Well, the reason that came out sounding wrong is because while he discovered it in 1938, the story goes he didn't realize its effects until 1943. Add another 15 years on that before the public at large knew what LSD was.
While its importance is likely often overstated, comparing it to something like "LSD on telephones making grandma trip out", or "Man wakes up with no kidneys" is a little bit of a stretch.
I'd bet they are over 18 by the time we fry them, but they can be sentenced to it for things they did as minors. It's just by virtue of the slow court system.
By the time the game is ready for release, the CVS SDL-Mixer will be release. This is likely the logic. This is only an alpha after all.
It's not uncommon for people to develop on the cutting edge, that way they won't have obselete deps when they themselves hit release.
Re:matrix and all that.
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Coolio used that camera flash freeze frame rotation thing back in 1996 or so in the "See you when you get there video", so I know that's at least that old.
Let me take this a step further. It seems like it always turns out that IP traffic should have been encrypted. Why don't we encrypt all IP traffic to begin with?
Probably because when IP traffic was developed, computers weren't fast enough. You do know TCP/IP has been around before 1993, right?:)
Even if encrypted IP was put in place before the Internet went public, 386/486 class computers that were common at the time could barely keep up with unencrypted traffic over fast modems. Remember when your browser rendering speed was more important than your connection speed?
As far as cell phones go, I might be talking out of my ass here, but I know the FCC has rules against encrypted transmissions on many bands. I wouldn't be surprised if it was (still is) illegal to encrypt cell phone traffic.
This alone provides a never-ending goal to the game, which is what you really need in an online environment. It's like a variant of the Red Queen theory - you're not just up against the game, you're up against everyone else. You have to work to stay at the top... but unlike a levelling game, The Sims Online is far more capricious in that popularity doesn't need a vast amount of experience behind it. Start a fad, and poom - you've got people hearing about it from teir friends, visitng... much like the slashdot effect, but in a game. You're at the top of a list for a week.
I thought we played that game in the late 90s.. I think we called it "the world wide something something".
Does this mean that after a couple game years their whole economy will collapse, leaving a few remaining houses?:)
You haven't "run into a patent" until they sue you. Seriously.
If every inventor/programmer gave up because there was a similar patent, no one would ever program or invent anything.
No one knows if you are really infringing on a patent until the judge actually hands down a ruling. Patents aren't as clear cut as trademarks or copyrights. It's impossible to say something like "this code infringes" or "this code doesn't" until it actually goes to court. Same with even whether the patent is valid.
I think this is the reason behind Linus basically saying "fuck patents". Once you get the cease and desist, then make your decision, until then, you might as well not worry about it (unless you have large bank accounts, in which case, you should already have a relationship with a lawyer).
I am not a lawyer. Get a lawyer if you want legal advice, because this isn't it.
I think. The kernels could not boot because of an "invalid root option" The boot manager is set up to pass "root=LABEL=/" to the kernel
The boot manager still needs to pass in a real device name, even if your fstab has labels, AFAIK.
As far as LABEL goes, it's all in the fstab man page.
Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)), writing LABEL= or UUID=, e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label.
/etc/fstab that lists devices, mount points and options. Mandrake gives me some complicated abstracted mess
You mean LABEL= ?
That's not a Mandrake thing. It's pretty much the way everyone is going, to avoid being so hardwired to device names that are liable to change when you reboot.
Plus, what about Johnny Gifted-teen in his basement. What happens when he writes a brilliant piece of code that MegaCorp snatches up and puts in their BigSoftware? Johnny sues them? With what resources? Do you know what it costs to sue a fortune 500 company? Hell, the government can't even do it successfully.
You don't think that happens today with open source software?
It comes with the terrority. Even if he used closed source, they could probably pay some programmer for a few weeks and reimplement all the features clean. It's very difficult to write software that is so advanced that people actually wonder "How did they do that!". Given a sufficiently skilled programmer, almost any app can be easily figured out and reimplemented, closed or open source.
And that makes a lot of sense since I don't think that any company is going to finance the development of software that will end up potentially benefitting the competition.
Wrong. At my company, we have funded several consultants in the past to write extensions of open source software that the developer later rolls into the next open source release.
Here are several reasons:
1. It usually is just one piece of the puzzle. 2. The competitor has to actually find out about the enhancements that may benefit them. 3. It's not in an area where one's company adds much value. 4. It might not serve the competitor's needs as well as it does yours.
It's like this. Imagine Boeing pays a tool maker to develop a new, better, tool that works on aircraft. They know full well that the tool maker is going to sell the tool to the competitors too. It's still worth investing in usually. It's the same with this, and with the GPL in general.
I think that this is the real GPL/Open Source business model that many people seem to miss. It's not all about "support" in the "my mouse won't work" sense.
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Well, the reason that came out sounding wrong is because while he discovered it in 1938, the story goes he didn't realize its effects until 1943. Add another 15 years on that before the public at large knew what LSD was.
Dr. Albert Hofmann didn't synthesize LSD until 1938. Einstein was a very old man by then, and had already written many of his most famous works.
Some people do run legitimate mail servers and legitimate mailing lists.
The Rosetta stone's role is actually urban myth
While its importance is likely often overstated, comparing it to something like "LSD on telephones making grandma trip out", or "Man wakes up with no kidneys" is a little bit of a stretch.
Everyone knows Linuxconf was depricated like three versions of Red Hat ago.
I'd bet they are over 18 by the time we fry them, but they can be sentenced to it for things they did as minors. It's just by virtue of the slow court system.
Of course, no examples to back this up.
By the time the game is ready for release, the CVS SDL-Mixer will be release. This is likely the logic. This is only an alpha after all.
It's not uncommon for people to develop on the cutting edge, that way they won't have obselete deps when they themselves hit release.
Coolio used that camera flash freeze frame rotation thing back in 1996 or so in the "See you when you get there video", so I know that's at least that old.
When Alan Thicke or Stephen King really does die, will Slashdot run a story? :)
Let me take this a step further. It seems like it always turns out that IP traffic should have been encrypted. Why don't we encrypt all IP traffic to begin with?
:)
Probably because when IP traffic was developed, computers weren't fast enough. You do know TCP/IP has been around before 1993, right?
Even if encrypted IP was put in place before the Internet went public, 386/486 class computers that were common at the time could barely keep up with unencrypted traffic over fast modems. Remember when your browser rendering speed was more important than your connection speed?
As far as cell phones go, I might be talking out of my ass here, but I know the FCC has rules against encrypted transmissions on many bands. I wouldn't be surprised if it was (still is) illegal to encrypt cell phone traffic.
Hobbyist PCI development is going strong!
You both are talking about the same thing right? Getting an empty ISA or PCI perfboard and sticking components on it?
Or did you mean software?
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It's possible to express a point without obscenity.
Yeah, but obscenity makes it so much fucking easier.
This alone provides a never-ending goal to the game, which is what you really need in an online environment. It's like a variant of the Red Queen theory - you're not just up against the game, you're up against everyone else. You have to work to stay at the top... but unlike a levelling game, The Sims Online is far more capricious in that popularity doesn't need a vast amount of experience behind it. Start a fad, and poom - you've got people hearing about it from teir friends, visitng... much like the slashdot effect, but in a game. You're at the top of a list for a week.
:)
I thought we played that game in the late 90s.. I think we called it "the world wide something something".
Does this mean that after a couple game years their whole economy will collapse, leaving a few remaining houses?
pathetic preemptive multitasking
More like non-existant. The way I understand it, the low level code was non-reentrant, so it was inherently impossible without a total rewrite.
Why does that make this story a troll though? Is it so amazing that a relatively new OS has a bug, whereas an older and heavily tested one would not?
Heh, hilarious.
You know the Sony Station where jeopardy.com is hosted has epileptic warnings now. I thought that was funny.
Uhg not enough coffee. Next time I should read the whole story.
You haven't "run into a patent" until they sue you. Seriously.
If every inventor/programmer gave up because there was a similar patent, no one would ever program or invent anything.
No one knows if you are really infringing on a patent until the judge actually hands down a ruling. Patents aren't as clear cut as trademarks or copyrights. It's impossible to say something like "this code infringes" or "this code doesn't" until it actually goes to court. Same with even whether the patent is valid.
I think this is the reason behind Linus basically saying "fuck patents". Once you get the cease and desist, then make your decision, until then, you might as well not worry about it (unless you have large bank accounts, in which case, you should already have a relationship with a lawyer).
I am not a lawyer. Get a lawyer if you want legal advice, because this isn't it.
I think. The kernels could not boot because of an "invalid root option"
The boot manager is set up to pass "root=LABEL=/" to the kernel
The boot manager still needs to pass in a real device name, even if your fstab has labels, AFAIK.
As far as LABEL goes, it's all in the fstab man page.
Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate
the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its
UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)),
writing LABEL= or UUID=, e.g., `LABEL=Boot'
or `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will
make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI
disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem
volume label.
You mean LABEL= ?
That's not a Mandrake thing. It's pretty much the way everyone is going, to avoid being so hardwired to device names that are liable to change when you reboot.
professional VB developer
:)
Is that something like "Subway Sandwich Artist" or "Sanitation Engineer"?
Just pullin your chain, no need to get uptight.
Open Source development is done on free time, except for the lucky few who are sponsored.
This is a myth. Most open source is sponsored. Since this is invalid, all the rest of your conclusions are invalid too.
Plus, what about Johnny Gifted-teen in his basement. What happens when he writes a brilliant piece of code that MegaCorp snatches up and puts in their BigSoftware? Johnny sues them? With what resources? Do you know what it costs to sue a fortune 500 company? Hell, the government can't even do it successfully.
You don't think that happens today with open source software?
It comes with the terrority. Even if he used closed source, they could probably pay some programmer for a few weeks and reimplement all the features clean. It's very difficult to write software that is so advanced that people actually wonder "How did they do that!". Given a sufficiently skilled programmer, almost any app can be easily figured out and reimplemented, closed or open source.
People with strong ethics like us may not sell out for any price.... but many people sell out every day.
Look at how many people post on here "I hate my job/My job is making me write proprietary lock-in-ware/My company is fucking open source over"
All those sentences end in "but I gotta eat".
So I'd say the price of Liberty is about equal to the opportunity cost (if any) of taking the more free alternative.
And that makes a lot of sense since I don't think that any company is going to finance the development of software that will end up potentially benefitting the competition.
Wrong. At my company, we have funded several consultants in the past to write extensions of open source software that the developer later rolls into the next open source release.
Here are several reasons:
1. It usually is just one piece of the puzzle.
2. The competitor has to actually find out about the enhancements that may benefit them.
3. It's not in an area where one's company adds much value.
4. It might not serve the competitor's needs as well as it does yours.
It's like this. Imagine Boeing pays a tool maker to develop a new, better, tool that works on aircraft. They know full well that the tool maker is going to sell the tool to the competitors too. It's still worth investing in usually. It's the same with this, and with the GPL in general.
I think that this is the real GPL/Open Source business model that many people seem to miss. It's not all about "support" in the "my mouse won't work" sense.
Are you saying you weren't just trying to be funny? You seriously do this?
And you admit it in public?
Wait, I get it, you are trying to get a job at MS.