Human "profit" is that which helps, benefits, improves, or aids humans, according to my dictionary. Doesn't really sound like the kind of thing you want to be against, does it?
Actually, the grandparent expresses the perfect environmentalist viewpoint. The fundamental philosophy of the most vocal group of "environmentalists" is that I should treat the planet (or something) as being more important than human life. That's the single point that it all comes back to, even if not everyone who makes that argument knows that they are.
It's always "one-way": I-frames are relative to nothing; P-frames are relative to the previous P (or I); B-frames are relative to both the previous I/P and the next, which is in fact stored out-of-order so that decoding any given frame only depends on data you've already seen (useful, no?;)
On that last topic: the "laptop mode" feature in the linux kernel does something that's fundamentally pretty similar; it delays all writes to the disk until a read comes up (because delaying reads would block applications, but delaying writes doesn't). This gives the drive a lot more chance to spin down, because the spindown timer doesn't get reset just so that syslogd can write "--MARK--" to disk. It's slightly dangerous in that your data might take considerably longer to actually reach the disk, but if battery life is really important, it helps:)
"A generic term is a word or phrase that is or has come to be the common term associated with or known as a particular category of goods or services to which it relates, thereby ceasing to function as an indicator of origin. For example, 'clock' is a generic term for timepieces. Generic designations are not registrable or protectable."
Because parents seem to absolutely love to use technological measures as a substitute for parenting, rather than an adjunct. Their inherent laziness is misadjusted, I guess:)
You beat me to it; good thing I decided to re-check before I hit submit (that's what happens when you take half an hour to compose your reply). Anyway, Weber is definitely an interesting source for the possible future history of space warfare. Pretty much everything he writes is based on historical precedent, but he does (in my estimation) a great job of bringing it into the future and into the three-dimensional (or maybe a few more) world of space.
Um, sure it is. It's freedom from having someone tell you "hire some of them minority folks or I'll take your money, and if you don't like that, I'll haul you off to jail, and if you don't like that, I'll shoot you." Sure, hiring fairly is a good policy, but tell me why not hiring someone is such a gross violation of their basic rights that it requires legal action?
Thank you, I was waiting for a sensible response there. The dependencies are still there in windows; there just isn't a standardized way to handle them, so instead of having to track down dependencies, you just get "DLL Hell" where installing X breaks Y, Z, and T, because it overwrote DLL D. And then you write it off as "damn flaky computers" and reinstall stuff until it works again. Linux distributions just (usually) move the problem up-front where you can deal with it competently.
I certainly doubt that it is impossible to obfuscate code in any language
You haven't met python, then. Python is the ultimate in a language that knows better than you, and refuses to even let you think bad thoughts. All the interesting bits are safely locked away. Hell, they're even removing syntax from the next release, because they're afraid that there might be more than one way to write some things. This is, of course, a detriment when you're trying to "write what you mean", because what you want almost certainly isn't what python wants; therefore, you spend as much time figuring out the kosher way to say what you want as figuring out what you want to say in the first place.
If he was performing the original work, he'd be using a bunch of synthesizers, not a piano. Interpretation is always required -- at the very least, to make things interesting. Like I said, if I wanted to hear the piano pieces as they originally were, I could listen to OSTs or fire up the games themselves:)
Not excessively creative. On the FF front, his Kefka is almost identical to the Piano Collections version, and for Balamb Garden and To Zanarkand, I might as well just put on the games themselves; I'll hear the exact same thing, only with much better recording quality. The Mario-related work is of a similar quality level, only the track labeled as SMB3 "Overworld Theme" isn't. On the other hand, "Calm [er, Silence, whatever ] Before the Storm" has some promise. It's one of my favorite tracks from the rather mediocre FF X soundtrack, and it translates rather nicely to a real piano. Even here, though, the interpretation is entirely literal. If this guy had submitted to VGMix I think he'd be told to go back to WIP:)
"The value of my Slashdot posting is $1,000,000, but because I'm such a great guy, I'll contribute it to the Slashdot community for free!"
The market never had a chance to determine what the value of my posting was. In fact, I determined that the value to me of keeping it to myself was $0 (or less) when I posted it. But I get to use whatever math I want to determine its value at ONE MILLION DOLLARS and if the context is right, anyone will accept that.
On the third hand, maybe I should have used the Euro or something. A million dollars gets you what, like a gallon of milk these days?
But, in case you need it spelled out for you, the party doing the reverse-engineering never accepted those limitations; never used the software, never accepted the license, and so never entered into an agreement that could be revoked. Larry puts a "don't reverse engineer me" clause in his license? Questionably valid, but irrelevant. Larry thinks reverse engineering is immoral? Entirely irrelevant until he starts yanking bystanders' licenses over it.
So, who's being a dick? Larry, of course, but we expected that. But Linus as well, for making a choice that had the potential to be so hurtful to Linux, and for defending Larry and Blaming tridge when the shit inevitably hit the fan, instead of rebuking Larry and then admitting his own part in the problem.
As Bruce Perens said, Linus has been fundamentally un-Linuslike when it comes to bk, and I can only hope that it's due to personal considerations and eventually he'll put himself on Linux's side again.
You and me both. I live in an area that is, again, just a couple miles from "town", but separated by mountainous terrain. There's no cable, because the cable co decided it wouldn't be worth the expense all those years ago. There's phoneline, but it can barely even carry 56k (usually it can't), let alone DSL, because someone spends all their money to have James Earl Jones tell me how great broadband is. Satellite and wireless are potential options, but both of those are greatly complicated by the abundance of leafy trees. And, satellite sucks. So here I am, a generally geeky guy, and I've got a connection that ranges from 33600bps on a good day to 14400 on a bad day. It's not because broadband is too expensive, or I think it wouldn't be worthwhile; it's simply not an option.
The grandparent points out a number of good reasons why SP2 isn't suitable for use in a professional environment, and in response you provide such insights as "lol", "bogus", innacurate info about application incompatibilities, and a general air of "It didn't stop me from playing Doom3 so it should be good enough for you!"
Slashdot Mirror
Human "profit" is that which helps, benefits, improves, or aids humans, according to my dictionary. Doesn't really sound like the kind of thing you want to be against, does it?
Actually, the grandparent expresses the perfect environmentalist viewpoint. The fundamental philosophy of the most vocal group of "environmentalists" is that I should treat the planet (or something) as being more important than human life. That's the single point that it all comes back to, even if not everyone who makes that argument knows that they are.
Opera, or Konqueror/Embedded, that I've run into. I'm still waiting for mini-firefox though ;)
It's always "one-way": I-frames are relative to nothing; P-frames are relative to the previous P (or I); B-frames are relative to both the previous I/P and the next, which is in fact stored out-of-order so that decoding any given frame only depends on data you've already seen (useful, no? ;)
On that last topic: the "laptop mode" feature in the linux kernel does something that's fundamentally pretty similar; it delays all writes to the disk until a read comes up (because delaying reads would block applications, but delaying writes doesn't). This gives the drive a lot more chance to spin down, because the spindown timer doesn't get reset just so that syslogd can write "--MARK--" to disk. It's slightly dangerous in that your data might take considerably longer to actually reach the disk, but if battery life is really important, it helps :)
I was thinking the same thing: "Oh, they're going to make fortran harder to write and less expressive? Sounds like a PITA."
"A generic term is a word or phrase that is or has come to be the common term associated with or known as a particular category of goods or services to which it relates, thereby ceasing to function as an indicator of origin. For example, 'clock' is a generic term for timepieces. Generic designations are not registrable or protectable."
[inta.org]
(+1, On topic)
nah, no need. That's spelling, not grammar :)
Because parents seem to absolutely love to use technological measures as a substitute for parenting, rather than an adjunct. Their inherent laziness is misadjusted, I guess :)
Why do you think that economics is strictly about money, or that money and freedom are entirely unrelated concepts?
Um no, completely wrong. It's completely useless to have a VM space that's smaller than physical memory.
So anyway, sure, sure, they've got 64 bits now. But are they vertical?
You beat me to it; good thing I decided to re-check before I hit submit (that's what happens when you take half an hour to compose your reply). Anyway, Weber is definitely an interesting source for the possible future history of space warfare. Pretty much everything he writes is based on historical precedent, but he does (in my estimation) a great job of bringing it into the future and into the three-dimensional (or maybe a few more) world of space.
Um, sure it is. It's freedom from having someone tell you "hire some of them minority folks or I'll take your money, and if you don't like that, I'll haul you off to jail, and if you don't like that, I'll shoot you." Sure, hiring fairly is a good policy, but tell me why not hiring someone is such a gross violation of their basic rights that it requires legal action?
By "Recycled Comment" you mean "this is what everyone else has already said, so why don't I say it too and look bright", right?
Government, on the other hand, excels at creating and supporting them! :)
Thank you, I was waiting for a sensible response there. The dependencies are still there in windows; there just isn't a standardized way to handle them, so instead of having to track down dependencies, you just get "DLL Hell" where installing X breaks Y, Z, and T, because it overwrote DLL D. And then you write it off as "damn flaky computers" and reinstall stuff until it works again. Linux distributions just (usually) move the problem up-front where you can deal with it competently.
I certainly doubt that it is impossible to obfuscate code in any language
You haven't met python, then. Python is the ultimate in a language that knows better than you, and refuses to even let you think bad thoughts. All the interesting bits are safely locked away. Hell, they're even removing syntax from the next release, because they're afraid that there might be more than one way to write some things. This is, of course, a detriment when you're trying to "write what you mean", because what you want almost certainly isn't what python wants; therefore, you spend as much time figuring out the kosher way to say what you want as figuring out what you want to say in the first place.
I happen to rather like AMD, but SiS -- show me one piece of SiS hardware that isn't utter crap.
If he was performing the original work, he'd be using a bunch of synthesizers, not a piano. Interpretation is always required -- at the very least, to make things interesting. Like I said, if I wanted to hear the piano pieces as they originally were, I could listen to OSTs or fire up the games themselves :)
Not excessively creative. On the FF front, his Kefka is almost identical to the Piano Collections version, and for Balamb Garden and To Zanarkand, I might as well just put on the games themselves; I'll hear the exact same thing, only with much better recording quality. The Mario-related work is of a similar quality level, only the track labeled as SMB3 "Overworld Theme" isn't. On the other hand, "Calm [er, Silence, whatever ] Before the Storm" has some promise. It's one of my favorite tracks from the rather mediocre FF X soundtrack, and it translates rather nicely to a real piano. Even here, though, the interpretation is entirely literal. If this guy had submitted to VGMix I think he'd be told to go back to WIP :)
Indeed. It goes something like this:
"The value of my Slashdot posting is $1,000,000, but because I'm such a great guy, I'll contribute it to the Slashdot community for free!"
The market never had a chance to determine what the value of my posting was. In fact, I determined that the value to me of keeping it to myself was $0 (or less) when I posted it. But I get to use whatever math I want to determine its value at ONE MILLION DOLLARS and if the context is right, anyone will accept that.
On the third hand, maybe I should have used the Euro or something. A million dollars gets you what, like a gallon of milk these days?
"Free with certain limitations"
But, in case you need it spelled out for you, the party doing the reverse-engineering never accepted those limitations; never used the software, never accepted the license, and so never entered into an agreement that could be revoked. Larry puts a "don't reverse engineer me" clause in his license? Questionably valid, but irrelevant. Larry thinks reverse engineering is immoral? Entirely irrelevant until he starts yanking bystanders' licenses over it.
So, who's being a dick? Larry, of course, but we expected that. But Linus as well, for making a choice that had the potential to be so hurtful to Linux, and for defending Larry and Blaming tridge when the shit inevitably hit the fan, instead of rebuking Larry and then admitting his own part in the problem.
As Bruce Perens said, Linus has been fundamentally un-Linuslike when it comes to bk, and I can only hope that it's due to personal considerations and eventually he'll put himself on Linux's side again.
You and me both. I live in an area that is, again, just a couple miles from "town", but separated by mountainous terrain. There's no cable, because the cable co decided it wouldn't be worth the expense all those years ago. There's phoneline, but it can barely even carry 56k (usually it can't), let alone DSL, because someone spends all their money to have James Earl Jones tell me how great broadband is. Satellite and wireless are potential options, but both of those are greatly complicated by the abundance of leafy trees. And, satellite sucks. So here I am, a generally geeky guy, and I've got a connection that ranges from 33600bps on a good day to 14400 on a bad day. It's not because broadband is too expensive, or I think it wouldn't be worthwhile; it's simply not an option.
The grandparent points out a number of good reasons why SP2 isn't suitable for use in a professional environment, and in response you provide such insights as "lol", "bogus", innacurate info about application incompatibilities, and a general air of "It didn't stop me from playing Doom3 so it should be good enough for you!"