It's time for a vocabulary lesson. Instead of "mathetize", which is indeed not a real word by any stretch of the imagination, you should use the word "quantify". And now you know.
If the system is programmed properly, then they should be able to easily replace the encryption module and rebuild the software. As long as they change keys every so often and increase the key strength as cpu power increases nobody will crack it. The real quesiton is, are they going to do that? I'm betting no. Let me tell you, I don't mind the subway. But I don't want to be stuck on it for many hours with many scary people.
This lady is absolutely right. There are crazy zealots out there who hurt Linux while trying to help it. These nutcases are usually the types who have no social skills, no friends and no lives. It's very frustrating for them to know they are, and be, technically correct (Linux IS a better operating system from a CS standpoint) however at the same time have people not listen to them because they present themselves at nutcase shitheads.
It reminds me of the other day in the subway when this crazy old guy was yelling about the trains running on different lines. He was actually correct, but nobody listened to him because he was a crazy old guy.
If we could somehow shut up these zealots and let only the presentable and friendly members of the Linux community do the talking we would be much further along. But I guess that's not the way its going to be.
This is cool, but not super useful. To make it useful you have to write requirements like so there are 10 users each user has a name and a phone number etc.
Requirements like the following wont get you anywhere: The program should search the internet for the page most relevant to the search term and return the url.
Never have I see someone write requirements so specific and complete as the first example. Anyone who is going to do that might as well write the code anyway since it is easier than taking the random code and turning it into the real deal.
Very cool, not very useful. Not until we develop a real AI at least.
Thank you for saying everything for me. The one thing I would like to add is a comment about the unqualified amateurs line. There are indeed people you can call to fix your stuff. But just like carpenters and plumbers and the rest, there ARE some jobs that are too small. And all those people are off making much more money at a real company doing big jobs on computers more important than grandmas.
The real problem here is that unlike your washers and dryers and televisions there is a constant swarm of people trying to break your computer. And due to the design of the computer it is extremely easy for people to break their own computer. It's just the old tool/device argument. And the inherent problem is that the more you want to push for device to solve the user end issues the more you cause performance and security issues. It's a fundamental rule.
The only solution is user education. It will be solved in 80 years when all the people who haven't had computers for their entire lives are dead.
If I could develop software funded by taxpayer dollars I would totally make an MMO. It would be free as in NPR and PBS free. It would be designed to be high quality, not designed to be addictive. And it would appeal to all peoples, so everyone could enjoy it. It would hopefully give everyone in the country something in common to talk about and help bring an end to this dichotomy of peoples in the US.
I would also use the money to fucking educate people about technology. God damn are people freaking clueless!
I don't know why you are using etc-update. Everyone I know uses dispatch-conf. It's widely accepted as the smartest way to handle etc. Sure, there are probably easier ways to handle etc, but you're never going to get everyone to standardize on any single thing.
The best solution I see would be to have some sort of XML/database kind of solution and have a nice gui tool and a command line tool to configure everything with a tree-like interface. Something like the GNOME configuration editor but fuller and better. Since all the tools are open source you just have to modify each piece of software to use the database instead of its own default. This would probably result in an entire new distribution of *nix with custom builds for everything with patches to support this.
But to be perfectly honest, I kind of like the seperate txt config files for everything. As long as all of them are in etc and named and organized appropriately. And as long as the format of the file is intuitive and simple with appropriate documentation it's all good. The real problems are programs like apache which have needlessly complex and bastardly configuration files that require tomes to understand. KISS like mplayer or Xorg.
IANAL just like 99% of the others here. However, in this particular situation wouldn't the code that was written by the employee belong to the company while the GPL stuff remain free? I mean, sure if they want to distribute the GPL derived code, they just obey it. But what if the code that the employee wrote was say, a Linux Kernel patch. Could they not distribute and patent this patch alone and separate from the kernel sources as its own product?
My general feeling is that somehow this employee violated their contact with the employer by using the GPL code. By agreeing all code you write belongs to someone else and then writing code that legally cannot belong to them you are somehow breaching the contract with the employer. i.e: if the company owns everything you think then you aren't permitted to work on open source projects. So the issue of who owns the code you did write for those projects is very confusing since it shouldn't have been written.
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The reason they want users to buy windows version to use nerolinux is simple. They don't want to go through the effort of making a new scheme to prevent piracy. Instead of having separate buy linux version and buy windows version things with different keys and such. They will just sell keys. You can even think of it as you're not buying the windows version. You're buying a key from ahead that lets you use either version. Also, this way people who already have a windows key can get the linux version for free.
You crazy people think too much into this.
As for k3b and nero yeah, I can see the guys point. But the fact is that nero, unlike the open source burning tools on linux, works no matter what. And it takes advantage of features your burner may have if say, its a fancy plextor. Also, for some things the linux software just doesn't do it. Like mastering and burning video DVDs, in linux there is no easy tool.
Neros advantage is that it works, period. If you think that k3b works period with a full featureset on all hardware then feel free to peruse any distro mailing lists and forums for people who can't get burning to work. Especially of DVDs.
"strand" programmers that have not trained in newer languages.
Listen, if you're a programmer who is only proficient in VB 5 and 6, its time to think about moving into another occupation. I suggest becoming a cab driver or farmer.
This is actually a primary argument for capitalism. Theoretically if private profit-hungry corporations were doing this instead of the government then they would waste as little as possible and do the best possible job. Because if they didn't, the competition would.
with the aim of bringing management of Linux desktops and servers on par with that of Windows desktops and servers
Um, how about a tool that does the reverse? Something that turns the windows registry and software configurations into a bunch of sensible and human readable text files all in a single directory with sane permissions.
Although the imaging is nice. I know way too many imaging programs which do not correctly support certain bootloaders in the mbr.
There are two ways to make money. You can sell goods or sell services. The problem is that people have treated software as a good. But this way of thinking is old and broken. The idea of free software is that software is a service.
In a world where all software is free I still see room for coders. It works like so. If there is a piece of software, say a driver, that is desired by a great many people. Then those people will work together to create it for the greater good. However, there are certain pieces of software which either are only in demand from a small number of people, only possible to be created by a small number of people and in demand only by people without software creating skills.
These three groups will pay software companies for the service of creating the software that they need, but would otherwise go unwritten. If you make a new USB peripheral or such you still need someone to write a driver. And it isn't going to happen magically. You need to hire some coders to write it so you can put it on your site for download and include it on disc in the retail box. This is how free software can make moneys.
It's a prestige class. First you need a few levels of religious fanatic (paladin). Then you have to gain a few levels of suicide bomber before you actually gain the extroadinary ability of suicide bomb. And since it's D+D you can always get a raise dead or resurrection to do it again.
Is anyone else bothered that all the pictures are of LARPers and not actual D+D? I think this shows the general misconception of what D+D is. If you are unsure of what D+D is really like I have a video for you.
I'll pay um, 0 cents a song. Maybe, just maybe if they had a service with every song ever, with perfect metadata and organization, at high bitrate, and super fast reliable downloads, without DRM of any sort. Then and only then I might just pay a fee like 1 cent a song. Or something like 50 bucks a year for as much as I can download. I should be able to download as many as I want at a time as well. Recorded music has no value, even at 5 cents a song its a rip off. Play more concerts I will go to them. At the current rate there's a decent concert I can go to once every few months. There should be at least 2 a week in any civilized area.
Oh, and all the money should go to the artist. Remove the obsolete middle man.
Will this thing work with a CD-RW? How about a DVD? DVD-RW? If it only works with a CD-R that's sort of useless because the CD will eventually fill up, and its basically a one-time use deal.
What would be extra cool is if you could combine this with something like the gentoo catalyst livecd making software. So not only could I save files on the RW disc but could also customize which software is on the disc to begin with. So if I wanted to get rid of X and save more space for files I could do so.
Because the creator of such a fantastic fighting game like DoA which boasts a bouncing boobometer as a game innovation has a right to talk about which fighting games are good and bad. Not that Tekken 5 is any masterpiece. Street Fighter 2 CE, Soul Calibur (any), Mortal Kombat II and maybe Virtua Fighter are still the defining games of the genre. All the other fighting games are just wanna-bes.
The internet is a source of information and information only. The interpretation and use of that information is completely up to the individual. The information about what you want is available. If you find the wrong information, misinterpret it, or misuse it there is nobody to blame but yourself.
Sure, things like wikipedia and google are far from perfect. However, if you apply to them the common sense and level of base knowledge of an educated human being they inrease in value tremendously. A hammer alone will not drive in nails. It requires an arm to swing it. And that arm needs to be skilled enough to hit the nail on the head. The internet is the better tool than the encyclopedia. But as will all tools of greater power, such as power tools, more caution must be taken to avoid severing limbs.
For games, just about anything that only uses two axes of movement and as many buttons as you have available will work. I especially recommend anything turn based since speed and accuracy wont be a problem. Anything else would probably be an old classic like space invaders, pac-man, etc.
Besides games, I hope you know about and are using Dasher or something like it for typing. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher /
This is only a problem with inkjet crap printers. Its much more economical to buy a laser printer, even a color laser printer. Sure, the toner is like 100 bucks. But it lasts forever. Especially if its just your house. Plus, laser printers often have network cards making it much easier to network the whole house to use just the one printer. And its higher quality printing that makes copies faster.
Sure, it's expensive to start out, but you can find pretty good cheap used ones on ebay, especially if you only need black and white. And its cheaper than inkjet over the long run. More reliable too.
Personally I think apple needs to re-enter the printer market. They used to make great laser printers.
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It's time for a vocabulary lesson. Instead of "mathetize", which is indeed not a real word by any stretch of the imagination, you should use the word "quantify". And now you know.
If the system is programmed properly, then they should be able to easily replace the encryption module and rebuild the software. As long as they change keys every so often and increase the key strength as cpu power increases nobody will crack it. The real quesiton is, are they going to do that? I'm betting no. Let me tell you, I don't mind the subway. But I don't want to be stuck on it for many hours with many scary people.
This lady is absolutely right. There are crazy zealots out there who hurt Linux while trying to help it. These nutcases are usually the types who have no social skills, no friends and no lives. It's very frustrating for them to know they are, and be, technically correct (Linux IS a better operating system from a CS standpoint) however at the same time have people not listen to them because they present themselves at nutcase shitheads.
It reminds me of the other day in the subway when this crazy old guy was yelling about the trains running on different lines. He was actually correct, but nobody listened to him because he was a crazy old guy.
If we could somehow shut up these zealots and let only the presentable and friendly members of the Linux community do the talking we would be much further along. But I guess that's not the way its going to be.
What happened to the times when you had to actually invent something before you could patent it?
This is cool, but not super useful. To make it useful you have to write requirements like so
there are 10 users
each user has a name and a phone number
etc.
Requirements like the following wont get you anywhere:
The program should search the internet for the page most relevant to the search term and return the url.
Never have I see someone write requirements so specific and complete as the first example. Anyone who is going to do that might as well write the code anyway since it is easier than taking the random code and turning it into the real deal.
Very cool, not very useful. Not until we develop a real AI at least.
Thank you for saying everything for me. The one thing I would like to add is a comment about the unqualified amateurs line. There are indeed people you can call to fix your stuff. But just like carpenters and plumbers and the rest, there ARE some jobs that are too small. And all those people are off making much more money at a real company doing big jobs on computers more important than grandmas.
The real problem here is that unlike your washers and dryers and televisions there is a constant swarm of people trying to break your computer. And due to the design of the computer it is extremely easy for people to break their own computer. It's just the old tool/device argument. And the inherent problem is that the more you want to push for device to solve the user end issues the more you cause performance and security issues. It's a fundamental rule.
The only solution is user education. It will be solved in 80 years when all the people who haven't had computers for their entire lives are dead.
If I could develop software funded by taxpayer dollars I would totally make an MMO. It would be free as in NPR and PBS free. It would be designed to be high quality, not designed to be addictive. And it would appeal to all peoples, so everyone could enjoy it. It would hopefully give everyone in the country something in common to talk about and help bring an end to this dichotomy of peoples in the US.
I would also use the money to fucking educate people about technology. God damn are people freaking clueless!
I don't know why you are using etc-update. Everyone I know uses dispatch-conf. It's widely accepted as the smartest way to handle etc. Sure, there are probably easier ways to handle etc, but you're never going to get everyone to standardize on any single thing.
The best solution I see would be to have some sort of XML/database kind of solution and have a nice gui tool and a command line tool to configure everything with a tree-like interface. Something like the GNOME configuration editor but fuller and better. Since all the tools are open source you just have to modify each piece of software to use the database instead of its own default. This would probably result in an entire new distribution of *nix with custom builds for everything with patches to support this.
But to be perfectly honest, I kind of like the seperate txt config files for everything. As long as all of them are in etc and named and organized appropriately. And as long as the format of the file is intuitive and simple with appropriate documentation it's all good. The real problems are programs like apache which have needlessly complex and bastardly configuration files that require tomes to understand. KISS like mplayer or Xorg.
IANAL just like 99% of the others here. However, in this particular situation wouldn't the code that was written by the employee belong to the company while the GPL stuff remain free? I mean, sure if they want to distribute the GPL derived code, they just obey it. But what if the code that the employee wrote was say, a Linux Kernel patch. Could they not distribute and patent this patch alone and separate from the kernel sources as its own product?
My general feeling is that somehow this employee violated their contact with the employer by using the GPL code. By agreeing all code you write belongs to someone else and then writing code that legally cannot belong to them you are somehow breaching the contract with the employer. i.e: if the company owns everything you think then you aren't permitted to work on open source projects. So the issue of who owns the code you did write for those projects is very confusing since it shouldn't have been written.
The reason they want users to buy windows version to use nerolinux is simple. They don't want to go through the effort of making a new scheme to prevent piracy. Instead of having separate buy linux version and buy windows version things with different keys and such. They will just sell keys. You can even think of it as you're not buying the windows version. You're buying a key from ahead that lets you use either version. Also, this way people who already have a windows key can get the linux version for free.
You crazy people think too much into this.
As for k3b and nero yeah, I can see the guys point. But the fact is that nero, unlike the open source burning tools on linux, works no matter what. And it takes advantage of features your burner may have if say, its a fancy plextor. Also, for some things the linux software just doesn't do it. Like mastering and burning video DVDs, in linux there is no easy tool.
Neros advantage is that it works, period. If you think that k3b works period with a full featureset on all hardware then feel free to peruse any distro mailing lists and forums for people who can't get burning to work. Especially of DVDs.
"strand" programmers that have not trained in newer languages.
Listen, if you're a programmer who is only proficient in VB 5 and 6, its time to think about moving into another occupation. I suggest becoming a cab driver or farmer.
This is actually a primary argument for capitalism. Theoretically if private profit-hungry corporations were doing this instead of the government then they would waste as little as possible and do the best possible job. Because if they didn't, the competition would.
with the aim of bringing management of Linux desktops and servers on par with that of Windows desktops and servers
Um, how about a tool that does the reverse? Something that turns the windows registry and software configurations into a bunch of sensible and human readable text files all in a single directory with sane permissions.
Although the imaging is nice. I know way too many imaging programs which do not correctly support certain bootloaders in the mbr.
There are two ways to make money. You can sell goods or sell services. The problem is that people have treated software as a good. But this way of thinking is old and broken. The idea of free software is that software is a service.
In a world where all software is free I still see room for coders. It works like so. If there is a piece of software, say a driver, that is desired by a great many people. Then those people will work together to create it for the greater good. However, there are certain pieces of software which either are only in demand from a small number of people, only possible to be created by a small number of people and in demand only by people without software creating skills.
These three groups will pay software companies for the service of creating the software that they need, but would otherwise go unwritten. If you make a new USB peripheral or such you still need someone to write a driver. And it isn't going to happen magically. You need to hire some coders to write it so you can put it on your site for download and include it on disc in the retail box. This is how free software can make moneys.
It's a prestige class. First you need a few levels of religious fanatic (paladin). Then you have to gain a few levels of suicide bomber before you actually gain the extroadinary ability of suicide bomb. And since it's D+D you can always get a raise dead or resurrection to do it again.
Is anyone else bothered that all the pictures are of LARPers and not actual D+D? I think this shows the general misconception of what D+D is. If you are unsure of what D+D is really like I have a video for you.
"attack the darkness"
I'll pay um, 0 cents a song. Maybe, just maybe if they had a service with every song ever, with perfect metadata and organization, at high bitrate, and super fast reliable downloads, without DRM of any sort. Then and only then I might just pay a fee like 1 cent a song. Or something like 50 bucks a year for as much as I can download. I should be able to download as many as I want at a time as well. Recorded music has no value, even at 5 cents a song its a rip off. Play more concerts I will go to them. At the current rate there's a decent concert I can go to once every few months. There should be at least 2 a week in any civilized area.
Oh, and all the money should go to the artist. Remove the obsolete middle man.
Will this thing work with a CD-RW? How about a DVD? DVD-RW? If it only works with a CD-R that's sort of useless because the CD will eventually fill up, and its basically a one-time use deal.
What would be extra cool is if you could combine this with something like the gentoo catalyst livecd making software. So not only could I save files on the RW disc but could also customize which software is on the disc to begin with. So if I wanted to get rid of X and save more space for files I could do so.
Because the creator of such a fantastic fighting game like DoA which boasts a bouncing boobometer as a game innovation has a right to talk about which fighting games are good and bad. Not that Tekken 5 is any masterpiece.
Street Fighter 2 CE, Soul Calibur (any), Mortal Kombat II and maybe Virtua Fighter are still the defining games of the genre. All the other fighting games are just wanna-bes.
The internet is a source of information and information only. The interpretation and use of that information is completely up to the individual. The information about what you want is available. If you find the wrong information, misinterpret it, or misuse it there is nobody to blame but yourself.
Sure, things like wikipedia and google are far from perfect. However, if you apply to them the common sense and level of base knowledge of an educated human being they inrease in value tremendously. A hammer alone will not drive in nails. It requires an arm to swing it. And that arm needs to be skilled enough to hit the nail on the head. The internet is the better tool than the encyclopedia. But as will all tools of greater power, such as power tools, more caution must be taken to avoid severing limbs.
the same reason they link to Roland Piquepaille
basement bad! water, flooding, other things in basement! You definitely don't want to do it in your basement, especially in a normal house.
If you run linux you can use chkrootkit
For games, just about anything that only uses two axes of movement and as many buttons as you have available will work. I especially recommend anything turn based since speed and accuracy wont be a problem. Anything else would probably be an old classic like space invaders, pac-man, etc.
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Besides games, I hope you know about and are using Dasher or something like it for typing.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dashe
This is only a problem with inkjet crap printers. Its much more economical to buy a laser printer, even a color laser printer. Sure, the toner is like 100 bucks. But it lasts forever. Especially if its just your house. Plus, laser printers often have network cards making it much easier to network the whole house to use just the one printer. And its higher quality printing that makes copies faster.
Sure, it's expensive to start out, but you can find pretty good cheap used ones on ebay, especially if you only need black and white. And its cheaper than inkjet over the long run. More reliable too.
Personally I think apple needs to re-enter the printer market. They used to make great laser printers.