Isn't that exactly what Sun supposedly did in order to get faster RAM without using RAMBUS? Here's a link. Maybe it was just in the memory interface? I don't really follow it.
Got no link to a reference, but supposedly some guy that fit a description was walking along the street in NYC. Two cops stopped him, questioned him, searched him. Got nothing. So they let him go. The guy breathes a sigh of relief, and walks away. Across the street in the middle of the block.
So, the cops arrest him for jaywalking, and bring him to the station, where they discover that he had an outstanding warrant. In this case, it was very fortunate that the cops could arrest him, 'cause he was really a crook. But the idea behind the arrest is kindof messed up. Like 90% of New Yorkers jaywalk every day. Just follow anyone you suspect until they jaywalk and you can arrest them?
Iduno. Maybe it's not that messed up, but it struck me pretty bad.
The real strange item was including.NET in a list of cross-platform gui toolkits. It's not. A cross-platform gui toolkit. Once Mono is done, then his complaints may or may not be valid. 'Till then,.NET isn't even close to being in the running. Right? All I know about.NET I learned from this interview.
Aside from that, no. His reasoning is not emotional. It is possible that MS does *not* have such an ugly history, and MS is incredibly unlikely to sue Mono into oblivion. If this is the truth, then grandparent is just incorrect. He weighs certain facts differently than you do. Not emotional. There are intelligent people with both opinions. If he was correct, it doesn't matter whether he throws darts at a picture of BillG. It still would have been a bad business decision to go with.NET.
Skip the CNET article. Check out the MacCentral summary of the WSJ article. It sounds like two executives of the two companies are actually talking smack to eachother. Not anonymous. Kevin Browne says they're gonna have to reexamine their relationship with Apple if Apple's gonna keep doing what they're doing.
Of course, this is all what everyone expected back when the contract lapsed. Everyone except me. I thought MS would be smart and keep making their mad bank off Mac software. Apparently they'd rather get dirty and fight. MS spreading FUD. "Oh, iduno, maybe we can't support Office:mac anymore..."
That's not scary, it's just upsetting. No one is forcing anyone else to do anything. If Walmart's behavior were shown to decrease their profitability, then it would be scary. And a violation of their responsibility to their shareholders. Since they're not getting sued, I'll assume that's not the case and just keep going to my liberal news stand.
MS sells an office suite. They leverage their monopoly in OSes to allow them to make a huge margin on their office suite.
Apple has does not share this uncommon ability to generate huge revenue through selling OSes and office suite software. They would not be able to support their OS developement costs. Not even close.
Fortunately, right now, they have huge margins on their higher end machines. This does allow them to burn money developing their operating system.
Apparently my post was completely unclear. I do not understand why you decided we disagree. Most active or serious pedophiles hate the fact that they are compulsively attracted to children.
You describe a scenario and ask me if it occured to me... when that scenario is exactly what I described in my parent post. Are you trolling? You won.
Lots of pedophiles hate the fact that they are pedophiles. I'm sure that they initiated the contact because some of his books deal with this issue. I'm sure he continued the contact because he felt that they were otherwise decent people that did horrible things, and were worth his time.
I only guess that this is the case because that's pretty much how my mom (a shrink) came to briefly correspond with a pedophile in prison.
The most well funded residents might fuel the entire economy of his district. Local restaurants, for example, probably depend on the employees of these companies.
Maybe not, but I'm pretty sure he thinks he's acting in the best interests of all of the residents of his district.
Some of this should be obvious because of his involvement with XLibris, a print-on-demand self publishing company. I know that he's released his out-of-print titles with them, and I believe that he may also be an investor. Print-on-demand self publishing like XLibris will absolutely allow any author to hang his own "publisher" shingle.
You're absolutely correct that it's dumb for game designers to use key position rather than the designated character output. That makes things unnecessarily hard for furriners such as yourself.
However, expecting people to know that alt-[ is difficult to type in other countries isn't really fair either. Some software is made by companies small enough that they don't have the resources available to make a database of all the different keyboard layouts in the world and check if their program is gonna be convenient on all of them.
Depending on how Overpeer messes with the files, it could become very very difficult to detect the change. If they simply digitally repeat the first section of the song, sure that's really easily detectable. But if they do a digital to analog conversion first, then there would be nothing recognizable about the repetition at all. Does anybody know of software that can tell if two different files sound *similar* but not the same? I've certainly never heard of that.
Seems like you could almost approximate the halting problem, depending on how complex the audio files can be. Er, no, scratch that. It could never be a halting problem, just because you're guaranteed that the result of an audio file can be output in a timely manner. But they could randomize the type of damage to the MP3, which would make detection very computationally intensive.
But I think it would be inconvenient. The initial users of Palladium-only email would be inconvenienced by non-Palladium users that they would like to receive email from. If this meant that the first Palladium-based email systems defaulted to allow email from untrusted sources, that it would not provide the push that would require, say, AOL, to switch.
Now, if sending any unsigned email at all were considered a circumvention, and Microsoft told AOL that they would be required to shape up or be kicked off the microsoft platform, I can't imagine the resulting anti-trust litigation would end in our lifetimes.
All of these "features" of the Windows+DRM are lies. Steven Levy bought it hook line and sinker, but not just because he ignored the downsides. DRM Windows is not going to stop your spam, because it would be inconvenient to make people choose who they can receive email from. So they won't do that. It would be inconvenient to make users decide exactly what privileges to give to apps they install. So those apps could still do malicious things to their computers. DRM Windows isn't going to stop that either.
The only features that will definitely be implemented perfectly are the ones that will limit our freedoms. Licensed debugging tools only, shrink wrapped OSes only, licensed media only, etc.
It *is* impossible to hear silence... least of all because humans can hear brownian motion.
That is, if a person is put in a specially perfectly soundproof container, they can still hear the vibration of the nitrogen molecules in the air. Humans have fantastically sensitive ears.
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No, I think the other posters figured it out. It must have been the lack of autoflush. But I could have *sworn* that the only thing I did to fix the issue was comment out "use strict;". And I don't see how that would have anything to do with autoflush.
Anyway. It was perl 5.006 or something like that. I only used perl for that one project, and it was over two years ago, so I definitely don't recall the particulars.
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As far as I could tell when I was using Perl, running under strict mode would make it so that print() only worked with strings that ended in \n. I can't tell you how long that takes every beginning Perl programmer to figure out. Took me a good four hours.
My favorite bug in slashcode is that clicking "Parent" in my default story view always returns the default story view, not the parent of the post I'm clicking on. So I have to click on the post ID number, then click parent on the resulting page.
That's right. If this were an actual retail device, you wouldn't want to deploy with PDAs. The point of this exercise is to see if kids would use the functionality if they had it.
Visionary. Listen to some of his music. Not "Changes."
Also, you've taken that quote out of context. I can imagine a number of situations in which he might have said that and been neither wrong nor shortsighted. Of course, the context might not have changed the meaning at all, and he might have been wrong and shortsighted. And it sounds like he cops to that kind of mistake. He certainly admits to changing his mind about that "no old material" policy.
It'd require a pretty significant judgment call to decide what a derivative work is. Nothing new under the sun and all... for example, someone might make a new mail reader closely based on another mail reader that they liked. Or not so closely. Drawing that line is kindof silly. All software is a derivative work to some degree.
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Isn't that exactly what Sun supposedly did in order to get faster RAM without using RAMBUS? Here's a link. Maybe it was just in the memory interface? I don't really follow it.
Got no link to a reference, but supposedly some guy that fit a description was walking along the street in NYC. Two cops stopped him, questioned him, searched him. Got nothing. So they let him go. The guy breathes a sigh of relief, and walks away. Across the street in the middle of the block.
So, the cops arrest him for jaywalking, and bring him to the station, where they discover that he had an outstanding warrant. In this case, it was very fortunate that the cops could arrest him, 'cause he was really a crook. But the idea behind the arrest is kindof messed up. Like 90% of New Yorkers jaywalk every day. Just follow anyone you suspect until they jaywalk and you can arrest them?
Iduno. Maybe it's not that messed up, but it struck me pretty bad.
You're right. We could illegalize unlicensed oxygen use. Then we could just throw people in jail whenever we decided they did something wrong.
Kindof like the shazz that started happening in NYC when they "cracked down" on jaywalking.
It's a GUI toolkit, but that portion of the toolkit is exactly the part that isn't cross platform.
The real strange item was including .NET in a list of cross-platform gui toolkits. It's not. A cross-platform gui toolkit. Once Mono is done, then his complaints may or may not be valid. 'Till then, .NET isn't even close to being in the running. Right? All I know about .NET I learned from this interview.
.NET.
Aside from that, no. His reasoning is not emotional. It is possible that MS does *not* have such an ugly history, and MS is incredibly unlikely to sue Mono into oblivion. If this is the truth, then grandparent is just incorrect. He weighs certain facts differently than you do. Not emotional. There are intelligent people with both opinions. If he was correct, it doesn't matter whether he throws darts at a picture of BillG. It still would have been a bad business decision to go with
Skip the CNET article. Check out the MacCentral summary of the WSJ article. It sounds like two executives of the two companies are actually talking smack to eachother. Not anonymous. Kevin Browne says they're gonna have to reexamine their relationship with Apple if Apple's gonna keep doing what they're doing.
Of course, this is all what everyone expected back when the contract lapsed. Everyone except me. I thought MS would be smart and keep making their mad bank off Mac software. Apparently they'd rather get dirty and fight. MS spreading FUD. "Oh, iduno, maybe we can't support Office:mac anymore..."
Damn, nice troll. I feel like an idiot. Can't believe you got me to reply.
That's not scary, it's just upsetting. No one is forcing anyone else to do anything. If Walmart's behavior were shown to decrease their profitability, then it would be scary. And a violation of their responsibility to their shareholders. Since they're not getting sued, I'll assume that's not the case and just keep going to my liberal news stand.
Exactly. I am upset that Yahoo has chosen to do business in China, if this is what it entails.
Of course, I am neither a customer nor a shareholder of Yahoo, so it makes no difference.
MS sells an office suite. They leverage their monopoly in OSes to allow them to make a huge margin on their office suite.
Apple has does not share this uncommon ability to generate huge revenue through selling OSes and office suite software. They would not be able to support their OS developement costs. Not even close.
Fortunately, right now, they have huge margins on their higher end machines. This does allow them to burn money developing their operating system.
Apparently my post was completely unclear. I do not understand why you decided we disagree. Most active or serious pedophiles hate the fact that they are compulsively attracted to children.
You describe a scenario and ask me if it occured to me... when that scenario is exactly what I described in my parent post. Are you trolling? You won.
So... if apple took your advice, and got out of the hardware business... what business do you think they should get into?
Lots of pedophiles hate the fact that they are pedophiles. I'm sure that they initiated the contact because some of his books deal with this issue. I'm sure he continued the contact because he felt that they were otherwise decent people that did horrible things, and were worth his time.
I only guess that this is the case because that's pretty much how my mom (a shrink) came to briefly correspond with a pedophile in prison.
The most well funded residents might fuel the entire economy of his district. Local restaurants, for example, probably depend on the employees of these companies.
Maybe not, but I'm pretty sure he thinks he's acting in the best interests of all of the residents of his district.
Some of this should be obvious because of his involvement with XLibris, a print-on-demand self publishing company. I know that he's released his out-of-print titles with them, and I believe that he may also be an investor. Print-on-demand self publishing like XLibris will absolutely allow any author to hang his own "publisher" shingle.
You're absolutely correct that it's dumb for game designers to use key position rather than the designated character output. That makes things unnecessarily hard for furriners such as yourself.
However, expecting people to know that alt-[ is difficult to type in other countries isn't really fair either. Some software is made by companies small enough that they don't have the resources available to make a database of all the different keyboard layouts in the world and check if their program is gonna be convenient on all of them.
Depending on how Overpeer messes with the files, it could become very very difficult to detect the change. If they simply digitally repeat the first section of the song, sure that's really easily detectable. But if they do a digital to analog conversion first, then there would be nothing recognizable about the repetition at all. Does anybody know of software that can tell if two different files sound *similar* but not the same? I've certainly never heard of that.
Seems like you could almost approximate the halting problem, depending on how complex the audio files can be. Er, no, scratch that. It could never be a halting problem, just because you're guaranteed that the result of an audio file can be output in a timely manner. But they could randomize the type of damage to the MP3, which would make detection very computationally intensive.
Yeah, that would work.
But I think it would be inconvenient. The initial users of Palladium-only email would be inconvenienced by non-Palladium users that they would like to receive email from. If this meant that the first Palladium-based email systems defaulted to allow email from untrusted sources, that it would not provide the push that would require, say, AOL, to switch.
Now, if sending any unsigned email at all were considered a circumvention, and Microsoft told AOL that they would be required to shape up or be kicked off the microsoft platform, I can't imagine the resulting anti-trust litigation would end in our lifetimes.
All of these "features" of the Windows+DRM are lies. Steven Levy bought it hook line and sinker, but not just because he ignored the downsides. DRM Windows is not going to stop your spam, because it would be inconvenient to make people choose who they can receive email from. So they won't do that. It would be inconvenient to make users decide exactly what privileges to give to apps they install. So those apps could still do malicious things to their computers. DRM Windows isn't going to stop that either.
The only features that will definitely be implemented perfectly are the ones that will limit our freedoms. Licensed debugging tools only, shrink wrapped OSes only, licensed media only, etc.
It *is* impossible to hear silence... least of all because humans can hear brownian motion.
That is, if a person is put in a specially perfectly soundproof container, they can still hear the vibration of the nitrogen molecules in the air. Humans have fantastically sensitive ears.
No, I think the other posters figured it out. It must have been the lack of autoflush. But I could have *sworn* that the only thing I did to fix the issue was comment out "use strict;". And I don't see how that would have anything to do with autoflush.
Anyway. It was perl 5.006 or something like that. I only used perl for that one project, and it was over two years ago, so I definitely don't recall the particulars.
As far as I could tell when I was using Perl, running under strict mode would make it so that print() only worked with strings that ended in \n. I can't tell you how long that takes every beginning Perl programmer to figure out. Took me a good four hours.
My favorite bug in slashcode is that clicking "Parent" in my default story view always returns the default story view, not the parent of the post I'm clicking on. So I have to click on the post ID number, then click parent on the resulting page.
That's right. If this were an actual retail device, you wouldn't want to deploy with PDAs. The point of this exercise is to see if kids would use the functionality if they had it.
Yes, he misread you. Yes, you missed the point.
Visionary. Listen to some of his music. Not "Changes."
Also, you've taken that quote out of context. I can imagine a number of situations in which he might have said that and been neither wrong nor shortsighted. Of course, the context might not have changed the meaning at all, and he might have been wrong and shortsighted. And it sounds like he cops to that kind of mistake. He certainly admits to changing his mind about that "no old material" policy.
It'd require a pretty significant judgment call to decide what a derivative work is. Nothing new under the sun and all... for example, someone might make a new mail reader closely based on another mail reader that they liked. Or not so closely. Drawing that line is kindof silly. All software is a derivative work to some degree.