If only you'd read your parent post, fmita, you'd realize that Castaa refered to the "real cost" of money. Thats cold hard objective fact. The subjective "cost" of being more flexible is hardly a rejoiner. Seems it'd be hard to suggest (with a straight face) that true configurability is not a plus. Can't remember the menu system? Try the "search" panel right above it. It works.
I find KDE much more responsive than Win2k on my dualboot. People whose XP systems have needed help haven't shown me anything better there (but thats on different (though newer!) hardware.) Really your baggage category is what makes windows distasteful. After loading Norton Internet Security it seemed that every app I started wanted internet access permission. I don't want my WP or SS constantly reporting they are in use. It is just wrong.
There are two points of contact, and they form a feedback loop. The controls, and the display. His statement involves both. It is engaging the cusp of these two sides of the loop that is crucial. We, the gamers, form said cusp.
If marketing and advertising where about determining what the market wants and communicating to them when you have it, there would be no problem. In fact, the problem is that marketing and advertising are not about communication so much as coercion. Hence the nearly ubiquitous cynical take on any percieved form of advertisement. Were advertising to approach (prior decades') journalistic standards it would serve a social function.
Well I downloaded the latest GVIM for windows this evening and finally installed the ole for visual studio. Not exactly VC++ under linux, but a little vi in the VC sure is sweet! I might even actually play with it now.
Your parents post suggested that if the computers in question had no internet connection then they couldn't be remoted. Information for internal use such as billing shouldn't have a physical connection to the internet. Info used for their website such as usernames and login passwords should be on a physically seperate network. This means no checking you account online, though. In return, physical access to the site is necessary to crack your billing info.
Ah but what about the cost of the 3.5 years of knowing infringment? With treble damages? MySQL would have saved their butts, but its too late to not pay the piper for the music thats already played.
Yes, but since Timeline is not a law firm, any slashdot reader who relies on Timeline's assertion have also failed to cover their butts. Looks like its time to let loose the dogs (lawyers) of war (litigation) and let the games begin...
This
document provides a brief, high level, overview of how ROLO (Rom'able
Loader) boots a bzImage Linux kernel from ROM (or NOR FLash) memory, without
the assistance of a system BIOS.
I remember reading about some people who were doing 3 second Linux-rom boots on PCs by replacing the BIOS ROM within the last couple years. I can't seem to find them via google, though...
It is an intriguing idea. Linux NetPCs are already done. I want a fast ROM boot.
Quick! 1) MC and Visa a cluster of P4s UPS-ed to a rented store address. 2)Deny all knowledge. 3)Buy portable gas generator to run cluster in basement.
"Yes, I really can image a beowulf cluster of these things!"
Don't they have to replace them? I mean they can't just ignore this, can they? Probability fraud * probable theft = replacement, then bullshit... They would have to replace the cards...right?
Obviously you missed your parents comments regarding binarys. Its hard to modify if all you recieve are binarys. While I percieve the BSD as perhaps short sighted, I agree there are situations where it can have merit.
Never. Remember the golden rule: its easier to beg forgiveness than to request permission. Don't wait for them to "let" you. Just do it. Make it happen. And let the suits bury their own paperwork.
"Sounds like your school can't teach a reverence for liberty or a sense of personal responsibility any better than it was able to teach you the difference between "your" and "you're"."
Its also about "yours" and "ours". The Office of Information Services (OIS) believes that anything connected to their net is theirs. Its a throwback to the old mainframe/minicomputer centralized server days. Even departments aren't allowed to run servers. Its only during the last year that departments are allowed to install their own internet cards. Seriously, it used to be "don't piss off OSI, or it'll take them until next semester to install those netcards we bought last month".
By the way, broadband isn't covered in standard school fees. One signs a contract with OSI through Student Housing.
Everything they do is listed in the contract you sign before they turn the port on. The problem they had with Norton was that they couldn't see past the firewall.
What you are suggesting sounds reasonable, but isn't in accord with the material as it was presented. If you are too young to have a credit history, then obviously there is no data. However, it was suggested that (after its established) credit rating was more of an indicator of future claims than even one's past history of claims or driving record. This may be untrue, but it is what was presented.
"If I wanted to write a LISP interpreter in.NET (god forbid), I can do so in any.NET-supported language without first having to write that language in Java."
I believe what your parent was saying was that there are many languages which can compile to java bytecode. You don't even have to write the language in java, you just have to be able to produce (using C, or whatever) java bytecode from your language of choice. Most do seem to be written in Java, although J-Eiffel is a Eiffel compiler with JVM bytecode generation, and SmalltalkJVM compiler currently produces 100% Java class files fully compatible with the Sun JVM specification.
Kawa is a Scheme environment, written in Java, and that compiles Scheme code into Java byte-codes. Likewise Jython is Python written in Java. Jacl, pronunced "Jackal", is a Tcl interpreter written in Java. SmalltalkJVM compiler currently produces 100% Java class files fully compatible with the Sun JVM specification. I could go on, but checkout
Programming
Languages for the Java Virtual Machine, it lists 160 different languages for the JVM.
"Their hardware isn't cycle-for-cycle competitive with x86 machines..."
Excuse me, but I believe that cycle-for-cycle their hardware slaughters intel boxen. The problem is (still) that intel does some damn many more cycles/sec.
Who died and gave you the power to determine whether someone else should accept "some poor little company"'s offer? It is totally in denial of the concept of good will to suggest, as you do, that "If they have infringed, they can either fix it or hope the copyright owners don't sue them." Obviously its not enough to say, "Lets speed through this redlight, if you hit anyone, I'll pay your fine." There is more to it than just a dispute between Castle and the copyright owners. Action such as this is an attack on pedestrians everywhere, and should result in a few flipped fingers by the townsfolk who sight the offender.
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If only you'd read your parent post, fmita, you'd realize that Castaa refered to the "real cost" of money. Thats cold hard objective fact. The subjective "cost" of being more flexible is hardly a rejoiner. Seems it'd be hard to suggest (with a straight face) that true configurability is not a plus. Can't remember the menu system? Try the "search" panel right above it. It works.
I find KDE much more responsive than Win2k on my dualboot. People whose XP systems have needed help haven't shown me anything better there (but thats on different (though newer!) hardware.) Really your baggage category is what makes windows distasteful. After loading Norton Internet Security it seemed that every app I started wanted internet access permission. I don't want my WP or SS constantly reporting they are in use. It is just wrong.
So if its truely necessary for 300 page reference manuals for 20+ people to work together, then perhaps the problem is having 20+ people on a team.
There are two points of contact, and they form a feedback loop. The controls, and the display. His statement involves both. It is engaging the cusp of these two sides of the loop that is crucial. We, the gamers, form said cusp.
If marketing and advertising where about determining what the market wants and communicating to them when you have it, there would be no problem. In fact, the problem is that marketing and advertising are not about communication so much as coercion. Hence the nearly ubiquitous cynical take on any percieved form of advertisement. Were advertising to approach (prior decades') journalistic standards it would serve a social function.
You can use Atlas to optimize BLAS for Octave, too. Octave is mostly wrappers around LINPACK/LAPACK, etc...
Well I downloaded the latest GVIM for windows this evening and finally installed the ole for visual studio. Not exactly VC++ under linux, but a little vi in the VC sure is sweet! I might even actually play with it now.
Your parents post suggested that if the computers in question had no internet connection then they couldn't be remoted. Information for internal use such as billing shouldn't have a physical connection to the internet. Info used for their website such as usernames and login passwords should be on a physically seperate network. This means no checking you account online, though. In return, physical access to the site is necessary to crack your billing info.
Ah but what about the cost of the 3.5 years of knowing infringment? With treble damages? MySQL would have saved their butts, but its too late to not pay the piper for the music thats already played.
Yes, but since Timeline is not a law firm, any slashdot reader who relies on Timeline's assertion have also failed to cover their butts. Looks like its time to let loose the dogs (lawyers) of war (litigation) and let the games begin...
This document provides a brief, high level, overview of how ROLO (Rom'able Loader) boots a bzImage Linux kernel from ROM (or NOR FLash) memory, without the assistance of a system BIOS.
I remember reading about some people who were doing 3 second Linux-rom boots on PCs by replacing the BIOS ROM within the last couple years. I can't seem to find them via google, though...
It is an intriguing idea. Linux NetPCs are already done. I want a fast ROM boot.
Hacking cash is called "counterfeiting". Its way old school. ;-)
Quick!
1) MC and Visa a cluster of P4s UPS-ed to a rented store address.
2)Deny all knowledge.
3)Buy portable gas generator to run cluster in basement.
"Yes, I really can image a beowulf cluster of these things!"
"So what to do?"
Don't they have to replace them? I mean they can't just ignore this, can they? Probability fraud * probable theft = replacement, then bullshit... They would have to replace the cards...right?
Obviously you missed your parents comments regarding binarys. Its hard to modify if all you recieve are binarys. While I percieve the BSD as perhaps short sighted, I agree there are situations where it can have merit.
We can't clone network centric software because we originated it (that is, it originated in Unix). Its already here and we've already done it.
Never. Remember the golden rule: its easier to beg forgiveness than to request permission. Don't wait for them to "let" you. Just do it. Make it happen. And let the suits bury their own paperwork.
"Sounds like your school can't teach a reverence for liberty or a sense of personal responsibility any better than it was able to teach you the difference between "your" and "you're"."
Its also about "yours" and "ours". The Office of Information Services (OIS) believes that anything connected to their net is theirs. Its a throwback to the old mainframe/minicomputer centralized server days. Even departments aren't allowed to run servers. Its only during the last year that departments are allowed to install their own internet cards. Seriously, it used to be "don't piss off OSI, or it'll take them until next semester to install those netcards we bought last month".
By the way, broadband isn't covered in standard school fees. One signs a contract with OSI through Student Housing.
Everything they do is listed in the contract you sign before they turn the port on. The problem they had with Norton was that they couldn't see past the firewall.
What you are suggesting sounds reasonable, but isn't in accord with the material as it was presented. If you are too young to have a credit history, then obviously there is no data. However, it was suggested that (after its established) credit rating was more of an indicator of future claims than even one's past history of claims or driving record. This may be untrue, but it is what was presented.
Like Orwell's Animal Farm: "All languages are created equal, its just that some are more equal than others."
"If I wanted to write a LISP interpreter in .NET (god forbid), I can do so in any .NET-supported language without first having to write that language in Java."
I believe what your parent was saying was that there are many languages which can compile to java bytecode. You don't even have to write the language in java, you just have to be able to produce (using C, or whatever) java bytecode from your language of choice. Most do seem to be written in Java, although J-Eiffel is a Eiffel compiler with JVM bytecode generation, and SmalltalkJVM compiler currently produces 100% Java class files fully compatible with the Sun JVM specification.
Kawa is a Scheme environment, written in Java, and that compiles Scheme code into Java byte-codes. Likewise Jython is Python written in Java. Jacl, pronunced "Jackal", is a Tcl interpreter written in Java. SmalltalkJVM compiler currently produces 100% Java class files fully compatible with the Sun JVM specification. I could go on, but checkout Programming Languages for the Java Virtual Machine, it lists 160 different languages for the JVM.
"Their hardware isn't cycle-for-cycle competitive with x86 machines..."
Excuse me, but I believe that cycle-for-cycle their hardware slaughters intel boxen. The problem is (still) that intel does some damn many more cycles/sec.
Ahhh, but that begs the question of if it would still do "everything my Tibook does".
Who died and gave you the power to determine whether someone else should accept "some poor little company"'s offer? It is totally in denial of the concept of good will to suggest, as you do, that "If they have infringed, they can either fix it or hope the copyright owners don't sue them." Obviously its not enough to say, "Lets speed through this redlight, if you hit anyone, I'll pay your fine." There is more to it than just a dispute between Castle and the copyright owners. Action such as this is an attack on pedestrians everywhere, and should result in a few flipped fingers by the townsfolk who sight the offender.