Corel Draw and others were practically emulated through the Wine libraries. If they mean business they should have made native Linux apps. The idea of having CMYK support under Linux is a bit of a wet-dream at the moment...
They did however give out free CD's at Defcon and other interesting conferences (I've still got a few). So to say that they were entirely half assed is wrong, they did actively pursue support. Their distros were not all that though.
Corel Ventura would have been excellent for Linux, because it is a pretty neat DTP solution and Linux really needs some heavy duty DTP software that can be used in production environments.
bazaar n. 1 CHARITIBLE SALE a sale of goods to raise money for charity 2. SHOP SELLING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS a retail store that sells a wide variety of itens 3. MIDDLE EASTERN STREET MARKET a street market in middle eastern countries.
However;-) I don't think ESR was talking about that when he wrote his book.
I have found FreeBSD far faster on older hardware, I have a 486DX 50 32mb mem. 320mb HD that seems pretty quick, even with X. It seemed faster than Linux on the same platform, I haven't benchmarked it to be sure though.
Tomato vs. Tomato. Whilst I can understand the preference of all of these languages I would argue that since 2.x Python has really shone. However there are such an abundance of good scripting languages out there (Ruby, Perl, Python, Scheme etc.) that praise the difference. They all serve to further the widespread acceptance of free languages. Yesterday Perl, Today PHP, Tommorow Python, next Dylan? Your mentioning it has certainly made me want to look at it. Especially if it has serious Academic review.
Unfortunately the link doesn't work at the moment, so I'll try tommorow.
When I say duty I meant something that somebody is compelled to for moral or legal grounds. Not duty as in obligation.
I guess the problem is when people are not au-fait with the current laws.
I imagine that something published online, if transferred to a different medium could also be considered under the DMCA. I wonder where excerpts and verbatim copies stand with this (even in an office meeting scenario).
Is it the duty of the person/organization with a new idea to publish it such that patents will be blocked? Or face the consequences of not widely distributing the idea.
I do have to wonder what percentage of games are not reviewed but based on superficial reasoning. I've worked places that basically re-work the press-releases they are sent and then add to that any further lobbying. Generally when a company is onto a winner (and they know it) they'll lobby extra hard, lots of 'big lunches' and visits from PR folk with free T-Shirts etc.
I like your term 'sales weasel' although this is a bit sexist for female weasels who should be called a bitch, doe or jill. So sales weasel should become:
It's amazing. On one hand people get pissed off if Government interferes with business. On the other hand business doesn't get pissed off if the Government interferes with people. I thought over-regulation was a bad thing, or does that only apply to business?
Actually one of the points of Freenet is that the node does not/can not know what is stored on said system system. A way round this is to use a very small transient data store and wipe it between use, this limits propogation from the node. A pain but it saves propogating filth.
I agree that there is a real moral issue involved here.
But one of the questions is should we be denied anonymity because of those who abuse it?
Often Governments are wrong, and if we lose the right to anonymity we are screwed if a government goes bad. When the brown-shirts march you'd be glad to have a secure method of distributing information. It's a shame all of the sickos have to move in on any new technology so fast.
This whole thing is a mute argument, the cat is out of the bag. Not least because of Freenet. There is nothing aside from severely restricting usage at ISP's to stop this.
Freenet is a distributed network with anonymity built in. In a nutshell here are the features:
Interesting. If the detonator were destroyed inproperly, made unstable, you would end up with a more deadly less predictable mine. I hope it works, but lets not beta test it on people who need human support too. A human would have to deal with the un-detonated mine that has a broken fuse, if the shell is cracked the explosives are potentially very unstable.
OK, the article was a bit light so the above could be making five from two plus two.
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True, although XML is meant for text based transfer so binary would have to use some kind of text encoding, I imagine in a CDATA element (unless they pervert the standard) using somekind of text encoding, however:
There is nothing to say that this data within the XML isn't encrypted.
Microsoft will control the authentication of various services.
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What happens after Windows forms?
I'm pro.NET, on paper. However what worries me is that Microsoft will pervert the standard, in the same way they did SMTP, MIME, HTML, Java and Kerberos. Admittidly the XML backbone of some of this is a saving grace, at least a DTD makes reverse engineering easier.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the original standard may only last untill the next version of Windows. Which upon release will/may gain proprietary standards and modifications, possibly creating forks.
I use Savannah and it is a very slick service, well documented (as is Sourceforge), it's also nice to be able to cut time by been able to automatically apply to be a GNU project. The licensing issues are well dealt with (anything as long as its FSF approved) and any questions that I have posted have been answered in hours.
With regards of compatibility there is an offer (when you sign up) to use your existing CVS's data on their systems. The only caveat was that they are far stricter with licensing. So if you use the Sourceforge CVS it should be easy (providing the licence is OK) to transfer to Savannah.
You also geta homepage at: http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/yourprojectname
Which is adminned via RSYNC or CVS over SSH.
So almost identical to Sourceforge.
It doesn't seem to be as fast as Sourceforge, but this is opionion and I have no metric to support this.
Yeah, it sucks, the only good point is that they often include ISO's (for most major distros inc. SuSE) on the Linux Format DVD edition. They usually have at least one big distro, such as Redhat, and several smaller ones (like Smoothwall). They have had SuSE in the past. I know they have done a similar thing in the German Linux Magazine, I don't know if any US magazines do the same. Maybe SuSE are neglecting the US market because of RedHat's domination.
The FTP install is actually fairly easy. I can understand wanting the media though.
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Win Modems are supported in the standard kernel now. My install is aroun 400mb, I run Debian. Config can be cryptic, it depends purely on your administration style and which distribution you are running. I have a SuSE machine and YaST is a pretty easy admin interface.
You can use their FTP version. If you're running a non-intel platform ISO's are still available.
Two different ball-parks
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I'm very pro-Linux, biased if you like. However comparing XP to SuSE is a little like comparing a mountain bike to a racer. XP is geared toward home/business use, Linux tends to be geared toward technical and back end users.
They are both good for different reasons, and have a lot to learn from each other. But do we really have to compare chalk and cheese every time?
Can't we just accept things on their relative merits?
I don't see how Linux and Windows can be compared. They are both good, but for different reasons. Everyone should just calm down and do there own thing based on what they need.
AT&T are the kings of natural speech research. Unless BT hold a patent or two;-). AT&T have some neat stuff on there research sites.
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A slashdotting like effect happened to Glen Humplink on the Tom Green show, his telephone number accidently (apparently) got shown to Times Square, he had to get his number changed because it didn't stop ringing.
Yipes indeed. I wonder if we'll see law suits about any gaming tech, particularly vibrating handsets etc.. I don't think we had the virtual boy in the UK.
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Corel Draw and others were practically emulated through the Wine libraries. If they mean business they should have made native Linux apps. The idea of having CMYK support under Linux is a bit of a wet-dream at the moment...
They did however give out free CD's at Defcon and other interesting conferences (I've still got a few). So to say that they were entirely half assed is wrong, they did actively pursue support. Their distros were not all that though.
Corel Ventura would have been excellent for Linux, because it is a pretty neat DTP solution and Linux really needs some heavy duty DTP software that can be used in production environments.
However ;-) I don't think ESR was talking about that when he wrote his book.
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Interesting to note the paragraph under the heading 'The Downside of Dylan'.
I have found FreeBSD far faster on older hardware, I have a 486DX 50 32mb mem. 320mb HD that seems pretty quick, even with X. It seemed faster than Linux on the same platform, I haven't benchmarked it to be sure though.
Tomato vs. Tomato. Whilst I can understand the preference of all of these languages I would argue that since 2.x Python has really shone. However there are such an abundance of good scripting languages out there (Ruby, Perl, Python, Scheme etc.) that praise the difference. They all serve to further the widespread acceptance of free languages. Yesterday Perl, Today PHP, Tommorow Python, next Dylan? Your mentioning it has certainly made me want to look at it. Especially if it has serious Academic review.
Unfortunately the link doesn't work at the moment, so I'll try tommorow.
When I say duty I meant something that somebody is compelled to for moral or legal grounds. Not duty as in obligation.
;-).
I guess the problem is when people are not au-fait with the current laws.
I imagine that something published online, if transferred to a different medium could also be considered under the DMCA. I wonder where excerpts and verbatim copies stand with this (even in an office meeting scenario).
I'm no lawyer. I'm not bloody minded enough
Is it the duty of the person/organization with a new idea to publish it such that patents will be blocked? Or face the consequences of not widely distributing the idea.
I do have to wonder what percentage of games are not reviewed but based on superficial reasoning. I've worked places that basically re-work the press-releases they are sent and then add to that any further lobbying. Generally when a company is onto a winner (and they know it) they'll lobby extra hard, lots of 'big lunches' and visits from PR folk with free T-Shirts etc.
;-). Or is that offensive to weasels?
I like your term 'sales weasel' although this is a bit sexist for female weasels who should be called a bitch, doe or jill. So sales weasel should become:
Sales weasel/jill
Sales weasel/bitch
Sales weasel/doe
I like 'sales bitch' best.
It's amazing. On one hand people get pissed off if Government interferes with business. On the other hand business doesn't get pissed off if the Government interferes with people. I thought over-regulation was a bad thing, or does that only apply to business?
I agree that there is a real moral issue involved here.
But one of the questions is should we be denied anonymity because of those who abuse it?
Often Governments are wrong, and if we lose the right to anonymity we are screwed if a government goes bad. When the brown-shirts march you'd be glad to have a secure method of distributing information. It's a shame all of the sickos have to move in on any new technology so fast.
Freenet is a distributed network with anonymity built in. In a nutshell here are the features:
It can't be monitored effectively
It can carry any kind of media
It is anonymous
It is written in Java
Napster style clients exist (also written in Java)
All OSS
It is crawling with all kinds of undesirables because of the above.
If the users of existing filesharing networks were to move to something like this the record industry would be screwed.
Interesting. If the detonator were destroyed inproperly, made unstable, you would end up with a more deadly less predictable mine. I hope it works, but lets not beta test it on people who need human support too. A human would have to deal with the un-detonated mine that has a broken fuse, if the shell is cracked the explosives are potentially very unstable.
OK, the article was a bit light so the above could be making five from two plus two.
True, although XML is meant for text based transfer so binary would have to use some kind of text encoding, I imagine in a CDATA element (unless they pervert the standard) using somekind of text encoding, however:
There is nothing to say that this data within the XML isn't encrypted.
Microsoft will control the authentication of various services.
What happens after Windows forms?
.NET, on paper. However what worries me is that Microsoft will pervert the standard, in the same way they did SMTP, MIME, HTML, Java and Kerberos. Admittidly the XML backbone of some of this is a saving grace, at least a DTD makes reverse engineering easier.
;-).
I'm pro
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the original standard may only last untill the next version of Windows. Which upon release will/may gain proprietary standards and modifications, possibly creating forks.
I may just be paranoid
I use Savannah and it is a very slick service, well documented (as is Sourceforge), it's also nice to be able to cut time by been able to automatically apply to be a GNU project. The licensing issues are well dealt with (anything as long as its FSF approved) and any questions that I have posted have been answered in hours.
With regards of compatibility there is an offer (when you sign up) to use your existing CVS's data on their systems. The only caveat was that they are far stricter with licensing. So if you use the Sourceforge CVS it should be easy (providing the licence is OK) to transfer to Savannah.
You also geta homepage at: http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/yourprojectname
Which is adminned via RSYNC or CVS over SSH.
So almost identical to Sourceforge.
It doesn't seem to be as fast as Sourceforge, but this is opionion and I have no metric to support this.
The FTP install is actually fairly easy. I can understand wanting the media though.
Win Modems are supported in the standard kernel now. My install is aroun 400mb, I run Debian. Config can be cryptic, it depends purely on your administration style and which distribution you are running. I have a SuSE machine and YaST is a pretty easy admin interface.
You can use their FTP version. If you're running a non-intel platform ISO's are still available.
I'm very pro-Linux, biased if you like. However comparing XP to SuSE is a little like comparing a mountain bike to a racer. XP is geared toward home/business use, Linux tends to be geared toward technical and back end users.
They are both good for different reasons, and have a lot to learn from each other. But do we really have to compare chalk and cheese every time?
Can't we just accept things on their relative merits?
I don't see how Linux and Windows can be compared. They are both good, but for different reasons. Everyone should just calm down and do there own thing based on what they need.
They dropped it eventually...
And replaced it with DTMF menus!Wonderful!
AT&T are the kings of natural speech research. Unless BT hold a patent or two ;-). AT&T have some neat stuff on there research sites.
A slashdotting like effect happened to Glen Humplink on the Tom Green show, his telephone number accidently (apparently) got shown to Times Square, he had to get his number changed because it didn't stop ringing.
So that costs about .43 cents a day. About the same as a coffee?
But you're right of course, I'm just bitter, I just ***did the math***.
Yipes indeed. I wonder if we'll see law suits about any gaming tech, particularly vibrating handsets etc.. I don't think we had the virtual boy in the UK.
I certainly suffered from eye strain when using VR helmets. I wonder if the low entropy of the eyes will weaken the movement of muscles.
Someone could 0wn your box and turn up the lights.
Is there any research on the long term effects of using these devices on they eyes and eye muscles?