You are spot on. I was told by the chief road safety officer (civil servant) for the city I live in (in the UK) that our local government's policy was to increase congestion. This is in a city that is heavily poluted. The rational? The lower the speed of a collision, the less damage done to all involved. Bring the average speed of all traffic down to 3mph and no one gets hurt. Regardless of whether this policy is compatible with the wishes of the electorate - because they have a (central) government target on road safety to meet! We are being run by the safety nazis.
It can't just be my browser? I've hit this thread freshly twice, and both times got a side-bar advert "Half Life 2 - in stores now". Next to a story about how if you warez it you will burn in hell. How fortuitous!
Why do you think there is so much hate towards Gentoo on this forum? Its because given ANY subject at all, some idiot will try to bring the virtues of Gentoo into it. Last year it was the Debian users. In the end they took the hint and just got on with using their favourite distribution without crapping on at everyone about it all the damn time! I use Gentoo, and it riles me to keep seeing all this out-of-place advocacy on/. People are going to be down on me for using Gentoo before long, and its all because of you guys that can't think of anything else.
YOU ARE NOT CONVERTING ANYONE TO GENTOO! You are turning some backs though:-(
Good post, AC! If you see any more posts that take a non-Slashdot-orthodox point of view, be SURE to shoot those down too! Keep up the good work, the last thing we want is an outbreak of actual debate on this site.
Read that statement again. It doesn't imply in any way that the law prevents people choosing to join a union. It says that it is against the law for a company to get into the position where the only way you can work there is to join the union.
Its a law that prevents you being compelled to join a union. That's a very different thing.
The idea that "all software should be free" is clearly ridiculous in a world where most everything else has to be paid for, but this guy's argument against it is pretty poor. He says:
Some argue that there will always be a market for vertical market software (customized, very specific to a particular business), and this is true, but why can't I write a wonderful new *general* tool and make money from it? Yeah, I know, some will say "Go ahead and try, it's a free world". But you know as well as I do that if I am successful then inevitably some kid in his parents' basement will write his own Open Source version of the thing, for free.
If this guy wants to be an ISV because he has a really novel and profitable piece of software in mind, he's going to get considerably stiffer competition than "some kid in his parents' basement". If his software turns a decent profit he's going to be up against other businesses that will be happy to invest serious resources to build a product that makes people want to pay them instead. The kid in the basement can try to build something better, and if he's got the resources to do that on his own, he'll be tempted to go commercial too.
People release things open source because they know that they don't have the resources to produce something complex on their own and to an agressive timescale needed to get to market while the money is still there. The super-successful open source projects draw their resources from a large number of contributors and take a while to get going. If these projects could reach new and lucrative markets while there was still big money to be made in them, the temptation to go commercial would be too much for many.
You would greatly benefit from reading "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch. Its an excellent book that enabled me to take advantage of a number of things that I had previously found greatly annoying.
Most of your complaints merely illustrate your level of understanding of the language. For example your frustration with the immutable nature of the wrapper classes (Integer etc) only shows that you don't understand the advantages of immutable objects. If you did, you would see that the advantages greatly outweigh the frustrations. These are the kind of things you can learn from "Effective Java".
But McAffee make the eShield 500 network appliance anti-spam device - which is clearly based on SpamAssassin code, if you look at the headers of emails that pass through it. If they sue SpamAssassin its gonna get interesting.
If its any consolation, they don't show Dr Who in the UK either. Presumably they believe it wouldn't get enough viewers compared to whatever they do show, Buffy etc I suppose.
Happened to me too at work, every day the same patch waiting to be installed, was it Q817439 or something. I was advised to install Win2K SP4, and it hasn't come back (yet). Makes me even happier that I run Gentoo at home;-)
Totally. I think I first came across the Yamaha Cafe site when it was posted to memepool a year ago, and it was of course already well old at the time. Is there karma to be earned from reposting memepool linkage from the archive?
Its only (legally) price fixing if two or more competitors in the same market collude to fix similar prices for their products, for example the recent case between the world-famous auction houses Bonhams and Christies - they were keeping their prices roughly in line with those of their competitors.
Price fixing in this case would be if Apple and the Rio guys decided on a baseline price for all MP3 players.
All the way! This is why I feel so much dislike for GNOME, other than the reason they started the project - to put someone else's project out of action - many of the leading developers of the project talk about developing the Linux desktop but want to make it more like Windows. Why do they think people use Linux? If we wanted something like Windows... Oh look over there, its Windows! Miguel in particular has talked about how Windows does so many things better, he spent time at Redmond a year before he began that MS-shill of a project, Mono. Then there's that argument that they want to create something exactly like the Windows registry, with no compelling argument in its favour, plenty against, but no, it will be better because the GNOME project is doing it...
Face front true believers, don't let key GNOME developers' Windows fetish become Linux's dirty secret.
By writing Mono, and by writing unique and interesting software using it, these guys clearly have an agenda of creating interest and demand for C# on Linux. This is a big win for Microsoft, and pretty much of no help to Linux. Mono is always going to be on shaky ground legally, but it will let people begin their critical application development on Linux before deciding that for safety they need to move to Windows. If they wrote their application for Java instead, they would have less need to move off Linux, and should they wish to, a far greater choice of hardware and operating system environments to move to.
Essentially Ximian are developing this software to grab some market share for something they hope will become big, without regard for the impact such a product could have upon the free software environment they will be sitting on top of. They are happily giving a leg-up to Microsoft while claiming to be purer than white due to the standards submission by Microsoft of a portion of the platform. Nothing prevents a full free software port of Java, and Sun would not risk an enormous loss of credibility by making substantial incompatible changes or moving against other Java providers. Standardising part of the C# environment is a marketting exercise, in practical terms it doesn't give your C# code a longer life than your Java code.
So I'm happy to see the/. editors reminding everyone that this isn't just another piece of warm, fluffy, cute free software to configure && make && make install with open arms. Think before you endorse C#.
Is this question a troll? It looks suspiciously like a question planted to cause Slashdotters to post positive statements about.NET, in the hope this will make some of the unconvinced/hostile readers think better of.NET through seeing the positive comments from their peers.
You can call me paranoid if you like, but that is the sort of thing advanced marketing people do. That bit in William Gibson's latest book, Pattern Recognition, about the girl who is paid to say nice things about The Footage at parties - its not made up! People are out there being paid to do that kind of psychological marketting right now.
I would have thought there would be more money to be made licensing evil AI. Most AI seems to be focussed on it already, controlling weapon systems (Hello SkyNet!), working financial markets for the biggest profit without care for the consequences, not to mention making Tic-Tac-Toe impossible to win;-). Maybe there was just too much prior art for that patent?
But their 'niche' is much bigger today than the whole market was when they were dominating it. What is wrong with doing very well in a niche? Why does western (well, US anyway) business believe the only way to be considered successful is to have a monopoly?
If Nintendo went after the mainstream, its games would be just like those of Sony and Microsoft, and the consumer would have even less diversity. And people would be crying about how Nintendo don't make those great games anymore, instead of insisting that Nintendo are idiots for not pursuing an unpopular and unprofitable direction (network gaming).
BTW I used to play games on the PC, but as they went into the Quake3 generation I noticed things seemed to be moving in the PC market towards on-line, WHICH DOESN'T INTEREST ME AT ALL. So I got into console gaming, found that the games style was much more fun and didn't force me to interact with some 13-year-old dork on the other side of the planet, and didn't force an expensive hardware upgrade every 6 months.
Seriously, are any of the people here that think Nintendo should do online gaming actually console gamers? Or are they all PC gamers who feel excluded by the Gamecube's resistence to PC style gaming?
The only way around this would be to hold up the release of the next book, everywhere, until all translations have been made. Will these German an Czech fans be happier with that plan?
Why in the world would they want people to buy an Xbox, only to install Linux on it and never again be able to play another Xbox game on it???
The original PlayStation benefitted greatly from the millions of consoles sold in the Asian region that were destined never to run legitimate software. Sony were able to boast of the huge number of consoles sold to developers who were wondering if it was an economically viable platform. They couldn't tell at that stage that all these machines were owned by people that wouldn't buy legitimate software. They just saw the huge sales, and committed to doing lots of development for the console. Many developers got surprisingly low sales on their initial projects. However, Sony were now able to turn around and say to the consumers, look, we have a huge number of games available and in development for this console! People bought the console, and eventually the developers did get their legitimate huge market and decent sales
With the so-called console wars still raging, this could just work for Microsoft too. That's why I just don't understand why any Linux fan, or indeed anyone that likes console games and would like to see them continue in the future, would ever buy an X-Box. You've got to understand that when you buy an X-Box, despite being sold at a loss, you are still helping Microsoft.
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You need to consider the side effects of creating those globals. The globals that are created mirror every item passed in the GET or POST request. That means you can add things that were not in the form to the globals. If an attacker had seen the code, he might find some crucial use of a variable, that may not have been given a value.
For example you loop on a variable, and the first time you test for it being unset and behave differently? The attacker could set an initial value for the variable just by appending it to a GET URL, and your code would behave very differently to the way you intended. If instead you only interact with the values passed in the GET or POST request through explicitly naming them to index that array, you are that bit more secure.
I hope I don't ever have to spend the night where you live, there can't be much entertainment if you have the time to make posts like that, and going by your/. ID it seems to be your main interest here. Well I do hope my hasty typing mistake gave you just a little enjoyment, perhaps next time I'll throw the dog a bone and make a few more, just for you.
You're damn right its tax-payers' dollars we're talking about. Whenever the UK government buys software from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etcetera, they are essentially converting British Pounds Sterling into US Dollars and sending them off to US-owned companies. At least with GPL software its less likely to be spent improving a foreign economy, as we have as much chance to compete here in the UK, what with having access to the source code of this non-proprietary software.
But why would console gamers want to convert to the PC? PC games fall into totally different genres in the main from console games. I converted from being a PC gamer to a console gamer four years ago. I still read reviews of PC games, and I haven't seen one in four years that I wanted to play badly enough to buy another fully loaded gaming PC. I just think console games are more focussed on fun rather than geeky minutae. Go Nintendo!
I think the description of this film as being about gamers is pretty inaccurate. Its about the subset of gamers who play multiplayer PC games on LANs. That's like 1% of people who play videogames of one sort or another. I'll still be watching the film though:-)
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You are spot on. I was told by the chief road safety officer (civil servant) for the city I live in (in the UK) that our local government's policy was to increase congestion. This is in a city that is heavily poluted. The rational? The lower the speed of a collision, the less damage done to all involved. Bring the average speed of all traffic down to 3mph and no one gets hurt. Regardless of whether this policy is compatible with the wishes of the electorate - because they have a (central) government target on road safety to meet! We are being run by the safety nazis.
It can't just be my browser? I've hit this thread freshly twice, and both times got a side-bar advert "Half Life 2 - in stores now". Next to a story about how if you warez it you will burn in hell. How fortuitous!
Why do you think there is so much hate towards Gentoo on this forum? Its because given ANY subject at all, some idiot will try to bring the virtues of Gentoo into it. Last year it was the Debian users. In the end they took the hint and just got on with using their favourite distribution without crapping on at everyone about it all the damn time! I use Gentoo, and it riles me to keep seeing all this out-of-place advocacy on /. People are going to be down on me for using Gentoo before long, and its all because of you guys that can't think of anything else.
:-(
YOU ARE NOT CONVERTING ANYONE TO GENTOO! You are turning some backs though
Good post, AC! If you see any more posts that take a non-Slashdot-orthodox point of view, be SURE to shoot those down too! Keep up the good work, the last thing we want is an outbreak of actual debate on this site.
Read that statement again. It doesn't imply in any way that the law prevents people choosing to join a union. It says that it is against the law for a company to get into the position where the only way you can work there is to join the union.
Its a law that prevents you being compelled to join a union. That's a very different thing.
Better still, try an orgone accumulator!
If this guy wants to be an ISV because he has a really novel and profitable piece of software in mind, he's going to get considerably stiffer competition than "some kid in his parents' basement". If his software turns a decent profit he's going to be up against other businesses that will be happy to invest serious resources to build a product that makes people want to pay them instead. The kid in the basement can try to build something better, and if he's got the resources to do that on his own, he'll be tempted to go commercial too.
People release things open source because they know that they don't have the resources to produce something complex on their own and to an agressive timescale needed to get to market while the money is still there. The super-successful open source projects draw their resources from a large number of contributors and take a while to get going. If these projects could reach new and lucrative markets while there was still big money to be made in them, the temptation to go commercial would be too much for many.
You would greatly benefit from reading "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch. Its an excellent book that enabled me to take advantage of a number of things that I had previously found greatly annoying.
Most of your complaints merely illustrate your level of understanding of the language. For example your frustration with the immutable nature of the wrapper classes (Integer etc) only shows that you don't understand the advantages of immutable objects. If you did, you would see that the advantages greatly outweigh the frustrations. These are the kind of things you can learn from "Effective Java".
But McAffee make the eShield 500 network appliance anti-spam device - which is clearly based on SpamAssassin code, if you look at the headers of emails that pass through it. If they sue SpamAssassin its gonna get interesting.
If its any consolation, they don't show Dr Who in the UK either. Presumably they believe it wouldn't get enough viewers compared to whatever they do show, Buffy etc I suppose.
Happened to me too at work, every day the same patch waiting to be installed, was it Q817439 or something. I was advised to install Win2K SP4, and it hasn't come back (yet). Makes me even happier that I run Gentoo at home ;-)
Totally. I think I first came across the Yamaha Cafe site when it was posted to memepool a year ago, and it was of course already well old at the time. Is there karma to be earned from reposting memepool linkage from the archive?
Its only (legally) price fixing if two or more competitors in the same market collude to fix similar prices for their products, for example the recent case between the world-famous auction houses Bonhams and Christies - they were keeping their prices roughly in line with those of their competitors.
Price fixing in this case would be if Apple and the Rio guys decided on a baseline price for all MP3 players.
All the way! This is why I feel so much dislike for GNOME, other than the reason they started the project - to put someone else's project out of action - many of the leading developers of the project talk about developing the Linux desktop but want to make it more like Windows. Why do they think people use Linux? If we wanted something like Windows... Oh look over there, its Windows! Miguel in particular has talked about how Windows does so many things better, he spent time at Redmond a year before he began that MS-shill of a project, Mono. Then there's that argument that they want to create something exactly like the Windows registry, with no compelling argument in its favour, plenty against, but no, it will be better because the GNOME project is doing it...
Face front true believers, don't let key GNOME developers' Windows fetish become Linux's dirty secret.
By writing Mono, and by writing unique and interesting software using it, these guys clearly have an agenda of creating interest and demand for C# on Linux. This is a big win for Microsoft, and pretty much of no help to Linux. Mono is always going to be on shaky ground legally, but it will let people begin their critical application development on Linux before deciding that for safety they need to move to Windows. If they wrote their application for Java instead, they would have less need to move off Linux, and should they wish to, a far greater choice of hardware and operating system environments to move to.
/. editors reminding everyone that this isn't just another piece of warm, fluffy, cute free software to configure && make && make install with open arms. Think before you endorse C#.
Essentially Ximian are developing this software to grab some market share for something they hope will become big, without regard for the impact such a product could have upon the free software environment they will be sitting on top of. They are happily giving a leg-up to Microsoft while claiming to be purer than white due to the standards submission by Microsoft of a portion of the platform. Nothing prevents a full free software port of Java, and Sun would not risk an enormous loss of credibility by making substantial incompatible changes or moving against other Java providers. Standardising part of the C# environment is a marketting exercise, in practical terms it doesn't give your C# code a longer life than your Java code.
So I'm happy to see the
Is this question a troll? It looks suspiciously like a question planted to cause Slashdotters to post positive statements about .NET, in the hope this will make some of the unconvinced/hostile readers think better of .NET through seeing the positive comments from their peers.
You can call me paranoid if you like, but that is the sort of thing advanced marketing people do. That bit in William Gibson's latest book, Pattern Recognition, about the girl who is paid to say nice things about The Footage at parties - its not made up! People are out there being paid to do that kind of psychological marketting right now.
I would have thought there would be more money to be made licensing evil AI. Most AI seems to be focussed on it already, controlling weapon systems (Hello SkyNet!), working financial markets for the biggest profit without care for the consequences, not to mention making Tic-Tac-Toe impossible to win ;-). Maybe there was just too much prior art for that patent?
But their 'niche' is much bigger today than the whole market was when they were dominating it. What is wrong with doing very well in a niche? Why does western (well, US anyway) business believe the only way to be considered successful is to have a monopoly?
If Nintendo went after the mainstream, its games would be just like those of Sony and Microsoft, and the consumer would have even less diversity. And people would be crying about how Nintendo don't make those great games anymore, instead of insisting that Nintendo are idiots for not pursuing an unpopular and unprofitable direction (network gaming).
BTW I used to play games on the PC, but as they went into the Quake3 generation I noticed things seemed to be moving in the PC market towards on-line, WHICH DOESN'T INTEREST ME AT ALL. So I got into console gaming, found that the games style was much more fun and didn't force me to interact with some 13-year-old dork on the other side of the planet, and didn't force an expensive hardware upgrade every 6 months.
Seriously, are any of the people here that think Nintendo should do online gaming actually console gamers? Or are they all PC gamers who feel excluded by the Gamecube's resistence to PC style gaming?
The only way around this would be to hold up the release of the next book, everywhere, until all translations have been made. Will these German an Czech fans be happier with that plan?
The original PlayStation benefitted greatly from the millions of consoles sold in the Asian region that were destined never to run legitimate software. Sony were able to boast of the huge number of consoles sold to developers who were wondering if it was an economically viable platform. They couldn't tell at that stage that all these machines were owned by people that wouldn't buy legitimate software. They just saw the huge sales, and committed to doing lots of development for the console. Many developers got surprisingly low sales on their initial projects. However, Sony were now able to turn around and say to the consumers, look, we have a huge number of games available and in development for this console! People bought the console, and eventually the developers did get their legitimate huge market and decent sales
With the so-called console wars still raging, this could just work for Microsoft too. That's why I just don't understand why any Linux fan, or indeed anyone that likes console games and would like to see them continue in the future, would ever buy an X-Box. You've got to understand that when you buy an X-Box, despite being sold at a loss, you are still helping Microsoft.
You need to consider the side effects of creating those globals. The globals that are created mirror every item passed in the GET or POST request. That means you can add things that were not in the form to the globals. If an attacker had seen the code, he might find some crucial use of a variable, that may not have been given a value.
For example you loop on a variable, and the first time you test for it being unset and behave differently? The attacker could set an initial value for the variable just by appending it to a GET URL, and your code would behave very differently to the way you intended. If instead you only interact with the values passed in the GET or POST request through explicitly naming them to index that array, you are that bit more secure.
I hope I don't ever have to spend the night where you live, there can't be much entertainment if you have the time to make posts like that, and going by your /. ID it seems to be your main interest here. Well I do hope my hasty typing mistake gave you just a little enjoyment, perhaps next time I'll throw the dog a bone and make a few more, just for you.
You're damn right its tax-payers' dollars we're talking about. Whenever the UK government buys software from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etcetera, they are essentially converting British Pounds Sterling into US Dollars and sending them off to US-owned companies. At least with GPL software its less likely to be spent improving a foreign economy, as we have as much chance to compete here in the UK, what with having access to the source code of this non-proprietary software.
But why would console gamers want to convert to the PC? PC games fall into totally different genres in the main from console games. I converted from being a PC gamer to a console gamer four years ago. I still read reviews of PC games, and I haven't seen one in four years that I wanted to play badly enough to buy another fully loaded gaming PC. I just think console games are more focussed on fun rather than geeky minutae. Go Nintendo!
:-)
I think the description of this film as being about gamers is pretty inaccurate. Its about the subset of gamers who play multiplayer PC games on LANs. That's like 1% of people who play videogames of one sort or another. I'll still be watching the film though