The people who contributed their code to Nexuiz under a Freedom license have every right to be pissed if their code is then sold off against their wishes. If the Nexuiz developers want to do so then stop stealing and re-write what isn't yours. The GPL isn't a charity to be exploited - it is a philosophy that says cooperation enriches everyone. If you don't agree with GPL code: DON'T USE IT and write your freaking own. Leaches.
I think Canonical is fulfilling it's core mission which is to make Linux friendly. Some decisions such as having Metacity widgets on the left are debatable (I know the first thing I'll be doing is moving them to the right once I install Lucid) but regardless of that decision the majority of decisions are based on merit. It is easy to customize, you can fix up pretty well any deficiency from your point of view. The only logical reason for keeping Metacity buttons on the right is that people who don't know how to change it will be annoyed until they get used to it. Does that mean that people who don't know how to change anything should become the driving force behind Ubuntu? This particular issue is driving me, I can't believe that everyone is joining such a whinefest over something that is trivial to change. It's still a whinefest - change what you don't like - if you are incapable of changing it then I really don't want you "voting" on the defaults anyway.
Since you obviously cannot fork it on your own perhaps you need to convince your peers that it needs forking and gather the required skills and resources to do so? If that is what it takes isn't that a form of democracy? You got together with your peers and made it happen. Freedom in the system allows you to organize like that unlike Closed software where you don't even have the basic Freedom.. So, it is democracy if you can coerce the resources through language for such a large project. However just going it alone yourself is just replacing one autocracy with another one. That's not much of an improvement. Then what are you going to do when someone makes demands of your project? I'd say: let them fork it!
Anything that makes anyone look bad should be on top of the pile! After all, isn't it the point that Citizens should be looking to remove the "bad" from government as much as possible? Hiding something just because it may offend some and galvanize others is no way to keep the wheels of government clean.
Shut off power will result in death for a few people who depend on home-oxygen equipment. But hey wiring everything up to enable a convenient cyber-attack makes sense right guys? Right?
The lack of questions is what is troubling in that it doesn't prod improvement. Just because most parties choose to not be nimble doesn't mean that effective and competitive wise all parties will make that choice.
Decentralized in the proposals of how to build it, a market place of ideas competing with each other for implementation rather than the actual implementation itself. Instead you got one idea. And it wasn't fit so it failed.
The problem is that the US government is so short-sighted that it only sees the current crop of services as the only way to move it's economy forward so you get things like ACTA. It's to the point that making unpopular decisions about how to lock everything up that might be a thought is a fricken' national security issue. Well, any government that let itself get into that position shouldn't be asking all their friends to lock-in to their mistake. Even when we don't it's not the end of the US, I still have faith that it's CITIZENS will always find a way despite its government aiming at foot and pulling the trigger.
This is a classic example of Top-Down Error. Government was approached or approached a few big-players and they all agreed that it would be just peachy. Reality has a way of spoiling the party often times however. If they had adopted a more open model such as a bazaar of ideas that could have completed with each other through criticism I'm sure that something else while it also may not have been 100% effective would have emerged that would have been at least just as good and cost far less. Government has a fascination with centralization it appears they think it is the way to go, I disagree: I think that decentralized is better for cost, flexibility, and reliability. I also think that given few players with centralization that it is also effectively a command economy/system. See how well that has worked in history.
Heheh, well I surely don't know!;) I just remember that it was important to have then entire track in a buffer. The only logic I can see with this is that somehow the stitching together of track pieces did not reflect the original and was detected by the protection system! Interesting today is that media such as DVD's and CD's are completely digital, there are no magnetic "weak-bits" and such to deal with anymore but the issue with 1:1 duplication is that consumer writers will say to themselves: "I know how to burn a track!" and burn one that is compliant instead of one that is exact with what they read. And of course if you had a raw burner I'm sure it would be illegal under the DMCA. Isn't progress grand?;(
"Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." ~ Jerry Garcia.
The problem is that while secrecy is necessary for some information such as a list of agents in a foreign nation for other things it is simply abused such as ACTA. What is needed is a watchers scenario, a board of citizens who are tasked with examining the "secrets" and determining which to make public and which are truly secret. Every citizen should have the right to apply to such a board and all should be truly considered. As a side, the true root of the issue is that perhaps beginning with the next generation of citizens they should be taught to question propaganda and learn citizenship skills such as dissent and holding government accountable. Perhaps this generation of politicians could even be persuaded to implement this in schools as hopefully by the time it made any real difference they would be dying off (naturally).
Yeah I'm starting to recollect bits from the fluffy haze of memory: It was a buffer issue, the drive needed to copy an entire track at a time and 1541's and normal MSD drives did not have enough on-board memory to do that. It was like if you copied a single track bit by bit you could never get the parts to line up exactly for the protection but copying an entire track it was all done in one burn so everything was aligned. I'm reaching the limits of my hazy memory and without the actual name of the program to google with it's very difficult to get more details. Sorry.
All I know is that the best copiers wouldn't do it while a MSD dual-drive with a custom program (don't remember what it was called, by the Fast Hack'em guys) and a 16K RAM chip soldered into the drive would do it. I didn't own one of these dual drives, mine was the single-floppy model. Ironically the MSD drive would copy it but still couldn't play it.
For Python, can they use: Psyco as a library? That would help being practically a Just In Time compiler. It's x86 architectures only but that should be what they're running. As a side point I find it irritating that a language that is designed to be friendly and powerful is disadvantaged by counting CPU cycles: especially since in the real world those are plentiful compared to the scarce resources available for the hard work of debugging. And in Python if the CPU is your constraint - which it isn't in most programs - then you write that little bit of CPU code in C or C++ and call that one part from Python. This keeps the rest of the program easy to debug and portable.
As we ourselves transition to all digital-communications and the associated low-transmission-power-levels we will fall off the radar for other civilizations detecting us too. That little blip of 100 years of analog full-blast will not been seen by anyone else either. This is in addition to the numbers associated with space: it is big, fricken' big and long in time. The last civilization anywhere near enough to us to be detected probably went extinct around 100 million years ago and in another 2 million years until humanity goes extinct the next civilization close enough to pick us up probably won't develop technology for another 60 million years... Missed in the night. But imagine in your mind an alien on an alien world because those same numbers say that it is a logical certainty that they exist.
Fuck, did I just fucking get slashdot fucking filtered in Australia? Well, to celebrate that possibility please watch this clip: Fuckity fuck fuck. Seriously, what happens with user generated content and naughty words? Easy denial of service?
I'll take a guess at what is wrong with that code: the strlen() function needs to count the number of bytes in the string on each iteration of the loop. That takes time. A faster way to do it would be to assign the result of the strlen() function to a variable and use that variable in the loop construct. That way it would only be computed once.
Fast loaders worked because the kernel ROM software didn't fully take advantage of the hardware. Between the C64 and the 1541 floppy drive the connector cable had 4 wires for carrying information. The kernel routines built into ROM only used one of those lines to signal from the drive to the computer. The "fast loaders" simply uploaded a program to the drive which used all four lines to signal information. The "fast" loaders weren't fast magic they just removed a deficiency in the kernel ROM routines. The exact number of lines between the computer and drive I'm not sure of but this is the principle the fast loaders worked by. And tape based fast loaders worked because the kernel routines would save a copy of the information to tape and then immediately save a complete other copy to compare against for error correction on load. The tape fast loaders just skipped saving and comparing the redundant copy to get the speed. Disk fast loaders didn't compromise the integrity of the information in the way tape fast loaders had potential to though. Remember computers back then were full of noise when you were talking to tape drives especially.
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The people who contributed their code to Nexuiz under a Freedom license have every right to be pissed if their code is then sold off against their wishes. If the Nexuiz developers want to do so then stop stealing and re-write what isn't yours. The GPL isn't a charity to be exploited - it is a philosophy that says cooperation enriches everyone. If you don't agree with GPL code: DON'T USE IT and write your freaking own. Leaches.
I think Canonical is fulfilling it's core mission which is to make Linux friendly. Some decisions such as having Metacity widgets on the left are debatable (I know the first thing I'll be doing is moving them to the right once I install Lucid) but regardless of that decision the majority of decisions are based on merit. It is easy to customize, you can fix up pretty well any deficiency from your point of view. The only logical reason for keeping Metacity buttons on the right is that people who don't know how to change it will be annoyed until they get used to it. Does that mean that people who don't know how to change anything should become the driving force behind Ubuntu? This particular issue is driving me, I can't believe that everyone is joining such a whinefest over something that is trivial to change. It's still a whinefest - change what you don't like - if you are incapable of changing it then I really don't want you "voting" on the defaults anyway.
Since you obviously cannot fork it on your own perhaps you need to convince your peers that it needs forking and gather the required skills and resources to do so? If that is what it takes isn't that a form of democracy? You got together with your peers and made it happen. Freedom in the system allows you to organize like that unlike Closed software where you don't even have the basic Freedom.. So, it is democracy if you can coerce the resources through language for such a large project. However just going it alone yourself is just replacing one autocracy with another one. That's not much of an improvement. Then what are you going to do when someone makes demands of your project? I'd say: let them fork it!
Anything that makes anyone look bad should be on top of the pile! After all, isn't it the point that Citizens should be looking to remove the "bad" from government as much as possible? Hiding something just because it may offend some and galvanize others is no way to keep the wheels of government clean.
I already don't want to ever enter the US - I even have reservations about flying over it on my way to Cuba. Canadian here.
Shut off power will result in death for a few people who depend on home-oxygen equipment. But hey wiring everything up to enable a convenient cyber-attack makes sense right guys? Right?
The grading in a market place of ideas is done by the participants themselves: they criticize each other.
The lack of questions is what is troubling in that it doesn't prod improvement. Just because most parties choose to not be nimble doesn't mean that effective and competitive wise all parties will make that choice.
Decentralized in the proposals of how to build it, a market place of ideas competing with each other for implementation rather than the actual implementation itself. Instead you got one idea. And it wasn't fit so it failed.
The problem is that the US government is so short-sighted that it only sees the current crop of services as the only way to move it's economy forward so you get things like ACTA. It's to the point that making unpopular decisions about how to lock everything up that might be a thought is a fricken' national security issue. Well, any government that let itself get into that position shouldn't be asking all their friends to lock-in to their mistake. Even when we don't it's not the end of the US, I still have faith that it's CITIZENS will always find a way despite its government aiming at foot and pulling the trigger.
This is a classic example of Top-Down Error. Government was approached or approached a few big-players and they all agreed that it would be just peachy. Reality has a way of spoiling the party often times however. If they had adopted a more open model such as a bazaar of ideas that could have completed with each other through criticism I'm sure that something else while it also may not have been 100% effective would have emerged that would have been at least just as good and cost far less. Government has a fascination with centralization it appears they think it is the way to go, I disagree: I think that decentralized is better for cost, flexibility, and reliability. I also think that given few players with centralization that it is also effectively a command economy/system. See how well that has worked in history.
Heheh, well I surely don't know! ;) I just remember that it was important to have then entire track in a buffer. The only logic I can see with this is that somehow the stitching together of track pieces did not reflect the original and was detected by the protection system! Interesting today is that media such as DVD's and CD's are completely digital, there are no magnetic "weak-bits" and such to deal with anymore but the issue with 1:1 duplication is that consumer writers will say to themselves: "I know how to burn a track!" and burn one that is compliant instead of one that is exact with what they read. And of course if you had a raw burner I'm sure it would be illegal under the DMCA. Isn't progress grand? ;(
"Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." ~ Jerry Garcia.
The problem is that while secrecy is necessary for some information such as a list of agents in a foreign nation for other things it is simply abused such as ACTA. What is needed is a watchers scenario, a board of citizens who are tasked with examining the "secrets" and determining which to make public and which are truly secret. Every citizen should have the right to apply to such a board and all should be truly considered. As a side, the true root of the issue is that perhaps beginning with the next generation of citizens they should be taught to question propaganda and learn citizenship skills such as dissent and holding government accountable. Perhaps this generation of politicians could even be persuaded to implement this in schools as hopefully by the time it made any real difference they would be dying off (naturally).
Yeah I'm starting to recollect bits from the fluffy haze of memory: It was a buffer issue, the drive needed to copy an entire track at a time and 1541's and normal MSD drives did not have enough on-board memory to do that. It was like if you copied a single track bit by bit you could never get the parts to line up exactly for the protection but copying an entire track it was all done in one burn so everything was aligned. I'm reaching the limits of my hazy memory and without the actual name of the program to google with it's very difficult to get more details. Sorry.
All I know is that the best copiers wouldn't do it while a MSD dual-drive with a custom program (don't remember what it was called, by the Fast Hack'em guys) and a 16K RAM chip soldered into the drive would do it. I didn't own one of these dual drives, mine was the single-floppy model. Ironically the MSD drive would copy it but still couldn't play it.
For Python, can they use: Psyco as a library? That would help being practically a Just In Time compiler. It's x86 architectures only but that should be what they're running. As a side point I find it irritating that a language that is designed to be friendly and powerful is disadvantaged by counting CPU cycles: especially since in the real world those are plentiful compared to the scarce resources available for the hard work of debugging. And in Python if the CPU is your constraint - which it isn't in most programs - then you write that little bit of CPU code in C or C++ and call that one part from Python. This keeps the rest of the program easy to debug and portable.
As we ourselves transition to all digital-communications and the associated low-transmission-power-levels we will fall off the radar for other civilizations detecting us too. That little blip of 100 years of analog full-blast will not been seen by anyone else either. This is in addition to the numbers associated with space: it is big, fricken' big and long in time. The last civilization anywhere near enough to us to be detected probably went extinct around 100 million years ago and in another 2 million years until humanity goes extinct the next civilization close enough to pick us up probably won't develop technology for another 60 million years... Missed in the night. But imagine in your mind an alien on an alien world because those same numbers say that it is a logical certainty that they exist.
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Fuck, did I just fucking get slashdot fucking filtered in Australia? Well, to celebrate that possibility please watch this clip: Fuckity fuck fuck. Seriously, what happens with user generated content and naughty words? Easy denial of service?
Everyone must be "responsible" for their words. Responsibility begins with registering your nicknames along with your address for our thugs.
Two be specific the 16K of ROM was split into 8K for the Basic ROM and 8K for the Kernel ROM.
I'll take a guess at what is wrong with that code: the strlen() function needs to count the number of bytes in the string on each iteration of the loop. That takes time. A faster way to do it would be to assign the result of the strlen() function to a variable and use that variable in the loop construct. That way it would only be computed once.
Fast loaders worked because the kernel ROM software didn't fully take advantage of the hardware. Between the C64 and the 1541 floppy drive the connector cable had 4 wires for carrying information. The kernel routines built into ROM only used one of those lines to signal from the drive to the computer. The "fast loaders" simply uploaded a program to the drive which used all four lines to signal information. The "fast" loaders weren't fast magic they just removed a deficiency in the kernel ROM routines. The exact number of lines between the computer and drive I'm not sure of but this is the principle the fast loaders worked by. And tape based fast loaders worked because the kernel routines would save a copy of the information to tape and then immediately save a complete other copy to compare against for error correction on load. The tape fast loaders just skipped saving and comparing the redundant copy to get the speed. Disk fast loaders didn't compromise the integrity of the information in the way tape fast loaders had potential to though. Remember computers back then were full of noise when you were talking to tape drives especially.
I remember pre-DMCA quite well. That would have been considered "kook"-ish in the hey-days of "Fast Hack'Em" copying software of the '80s.