Watch out. I foresee this troll's arguments being used for real by Hollywood. Expect movies where (for instance) an "open souce mouth-foaming lousy hippie" almost causes the end of the world by releasing "intellectual property" which is later used by Iranian terrorists.
Ten years after Communism ceased to be a threat, they found a new enemy. Us.
What a wonderful game. I'd recommend it for a dispersive child anytime (I'm playing TR2 nowadays). You've got to have LOTS of patience, remember many things, be THOROUGH in exploration of the environment and PLAN AHEAD (better have that harpoon gun in hand BEFORE you dive in there).
The shoot'em-up attribute of the game actually detracts from its true quality. Best way to play with it is using the all-weapons cheat so you concentrate on solving the puzzles.
BTW, how the %@&*# do I get to the other side of the stage in the Opera House level????? How do I avoid becoming salami on the ventilator shaft????;-P
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Bingo! I wish I had moderator points already. When people say how "vulnerable" the giant pandas are, I laugh. They're more powerful than white sharks. They have the ability to mesmerize the most powerful species on the planet into protecting them... all because of their appearance!
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One could argue that right now, getting all of the currently popular software packages a free software counterpart is more important than creating an "original" product (PNG being an exception to the rule; the Unisys nonsense was an immediate emergency). I happen to think that's mostly true -- that's why I think, for instance, the most crucial free software projects right now are AbiWord, Gnumeric, Evolution and Mozilla (I'll believe StarOffice is Open Source when I tar xzfv it). All of them are usable now, and progressing quite nicely (Mozilla somewhat less so).
(You'll pardon me not mentioning the KDE counterparts to those. I acknowledge their existence and have been told they're good products, but I prefer to wait and see until that license brouhaha is sorted out. I've grown rather fond of GNOME's look and feel anyway, and Helix's update tool kicks ass)
What about Perl? Or Bonobo? Or TCl/Tk? Or Coda? Or even Slashcode?
And how would you distinguish between a Yet-Another/Is-Not and an "original product" which is not a "new paradigm"? This is a rather subjective judgment. Barely anything can be called "new" nowadays.
Let me see if I got it right: I should be able to see if the public key I'm about to use contains more than one encryption key or not. Also, it seems more secure to get a public key from the recipient's home page than from a keyserver. Right?
The article is quite complex. Does anybody have a simple recipe on how to check a public key's kosherness with GPG? My public key has been generated with PGP for Win32, although I use it from GPG too. Am I vulnerable?
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Despite what some think, the "Community" is not a Platonic Republic of beautiful people, creating wonders for the service of humanity. It's a bunch of noisy, egotistic, sometimes vicious people, attempting to knock off a version of Unix for personal amusement and gratification.
I like (and use) what these unbearable people make. They can preach all they like for all I care.
Nobody has yet come up with an explanation of why it is that "The Community" has never, once, come up with a major original piece of work (don't talk to me about the Internet. Developed in academia and government, a completely different model).
I don't think you're being totally fair there. Most software categories have already been invented. It'll be very hard for someone to come up with a new kind of "killer app", free or not. Cloning existing apps into free equivalents (Evolution, Gnumeric, Konqueror, Mozilla, AbiWord, Dia, even GNOME or Linux) is a worthwhile task.
Sensible, limited patent and copyrights help to stimulate creativity and reward people for
doing really great stuff. They have their place.
The key words here are sensible and limited. I hope you're not talking about the Sonny Bono Act, DMCA or UCITA. Hell, I'd be prepared to accept even some kinds of software patents if they lasted a reasonable amount of time (like 5 years at most). 17 years in the IT industry is forever!
BTW: 27 days and counting... public-domain RSA. Y-eah!:)
- Will you feel the cold in your hand if your app freezes?
- Will it bite you and pass bubonic plague?
- Will it run away in terror if you type cat >/dev/mouse?
- Will it sense lame jokes like these and automatically close the window before you click "Submit"?
This whole question makes no sense at all. Would you sign the NDA if they hired you? Well, if you want the job, sign it at the interview level. Unless you go into an interview with the expectation that you will land the job, you are only wasting the interviewer's - and your own - time.
Reality check: expectation and certainty are two entirely different things. Maybe you ARE qualified, but there are three other guys who are just as much, and they basically decide by throwing a coin. You end up jobless AND bound by the NDA. Later, you are hired by a competitor and even though you never said your new employer anything about your previous attempt at a job, the first company sues you (and your company!) anyway. You're screwed.
No, the only sane reaction is giving the prospective employer the middle finger at the faintest smell of an NDA. If you're qualified you'll certainly find a healthier place to work.
If you ask me, all this NDA nonsense is a ploy to deny other companies the right to hire good people they turn down.
...of a Captain America comic I read 12 years ago. No, keep reading, it's not offtopic!
Some villain had his brain inserted in a clone body just before death. Months later, Cap storms into the villain's new stronghold (still not knowing that particular baddie is alive) and is greeted with a video screen in which the villain says something like "Greetings, ha, ha, I'm alive and I'm gonna conquer the world blah blah".
Cap's reaction (still skeptical about the villain's comeback): "Video images can be faked".
My reaction: "Geez, real-time video editing? With face movements and all? Indistinguishable from the real thing? Human cloning is more credible than that in comparison."
Not one, two!!! Their filesystem is incredibly well though-out and fast. They use a very weird memory architecture (half a dozen specialized pools) and the security attributes are much more detailed than in *nix. I'd sure love to see that code.
Almost any cartoon translates poorly when played by real people. X-Men is one of the few exceptions.
Superheroes are designed to look like real people, that's why they stand a nonzero chance of becoming good movies (X-Men / Superman / the first Batman). Or do you know some 10-year old kid who never grows up and has a zig-zag for hair?
BTW I just watched X-Men today. HOWLEE MAWDAH OF GAWD IT KICKS ASS! Best line: "You're a dick". HAH!
1) Now what about putting this beast into Helix? Ladies & gentle(and not-so-gentle)men, a complete GPL desktop is at hand!
2) I wish Qt would do the same. No, I'm not a KDE user but all this "illegal status" of KDE makes me queasy. Not good for the Cause.
I blame part of this porting difficulty on the C/C++ language(s).
They made a tradeoff. Porting is more difficult, but when it does get done, it's using the new platform to the max. IMHO a wise decision.
IMHO, you should be able to declare variables in a platform-independent way that specifies whether you need, e.g., exactly 16 bits, or at least 16 bits (or 32 or 64 or 12, or whatever).
You can do that, only there's no standard. In the Windows world it's BYTE/WORD/DWORD, in other places it's int32, int16 etc (better I think).
The only way you can do this now is very kludgy tricks with doing conditional compiling based on limits.h info, or cleaner kludges using templates, but still kludges. It's kludgy (IMHO) because the compiler is saying, "there's a limits.h file that defines the properties of this platform, but I don't know how to use that to permit platform-independent declarations, so you program around me."
Correct. In other words, no standard, as I said.
WORD and DWORD etc. should not be an obstacle to a port that works, (assuming they've been very consistent and have no unsafe conversions) but it may be an obstacle to optimization.
Pretty non-trivial assumption. Boy, I wish I still had that article. It was in a magazine at my previous employer. It detailed a vast number of hurdles in porting Win32 to Win64.
...being ported to this beast than NT/2K. I read somewhere that NT can't use all the Alpha address space, not because of processor dependence, but word size dependence. If you ever programmed to the WIndows API, you'll see everything is WORD this, DWORD that. Too many places there assume word/dword length.
I read in the same place (someone please enlighten me on this) that NT has a kludgy, EMS-like API for running on the Alpha, in order to not waste all that memory completely.
I'm pretty sure it was either a Dr. Dobbs or a MS Developers Journal. It'd be good if someone could point us to the exact article... did I ring any bells?
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Cool sig. Who's P.J.O.?
Ten years after Communism ceased to be a threat, they found a new enemy. Us.
The shoot'em-up attribute of the game actually detracts from its true quality. Best way to play with it is using the all-weapons cheat so you concentrate on solving the puzzles.
BTW, how the %@&*# do I get to the other side of the stage in the Opera House level????? How do I avoid becoming salami on the ventilator shaft???? ;-P
Bingo! I wish I had moderator points already. When people say how "vulnerable" the giant pandas are, I laugh. They're more powerful than white sharks. They have the ability to mesmerize the most powerful species on the planet into protecting them... all because of their appearance!
(You'll pardon me not mentioning the KDE counterparts to those. I acknowledge their existence and have been told they're good products, but I prefer to wait and see until that license brouhaha is sorted out. I've grown rather fond of GNOME's look and feel anyway, and Helix's update tool kicks ass)
What about Perl? Or Bonobo? Or TCl/Tk? Or Coda? Or even Slashcode?
And how would you distinguish between a Yet-Another/Is-Not and an "original product" which is not a "new paradigm"? This is a rather subjective judgment. Barely anything can be called "new" nowadays.
The article is quite complex. Does anybody have a simple recipe on how to check a public key's kosherness with GPG? My public key has been generated with PGP for Win32, although I use it from GPG too. Am I vulnerable?
I like (and use) what these unbearable people make. They can preach all they like for all I care.
Nobody has yet come up with an explanation of why it is that "The Community" has never, once, come up with a major original piece of work (don't talk to me about the Internet. Developed in academia and government, a completely different model).
I don't think you're being totally fair there. Most software categories have already been invented. It'll be very hard for someone to come up with a new kind of "killer app", free or not. Cloning existing apps into free equivalents (Evolution, Gnumeric, Konqueror, Mozilla, AbiWord, Dia, even GNOME or Linux) is a worthwhile task.
Sensible, limited patent and copyrights help to stimulate creativity and reward people for doing really great stuff. They have their place.
The key words here are sensible and limited. I hope you're not talking about the Sonny Bono Act, DMCA or UCITA. Hell, I'd be prepared to accept even some kinds of software patents if they lasted a reasonable amount of time (like 5 years at most). 17 years in the IT industry is forever!
BTW: 27 days and counting... public-domain RSA. Y-eah! :)
There wouldn't be any point in having sex with a non-fucking 13 yr old. (Ba dam THUMP)
Yeah, right.
One word: Mystique.
One word: SERVERS. Yes, people DO build corporate servers on IDE and it works all fine and dandy, thank you.
- Will you feel the cold in your hand if your app freezes? /dev/mouse?
- Will it bite you and pass bubonic plague?
- Will it run away in terror if you type cat >
- Will it sense lame jokes like these and automatically close the window before you click "Submit"?
Oh, and I'd HARDLY call a BRAZILIAN govt organization "The Man". More like "The Poor Bastard".
I also bought a 2600 anti-MPAA T-Shirt, but that one should be safer (no code there ;-P)
Reality check: expectation and certainty are two entirely different things. Maybe you ARE qualified, but there are three other guys who are just as much, and they basically decide by throwing a coin. You end up jobless AND bound by the NDA. Later, you are hired by a competitor and even though you never said your new employer anything about your previous attempt at a job, the first company sues you (and your company!) anyway. You're screwed.
No, the only sane reaction is giving the prospective employer the middle finger at the faintest smell of an NDA. If you're qualified you'll certainly find a healthier place to work.
If you ask me, all this NDA nonsense is a ploy to deny other companies the right to hire good people they turn down.
Some villain had his brain inserted in a clone body just before death. Months later, Cap storms into the villain's new stronghold (still not knowing that particular baddie is alive) and is greeted with a video screen in which the villain says something like "Greetings, ha, ha, I'm alive and I'm gonna conquer the world blah blah".
Cap's reaction (still skeptical about the villain's comeback): "Video images can be faked".
My reaction: "Geez, real-time video editing? With face movements and all? Indistinguishable from the real thing? Human cloning is more credible than that in comparison."
Silly me.
Not one, two!!! Their filesystem is incredibly well though-out and fast. They use a very weird memory architecture (half a dozen specialized pools) and the security attributes are much more detailed than in *nix. I'd sure love to see that code.
Computer: $2000
Chair: $80
Enough time to hotkey away from Freecell when boss comes: Priceless
There are thing money can't buy...
Not if you have a 4 year old.
Superheroes are designed to look like real people, that's why they stand a nonzero chance of becoming good movies (X-Men / Superman / the first Batman). Or do you know some 10-year old kid who never grows up and has a zig-zag for hair?
BTW I just watched X-Men today. HOWLEE MAWDAH OF GAWD IT KICKS ASS! Best line: "You're a dick". HAH!
Cool! Any web link on that?
And KDE is only 'illegal' to DISTRIBUTE BINARIES OF. You can use source builds just fine.
Still not much help for distros. I hope the RMS thing goes through. Then we'd have an Useful Troll, finally!
1) Now what about putting this beast into Helix? Ladies & gentle(and not-so-gentle)men, a complete GPL desktop is at hand!
2) I wish Qt would do the same. No, I'm not a KDE user but all this "illegal status" of KDE makes me queasy. Not good for the Cause.
They made a tradeoff. Porting is more difficult, but when it does get done, it's using the new platform to the max. IMHO a wise decision.
IMHO, you should be able to declare variables in a platform-independent way that specifies whether you need, e.g., exactly 16 bits, or at least 16 bits (or 32 or 64 or 12, or whatever).
You can do that, only there's no standard. In the Windows world it's BYTE/WORD/DWORD, in other places it's int32, int16 etc (better I think).
The only way you can do this now is very kludgy tricks with doing conditional compiling based on limits.h info, or cleaner kludges using templates, but still kludges. It's kludgy (IMHO) because the compiler is saying, "there's a limits.h file that defines the properties of this platform, but I don't know how to use that to permit platform-independent declarations, so you program around me."
Correct. In other words, no standard, as I said.
WORD and DWORD etc. should not be an obstacle to a port that works, (assuming they've been very consistent and have no unsafe conversions) but it may be an obstacle to optimization.
Pretty non-trivial assumption. Boy, I wish I still had that article. It was in a magazine at my previous employer. It detailed a vast number of hurdles in porting Win32 to Win64.
It seems even they have felt the Wrath Of The GNU already...
See, I never used GnuCash nor Quicken, Money or any of the like, I'm only pointing out the existence of a GPL clone. Is GnuCash worth the bandwidth?
I read in the same place (someone please enlighten me on this) that NT has a kludgy, EMS-like API for running on the Alpha, in order to not waste all that memory completely.
I'm pretty sure it was either a Dr. Dobbs or a MS Developers Journal. It'd be good if someone could point us to the exact article... did I ring any bells?