What will you do to change the balance of copyright to be more in favor of the average citizen and less in favor of the large media companies? Will you work to overturn the DMCA and the PRO-IP acts (and other, similar legislation)?
VIA would have had a lot of business from me had their drivers either worked, or their communication been good, or they'd opensourced all this stuff earlier.In my last job we produced kiosk and signage displays, as well as multiple display units for bookmakers shops. Each shop ran up to 32 displays, and some customers had 4-5000 shops. That's a lot of hardware.We first looked at VIA miniitx boards as they had everything we needed, technically speaking. But the drivers sucked, bore no resemblance to any documentation, were incapable of being accelerated, and couldn't be rotated (for portrait displays) no matter how much they were supposed to. If they supported opengl properly it wouldn't have been an issue. This is without going into the problems of the thousands of different revisions of VIA hardware, all of which failed in subtly different ways.I left the company but they're now using NVidia boards which are more capable, but not as suitable for an embedded solution. Like me the rest of the techies got sick of fighting VIA stupidity.If this new open methodology gives us proper opengl support and video decode in a mainline kernel they will win a lot of customers. As it is, it's still some way from that. A real shame.
People do not laugh at _people_ with problems. They laugh at the _problems_.The problems are ideas that stand by themselves that are sometimes humorous.That said, these disagree mail have no humor in them, which probably is why you do not consider yourself a maladjusted person.
Thats why Included the qualifier "borderline". Still if you're going to be 100% ethical and play on the safe side of the street, you wouldn't be using a hackintosh.
There's a big difference. The first public news of the Kaminsky DNS issue was with the release of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday DNS update, with simultaneous patches from ISC for BIND and the other affects nameservers. Dan organised all that with the help of CERT and the DNS server vendor/distributors, without leaks. Once the patches and a vague description was out, people put two and two together pretty quickly - IIRC from the BlackHat preso, the first correct solution Kaminsky received was within 48 hours - and shrewd guesses were being made within two weeks (followed by the unfortunate leak which broadly confirmed the guess.) It sounds like the cat is well and truly out of the bag here, already, and there are no patches yet. Apart from the people at the conference, there's enough detail in the sources the ZDNet blog links to to make it pretty clear which direction the shrewd guesses (and testing) will have started on. Looking on the bright side, more browsers than nameservers auto-update themselves...
(Incidentally the reason the Internet wasn't destroyed by the Kaminsky bug was precisely because of all the prior coordination and then unequivocal "patch now" messages from multiple credible sources (CERT, Vixie, Microsoft, the other respected researchers Dan explained it to under NDA, etc.) And anyway you ARE still ****ed in the long run, anyway, because DNS is still spoofable by a determined attacker (which probably means one who's going after a very high value target) in the absence of DNSSEC. Hence the (by Fed terms, frantic) haste with which the.gov root is being signed at last.Have a great day!
Yep. A Slightly better phrasing I've seen, every time our old Windows Exchange 4.0 box came up"Warning: An unexpected condition occured:Exchange started successfully.As explained, its a race condition calling GetLastError().
I love your bad analogies.
The difference is, guns, refrigerators, pens, book bindings, and shopping carts were all invented (and the patents ran out) long before corporations bribed their way into writing all the IP legislation so that patents/copyrights last (for all practical purposes) forever. Second, a patent is meant to apply to a device, even something so small as a new piece added to an old, existing device ("adding this flange prevents the breakage that has plagued previous designs"). Since software is, by definition, the expression of an idea, it shouldn't get patent protection. Since Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, does that mean that all other versions of boy-meets-girl, boy-falls-in-love-with-girl, things-end-badly should be precluded from being produced?
You are probably right , but not everyone needs the features of vim , and so why should they learn it , when there's an easier way ?nano is as good as it gets if you just want it plain and simple.vim is a lot more powerful , and as a result more complex.
"... it's pretty lame of Apple to try to patent someone else's ideas."Sorry, but the Apple patent predates the release of Intelliscreen . In fact, one could, based on the timeline, make the case that Intelliscreen is ripping off Apple....
I always think of a lie as a false statement of fact made knowing it is untrue or with a reckless disregard for the truth.Stating a true statement of fact stated in such a way as to alter the emotional impact of the statement isn't a lie, it's spin.
One of Microsoft's strengths is their good documentation. They may not have it all, but they have most of what you need, and it's well worded and organized. Compare that to say, Ruby on Rails documentation, which is poorly organized, rarely contains versioning information, and the framework itself breaks compatibility with nearly every release.These factors combine to make learning Rails a masochistic experience. I think I may need to take up another vice soon. Maybe cigarettes... that seems the proper
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This could've been funny....
Am I the only one that is completely confused?
VIA would have had a lot of business from me had their drivers either worked, or their communication been good, or they'd opensourced all this stuff earlier.In my last job we produced kiosk and signage displays, as well as multiple display units for bookmakers shops. Each shop ran up to 32 displays, and some customers had 4-5000 shops. That's a lot of hardware.We first looked at VIA miniitx boards as they had everything we needed, technically speaking. But the drivers sucked, bore no resemblance to any documentation, were incapable of being accelerated, and couldn't be rotated (for portrait displays) no matter how much they were supposed to. If they supported opengl properly it wouldn't have been an issue. This is without going into the problems of the thousands of different revisions of VIA hardware, all of which failed in subtly different ways.I left the company but they're now using NVidia boards which are more capable, but not as suitable for an embedded solution. Like me the rest of the techies got sick of fighting VIA stupidity.If this new open methodology gives us proper opengl support and video decode in a mainline kernel they will win a lot of customers. As it is, it's still some way from that. A real shame.
People do not laugh at _people_ with problems. They laugh at the _problems_.The problems are ideas that stand by themselves that are sometimes humorous.That said, these disagree mail have no humor in them, which probably is why you do not consider yourself a maladjusted person.
There's a big difference. The first public news of the Kaminsky DNS issue was with the release of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday DNS update, with simultaneous patches from ISC for BIND and the other affects nameservers. Dan organised all that with the help of CERT and the DNS server vendor/distributors, without leaks. Once the patches and a vague description was out, people put two and two together pretty quickly - IIRC from the BlackHat preso, the first correct solution Kaminsky received was within 48 hours - and shrewd guesses were being made within two weeks (followed by the unfortunate leak which broadly confirmed the guess.) It sounds like the cat is well and truly out of the bag here, already, and there are no patches yet. Apart from the people at the conference, there's enough detail in the sources the ZDNet blog links to to make it pretty clear which direction the shrewd guesses (and testing) will have started on. Looking on the bright side, more browsers than nameservers auto-update themselves... (Incidentally the reason the Internet wasn't destroyed by the Kaminsky bug was precisely because of all the prior coordination and then unequivocal "patch now" messages from multiple credible sources (CERT, Vixie, Microsoft, the other respected researchers Dan explained it to under NDA, etc.) And anyway you ARE still ****ed in the long run, anyway, because DNS is still spoofable by a determined attacker (which probably means one who's going after a very high value target) in the absence of DNSSEC. Hence the (by Fed terms, frantic) haste with which the .gov root is being signed at last.Have a great day!
I love your bad analogies. The difference is, guns, refrigerators, pens, book bindings, and shopping carts were all invented (and the patents ran out) long before corporations bribed their way into writing all the IP legislation so that patents/copyrights last (for all practical purposes) forever. Second, a patent is meant to apply to a device, even something so small as a new piece added to an old, existing device ("adding this flange prevents the breakage that has plagued previous designs"). Since software is, by definition, the expression of an idea, it shouldn't get patent protection. Since Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, does that mean that all other versions of boy-meets-girl, boy-falls-in-love-with-girl, things-end-badly should be precluded from being produced?
How in the World can you tell if someone has ripped off your code?
Just telnet in and use SMTP commands.
There's a simple solution to your dilemma: buy an iPod Touch and switch to a free(ish) crappy phone for your communication needs.
It's been done already
Yuk Yuk.Bet they (nfb) are not too pleased about this.Again Yuk Yuk
You are probably right , but not everyone needs the features of vim , and so why should they learn it , when there's an easier way ?nano is as good as it gets if you just want it plain and simple.vim is a lot more powerful , and as a result more complex.
I'd forgotten about that one :-D
"... it's pretty lame of Apple to try to patent someone else's ideas."Sorry, but the Apple patent predates the release of Intelliscreen . In fact, one could, based on the timeline, make the case that Intelliscreen is ripping off Apple....
Am I the only one that is completely confused?
BF Heroes is to TF2 as Futurama is to Mickey Mouse.
I always think of a lie as a false statement of fact made knowing it is untrue or with a reckless disregard for the truth.Stating a true statement of fact stated in such a way as to alter the emotional impact of the statement isn't a lie, it's spin.
One of Microsoft's strengths is their good documentation. They may not have it all, but they have most of what you need, and it's well worded and organized. Compare that to say, Ruby on Rails documentation, which is poorly organized, rarely contains versioning information, and the framework itself breaks compatibility with nearly every release.These factors combine to make learning Rails a masochistic experience. I think I may need to take up another vice soon. Maybe cigarettes... that seems the proper
Why would you do this when not all of the systems integrators actually need the MPEG2/H.264 licenses?
Just wait 'til the beavernaut pulls out the "candarm"
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