How hard do you think it'd be to add a "Slashdot submission blurb" field to your blogging software so that this sort of thing was done automatically for every article.
I was going to say "name a company after a fruit" but/.ers can be thick sometimes. Given the nature of the parent's comment I figured it would be necessary to be abundantly clear.
I had high hopes about this, until I realized they misused the term.
I was hoping they meant that I could give cycles to various projects and they'd keep track of how much I donated so that when I wanted to do something CPU intensive I could use their systems.
I'd expect something like, for everyone 1000 cycles I donated to their project they'd give me 100 cycles at 10 times the speed. That would be kind of handy if I were a 3D graphics artist and I only spent a few hours out of the week actually rendering images.
Imagine a world where companies like Pixar or Industrial Light and Magic let you run their modelling software on your computer so long as you donated cycles to their grid. Then, since the image rendering software is the same, you get back you 1/10th by sending your image specs to their systems.
If I recall correctly POV-Ray already has a system a little like this where you run a client that renders parts of other people's files for them. I think the big render houses and processing centers could get a lot of gain out of something like that.
In windows, you can do something about it. You can change the colors, change back to classic,...
Windows has, what, three colour schemes to the one in OSX? Yes, you are correct that OSX doesn't allow you to revert to outdated window styles. I'm pretty sure the only reason Windows has those is because of the performance hit you get with their OSX emulating scheme....change the fonts, change the sizes of things, turn the effects on and off, download TweakUI and mess with things like menu speeds and response times. With OSX... you're just stuck.
Assuming things like OnyX don't exist. The interesting thing there is that someone outside of Apple was able to figure out how to toggle those system settings. With Windows it's really a matter of what they tell you you can do.
True, neither Windows nor OSX give you the versatility of Linux. When I ran Windows I'd always replace the shell with Litestep and apply the uxtheme.dll hack. That sort of thing exists for OSX to a far lesser extent.
On the other hand, interfaces in Linux and Windows constitute a wide range of different styles that are hard for most people make sense of. Microsoft itself uses different layout systems between the operating system and its office products. In Linux you're playing with gtk or qt or possibly something else. In OSX it's all the same and consistent.
The article is about getting rich writing software. While I agree that he left games off the list of things people do in Windows, it'll be hard to argue that writing games for Windows is profittable.
In fact, I would say that the Apple experience is very Orwellian. "Here is the interface you will use. It is the same as every other interface. Your ability to configure it and later it is very limited, but you will learn to love it and live with it."
That's like complaining that the Federation ships in Star Trek are oppressively minimalistic in interior design. These are things which people actually prefer. There's nothing Orwellian about it. It's why New York City is so much easier to navigate than Atlanta, why ancient Rome looks so sane, why the Spaniards were blown away when they saw Tenochtitlan. These things were all planned. The Windows and Linux interfaces show the effects of suburban sprawl, OSX doesn't allow it.
The Apple interface is just as Orwellian as the Google interface. The reason you don't get this with Windows is that Windows has always used a half-assed copy of whatever Apple's doing with its interface. Unix grew up with interfaces that you had to just deal with, and Linux is in constant flux between feature creep and slimming down.
It simply takes a more developed skill set to write apps for MAC and *nix.
I'm sure I don't know what you mean. Have you even heard of Xcode? It's like Visual Basic, except it's free, a little more intuitive (to me, at least), and it can import make files like they were project files.
Macintosh is a coupe whose hood is hermetically sealed shut so you have to go back to the manufacturer for repairs, but it's easy to drive, handles well, gets great mileage, and looks really nice.
Linux is a tank built by hippies. It's complicated as all hell but it'll drive through buildings before it shuts down. You'll have to make all the repairs yourself, but the hippies don't mind explaining to you how to fix it.
Windows is a station wagon. The mileage isn't so great, they're not all that hot, they handle like a boat, and everyone has one. But at least every mechanic knows how to fix it because it *will* break down.
He gave you another, Comic Life. OSX is rife with programs that are just genius, especially when it comes to multimedia. Best of all, Apple.com isn't afraid to show them off. They have a pretty useful software section on their site that you should probably check out if you don't think OSX has any useful software. It's here. Pretty much an functionality you can get in Linux has been done for OSX. The reason why he picked OSX rather than Linux as an example is that OSX software has the sanest human interface you could ask for.
So I guess that means the Swedish can no longer use mp3.com, ifilm.com, and a whole slew of video game sites. If movie trailers are movies then the Swedish can't watch them anymore either.
"women gear up for gaming invasion" "women are set to explode onto the gaming scene" "women are about to invade the male dominated gaming world"
Holy crap! They're coming! Call to Arms: Venus Attacks!
"The games that are likely to appeal to women are not [..] time-consuming strategy games that men prefer. "Women don't have free time even to set up a game. They require a game that is quick to get into and doesn't require a great time commitment,"
Oh good. Women are apparently stupid and easily bored.
This article really sucks. I've never seen so many backhanded complements. And what's the most obvious point behind all this female gaming stuff? Equal representation in video games you say? Fool! No! The big push towards women in gaming is because the industry has already sucked as much money as possible from the men.
Women, stay away! Gaming isn't for you; you're all much better than us!
Here's what I've managed to learn about it so far:
Merkey is from Utah, where this suit was filed, and it directly stems from the SCO fiasco. At the same time SCO was suing IBM for their little code dealio this guy Merkey comes out from nowhere an offers to pay $50,000 (or maybe it was $500,000, can't remember) to buy a fork of the linux kernel for private use by some indian tribe somewhere. The story was fishy to many in the OSS community, including especially the people he mentions in the lawsuit. Bruce Perens at one point said in a discussion something like "he should be shot" about Merkey. Pamela Jones also got into the ordeal. Apparently someone managed to trace Merkey's ties back to SCO and it seemed apparent that Merkey's offer was part of some SCO plot to undermine the linux community somehow.
Anyway, the OSS community were a little pissed by this whole thing and a lot of things were said and now this guy Merkey is using his special status as a Native American to sue everyone under the sun. The ties between GPL software and terrorism are just hilarious.
I get to tell my friends now that I help support international terrorism in Utah.
This is a blog entry by Mark Schultz (the legal expert Wired quotes) that came before this "discovery" and after the Grokster decision on June 28th. He talks at great length about how little BitTorrent has to fear from litigation.
This is a second entry from the same day saying pretty much what Wired magazine has just said in the article we got here on Slashdot today.
This is the blog entry by Ernest Miller, also from June 28th, which appears to be the original source for the resurfacing of Bram Cohen's little essay. He appears to be the first person in insinuate that Bram Cohen is not a good person. Thanks Ernest.
I doubt you are. Look how long it took between the Grokster ruling and this to resurface. Which seems more likely, someone just now found this or someone was sitting on this waiting for ruling or lawsuit that would make it relevant.
Accusation sells. It gets hyped because they need it to sell, and then it becomes a stigma. I'd imagine all news agencies keep stuff like this chambered just in case it becomes relevant and they can make an accusation.
32. Defendant slashdot.org is an far-right wing Internet news website that posts libelous and defamatory content and is used by Open Source Community members to anonymously post hate speech, death threats, threats to murder and promotes and advocates acts of domestic terrorism within the United States. The address and location of defendants is believed to be within the State of California, but is unknown at the present time.
So yeah, Slashdot already has invited a lawsuit by cracking jokes. Then again, it's from Utah.
And how do you propose they do that. Read this once and you should be able to write a tracker and client from scratch. BitTorrent is disgustingly simple. It's like banning the use of wheels since they help people get away from the police faster.
I'd bet they're getting some real mixed messages. After all, they got sued in France for returning a search with competitors' ads. Granted, they probably wouldn't have been sued if the companies being "hurt" weren't French, but that's another story.
So if you voluntarily use a service (such as Google) it's illegal for that service to return ads for competitors. But if you involuntarily use a service (such as WhenU.com's) it's perfectly legal for that service to return ads for competitors.
The first world will contradict and sue itself into obsolescence.
I'd never heard of Liberty before. Their articles are extremely clear but seem a little... simple. It feels like I'm reading freshmen english papers. I really hate to ask who the target audience is. I like it though, and that's coming from a devout athiest. My mother digs Reason, she'd love Liberty.
Newest, mine came in yesterday. Salman Rushdie is on the cover. The article is on pg60 called "Who Killed Paypal? - 'Consumer advocates' can make like miserable for consumers"
First paragraph:
In September 2004 Bill Quick received a notice from PayPal, the online payment company that facilitated reader donations to his Daily Pundit blog. The notice warned Quick that his account was on hold, and that it would be terminated unless he removed "hate" content from his site. This appeared to be a reference to Quick's link to a video of a terrorist beheading. PayPal sent a similar letter to Jarlaynn Merrit's civil liberties blog TalkLeft. Neither site is at all hateful, and both linked to the beheading video for reasons that, while controversial, were certainly within the realm of civil discussion.
PayPal, like the internet, was the poster child of libertarian values. The article details how as soon as they started going for an IPO that would make them lots of money they started getting rained with lawsuits and PATRIOT Act violations.
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I guess we know which side of the "linux" pronounciation debate they're on.
How hard do you think it'd be to add a "Slashdot submission blurb" field to your blogging software so that this sort of thing was done automatically for every article.
I was going to say "name a company after a fruit" but /.ers can be thick sometimes. Given the nature of the parent's comment I figured it would be necessary to be abundantly clear.
REusing idle cycles? Really?
I had high hopes about this, until I realized they misused the term.
I was hoping they meant that I could give cycles to various projects and they'd keep track of how much I donated so that when I wanted to do something CPU intensive I could use their systems.
I'd expect something like, for everyone 1000 cycles I donated to their project they'd give me 100 cycles at 10 times the speed. That would be kind of handy if I were a 3D graphics artist and I only spent a few hours out of the week actually rendering images.
Imagine a world where companies like Pixar or Industrial Light and Magic let you run their modelling software on your computer so long as you donated cycles to their grid. Then, since the image rendering software is the same, you get back you 1/10th by sending your image specs to their systems.
If I recall correctly POV-Ray already has a system a little like this where you run a client that renders parts of other people's files for them. I think the big render houses and processing centers could get a lot of gain out of something like that.
In windows, you can do something about it. You can change the colors, change back to classic,...
...change the fonts, change the sizes of things, turn the effects on and off, download TweakUI and mess with things like menu speeds and response times. With OSX... you're just stuck.
Windows has, what, three colour schemes to the one in OSX? Yes, you are correct that OSX doesn't allow you to revert to outdated window styles. I'm pretty sure the only reason Windows has those is because of the performance hit you get with their OSX emulating scheme.
Assuming things like OnyX don't exist. The interesting thing there is that someone outside of Apple was able to figure out how to toggle those system settings. With Windows it's really a matter of what they tell you you can do.
True, neither Windows nor OSX give you the versatility of Linux. When I ran Windows I'd always replace the shell with Litestep and apply the uxtheme.dll hack. That sort of thing exists for OSX to a far lesser extent.
On the other hand, interfaces in Linux and Windows constitute a wide range of different styles that are hard for most people make sense of. Microsoft itself uses different layout systems between the operating system and its office products. In Linux you're playing with gtk or qt or possibly something else. In OSX it's all the same and consistent.
So I guess it'd be a bad idea to name a company Apple?
The article is about getting rich writing software. While I agree that he left games off the list of things people do in Windows, it'll be hard to argue that writing games for Windows is profittable.
Wiped out by dirty ignorant plague carrying people who were intolerant of other cultures?
In fact, I would say that the Apple experience is very Orwellian. "Here is the interface you will use. It is the same as every other interface. Your ability to configure it and later it is very limited, but you will learn to love it and live with it."
That's like complaining that the Federation ships in Star Trek are oppressively minimalistic in interior design. These are things which people actually prefer. There's nothing Orwellian about it. It's why New York City is so much easier to navigate than Atlanta, why ancient Rome looks so sane, why the Spaniards were blown away when they saw Tenochtitlan. These things were all planned. The Windows and Linux interfaces show the effects of suburban sprawl, OSX doesn't allow it.
The Apple interface is just as Orwellian as the Google interface. The reason you don't get this with Windows is that Windows has always used a half-assed copy of whatever Apple's doing with its interface. Unix grew up with interfaces that you had to just deal with, and Linux is in constant flux between feature creep and slimming down.
It simply takes a more developed skill set to write apps for MAC and *nix.
I'm sure I don't know what you mean. Have you even heard of Xcode? It's like Visual Basic, except it's free, a little more intuitive (to me, at least), and it can import make files like they were project files.
I'm going to paraphrase Neal Stephenson on this.
Macintosh is a coupe whose hood is hermetically sealed shut so you have to go back to the manufacturer for repairs, but it's easy to drive, handles well, gets great mileage, and looks really nice.
Linux is a tank built by hippies. It's complicated as all hell but it'll drive through buildings before it shuts down. You'll have to make all the repairs yourself, but the hippies don't mind explaining to you how to fix it.
Windows is a station wagon. The mileage isn't so great, they're not all that hot, they handle like a boat, and everyone has one. But at least every mechanic knows how to fix it because it *will* break down.
He gave you another, Comic Life. OSX is rife with programs that are just genius, especially when it comes to multimedia. Best of all, Apple.com isn't afraid to show them off. They have a pretty useful software section on their site that you should probably check out if you don't think OSX has any useful software. It's here. Pretty much an functionality you can get in Linux has been done for OSX. The reason why he picked OSX rather than Linux as an example is that OSX software has the sanest human interface you could ask for.
bash.org #98
i don't have hard drives. i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement and force them to memorize numbers
So I guess that means the Swedish can no longer use mp3.com, ifilm.com, and a whole slew of video game sites. If movie trailers are movies then the Swedish can't watch them anymore either.
Oops.
"women gear up for gaming invasion"
"women are set to explode onto the gaming scene"
"women are about to invade the male dominated gaming world"
Holy crap! They're coming! Call to Arms: Venus Attacks!
"The games that are likely to appeal to women are not [..] time-consuming strategy games that men prefer.
"Women don't have free time even to set up a game. They require a game that is quick to get into and doesn't require a great time commitment,"
Oh good. Women are apparently stupid and easily bored.
This article really sucks. I've never seen so many backhanded complements. And what's the most obvious point behind all this female gaming stuff? Equal representation in video games you say? Fool! No! The big push towards women in gaming is because the industry has already sucked as much money as possible from the men.
Women, stay away! Gaming isn't for you; you're all much better than us!
Here's what I've managed to learn about it so far:
Merkey is from Utah, where this suit was filed, and it directly stems from the SCO fiasco. At the same time SCO was suing IBM for their little code dealio this guy Merkey comes out from nowhere an offers to pay $50,000 (or maybe it was $500,000, can't remember) to buy a fork of the linux kernel for private use by some indian tribe somewhere. The story was fishy to many in the OSS community, including especially the people he mentions in the lawsuit. Bruce Perens at one point said in a discussion something like "he should be shot" about Merkey. Pamela Jones also got into the ordeal. Apparently someone managed to trace Merkey's ties back to SCO and it seemed apparent that Merkey's offer was part of some SCO plot to undermine the linux community somehow.
Anyway, the OSS community were a little pissed by this whole thing and a lot of things were said and now this guy Merkey is using his special status as a Native American to sue everyone under the sun. The ties between GPL software and terrorism are just hilarious.
I get to tell my friends now that I help support international terrorism in Utah.
Too late. Your comment about another better, faster, stronger P2P service coming out in less that a week got me to thinking.
:-)
I am now enslaved by this idea.
This is a blog entry by Mark Schultz (the legal expert Wired quotes) that came before this "discovery" and after the Grokster decision on June 28th. He talks at great length about how little BitTorrent has to fear from litigation.
This is a second entry from the same day saying pretty much what Wired magazine has just said in the article we got here on Slashdot today.
This is the blog entry by Ernest Miller, also from June 28th, which appears to be the original source for the resurfacing of Bram Cohen's little essay. He appears to be the first person in insinuate that Bram Cohen is not a good person. Thanks Ernest.
I hope I'm wrong.
I doubt you are. Look how long it took between the Grokster ruling and this to resurface. Which seems more likely, someone just now found this or someone was sitting on this waiting for ruling or lawsuit that would make it relevant.
Accusation sells. It gets hyped because they need it to sell, and then it becomes a stigma. I'd imagine all news agencies keep stuff like this chambered just in case it becomes relevant and they can make an accusation.
Go ahead, RIAA / MPAA . . . shut down BitTorrent.
And how do you propose they do that. Read this once and you should be able to write a tracker and client from scratch. BitTorrent is disgustingly simple. It's like banning the use of wheels since they help people get away from the police faster.
I'd bet they're getting some real mixed messages. After all, they got sued in France for returning a search with competitors' ads. Granted, they probably wouldn't have been sued if the companies being "hurt" weren't French, but that's another story.
So if you voluntarily use a service (such as Google) it's illegal for that service to return ads for competitors. But if you involuntarily use a service (such as WhenU.com's) it's perfectly legal for that service to return ads for competitors.
The first world will contradict and sue itself into obsolescence.
I'd never heard of Liberty before. Their articles are extremely clear but seem a little... simple. It feels like I'm reading freshmen english papers. I really hate to ask who the target audience is. I like it though, and that's coming from a devout athiest. My mother digs Reason, she'd love Liberty.
First paragraph:
PayPal, like the internet, was the poster child of libertarian values. The article details how as soon as they started going for an IPO that would make them lots of money they started getting rained with lawsuits and PATRIOT Act violations.
Per an article in Reason about this, Paypal will suspend your account if you link to those videos and they find out about it.