I hear so many people talking about the TSOP. "the TSOP this," "the tsop that" - TSOP stands for Thin Small Outline Package. It's just a flash chip. You can get much more than memory in TSOPs. Why don't people call it what it really is? How about "the flash chip" or "the firmware chip"?
I'm sorry, but that's just too funny. I snorted coffee out my nose when I read that. Can you imagine posts to LKML digitally signed by RMS reading something like "ph33r/\/\Y 1337 HuRD 0f GNUs!!! LOL ROFL"
That said, The key that has been leaked isn't that big a deal to pirates, it just makes it less dificult to do the initial installation. Nat a big deal. Windows ME & 2000 pirate releases usually have a binary patch to the installer so it doesn't need a key at all.
Remember the game "DOOM"? It was peer to peer. Every (up to all 8 of them!) client talked to every other client, and all of them ran the same numbers. If one of the peers disagreed with the others it was booted. This model was discarded in favour of the now-popular server-client model because latency (not bandwidth) was too high.
Anyone that played Quake 1.01-1.09 on the 'net over a modem can tell you how horrible latency was even with this 'leap forward' in network gaming. Nowadays, the client & server use prediction & syncing to give the appearance of smooth play.
Unfortunately, the amount of bandwith won't compensate for the latency, and I doubt that anything short of a direct, raw connection to the 'server' will allow a 'video only' feed.
It doesn't even need to be/code itself, it could easily be a local database, with the story url linked to the other urls. That way there's no extra overhead on the site.
So if I jiggle your doorknob, discover that it's open and phone you from my cell phone to tell you it's open, you're going to classify that as a bad thing(tm)?
What? No. The "open port" on that server is port 80. It's a web front end. More importantly, you just block incoming from that server. It's easy enough to set up rules that will block incoming traffic matching a pattern. Maybe you should read the linked stuff before you post.
Everyone here who has seen the movie Mrmento has a working knowledge of what retrograde amnesia is. It's retrograde amnesia sufferors that will benefit the most. (Assuming that the cause for them is Hippocampus damage)
No, it's not free. Read the licence - there are restrictions on its distribution, and those pieces of software have copyright(s) held by individuals & organizations.
Maybe you should think about this - if something is truly free, it wouldn't have these restrictions.
Just because RMS says that his software is free doesn't make it so. It's close to free, and for many people, is just as good as free, but technically it is not.
The original spirit? So, I can complain if my child loses a spelling bee for spelling tire as tyre? I shouldn't dare correct people that say chairman instead of chair person, or if a beencounter says "I'm a computer" I shouldn't puzzle over that?
The fact of the matter is that some free software is open source and some open source software is free. Open source software has come to mean software for which the source is available, and accepts outside modifications based on their merit and the conditions of the modifications. Free software is software that is in the public domain and has the apropriate source code equally available. I personally do not consider GPL'd software to be free software, because of the conditions placed on redistribution, but that's just me.
None of this changes the fact that "Open source" software can - and in some cases does - contain patented or copyrighted code.
Wrong, anything released into the public can be viewed & played with. You way not be legally allowed to redistribute it (copyright), use it for profit (patents), etc., but you most certainly see & play with it. Take for example, the GIF plugin for the GIMP - unless I have a Unisys patent licence, I'm technically not allowed to use the plugin to publish GIFs. That does not stop me in ANY way from reviewing, editing, and redistributing it.
How so? OSS should never rely on patented or copyrighted code, otherwise it is not truly open source.
What? You are obviously suffering from some confusion. Open source is NOT free software. Open source software is software where you can see & play with the source. FREE software, like public domain or BSD licenced software is free like freedom. Read this for further clairification.
That aside, EVERY piece of GPL'd code is copyrighted, as is BSD licenced code. Patents are another issue entirely. There are countries that do not recognize business or software patents. It is the user that is limited in countries where the patent is valid, not the software.
you're either stupid, trolling, or sadly uninformed. Having read your other posts on the topic, I suspect all three. Regardless, here's a legimate response. Canada has 2 DTH providers, each with dual satellite broadcast capability. One is Bell ExpressVu, the other is StarChoice. ExpressVu uses Dish Network technology, StarChoice uses Motorola (nee General Instrument) technology. This changes nothing. In Canada, there are 2 licenced broadcasters for DBS . I've named them above. This means that DirecTV and Dish signals are NOT protected when they enter Canadian airspace, the same way that Canadian DBS signals aren't protected when they enter U.S. airspace.
Since then Tech has edited it again - Probably so that they don't look like boobs.
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No argument from me on that - I just wanted to lay it out.
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I hate to break this to you, but apart from sending amount & business name to the bank, Interac doesn't keep track. The banks themselves have individual policies on this, and seeing as how these new 'anonymous cards' need to be recharged at a bank, I don't see the benefit.
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do you have any idea just how nonsensical that comment is?
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Seriously though, this is just silly. By now everyone has heard of 'Debit Cards' and I would think that a fair number of/.ers have paypal mastercard debit cards. Well guess what? Canada has been there for years. 4 out of 5 stores (or in a mall, every store) has Interacmachines. Direct debit, pin protected, and ANY bank card on the interac network works on it. That is every major bank in Canada, almost all the little ones, plus most credit unions.
Explain how a pin protected card (which is cancelable by phone) is better than this 'new' french system? I mean, their system is just basically a revamp of european phone cards. The only benefits the french system has over Interac is anonymity - As for that, we do still have cash for that, or in the case of a true cashless society, just trade in precious minerals. (eg, gold.)
By the way, Interac direct payment has been rolled out since `94
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I hear so many people talking about the TSOP. "the TSOP this," "the tsop that" - TSOP stands for Thin Small Outline Package.
It's just a flash chip. You can get much more than memory in TSOPs.
Why don't people call it what it really is?
How about "the flash chip" or "the firmware chip"?
I'm sure that the marketing droids would be a big help down in R&D. Let's go over there and tell them right now, ok?
I'm sorry, but that's just too funny. I snorted coffee out my nose when I read that. /\/\Y 1337 HuRD 0f GNUs!!! LOL ROFL"
Can you imagine posts to LKML digitally signed by RMS reading something like "ph33r
That said, The key that has been leaked isn't that big a deal to pirates, it just makes it less dificult to do the initial installation. Nat a big deal. Windows ME & 2000 pirate releases usually have a binary patch to the installer so it doesn't need a key at all.
I don't think that the Yahoo! story is a Joke... it was posted 03/31 not 04/01... If it is, please correct me. I'd like to be wrong here.
They are using the debian-packaged sourceforge, so it's got to be a 'free' release.
Remember the game "DOOM"? It was peer to peer. Every (up to all 8 of them!) client talked to every other client, and all of them ran the same numbers. If one of the peers disagreed with the others it was booted.
This model was discarded in favour of the now-popular server-client model because latency (not bandwidth) was too high.
Anyone that played Quake 1.01-1.09 on the 'net over a modem can tell you how horrible latency was even with this 'leap forward' in network gaming.
Nowadays, the client & server use prediction & syncing to give the appearance of smooth play.
Unfortunately, the amount of bandwith won't compensate for the latency, and I doubt that anything short of a direct, raw connection to the 'server' will allow a 'video only' feed.
It doesn't even need to be /code itself, it could easily be a local database, with the story url linked to the other urls. That way there's no extra overhead on the site.
So if I jiggle your doorknob, discover that it's open and phone you from my cell phone to tell you it's open, you're going to classify that as a bad thing (tm)?
What? No.
The "open port" on that server is port 80. It's a web front end. More importantly, you just block incoming from that server. It's easy enough to set up rules that will block incoming traffic matching a pattern. Maybe you should read the linked stuff before you post.
Everyone here who has seen the movie Mrmento has a working knowledge of what retrograde amnesia is. It's retrograde amnesia sufferors that will benefit the most. (Assuming that the cause for them is Hippocampus damage)
Maybe the same way this guy did?
More like what the Power Computing PowerWave was to the Apple Power Mac 9500 - They do the same job & the OS can't tell the difference
And I thought all that smoke was just my mobo overheating.
Well that makes you look pretty stupid, doesn't it?
No, it's not free. Read the licence - there are restrictions on its distribution, and those pieces of software have copyright(s) held by individuals & organizations.
Maybe you should think about this - if something is truly free, it wouldn't have these restrictions.
Just because RMS says that his software is free doesn't make it so. It's close to free, and for many people, is just as good as free, but technically it is not.
The original spirit?
So, I can complain if my child loses a spelling bee for spelling tire as tyre? I shouldn't dare correct people that say chairman instead of chair person, or if a beencounter says "I'm a computer" I shouldn't puzzle over that?
The fact of the matter is that some free software is open source and some open source software is free.
Open source software has come to mean software for which the source is available, and accepts outside modifications based on their merit and the conditions of the modifications.
Free software is software that is in the public domain and has the apropriate source code equally available.
I personally do not consider GPL'd software to be free software, because of the conditions placed on redistribution, but that's just me.
None of this changes the fact that "Open source" software can - and in some cases does - contain patented or copyrighted code.
Wrong, anything released into the public can be viewed & played with. You way not be legally allowed to redistribute it (copyright), use it for profit (patents), etc., but you most certainly see & play with it.
Take for example, the GIF plugin for the GIMP - unless I have a Unisys patent licence, I'm technically not allowed to use the plugin to publish GIFs. That does not stop me in ANY way from reviewing, editing, and redistributing it.
How so? OSS should never rely on patented or copyrighted code, otherwise it is not truly open source.
What? You are obviously suffering from some confusion.
Open source is NOT free software. Open source software is software where you can see & play with the source. FREE software, like public domain or BSD licenced software is free like freedom. Read this for further clairification.
That aside, EVERY piece of GPL'd code is copyrighted, as is BSD licenced code.
Patents are another issue entirely. There are countries that do not recognize business or software patents. It is the user that is limited in countries where the patent is valid, not the software.
you're either stupid, trolling, or sadly uninformed. Having read your other posts on the topic, I suspect all three. Regardless, here's a legimate response.
Canada has 2 DTH providers, each with dual satellite broadcast capability. One is Bell ExpressVu, the other is StarChoice. ExpressVu uses Dish Network technology, StarChoice uses Motorola (nee General Instrument) technology.
This changes nothing.
In Canada, there are 2 licenced broadcasters for DBS . I've named them above.
This means that DirecTV and Dish signals are NOT protected when they enter Canadian airspace, the same way that Canadian DBS signals aren't protected when they enter U.S. airspace.
point.
It's not cheaper that putting 2 hard-drives in one pc and partitioning them.
Since then Tech has edited it again - Probably so that they don't look like boobs.
No argument from me on that - I just wanted to lay it out.
I hate to break this to you, but apart from sending amount & business name to the bank, Interac doesn't keep track. The banks themselves have individual policies on this, and seeing as how these new 'anonymous cards' need to be recharged at a bank, I don't see the benefit.
do you have any idea just how nonsensical that comment is?
Seriously though, this is just silly. By now everyone has heard of 'Debit Cards' and I would think that a fair number of /.ers have paypal mastercard debit cards.
Well guess what?
Canada has been there for years.
4 out of 5 stores (or in a mall, every store) has Interacmachines. Direct debit, pin protected, and ANY bank card on the interac network works on it. That is every major bank in Canada, almost all the little ones, plus most credit unions.
Explain how a pin protected card (which is cancelable by phone) is better than this 'new' french system? I mean, their system is just basically a revamp of european phone cards.
The only benefits the french system has over Interac is anonymity - As for that, we do still have cash for that, or in the case of a true cashless society, just trade in precious minerals. (eg, gold.)
By the way, Interac direct payment has been rolled out since `94