You guys need a system where if X percent of your readers submit the same story you automatically run it... (trails off into anti-/. rant)
Now that *would* be an idea! Perhaps somehow linked to karma...though i imagine it would be a nightmare to implement, and that it would be far easier to just keep a close eye on the story pool.
Well, um, oh, er, be GPL'ed, not cost anything, have far more rapid bugfixes, not tie you down to any one company...nothing, really. I guess we'll just have to sit back and admire it's superiority... sorry Linus, you've jsut been beaten.
I suspect that the MIPS port is in keeping with the Dreamcast stuff - it's a MIPS R4000 (R6000? Not quite sure) that powers the N64, and boy would I like something nice to do N64 programming on...
Yeah, thank God we don't need routers on the Internet, that would slow everything to a crawl.
Correction: Thank God the whole Internet doesn't go through a couple of routers run by one company - now that would be painful, but this is what's being proposed, in effect.
Great - just as we give them lots of address space, someone had to figure out a way of using it all up at once... besides, someone has to keep track of where everyone is - now isn't that just one of those "sitting ducks for attacks", hmm?
...but only if you don't want to be found by anyone! Clients, yeah, sure (though - have you seen Windows changing IP? Reboot every other microsecond, anyone?), but servers of any description? I remain sceptical...
(1) Keep the moderators out of it. Slashdot is actually a pretty fair forum for discussion - yes, if you're a Windows radical trolling, you'll get modded down, but the same happens to the Linux trolls
(2) There are two sides, and I can't see any lemmings around here! If you would care to read the article, you'll find that nearly everyone is disagreeing with the "obituary." Get your facts right, and please try not to patronise all of/. at once!
Slackware? Good stuff! The install isn't much, but it'll run on a '486 with 8MB RAM (I speak from experience). That said, Slackware is vilified as one of the most user-hostile environments out there, and I think rightly so. The Linux GUIs are powerful, and that's why I like them, but simplicity is what's really needed for the mass market, which is somewhere Slackware will never be. Oh, well, as long as they keep releasing, I'm happy...
You know, I would have posted an "I agree" literally about half an hour ago. Except that Netscape crashed on me. So I decided to try and get Mozilla. The installer segfaulted. So I got netscape up again, and it eventually saw the error of its ways, and has allowed me to post this message. It made me realise that the only "productivity app" that's really ever pleased me is Word Perfect - that's right, commercially developed software. The development tools rock, but user-level stuff has a long way to go yet. That doesn't mean that I think it's "dead" - there is good stuff in there, and a strong community - hey, how long have they been in development? Win 3.11, anyone?
True, but with the exception of the increased risk of splattage from space crud, you can put far larger solar panels in space than on Earth. What we were talking about is getting it from the orbiting panels down to Earth.
Meet my parents, Mr and Mrs X. They are both busy people, run off their feet by a combination of work and the rest of the family. If they did every bit of my web surfing with me, well, they'd have to be sitting here looking over my shoulder while I karma who - Hi mom!
Here, here, personally, but places like schools are unfortunately stuck with this problem. I'm at school atm, with a nasty-ish URL-filtering proxy (but may I add, a darn sight better than *any* censorware I've seen), and occasionally the most inane things get blocked. Yes, I do believe that this is something for the parents, and I'm glad mine made such a good job of it (IHMO - thanks Mom!), but in schools, and elsewhere where parents can't always keep watch, this is a problem.
Sorry, late night...
Memo to me: Ensure cffeine overload before/.ing...
43rd Law of Computing:
Re:But what will it look like for us?
on
Star Wars Galaxies
·
· Score: 1
I should imagine that the data files that store stuff like that would come with the game - player positions, landscape status etc would be all that's updated, and that'll fit over 56K no probs.
If it lets me kill Jar-Jar-Binks at 1280x1024 resolution with GeForce 3 enhanced lightsaber effects, I'll be happy
Unfortunately, they won't let you do that. They have to "preserve the continuity of the story"...which is a pity, as I was thinking og much the same activity...
Slashdot Mirror
This kind of stuff is obviously against the spirit of the GPL, and probably against the letter of the GPL as well. That's the problem.
Yep, it is against ther letter. If you link with a GPL'ed library (in any way - be it dynamic or static), you've gotta GPL the lot.
43rd Law of Computing:
You guys need a system where if X percent of your readers submit the same story you automatically run it... (trails off into anti-/. rant)
Now that *would* be an idea! Perhaps somehow linked to karma...though i imagine it would be a nightmare to implement, and that it would be far easier to just keep a close eye on the story pool.
43rd Law of Computing:
True - but I doubt their official copies are the only ones that exist!
43rd Law of Computing:
What does Linux do that UNIX System V doesn't?
Well, um, oh, er, be GPL'ed, not cost anything, have far more rapid bugfixes, not tie you down to any one company...nothing, really. I guess we'll just have to sit back and admire it's superiority... sorry Linus, you've jsut been beaten.
43rd Law of Computing:
I see you caught someone this time. OK, I concede - if you have that kind of mind, then this should be counted as a victory for you...
43rd Law of Computing:
I suspect that the MIPS port is in keeping with the Dreamcast stuff - it's a MIPS R4000 (R6000? Not quite sure) that powers the N64, and boy would I like something nice to do N64 programming on...
43rd Law of Computing:
Was that Motorola perchance? I saw one of those being used to log into their dial-up once...
43rd Law of Computing:
Will you just quit this troll? It's not new, it's not funny, it's just lame.
43rd Law of Computing:
At a server? That's just stupid...how can you be got to? And if normal traffic can reach you, doesn't that invalidate the whole point?
43rd Law of Computing:
Yeah, thank God we don't need routers on the Internet, that would slow everything to a crawl.
Correction: Thank God the whole Internet doesn't go through a couple of routers run by one company - now that would be painful, but this is what's being proposed, in effect.
43rd Law of Computing:
Give the computer one IP, and let card handle the changing IP's and forward them. A different approach, but not entirely difficult.
Well, would *you* like to pay for a net card that does this? Give me encryption any day...
43rd Law of Computing:
Great - just as we give them lots of address space, someone had to figure out a way of using it all up at once... besides, someone has to keep track of where everyone is - now isn't that just one of those "sitting ducks for attacks", hmm?
43rd Law of Computing:
...but only if you don't want to be found by anyone! Clients, yeah, sure (though - have you seen Windows changing IP? Reboot every other microsecond, anyone?), but servers of any description? I remain sceptical...
43rd Law of Computing:
(1) Keep the moderators out of it. Slashdot is actually a pretty fair forum for discussion - yes, if you're a Windows radical trolling, you'll get modded down, but the same happens to the Linux trolls
/. at once!
(2) There are two sides, and I can't see any lemmings around here! If you would care to read the article, you'll find that nearly everyone is disagreeing with the "obituary." Get your facts right, and please try not to patronise all of
43rd Law of Computing:
Slackware? Good stuff! The install isn't much, but it'll run on a '486 with 8MB RAM (I speak from experience). That said, Slackware is vilified as one of the most user-hostile environments out there, and I think rightly so. The Linux GUIs are powerful, and that's why I like them, but simplicity is what's really needed for the mass market, which is somewhere Slackware will never be. Oh, well, as long as they keep releasing, I'm happy...
43rd Law of Computing:
You know, I would have posted an "I agree" literally about half an hour ago. Except that Netscape crashed on me. So I decided to try and get Mozilla. The installer segfaulted. So I got netscape up again, and it eventually saw the error of its ways, and has allowed me to post this message. It made me realise that the only "productivity app" that's really ever pleased me is Word Perfect - that's right, commercially developed software. The development tools rock, but user-level stuff has a long way to go yet. That doesn't mean that I think it's "dead" - there is good stuff in there, and a strong community - hey, how long have they been in development? Win 3.11, anyone?
43rd Law of Computing:
Um. They're using solar panels to make the maser.
True, but with the exception of the increased risk of splattage from space crud, you can put far larger solar panels in space than on Earth. What we were talking about is getting it from the orbiting panels down to Earth.
43rd Law of Computing:
Snootch is me! =)
43rd Law of Computing:
Meet my parents, Mr and Mrs X. They are both busy people, run off their feet by a combination of work and the rest of the family. If they did every bit of my web surfing with me, well, they'd have to be sitting here looking over my shoulder while I karma who - Hi mom!
43rd Law of Computing:
Here, here, personally, but places like schools are unfortunately stuck with this problem. I'm at school atm, with a nasty-ish URL-filtering proxy (but may I add, a darn sight better than *any* censorware I've seen), and occasionally the most inane things get blocked. Yes, I do believe that this is something for the parents, and I'm glad mine made such a good job of it (IHMO - thanks Mom!), but in schools, and elsewhere where parents can't always keep watch, this is a problem.
43rd Law of Computing:
Sorry, late night... /.ing...
Memo to me: Ensure cffeine overload before
43rd Law of Computing:
I should imagine that the data files that store stuff like that would come with the game - player positions, landscape status etc would be all that's updated, and that'll fit over 56K no probs.
43rd Law of Computing:
If it lets me kill Jar-Jar-Binks at 1280x1024 resolution with GeForce 3 enhanced lightsaber effects, I'll be happy
Unfortunately, they won't let you do that. They have to "preserve the continuity of the story"...which is a pity, as I was thinking og much the same activity...
43rd Law of Computing:
I am sooo THERE! Just pray no-one nabs Snootch before the Linux client comes out... ;-)
43rd Law of Computing:
Hmm...it's back as usual now...I wonder what that was?
43rd Law of Computing: