Yeah, it's a pile of junk. It looks like the software is buggy too, it seems to have printed a load of random letters on the screen instead of understandable English.
1. The ability to open files larger than 64KB... I'm not kidding, try it.
What is it you are not kidding about? Is it the fact that under Win16 Notepad could only edit files 32Kbytes (not 64Kbytes) or less or the fact that under some more recent versions, the size limit has increased?
The original limit was due to the fact that notepad was just a thin wrapper around a Win16 multiline text box control. Hopefully, the current version is a bit more sophisticated.
Yes there is a generally agreed standard conversion rate for WoW gold. Under WoW terms and conditions trading WoW items and gold for real money is prohibited. Thus WoW gold is not worth anything outside the game. The fact that some lusers choose to ignore that fact and buy WoW gold on a sort of black market is totally irrelevant.
You could make a good case for the companies that sell WoW gold to pay the normal taxes of a commercial organisation, however i strongly suspect most of them are outside US jurisdiction.
Perhaps the original notice was a bit rude in that it wasn't kept to the relevant developers' lists. Perhaps an admonishment was in order (although I, as a developer would not have been too happy if I'd used and distributed the code in question under the BSD licence and had subsequently been sent a cease or disist letter by the real developers).
However, in the whole thread, Theo never dropped the public disclosure thing and never addressed the main point which was the breach of copyright except to say it was a mistake by Marcus. If it was a mistake, it was a pretty serious one. If all of the OpenBSD developers are as casual as that, you have to question the quality and legality of their code base.
Changing a video card is really easy. The steps are:
Power off the PC Take all the cables off Open the case Remove the card that the monitor used to be plugged into Put your new card in the same slot Close the case Reattach the cables Power on the PC
If in Windows, the card will be detected and the correct drivers installed, or worst case, you'll have to install the drivers off a CD. It's so long since I've bothered setting up a graphics card in Linux that I don't know how easy it is to configure the X server following a hardware change. The last time I did it you still had to worry about dotclock settings and stuff.
I call bullshit. This David Wilkins is saying that if all the copyright infringement in Canada stopped tomorrow, every single Canadian citizen would go out and buy an extra $1000 worth of DVDs etc every year (and that assumes none of the money gets back to the USA). I find that hard to believe.
The other problem is that tightening up the copyright law will not stop piracy.
If I reject the mail, then you'll only get a message back if your SMTP server was the one that was sending it. If I bounce the mail, then you'll a message even if it was forged elsewhere.
Err, no. If you reject a mail, the SMTP server that tried to connect to your SMTP server (and got a 5xx response) will send a bounce message back to what it perceives as the sender - who is almost certainly forged in a spam e-mail.
People who bounce spam are almost as bad as the spammers. Rejecting spam is much better than just deleting it because it gives the sender a chance to fix your mistake.
You want the sender to fix your mistake? Somehow, I don't think you meant that.
Surely by virtue of the fact that you have put it on public display, it is published. If it is your original work then it is automatically protected by copyright.
The Germans made it more secure (by adding two new rotors so the daily key used three rotors from five).
The Poles realised they didn't have the resources to crack Enigma anymore and handed everything over to the British.
The British (esp. Alan Turing) enhanced the cracking methods including building an electro-mechanical device called a "bombe" to help with the key cracking (NB, the Polish also had such a device, but the British version was much improved).
The German Navy used a four rotor enigma and much stricter key generation protocols such that for much of the war it could only be cracked by capturing daily keys from u-boats etc.
Colossus, the first electronic programmable computer, was built to crack a completely different cipher called Lorenz. Alan Turing had very little to do with that. NB, I'm fairly sure Colossus was not Turing complete. The engineer who designed Colossus was Tommy Flowers.
You could argue that there are languages, interpreters and compilers and all three are always required. For instance, Sun's implementation of Java is compiled into bytecode and then interpreted by a JVM (ignoring JIT for the moment). If I compile a 386 executable with gcc, it is compiled to x86 machine code and then interpreted by a CPU. The CPU is probably a RISC machine that interprets 386 instrutions to some other instruction set and then interprets that in hardware.
IT workers including programmers are being exploited like you said thanks to third world countries. How can we compete with someone willing to work for $25,000 a year for a job worth $65,000 a year? They can hire 2 Indians and still make a profit if they are not as good.
If you can easily find people to do a job for $25k then it isn't worth $65k.
locate wouldn't help much with/etc/passwd either bearing in mind that/etc/passwd tells you exactly where it is. By the way,/etc/passwd is only used in single user mode on the Mac.
Not many people get killed by blind car drivers either, but you wouldn't suggest letting blind people behind the wheel.
To be fair, I guess in highly controlled circumstances there would be no problem with allowing blind people to have guns, just as blind people can drive with a sighted person beside them and on a private track. But the problem is that the sighted person is really the one doing the hunting. The blind person is merely an all terrain voice operated remote control gun carriage.
Although he's a joke, Dick Cheney is not funny because, if GWB died, he'd be leader of the free world.
Disclaimer: I'm English, so maybe my impression that he is a joke is incorrect. He only really impinged on my consciousness when he accidentally shot that guy.
If you make an OSX port, should it follow Apple guidelines (so that Mac users think it is more native) or Windows guidelines (so that it feels the same as it does on other platforms)?
That one is easy to answer. It absolutely must follow Mac OS X UI guidelines. In fact, think about it, that's the whole point. There's already a version of Open Office for Mac that looks the same as it does on other platforms - Open Office. The fundamental issue is not that OO uses X11, it's that OO looks different to other Mac OS X applications.
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Yeah, it's a pile of junk. It looks like the software is buggy too, it seems to have printed a load of random letters on the screen instead of understandable English.
Yes there is a generally agreed standard conversion rate for WoW gold. Under WoW terms and conditions trading WoW items and gold for real money is prohibited. Thus WoW gold is not worth anything outside the game. The fact that some lusers choose to ignore that fact and buy WoW gold on a sort of black market is totally irrelevant.
You could make a good case for the companies that sell WoW gold to pay the normal taxes of a commercial organisation, however i strongly suspect most of them are outside US jurisdiction.
I think anybody who says things like "110% accurate" (when "absolutely completely 1+1=2 true" is only 100%) deserves modding to oblivion.
Perhaps the original notice was a bit rude in that it wasn't kept to the relevant developers' lists. Perhaps an admonishment was in order (although I, as a developer would not have been too happy if I'd used and distributed the code in question under the BSD licence and had subsequently been sent a cease or disist letter by the real developers).
However, in the whole thread, Theo never dropped the public disclosure thing and never addressed the main point which was the breach of copyright except to say it was a mistake by Marcus. If it was a mistake, it was a pretty serious one. If all of the OpenBSD developers are as casual as that, you have to question the quality and legality of their code base.
Changing a video card is really easy. The steps are:
Power off the PC
Take all the cables off
Open the case
Remove the card that the monitor used to be plugged into
Put your new card in the same slot
Close the case
Reattach the cables
Power on the PC
If in Windows, the card will be detected and the correct drivers installed, or worst case, you'll have to install the drivers off a CD. It's so long since I've bothered setting up a graphics card in Linux that I don't know how easy it is to configure the X server following a hardware change. The last time I did it you still had to worry about dotclock settings and stuff.
Actually on OS X
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts
:$
/etc/hosts
:$
:q! /etc/hosts
:$
sudo echo "208.65.153.253 www.youtube.com" >>
or what I do
sudo vi
<password>
o208.65.153.253 www.youtube.com<esc>:wq
Well, that's a lie actually, what I normally do is
vi
o208.65.153.253 www.youtube.com<esc>:wq
sudo vi
<password>
o208.65.153.253 www.youtube.com<esc>:wq
I call bullshit. This David Wilkins is saying that if all the copyright infringement in Canada stopped tomorrow, every single Canadian citizen would go out and buy an extra $1000 worth of DVDs etc every year (and that assumes none of the money gets back to the USA). I find that hard to believe.
The other problem is that tightening up the copyright law will not stop piracy.
It didn't occur to you she might have been cheating?
"propulsed"? In English we write "propelled".
Surely by virtue of the fact that you have put it on public display, it is published. If it is your original work then it is automatically protected by copyright.
glibc is not part of the operating system
That's weird. I plugged it in and it just worked. Oh wait, I'm running OS X.
That's not a more accurate answer.
The Poles originally cracked three rotor Enigma.
The Germans made it more secure (by adding two new rotors so the daily key used three rotors from five).
The Poles realised they didn't have the resources to crack Enigma anymore and handed everything over to the British.
The British (esp. Alan Turing) enhanced the cracking methods including building an electro-mechanical device called a "bombe" to help with the key cracking (NB, the Polish also had such a device, but the British version was much improved).
The German Navy used a four rotor enigma and much stricter key generation protocols such that for much of the war it could only be cracked by capturing daily keys from u-boats etc.
Colossus, the first electronic programmable computer, was built to crack a completely different cipher called Lorenz. Alan Turing had very little to do with that. NB, I'm fairly sure Colossus was not Turing complete. The engineer who designed Colossus was Tommy Flowers.
The calorie is a metric unit. It's defined as the energy required to raise 1 gramme of water by 1 degree Celcius.
You could argue that there are languages, interpreters and compilers and all three are always required. For instance, Sun's implementation of Java is compiled into bytecode and then interpreted by a JVM (ignoring JIT for the moment). If I compile a 386 executable with gcc, it is compiled to x86 machine code and then interpreted by a CPU. The CPU is probably a RISC machine that interprets 386 instrutions to some other instruction set and then interprets that in hardware.
I can use our Sharepoint server from Safari and Firefox.
If you can easily find people to do a job for $25k then it isn't worth $65k.
locate wouldn't help much with /etc/passwd either bearing in mind that /etc/passwd tells you exactly where it is. By the way, /etc/passwd is only used in single user mode on the Mac.
Either this guy hosts his blog on his Blackberry, or he's slashdotted.
Not many people get killed by blind car drivers either, but you wouldn't suggest letting blind people behind the wheel.
To be fair, I guess in highly controlled circumstances there would be no problem with allowing blind people to have guns, just as blind people can drive with a sighted person beside them and on a private track. But the problem is that the sighted person is really the one doing the hunting. The blind person is merely an all terrain voice operated remote control gun carriage.
Although he's a joke, Dick Cheney is not funny because, if GWB died, he'd be leader of the free world.
Disclaimer: I'm English, so maybe my impression that he is a joke is incorrect. He only really impinged on my consciousness when he accidentally shot that guy.