In my own testing Firefox 3 was O(1) (a small constant amount) behind Opera in memory usage.
An interesting use of that expression, given that Big O notation usually refers to the complexity of an algorithm. O(f(n)) already takes into account constant additions of execution time or memory (which seems to be what you're talking about), longer execution time (or more memory) for small values of n, and constant/linear scaling factors of complexity.
Making assumptions about what particular n you're referring to (let's say, number of tabs), and the value of the function (memory usage), I presume that you mean both programs have a fairly constant memory usage regardless of the complexity of use, with one program having a slightly smaller memory footprint.
probably something like 'aptitude install kfreebsd-source-7.0', then compiling that using freebsd-buildutils. I'm not sure about that though, because I haven't had a need to use a different kernel.
The "cap" for my New Zealand flat is 10GB ($55), of which I use about 4GB/month, most of which is Debian updates. If we go over that, it's $3/GB (note: prices in NZD). However, I do spend most of my day at the local university, and don't need to pay [an additional amount on top of my standard fees] for Internet access there.
I think they're trying to point out that it's a problem if anyone gets anyone else's data, rather than anyone getting a particular person's data (namely your own). This seems fairly similar to the Birthday Paradox.
"We will support people who create or use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component.... We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for use with Debian."
The reason the FSF (and RMS) won't promote Debian is because of the non-free components that are in the most common standard installations of Debian.
I don't actually find sudoku puzzle *solvers* all that interesting, because they are able to do the solution by brute-force. Sudoku puzzle *generators*, on the other hand, tend to be more difficult, because one requirement for the traditional puzzles is that the puzzle must only have one solution. For puzzle generators that rely on brute-force for their solvers, this "only one solution" requirement is difficult to enforce.
From the HOWTO on the 1.0 version from the "C&C: generals" page you linked to:
4. Once the installation is done, find yourself a no-cd crack and replace the original game.dat and generals.exe with the cracked ones.
I don't consider a requirement of installing a no-cd crack as being good enough to say that a game runs in Wine (see this: "... some would advocate the use of illegally modified or "cracked" games, Wine does not support, advocate, or even view this as a solution").
However, it seems reasonable to consider the other games to be working under Wine — I haven't run Oblivion myself, but RA2 and Starcraft run fine (although I do occasionally have issues with RA2 on a slow computer).
to claim that DRM is a reason to steal the whole game?
Y'know, I attended a talk by RMS in New Zealand about copyright law last night (13th), and he put forward the view that anyone should be allowed to make unmodified copies of a product (for non-commercial use). Also, he mentioned people should only have files protected by "Digital Restrictions Management" if they had the facilities available to bypass that protection using free software.
My interpretation of what he said was that software piracy is a fallacy. Making copies of things is human nature and should not be restricted.
The server has the public keys of all the users, and encrypts (with the public key) a one-time string for a logging in user to decrypt. When the user has decrypted the string, they enter that as the password, and get access to the system.
For users who do not have a stored key (or have an invalid key), the server would transmit a random string and not allow any entered string to work. The error message would be something like "invalid passphrase or user not known" [or just the usual "login incorrect"].
Well, my view is that the Internet is more than just what Google indexes. For that matter, it is also more than what other tools (such as another search engine, or even a web browser) have access to. If Google were the only link to data on the Internet, it would indicate that the Internet is in a rather bad state. That's a part of what I was trying to get across.
The other part was to do with the intermediary nature of Google -- which is what responses to my comments seem to have picked up on, except not quite. Perhaps you want a bad car analogy... okay then:
Cars don't hit-and-run. People do.
The complaints that I haven't considered time lag and different representations of data (as would happen with Google's indexes) seem to miss the mark. To be more pedantic, that happens all the time. There is no guarantee that the page downloaded two seconds ago is the same as what is present on the web server, and downloading from the same location from a different client can sometimes result in different data being provided to each client.
Slashdot Mirror
stackoverflow.com
*tigers*
Don't go there, their initial/start page is just a single picture talking about Theodore Husting:
http://www.sheboyganpolice.com/
That links to the main site, which looks a bit more pleasing:
http://www.sheboyganpolice.com/main.html
Silly, it's Tech vs. Magic.
http://glest.org/en/index.php
In my own testing Firefox 3 was O(1) (a small constant amount) behind Opera in memory usage.
An interesting use of that expression, given that Big O notation usually refers to the complexity of an algorithm. O(f(n)) already takes into account constant additions of execution time or memory (which seems to be what you're talking about), longer execution time (or more memory) for small values of n, and constant/linear scaling factors of complexity.
Making assumptions about what particular n you're referring to (let's say, number of tabs), and the value of the function (memory usage), I presume that you mean both programs have a fairly constant memory usage regardless of the complexity of use, with one program having a slightly smaller memory footprint.
I just* purchased "The First Decade", you insensitive clods!
* well, okay, I've had it for over a year ... and it does have a few more C&C games than just TD and RA.
probably something like 'aptitude install kfreebsd-source-7.0', then compiling that using freebsd-buildutils. I'm not sure about that though, because I haven't had a need to use a different kernel.
Python with some layer around DirectX
You could also try Pyglet. Unfortunately, it has a few options for graphics/input/sound, rather than DirectX, so may be a bit tricky to get working.
The "cap" for my New Zealand flat is 10GB ($55), of which I use about 4GB/month, most of which is Debian updates. If we go over that, it's $3/GB (note: prices in NZD). However, I do spend most of my day at the local university, and don't need to pay [an additional amount on top of my standard fees] for Internet access there.
I think they're trying to point out that it's a problem if anyone gets anyone else's data, rather than anyone getting a particular person's data (namely your own). This seems fairly similar to the Birthday Paradox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox#Same_birthday_as_you
While Debian (main) is 100% free, there are considered-useful packages that are very commonly distributed with Debian that are non-free.
http://nonfree.alioth.debian.org/
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
"We will support people who create or use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component.... We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for use with Debian."
The reason the FSF (and RMS) won't promote Debian is because of the non-free components that are in the most common standard installations of Debian.
Here's my attempt at a solver / generator (Java backend, with a console frontend, a graphical frontend, and a j2me frontend):
http://cons.org.nz/~gringer/
I don't actually find sudoku puzzle *solvers* all that interesting, because they are able to do the solution by brute-force. Sudoku puzzle *generators*, on the other hand, tend to be more difficult, because one requirement for the traditional puzzles is that the puzzle must only have one solution. For puzzle generators that rely on brute-force for their solvers, this "only one solution" requirement is difficult to enforce.
Just to demonstrate this, see the following bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351043
does bugmenot count?
You can't patent an instruction set, because an instruction set is an interface, not an implementation.
Maybe that can't be done, but it hasn't stopped people from trying to get around that.
Perl is untyped*. There are no corporate types.
* well, okay, there's scalars, arrays, etc. but the scalars aren't broken down further.
From the HOWTO on the 1.0 version from the "C&C: generals" page you linked to:
4. Once the installation is done, find yourself a no-cd crack and replace the original game.dat and generals.exe with the cracked ones.
I don't consider a requirement of installing a no-cd crack as being good enough to say that a game runs in Wine (see this: "... some would advocate the use of illegally modified or "cracked" games, Wine does not support, advocate, or even view this as a solution").
However, it seems reasonable to consider the other games to be working under Wine — I haven't run Oblivion myself, but RA2 and Starcraft run fine (although I do occasionally have issues with RA2 on a slow computer).
By the way, here's a link to the site that mentions the talk, which will hopefully provide a recording of the talk sometime in the future:
http://up.org.nz/Richard-Stallman-at-GGG/#av
to claim that DRM is a reason to steal the whole game?
Y'know, I attended a talk by RMS in New Zealand about copyright law last night (13th), and he put forward the view that anyone should be allowed to make unmodified copies of a product (for non-commercial use). Also, he mentioned people should only have files protected by "Digital Restrictions Management" if they had the facilities available to bypass that protection using free software.
My interpretation of what he said was that software piracy is a fallacy. Making copies of things is human nature and should not be restricted.
0. Read the developer's reply
from TFA (the "What I'm going to do about it" section):
1) No more DRM
I'm really hassling my payment provider to support amazons one-click method. For me, I think that's even more convenient than steam.
2) Demos — "I'll be making my demos much better, and longer"
4) Quality — "I'm working harder than ever before on making my games fun and polished."
The fourth point you made is not really addressed. The Quality issue is the closest I could get to.
The lead rapper? You mean ALICE, right? The one that looks at collisions of lead ions.
What about this:
The server has the public keys of all the users, and encrypts (with the public key) a one-time string for a logging in user to decrypt. When the user has decrypted the string, they enter that as the password, and get access to the system.
For users who do not have a stored key (or have an invalid key), the server would transmit a random string and not allow any entered string to work. The error message would be something like "invalid passphrase or user not known" [or just the usual "login incorrect"].
Sure, they're there. Just look behind their big walls:
http://omoikane.minstrum.net/one-world.jpg
As if you needed another reason....
Posting AC because obviously I don't want my current or past employers or coworkers to somehow get word of this and get pissed off at me.
Or, for that matter, my... er, I mean your future employers or coworkers
Well, my view is that the Internet is more than just what Google indexes. For that matter, it is also more than what other tools (such as another search engine, or even a web browser) have access to. If Google were the only link to data on the Internet, it would indicate that the Internet is in a rather bad state. That's a part of what I was trying to get across.
The other part was to do with the intermediary nature of Google -- which is what responses to my comments seem to have picked up on, except not quite. Perhaps you want a bad car analogy... okay then:
Cars don't hit-and-run. People do.
The complaints that I haven't considered time lag and different representations of data (as would happen with Google's indexes) seem to miss the mark. To be more pedantic, that happens all the time. There is no guarantee that the page downloaded two seconds ago is the same as what is present on the web server, and downloading from the same location from a different client can sometimes result in different data being provided to each client.
We're not searching Google, we're searching the Internet. Google is a tool that can be used (and often is used) to facilitate this search.