Don't forget that this is a highly parallelizable task, and can be accomplished by parallel cores. Current GPUs have several times the power of your regular Xeon or AMD64, when it comes to just doing simple parallel math calculation. In less than 5 years, and even if Moore's law applies to kinda-RISC processors, they can accomplish 60x P4 speeds at making specialized calculations. Cost would be an issue, but probably, not even power consumption will be. Anyway, it's a drawback, but not a major drawback, to require a wall socket to project on a... wall, most of the time.
I believe the (grand) parent is talking about a sshd daemon, so you can login to the Windows machine. PuTTY is an ssh client. Cygwin is not so bad, but while it runs on windows, it's more difficult to mess with than your regular GNU/Linux distribution. If you are willing to use Cygwin to administer you windows boxes, then and advantage over GNU/Linux on ease of use or the barrier to entry was not an issue in the first place. I used cygwin when developing VB applications, and it worked for me, but Slackware is much easier.
The thing is that the notion of a disk copy is just a workaround to slow networks, while caching (memory caching) might be nice, the ideal scenario would be to have a network so fast that makes disk access impractical. Maybe it was too much of an optimistic view of the potential of growth of the network, but I believe that for example nowadays it is a good idea to buffer on memory, but not on disk.
Allright. It would be nice if there was already an implementation of what the guy is looking for. In most cases, there is, but this doesn't seem to be the case. So pay someone to do it. Get together a group of people who want it, and pay someone to do it. Make a deal with some OO developers so they do it for you, and you pay for some support. Free software is about freedom, not aboaut free ride.
I develop GPLed software, but it is custom software. The catch is that the _author_ chooses GPL, you make it sound like there are only two steps. When I GPL _my_ work, I want to take freedom away from the _next_ developer, and give it to the _following_ users/developers. It's my problem to find a good way to get money. Working is much less profitable than stealing (legally or ilegally), but it is ethically acceptable, while stealing is not. The same with licenses. Proprietary licenses are unethical, even if they gave you more money, that's not the issue. (and I don't think they are more profitable, BTW).
The GPL is about taking some freedom away from the developer, and giving it to the used, based on the fact that there are more users than developers, so it increases the net amount of freedom. The developer loses freedom to close the source, and to hide modifications, but the user gains the freedom to enhance and share any copy that comes to his hands. In the case of government stuff, it's the same case, most citizens are users, so it's better to focus on their freedom (GPL) even though it shaves some of the freedom of the developers, compared to public domain.
Plus, pirating is robbery on the high seas. Ask RMS:)
Copyright Infringement, unauthorized copying would be better, because when you speak of pirates you mean that someone strong is bulling someone out of their stuff, and that would not describe mp3 leechers with respect to record companies, but generally record companies with respect to artists and other record companies, and people who installed KAzaa.
Of course there is a problem with breaking into someone's property, stealing stuff and breaking even electronic stuff. What I tried to say is that the fact that matters _in_this_case_ is not theft itself, (a small damage for the company, and maybe a big crime, punished with years in jail in most places) but copyright infringement (a big damage for the company, in this case) , which is not a form of theft, because no one is deprived of their property. You could say thet they are deprived of potential profits, and be right, but that is not intellectual property theft.
Intellectual property has no specific meaning itself, because it is usually applied to many concepts that have little to do with each other (patents, trade marks, trade secrets, copyright, property). Although it is actually used in many places, that term is confusing, because leads to the incorrect assumption that they are all the same, and that they are property, while they share little with each other, and with the concept of property. That leads to the general public to make assumptions about copyight by analogy to property, or to patents, while that would be wrong. Copyright infringement has its own laws everywhere.
That would be good UI design, hiding the load times from the user, as long as that feature does not create new errors. We are not discusing some race, it's about the time, and the experience of the user.
Hm.. there is no such thing as intellectual property theft, more like copyright infringement. The problem here is not that someone stole some CD or could break into some computer, but that the code was distributed. There would have to be such a thing as intellectual property, from which its legitimate owner could be deprived, in order for theft to happen.
Ok, I'll make it simpler for you. I was "picking" on the disgusting puritanism of the US populace, as it looks from the outside. In my case, my employer would probably be mad at me for spending so much time at slashdot, wasting their money, but they don't care what I do with that time, especially if I am looking at B/W pics of nude people. The first is unarguably wrong, and the other is not, per se. I have come to believe, based in part in/. comments, that in the US nudity is considered bad itself. That would explain for example why MTV blurs people cracks and nipples, but shows some sexual beahviour. Nevermind, I was just bitching about something that I really don't care about, this is not the right place to talk about that, but what the hell....
I don't know which country you live in, but I believe in the modern world those are not considered dirty pictures, and non suitable for work, if spending your work time on the web is allowed in the first place. In my city, we have a reproduction of the Michaelangelo's David at the door of the City Hall, and he is nude there. I believe in most places, it would be more troublesome to be caught all day slashdotting than watching some [wannabe] artistic pics, nude or not.
Yeah, we talk about old girlfriends and such. But it's not quite the same as those intense Starcraft games. We talk about many other things too, but not with the same gleam in the eye.
That is not just the *EXCUSE*, that's the _reason_!! I know better and I refrain from running proprietary software other than games on the PS2, but most people believe MS Office is something they can't live without, and they can't pay. Anyway, the whole point of my original post was to remark that it is bad calling "copyright infringement", "pirating".
By the way, I write free (custom) software for a living (well, sometimes I just get paid for Slashdotting), but repeating those words would be redundant;-).
They use MS office, because everybody has it, and they use closed formats, and interoperability is crap with other applications, but OO1.1 does a great job at writing, and a decent job at reading MS.DOC (much better than OO1.0), which is the most problematic.
You said "pirating software", that is what I would say if I meant something in the line of attacking a ship, and killing the tripulation in order to get the software on the ship.
Anyway, most people say "pirating software", when they mean "copying copyrighted software without authorization", which is best described as "copyright infringement". That means that you are infringing the copyright law, that says that you need to get authorization from an author to reproduce his written works (or something like that). He could sue you, but in most countries ou wouldn't go to jail, and in many real cases, your "unauthorized copying" does not harm the author. On the other hand, if he had a ship, and you, by force, took control of it, in order to get the stuff it was carrying, the owner would probably be harmed, and you could probably be jailed (or institutionalized), and that would constitute "piracy".
Again, you are wrong. Stealing is stealing, whether they are material things or not. On the other hand, copyright infringement is not theft, and thus cannot be compared to "pirating", which means robbing, killing, raping (that would be harsher than "stealing", and we are aware that this is not the case). Unauthorized copying/distributing/using would be a better way to describe it, now you imply that you are doing something you are not allowed to, but if you are harming someone, at least it is not a direct harm.
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Don't forget that this is a highly parallelizable task, and can be accomplished by parallel cores. Current GPUs have several times the power of your regular Xeon or AMD64, when it comes to just doing simple parallel math calculation. ... wall, most of the time.
In less than 5 years, and even if Moore's law applies to kinda-RISC processors, they can accomplish 60x P4 speeds at making specialized calculations. Cost would be an issue, but probably, not even power consumption will be. Anyway, it's a drawback, but not a major drawback, to require a wall socket to project on a
I believe the (grand) parent is talking about a sshd daemon, so you can login to the Windows machine. PuTTY is an ssh client.
Cygwin is not so bad, but while it runs on windows, it's more difficult to mess with than your regular GNU/Linux distribution. If you are willing to use Cygwin to administer you windows boxes, then and advantage over GNU/Linux on ease of use or the barrier to entry was not an issue in the first place.
I used cygwin when developing VB applications, and it worked for me, but Slackware is much easier.
Blender was set free that way, they built an organization that raised 100000 Euros, and they provided the source under the GPL.
The thing is that the notion of a disk copy is just a workaround to slow networks, while caching (memory caching) might be nice, the ideal scenario would be to have a network so fast that makes disk access impractical. Maybe it was too much of an optimistic view of the potential of growth of the network, but I believe that for example nowadays it is a good idea to buffer on memory, but not on disk.
GF4Go doesn't implement the needed shaders, don't know about fxGo5700, but watch out for those.
Allright.
It would be nice if there was already an implementation of what the guy is looking for. In most cases, there is, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
So pay someone to do it. Get together a group of people who want it, and pay someone to do it. Make a deal with some OO developers so they do it for you, and you pay for some support.
Free software is about freedom, not aboaut free ride.
I develop GPLed software, but it is custom software.
The catch is that the _author_ chooses GPL, you make it sound like there are only two steps. When I GPL _my_ work, I want to take freedom away from the _next_ developer, and give it to the _following_ users/developers. It's my problem to find a good way to get money. Working is much less profitable than stealing (legally or ilegally), but it is ethically acceptable, while stealing is not. The same with licenses. Proprietary licenses are unethical, even if they gave you more money, that's not the issue. (and I don't think they are more profitable, BTW).
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The GPL is about taking some freedom away from the developer, and giving it to the used, based on the fact that there are more users than developers, so it increases the net amount of freedom. The developer loses freedom to close the source, and to hide modifications, but the user gains the freedom to enhance and share any copy that comes to his hands. In the case of government stuff, it's the same case, most citizens are users, so it's better to focus on their freedom (GPL) even though it shaves some of the freedom of the developers, compared to public domain.
Plus, pirating is robbery on the high seas. :)
Ask RMS
Copyright Infringement, unauthorized copying would be better, because when you speak of pirates you mean that someone strong is bulling someone out of their stuff, and that would not describe mp3 leechers with respect to record companies, but generally record companies with respect to artists and other record companies, and people who installed KAzaa.
Well, again, for the slow readers...
Of course there is a problem with breaking into someone's property, stealing stuff and breaking even electronic stuff. What I tried to say is that the fact that matters _in_this_case_ is not theft itself, (a small damage for the company, and maybe a big crime, punished with years in jail in most places) but copyright infringement (a big damage for the company, in this case) , which is not a form of theft, because no one is deprived of their property. You could say thet they are deprived of potential profits, and be right, but that is not intellectual property theft.
Intellectual property has no specific meaning itself, because it is usually applied to many concepts that have little to do with each other (patents, trade marks, trade secrets, copyright, property). Although it is actually used in many places, that term is confusing, because leads to the incorrect assumption that they are all the same, and that they are property, while they share little with each other, and with the concept of property. That leads to the general public to make assumptions about copyight by analogy to property, or to patents, while that would be wrong. Copyright infringement has its own laws everywhere.
That would be good UI design, hiding the load times from the user, as long as that feature does not create new errors. We are not discusing some race, it's about the time, and the experience of the user.
Hm.. there is no such thing as intellectual property theft, more like
copyright infringement.
The problem here is not that someone stole some CD or could break into some computer, but that the code was distributed.
There would have to be such a thing as intellectual property, from which its legitimate owner could be deprived, in order for theft to happen.
I set up a similar lab about 6 months ago. Went with eMacs, which have been stellar - almost zero problems.
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......nevermind
Emacs all the way!! Go-go GNU!!
hmm..... you mean Apple's eMacs?
Ok, I'll make it simpler for you. /. comments, that in the US nudity is considered bad itself. That would explain for example why MTV blurs people cracks and nipples, but shows some sexual beahviour.
I was "picking" on the disgusting puritanism of the US populace, as it looks from the outside.
In my case, my employer would probably be mad at me for spending so much time at slashdot, wasting their money, but they don't care what I do with that time, especially if I am looking at B/W pics of nude people. The first is unarguably wrong, and the other is not, per se. I have come to believe, based in part in
Nevermind, I was just bitching about something that I really don't care about, this is not the right place to talk about that, but what the hell....
I don't know which country you live in, but I believe in the modern world those are not considered dirty pictures, and non suitable for work, if spending your work time on the web is allowed in the first place.
In my city, we have a reproduction of the Michaelangelo's David at the door of the City Hall, and he is nude there.
I believe in most places, it would be more troublesome to be caught all day slashdotting than watching some [wannabe] artistic pics, nude or not.
Create native, cross-platform GUI applications
Create native, cross-platform GUI applications, revisited
Not compile once, run everywhere, maybe write once, compile everywhere, but that is Java, GPLd with a GUI.
Yeah, we talk about old girlfriends and such. But it's not quite the same as those intense Starcraft games. We talk about many other things too, but not with the same gleam in the eye.
;.)
Yeah right, Starcraft games
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
Ctrl-T (new tab)
Middle click on the location bar (paste url)
Enter
Also, Ctrl-U clears the location bar.
freenet?
That is not just the *EXCUSE*, that's the _reason_!!
;-).
I know better and I refrain from running proprietary software other than games on the PS2, but most people believe MS Office is something they can't live without, and they can't pay. Anyway, the whole point of my original post was to remark that it is bad calling "copyright infringement", "pirating".
By the way, I write free (custom) software for a living (well, sometimes I just get paid for Slashdotting), but repeating those words would be redundant
They use MS office, because everybody has it, and they use closed formats, and interoperability is crap with other applications, but OO1.1 does a great job at writing, and a decent job at reading MS.DOC (much better than OO1.0), which is the most problematic.
You said "pirating software", that is what I would say if I meant something in the line of attacking a ship, and killing the tripulation in order to get the software on the ship.
Anyway, most people say "pirating software", when they mean "copying copyrighted software without authorization", which is best described as "copyright infringement". That means that you are infringing the copyright law, that says that you need to get authorization from an author to reproduce his written works (or something like that).
He could sue you, but in most countries ou wouldn't go to jail, and in many real cases, your "unauthorized copying" does not harm the author. On the other hand, if he had a ship, and you, by force, took control of it, in order to get the stuff it was carrying, the owner would probably be harmed, and you could probably be jailed (or institutionalized), and that would constitute "piracy".
Again, you are wrong. Stealing is stealing, whether they are material things or not. On the other hand, copyright infringement is not theft, and thus cannot be compared to "pirating", which means robbing, killing, raping (that would be harsher than "stealing", and we are aware that this is not the case). Unauthorized copying/distributing/using would be a better way to describe it, now you imply that you are doing something you are not allowed to, but if you are harming someone, at least it is not a direct harm.
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Not everybody has heard of George Carlin (me included), and I think this rant is a nice introduction. I'd think at least +1 Interesting