Why must all code become "GPL compatable"? I find this annoying, mainly because licence foo being "GPL compatable" means that foo code can be relicenced as GPLed code. Note that you can't take GPLed code and put it under licence foo (in fact, can you in any way change / strengthen the licence which GPLed code is under? I don't think so..)
I remember Microsoft claiming the GPL is a "virus", and thinking that it is rubbish. I'm beginning to think maybe it is... nowadays the only way for code to be acceptable to the open source community is for it to be under a GPL-compatable licence..
Good attempt at being clever, but seeing as GnuPG is open source, backward enginnering isn't nessasary. You can't get in trouble under the DCMA for finding holes in open source software I'm afraid..
The important point to note here is that it isn't possible to remove and replace the battery yourself without opening the iPod and voiding the warrenty. If I could just pop the old battery out and put in a new one, that would be fine. However I don't expect to ever have to actually open a device and void warenty unless something is seriously wrong.
You buy a battery from someone else (which you can do), and *bang*, no warranty
And perhaps we'll finally get an english translation of Shining Force III parts 2 and 3. The day I learned Sega hated me was when they only translated 1/3 of a trilogy of games with tightly interlocked storylines...
I've seen this program a short while ago, so feel I can comment:)
While it is a good idea, and can be worked on it does have some small problems, mainly that it isn't quite "dirty" enough. It tends to believe people will behave better than you'd expect them to, not be evil leechers and also not have very dodgy net connections which go up and down every 10 minutes (which to be fair happens to alot of people on ADSL and such like, their uploads get saturated and all their download connections drop because their ACKs aren't getting out)
Having said that, this is a good program, and I hope will be improved as one of the hardest parts about p2p networks is keeping up a good solid network without it taking up a significant proportion of the network, and nowadays few people want to risk running a server if they can avoid it...
This is the second time this has happened to a big open-source project (the first being the GNU servers a while ago). All packages by both groups are "md5" signed, which is supposed to protect against malicous hacking. However if the root server is comprimised, this doesn't help. Companies (including at least Microsoft, and the people who make ad-aware) who distribute files over the internet sign them with an RSA (or similar) key, and the computer which does this signing is kept disconnected from the internet. For such large projects which are installed by millions of people, might a similar system not be a good idea?
That is true, if the domand arises for an OSS CAD software, it will come.
What some linux people have to remember is that there is a difference between demand in the sense of "We want it, give it to us" and "We want this, and our willing to put our time and money into getting it".
The main principle here seems simply to be for the X-server to store each window, wether it be visable or not. At the moment if you stack windows on top of each other the X-server forgets what is on the covered up bits, and when the window becomes visable again it is redrawn. This was a good idea back when memory was scarce, because storing X full screen applications could take X*screensize memory. However today with more memory, we can store all those windows without forcing a redraw.
This is long overdue in X, and also as stated makes things like alpha blending, and Mac OS-X style openGL window-dragging acceleration much more trivial, and also for those who like network transparency, won't require resending windows each time they become visable (although adds the new problem that unless you are careful you could end up spending lots of time sending updates to non-visable windows). It is of course nessasary to allow some chucking of hidden windows (because full screen 32-bit images still take up quite a lot of room), but overall its a good plan!
While I doubt anyone will read this now, I can tell you that IQs do have a bell-shaped distribution with (basically) equal mean and median (and mode as well actually, if we round IQs to nearest point). However, I will admit that wasn't nessasarily obvious:)
OK, repeat after me...
X is NOT SLOW BECAUSE IT USES SOCKETS!!! Please understand this! When you are on a local machine it uses optimised sockets, which are the fastest way of streaming information between programs, and were designed into linux for that specific purpose.
Also.. you say "Speed up".. and they are going to use XML?? Sending information via a bloated ASCII (or even unicode)-based protocol? Yep, that will be fast won't it.. espically if they parse all the XML they recieve to make sure it is correct.. *sigh*
There WAS a bug in OE that executed things due to a buffer overflow. That has been fixed for a long time. I notice that the most recent version of pine had a similar bug, but of course no-one bothered taking advantage of it as pine has such a small user base who tend to upgrade.
Lets see what a program can do under Linux if we run it as a normal user..
1) Copy itself so it starts at startup for that user? Check
2) Send itself to everyone in your email directory? Check
3) Delete your home directory (where all your most important files are)? Check
Also, saying "you have to chmod +x executables" isn't going to save people much, because users are going to have to do that somehow to files they download from the internet / mails they do want to run.
I agree with everything you say, except about today's "short-attention-span world". If anything since their introduction games have been getting more and more complicated to get into (look at pacman and space invaders).
I do agree this is bad thing tho, we need to get back to games that the user can enjoy from the moment they start playing
I'm not suprised this hasn't come quicker. Clearly microsoft can't afford (well, they don't want) to pay for moderation of all their MSN chatrooms. However you can imagine the uproar if the headline "Pedophile kills child after grooming in MSN chatroom" appear in papers. This isn't going to help, as everyone will simply move to another chatroom site but I can see my microsoft is doing it.
You are trying to claim that the CPU score is going up 40%? Considering that in CPU-intensive applications the operating system takes 2% (probably much less, just a quick measure) of the CPU time, and the operating system has nothing to do with the work the CPU is doing in my application (unless you are calling it, in which case it isn't really a CPU test), how can you possibily get that kind of speed increase? I call bullshit
Computer geek types who want to be clever need to understand one thing. Much of the law is based on intent and result. It doesn't matter if you print a file out, fax it, then send it via piegon droppings. If at the end of the day you've made a copy, you've made a copy and all the consequences involved.
Similarily (in the UK at least), you can't get around paying for a TV licence by doing something stupid like sending it over ethernet and routing it via your printer or something:)
There has been more than one root exploit over the years for linux, and the only reason linux doesn't get "run the executable in this email" type viruses is that linux users are too intellegeant to run them. If someone wrote one it could do just as much damage under linux as it does under windows...
The major feature from the point of view of webpage viewing is sending diffs of webpages that the server knows you already have. Lots of pages only change by a small amount (see slashdot's main page, or a story after a few more comments have been posted). Also a compression system which has been "trained" on HTML will get much better compression rates than just mod-gzip.
There is of course also grabbing links in advance and sending them through the modem during "slack-time". Most people don't read pages fast enough to keep their modem saturated.
Toejam and Earl III's random level isn't a new feature, because the first Toejam and Earl was doing it way back near the beginning of the megadrive. Sure it's got slightly more advanced, but having played the original the "feel" of the way it makes maps is very similar.
Interestingly (or not) Toejam and Earl II didn't have randomly generated maps, possibly because it was side-scrolling and I imagine making interesting maps would have been harder (because you are much more restricted on what it is possible for a valid map to look like)
How much do you use C++?:)
g++ is quite intellegant about what is / isn't worth inlining. Also template code MUST go in headers, because it has to be included in every file that makes use of it, because templates are retarded...:(
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Why must all code become "GPL compatable"? I find this annoying, mainly because licence foo being "GPL compatable" means that foo code can be relicenced as GPLed code. Note that you can't take GPLed code and put it under licence foo (in fact, can you in any way change / strengthen the licence which GPLed code is under? I don't think so..)
I remember Microsoft claiming the GPL is a "virus", and thinking that it is rubbish. I'm beginning to think maybe it is... nowadays the only way for code to be acceptable to the open source community is for it to be under a GPL-compatable licence..
Good attempt at being clever, but seeing as GnuPG is open source, backward enginnering isn't nessasary. You can't get in trouble under the DCMA for finding holes in open source software I'm afraid..
No, because the battery only holding a couple of hours of charge doesn't count under waranty (only if it totally dies)
The important point to note here is that it isn't possible to remove and replace the battery yourself without opening the iPod and voiding the warrenty. If I could just pop the old battery out and put in a new one, that would be fine. However I don't expect to ever have to actually open a device and void warenty unless something is seriously wrong.
You buy a battery from someone else (which you can do), and *bang*, no warranty
And perhaps we'll finally get an english translation of Shining Force III parts 2 and 3. The day I learned Sega hated me was when they only translated 1/3 of a trilogy of games with tightly interlocked storylines...
I've seen this program a short while ago, so feel I can comment :)
While it is a good idea, and can be worked on it does have some small problems, mainly that it isn't quite "dirty" enough. It tends to believe people will behave better than you'd expect them to, not be evil leechers and also not have very dodgy net connections which go up and down every 10 minutes (which to be fair happens to alot of people on ADSL and such like, their uploads get saturated and all their download connections drop because their ACKs aren't getting out)
Having said that, this is a good program, and I hope will be improved as one of the hardest parts about p2p networks is keeping up a good solid network without it taking up a significant proportion of the network, and nowadays few people want to risk running a server if they can avoid it...
This is the second time this has happened to a big open-source project (the first being the GNU servers a while ago). All packages by both groups are "md5" signed, which is supposed to protect against malicous hacking. However if the root server is comprimised, this doesn't help. Companies (including at least Microsoft, and the people who make ad-aware) who distribute files over the internet sign them with an RSA (or similar) key, and the computer which does this signing is kept disconnected from the internet. For such large projects which are installed by millions of people, might a similar system not be a good idea?
What about the women of eternal darkness? eh? eh? (can't find any direct links, but you can see them here )
That is true, if the domand arises for an OSS CAD software, it will come.
What some linux people have to remember is that there is a difference between demand in the sense of "We want it, give it to us" and "We want this, and our willing to put our time and money into getting it".
The main principle here seems simply to be for the X-server to store each window, wether it be visable or not. At the moment if you stack windows on top of each other the X-server forgets what is on the covered up bits, and when the window becomes visable again it is redrawn. This was a good idea back when memory was scarce, because storing X full screen applications could take X*screensize memory. However today with more memory, we can store all those windows without forcing a redraw.
This is long overdue in X, and also as stated makes things like alpha blending, and Mac OS-X style openGL window-dragging acceleration much more trivial, and also for those who like network transparency, won't require resending windows each time they become visable (although adds the new problem that unless you are careful you could end up spending lots of time sending updates to non-visable windows). It is of course nessasary to allow some chucking of hidden windows (because full screen 32-bit images still take up quite a lot of room), but overall its a good plan!
While I doubt anyone will read this now, I can tell you that IQs do have a bell-shaped distribution with (basically) equal mean and median (and mode as well actually, if we round IQs to nearest point). However, I will admit that wasn't nessasarily obvious :)
*shock* You mean that half of people have an IQ in the bottom half of IQs??
I think you might be in there...
OK, repeat after me... X is NOT SLOW BECAUSE IT USES SOCKETS!!! Please understand this! When you are on a local machine it uses optimised sockets, which are the fastest way of streaming information between programs, and were designed into linux for that specific purpose. Also.. you say "Speed up".. and they are going to use XML?? Sending information via a bloated ASCII (or even unicode)-based protocol? Yep, that will be fast won't it.. espically if they parse all the XML they recieve to make sure it is correct.. *sigh*
There WAS a bug in OE that executed things due to a buffer overflow. That has been fixed for a long time. I notice that the most recent version of pine had a similar bug, but of course no-one bothered taking advantage of it as pine has such a small user base who tend to upgrade.
Lets see what a program can do under Linux if we run it as a normal user..
1) Copy itself so it starts at startup for that user? Check
2) Send itself to everyone in your email directory? Check
3) Delete your home directory (where all your most important files are)? Check
Also, saying "you have to chmod +x executables" isn't going to save people much, because users are going to have to do that somehow to files they download from the internet / mails they do want to run.
I agree with everything you say, except about today's "short-attention-span world". If anything since their introduction games have been getting more and more complicated to get into (look at pacman and space invaders).
I do agree this is bad thing tho, we need to get back to games that the user can enjoy from the moment they start playing
"wher cn i get quake warez?"
"u r a faggot!"
"This person used their CD-ROM drive as a cup holder LOLOL!!!111"
I don't want them all coming back :(
I'm not suprised this hasn't come quicker. Clearly microsoft can't afford (well, they don't want) to pay for moderation of all their MSN chatrooms. However you can imagine the uproar if the headline "Pedophile kills child after grooming in MSN chatroom" appear in papers. This isn't going to help, as everyone will simply move to another chatroom site but I can see my microsoft is doing it.
You are trying to claim that the CPU score is going up 40%? Considering that in CPU-intensive applications the operating system takes 2% (probably much less, just a quick measure) of the CPU time, and the operating system has nothing to do with the work the CPU is doing in my application (unless you are calling it, in which case it isn't really a CPU test), how can you possibily get that kind of speed increase? I call bullshit
Computer geek types who want to be clever need to understand one thing. Much of the law is based on intent and result. It doesn't matter if you print a file out, fax it, then send it via piegon droppings. If at the end of the day you've made a copy, you've made a copy and all the consequences involved.
:)
Similarily (in the UK at least), you can't get around paying for a TV licence by doing something stupid like sending it over ethernet and routing it via your printer or something
There has been more than one root exploit over the years for linux, and the only reason linux doesn't get "run the executable in this email" type viruses is that linux users are too intellegeant to run them. If someone wrote one it could do just as much damage under linux as it does under windows...
No, they have much better features than that!
The major feature from the point of view of webpage viewing is sending diffs of webpages that the server knows you already have. Lots of pages only change by a small amount (see slashdot's main page, or a story after a few more comments have been posted). Also a compression system which has been "trained" on HTML will get much better compression rates than just mod-gzip.
There is of course also grabbing links in advance and sending them through the modem during "slack-time". Most people don't read pages fast enough to keep their modem saturated.
Toejam and Earl III's random level isn't a new feature, because the first Toejam and Earl was doing it way back near the beginning of the megadrive. Sure it's got slightly more advanced, but having played the original the "feel" of the way it makes maps is very similar. Interestingly (or not) Toejam and Earl II didn't have randomly generated maps, possibly because it was side-scrolling and I imagine making interesting maps would have been harder (because you are much more restricted on what it is possible for a valid map to look like)
Here is a link to the google cache of the main page :)
How much do you use C++? :)
g++ is quite intellegant about what is / isn't worth inlining. Also template code MUST go in headers, because it has to be included in every file that makes use of it, because templates are retarded... :(