There are two or three bugs that you could run into in certain circumstances but for the most part it's fairly likely you'll get through without hitting one.
He's pointing out a problem with Linux distributions, not asking you to cry him a river. From a consumers perspective he has a good point. It should just work. From what the article says he seems to have a fairly standard sound chip which at least one of the distros claimed to support while others vaguely allude to "wide" support.
As a consumer product Linux distributions do need to improve in this and other similar areas. I bought a new printer and it didn't work out of the box and it didn't work properly after several hours of fudging around with CUPS and foomatic. I got bored and just resigned myself to printing only using my XP laptop. I haven't even bothered trying to use a new scanner on my Linux desktop. It just works with my laptop so I find myself using that and Photoshop Elements rather than The Gimp now.
Commercial distributions live on the interface where the product(s) of a community become a consumer product. I agree that the problems he and I just mentioned are probably not community failings. The community achieves fantastic things but wide ranging and solid third party hardware support is going to require greater involvement from those third parties. The community has a role to play there but the corporates probably have more leverage (and more incentive).
The changes in velocity that the wheel will experience in those conditions will probably indicate that the tires weren't in proper contact with the road. It shouldn't be too hard to convince the authorities that your car isn't capable of accelerating from 40 to 100km in 0.2 of a second.
If it's capable of measuring the amount of throttle and braking being applied too it should present quite a detailed picture.
While that's a lot more definitive than any of the patent grant stuff I've read relating to the ECMA C# and CLI standards it still isn't Free Software or probably even Open Source friendly.
Notably the fact that the patent grant only applies for implementations that:
include a complete implementation of the current version of this specification without subsetting or supersetting;
implement all the interfaces and functionality of the required packages of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, as defined by SUN, without subsetting or supersetting;
pass all test suites relating to the most recent published version of the specification of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, that are available from SUN six (6) months prior to any beta release of the clean room implementation or upgrade thereto;
seem (at least on the face of it) problematical for Open Source development. Those are fairly rigid requirements and if you are only 99% of the way there then you simply don't have a patent grant....
You don't need true root privileges for any of that.
Indeed, that's why remote exploits are more annoying in many cases than local ones. People in general don't have much of a motive to want root on a machine they have access to, they can usually pretty much do what they want already. In many environments priviledges etc aren't there for "hard" security reasons but merely to protect the system and users from unintentional harm from other users.
For remote exploits, root or otherwise, it only takes one numbnut to code a self-propagating exploit and anyone and everyone is in the firing line.
He said (my emphasis) "No
matter what advances occur in digital computing, quantum encryption can never
be deciphered, read or copied." and he's right.
It would take advances in our knowledge of quantum physics to change that, not advances in digital computing.
However there are increasing signs that various contributers, most notably Novell at the moment, are looking to contribute things to GNOME core that are written in higher level languages.
And there's where the BFD lies. Do you refuse entry to potentially cool technologies because they add another dependency to the platform and/or have a bit more political baggage than C?
The vendors and people who have split from XFree86 have reached their own conclusion that XFree86 isn't working for them as well as it should be. That isn't FUD, it's an appraisal of the situation they are faced with going forward.
The licence change isn't an 'excuse', it's just the latest issue.
Will those distros continue to go with XFree86 now that the X.Org Foundation is not just talking about it but is also actually delivering a forward moving, credible alternative?
I hear there's quite a few recently unemployed ex-Taliban who are highly skilled in the areas of repression, banning things and generally sticking their nose into other peoples business.
Except those floor panels are ~1 ton of marble!
From the looks of it most of the horns are under 20cm of concrete and it says about a ton of marble covers the access point.
That said it's not a flaw, they obviously are there for a reason. These people are clearly willing to go to quite some lengths to achieve a special effect so lifting up that marble if you have to is just part of it.
In my day power users could make such configuration changes themselves.
These days they seem to need the computer to ask them questions.
I guess they don't make power users like they used to.
Slashdot Mirror
I made about 3 posts in 2 months and I got one.
considering....
Some great sci-fi can be done on the cheap. People can even find it endearing.
I think the problem is more likely to be that they concentrate so much on being flashy that they forget other aspects that go to make a good program.
That said I've never seen Andromeda and couldn't bare to sit through either of the episodes of Mutant-X I tried started watching.
Displaying a Copyright and no warranty notice every time an interactive program starts.
It's the clause that everyone seems prepared to pretend doesn't exists. Can you imagine how annoying a GNU desktop would be to use otherwise?
The schedule is public and easy to find.
this one
There are two or three bugs that you could run into in certain circumstances but for the most part it's fairly likely you'll get through without hitting one.
Assign people passwords rather than let them choose their own. Make them easy to remember phrases like:
"Fuck off you mother fucking fuck fucker"
Then see if they'll spurt them out to people on the street.
He's pointing out a problem with Linux distributions, not asking you to cry him a river. From a consumers perspective he has a good point. It should just work. From what the article says he seems to have a fairly standard sound chip which at least one of the distros claimed to support while others vaguely allude to "wide" support.
As a consumer product Linux distributions do need to improve in this and other similar areas. I bought a new printer and it didn't work out of the box and it didn't work properly after several hours of fudging around with CUPS and foomatic. I got bored and just resigned myself to printing only using my XP laptop. I haven't even bothered trying to use a new scanner on my Linux desktop. It just works with my laptop so I find myself using that and Photoshop Elements rather than The Gimp now.
Commercial distributions live on the interface where the product(s) of a community become a consumer product. I agree that the problems he and I just mentioned are probably not community failings. The community achieves fantastic things but wide ranging and solid third party hardware support is going to require greater involvement from those third parties. The community has a role to play there but the corporates probably have more leverage (and more incentive).
And do you get a funky rubber suit and a cool name?
"Anonymo" or something?
The changes in velocity that the wheel will experience in those conditions will probably indicate that the tires weren't in proper contact with the road. It shouldn't be too hard to convince the authorities that your car isn't capable of accelerating from 40 to 100km in 0.2 of a second.
If it's capable of measuring the amount of throttle and braking being applied too it should present quite a detailed picture.
Taking "intimate" photos and seeing what building you most resemble.
plug it in and just have the motherfucker work will be a great one and it will be due to corporate involvement with Linux.
Notably the fact that the patent grant only applies for implementations that:
- include a complete implementation of the current version of this specification without subsetting or supersetting;
- implement all the interfaces and functionality of the required packages of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, as defined by SUN, without subsetting or supersetting;
- pass all test suites relating to the most recent published version of the specification of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, that are available from SUN six (6) months prior to any beta release of the clean room implementation or upgrade thereto;
seem (at least on the face of it) problematical for Open Source development. Those are fairly rigid requirements and if you are only 99% of the way there then you simply don't have a patent grant....For remote exploits, root or otherwise, it only takes one numbnut to code a self-propagating exploit and anyone and everyone is in the firing line.
He said (my emphasis) "No matter what advances occur in digital computing, quantum encryption can never be deciphered, read or copied." and he's right. It would take advances in our knowledge of quantum physics to change that, not advances in digital computing.
Throw in a roll of duct tape, then you're talking.
However there are increasing signs that various contributers, most notably Novell at the moment, are looking to contribute things to GNOME core that are written in higher level languages.
And there's where the BFD lies. Do you refuse entry to potentially cool technologies because they add another dependency to the platform and/or have a bit more political baggage than C?
There is a lack of confidence in XFree86.
FUD is something that is spread.
The vendors and people who have split from XFree86 have reached their own conclusion that XFree86 isn't working for them as well as it should be. That isn't FUD, it's an appraisal of the situation they are faced with going forward.
The licence change isn't an 'excuse', it's just the latest issue.
I think (as a casual observer) the licence change was more like the 'last straw'. Unhappiness within XFree86 has been percolating for some time.
Will those distros continue to go with XFree86 now that the X.Org Foundation is not just talking about it but is also actually delivering a forward moving, credible alternative?
A Beos Wolf cluster.
I hear there's quite a few recently unemployed ex-Taliban who are highly skilled in the areas of repression, banning things and generally sticking their nose into other peoples business.
They should be perfect for the role.
Except those floor panels are ~1 ton of marble! From the looks of it most of the horns are under 20cm of concrete and it says about a ton of marble covers the access point.
That said it's not a flaw, they obviously are there for a reason. These people are clearly willing to go to quite some lengths to achieve a special effect so lifting up that marble if you have to is just part of it.
In my day power users could make such configuration changes themselves.
These days they seem to need the computer to ask them questions.
I guess they don't make power users like they used to.