They suggest voting for Spain's Zapatero. But wasn't Poland who blocked the software patents directive last time? Or was it DMCA-like laws? Heck, it's hard to keep track of all those freedom-butchering attempts. If anybody is better informed than I am, please clarify. Thanks.
Moreover, if the US Code states that the seal "is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement," then that pretty much paves the way for the White House to decide where the seal can be used.
And obviously the presence of the seal in an Onion article suggests presidential support or endorsement. Yeah, right.:) Come on, it's a satire newspaper with fake news, it's not as if Coca-Cola stamped the seal on cans of Coke with a picture of Dubya giving the thumbs-up.
Are you trying to say that OS X is less of a free-software-friendly platform than Windows is?
No, if I wanted to say that I would have, believe me.:)
It sounds like you're either saying that, or you're expecting gOffice to come out for Linux only.
No, but I was comparing Linux and Mac OS X as niche platforms. Windows is supported because it is the leading platform by a large margin -- it's a different ball game altogether. If Google comes up with this Office thing and uses Sun's OpenOffice as a basis, keep in mind that Linux (due its free-software nature) and Windows (due to its lead in the market) have mature OpenOffice implementations. Mac OS X doesn't, because it is not a leader like Windows and not free-software friendly as Linux. That was my point, essentially.
Windows leads the proprietary world, Linux leads the free world. Some say Mac OS X is the "best of both worlds" but remember also the saying "jack of all trades, master of none".
(sorry about the crappy formatting in the previous post. "Remember to preview, remember to preview"...)
Are you trying to say that OS X is less of a free-software-friendly platform than Windows is?
No, if I wanted to say that I would have.
It sounds like you're either saying that, or you're expecting gOffice to come out for Linux only.
No, but I was comparing Linux and Mac OS X as niche platforms. Windows is supported because it is the leading platform by a large margin. If Google comes up with this Office thing and uses Sun's OpenOffice as a basis, keep in mind that Linux (due its free-software nature) and Windows (due to its lead in the market) have mature OpenOffice implementations. Mac OS X doesn't, because it is not a leader like Windows and not free-software friendly as Linux. That was my point, essentially.
Windows leads the proprietary world, Linux leads the free world. Some say Mac OS X is the "best of both worlds" but remember also the saying "jack of all trades, master of none".
At the very least it will ensure the never ending flood of pointless "Google farted" updates posted to Googledot. Google for nerds. Google that Googles.
Google farted!? OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11!!! This is so cool!!!
.
.
.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, was my impersonation of an average Slashdot reader (or was it editor?). Thank you very much, and don't forget to tip the waitress...
I still don't get why all my friends signed up to yet-another-IM-client just because it's "Google". And they don't even use the voice capabilities. Wake me up when Google Talk does standard XMPP server-to-server.
The Google hype associated to things is excessive. I'm already an OpenOffice user, I don't see what this would bring me other than yet another Google service that doesn't work properly on Konqueror or other alternative strict-HTML-compliant browsers. I for one _don't_ welcome our JavaScript-abusing overlords.
Apparently this is going to be based on OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is a community project. Everyone is welcome to contribute code. If Mac OS X doesn't have a good OpenOffice port, is because there are not enough developers willing to code free software for it -- tough luck. I hear there's a lot of "shareware" (closed-source gratis-trial software) available for the platform though.
If free software is what you want, you might want to consider a more free-software-friendly platform. Keep in mind that most free software developers are users of free software platforms, and logically support those platforms primarily. If you're a supporter of Mac OS X and other proprietary software, then by all means, go on and buy Microsoft Office for Mac or whatever.
OSS isn't inherently any more secure than proprietary software.
But it promotes better practices in security, because "security through obscurity" is not an option.
In what way is an open-source implementation lock-in?
The problem of lock-in is not being able to switch in the future, whatever the future looks like. The fact that you have three implementations (Linux, Win, Mac) doesn't mean a thing about your options wrt whatever may come next. The fact that the implementation is open-source guarantees that you can have the filesystem ported, and your work accessible, in whatever happens to be the flavor du jour be it, today, next year or 20 years from now.
"Dupe dupe! Eee chop, Dupe dupe! Toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah. Yah wah! Eee chop, yah wah! Toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah...." (rest goes like the Ewok song)
It would be funny -- even hilarious -- except that the readers of slashdot are actually among the most well-read and technically-minded people in the world.
Believe me, we're not. Unless well-read means several readings of Lord of the Rings and technically-minded means Unix users (of which a constantly larger percentage is MacOSX users, which, eh...).
And this is not "+5, Funny" -- it's more like "1, Sad But True".
A 32-bit application that has any remaining 16-bit code won't run, because WOW64 doesn't support any 16-bit code.
Hooray, it's about time. Further in the same paragraph:
"Program Files" is reserved for 64-bit apps, while "Program Files (x86)" is for 32-bit software. This will sometimes result in strange installer behavior, as with Steam, Valve Software's game download application. Steam insisted that the parentheses in "Program Files (x86)" were illegal characters, and refused to install. You can either install Steam into a different folder (e.g., \games\valve) or change the folder name in the installer to "Progra~2\valve".
I highly doubt there will come a day where the average user NEEDS 500 gig
Can I quote you in 20 years? Sounds remarkably like that old "640KB" quote...;)
But seriously, the day will come. Look at it this way: how much RAM and disk space does one average user needs to be able to write and print a 3-page report? (Nothing fancy, simple text, some formatting, bold here and there... That's 90% of the docs around, I guess.)
Well, nowadays people "need", say, Windows XP and Microsoft Office to do that, which essentially means, IIRC, something like 128MB of RAM and 5GB of disk. Still, people used to do the exact same thing with 48KB of RAM and 360KB floppies.
So, yeah, people will need 500GB disks, just like they "need" 80GB disks now.
I dont think this will happen (in the west anyway)
Do you think you have more technological freedom in the West?
In the US, most DVD players are region-locked.
In China, most are region-free.
And before you scream "piracy", most people I know who have region-free players do so because they buy imported DVDs through amazon.com that are not yet released in our country.
Circumventing anti-piracy law to give more money to the American media conglomerates. Oh, the irony!!!
With 2 justices appointed by him, GWB's impact on American politics is sure to last way beyond his 2 terms.
And I somehow doubt he will appoint a moderate this time.
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These days, any one of us could crank out Myst classic inside a month on our desktop.
Let me guess... you have never written a pro-grade level, have you?
What I don't get, is why this genre is so often praised and so seldom successfully imitated?
Maybe because it's not as easy as you picture it?
Sorry about the cynicism, couldn't resist. Writing games is hard -- by downplaying its difficulty, you sound very naive. In most games, programming is not the hardest part, and even that is not easy to pull off "just right". Having the tools to do the art is one thing; the artists' work is another -- and that's very time-consuming and takes a lot of talent.
Just because the program can extract grammar, it doesn't mean it can extract meaning. If I give you this sentence:
Ov brug termat akti mak lejna trovterna.
And tell you that "termat" and "lejna" are nouns, "akti mak" is a 'composite' verb, "brug" and "trovterna" are adjectives... it still doesn't say anything about the actual meaning.
I know what the grandparent poster meant was something more advanced than Zork, but the fact that he used Deus Ex and sw:kotor as "examples of games with textual interaction" totally called for the parent poster's response.
Background research, people!
Because we live in a society, because they're my friends and I wish the best for them. Individualism is at an all-time high, but we really are dependent on others, we affect and are affected by the environment around us. Call me idealistic, but I still think we can work towards a better world. And no, I do not approach this in a naive way -- I have my share of cynicism in my views. But alienating myself from the world around me is not an option.
But has Microsoft chosen to trust OpenCA for Windows Code Signing? Because of the Big Scary Alert Box in Windows XP SP2 when running a setup.exe file downloaded from the Internet, a lot of inexperienced users have chosen to trust only those organizations that Microsoft has chosen to trust.
Well, in that case, as far as I can see, the problem here is with Microsoft and its Internet Explorer.
I, for one, wouldn't trust Microsoft to be my "security advisor" telling me what's safe and what's not (Big Scary Alert Box: "hey, this Firefox thing you're trying to install is NOT SAFE! Stick to IE!!!"). But then again, I don't even use their operating systems...
I concede that when I suggested PGP I was thinking about signing source code in Linux systems. Not to say that this approach wouldn't work in any other system, especially including the other suggestions posted in the replies (OpenCA, federated keyservers).
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They suggest voting for Spain's Zapatero. But wasn't Poland who blocked the software patents directive last time? Or was it DMCA-like laws? Heck, it's hard to keep track of all those freedom-butchering attempts. If anybody is better informed than I am, please clarify. Thanks.
Faster compiles. g++ can always use some more CPU cycles, especially when compiling code with templates.
Some of us are programmers, you know.
Moreover, if the US Code states that the seal "is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement," then that pretty much paves the way for the White House to decide where the seal can be used.
:) Come on, it's a satire newspaper with fake news, it's not as if Coca-Cola stamped the seal on cans of Coke with a picture of Dubya giving the thumbs-up.
And obviously the presence of the seal in an Onion article suggests presidential support or endorsement. Yeah, right.
Shouldn't it be:
;)
"Dupes for nerds. Stuff that repeats. Dupes for nerds."
Ok, I admit I didn't even check to see if it was really a dupe. But I couldn't miss the joke.
Amen, brother. I'm glad I was not the only one who thought of the song. Hats off to the Piano Man!
Are you trying to say that OS X is less of a free-software-friendly platform than Windows is?
:)
No, if I wanted to say that I would have, believe me.
It sounds like you're either saying that, or you're expecting gOffice to come out for Linux only.
No, but I was comparing Linux and Mac OS X as niche platforms. Windows is supported because it is the leading platform by a large margin -- it's a different ball game altogether. If Google comes up with this Office thing and uses Sun's OpenOffice as a basis, keep in mind that Linux (due its free-software nature) and Windows (due to its lead in the market) have mature OpenOffice implementations. Mac OS X doesn't, because it is not a leader like Windows and not free-software friendly as Linux. That was my point, essentially.
Windows leads the proprietary world, Linux leads the free world. Some say Mac OS X is the "best of both worlds" but remember also the saying "jack of all trades, master of none".
(sorry about the crappy formatting in the previous post. "Remember to preview, remember to preview"...)
Are you trying to say that OS X is less of a free-software-friendly platform than Windows is? No, if I wanted to say that I would have. It sounds like you're either saying that, or you're expecting gOffice to come out for Linux only. No, but I was comparing Linux and Mac OS X as niche platforms. Windows is supported because it is the leading platform by a large margin. If Google comes up with this Office thing and uses Sun's OpenOffice as a basis, keep in mind that Linux (due its free-software nature) and Windows (due to its lead in the market) have mature OpenOffice implementations. Mac OS X doesn't, because it is not a leader like Windows and not free-software friendly as Linux. That was my point, essentially. Windows leads the proprietary world, Linux leads the free world. Some say Mac OS X is the "best of both worlds" but remember also the saying "jack of all trades, master of none".
At the very least it will ensure the never ending flood of pointless "Google farted" updates posted to Googledot. Google for nerds. Google that Googles.
Google farted!? OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11!!! This is so cool!!!
.
.
.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, was my impersonation of an average Slashdot reader (or was it editor?). Thank you very much, and don't forget to tip the waitress...
Amen, brother!
I still don't get why all my friends signed up to yet-another-IM-client just because it's "Google". And they don't even use the voice capabilities. Wake me up when Google Talk does standard XMPP server-to-server.
The Google hype associated to things is excessive. I'm already an OpenOffice user, I don't see what this would bring me other than yet another Google service that doesn't work properly on Konqueror or other alternative strict-HTML-compliant browsers. I for one _don't_ welcome our JavaScript-abusing overlords.
Apparently this is going to be based on OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is a community project. Everyone is welcome to contribute code. If Mac OS X doesn't have a good OpenOffice port, is because there are not enough developers willing to code free software for it -- tough luck. I hear there's a lot of "shareware" (closed-source gratis-trial software) available for the platform though.
If free software is what you want, you might want to consider a more free-software-friendly platform. Keep in mind that most free software developers are users of free software platforms, and logically support those platforms primarily. If you're a supporter of Mac OS X and other proprietary software, then by all means, go on and buy Microsoft Office for Mac or whatever.
OSS isn't inherently any more secure than proprietary software. But it promotes better practices in security, because "security through obscurity" is not an option.
In what way is an open-source implementation lock-in? The problem of lock-in is not being able to switch in the future, whatever the future looks like. The fact that you have three implementations (Linux, Win, Mac) doesn't mean a thing about your options wrt whatever may come next. The fact that the implementation is open-source guarantees that you can have the filesystem ported, and your work accessible, in whatever happens to be the flavor du jour be it, today, next year or 20 years from now.
...don't forget to pillage some additional batteries for the iPod. ;)
"Dupe dupe! Eee chop, Dupe dupe!
Toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah.
Yah wah! Eee chop, yah wah!
Toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah...." (rest goes like the Ewok song)
And so the new Slashdot theme song is born.
Rejoice!
In 2005, a post mentioning Ninja Gaiden in a thread about something called "Hayabusa" is modded offtopic.
The sense of geek culture is truly lost here. Or those of us who get it are just too old and too few.
It would be funny -- even hilarious -- except that the readers of slashdot are actually among the most well-read and technically-minded people in the world.
Believe me, we're not. Unless well-read means several readings of Lord of the Rings and technically-minded means Unix users (of which a constantly larger percentage is MacOSX users, which, eh...).
And this is not "+5, Funny" -- it's more like "1, Sad But True".
A 32-bit application that has any remaining 16-bit code won't run, because WOW64 doesn't support any 16-bit code.
;)
Hooray, it's about time. Further in the same paragraph:
"Program Files" is reserved for 64-bit apps, while "Program Files (x86)" is for 32-bit software. This will sometimes result in strange installer behavior, as with Steam, Valve Software's game download application. Steam insisted that the parentheses in "Program Files (x86)" were illegal characters, and refused to install. You can either install Steam into a different folder (e.g., \games\valve) or change the folder name in the installer to "Progra~2\valve".
Some things never change...
I highly doubt there will come a day where the average user NEEDS 500 gig
;)
Can I quote you in 20 years? Sounds remarkably like that old "640KB" quote...
But seriously, the day will come. Look at it this way: how much RAM and disk space does one average user needs to be able to write and print a 3-page report? (Nothing fancy, simple text, some formatting, bold here and there... That's 90% of the docs around, I guess.)
Well, nowadays people "need", say, Windows XP and Microsoft Office to do that, which essentially means, IIRC, something like 128MB of RAM and 5GB of disk. Still, people used to do the exact same thing with 48KB of RAM and 360KB floppies.
So, yeah, people will need 500GB disks, just like they "need" 80GB disks now.
I dont think this will happen (in the west anyway)
Do you think you have more technological freedom in the West?
In the US, most DVD players are region-locked.
In China, most are region-free.
And before you scream "piracy", most people I know who have region-free players do so because they buy imported DVDs through amazon.com that are not yet released in our country.
Circumventing anti-piracy law to give more money to the American media conglomerates. Oh, the irony!!!
With 2 justices appointed by him, GWB's impact on American politics is sure to last way beyond his 2 terms.
And I somehow doubt he will appoint a moderate this time.
These days, any one of us could crank out Myst classic inside a month on our desktop.
Let me guess... you have never written a pro-grade level, have you?
What I don't get, is why this genre is so often praised and so seldom successfully imitated?
Maybe because it's not as easy as you picture it?
Sorry about the cynicism, couldn't resist. Writing games is hard -- by downplaying its difficulty, you sound very naive. In most games, programming is not the hardest part, and even that is not easy to pull off "just right". Having the tools to do the art is one thing; the artists' work is another -- and that's very time-consuming and takes a lot of talent.
Just because the program can extract grammar, it doesn't mean it can extract meaning. If I give you this sentence:
Ov brug termat akti mak lejna trovterna.
And tell you that "termat" and "lejna" are nouns, "akti mak" is a 'composite' verb, "brug" and "trovterna" are adjectives... it still doesn't say anything about the actual meaning.
I know what the grandparent poster meant was something more advanced than Zork, but the fact that he used Deus Ex and sw:kotor as "examples of games with textual interaction" totally called for the parent poster's response. Background research, people!
Because we live in a society, because they're my friends and I wish the best for them. Individualism is at an all-time high, but we really are dependent on others, we affect and are affected by the environment around us. Call me idealistic, but I still think we can work towards a better world. And no, I do not approach this in a naive way -- I have my share of cynicism in my views. But alienating myself from the world around me is not an option.
But has Microsoft chosen to trust OpenCA for Windows Code Signing? Because of the Big Scary Alert Box in Windows XP SP2 when running a setup.exe file downloaded from the Internet, a lot of inexperienced users have chosen to trust only those organizations that Microsoft has chosen to trust.
Well, in that case, as far as I can see, the problem here is with Microsoft and its Internet Explorer.
I, for one, wouldn't trust Microsoft to be my "security advisor" telling me what's safe and what's not (Big Scary Alert Box: "hey, this Firefox thing you're trying to install is NOT SAFE! Stick to IE!!!"). But then again, I don't even use their operating systems...
I concede that when I suggested PGP I was thinking about signing source code in Linux systems. Not to say that this approach wouldn't work in any other system, especially including the other suggestions posted in the replies (OpenCA, federated keyservers).