.. and how is anyone supposed to find that out from the sun website?
1.5 is a devel release until it's officially released on the sun website. I'll wait until the proper www.sun.com download is available - there's probably nothing written that runs under it yet anyway.
Actually this has mileage... just upload fonts (assuming these are postscript printers) that have little yellow dots scattered around them. It'll scramble the data so much as to be useless.
That's a biggie for me at the moment... I'm faced with rewriting all my code to not use GPL libraries or code simply because I want to license under Apache or Sendmail licenses (not decided which, but leaning towards the Sendmail one). It's not like I want to make anything proprietary or closed - in fact I want to *remove* restrictions but the GPL as currently worded won't let me.
but wait!!! When I'm watching a commercial there are dozens of commercials on other channels I'm not watching! When I'm asleep I probably skip hundreds of them!
That's because the US is by far the worst polluter of any country in the world, so would have to cut more to be at a sustainable level.
Of course as the temperate zones move north some of the prime farmland in the US will become arrid, which will put a lot more than a few people out of work.. political short-termism gone mad.
Should have looked more recently (the box has been on a shelf for 6 months).
Last time I asked they said they'd ban me from the forums if I asked again... it seems like someone has pointed their lawyer to the GPL and they've released source recently.
Unless you know the hardware specs of the phone already you aren't going to be able to get a kernel on there... be prepared to brick a few dozen trying.
The 'minimum spec' for installation states a 56k modem... I rough calculation I worked out was that it would take *7 days* continuous downloading (paying per-minute, as well, about £200 on the phone bill) and it'd break if your download dropped once during that 7 days (plus no incoming or outgoing phone calls).
Every couple of months they do the same thing to update the game... I seriously doubt there are any dialup users using it...
Then again it also states that you can install it on a machine with a 7.5GB hard disk (the install is actually 20GB), in 128MB (it frequently hits swap in 512MB)...
Other players just mount as hard drives and drag/drop from explorer.
I've never seen one (apart from ipod) that needed proprietary software... but then I'd never get an ipod anyway. Having a 'cool' brand name does not justify charging double the price for the same product.
When you've got 25 million subscribers providing advertising-free TV for £120 a year is pretty easy... it's just the way the maths work (and also why allowing people to 'subscribe' rather than using the license fee wouldn't work, as if you lost half the subscribers you'd have to double the proce to make up the shortfall, which would in turn reduce the number of subscribers etc.. you'd end up paying Sky prices (£480 a year for a load of cheap US imports).
He's probably talking about the spam TV, which I believe you still have in the US.
(In case you don't, what Tivo started doing is forcing every single unit to record the same program... during primetime!!! The only way to stop the recording was to powercycle the box. They tried it *once* in the UK and the bad publicity basically killed the market (so much that they're still not considering coming back)... Tivo is known as 'the box that forces you to watch programmes' to most people, even now).
I though I was the only one (on slashdot, anyway...)
OTOH I couldn't stand Firefly either... got 15 minutes into the first episode on that one (and I have to *really* hate something to not at least give it an episode).
It's far more likely that someone will see you enter your pin, than the machine will steal it.
So instead of only entering the pin at an ATM (which is easy to secure as it's designed so you can't see it from many angles), you're typing it on a keypad in a busy store, surrounded by dozens of people watching you type it...and they reckon this is *more* secure. Hah.
I know this is probably the wrong place to ask, but has anyone developed a Windows version of this? (the cheapest Win compatibile smartcard I've seen on sale is around the $500 mark, which is way more than I'm prepared to spend).
It's not called 'weed' for nothing - in fact it took years to eradicate it from the US because it grew absolutely everywhere...
Once it gets reintroduced (which I expect will happen - too much tax to be made to pass on the chance) it'll likely get back into the environment, this making it difficult to stop people growing it.
It's actually a legal requirement now to have an eye test... they're not being generous!
In fact at my last place if we didn't have an eye test (we had to book it/pay for it ourselves then claim it back), then we were docked a months' pay. Everyone complied, of course...
That episode was the worst ever.... it was obviously an advert for a game (although I didn't know they had one already...), was a rerun of a story from a previous series, and had zero actual new content.
I've got a horrible feeling if SG1 isn't finished it's going to die a death due to overused storylines and bad scripts (aka. Voyager, Enterprise).
This is why im really happy about the Battlestar galactica series comming this new year... Gritty, realistic, and hopefully... above all else... not more episodal space opera campy bullsh*t.
Don't get too happy... we already have it here.
Badly acted (where do that *find* these people!), badly scripted (at times it seems like they're trying to ad-lib and failing), and worst of all the camera work was done by a trainee they grabbed off the street - half the time the camera is looking at the roof or floor not at the actors!
Also the sound treatment is horrible - going from so quiet you can't hear them to blasting your ears out within the same scene.
I watched 3 episodes and canned it. Couldn't stand any more. Nice try, but next time try to film with an actual budget, and real actors.
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.. and how is anyone supposed to find that out from the sun website?
1.5 is a devel release until it's officially released on the sun website. I'll wait until the proper www.sun.com download is available - there's probably nothing written that runs under it yet anyway.
1.4.2_05 certainly doesn't have any auto-update feature, which I believe is the latest stable version.
Oh please... that is *so* linux 2.0.x
make clean install modules_install
Get one second hand from ebay. Preferably from another country.
There are a thousand ways around this...
Actually this has mileage... just upload fonts (assuming these are postscript printers) that have little yellow dots scattered around them. It'll scramble the data so much as to be useless.
In fact, if you dlopen or RPC your program doesn't even have to be useful without the GPL code... if you're not linking then the GPL doesn't cover it.
It's really wierd, but the GPL was written in far simpler times...
That's a biggie for me at the moment... I'm faced with rewriting all my code to not use GPL libraries or code simply because I want to license under Apache or Sendmail licenses (not decided which, but leaning towards the Sendmail one). It's not like I want to make anything proprietary or closed - in fact I want to *remove* restrictions but the GPL as currently worded won't let me.
I have a television..
but wait!!! When I'm watching a commercial there are dozens of commercials on other channels I'm not watching! When I'm asleep I probably skip hundreds of them!
I'm a hardened criminal!!!
No.
You're welcome!
"Our technology turns the computer into a private server that allows you to share files securely in a small, invite-only group,"
So, it's an FTP server?
That's been done...
That's because the US is by far the worst polluter of any country in the world, so would have to cut more to be at a sustainable level.
Of course as the temperate zones move north some of the prime farmland in the US will become arrid, which will put a lot more than a few people out of work.. political short-termism gone mad.
Should have looked more recently (the box has been on a shelf for 6 months).
Last time I asked they said they'd ban me from the forums if I asked again... it seems like someone has pointed their lawyer to the GPL and they've released source recently.
Not really.
They don't have to supply source if they don't modify the kernel (I'd dearly love to get inside the but the linux kernel inside it is heavily protected and you can't get anywhere near it..
Unless you know the hardware specs of the phone already you aren't going to be able to get a kernel on there... be prepared to brick a few dozen trying.
FFXI blew it with their release too.
The 'minimum spec' for installation states a 56k modem... I rough calculation I worked out was that it would take *7 days* continuous downloading (paying per-minute, as well, about £200 on the phone bill) and it'd break if your download dropped once during that 7 days (plus no incoming or outgoing phone calls).
Every couple of months they do the same thing to update the game... I seriously doubt there are any dialup users using it...
Then again it also states that you can install it on a machine with a 7.5GB hard disk (the install is actually 20GB), in 128MB (it frequently hits swap in 512MB)...
Other players just mount as hard drives and drag/drop from explorer.
I've never seen one (apart from ipod) that needed proprietary software... but then I'd never get an ipod anyway. Having a 'cool' brand name does not justify charging double the price for the same product.
My first thought on reading the summary was...
Can't burn CD
Sound flaky is listed as a 'wart'.
Hmm... So on what sense does this 'work' then???
When you've got 25 million subscribers providing advertising-free TV for £120 a year is pretty easy... it's just the way the maths work (and also why allowing people to 'subscribe' rather than using the license fee wouldn't work, as if you lost half the subscribers you'd have to double the proce to make up the shortfall, which would in turn reduce the number of subscribers etc.. you'd end up paying Sky prices (£480 a year for a load of cheap US imports).
He's probably talking about the spam TV, which I believe you still have in the US.
(In case you don't, what Tivo started doing is forcing every single unit to record the same program... during primetime!!! The only way to stop the recording was to powercycle the box. They tried it *once* in the UK and the bad publicity basically killed the market (so much that they're still not considering coming back)... Tivo is known as 'the box that forces you to watch programmes' to most people, even now).
I though I was the only one (on slashdot, anyway...)
OTOH I couldn't stand Firefly either... got 15 minutes into the first episode on that one (and I have to *really* hate something to not at least give it an episode).
It has the same problem as C&P though.
..and they reckon this is *more* secure. Hah.
It's far more likely that someone will see you enter your pin, than the machine will steal it.
So instead of only entering the pin at an ATM (which is easy to secure as it's designed so you can't see it from many angles), you're typing it on a keypad in a busy store, surrounded by dozens of people watching you type it.
Hey cool...
I know this is probably the wrong place to ask, but has anyone developed a Windows version of this? (the cheapest Win compatibile smartcard I've seen on sale is around the $500 mark, which is way more than I'm prepared to spend).
It's not called 'weed' for nothing - in fact it took years to eradicate it from the US because it grew absolutely everywhere...
Once it gets reintroduced (which I expect will happen - too much tax to be made to pass on the chance) it'll likely get back into the environment, this making it difficult to stop people growing it.
It's actually a legal requirement now to have an eye test... they're not being generous!
In fact at my last place if we didn't have an eye test (we had to book it/pay for it ourselves then claim it back), then we were docked a months' pay.
Everyone complied, of course...
That episode was the worst ever.... it was obviously an advert for a game (although I didn't know they had one already...), was a rerun of a story from a previous series, and had zero actual new content.
I've got a horrible feeling if SG1 isn't finished it's going to die a death due to overused storylines and bad scripts (aka. Voyager, Enterprise).
This is why im really happy about the Battlestar galactica series comming this new year... Gritty, realistic, and hopefully... above all else... not more episodal space opera campy bullsh*t.
Don't get too happy... we already have it here.
Badly acted (where do that *find* these people!), badly scripted (at times it seems like they're trying to ad-lib and failing), and worst of all the camera work was done by a trainee they grabbed off the street - half the time the camera is looking at the roof or floor not at the actors!
Also the sound treatment is horrible - going from so quiet you can't hear them to blasting your ears out within the same scene.
I watched 3 episodes and canned it. Couldn't stand any more. Nice try, but next time try to film with an actual budget, and real actors.