Just table based translation with few ifs engrained
in the code is not good justification for hype,
however some companies survive just that way.
Anyhow, they managed to emulate other chips in
hardware. Thats like carb in a car that can work
on the same fuels, alas the fittings are not same,
so they cannot be integrated into a engine
environment, with some heavy modificaions.
Being able to to run code from penitum on
your chips that just modifes registers and adress
ranges is interesting challenge, but its just
that.
Drivers written for 'common' enviroments
surrounding chips would not work on new platforms,
and if they will that will mean that new platform
is just an old one with new processor, that
to externals is just like plain pentium chip.
Feat like VMWare is more admirable, thanks to
those CISC commands that allow for multiputer
based technologies.
New statements like Apple made way ago, and so
as Sun did with their hardware are more forward
thinking than that mere table lookup embedded in
hardware.
Remember some companies survive on hype, hyping
old or new technology. Transmeta has firmly placed
itself in that market share, so it will be tough
for this company in near term.
Well actually capsasin is not cure for the CTS
but a rememdy for pain. Apparently pepers exaust
some chemicals in nerve tissue, so they do
not transmit pain anymore. Injury it still there,
apparently reported to be very effective painkiller
for CTS just look for 'capsazin' on google.
p.
So unisys wanted royalties for GIF and XOR, did
they get anywhere? No. Thugs are thugs no matter
what veil they wear, such thing will go this way:
1. everyone will tell them to fuck off.
- they will be boycotted by everyone
- they will be hacked and cracked to
no end. Crackers would be really
offended when they can't listen to
their trance while cracking servers.
2. It is damage so internet will route around it.
- many alike formats will flourish, coverters will be made, that is if threat is serious.
- company will be viewed as a thug practicing questinable tactics, as such it will be discounted in favor of more sensible competition.
You speaking hypothetically. Now once a lawyer
charges you 100$/hr to do research, as compared to
1000$/hr or more spent by copyright lawyers, they
will litigate you into the ground. Doesn't matter
wether law is on your side or not, unless you
happend to have 10mil sticking around in your
pocket and you don't mind hurting overzealous
copyright holders. Those who expect you to sign
your soul away for what they think is master piece.
Now what I want to say, is that there is logistics
and there is real life. You can theorize as much as
possible wether a bully in the school will beat
you sensless or not. Truth is momentary force
is on his side whatever repricussions are.
Copyright holders do not have any repricussions
holding up agaist them and probably never there
will never will be. In the end they are that
are loosing 'possible' income, not you.
Hey Canadians are most networked people in the
world...
I seen somewhere though that gates wants to put
hundreds of loworbit satelites for highspeed access
literally everywhere.
It seems that many lawyers and companies do take
advantage of current misconception that programmers
are engeneers and you need engeneer mindset,
to be programmer. Many in programmer classes are
taught engeneering concepts, math and such other
things, where actual writing and text composition
courses would benefit programmers more than ever.
Back to beginning, programmers are writers, not
composers. Engeneers do build bridges and use
only well known ways to do things and very very
rarely allowed to deviate from the common path,
where in programming it is one of the rules to
follow so you become a successful programmer.
Often programmers told to scrap the project and
redo it with their new knowlege. Where do you
see engeneers do that? And timelines timelines.
It is ok to make compromises in code, when dead
line is due. Think airplane engeneer makes
compromises when the deadline is due.
Programmers are writers and want to be considered
as that, but not all. Engeneer is more prestigious.
Back to my point this guy is right about code being
paragraphs of letters than building blocks.
Of course when you write a large book, novel,
you have to fit the text chunks together,
sometimes rewrite or adjust them. Here's the
catch engeneers don't lay brick and mortar,
programmers job however is beginning to the
end job, make structure, and fill it in with the
content.
I rather be considered a code poet than lego code
designer and implementer.
plus not enough of DVD audio tracks. Really CDs are terrible when you get decent speakers, only thing compares is studio high speed 4 track tape.
There needs to be more DVD audio. Like hell we
are going to get that from industry that sells us
20$ cds that were to make:
.2c for media
.5c for distribution
.50c to advertising, promotions
.10-3$ to artist
with DVD audio being studio quality, like heck they are going to release much. Besides media cost might just kill their executives.
besides being -1 troll,
I would say you have no idea about good music,
beyon $5 speakers that came with your computer.
When you invest into pair of 500$+ speakers,
and 400$+ Amp, like HK or NAD, listening to
MP3s would be the last thing you would want to
do. Even CDs aren't as great, for same reasons.
You will cringe to artifacting that average 96 - 160kbps will put out. Thats why DVD audio is
presently making inroads into audio enthusiast
scene. However recording companies couldn't give
more crack about what people want, think or care.
Downloading more songs from napster will not
hurt RIAA in way of piracy, but that of mindshare.
RIAA using Napster and opionated people like you
to stomp out the new field for up and coming
companies that will change the future of music
distribution, with their lawyers and then, say
that only they are that equipped to deal with
internet music distribution.
The fact of the matter is they have screwed up and
put some major karma against themselves by
propogating such steps. I will see them being
overly controlling on the net, when they enter the
markets, and will be identified as a cancer growth
and will be routed around it.
So russians and chineese will detain persons from
US and give them trial by russan/chineese law, because they
have forged log files. Those will look for any
excuse to do whatever they want granted they
are interested in final outcome. FBI has ventured
into international relationships here, CIA must be
feel snubbed. FBI has no place in counterintelligence,
just like CIA has no place in local matters.
Just because of expertise and ability to deal with
delicate issues of international relations.
Just see McVeigh's trial, where he was determined
guilty from the beginning by FBI, so only evidence
that supported his guilt has been handed over to
trial.
Besides cunning tactics like that are publicised,
and therefor available for immediate review by
other side. Now it will be hard to reel
'criminals' in similar way, because there will
be cross checks and double checks. Besides,
they are only reeling in script kiddies,
good ones work as security consultants remotely
anyway.
So we will applaud to FBI for its creativity,
however many will frown upon FBI for that,
because there's oodles of local script kiddies,
who need to be caught.
This will be interesting to see in which direction
it will go. Maybe computer related crimes
worldwide will be handled by FBI as compared to
CIA, because of international treaty thats
being cooked up by countries all over the world.
So if you telnet to machine somewhere in tadjikistan,
they will be able to haul your ass in jail if
their law says that you have commited a crime.
This is the first largest move on behalf of corporate america to convert largest contry of intelligent individuals into vast Army Of L4M3RZ.
Go corporate america go...
Hey man vector is right. However it is not
poiting steeply enough. RIAA is pressed by
industry into mode where there will be hostile
takeover of free markets and grusome
capitalization on those, for the sake of mighty
dollar. DCMA is just about that greater
capitalization on already present information...
no less. You have to really contort your thinking
to see what your foe is really going to do...
Its good to see apple getting into secure
communications. At least some segments of end
user population will start using crypto on daily
basis.
Apple is notorious though for looking at something
that has potentia (gui, networking) and taking
clean page, start from scratch taking some ideas,
make so-so implementation and start selling it,
like its the only thing acceptable to end users.
What should've happend is they should at least
bought out PGP industries, and cut time and
development costs, but that would be alot like
Microsoft. Or should've taken GPG framework and
promote just that. Just do code audit, compared
to whole redesign. GPG should be LGPL, I think,
because it sole purpose is not to compete with
PGP, but rather get everybody to use crypto
whatever the cost is. Now starting to use crypto
is somewhat time consuming and cumbersome.
There are too many standarts, as from end
users prospective.
This is overall good move from Apple's side.
I hope they will not make crypto that is licenced
default in whatever software/recommendations, so
we all can communicate, by lowest common
denominator cipher that is available.
It is hard to bring a decent desktop to linux,
that will satisfy both flavors of users.
It has gone very far into trying to replace
windows, alas that is very wrong thing to do.
Trying to replace your competitor by building a
better product, when your competitor has a
monopoly on market is completely wrong. What
is the way is to predict a market niche and
shoot for it hard and fast, that will replace,
the fastest growth niche in present day, and
move from there on. Try to run as fast as possible
and as quick as possible to get there first,
and buildup a forstress, to withstand the storm
of monpoly fiend.
Linux was doing quite well. There is too much
effort being spent in replicating windows and
macintosh models. There are some creative movements
though like E17, wich will integrate shell into
desktop more than ever and make configuration of the
look of the environment trivial.
Yes these mundane monster projects will ultimately
add to the value of UNIX systems including linux,
but rather cutting edge software like E17 would
bring attention to linux.
Another thing, don't use markets as a benchmark
of present creativity in a community, especially
enthusiast based. Yes, present market blance
action, as to weed out wouldbe internet businesses,
Companies based on innovation, would strive,
not those who take stuff off the self, and replicate
neighbour's effort with little deviation.
Wasn't internet was suppose to be P2P? Every
computer back then was equipped with FTP server
and registered with multiple archie engines. And
uhm there were not masquerading firewalls and
networking traffice greppers, and everyone had
their own IP adress?
Fanning could've just modified archie to use
'file' command or code of that to provide a
multimedia service, not MP3 sharing service.
Good programmers don't start from scratch, unless
there is a good damned reason not to see the
alternatives, especially with great legacy,
like archie. But then Fanning isn't a good
programmer either, so this is expected. =)
There must be a middle here. There must be
limiting factors here, on how and why compnay
should be able to use patents as evidence in
court. If they use it to extort people out of
the money, or in dire days like epidemic where
90% of US are threatened by out of the control
virus, and one company holds a patents and they
want to sell it @ 100$ a pill, should this happen?
In simple case there are 2 sides to the coin,
so you can look at both. Here there are billions,
and each worth considering. Main thing is to be
satisfactory for both sides of conflict.
If one benefits greatly, and other sufferes
horribly system is tilted and there will be
force there to balance it out. Angry one perhaps.
Company may donate A+ enriched rice to
third world, but that would not solve problems
of those countries either... LOOK, you need fats
to digest A+, otherwise this gold rice worth
just as much as cheap white rice. You can discuss
issue when all sides of problem and all possible
solution are presented. You can sway from one side
to the other, but that will not make all parties
satisfied. Satisfied as in minimally rewarded
after balance is reached. Of course there can
be greater rewards for each. But there should be
minimal level or agreement. If it cannot be
reached, someone like government should decide,
wether people starve, and logical business system
is preserved or the reverse.
So you all are wrong. Patent system is abused by
lawyers. Lawyers will abuse anything to win their
cases, as long as it is of little or no penalty to
them. I am not promoter of pass the blame, but
legal sysem shall be restricted from using
certain tools like patent law in some cases.
This is your life, this is your world, TAKE SOME RESONSIBILITY!
Did Mr Speilberg, said you have a right to make
your own movies? NOT! Hollywood doesn't want
competing industry to arise, especially based on
formats they have stol...invented with
creativeness of Michelangelo...
Seriously part of all the stupid shit going on
with media formats, is control of creation,
not control of what already is produced, wether
its video or audio.
Much of the media cash flow is based on hype,
attention and control of that attention
exciters dispersal. If someone concetrates on
Napster, they are not thinking anymore about
real CDs, so mind share is lost. And that is
more valuable to media mongers than anything else.
I wonder how would AOL mail client handle
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org originating posts
Speaking of the first time your sound card
overloaded and caught on fire! =)
post the ip addys and exploits to related sites
like news groups alt.2600.* and other related
websites under anonymous users. Make sure it is not tracable. Let them suffer. Really most
companies are about maximisation of profits.
If you can convince their shitheads that float
atop of slary ranges, that they might make
a good peny on it, you will have more chance.
Pointing out people's failures will do no good,
unfortunately people don't like to hear like
it is. Difference between where they have to get
and where they are is big theirfor they will get
defensive because they will feel intimidated,
incapable - whatever. Good salesmen will see the
easy way through the bush(no pun intended:)
interesting, remember in days when IBM as and IBM
and Microsoft was Micro? =) Seems like Microsoft
wants to go back in time, as per-mainframe
licencing schemas, that are 20 years old,
but apply it to common user.
Linus took techology and core idea from 20 years
back. Microsoft took licencing ideas from 20 year
back. Things sure do change.
if you are using vim, and there is gvim built
in, do you thing gvim is a threat to vim?
thats stupid. Both will prevail, because there
such a mass of games out there that will never
be ported to linux, such as Alice by EA, that I
would singlehandedly call my favorite, just runs
on Wine with transgaming patch. Wine is no threat
to Loki, simply because traslation process eats some three fold computing time, and adds a lag to
a game as well. Wine is nice thing to get some
of your games to be played @ 640x480 with effects
turned down, unless you have GeForce 2 Ultra with,
1.4 ghz Athlon/P4, and even then, it adds some
sort of uncertainty to play. Emulation, will
always be a second choice to native code.
Have you played quake @ nightmare with 5
characters in same room firing rocket lauchers all
over the place? Things get pretty darn slow and
laggy. Quake under wine is not acceptable, to
sporting players. I would assume GLenabled walkthrus, and other items would be fine under
wine...
Wine might be a threat, if someone decides to take
and do lots of promotion about it, like marketing
that would ram this down our throats...
does it have fork(), exec() and exit()?
then it is unix. Well I am exagerrating a point
here, but just because there is huge propietary
app running on top of an os that is UNIX that does
not mean that is shall not be considered one.
You can write scripts, download gcc for it,
and compile your code that way... apache
runs on it fine, out of the box, so do other
fine unix software. Whats the problem ?
Just another hype bomb to improve slashdot's ratings?
Ok, I am off to o'reilly developer network.
Nuff of OSDN stuff for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Just table based translation with few ifs engrained
in the code is not good justification for hype,
however some companies survive just that way.
Anyhow, they managed to emulate other chips in
hardware. Thats like carb in a car that can work
on the same fuels, alas the fittings are not same,
so they cannot be integrated into a engine
environment, with some heavy modificaions.
Being able to to run code from penitum on
your chips that just modifes registers and adress
ranges is interesting challenge, but its just
that.
Drivers written for 'common' enviroments
surrounding chips would not work on new platforms,
and if they will that will mean that new platform
is just an old one with new processor, that
to externals is just like plain pentium chip.
Feat like VMWare is more admirable, thanks to
those CISC commands that allow for multiputer
based technologies.
New statements like Apple made way ago, and so
as Sun did with their hardware are more forward
thinking than that mere table lookup embedded in
hardware.
Remember some companies survive on hype, hyping
old or new technology. Transmeta has firmly placed
itself in that market share, so it will be tough
for this company in near term.
Well actually capsasin is not cure for the CTS
but a rememdy for pain. Apparently pepers exaust
some chemicals in nerve tissue, so they do
not transmit pain anymore. Injury it still there,
apparently reported to be very effective painkiller
for CTS just look for 'capsazin' on google.
p.
So unisys wanted royalties for GIF and XOR, did
they get anywhere? No. Thugs are thugs no matter
what veil they wear, such thing will go this way:
1. everyone will tell them to fuck off.
- they will be boycotted by everyone
- they will be hacked and cracked to
no end. Crackers would be really
offended when they can't listen to
their trance while cracking servers.
2. It is damage so internet will route around it.
- many alike formats will flourish, coverters will be made, that is if threat is serious.
- company will be viewed as a thug practicing questinable tactics, as such it will be discounted in favor of more sensible competition.
You speaking hypothetically. Now once a lawyer
charges you 100$/hr to do research, as compared to
1000$/hr or more spent by copyright lawyers, they
will litigate you into the ground. Doesn't matter
wether law is on your side or not, unless you
happend to have 10mil sticking around in your
pocket and you don't mind hurting overzealous
copyright holders. Those who expect you to sign
your soul away for what they think is master piece.
Now what I want to say, is that there is logistics
and there is real life. You can theorize as much as
possible wether a bully in the school will beat
you sensless or not. Truth is momentary force
is on his side whatever repricussions are.
Copyright holders do not have any repricussions
holding up agaist them and probably never there
will never will be. In the end they are that
are loosing 'possible' income, not you.
just 2c
Hey Canadians are most networked people in the
world...
I seen somewhere though that gates wants to put
hundreds of loworbit satelites for highspeed access
literally everywhere.
Go canda go...
It seems that many lawyers and companies do take
advantage of current misconception that programmers
are engeneers and you need engeneer mindset,
to be programmer. Many in programmer classes are
taught engeneering concepts, math and such other
things, where actual writing and text composition
courses would benefit programmers more than ever.
Back to beginning, programmers are writers, not
composers. Engeneers do build bridges and use
only well known ways to do things and very very
rarely allowed to deviate from the common path,
where in programming it is one of the rules to
follow so you become a successful programmer.
Often programmers told to scrap the project and
redo it with their new knowlege. Where do you
see engeneers do that? And timelines timelines.
It is ok to make compromises in code, when dead
line is due. Think airplane engeneer makes
compromises when the deadline is due.
Programmers are writers and want to be considered
as that, but not all. Engeneer is more prestigious.
Back to my point this guy is right about code being
paragraphs of letters than building blocks.
Of course when you write a large book, novel,
you have to fit the text chunks together,
sometimes rewrite or adjust them. Here's the
catch engeneers don't lay brick and mortar,
programmers job however is beginning to the
end job, make structure, and fill it in with the
content.
I rather be considered a code poet than lego code
designer and implementer.
plus not enough of DVD audio tracks. Really CDs are terrible when you get decent speakers, only thing compares is studio high speed 4 track tape.
There needs to be more DVD audio. Like hell we
are going to get that from industry that sells us
20$ cds that were to make:
.2c for media
.5c for distribution
.50c to advertising, promotions
.10-3$ to artist
with DVD audio being studio quality, like heck they are going to release much. Besides media cost might just kill their executives.
besides being -1 troll,
I would say you have no idea about good music,
beyon $5 speakers that came with your computer.
When you invest into pair of 500$+ speakers,
and 400$+ Amp, like HK or NAD, listening to
MP3s would be the last thing you would want to
do. Even CDs aren't as great, for same reasons.
You will cringe to artifacting that average 96 - 160kbps will put out. Thats why DVD audio is
presently making inroads into audio enthusiast
scene. However recording companies couldn't give
more crack about what people want, think or care.
Downloading more songs from napster will not
hurt RIAA in way of piracy, but that of mindshare.
RIAA using Napster and opionated people like you
to stomp out the new field for up and coming
companies that will change the future of music
distribution, with their lawyers and then, say
that only they are that equipped to deal with
internet music distribution.
The fact of the matter is they have screwed up and
put some major karma against themselves by
propogating such steps. I will see them being
overly controlling on the net, when they enter the
markets, and will be identified as a cancer growth
and will be routed around it.
YAY...
What a battle.
So russians and chineese will detain persons from
US and give them trial by russan/chineese law, because they
have forged log files. Those will look for any
excuse to do whatever they want granted they
are interested in final outcome. FBI has ventured
into international relationships here, CIA must be
feel snubbed. FBI has no place in counterintelligence,
just like CIA has no place in local matters.
Just because of expertise and ability to deal with
delicate issues of international relations.
Just see McVeigh's trial, where he was determined
guilty from the beginning by FBI, so only evidence
that supported his guilt has been handed over to
trial.
Besides cunning tactics like that are publicised,
and therefor available for immediate review by
other side. Now it will be hard to reel
'criminals' in similar way, because there will
be cross checks and double checks. Besides,
they are only reeling in script kiddies,
good ones work as security consultants remotely
anyway.
So we will applaud to FBI for its creativity,
however many will frown upon FBI for that,
because there's oodles of local script kiddies,
who need to be caught.
This will be interesting to see in which direction
it will go. Maybe computer related crimes
worldwide will be handled by FBI as compared to
CIA, because of international treaty thats
being cooked up by countries all over the world.
So if you telnet to machine somewhere in tadjikistan,
they will be able to haul your ass in jail if
their law says that you have commited a crime.
And so on...
This is the first largest move on behalf of corporate america to convert largest contry of intelligent individuals into vast Army Of L4M3RZ.
Go corporate america go...
Hey man vector is right. However it is not
poiting steeply enough. RIAA is pressed by
industry into mode where there will be hostile
takeover of free markets and grusome
capitalization on those, for the sake of mighty
dollar. DCMA is just about that greater
capitalization on already present information...
no less. You have to really contort your thinking
to see what your foe is really going to do...
Whats that about NSA tripping over fiberoptics?
I heard you can get fined for that.
Embrace and extend, for the good of human kind and progress of technological innovation....hm, did I hear that somewhere else?
>=)
Its good to see apple getting into secure
communications. At least some segments of end
user population will start using crypto on daily
basis.
Apple is notorious though for looking at something
that has potentia (gui, networking) and taking
clean page, start from scratch taking some ideas,
make so-so implementation and start selling it,
like its the only thing acceptable to end users.
What should've happend is they should at least
bought out PGP industries, and cut time and
development costs, but that would be alot like
Microsoft. Or should've taken GPG framework and
promote just that. Just do code audit, compared
to whole redesign. GPG should be LGPL, I think,
because it sole purpose is not to compete with
PGP, but rather get everybody to use crypto
whatever the cost is. Now starting to use crypto
is somewhat time consuming and cumbersome.
There are too many standarts, as from end
users prospective.
This is overall good move from Apple's side.
I hope they will not make crypto that is licenced
default in whatever software/recommendations, so
we all can communicate, by lowest common
denominator cipher that is available.
It is hard to bring a decent desktop to linux,
that will satisfy both flavors of users.
It has gone very far into trying to replace
windows, alas that is very wrong thing to do.
Trying to replace your competitor by building a
better product, when your competitor has a
monopoly on market is completely wrong. What
is the way is to predict a market niche and
shoot for it hard and fast, that will replace,
the fastest growth niche in present day, and
move from there on. Try to run as fast as possible
and as quick as possible to get there first,
and buildup a forstress, to withstand the storm
of monpoly fiend.
Linux was doing quite well. There is too much
effort being spent in replicating windows and
macintosh models. There are some creative movements
though like E17, wich will integrate shell into
desktop more than ever and make configuration of the
look of the environment trivial.
Yes these mundane monster projects will ultimately
add to the value of UNIX systems including linux,
but rather cutting edge software like E17 would
bring attention to linux.
Another thing, don't use markets as a benchmark
of present creativity in a community, especially
enthusiast based. Yes, present market blance
action, as to weed out wouldbe internet businesses,
Companies based on innovation, would strive,
not those who take stuff off the self, and replicate
neighbour's effort with little deviation.
cheers...
Wasn't internet was suppose to be P2P? Every
computer back then was equipped with FTP server
and registered with multiple archie engines. And
uhm there were not masquerading firewalls and
networking traffice greppers, and everyone had
their own IP adress?
Fanning could've just modified archie to use
'file' command or code of that to provide a
multimedia service, not MP3 sharing service.
Good programmers don't start from scratch, unless
there is a good damned reason not to see the
alternatives, especially with great legacy,
like archie. But then Fanning isn't a good
programmer either, so this is expected. =)
There must be a middle here. There must be
limiting factors here, on how and why compnay
should be able to use patents as evidence in
court. If they use it to extort people out of
the money, or in dire days like epidemic where
90% of US are threatened by out of the control
virus, and one company holds a patents and they
want to sell it @ 100$ a pill, should this happen?
In simple case there are 2 sides to the coin,
so you can look at both. Here there are billions,
and each worth considering. Main thing is to be
satisfactory for both sides of conflict.
If one benefits greatly, and other sufferes
horribly system is tilted and there will be
force there to balance it out. Angry one perhaps.
Company may donate A+ enriched rice to
third world, but that would not solve problems
of those countries either... LOOK, you need fats
to digest A+, otherwise this gold rice worth
just as much as cheap white rice. You can discuss
issue when all sides of problem and all possible
solution are presented. You can sway from one side
to the other, but that will not make all parties
satisfied. Satisfied as in minimally rewarded
after balance is reached. Of course there can
be greater rewards for each. But there should be
minimal level or agreement. If it cannot be
reached, someone like government should decide,
wether people starve, and logical business system
is preserved or the reverse.
So you all are wrong. Patent system is abused by
lawyers. Lawyers will abuse anything to win their
cases, as long as it is of little or no penalty to
them. I am not promoter of pass the blame, but
legal sysem shall be restricted from using
certain tools like patent law in some cases.
This is your life, this is your world, TAKE SOME RESONSIBILITY!
Did Mr Speilberg, said you have a right to make
your own movies? NOT! Hollywood doesn't want
competing industry to arise, especially based on
formats they have stol...invented with
creativeness of Michelangelo...
Seriously part of all the stupid shit going on
with media formats, is control of creation,
not control of what already is produced, wether
its video or audio.
Much of the media cash flow is based on hype,
attention and control of that attention
exciters dispersal. If someone concetrates on
Napster, they are not thinking anymore about
real CDs, so mind share is lost. And that is
more valuable to media mongers than anything else.
... fuck typed languages. That means. perl 5.* for
the rest of my life.
p.
I wonder how would AOL mail client handle
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org originating posts
Speaking of the first time your sound card
overloaded and caught on fire! =)
post the ip addys and exploits to related sites :)
like news groups alt.2600.* and other related
websites under anonymous users. Make sure it is not tracable. Let them suffer. Really most
companies are about maximisation of profits.
If you can convince their shitheads that float
atop of slary ranges, that they might make
a good peny on it, you will have more chance.
Pointing out people's failures will do no good,
unfortunately people don't like to hear like
it is. Difference between where they have to get
and where they are is big theirfor they will get
defensive because they will feel intimidated,
incapable - whatever. Good salesmen will see the
easy way through the bush(no pun intended
interesting, remember in days when IBM as and IBM
and Microsoft was Micro? =) Seems like Microsoft
wants to go back in time, as per-mainframe
licencing schemas, that are 20 years old,
but apply it to common user.
Linus took techology and core idea from 20 years
back. Microsoft took licencing ideas from 20 year
back. Things sure do change.
if you are using vim, and there is gvim built
in, do you thing gvim is a threat to vim?
thats stupid. Both will prevail, because there
such a mass of games out there that will never
be ported to linux, such as Alice by EA, that I
would singlehandedly call my favorite, just runs
on Wine with transgaming patch. Wine is no threat
to Loki, simply because traslation process eats some three fold computing time, and adds a lag to
a game as well. Wine is nice thing to get some
of your games to be played @ 640x480 with effects
turned down, unless you have GeForce 2 Ultra with,
1.4 ghz Athlon/P4, and even then, it adds some
sort of uncertainty to play. Emulation, will
always be a second choice to native code.
Have you played quake @ nightmare with 5
characters in same room firing rocket lauchers all
over the place? Things get pretty darn slow and
laggy. Quake under wine is not acceptable, to
sporting players. I would assume GLenabled walkthrus, and other items would be fine under
wine...
Wine might be a threat, if someone decides to take
and do lots of promotion about it, like marketing
that would ram this down our throats...
does it have fork(), exec() and exit()?
then it is unix. Well I am exagerrating a point
here, but just because there is huge propietary
app running on top of an os that is UNIX that does
not mean that is shall not be considered one.
You can write scripts, download gcc for it,
and compile your code that way... apache
runs on it fine, out of the box, so do other
fine unix software. Whats the problem ?
Just another hype bomb to improve slashdot's ratings?
Ok, I am off to o'reilly developer network.
Nuff of OSDN stuff for me.