More to the point, which ADSL modem/router are you using that supports IPv6, 'cos it aint no use if my PC and my ISP support it if there's a big block in between the 2:(
You don;t have to pick it up - SF hosts free software, so incorporate a new business in Sweden or similar that just happens to host a mirror of SF's software. Then sf can happily block anyone (assuming that Sweden's not on the list of terror countries, which is possibly is given the US's idiocy and servile pandering to corporate interests) and provide a link to the Swedish mirror.
SF continues as normal, sf.sweden downloads a nightly changeset, job done. In fact, go one better and federate the mirrors around the world.... as long as the 'evil citizens of terror states' don't access the USA mirror, all's good.
are you sure? 1.9 says that they can prevent copying of content (not listing data). Whilst the paragraph says 'unrestricted coying onto DVRs' it also says "would permit". ie, they'll be able to prevent that for high-worth content, like a movie the producer didn't want you to record.
Later in the spec, they say there are 3 modes of protection allowed: unrestricted (fair enough, I imagine a lot of general TV would fall into this category, stuff like all those cookery or property shows), limited-copy (which allows you to make say 3 copies) and copy-once (ie to your DVR). Guess which mode would be employed for the programme's you'd like to keep?
I think the implementation is designed to DRM the listings data (as the programmes themselves cannot be encrypted), but still put the DRM onto the receiver - which in turn would prevent you from copying the programmes simply because they've got it there to protect the listing data. (ie because the 'what's on' info is embedded in it, no copying of the programme is allowed either)
How many receivers will be produced that do not have a listing guide? Probably none - they wouldn't sell in large enough quantities to be worth even a Chinese manufacturer making them.
This constant drive to (often needlessly) reinvent the wheel,
That's a problem with modern computing in general, I blame MS for always making different APIs and frameworks and never quite making their mind up about how to do something (DB access is a great example there). As a result, everyone, everywhere is always trying to do the same damn thing in a different way, using a different set of tools. Maybe one day computing will mature to be a more stable industry, focussed more on the final product than the toys used to build it, but we're still a far way off that.
someone said that they are the first step in making themes a bit more lightweight and extensible, that a theme is a collection of 'personas' which are individual UI modifications.
So today, we have a background modification, tomorrow a font or tab or scrollbar or whatever.
Maybe its a good idea, maybe bad, but that's the way it is with FF - you pays your money and you get changes. Its why you're using FF in the first place. I think we should stop giving them such a hard time over it sometimes - if they didn't try anything we wouldn't get the good stuff they come up with, even though we have to pay the price of having to accept the not-so-good. (and no, I use the awesomebar, I think its great now I've gotten used to it)
Do you run Vista, or Windows 7? How many apps do you have now that fit with the OS now? I mean, even Office totally ignores Windows themes and gives you a choice of 3, incompatible ones - black, wimpy blue and silver.
If its good enough for MS to scrap the (excellent) Window style guidelines and allow any old UI crap in, then FF is just another first-class app on Windows.
(I'd mention Linux, but then it'd only turn into a Gnome v KDE flame:)
I think he means whether to use poll, epoll, select or umm... the other one.
oh yes - kqueue. so which one's the right one to use? Now I've remembered them, I can can google for examples/tutorials/commentary and so forth. Sure, its the user's responsibility to educate himself enough as to which example code he'll find is good and which is poor.... but that's time that could be better spent on the next problem. If the documentation provided such an example itself everyone would be more productive and there'd be better quality code in Linux (he said hopefully).
Microsoft does something right, and its pander to developers. MSDN is (well, was) a truly magnificent beast. Every API call nicely laid out, formatted with examples and little code snippets. Man needs to be given a bit of a re-branding and made to be the primary source of all Linux-related documentation. (eg only C calls are in man, python - you have to consult the python web site. That's probably why its not so well-known to all Linux developers)
The "correct" English term is to use the masculine if there is at least 1 man in the group. ie, the masculine takes precedence. (or as my female english teacher taught me, "in English, he embraces she").
Other languages are the same - French for example will use il if there's a man in a group of women, elle is only used to denote an exclusively female group.
You can say its wrong, you can say its just the usual male misogyny toward females. The truth is that we use the masculine to denote both men and everyone. We use the term 'mankind' to refer to us all, women included. Its the girls who have it lucky - at least they get a term just for themselves, us poor blokes have to make do with the generic term.
Sexist against men, that's what it is. We demand mens liberation from the oppression by the female grammar nazis! Or we could just use the language the way its evolved/designed; then you, me and all womankind (hmm, did I mean that to include men or just to make a PC language point? you just don't know) will be happier.
Its not so suspect, its just convenient. When you're running your app through the debugger, and find a piece of code that doesn't work, quite like you expected, you can change your current statement position, change the offending code and run through it. Its no more suspect than altering a variable value whilst debugging.
Of course, once you're done you recompile and run through again to make sure.
I think it works by re-compiling and linking your changes at the end of the image, and then adding a jump to the relevant section (and then back again). Edit&continue doesn't work unless you have 'incremental linking' turned on, so I'm guessing its built on the ability to add code to the linked image rather than re-create it.
I find that 64-bit E&C support is strange, I was going to criticise MS for not supporting it in C++, but then it doesn't work in VB.NET or C# either.
I mean, sure, it may take it 4 minutes to launch a browser that would take a normal PC 2 seconds to launch
you have PC that lauches a browser in 2 seconds? Wow, where can I get one of these super-computers. FF on my 3x core AMD takes...well, longer than that. Even IE takes longer, but that's cached at startup to pretend its slim and fast.
Yeah, but my point is - most computing tasks nowadays require feeble CPU, its IO that is the bottleneck - reading all that bloated code into RAM for example. So as long as you don't use CPU-intensive tasks (like video/photo editing) then a simpler CPU is more than sufficient, and that's also a trend i'd like encouraged simply because if software developers are reminded that code still needs to be efficient and performant even under low-power CPUs, they will develop such code. if they think that everyone has 20Gb RAM and a 50-core 12Ghz CPU, they'll develop code that requires such a beast.
I'd liken it more to another professional area of the company. Take HR or Accounts for example, neither of those is an 'internal business unit' as they cannot be outsourced so readily - ok, you can outsource your accounts, but it'll just cost you more, and you still end up retaining your account managers and payments clerks. HR, no-one thinks twice about them being a business service that's integral to the business rather than stuff you can buy from the lowest bidder. Like the toilet paper vendor.
I'm using FF 3.5, so its not so bad - I might try chrome in a few days (after the slashdotting) to see what its like there.
The answer about byte manipulation was an interesting one, as a C/C++ dev I take such things for granted, but "generating a lot of garbage" means there's a lot of string copying going on under the covers which I know is a tremendous hit on system resources. I'm hopeful that it'll be improved though - Google has too much at stake:)
I wonder if it has something to do with fixing this
We asked Microsoft how it was planning improve Bing's indexing problem. "We're always working to improve the crawler," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. "With our latest crawler release still in beta, we doubled our crawling capacity worldwide. We increased our sitemap URL size to 50K and we made it easier for webmasters to control the crawler's aggressiveness."
IP addresses aren't enough? You're MS--if you can't fix the problem and IP addresses are given, damn, that's just sad. You're freaking massive multi-billion dollar tech companies, and this is the best you can do?
I've seen and used Vista. The answer to your question is "yes".
Intellectual property laws being uniform across a free trade so is REQUIRED for free trade of intellectual property and clearly not 'the exact opposite of free trade
sure, so the USA should accept the Costa Rican IP laws and be made to implement them. Why should it be the other way round?
The problem is that the US laws are so corrupt that no-one, even in America, wants them (except the vested interest groups like the RIAA)
Slashdot Mirror
sounds like a coding bug, I can't see why they couldn't display all the characters currently in the buffer instead of 1 character at a time.
just wait - the re-implementation will be 'one-click' .net apps, and the problems will simply continue from one broken MS technology into another.
but Kdawson doesn't start with 'sam'
KDawson isn't so bad, he's edited a couple of my submissions well, but lets not allow that to get in the way of a good old slagging-off session :)
More to the point, which ADSL modem/router are you using that supports IPv6, 'cos it aint no use if my PC and my ISP support it if there's a big block in between the 2 :(
You don;t have to pick it up - SF hosts free software, so incorporate a new business in Sweden or similar that just happens to host a mirror of SF's software. Then sf can happily block anyone (assuming that Sweden's not on the list of terror countries, which is possibly is given the US's idiocy and servile pandering to corporate interests) and provide a link to the Swedish mirror.
SF continues as normal, sf.sweden downloads a nightly changeset, job done. In fact, go one better and federate the mirrors around the world.... as long as the 'evil citizens of terror states' don't access the USA mirror, all's good.
As usual, the people hurt by the DRM will be all the (millions of?) legitimate users
Amen.
are you sure? 1.9 says that they can prevent copying of content (not listing data). Whilst the paragraph says 'unrestricted coying onto DVRs' it also says "would permit". ie, they'll be able to prevent that for high-worth content, like a movie the producer didn't want you to record.
Later in the spec, they say there are 3 modes of protection allowed: unrestricted (fair enough, I imagine a lot of general TV would fall into this category, stuff like all those cookery or property shows), limited-copy (which allows you to make say 3 copies) and copy-once (ie to your DVR). Guess which mode would be employed for the programme's you'd like to keep?
I think the implementation is designed to DRM the listings data (as the programmes themselves cannot be encrypted), but still put the DRM onto the receiver - which in turn would prevent you from copying the programmes simply because they've got it there to protect the listing data. (ie because the 'what's on' info is embedded in it, no copying of the programme is allowed either)
How many receivers will be produced that do not have a listing guide? Probably none - they wouldn't sell in large enough quantities to be worth even a Chinese manufacturer making them.
and Microsoft reported $10.9 billion in the 3rd quarter!
However, that just goes to show that quality != quantity.
This constant drive to (often needlessly) reinvent the wheel,
That's a problem with modern computing in general, I blame MS for always making different APIs and frameworks and never quite making their mind up about how to do something (DB access is a great example there). As a result, everyone, everywhere is always trying to do the same damn thing in a different way, using a different set of tools. Maybe one day computing will mature to be a more stable industry, focussed more on the final product than the toys used to build it, but we're still a far way off that.
someone said that they are the first step in making themes a bit more lightweight and extensible, that a theme is a collection of 'personas' which are individual UI modifications.
So today, we have a background modification, tomorrow a font or tab or scrollbar or whatever.
Maybe its a good idea, maybe bad, but that's the way it is with FF - you pays your money and you get changes. Its why you're using FF in the first place. I think we should stop giving them such a hard time over it sometimes - if they didn't try anything we wouldn't get the good stuff they come up with, even though we have to pay the price of having to accept the not-so-good. (and no, I use the awesomebar, I think its great now I've gotten used to it)
Do you run Vista, or Windows 7? How many apps do you have now that fit with the OS now? I mean, even Office totally ignores Windows themes and gives you a choice of 3, incompatible ones - black, wimpy blue and silver.
If its good enough for MS to scrap the (excellent) Window style guidelines and allow any old UI crap in, then FF is just another first-class app on Windows.
(I'd mention Linux, but then it'd only turn into a Gnome v KDE flame :)
...it's less a case of 'volunteers ahoy!' and more a case of 'where's my pay?'"
I'd say its more a case of "I get paid to do this? who-hoo".
nope. its the new Mouse class that has the innate ability.
he wasn't trying to compile, just bring up the intellisense parameter list :)
I think he means whether to use poll, epoll, select or umm... the other one.
oh yes - kqueue. so which one's the right one to use? Now I've remembered them, I can can google for examples/tutorials/commentary and so forth. Sure, its the user's responsibility to educate himself enough as to which example code he'll find is good and which is poor.... but that's time that could be better spent on the next problem. If the documentation provided such an example itself everyone would be more productive and there'd be better quality code in Linux (he said hopefully).
Microsoft does something right, and its pander to developers. MSDN is (well, was) a truly magnificent beast. Every API call nicely laid out, formatted with examples and little code snippets. Man needs to be given a bit of a re-branding and made to be the primary source of all Linux-related documentation. (eg only C calls are in man, python - you have to consult the python web site. That's probably why its not so well-known to all Linux developers)
no, its not the same.
The "correct" English term is to use the masculine if there is at least 1 man in the group. ie, the masculine takes precedence. (or as my female english teacher taught me, "in English, he embraces she").
Other languages are the same - French for example will use il if there's a man in a group of women, elle is only used to denote an exclusively female group.
You can say its wrong, you can say its just the usual male misogyny toward females. The truth is that we use the masculine to denote both men and everyone. We use the term 'mankind' to refer to us all, women included. Its the girls who have it lucky - at least they get a term just for themselves, us poor blokes have to make do with the generic term.
Sexist against men, that's what it is. We demand mens liberation from the oppression by the female grammar nazis! Or we could just use the language the way its evolved/designed; then you, me and all womankind (hmm, did I mean that to include men or just to make a PC language point? you just don't know) will be happier.
Its not so suspect, its just convenient. When you're running your app through the debugger, and find a piece of code that doesn't work, quite like you expected, you can change your current statement position, change the offending code and run through it. Its no more suspect than altering a variable value whilst debugging.
Of course, once you're done you recompile and run through again to make sure.
I think it works by re-compiling and linking your changes at the end of the image, and then adding a jump to the relevant section (and then back again). Edit&continue doesn't work unless you have 'incremental linking' turned on, so I'm guessing its built on the ability to add code to the linked image rather than re-create it.
I find that 64-bit E&C support is strange, I was going to criticise MS for not supporting it in C++, but then it doesn't work in VB.NET or C# either.
I mean, sure, it may take it 4 minutes to launch a browser that would take a normal PC 2 seconds to launch
you have PC that lauches a browser in 2 seconds? Wow, where can I get one of these super-computers. FF on my 3x core AMD takes ...well, longer than that. Even IE takes longer, but that's cached at startup to pretend its slim and fast.
Yeah, but my point is - most computing tasks nowadays require feeble CPU, its IO that is the bottleneck - reading all that bloated code into RAM for example. So as long as you don't use CPU-intensive tasks (like video/photo editing) then a simpler CPU is more than sufficient, and that's also a trend i'd like encouraged simply because if software developers are reminded that code still needs to be efficient and performant even under low-power CPUs, they will develop such code. if they think that everyone has 20Gb RAM and a 50-core 12Ghz CPU, they'll develop code that requires such a beast.
I'd liken it more to another professional area of the company. Take HR or Accounts for example, neither of those is an 'internal business unit' as they cannot be outsourced so readily - ok, you can outsource your accounts, but it'll just cost you more, and you still end up retaining your account managers and payments clerks. HR, no-one thinks twice about them being a business service that's integral to the business rather than stuff you can buy from the lowest bidder. Like the toilet paper vendor.
Code reviews, unit/mock/functional testing, analysis, UML *all* have to give way because of all the above and just to get it out on time
Man, you're so lucky. We have to actually *do* all that shit. Its hell.
I'm using FF 3.5, so its not so bad - I might try chrome in a few days (after the slashdotting) to see what its like there.
The answer about byte manipulation was an interesting one, as a C/C++ dev I take such things for granted, but "generating a lot of garbage" means there's a lot of string copying going on under the covers which I know is a tremendous hit on system resources. I'm hopeful that it'll be improved though - Google has too much at stake :)
So I guess the only thing holding it back is its performance (one assumes there are going to be fewer security and download/update issues :)
The blue demo seemed acceptable to me, but I wonder if it'd suffer as more stuff was added?
Still - top marks for that man, take the afternoon off.
I wonder if it has something to do with fixing this
We asked Microsoft how it was planning improve Bing's indexing problem. "We're always working to improve the crawler," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. "With our latest crawler release still in beta, we doubled our crawling capacity worldwide. We increased our sitemap URL size to 50K and we made it easier for webmasters to control the crawler's aggressiveness."
IP addresses aren't enough? You're MS--if you can't fix the problem and IP addresses are given, damn, that's just sad. You're freaking massive multi-billion dollar tech companies, and this is the best you can do?
I've seen and used Vista. The answer to your question is "yes".
Intellectual property laws being uniform across a free trade so is REQUIRED for free trade of intellectual property and clearly not 'the exact opposite of free trade
sure, so the USA should accept the Costa Rican IP laws and be made to implement them. Why should it be the other way round?
The problem is that the US laws are so corrupt that no-one, even in America, wants them (except the vested interest groups like the RIAA)