If you are going to buy an OpenBSD cd, please do The Right Thing(TM) and buy an official cd. It may cost a few more dollars, but those dollars are going to support the project.
While Open BSD is free to use and distribute (as in beer and speech), it is not free (beer) to develop.
Myself, I will be buying an OpenBSD cd and couple tshirts when they are released on may 19 (I can just drive to the distribution point in Calgary).
But since OpenBSD is free software, you are free to make your own decision.
I have a friend that has a computer the size of a watch battery (no kidding). It runs native java and has built in strong encryption. He had to sign something saying he wasn't a terrorist before they would ship it to him.
It is very very very cool. It is also quite useless in my opinion. You could use it as a secure way of authenticating people. A more secure replacement for security cards.
How about releasing binary only drivers and supporting the heck out of them for 6 months or so, till the next guy comes out with a bigger badder product, then releasing the specs and the source tp allow the linux community to take over?
You save money in the long run. (don't have to continually support old products)
Your products remain useful for longer
By the time the specs become public, it is too late for them to be useful to the competition anyways.
This is likely old hat to some of you. I don't remember where I heard it.
Apperently some guy registered a bussiness and advertised his services to "listen to telemarketers". Then when they called, he listened, found out who they were and sent them an invoice for the advertised fee. From what I hear, he even won a couple small claims court cases about this.
This could be (likely is)an urban myth though . . . .
I like behind the scenes shows, but only AFTER I have seen the movie. Spoilers suck, and you can't do a good behind the scenes show without tons 'o spoilers.
For over a year now, my university book store has had a deal where if you buy any microsoft development tool, you get a free copy of NT Workstation 4.0. For $80 CDN you can get Visual J++ with NT. Sitting on the shelf beside this is an NT 4.0 WS box for over $100. Duh.
Not that I endorse buying microsoft operating systems, I just find that kindof funny.
Actually, since word is really just a bloated virus breeding ground, I sudgest they list micorsoft word as a virus.
I have had to tell many many people, sorry, I can't help you recover your document. It was eaten by a word macro virus." At which point they leave the room crying because they spent the last 2 years writing that thesis. . . .
I think I should move to a country where American lawyers can't touch me. Then I could mirror anything that stupid lawyers force down.
"My client doesn't like how you are making fun of them. Take it down immediatly, or we will launch a law suite that is unconstitional, but you can't afford to defend against."
"OK, I will take it down, but Djabji will just post if for me in Equidor, where you can't touch _his_ ass."
When you use a wavelet to compress an image, you reduce it to a mathematical expression. Each term in the expression represents a level of detail. Optimally expressed, the mathematical expression takes as much room as the original image. However, now we can hack off the terms that represtent very high levels of detail, without changing the visual quality of the image (to the naked eye). This is what gives us a saving of space.
In order to acomplish the trick with the teapot, you eliminate some of the more signifigant terms of the expression. Since the carpet texture is highly detailed, it stays. Since there is no information left that the teapot existed, that space gets filled with the carpet texture.
Whenever my professors start describing how wavelets work, my eyes glaze over while my brain silently hemorages.
At least I was never asked to perform wavelet compression by hand on an exam. I did have to do LZH compression by hand on an exam once. I wonder if I could be sued for not licensing the encryption algorithm as I used it on an exam?
The problem is that virtually all statistics come from a source that has something to prove. You want gun statistics? They only come from two sources: gun toting hillbillies that would rather kill you than give you their guns, or zealots that want to remove all guns from society because their child was killed by one of the gun toting hillbillies.
Reliable and unbiased statistics are hard to find, and when they are they are normally ignored both parties because they have their own "better" statistics.
I do also think that "the Bad Guy" in the movies does rather seem to be made into some kind of hero (Die Hard, for example). This type of glamorisation of what are basically psychopaths, is definately _not_ a good thing for children to absorb.
That and the notion that killing antagonists is the best way to resolve conflicts. How many times watching a movie do you think something like "Oh, it's ok the bad guy died. He deserved it anyways."?
You're kidding right? Win95's GUI doesn't even work across a network.
The concept of a "Graphical User Interface" has nothing to do with communicating over a network. It is about communicating with the user.
X does have nice networking features, but those are not GUI features.
The strength of a GUI is determined by how easy it is to use. Period.
The Win9X GUI is quite successful. Most people don't have a problem communicating with the computer. They understand the metaphores used, and can intuitively apply them to new situations. However, the Win9X GUI can get annoying for people who know what they want to do, and want to just do it. That is what GUI design is all about. Emmulating successfull GUIs is a good thing. It makes it easy for people to migrate between them.
The "release early, release often" mentality does have it's place. However, there should be a series of rock solid stable releases that are well tested and known to be good. Some people will be interested in using the latest features/improvements and helping to debug the product when problems arise, but others just want something that will run in a stable manner. Don't force everyone to use the bleeding edge of technology. Make releases that are proven. Make releases that are stable.
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Of course, we don't bomb countries we randomly don't like.
Just one country you really don't like.
If you are going to buy an OpenBSD cd, please do The Right Thing(TM) and buy an official cd. It may cost a few more dollars, but those dollars are going to support the project.
While Open BSD is free to use and distribute (as in beer and speech), it is not free (beer) to develop.
Myself, I will be buying an OpenBSD cd and couple tshirts when they are released on may 19 (I can just drive to the distribution point in Calgary).
But since OpenBSD is free software, you are free to make your own decision.
Solution: Make everyone use Lynx and pine.
They could use 386s!
I have a friend that has a computer the size of a watch battery (no kidding). It runs native java and has built in strong encryption. He had to sign something saying he wasn't a terrorist before they would ship it to him.
It is very very very cool. It is also quite useless in my opinion. You could use it as a secure way of authenticating people. A more secure replacement for security cards.
How about releasing binary only drivers and supporting the heck out of them for 6 months or so, till the next guy comes out with a bigger badder product, then releasing the specs and the source tp allow the linux community to take over?
You save money in the long run. (don't have to continually support old products)
Your products remain useful for longer
By the time the specs become public, it is too late for them to be useful to the competition anyways.
This is likely old hat to some of you. I don't remember where I heard it.
Apperently some guy registered a bussiness and advertised his services to "listen to telemarketers". Then when they called, he listened, found out who they were and sent them an invoice for the advertised fee. From what I hear, he even won a couple small claims court cases about this.
This could be (likely is)an urban myth though . . . .
Why not try this on spammers?
Yeah, like using your pin and bank card at a bank machine is legally binding.
I like behind the scenes shows, but only AFTER I have seen the movie. Spoilers suck, and you can't do a good behind the scenes show without tons 'o spoilers.
For someone who is commenting on not having anything better to do, why are you counting words in a dictionary?
:)
For over a year now, my university book store has had a deal where if you buy any microsoft development tool, you get a free copy of NT Workstation 4.0. For $80 CDN you can get Visual J++ with NT. Sitting on the shelf beside this is an NT 4.0 WS box for over $100. Duh.
Not that I endorse buying microsoft operating systems, I just find that kindof funny.
100,000 million might be more reasonable
:)
You're right, 100,000 million is more reasonable. Better start having more children people, then develop a computer a 5 year old can use.
Thats right, stick it to those capitalist bastards, China! Use the free OS!
(I hope I don't get black listed for this post)
Actually, since word is really just a bloated virus breeding ground, I sudgest they list micorsoft word as a virus.
I have had to tell many many people, sorry, I can't help you recover your document. It was eaten by a word macro virus." At which point they leave the room crying because they spent the last 2 years writing that thesis. . . .
I think I should move to a country where American lawyers can't touch me. Then I could mirror anything that stupid lawyers force down.
"My client doesn't like how you are making fun of them. Take it down immediatly, or we will launch a law suite that is unconstitional, but you can't afford to defend against."
"OK, I will take it down, but Djabji will just post if for me in Equidor, where you can't touch _his_ ass."
I guess I will explain this a little more.
When you use a wavelet to compress an image, you reduce it to a mathematical expression. Each term in the expression represents a level of detail. Optimally expressed, the mathematical expression takes as much room as the original image. However, now we can hack off the terms that represtent very high levels of detail, without changing the visual quality of the image (to the naked eye). This is what gives us a saving of space.
In order to acomplish the trick with the teapot, you eliminate some of the more signifigant terms of the expression. Since the carpet texture is highly detailed, it stays. Since there is no information left that the teapot existed, that space gets filled with the carpet texture.
There. I hope your brain did not hemmorage.
One of the coolest things I have heard of wavelets being able to do, is this:
1) Start with a picture of a teapot on a carpet.
2) Reduce the image to a wavelet (it turns into a really nasty mathmatical formula).
3) Eliminate some of the terms
4) Use the new formula to create an image
5) The teapot is now gone, with the texture of the carpet where the teapot used to be.
Very very cool.
Wavelet theory is cool.
Whenever my professors start describing how wavelets work, my eyes glaze over while my brain silently hemorages.
At least I was never asked to perform wavelet compression by hand on an exam. I did have to do LZH compression by hand on an exam once. I wonder if I could be sued for not licensing the encryption algorithm as I used it on an exam?
People could encrypt a message, then hide the cypher text in an obscure data channel on pictures on their web page.
Aren't things like this already done?
The problem is that virtually all statistics come from a source that has something to prove. You want gun statistics? They only come from two sources: gun toting hillbillies that would rather kill you than give you their guns, or zealots that want to remove all guns from society because their child was killed by one of the gun toting hillbillies.
Reliable and unbiased statistics are hard to find, and when they are they are normally ignored both parties because they have their own "better" statistics.
I do also think that "the Bad Guy" in the movies does rather seem to be made into some kind of hero (Die Hard, for example). This type of glamorisation of what are basically psychopaths, is definately _not_ a good thing for children to absorb.
That and the notion that killing antagonists is the best way to resolve conflicts. How many times watching a movie do you think something like "Oh, it's ok the bad guy died. He deserved it anyways."?
Either the constitution is the law or it isn't. If you don't like it, change it.
Isn't that the point of this topic? Some people think the law should be changed.
Post all info to a news group, so that you can't get fingered by "hmmmmm, all this information seems to be being sent to joe.stupid@unlucky.isp.com"
Corel Linux Infinity.
When I was a kid, the ultimate solution to "one-up-manship" was to tack infinity on the end.
But that just led to "infinity + 1" and "infinity + 2" etc.
Hey, I never said I was smart as a kid.
You're kidding right? Win95's GUI doesn't even work across a network.
The concept of a "Graphical User Interface" has nothing to do with communicating over a network. It is about communicating with the user.
X does have nice networking features, but those are not GUI features.
The strength of a GUI is determined by how easy it is to use. Period.
The Win9X GUI is quite successful. Most people don't have a problem communicating with the computer. They understand the metaphores used, and can intuitively apply them to new situations. However, the Win9X GUI can get annoying for people who know what they want to do, and want to just do it. That is what GUI design is all about. Emmulating successfull GUIs is a good thing. It makes it easy for people to migrate between them.
The "release early, release often" mentality does have it's place. However, there should be a series of rock solid stable releases that are well tested and known to be good. Some people will be interested in using the latest features/improvements and helping to debug the product when problems arise, but others just want something that will run in a stable manner. Don't force everyone to use the bleeding edge of technology. Make releases that are proven. Make releases that are stable.