BIND is not a typical Linux application. It was developed at Berkeley and shipped with BSD Unix, and later also with Windows. Not a very clever bit of trolling.
I wouldn't consider a simple parser that replaces a critical library a 'harmless' installation. Please tell which repository managed to mess up that badly, so I can steer away from it in the future.
That's only fair; They've been slapped for putting the squeeze on the OEM's to install nothing but their product. Now they can repair the damage they've done.
How can an ISP act as a judge, jury and executioner especially given that they have spotty evidence at best
Exactly, that must surely be unconstitutional.
Hehehe.
What's the problem? You'll be paying 100K just to maintain your worldwide patent for it's entire life, but trying 25 search engines on one rainy afternoon is too much effort?
I'm surprised there wasn't a big disclaimer at the bottom of the paper about RIAA funding; like the ones you see nowadays on many medical studies... Could they be sneakier than big pharma?
(Btw. I only read the last page of the FA, honestly)
When you buy a product you pay a small percentage of the price for the producers advertising budget. That budget is spent partly on google-ads That is how you pay your Google tax.
How exactly does rejecting images, which the author allows to be used within *.wikipedia.org, but not elsewhere, advance freedom?
It advances the freedom of the wikepedia users to use the images elsewhere. Without fear of an offended third party starting a lawsuit.
If you disapprove of wikipedia policies you can always start you own version, you can even use their code for that.
the entire world appearing to fade between red/blue or red/green or cyan/magenta, etc. in front of you in swirly clouds of freakiness.
People pay good money for that around here. So what's your problem?
As a non native speaker I find a dictionary quite convenient in these cases. so I'll do some back and forth translation for you here:
leverage (v.) -> opkrikken -> fuck up
augment -> duurder maken -> make more expensive
internal wiki -> krabbel zonder net -> off-line blurb
external wiki -> krabbel met net -> on-line blurb
existing -> nog bestaand -> not yet deleted
So the English to English translation is:
"What we would like to do is fuck up non yet deleted blurbs by making our off-line blurbs more expensive with on-line blurbs".
Now that I can understand.
Of course it works, I run OpenGL+GLX over (1/12M) ADSL every day.
Building a rendered scene takes a bit longer because the geometry is pushed from the client, but interaction is just as fast, as that consists of only a few bytes of network data and local GPU actions.
Well, that puts us back where I started. The 'issues' of X are a problem with the Qt and gtk toolkits, which seem to be written exclusively for a local display. Perhaps those projects would benefit more from some tuning (especially as that would benefit all application, not just remote ones)
Yes, 2Mb/s is about right (5 people on 10base2), with that you can run OpenGL (trough GLX) using a semi-intelligent redraw that only repairs damaged parts of the canvas.
Networked hardware accelerated OpenGL on X11 has been available from certain vendors only (I remember XiGraphics and SGI), but compiled display lists are on the graphics board anyway, so for many 3D scenes manipulation was quite good without that.
The only feature seems to be that XEvents are gathered and messages are compressed as much as possible before they are put on the wire. Oddly enough that is standard practice for people who write X11 event handlers anyway (I don't know if gtk or qt do this very diligently, but given the amount of work in those projects I'm guessing that should be ok).
I find this amazing. Since whole X11 protocol is already in place to do all the work, you need all that stuff to do 'xhost +'?.
Let me paraphrase an expression here:
People who don't know X11 are bound to reimplement it, badly.
In particular many *NIX environments
I have used passwords with spaces since the 1990's on AIX,IRIX,HPUX, Solaris and Linux and have only seen that happen on poorly written sql code (deliberatily put there by some ignorant web-developer). Which environment would that be?
It's a myth peddled by people who want to justify the morality of blocking every ad
You have been brainwashed. Every ad is paid for by you, whether you watch it or not: Since ads are paid by manufacturers, who get their money from you paying inflated prices. The immorality of refusing to consume sufficient ads is a ridiculous myth perpetrated by the advertisement industry.
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I think slåshdøt is brøken, I cån see the å's and ø's insteåd of [undef] chäråcters.
Could we get our old buggy version back?
BIND is not a typical Linux application. It was developed at Berkeley and shipped with BSD Unix, and later also with Windows.
Not a very clever bit of trolling.
I wouldn't consider a simple parser that replaces a critical library a 'harmless' installation.
Please tell which repository managed to mess up that badly, so I can steer away from it in the future.
Now it is.
I presume you have discovered the cheaper way to acquire your groceries as well?
That's only fair; They've been slapped for putting the squeeze on the OEM's to install nothing but their product. Now they can repair the damage they've done.
How can an ISP act as a judge, jury and executioner especially given that they have spotty evidence at best
Exactly, that must surely be unconstitutional.
Hehehe.
What's the problem? You'll be paying 100K just to maintain your worldwide patent for it's entire life, but trying 25 search engines on one rainy afternoon is too much effort?
I'm surprised there wasn't a big disclaimer at the bottom of the paper about RIAA funding; like the ones you see nowadays on many medical studies...
Could they be sneakier than big pharma?
(Btw. I only read the last page of the FA, honestly)
Hagf, I hqve jizt invwnted tgy PFA keyboorf withyut vixual cuws tp guidw uyo!
Especially as Ford and GM need many more spare parts than Toyota anyway?
Sorry, couldn't resist
When you buy a product you pay a small percentage of the price for the producers advertising budget.
That budget is spent partly on google-ads
That is how you pay your Google tax.
How exactly does rejecting images, which the author allows to be used within *.wikipedia.org, but not elsewhere, advance freedom?
It advances the freedom of the wikepedia users to use the images elsewhere. Without fear of an offended third party starting a lawsuit.
If you disapprove of wikipedia policies you can always start you own version, you can even use their code for that.
And more importantly: As long as you don't burn your books and they're sitting on a shelf (also wood) they are net carbon sinks.
the entire world appearing to fade between red/blue or red/green or cyan/magenta, etc. in front of you in swirly clouds of freakiness.
People pay good money for that around here. So what's your problem?
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_image.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673457416&CURRENT_LLV_ILLUSTRATION%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673457416&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226503&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500857&&newWidth==557&&newHeight==760
Sure it isn't dzook-kee-neh?
Stoopid Brits,
Because the Americans pronounce the Italian word Zucchini flawlessly.
As a non native speaker I find a dictionary quite convenient in these cases. so I'll do some back and forth translation for you here:
leverage (v.) -> opkrikken -> fuck up
augment -> duurder maken -> make more expensive
internal wiki -> krabbel zonder net -> off-line blurb
external wiki -> krabbel met net -> on-line blurb
existing -> nog bestaand -> not yet deleted
So the English to English translation is: "What we would like to do is fuck up non yet deleted blurbs by making our off-line blurbs more expensive with on-line blurbs".
Now that I can understand.
Of course it works, I run OpenGL+GLX over (1/12M) ADSL every day.
Building a rendered scene takes a bit longer because the geometry is pushed from the client, but interaction is just as fast, as that consists of only a few bytes of network data and local GPU actions.
Well, that puts us back where I started. The 'issues' of X are a problem with the Qt and gtk toolkits, which seem to be written exclusively for a local display. Perhaps those projects would benefit more from some tuning (especially as that would benefit all application, not just remote ones)
Yes, 2Mb/s is about right (5 people on 10base2), with that you can run OpenGL (trough GLX) using a semi-intelligent redraw that only repairs damaged parts of the canvas.
Networked hardware accelerated OpenGL on X11 has been available from certain vendors only (I remember XiGraphics and SGI), but compiled display lists are on the graphics board anyway, so for many 3D scenes manipulation was quite good without that.
The only feature seems to be that XEvents are gathered and messages are compressed as much as possible before they are put on the wire. Oddly enough that is standard practice for people who write X11 event handlers anyway (I don't know if gtk or qt do this very diligently, but given the amount of work in those projects I'm guessing that should be ok).
I find this amazing. Since whole X11 protocol is already in place to do all the work, you need all that stuff to do 'xhost +'?.
Let me paraphrase an expression here:
People who don't know X11 are bound to reimplement it, badly.
In particular many *NIX environments
I have used passwords with spaces since the 1990's on AIX,IRIX,HPUX, Solaris and Linux and have only seen that happen on poorly written sql code (deliberatily put there by some ignorant web-developer).
Which environment would that be?
It's a myth peddled by people who want to justify the morality of blocking every ad
You have been brainwashed.
Every ad is paid for by you, whether you watch it or not: Since ads are paid by manufacturers, who get their money from you paying inflated prices.
The immorality of refusing to consume sufficient ads is a ridiculous myth perpetrated by the advertisement industry.