Open sourcing programs makes sense. People can then look at the code and make any changes to the code that is necessary for them. I've done this many times myself.
But programming languages? All you need to know is right there in the API. If you open source a language, it's no longer really a language anymore is it. And that's the point. Java does what it does so well because Sun made it that way. When you open source it, you open it up so someone may fork it or whatever. Will Java really be improved when someone decides to add PERL (Practical Example of an unReliable Language) to it?
This thing is no more advanced than the engine used in Doom 1/2 (2.5D at best) and in Duke Nukem 3D. This engine cannot be used to make "rooms over rooms."
This open source 3D-engine is so far behind UT2K4, Doom 3, and HL 2 that it probably stands a next to zero chance of making the leap to real 3D in the near future.
Something that is required by most companies, because it's simply common sense. If this poster would have asked the client instead of assuming what platform they should code for, they would have avoided this problem.
Please be sure to read the EULA that came with your cable or DSL high speed connection. Oftentimes a high speed provider will prohibit the reselling of bits of the connection.
Be aware people. I'm surprised something like this is even available...
Cell phones still rely on area codes. Hence why you will need a new number when you move. You just switched area codes, and so there's a chance that your old number may be in useinyour new area code.
Secondly. The first link there (added by an editor it seems) points to the slashdot front page. Hope this helps those in charge make this site runa little smoother for the editors.
OpenOffice has sat alone at the top of the Free Office Suite application hill for too long. I have been using this product since its alpha stages, and can say without reservations that it has improved by leaps and bounds. The MS Word import filters are alone worth the price of admission (a quick compile on my Gentoo box). The KDE developpers have for a long time now been light years ahead of their open source counterparts. It's good to see that with this release KOffice will finally gain the recognition that it deserves. And with the forthcoming release of KDE 3.2 next week, what more do you need on your open source desktop?
A nice sweater from my HOT GIRLFRIEND. A copy of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. A belt. Gift Certificates for A&B Sound and Chapters. An American Eagle shirt (two Christmases in a row for my brother, they're the only two shirts I have from whatever store it is, and I never shop there). A copy of Quicksilver by Stephenson. Parts for a new computer. Mine died just around essay time, so I spent a lot of time in the lab. Not something I want to repeat. I can't wait to get back to Winnipeg so I can put this one together. I picked out the parts in advance and accompanied my Dad down to Memory Express so that I got only what I wanted. Black socks. One of those 40 year calendars. That's probably the weirdest gift.
That's it. I think I'll go by the new Onion anthology or whatever from Chapters tomorrow.
I have been going the paperless billing route for like 2 years now, and have never had a problem. Except when my ISP (also my phone company) decided to start sending me paper bills instead of emails. I haven't been able to get them to switch back yet.
It would seem to me that if these developers haven't changed the kernel, then they have nothing to worry about. The unhacked kernel is available on kernel.org for free anyway. All they've probably added are user interaction prograams.
It really pisses me off how overzealous you Linux people are. The GPL is there to protect freedom, not make it so companies are unable to use it to do business. Calm down for a bit and see what's going on before you react liek this next time.
Just because this phone runs Linux does not necessarily make it better than the other phones out there. Sure, if they had used GTK+ it would look like arse, but if this phone doesn't have the hardware to back up the software, it's simply not going to perform as it needs to. It's great to support projects that support Linux, but if those projects suck, your support is wasted. There are plenty other worthy cell phones out there that perform as advertised, such as those from Microsoft and Handspring/Palm. Don't let Linux be the one and only reason for choosing a phone. You may get burned.
The poster of the story assumes that a majority of the students at this University run Linux as their desktop operating system. One simply need to look to Slashdot to find out that even among nerds this is not the case. The vast majority of hits that Slashdot gets comes from Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This is a good deal for the students of this University. They will be able to legally get access to quality music in an open format while probably just paying a minute increase in their tuition. Who wouldn't want to do this.
Any of the minority of the students that use Linux should just stick to pirating. The RIAA hardly cares enough about their OS fo choice to waste their money going after them.
Will centre around the long awaited Team Fortress 2. I seriously doubt that Valve would just shelve all of the effort that they put into that product. Besides, games along the lines of Natural Selection have helped to get players used to the RTS as FPS gameplay that TF2 will herald.
simple google. That's what pisses me off about Slashdot. The users are too lazy to type a couple of characters into Google, and yet they're willing to waste the Slashdot editors (and our) time by sbmitting these stupid questions.
Now, onto the ask slashdot portion of my post. Any first year programmer with a rudimentary knowledge of programming could write what you require. If you search freshmeat,net you'll find thousands of mp3 cataloguing programs written by people bitten by the programming bug in their first year of compsci. Most of them have been abandoned as they suck.
If they had been written in an object oriented language (such as C++) instead of Perl, the program would have been modular by default, and these programs would not be laying by the wayside to this day. Just imagine the possibilities, at the click of a mouse, people could turn an mp3 database into a book or recipe database. This world would be a much better place if everybody programmed in C++ instead of Perl.
Every dollar you send to Blizzard simply allows them to pull more stunts like that which they pulled with Freecraft. Next they'll be going after Wine and the Starcraft emulator.
I would agree with you on the hackable part. The Motorola processor is one of the nicest, most used processors out there. And writing Assembly for it isn't a chore, unlike bloody Intel with their x86 Assembly. However, your comments re: games will have to be proven. This thing isn't even out there yet. And it may not be worth much, as it only has a 16-bit processor. I don't see how it will even run Linux as they claim. Linux requires a 32-bit processor as its creator (Linus Torvalds) intended the Linux Kernel to contain no legacy code. I can see there being some neat games for this, but it may just be a rehash of the Super Nintendo with the games being very similar.
However, $299 US is way too much for a portable device. The GameBoy has remained the king of the handheld market because of price. Both the Lynx and the GameGear (the only comparable devices, the NeoGeo Pocket floundered due to a lack of software) failed to gain market share because of their expensive price (alright, lack of software had a little bit to do with the demise of those systems as well). Still, my point remains. If Sony and this company want to steal Nintendo's handheld thunder, they need to keep their prices low.
It is the geeks amongst us that are primarily depressed. I would postulate that this is because we live in a society that caters to the extroverts. Geeks are ot extroverted, for the most part they are extremely introverted, and the thought of having to live life in a world where there kind is not seen favourably is depressing. Just as the introverted geek has trouble navigating the social causeways of every day life, they may also have trouble navigating in real and virtual spaces.
Apache uses a version number system much like that of the Linux Kernel. Odd sub numbers are development versions, while even sub numbers are releases meant for normal users. 1.3.x is a development release, while the stable 1.2.x series is what the average user should be using. For Slashdot to announce the release of 1.3.x Apache is gross misconduct on their part. Hopefully the many webmasters out there running Apache will see this post in time and not update their systems! Development versions of software do indeed often contain bugs, while due to the superior nature of Open Source software (of which Apache is), the stable versions are very often completely bug and security hole free!
So, in short, do not update your Stable Apache installs to this development version!
The ozone layer is there to protect us from this cosmic radiation (or cosmic rays as they call them in the articl, I wonder if there're any cosmic freds or cosmic mikes?). When we release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere we deplete the ozone layer. That makes it possible for this cosmic radiation to get through our atmosphere. This leads to global warming, and the increased cancer that seems to mildly correlate over the past half century to one century. Don't let whoevers agenda this is fool you. Global warming is still a great threat!
Reverse engineering is nothing more than the common theft of intelectual property. When yo look at someone's compiled code, you are seeing that which you were not meant to see. There's a reason all these companies have NDA's. They don't want people to see their code. And then to have their competitor down the street disassemble the shipped product. Well, it's pure theft, and nothing more or less. The only reason the competitor could possibly have for dissassembling the binary code would be to copy it for their own benefit.
Gentoo requires lots of donated hosting and bandwidth. The amount of resources used in rsync alone must be huge. Where is this guy going to get the backing to make this even feasible?
They don't make games. What has 3D Realms done since Shadow Warrior? Gotten rich off of Duke licenses, released the source for a few older games, and switched the engine that DNF will use from Quake 2 to Unreal Tournament. This game has been "in production" forever. 3D Realms no longer makes games.
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Open sourcing programs makes sense. People can then look at the code and make any changes to the code that is necessary for them. I've done this many times myself.
But programming languages? All you need to know is right there in the API. If you open source a language, it's no longer really a language anymore is it. And that's the point. Java does what it does so well because Sun made it that way. When you open source it, you open it up so someone may fork it or whatever. Will Java really be improved when someone decides to add PERL (Practical Example of an unReliable Language) to it?
This thing is no more advanced than the engine used in Doom 1/2 (2.5D at best) and in Duke Nukem 3D. This engine cannot be used to make "rooms over rooms."
This open source 3D-engine is so far behind UT2K4, Doom 3, and HL 2 that it probably stands a next to zero chance of making the leap to real 3D in the near future.
Analysis.
Something that is required by most companies, because it's simply common sense. If this poster would have asked the client instead of assuming what platform they should code for, they would have avoided this problem.
Please be sure to read the EULA that came with your cable or DSL high speed connection. Oftentimes a high speed provider will prohibit the reselling of bits of the connection.
Be aware people. I'm surprised something like this is even available...
Cell phones still rely on area codes. Hence why you will need a new number when you move. You just switched area codes, and so there's a chance that your old number may be in useinyour new area code.
Secondly. The first link there (added by an editor it seems) points to the slashdot front page. Hope this helps those in charge make this site runa little smoother for the editors.
Eseential?
Zaurii?
Come on people...
OpenOffice has sat alone at the top of the Free Office Suite application hill for too long. I have been using this product since its alpha stages, and can say without reservations that it has improved by leaps and bounds. The MS Word import filters are alone worth the price of admission (a quick compile on my Gentoo box). The KDE developpers have for a long time now been light years ahead of their open source counterparts. It's good to see that with this release KOffice will finally gain the recognition that it deserves. And with the forthcoming release of KDE 3.2 next week, what more do you need on your open source desktop?
Except removing control of the plane from the pilot is probably not the way to do it.
Setting up some form of fine system would achieve the desired effect without endangering the lives of thousands or millions of people.
A nice sweater from my HOT GIRLFRIEND.
A copy of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
A belt.
Gift Certificates for A&B Sound and Chapters.
An American Eagle shirt (two Christmases in a row for my brother, they're the only two shirts I have from whatever store it is, and I never shop there).
A copy of Quicksilver by Stephenson.
Parts for a new computer. Mine died just around essay time, so I spent a lot of time in the lab. Not something I want to repeat. I can't wait to get back to Winnipeg so I can put this one together. I picked out the parts in advance and accompanied my Dad down to Memory Express so that I got only what I wanted.
Black socks.
One of those 40 year calendars. That's probably the weirdest gift.
That's it. I think I'll go by the new Onion anthology or whatever from Chapters tomorrow.
It runs on the command line, and isn't bogged down by all that graphical nonsense. Also, its editing mode is far superior to that of Emacs.
I have been going the paperless billing route for like 2 years now, and have never had a problem. Except when my ISP (also my phone company) decided to start sending me paper bills instead of emails. I haven't been able to get them to switch back yet.
First Post.
It would seem to me that if these developers haven't changed the kernel, then they have nothing to worry about. The unhacked kernel is available on kernel.org for free anyway. All they've probably added are user interaction prograams.
It really pisses me off how overzealous you Linux people are. The GPL is there to protect freedom, not make it so companies are unable to use it to do business. Calm down for a bit and see what's going on before you react liek this next time.
Just because this phone runs Linux does not necessarily make it better than the other phones out there. Sure, if they had used GTK+ it would look like arse, but if this phone doesn't have the hardware to back up the software, it's simply not going to perform as it needs to. It's great to support projects that support Linux, but if those projects suck, your support is wasted. There are plenty other worthy cell phones out there that perform as advertised, such as those from Microsoft and Handspring/Palm. Don't let Linux be the one and only reason for choosing a phone. You may get burned.
The poster of the story assumes that a majority of the students at this University run Linux as their desktop operating system. One simply need to look to Slashdot to find out that even among nerds this is not the case. The vast majority of hits that Slashdot gets comes from Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This is a good deal for the students of this University. They will be able to legally get access to quality music in an open format while probably just paying a minute increase in their tuition. Who wouldn't want to do this.
Any of the minority of the students that use Linux should just stick to pirating. The RIAA hardly cares enough about their OS fo choice to waste their money going after them.
Will centre around the long awaited Team Fortress 2. I seriously doubt that Valve would just shelve all of the effort that they put into that product. Besides, games along the lines of Natural Selection have helped to get players used to the RTS as FPS gameplay that TF2 will herald.
simple google. That's what pisses me off about Slashdot. The users are too lazy to type a couple of characters into Google, and yet they're willing to waste the Slashdot editors (and our) time by sbmitting these stupid questions.
Now, onto the ask slashdot portion of my post. Any first year programmer with a rudimentary knowledge of programming could write what you require. If you search freshmeat,net you'll find thousands of mp3 cataloguing programs written by people bitten by the programming bug in their first year of compsci. Most of them have been abandoned as they suck.
If they had been written in an object oriented language (such as C++) instead of Perl, the program would have been modular by default, and these programs would not be laying by the wayside to this day. Just imagine the possibilities, at the click of a mouse, people could turn an mp3 database into a book or recipe database. This world would be a much better place if everybody programmed in C++ instead of Perl.
Every dollar you send to Blizzard simply allows them to pull more stunts like that which they pulled with Freecraft. Next they'll be going after Wine and the Starcraft emulator.
I would agree with you on the hackable part. The Motorola processor is one of the nicest, most used processors out there. And writing Assembly for it isn't a chore, unlike bloody Intel with their x86 Assembly. However, your comments re: games will have to be proven. This thing isn't even out there yet. And it may not be worth much, as it only has a 16-bit processor. I don't see how it will even run Linux as they claim. Linux requires a 32-bit processor as its creator (Linus Torvalds) intended the Linux Kernel to contain no legacy code. I can see there being some neat games for this, but it may just be a rehash of the Super Nintendo with the games being very similar.
However, $299 US is way too much for a portable device. The GameBoy has remained the king of the handheld market because of price. Both the Lynx and the GameGear (the only comparable devices, the NeoGeo Pocket floundered due to a lack of software) failed to gain market share because of their expensive price (alright, lack of software had a little bit to do with the demise of those systems as well). Still, my point remains. If Sony and this company want to steal Nintendo's handheld thunder, they need to keep their prices low.
It is the geeks amongst us that are primarily depressed. I would postulate that this is because we live in a society that caters to the extroverts. Geeks are ot extroverted, for the most part they are extremely introverted, and the thought of having to live life in a world where there kind is not seen favourably is depressing. Just as the introverted geek has trouble navigating the social causeways of every day life, they may also have trouble navigating in real and virtual spaces.
Apache uses a version number system much like that of the Linux Kernel. Odd sub numbers are development versions, while even sub numbers are releases meant for normal users. 1.3.x is a development release, while the stable 1.2.x series is what the average user should be using. For Slashdot to announce the release of 1.3.x Apache is gross misconduct on their part. Hopefully the many webmasters out there running Apache will see this post in time and not update their systems! Development versions of software do indeed often contain bugs, while due to the superior nature of Open Source software (of which Apache is), the stable versions are very often completely bug and security hole free!
So, in short, do not update your Stable Apache installs to this development version!
And that ozone depletion is still a threat.
The ozone layer is there to protect us from this cosmic radiation (or cosmic rays as they call them in the articl, I wonder if there're any cosmic freds or cosmic mikes?). When we release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere we deplete the ozone layer. That makes it possible for this cosmic radiation to get through our atmosphere. This leads to global warming, and the increased cancer that seems to mildly correlate over the past half century to one century. Don't let whoevers agenda this is fool you. Global warming is still a great threat!
Reverse engineering is nothing more than the common theft of intelectual property. When yo look at someone's compiled code, you are seeing that which you were not meant to see. There's a reason all these companies have NDA's. They don't want people to see their code. And then to have their competitor down the street disassemble the shipped product. Well, it's pure theft, and nothing more or less. The only reason the competitor could possibly have for dissassembling the binary code would be to copy it for their own benefit.
Gentoo requires lots of donated hosting and bandwidth. The amount of resources used in rsync alone must be huge. Where is this guy going to get the backing to make this even feasible?
They don't make games. What has 3D Realms done since Shadow Warrior? Gotten rich off of Duke licenses, released the source for a few older games, and switched the engine that DNF will use from Quake 2 to Unreal Tournament. This game has been "in production" forever. 3D Realms no longer makes games.