The information doesn't seem to be in the current kernel, but in an older patch (search for treefs):
Two other former employees were involved who won't be getting credit here because they tried to kill the project at the
end of it, and almost succeeded (they cost me maybe two years). They wanted to force me to sell it to the company they
tried to start. They get to keep the money they got from me, and that is it. When their "VC" said that he could get a
hundred researchers to swear in Russian Court that I had had nothing to do with the development of treefs, I changed the
name to reiserfs and registered the copyright.
Well, I think that this means that the keyboard practically reached perfection.
Ha! Hardly! It just means that there are more factors at play here than just quality. (See Linux vs. Windows.)
For instance, switching keyboards takes a lot of readjusting, whereas upgrading a CPU takes none at all. See how, despite being shown to be much better than QWERTY, the Dvorak layout has yet to gain any noticeable market share.
And then, there's always economics. The Kinesis is the best keyboard I have ever used, but you can't get it for $15 from the Walmart, so not many people use it.
Please do not confuse Debian with unofficial sources. Just because you can apt-get some.deb packages does not mean that it is part of Debian. If it is not in the official repositories, Debian does not have it yet.
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Of course, they screwed up the wording of that sentence. They are releasing the code under two licenses. One is the GPL, and you don't have to pay them for that license. The other license is a commercial license, which allows you to release a binary, with modifications, without the requirement of having to provide the source, and costs 50USD. So they should add something like "without having to provide the source" to the end of that sentence.
People may want to hardcode the keys, or obfuscate the code that reads the keys, so that others cannot find the key easily. If you had the GPL version, I could request the code, look for the spot that reads the key, and grab the key to get around your control.
I don't understand how this can be "insightful". BCoates wrote that you can't copyright an algorithm (which is true copyrights only apply to the expression of an idea, not the idea itself), and the parent post decides to confuse it with patents.
I think if you randomize you will get a chance to fudge some data; I mean, if in the end your average price of item turns out to be like 49.68 cents averaged over long term, you will have a very unlikely chance of noticing this discrepency.
If they do things properly (and I would think that Rivest knows what he's doing), they can use an electronic coin flipping protocol, so that both parties can be sure that the randomization is done fairly. You can get the details in a dozen different books, including Schneier's Applied Crypto.
i'm scared that it's going to suffer the betamax syndrome
Betamax lost because VHS had friendlier licensing terms. So the Ogg and Betamax situations are not comparable. Also, people had to buy separate players for Betamax and for VHS. When hardware players start supporting Ogg, they will also support MP3 in the same device..
SVG doesn't have audio capabilities because audio isn't, well, vector graphics. You can add audio, though, by using SMIL, another W3C standard. Or you can once someone supports SMIL. (RealPlayer supports SMIL, but AFAIK not SVG.) I suppose you could also probably use some JavaScript stuff to get audio.
CIBC blocks anything other than MSIE and NS (and Moz). If you try to fake your way in, it doesn't work. They seem to have extremely convoluted JavaScript. I might, say, try to pay a bill online, and it will redirect me to about 5 different pages before ending up at the right one. What on earth is it trying to do with those 5 intermediate pages that it can't just redirect me to the right page off the start? And why do they need JavaScript in the first place?
I also say it's stupid to list such-and-such browser version as a "requirement". "Recommendation" is fine, but "requirement" gives the wrong message if you support other browsers, but not officially.
CIBC doesn't support Mozilla, and it doesn't support Opera either. Apparently some earlier versions of Mozilla work, Netscape 6.2.x works, and some recent builds of Mozilla work. Unfortunately, recent builds of Mozilla apparently also have problems with cookies and secure sites, so I can't use them.
Even if you can get in with Mozilla doesn't mean that they support it, and you might not be able to get in later. They are definitely not one of the more clued in banks in this matter. I have no idea how they managed to make it work for NS 6.2.x and not NS 7 or Mozilla 1.1.
Yeah, that's right! Instead of "wasting effort" putting both desktop and server features into the same kernel, we should fork Linux into two different projects! That'll really save a lot of effort! Sheesh. No wonder you're an AC.
No, this is a different thing. This just uses FreeType2, not XFT2. XFT2 support was only checked in last week, so there's no way you have it working with Mozilla 1.0.
XFT2 renders slightly differently from FreeType2 (XFT2 renders better, IMHO), and, for those with LCD screens, supports subpixel antialiasing, which Mozilla's Freetype2 does not. Fontconfig allows different programs to use the same configuration, too, unlike Mozilla's Freetype2 support.
Yes, it's possible. You can even control xmms with it. Or even (shameless plug) AlsaPlayer (although the AlsaPlayer control doesn't work the way it should, yet. It's just a load of hackery at this point.). One issue, though, with all these, is setting up playlists. AFAIK the xmms plugin has some playlist control, but I've never tried it. The AlsaPlayer has basically nothing.
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Ha! Hardly! It just means that there are more factors at play here than just quality. (See Linux vs. Windows.)
For instance, switching keyboards takes a lot of readjusting, whereas upgrading a CPU takes none at all. See how, despite being shown to be much better than QWERTY, the Dvorak layout has yet to gain any noticeable market share.
And then, there's always economics. The Kinesis is the best keyboard I have ever used, but you can't get it for $15 from the Walmart, so not many people use it.
There are already some emacs mp3 players.
Please do not confuse Debian with unofficial sources. Just because you can apt-get some .deb packages does not mean that it is part of Debian. If it is not in the official repositories, Debian does not have it yet.
Of course, they screwed up the wording of that sentence. They are releasing the code under two licenses. One is the GPL, and you don't have to pay them for that license. The other license is a commercial license, which allows you to release a binary, with modifications, without the requirement of having to provide the source, and costs 50USD. So they should add something like "without having to provide the source" to the end of that sentence.
People may want to hardcode the keys, or obfuscate the code that reads the keys, so that others cannot find the key easily. If you had the GPL version, I could request the code, look for the spot that reads the key, and grab the key to get around your control.
I don't understand how this can be "insightful". BCoates wrote that you can't copyright an algorithm (which is true copyrights only apply to the expression of an idea, not the idea itself), and the parent post decides to confuse it with patents.
If they do things properly (and I would think that Rivest knows what he's doing), they can use an electronic coin flipping protocol, so that both parties can be sure that the randomization is done fairly. You can get the details in a dozen different books, including Schneier's Applied Crypto.
Nah. The part I quoted was from the SF Chronicle article, not from the post.
"...taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera..."
"...but it showed up clear and bright on the film when I developed it..."
Huh?
American Sign Language?
Betamax lost because VHS had friendlier licensing terms. So the Ogg and Betamax situations are not comparable. Also, people had to buy separate players for Betamax and for VHS. When hardware players start supporting Ogg, they will also support MP3 in the same device..
It is Guelph which used to be called Berlin. Not Kitchener.
SVG doesn't have audio capabilities because audio isn't, well, vector graphics. You can add audio, though, by using SMIL, another W3C standard. Or you can once someone supports SMIL. (RealPlayer supports SMIL, but AFAIK not SVG.) I suppose you could also probably use some JavaScript stuff to get audio.
CIBC blocks anything other than MSIE and NS (and Moz). If you try to fake your way in, it doesn't work. They seem to have extremely convoluted JavaScript. I might, say, try to pay a bill online, and it will redirect me to about 5 different pages before ending up at the right one. What on earth is it trying to do with those 5 intermediate pages that it can't just redirect me to the right page off the start? And why do they need JavaScript in the first place?
I also say it's stupid to list such-and-such browser version as a "requirement". "Recommendation" is fine, but "requirement" gives the wrong message if you support other browsers, but not officially.
CIBC doesn't support Mozilla, and it doesn't support Opera either. Apparently some earlier versions of Mozilla work, Netscape 6.2.x works, and some recent builds of Mozilla work. Unfortunately, recent builds of Mozilla apparently also have problems with cookies and secure sites, so I can't use them.
Even if you can get in with Mozilla doesn't mean that they support it, and you might not be able to get in later. They are definitely not one of the more clued in banks in this matter. I have no idea how they managed to make it work for NS 6.2.x and not NS 7 or Mozilla 1.1.
Yeah, that's right! Instead of "wasting effort" putting both desktop and server features into the same kernel, we should fork Linux into two different projects! That'll really save a lot of effort! Sheesh. No wonder you're an AC.
1.0.1 and 1.2 are different branches. See the Mozilla roadmap.
It's there already. Use the Classic theme.
It only uses GTK/etc. to *draw* the widgets. It doesn't use actual GTK/etc. widgets.
No, this is a different thing. This just uses FreeType2, not XFT2. XFT2 support was only checked in last week, so there's no way you have it working with Mozilla 1.0.
XFT2 renders slightly differently from FreeType2 (XFT2 renders better, IMHO), and, for those with LCD screens, supports subpixel antialiasing, which Mozilla's Freetype2 does not. Fontconfig allows different programs to use the same configuration, too, unlike Mozilla's Freetype2 support.
Actually, a slashdotter pointed it out to him.
Yes, it's possible. You can even control xmms with it. Or even (shameless plug) AlsaPlayer (although the AlsaPlayer control doesn't work the way it should, yet. It's just a load of hackery at this point.). One issue, though, with all these, is setting up playlists. AFAIK the xmms plugin has some playlist control, but I've never tried it. The AlsaPlayer has basically nothing.