For two very good reasons. It clearly says that there is no guarantee of any kind, of merchantibility or ANYTHING. A lawsuit would not get anywhere. Even without such a warning prominently displayed, because the software is open-source, any person can go and look at the code and so any security issues would be their own fault of ignorance or whatnot.
The second reason is the reason why a company such as Microsoft isn't sued for security. It's not open-source so someone could not review the code themselves. It also doesn't have the kind of warning that distros have. It is especially such that Microsoft has been shown to know about such problems in their software and not done anything, sometimes before the software is even released. Consequently, from a legal standpoint (as opposed to how much money the sides have) Microsoft is much more vulnerable to a lawsuit than any little distro- or package-maker.
First of all, I'd like to say that I'm an idiot. What I meant by the case open with magazine reviewers was that if someone is reviewing a system, they should look around inside. Some good magazines have the amount of expandability (PCI, ISA slots open) and how well it's all tied up inside. Of course, this wouldn't be done while the system is running...
I was thinking that a lot of cases/entire system/fanning is/are not designed properly and so in many systems keeping the case off might keep it much cooler. Also, if someone is doing any sort of upgrading, I wouldn't want to pop the case back on before I boot the computer up to make sure it worked correctly.
I'm using a Microsoft Intellimouse and it's wonderful. I really don't think that wheel mouses are much different in X than in Windows. Regardless, I just added the magic settings to XF86Config and it works like a charm for most things.
While I really can't say why, Gallium Arsonide apparently doesn't work. Reading my MIT Technology Review and the article on what's beyond silicon, I came across something that says Gallium Arsonide is no go. Essentially it was saying something about the failures (this may not be feasibility, it could just be costs: price > benefit) of Gallium Arsonide and optical computing.
However, once you get down to a certain size. Something called quantum tunneling becomes a real problem...the sort of stuff that defies conventional physics.
The x86 architecture is not the only architecture to use silicon. Every CPU out there today uses silicon, so something like this is not only for x86. So an announcement like this affects pretty much all computers, not just x86 PCs.
A LOT of people do run their systems with the case open, especially (good) magazine reviewers, etc. Power users do as well. There must be other shielding other than just the case, right?
We at my hunter-gatherer tribe can't seem to find any help on this issue. For some reason, gcc just chokes up on the special version of tree stump we're using. Possibly there's no ASM support for the Oak architecture with coconut extensions?
I beg to differ. One could go on and on about how we have fast, fast processors today. But Windows is a junky program with no regard to any efficiency. Many people, especially with Linux, still have 486s and old Pentiums. Others have an abundance of people connected to their systems and need to squeeze every last bit out of the systems in order to serve the demand. If everyone says that the computers we have are so fast we can make bad, inefficient code. Then everyone will make bad, inefficient code and require people to get even faster computers which they DON'T REALLY NEED. And this is because people write inefficient code with no regard to speed or efficiency.
As far as I know, the AMD equivalents to Intel processors have compatible instruction sets. So a program on a K6-2 can be compiled with i586 optimizations. While I'm less sure about this, I also believe that something could be compiled on an Athlon with i686 optimization and work. Granted, it won't have 3DNow optimizations, but an i686 optimization doesn't have SSE either.
It seems to me that in some cases, a defense for the violation of a patent could be defended by saying the patent was unjust (as said in the Constitution because it did not promote progress) in the first place and so void. Second, I'd like to ask why products are constantly touted as "patent pending." While this may try to make it seem unique and innovative, it seems to me that it just makes the company patenting another stupid thing that doesn't deserve a patent.
I do agree completely what the Librarian of Congress says about reading online. I hate it. I find it much better to sit down and read the newspaper while eating or reading a book on the couch. However, this does not mean that the contents of the Library of Congress shouldn't be digitized. I think they should do so, and still keep the hard copies as well.
1) Just because most Windows commercial games are not available for Linux does not support the idea of going completely back to Windows. You can have both on a system just fine.
3) Linux is much more configurable than Windows, hands down. For most good distros, it's configured, and you only have to customize/configure it more if you want to.
4) Just because there are more options with Linux doesn't mean that someone would even have to choose out of those options. They could just use the default.
5) You can ignore the OS easily with Linux. Just because it's fun to do things with doesn't make it bad.
If it was slow when Hemos accessed it, the site is just going to Crash and Burn when the full brunt of the Slashdot Effect hits it. Almost pointless to post it....
The human eye can see 30-40 fps. There are a number of reasons for these topnotch video cards.
First of all, the average fps of a card goes down dramatically when you top on the features, color depth, resolution, etc. So this 100 fps average you cite doesn't work when you've got all the features turned on. This feature issue is also one of the reasons people pay so much money on video cards. New features appear in the each latest generation. These are features that, regardless of fps, improve the gameplay experience.
Secondly, this is the average fps. Sometimes when there are no other mobiles on the screen and/or you're in a dark hallway or somesuch, this fps can go way up. Conversely, when there are a bunch of other characters on the screen and/or you're seeing a huge number of effects on the screen, it's no good if you've got this 40 fps average video card. The fps will go way down on such a card, to 10 or 15.
Also, buying the top-of-the-line video card today can ensure a longer life for the card. In the future, games will have more features packed on which will stress the capabilities of today's video cards. The time when that happens with your video card all depends on how powerful the video card is now.
32-bit "color" provides 8 bits of alpha transparency. So for something that's 32-bit, it's 24 bits of color and 8 bit of alpha transparency. For 24-bit, I believe it might be 16 bits of color and 8 bits of alpha transparency. Althoug it might also be just 24 bits of color, straight.
First of all, I would like to say that, after a perusal of the page you cited, I'm going to go with some other commenters in what they said that it does not apply to insecurity of open-source. Secondly, I was saying what it seemed to be exactly what ESR was saying. I was not providing my own opinions as to whether a backdoor would be possible in open-source software.
ESR just meant that there would never be a backdoor in open-source software. People would find it much too quickly for it to ever represent a threat. He was not addressing whether open-source is in all situations more secure than closed-source software.
It would be possible for a company to lose customers if their website was defaced. For instance, if the company is in the business of web security and they can't even protect their own system (although that begs the question why they're using IIS).
First of all, this is not "the Linux community" that's saying what ESR said, it's what ESR said. Obviously, an entire community is not going to have uniform views. Regardless, this news was merely passed along by Slashdot. The issue was accepted as true by NT Bugtraq, the Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, CNN, etc. That's a lot of qualified news sources (if you ignore ZD;). Consequently, it's not as though Slashdot took a mere rumor and passed it along with the gusto of a report on the End of the World.
What ESR said, that there will never be something like this in the BIND library is true. There will never be a backdoor in the BIND library. That's obviously not to say that the BIND library will never have bugs or security issues. That's not what he was saying.
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The second reason is the reason why a company such as Microsoft isn't sued for security. It's not open-source so someone could not review the code themselves. It also doesn't have the kind of warning that distros have. It is especially such that Microsoft has been shown to know about such problems in their software and not done anything, sometimes before the software is even released. Consequently, from a legal standpoint (as opposed to how much money the sides have) Microsoft is much more vulnerable to a lawsuit than any little distro- or package-maker.
Chris Hagar
I was thinking that a lot of cases/entire system/fanning is/are not designed properly and so in many systems keeping the case off might keep it much cooler. Also, if someone is doing any sort of upgrading, I wouldn't want to pop the case back on before I boot the computer up to make sure it worked correctly.
Chris Hagar
I'm using a Microsoft Intellimouse and it's wonderful. I really don't think that wheel mouses are much different in X than in Windows. Regardless, I just added the magic settings to XF86Config and it works like a charm for most things.
Chris Hagar
While I really can't say why, Gallium Arsonide apparently doesn't work. Reading my MIT Technology Review and the article on what's beyond silicon, I came across something that says Gallium Arsonide is no go. Essentially it was saying something about the failures (this may not be feasibility, it could just be costs: price > benefit) of Gallium Arsonide and optical computing.
Chris Hagar
However, once you get down to a certain size. Something called quantum tunneling becomes a real problem...the sort of stuff that defies conventional physics.
Chris Hagar
The x86 architecture is not the only architecture to use silicon. Every CPU out there today uses silicon, so something like this is not only for x86. So an announcement like this affects pretty much all computers, not just x86 PCs.
Chris Hagar
A LOT of people do run their systems with the case open, especially (good) magazine reviewers, etc. Power users do as well. There must be other shielding other than just the case, right?
Chris Hagar
NASA would only have to release their code modifications if they released binaries of the code.
Chris Hagar
We at my hunter-gatherer tribe can't seem to find any help on this issue. For some reason, gcc just chokes up on the special version of tree stump we're using. Possibly there's no ASM support for the Oak architecture with coconut extensions?
Chris Hagar
H-T-T-P-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-dot :)
Chris Hagar
The gel is life itself, found on a far distant planet. And it's watching you...right...now...
Chris Hagar
I beg to differ. One could go on and on about how we have fast, fast processors today. But Windows is a junky program with no regard to any efficiency. Many people, especially with Linux, still have 486s and old Pentiums. Others have an abundance of people connected to their systems and need to squeeze every last bit out of the systems in order to serve the demand. If everyone says that the computers we have are so fast we can make bad, inefficient code. Then everyone will make bad, inefficient code and require people to get even faster computers which they DON'T REALLY NEED. And this is because people write inefficient code with no regard to speed or efficiency.
Chris Hagar
As far as I know, the AMD equivalents to Intel processors have compatible instruction sets. So a program on a K6-2 can be compiled with i586 optimizations. While I'm less sure about this, I also believe that something could be compiled on an Athlon with i686 optimization and work. Granted, it won't have 3DNow optimizations, but an i686 optimization doesn't have SSE either.
Chris Hagar
I believe the poster meant "fuck" as in "what the fuck."
Chris Hagar
It seems to me that in some cases, a defense for the violation of a patent could be defended by saying the patent was unjust (as said in the Constitution because it did not promote progress) in the first place and so void. Second, I'd like to ask why products are constantly touted as "patent pending." While this may try to make it seem unique and innovative, it seems to me that it just makes the company patenting another stupid thing that doesn't deserve a patent.
Chris Hagar
I do agree completely what the Librarian of Congress says about reading online. I hate it. I find it much better to sit down and read the newspaper while eating or reading a book on the couch. However, this does not mean that the contents of the Library of Congress shouldn't be digitized. I think they should do so, and still keep the hard copies as well.
Chris Hagar
3) Linux is much more configurable than Windows, hands down. For most good distros, it's configured, and you only have to customize/configure it more if you want to.
4) Just because there are more options with Linux doesn't mean that someone would even have to choose out of those options. They could just use the default.
5) You can ignore the OS easily with Linux. Just because it's fun to do things with doesn't make it bad.
Chris Hagar
If it was slow when Hemos accessed it, the site is just going to Crash and Burn when the full brunt of the Slashdot Effect hits it. Almost pointless to post it....
Chris Hagar
First of all, the average fps of a card goes down dramatically when you top on the features, color depth, resolution, etc. So this 100 fps average you cite doesn't work when you've got all the features turned on. This feature issue is also one of the reasons people pay so much money on video cards. New features appear in the each latest generation. These are features that, regardless of fps, improve the gameplay experience.
Secondly, this is the average fps. Sometimes when there are no other mobiles on the screen and/or you're in a dark hallway or somesuch, this fps can go way up. Conversely, when there are a bunch of other characters on the screen and/or you're seeing a huge number of effects on the screen, it's no good if you've got this 40 fps average video card. The fps will go way down on such a card, to 10 or 15.
Also, buying the top-of-the-line video card today can ensure a longer life for the card. In the future, games will have more features packed on which will stress the capabilities of today's video cards. The time when that happens with your video card all depends on how powerful the video card is now.
And of course, bragging rights ;)
Chris Hagar
32-bit "color" provides 8 bits of alpha transparency. So for something that's 32-bit, it's 24 bits of color and 8 bit of alpha transparency. For 24-bit, I believe it might be 16 bits of color and 8 bits of alpha transparency. Althoug it might also be just 24 bits of color, straight.
Chris Hagar
First of all, I would like to say that, after a perusal of the page you cited, I'm going to go with some other commenters in what they said that it does not apply to insecurity of open-source. Secondly, I was saying what it seemed to be exactly what ESR was saying. I was not providing my own opinions as to whether a backdoor would be possible in open-source software.
Chris Hagar
ESR just meant that there would never be a backdoor in open-source software. People would find it much too quickly for it to ever represent a threat. He was not addressing whether open-source is in all situations more secure than closed-source software.
Chris Hagar
It would be possible for a company to lose customers if their website was defaced. For instance, if the company is in the business of web security and they can't even protect their own system (although that begs the question why they're using IIS).
Chris Hagar
What ESR said, that there will never be something like this in the BIND library is true. There will never be a backdoor in the BIND library. That's obviously not to say that the BIND library will never have bugs or security issues. That's not what he was saying.
Chris Hagar
The reason this is significant in the face of the many (good) cross-platform 3D APIs such as SDL is that it is supported by so many big-name figures.
Chris Hagar