I can't believe that people still care about what kind of language they need to code in.
C/C++/Java whatever. Doesn't it make sense to make something like a document transformer into a small CORBA service, talk XML for the result document and then we don't have the non-sensical language wars. I don't need to know that the document tranform was coded in language X. I just want it to work dammit.
What the hell is this? One of the core elements of comics is the panel layout. The author of the article makes the concession that ComicML doesn't support proper panel layout, but this is a ludicrous limitation.
The only comics that do not heavily use panel layout are the 3-6 panel comics found in newspapers. All of the mainstream comics that are popular on the newstand from Marvel, DC or any of the other publishers require laying out 28-32 pages with ~6 to 10 panels per page.
Panels are not necessarily rectangular, they may not align nicely. ComicML seems to actually reduce the expressiveness of a dead tree medium for the sake of making it techie cool with XML.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the Napster II client relies on trusted clients so that once a P2P connection is made to transfer a file, the MP3 is 'tagged' as a copy. What's to stop people from compromising the clients so that the tagging process simply doesn not happen? All MP3's would then be listed as 'original' and the whole copyprotection scheme goes down the toilet.
Com'on Napster. EVERYBODY knows that trusted clients are a bunch of hooey.
Robocop 3 was rewritten something like 7 or 11 times after it left Miller's hands. I remember that he tried suing to remove his name from the credits of the film.
Hold on a second, you're a sys admin who installs packages _without_ checking the changelogs? You're telling me that you blindly upgrade packages without checking on the impact of said packages on production systems?
I'm all for Metallica crushing Napster. The fact is that people who are trading MP3s illegally should expect to get their heads bashed. Regardless of whether or not you think music is overpriced, your only right as a consumer is "don't buy the damn thing". Not "steal it if it feels right".
C'mon folks. We're criticizing MTV for having low journalistic standards. Is this for real? IT'S MUSIC TELEVISION for crying out loud. I don't care how "polished" the programs are, nobody in their right mind should take anything on TV (much less MTV) at face value. People keep complaining about how the media "brainwashes" people or frames the range of discussion along safe lines or whatever Chomsky'esque criticism happens to be in vogue these days. Well how about this: when you watch TV - THINK a little bit. It's not that hard. But I'm preaching to the converted. Victor "silence - I'm watching television" Ng
I remember a couple years back when I bought XInside's xserver for faster Matrox support, but the thing kept crapping out when I used Gimp or Enlightenment. Server hangs, graphic artifacts all kinds of stuff. When X11 supported my Matrox (in a couple months), no bugs at all. Go figure.
Raise your hand if you're sick to death of hearing how Linux will : a) kill Windows 2000 b) be killed by Windows 2000 c) change the computing industry d) remembered as y2k hype Doesn't anybody just use Linux without the pressing need for telling everyone how the experience went?
Use Linux, don't use it. I don't care. It works great for me, so I'll keep using it.
I'm also sick to death of hearing how "awful" RedHat is. I've heard countless times how everyone should start with Slackware or some other difficult distro to "learn". Then there's the "oh my gawd! They're trying to make money!" folks.
If it wasn't for RedHat, a lot of the new people in the Linux community wouldn't even be here. Getting assaulted with the all the details of UNIX isn't the best way for everyone to learn UNIX. Sometimes people like handholding. Maybe they decide to use Debian later. Maybe they don't.
Why the hell do people care which distro other people are using?
Slashdot Mirror
what are you talking about? There is an active community in the sherlock-channel-dev mailing list.
You can find my own Canada411 Sherlock channel with GPL source at:
l oc kChannel.xml?action=add
source:
http://homepage.mac.com/vng1
channel:
sherlock://homepage.mac.com/vng1/Canada411/Sher
I highly suggest you go to the Apple Sherlock dev mailing list. You can find it at lists.apple.com
If you need just a couple of new packages, you might want to build your own dpkg's from source + the diff file.
WTF are you talking about? If you have CORBA bindings in your language of choice, you simply use the fucking library. Where's the issue?
C/C++/Java whatever. Doesn't it make sense to make something like a document transformer into a small CORBA service, talk XML for the result document and then we don't have the non-sensical language wars. I don't need to know that the document tranform was coded in language X. I just want it to work dammit.
The only comics that do not heavily use panel layout are the 3-6 panel comics found in newspapers. All of the mainstream comics that are popular on the newstand from Marvel, DC or any of the other publishers require laying out 28-32 pages with ~6 to 10 panels per page.
Panels are not necessarily rectangular, they may not align nicely. ComicML seems to actually reduce the expressiveness of a dead tree medium for the sake of making it techie cool with XML.
an unabashed comics fan,
vic
If I'm reading the article correctly, the Napster II client relies on trusted clients so that once a P2P connection is made to transfer a file, the MP3 is 'tagged' as a copy. What's to stop people from compromising the clients so that the tagging process simply doesn not happen? All MP3's would then be listed as 'original' and the whole copyprotection scheme goes down the toilet. Com'on Napster. EVERYBODY knows that trusted clients are a bunch of hooey.
Robocop 3 was rewritten something like 7 or 11 times after it left Miller's hands. I remember that he tried suing to remove his name from the credits of the film.
Well you know what they say: 'Nothing more reliable than a man whose loyalty you can buy.'
Clearly you are on the super heated smack.
Ex: Apache:
http://cgi.debian.org/cg i-bin/get-changelog?package=apache
IOTW - the security may not be perfect still, but let's not get carried away just because we're too damn lazy to read.
I'm all for Metallica crushing Napster. The fact is that people who are trading MP3s illegally should expect to get their heads bashed.
Regardless of whether or not you think music is overpriced, your only right as a consumer is "don't buy the damn thing". Not "steal it if it feels right".
The ONLY reason I still boot into Windows is to play Homeworld. Hell - how many other people here only keep Windows around just to play games?
C'mon folks. We're criticizing MTV for having low journalistic standards. Is this for real? IT'S MUSIC TELEVISION for crying out loud. I don't care how "polished" the programs are, nobody in their right mind should take anything on TV (much less MTV) at face value. People keep complaining about how the media "brainwashes" people or frames the range of discussion along safe lines or whatever Chomsky'esque criticism happens to be in vogue these days. Well how about this: when you watch TV - THINK a little bit. It's not that hard. But I'm preaching to the converted. Victor "silence - I'm watching television" Ng
I remember a couple years back when I bought XInside's xserver for faster Matrox support, but the thing kept crapping out when I used Gimp or Enlightenment. Server hangs, graphic artifacts all kinds of stuff. When X11 supported my Matrox (in a couple months), no bugs at all. Go figure.
Raise your hand if you're sick to death of hearing how Linux will :
a) kill Windows 2000
b) be killed by Windows 2000
c) change the computing industry
d) remembered as y2k hype
Doesn't anybody just use Linux without the pressing need for telling everyone how the experience went?
Use Linux, don't use it. I don't care. It works great for me, so I'll keep using it.
Pragmatic Man
How do we know this?
I'm also sick to death of hearing how "awful" RedHat is. I've heard countless times how everyone should start with Slackware or some other difficult distro to "learn". Then there's the "oh my gawd! They're trying to make money!" folks.
If it wasn't for RedHat, a lot of the new people in the Linux community wouldn't even be here. Getting assaulted with the all the details of UNIX isn't the best way for everyone to learn UNIX. Sometimes people like handholding. Maybe they decide to use Debian later. Maybe they don't.
Why the hell do people care which distro other people are using?
Uh - there's a company who's been doing this for a while. Kryotech makes AMD systems cooled to -47 Celsius. http://www.kryotech.com
Raise your hand if you remember how "great" it was that OS/2 emulated Windows.