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My group at Amazon (while we're not busy coming up with things to patent) is taking a group trip to see it on Friday. I wasn't going to pay to go see it on my own, but now, the price is right.
Apparently someone here thinks that going to see it, overall, isn't a loss. Furthermore, they think paying for us to go see it isn't a loss.
"Congradulations", you just made a statement so wrong that I had to respond.
The GPL has NOTHING to do with a EULA. There is nothing in the GPL stating anything about restrictions on your use of the software (what EULAs do).
What the GPL *does* do is restrict COPYING. That's what COPYright is about. You can't make copies of the software unless you agree to the GPL. By making copies you have either agreed to the GPL or are committing copyright violation.
If you read the article, you'd see that other sites can apply to be re-instated if they are removed.
We'll never know if the internal pages have to go through the same rigor, or if applying to be reinstated actually gets you back in, but at least they have a policy for handling the situation.
I can't see processor optimization meaning much for video games. Modern video games are (at all but the lowest resolutions) GPU limited. Optimization for video cards has much more affect on game performance than CPU optimization.
Maybe as AI and physics become more demanding CPU capability will become more important, but if history has anything to show, CPU performance increases will greatly outpace game's use of it.
I think the reason there are no games for Mac is that there's very little market for them.
NOTE: I have a PowerBook G4, so you can't call me a PC zealot. It's no game machine, but that's fine. I wouldn't buy a game for it even if it was.
Kevin Foreman (Real Networks) *cough*spyware*cough*. Was sitting in a booth at the Cyclops (bar in Seattle) behind a table of a bunch of Real Networks fools. It was fun to listen to what they were saying and figure out how it related to spyware:)
Jon Hall (Linux International) Don't know him. He's not on my list..
Larry McVoy (CEO BitMover) If you've ever read anything this guy has written he comes across as being just about the biggest ass in the world. Add that to the fact that he personally threatened to sue me (some old time slashdotters might remember reading about this in a previous bitkeeper story), he comes out pretty high on the list. And don't forget the "don't piss off Larry" license on BitKeeper.
Marc Hamilton (Sun) Between their constant going back and forth between preteneding to be fans of Free/Open Source Software and their not-so-useful-but-sounds-good patent releases and indirectly bankrolling SCO, I really don't want to talk to anyone at Sun or listen to anything they have to say.
I just really can't see why these people were picked to talk somewhere where they are supposed to be supporting Linux.
Maybe this isn't really an authority on the subject, but in SimCity, when you allow gambling in your city, your crime rate goes up significantly.
In all the gangster movies, they are always involved in gambling.
Basically anywhere that kind of money changes hands is going to attract people you wouldn't normally want to associate yourself with.
Casinos seem morally irresponsible to me, letting people run up debt to the point where they put a burdon on society in order to make a profit. I'm sure this is an argument for another place at another time, but that's how I feel.
In terms of the two wrongs making a right, that's sort of like if someone crashed a plane into an Al Qaeda camp. I wouldn't really feel too bad. People making money in an immoral way (protection money against DoSs) from a company making money in an immoral way (gambling) doesn't exactly tug on my heartstrings.
I mean, I know it's wrong, but when you get into that business I'm sure this isn't really that uncommon. Gambling is a shady 'business' in the first place, so if you have to deal with other shady people to keep it going, then them's the breaks, buddy.
Yeah. hardware accelerated GUIs are horrible for laptops and could never work.
Oh wait.. I'm typing this on my PowerBook which has Quartz acceleration on its nVidia GeForce 5200 Go. Everything seems to work fine, the battery life is quite good, and the performance is very acceptable.
That said, I wouldn't want to run it on the Intel Extreme(ly bad) Graphics system.
I was looking at ThinkPads and all their 12" ThinkPads (what I would want, and I have a 12" PowerBook now) have Intel Extreme Graphics. That's just sad..
The point isn't that you trust mozilla/firefox. The point is that you're not downloading it from them, you're downloading from a mirror. If the software was signed, you'd know it was tampered with and that you were getting software you thought you were trusting.
The current system lets mirrors tamper with the software. You might trust mozilla, but you really have little idea of what the mirror may have done to it. This is at least what he's saying.. Firefox may have some sort of md5 or something posted..
I think you missed the point. The "massive array" lives on the server, and when the client requests suggestions for a particular string, it is looked up in this array. Only the portion of the array that has been grabbed from prior strings is cached on the client.
In a naive, client-side caching system, if you DID manage to request all the suggestion strings in the client, eventually you would have the entire array client side, but you'd probably start throwing away the old data at some point.
So anyways, IDK stands for "id" software and "k"eys. As in "*id* *k*eys *f*ull *a*mmo". There was another theory about what KFA stood for.. hrmm..
Anyways, if you wanted to play through the game and go get the keys like everyone else.. but have a little extra ammo, you could just do "idfa" for 'id' *f*ull *a*mmo.
Never forget the power of idspispopd. Anyone remember what that stands for?
What completely boggles my mind is that he posted BOTH of the stories. I mean.. if he took a week off or something and didn't realize the other story had been posted, I could understand it.. but he posted BOTH....shakes head...
Mark Spencer (the guy who does asterisk), is also the original author of Gaim, and Cheops (nifty network tool).
Anyways, that's it.. I knew him when we were both freshmen in college at Auburn.. He had ethernet in his room and I didn't, so my computer lived in his room most of that year..
Haven't talked to him in years.. so if you're reading this Mark -- HEY!!
Do you actualy consider Firefox bloated? Maybe I'm jaded by some of the stuff becoming so big previously that anything less seems to be lean and mean in relation..
oops, that 5th word was supposed to be "not" not "now".
Crap, I hate it when the typo is still correct English.. People read right through it and assume you're dumb instead of just not being able to type (or proofread).
Oops, except that's often now how the password is cracked. You don't try the password on the machine over and over, you get a hold of the encrypted password and check against that. This is much faster, as it involves no network activity for each try, only getting a hold of the encrypted password information.
The solution to the problem you are trying to solve is already in place on most systems, anyhow. When you fail to provide the correct password, you are punished by having to wait some amount of time (usually seems to be about 3 seconds). This way, instead of being able to test millions of combinations a minute, you can try 20. This way, your "friend" can't lock you out by typing your password wrong 3 times. Practical jokes are commonplace where I work.. don't need to make it easier on 'em..
The article is talking about the Linux KERNEL not the Gnu/Linux system. He's comparing the linux kernel and the windows kernel, and the difference betweent he two with regards to windowing systems is that Windows has windowing operations in the kernel, whereas Linus has it in unser space.
Just a little summary for people too impatient to read the article..
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My group at Amazon (while we're not busy coming up with things to patent) is taking a group trip to see it on Friday. I wasn't going to pay to go see it on my own, but now, the price is right.
Apparently someone here thinks that going to see it, overall, isn't a loss. Furthermore, they think paying for us to go see it isn't a loss.
Any programmers need a job? I need co-workers.
"Congradulations", you just made a statement so wrong that I had to respond.
The GPL has NOTHING to do with a EULA. There is nothing in the GPL stating anything about restrictions on your use of the software (what EULAs do).
What the GPL *does* do is restrict COPYING. That's what COPYright is about. You can't make copies of the software unless you agree to the GPL. By making copies you have either agreed to the GPL or are committing copyright violation.
Again, there is no EULA in the GPL.
If you read the article, you'd see that other sites can apply to be re-instated if they are removed.
We'll never know if the internal pages have to go through the same rigor, or if applying to be reinstated actually gets you back in, but at least they have a policy for handling the situation.
I can't see processor optimization meaning much for video games. Modern video games are (at all but the lowest resolutions) GPU limited. Optimization for video cards has much more affect on game performance than CPU optimization.
Maybe as AI and physics become more demanding CPU capability will become more important, but if history has anything to show, CPU performance increases will greatly outpace game's use of it.
I think the reason there are no games for Mac is that there's very little market for them.
NOTE: I have a PowerBook G4, so you can't call me a PC zealot. It's no game machine, but that's fine. I wouldn't buy a game for it even if it was.
Kevin Foreman (Real Networks) :)
*cough*spyware*cough*. Was sitting in a booth at the Cyclops (bar in Seattle) behind a table of a bunch of Real Networks fools. It was fun to listen to what they were saying and figure out how it related to spyware
Jon Hall (Linux International)
Don't know him. He's not on my list..
Larry McVoy (CEO BitMover)
If you've ever read anything this guy has written he comes across as being just about the biggest ass in the world. Add that to the fact that he personally threatened to sue me (some old time slashdotters might remember reading about this in a previous bitkeeper story), he comes out pretty high on the list. And don't forget the "don't piss off Larry" license on BitKeeper.
Marc Hamilton (Sun)
Between their constant going back and forth between preteneding to be fans of Free/Open Source Software and their not-so-useful-but-sounds-good patent releases and indirectly bankrolling SCO, I really don't want to talk to anyone at Sun or listen to anything they have to say.
I just really can't see why these people were picked to talk somewhere where they are supposed to be supporting Linux.
Maybe this isn't really an authority on the subject, but in SimCity, when you allow gambling in your city, your crime rate goes up significantly.
In all the gangster movies, they are always involved in gambling.
Basically anywhere that kind of money changes hands is going to attract people you wouldn't normally want to associate yourself with.
Casinos seem morally irresponsible to me, letting people run up debt to the point where they put a burdon on society in order to make a profit. I'm sure this is an argument for another place at another time, but that's how I feel.
In terms of the two wrongs making a right, that's sort of like if someone crashed a plane into an Al Qaeda camp. I wouldn't really feel too bad. People making money in an immoral way (protection money against DoSs) from a company making money in an immoral way (gambling) doesn't exactly tug on my heartstrings.
Little trolls come out of your closet and install them on your computer..
Oh wait, you ARE one of those little trolls!
Stay away from my computer!
But I just can't feel too sorry for them.
I mean, I know it's wrong, but when you get into that business I'm sure this isn't really that uncommon. Gambling is a shady 'business' in the first place, so if you have to deal with other shady people to keep it going, then them's the breaks, buddy.
Yeah. hardware accelerated GUIs are horrible for laptops and could never work.
Oh wait.. I'm typing this on my PowerBook which has Quartz acceleration on its nVidia GeForce 5200 Go. Everything seems to work fine, the battery life is quite good, and the performance is very acceptable.
That said, I wouldn't want to run it on the Intel Extreme(ly bad) Graphics system.
I was looking at ThinkPads and all their 12" ThinkPads (what I would want, and I have a 12" PowerBook now) have Intel Extreme Graphics. That's just sad..
I think you've missed his point a little.
The point isn't that you trust mozilla/firefox. The point is that you're not downloading it from them, you're downloading from a mirror. If the software was signed, you'd know it was tampered with and that you were getting software you thought you were trusting.
The current system lets mirrors tamper with the software. You might trust mozilla, but you really have little idea of what the mirror may have done to it. This is at least what he's saying.. Firefox may have some sort of md5 or something posted..
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Looks like we're in step 2.5..
I think you missed the point. The "massive array" lives on the server, and when the client requests suggestions for a particular string, it is looked up in this array. Only the portion of the array that has been grabbed from prior strings is cached on the client.
In a naive, client-side caching system, if you DID manage to request all the suggestion strings in the client, eventually you would have the entire array client side, but you'd probably start throwing away the old data at some point.
So anyways, IDK stands for "id" software and "k"eys. As in "*id* *k*eys *f*ull *a*mmo". There was another theory about what KFA stood for.. hrmm..
Anyways, if you wanted to play through the game and go get the keys like everyone else.. but have a little extra ammo, you could just do "idfa" for 'id' *f*ull *a*mmo.
Never forget the power of idspispopd. Anyone remember what that stands for?
By the way, I am not a lawyer, however, in my humble opntion, if I recall correctly, "I don't know" is bullshit. As far as I know.
In any event, hope this helps. Have a nice day. Be seein' you.
What completely boggles my mind is that he posted BOTH of the stories. I mean.. if he took a week off or something and didn't realize the other story had been posted, I could understand it.. but he posted BOTH. ...shakes head...
That really doesn't make sense. The $20M is gone. Period. Picking up $10M isn't losing money. It's making $10M you wouldn't otherwise have.
If you paid $4 to drive over a toll bridge and there was a $2 bill lying there, would you not pick it up because it would still be net negative?
It also means that they only have to find a way to make $10M profit to break even as opposed to $20M.
Your comment really doesn't make any sense to me.
Maybe they already know the answer and that's why he shut the rocket off when he knew he would pass the 100km mark.
I think it's cool that they have a predictive altimeter.
Your gmail account listed doesn't work.. greer at gmail dot com.. is it jgreer or something?
Mark Spencer (the guy who does asterisk), is also the original author of Gaim, and Cheops (nifty network tool).
Anyways, that's it.. I knew him when we were both freshmen in college at Auburn.. He had ethernet in his room and I didn't, so my computer lived in his room most of that year..
Haven't talked to him in years.. so if you're reading this Mark -- HEY!!
--Zac
They have an RSS feed, so if you have your shiny new mozilla 1.0PR, then you can easily make it a live bookmark.
:)
:)
Just click on the lightning bolt in the bottom left corner of the browser. It's really neat
Sorry to all of those who have been using RSS feeds forever.. I just got hooked
We don't like ads, either.. (or paying for our browser)
Do you actualy consider Firefox bloated? Maybe I'm jaded by some of the stuff becoming so big previously that anything less seems to be lean and mean in relation..
That said, Firefox seems pretty quick to me.
oops, that 5th word was supposed to be "not" not "now".
Crap, I hate it when the typo is still correct English.. People read right through it and assume you're dumb instead of just not being able to type (or proofread).
Ah well.
Oops, except that's often now how the password is cracked. You don't try the password on the machine over and over, you get a hold of the encrypted password and check against that. This is much faster, as it involves no network activity for each try, only getting a hold of the encrypted password information.
The solution to the problem you are trying to solve is already in place on most systems, anyhow. When you fail to provide the correct password, you are punished by having to wait some amount of time (usually seems to be about 3 seconds). This way, instead of being able to test millions of combinations a minute, you can try 20. This way, your "friend" can't lock you out by typing your password wrong 3 times. Practical jokes are commonplace where I work.. don't need to make it easier on 'em..
The article is talking about the Linux KERNEL not the Gnu/Linux system. He's comparing the linux kernel and the windows kernel, and the difference betweent he two with regards to windowing systems is that Windows has windowing operations in the kernel, whereas Linus has it in unser space.
Just a little summary for people too impatient to read the article..