Most people will only pay for music that's already "made it". They like that song thats always on the radio, "who are those guys? Im gonna get that CD."
Most people are stupid. Luckily I am not most people.
I have to agree, mostly, with this statement. However, I'd have to add that BSD isn't intrinsically vulnerable and doesn't rely on Security by Obscurity.
I'd have to add that OSX is NOT BSD, and Apple does indeed rely on security through obscurity.
I used to have a music cd from the late 80s.. one of the tracks was a modem. You could hold your phone up to the speakers and it would display the lyrics to the album in procomm.
Firstly, it required that PHP be recompiled with the Sablotron module, which would have made the software inaccessible to most of its current user base.
Yeah, that blows. But XSLT is probably the most powerful and quickest templating systems available.
We use XSLT to serve up all of our stories. We wrote an apache module which is passed two IDs, one ID is the story, the other is the xslt. The module fetches the xml from a database, and loads the xslt from disk. Applies the two, and returns the output. (It does a lot more, including fetching index pages and building xml search results, both of which have their own XSLTs to be applied)
We then have a PHP front end which basically calls the apache module and then passes the output to the end user.
It is extremely fast, and it makes it very easy to provide multiple versions of a story (HTML, RSS, PDA, WML, Email, and printer friendly version).
In fact, the database is still the slowest piece of the puzzle.
XSLT takes some time to learn, but it's not that hard, and the results are amazing.
an ipod killer would have to be cheaper than an ipod.
It seems that MS is using the same tactics that failed for all the gameboy competitors. Try and add a billion features, and price yourself right out of the market.
What I'm saying is I think it's entirely conceivable that someone who has a bit of a vigilante tendency could view such a trojan/worm as helping law enforcement or copyright holders.
Not only conceivable, but it has already happened.
"Reports on US news site CNET News.com explain that an anonymous hacker, known only as Unknownuser, planted a malicious Trojan horse, Subseven, on the computer of William Jarrett, a visitor to an internet message board. The hacker then used this Trojan to remotely search Jarrett's computer for pornographic downloads and followed up by sending tip offs to the FBI."
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/blindey e. html
Mono has no right to use the patents it does for the APIs other then a gentlemens' agreement that MS, IBM, Intel, and the other patent owners will not start charging for them.
Why is this modded insightful? You can't patent an API.
If MS holds patents that could apply to Mono, they certainly would apply to Java as well.
I've been coding C++ for a long time, where are my web service classes, my xml parsers? It's easier to use a single interface than have a ton of different libraries that can cause dependancy hell.
Yeah, that's one thing I really like about mono.. the standard class library is amazingly complete. Too many C++ libraries are really just poorly ported C libraries.
Plus every C++ library my program needs, is another dependency.
I'm working on a program that needs to talk to a web server and download an AES encrypted gzipped xml file and parse it. That's 3 dependencies that my C++ requires (crypto++, libz, libxml2) and I had to write my own network class to do the web request. Plus two of the dependencies (libz, libxml2) are C libraries.
While the standard class library in mono provides fully object oriented classes for everything.
C++ may have the speed, but it cannot compete with the C# class library.
I don't know enough about Xorg to know if this is good or not.
Is the driver support there? Will NVidia's and ATI's binary drivers work with the Xorg server? It could be a real problem if FC2 won't be able to do accelerated 3d under NVidia or ATI cards.
Carmack is the only reason for OpenGL's survival...
Riiight. Because Lightwave, Maya, Softimage, and all the other top of the line 3d rendering packages use directx.. oh wait, no they don't. they all use OpenGL because directx doesn't support half the things they need to do highend modeling.
Worse, you can't even call a modified version "Firefox" anymore? That's a problem!
How is that a problem? I think debian would be complaining if Lindows had just called their distro "debian". It is, after all, a modified debian.
Heaven forbid that someone tries to reduce brand confusion.
Otherwise MS could take FireFox, make it shitty, and call it firefox, and ship it with all versions of Windows and then say "See? We ship firefox and IE, and people prefer IE"
his has led to debates about whether Firefox is free enough to be included in the Debian Linux distribution
Surely the debates are about whether or not Firefox is *old* enough. I'm sure they'll wait until firefox 1.0 before even thinking about including firefox 0.7
libgnomeui now provides a gnome-vfs backend for GtkFileChooser so that it has the same view of remote filesystems as applications such Nautilus
That rules, and it's about time. This means you can say file open, and then select a smb:// share
A while ago I was working on a gnome-vfs module that added support for itunes shares. This would mean that you could use xmms (assuming it ever gets updated for 2.0) and browse and play songs shared in itunes.
Now I think I've got some incentive to finish that module.
Apparently Qwerty was developed to avoid the actual typing heads from jamming when typing at speed. Allegedly. I dont have proof of this. AFAIK, this means keeping the frequently hit keys away from each other. Yes you can learn to type fast on it, but I'm pretty sure its not the most efficient layout when you dont have moving type heads.
True, but you're seeing the solution wrong. They didn't move commonly hit keys apart from each other to slow you down, it was to speed you up. Two keys right next to each other, when hit at nearly the same time, would jam the typewriter. Move them to opposite sides, and you can hit them at nearly the same time without jamming.
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This is some serious copyright infringement, man. Ripping an article verbatim and posting it on another site.
hey, USA Today does it!
Most people will only pay for music that's already "made it". They like that song thats always on the radio, "who are those guys? Im gonna get that CD."
Most people are stupid. Luckily I am not most people.
I just converted a box at my house to a Media Center PC for the fun of it. It can do everything a Tivo can do
No it can't. My TiVo can fit in my TV cabinet, look presentable, and be quiet enough so that I can't hear it.
Your frankenstein PC can't do that.
* Comes with all the development tools and IDE to do Cocoa programming or cross platform Java, perl or python.
So does linux, and the
* Apache server plus PHP built in and easy to add whatever server platform add-on.
Same with linux, and Windows.
* Pretty colors and easy on the eyes fonts for all those ssh sessions needed for work and for home server handling.
Actually, FreeType2 does better font rendering than Apple. And Apple's terminal is the slowest piece of crap ever.
* X11 and ability to run the Gimp and the whole gauntlent of free software.
So does Windows. And Gimp on Windows doesn't require anything as horrible as fink.
I have to agree, mostly, with this statement. However, I'd have to add that BSD isn't intrinsically vulnerable and doesn't rely on Security by Obscurity.
I'd have to add that OSX is NOT BSD, and Apple does indeed rely on security through obscurity.
I used to have a music cd from the late 80s.. one of the tracks was a modem. You could hold your phone up to the speakers and it would display the lyrics to the album in procomm.
I wish I could remember which band it was.
Firstly, it required that PHP be recompiled with the Sablotron module, which would have made the software inaccessible to most of its current user base.
Yeah, that blows. But XSLT is probably the most powerful and quickest templating systems available.
We use XSLT to serve up all of our stories. We wrote an apache module which is passed two IDs, one ID is the story, the other is the xslt. The module fetches the xml from a database, and loads the xslt from disk. Applies the two, and returns the output. (It does a lot more, including fetching index pages and building xml search results, both of which have their own XSLTs to be applied)
We then have a PHP front end which basically calls the apache module and then passes the output to the end user.
It is extremely fast, and it makes it very easy to provide multiple versions of a story (HTML, RSS, PDA, WML, Email, and printer friendly version).
In fact, the database is still the slowest piece of the puzzle.
XSLT takes some time to learn, but it's not that hard, and the results are amazing.
an ipod killer would have to be cheaper than an ipod.
It seems that MS is using the same tactics that failed for all the gameboy competitors. Try and add a billion features, and price yourself right out of the market.
is just gonna look like a homeless wacko saying "can you hear me now?" just staring into the sky...
Shouldn't he be saying "Can you still hear me?"
"Can you hear me now" implies that the guy couldn't hear him previously.
This is the beginning of the commercial that they cut out.
"Dude, are you still there? Hello?"
"Hello? Can you hear me?"
"Dude? Hello?"
"Hold on, I'm going to go walk over by this camera"
"Hello?"
"Can you hear me now?"
"Yeah, that's much better"
"Good!"
Is there anything else I would have to replace, besides the CPU, if I wanted to upgrade from the current chipset?
Quite possibly your ram.
Sweet! And I tried to open a file that didn't exist and XP said "Dude, where's my file?"
That's just plain old broadcast digital TV, except that it reqires a decoder; I just don't see what is so revoloutionary...
Well, as far as I know, you can't get Discovery, TLC, USA, or ESPN with a regular antenna... but you can with this service.
What I'm saying is I think it's entirely conceivable that someone who has a bit of a vigilante tendency could view such a trojan/worm as helping law enforcement or copyright holders.
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Not only conceivable, but it has already happened.
"Reports on US news site CNET News.com explain that an anonymous hacker, known only as Unknownuser, planted a malicious Trojan horse, Subseven, on the computer of William Jarrett, a visitor to an internet message board. The hacker then used this Trojan to remotely search Jarrett's computer for pornographic downloads and followed up by sending tip offs to the FBI."
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/blinde
Mono has no right to use the patents it does for the APIs other then a gentlemens' agreement that MS, IBM, Intel, and the other patent owners will not start charging for them.
Why is this modded insightful? You can't patent an API.
If MS holds patents that could apply to Mono, they certainly would apply to Java as well.
I've been coding C++ for a long time, where are my web service classes, my xml parsers? It's easier to use a single interface than have a ton of different libraries that can cause dependancy hell.
Yeah, that's one thing I really like about mono.. the standard class library is amazingly complete. Too many C++ libraries are really just poorly ported C libraries.
Plus every C++ library my program needs, is another dependency.
I'm working on a program that needs to talk to a web server and download an AES encrypted gzipped xml file and parse it. That's 3 dependencies that my C++ requires (crypto++, libz, libxml2) and I had to write my own network class to do the web request. Plus two of the dependencies (libz, libxml2) are C libraries.
While the standard class library in mono provides fully object oriented classes for everything.
C++ may have the speed, but it cannot compete with the C# class library.
2) Linux programmers find Windows Forms is just easier to use at the moment
This step will never happen. Gtk# is easier, and actually works cross platform.
I don't know enough about Xorg to know if this is good or not.
Is the driver support there? Will NVidia's and ATI's binary drivers work with the Xorg server? It could be a real problem if FC2 won't be able to do accelerated 3d under NVidia or ATI cards.
that's pretty ingenius.
The quickest way to get people to take viruses seriously is to write a virus that reports all their pirated software.
Most people don't care if their computer has a virus, but once a virus can bust them for all their illegal software, people will wise up in a hurry.
Carmack is the only reason for OpenGL's survival...
Riiight. Because Lightwave, Maya, Softimage, and all the other top of the line 3d rendering packages use directx.. oh wait, no they don't. they all use OpenGL because directx doesn't support half the things they need to do highend modeling.
Its not free advertising. It's false advertising.
You deserve a +5 just for that. This gets right to the hub of the matter.
The last thing anyone wants is for mozilla to be synonymous with shitty low-grade tshirts made in guatamala.
Worse, you can't even call a modified version "Firefox" anymore? That's a problem!
How is that a problem? I think debian would be complaining if Lindows had just called their distro "debian". It is, after all, a modified debian.
Heaven forbid that someone tries to reduce brand confusion.
Otherwise MS could take FireFox, make it shitty, and call it firefox, and ship it with all versions of Windows and then say "See? We ship firefox and IE, and people prefer IE"
his has led to debates about whether Firefox is free enough to be included in the Debian Linux distribution
Surely the debates are about whether or not Firefox is *old* enough. I'm sure they'll wait until firefox 1.0 before even thinking about including firefox 0.7
And DOA:X is actually a rather good 'social game', with some rather fun subgames tacked on, even bar the semi-nudity.
Riight, and you just read playboy for the articles too, huh?
libgnomeui now provides a gnome-vfs backend for GtkFileChooser so that it has the same view of remote filesystems as applications such Nautilus
That rules, and it's about time. This means you can say file open, and then select a smb:// share
A while ago I was working on a gnome-vfs module that added support for itunes shares. This would mean that you could use xmms (assuming it ever gets updated for 2.0) and browse and play songs shared in itunes.
Now I think I've got some incentive to finish that module.
Apparently Qwerty was developed to avoid the actual typing heads from jamming when typing at speed. Allegedly. I dont have proof of this. AFAIK, this means keeping the frequently hit keys away from each other. Yes you can learn to type fast on it, but I'm pretty sure its not the most efficient layout when you dont have moving type heads.
True, but you're seeing the solution wrong. They didn't move commonly hit keys apart from each other to slow you down, it was to speed you up. Two keys right next to each other, when hit at nearly the same time, would jam the typewriter. Move them to opposite sides, and you can hit them at nearly the same time without jamming.