In the case of M:TG actually having an edition that's half-way decent that semi-resembles the days of Revised and Fourth Edition <sighs and remembers the days of good M:TG cards where his permission deck whooped *everyone*> just happens to be a cold snap in hell -- I'm sure it's just a fluke... we'll have to wait for the Cubs to win the World Series next, and M$ makes quality software, *then* we can say the apocolypse has come!
This I have to agree with. It makes rational sence. Loki does this for their games, and has front end bash scripts to set up the varables, etc, that are needed for the dynamic loading of the program. I am not a Loki developer, but you should try to actually use a hex editor on what you think is a binary to just see the file begin with #!/bin/bash:-)
The other thing I have to comment about is the universal question of upgrades: 1) Is it too soon, and 2) is it worth it? Things like dependancy hell is one thing that sucks. Another thing is resolving all the dependancies to see all sorts of other apps shatter sucks too. I agree. Sometimes upgrading isn't worth it you know.
This next phrase sounds redundant, and it most likely is. Let someone weed out the dependancies that gets paid to do so or is willing to volunteer to do so. Hell, I'd wait for GNONE 1.4 and my other programs to resolve with the depandancies if I wanted to do a whole system upgrade; by that time the next release of my favourate linux distro would be out!
Otherwise, ya, I agree with the parent post here. We should do have a -seperate- package for those who want to keep various other shared libs around, especially if they are core libs!
Yes it is... just the first Quake, but the original PAK file is still under a proprietary licecnce... afaik, Quake 2 isn't, and I know Quake 3 isn't either
Now, before I begin, I would like to say that I feel that the GPL has a valid place in licences. There are many things that are useful with the GPL.
Now you can have your Python interpetor as "free" software, weither gratis or what not. So? Unless you are -really- intrested in such a thing as working and re-distributing the work (I'm sure many are), I would say that the only thing that I'm not too sure on is any and all libs that can be used are/aren't GPL'ed (I feel that the LGPL on extra libs would be apporopriate; there are many uses for a Python script.) and you are a coder in python. I'm not a Python coder. I could care less.
The GPL isn't the only open-source licence. I feel my work should be under an X11 licence, or a BSD-style licence, unless someone like M$ finds it useful. In that case, I would GPL it.
The GPL is great, but if I'm working on this for a company (yeah, boo me while you go play Quake under its EULA) it's a hassle. RMS thinks that proprietary is the devil of programs. I don't quite agree. M$ is the devil of all programs; they abuse their position. Other proprietary things don't hurt unless you are the ones getting pissed on. How do you think I feel when I can't use hardware with a proprietary interface on Linux? Yet that same cheapo device works on my mom's computer and I get the good hardware.:-)
Anyway, this seems to be more a rant imo. Though I don't feel it has to do with Python; nessiarly;-) I like that it's GPL'ed, but what would happen if it was put under another open-source licence? Would it make/.?
OK, I am sure that today isn't April Fool's Day, and I am also assured that the government isn't on crack (cavet: The assumption that the government isn't on crack)
The only way to secure win2k is to make sure it never gets installed. Win2k is secure in the box, but once you take it out, it already has a hole in it...;-) The holes get to be bigger and more numourous!
Perhaps they should read security focus's stuff more often; then again they think they are all l33t because they are the NSA. After all, backdoors in M$ products are good for them.
To: European Union
From: MPAA
Subject: W3 0wnz j00!
Dear European Union:
Now you have pissed us off, we have hired the l33t3st hax0rs in the world. We won't get rid of our regional codes; we have to make a profit and rape your wallets. Moreover, we have an obligation to eliminate -all- our competition from the face of the earth, and we will no matter what it takes. See, our goal is to take over the world, just like what we depict in Hollywood. I'm very sure though that we are the good guys in this one; after all, we are protecting our intelectual property.
Since you did send a letter from your competition department, we now see you as a threat to our existance. You fuckers are probably pirates, too! You and your open source coders like that Torvalds guy. We hate that; we refuse to lose a dime after all. We prefer ignorant americans just like ourselves buying into a system where we can rape wallets and pillage life savings; to protect our intelectual property.
Now you see where we are coming from. Expect that your piddly servers with your pirated content be DoS'ed soon by our scr|p7 k|dd|3s.
Regards,
The More Pathetic Assholes of America (MPAA)
P.S. -- And you thought we were the Motion Picture Association of America.
I can just see it now... "3 frags left", then one wimpering if he just didn't have so much lag he'd win...;-)
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I have seen this as well -- It would not be too possible to have X going with a WM such as GNOME or KDE on a PS2 (They are just too big!)
If Sony were to ever pull this thing off they would have to put together their own WM or find something that doesn't take a ton of RAM to load (Xfce comes to mind here.)
The author did make mention that there is perhaps some problems with the benchmarks (example, not optimized and mature gcc, etc) and that the MacOS was more optimized for Motorola's/IBM's PowerPC. It's difficult to design for something that is very proprietary in design.
Let's see: Good Macintosh; $2000. Good x86; $1000. There's another thing I would consider a lot: Price/Performance ratio. Depends really on what you are doing. Of course, most/. readers already know this. Integer-based calculations are in the majority of programs out there. Period. Few programs are heavy floating-point calculations, such as video and image editing. So it makes it seem that the Macintosh is this "supercomputer". Why? Adobe Photoshop 6.0??? You can't judge a computer's overall performance by one application!
Though, dear Mac fans, don't bark yet that the whole thing is a sham. There is still some creditability in the whole thing and it needs to be looked in to... prove you're better; don't flame!
Wow! Imagine I could keep the HTTP server in the kid's room! Now I gotta tell the kid that he can't play with it else Dad's web server is going to lose its uptime and he would get some "downtime" grounded!
They learned not to support POS RAM that happened to hurt their P4 sales... Though I agree, for something like this, PC133/PC150 would be better though with those clock speeds, it proabably is on a 100 MHz bus (correct me if I'm wrong; I haven't seen the latest specs on the Itanic)
Besides, I wouldn't pick one up today when something like a PowerPC or an Alpha is available; not like I use something stupid like M$ products;-)
A console LAN would be cooler... it would make for a better time for console owners, but hey, that's the spoils of having a computer!;-)
Sure the idea of a cordless controller would be nice (been around since the NES for Christ's Sake; is this new? I think not!) but according to the article it was comparing a wireless device meant for networking/connectivty to a frickin' game controller! So?
The founder of Transgaming once pointed out that there is a "chicken and egg" problem atm for mass Linux usage... sure orginal apps are great, but many ppl have invested money into Windows apps... WINE is oh-so-important... it's a matter of having their cake, and eating it too, that will change it all.
OTOH, WINE is sorta slow... most ppl won't be bugged by that so long as it costs less... the efforts here are great by Codeweavers! (Besides, wouldn't WINE make Linux unique that you can use two OS'es binaries on one OS; assuming they work to begin with?)
Looks like they woke up! The whole software-as-a-service idea is stupid! Seriously, the ones that use Office are indeed, the businesses. The consumer at most probably has only need for a WP, a personal DB, maybe a spreadsheet and something like Quicken.
Making Office XP a subscription is yet again shooting themselves in the foot; I agree! But they are only good at that:P
We just be these rouge pinko commie bastards, you see! We're out destroying the "American Way" of greed, money, and "cavet aptar"!(sp?) We should be drawn, quartered and hung you know... why, we oppose total crap! We don't deserve to have anything in our possesion because we're naughty.;)
OTOH, this gets better by the minute on the FUD fest that M$ is having with the GPL. Open source isn't a bad thing... after all, the BSD licence lets them steal... just the GPL is bad becuase they have to behave. Imagine that! Good behavior out of M$? Oh, no! We can't have that! BAD RMS! BAD ESR! No Windows for you! (Not like they'd use it)
What next, they have ppl that believe in the GPL be procescuted for treason?
It is nice to see the contribution and efforts to open source for crypto and secure linux boxes. PGP is an ideal company to implement such a thing, going to open source because of how the crypto is able to be used...
Otherwise, yay, and hope that Dubya doesn't get to be a prick about it.
Sure it's cleaner... but it freezes at a higher temprature... not too good if you live in the northern US where your temperature is below zero celcius!
Otherwise I've seen alcohol cars run... but not on the everyday streets; just a racetrack. Very intresting to see them not kick out so much smoke.
And I wonder who'll win that one?:)
Let's see... God has juristiction over the universe... but some athiest defence attorney may argue God's non-existance... but knowing our Judeo-Christian domiance in the USA, God will win;)
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In the case of M:TG actually having an edition that's half-way decent that semi-resembles the days of Revised and Fourth Edition <sighs and remembers the days of good M:TG cards where his permission deck whooped *everyone*> just happens to be a cold snap in hell -- I'm sure it's just a fluke... we'll have to wait for the Cubs to win the World Series next, and M$ makes quality software, *then* we can say the apocolypse has come!
The other thing I have to comment about is the universal question of upgrades: 1) Is it too soon, and 2) is it worth it? Things like dependancy hell is one thing that sucks. Another thing is resolving all the dependancies to see all sorts of other apps shatter sucks too. I agree. Sometimes upgrading isn't worth it you know.
This next phrase sounds redundant, and it most likely is. Let someone weed out the dependancies that gets paid to do so or is willing to volunteer to do so. Hell, I'd wait for GNONE 1.4 and my other programs to resolve with the depandancies if I wanted to do a whole system upgrade; by that time the next release of my favourate linux distro would be out!
Otherwise, ya, I agree with the parent post here. We should do have a -seperate- package for those who want to keep various other shared libs around, especially if they are core libs!
Now you can have your Python interpetor as "free" software, weither gratis or what not. So? Unless you are -really- intrested in such a thing as working and re-distributing the work (I'm sure many are), I would say that the only thing that I'm not too sure on is any and all libs that can be used are/aren't GPL'ed (I feel that the LGPL on extra libs would be apporopriate; there are many uses for a Python script.) and you are a coder in python. I'm not a Python coder. I could care less.
The GPL isn't the only open-source licence. I feel my work should be under an X11 licence, or a BSD-style licence, unless someone like M$ finds it useful. In that case, I would GPL it.
The GPL is great, but if I'm working on this for a company (yeah, boo me while you go play Quake under its EULA) it's a hassle. RMS thinks that proprietary is the devil of programs. I don't quite agree. M$ is the devil of all programs; they abuse their position. Other proprietary things don't hurt unless you are the ones getting pissed on. How do you think I feel when I can't use hardware with a proprietary interface on Linux? Yet that same cheapo device works on my mom's computer and I get the good hardware. :-)
Anyway, this seems to be more a rant imo. Though I don't feel it has to do with Python; nessiarly ;-) I like that it's GPL'ed, but what would happen if it was put under another open-source licence? Would it make /.?
The only way to secure win2k is to make sure it never gets installed. Win2k is secure in the box, but once you take it out, it already has a hole in it... ;-) The holes get to be bigger and more numourous!
Perhaps they should read security focus's stuff more often; then again they think they are all l33t because they are the NSA. After all, backdoors in M$ products are good for them.
To: European Union
From: MPAA
Subject: W3 0wnz j00!
Dear European Union:
Now you have pissed us off, we have hired the l33t3st hax0rs in the world. We won't get rid of our regional codes; we have to make a profit and rape your wallets. Moreover, we have an obligation to eliminate -all- our competition from the face of the earth, and we will no matter what it takes. See, our goal is to take over the world, just like what we depict in Hollywood. I'm very sure though that we are the good guys in this one; after all, we are protecting our intelectual property.
Since you did send a letter from your competition department, we now see you as a threat to our existance. You fuckers are probably pirates, too! You and your open source coders like that Torvalds guy. We hate that; we refuse to lose a dime after all. We prefer ignorant americans just like ourselves buying into a system where we can rape wallets and pillage life savings; to protect our intelectual property.
Now you see where we are coming from. Expect that your piddly servers with your pirated content be DoS'ed soon by our scr|p7 k|dd|3s.
Regards,
The More Pathetic Assholes of America (MPAA)
P.S. -- And you thought we were the Motion Picture Association of America.
If Sony were to ever pull this thing off they would have to put together their own WM or find something that doesn't take a ton of RAM to load (Xfce comes to mind here.)
Hmmmm... it seems like M$ screwed up here for a sec... weren't they supposed to point the world to M$N?
WTG Intel on sobering up! Now pass dat bong around!
You just read(watch) it for the articles(commercials), right? ;-)
Let's see: Good Macintosh; $2000. Good x86; $1000. There's another thing I would consider a lot: Price/Performance ratio. Depends really on what you are doing. Of course, most /. readers already know this. Integer-based calculations are in the majority of programs out there. Period. Few programs are heavy floating-point calculations, such as video and image editing. So it makes it seem that the Macintosh is this "supercomputer". Why? Adobe Photoshop 6.0??? You can't judge a computer's overall performance by one application!
Though, dear Mac fans, don't bark yet that the whole thing is a sham. There is still some creditability in the whole thing and it needs to be looked in to... prove you're better; don't flame!
Besides, I wouldn't pick one up today when something like a PowerPC or an Alpha is available; not like I use something stupid like M$ products ;-)
Sure the idea of a cordless controller would be nice (been around since the NES for Christ's Sake; is this new? I think not!) but according to the article it was comparing a wireless device meant for networking/connectivty to a frickin' game controller! So?
"A fatal exception 0E has occured in module NTKERN.DLL
Press any key to terminate this program. You will lose all unsaved information.
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart this computer. You will lose all unsaved information."
This is why I'd wait for Nokia ;-)
OTOH, WINE is sorta slow... most ppl won't be bugged by that so long as it costs less... the efforts here are great by Codeweavers! (Besides, wouldn't WINE make Linux unique that you can use two OS'es binaries on one OS; assuming they work to begin with?)
Making Office XP a subscription is yet again shooting themselves in the foot; I agree! But they are only good at that :P
OTOH, this gets better by the minute on the FUD fest that M$ is having with the GPL. Open source isn't a bad thing... after all, the BSD licence lets them steal... just the GPL is bad becuase they have to behave. Imagine that! Good behavior out of M$? Oh, no! We can't have that! BAD RMS! BAD ESR! No Windows for you! (Not like they'd use it)
What next, they have ppl that believe in the GPL be procescuted for treason?
It is nice to see the contribution and efforts to open source for crypto and secure linux boxes. PGP is an ideal company to implement such a thing, going to open source because of how the crypto is able to be used...
Otherwise, yay, and hope that Dubya doesn't get to be a prick about it.
Otherwise I've seen alcohol cars run... but not on the everyday streets; just a racetrack. Very intresting to see them not kick out so much smoke.
And I wonder who'll win that one? :)
;)
Let's see... God has juristiction over the universe... but some athiest defence attorney may argue God's non-existance... but knowing our Judeo-Christian domiance in the USA, God will win