So, are the artists getting any money from the disbursement of their product?
Well, they don't have that much money nowadays, because of P2P and low ethical standards - so money seems to be out of the question... But maybe they could compensate them with gifts, like free member cards for public libraries or something.
In this case you're certainly right - we're talking about Vignette Storyserver 5.0 here.
I had to use this abomination at work, and I'm struck with awe everytime I see such a server deliver a page. I imagine a pack of engineers running around, shouting, "holy shit, HTTP request comming in" - chaos in the server room, consoles exploding, supernumeraries flying through the air, scotsmen crying "Ah canna hold her! She's breaking up!".
We lost two developers when the marketing department wanted to improve our google ranking and lured a spider to our site. We told them before that our application needed millions of database requests per page, because it was programmed by a bunch of mentally deranged monkeys, shortly before their company folded. But they won't listen. The spider came and simply tore our server apart. The whole section would have blown up, hadn't Bob pulled out the glowing CPUs of the database with his bare hands. The radiation killed him minutes later. They never listen at big corporate organizations. Those annoying people.
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Now I can't use BitTorrent.
BitTorrent still works (suboptimal) if you're NATed, because your client still connects to other clients (that aren't NATed) and uploads data to them (and thus receives data in return). You just won't get optimal download rates, because nodes that aren't NATed hold several times more concurrent connections. That's because everyone in the network can establish a connection to them, while a NATed node has only the connections it establishes itself (to clients that aren't NATed).
While it's a step in the right direction, I think the matter is far from "victory" as the OP surmises.
If open source / open standards gained a solid 1/5 market share and was able to hold it, then the monopoly would be broken and no one company alone could dictate closed "standards". I would count this as a victory (alas, it hasn't happened yet in the area of office software). Especially because I'm sure that after this a landslide would occur, because the popularity of Office is founded mainly on its monopoly position - tautologically speaking: it's popular because it's popular (and doesn't interoperate well). The moment people start asking why the.doc they received from their government-agency / company can't be rendered satisfactorily by MS Office and the helpdesk of the government agency / company tells them that they could install the same Office package they are using for free - that would be the moment when MS Office becomes a niche product for fanatics.
I wouldn't be surprised if they drew some ideas from garbage collection algorithms also.
I suppose you're the clever garbage man from the Dilbert cartoons. Because as an engineer I don't really get the connection between garbage collection and caching algorithms. Now that we have covered the first two frames of the cartoon - what's in the third frame where the garbage man makes me feel ashamed by explaining some complicated concept of engineering?
Actually, this is the idea. The interface with the kernel is open source; the closed source code is a binary object that gets linked into the module.
That works great if you can guarantee separation. Otherwise debugging is a nightmare, knowing that there are some black boxes in your system which can manipulate the whole system.
Sorry, user mode doesn't really make much sense here, drivers need full hw access and context switching to a different privilege level would only hurt performance.
Right, that wouldn't work too good - but if everything runs in kernel mode then there is no border control between the driver and the rest of the kernel. The driver has to be trusted to play nice and not to fuck up the kernel data structures, because there's nothing that can stop him doing that. It would be different if the driver ran in user mode, because then the driver would throw segmentation faults and the like if it does something illegal.
The conclusion is that source code should be available for everything that runs in kernel mode.
The current codec is alpha, which means all the data they save may be unreadable if they ever update the codec.
The implementation is alpha, but the specification is freezed with the current alpha3 release. Every file you encode today should work with the future stable implementation. (Says www.theora.org)
Hate to sound like I'm trolling here, but in order to get Macromedia to make authoring tools for Linux, you guys gotta prove you're willing to buy it.
Maybe they should ask Oracle whether anybody buys high quality software for Linux if they don't know. Some years ago this would have been a pretty good troll, but nowadays...?
On ther other hand, I have seen sparks while my statically charged body touched the ground (shell) of the car
Mine does the same thing very nearly every time I get out of the car, and it's become progressively more painful. I figure my car is either trying to tell me two things..
/me puts on the dark sunglasses
Think again. What is your car? Your car is a dreamworld, built to keep you under control, in order to change a human being into this:
/me shows you a Duracell battery and looks meaningful.
I use both words, and I use them to mean different things. "Suffix" (in my idiolect) means "a bound morpheme attached to the end of a word"; "postfix" means "an unbound morpheme attached at the end of a word".
Interesting. After doing some more research, I think it's time for me to give the word "postfix" a bigger place in my heart.
Are you saying mathematicians really refer to the style of "2 3 +" as "suffix notation"?
No, I found this entry in the Oxford English Dictionary: "MATH. An inferior index written to the right of a symbol, a subscript".
I agree postfix is ubiquitous, although prefix and infix have their merits as well!
I never understood why computer scientists often use the word "postfix", because this is a term invented by biologists (anatomy). Linguists and mathematicians say "suffix" instead. Those are fields of knowledge which should be much closer to computer science than biology. I mean, what does the average CS student know about anatomy? *g*
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"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization"
The leading building corporation would proclaim that there's nothing wrong with the buildings and a new market of woodpecker traps and anti woodpecker missiles would thrive.
I wired my whole house with CAT5, which I assume wouldn't handle anywhere near gigabit speeds.
The nice thing about GbE is that you can still use your old CAT5 (if it isn't too low quality).
If you buy new cables, you should get CAT5e - basically the same as CAT5, but tested for 125MHz, while CAT5 is only tested for 100MHz. (GBe combines 4 bi-directional wire-pairs with 125MHz each to achieve 1000 Mb/s)
I mean the standards that Microsoft sets for the web.
Do you mean the standards that were set by the PC implementation of IE or by its mac implementation? These are vastly different, you know? No, I suppose you don't.
It's almost as if they expected to be sued and wanted to make a good joke out of it.
Remembers me of Douglas Adams, who said that Branwell Bronte "died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove that it could be done".
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So, are the artists getting any money from the disbursement of their product?
Well, they don't have that much money nowadays, because of P2P and low ethical standards - so money seems to be out of the question... But maybe they could compensate them with gifts, like free member cards for public libraries or something.
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In this case you're certainly right - we're talking about Vignette Storyserver 5.0 here.
I had to use this abomination at work, and I'm struck with awe everytime I see such a server deliver a page. I imagine a pack of engineers running around, shouting, "holy shit, HTTP request comming in" - chaos in the server room, consoles exploding, supernumeraries flying through the air, scotsmen crying "Ah canna hold her! She's breaking up!".
We lost two developers when the marketing department wanted to improve our google ranking and lured a spider to our site. We told them before that our application needed millions of database requests per page, because it was programmed by a bunch of mentally deranged monkeys, shortly before their company folded. But they won't listen. The spider came and simply tore our server apart. The whole section would have blown up, hadn't Bob pulled out the glowing CPUs of the database with his bare hands. The radiation killed him minutes later. They never listen at big corporate organizations. Those annoying people.
Now I can't use BitTorrent.
BitTorrent still works (suboptimal) if you're NATed, because your client still connects to other clients (that aren't NATed) and uploads data to them (and thus receives data in return). You just won't get optimal download rates, because nodes that aren't NATed hold several times more concurrent connections. That's because everyone in the network can establish a connection to them, while a NATed node has only the connections it establishes itself (to clients that aren't NATed).
While it's a step in the right direction, I think the matter is far from "victory" as the OP surmises.
.doc they received from their government-agency / company can't be rendered satisfactorily by MS Office and the helpdesk of the government agency / company tells them that they could install the same Office package they are using for free - that would be the moment when MS Office becomes a niche product for fanatics.
If open source / open standards gained a solid 1/5 market share and was able to hold it, then the monopoly would be broken and no one company alone could dictate closed "standards". I would count this as a victory (alas, it hasn't happened yet in the area of office software). Especially because I'm sure that after this a landslide would occur, because the popularity of Office is founded mainly on its monopoly position - tautologically speaking: it's popular because it's popular (and doesn't interoperate well). The moment people start asking why the
This could also count the number of embedded windows installations on portable devices.
And maybe the Wine installs on UNIX-like i386 desktops...
I wouldn't be surprised if they drew some ideas from garbage collection algorithms also.
I suppose you're the clever garbage man from the Dilbert cartoons. Because as an engineer I don't really get the connection between garbage collection and caching algorithms. Now that we have covered the first two frames of the cartoon - what's in the third frame where the garbage man makes me feel ashamed by explaining some complicated concept of engineering?
Actually, this is the idea. The interface with the kernel is open source; the closed source code is a binary object that gets linked into the module.
That works great if you can guarantee separation. Otherwise debugging is a nightmare, knowing that there are some black boxes in your system which can manipulate the whole system.
Sorry, user mode doesn't really make much sense here, drivers need full hw access and context switching to a different privilege level would only hurt performance.
Right, that wouldn't work too good - but if everything runs in kernel mode then there is no border control between the driver and the rest of the kernel. The driver has to be trusted to play nice and not to fuck up the kernel data structures, because there's nothing that can stop him doing that. It would be different if the driver ran in user mode, because then the driver would throw segmentation faults and the like if it does something illegal.
The conclusion is that source code should be available for everything that runs in kernel mode.
The current codec is alpha, which means all the data they save may be unreadable if they ever update the codec.
The implementation is alpha, but the specification is freezed with the current alpha3 release. Every file you encode today should work with the future stable implementation. (Says www.theora.org)
Hate to sound like I'm trolling here, but in order to get Macromedia to make authoring tools for Linux, you guys gotta prove you're willing to buy it.
Maybe they should ask Oracle whether anybody buys high quality software for Linux if they don't know. Some years ago this would have been a pretty good troll, but nowadays...?
No, FileZilla doesn't use the Mozilla framework.
Err, I recognize you meant $499 for both Opterons. OK, that's possible.
No, the cheapest Opterons are the 240s, and those alone would almost equal $499.
This price can't be true anymore. I pay 230 euro for an Opteron 240.
BTW, the non-SMP Opteron 140 is a few dollars cheaper than the 240.
I don't think so. SCO only sues to generate news. We didn't read anything about SCO and Opera before, hence it wasn't SCO who paid.
Think again. What is your car? Your car is a dreamworld, built to keep you under control, in order to change a human being into this:
Perhaps for his next trick he will stand outside RIAA/MPAA headquaters holding a 6 foot neon sign that says SUE ME AGAIN!
The RIAA manager will recognize him as a loyal customer and give him a friendly nod before he goes to work...
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate it when you do that.
Mine takes it easy. It's just a running gag between us: he inhumans me, I anthopomorphize him, and so we have fun all the work day long...
I use both words, and I use them to mean different things. "Suffix" (in my idiolect) means "a bound morpheme attached to the end of a word"; "postfix" means "an unbound morpheme attached at the end of a word".
Interesting. After doing some more research, I think it's time for me to give the word "postfix" a bigger place in my heart.
Are you saying mathematicians really refer to the style of "2 3 +" as "suffix notation"?
No, I found this entry in the Oxford English Dictionary: "MATH. An inferior index written to the right of a symbol, a subscript".
I agree postfix is ubiquitous, although prefix and infix have their merits as well!
I never understood why computer scientists often use the word "postfix", because this is a term invented by biologists (anatomy). Linguists and mathematicians say "suffix" instead. Those are fields of knowledge which should be much closer to computer science than biology. I mean, what does the average CS student know about anatomy? *g*
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization"
The leading building corporation would proclaim that there's nothing wrong with the buildings and a new market of woodpecker traps and anti woodpecker missiles would thrive.
Well, to be honest, I all but understood it.
Another fine proof that English isn't ready for the general speaker. No wonder that the majority has chosen to speak Mandarin.
I can transfer large files from one machine to another at arround 25mb/s with my gigabit switch.
;-)
25 millibit per second?
Try doing that with 10/100.
Any time.
I wired my whole house with CAT5, which I assume wouldn't handle anywhere near gigabit speeds.
The nice thing about GbE is that you can still use your old CAT5 (if it isn't too low quality).
If you buy new cables, you should get CAT5e - basically the same as CAT5, but tested for 125MHz, while CAT5 is only tested for 100MHz. (GBe combines 4 bi-directional wire-pairs with 125MHz each to achieve 1000 Mb/s)
but who will visually debug the visual designer?
First person shooter. Kill the bugs, capture the features...
I mean the standards that Microsoft sets for the web.
Do you mean the standards that were set by the PC implementation of IE or by its mac implementation? These are vastly different, you know? No, I suppose you don't.
It's almost as if they expected to be sued and wanted to make a good joke out of it.
Remembers me of Douglas Adams, who said that Branwell Bronte "died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove that it could be done".