It seems that - notwithstanding the release of Kylix - not so many people around here are familiar with the Delphi scene.
Which is rather unfortunate. Delphi kicks the pants off VC++ for Windows development, as far as development time goes. Delphi's compiler puts out optimized code that's as fast, and on some types of operations, faster, than VC++. It's easy to read, easy to maintain, and easy for someone new to pick up on an existing codebase. It's strongly typed, but also provides an easy way to circumvent the type system when necessary. It's got an IDE that makes Visual Studio look clunky and outdated by comparison. And, best of all, it has a compiler for Linux now.
I don't know what's kept Delphi from gathering more mainstream acceptance. Maybe it's the stigma of slow P-Code that the old UCSD Pascal left the language with, or maybe it's underhanded marketing and business deals by Microsoft (there are many who believe that.NET was originally created by Borland, and was given to Microsoft when MS last invested capital in Borland -- not to mention that the top people Microsoft has working on.NET came from Borland), but it's really a tragedy that Delphi doesn't have more mainstream acceptance.
I rememeber a day not too long ago where copyright protection only stood on technical merit,
When it comes to signatures, forgery has always been illegal, despite the fact that writing your name on a piece of paper has no technical merit when it comes to difficulty in duplicating. The fact that they're trying to come up with the tool to forge a digital signature (and with the stated intent to use it that way) should make no difference in the eyes of the law.
recently stopped its bid to recover the X-Box private key citing legal reasons
Well duh. You don't think Microsoft (or any company, for that matter) would just sit back and let you crack a private key they use for actual business? It's one thing to crack a key in a challenge specifically presented for that purpose, but it's another thing to try to, in effect, come up with a way of forging Bill Gates' signature.
While I appreciate Lessig's intentions here, it usually takes a bit more than a wager to get Congress to pass a law. Perhaps if he backed it up with some cash, Capitol Hill might pay attention.
I was fully aware that the game did not depict reality
I wasn't. I lost a previous job when it turned out I couldn't jump on my boss and squish him (in fact he was rather annoyed by it, making much worse of the whole situation which was originally about his disapproval of my attempts to punch things in the office to get money out of them). No worry, I'm working on my technique and I've been eating a lot of mushrooms, so next time it should work!
Not to mention... can we find something new to report on? Microsoft doesn't like the GPL. Ok. We got it the last 20 times a story was posted exposing that fact.
Comparing the X network transparency to RDP is like comparing apples to oranges. Frambuffer based transparency eg. RDP work well on low bandwidth situations but push all the load on the server since the entire application and all the rendering is done on the server. This is a terrible design in thin client networks, and why citrix et. all take so much resources to deploy.
But the point is that "the desktop" is not a thin client network. X is designed for network transparency at the expense of local optimization. That is wonderful when remote access is your number one concern, like on a server. It's less than optimal when remote access means zero to you, like just about every desktop user in the world.
For comparison, why don't you Try having the courage to get a document from M$ and post it on the internet and risk many years of imprisonment and many more years of not touching a computer
I thought that's what Freenet was for. Instead of using copyright law as a convenient excuse to justify riddling the memo with childish insults and jabs, why not use the wonderful technology available to us to get the memo out there sans biased review?
ESR could always simply say "Hey guys, look what I found on Freenet *wink wink* here's the link, check it out yourself."
(Assume it uses some crazy undocumented Windows trick)
How about instead we assume it uses the well documented Pluggable Asynchronous File System Driver API? So it works with all your existing Win32 applications transparently in a very normal way. Your post is pure FUD.
Why? Because technology moves too quickly and your game looks old fast.
Sorry, but that's a cop-out reason. Other developers manage to get their products out on time, and with high-tech graphics to boot. There's no reason a team of 50 can't get a game out in under 5 years, even if they are all volunteers. There's even less of an excuse for a professional development team.
IE has an annoying habit of clearing the text boxes of a page when I get a timed out page and hit the 'back' button, say when posting to/. (slower than ever!?)
Chimera and Phoenix keep that information in the box, saving me from having to copy the text, just in case.
Go to Tools > Internet Options > General Tab > Temporary Internet Files > Settings, and change "Check for newer versions of stored pages" from the default of "Automatically" to "Every time I start Internet Explorer", and the problem in IE of the back button clearing out forms will disappear.
He of course thinks it's because Microsoft sucks, or "that new MSN upgrade broke my system", but in reality I think it's because he'll download anything and everything he can get his hands on
I remember when people, instead of bothering the rest of us with their moaning, just used their preferences to turn off the sections they didn't want to read about.
I remember when articles intended to provoke philosophical discussion were not posted under inappropriate topics like "News". Ahh... those were the days.
1. If NASA says GNULinux administrations costs are too high, think again---surely all these Unix gurus can administer thier own systems little support needed.
The problem with that is that all those NASA engineers are supposed to be working on aerospace stuff, not Linux stuff. That's why even technology companies have IT departments.
2. If NASA says that MS Office Formats are required for standard file formatted documents accross the organization, think again----surely the entire organization switching to OpenOffice.org is a much better way to ENSURE future standardization without upgrade costs.
At the incredibly expensive cost of converting all their existing documents to OpenOffice's format (you can't simply run them through the DOC filter, because it sucks), and retraining their clerical people to work with it. Not to mention the looming headache of interacting with other companies. I use OpenOffice myself at work to open the few DOC files that come across my desk as a progammer, and I've seen that it mangles the document beyond use just as often as it opens it in a legible format.
3. IF NASA says that MS OUTLOOK is needed to standardize email ---- sticking to open and standard protocols as opposed to proprietary and costly protocols is surely the best way to standardization.
People don't use Outlook for the email, they use it for the groupware. And open source has nothing that can hold a candle to Outlook's groupware functionality.
4. IF NASA management says that they liked the MS PowerPointless presentation, they probably did, and they probably believed all the points that MS made to them during the presentation. Which explains why we have a GOVERNMENT organization still running PROPRIETARY software and forcing thier users to use MICROSOFT when they don't want to!
And the Government also drives automobiles built on proprietary technologies by General Motors and Ford. And they also fly fighter jets built on proprietary technologies by Lockheed Martin and Boeing. What's your point? There's no historical precedent that states that everything the Government uses needs to be in the public domain, or that every piece of data the Government works with needs to be open to public inspection. (In fact, I'm sure the people at Area 51 or Cheyenne Mountain would strongly disagree on that point.)
5. If NASA made it a REQUIREMENT that ALL of its vendors communicate using OPEN and NON-PROPRIETARY FILE FORMATS as a REQUIREMENT FOR DOING BUSINESS, THEY WOULD!
I'm sure NASA picks its battles, and I don't think using one word processor over another is worth throwing down the gauntlet over. Users simply do not care whether it's Office or OpenOffice. Go ahead and imagine that in words with alternate capitalization if that helps.
6. If you told your senator what you think, than you did the right thing. If you did not, than you can blame no one but yourself when GNULinux is OUTLAWED and a copy of PALADIUM is REQUIRED to VOTE.
Slippery slope theory and pure FUD. You're stretching for things to rant about by this point, apparently.
Flash should be banned until there are useable free software implementations running in other platforms than Intel. I use testing Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC and Flash simply isn't useable for me.
What's the problem? The flash file format is open and documented, there's no reason your platform shouldn't have a Flash player..... unless it's simply because your platform is too obscure for even adequate coverage by Free Software, in which case it sounds like that's your problem, not Macromedia's.
Obviously bowing to record and movie industry pressure
How do you figure? Perhaps they've simply noticed that their network isn't capable of handling as much upstream as they've been getting lately (cable is asymmetric), and they determined that P2P was the reason.
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Email needs a massive overhaul like the one telnet has gotten. Telnet is obsolete, replaced by SSH. FTP is replaced by SFTP and SCP.
Evil, says/. poster ONOIML8, is censorship. Be it by government, religious cult group, or privately held company in the "information technology" business.
Yes, you may quote me on that.
In other news today, Slashdot poster ONOIML8, by trivalizing a private entities right to restrictions on their products and services, called Linux and the GPL "evil" for forbidding users from expressing themselves by distributing modified binaries without distributing correlating modified source code! When reached for comment, ONOIML8 said, "you may quote me on that."
This problem ranks right up there along with eBay auctions and the fact that they "close" at a given point in time. In the real world, an auction continues as long as people are making bids. eBay should extend an auction by 5 minutes or an hour or a day each time someone bids on an item. That'd get rid of "last minute bid services". (I'd suggest a 5 minute extension - because then there's a natural time for everyone interested in an item to "gather" together and do the final bidding.)
If I'm not mistaken they had something like that at one point. If not eBay, then I definately remember seeing it on some auction site. I seem to remember them describing it as "Going, Going, Gone". A look at eBay today shows that they just use that phrase for auctions that are going to end soon, not because they've been extended.
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It seems that - notwithstanding the release of Kylix - not so many people around here are familiar with the Delphi scene.
.NET was originally created by Borland, and was given to Microsoft when MS last invested capital in Borland -- not to mention that the top people Microsoft has working on .NET came from Borland), but it's really a tragedy that Delphi doesn't have more mainstream acceptance.
Which is rather unfortunate. Delphi kicks the pants off VC++ for Windows development, as far as development time goes. Delphi's compiler puts out optimized code that's as fast, and on some types of operations, faster, than VC++. It's easy to read, easy to maintain, and easy for someone new to pick up on an existing codebase. It's strongly typed, but also provides an easy way to circumvent the type system when necessary. It's got an IDE that makes Visual Studio look clunky and outdated by comparison. And, best of all, it has a compiler for Linux now.
I don't know what's kept Delphi from gathering more mainstream acceptance. Maybe it's the stigma of slow P-Code that the old UCSD Pascal left the language with, or maybe it's underhanded marketing and business deals by Microsoft (there are many who believe that
I rememeber a day not too long ago where copyright protection only stood on technical merit,
When it comes to signatures, forgery has always been illegal, despite the fact that writing your name on a piece of paper has no technical merit when it comes to difficulty in duplicating. The fact that they're trying to come up with the tool to forge a digital signature (and with the stated intent to use it that way) should make no difference in the eyes of the law.
recently stopped its bid to recover the X-Box private key citing legal reasons
Well duh . You don't think Microsoft (or any company, for that matter) would just sit back and let you crack a private key they use for actual business? It's one thing to crack a key in a challenge specifically presented for that purpose, but it's another thing to try to, in effect, come up with a way of forging Bill Gates' signature.
While I appreciate Lessig's intentions here, it usually takes a bit more than a wager to get Congress to pass a law. Perhaps if he backed it up with some cash, Capitol Hill might pay attention.
I was fully aware that the game did not depict reality
I wasn't. I lost a previous job when it turned out I couldn't jump on my boss and squish him (in fact he was rather annoyed by it, making much worse of the whole situation which was originally about his disapproval of my attempts to punch things in the office to get money out of them). No worry, I'm working on my technique and I've been eating a lot of mushrooms, so next time it should work!
Ok let's get this out of our system now:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!....mining...data... yeah.
In Soviet Russia, data mines YOU!
It's official, Data Mining is DEAD. You don't have to be Kreskin to figure it out.
Hey! I just found this site all about data mining here!!!!!
Come on, really, is this News for Nerds or Stuff That Matters?
You could probably use data mining to determine how many hot grits Natalie Portman actually eats.
Alright. That should do it. Carry on with the discussion.
Not to mention... can we find something new to report on? Microsoft doesn't like the GPL. Ok. We got it the last 20 times a story was posted exposing that fact.
Do we really need another story about it?
Comparing the X network transparency to RDP is like comparing apples to oranges. Frambuffer based transparency eg. RDP work well on low bandwidth situations but push all the load on the server since the entire application and all the rendering is done on the server. This is a terrible design in thin client networks, and why citrix et. all take so much resources to deploy.
But the point is that "the desktop" is not a thin client network. X is designed for network transparency at the expense of local optimization. That is wonderful when remote access is your number one concern, like on a server. It's less than optimal when remote access means zero to you, like just about every desktop user in the world.
For comparison, why don't you Try having the courage to get a document from M$ and post it on the internet and risk many years of imprisonment and many more years of not touching a computer
I thought that's what Freenet was for. Instead of using copyright law as a convenient excuse to justify riddling the memo with childish insults and jabs, why not use the wonderful technology available to us to get the memo out there sans biased review?
ESR could always simply say "Hey guys, look what I found on Freenet *wink wink* here's the link, check it out yourself."
Likewise. :)
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I guess that only works to a certain point.
(Assume it uses some crazy undocumented Windows trick)
How about instead we assume it uses the well documented Pluggable Asynchronous File System Driver API? So it works with all your existing Win32 applications transparently in a very normal way. Your post is pure FUD.
Why? Because technology moves too quickly and your game looks old fast.
Sorry, but that's a cop-out reason. Other developers manage to get their products out on time, and with high-tech graphics to boot. There's no reason a team of 50 can't get a game out in under 5 years, even if they are all volunteers. There's even less of an excuse for a professional development team.
IE has an annoying habit of clearing the text boxes of a page when I get a timed out page and hit the 'back' button, say when posting to /. (slower than ever!?)
Chimera and Phoenix keep that information in the box, saving me from having to copy the text, just in case.
Go to Tools > Internet Options > General Tab > Temporary Internet Files > Settings, and change "Check for newer versions of stored pages" from the default of "Automatically" to "Every time I start Internet Explorer", and the problem in IE of the back button clearing out forms will disappear.
Standards are what the majority agree upon, not what some committee decides the majority should be forced to use.
Internet Explorer is the web standard!!
He of course thinks it's because Microsoft sucks, or "that new MSN upgrade broke my system", but in reality I think it's because he'll download anything and everything he can get his hands on
Sounds like some Slashdot readers...
I remember when people, instead of bothering the rest of us with their moaning, just used their preferences to turn off the sections they didn't want to read about.
I remember when articles intended to provoke philosophical discussion were not posted under inappropriate topics like "News". Ahh... those were the days.
GTA3 Shouldn't of been nomintated for that award, simply because the music in that game sucks. It IS funny, though.
They're talking about GTA: Vice City, not GTA3. GTA:VC's soundtrack is made up of several hours worth of top hits in various genres from the 80's.
1. If NASA says GNULinux administrations costs are too high, think again---surely all these Unix gurus can administer thier own systems little support needed.
The problem with that is that all those NASA engineers are supposed to be working on aerospace stuff, not Linux stuff. That's why even technology companies have IT departments.
2. If NASA says that MS Office Formats are required for standard file formatted documents accross the organization, think again----surely the entire organization switching to OpenOffice.org is a much better way to ENSURE future standardization without upgrade costs.
At the incredibly expensive cost of converting all their existing documents to OpenOffice's format (you can't simply run them through the DOC filter, because it sucks), and retraining their clerical people to work with it. Not to mention the looming headache of interacting with other companies. I use OpenOffice myself at work to open the few DOC files that come across my desk as a progammer, and I've seen that it mangles the document beyond use just as often as it opens it in a legible format.
3. IF NASA says that MS OUTLOOK is needed to standardize email ---- sticking to open and standard protocols as opposed to proprietary and costly protocols is surely the best way to standardization.
People don't use Outlook for the email, they use it for the groupware. And open source has nothing that can hold a candle to Outlook's groupware functionality.
4. IF NASA management says that they liked the MS PowerPointless presentation, they probably did, and they probably believed all the points that MS made to them during the presentation. Which explains why we have a GOVERNMENT organization still running PROPRIETARY software and forcing thier users to use MICROSOFT when they don't want to!
And the Government also drives automobiles built on proprietary technologies by General Motors and Ford. And they also fly fighter jets built on proprietary technologies by Lockheed Martin and Boeing. What's your point? There's no historical precedent that states that everything the Government uses needs to be in the public domain, or that every piece of data the Government works with needs to be open to public inspection. (In fact, I'm sure the people at Area 51 or Cheyenne Mountain would strongly disagree on that point.)
5. If NASA made it a REQUIREMENT that ALL of its vendors communicate using OPEN and NON-PROPRIETARY FILE FORMATS as a REQUIREMENT FOR DOING BUSINESS, THEY WOULD!
I'm sure NASA picks its battles, and I don't think using one word processor over another is worth throwing down the gauntlet over. Users simply do not care whether it's Office or OpenOffice. Go ahead and imagine that in words with alternate capitalization if that helps.
6. If you told your senator what you think, than you did the right thing. If you did not, than you can blame no one but yourself when GNULinux is OUTLAWED and a copy of PALADIUM is REQUIRED to VOTE.
Slippery slope theory and pure FUD. You're stretching for things to rant about by this point, apparently.
Flash should be banned until there are useable free software implementations running in other platforms than Intel. I use testing Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC and Flash simply isn't useable for me.
What's the problem? The flash file format is open and documented, there's no reason your platform shouldn't have a Flash player..... unless it's simply because your platform is too obscure for even adequate coverage by Free Software, in which case it sounds like that's your problem, not Macromedia's.
It'd be nice if they'd have updated their webpage to say so.
Obviously bowing to record and movie industry pressure
How do you figure? Perhaps they've simply noticed that their network isn't capable of handling as much upstream as they've been getting lately (cable is asymmetric), and they determined that P2P was the reason.
Email needs a massive overhaul like the one telnet has gotten. Telnet is obsolete, replaced by SSH. FTP is replaced by SFTP and SCP.
Is the IETF working on a solution for this?
Evil, says /. poster ONOIML8, is censorship. Be it by government, religious cult group, or privately held company in the "information technology" business.
Yes, you may quote me on that.
In other news today, Slashdot poster ONOIML8, by trivalizing a private entities right to restrictions on their products and services, called Linux and the GPL "evil" for forbidding users from expressing themselves by distributing modified binaries without distributing correlating modified source code! When reached for comment, ONOIML8 said, "you may quote me on that."
This problem ranks right up there along with eBay auctions and the fact that they "close" at a given point in time. In the real world, an auction continues as long as people are making bids. eBay should extend an auction by 5 minutes or an hour or a day each time someone bids on an item. That'd get rid of "last minute bid services". (I'd suggest a 5 minute extension - because then there's a natural time for everyone interested in an item to "gather" together and do the final bidding.)
If I'm not mistaken they had something like that at one point. If not eBay, then I definately remember seeing it on some auction site. I seem to remember them describing it as "Going, Going, Gone". A look at eBay today shows that they just use that phrase for auctions that are going to end soon, not because they've been extended.
Windows CE has a very small market and giving out the source base might be its last gasp.
The Windows CE source is already available to the public.