It's IRC, badly re-implemented over port 80; the only real improvement is global stats, so you can see which chan^H^H^H^Hhashtags are most active at any time
Then why does Google look the other way as manufacturers engage in blatant lockdown of this supposedly free and open code?
What's the alternative? They give the manufacturers a long list of terms and conditions as to what they are and aren't allowed to do with this supposedly free and open code?
This seems to be a pretty straightforward parallel to BSD freedom (the freedom to limit user's choices) vs GPL freedom (your choice is limited to giving users freedom)
The article keeps referring to DoDAMM, but the photo is clearly labelled with a DoDAAM logo -- but I'm not sure whether to blame the reporter or the company, as their informational poster seems to be full of translation errors too...
I presume he means "If only I was that much of a 'tard, maybe I could get my computer confiscated too, and I'd finally have a solid reason to buy a new one"
The article seems to have no real details on the technical side -- does anyone know how this is supposed to work? In particular, how does it scale to billions of hosts? What stops somebody automatically registering all the names? Without central authority, how are disputes over where a name should point solved?
(Also, what happened to slashdot? It's been a couple of hours since the article was posted, and all the comments (reading at +2) are political -- does nobody else here care about the technical side of technology?:-( )
Last I checked, moodle did things like checking to see if the universally abhorred magic quotes were enabled, and if not, it emulated them, to make absolutely sure that all developers had to deal with that crap; is that still the case?:-/
So is this just another completley fabricated story to get page hits?
From what I can see, Mark is basically saying "backports might be something worth looking into"; then the media, being the media, blow it out of all proportion into "Mark Shuttleworth declares that every Ubuntu package will be bleeding edge tomorrow".
I wonder what it's like for the poor guy, any time he mentions anything, in any context, people take it to the extreme then claim that that is what Ubuntu will do next...
If I were an advertiser, I would be more interested in the stats of such downloads than the stats of printed circulation.
This. I remember hearing somewhere that printed magazines make most of their money through advertising, and only charge the reader money in order to make the reader feel the magazine is worth something. With that in mind, having the magazine be pirated is pretty much the ideal situation for the publisher -- it can tell advertisers that it has millions of readers, while only bothering to print thousands of copies, and the perceived value is still high because it still/officially/ retails for full price.
Linux "got popular" because *some* ( Windows still rules the market ) people wanted an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
Personally I didn't see windows and think "this works great, I want to use something else" -- I wanted a system that worked, and what it is an alternative to doesn't matter
Sequels generally only work with unfinished plots, or take finished plots and retroactively hack them to squeeze more in, neither of which I like -- my personal preference is to take a game engine and gameplay mechanics, fix the bugs, and have an entirely fresh plot (see deus ex / the nameless mod for a great example)
It's not a remake, but the nameless mod is basically deus ex with the bugs fixed, compatible with the high-def graphics pack, some cool gameplay elements added, and a new plot (which seems silly when described, but having actually played the game, I'd say it's easily on a par with the original - maybe even better, as TNM has multiple plot branches all the way through compared to the original's single branch at the very end)
That was the case a couple of years ago, but have you tried it recently? I haven't actually had a single audio problem since switching from debian/alsa to ubuntu 10.04/PA, and I now have a ton of useful features on top:-) (per-app volume, per-app output devices, network streaming, seamless switching between headphones and HDMI, etc)
useless for others e.g. a three-person development team making an rpc-xml insurance claim submitter.
Speaking as half of a two-man team, I've found that switching from subversion to git decimated the amount of VCS-related fuss we have to put up with -- we can now both make many small commits all day long (small patches = easier to trace which patch introduced a bug), with merge conflicts only coming up at agreed merge times when we are both available to discuss conflicts.
Plus, even if you use git in centralised mode, it's simply better as a bit of software:P (local copy of history = faster browsing; the ability to automatically run through a set of commits testing each to see where a bug started; nice bits of polish like coloured output and automatically piping through less when appropriate; better branching and merging; etc etc etc)
Benchmark a Commit and a Push in a DVCS against a Commit in a non-DVCS, and you'll start gaining my respect as a person who's not fudging the numbers.
As part of my workflow, what I actually want to get done is a commit to record history many times per day, and I only sync once a day or so -- so why should the DVCS scores for a common action be crippled just because the non-DVCS forces you to do extra work?
It's not comparing apples to oranges, it's comparing an apple to an apple plus an orange -- I'm only interested in apples, so the first one does deserve to win for being less wasteful
"I should have the right to listen to music and watch movies freely.
From what I've seen, the majority opinion is "I should have the right to use media which I have paid for, on any display device that I own, for non-commercial purposes", not "I should have the right to copy anything without paying, then profit from selling it on"
I have a bunch of google apps (gmail, calendar, docs) open 24/7 for work and personal accounts; plus when I get round to reading news I end up middle clicking most things on the slashdot front page; then doing web dev (ok, I guess that's not standard...) I'd have another 10 tabs or so for our own site, bug tracker, build system, blah blah; and then I keep tabs open instead of using short-term bookmarks -- so all in all, my personal use averages between 20 and 30. So you've got me there, 50 is probably excessive, but I think my general point of "lots of tabs in a browser is more realistic than a kernel compile" still stands
Why you ask, well I have a compiler that can take it to native C++ available if I need it.
Presuming you mean hiphop, have you actually looked at its output? Hint: it does not compile '<? print "hello world"; ?>' into 'void main() {printf("hello world");}', it compiles it into several hundred kilobytes of C++, which through the magic of C++, are then turned into tens of megabytes of binary. I could type out "hello world" by hand in less time than it takes for a hiphop app to even be loaded from disk:-P
(Sure, it's twice as fast as regular PHP, but that's still slower than most other languages -- there is a big difference between "translated to C++" and "written in C++")
Can someone please explain what this Kinect thing is?
AFAIK it's a webcam with a "distance" channel as well as RGB (possibly also a temperature channel and noise cancelling mic, though I may be imagining those)
I do know that any sort of skills you develop with these games are pointless for playing actual music
Have you seen the latest "pro" controllers? The pro keyboard is pretty much a standard MIDI keyboard; and the pro guitar, while not exactly a standard guitar, does seem to have the same number and layout of places to put your fingers
Is Slashdot on the side of the company or the author?
Slashdot is a varied community where nearly half support one side of each issue, nearly half support the other*, and the remainder only ever post off-topic pissy rants about how people treat Slashdot as an individual:-P
* while pretty much everyone on both sides claims to be in the tiny intelligent minority, both sides criticizing slashdot-the-individual for being against them
you had no idea -- and could not have reasonably had any idea -- that a particular work was copyrighted at the time.
Given that copyright is automatic, I'd say a logically reasonable idea is "If you didn't write it yourself, and it doesn't have a 'this is explicitly public domain' notice on it, then it's copyrighted to someone else". Sure, you can't be 100% certain, but assuming public domain when that assumption is wrong 99.9% of the time seems at best to be pleading ignorance.
Slashdot Mirror
It's IRC, badly re-implemented over port 80; the only real improvement is global stats, so you can see which chan^H^H^H^Hhashtags are most active at any time
Then why does Google look the other way as manufacturers engage in blatant lockdown of this supposedly free and open code?
What's the alternative? They give the manufacturers a long list of terms and conditions as to what they are and aren't allowed to do with this supposedly free and open code?
This seems to be a pretty straightforward parallel to BSD freedom (the freedom to limit user's choices) vs GPL freedom (your choice is limited to giving users freedom)
The article keeps referring to DoDAMM, but the photo is clearly labelled with a DoDAAM logo -- but I'm not sure whether to blame the reporter or the company, as their informational poster seems to be full of translation errors too...
I presume he means "If only I was that much of a 'tard, maybe I could get my computer confiscated too, and I'd finally have a solid reason to buy a new one"
The jesus analogy works better I think... he made some copies of fish and bread and distributed it free of charge.
That's actually a very good point -- did Jesus pay the baker and fisherman for every copy of their work that he distributed?
The article seems to have no real details on the technical side -- does anyone know how this is supposed to work? In particular, how does it scale to billions of hosts? What stops somebody automatically registering all the names? Without central authority, how are disputes over where a name should point solved?
(Also, what happened to slashdot? It's been a couple of hours since the article was posted, and all the comments (reading at +2) are political -- does nobody else here care about the technical side of technology? :-( )
Last I checked, moodle did things like checking to see if the universally abhorred magic quotes were enabled, and if not, it emulated them, to make absolutely sure that all developers had to deal with that crap; is that still the case? :-/
So is this just another completley fabricated story to get page hits?
From what I can see, Mark is basically saying "backports might be something worth looking into"; then the media, being the media, blow it out of all proportion into "Mark Shuttleworth declares that every Ubuntu package will be bleeding edge tomorrow".
I wonder what it's like for the poor guy, any time he mentions anything, in any context, people take it to the extreme then claim that that is what Ubuntu will do next...
If I were an advertiser, I would be more interested in the stats of such downloads than the stats of printed circulation.
This. I remember hearing somewhere that printed magazines make most of their money through advertising, and only charge the reader money in order to make the reader feel the magazine is worth something. With that in mind, having the magazine be pirated is pretty much the ideal situation for the publisher -- it can tell advertisers that it has millions of readers, while only bothering to print thousands of copies, and the perceived value is still high because it still /officially/ retails for full price.
Linux "got popular" because *some* ( Windows still rules the market ) people wanted an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
Personally I didn't see windows and think "this works great, I want to use something else" -- I wanted a system that worked, and what it is an alternative to doesn't matter
What we should be asking for are SEQUELS
Sequels generally only work with unfinished plots, or take finished plots and retroactively hack them to squeeze more in, neither of which I like -- my personal preference is to take a game engine and gameplay mechanics, fix the bugs, and have an entirely fresh plot (see deus ex / the nameless mod for a great example)
Deus Ex
It's not a remake, but the nameless mod is basically deus ex with the bugs fixed, compatible with the high-def graphics pack, some cool gameplay elements added, and a new plot (which seems silly when described, but having actually played the game, I'd say it's easily on a par with the original - maybe even better, as TNM has multiple plot branches all the way through compared to the original's single branch at the very end)
the steaming, broken pile known as PulseAudio
That was the case a couple of years ago, but have you tried it recently? I haven't actually had a single audio problem since switching from debian/alsa to ubuntu 10.04/PA, and I now have a ton of useful features on top :-) (per-app volume, per-app output devices, network streaming, seamless switching between headphones and HDMI, etc)
useless for others e.g. a three-person development team making an rpc-xml insurance claim submitter.
Speaking as half of a two-man team, I've found that switching from subversion to git decimated the amount of VCS-related fuss we have to put up with -- we can now both make many small commits all day long (small patches = easier to trace which patch introduced a bug), with merge conflicts only coming up at agreed merge times when we are both available to discuss conflicts.
Plus, even if you use git in centralised mode, it's simply better as a bit of software :P (local copy of history = faster browsing; the ability to automatically run through a set of commits testing each to see where a bug started; nice bits of polish like coloured output and automatically piping through less when appropriate; better branching and merging; etc etc etc)
Benchmark a Commit and a Push in a DVCS against a Commit in a non-DVCS, and you'll start gaining my respect as a person who's not fudging the numbers.
As part of my workflow, what I actually want to get done is a commit to record history many times per day, and I only sync once a day or so -- so why should the DVCS scores for a common action be crippled just because the non-DVCS forces you to do extra work?
It's not comparing apples to oranges, it's comparing an apple to an apple plus an orange -- I'm only interested in apples, so the first one does deserve to win for being less wasteful
touching my wife's boobies, and/or fondling my kid's pussy. (Sorry for the frank language but I believe in speaking the brutal truth.)
So why not use the actual names of the body parts? :-|
(Unless you are objecting to the pat-downs of your wife's pet birds and your kid's pet cat)
"I should have the right to listen to music and watch movies freely.
From what I've seen, the majority opinion is "I should have the right to use media which I have paid for, on any display device that I own, for non-commercial purposes", not "I should have the right to copy anything without paying, then profit from selling it on"
I have a bunch of google apps (gmail, calendar, docs) open 24/7 for work and personal accounts; plus when I get round to reading news I end up middle clicking most things on the slashdot front page; then doing web dev (ok, I guess that's not standard...) I'd have another 10 tabs or so for our own site, bug tracker, build system, blah blah; and then I keep tabs open instead of using short-term bookmarks -- so all in all, my personal use averages between 20 and 30. So you've got me there, 50 is probably excessive, but I think my general point of "lots of tabs in a browser is more realistic than a kernel compile" still stands
While compiling the Linux kernel with 64 parallel jobs
Ok, but how does it handle under normal desktop stress? Can windows still be moved smoothly when firefox has 50 javascript-heavy sites open?
Why you ask, well I have a compiler that can take it to native C++ available if I need it.
Presuming you mean hiphop, have you actually looked at its output? Hint: it does not compile '<? print "hello world"; ?>' into 'void main() {printf("hello world");}', it compiles it into several hundred kilobytes of C++, which through the magic of C++, are then turned into tens of megabytes of binary. I could type out "hello world" by hand in less time than it takes for a hiphop app to even be loaded from disk :-P
(Sure, it's twice as fast as regular PHP, but that's still slower than most other languages -- there is a big difference between "translated to C++" and "written in C++")
Can someone please explain what this Kinect thing is?
AFAIK it's a webcam with a "distance" channel as well as RGB (possibly also a temperature channel and noise cancelling mic, though I may be imagining those)
I do know that any sort of skills you develop with these games are pointless for playing actual music
Have you seen the latest "pro" controllers? The pro keyboard is pretty much a standard MIDI keyboard; and the pro guitar, while not exactly a standard guitar, does seem to have the same number and layout of places to put your fingers
Is Slashdot on the side of the company or the author?
Slashdot is a varied community where nearly half support one side of each issue, nearly half support the other*, and the remainder only ever post off-topic pissy rants about how people treat Slashdot as an individual :-P
* while pretty much everyone on both sides claims to be in the tiny intelligent minority, both sides criticizing slashdot-the-individual for being against them
you had no idea -- and could not have reasonably had any idea -- that a particular work was copyrighted at the time.
Given that copyright is automatic, I'd say a logically reasonable idea is "If you didn't write it yourself, and it doesn't have a 'this is explicitly public domain' notice on it, then it's copyrighted to someone else". Sure, you can't be 100% certain, but assuming public domain when that assumption is wrong 99.9% of the time seems at best to be pleading ignorance.
* Windows XP, BlackBerry, and iOS before 4 don't support the extension that allows name-based virtual hosting over SSL.
Do they support IPv6? I wonder what the world would be like if there were enough IPs that name-based virtual hosting wasn't necessary...