For a while we had two workstations set up, one in Dallas and one in Northern Virginia, each running Yahoo Messenger hooked up to a web cam with Skype for audio. Skype was really good at handling the feedback you normally get with an open microphone plus speakers, but speaker and microphone placement was critical. The setup was eerily effective, and allowed people in the cubicles neighboring the workstation to yell across from one office to another. We turned it on the morning and left it running all day. Eventually the people at the remote office decided that the setup was a little too effective for comfort and stopped turning it on, leaving them free of annoying interaction with their putative colleagues.
For albums that aren't actually compilations (one primary artist with a bunch of collaborators, for example) you can use the Album Artist field instead of marking the album as a compilation. I like the artwork view, but the old standalone CoverFlow totally kicks the integrated cover browser's behind.
RMS's philisophical point is that it's a bit odd to be using a proprietary product as the source control system for a GPL'ed kernel. Especially a GPL'ed kernel that has benefitted so much from existing Free infrastructure.
The practical risk is that Linux, by implicitly endorsing non-free competitors to free products, is helping to cut off it's own air supply.
For example, I suspect that there would be many fewer Free and Open Source projects if CVS were proprietary. Free (speech) infrastructure is a huge boost to software development.
Developers have to make a choice between the short term expediency of choosing a product strictly on its current technical merits, and the long term benefits of encouraging a healthy Free software ecosystem.
You can argue specific cases, but to deny there is a tradeoff is disingenuous.
Stuck with David for 2000 frigging years
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David: "Please make me a real boy"
Teddy: "Shut up"
David: "Please make me a real boy"
Teddy: "Oh God, just shut up"
David: "Please make me a real boy"
Teddy: "I'm going to kick your f*cking ass if you don't shut up"
David: "Please make me a real boy"
why you should take all those difficult courses, then it's a clue that maybe a CS major is not for you. People who are cut out for CS actually tend to actively like learning things like that.
Take this short test:
When you call a sort() function, do you ever wonder things like "what's the performance on a nearly sorted list?"
If you answered "yes" (or even found the question interesting) then you may be CS material. If you answered "who cares" or "how does that help me complete my sql entry form" then you probably won't be happy in a CS major.
I used ElectricFence, mainly because I happened to already have it installed. It helped. There are a bunch of others, some of them look interesting:
MallocDebug Thu Dec 21 13:26:01 CST 2000 - overview of malloc debugging
tools. looks good.
mpatrol Thu Dec 21 13:37:30 CST 2000 - didn't try it out,
but the documentation actually lists
"related software", which indicates to me they did their
reseach.
glibc builtin Thu Dec 21 13:43:54 CST 2000 - evidently glibc has debugging
stuff built-in.
So, um...it's not Open Source. You can download it from that link because the source code is available under a non-Open Source license. The GLUT license notoriously disallows distributing modified copies, as has been discussed endlessly on the various OpenGL-related mailing lists. You might want to follow the freeglut link, or take a look at the Open Source definition.
They modified GLUT? Tricky, since it isn't Open Source. Wonder if they made a deal, or were just unaware of the problem. Check out freeglut for an Open alternative.
The point (which the other followups seem to have grasped) is that the article was entitled "Live Forever: Uploading the Human Brain", when in fact it's not you that gets to live forever, but a non-homo sapien electronic duplicate. Making that point in a pithy way, instead of in a long draw out explanation like this, is generally considered good form.
The conclusion (compactly contained in the second sentence) was that I personally found the idea unappealing. Your milage, of course, may vary, but I sincerely hope we're not going to be facing a future where multitudes of copies of rather slow witted people roam cyberspace in search of things to misunderstand.
... because they gave the world ctrl2cap. Sure, there might be other ways, but I like the idea of doing it with a kernel mode device driver. Try www.sysinternals.com I'm not sure if they do consulting work, but the site is well worth checking out.
Somebody mentioned this, but didn't provide a url so here goes: www.pfuca.com One of the two versions evidently has some sort of ibm-style tactile feedback, but I'm not sure if there's an actual clicky-noise. I hope not, I hate that damned noise.
I was wondering if I was the only one. I get a long email from these people once every couple of weeks, and it's to one of the email addresses I try to keep spam-free. That loses them any sympathy they might have gotten from me.
The banned list is from Appendix A, section 2.1. It seems pretty clear that the countries I mentioned are the only ones that may legally download the source code. From the license:
2.1 The Web3D Consortium grants to you ?Licensee? a non-transferable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, limited license to use a copy of the VRML COMPONENT CODE in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and the European Union, exclusively for non-commercial use in connection with research and development. Licensee acquires no right, title or interest in or to the Licensed VRML COMPONENT CODE other than the limited rights granted in this License. All modifications, enhancements and bug fixes made by or for Licensee to the Licensed VRML COMPONENT CODE may not be offered for sale or reuse without including notification of all pertaining copyrights retained by copyright owners, including blaxxun interactive.
Actually, no. You aren't required to contribute your changes back into the source pool. If you drop them a letter, make sure you read the license very carefully first, or any legitimate problems will get lost in the noise.
It's yet another "Community Source" license. Lots of interesting little twists, though, including a ban on using the source code outside the USA, Eurpoean Union, Australia, and Japan. The rest of the world is SOL. There's an especially amusing addendum to the license that makes the Web3d consortium thought police for Blaxxun. Check out: EUA, Web3d/Blaxxun Agreement, Amusing addendum
It's not so much a question of whether nuclear power is dangerous or not. Of course it is. It's a question of whether nuclear power is more or less dangerous than other forms of power generation. Coal and oil fired plants have huge risks associated with them, both in operating the plants themselves, and with the infrastructure necessary to keep them running.
Radioactive milk on your breakfast cereal, or radioactive carbon in your lungs? Nasty kind of choice to have to make, but it's better than sitting in the dark.
How about just that she helped define the modern fantasy genre? I mean, what exactly is "female" writing, anyway? As far as I know, ink on paper is genderless. It might be worthwhile to mention she was a female that actually used a female name when writing science fiction and fantasy, something that is even now a pretty courageous thing to do considering the audience...
Most every time you get a banner ad, it comes from one of the big advertising sites. That means that the http GET header returns a cookie for that site. Advertisers can build up a database, based on cookies, of exactly which sites you view. Combined with a filled out registration form from any of the ad network's sites, this means they know who you are and exactly what you are viewing. Some people don't really care, others consider it all very creepy.
Note that if it were just an individual advertiser, it wouldn't really matter. But the advertisers have banded together into networks so that nearly every banner ad comes from just one of a few central sites. Also, individual ad networks can share information, building up a more complete profile. You have no say in this.
That's why you'll hear people talk about good cookies and evil cookies. Good cookies (like slashdot's) help you, evil cookies give away private information (like your surfing habits) without your knowledge or consent.
What if the characters in User Friendly were all black? Every single one of them. Would anglo/white/light-skinned readers feel the same connection as they do now?
Maybe they would, after reading the strip for a long time and getting to know the characters on an individual basis. But the initial impression would have to be "this isn't for me".
Is that the impression that User Friendly wants to give to non-white readers? The author says no, and I believe him. Is that the impression that the strip in fact gives to some people? It appears so. Is informing the author of that fact somehow bad? I don't see how.
... even if you really want the authority to be right.
Not everything you read on the internet is true. There's no proof that Janet Reno wrote the letter, other than the "reliable source, no really, trust us" note at the end.
... historically speaking. Journalism has been sensationalist since before the invention of the high speed printing press. Hasn't John Katz heard about:
The early London tabloids? The controversy surrounding the sinking of the Main? Crime reporting during prohibition? The always irresponsible reporting of high profile murder cases? (And I'm not talking OJ)
As a writer, you'd think he would have a little more perspective on the history of his profession.
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For a while we had two workstations set up, one in Dallas and one in Northern Virginia, each running Yahoo Messenger hooked up to a web cam with Skype for audio. Skype was really good at handling the feedback you normally get with an open microphone plus speakers, but speaker and microphone placement was critical. The setup was eerily effective, and allowed people in the cubicles neighboring the workstation to yell across from one office to another. We turned it on the morning and left it running all day. Eventually the people at the remote office decided that the setup was a little too effective for comfort and stopped turning it on, leaving them free of annoying interaction with their putative colleagues.
For albums that aren't actually compilations (one primary artist with a bunch of collaborators, for example) you can use the Album Artist field instead of marking the album as a compilation. I like the artwork view, but the old standalone CoverFlow totally kicks the integrated cover browser's behind.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/rootkitrevea ler.html
RMS's philisophical point is that it's a bit odd to be using a proprietary product as the source control system for a GPL'ed kernel. Especially a GPL'ed kernel that has benefitted so much from existing Free infrastructure.
The practical risk is that Linux, by implicitly endorsing non-free competitors to free products, is helping to cut off it's own air supply.
For example, I suspect that there would be many fewer Free and Open Source projects if CVS were proprietary. Free (speech) infrastructure is a huge boost to software development.
Developers have to make a choice between the short term expediency of choosing a product strictly on its current technical merits, and the long term benefits of encouraging a healthy Free software ecosystem.
You can argue specific cases, but to deny there is a tradeoff is disingenuous.
David: "Please make me a real boy"
Teddy: "Shut up"
David: "Please make me a real boy"
Teddy: "Oh God, just shut up"
David: "Please make me a real boy"
Teddy: "I'm going to kick your f*cking ass if you don't shut up"
David: "Please make me a real boy"
Nordic Runes.
My mini robot can target your mini-robot for a mini-smart bomb strike.
why you should take all those difficult courses, then it's a clue that maybe a CS major is not for you. People who are cut out for CS actually tend to actively like learning things like that.
Take this short test:
When you call a sort() function, do you ever wonder things like "what's the performance on a nearly sorted list?"
If you answered "yes" (or even found the question interesting) then you may be CS material. If you answered "who cares" or "how does that help me complete my sql entry form" then you probably won't be happy in a CS major.
YMMV.
I used ElectricFence, mainly because I happened to already have it installed. It helped. There are a bunch of others, some of them look interesting:
MallocDebug
Thu Dec 21 13:26:01 CST 2000 - overview of malloc debugging
tools. looks good.
mpatrol
Thu Dec 21 13:37:30 CST 2000 - didn't try it out,
but the documentation actually lists
"related software", which indicates to me they did their
reseach.
glibc builtin
Thu Dec 21 13:43:54 CST 2000 - evidently glibc has debugging
stuff built-in.
So, um...it's not Open Source. You can download it from that link because the source code is available under a non-Open Source license. The GLUT license notoriously disallows distributing modified copies, as has been discussed endlessly on the various OpenGL-related mailing lists. You might want to follow the freeglut link, or take a look at the Open Source definition.
They modified GLUT? Tricky, since it isn't Open Source. Wonder if they made a deal, or were just unaware of the problem. Check out freeglut for an Open alternative.
The point (which the other followups seem to have grasped) is that the article was entitled "Live Forever: Uploading the Human Brain", when in fact it's not you that gets to live forever, but a non-homo sapien electronic duplicate. Making that point in a pithy way, instead of in a long draw out explanation like this, is generally considered good form.
The conclusion (compactly contained in the second sentence) was that I personally found the idea unappealing. Your milage, of course, may vary, but I sincerely hope we're not going to be facing a future where multitudes of copies of rather slow witted people roam cyberspace in search of things to misunderstand.
.. I rot and die while a copy of me lives forever in virtual paradise. Oh goody, I can't wait.
... because they gave the world ctrl2cap. Sure, there might be other ways, but I like the idea of doing it with a kernel mode device driver. Try www.sysinternals.com I'm not sure if they do consulting work, but the site is well worth checking out.
Somebody mentioned this, but didn't provide a url so here goes: www.pfuca.com One of the two versions evidently has some sort of ibm-style tactile feedback, but I'm not sure if there's an actual clicky-noise. I hope not, I hate
that damned noise.
I was wondering if I was the only one. I get a long email from these people once every couple of weeks, and it's to one of the email addresses I try to keep spam-free. That loses them any sympathy they might have gotten from me.
Anybody else getting spammed by them?
The banned list is from Appendix A, section 2.1. It seems pretty clear that the countries I mentioned are the only ones that may legally download the source code. From the license:
2.1 The Web3D Consortium grants to you ?Licensee? a non-transferable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, limited license to use a copy of the VRML COMPONENT CODE in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and the European Union, exclusively for non-commercial use in connection with research and development. Licensee acquires no right, title or interest in or to the Licensed VRML COMPONENT CODE other than the limited rights granted in this License. All modifications, enhancements and bug fixes made by or for Licensee to the Licensed VRML COMPONENT CODE may not be offered for sale or reuse without including notification of all pertaining copyrights retained by copyright owners, including blaxxun interactive.
Actually, no. You aren't required to contribute your changes back into the source pool. If you drop them a letter, make sure you read the license very carefully first, or any legitimate problems will get lost in the noise.
It's yet another "Community Source" license. Lots of interesting little twists, though, including a ban on using the source code outside the USA, Eurpoean Union, Australia, and Japan. The rest of the world is SOL. There's an especially amusing addendum to the license that makes the Web3d consortium thought police for Blaxxun. Check out:
EUA, Web3d/Blaxxun Agreement, Amusing addendum
It's not so much a question of whether nuclear power is dangerous or not. Of course it is. It's a question of whether nuclear power is more or less dangerous than other forms of power generation. Coal and oil fired plants have huge risks associated with them, both in operating the plants themselves, and with the infrastructure necessary to keep them running.
Radioactive milk on your breakfast cereal, or radioactive carbon in your lungs? Nasty kind of choice to have to make, but it's better than sitting in the dark.
How about just that she helped define the modern fantasy genre? I mean, what exactly is "female" writing, anyway? As far as I know, ink on paper is genderless. It might be worthwhile to mention she was a female that actually used a female name when writing science fiction and fantasy, something that is even now a pretty courageous thing to do considering the audience...
Most every time you get a banner ad, it comes from one of the big advertising sites. That means that the http GET header returns a cookie for that site. Advertisers can build up a database, based on cookies, of exactly which sites you view. Combined with a filled out registration form from any of the ad network's sites, this means they know who you are and exactly what you are viewing. Some people don't really care, others
consider it all very creepy.
Note that if it were just an individual advertiser, it wouldn't really matter. But the advertisers have banded together into networks so that nearly every banner ad comes from just one of a few central sites. Also, individual ad networks can share information, building up a more complete profile. You have no say in this.
That's why you'll hear people talk about good cookies and evil cookies. Good cookies (like slashdot's) help you, evil cookies give away private information (like your surfing habits) without your knowledge or consent.
What if the characters in User Friendly were all black? Every single one of them. Would anglo/white/light-skinned readers feel the same connection as they do now?
Maybe they would, after reading the strip for a long time and getting to know the characters on an individual basis. But the initial impression would have to be "this isn't for me".
Is that the impression that User Friendly wants to give to non-white readers? The author says no, and I believe him. Is that the impression that the strip in fact gives to some people? It appears so. Is informing the author of that fact somehow bad? I don't see how.
Not everything you read on the internet is true. There's no proof that Janet Reno wrote the letter, other than the "reliable source, no really, trust us" note at the end.
... historically speaking. Journalism has been sensationalist since before the invention of the high speed printing press. Hasn't John Katz heard about:
The early London tabloids?
The controversy surrounding the sinking of the Main?
Crime reporting during prohibition?
The always irresponsible reporting of high profile murder cases? (And I'm not talking OJ)
As a writer, you'd think he would have a little more perspective on the history of his profession.