You essentially just said that we can't use Linux any more since everyone can hack us because it is open source.
No. He's saying that it's (much!) easier to pull off certain kinds of cheats when you've got the source than when you don't.
Part of the problem is that clients get information (and often do in fact need it) that they're not supposed to show to the user. A simple example: player inspects all packets that flow between his client and the server in order to dump all player positions from the data. With a closed source, he's got to reverse engineer the stream format (or worse, encryption). With open source, the stream format including any encryption can be trivially gotten from the source.
The real flaw is that this kind of information is available on the client in the first place, but I don't think there's a viable alternative to that. Ideally, the server would do everything up to and including rendering the scene and simply send bitmaps to the player -- a 3D scene graph would include information about (partially) obscured objects/players -- but obviously that won't be possible any time soon.
I doubt it (but IANAL). Unless you're an OEM and you're selling machines with a Firefox "rebranded" that way. In a similar vein, you could carve a Nike logo on your own cheap off-brand sneakers or put Disney stickers on hard core porn DVDs. Just don't sell em.
You still don't point out an alternative to GIMP -- because there isn't any, besides running whatever Photoshop version Wine now supports. Somebody above mentioned Krita; you've got to be kidding me.
Inkscape is so popular I have never even heard of it.
It's the definite OSS vector drawing application. The other OSS solutions aren't in the same league, except maybe for Xara which at least used to be a pro app, IIRC. I don't know why you wouldn't have heard of it, maybe you never needed to do vector drawings? But then you seem to think that XMMS is comparable to Audacity which frankly is just bizarre -- maybe IHBT? HAND.
That's misleading at best. The Atom netbooks released in 2008 had N270 Atoms. "Atom implements the x86 (IA-32) instruction set; x86-64 is so far only activated for the Atom 230 and 330 desktop models. N and Z series Atom models cannot run x86-64 code." (Wikipedia)
Less than 4000 results for Nokia, while there are about 80000 for either Microsoft or Apple, 40000 for Google or iPhone, 2000 for Twitter (many of these overlap). Flickr, of all things, has about the same results as Nokia. Of course your query does include the forums.
The open source editor Ryan Paul is a fan of the Maemo platform, but your method for establishing fanboyism is rather flawed. Or you're just saying that Ars is a technology fanboy, which undoubtedly is true.
Just make your validation error message say "Passwords must contain at least 6 letters, numbers or punctuation marks." Or a variation thereof. It's a good idea anyway to signal the user to use something other than letters. Alternatively, if it's discarded due to a trim, make the validation message say "Space characters do not count toward the 6 character limit." (Or something a bit friendlier.)
I'm hard-pressed to think of a single advantage a button has, unless you mean simply for aesthetic purposes.
I think that's a big part of it. That's also why I don't really want a scrool wheel. I prefer my keyboards as a big matrix of similar keys.:) I realize it's inferior in terms of usage, though it's hardly a big deal to me. The only time-critical function is mute, which typically has its own button. And instead of tactile feedback, I get instant visual feedback popping up on the screen (e.g.). Another reason is that I'm not sure how well an analogous volume control is supported by the USB keyboard spec -- and if it would end up requiring a driver in Windows and being unsupported for a long time on Linux.
Err. Three of your five bullet points would be deal breakers for me. I don't want a scroll wheel on the left. I don't want a volume knob, I'd prefer two volume keys, though I could live without them. And I certainly don't want any software tied to or delivered with my keyboard. If I want software I'm able to get it myself. When I buy a keyboard I pretty much want a very vanilla USB HID input device. I don't think there's a perfect keyboard, which is probably why you can buy so many different versions.
I'm extremely happy with my thin aluminum Apple keyboard, despite it's platform specific niggles which are a bit odd in Linux.
Germany has 357k km^2 land and 82M population. It has one of the best train systems in the world.
Pennsylvania has 119k km^2 AND 13M population. New York has 140k km^2 and 20M population. New Jersey has 22K km^2 and 9M population. Maryland has 32k km^2 and 6M population. Delaware has 7k km^2 and 1M population. Connecticut has 14k km^2 and 3.5M population. Massachusetts has 27k km^2 and 6.5M population. Total area is 361 km^2 and 59M.
Keep in mind that probably 90%+ of Germany's rail system was in place by the 1930-1950s, when the population was 50-60M. I know that these are the densest population states, yet they are continuous and still have overall lousy rail service.
But of course GP said pretty much the same thing in not so many words. You seem to be trying to be dense. Population density matters, obviously, which is why you should try to create mass transit (local and intercity) within those regions that have a sufficient density. The US population isn't spread equally over that huge country of yours and a rail network doesn't just suddenly become useful when it spans an entire sub-continent from east to west. And most of Europe isn't ether Paris or London, it's medium sized cities whose names you, I'm sure, have never heard, and which are still connected via train.
Germany and Japan both have high-speed rail services similar to France (in fact the French TGV and the German ICE have services way across the border). Of course, obviously both Germany and Japan suffered massive damage during WW2 as well. However, while some of the high speed (200kmh) tracks were being built in the 1960s, I think most of the very high speed (250+kmh) tracks were built long after WW2 and are actually still being built.
I have never heard that nuclear power is relevant though, I see no reason why coal or oil or natural gas plants should do worse -- Germany does get a lot of power from coal; though it hardly matters since there is a European power grid anyway. In fact a high quality grid might be more of a requirement for high speed rail.
Come to think of it: China has a number of very high speed intercity trains (traditional trains, not talking about the monorail p.o.c.), and is building more.
Right, you're the typical burly Alpha Male geek -- who spends his weekend posting on Slashdot. Seems like SUV safety isn't the only thing you're delusional about.
Eh? The truth is far more complex than that. Obviously the transit time completely depends on the situation, including factors such as traffic density, availability of parking spaces, frequency of mass transit. NYC is an extreme example in every regard, and as such not representative of, well, anything except NYC and the handful of similar cities.
But yeah, if you've got a city built around cars, with huge streets everywhere, centralised shopping avenues (ie huge stores and malls) with like a million of parking spaces in front of them and no sensible MT system in place, obviously transit time goes up. That kind of city is also a tremendous waste of resources. (Incidently: Referring to MT as being unviable due to its space requirements, as someone else replied to TFA, is just laughable, since MT is just SO much more efficient in terms of its space usage.)
Partly because nobody cares enough to design/buy desktops which are more efficient. Granted it won't be as good as a notebook, unless you build a desktop out of notebook components (which is also possible) but a little care goes a long way. In fact, a well-built desktop itself won't use that much more power as its equivalent laptop parts,but the display will, and it'll be difficult to find a 20" desktop LCD which consumes as little power as a 14 or 15" laptop display does.
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You essentially just said that we can't use Linux any more since everyone can hack us because it is open source.
No. He's saying that it's (much!) easier to pull off certain kinds of cheats when you've got the source than when you don't.
Part of the problem is that clients get information (and often do in fact need it) that they're not supposed to show to the user. A simple example: player inspects all packets that flow between his client and the server in order to dump all player positions from the data. With a closed source, he's got to reverse engineer the stream format (or worse, encryption). With open source, the stream format including any encryption can be trivially gotten from the source.
The real flaw is that this kind of information is available on the client in the first place, but I don't think there's a viable alternative to that. Ideally, the server would do everything up to and including rendering the scene and simply send bitmaps to the player -- a 3D scene graph would include information about (partially) obscured objects/players -- but obviously that won't be possible any time soon.
Actually, the screencast is at http://studio.suse.com/, not suse.studio.com, which is an adfarm that just struck gold.
I doubt it (but IANAL). Unless you're an OEM and you're selling machines with a Firefox "rebranded" that way. In a similar vein, you could carve a Nike logo on your own cheap off-brand sneakers or put Disney stickers on hard core porn DVDs. Just don't sell em.
You still don't point out an alternative to GIMP -- because there isn't any, besides running whatever Photoshop version Wine now supports. Somebody above mentioned Krita; you've got to be kidding me.
Inkscape is so popular I have never even heard of it.
It's the definite OSS vector drawing application. The other OSS solutions aren't in the same league, except maybe for Xara which at least used to be a pro app, IIRC. I don't know why you wouldn't have heard of it, maybe you never needed to do vector drawings? But then you seem to think that XMMS is comparable to Audacity which frankly is just bizarre -- maybe IHBT? HAND.
That FF3 QT screenshot sums up all my reservations about leaving Gnome for KDE.
Well, I know that by posting this I officially brand myself as a corporate shill
The monkey icon kind of already does that. ;)
When USB3 is prevalent (2010/11), 3.5" HDD will be fairly exotic beasts anyway, certainly for external storage.
That's misleading at best. The Atom netbooks released in 2008 had N270 Atoms. "Atom implements the x86 (IA-32) instruction set; x86-64 is so far only activated for the Atom 230 and 330 desktop models. N and Z series Atom models cannot run x86-64 code." (Wikipedia)
Less than 4000 results for Nokia, while there are about 80000 for either Microsoft or Apple, 40000 for Google or iPhone, 2000 for Twitter (many of these overlap). Flickr, of all things, has about the same results as Nokia. Of course your query does include the forums.
The open source editor Ryan Paul is a fan of the Maemo platform, but your method for establishing fanboyism is rather flawed. Or you're just saying that Ars is a technology fanboy, which undoubtedly is true.
The washing routine should work for many keyboards. It's just not worth the trouble for a $5 keyboard, it is for a (these days) $50+ Model M.
Kind of astounding how many people don't get this... And now we're not talking about people at the answering end of a support line.
Just make your validation error message say "Passwords must contain at least 6 letters, numbers or punctuation marks." Or a variation thereof. It's a good idea anyway to signal the user to use something other than letters. Alternatively, if it's discarded due to a trim, make the validation message say "Space characters do not count toward the 6 character limit." (Or something a bit friendlier.)
I'm hard-pressed to think of a single advantage a button has, unless you mean simply for aesthetic purposes.
I think that's a big part of it. That's also why I don't really want a scrool wheel. I prefer my keyboards as a big matrix of similar keys. :) I realize it's inferior in terms of usage, though it's hardly a big deal to me. The only time-critical function is mute, which typically has its own button. And instead of tactile feedback, I get instant visual feedback popping up on the screen (e.g.). Another reason is that I'm not sure how well an analogous volume control is supported by the USB keyboard spec -- and if it would end up requiring a driver in Windows and being unsupported for a long time on Linux.
Err. Three of your five bullet points would be deal breakers for me. I don't want a scroll wheel on the left. I don't want a volume knob, I'd prefer two volume keys, though I could live without them. And I certainly don't want any software tied to or delivered with my keyboard. If I want software I'm able to get it myself. When I buy a keyboard I pretty much want a very vanilla USB HID input device. I don't think there's a perfect keyboard, which is probably why you can buy so many different versions.
I'm extremely happy with my thin aluminum Apple keyboard, despite it's platform specific niggles which are a bit odd in Linux.
So after 3 and a half year of gentle usage your "virtually indestructaile keyboard" is broken? Sounds like virtual is the key word here.
Thanks for the dating advice. I'm sure my s/o will appreciate it. I don't intend on getting a car anytime soon, though.
I am quoting user rolfwind from above here:
But of course GP said pretty much the same thing in not so many words. You seem to be trying to be dense. Population density matters, obviously, which is why you should try to create mass transit (local and intercity) within those regions that have a sufficient density. The US population isn't spread equally over that huge country of yours and a rail network doesn't just suddenly become useful when it spans an entire sub-continent from east to west. And most of Europe isn't ether Paris or London, it's medium sized cities whose names you, I'm sure, have never heard, and which are still connected via train.
Okay, several points.
Germany and Japan both have high-speed rail services similar to France (in fact the French TGV and the German ICE have services way across the border). Of course, obviously both Germany and Japan suffered massive damage during WW2 as well. However, while some of the high speed (200kmh) tracks were being built in the 1960s, I think most of the very high speed (250+kmh) tracks were built long after WW2 and are actually still being built.
I have never heard that nuclear power is relevant though, I see no reason why coal or oil or natural gas plants should do worse -- Germany does get a lot of power from coal; though it hardly matters since there is a European power grid anyway. In fact a high quality grid might be more of a requirement for high speed rail.
Come to think of it: China has a number of very high speed intercity trains (traditional trains, not talking about the monorail p.o.c.), and is building more.
Right, you're the typical burly Alpha Male geek -- who spends his weekend posting on Slashdot. Seems like SUV safety isn't the only thing you're delusional about.
Eh? The truth is far more complex than that. Obviously the transit time completely depends on the situation, including factors such as traffic density, availability of parking spaces, frequency of mass transit. NYC is an extreme example in every regard, and as such not representative of, well, anything except NYC and the handful of similar cities.
But yeah, if you've got a city built around cars, with huge streets everywhere, centralised shopping avenues (ie huge stores and malls) with like a million of parking spaces in front of them and no sensible MT system in place, obviously transit time goes up. That kind of city is also a tremendous waste of resources. (Incidently: Referring to MT as being unviable due to its space requirements, as someone else replied to TFA, is just laughable, since MT is just SO much more efficient in terms of its space usage.)
Those aren't gifts, they're fairly desperate attempts at getting you hooked on any other game in their lineup, in order to keep your revenue.
Odd. I feel spoiled.
And that's not the only thing the two have in common!
Partly because nobody cares enough to design/buy desktops which are more efficient. Granted it won't be as good as a notebook, unless you build a desktop out of notebook components (which is also possible) but a little care goes a long way. In fact, a well-built desktop itself won't use that much more power as its equivalent laptop parts,but the display will, and it'll be difficult to find a 20" desktop LCD which consumes as little power as a 14 or 15" laptop display does.