Gnuplot does work, but its not the most user friendly piece of software, and while I've used it for rough-and-ready visualisation, I've never been able to get attractive (i.e. publishable quality) results out of it.
Since you don't specify free software, can I recommend the graphical capabilities of Matlab? As well as being endlessly scriptable and versatile, there's a GUI so you can place text and symbols anywhere you like. There's a native Linux version, and as you're a student you should be able to buy it at a more reasonable price. It's also quite possible that your university/department has a site licence of some description.
I'm more surprised that he considered Eyes Wide Shut to be well written. Sure, it's well written by porn standards... but who watches Anal Adventures #17 for the dialogue?
Wow. That's wrong on so many levels it's not true. i) America was never a penal colony ii) I'm not American iii) It was a joke, you humourless fuckwit.
Is it any surprise that a nation descended from the worst convicts and criminals England could throw away would eventually align itself with Open Source Software, well known throughout the world as a transparent price-fixing scam...:)
Woe! Disaster! JWZ's changes to the Emacs codebase can't be easily folded back into GNU/Emacs. It's full of things that are XEmacs specific!
It's called a fork, folks. It's very possible, albeit not very common, with Open Source software. You've given your code to people to use how *they* want, not how *you* want them to. Deal with it.
If you've got the modified files you most certainly can tell how they've changed. You do a diff.
Now that diff can't tell you why they've changed, but for Pete's sake, you're a developer. You've got the code. You've got the standard. You've got the changes in the code. You've got the old code. You can see how behaviour changes in each. You've (hopefully) got an reasonable general understanding of the codebase.
Given that some developers reverse engineer protocols by sniffing TCP packets, your task really doesn't sound that difficult...
How can you expect the RIAA to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of BitTorrent when slashdot editors cannot be bothered to do the same? Hong Kong is not cracking down on BT Users, but on wilful copyright violators who happen to use BitTorrent.
You might as well run a headline "US police crack down on Drivers", leading to a report detailing the arrest of a guy who drove a getaway car in a robbery.
The patched Safari is not yet avaliable for public consumption. It is unknown when the patches will appear in a public version of Safari.
Hypothetical : Which might mean that fixing the browser to display Acid2 broke something else (related to the browser making reasonable attempts to display broken code, perhaps).
Which does point out the problem with tests like Acid2, which really don't resemble any code in the wild that anyone has ever used. What you end up with is browsers that are brilliant at rendering completely pathological corner cases, but only at the cost of changing some other well-thought-out-but-not-standardised. behaviour.
Now, I admit that this is purely hypothetical, but surely a better guide to browser usability is how well it renders the morass of dodgy XML/HTML that gets sent to it every single day.
Optimise for corner cases, and it possible that all you'll get are really well rendered corner cases.
there are enough intrusions into my life to make it 'safer' as it is - each and almost every one of them pisses me off.
So the building standards that require that your office won't collapse in a minor earthquake piss you off, eh? The drink-drive laws that help reduce the number of drunken fuckheads driving three ton killing machines piss you off, eh? The waste laws that stop your local pharmaceutical firm dumping chlorine and ammonia in your local lake piss you off, eh? The non-proliferation treaties that make it difficult for insane dictators to build nuclear weapons piss you off, eh?
The moment you use the rationale "People aren't that stupid"
Which I didn't do. The implausible bits are such mere technical considerations such as the fact that his computer is still running an IRC after half the hard drive is supposedly gone.
That and the fact it's one of the oldest jokes in computing.
"Linux" already has several high-level IPC models. Not only are their the CORBA brokerage architectures supplied by Gnome, KDE (and other possibly other X apps), but on a kernel level you've also got support for good, old-fashioned shared memory, and named pipes/FIFOs.
DDE/COM-style sharing of data between apps can [and therefore should, IMHO] be done entirely in userspace.
The more features we can get into kernel mode, the less we need to rely on "chaining" and other Unix-way solutions and we can think more about applications and OS services as "whole units".
What? That makes little sense. If you want to write monolithic apps for Unix, it's completely possible. Ever heard of Oracle, Firefox, Emacs, Evolution? Similarly, one could write a console app that combines the features of grep, find, locate and xargs in one "handy" command.
The fact that no-one has written these things just means that traditional Unix programmers don't like/want them. That may well be changing, but the kernel is an irrelevancy. Absolutely none of these things need any of the kernel services touted in this article.
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I know who Stewart Brand is. I want to know what among his experience means we should believe a single word he has to say on the Environment?
Or maybe Mr Brand believes a science degree and a few moderately succesful books immediately qualifies him as an expert in anything he cares to to turn his mind to (I believe affliction is usually known as EricRaymondism.)
More environmental forecasting by someone who knows nothing about environmental forecasting. What qualifications/experience does Brand have to make such grandiose predictions.
Clue for Mr Brand : Eating muesli and flogging organically grown tat to gullible, guilt-ridden ex-hippies does not automatically make you an expert on the latest developments in climate modelling.
Two companies involved in a multi-million dollar lawsuit over who has monopoly rights on lighting an assortment of meaningless tat with a bunch of LEDs.
Let us hope that such government by the legal profession and for the legal profession will never vanish from this earth.
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Gnuplot does work, but its not the most user friendly piece of software, and while I've used it for rough-and-ready visualisation, I've never been able to get attractive (i.e. publishable quality) results out of it.
Since you don't specify free software, can I recommend the graphical capabilities of Matlab? As well as being endlessly scriptable and versatile, there's a GUI so you can place text and symbols anywhere you like. There's a native Linux version, and as you're a student you should be able to buy it at a more reasonable price. It's also quite possible that your university/department has a site licence of some description.
I'm more surprised that he considered Eyes Wide Shut to be well written. Sure, it's well written by porn standards... but who watches Anal Adventures #17 for the dialogue?
Wow. That's wrong on so many levels it's not true.
i) America was never a penal colony
ii) I'm not American
iii) It was a joke, you humourless fuckwit.
Hey, no taunting the Poms until *after* you've kicked our arses at cricket.
Is it any surprise that a nation descended from the worst convicts and criminals England could throw away would eventually align itself with Open Source Software, well known throughout the world as a transparent price-fixing scam... :)
1993 called, they want their flamewar back.
Woe! Disaster! JWZ's changes to the Emacs codebase can't be easily folded back into GNU/Emacs. It's full of things that are XEmacs specific!
It's called a fork, folks. It's very possible, albeit not very common, with Open Source software. You've given your code to people to use how *they* want, not how *you* want them to. Deal with it.
If you've got the modified files you most certainly can tell how they've changed. You do a diff.
Now that diff can't tell you why they've changed, but for Pete's sake, you're a developer. You've got the code. You've got the standard. You've got the changes in the code. You've got the old code. You can see how behaviour changes in each. You've (hopefully) got an reasonable general understanding of the codebase.
Given that some developers reverse engineer protocols by sniffing TCP packets, your task really doesn't sound that difficult...
My bet is that its grounded on the wreckage of Beagle II. :)
How can you expect the RIAA to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of BitTorrent when slashdot editors cannot be bothered to do the same? Hong Kong is not cracking down on BT Users, but on wilful copyright violators who happen to use BitTorrent.
You might as well run a headline "US police crack down on Drivers", leading to a report detailing the arrest of a guy who drove a getaway car in a robbery.
Sheesh.
Which does point out the problem with tests like Acid2, which really don't resemble any code in the wild that anyone has ever used. What you end up with is browsers that are brilliant at rendering completely pathological corner cases, but only at the cost of changing some other well-thought-out-but-not-standardised. behaviour.
Now, I admit that this is purely hypothetical, but surely a better guide to browser usability is how well it renders the morass of dodgy XML/HTML that gets sent to it every single day.
Optimise for corner cases, and it possible that all you'll get are really well rendered corner cases.
i) Stop using raw sockets.
ii) Make systems much harder to compromise.
The real problem here is the massive abundance of comprimised systems
Don't worry. He only has to sign the bill, not to spell or pronounce any of the words in it.
The drink-drive laws that help reduce the number of drunken fuckheads driving three ton killing machines piss you off, eh?
The waste laws that stop your local pharmaceutical firm dumping chlorine and ammonia in your local lake piss you off, eh?
The non-proliferation treaties that make it difficult for insane dictators to build nuclear weapons piss you off, eh?
My, you're a brave lad.
That and the fact it's one of the oldest jokes in computing.
"Linux" already has several high-level IPC models. Not only are their the CORBA brokerage architectures supplied by Gnome, KDE (and other possibly other X apps), but on a kernel level you've also got support for good, old-fashioned shared memory, and named pipes/FIFOs.
DDE/COM-style sharing of data between apps can [and therefore should, IMHO] be done entirely in userspace.
That this is a hoax. It's simply not feasible.
The fact that no-one has written these things just means that traditional Unix programmers don't like/want them. That may well be changing, but the kernel is an irrelevancy. Absolutely none of these things need any of the kernel services touted in this article.
Pedlar (possibly NSFW) vs. peddler (definitely Safe For Work)
I know who Stewart Brand is. I want to know what among his experience means we should believe a single word he has to say on the Environment?
Or maybe Mr Brand believes a science degree and a few moderately succesful books immediately qualifies him as an expert in anything he cares to to turn his mind to (I believe affliction is usually known as EricRaymondism.)
More environmental forecasting by someone who knows nothing about environmental forecasting. What qualifications/experience does Brand have to make such grandiose predictions.
Clue for Mr Brand : Eating muesli and flogging organically grown tat to gullible, guilt-ridden ex-hippies does not automatically make you an expert on the latest developments in climate modelling.
Jesus F Christ.
Two companies involved in a multi-million dollar lawsuit over who has monopoly rights on lighting an assortment of meaningless tat with a bunch of LEDs.
Let us hope that such government by the legal profession and for the legal profession will never vanish from this earth.