Oh, yes, I'll just take virtualization software source code and send it to another developer for fixes. I'm sure just any old development shop can handle that The funniest part is that the OP was probably dead serious when he wrote that. If this is a "good example" of anything, it's an example of why having the source code doesn't buy ordinary people diddly squat.
And having access to my car's engine doesn't buy me, an ordinary person, diddly squat, except that I can take it to an expert and have him do useful work on it.
If I were using a product, and I were offered the choice of either having the product just disappear overnight, or having the source code after its maintainer disappeared overnight, I'd takt the latter, because there is some chance I could find a developer who could at the very least make bug fixes. Also, chances are that I'm not the only company using said product, so there would be others who could pool their resources in order to set up a new maintainer.
I view Slashdot on a positively ancient system. CSS would murder it, so I just add an entry to my hosts file that points c.fsdn.com to 0.0.0.0. Kills the CSS and makes the page load quite quickly. I love the look too; looks like classic HTML without any font changes.
Yes, if anything, it's this dramatized "he's a meanie" kind of Slashdot article that puts programmers off. I feel like I'm in a primary school playground again. When I release my code open-source, it's to make the source code available to others. The only way to prevent my primary goal is by taking down the server the source code is hosted on. Using it in violation of its license is minor in comparison.
Project A's code was licensed under the GPL. Project B used A's code in violation of the license (they didn't steal it). Make it known that project B is violating A's license and that project B's members have not responded on the matter. This public knowledge will harm project B's reputation, perhaps enough to motivate its members to acknowledge and come into compliance. Or it might motivate users to stop using project B and let it die off. But leave the name-calling for your inner circle of friends who will put up with that crap.
In a letter to Virtual Iron's sales partners, Oracle says it 'will suspend development of existing Virtual Iron products and will suspend delivery of orders to new customers.' One partner said, 'So basically, anyone that built their hosting infrastructure on VI... is now totally in the s--.
This is a good example of the purpose for requiring that you have access to and can compile the source code to the software you're using. If the current developer decides to close shop or has it closed for them as in this case, you can just take ths code to another developer or set up a new shop, rather than be totally screwed like this.
I am a Google voice user. Zero automated telemarketing calls get through to me. The system defaults to requiring callers with previously unseen caller-id's to state their name before it will even ring my real phone(s). No automated system knows how to do that so far.
And yet somehow, the summary doesn't even mention the speed of the Opera personal webserver:
But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times faster, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times faster. He concludes that Opera Unite's server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use.
They were able to cover the speeds of several others, but not Opera? Sorry, this is fucking bullshit.
It might be a good policy for a security company when interviewing potential employees; any that give up passwords (that work) would be immediately disqualified.
You're saying that the car lost some amount of energy over 30 seconds when slowing from 100 to 90 kph. Isn't the energy loss dependent on the speed, such that if it were going 100 kph the whole time, the energy input would have been greater than 2.4kW, since it loses more energy at 100 kph? So the question is, how much more energy does it lose per second going at 100 than 90 kph?
If I have an SSD in a laptop and I drop the laptop, what are the chances that even if my screen goes splat, my keyboard gets crumbled and the case splits open that my data is still safe? Pretty good. On the other hand, if the same laptop had a hard disk, you are looking at some pretty expensive data recovery plans to get data off of it.
To get today's data off it you mean, or do you don't even make a regular backup (mirror) of the drive? What if you mistakenly delete all the files? What if the laptop gets stolen? SSD won't help you there.
I read Dan Hurley's Natural Causes and it opened my eyes to the supplement industry, and the relative lack of regulation. I recommend it to anyone taking supplements, including just vitamins.
Hey, I can afford 50p a month and if it actually goes toward dragging our country into the 21st Century, then I'm fine with it.
So are you already donating 50p to the government every month for this purpose? And even if you're fine with them deciding for you that you will start paying, why should others who aren't fine with paying that be forced to pay?
What he and his employees engage in is tax avoidance, which is perfectly legal. Tax avoidance is simply following the letter of the law and avoiding the incurring tax liability.
Sometimes I decide not to buy something due to the tax. For example, a $5 product costs $5.41 with tax. I guess I'm guilty of tax avoidance too...
The IRS wants to get RID of a tax? Why am I deeply suspicious of this?
<a few months later> Now that we eliminated that confusing tax, we need to create a new tax for business cell phone users, one that is simpler and brings in more money than the old one. Ummm, ignore that last part; I didn't mean to verbalize it.
You should have asked if you could decline one of the free magazine subscriptions (a $12.95 value!) to pay for the $12.95 processing fee. "Er, well, it's a $12.95 value, but it only costs us $1.95."
In parallel, the two companies will be working together to protect Universal Music's intellectual property and drive a material reduction in the unauthorized distribution of its repertoire across Virgin Media's network
Material reduction? I think they have failed to grasp some fundamentals of online file sharing.
Read the Motorola 68000 assembly language manual and marvel at its simplicity and elegance. I believe they had an 8-bit and 16-bit equivalent back then. That would be my choice. Advantages are the simple addressing scheme, many general purpose data registers, brilliantly simple assembly language.
Yes, the instruction set was 32-bit right from the very beginning, and had 16 freaking registers. The earlier processors had 24-bit address and 16-bit data buses, but later ones went to 32/32, and software written for the original would work fine as long as it didn't stuff internal data into the upper 8 bits, as Mac OS unfortunately did for a long time.
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And having access to my car's engine doesn't buy me, an ordinary person, diddly squat, except that I can take it to an expert and have him do useful work on it.
If I were using a product, and I were offered the choice of either having the product just disappear overnight, or having the source code after its maintainer disappeared overnight, I'd takt the latter, because there is some chance I could find a developer who could at the very least make bug fixes. Also, chances are that I'm not the only company using said product, so there would be others who could pool their resources in order to set up a new maintainer.
I view Slashdot on a positively ancient system. CSS would murder it, so I just add an entry to my hosts file that points c.fsdn.com to 0.0.0.0. Kills the CSS and makes the page load quite quickly. I love the look too; looks like classic HTML without any font changes.
Project A's code was licensed under the GPL. Project B used A's code in violation of the license (they didn't steal it). Make it known that project B is violating A's license and that project B's members have not responded on the matter. This public knowledge will harm project B's reputation, perhaps enough to motivate its members to acknowledge and come into compliance. Or it might motivate users to stop using project B and let it die off. But leave the name-calling for your inner circle of friends who will put up with that crap.
This is a good example of the purpose for requiring that you have access to and can compile the source code to the software you're using. If the current developer decides to close shop or has it closed for them as in this case, you can just take ths code to another developer or set up a new shop, rather than be totally screwed like this.
Here's the problem: how do you keep the unwanted callers from calling your private numbers?
You mean... Google is...alive?!?
Theater?
They were able to cover the speeds of several others, but not Opera? Sorry, this is fucking bullshit.
Except that the list will contain websites that contain anything objectionable to those making the list.
It might be a good policy for a security company when interviewing potential employees; any that give up passwords (that work) would be immediately disqualified.
What about 99.1%? That's greater than 99%. Or 99.2%, or 99.9%, or 99.99%.
You're saying that the car lost some amount of energy over 30 seconds when slowing from 100 to 90 kph. Isn't the energy loss dependent on the speed, such that if it were going 100 kph the whole time, the energy input would have been greater than 2.4kW, since it loses more energy at 100 kph? So the question is, how much more energy does it lose per second going at 100 than 90 kph?
To get today's data off it you mean, or do you don't even make a regular backup (mirror) of the drive? What if you mistakenly delete all the files? What if the laptop gets stolen? SSD won't help you there.
No problem, I can just send back as many bits as they send me, then I won't get charged anything!
I read Dan Hurley's Natural Causes and it opened my eyes to the supplement industry, and the relative lack of regulation. I recommend it to anyone taking supplements, including just vitamins.
As long as magnetic drives give lower effective price per bit, they will be used.
So are you already donating 50p to the government every month for this purpose? And even if you're fine with them deciding for you that you will start paying, why should others who aren't fine with paying that be forced to pay?
Sometimes I decide not to buy something due to the tax. For example, a $5 product costs $5.41 with tax. I guess I'm guilty of tax avoidance too...
Bob, if you want the NSA to read that, email that to someone (doesn't matter who, could even be yourself).
<a few months later> Now that we eliminated that confusing tax, we need to create a new tax for business cell phone users, one that is simpler and brings in more money than the old one. Ummm, ignore that last part; I didn't mean to verbalize it.
Cue OpenDNS displaying a stop sign when visited in 3...2...1...
You should have asked if you could decline one of the free magazine subscriptions (a $12.95 value!) to pay for the $12.95 processing fee. "Er, well, it's a $12.95 value, but it only costs us $1.95."
Material reduction? I think they have failed to grasp some fundamentals of online file sharing.
Whereas an operating system CAN be made very secure, a search engine will always be open to manipulation of search ranking.
Yes, the instruction set was 32-bit right from the very beginning, and had 16 freaking registers. The earlier processors had 24-bit address and 16-bit data buses, but later ones went to 32/32, and software written for the original would work fine as long as it didn't stuff internal data into the upper 8 bits, as Mac OS unfortunately did for a long time.