The old ones are the best. If you want to watch some great Machinima for Classic Doom, check out Imp Encounter. This is based on a well-known fanfic story written about Doom. The original Doom did not have any scripting ability so Machinima for it has only really taken off in the past couple of years.
Fundamentally I see this idea of liability as a flawed way of approaching the problems of security. People promoting this idea are usually not programmers themselves and do not understand how computer security really works, although in this case the guy surprisingly actually seems to have some proper credentials.
It is impossible to develop a completely secure program - even the best programmers make mistakes and have bugs in their code. It's safe to say that most security holes are not intentional. Security is part of an iterative process of fixing these bugs and improving the system.
It's easy to just shout "blame the programmers! hold them responsible", but in the end, we need to look at the actual effects that a law forcing responsibility for software bugs would have. Would this actually help improve the security of software? Suing programmers will just deter people from writing software, and security holes will still slip through.
For people like architects and doctors, liability is important, as malpractice can endanger life. The same is not true of most software.
Has anyone seen what they've done with flash on that site? Their titles are all individual flash applets just displaying some text in a fancy (but ugly) font. For a Linux site this is rather appalling.
"TCP/IP" is a misleading term. UDP is based on IP and so is TCP. When someone refers to "TCP/IP" they really mean anything built on IP. A better name might be "TCP/UDP/IP".
Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin.
How is this "not following normal copy and paste rules"?
The wobbling is just a tech demo. It shows the kind of effects possible using the new X architecture being worked on. A team of artists and GUI designers is useless if they dont have an architecture to build their vision on.
I notice the names in the ad are listed in alphabetical order, despite the fact that the FAQ for the Ad said they would be listed in random order. Some people even paid extra to be listed in their own area - but in the end it looks like the designers of the Ad ignored this. Am I wrong about this? Can anyone explain?
Except that would take up more space. You'd need two hexadecimal characters to represent each character of every name, so the resulting text would be twice as long.
If you read the spreadfirefox FAQ, the ad wont run on the day of release but in some point within the next three weeks. They get better pricing if they dont demand a specific day.
Your idea is flawed because graphics chips are not microprocessors (or rather, not "just" microprocessors.. with the recent shader engine stuff they have processors in them but they arent centered around a processor in the same way that a computer is centered around a CPU). You dont have a proper understanding of how hardware works.
Actually it negates the usefulness of Open Source. Infact the whole idea proposed is a contradiction in terms. Read The Open Source Definition:
1. Free Redistribution - The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
If a patent is restricting the use of the code then it is not Open Source. If it cannot be used then it is really no different from a software company releasing a proprietary closed source.dll containing the implementation of their patented algorithm. Ultimately he is just promoting describing the patent in a different way. Any competent engineer should be able to implement an algorithm from a well-written patent description anyway - while useful the source code would ultimately be redundant.
Tim has missed the entire point of the patent debate.
I dont think its really fair to stereotype all Koreans as obsessive Starcraft players. Plenty of them obsess over other online games such as Warcraft and Diablo2 as well.
The top of the image says its written by "Brian K White".. does anyone else think that maybe the people writing the article searched for something like "Brian K code" in an attempt to find source code related to Unix?
I dont think its unreasonable to assume that most people using a computer can read. I'd expect anyone who can read English can understand "Double click speed" a lot quicker than some ambiguous looking drawings of a mouse button being pressed. Fact is, if you have pictures like in the mac example, you have to figure out what they mean; if you use text you can just say. IMO icons should be used as hints to the user to help them navigate, not as the actual labels themselves.
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Why do you have to click the Start button to shut down?
I don't know where this "X Window" thing came from. It is wrong. As you can see, the correct name is "X" or "X Window System".
The old ones are the best. If you want to watch some great Machinima for Classic Doom, check out Imp Encounter. This is based on a well-known fanfic story written about Doom. The original Doom did not have any scripting ability so Machinima for it has only really taken off in the past couple of years.
If you want to watch some good machinima, the original Doom has some great stuff done for it. Try this: Imp Encounter.
It is impossible to develop a completely secure program - even the best programmers make mistakes and have bugs in their code. It's safe to say that most security holes are not intentional. Security is part of an iterative process of fixing these bugs and improving the system.
It's easy to just shout "blame the programmers! hold them responsible", but in the end, we need to look at the actual effects that a law forcing responsibility for software bugs would have. Would this actually help improve the security of software? Suing programmers will just deter people from writing software, and security holes will still slip through.
For people like architects and doctors, liability is important, as malpractice can endanger life. The same is not true of most software.
Has anyone seen what they've done with flash on that site? Their titles are all individual flash applets just displaying some text in a fancy (but ugly) font. For a Linux site this is rather appalling.
here. It starts playing sound effects whenever you hover over it.
"TCP/IP" is a misleading term. UDP is based on IP and so is TCP. When someone refers to "TCP/IP" they really mean anything built on IP. A better name might be "TCP/UDP/IP".
Please educate yourself.
The wobbling is just a tech demo. It shows the kind of effects possible using the new X architecture being worked on. A team of artists and GUI designers is useless if they dont have an architecture to build their vision on.
How do they have the money to do this? Werent they almost bankrupt about a year ago?
Are you complaining that to be able to type something in, you have to use the keyboard?
I notice the names in the ad are listed in alphabetical order, despite the fact that the FAQ for the Ad said they would be listed in random order. Some people even paid extra to be listed in their own area - but in the end it looks like the designers of the Ad ignored this. Am I wrong about this? Can anyone explain?
Except that would take up more space. You'd need two hexadecimal characters to represent each character of every name, so the resulting text would be twice as long.
If you read the spreadfirefox FAQ, the ad wont run on the day of release but in some point within the next three weeks. They get better pricing if they dont demand a specific day.
Your idea is flawed because graphics chips are not microprocessors (or rather, not "just" microprocessors.. with the recent shader engine stuff they have processors in them but they arent centered around a processor in the same way that a computer is centered around a CPU). You dont have a proper understanding of how hardware works.
1. Free Redistribution
- The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
If a patent is restricting the use of the code then it is not Open Source. If it cannot be used then it is really no different from a software company releasing a proprietary closed source
Tim has missed the entire point of the patent debate.
Does this also affect JPEG attachments in Outlook?
I dont think its really fair to stereotype all Koreans as obsessive Starcraft players. Plenty of them obsess over other online games such as Warcraft and Diablo2 as well.
The top of the image says its written by "Brian K White".. does anyone else think that maybe the people writing the article searched for something like "Brian K code" in an attempt to find source code related to Unix?
Just what programming language is the code in this image written in? You'd think for Unix they'd use C or bourne shell, but it seems apparently not..
Does this mean it would now also be possible to develop an Open Source version of graffiti and use it on Linux-based palmtops for free?
I dont think its unreasonable to assume that most people using a computer can read. I'd expect anyone who can read English can understand "Double click speed" a lot quicker than some ambiguous looking drawings of a mouse button being pressed. Fact is, if you have pictures like in the mac example, you have to figure out what they mean; if you use text you can just say. IMO icons should be used as hints to the user to help them navigate, not as the actual labels themselves.