What I'm interested to know, is if you read the ZFS source code and then write a specification for ZFS (not how the driver works, but how the data is recorded on disk, and assuming there isn't a public domain spec already), is that spec a derived work, or is it a referenced work in which case you could then write a GPL driver from that spec.
I don't know about other distro's, but on gentoo getting mp3 support is as easy as adding an mp3 use flag to/etc/make.conf, and emerging mpg321.
Also setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is piss easy. If you can't edit/etc/profile (or on Gentoo/etc/env.d/xx_whatever) and add a line saying LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/whatever/li b" you are a dip-shit, and need to remove yourself from the gene-pool.
But rockbox isn't the software that runs an ipod as shipped. Windows XP Home is however, the software which runs an HP computer as shipped, and Windows XP Home is available as a separate product, the stock ipod firmware isn't.
And HP is one to talk, HP large format printers don't ship with drivers and they are completely useless without expensive third party RIP engines, which don't come with the printer, and the documentation for the printers instruction set is not available.
However this law is stupid, A company should be able to sell a product bundled with things you don't want, it's not like your forced to buy it. What is wrong is when a company says you can't sell our product at all unless you bundle it with all your shipped units (which is what Microsoft does, and is why HP won't ship PC's without Windows).
If you install fiber now, you never install anything again. Ever. The same glass that they run gigabit (or more likely in Verizon's half-assed case, ATM25) over will do terabit as soon as that becomes affordable. His grandchildren would be using it for petabit 50 years from now... This would be true for single-mode fiber, given a narrow enough bandwidth laser (funny how a wide band laser gives inferior communication bandwidth), however I very much doubt they are installing singlemode fiber in redidential units.
The problem with multi-mode fiber (like what people use for most GigE and SP/DIF audio), is that as the distance increases, so does the bandwidth spread, which limits it's maximum usable bandwidth. It's similar but entirely different to how the inductance and capacitance of an electrical communication line limits the maximum bandwidth (however on an electrical system you can overcome this problem with more powerful tx, or more sensitive recievers).
install around 40GB permanent flash storage If I had to guess I would think 40GB of Flash (in current CMOS processes) would require more power than a 1.5" HDD, probably faster though...
I have friends who work in datacenters where the Halon system is Automatic and you have 30 seconds evac or you are trapped and extinguished along with the fire.
and the PowerMac severely undercuts a comparable PC (even if you build it yourself!). No it doesn't. Typical Mac distortion field at work.
An example of Mac pricing, have a look at Apple's 30" Cinema LCD, then have a look at Dell's *identical* OEM part, which is just over half the price. And in NZ Dell give you a "free" GFX card "worth" $900NZ with it (quotes added to signify that you are in fact paying for them, it's just included in the price).
And don't tell me the Apple display is better, because they are made from the exact same OEM LCD, the only difference is the Apple one has an ugly silver (white?) frame, whereas the Dell comes in an unobtrusive black.
If you have enough data, that it is not possible to have offsite backups (And thats's a freakin hooperjoop[sic] of data), then you ought to have you data center paritioned into multiple rooms/buildings, and have a halon extinguishing[sic?] system in each one.
I've heard of banks and insurance companies, that have their entire data center duplicated at another location with huge trunks of FICON or infiniband keeping them in sync (Think RAID-1 but with one half of the data on the otherside of campus/town/the country).
If he could carry the entire RAID system out of the building by himself, then it was nowhere near the limit of practical offsite backups, however I concede that it is better to put out a fir if you can than just run away and let it burn. It also makes sense that if it is practical and *safe* to do so, you should remove any data storage from a burning building, however that isn't justification for not having offsite backups.
Well In New Zealand, it is illegal to operate any radio transmitter equipment without a license.
Devices like Garage door openers, wifi, ISM, and alarm remotes, are covered by the General User Radio License, which is an implicit license to operate any device on certain frequencies, below a certain power level. Also I think some bands covered by the GURL are secondary allocations, meaning that just like unlicensed radio devices in the US, they can be interferred with by primary users (Government, and others with Specific licenses).
CB Radios are covered by a different license which I can't remember the name of, but allows a greater transmit power of 5 Watts.
How the fuck can you play Quake/UT/etc without a fucking mouse/trackball. There is no way you can aim, and therefore play well with a fucking joystick. It would be so simple to add mouse and trackball accessories to consoles, but the only attempt I've seen was the PSmouse, which was only usable in a few games, none of which were FPS.
Fuckin' 'ight. Anyone that can't familiarise themselves with Windows/KDE/Gnome/OSX in an afternoon is a liability to the company.
I'm the systems manager for a medium sized electronics manufacturing company, and we run thin clients which connect to Gnome desktops running on Redhat (soon to be replaced with Gentoo). General procedure is I set up their mail client, VMware, etc, show them how to login and logoutt, and leave them to it. If they have problems, one of their colleagues can help them out, and I have very few complaints that Gnome is difficult to use.
If your users are too stupid to learn something as simple as Gnome/KDE you have bigger problems than your budget.
Well you are talking about currency, and not raw trade value, in which case this is certainly the case as the treasury re-issue inflation rate (as opposed to commodity price inflation), is how much more currency is released every year by a countries treasury (federal reserve bank in USA???).
So if you end up with more than (principal+re-issue%) at the end of the term it means someone elsewhere has less currency, however it doesn't neccessarily mean they are poorer if your economy is growing, as their currency may buy more (product, not raw commodities).
However I read somewhere that the US economy is shrinking, in which case the other guy is hosed.
This is the way I understand it, I'm not an economist and I'm probably wrong somewhere.
So what you are saying is that free software developers should port, and fix bugs in, software they didn't write, and don't have the source code for. Nice.
If Autodesk gave me the source code for 3dS Max and $20K I'd port it over to Unix, until then, not going to happen.
And I concede that 3DS probably has many excellent features that aren't present in Blender, but Having used 3DS, Maya, and Blender, Blender is definitely a superior platform for modelling, Maya probably wins for Post processing and effects.
Also I don't see these cheapskates that always complain about missing features implementing themselves (either writing them or paying someone else to).
And if you can afford to buy 3DS, Maya, Autodesk, or Photoshop (the real one, not the rubbish Elements version), then why can't you shell for 5% or less of the software price for a dedicated machine.
But my bet is the vast majority of people who bitch about Free software are used to getting commercial software for free (read fucking cheapskates), and so expect everything for nothing.
Besides which you can get both Houdini and SoftImage for Linux which are arguably better products than 3DS/Maya, if you have the readies. Of course you might struggle to find that on your cheapskate BitTorrent sites.
The big advantage of projects like blender is that they eventually reach a critical mass of features, where large corporate users will pay to have the few features they need added, rather than shelling the millions of dollars on commercial software. This is already the case with Linux which is why Apple and Sun have source-dropped, and why IBM often push Linux over their in-house Unix. Eventually I can see this happening with Blender and GIMP, though they're not quite there yet.
Mind you I'm a hobby 3d animator, and I can't justify shelling $20K on software, and I write embedded software for a living, so it isn't a big stretch to hack in any features that I need.
In short Blender is the best product you can have for the price (nil), and I would rather use Blender than spend a Nissan GTR's worth of paper on software. If I was a professional animator I probably would buy SoftImage.
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You make a large number of outrageous statements, but you provide no evidence to back up your claims.
Generalising on peoples gender is stupid and biggoted. You are in fact just as bad as the people who think women are only worth anything as receptionists, or the people who think that all men beat their wives, or all women are mercenary sluts.
While all of those statements are true of some people of both genders, none of them are true of all people and I very much doubt there is any gender bias there, especially wife beaters as there is an equal but less reported number of abusive wives.
Has anyone considered writing an MMO where scripting up the client and making bots is part of the game. It seems so many people just play to be the l33t357 (did I spell that right?), and they get to there by botting, so why not have a game where that is the aim.
I don't play MMO's as I don't have time, and I can't really see the point in paying money to Blizzard so my bot can play (It's bad enough having to support my brother), but I think it would be pretty cool to have a game where I can write a bot in perl (or your favourite scripting language) and have it compete against other bots to master the game. The server would need to enforce state, as it seems to be the big problem with a lot of these MMO's that they trust the client. The client says hey, I've just picked up this uber item and moved to the top of this dungeon instantly, and the server says, ok, here you are.
The game would need to have complex economics, and somewhat complex combat/raiding/whatever in order to make ai difficult enough that it was a challenge.
It would probably best suit the space genre as it is more plausible that a space craft/robot/??? operates autonomously, than a Paladin/Wizard/Grue.
Also it would be great for people like me who can't be bothered sitting in front of a computer for hours on end playing MMO, when there's better things to do (like sitting in front of a computer for hours on end playing FPS).
Meh, maybe I'll make something, can't be that hard anyway...
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What I'm interested to know, is if you read the ZFS source code and then write a specification for ZFS (not how the driver works, but how the data is recorded on disk, and assuming there isn't a public domain spec already), is that spec a derived work, or is it a referenced work in which case you could then write a GPL driver from that spec.
Having a doctor at the competition wouldn't of helped. Shed died after the competition in her own home.
Real men use punch-cards.
You got hypo- and hyperthermia round the wrong way.
Hyperthermia is getting too hot, hypothermia is too cold.
Otherwise I love your post.
Joe consumer is a dumbass, and I couldn't give two shits what he's ready for.
now where did I put that shotgun...
FUCK OFF.
/etc/make.conf, and emerging mpg321.
/etc/profile (or on Gentoo /etc/env.d/xx_whatever) and add a line saying LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/whatever/li b" you are a dip-shit, and need to remove yourself from the gene-pool.
I don't know about other distro's, but on gentoo getting mp3 support is as easy as adding an mp3 use flag to
Also setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is piss easy. If you can't edit
Would of worked better with beer...
But rockbox isn't the software that runs an ipod as shipped. Windows XP Home is however, the software which runs an HP computer as shipped, and Windows XP Home is available as a separate product, the stock ipod firmware isn't.
And HP is one to talk, HP large format printers don't ship with drivers and they are completely useless without expensive third party RIP engines, which don't come with the printer, and the documentation for the printers instruction set is not available.
However this law is stupid, A company should be able to sell a product bundled with things you don't want, it's not like your forced to buy it. What is wrong is when a company says you can't sell our product at all unless you bundle it with all your shipped units (which is what Microsoft does, and is why HP won't ship PC's without Windows).
The problem with multi-mode fiber (like what people use for most GigE and SP/DIF audio), is that as the distance increases, so does the bandwidth spread, which limits it's maximum usable bandwidth. It's similar but entirely different to how the inductance and capacitance of an electrical communication line limits the maximum bandwidth (however on an electrical system you can overcome this problem with more powerful tx, or more sensitive recievers).
That's a neat trick.
How do you light a $100 bill without a match or a lighter, do you just rub it really fast until friction ignites it?
Can you post a video?
I have friends who work in datacenters where the Halon system is Automatic and you have 30 seconds evac or you are trapped and extinguished along with the fire.
An example of Mac pricing, have a look at Apple's 30" Cinema LCD, then have a look at Dell's *identical* OEM part, which is just over half the price. And in NZ Dell give you a "free" GFX card "worth" $900NZ with it (quotes added to signify that you are in fact paying for them, it's just included in the price).
And don't tell me the Apple display is better, because they are made from the exact same OEM LCD, the only difference is the Apple one has an ugly silver (white?) frame, whereas the Dell comes in an unobtrusive black.
If you have enough data, that it is not possible to have offsite backups (And thats's a freakin hooperjoop[sic] of data), then you ought to have you data center paritioned into multiple rooms/buildings, and have a halon extinguishing[sic?] system in each one.
I've heard of banks and insurance companies, that have their entire data center duplicated at another location with huge trunks of FICON or infiniband keeping them in sync (Think RAID-1 but with one half of the data on the otherside of campus/town/the country).
If he could carry the entire RAID system out of the building by himself, then it was nowhere near the limit of practical offsite backups, however I concede that it is better to put out a fir if you can than just run away and let it burn. It also makes sense that if it is practical and *safe* to do so, you should remove any data storage from a burning building, however that isn't justification for not having offsite backups.
But 18 isn't prime?
Well In New Zealand, it is illegal to operate any radio transmitter equipment without a license.
Devices like Garage door openers, wifi, ISM, and alarm remotes, are covered by the General User Radio License, which is an implicit license to operate any device on certain frequencies, below a certain power level. Also I think some bands covered by the GURL are secondary allocations, meaning that just like unlicensed radio devices in the US, they can be interferred with by primary users (Government, and others with Specific licenses).
CB Radios are covered by a different license which I can't remember the name of, but allows a greater transmit power of 5 Watts.
You could use your shoe, unless you are one of those freedom loving hippies who don't wear shoes...
Well clearly you aren't a huge fan of FPS.
How the fuck can you play Quake/UT/etc without a fucking mouse/trackball. There is no way you can aim, and therefore play well with a fucking joystick. It would be so simple to add mouse and trackball accessories to consoles, but the only attempt I've seen was the PSmouse, which was only usable in a few games, none of which were FPS.
Fuckin' 'ight. Anyone that can't familiarise themselves with Windows/KDE/Gnome/OSX in an afternoon is a liability to the company.
I'm the systems manager for a medium sized electronics manufacturing company, and we run thin clients which connect to Gnome desktops running on Redhat (soon to be replaced with Gentoo). General procedure is I set up their mail client, VMware, etc, show them how to login and logoutt, and leave them to it. If they have problems, one of their colleagues can help them out, and I have very few complaints that Gnome is difficult to use.
If your users are too stupid to learn something as simple as Gnome/KDE you have bigger problems than your budget.
Uhm, what.
I'm pretty sure this was a reference to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Well you are talking about currency, and not raw trade value, in which case this is certainly the case as the treasury re-issue inflation rate (as opposed to commodity price inflation), is how much more currency is released every year by a countries treasury (federal reserve bank in USA???).
So if you end up with more than (principal+re-issue%) at the end of the term it means someone elsewhere has less currency, however it doesn't neccessarily mean they are poorer if your economy is growing, as their currency may buy more (product, not raw commodities).
However I read somewhere that the US economy is shrinking, in which case the other guy is hosed.
This is the way I understand it, I'm not an economist and I'm probably wrong somewhere.
So what you are saying is that free software developers should port, and fix bugs in, software they didn't write, and don't have the source code for. Nice.
If Autodesk gave me the source code for 3dS Max and $20K I'd port it over to Unix, until then, not going to happen.
And I concede that 3DS probably has many excellent features that aren't present in Blender, but Having used 3DS, Maya, and Blender, Blender is definitely a superior platform for modelling, Maya probably wins for Post processing and effects.
Also I don't see these cheapskates that always complain about missing features implementing themselves (either writing them or paying someone else to).
And if you can afford to buy 3DS, Maya, Autodesk, or Photoshop (the real one, not the rubbish Elements version), then why can't you shell for 5% or less of the software price for a dedicated machine.
But my bet is the vast majority of people who bitch about Free software are used to getting commercial software for free (read fucking cheapskates), and so expect everything for nothing.
Besides which you can get both Houdini and SoftImage for Linux which are arguably better products than 3DS/Maya, if you have the readies. Of course you might struggle to find that on your cheapskate BitTorrent sites.
The big advantage of projects like blender is that they eventually reach a critical mass of features, where large corporate users will pay to have the few features they need added, rather than shelling the millions of dollars on commercial software. This is already the case with Linux which is why Apple and Sun have source-dropped, and why IBM often push Linux over their in-house Unix. Eventually I can see this happening with Blender and GIMP, though they're not quite there yet.
Mind you I'm a hobby 3d animator, and I can't justify shelling $20K on software, and I write embedded software for a living, so it isn't a big stretch to hack in any features that I need.
In short Blender is the best product you can have for the price (nil), and I would rather use Blender than spend a Nissan GTR's worth of paper on software. If I was a professional animator I probably would buy SoftImage.
You make a large number of outrageous statements, but you provide no evidence to back up your claims.
Generalising on peoples gender is stupid and biggoted. You are in fact just as bad as the people who think women are only worth anything as receptionists, or the people who think that all men beat their wives, or all women are mercenary sluts.
While all of those statements are true of some people of both genders, none of them are true of all people and I very much doubt there is any gender bias there, especially wife beaters as there is an equal but less reported number of abusive wives.
Almost all other countries which use latin characters have accent marks which are not valid in DNS.
To my knowledge english is the only language to use the latin character set without accents.
Has anyone considered writing an MMO where scripting up the client and making bots is part of the game. It seems so many people just play to be the l33t357 (did I spell that right?), and they get to there by botting, so why not have a game where that is the aim.
I don't play MMO's as I don't have time, and I can't really see the point in paying money to Blizzard so my bot can play (It's bad enough having to support my brother), but I think it would be pretty cool to have a game where I can write a bot in perl (or your favourite scripting language) and have it compete against other bots to master the game. The server would need to enforce state, as it seems to be the big problem with a lot of these MMO's that they trust the client. The client says hey, I've just picked up this uber item and moved to the top of this dungeon instantly, and the server says, ok, here you are.
The game would need to have complex economics, and somewhat complex combat/raiding/whatever in order to make ai difficult enough that it was a challenge.
It would probably best suit the space genre as it is more plausible that a space craft/robot/??? operates autonomously, than a Paladin/Wizard/Grue.
Also it would be great for people like me who can't be bothered sitting in front of a computer for hours on end playing MMO, when there's better things to do (like sitting in front of a computer for hours on end playing FPS).
Meh, maybe I'll make something, can't be that hard anyway...