No, it's because you act like saying "MS Roolz, Linux Sux" is sufficient for getting modded down, when in reality you are just being annoying.
Please make anti-Linux posts in the future without making references to the moderation system or how Slashdot represses people who hold your opinion. We all prefer a good, old-fashioned "Linux sucks!" post to a "Linux sucks, and I'll get modded down because the moderators are all Linux fanboys!" post.
Having recently tinkered with XP on a friends computer, I can give the following reports:
Windows Update does not download and install patches unless you tell it to. It puts an icon (and pops up a message bubble) into the notification area when updates are available. You have to click on the icon to review the list of patches and authorize their download/installation.
Yes, Microsoft's updates sometimes break things.:) We just recently realized that the UPnP security patch accidentally broke part of the Internet Dial-up process.
Several game companies have already shipped games using Vorbis or are in progress with games that use it. See Brian Hook's email to vorbis-dev about Candy Cruncher. Papyrus Racing Games will also use it in their next product.
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ReplayGain is actually a system designed to deal with this. It stores some info in the music file so that you can normalize the volumes of all of your files on playback.
I'm not familiar with the state of MP3 tools which support ReplayGain, but I know that Gian-Carlo Pascutto just wrote a tool to add ReplayGain information to Ogg Vorbis files. There is an XMMS support in CVS which uses the information, and I just got done adding support for ReplayGain to ogg123 (it will be about a week before it goes into the xiph.org CVS pending the approval of some other changes). Winamp also supports ReplayGain using Peter's Vorbis plugin
What you are describing is the "algorithmic information content" of the string. It is the roughly the size of the Turing Machine required to produce the string. As was mentioned in an earlier Slashdot article (about programming project estimates), it is provable that there is no algorithm to compute the algorithmic information content of all strings. (Not to say there isn't an approximate solution that would be useful in some cases.)
No, what you are observing is the Pessimist Law of Communication: People are more likely to complain than to praise.
This is especially true on online forums. For any given story, it will seem like most people are complaining. In reality you are just seeing the subset of the Slashdot readership which dislikes the person/act/item being discussed. This subset shifts from story to story, but you can bet that no matter what the story is, you can find some group of readers who are angry. These are the readers most likely to post.
I just remind myself periodically that Slashdot is not a homogeneous community and therefore has no commonly held opinions.
Since the XBox is practically a PC anyway (with hard drive and all), they would be the most likely candidate for such a system. I won't be surprised if you see MS Office for the XBox by the end of next year.
(That said, reading lots of text from your TV will probably give you a headache.)
Python Server Pages. The architecture is similar to the JSP/Servlets architecture, but you get to write your code in Python instead. Check out Webware for more details.
A fixed point codec is an issue for portable players, which run on very limited hardware. This is a stereo AV component that contains a 266 MHz x86 CPU. (I play Ogg files on my 200 MHz Pentium all the time without any problems.) If this thing will play movies, then this box has the specs to run ogg123 directly without any optimization at all.
Yes, I know the negative reference to linux means I'm going to be modded -6387594872497 Satan's Spawn.
No, but you might get modded down for attempting to use reverse psychology on the moderators.
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Heh. This sounds like the car that my, uh, friend's uncle (who of course, uh, works for Ford) has that gets 150 miles per gallon and runs on peanut oil. I swear.:)
I can't remember any of those other "super-tech" urban legends now...
This is sort of tangential, but we were discussing Hitler over the summer, and someone observed that we draw the political spectrum wrong. We always have a line with left-wing and right-wing at opposite ends. He noted that we should draw it as a horseshoe (where the ends are close together) since the extreme left and the extreme right have far more in common with each other than they do with the middle.
It has been my experience that every open source project has a core group of developers (5-20 depending), often with a generally accepted benevolent dictator figure, who could safely be considered the leader.
Identify the leader, contact him or her and ask about the request you have in mind. Get permission to post it to the dev list and see if you get any takers. There are usually a couple people looking for contract programming work sitting on the dev list who are familiar with the project. You will want to give preference to those who actually contribute to the code base since they have demonstrated some understanding of the present code.
Don't contract with open source projects in general since there is no concrete entity to hold accountable for the work. However, it would make perfect sense to contract with an individual contributor to enhance/deploy the project according to your specifications.
Yes it was. Now it is full of self-righteous, holier-than-thou, anonymous assholes who are quick to point out any little thing that they think has been missed, and make a political speach[sic].
Own the copyright all works produced for credit? Those are some sucky terms. At my university, the author retains the copyright to all his or her own works (including those done for classes) unless they were produced on paid university employee time. I would have serious moral issues with a university that claimed to own copyright on projects I do for class. (I already paid them, right?)
Trolled by a penis bird? Trolling usually involves inflaming or angering the user. I just think that the nonsense answer captures the essence of what I am getting at. Laugh. smile. You take this all too seriously.:)
Um, if by the statement "Revolutionaries are seldom welcomed by the established power, after all." you are trying to somehow link yourself and the other "oppressed" of Slashdot to great revolutionaries, then I would suggest you have a distorted perception of this situation and of your own importance.
I would suggest the following experiment to help you gain some perspective:
Turn off your computer and go outside. Observe your surroundings and note that Slashdot has no influence on any of them.
Go downtown and watch the crowds for several minutes. Realize that you probably have not seen a single person who knows anything about Slashdot or will ever be influenced by Slashdot.
Ask yourself whether Slashdot can injure your ability to eat, sleep, or move around without your consent. Then ponder whether Slashdot can hinder your free expression in any other forum but Slashdot itself.
Sure, Slashdot's recent attempts to solve the fundamental paradoxes (freedom vs. quality) of public, online discussion are flawed and causing the site to commit suicide slowly. (For example, I discovered that I cannot title this message "Perspective, perspective, perspective." because it is too repetetive. Silly.) However, do not compare yourself to revolutionaries who struggled to change real, meaningful things. This is an electronic playground and nothing more. Only five-year-olds lead revolutions on playgrounds.
Or maybe he just got tired of his job. People get bored sometimes, and even CTO's are people. Not everything is an ugly conflict or a conspiracy.
The PR garbage at the end is designed to assure investors that SuSE will not collapse with the loss of their CTO. It is empty language, and doesn't say anything meaningful about SuSE's future.
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Please make anti-Linux posts in the future without making references to the moderation system or how Slashdot represses people who hold your opinion. We all prefer a good, old-fashioned "Linux sucks!" post to a "Linux sucks, and I'll get modded down because the moderators are all Linux fanboys!" post.
We need to get back to basics here...
Hahaha! I'd mod you up, but I already vented in this story. :)
Several game companies have already shipped games using Vorbis or are in progress with games that use it. See Brian Hook's email to vorbis-dev about Candy Cruncher. Papyrus Racing Games will also use it in their next product.
I'm not familiar with the state of MP3 tools which support ReplayGain, but I know that Gian-Carlo Pascutto just wrote a tool to add ReplayGain information to Ogg Vorbis files. There is an XMMS support in CVS which uses the information, and I just got done adding support for ReplayGain to ogg123 (it will be about a week before it goes into the xiph.org CVS pending the approval of some other changes). Winamp also supports ReplayGain using Peter's Vorbis plugin
What you are describing is the "algorithmic information content" of the string. It is the roughly the size of the Turing Machine required to produce the string. As was mentioned in an earlier Slashdot article (about programming project estimates), it is provable that there is no algorithm to compute the algorithmic information content of all strings. (Not to say there isn't an approximate solution that would be useful in some cases.)
This is especially true on online forums. For any given story, it will seem like most people are complaining. In reality you are just seeing the subset of the Slashdot readership which dislikes the person/act/item being discussed. This subset shifts from story to story, but you can bet that no matter what the story is, you can find some group of readers who are angry. These are the readers most likely to post.
I just remind myself periodically that Slashdot is not a homogeneous community and therefore has no commonly held opinions.
(That said, reading lots of text from your TV will probably give you a headache.)
Python Server Pages. The architecture is similar to the JSP/Servlets architecture, but you get to write your code in Python instead. Check out Webware for more details.
A fixed point codec is an issue for portable players, which run on very limited hardware. This is a stereo AV component that contains a 266 MHz x86 CPU. (I play Ogg files on my 200 MHz Pentium all the time without any problems.) If this thing will play movies, then this box has the specs to run ogg123 directly without any optimization at all.
No, but you might get modded down for attempting to use reverse psychology on the moderators.
I can't remember any of those other "super-tech" urban legends now...
This is sort of tangential, but we were discussing Hitler over the summer, and someone observed that we draw the political spectrum wrong. We always have a line with left-wing and right-wing at opposite ends. He noted that we should draw it as a horseshoe (where the ends are close together) since the extreme left and the extreme right have far more in common with each other than they do with the middle.
Doesn't this apply to every topic, not just software engineering?
What makes you think anyone doing the cock-swinging actually has any impact on the development of Linux? :)
Identify the leader, contact him or her and ask about the request you have in mind. Get permission to post it to the dev list and see if you get any takers. There are usually a couple people looking for contract programming work sitting on the dev list who are familiar with the project. You will want to give preference to those who actually contribute to the code base since they have demonstrated some understanding of the present code.
Don't contract with open source projects in general since there is no concrete entity to hold accountable for the work. However, it would make perfect sense to contract with an individual contributor to enhance/deploy the project according to your specifications.
All your graphics card are belong to us !!
Amen to that.
Own the copyright all works produced for credit? Those are some sucky terms. At my university, the author retains the copyright to all his or her own works (including those done for classes) unless they were produced on paid university employee time. I would have serious moral issues with a university that claimed to own copyright on projects I do for class. (I already paid them, right?)
Trolled by a penis bird? Trolling usually involves inflaming or angering the user. I just think that the nonsense answer captures the essence of what I am getting at. Laugh. smile. You take this all too seriously. :)
This is perhaps the best response to my comment I can think of. You are either a bot, or a genius. :)
I second this nomination. This is a hilarious idea!
I would suggest the following experiment to help you gain some perspective:
- Turn off your computer and go outside. Observe your surroundings and note that Slashdot has no influence on any of them.
- Go downtown and watch the crowds for several minutes. Realize that you probably have not seen a single person who knows anything about Slashdot or will ever be influenced by Slashdot.
- Ask yourself whether Slashdot can injure your ability to eat, sleep, or move around without your consent. Then ponder whether Slashdot can hinder your free expression in any other forum but Slashdot itself.
Sure, Slashdot's recent attempts to solve the fundamental paradoxes (freedom vs. quality) of public, online discussion are flawed and causing the site to commit suicide slowly. (For example, I discovered that I cannot title this message "Perspective, perspective, perspective." because it is too repetetive. Silly.) However, do not compare yourself to revolutionaries who struggled to change real, meaningful things. This is an electronic playground and nothing more. Only five-year-olds lead revolutions on playgrounds.The PR garbage at the end is designed to assure investors that SuSE will not collapse with the loss of their CTO. It is empty language, and doesn't say anything meaningful about SuSE's future.