What? John Kerry can't keep his Red Sox scores straight? Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw! I've clearly been supporting the wrong man all along! How can we possibly expect strong leadership from a man who doesn't watch enough SportsCenter?
Please. Did it ever occur to anyone that John Kerry might be a little bit busy, considering that there's one week to go before Election Day? Naw, that couldn't be it.
Here's an idea: After the election, Malda deletes the entire Politics section from production, and burns any backup tape from a date that the Politics section was active. His editorial staff has already proven that they're juvenile half-wits. We didn't need a two-party pissing contest to reinforce it.
Never mind ones brought by students, how about ones issued by the school to the students?
Since 1995, Grove City College has been handing every incoming freshman a shiny new Compaq laptop. (Would have been nice to have that when I was a freshman.) Yet GCC is listed with a miniscule 2:100 ratio! Well, duh! What use would a school have for rooms full of space heaters when they know everybody has a computer, because they gave every student one to keep?
The rap in "Roll The Bones" was a pitch-altered Geddy, not Neil. IIRC, Neil's only vocal contributions over the years are "Subdivisions" and "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation... We have assumed control."
And if you need something to expunge the memory of attempted Canadian hip-hop, I highly recommend Vapor Trails. Geddy may have screwed up the engineering, but he accidentally got them in touch with their inner garage band.
Please, please, somebody tell me that my browser mangled the <sarcasm> tags.
For those who did take that seriosuly, you'll get a good idea of who Barack Obama is by reading the transcript of his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
Congress authorized the President to use military force in Iraq if necessary. Bush was savvy enough to set the bar for "if necessary" very, very low, and Congress was gullible enough to fall for it.
Search Microsoft's Knowledge Base for "49.7 days", and you'll find a few bugs, all of them related to storing uptime in milliseconds in an unsigned 32-bit integer. Two were reported in Windows 2000:
That rpcss.exe issue looks like a prime suspect. The OS doesn't crash, but, given the time-sensitive nature of air traffic control data, it's quite possible that the applications running on that server would degrade to the point of failure.
Both look like they were found, or at least entered into the KB, after the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (Nov. 2003), and hotfixes are available for both.
Note to Microsoft (or anyone else storing milliseconds, for that matter): unsigned 64-bit int! Instead of having to reboot every 49.7 days, you'll have to reboot every 213,503,982,334 days, give or take a leap-second.
Looks like somebody on the OSDN payroll didn't agree. FortKnox got modbombed and temp-banned. I wonder what will happen to me if I reply? Will Michael modbomb me, ban me, then personally drive to my house and try to shove a swiss cake roll in my disk drive?
The NV1x register-combiner pipeline did not have an analogue in the Radeon 7x00 series (R1x0) and was not exposed in DX7, so ironically Doom 3--written in OpenGL of course, so using Nvidia's proprietary extensions is allowed--will be one of the first and only games to use the technology.
City of Heroes got there first. There was a lot of complaining in the official CoH boards that the game's graphics were corrupted on Mobility Radeon 7500 laptops. Somebody snooped the OpenGL calls, and saw that Cryptic used nVidia's register combiner extension. I'm posting this from memory, so I'm not sure of the details, but you can search the Technical Issues forum.
Continuity: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself...
Standard Anti-Nitpick Response #1: Things happen off-camera. If it's a cut between angles of the same subject, that may be correct. But that scene only occasionally visits Dr. Octavius. And besides, if I was trying to bring that fireball down, and I thought I had a chance to pull it off and still escape, I certainly wouldn't want to be under the fireball once I was underwater!
Audio problem: It's clear that due to the tentacles' heaviness, they have to made some kind of sound when moving...
If those tentacles are precise enough to take Doc Ock's shades off, they're precise enough to tiptoe.
...We can blatantly see that it's wire wrapped in plastic of some kind to make it look like web.
Like this guy knows what a giant spider web spun by a genetically-altered human really looks like.
Continuity: When Harry walks into the Goblin room, he is startled by the mask his father wore. We are made to believe the mask is at the level of Harry's face, but when it pans out a bit later, it's waist high.
Can anyone here claim that their field of vision stops at their cheekbones?
Audio problem: Throughout the entire movie, when Doc Ock moves around with his tentacles, it's always in very quick movements...
Obviously posted by somebody who walks at a constant speed, never breaking into a run to escape a rabid dog, nor slowing down to wander through the park with his girlfriend. (Presuming the poster is capable of acquiring a girlfriend that doesn't need to be inflated first.)
Continuity: At the end of the "I've changed" conversation with Mary Jane, the taxi is right next to her...
This poster has apparently forgotten the end of the restaraunt scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".:-)
Continuity: After Doc Ock drops Spider-Man off at Harry's house, Spider-Man's legs, wrists and arms are bound...
Standard Anti-Nitpick Response #1 again.
I certainly hope moviemistakes.com is enjoying the slashdotting they're taking right now. Consider it a multi-megabyte-per-second hint to GET A LIFE! (Like I can talk. How many brain cells did I waste writing this?)
@ your choice of how your desktop environment looks
@ games, not just freecell and solitaire
Try Google. There are plenty of free games and skinning tools out there.
Microsoft doesn't put all this stuff on a CD and put it in the box with Windows, but that doesn't mean that these programs don't exist, or aren't useful. The only advantage GNU/Linux has is a distro that throws everything and KitchenSink 3.1, with sources, onto a DVD-ROM, like SuSE's Professional package. But that doesn't quite raise GNU/Linux to the level of superiority you suggest.
OTOH, the availability of source in the first place does give Linux quite a lift.:-)
Update: 06/25 14:50 GMT by J: A reader points out Microsoft's What You Should Know page. Here's the short version for avoiding this Critical severity attack: you must install add-on software, and change multiple settings in multiple programs, thus causing "some Web sites to work improperly." By changing more settings, you can regain functionality for a particular site if "you trust that it is safe to use," which you have no way of knowing.
Of course, mentioning the patch that was released in April would make it sound like you were trying to actually help.
Update: 06/25 19:30 GMT by J:... Shouldn't the "fix" include ceasing to type anything important into your computer until you purchase software which can detect and remove the Trojan? And will you be downloading that software with Mastercard or Visa?
Once again, are you really helping, or just being an asshole?
You know, we finally got Michael to stop forcing his opinions onto every Microsoft related story. Don't you start. You're embarassing yourself and Slashdot with this juvenile "I told you so" taunting.
If it's a port of the Unix code, as opposed to a rewrite, it ought to have the same API or you're doing something wrong.
The problem is that it's not a straight port. The X11 version isn't going to have Active Accessibility, the ActiveQt COM bridge, or Visual Studio integration.
No, Ximian is duplicating Microsoft's work (reimplementing it from scratch), not porting Microsoft's GPL'd code.
So Trolltech was kind enough to give a head start. The problem isn't the availability of reference points, whether it's just an API reference or an implementation from another operating system. The problem is that the reimplementation never feeds back to the original. Microsoft is content to pretend that Mono doesn't exist, and Trolltech would be loath to accept code that improved an Open Source version of Qt/Win. It negates one of the wonderful things about Open Source. The code isn't delivered to the masses from on high. It's about collaboration, not consumption.
The way I look at it is, Windows is a non-free platform anyway, so people who complain that Qt is non-free on that platform are whining pointlessly.
So you would be equally opposed to a port to OS/2? Or AmigaOS? What about the Free version for Mac OS X that already exists? There's a difference between pro-Open Source and anti-Microsoft. It would be nice if everything from the BIOS up was OSS, but as my ex-boss was fond of saying, "you can't boil the ocean." Open Source apps on Windows are a critical step in the migration.
By the way, a free Windows port does exist, under cygwin.
That was the 2nd link in my original post. If you had followed it, you would have noticed that the one man who was working on the port has run out of [time | money | motivation], and the project is pretty much dead in the water.
...including porting it to windows. Troll Tech hasn't done that for you, of course, and why should they?
Um, they already did. They simply refuse to release it under an OSI-compliant license. That leaves anyone ambitious enough to try a port of the X11 code with the responsibility of ensuring that the port is feature complete and compatible with Trolltech's official, non-Free version. <sarcasm>Easy, right?</sarcasm>
Funny how so many Slashbots bemoan how Mono is a waste of time, because Ximian will be forever playing catch-up to the current version of the.Net Framework. But when the subject of a Free Qt for Windows comes up, the immediate, flippant response is "port it yourself!", which is exactly what Ximian is doing.
It's called the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve (Mid-Engined, four turbos, twelve cylinders).
That would be the one. Still a prototype at this stage, but the performance targets are dazzling. Follow the parent's link, and you'll see what I mean.
It sounds like the Veyron and ME Four-Twelve are using very similar transmissions, but the Chrysler engine produces a more manageable 850 lb/ft of torque, thus avoiding the biggest development issue VW has had with the Veyron. I think VW derived their transmission from their DSG, while Chrysler farmed theirs out to a racing gearbox specialist, Ricardo.
What allows Chrysler to make up the horsepower gap is weight. The Veyron weighs about 4300 lbs, according to Howstuffworks. The ME Four-Twelve weighs only 2880 lbs. The article mentions that the Dodge Viper weighs 1000 lbs less than the Veyron. The ME Four-Twelve weighs 500 lbs less than the Viper. Colin Chapman would be proud.:-)
What amazes me is that Dr. Piech thinks he can charge US$1,000,000 for the Veyron, while Chrysler estimates that the ME Four-Twelve would sell for around $250,000. Did VW really use $750,000 of wood and leather in the interior?!
Actually, they got Bentley in the divorce. BMW now builds Rolls-Royce motor cars. VW is now comprised of Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Bugatti, not to mention their plans to collaborate with Ferrari on future Maserati models.
So there must be a car for the proletariat in there somewhere.:-) Theoretically, that's the Seat and Skoda brands, as well as the VW Lupo and Polo. Unfortunately, out of all those cars, none are available in North America except the Polo, and they're only sold in Mexico. As long as they keep nudging the Golf and Jetta upscale, they'll drift farther away from their legacy. Maybe if they could find a way to import Skodas without driving up the price, they could get it back. From what I hear, the Czechs are building VW's best cars right now.
The Kyle Katarn games were good for making self-referential cracks like that. My favorite was from Jedi Knight, where, upon seeing a large cargo canister rotating in microgravity that you obviously have to jump to, Kyle says, "Great. Another place where I can fall to my death."
Which is exactly what they did -- and it's an almighty coincidence if that wasn't what prompted TrollTech to release Qt under the GPL.
Er, I wasn't saying that there weren't any alternative toolkits on Linux (there are alternative toolkits on Windows too).
He was talking about Project Harmony. Trolltech needed a little kick in the pants to release Qt/X11 under the GPL. In the early days of KDE, Richard Stallman and other Free Software advocates were critical of some provisions of the QPL, and considered them serious enough to start their own clean-room implementation, dubbed Project Harmony. Trolltech, realizing that they could lose their place on the ground floor of the Linux desktop, decided to dual-license Qt/X11 under the GPL and QPL, thus restoring KDE's good graces.
ajs318's point, rabid zealotry aside, is a good one. Unfortunately, I don't think a Win32 port of Qt/X11 is enough. It may take a fork of the X11 code to get Trolltech's attention.
I did not write the grandparent post but it is well known on the qt-interest mailing list (run by Trolltech) that the reason there's no GPL'ed version of Qt for Windows is exactly the reason given in the grandparent post.
Maybe it's just me, but if you pose the question in your FAQ, but the real answer can only be found by rummaging through a mailing list archive, you're dodging the question.
But the truth is the only kind of software the Windows users really know or care about writing is worms and viruses -- and even then they only manage that with a lot of help from Microsoft. They're quite content to eat the shit they get fed, because they know it would be too much like hard graft to try changing it.
This gets a +1: Interesting?! Calling anyone who writes software for 90% of the computer-using public criminals?This may be the most personally insulting thing I've ever read on Slashdot. Nice keyboard courage, there, buddy.
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What? John Kerry can't keep his Red Sox scores straight? Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw! I've clearly been supporting the wrong man all along! How can we possibly expect strong leadership from a man who doesn't watch enough SportsCenter?
Please. Did it ever occur to anyone that John Kerry might be a little bit busy, considering that there's one week to go before Election Day? Naw, that couldn't be it.
Here's an idea: After the election, Malda deletes the entire Politics section from production, and burns any backup tape from a date that the Politics section was active. His editorial staff has already proven that they're juvenile half-wits. We didn't need a two-party pissing contest to reinforce it.
Never mind ones brought by students, how about ones issued by the school to the students?
Since 1995, Grove City College has been handing every incoming freshman a shiny new Compaq laptop. (Would have been nice to have that when I was a freshman.) Yet GCC is listed with a miniscule 2:100 ratio! Well, duh! What use would a school have for rooms full of space heaters when they know everybody has a computer, because they gave every student one to keep?The rap in "Roll The Bones" was a pitch-altered Geddy, not Neil. IIRC, Neil's only vocal contributions over the years are "Subdivisions" and "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation... We have assumed control."
And if you need something to expunge the memory of attempted Canadian hip-hop, I highly recommend Vapor Trails. Geddy may have screwed up the engineering, but he accidentally got them in touch with their inner garage band.
Please, please, somebody tell me that my browser mangled the <sarcasm> tags.
For those who did take that seriosuly, you'll get a good idea of who Barack Obama is by reading the transcript of his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
Congress authorized the President to use military force in Iraq if necessary. Bush was savvy enough to set the bar for "if necessary" very, very low, and Congress was gullible enough to fall for it.
Your tax dollars at work.
Search Microsoft's Knowledge Base for "49.7 days", and you'll find a few bugs, all of them related to storing uptime in milliseconds in an unsigned 32-bit integer. Two were reported in Windows 2000:
That rpcss.exe issue looks like a prime suspect. The OS doesn't crash, but, given the time-sensitive nature of air traffic control data, it's quite possible that the applications running on that server would degrade to the point of failure.
Both look like they were found, or at least entered into the KB, after the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (Nov. 2003), and hotfixes are available for both.
Note to Microsoft (or anyone else storing milliseconds, for that matter): unsigned 64-bit int! Instead of having to reboot every 49.7 days, you'll have to reboot every 213,503,982,334 days, give or take a leap-second.
Looks like somebody on the OSDN payroll didn't agree. FortKnox got modbombed and temp-banned. I wonder what will happen to me if I reply? Will Michael modbomb me, ban me, then personally drive to my house and try to shove a swiss cake roll in my disk drive?
City of Heroes got there first. There was a lot of complaining in the official CoH boards that the game's graphics were corrupted on Mobility Radeon 7500 laptops. Somebody snooped the OpenGL calls, and saw that Cryptic used nVidia's register combiner extension. I'm posting this from memory, so I'm not sure of the details, but you can search the Technical Issues forum.
Standard Anti-Nitpick Response #1: Things happen off-camera. If it's a cut between angles of the same subject, that may be correct. But that scene only occasionally visits Dr. Octavius. And besides, if I was trying to bring that fireball down, and I thought I had a chance to pull it off and still escape, I certainly wouldn't want to be under the fireball once I was underwater!
If those tentacles are precise enough to take Doc Ock's shades off, they're precise enough to tiptoe.
Like this guy knows what a giant spider web spun by a genetically-altered human really looks like.
Can anyone here claim that their field of vision stops at their cheekbones?
Obviously posted by somebody who walks at a constant speed, never breaking into a run to escape a rabid dog, nor slowing down to wander through the park with his girlfriend. (Presuming the poster is capable of acquiring a girlfriend that doesn't need to be inflated first.)
This poster has apparently forgotten the end of the restaraunt scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". :-)
Standard Anti-Nitpick Response #1 again.
I certainly hope moviemistakes.com is enjoying the slashdotting they're taking right now. Consider it a multi-megabyte-per-second hint to GET A LIFE! (Like I can talk. How many brain cells did I waste writing this?)
Of course the solution set looks pretty small, after you've arbitrarily eliminated half of it. Nothing's stopping you from downloading Cygwin.
Sure you can.
Try Google. There are plenty of free games and skinning tools out there.
Microsoft doesn't put all this stuff on a CD and put it in the box with Windows, but that doesn't mean that these programs don't exist, or aren't useful. The only advantage GNU/Linux has is a distro that throws everything and KitchenSink 3.1, with sources, onto a DVD-ROM, like SuSE's Professional package. But that doesn't quite raise GNU/Linux to the level of superiority you suggest.
OTOH, the availability of source in the first place does give Linux quite a lift. :-)
Of course, mentioning the patch that was released in April would make it sound like you were trying to actually help.
Once again, are you really helping, or just being an asshole?
You know, we finally got Michael to stop forcing his opinions onto every Microsoft related story. Don't you start. You're embarassing yourself and Slashdot with this juvenile "I told you so" taunting.
I just finished downloading Release Candidate 3!
I'm afraid Audi beat them to it.
And I thought the standards around here couldn't get any lower.
I thought Kirk left him on Stereo Alpha 3?
The problem is that it's not a straight port. The X11 version isn't going to have Active Accessibility, the ActiveQt COM bridge, or Visual Studio integration.
So Trolltech was kind enough to give a head start. The problem isn't the availability of reference points, whether it's just an API reference or an implementation from another operating system. The problem is that the reimplementation never feeds back to the original. Microsoft is content to pretend that Mono doesn't exist, and Trolltech would be loath to accept code that improved an Open Source version of Qt/Win. It negates one of the wonderful things about Open Source. The code isn't delivered to the masses from on high. It's about collaboration, not consumption.
So you would be equally opposed to a port to OS/2? Or AmigaOS? What about the Free version for Mac OS X that already exists? There's a difference between pro-Open Source and anti-Microsoft. It would be nice if everything from the BIOS up was OSS, but as my ex-boss was fond of saying, "you can't boil the ocean." Open Source apps on Windows are a critical step in the migration.
That was the 2nd link in my original post. If you had followed it, you would have noticed that the one man who was working on the port has run out of [time | money | motivation], and the project is pretty much dead in the water.
Um, they already did. They simply refuse to release it under an OSI-compliant license. That leaves anyone ambitious enough to try a port of the X11 code with the responsibility of ensuring that the port is feature complete and compatible with Trolltech's official, non-Free version. <sarcasm>Easy, right?</sarcasm>
Funny how so many Slashbots bemoan how Mono is a waste of time, because Ximian will be forever playing catch-up to the current version of the .Net Framework. But when the subject of a Free Qt for Windows comes up, the immediate, flippant response is "port it yourself!", which is exactly what Ximian is doing.
It's either an honest mis-click of the mouse, or Timothy wanted to remind everyone of just how GOD-AWFUL UGLY the Apache section color scheme is.
That would be the one. Still a prototype at this stage, but the performance targets are dazzling. Follow the parent's link, and you'll see what I mean.
It sounds like the Veyron and ME Four-Twelve are using very similar transmissions, but the Chrysler engine produces a more manageable 850 lb/ft of torque, thus avoiding the biggest development issue VW has had with the Veyron. I think VW derived their transmission from their DSG, while Chrysler farmed theirs out to a racing gearbox specialist, Ricardo.
What allows Chrysler to make up the horsepower gap is weight. The Veyron weighs about 4300 lbs, according to Howstuffworks. The ME Four-Twelve weighs only 2880 lbs. The article mentions that the Dodge Viper weighs 1000 lbs less than the Veyron. The ME Four-Twelve weighs 500 lbs less than the Viper. Colin Chapman would be proud. :-)
What amazes me is that Dr. Piech thinks he can charge US$1,000,000 for the Veyron, while Chrysler estimates that the ME Four-Twelve would sell for around $250,000. Did VW really use $750,000 of wood and leather in the interior?!
Actually, they got Bentley in the divorce. BMW now builds Rolls-Royce motor cars. VW is now comprised of Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Bugatti, not to mention their plans to collaborate with Ferrari on future Maserati models.
So there must be a car for the proletariat in there somewhere. :-) Theoretically, that's the Seat and Skoda brands, as well as the VW Lupo and Polo. Unfortunately, out of all those cars, none are available in North America except the Polo, and they're only sold in Mexico. As long as they keep nudging the Golf and Jetta upscale, they'll drift farther away from their legacy. Maybe if they could find a way to import Skodas without driving up the price, they could get it back. From what I hear, the Czechs are building VW's best cars right now.
That would be nice for Canadiens games. But if you want me to attend an Expos game, you'll have to set the parking meter to pay me.
The Kyle Katarn games were good for making self-referential cracks like that. My favorite was from Jedi Knight, where, upon seeing a large cargo canister rotating in microgravity that you obviously have to jump to, Kyle says, "Great. Another place where I can fall to my death."
He was talking about Project Harmony. Trolltech needed a little kick in the pants to release Qt/X11 under the GPL. In the early days of KDE, Richard Stallman and other Free Software advocates were critical of some provisions of the QPL, and considered them serious enough to start their own clean-room implementation, dubbed Project Harmony. Trolltech, realizing that they could lose their place on the ground floor of the Linux desktop, decided to dual-license Qt/X11 under the GPL and QPL, thus restoring KDE's good graces.
ajs318's point, rabid zealotry aside, is a good one. Unfortunately, I don't think a Win32 port of Qt/X11 is enough. It may take a fork of the X11 code to get Trolltech's attention.
Maybe it's just me, but if you pose the question in your FAQ, but the real answer can only be found by rummaging through a mailing list archive, you're dodging the question.
This gets a +1: Interesting?! Calling anyone who writes software for 90% of the computer-using public criminals? This may be the most personally insulting thing I've ever read on Slashdot. Nice keyboard courage, there, buddy.