from RH9 and how have you found it? I have a RH9 box and would like to upgrade to FC2 when it comes out.. how hard will that be and what are the dangers? (Talking updates here no a full new install.. otherwise I'd have Gentoo on there already)
I believe the police are asking the same question and are now investigating.
Black Books get my vote as the best current British comedy that would ship well stateside. Absolutely brilliant.
Just checked out those tutorials.. suddenly all the nice logos and textures I see on other people's sites seem within reach. Cheers.