Most of the substance of poetry is it's form, not it's literal meaning. Listen to the way the man structures things, and plays with language. Just because he can be ignorant dosn't mean he's stupid.
Have you seen, for example, Birth of a Nation? It basically created the fundamentals of Hollywood Structure, but guess who the hero is - the KKK. Just because the content of something is morally reprehnsible doesn't mean it's presentation is not genius art.
A compiler (or interpeter, for those of you into that sort of thing) takes programs written in your preferred language and translates them to machine code.
The benefit to using compilers allows you to see what language/compiler produces the most efficient code. Ideally all compilers should be able to produce the most efficient code, but they'll each have their own strengths depending on what they're designed to do.
The problem with audio transmission standards is that they have NO built-in error correction, and operate at the limit of their bandwidth. So your nice, perfect square wave tends to get all muddy and round, like when you overclock your RAM too far.
People should forget about building better cables, and build a better communications protocol. Raw samples defeats the whole point of using digital comms.
Thanks for the information. I find it kind of disheartening that this type of info doesn't come directly from the kernel maintainer himself. It seems like every time a kernel is released, I think "maybe I'll upgrade me kernel this time". But when I go out to see what is in the new version, I get essentially zero information. Oh, I see statements of what went in, but they don't tell me anything. What the hell is "anticipatory scheduler"? Why do I care? I shouldn't have to figure these things out, or diff the code, or any of that BS. Is it so hard to just state in plain and simple terms what the changes are? I am glad someone did it, but it would be nice if it came from the maintainer.
So you're a lazy S.O.B., is what you're saying? Try typing "anticipatory scheduler" into google, and see what you find.
How often doesn microsoft tell you what's changed in their kernels, except that "it should be 20% faster now" or whatever. And that's what the scheduler change means.
If you want it dumbed down, the new kernel offers better speed, better stability, and better support of new hardware and software architectures (i.e. ACPI and ALSA).
If you don't care, then don't upgrade your kernel. The kernel isn't sexy. It's the workhorse. Like, if someone told me they wanted to put a new engine in their car, I'd hope to god they would just tell me it's more powerful and more efficient, and not go on about pistons and shafts and what not. Because I'm not an engine geek. And I hope even more they're not pulling the lead engineer out of the BMW plant to come tell me about it, either. He should be spending his time working on engines.
So if you're not a kernel geek, don't worry about it. Wait for your distro to upgrade.
Rewriting something from scratch is unfortunately the surest way to introduce new bugs. If the architecture was completely flawed it'll pay off eventually, but I would NOT trust the first iteration, just like I wouldn't buy a new car in its first model year. No one's had a chance to really hammer on it yet.
Perhaps someone who doesn't have the time or experience to make Mozilla work should not be deploying a browser over an entire ISP or corporation. Just a thought.
The number-one thing mozilla CAN use is geeks testing all the features and filing bugs. I like Moz because I can access my mail from my windows profile and my Linux profile, I can't find another email client that will let me do that.
Amen. I've been migrating the same mail folders from Netscape 4.x, through Netscape 6.x, through Moz 0.9.x, through Moz 1.4. Never had a problem. And the sharing between windows and linux is absolutely invaluable. Otherwise I'd always be booting back into windows to keep my mail in one place, and would never make the switch.
Enigmail is also wonderful, and PGP is unavailable in such an usuable form for any other client I've seen.
Y2K was not 'a' bug, maybe, but it was definitely a serious of 'bugs' (or 'features', if you really prefer).
And, if you want to get technical, ILOVEYOU wasn't really a virus, in that you had to spread it yourself. It was more of a social engineering incident than anything, or maybe a trojan.
Or actually, a poison. It was the equivalent of sending out a bunch of free cans of Coke to people that instead released a bunch of nerve gas and hurt the surronding individuals.
Is this a call to deface Web sites, or generally screw over sysadmins who oftentimes are paid beans to being with? Shameful.
Maybe if hundreds of corporate websites get defaced so easily, they'll actually wake up and START hiring more qualifed sys admins for a decent salary, and STOP over working those they have now.
Sometimes what a problem needs is a good exposing in order for someone to start fixing it. If everythings going along AOK where's the incentive for a business to change the status quo?
In Quebec there's machines in the grocery stores where you can feed your cans and bottles for 5 cents each (10 for the big bottles).
In Ontario you get 10 cents for each beer bottle you bring back. Apparently The Beer Store reclaims 98% of the waste they put out, as most of the time the bottles are brought back in the original cases, too.
Get off your high horse. I'm sure there's thousands of guitar players in the world who can play it right.
And some obviously talented acts aside, there's also a lot of no talent hacks who got popular through good production, who absolutely suck live. I'd rather see someone else singing Rob Zombie or Billy Corgan or that dude from Smashmouth or any number of guys who can't sing live like they can on tape (Corgan actually pieces his stuff together line by line...dude can write and play guitar, but not sing). Not to mention all the substandard guitar hacks and bassists and drummers, or the talented but hammered ones. Or talented but tired after driving 10 hours every day. Or talented but pissed off at the other members because he's been spending 24/7 on the road with them.
As I mentioned before, some acts are irreplacable (especially those that are highly visual (Floyd, Tool, NiN, TaTu) or personality (Bizkit, Green Day, Sum 41) based). Most, however, are not. Like, who the hell cares if it's actually nickelback? I'm sure there's lots of pseudo-deep long haired fools in everbody's town that can learn those shitty chords.
This is kind of my point. Bands would no longer be touring, and have to play the same songs every day. Instead, artists could stay local, and play songs from a pool of artists. They could play Metallica songs one night, Tool the next, Jimmy Eat World the next, and Rush the day after.
Fans would still get to see all their favorite songs played live, without the costs of touring, and without the burden of boredom on the performers.
The only time this is a real problem is for those performers for whom performance is a significant part of their art. But there's a number of artists who just despise it, or who are of the 'shoe gazing' variety.
OS9 isn't excluded it just hasn't joined the party
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FLAC doesn't exclude anybody. It's an open format. And even better than that, the implementations that read/write are open source. How is that exclusive?
If a Mac OS 9 port doesn't exists, its because not enough people care. Mozilla had the same problem trying to find a maintainer for Mac Classic builds. No one cared. People care enough to make QNX builds, and BeOS builds, and apparently even to bid for Amiga builds, but not OS 9.
I don't claim to know the disadvantages of SHN, but if people are caring enough to switch its because they exist. According to FLAC's webpage SHN has a somewhat restrictive license, so that might be part of the reason.
So someone CAN port FLAC to OS 9, but perhaps someoned would actually be truly excluded from porting SHN to say, an XBOX, for some reason or other. No one's excluding OS 9, they just haven't joined the party.
One of the points made by our good friend Lessig in The Future of Ideas is the following:
Guess what happened before it was practical for bands to travel the world? OTHER BANDS would learn their songs, and play them locally.
Think about this, for bands that aren't largely cult-of-personality based, there's no reason why some local band can't play their songs at least as good as the original act. It's more efficient, cheaper, easier to access, etc, etc. And you can even see them in a smaller venue with better acoustics than your local hockey rink, more than likely.
This could all work if people weren't so tight-assed about their originality and copyright. That's why I like seeing Gob live so much, they don't give a crap if they play their own songs all the time, or if they get to pump the new album. They play what people want to hear, everyone has a good time, and they get paid.
that's like making software that only works with xp and not win2k
That's a totally false analogy. Mac OS X is based on a completely different kernel than OS 9-. It's more like saying making software that only works with Win NT, and not 3.11 (or even 98), which there was definitely examples of.
And it's open source, is it not? Someone could port it to OS 9. OS X is just easier because it's *nix-like.
What kind of world are we living in where that matters? What if it takes you an hour to get home before you send your resume?
After two hours you've both given up in frustation? Are you 8 years old and have done nothing but play playstation all your life? If fax is faster, fax your resume. You won't have file format problems or Word underlining your spelling mistakes that way.
At work our external e-mail went down a few weekends ago, and came back up around 8 am on monday. It took about 9 hours for e-mail sent on the monday morning at 9:30 to reach me. My plans to meet someone were in that e-mail.
It's relays in combination with the sender and recipient. There point is all three have to be taken together to add to a whitelist. That's where the strength is, ideally. So it's user1+user2+relay, not any one of the three.
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They're more expensive because they don't make or sell as many of them. Economies of scale and all that.
Most of the substance of poetry is it's form, not it's literal meaning. Listen to the way the man structures things, and plays with language. Just because he can be ignorant dosn't mean he's stupid.
Have you seen, for example, Birth of a Nation? It basically created the fundamentals of Hollywood Structure, but guess who the hero is - the KKK. Just because the content of something is morally reprehnsible doesn't mean it's presentation is not genius art.
A compiler (or interpeter, for those of you into that sort of thing) takes programs written in your preferred language and translates them to machine code.
The benefit to using compilers allows you to see what language/compiler produces the most efficient code. Ideally all compilers should be able to produce the most efficient code, but they'll each have their own strengths depending on what they're designed to do.
The problem with audio transmission standards is that they have NO built-in error correction, and operate at the limit of their bandwidth. So your nice, perfect square wave tends to get all muddy and round, like when you overclock your RAM too far.
People should forget about building better cables, and build a better communications protocol. Raw samples defeats the whole point of using digital comms.
3D Realms ripped it off from id, like many of their ideas.
Although, they DID raise the art of delay to a whole new level.
"For the few unaware of this bug"?
This affects a (an admittedly large) subset of OpenOffice users who are a (possibly biggish) subset of slashdot readers.
Thanks for actually providing the description, though, it's informative.
Thanks for the information. I find it kind of disheartening that this type of info doesn't come directly from the kernel maintainer himself. It seems like every time a kernel is released, I think "maybe I'll upgrade me kernel this time". But when I go out to see what is in the new version, I get essentially zero information. Oh, I see statements of what went in, but they don't tell me anything. What the hell is "anticipatory scheduler"? Why do I care? I shouldn't have to figure these things out, or diff the code, or any of that BS. Is it so hard to just state in plain and simple terms what the changes are? I am glad someone did it, but it would be nice if it came from the maintainer.
So you're a lazy S.O.B., is what you're saying? Try typing "anticipatory scheduler" into google, and see what you find.
How often doesn microsoft tell you what's changed in their kernels, except that "it should be 20% faster now" or whatever. And that's what the scheduler change means.
If you want it dumbed down, the new kernel offers better speed, better stability, and better support of new hardware and software architectures (i.e. ACPI and ALSA).
If you don't care, then don't upgrade your kernel. The kernel isn't sexy. It's the workhorse. Like, if someone told me they wanted to put a new engine in their car, I'd hope to god they would just tell me it's more powerful and more efficient, and not go on about pistons and shafts and what not. Because I'm not an engine geek. And I hope even more they're not pulling the lead engineer out of the BMW plant to come tell me about it, either. He should be spending his time working on engines.
So if you're not a kernel geek, don't worry about it. Wait for your distro to upgrade.
Rewriting something from scratch is unfortunately the surest way to introduce new bugs. If the architecture was completely flawed it'll pay off eventually, but I would NOT trust the first iteration, just like I wouldn't buy a new car in its first model year. No one's had a chance to really hammer on it yet.
Perhaps someone who doesn't have the time or experience to make Mozilla work should not be deploying a browser over an entire ISP or corporation. Just a thought.
The number-one thing mozilla CAN use is geeks testing all the features and filing bugs. I like Moz because I can access my mail from my windows profile and my Linux profile, I can't find another email client that will let me do that.
Amen. I've been migrating the same mail folders from Netscape 4.x, through Netscape 6.x, through Moz 0.9.x, through Moz 1.4. Never had a problem. And the sharing between windows and linux is absolutely invaluable. Otherwise I'd always be booting back into windows to keep my mail in one place, and would never make the switch.
Enigmail is also wonderful, and PGP is unavailable in such an usuable form for any other client I've seen.
Actally.. if a comporate site gets defaced, they'll probably underwork(read: pink slip) the ones they have now.
That's called unlawful dismissal if they were denied the resources to do their job properly, or well deserved if they were just incompetent.
Ain't a damn thing changed boy, protect ya neck.
Y2K was not 'a' bug, maybe, but it was definitely a serious of 'bugs' (or 'features', if you really prefer).
And, if you want to get technical, ILOVEYOU wasn't really a virus, in that you had to spread it yourself. It was more of a social engineering incident than anything, or maybe a trojan.
Or actually, a poison. It was the equivalent of sending out a bunch of free cans of Coke to people that instead released a bunch of nerve gas and hurt the surronding individuals.
Is this a call to deface Web sites, or generally screw over sysadmins who oftentimes are paid beans to being with? Shameful.
Maybe if hundreds of corporate websites get defaced so easily, they'll actually wake up and START hiring more qualifed sys admins for a decent salary, and STOP over working those they have now.
Sometimes what a problem needs is a good exposing in order for someone to start fixing it. If everythings going along AOK where's the incentive for a business to change the status quo?
In Quebec there's machines in the grocery stores where you can feed your cans and bottles for 5 cents each (10 for the big bottles).
In Ontario you get 10 cents for each beer bottle you bring back. Apparently The Beer Store reclaims 98% of the waste they put out, as most of the time the bottles are brought back in the original cases, too.
Get off your high horse. I'm sure there's thousands of guitar players in the world who can play it right.
And some obviously talented acts aside, there's also a lot of no talent hacks who got popular through good production, who absolutely suck live. I'd rather see someone else singing Rob Zombie or Billy Corgan or that dude from Smashmouth or any number of guys who can't sing live like they can on tape (Corgan actually pieces his stuff together line by line...dude can write and play guitar, but not sing). Not to mention all the substandard guitar hacks and bassists and drummers, or the talented but hammered ones. Or talented but tired after driving 10 hours every day. Or talented but pissed off at the other members because he's been spending 24/7 on the road with them.
As I mentioned before, some acts are irreplacable (especially those that are highly visual (Floyd, Tool, NiN, TaTu) or personality (Bizkit, Green Day, Sum 41) based). Most, however, are not. Like, who the hell cares if it's actually nickelback? I'm sure there's lots of pseudo-deep long haired fools in everbody's town that can learn those shitty chords.
This is kind of my point. Bands would no longer be touring, and have to play the same songs every day. Instead, artists could stay local, and play songs from a pool of artists. They could play Metallica songs one night, Tool the next, Jimmy Eat World the next, and Rush the day after.
Fans would still get to see all their favorite songs played live, without the costs of touring, and without the burden of boredom on the performers.
The only time this is a real problem is for those performers for whom performance is a significant part of their art. But there's a number of artists who just despise it, or who are of the 'shoe gazing' variety.
FLAC doesn't exclude anybody. It's an open format. And even better than that, the implementations that read/write are open source. How is that exclusive?
If a Mac OS 9 port doesn't exists, its because not enough people care. Mozilla had the same problem trying to find a maintainer for Mac Classic builds. No one cared. People care enough to make QNX builds, and BeOS builds, and apparently even to bid for Amiga builds, but not OS 9.
I don't claim to know the disadvantages of SHN, but if people are caring enough to switch its because they exist. According to FLAC's webpage SHN has a somewhat restrictive license, so that might be part of the reason.
So someone CAN port FLAC to OS 9, but perhaps someoned would actually be truly excluded from porting SHN to say, an XBOX, for some reason or other. No one's excluding OS 9, they just haven't joined the party.
One of the points made by our good friend Lessig in The Future of Ideas is the following:
Guess what happened before it was practical for bands to travel the world? OTHER BANDS would learn their songs, and play them locally.
Think about this, for bands that aren't largely cult-of-personality based, there's no reason why some local band can't play their songs at least as good as the original act. It's more efficient, cheaper, easier to access, etc, etc. And you can even see them in a smaller venue with better acoustics than your local hockey rink, more than likely.
This could all work if people weren't so tight-assed about their originality and copyright. That's why I like seeing Gob live so much, they don't give a crap if they play their own songs all the time, or if they get to pump the new album. They play what people want to hear, everyone has a good time, and they get paid.
Most 'artsy' firms optimise for IE not for standards.
IE on Mac, if they're _really_ artsy.
that's like making software that only works with xp and not win2k
That's a totally false analogy. Mac OS X is based on a completely different kernel than OS 9-. It's more like saying making software that only works with Win NT, and not 3.11 (or even 98), which there was definitely examples of.
And it's open source, is it not? Someone could port it to OS 9. OS X is just easier because it's *nix-like.
Most people on dial-up don't run their own SMTP server, either. RTFT.
What kind of world are we living in where that matters? What if it takes you an hour to get home before you send your resume?
After two hours you've both given up in frustation? Are you 8 years old and have done nothing but play playstation all your life? If fax is faster, fax your resume. You won't have file format problems or Word underlining your spelling mistakes that way.
At work our external e-mail went down a few weekends ago, and came back up around 8 am on monday. It took about 9 hours for e-mail sent on the monday morning at 9:30 to reach me. My plans to meet someone were in that e-mail.
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SO I PHONED THEM. Wow.
How often do you get time critical e-mail from someone you've never recieved e-mail from before?
some guy telling you to BUY THIS NOW != time critical.
your wife telling you to BUY THIS NOW == time critical, and in theory, your wife == whitelisted (or blacklisted, depending on personal preference).
It's relays in combination with the sender and recipient. There point is all three have to be taken together to add to a whitelist. That's where the strength is, ideally. So it's user1+user2+relay, not any one of the three.