Re:Typoing your email address can be a drag
on
The Story of "Nadine"
·
· Score: 3, Funny
kind of like mistyping a stock ticker? Buying 100 shares of SUN versus SUNW can be pretty pricey (and no, I wouldn't know anything about such an incident. I'll deny it all).
Finally, if commercial software houses (which include things like single-person shareware companies) are required to cover damages and are not allowed to set the terms of liability, then I feel that the GPL-using community should be required to do the same. Fair is fair.
Very much true. Even though the GPL states: "IN NO EVENT... WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER... BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES" (capitolization from GPL). That said, that won't stop anybody from trying to sue you. And what's to stop existing or future EULAs from MS or otherwise to include similar provisions?
I didn't see any mention of SMP support in either article for the new chipset. Does the P4 even support SMP? What are the current MB offerings for SMP?
From my experience with the military, if a programmer had put in a clock algorithm that would track indefinitely, he or she would have been ordered to take it out.
Any particular reason why? Is it just because the specs assume a reboot every 8-12 hours?
Hey mods: don't you think this article has enough comments marked *funny*? The signal to noise ratio -- even for slashdot -- is in the crapper. Maybe consider not modding stuff down that really isn't funny or better yet find something with real content to mod up.
could you give an example of your vm-auto-folder-alist? I've been using VM for quite awhile but I haven't tried this feature yet. Just curious how to set the variable to something useful.
Better not use either! Any FPS-type game using disk I/O is going to slow to a halt. Ever notice how the disk is only used to load maps/change levels? Everything gets loaded into main memory when a map starts up.
As to the original poster: it is definetely not a silly question, it was actually the first thing that came to me when I saw the article.
*Perhaps* they're storing vorbis on disk, and decompressing the audio when the map loads? This way you save disk space, plus you don't take a cpu hit decoding vorbis while playing the game. Just a hunch.
It's likely IBM will still do research in the field. I mean, come on, we're talking about IBM here, right? No company patents more crap annually than IBM. A likely scenario would be research continues and is licensed/sold to other companies.
I've got plenty of working ISA cards. TRUE geeks don't buy new hardware just because it's new. TRUE geeks keep working shit working. People who buy the latest and greatest the second it comes out are called wannabe's.
So, why exactly are you not only reading, but also posting, to Slashdot?
If I'm compiling my own distro it's because I prefer my -O options to what some vendor thinks are the correct compiler optimizations for my processor.
Using a commercial compiler and supporting free software aren't mutually exclusive. I write, maintain, and contribute to multiple projects. And if I cared about supporting free software monetarily, I'd buy Redhat's overpriced cdroms, which I might do for their upcoming release.
it'd be nice if one of these compile-it-yourself distributions worked with Intel's Linux C++ compiler (icc). Though Intel's compiler still doesn't support compiling the kernel and some other stuff, lots of software compiles just fine with icc. You can consistently obtain 10-20% improvements over gcc 2.9x in cpu intensive applications using icc (I haven't compared versus gcc 3.0 yet).
The icc license should be ok for home users to compile programs for their own use with it. I think you only have to buy the license if you plan on distributing binaries.
Ya, MySQL listens on 3306 by default, open to the whole world on my machine. It also uses root as the default account (not that it's any better than the default of postgres on PostgreSQL).
wait a minute, how can you argue that using root is better than a non-priveleged account? Is the postgres account is compromised, they get postgres data. If root is compromised, they get the keys to your car.
fyi-- port 3306 is typically MySQL, not PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL typically runs on 5432.
Still, it's a fair assumption they were running MySQL. Possibly just out of the box -- does MySQL listen to a network port by default? PostgreSQL only listens on unix domain sockets by default, you actually have to edit the config to get it to listen to the network.
getting a $2500 bonus hardly explains the crazy patent scenario. For the extra effort involved you might as well get a paper route, you'd make similar money either way. And that's even with the help of the big company lawyers assisting with the writeup.
Whats more important is that your name is on a patent. This makes a big difference to some folks, and employers as well. For the individual, it's kinda the professional equivalent of getting a research paper published.
watermarking only affects future content. Legacy content is watermark free, and with mp3 encoders freely available (lame, etc) future content will be watermark free as well.
A side note on how some watermarking systems work (or have attempted to work): a popular method is to encode a heavy watermark and a light watermark in the content. By dicking with the stream, you end up destroying the light watermark but the heavy watermark remains. This is an easy way for a vendor to flag pirated content. Of course, actually implementing a robust light/heavy watermark is considered difficult.
Now if you were talking fingerprinting, it'd be a different story...
I know you're talking about software, but I can confirm on the other side of the fence that Nvidia's chip designers are absolutely picky when it comes to their work. I used to work for a standard cell library vendor a couple years back. Nvidia tore apart our 0.25um library when it came to timing characterization. Those guys were pushing the envelope -- they needed timing on the cells accurate to better than couple percent. I'm not talking simple propogation delays, these were setup and hold times of flip flops and latches. We ended up giving them tables of setup and holds, not just a couple numbers like most of our customers were happy with. Real interesting job for a just out of college EE.
Is anyone doing decent PCI cards these days? I realize I'm behind the times here, but my motherboard (Asus CUR-DLS) has no AGP slot, leaving me with a GeForce2. Still, my dual P3-1.26 ghz setup isn't far enough behind the game to warrant buying a whole new setup. I do have a couple 66mhz 64bit PCI slots going unused in the motherboard, any graphics cards go that route?
die "program out of date, check web for update\n" if (time > 1049408843);
die "waiting for updated version to become available\n";
Re:Perl isn't unreadable - some Perl programs are
on
Exegesis 4 Out
·
· Score: 2
To add a touch to your point: write a "well written" program in perl and a "well written" program in Java, and find a random non-programming person.
Why would I do that? Since Joe Engineer is off for the day, is Mary from accounting doing my code review? Hell no! Readability by a "random non-programming person" doesn't mean jack about how one should write code, or what language should be used.
It's a nice goal to have programming languages be readable, and if they were stated in English that seems like it'd be nice. But English is so ambigous it can't make for a good programming language. You'd need a lawyer.
Next year, the day after april fools, we should all get together, make up a real-sounding fake story and send it in by the masses, fool the editors into posting it, then laugh at them.
Did you just show up? Apprently you're not aware of what goes on the other 364 days of the year.
Slashdot Mirror
kind of like mistyping a stock ticker? Buying 100 shares of SUN versus SUNW can be pretty pricey (and no, I wouldn't know anything about such an incident. I'll deny it all).
Oh yee of little faith, dropping URLs is the slashdot way.
Ask not what slashdot can do for you,
ask what you can slashdot.
Ebay Computer Contract
Item # 4886798269
Category: Computers: Contracts
Currently: $12,378,462
Quantity: 1
First bid: US $10
# of bids: 3
Seller (Rating): Ebay (999999999)
High bid: IBM (10)
Description
You are bidding on a contract for providing software and hardware to power the next generation of e-bidding monstrosi-sites...
Finally, if commercial software houses (which include things like single-person shareware companies) are required to cover damages and are not allowed to set the terms of liability, then I feel that the GPL-using community should be required to do the same. Fair is fair.
... WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER ... BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES" (capitolization from GPL). That said, that won't stop anybody from trying to sue you. And what's to stop existing or future EULAs from MS or otherwise to include similar provisions?
Very much true. Even though the GPL states: "IN NO EVENT
I didn't see any mention of SMP support in either article for the new chipset. Does the P4 even support SMP? What are the current MB offerings for SMP?
Any particular reason why? Is it just because the specs assume a reboot every 8-12 hours?
Hey mods: don't you think this article has enough comments marked *funny*? The signal to noise ratio -- even for slashdot -- is in the crapper. Maybe consider not modding stuff down that really isn't funny or better yet find something with real content to mod up.
lol...though it appear the moderators haven't seen Firefox.
could you give an example of your vm-auto-folder-alist? I've been using VM for quite awhile but I haven't tried this feature yet. Just curious how to set the variable to something useful.
Better not use either! Any FPS-type game using disk I/O is going to slow to a halt. Ever notice how the disk is only used to load maps/change levels? Everything gets loaded into main memory when a map starts up.
As to the original poster: it is definetely not a silly question, it was actually the first thing that came to me when I saw the article.
*Perhaps* they're storing vorbis on disk, and decompressing the audio when the map loads? This way you save disk space, plus you don't take a cpu hit decoding vorbis while playing the game. Just a hunch.
It's likely IBM will still do research in the field. I mean, come on, we're talking about IBM here, right? No company patents more crap annually than IBM. A likely scenario would be research continues and is licensed/sold to other companies.
So, why exactly are you not only reading, but also posting, to Slashdot?
If I'm compiling my own distro it's because I prefer my -O options to what some vendor thinks are the correct compiler optimizations for my processor.
Using a commercial compiler and supporting free software aren't mutually exclusive. I write, maintain, and contribute to multiple projects.
And if I cared about supporting free software monetarily, I'd buy Redhat's overpriced cdroms, which I might do for their upcoming release.
it'd be nice if one of these compile-it-yourself distributions worked with Intel's Linux C++ compiler (icc). Though Intel's compiler still doesn't support compiling the kernel and some other stuff, lots of software compiles just fine with icc. You can consistently obtain 10-20% improvements over gcc 2.9x in cpu intensive applications using icc (I haven't compared versus gcc 3.0 yet).
The icc license should be ok for home users to compile programs for their own use with it. I think you only have to buy the license if you plan on distributing binaries.
wait a minute, how can you argue that using root is better than a non-priveleged account? Is the postgres account is compromised, they get postgres data. If root is compromised, they get the keys to your car.
fyi-- port 3306 is typically MySQL, not PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL typically runs on 5432.
Still, it's a fair assumption they were running MySQL. Possibly just out of the box -- does MySQL listen to a network port by default? PostgreSQL only listens on unix domain sockets by default, you actually have to edit the config to get it to listen to the network.
getting a $2500 bonus hardly explains the crazy patent scenario. For the extra effort involved you might as well get a paper route, you'd make similar money either way. And that's even with the help of the big company lawyers assisting with the writeup.
Whats more important is that your name is on a patent. This makes a big difference to some folks, and employers as well. For the individual, it's kinda the professional equivalent of getting a research paper published.
watermarking only affects future content. Legacy content is watermark free, and with mp3 encoders freely available (lame, etc) future content will be watermark free as well.
A side note on how some watermarking systems work (or have attempted to work): a popular method is to encode a heavy watermark and a light watermark in the content. By dicking with the stream, you end up destroying the light watermark but the heavy watermark remains. This is an easy way for a vendor to flag pirated content. Of course, actually implementing a robust light/heavy watermark is considered difficult.
Now if you were talking fingerprinting, it'd be a different story...
I know you're talking about software, but I can confirm on the other side of the fence that Nvidia's chip designers are absolutely picky when it comes to their work. I used to work for a standard cell library vendor a couple years back. Nvidia tore apart our 0.25um library when it came to timing characterization. Those guys were pushing the envelope -- they needed timing on the cells accurate to better than couple percent. I'm not talking simple propogation delays, these were setup and hold times of flip flops and latches. We ended up giving them tables of setup and holds, not just a couple numbers like most of our customers were happy with. Real interesting job for a just out of college EE.
Is anyone doing decent PCI cards these days? I realize I'm behind the times here, but my motherboard (Asus CUR-DLS) has no AGP slot, leaving me with a GeForce2. Still, my dual P3-1.26 ghz setup isn't far enough behind the game to warrant buying a whole new setup. I do have a couple 66mhz 64bit PCI slots going unused in the motherboard, any graphics cards go that route?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
die "program out of date, check web for update\n" if (time > 1049408843);
die "waiting for updated version to become available\n";
Why would I do that? Since Joe Engineer is off for the day, is Mary from accounting doing my code review? Hell no! Readability by a "random non-programming person" doesn't mean jack about how one should write code, or what language should be used.
It's a nice goal to have programming languages be readable, and if they were stated in English that seems like it'd be nice. But English is so ambigous it can't make for a good programming language. You'd need a lawyer.
Any jokes regarding a toilet running a finger daemon are left as an exercise to the reader.
In related news, kernel hackers will now be known as "old maids".
Did you just show up? Apprently you're not aware of what goes on the other 364 days of the year.