They might, it depends on what they change to require the build. They're called dependencies and are specified in makefiles, they define which part of the source tree is dependent upon what other parts.
Almost all of the tree will be dependent on the core libs, so if something fundamental changes in one of them the whole tree needs to be rebuilt to take this into account - even if it's only a one-line change. If something in a higher-level library changes significantly - an entire function is reimplemented, or something - only a few things will have to be rebuilt, as the make program is smart enough to rebuild only those parts of the tree that depend upon the changed part.
So, core KDE developers need monster PCs as they're work has a fundamental impact upon the entire project; app hackers do just as well on less cutting-edge equipment as they shouldn't really need to build everything - that's what binary distributions are for.
-Mark
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The analogy is flawed. KDE doesn't have a kernel, drivers, window server (? whatever XFree86 is) etc to compile, which Windows does. So of course Windows will take longer to compile, Windows is much, much more than KDE will ever be.
And on this machine Windows XP is more responsive than KDE for some reason. Go figure.
All we need now is for Blair and Bush to suddenly become GPL zealots. They'll GPL their war plans, accuse Saddam of violating the terms of it, declare war on him and destroy him!
And then it will turn out that they were accidentally released under the BSD licence, they'll get sued for acting wrongly!
Damn straight it is. You get twenty-eight years to milk something for all the millions it's worth, AND you get to crush utterly and punitively anyone who dares steal even a penny's worth from you? Sounds like a good deal to me.
Bermeister plans to introduce an opt-in distributed computing scheme this year to resell idle processing power and hard drive storage of Kazaa-member computers
How about if KaZaA gave some of the income they get from that to the users who contribute their resources. Then the same users could use the money gained through having their PC on overnight to buy guaranteed high-quality downloads from that AltNet thing that they bundle with KaZaA.
If enough people do this the RIAA, MPAA, (insert two letters here)AA and whatever might get enough money for them to realise that filesharing isn't as bad as they think it is... And then they just might fuck off to where they belong!
a 32MB DRAM chip weighing 2 grams requires 32 kg of water, 1.6 kg of fossil fuels, 700 g of elemental gases, and 72 g of other chemicals, many of which are hazardous.
Your average male first-year college or university student weighing approximately 80Kg requires 2,423 gallons of beer, 75Kg of books, produces about 9,316 cubic feet of noxious gasses, and requires 5Kg of food a day, most of which is prepared in a hazardous manner.
From the ftp link they gave. You need this info to register:
H2B. Sponsoring Agency..........:
Indicate the Service, Unified or Specified Command, DoD operating
Agency, or non-DoD Agency of the US government that you are affiliated
with. (for a valid list of agencies, please refer to the
service-agencies.txt located in the netinfo directory).
Example: AF
Ah. So you can't get one if you're not a serviceman. No story, methinks.
Video. Raw, uncompressed, high-quality video with a sound channel is fucking HUGE. Look how big DivX files are, and they're compressed many, many times over.
And compressing video on-the-fly isn't feasible if you're going to be tweaking with it, so that's why people use raw video.
Maybe they changed it because no-one had a clue what palladium actually is...
Joe Sixpack - "Muuur, pall-ad-ium? What's that?"
Joe Fourpack - "I think it's food. I eat it."
Bill Gates - "No! That's an xbox 2, with trust built in so you can't watch VCDs, DivX, or listen to mp3s on it!"
Joe Fourpack - "Tastes like chicken."
Would make sense if this is a MS-SQL Server exploit, all the uni's servers would be getting buggered, but none of the students' computers would be running the server, so no pingage from them.
See those wee "click here to be removed" or whatever links in spam? Click there, be removed. That's some spam you won't receive again.
Yes, it validates your email address. So does the fact that the spam didn't bounce. And with those images that are downloaded off the web if you open a spam they accomplish the same even if you delete the spam.
Admittedly I don't get all that much spam (well, for now at least, ya bastards!:p ) but when I do get one I just click the remove me link and I never see it again.
Well, until I use Google Groups that is. I get hideous volumes of spam after I post to netnews using that. I think I'm onto something...
If he gets in, won't his first act be to demolish all the important buildings and replace them with curvy, translucent, pastel-coloured plastic contraptions?
Carrying handles would be useful though. Threat of Al-Qaeda? Just move Washington to the praries, they'll never find them there!
Right. Soon we'll be having taxes levied on shower cubicles in recompense for the copyright violations caused by showerees whistling Hit Me Baby One More Time as they clean themselves.
My uni does this internally... all the paranoid students complained about the untrusted certs when they tried to view their records, it took ages for everyone to have the uni installed as a root CA on everyone's machine (it took ages for people to be convinced the uni COULD be trusted) and you have to reinstall them everytime windows dies.
Some forum software (e.g. vBulletin) allows people to set ignore lists, IIRC these work by pruning all posts by people on it so you can't see them in action. People hardly ever use them (and I've never felt the need - after this place, wankers on music boards populated by angsty teens are next to nothing) but that's what they're there for. Ignore it and it will go away.
Slashdot Mirror
-Mark
Almost all of the tree will be dependent on the core libs, so if something fundamental changes in one of them the whole tree needs to be rebuilt to take this into account - even if it's only a one-line change. If something in a higher-level library changes significantly - an entire function is reimplemented, or something - only a few things will have to be rebuilt, as the make program is smart enough to rebuild only those parts of the tree that depend upon the changed part.
So, core KDE developers need monster PCs as they're work has a fundamental impact upon the entire project; app hackers do just as well on less cutting-edge equipment as they shouldn't really need to build everything - that's what binary distributions are for.
-Mark
The analogy is flawed. KDE doesn't have a kernel, drivers, window server (? whatever XFree86 is) etc to compile, which Windows does. So of course Windows will take longer to compile, Windows is much, much more than KDE will ever be.
And on this machine Windows XP is more responsive than KDE for some reason. Go figure.
-Mark
And then it will turn out that they were accidentally released under the BSD licence, they'll get sued for acting wrongly!
-Mark
Damn straight it is. You get twenty-eight years to milk something for all the millions it's worth, AND you get to crush utterly and punitively anyone who dares steal even a penny's worth from you? Sounds like a good deal to me.
-Mark
If enough people do this the RIAA, MPAA, (insert two letters here)AA and whatever might get enough money for them to realise that filesharing isn't as bad as they think it is... And then they just might fuck off to where they belong!
Just a thought.
-Mark
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... the U.S. Government's DNS servers:
/. to there
1) Register slashdot.mil
2)Point
3)BANG!
-Mark
Come on. Even Bill Gates admitted that half a meg ain't enough.
640K, on the other hand, should be enough for anyone...
-Mark
Video. Raw, uncompressed, high-quality video with a sound channel is fucking HUGE. Look how big DivX files are, and they're compressed many, many times over.
And compressing video on-the-fly isn't feasible if you're going to be tweaking with it, so that's why people use raw video.
-Mark
That's a bit foolish. Go make an hour-and-a-half long, ahem, "adult feature" for $100k.
Much more fun, and so much cheaper!
-Mark
Doom is so old hat. All the cool electronic devices have Quake!
And it's a P800 as well, that's more than capable of running Quake III... providing you bump the graphics down a little, natch.
-Mark
I'm seriously tempted to put a bid in for this and not pay. I'd get the mother of all negative feedback then!
Negative from SkyCar: Seller didn't pay and is a cunt. E-
Response by ukmarkyboy: Admit it. You're the goatse man.
-Mark
Maybe they changed it because no-one had a clue what palladium actually is...
Joe Sixpack - "Muuur, pall-ad-ium? What's that?"
Joe Fourpack - "I think it's food. I eat it."
Bill Gates - "No! That's an xbox 2, with trust built in so you can't watch VCDs, DivX, or listen to mp3s on it!"
Joe Fourpack - "Tastes like chicken."
-Mark
Would make sense if this is a MS-SQL Server exploit, all the uni's servers would be getting buggered, but none of the students' computers would be running the server, so no pingage from them.
-Mark
See those wee "click here to be removed" or whatever links in spam? Click there, be removed. That's some spam you won't receive again.
:p ) but when I do get one I just click the remove me link and I never see it again.
Yes, it validates your email address. So does the fact that the spam didn't bounce. And with those images that are downloaded off the web if you open a spam they accomplish the same even if you delete the spam.
Admittedly I don't get all that much spam (well, for now at least, ya bastards!
Well, until I use Google Groups that is. I get hideous volumes of spam after I post to netnews using that. I think I'm onto something...
-Mark
If he gets in, won't his first act be to demolish all the important buildings and replace them with curvy, translucent, pastel-coloured plastic contraptions?
Carrying handles would be useful though. Threat of Al-Qaeda? Just move Washington to the praries, they'll never find them there!
-Mark
Right. Soon we'll be having taxes levied on shower cubicles in recompense for the copyright violations caused by showerees whistling Hit Me Baby One More Time as they clean themselves.
-Mark
My uni does this internally... all the paranoid students complained about the untrusted certs when they tried to view their records, it took ages for everyone to have the uni installed as a root CA on everyone's machine (it took ages for people to be convinced the uni COULD be trusted) and you have to reinstall them everytime windows dies.
Most annoying.
-Mark
No, first you dial the country code. Yes, and then the area code. Now the city code... and now the local extension...
...
Fool! You dialled to KFC, not home!
Stupid alien.
If it doesn't run linux a port's only three nanoseconds away!
-Mark
Some forum software (e.g. vBulletin) allows people to set ignore lists, IIRC these work by pruning all posts by people on it so you can't see them in action. People hardly ever use them (and I've never felt the need - after this place, wankers on music boards populated by angsty teens are next to nothing) but that's what they're there for. Ignore it and it will go away.
-Mark
Then the MPAA will charge you $10 whenever you connect, in line with the increased cost of their industry.
THEN they'll buy up all the [cable|dialup] modem manufactures and put bugs into the firmware so that you get disconnected every three minutes.
Hey, you never know what could happen...
-Mark