...I do want a way to compare different processors/operating systems/video cards/etc. objectively without having to obtain a 3rd party's tools and pay for them... (Which I think you have to do with SPECint, right?)
It would be great to have tools like that, and create a repository of the results.
When you think about it, anything that opens a port for receiving on your PC is a server, right?
So, things like ICQ and Instant Messanger are servers - they should be banned by ISPs. Oh wait, that's different isn't it?
While we're at it, let's ban windows, because people might have file sharing turned on by accident - thus being a server - oh wait, they tend to turn a blind eye to that.
Well, they definitely shouldn't be playing internet playable games that open a port - oh hold on, they'll lose a bunch of customers that way. Can't do that.
I know, why don't we just pick and choose what defines the term server, as we see fit, when we see fit. That'll suit the ISPs just fine.
Not that I really care. Since for the most part the site is for either horny little teenage guys, or pathetic older losers (that couldn't get a woman to spit on them if they were on fire) hoping to see something in order to get their jollies...
Mind you I can see why some people would then think that this is truly news for nerds.
Ah, but the peer review that takes place is by external groups, no doubt. No one who has a vested interest in the software being made available quickly.
Heck the company I work for has a QA dept. that is great and doesn't care how long they delay things.
The company I used to work for is run by Steve Barkto (it's an alias, do a search - actually here I did one for you) and often the QA dept. there would be rushed... much to the chargin of others later. No suprise considering the leader is former MS.
I agree 100% - what is next? Where else will we find these engineered holes? It's a strong argument for external peer review if you ask me - oh wait that's the open source model!
Actually, the more I think about this, the more it irritates me.
Believe it or not, using Visual Interdev is a pretty standard thing with not UNIX web-dev shops... and to come along and say - "oh yeah, we screwed this up because it was funny" is just insane. I cannot fathom what the programmers at MS are thinking.
And to say that "well, it doesn't affect 2000" is no better. I have to ask at that point, "Why? Did you come up with something even funnier for 2000?"
Eric S. Raymond said just this week that the open source model has one strength that closed source truly lacks, and can never have - peer review. All other "professional" endeavours of this magnitude have it (civil engineering was his example) and those professions are all the better for it.
If there was even one iota of external peer review, this "feature" (and you can't call something that was placed there on purpose a bug) would never have seen the light of day.
I'm glad that they got rid of the prize incentives... that was just a wrong thing to have.
I still think that half of my friends - myself included - would have had calls into this service, had they had it when we were in high-school.
We played video games (to excess by some standards). We were computer enthusiasts. We played D&D (gasp, the horror!). Some wore "concert shirts" and listened to "Heavy Metal" music... other wore black, some even wore camouflage... We got into fights (I was 6'2" and 150 lbs. in High-school... of course I was a target...)
Obviously (sarcasm here btw) we were a danger to ourselves and the public.
Corel is a company that has (to a degree) "embraced" open-source software. However, they sell software, a tricky thing (at best) to do with with open-source.
They may make all sorts of software available for Linux, but I don't believe that they can open the source code up for each and every piece of software they create or port over. It's just not viable for Corel as a company.
That doesn't mean that they can't make open-source software, it just means that they can't make it all open-source, and keep their shareholders happy.
I also think that they may go the route of making some software (light/lite versions) free (as in beer) for personal use... to keep the average Linux user reasonably happy.
Then they need to do a better job of identifying the site in a header/footer if they want to make sure that it isn't mis-represented as someone else's site.
...that if you put something up on the web, you've made it publicly available for people to link to.
What's the big deal anyway? If you put enough of a header/footer on your page that identifies the site, and show's links to other content (Say like ZD) then people will go to the stuff that interest them, and you've gained a reader from the "deep linking"...
If you don't want people to link directly, protect your articles/materials behind some CGI that at least makes it more difficult.
Just my three (Canadian) cents (that add up to 2 US cents).
It's like how programs grow to fill the memory and speed capacity of a system.
But hey, 100GB/s over long distance fibre would be a really good thing for making lower bandwidth connections (like a tiny T3) cheaper... 'cause you could fit over 2000 T3 pipes through your 100GB/s pipe... that's good enough to make T3 a "home use" connection.
If so, could they sue the person for patent infringement?:) (I'm sorry, either you pay us royalties for each day you live, or kill yourself right now.)
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...they'd be bullsh!t.
...I do want a way to compare different processors/operating systems/video cards/etc. objectively without having to obtain a 3rd party's tools and pay for them... (Which I think you have to do with SPECint, right?)
It would be great to have tools like that, and create a repository of the results.
"Yeah, my playstation is making a funny grinding noise..."
"You'll have to replace your harddrive, sir."
"How do I do that?"
"You bring it into the shop and they'll charge you $$$ for the drive, and $$$ for installation and $$$ for not knowing any better..."
'cause not every video game enthusiast is tech savy.
More likely it's a ctrl-V... and you know what that means.
...or did I just miss it?
Come on, we all know that Babbage would have changed the world - if he'd had a good machine shop.
When you think about it, anything that opens a port for receiving on your PC is a server, right?
So, things like ICQ and Instant Messanger are servers - they should be banned by ISPs. Oh wait, that's different isn't it?
While we're at it, let's ban windows, because people might have file sharing turned on by accident - thus being a server - oh wait, they tend to turn a blind eye to that.
Well, they definitely shouldn't be playing internet playable games that open a port - oh hold on, they'll lose a bunch of customers that way. Can't do that.
I know, why don't we just pick and choose what defines the term server, as we see fit, when we see fit. That'll suit the ISPs just fine.
Not that I really care. Since for the most part the site is for either horny little teenage guys, or pathetic older losers (that couldn't get a woman to spit on them if they were on fire) hoping to see something in order to get their jollies...
Mind you I can see why some people would then think that this is truly news for nerds.
...it's no longer a security system, but an easy access system for those in the know.
Ah, but the peer review that takes place is by external groups, no doubt. No one who has a vested interest in the software being made available quickly.
Heck the company I work for has a QA dept. that is great and doesn't care how long they delay things.
The company I used to work for is run by Steve Barkto (it's an alias, do a search - actually here I did one for you) and often the QA dept. there would be rushed... much to the chargin of others later. No suprise considering the leader is former MS.
I agree 100% - what is next? Where else will we find these engineered holes? It's a strong argument for external peer review if you ask me - oh wait that's the open source model!
...frontpage extensions for UNIX? It's a compiled binary, isn't it?
It does beg the question of whether or not something like this exists in those extensions as well... which, yes, would affect apache.
Actually, the more I think about this, the more it irritates me.
Believe it or not, using Visual Interdev is a pretty standard thing with not UNIX web-dev shops... and to come along and say - "oh yeah, we screwed this up because it was funny" is just insane. I cannot fathom what the programmers at MS are thinking.
And to say that "well, it doesn't affect 2000" is no better. I have to ask at that point, "Why? Did you come up with something even funnier for 2000?"
Eric S. Raymond said just this week that the open source model has one strength that closed source truly lacks, and can never have - peer review. All other "professional" endeavours of this magnitude have it (civil engineering was his example) and those professions are all the better for it.
If there was even one iota of external peer review, this "feature" (and you can't call something that was placed there on purpose a bug) would never have seen the light of day.
While I've never been truly impressed with the professionalism of MS employees, this takes the cake.
I'm glad that they got rid of the prize incentives... that was just a wrong thing to have.
I still think that half of my friends - myself included - would have had calls into this service, had they had it when we were in high-school.
We played video games (to excess by some standards). We were computer enthusiasts. We played D&D (gasp, the horror!). Some wore "concert shirts" and listened to "Heavy Metal" music... other wore black, some even wore camouflage... We got into fights (I was 6'2" and 150 lbs. in High-school... of course I was a target...)
Obviously (sarcasm here btw) we were a danger to ourselves and the public.
Sigh.
Could they truly get any sillier sounding?
Corel is a company that has (to a degree) "embraced" open-source software. However, they sell software, a tricky thing (at best) to do with with open-source.
They may make all sorts of software available for Linux, but I don't believe that they can open the source code up for each and every piece of software they create or port over. It's just not viable for Corel as a company.
That doesn't mean that they can't make open-source software, it just means that they can't make it all open-source, and keep their shareholders happy.
I also think that they may go the route of making some software (light/lite versions) free (as in beer) for personal use... to keep the average Linux user reasonably happy.
The sybject is the question... what are the real differences?
Then they need to do a better job of identifying the site in a header/footer if they want to make sure that it isn't mis-represented as someone else's site.
...that if you put something up on the web, you've made it publicly available for people to link to.
What's the big deal anyway? If you put enough of a header/footer on your page that identifies the site, and show's links to other content (Say like ZD) then people will go to the stuff that interest them, and you've gained a reader from the "deep linking"...
If you don't want people to link directly, protect your articles/materials behind some CGI that at least makes it more difficult.
Just my three (Canadian) cents (that add up to 2 US cents).
It's like how programs grow to fill the memory and speed capacity of a system.
But hey, 100GB/s over long distance fibre would be a really good thing for making lower bandwidth connections (like a tiny T3) cheaper... 'cause you could fit over 2000 T3 pipes through your 100GB/s pipe... that's good enough to make T3 a "home use" connection.
So, could they now patent that person's genome?
:) (I'm sorry, either you pay us royalties for each day you live, or kill yourself right now.)
If so, could they sue the person for patent infringement?
Or would the person have "first use" rights?
Yeah, I know, but it's fun to play...
Do Alpha systems do Multi-Processor boards?
:)
That would be a nice system...
They already have huge clusters of Alpha systems... it would just be faster.
Could it actually act just as one really fast Linux box? Or is that just not possible?
...or be working on really hush-hush stuff at home that you expect to have someone "sniffing" for industrial espionage reasons...