Why that would be the mob carrying torches and a rope outside your window.
They'd have to compete with the other mob that's going to praise him. On secod thought: Maybe we'll let them hang him, a martyr is even better than a hero.
So if you're on an non x86 architecture you could use wine running under linux runnong on bochs running on whatever OS on non x86 hardware. So you can save both the x86 hardware and OS cost.
I did a little searching and didn't find very much, and nothing in english. This is probably due to the general slowdown in broadband infrastructure the last 2-3 years (after people realized there was competition and customers became unwilling to pay too much. But I do remember a documentary on norwegian television where you could see the machine in action, as it spun its way along a live high voltage powerline. I think it required human intervention when it came to one of the towers the cables are stretched between though.
I did however dig up that one norwegian power company LOS (norwegian text) offers fibre (that's to the home, through the wall) for private customers (that are lucky enough to live in the right areas) 3Mbps for approximately $173 a month.
Another power company
lyse.no offers up to 10Mbps but prices were hard to find.
I wouldn't expect to get the advertised speed towards the internet all the time though. Most of these offerings I've seen (regardless of delivery technology) seem to have, or plan for, using bandwidth for additional services over the connection, such as telephony, and video on demand
BTW, Faraday effect WILL change the polarization state of the light
My old physics teacher would have turned in his grave if it wasn't for the fact that he's alive. How could I dissapoint him like that!
Well I guess either it's not much, or they're compensating for it somehow
What some power companies here (norway) have done is to use a special kind of machine (it looks like a really clever invention) that "spins" fibre optic cable(s) around high voltage power lines. This doesn't work for buried power cables, ofcourse. This technique gives several advantages: Cheap, the cost is the cable and a helicopter, no digging, no new cable masts, no buying right of way. Security (I'd think twice before trying to mess with a cable wrapped around a high voltage line:D ). And since light won't be disturbed by the magnetic fields generated by the current there is no need to worry about power and data interfering with each other
Batch files are like bash, they perform precisely what you would type in from the command line. They can do more than that, too, if you learn the syntax.
I know they exist, and I have tried to write.BAT files when I neede something done, it was not a pleasant experience. Either (which I believe is the case) bash is way supperior to DOS (or cmd if you like to call it that) or the DOS doumentation is seriously lacking
application share or take control of their desktop..... password protected and encrypted
I know it exists, but I haven't tried it. First there is MS security record, I simply don't trust them to get it right (but I guess I could phone coach turning it on and off) . But my main doubt is speed, how well does it perform over a slow connection? (Read: will my parents ISDN be enough to make it usable)
to totally deny it's scripting powers, seems silly to me.
Then why does MS keep them hidden so I know almost nothing about them?
And to say that MS should change, is not realistic.
Oh but it is, they are starting to see linux/unix as a competior even on the desktop (it's not there yet, but I don't think MS will wait to be taken by surprise this time) and want to know what the lure of linux is. And this is it, I can string together 3-4-5 commands at the commandline, press enter and go away (knowing the job will be done when I get back) instead of having to babysit a program pressing [next ->] every once in a while, then open the result in a second program for the next step of processing.
My point is: someone has to make the change first, and if it isn't microsoft the change isn't going to happen.
And write nero, and suggest it!
Well since they've been nice and provided an api for those that wants it it'll probably be faster to do it myself than to convince them:)
We'll I don't know how that works for short ad-hoc scripts which I think is one of the major benefits of {ba,c,tc,,whatever}sh. In linux the way I use a command interactively is the same as the way I'd use it in a script, which makes it very quick to make those scripts when I need them. In windows I think I'd have to use some kind of "real" programming language and figure out how to use the API of those programs, which is fine for larger pieces of work that will be used often, but less fine for the quick solutions to small problems.
Well, that's a philosophy thing, but many programs can be called as objects, you can call word this way, and print out stuff, and other dark voodoo (well, I never tried it, so I think of it as dark voodoo). It's program dependent though. Not something to blame MS for.
But calling them as object does require more work. You are right about not blaming Microsoft but they are the ones that could start changing the trend. Take NERO for example, I'd love to be able to type something like "BACKUPFILES.BAT | nero_make_iso.exe | nero_burn_rom.exe" and toss it in "Scheduled tasks". But if nero has a capability like that it's well hidden and I wouldn't know where to start making an automated backup without some expensive tool. (Taking a look at the documentation it seems nero has an api available to other programs so I could make a program using C and C++ but again it would take more work)
But credit where credit is due, windows does have a friendly user interface, and it prevents newbies from unknowingly making some critical mistakes. I wouln't think of making my parents use linux just yet, for instance. (But I hate beeing phone support for them, with linux I could have just ssh-d in and fixed the problem
Longhorn C# scriting on the next Shell, good enough scripting?
I'll know when I see it
Embracing technologies, they are, XML (where is that on Linux?)
Wherever it's needed and appropriate. But since lot's of the common unix/linux programs predate XML they use structured text for configuration and data files. It can still be parsed and manipulated by other tools, and the format is usually documented. Wether one should convert to XML or not is debated since that would mean changing something that works, but newer tools often use XML
Database Filesystem core, where is that on Linux?
Where it's needed. Which pretty much means nowhere. If you need a database you use a database, if you can't remember where your files are so you need database lookup you're probably using windows. (and there is find and locate and grep if you need to find some file)
POSIX not standard enuf for you
No, that's only one standard, then theres all the other ones that they almost follow. (HTTP and HTML for instance, just to mention the two I can remember that I know they don't follow)
Fileformats, XML not open enough?
No. XML in itself doesn't mean openness. You need to publish the dtd/schema and other docmentation under an unrestricted lisence. Have you seen the agreement for the Word XML format? And when the default still is a closed binary format having XML probably won't help much
Hotfixes and Service packs can be downloaded.
Which is good. Now if those fixes were on time and didn't introduce problems it would be even better.
There is no such thing as Mordor Elvish. And if you had been a true geek you would have known. Now return to the hellish pits of real social life and popularity from whence you came.
I believe they get the fee whether the patent is granted or not... don't they?
The way it should be: If the patent can be refused because the USPTO can find prior art the fee should be the same (and the one finding the prior art should get a bonus,). If it's obvious that a patent should be denied because the idea is in common use, or prior art can be found easily the fee should be a lot higher than usual, as a penalty for wasting the USPTOs time.
That little bonus to the person at the patent office might be all that is needed to get all the stupid patent claims thrown out. Heck I bet a person with half a clue could make a fortune out of such bonuses.
I somehow doubt this watermarking is at all possible.
const char* watermark = "This is mine"
This should work, but is trivial to remove if you have the source. Might be less trivial if you don't, but have decompiled something, which is what the linked article discuss.
So while watermarking can work for closed source I don't think it can work for opensource software, if the copyright infringers have any clue at all. It's likely to be known that the ugly kludge in foo.c is actually a trick to get the string "This is GPL" into the executable without it beeing obvious
I don't think even the voided warranty is correct.
I was referring to warranty in the sense of something that goes beyon what is required by law. EG: Ford could give you a guarantee that your car won't rust for 5 years but only if you don't drive on dirt roads. Is this disallowed?
A contract must be written and agreed to BY BOTH PARTIES prior to the exchange of goods (or services).
A contract is often not nessesary, you could enter into an agreement without actually signing anything, eg: by climbing into a taxi and stating your destination you agree to pay for the trip, no contract nessesary. By asking a barman for a beer you enter an agreement to exchange money for beer. By driving into a parking and leaving your car there you agree to the conditions on the sign by the entrance (even if you didn't read it).
I think thats the if the customer is made aware of the fact that what he's buying is a lisence, and not the object the lisence, is enforcable without a signature. If the customer chooses to buy the lisence without reading it he should be free to do so. But these tool producers should make sure the box is labelled very clearly if they want to be on the safe side. But to be able to prove that the customer was aware he bought a lisence to use an object and not the object itself there should be contracts involved.
My guess is that they're just setting up for threatening letters if someone starts mass producing copies of the jigs, and hope they won't have to take it ti court.
So if Ford says "You may not drive this truck on dirt roads," does that mean that I am liable to be sued if I do?
It really comes down to what you bought. If you bought a car you can do whatever you like (as far as Ford has any say, traffic laws and regulations is another matter). If you bought the right to use a specific car, which remains the property of ford, they may attach conditions like that. (The could have a warranty void if driven on dirt roads clause in a regular purchase though)
This happens all the time, though you usually buy the rigt to drive the car for a limited time/distance it's called car rental and nobody seems to have any problem with it.
What this company is trying to do is rent out woodworking tools, for a one-time payment, without any time limit. Legally they may be in the clear, but if someone tried to pull something like that on a product I need, I would tell them to go do something likely to be anatomically impossible, and make do without their product.
In fact, in the case of copyright theft, it would be logical to know that the thief knows what was stolen, and they are obliged to fix the problem.
But the end user that they want money from isn't the one they claim is the thief
Let's say someone robs my house and steals a painting. Then he gives you 20 paintings. I report that he stole a painting but not what it looks like. Then I say to you, you have a painting in your collection that is mine, you can't give it back because I won't say which one it is, gimme money!
Do you think I'd get any money from you in the real world?
Improve your reading skills. If the criminal is in prison, he cannot go out and commit any crimes, can he? Therefore, crime has been deterred.
Before you accuse anyone of beeing unable to read you should make sure you've got it right yourself
Someone is in prison and can't commit a crime they otherwise would, the crime has been prevented
If something makes committing a crime less attractive, so that it isn't performed, the crime has been deterred. (eg the criminal doesn't want to go to jail so he doesn't rob someone)
It's a myth, but certainly not an urban one. I've never ever heard of a lemming in a city (jumping off scyscrapers?).
Lemmings will not commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs, but if an area is overpopulated by lemmings they will start a mass migration. During which a lot of them will die from predators, drowning while crossing rivers and other causes. (not including running over cliffs, though a few might lose their footing and fall from one).
Soliciting complaints from a spouse who thinks they need to be thrown away.
And when the spouse complaints get too much that old 2400 modem can be sacrificed. "What, you mean I should throw out any more of my stuff" (that probablydoesn't work and wouldn't be used even if it did) "I already threw out a perfectly good modem to clear some space, do you have any idea how much those are worth" (or rather were worth when they were new and actually worked).
A true nerd doesn't even throw away malfunctioning equipment since it can come in handy to have something you can part with to appease that significant other
When I'm truly bored, sometimes I'll whois interesting spam, and quite often the registrar of the domain is in the anti-spam software business.
And this obviously has nothing to do with the fact that spammers will forge anything they can in the headers of spam? And that they have an interest in damaging/discrediting anti-spam software.
They are not going to disappear just because you call them names. They are going to write programs and make their share of mistakes.
And replacing C with something else will only cause them to make different mistakes, possibly just as vulnerable to beeing exploited. The language isn't the problem the programmers are, giving them a tool that prevents them from making one set of mistakes will simply mean they make other mistakes that the tool allows. I believe the less forgiving the language is (make a mistake and it crashes) the more likely programmers are to try and understand what they are doing, but if they can simply draw a pretty interface and write a few functions and get a program that works (most of the time) they might not.
Slashdot Mirror
Why that would be the mob carrying torches and a rope outside your window.
They'd have to compete with the other mob that's going to praise him. On secod thought: Maybe we'll let them hang him, a martyr is even better than a hero.
wine only works on the x86 archetitures
So if you're on an non x86 architecture you could use wine running under linux runnong on bochs running on whatever OS on non x86 hardware. So you can save both the x86 hardware and OS cost.
Do you have any links to this technology?
I did a little searching and didn't find very much, and nothing in english. This is probably due to the general slowdown in broadband infrastructure the last 2-3 years (after people realized there was competition and customers became unwilling to pay too much. But I do remember a documentary on norwegian television where you could see the machine in action, as it spun its way along a live high voltage powerline. I think it required human intervention when it came to one of the towers the cables are stretched between though.
I did however dig up that one norwegian power company LOS (norwegian text) offers fibre (that's to the home, through the wall) for private customers (that are lucky enough to live in the right areas) 3Mbps for approximately $173 a month.
Another power company lyse.no offers up to 10Mbps but prices were hard to find.
I wouldn't expect to get the advertised speed towards the internet all the time though. Most of these offerings I've seen (regardless of delivery technology) seem to have, or plan for, using bandwidth for additional services over the connection, such as telephony, and video on demand
BTW, Faraday effect WILL change the polarization state of the light
My old physics teacher would have turned in his grave if it wasn't for the fact that he's alive. How could I dissapoint him like that!
Well I guess either it's not much, or they're compensating for it somehow
What some power companies here (norway) have done is to use a special kind of machine (it looks like a really clever invention) that "spins" fibre optic cable(s) around high voltage power lines. This doesn't work for buried power cables, ofcourse. This technique gives several advantages: Cheap, the cost is the cable and a helicopter, no digging, no new cable masts, no buying right of way. Security (I'd think twice before trying to mess with a cable wrapped around a high voltage line :D ). And since light won't be disturbed by the magnetic fields generated by the current there is no need to worry about power and data interfering with each other
Batch files are like bash, they perform precisely what you would type in from the command line. They can do more than that, too, if you learn the syntax.
I know they exist, and I have tried to write .BAT files when I neede something done, it was not a pleasant experience. Either (which I believe is the case) bash is way supperior to DOS (or cmd if you like to call it that) or the DOS doumentation is seriously lacking
application share or take control of their desktop ..... password protected and encrypted
I know it exists, but I haven't tried it. First there is MS security record, I simply don't trust them to get it right (but I guess I could phone coach turning it on and off) . But my main doubt is speed, how well does it perform over a slow connection? (Read: will my parents ISDN be enough to make it usable)
to totally deny it's scripting powers, seems silly to me.
Then why does MS keep them hidden so I know almost nothing about them?
And to say that MS should change, is not realistic.
Oh but it is, they are starting to see linux/unix as a competior even on the desktop (it's not there yet, but I don't think MS will wait to be taken by surprise this time) and want to know what the lure of linux is. And this is it, I can string together 3-4-5 commands at the commandline, press enter and go away (knowing the job will be done when I get back) instead of having to babysit a program pressing [next ->] every once in a while, then open the result in a second program for the next step of processing.
My point is: someone has to make the change first, and if it isn't microsoft the change isn't going to happen.
And write nero, and suggest it!
Well since they've been nice and provided an api for those that wants it it'll probably be faster to do it myself than to convince them :)
JScript (or *shudder*, VBScript)
We'll I don't know how that works for short ad-hoc scripts which I think is one of the major benefits of {ba,c,tc,,whatever}sh. In linux the way I use a command interactively is the same as the way I'd use it in a script, which makes it very quick to make those scripts when I need them. In windows I think I'd have to use some kind of "real" programming language and figure out how to use the API of those programs, which is fine for larger pieces of work that will be used often, but less fine for the quick solutions to small problems.
Well, that's a philosophy thing, but many programs can be called as objects, you can call word this way, and print out stuff, and other dark voodoo (well, I never tried it, so I think of it as dark voodoo). It's program dependent though. Not something to blame MS for.
But calling them as object does require more work. You are right about not blaming Microsoft but they are the ones that could start changing the trend. Take NERO for example, I'd love to be able to type something like "BACKUPFILES.BAT | nero_make_iso.exe | nero_burn_rom.exe" and toss it in "Scheduled tasks". But if nero has a capability like that it's well hidden and I wouldn't know where to start making an automated backup without some expensive tool. (Taking a look at the documentation it seems nero has an api available to other programs so I could make a program using C and C++ but again it would take more work)
But credit where credit is due, windows does have a friendly user interface, and it prevents newbies from unknowingly making some critical mistakes. I wouln't think of making my parents use linux just yet, for instance. (But I hate beeing phone support for them, with linux I could have just ssh-d in and fixed the problem
Longhorn C# scriting on the next Shell, good enough scripting?
I'll know when I see it
Embracing technologies, they are, XML (where is that on Linux?)
Wherever it's needed and appropriate. But since lot's of the common unix/linux programs predate XML they use structured text for configuration and data files. It can still be parsed and manipulated by other tools, and the format is usually documented. Wether one should convert to XML or not is debated since that would mean changing something that works, but newer tools often use XML
Database Filesystem core, where is that on Linux?
Where it's needed. Which pretty much means nowhere. If you need a database you use a database, if you can't remember where your files are so you need database lookup you're probably using windows. (and there is find and locate and grep if you need to find some file)
POSIX not standard enuf for you
No, that's only one standard, then theres all the other ones that they almost follow. (HTTP and HTML for instance, just to mention the two I can remember that I know they don't follow)
Fileformats, XML not open enough?
No. XML in itself doesn't mean openness. You need to publish the dtd/schema and other docmentation under an unrestricted lisence. Have you seen the agreement for the Word XML format? And when the default still is a closed binary format having XML probably won't help much
Hotfixes and Service packs can be downloaded.
Which is good. Now if those fixes were on time and didn't introduce problems it would be even better.
convinced my other half there really dangerous (in the cool way), and now she thinks I'll kill myself
Just take a big enough life insurance and your other half will be encouraging you to get one :)
reciting the Ring poem in Mordor Elvish
There is no such thing as Mordor Elvish. And if you had been a true geek you would have known. Now return to the hellish pits of real social life and popularity from whence you came.
I believe they get the fee whether the patent is granted or not... don't they?
The way it should be: If the patent can be refused because the USPTO can find prior art the fee should be the same (and the one finding the prior art should get a bonus,). If it's obvious that a patent should be denied because the idea is in common use, or prior art can be found easily the fee should be a lot higher than usual, as a penalty for wasting the USPTOs time.
That little bonus to the person at the patent office might be all that is needed to get all the stupid patent claims thrown out. Heck I bet a person with half a clue could make a fortune out of such bonuses.
I somehow doubt this watermarking is at all possible.
const char* watermark = "This is mine"
This should work, but is trivial to remove if you have the source. Might be less trivial if you don't, but have decompiled something, which is what the linked article discuss.
So while watermarking can work for closed source I don't think it can work for opensource software, if the copyright infringers have any clue at all. It's likely to be known that the ugly kludge in foo.c is actually a trick to get the string "This is GPL" into the executable without it beeing obvious
I don't think even the voided warranty is correct.
I was referring to warranty in the sense of something that goes beyon what is required by law. EG: Ford could give you a guarantee that your car won't rust for 5 years but only if you don't drive on dirt roads. Is this disallowed?
A contract must be written and agreed to BY BOTH PARTIES prior to the exchange of goods (or services).
A contract is often not nessesary, you could enter into an agreement without actually signing anything, eg: by climbing into a taxi and stating your destination you agree to pay for the trip, no contract nessesary. By asking a barman for a beer you enter an agreement to exchange money for beer. By driving into a parking and leaving your car there you agree to the conditions on the sign by the entrance (even if you didn't read it).
I think thats the if the customer is made aware of the fact that what he's buying is a lisence, and not the object the lisence, is enforcable without a signature. If the customer chooses to buy the lisence without reading it he should be free to do so. But these tool producers should make sure the box is labelled very clearly if they want to be on the safe side. But to be able to prove that the customer was aware he bought a lisence to use an object and not the object itself there should be contracts involved.
My guess is that they're just setting up for threatening letters if someone starts mass producing copies of the jigs, and hope they won't have to take it ti court.
So if Ford says "You may not drive this truck on dirt roads," does that mean that I am liable to be sued if I do?
It really comes down to what you bought. If you bought a car you can do whatever you like (as far as Ford has any say, traffic laws and regulations is another matter). If you bought the right to use a specific car, which remains the property of ford, they may attach conditions like that. (The could have a warranty void if driven on dirt roads clause in a regular purchase though)
This happens all the time, though you usually buy the rigt to drive the car for a limited time/distance it's called car rental and nobody seems to have any problem with it.
What this company is trying to do is rent out woodworking tools, for a one-time payment, without any time limit. Legally they may be in the clear, but if someone tried to pull something like that on a product I need, I would tell them to go do something likely to be anatomically impossible, and make do without their product.
In fact, in the case of copyright theft, it would be logical to know that the thief knows what was stolen, and they are obliged to fix the problem.
But the end user that they want money from isn't the one they claim is the thief
Let's say someone robs my house and steals a painting. Then he gives you 20 paintings. I report that he stole a painting but not what it looks like. Then I say to you, you have a painting in your collection that is mine, you can't give it back because I won't say which one it is, gimme money!
Do you think I'd get any money from you in the real world?
Improve your reading skills. If the criminal is in prison, he cannot go out and commit any crimes, can he? Therefore, crime has been deterred.
Before you accuse anyone of beeing unable to read you should make sure you've got it right yourself
Someone is in prison and can't commit a crime they otherwise would, the crime has been prevented
If something makes committing a crime less attractive, so that it isn't performed, the crime has been deterred. (eg the criminal doesn't want to go to jail so he doesn't rob someone)
Isn't the point of all punishment to deter the criminal and/or others from committing criminal acts?
Punishment has several purposes:
Didn't bother to search the web did we?
Everything 2 says this
I believe that lemming thing is an urban myth.
It's a myth, but certainly not an urban one. I've never ever heard of a lemming in a city (jumping off scyscrapers?).
Lemmings will not commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs, but if an area is overpopulated by lemmings they will start a mass migration. During which a lot of them will die from predators, drowning while crossing rivers and other causes. (not including running over cliffs, though a few might lose their footing and fall from one).
Soliciting complaints from a spouse who thinks they need to be thrown away.
And when the spouse complaints get too much that old 2400 modem can be sacrificed. "What, you mean I should throw out any more of my stuff" (that probablydoesn't work and wouldn't be used even if it did) "I already threw out a perfectly good modem to clear some space, do you have any idea how much those are worth" (or rather were worth when they were new and actually worked).
A true nerd doesn't even throw away malfunctioning equipment since it can come in handy to have something you can part with to appease that significant other
You need to get lines containing only whitespace too.
both the MP5 and H53 have only 3rd burst or semiauto
The HK MP5 exists in a fully automatic version. I should know I had one during military service. Empty a 30 round clip in 2 seconds.
When I'm truly bored, sometimes I'll whois interesting spam, and quite often the registrar of the domain is in the anti-spam software business.
And this obviously has nothing to do with the fact that spammers will forge anything they can in the headers of spam? And that they have an interest in damaging/discrediting anti-spam software.
They are not going to disappear just because you call them names. They are going to write programs and make their share of mistakes.
And replacing C with something else will only cause them to make different mistakes, possibly just as vulnerable to beeing exploited. The language isn't the problem the programmers are, giving them a tool that prevents them from making one set of mistakes will simply mean they make other mistakes that the tool allows. I believe the less forgiving the language is (make a mistake and it crashes) the more likely programmers are to try and understand what they are doing, but if they can simply draw a pretty interface and write a few functions and get a program that works (most of the time) they might not.