That will never happen. Aside from Taco's view that editors can do a better job than pure mob rule, such a system would be open to immense abuse. Also, Slashdot gets dozens, maybe hundreds of submissions an hour. Do you really want to spend your time looking thtough all of them? That's a lot of drudgery, and the only people willing to do it would be those with an agenda or without a life. That's not exactly the crowd I want picking my stories.
The compiler will always produce asm better than a human
No it won't. There are cases where a good asm programmer can get a significant speedup over the compiler. That said, 99% of the time it's not worth the effort.
Oops. On further exploration, I see that it's fixed in the trunk, and the fix will be included in the 1.1 release (I guess must have misread that to say 1.0.1). In the meantime, there's always the SlashFix extension.
It doesn't seem very plausible to me either, but I've heard some CDs (the example I'm thinking of at the moment is either Pink Floyd's The Final Cut or Roger Water's Amused to Death, I'm not sure) that do some quite effective surround sound effects using only headphones. So it is possible, at least to a certain extent.
You don't "defeature" the iPod by loading Linux onto it. The default setting is to dual-boot with the Apple firmware; if you set the Apple firmware as default then iPod behaves exactly like it would without Linux (unless you choose to reset and boot into Linux).
At the moment, playback isn't really reliable. That's being worked on, and it's quite possible that in a few months MP3 playback will work as well as it does under the Apple firmware. Once that's done, other formats can be added (Vorbis is theoretically doable on the iPod, the decoder just needs optimization). No, iPod Linux isn't a replacement for the Apple firmware just yet, but it certainly has potential.
In the meantime, Linux on the iPod allows you to run non-music applications as well. There are quite a few games available - everything from tetris to chess. People are working on PDA-type apps, as well as useful stuff like a metronome or guitar tuner.
In addition, you can unlock features like microphone and stereo line-in recording that aren't available in the Apple firmware. If all you want your iPod to do is play music, then iPod Linux probably isn't for you. But there are a whole lot of legitimate uses that people might have.
The fate of samba? Last time I checked, Samba was alive and well. And if anything, Mono has an advantage over samba in that it doesn't have to be Windows-compatible to be useful. C# is a great language (supposedly; I've never used it) and an open-source Linux implementation can only be a good thing. All of the apps mentioned in the intro are native GTK apps, and will continue to work well and be developed even if MS does something to break Windows compatibility.
Reading the official QEMU page, they say that some people have reported success with it. That's a far cry from actually supporting it. I'm not saying QEMU's not a great program, just that it has a bit of work to do before it becomes as reliable as VMWare.
Look at VMWare and then look at QEMU. QEMU's nice, but it's not quite there yet; Windows XP isn't supported and 2000 is still a bit glitchy. There's still a lot of room for QEMU to improve support, eliminate bugs, and add ease-of-use features.
More precisely, the accelerator only works when emulating x86 using an x86. So it's not gonna help you with running OSX. You're likely to have much better luck with PearPC.
You can disable Javascript in Gecko quite easily. The Mozilla interface itself requires it, but it can be disabled in the frame that shows the actual page.
It was an excellent piece of filmmaking, but unfortunately a horrible piece of journalism. The right wing get-the-facts campaigns are mostly correct. I agree with 95% of Moore's politics, but I can still recognize that the majority of Fahrenheit 9/11 was BS.
What's so odd about that? My main machine doesn't have AV or spyware protection. It runs Windows 2k3 behind a NAT router/firewall. I browse with Firefox and use gmail for email, and in three years I've had no problems with viruses or spyware (. AV protection is pretty much unneccesary on the average desktop if the user has half a brain.
he dodges the "annual cost" part of the question:
Not really. He says the only tool he uses is anti-spyware, which is free. Even if MS starts charging for their program, there are plenty of free alternatives. So it's safe to assume that the annual cost of adding spyware protection to Windows is $0.
Slashdot Mirror
That will never happen. Aside from Taco's view that editors can do a better job than pure mob rule, such a system would be open to immense abuse. Also, Slashdot gets dozens, maybe hundreds of submissions an hour. Do you really want to spend your time looking thtough all of them? That's a lot of drudgery, and the only people willing to do it would be those with an agenda or without a life. That's not exactly the crowd I want picking my stories.
Since Newtons are based on kilograms, any change in the kilogram would also impact weight.
There were image viewers available before graphical browsers. You just couldn't view pictures inline.
No it won't. There are cases where a good asm programmer can get a significant speedup over the compiler. That said, 99% of the time it's not worth the effort.
Oops. On further exploration, I see that it's fixed in the trunk, and the fix will be included in the 1.1 release (I guess must have misread that to say 1.0.1). In the meantime, there's always the SlashFix extension.
I believe this also contains the fix for the various Slashdot rendering bugs. Can someone confirm this?
To nitpick, Dashboard is pretty much dead. Its functionality has been absorbed by Beagle, which gives Tiger's Spotlight a real run for its money.
Unless your TV has a built-in camera transmitting a video feed to TiVo headquarters, then no, TiVo is nowhere close to 1984.
It doesn't seem very plausible to me either, but I've heard some CDs (the example I'm thinking of at the moment is either Pink Floyd's The Final Cut or Roger Water's Amused to Death, I'm not sure) that do some quite effective surround sound effects using only headphones. So it is possible, at least to a certain extent.
Actually, it is safe for work; at least the front page. Maybe Adblock is cutting out something offensive, but it looks fine to me.
At the moment, playback isn't really reliable. That's being worked on, and it's quite possible that in a few months MP3 playback will work as well as it does under the Apple firmware. Once that's done, other formats can be added (Vorbis is theoretically doable on the iPod, the decoder just needs optimization). No, iPod Linux isn't a replacement for the Apple firmware just yet, but it certainly has potential.
In the meantime, Linux on the iPod allows you to run non-music applications as well. There are quite a few games available - everything from tetris to chess. People are working on PDA-type apps, as well as useful stuff like a metronome or guitar tuner.
In addition, you can unlock features like microphone and stereo line-in recording that aren't available in the Apple firmware. If all you want your iPod to do is play music, then iPod Linux probably isn't for you. But there are a whole lot of legitimate uses that people might have.
The fate of samba? Last time I checked, Samba was alive and well. And if anything, Mono has an advantage over samba in that it doesn't have to be Windows-compatible to be useful. C# is a great language (supposedly; I've never used it) and an open-source Linux implementation can only be a good thing. All of the apps mentioned in the intro are native GTK apps, and will continue to work well and be developed even if MS does something to break Windows compatibility.
Maybe, being government lawyers, they would know that prior art is only applicable in patent applications.
This comment is a dupe of the past ten in this thread.
Reading the official QEMU page, they say that some people have reported success with it. That's a far cry from actually supporting it. I'm not saying QEMU's not a great program, just that it has a bit of work to do before it becomes as reliable as VMWare.
Look at VMWare and then look at QEMU. QEMU's nice, but it's not quite there yet; Windows XP isn't supported and 2000 is still a bit glitchy. There's still a lot of room for QEMU to improve support, eliminate bugs, and add ease-of-use features.
More precisely, the accelerator only works when emulating x86 using an x86. So it's not gonna help you with running OSX. You're likely to have much better luck with PearPC.
You can disable Javascript in Gecko quite easily. The Mozilla interface itself requires it, but it can be disabled in the frame that shows the actual page.
IE6 under Windows 2k3 is only 90k. It really is nothing more than a shell around a bunch of dlls.
It was an excellent piece of filmmaking, but unfortunately a horrible piece of journalism. The right wing get-the-facts campaigns are mostly correct. I agree with 95% of Moore's politics, but I can still recognize that the majority of Fahrenheit 9/11 was BS.
Wow. Who woulda thought?
And how awful would it be if a course could be completed only with a specific textbook that all students were forced to buy? Oh, the horror!
Unfortunately, we do. I think what you mean is that we shouldn't need IE7 to fix security holes.
An increase in fuel-effecient cars is not a problem.
What's so odd about that? My main machine doesn't have AV or spyware protection. It runs Windows 2k3 behind a NAT router/firewall. I browse with Firefox and use gmail for email, and in three years I've had no problems with viruses or spyware (. AV protection is pretty much unneccesary on the average desktop if the user has half a brain.
he dodges the "annual cost" part of the question:
Not really. He says the only tool he uses is anti-spyware, which is free. Even if MS starts charging for their program, there are plenty of free alternatives. So it's safe to assume that the annual cost of adding spyware protection to Windows is $0.