I don't get this. Apple wants to show off its technology, so they license the trailer and serve it to anyone who wants to see it free of charge. What's so evil about that? If you want a DivX trailer, bitch to the DivX people. Why do you think Apple owes it to you?
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Zurich is in Sweden now? Dammit, why aren't I informed of these things?!
If the editors weren't such lazy worthless fatasses they would have put in a link to the actual journal entry. Nowhere in there does Moby complain about his record sales or people copying his stuff. This whole story is a gigantic troll and all of you losers are biting on it big time.
The Launch article seems to misrepresent what Moby wrote in his journal. I don't see anything in the actual journal entry about sales of "18". This entire brouhaha strikes me as pretty unfair.
Ugh, that site is pretty annoying. Flash can be nice when used properly, though. For example, go to mlb.com and click on the "Gameday" link for one of the games in progress. It's a nice way to follow a game when you're at work, especially since the ESPN java-based one seems to be always broken on the remote end these days.
Um, why can't you just write Flash code in emacs? The specs are up at openswf.org. If you're complaining that they haven't ported their authoring environment it's probably because they don't think they could recoup their expenses, but the file format is open.
What are you talking about? My recollection is that they have had a Flash plugin for Linux for many years now, despite the fact that I'm sure it hasn't made them one dime. What they've done for Linux far outweighs anything you and your slobbering Slashdot buddies have done, I'm sure of that.
I think a 'lintel' is a piece that spans two posts, like in a doorframe or at Stonehenge. Isn't ancient Roman architecture sometimes referred to as 'post and lintel'?
Talk about your unsupported assertions, what's this about "M$" putting companies out of business for selling Linux PC's? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that those companies put themselves out of business, by hawking a product that nobody wants?
It seems pretty clear to me that what you write in Cg is code for the GPU, not the CPU. Perhaps the OpenGL or DirectX calls that are generated are used to download the GPU code into the chip? Then you would use other OpenGL or DirectX calls that you yourself wrote to draw the objects, which are rendered according to the code written in Cg. The article was pretty skimpy on details, but that's the only way it makes any sense to me.
I think what was meant was that support for Quartz text in Carbon programs will appear in 10.1.5. Currently only Cocoa programs can use antialiased text, but with 10.1.5 Carbon programs will have access to it also.
It's a discussion of how many "dimensionful" fundamental constants there really are. I went to a seminar given by Mike Duff here in Ann Arbor and he had me pretty well convinced that the only numbers that matter are things like alpha, and if you were to change c, h, etc together in ways which left alpha unchanged you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Why would logging in as root on the console make you more vulnerable to remote compromise? To trojans, sure, but that's not what you seem to be implying. Last time I checked a root login doesn't expose any bugs in sendmail, bind, etc. so what are you talking about?
The Slashdot headline was totally misleading, as usual. Nowhere in the article does it say that Intel itself invested anything in this guy, they simply bought a company that had previously given him some money. I also don't see anything about Orrin Hatch being taken in, just that he met the guy once, and it was Ted Turner's son that was duped, not Ted himself. Slashdot, your one-stop shop for yellow journalism!
I think it's supposed to be a parody of those pathetic "buying drugs supports terrorism" TV ads. He's right, if drug money gets funneled to terrorist groups then certainly oil money does as well.
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The rule of thumb is, if the number is divisible by one, it sucks. ;-)
I don't get this. Apple wants to show off its technology, so they license the trailer and serve it to anyone who wants to see it free of charge. What's so evil about that? If you want a DivX trailer, bitch to the DivX people. Why do you think Apple owes it to you?
Zurich is in Sweden now? Dammit, why aren't I informed of these things?!
If the editors weren't such lazy worthless fatasses they would have put in a link to the actual journal entry. Nowhere in there does Moby complain about his record sales or people copying his stuff. This whole story is a gigantic troll and all of you losers are biting on it big time.
The Launch article seems to misrepresent what Moby wrote in his journal. I don't see anything in the actual journal entry about sales of "18". This entire brouhaha strikes me as pretty unfair.
Everybody is always shouting about fair use, but what does that have to do with copying songs or albums in their entirety?
How about "Most's Law"?
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
Flash isn't proprietary, it's a open format described at openswf.org. And drop the name calling, it's really juvenile.
Ugh, that site is pretty annoying. Flash can be nice when used properly, though. For example, go to mlb.com and click on the "Gameday" link for one of the games in progress. It's a nice way to follow a game when you're at work, especially since the ESPN java-based one seems to be always broken on the remote end these days.
Um, why can't you just write Flash code in emacs? The specs are up at openswf.org. If you're complaining that they haven't ported their authoring environment it's probably because they don't think they could recoup their expenses, but the file format is open.
What are you talking about? My recollection is that they have had a Flash plugin for Linux for many years now, despite the fact that I'm sure it hasn't made them one dime. What they've done for Linux far outweighs anything you and your slobbering Slashdot buddies have done, I'm sure of that.
Not bad. I'd go even further, and assert that almost every "Ask Slashdot" follows this template:
Q: I can do task T in Windows, but Linux seems to lack this feature/program/whatever. How do I do T in Linux?
A: Only a dumbass Windoze luser would want to do T.
Is it okay if I file down the 'cutting-edges' first or will that limit the bandwidth? I sort of like having all of my fingers.
I think a 'lintel' is a piece that spans two posts, like in a doorframe or at Stonehenge. Isn't ancient Roman architecture sometimes referred to as 'post and lintel'?
Talk about your unsupported assertions, what's this about "M$" putting companies out of business for selling Linux PC's? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that those companies put themselves out of business, by hawking a product that nobody wants?
Yes, Mandrake is indeed an excellent distro for them to immediately erase and install their cousin's copy of Windows XP over.
Well, if they were drunk enough to fall overboard, half of the work is already done for you...
It seems pretty clear to me that what you write in Cg is code for the GPU, not the CPU. Perhaps the OpenGL or DirectX calls that are generated are used to download the GPU code into the chip? Then you would use other OpenGL or DirectX calls that you yourself wrote to draw the objects, which are rendered according to the code written in Cg. The article was pretty skimpy on details, but that's the only way it makes any sense to me.
I would hardly call $10/hour "medium-sized" bucks. That's not even $20k/year!
What DRM devil? If you're making the files yourself, just make them without any DRM. Seems pretty simple to me.
I think what was meant was that support for Quartz text in Carbon programs will appear in 10.1.5. Currently only Cocoa programs can use antialiased text, but with 10.1.5 Carbon programs will have access to it also.
People who are interested in this stuff should check out this preprint by Duff, Okun, and Veneziano:
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110060
It's a discussion of how many "dimensionful" fundamental constants there really are. I went to a seminar given by Mike Duff here in Ann Arbor and he had me pretty well convinced that the only numbers that matter are things like alpha, and if you were to change c, h, etc together in ways which left alpha unchanged you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Why would logging in as root on the console make you more vulnerable to remote compromise? To trojans, sure, but that's not what you seem to be implying. Last time I checked a root login doesn't expose any bugs in sendmail, bind, etc. so what are you talking about?
The Slashdot headline was totally misleading, as usual. Nowhere in the article does it say that Intel itself invested anything in this guy, they simply bought a company that had previously given him some money. I also don't see anything about Orrin Hatch being taken in, just that he met the guy once, and it was Ted Turner's son that was duped, not Ted himself. Slashdot, your one-stop shop for yellow journalism!
I think it's supposed to be a parody of those pathetic "buying drugs supports terrorism" TV ads. He's right, if drug money gets funneled to terrorist groups then certainly oil money does as well.