I have a Hauppauge PVR 250 PCI card in my EPIA ME6000. It has a 600MHz passively cooled C3 processor which runs at 8% load when encoding MPEG2 (using the card) and 40% when decoding same with the hardware decoder builtin to the motherboard. Quality is fantastic with MythTV using a digital cable source.
My point about shared source was that you could simulate the open source process without giving the source to your enemy. Heck, the corporations which produce defense software have enough engineers to do this internally if they wanted.
You assume that the executable is in the hands of the attacker. Really, there's no incentive to open source the sensitive bits. The worst exploits won't even be coding errors. They'll be the frequency on which you send commands to the missile or weaknesses in the algorithm used to find the target.
You're right about the infrastructure though; that can be (as is being) open sourced.
Do you really want the source code of some critical defense software could be read by Al-Qaeda? Yeah, they're bound to post patches!
You may say that other people could find the faults but is a community going to coalese around defense software which has no utility to the average hacker? Only if they were being paid methinks. Gosh, does shared source make more sense for defense software?
All of the posts replying to this one are bang on : we are the ones who will make the switch happen. Get the word out to your friends and family now. Tell them its their money at risk. How long will "IE-only" last when mozilla market share rockets?
This was my first thought too. However its the wrong people you have doing the mobilising. *We* need to mobilise. I'm mailing out to all my friends and family to make sure they know about this threat to their assets. All they need to know is "Your IE bookmarks appear under Imported Bookmarks". Mozilla market share through the roof, standards win, open source wins...
It's staticly type checked wherever possible. It's compiled using free tools (GNAT Ada compiler). It's trivially easy to import/export to C. C++ is harder but possible. There are bindings to Gtk+ and Gnome libs. Garbage collection is optional so you can be fast and dirty when needed. Oh, and it's had proper typesafe generics and emumerations (cor!) since 1983.
There are no polictical or patent timebombs unless you hold being invented by the military but then so is this internet thing you're using. In fact the only real disadvantages are a lack of Free Ada software and the fact we haven't standardised on a collections framework yet (Ada 200x where x>=5).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_programming_lan gu age has a pretty good overview.
I doubt it; they're selling update CDs.I bought one in the week for ~45 which is a lot cheaper than the full version. That's the pro version (needed for amd64).
Likewise, if someone is going to smoke crack he'll probably aquire that crack illegally. Yet people still support drug control legislation (or in some cases outright drug bans) do they not?
Really, it depends on what kind of society you want to live in.
On topic, I won't be heading to the states with my family and my wifes family to Disneyland which had been mooted. So yes it will affect your tourist industry. This and the visa requirements.
and targeted towards the Ada programming language, another market failure.
Would that be the same Ada that powers Mars Rovers, flight control systems on aircraft, missile systems, air traffic control systems etc? Nothing important then...
What to do about the RIAA From: Chris Moore To: letters@lwn.net, andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk, bob@cringely.com Subject: What to do about the RIAA Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:33:18 +0100
Hi,
Boycotting them is too much and not enough. It's too much because it implies abstinance and it's not enough because they deserve so much more. There's a much better way to stiffle them; swapping CDs in meat-space. Since there is no copying taking place and no re-sale then it's entirely legal. It removes the abstinance part, it's fun, hits them where it hurts the most and there's the obvious analogy with what happens online.
Finished with a CD? Take it down to the swap meet. An ideal place to meet is probably in front of the court house. Even if RIAA aren't prosecuting file swappers there, it's kind of symbolic and who knows, maybe the judge has some CDs he's finished with?
Chris Moore Portsmouth, UK
-- Sig pending!
As you can see it is also based on sharing but since there's NO COPYING its entirely legal and you don't need $2 million to start. Combine with flash mobs for extra buzz.;-)
The OS news article links to a PDF file.
Quick summary: They have a replacement for the Freetype lib so no apps have to be rewritten. 30% speed increase. It reads like a fair comparison to me.
Are you really surprised that Havoc (Pango) and the Xft guy are pissed when their software is going to be replaced?
I seem to remember someone saying putting font rendering in on the client side was a hack caused by them not wanting to extend the X protocol. Sounds to me like Sun are doing it properly.
Oh, and the font rendering isn't tied into X so potentially all those separate ghostscript fonts could disappear.
Always learn. Learn from the existing literature, C++ books and magazines and Web articles. They help you avoid reinventing
well-known wheels. Learn different languages.
They embody different ways of thinking. Learn
different tools. They teach different ways of approaching problems. Most language zealots I've encountered think that their favorite language is the be-all and end-all, simply because they know few or no other languages. Know the various tools you have available to you, and you can do a much
better job of selecting the right tools--plural, not singular--that will help you get your job done today.
All good advice. Doesn't the last bit make you think "i.e. use UNIX!" But why does this guy still prefer C++ over Java/Ada/Python/<insert your favourite language (except C!) here>?
<My C++ flame deleted.> What's the point? Use what you like but leave me to make my own choice. (I do have a C++ project so I know enough to know I don't like it!)
I've seen it too and was also impressed. The guy demoing it said their target markets were kiosks and info-heavy apps (e.g. build 3D model in top layer, render it in the botton layer). Not your average gamers rig and with 2 LCDs not likely to be anytime soon.
A good friend of mine, a solar astrophysicist, has been pointing out for nearly a decade that we have HARD EVIDENCE in the ice records that a massive up-swing in temperature happened in the roughly 500-800AD period, and damaged much of the world's species (there are many human communities that were hurt badly by this).
This was mount Vesuvious (the one that levelled Pompei). Threw up a whole mountain-load of stuff into the air. Compared it to a thousand nuclear bombs going off. Giant tidal wave. Effects lasted for a number of years. Spawned the Arthurian legend about the search for the Grail. Saw a Discovery Channel show on it. Really scarey stuff.
Anyway. We can't do anything about Vesuvious. We can about global warming. It has been proved that man has had an effect on this problem. Now we just need to overcome the politics. God help us!
There has always been speculation that the NSA could break RSA, but it was dissmised as paranoid by most "in the know." Most of the mathematicians didn't believe that they were that much ahead of the rest of us. Now that this technique is known it explains how the spooks may be able to break crypto everyone else believed was "unbreakable" if they had previously made this discovery.
You know, this is exactly what the Germans thought about the enigma codes. I remember seeing an article in Byte ages ago about holographic computing. They were talking about using light to do massively parallel (SIMD?) computations. Never heard anything more about it...
Volcanic activity on Earth warms the oceans. It is speculated that there were oceans on Mars but that the volcanic activity was not enough to stop the oceans eventually freezing. So there's probably a great deal of water on Mars under the surface. Most of it's probably frozen but towards the centre things get hotter and ice will melt.
I had a similar thought but http://www.icrontic.com/index.php?page=public/arti cles&articleId=103
and
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1561&p=2 seem to *imply* that it's a standard Copermine processor.
One thing's for sure, if it is the Xbox then getting Linux to run on it will be like moving a mountain with a spoon.
There's now a wealth of Ada documentation online but most of it is quite dry. This book will be a great boon for Ada in general; not only is it free, it's darn good too! Big Thanks to John.
If anyones interested in Ada, I recommend GtkAda, Booch Components, XML/Ada and of course the GNAT Ada compiler from those nice people at ACT.
Now, if I ever get round to writting that C++ header file to Ada binding tool we'll be all set to... take over the world.;-)
"He might have also addressed the question of duration. Some restrictions might be acceptable temporarily."
Well, here in the UK we have a piece of legislation called the Prevention Of Terrrorism act. This was seen as a temporary act and as such must be renewed in Parliament *every* year. I think it came into force in the early seventies and I can see it being renewed forever now.
The point is, you give the executive these powers even temporarily and they like them and keep them.
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All the 3D elements do in Grim Fandango is make it hard to get through the doors. It's the content of the game that make it great.
I have a Hauppauge PVR 250 PCI card in my EPIA ME6000. It has a 600MHz passively cooled C3 processor which runs at 8% load when encoding MPEG2 (using the card) and 40% when decoding same with the hardware decoder builtin to the motherboard. Quality is fantastic with MythTV using a digital cable source.
My point about shared source was that you could simulate the open source process without giving the source to your enemy. Heck, the corporations which produce defense software have enough engineers to do this internally if they wanted.
You assume that the executable is in the hands of the attacker. Really, there's no incentive to open source the sensitive bits. The worst exploits won't even be coding errors. They'll be the frequency on which you send commands to the missile or weaknesses in the algorithm used to find the target.
You're right about the infrastructure though; that can be (as is being) open sourced.
Do you really want the source code of some critical defense software could be read by Al-Qaeda? Yeah, they're bound to post patches!
You may say that other people could find the faults but is a community going to coalese around defense software which has no utility to the average hacker? Only if they were being paid methinks. Gosh, does shared source make more sense for defense software?
All of the posts replying to this one are bang on : we are the ones who will make the switch happen. Get the word out to your friends and family now. Tell them its their money at risk. How long will "IE-only" last when mozilla market share rockets?
This was my first thought too. However its the wrong people you have doing the mobilising. *We* need to mobilise. I'm mailing out to all my friends and family to make sure they know about this threat to their assets. All they need to know is "Your IE bookmarks appear under Imported Bookmarks". Mozilla market share through the roof, standards win, open source wins...
What??? You don't have "7 stone weaklings" over there?
It's staticly type checked wherever possible. It's compiled using free tools (GNAT Ada compiler). It's trivially easy to import/export to C. C++ is harder but possible. There are bindings to Gtk+ and Gnome libs. Garbage collection is optional so you can be fast and dirty when needed. Oh, and it's had proper typesafe generics and emumerations (cor!) since 1983.
n gu age has a pretty good overview.
There are no polictical or patent timebombs unless you hold being invented by the military but then so is this internet thing you're using. In fact the only real disadvantages are a lack of Free Ada software and the fact we haven't standardised on a collections framework yet (Ada 200x where x>=5).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_programming_la
I doubt it; they're selling update CDs.I bought one in the week for ~45 which is a lot cheaper than the full version. That's the pro version (needed for amd64).
So not only will I have to buy a new mega-machine but I'll have to grow another 6 heads to make the best use of Longhorn? I think I'll pass.
Likewise, if someone is going to smoke crack he'll probably aquire that crack illegally. Yet people still support drug control legislation (or in some cases outright drug bans) do they not?
Really, it depends on what kind of society you want to live in.
On topic, I won't be heading to the states with my family and my wifes family to Disneyland which had been mooted. So yes it will affect your tourist industry. This and the visa requirements.
Would that be the same Ada that powers Mars Rovers, flight control systems on aircraft, missile systems, air traffic control systems etc? Nothing important then...
is "write programs that write programs". Is it because GNU is not UNIX that people don't know this? ;-)
What to do about the RIAA
;-)
From: Chris Moore
To: letters@lwn.net, andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk, bob@cringely.com
Subject: What to do about the RIAA
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:33:18 +0100
Hi,
Boycotting them is too much and not enough. It's too much because it implies abstinance and it's not enough because they deserve so much more. There's a much better way to stiffle them; swapping CDs in meat-space. Since there is no copying taking place and no re-sale then it's entirely legal. It removes the abstinance part, it's fun, hits them where it hurts the most and there's the obvious analogy with what happens online.
Finished with a CD? Take it down to the swap meet. An ideal place to meet is probably in front of the court house. Even if RIAA aren't prosecuting file swappers there, it's kind of symbolic and who knows, maybe the judge has some CDs he's finished with?
Chris Moore
Portsmouth, UK
--
Sig pending!
As you can see it is also based on sharing but since there's NO COPYING its entirely legal and you don't need $2 million to start. Combine with flash mobs for extra buzz.
Organise CD swap meets outside the local CD emporium. Hitting them in their pockets makes so much more sense than adding to their pile.
Are you really surprised that Havoc (Pango) and the Xft guy are pissed when their software is going to be replaced?
I seem to remember someone saying putting font rendering in on the client side was a hack caused by them not wanting to extend the X protocol. Sounds to me like Sun are doing it properly.
Oh, and the font rendering isn't tied into X so potentially all those separate ghostscript fonts could disappear.
<My C++ flame deleted.> What's the point? Use what you like but leave me to make my own choice. (I do have a C++ project so I know enough to know I don't like it!)
I've seen it too and was also impressed. The guy demoing it said their target markets were kiosks and info-heavy apps (e.g. build 3D model in top layer, render it in the botton layer). Not your average gamers rig and with 2 LCDs not likely to be anytime soon.
This was mount Vesuvious (the one that levelled Pompei). Threw up a whole mountain-load of stuff into the air. Compared it to a thousand nuclear bombs going off. Giant tidal wave. Effects lasted for a number of years. Spawned the Arthurian legend about the search for the Grail. Saw a Discovery Channel show on it. Really scarey stuff.
Anyway. We can't do anything about Vesuvious. We can about global warming. It has been proved that man has had an effect on this problem. Now we just need to overcome the politics. God help us!
Hmm, isn't google a wonderful tool. Now I am scared
Volcanic activity on Earth warms the oceans. It is speculated that there were oceans on Mars but that the volcanic activity was not enough to stop the oceans eventually freezing. So there's probably a great deal of water on Mars under the surface. Most of it's probably frozen but towards the centre things get hotter and ice will melt.
;-)
Maybe this explains the worm trails?
I had a similar thought but http://www.icrontic.com/index.php?page=public/arti cles&articleId=103
2
and
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1561&p=
seem to *imply* that it's a standard Copermine processor.
One thing's for sure, if it is the Xbox then getting Linux to run on it will be like moving a mountain with a spoon.
There's now a wealth of Ada documentation online but most of it is quite dry. This book will be a great boon for Ada in general; not only is it free, it's darn good too! Big Thanks to John.
;-)
If anyones interested in Ada, I recommend GtkAda, Booch Components, XML/Ada and of course the GNAT Ada compiler from those nice people at ACT.
Now, if I ever get round to writting that C++ header file to Ada binding tool we'll be all set to... take over the world.
"He might have also addressed the question of duration. Some restrictions might be acceptable temporarily."
Well, here in the UK we have a piece of legislation called the Prevention Of Terrrorism act. This was seen as a temporary act and as such must be renewed in Parliament *every* year. I think it came into force in the early seventies and I can see it being renewed forever now.
The point is, you give the executive these powers even temporarily and they like them and keep them.