WoP qualifies as free, although the assets are released under a 'charge no money' restriction?
Urban Terror afaik is _more_ free.. why isn't it in this list? Why is yet another boring Q3Arena-clone considered the best? Apart from the graphics, can anyone tell me what is different about open arena, alien arena, warsow, or even padman? The gameplay is basically identical in all of them. Yawn!
IMHO WoP should have been 3rd on this list, Tremulous 2nd, and Urban Terror 1st...
Many of the popular OSS apps tend to be the ones that re-engineer ideas from closed source products.
Many of the less popular OSS apps seem to be unpopular simply because they are not virtually identical to the corresponding closed-source product. Eg The GIMP. A lot more people would use it if the interface were more like photoshop.
My 10 and 12yo daughters managed to brightly light and then burn out a 12V 100W halogen bulb entirely by pedal power. The older one was peddling, while the younger daughter held an old DC motor against the wheel to act as a generator.
"corporate edition" is a term created by the warez community, and never used by MSFT or legitimate retailers. The correct name is apparently "XP Professional VLK"
ISTR there was a nigerian scammer in a UK internet cafe that tried to eat his USB memory stick when the police confronted him. It was recovered, tooth-marks and all, still quite readable.
Microsoft once bought a moderately large chunk of non-voting stock. They never came close to owning Apple, and they didn't even have any influence over Apple via the stock they bought.
Since then they've sold that stock and AFAIK Microsoft do not currently have any significant amount of money invested in Apple.
IANASMA, This is only from what I've read lately, and there may be transactions I'm not aware of..
"Public Key Authentication more secure than Picture Passwords"
Besides picture passwords are as annoying as hell, require a GUI and mouse, and aren't really all that much more secure than plain text passwords. You can still brute-force the picture sequence. You can still pick them up sniffing the network, you just need to be about three times smarter than a rock instead of barely smarter than a rock.
I'll take ssh authorized_keys over picture passwords any day.
You missed another advantage. Since the printed ballot is in a consistent (and preferably standard) format, those votes can be optically counted by a tallying machine built by a completely different vendor. If the preliminary count and independent OCR count agree within some agreed margin (we'll allow for misreading a vote or two per million, OCR isn't perfect). Then we can have a final, trustworthy election result within minutes of the closing of the polls. Accurate, trustworthy, _and_ fast. Wouldn't that be nice!
Wasn't there a big wipe of projects' MySQL databases on SourceForge.net a few years ago?
I wish... It's called 'sourceforget' because 90% of the 'projects' are something someone thought might be a good idea, started a project in the planning stage, and then gave up when they realized nobody was going to write it all for them. Starting a new project on sourceforge is easy. Writing code is hard.
Mind you they're making grief for Gootube already.. it's only a matter of time before Google is forced to filter ordinary search results for 'infringing content'.
Sorry, what I read suggested that someone from airport security asked about it, and she ignored him and walked away. If I'm wrong, I still think she's an idiot. Surely she would know by now that walking into an airport (any airport, let alone one in Boston!) with any kind of home-built blinky-light circuit visible is just asking for trouble these days.
Deliberate attention-seeking. She wore something at an airport that she surely must have known would arouse suspicion, and she refused to answer when questioned about it.
People, surely you should know by now, DON'T wear or carry anything unusual at all when you're flying. Airport Security are deadly serious people.
I'm actually surprised they didn't just shoot her at the point that she ignored questioning and walked away.
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Oh yeah.. and nexuiz.. yet another q3a clone..
I'm a little puzzled
WoP qualifies as free, although the assets are released under a 'charge no money' restriction?
Urban Terror afaik is _more_ free.. why isn't it in this list? Why is yet another boring Q3Arena-clone considered the best? Apart from the graphics, can anyone tell me what is different about open arena, alien arena, warsow, or even padman? The gameplay is basically identical in all of them. Yawn!
IMHO WoP should have been 3rd on this list, Tremulous 2nd, and Urban Terror 1st...
How is it not opensource?
And more importantly..
"will it blend?"
Many of the popular OSS apps tend to be the ones that re-engineer ideas from closed source products.
Many of the less popular OSS apps seem to be unpopular simply because they are not virtually identical to the corresponding closed-source product. Eg The GIMP. A lot more people would use it if the interface were more like photoshop.
My 10 and 12yo daughters managed to brightly light and then burn out a 12V 100W halogen bulb entirely by pedal power. The older one was peddling, while the younger daughter held an old DC motor against the wheel to act as a generator.
I was quite impressed.
"corporate edition" is a term created by the warez community, and never used by MSFT or legitimate retailers. The correct name is apparently "XP Professional VLK"
In Apple's 1984 advert, the 'big brother' image was intended to represent IBM. How prophetic ;-)
"sudo touch -- /-rf"
It's fun watching Linux n00bs try to remove a file named "-rf" in their root directory..
ISTR there was a nigerian scammer in a UK internet cafe that tried to eat his USB memory stick when the police confronted him. It was recovered, tooth-marks and all, still quite readable.
You haven't really been paying attention then..
Microsoft once bought a moderately large chunk of non-voting stock. They never came close to owning Apple, and they didn't even have any influence over Apple via the stock they bought.
Since then they've sold that stock and AFAIK Microsoft do not currently have any significant amount of money invested in Apple.
IANASMA, This is only from what I've read lately, and there may be transactions I'm not aware of..
If the copyright is not registered you can only claim 'actual damages'. Emails typically have very little commercial value.
If the copyright is registered, you can claim actual damages + statutory damages.
IANAL but I've read the copyright myths page..
buoynet, perhaps?
Exactly.
If they were running a secure browser, the popup wouldn't have appeared at all.. the only correct answer is an inability to ask the question.
Here's a headline for you;
"Public Key Authentication more secure than Picture Passwords"
Besides picture passwords are as annoying as hell, require a GUI and mouse, and aren't really all that much more secure than plain text passwords. You can still brute-force the picture sequence. You can still pick them up sniffing the network, you just need to be about three times smarter than a rock instead of barely smarter than a rock.
I'll take ssh authorized_keys over picture passwords any day.
They don't need drivers, they're unmanned!
So there IS actually a deal with Microsoft. It's just not a 'secret' deal.
You missed another advantage. Since the printed ballot is in a consistent (and preferably standard) format, those votes can be optically counted by a tallying machine built by a completely different vendor. If the preliminary count and independent OCR count agree within some agreed margin (we'll allow for misreading a vote or two per million, OCR isn't perfect). Then we can have a final, trustworthy election result within minutes of the closing of the polls. Accurate, trustworthy, _and_ fast. Wouldn't that be nice!
Wasn't there a big wipe of projects' MySQL databases on SourceForge.net a few years ago?
I wish... It's called 'sourceforget' because 90% of the 'projects' are something someone thought might be a good idea, started a project in the planning stage, and then gave up when they realized nobody was going to write it all for them. Starting a new project on sourceforge is easy. Writing code is hard.
Easy.
Lunix is a unix-like OS for the C-64. There's probably about 15 or 20 people worldwide who use it.
"Apparently, helping people to find illegal content is illegal."
http://www.google.com/search?q=iso+file%3Atorrent
Mind you they're making grief for Gootube already.. it's only a matter of time before Google is forced to filter ordinary search results for 'infringing content'.
Funny, I thought the Mafia often used threats of financial damage, perhaps as often as threats of violence.
"Nice restaurant, be a shame if it burned down.."
And the russian mafia have been associated with various scams involving botnets and DDOS attacks against popular gambling websites.
It's not always the kneecaps.
Actually both, but it's the old key. I'm not sure where one might find the new key...
Sorry, what I read suggested that someone from airport security asked about it, and she ignored him and walked away. If I'm wrong, I still think she's an idiot. Surely she would know by now that walking into an airport (any airport, let alone one in Boston!) with any kind of home-built blinky-light circuit visible is just asking for trouble these days.
Deliberate attention-seeking. She wore something at an airport that she surely must have known would arouse suspicion, and she refused to answer when questioned about it.
People, surely you should know by now, DON'T wear or carry anything unusual at all when you're flying. Airport Security are deadly serious people.
I'm actually surprised they didn't just shoot her at the point that she ignored questioning and walked away.