Or even better - The sequential errors that cancel each other out.
Browsing through code you see an incorrect assumption. You fix the problem. New bugs appear because other code was also making the same incorrect assumption.
You also have the FREEDOM to not use or contribute to GPL software source code. The 'proper' way is to have the contributors assign their copyright on the code to the organization/person managing the GPL product. Quite often this is the FSF as they will defend the license better than most others. If you are giving it to them then they are not stealing it.
It is true that SCO's comments in the media are not related to their legal case. SCO is not as stupid as most people think. It is not over until the court case is over. In the meantime SCO can try pull a whole bunch of tricks. Most people thought this would be over long ago. It has barely begun.
Corporations are able to censor what you print and scan. What content is next? Obviously, currently, they care first and foremost about money. What topic is in second place?
Instead of 'Freedom' we have 'Big Brothers' making our choices for us. Unfortunately, it seems that the public, even the 'knowledgable public' will welcome this with glee, refusing to acknowledge that it is completely at odds with the original ideas of the founding fathers of America - Freedom and Liberty.
How long until 'Clippy' is programmed to notice and report you if you are writing an article critical of the current government? 5 years? 10 years?
Did you just call MFC a decent class library??!!?!!
MFC succeeds in being re-used because VC++ automatically spits out MFC code, not because it is a decent class library. It is the textbook example of how NOT to design a c++ class library!
Here in Vancouver Canada there were a few cases of alleged police brutality where a passer-by took photos, and the camera was confiscated by the police. A camera in your cell phone allows a person to take a picture of the police brutality and send it immediately to another person. The police can no longer suppress the image - it would already be posted on a website.
In addition, the G4 and I believe the G5 processors have cache control instructions as well - So you can start 4 fragmented streams of data going to and from the cache before you need the data. Sometimes, with proper tuning you can achieve 50% faster results.
the issue is damage to the unit. No hard drive that I am aware of was meant to be bounced up and down for an hour or more.
Then you have not been reading up on these hard drives.
From one of the suppliers of tiny hard drives, Cornice.
You can read on their spec sheet:
Designed and tested to withstand a typical vibration 'jogging' profile
Durability that withstands a one-meter drop onto bare concrete
The skip protection IS related to that as well. When you have 32 megabytes of buffer space, you only need to spin the drive up every 25 minutes or so to read the data. Then you spin down again. The specs above relate to when the drive is spinning.
Your friend sends you a 'funny' e-greetings flash card email via e-greetings card website. "Click here to send this to a friend!"
e-greetings card website sells your email address to spammers.
Lots of variations of this one are around. Check out evite.com and their 'privacy' statement. It only exists to capture your email and browsing habits and web-bug you with invisible pixels with cookies.
Are educators now in the business of making children afraid to experiment and learn?
YES, I believe so.
When I was in Grade 11 I was taking first year calculus (via a decent teacher) at the same time as I was taking Algebra 11 (via a newer lame teacher). Algebra 11 bored me. We were doing pythagoras. I was playing around with the equation and was wondering if it could be extended to n-dimensions instead of 2, and if the obvious form was the correct form, and why the obvious form was obvious and correct? Why not use cube root when there are 3 dimensions? etc, etc.
Anyways, I'm scribbling sqrt( dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 + dw^2) in my Algebra 11 class and get reprimanded by my teacher for not doing my work. I try to explain what it was that I was doing - He DIDN'T even understand it and just said "Well, that is NOT on the final exam. You don't need to know that. Get back to work."
Many schools and teachers exist to make cookie-cutter unquestioning workers for low-wage jobs.
Unfortunately, refusing SMTP service because of 'dynamic IP addresses' is contrary to all the SMTP RFC's. In addition, a number of providers supply 'static' IP's within the same range as they use for dhcp, and there is no way for AOL to know that this netblock contains static addresses as well.
The real problem is that SMTP needs to be overhauled. There is no simple 'answer to spam' besides shutting off email.
You don't need the original samples to make it sound as good or better. As I said before, the original samples are not that great. Back then the typical person at home was not able to even get equivalent quality samples. Now we can do so much better.
Tell me, does the mt-32 emulator emulate the DSP chip in the mt-32? Does it require the system rom (non-sample data) of the mt-32? Why not?
Jesus, I wrote that program 16 years ago... I have an old pile of disks... maybe it is on one of them? If I can find it, I will release it under the GPL.
I believe that the MT-32 Emulator is a worth while project - But I am confused as to why the ROM needs to be copied at all. Why not record your own samples instead? It is not like those original samples are that great anyways. If the open source community (me included) recorded and processed our OWN samples, then none of these issues would have come up. The copyright on the originals would not be an issue at all.
I believe the next version of the GPL needs some clatification regarding embedded systems.
For instance, what if my flash boot loader is closed source? No one else would be able to make modifications to the GPL parts of my system because they would not know how to run the equivalent of lilo on my funky hardware.
Yet the point of the GPL is to allow the customer to modify the software.
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Not just quiet, but more reliable too as no fans or moving parts are necessary (if you use flash drives}
--jeff++
Or even better - The sequential errors that cancel each other out.
Browsing through code you see an incorrect assumption. You fix the problem. New bugs appear because other code was also making the same incorrect assumption.
--jeff++
You also have the FREEDOM to not use or contribute to GPL software source code. The 'proper' way is to have the contributors assign their copyright on the code to the organization/person managing the GPL product. Quite often this is the FSF as they will defend the license better than most others. If you are giving it to them then they are not stealing it.
--jeff++
Is it wise to log in to your company's VPN via a public web terminal which may be running all sorts of keypress loggers?
Unless you have a disposable password scheme, this is very dangerous, right?
--jeff++
How can you prove that you DID NOT see the source code? What's keeping you from being accused anyways?
--jeff++
Plus other articles on the web.
--jeff++
Wow why is this modded 'troll'?
It is true that SCO's comments in the media are not related to their legal case. SCO is not as stupid as most people think. It is not over until the court case is over. In the meantime SCO can try pull a whole bunch of tricks. Most people thought this would be over long ago. It has barely begun.
--jeff=+
Well, I guess this is the proper point.
Corporations are able to censor what you print and scan. What content is next? Obviously, currently, they care first and foremost about money. What topic is in second place?
Instead of 'Freedom' we have 'Big Brothers' making our choices for us. Unfortunately, it seems that the public, even the 'knowledgable public' will welcome this with glee, refusing to acknowledge that it is completely at odds with the original ideas of the founding fathers of America - Freedom and Liberty.
How long until 'Clippy' is programmed to notice and report you if you are writing an article critical of the current government? 5 years? 10 years?
--jeff++
Did you just call MFC a decent class library??!!?!!
MFC succeeds in being re-used because VC++ automatically spits out MFC code, not because it is a decent class library. It is the textbook example of how NOT to design a c++ class library!
--jeff++
Here in Vancouver Canada there were a few cases of alleged police brutality where a passer-by took photos, and the camera was confiscated by the police. A camera in your cell phone allows a person to take a picture of the police brutality and send it immediately to another person. The police can no longer suppress the image - it would already be posted on a website.
Is this something that has been done in Japan?
--jeff++
In addition, the G4 and I believe the G5 processors have cache control instructions as well - So you can start 4 fragmented streams of data going to and from the cache before you need the data. Sometimes, with proper tuning you can achieve 50% faster results.
--jeff++
Nahh, don't bother, they are all canadians there. ;-)
--jeff++
Why would it cost more? Are the chickens that they are slaughtering worth that much?
Seems like the stated cost for clearing a small business of the computer virus is more than a human life costs in most areas of the world.
Plus, I wonder if the computer virus can be listed as a tax write-off?
(only being partially smart-assed...)
--jeff++
When are they going to support MINGW32 on windows? If they support gcc on windows then I can do ALL of my compiling on a linux box.
--jeff++
Then you have not been reading up on these hard drives. From one of the suppliers of tiny hard drives, Cornice.
You can read on their spec sheet:
The skip protection IS related to that as well. When you have 32 megabytes of buffer space, you only need to spin the drive up every 25 minutes or so to read the data. Then you spin down again. The specs above relate to when the drive is spinning.
--jeff++
Your friend sends you a 'funny' e-greetings flash card email via e-greetings card website. "Click here to send this to a friend!"
e-greetings card website sells your email address to spammers.
Lots of variations of this one are around. Check out evite.com and their 'privacy' statement. It only exists to capture your email and browsing habits and web-bug you with invisible pixels with cookies.
--jeff++
YES, I believe so.
When I was in Grade 11 I was taking first year calculus (via a decent teacher) at the same time as I was taking Algebra 11 (via a newer lame teacher). Algebra 11 bored me. We were doing pythagoras. I was playing around with the equation and was wondering if it could be extended to n-dimensions instead of 2, and if the obvious form was the correct form, and why the obvious form was obvious and correct? Why not use cube root when there are 3 dimensions? etc, etc.
Anyways, I'm scribbling sqrt( dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 + dw^2) in my Algebra 11 class and get reprimanded by my teacher for not doing my work. I try to explain what it was that I was doing - He DIDN'T even understand it and just said "Well, that is NOT on the final exam. You don't need to know that. Get back to work."
Many schools and teachers exist to make cookie-cutter unquestioning workers for low-wage jobs.
--jeff (a different one)
Unfortunately, refusing SMTP service because of 'dynamic IP addresses' is contrary to all the SMTP RFC's. In addition, a number of providers supply 'static' IP's within the same range as they use for dhcp, and there is no way for AOL to know that this netblock contains static addresses as well.
The real problem is that SMTP needs to be overhauled. There is no simple 'answer to spam' besides shutting off email.
--jeff++
OF is on my Mac at home... I don't understand why Intel didn't want to drop acpi... OF does solve lots of problems.
--jeff++
You don't need the original samples to make it sound as good or better. As I said before, the original samples are not that great. Back then the typical person at home was not able to even get equivalent quality samples. Now we can do so much better.
Tell me, does the mt-32 emulator emulate the DSP chip in the mt-32? Does it require the system rom (non-sample data) of the mt-32? Why not?
--jeff++
Jesus, I wrote that program 16 years ago... I have an old pile of disks... maybe it is on one of them? If I can find it, I will release it under the GPL.
--jeff++
I believe that the MT-32 Emulator is a worth while project - But I am confused as to why the ROM needs to be copied at all. Why not record your own samples instead? It is not like those original samples are that great anyways. If the open source community (me included) recorded and processed our OWN samples, then none of these issues would have come up. The copyright on the originals would not be an issue at all.
--jeff++
But the 'Canadian Model' is not as sexy as a glowy touch screen computer voting system rife with viruses and fraud.
--jeff++
Are you SURE N'Sync and Brittney get the money?
Not just the record company who created them in the first place?
By the way, NONE of the money collected on the CD-R Audio media levy in Canada has been distributed to any artists yet...
--jeff++
I believe the next version of the GPL needs some clatification regarding embedded systems.
For instance, what if my flash boot loader is closed source? No one else would be able to make modifications to the GPL parts of my system because they would not know how to run the equivalent of lilo on my funky hardware.
Yet the point of the GPL is to allow the customer to modify the software.
--jeff++