Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0. It's my goal to develop the project in a different direction in accordance with Sunspire's wishes, but I'm still looking for ideas at this point." See this Newsforge story for more details.
Matias writes: "Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0. It's my goal to develop the project in a different direction in accordance with Sunspire's wishes, but I'm still looking for ideas at this point."
Why can't we moderate the moderators!
Hopefully it's encrypted pretty good or that would be a big invasion of privacy.
Just think of the engineers at work: "Wow, look at what I picked up on the TV guys. Hey Steve, what did your doctor say about that cancerous looking growth in your colon."
So if I make a personal copy of the CD, I will get no errors from CD copying software, yet when I play the copied CD, I can trash my $500 stereo. I hope their licensing fees are high enough for them to pay for the damage.
I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't they have to warn users what the end result could be, and cisually mark the CDs with a special logo or something. Especially since people could just be making copies to listen to in their car.
Ok, I really hate it when I site I want to look at gets/.ed, but what the hell, lets flood their mail server and send every domain name we can to that support address listed above.
If some grad student did this every major company with a text->speech or speech recognition product would be jumping all over him for the potential copyright && || patent violations.
And this pretty much kills the security by voice recognition methods doesn't it. Maybe they can invent little balds with LCD displays in them to trick retina scanners.
Ya know, a good quality text to speech program was all we really needed. Something that didn't sound like R2D2 on a cell phone. The potential for abuse is way too great with this.
Are you stating that open source software is 100% secure?
People find holes in proprietary systems all the time. Hell, I've gotten a couple hundred MS security bulletins over the last 2 years sitting in my inbox, none of which MS has discovered on their own. The holes in proprietary systems simply get more exposure because it's fuel for all the open source zealots and a large part of corporate america uses the closed systems.
Moderators, can we please start marking messages that state "this wouldn't happen if it was open source" as "Troll".
Just to be an idiot and delve deeper into this arguement, are you stating that if it was open source, you'd do a line-by-line audit of the code to make sure it was something you felt was secure and you want to run? Let's face it, everybody that advocates open source just assumes everybody else is testing it. How many people have done a complete code audit of any Linux app before they installed it. None. This could also be due to the fact that most Linux apps haven't made it to that 1.0 mark yet and maybe the users expect what they get. It's a good argument that "it's still in BETA" when somebody points out a security hole in something.
I know. I got pissed at a new Acer CD-ROM drive a couple years back cause it kept blue screening. I punched the top of the case fairly hard and all of a sudden my machine wouldn't boot anymore.
Luckily my new Maxtor was under warranty. I just had to endure 50 minutes on hold trying to get to their customer support so I could get an RMA number. Of course I didn't tell them about the physical abuse towards my PC. But they were cool and sent me a replacement 2x as big as the one that died.
Just make the banner ads and entertaining as television. That's going to be the end result isn't it. Everything will just be one big commercial until bio-technology from the Matrix becomes available and they can feed advertising directly to your brain.
The only place I've really noticed these new ads in on ZDNet. They're cute but I've spent years being desensitized to adverts. It's kind of like growing up on Death Wish & Rambo. You lose you interest and it becomes commonplace. In fact, we should be blaming social problems on ads, not video games. FPS games desensitize us to violence, ads desensitize us to everything else. I'm brilliant,
Like they don't already have enough problems with implementing contemporary network architectures. I can just imagine the $50,000/hr team that would be flown in to diagnose and fix a park bench with a routing problem. Of course their analysis would state that the problem lied in pigeon droppings in the ethernet jack and not the OS. I'm brilliant,
If they wanted to fight this then they should have done it over a hundred years ago or whenever the hell public libraries started. But anyways...
There's two different categories of literature here. There's the technical stuff like programming reference manuals and other scientific text that you can actually learn from, and the other is the fictional crap like Stephen King puts out. Knowledge should be key. I'd personally be more concerned about the technical information. That is key to advancement in knowledge and by definition, life. That should be something you should pay for (although I personally don't like the standard $50+ for a geek book). But writing technical information takes work to accomplish. It takes research and knowledge and usually many people.
However, the fictional stuff (I hate it, even sci-fi) isn't a necessity, just something you might like... something that is considered to be enjoyment. In that case, you should pay for that too. Although publishers should find another way of making money of that stuff, like advertising in the middle of the paragraph.
You could also argue that publishers should not be needed. You just need the people that write the content and then some kick-ass site that will allow them to post their work and accept micropayments for it. I'm sure publishers are getting a good chunk of money and easily doubling the cost of a book.
Pick an argument a flame me, I don't care. So much in this world is totally fucked up due to economics. I'd prefer we get rid of money and everybody just performs work that they enjoy. I'd still program, there'd still be people that farmed. But that's getting into another argument. I'm brilliant,
Looks like they don't have the common trolls. Looking at a couple articles, I didn't see any -1 or even a 0. Since I couldn't read the articles I can't say whether or not the posters are smarter that the ones that speak english. I'm brilliant,
Does anybody else thinks that Taco posts flamebait just to get more people to read the comments and then hit the reply button, all for more advertising?
I'd like to see the order of those three internet technologies when they're put into a poll on/. My guess is that it would be Web, FTP, E-Mail, Gnutella, and somewhere after VRML would be Usenet.
I hope NOT. I'm hoping you guys can get some leftovers so the/. servers don't rank up there with personal webpage in China as the slowest sites on the planet.
Recipient shall not distribute the Software, in whole or in part, in conjunction with any Publicly Available Software
It simply means that MS is giving you access to some of there source code and specifically stating you can't use THEIR SOFTWARE in the distribution or development of any open source software. Duh.
It doesn't mean you can't use open source tools to do whatever they are allowing you to do with their code.
Obviously common sense is not as common as it should be.
I did this back in my high school days. It wasn't kids, it was adults, but the same ideas apply. You need to go over the basics. Don't get overly technical, but get started on some of the jargon like RAM vs. HD. The thing that keeps most adults from getting a clue is that they hear a term and associate it with the wrong thing. We've all heard somebody say they got 1 GHz of RAM and a 20 GB of memory.
After filling them in on the terminology, go over the wide variety of uses for a computer, from things like databases, to complex calculations to games and the internet. It's best to give a wide variety of examples and show them that computers in general are not as limited as what most kids have as far as applications on their home computers. Using examples like the movie Toy Story for animation would be good to, so that they can associate with something they've most likely seen.
Then get into explaining a certain OS and some of the mundane things.
I especially like the position of the arrow keys. Everybody here probably uses emacs and uses the Ctrl-[letter] controls for movement, but the biggest thing I hate about the MS Natural keyboards is the position of the arrow keys. And at least one of those MS keyboards forces you to move and rotate your hand in order to use it correctly because the keys aren't positioned at the same angle as the rest of the keys.
I'll drop by and say "Hey...if you only had some more motivation you'd be fine". How about that?
Sounds good to me. It's called survival. If that much shit happens to me, I should either find a way to survive or I'll die. Being a human completely capable of adapting, I should be able to accept that. So instead of learning the latest programming language, I'll have to learn how to be a carpenter and make myself a hut as well as how to hunt for animals instead of software bugs.
It's called life. Who the hell decided the way Americans live is the way everybody should live?
I work so I can do better than just get by. I work so my children can have a future as well as myself. Having to start from scratch wouldn't change that motivation.
I hate this argument. Let make sure every third world country has all the advantages we have.
Here's an idea, maybe the people that setup homes in barren wastelands and then decide to have a couple dozen kids should not be saved. It's cruel, but be realistic.
Send them a follow-up with an offer for some sort of free review of their security. Just be nice and professional. That way there shouldn't be any bad feeling since they would have asked you to look at things. Maybe make some points about 3rd party reviews, point them to some articles or something.
Did anybody look at the list of companies being sued? It includes BestBuy and CompUSA. Somebody flame me if I'm wrong but AFAIK these companies don't manufacture products. Are they responible for disassembling and product they carry and looking for patent infringement? Do you really think some Sony sales rep. went to these retailer and said "Hey, we'll give you a good deal on these DVDs since they're using stolen technology that we're not paying for."
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Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0. It's my goal to develop the project in a different direction in accordance with Sunspire's wishes, but I'm still looking for ideas at this point." See this Newsforge story for more details.
Matias writes: "Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0. It's my goal to develop the project in a different direction in accordance with Sunspire's wishes, but I'm still looking for ideas at this point." Why can't we moderate the moderators!
Hopefully it's encrypted pretty good or that would be a big invasion of privacy.
Just think of the engineers at work: "Wow, look at what I picked up on the TV guys. Hey Steve, what did your doctor say about that cancerous looking growth in your colon."
So if I make a personal copy of the CD, I will get no errors from CD copying software, yet when I play the copied CD, I can trash my $500 stereo. I hope their licensing fees are high enough for them to pay for the damage.
I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't they have to warn users what the end result could be, and cisually mark the CDs with a special logo or something. Especially since people could just be making copies to listen to in their car.
Ok, I really hate it when I site I want to look at gets /.ed, but what the hell, lets flood their mail server and send every domain name we can to that support address listed above.
Can't he just die, do we really have to read another one of his 4 day late analysis'.
Nothing terrible will happen.
The Internet will die
Cowboy Neal will die
Please note that I said think not wish
If some grad student did this every major company with a text->speech or speech recognition product would be jumping all over him for the potential copyright && || patent violations.
And this pretty much kills the security by voice recognition methods doesn't it. Maybe they can invent little balds with LCD displays in them to trick retina scanners.
Ya know, a good quality text to speech program was all we really needed. Something that didn't sound like R2D2 on a cell phone. The potential for abuse is way too great with this.
Are you stating that open source software is 100% secure?
People find holes in proprietary systems all the time. Hell, I've gotten a couple hundred MS security bulletins over the last 2 years sitting in my inbox, none of which MS has discovered on their own. The holes in proprietary systems simply get more exposure because it's fuel for all the open source zealots and a large part of corporate america uses the closed systems.
Moderators, can we please start marking messages that state "this wouldn't happen if it was open source" as "Troll".
Just to be an idiot and delve deeper into this arguement, are you stating that if it was open source, you'd do a line-by-line audit of the code to make sure it was something you felt was secure and you want to run? Let's face it, everybody that advocates open source just assumes everybody else is testing it. How many people have done a complete code audit of any Linux app before they installed it. None. This could also be due to the fact that most Linux apps haven't made it to that 1.0 mark yet and maybe the users expect what they get. It's a good argument that "it's still in BETA" when somebody points out a security hole in something.
I know. I got pissed at a new Acer CD-ROM drive a couple years back cause it kept blue screening. I punched the top of the case fairly hard and all of a sudden my machine wouldn't boot anymore.
Luckily my new Maxtor was under warranty. I just had to endure 50 minutes on hold trying to get to their customer support so I could get an RMA number. Of course I didn't tell them about the physical abuse towards my PC. But they were cool and sent me a replacement 2x as big as the one that died.
Just make the banner ads and entertaining as television. That's going to be the end result isn't it. Everything will just be one big commercial until bio-technology from the Matrix becomes available and they can feed advertising directly to your brain.
The only place I've really noticed these new ads in on ZDNet. They're cute but I've spent years being desensitized to adverts. It's kind of like growing up on Death Wish & Rambo. You lose you interest and it becomes commonplace. In fact, we should be blaming social problems on ads, not video games. FPS games desensitize us to violence, ads desensitize us to everything else.
I'm brilliant,
Like they don't already have enough problems with implementing contemporary network architectures. I can just imagine the $50,000/hr team that would be flown in to diagnose and fix a park bench with a routing problem. Of course their analysis would state that the problem lied in pigeon droppings in the ethernet jack and not the OS.
I'm brilliant,
If they wanted to fight this then they should have done it over a hundred years ago or whenever the hell public libraries started. But anyways...
There's two different categories of literature here. There's the technical stuff like programming reference manuals and other scientific text that you can actually learn from, and the other is the fictional crap like Stephen King puts out. Knowledge should be key. I'd personally be more concerned about the technical information. That is key to advancement in knowledge and by definition, life. That should be something you should pay for (although I personally don't like the standard $50+ for a geek book). But writing technical information takes work to accomplish. It takes research and knowledge and usually many people.
However, the fictional stuff (I hate it, even sci-fi) isn't a necessity, just something you might like... something that is considered to be enjoyment. In that case, you should pay for that too. Although publishers should find another way of making money of that stuff, like advertising in the middle of the paragraph.
You could also argue that publishers should not be needed. You just need the people that write the content and then some kick-ass site that will allow them to post their work and accept micropayments for it. I'm sure publishers are getting a good chunk of money and easily doubling the cost of a book.
Pick an argument a flame me, I don't care. So much in this world is totally fucked up due to economics. I'd prefer we get rid of money and everybody just performs work that they enjoy. I'd still program, there'd still be people that farmed. But that's getting into another argument.
I'm brilliant,
Looks like they don't have the common trolls. Looking at a couple articles, I didn't see any -1 or even a 0. Since I couldn't read the articles I can't say whether or not the posters are smarter that the ones that speak english.
I'm brilliant,
Does anybody else thinks that Taco posts flamebait just to get more people to read the comments and then hit the reply button, all for more advertising?
/. My guess is that it would be Web, FTP, E-Mail, Gnutella, and somewhere after VRML would be Usenet.
I'd like to see the order of those three internet technologies when they're put into a poll on
How do you screw things up so much you need tech support? There's two possibilites:
1. It worked.
2. I fucked up. Re-format and don't do that again. Make note to self about the need for backups.
I hope NOT. I'm hoping you guys can get some leftovers so the /. servers don't rank up there with personal webpage in China as the slowest sites on the planet.
To this planet?
Recipient shall not distribute the Software, in whole or in part, in conjunction with any Publicly Available Software
It simply means that MS is giving you access to some of there source code and specifically stating you can't use THEIR SOFTWARE in the distribution or development of any open source software. Duh.
It doesn't mean you can't use open source tools to do whatever they are allowing you to do with their code.
Obviously common sense is not as common as it should be.
I did this back in my high school days. It wasn't kids, it was adults, but the same ideas apply. You need to go over the basics. Don't get overly technical, but get started on some of the jargon like RAM vs. HD. The thing that keeps most adults from getting a clue is that they hear a term and associate it with the wrong thing. We've all heard somebody say they got 1 GHz of RAM and a 20 GB of memory.
After filling them in on the terminology, go over the wide variety of uses for a computer, from things like databases, to complex calculations to games and the internet. It's best to give a wide variety of examples and show them that computers in general are not as limited as what most kids have as far as applications on their home computers. Using examples like the movie Toy Story for animation would be good to, so that they can associate with something they've most likely seen.
Then get into explaining a certain OS and some of the mundane things.
I especially like the position of the arrow keys. Everybody here probably uses emacs and uses the Ctrl-[letter] controls for movement, but the biggest thing I hate about the MS Natural keyboards is the position of the arrow keys. And at least one of those MS keyboards forces you to move and rotate your hand in order to use it correctly because the keys aren't positioned at the same angle as the rest of the keys.
I'll drop by and say "Hey...if you only had some more motivation you'd be fine". How about that?
Sounds good to me. It's called survival. If that much shit happens to me, I should either find a way to survive or I'll die. Being a human completely capable of adapting, I should be able to accept that. So instead of learning the latest programming language, I'll have to learn how to be a carpenter and make myself a hut as well as how to hunt for animals instead of software bugs.
It's called life. Who the hell decided the way Americans live is the way everybody should live?
I work so I can do better than just get by. I work so my children can have a future as well as myself. Having to start from scratch wouldn't change that motivation.
It's not like it's a car accident. They chose to have children despite their situation and their lack of motivation to correct it.
I hate this argument. Let make sure every third world country has all the advantages we have.
Here's an idea, maybe the people that setup homes in barren wastelands and then decide to have a couple dozen kids should not be saved. It's cruel, but be realistic.
Send them a follow-up with an offer for some sort of free review of their security. Just be nice and professional. That way there shouldn't be any bad feeling since they would have asked you to look at things. Maybe make some points about 3rd party reviews, point them to some articles or something.
From the message you wrote, I just can't quite determine if you're talking about Windows XP, or eXtreme Programming.
Did anybody look at the list of companies being sued? It includes BestBuy and CompUSA. Somebody flame me if I'm wrong but AFAIK these companies don't manufacture products. Are they responible for disassembling and product they carry and looking for patent infringement? Do you really think some Sony sales rep. went to these retailer and said "Hey, we'll give you a good deal on these DVDs since they're using stolen technology that we're not paying for."