As an OSS developer myself I feel everyone is entitled to use a copy of my stuff for whatever they want. I don't feel they "own" the project though.
I mean a lot of work goes into something like a Distro [or the stuff in a Distro]. Just because you're smart enough to put a CD in and install a distro doesn't mean you're a significant contributor.
um yeah I know but thats why adding *more* crappy channels is *not* a good idea. Besides there *are* cartoon networks which *do* show anime like americana crap.
So either change the way TV billing works or provide an option to vote against the new channel. I'm still living in a democracy last time I checked.
Why not add a few hard core white supremecy channels, how about dial-a-nigger for them gang-bangers. Oh yeah why not the dub-ya special channel? Maybe 20 channels of ice melting in Alaska. Top it off with the all-"seven eleven" shopping network for middle class america...
The thing is when they add a channel I pay for it anyways [even if I don't order it cuz it factors in indirectly to what I pay]. So when I say "adding the channel bad" and you say "change the channel" I would reply "you pay my bills!"
I'm all with you. Down with Anime the sick ass wierd buggy eye chicks that is a joke Japan plays on America...
Oh and ditch reality TV and stupid modern sitcoms while yer at it. If I have to see yet another commercial for "mr. personality" or "slut-of-the-week" I sware I'll get all bent.
Hmm well I have to say that's off mark. The Athlons for instance do quite a bit in any given cycle. That's why there are three AL and three FP pipelines.
The P4 is the processor which tries todo little per cycle. With four ports [which do various things except two which share some AL functions] you can't as easily do many things per cycle.
I develop libraries not applications. So my "end users" are other developers.
Considering they are using it for free you'd think they could spend five minutes and at least comment [after using the libs] on what they like/dislike.
As the author of a cryptographic toolkit [libtomcrypt] and a bignum toolkit [libtommath], both of which are written in portable ISO C, build out of the box on any GCC equipped machine and generally perform reasonably decent I have two cents to offer.
As an OSS developer myself I have to say that it is not that I'm not willing to go all the way with a complete product it is often that the end users themselves are not willing to put in the effort to review it.
For instance, combined 500 people have downloaded the recent releases of my libraries. Which doesn't seem like a lot except that crypto libraries are generally not horded that much.
Often I will go months before receiving anything from anyone. Whenever a bug is found I often fix it within a few hours at most. Mostly I find the bugs in the libraries as I wander through it.
Though my projects are "limited" scale I bet similar reasoning applies to larger scale projects. If a developer doesn't get user feedback its not only hard to fix bugs they don't know about but often discouraging to continue development.
Tom
BTW my libs are at http://libtomcrypt.org for the curious....
The argument is more complicated than this. You're *not* entitled to download the music. It isn't enough that you enjoy the fruits of synthesizer labour without paying but that you take it without asking.
I still don't think the average zealot here really gets how bidnez is supposed to work. Hammer out a crappy product and charge up the ass to "license a copy of it".
I'd rather make a better statement of just not buying or downloading utterly craptastic music.
But back on point. You may think the RIAA is going over-board but at the end of the day.... they do have a point!
There is a difference between publishing *certain* books in waterproof format and *all*.
In places where the books are going to get damaged sure. But just because some yutz bidnez stewdent can't keep the beer off the books doesn't mean we should devastate the earth more than we already are.
You'd be surprised how little power a watch actually requires [compared to say a decent calculator or flash light].
What surprises me is that in this day and age we still have battery powered calculators at all. Wouldn't a decently sized solar panel [e.g. make it 2cm x 1cm and that should be enough].
Ho hum...
Anyways, anyone who drops 30,000$ on a watch *deserves* to know what time it is...:-)
I'm not against guns. I'm against careless storage of firearms. There is a different between having a firearm locked properly and having it ready to go under your bed or something.
Also as to the general idea of "oh being mugged is easier when you have a gun" is not very logical. Pulling a gun on your attacker may actually provoke them to try and shoot you.
I'm not saying you're safer without a gun, but the logic doesn't follow. Most attackers won't take kindly to having a gun pulled on them. Had they a weapon they may choose to fight it out.
Not that I disagree with carrying weapons at all. My brother is a armed car driver and as his brother I feel better knowing he has the gun. The first thing they were taught though was actually shooting someone is a last resort [as you alluded to].
So my point of all this is that guns are useful *tools* and shouldn't be thought of so leisurely as a toy you have around the house. That means being locked up properly safely away from people in the house [e.g. kids, guests, burglars]. That and hunters suck ass [stupid redneck hill-billies with 308's...]
IIRC in Canada at least you can't lock your weapons and ammo in the same safe [or at least with the same lock]. As for the general idea, storing loaded weapons is a bad idea. Also most carry permits or transport permits don't allow you to carry loaded weapons when going to the range.
therefore there is no legitimate reason to store loaded weapons off range that doesn't violate the law or safety common sense.
As for "entertainment" I find no pleasure in the thought of shooting others. I "hone" my skills in shooting only because I want to see how well I can do. I mean it doesn't take much thought or skill to kill someone with a mini-14 with a 30 round clip.... heck I could do it with my eyes closed.
It does take skill to breach load single rounds and take out wood planks at 100 yards or so [well actuall I shoot the stands at 50 yards for kicks...]
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funny hahahaha funny. Did you think of that all by yourself or did your mommy help you?
Tom
If they want to delete pirated MP3s, they'll have to tell them apart from MP3s ripped from CDs you own.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you put MP3s from CDs you bought on P2P systems are you not commiting the very crime the RIAA is trying to stop?
Oh ya, hehehehe!
Tom
Belong to the community... yeah sure my ass.
As an OSS developer myself I feel everyone is entitled to use a copy of my stuff for whatever they want. I don't feel they "own" the project though.
I mean a lot of work goes into something like a Distro [or the stuff in a Distro]. Just because you're smart enough to put a CD in and install a distro doesn't mean you're a significant contributor.
I'm all for tasteful plugging authors names.
Tom
meh in your world maybe...
Sincerely,
T. Turner
um yeah I know but thats why adding *more* crappy channels is *not* a good idea. Besides there *are* cartoon networks which *do* show anime like americana crap.
So either change the way TV billing works or provide an option to vote against the new channel. I'm still living in a democracy last time I checked.
Tom
Yeah but stupid, I have to pay for it regardless.
Why not add a few hard core white supremecy channels, how about dial-a-nigger for them gang-bangers. Oh yeah why not the dub-ya special channel? Maybe 20 channels of ice melting in Alaska. Top it off with the all-"seven eleven" shopping network for middle class america...
The thing is when they add a channel I pay for it anyways [even if I don't order it cuz it factors in indirectly to what I pay]. So when I say "adding the channel bad" and you say "change the channel" I would reply "you pay my bills!"
Tom
I'm all with you. Down with Anime the sick ass wierd buggy eye chicks that is a joke Japan plays on America...
Oh and ditch reality TV and stupid modern sitcoms while yer at it. If I have to see yet another commercial for "mr. personality" or "slut-of-the-week" I sware I'll get all bent.
Tom
Must be nice. Of course everything in my computer is relatively quiet compared to say the 18" desk fan I have cooling the mobo+cpu :-)
Plus the fan is relatively soothing once you get used to it.... what did you say? speak up!
Tom
Ya you casually miss the fact that CF is not as durable as a real IDE hard disk. Try re-writing to a sector a couple of thousand times :-)
From what I recall most CF are guaranteed for something like 10^6 re-writes while a hard disk for about 10^9.
This is why CF is primarily used in taskings where you are not likely to have things like temp files etc... [e.g. mp3 player, camera]
Tom
Not to mention the codec is named "Vorbis" and the container format is named OGG!!!
[or do I have that backwards?]
Tom
Yeah but what would drive the business but overly complicated applications.
Quite frankly I find that all the new technologies we have due to power hungry users [even if they don't use it] is well worth it.
Tom
Hmm well I have to say that's off mark. The Athlons for instance do quite a bit in any given cycle. That's why there are three AL and three FP pipelines.
The P4 is the processor which tries todo little per cycle. With four ports [which do various things except two which share some AL functions] you can't as easily do many things per cycle.
Tom
I develop libraries not applications. So my "end users" are other developers.
Considering they are using it for free you'd think they could spend five minutes and at least comment [after using the libs] on what they like/dislike.
Tom
As the author of a cryptographic toolkit [libtomcrypt] and a bignum toolkit [libtommath], both of which are written in portable ISO C, build out of the box on any GCC equipped machine and generally perform reasonably decent I have two cents to offer.
As an OSS developer myself I have to say that it is not that I'm not willing to go all the way with a complete product it is often that the end users themselves are not willing to put in the effort to review it.
For instance, combined 500 people have downloaded the recent releases of my libraries. Which doesn't seem like a lot except that crypto libraries are generally not horded that much.
Often I will go months before receiving anything from anyone. Whenever a bug is found I often fix it within a few hours at most. Mostly I find the bugs in the libraries as I wander through it.
Though my projects are "limited" scale I bet similar reasoning applies to larger scale projects. If a developer doesn't get user feedback its not only hard to fix bugs they don't know about but often discouraging to continue development.
Tom
BTW my libs are at http://libtomcrypt.org for the curious....
The argument is more complicated than this. You're *not* entitled to download the music. It isn't enough that you enjoy the fruits of synthesizer labour without paying but that you take it without asking.
I still don't think the average zealot here really gets how bidnez is supposed to work. Hammer out a crappy product and charge up the ass to "license a copy of it".
I'd rather make a better statement of just not buying or downloading utterly craptastic music.
But back on point. You may think the RIAA is going over-board but at the end of the day.... they do have a point!
Tom
There are clock, reset, bus control, state control, interupts, etc. pins as well.
:-)
But yeah, the majority of the pins will probably amount to a 256-bit data bus and a few hundred 1v power inputs
Tom
There is a difference between publishing *certain* books in waterproof format and *all*.
In places where the books are going to get damaged sure. But just because some yutz bidnez stewdent can't keep the beer off the books doesn't mean we should devastate the earth more than we already are.
Tom
I give that a qualified two GC thumbs up.
Tom
You'd be surprised how little power a watch actually requires [compared to say a decent calculator or flash light].
:-)
What surprises me is that in this day and age we still have battery powered calculators at all. Wouldn't a decently sized solar panel [e.g. make it 2cm x 1cm and that should be enough].
Ho hum...
Anyways, anyone who drops 30,000$ on a watch *deserves* to know what time it is...
Tom
I'm not against guns. I'm against careless storage of firearms. There is a different between having a firearm locked properly and having it ready to go under your bed or something.
Also as to the general idea of "oh being mugged is easier when you have a gun" is not very logical. Pulling a gun on your attacker may actually provoke them to try and shoot you.
I'm not saying you're safer without a gun, but the logic doesn't follow. Most attackers won't take kindly to having a gun pulled on them. Had they a weapon they may choose to fight it out.
Not that I disagree with carrying weapons at all. My brother is a armed car driver and as his brother I feel better knowing he has the gun. The first thing they were taught though was actually shooting someone is a last resort [as you alluded to].
So my point of all this is that guns are useful *tools* and shouldn't be thought of so leisurely as a toy you have around the house. That means being locked up properly safely away from people in the house [e.g. kids, guests, burglars]. That and hunters suck ass [stupid redneck hill-billies with 308's...]
Tom
Buy a 9$ watch, spend 20000$ on batteries, save yourself 9991$ compared to the prices of their watches.
Tom
I think he meant "god knows where" ... "inside the process memory".
Try doing
*((unsigned char *)0xFACEBABE) = 4;
in a win32 app and see how far you get.
Tom
IIRC in Canada at least you can't lock your weapons and ammo in the same safe [or at least with the same lock]. As for the general idea, storing loaded weapons is a bad idea. Also most carry permits or transport permits don't allow you to carry loaded weapons when going to the range.
therefore there is no legitimate reason to store loaded weapons off range that doesn't violate the law or safety common sense.
As for "entertainment" I find no pleasure in the thought of shooting others. I "hone" my skills in shooting only because I want to see how well I can do. I mean it doesn't take much thought or skill to kill someone with a mini-14 with a 30 round clip.... heck I could do it with my eyes closed.
It does take skill to breach load single rounds and take out wood planks at 100 yards or so [well actuall I shoot the stands at 50 yards for kicks...]
Tom
So when they discover you sending pirated material you're going to complain when they cut you off citing what particular piece of law?
Tom
That was funny, whoever modded it down should learn to laugh.
Tom