Because its downright silly to have 3 big trucks drive by to pick up 2 computers and a printer in the name of "envrionmental cleanliness"? If anything the big names should all pitch in and form a collaborative group.
Thanks, I kind of rushed to post as I was in a hurry, but I'll elaborate a bit further on this now.
Doing it this way provides full "single signon" features that passport offered without ANY dependence on a third party being available and playing nicey with competition. The only downside is you'd need your key with you at all times, but with the price of usb thumbdrives I don't see that as much of an issue if done right, and you can always keep normal logins as backups.
On top of that you can also use this to be able to keysign your messages on forums and comment systems providing a trustable means of saying that userX on siteA is userY on siteB, something OpenID and other systems attempt to do but (in my opinion) do as wrong as MS Passport did.
Presumably you could even store all of your personal info(VCard? credit card info? etc) encrypted and provide some protocol for the sites to request it while editing your details.
Really, it just feels a lot better than relying on http connections to some third party. SSH shows us how well it could work, the only real downside is again needing the key with you, and presumably larger cpu load for the hosts. Both are things I think a lot of people wouldn't mind.
Hopefully it will fail the same way. What we need is public key encryption used for authentication over http. The "single signon" should be authenticating to the agent in your browser which should get you instantly logged in to any site that accepts your public key.
True, but if you know something happened you can easily look up the details elsewhere (google news), which is hard to do when all you can find out from fox news is the details of the Jon Benet story, or whatever the current "Big Story" is.
The Daily Show/ Colbert report is the news with humor on top.
CNN/Fox News/etc is the news with fear, manipulation, marketing, and a lot of general bullshit on top.
In the end you still get the same story, just different presentation. You also get a lot more news in 30 minutes of the dailyshow than you would 30 minutes of Fox News, where likely it would just be 30 minutes covering the same story.
I actually slightly disagree - I think mySQL is adequet for what most web people use it for, but I would say its overkill/not perfect. SQLite does a much better job for what most people use mysql for (blogs and other simple webapps, anything that doesnt need multiple users with different permissions messing with the tables at the same time). Its downright silly to have to run two large daemons (apache + mysql) and configure them both just to set up something simple like wordpress.
SQLite gives you all* the power of SQL in something as simple as a single.db file. I highly recommend every check it out, its public domain so you can do whatever you want with it and embed it into your packages without worrying about license conflicts. It also makes it very simple to move a page around or create full backups as everything goes nicely into the same tarball.
Only downside is for most people they will need their sysadmin to manually edit the php configs and compile a module seperately to get it working, but thats a php fault, not SQLite. You're fine if you use perl or whatever else. I think the next version of php is shipping with sqlite out of the box too.
*k, technically not "all", but certainly all that most webapps would use.
Some things do, like NVidia's PureVideo(I think thats the name) software that GPU-accelerates some advanced video decompression. I've also heard of it used for some sort of compression and a few other things, but the problem is getting data off back from the card was really slow with AGP
I have no idea how PCI-X changes this.
Re:First planet named after an IRC network!
on
"Xena" To Be Named Eris
·
· Score: 4, Informative
"misconfigured" is a bit inaccurate, it was a deliberate configuration to allow anyone to do whatever they wanted (open C/N lines -- Anyone could link anything they wanted as a server). Eris would have been proud.
The thing about mythtv(and most gpl software) is the developers really only get/want two things out of development:
1) Better software for them to personally use 2) Experience/enjoyment of devel.
Neither of these are any better or worse based on number of people using the software, so most don't care about marketing. If someone else gets good use out of the software than thats great and they can do with it as they wish(assuming it complies with GPL), but theres no reason to market it.
Except that with professional athletes, we call that "cheating". How many doping scandals do we get in any given year?
Admittedly, there's still stuff like equipment, but even that is either minimized or standardized in many sports. And hell, many athletes get paid to use a certain companies equiptment and/or logo - do you think they pay for their shoes in the NBA?
Most of what makes an honest athlete good is time, talent and training, not money.
Cheating by the rules, not by laws(barring illegal substances/abuse). Even then you know people would do it if they could so its beside the parent posters point -- He was saying that people do this everywhere they can and that its not any different that people do it in online gaming.
Some people enjoy TV more if they spend a lot of money on satellite/a huge TV/good speakers/good couch/etc. You could argue they should be able to enjoy it all the same by just watching a 8" black and white broadcast only tv as thats what some others do.
Same with general computing -- spend money on a high end machine that does everything you want quicker/easily, or do it slowly in lower quality. Just all about putting in more money for more enjoyment.
Paying for items in games is silly, but if you enjoy the type of game that is more enjoyable with a better standing and you have more money than time, why spend the sparce resource to get where you want? Why care when others do so?
While true, IE used to(might still, not sure) discard the servers error page if it was less than a certain amount of bytes and instead show its own pretty page.
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but just FYI/clearing up some potential confusion.
I think its more so you can have a "clean" laptop when browsing around wardriving looking up questionable content. Of course none of that app seems to address the fact that you'll have dirty data in your swapfile for potentially long amounts of time. Or the fact that its using IE which is rumored to keep a hidden history file (I won't go into this as I don't have enough facts, but enough googling will point it out. its supposedly a file thats hidden to most of windows that has some browsing history in it)
I grew up with a large (200lb) rednose pit. Admittedly he went after a few cats, but thats because its how he was trained, nothing to do with biology -- He was also trained to never hurt his family and he didn't, but if you came into our house and he didn't see one of us with you/invite you in.. Goodluck. The only people he showed any hostility towards were people in uniforms, but you know, being shot in the eye will do that to someone.
All of your arguments to me sound the same as if you were to go around saying the same about blackpeople. They commit so many rapes and murders and burglaries I don't see why anyone would want one in their city. I even know of one who raped a girl, went to jail, and damned if he didnt go back to do it again as soon as he got out. I say we exterminate them all the same way they did in germany with the jews.
Sound pretty racist, absurd, and downright stupid? Yeah, exactly. Don't blame a dog for something similar dogs have done, especially when its 99% of the time the owners fault for not knowing how to train their dog or intentionally training them badly.
As a codemonkey/sysadmin type, in that situation I'd probably have to do the same but certainly would rather be dealing with emails that I can respond to after I've made a good response/thought about it/doublechecked stuff than phonecalls that by their very nature demand instant attention without any ability to control the flow.
While I partially agree (and grew up as one of those people, but somewhat grew out of it), Strategy guides can also be seen as someone that wants to get more out of the game - Say you're stuck on a part of the game and don't have the time to invest to put into getting past it. Why should your game be cut arbitrarily short when you could just read that you're supposed to go back to world1 and pick up an item from behind the desk in the corner.
Gamesharks even more so, though not always used for it - With a memory editor you can do a LOT to extend a games fun. Once you beat a game theres not much replay value, but a few memory rewrites can lead to a really different gameplay experience potentially. Take a look at some of the old streetfighter codes like the classic one that makes the game think you're always on the ground so you can throw midair fireballs and stuff. Lots of fun.
Also, speaking of street fighter, strategy guides for fighting games just make sense. How else are you supposed to learn all the moves let alone remember them? Back in the day when it was just 16 fighters or so they could put them in the manual or side of the arcade cabinet, but in the latest games with dozens of fighters with dozens of moves an combos, you'd practically need the guide if you want to be able to get anywhere.
If they do that then it will be at best an EP and they won't get paid nearly as well, nor will it get the same distribution. I'm not in the industry so I cant give specifics, but take a look at some of Mars Voltas works. Their latest cd is pretty much split arbitrarily so as to be long enough to be a 'real album'. They also have a live cd thats has a good 5 or 6 tracks that are just parts of the last song. Apparently the record companies will screw you over if you don't have enough tracks, even if one is 40+ minutes long
As an aside, Mars Volta is one of the few examples of music that is much better as a cd than as an individual track. You might like Inertiatic on its own, but until you've heard the full cd as a whole you havn't experienced the band.
What if I were to make something impressive in the image manipulation field like Imagemagick or GIMP and try to GPL it, and someone made a website and sold access to online image manip based on it?
Or if you just used "service" as a full run-around of the gpl and have an app that is little more than a frontend to pipe data over the network and have the network return the results (either as data or opcodes to run)
I think the best control would be just a nice analog joystick. Further you tilt it, the faster it scrolls. Let it snap to default position and it instantly stops.
Thought about this with fast forwarding on a DVR (which always seems to be the wrong speed), but would work just as well on a keyboard or mouse.
As for smoothscrolling in current tech, the best I've found is just middleclicking in a browser/some documents and pulling the cursor away from that icon it creates. Further away, the faster it scrolls. It's pretty smooth for me, but depends on your driver/mouse settings of course. For that matter, some mice can smoothscroll by default in some apps, but maybe that lack of standardization is the issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Because its downright silly to have 3 big trucks drive by to pick up 2 computers and a printer in the name of "envrionmental cleanliness"?
If anything the big names should all pitch in and form a collaborative group.
If you told me (helpfully and without an attitude), I'd be thankful.
If you billed me, I'd take you to court.
The more you know the more likely you are to use the right tool for the job.
For that matter, if you REALLY knew everything you'd know how to get out of paying your your own equipment.
Thanks, I kind of rushed to post as I was in a hurry, but I'll elaborate a bit further on this now.
Doing it this way provides full "single signon" features that passport offered without ANY dependence on a third party being available and playing nicey with competition. The only downside is you'd need your key with you at all times, but with the price of usb thumbdrives I don't see that as much of an issue if done right, and you can always keep normal logins as backups.
On top of that you can also use this to be able to keysign your messages on forums and comment systems providing a trustable means of saying that userX on siteA is userY on siteB, something OpenID and other systems attempt to do but (in my opinion) do as wrong as MS Passport did.
Presumably you could even store all of your personal info(VCard? credit card info? etc) encrypted and provide some protocol for the sites to request it while editing your details.
Really, it just feels a lot better than relying on http connections to some third party. SSH shows us how well it could work, the only real downside is again needing the key with you, and presumably larger cpu load for the hosts. Both are things I think a lot of people wouldn't mind.
Hopefully it will fail the same way. What we need is public key encryption used for authentication over http. The "single signon" should be authenticating to the agent in your browser which should get you instantly logged in to any site that accepts your public key.
True, but if you know something happened you can easily look up the details elsewhere (google news), which is hard to do when all you can find out from fox news is the details of the Jon Benet story, or whatever the current "Big Story" is.
The Daily Show/ Colbert report is the news with humor on top.
CNN/Fox News/etc is the news with fear, manipulation, marketing, and a lot of general bullshit on top.
In the end you still get the same story, just different presentation. You also get a lot more news in 30 minutes of the dailyshow than you would 30 minutes of Fox News, where likely it would just be 30 minutes covering the same story.
38904334 won't work, and neither will any of the 7 random music pages I just tried. Maybe its already patched?
I actually slightly disagree - I think mySQL is adequet for what most web people use it for, but I would say its overkill/not perfect. SQLite does a much better job for what most people use mysql for (blogs and other simple webapps, anything that doesnt need multiple users with different permissions messing with the tables at the same time). Its downright silly to have to run two large daemons (apache + mysql) and configure them both just to set up something simple like wordpress.
.db file. I highly recommend every check it out, its public domain so you can do whatever you want with it and embed it into your packages without worrying about license conflicts. It also makes it very simple to move a page around or create full backups as everything goes nicely into the same tarball.
SQLite gives you all* the power of SQL in something as simple as a single
Only downside is for most people they will need their sysadmin to manually edit the php configs and compile a module seperately to get it working, but thats a php fault, not SQLite. You're fine if you use perl or whatever else. I think the next version of php is shipping with sqlite out of the box too.
*k, technically not "all", but certainly all that most webapps would use.
He's guilty of possesion and possibly something harsher if he shows anyone.
God, somebody PLEASE think of the children!
Some things do, like NVidia's PureVideo(I think thats the name) software that GPU-accelerates some advanced video decompression. I've also heard of it used for some sort of compression and a few other things, but the problem is getting data off back from the card was really slow with AGP
I have no idea how PCI-X changes this.
"misconfigured" is a bit inaccurate, it was a deliberate configuration to allow anyone to do whatever they wanted (open C/N lines -- Anyone could link anything they wanted as a server). Eris would have been proud.
The thing about mythtv(and most gpl software) is the developers really only get/want two things out of development:
1) Better software for them to personally use
2) Experience/enjoyment of devel.
Neither of these are any better or worse based on number of people using the software, so most don't care about marketing. If someone else gets good use out of the software than thats great and they can do with it as they wish(assuming it complies with GPL), but theres no reason to market it.
Cheating by the rules, not by laws(barring illegal substances/abuse). Even then you know people would do it if they could so its beside the parent posters point -- He was saying that people do this everywhere they can and that its not any different that people do it in online gaming.
Some people enjoy TV more if they spend a lot of money on satellite/a huge TV/good speakers/good couch/etc. You could argue they should be able to enjoy it all the same by just watching a 8" black and white broadcast only tv as thats what some others do.
Same with general computing -- spend money on a high end machine that does everything you want quicker/easily, or do it slowly in lower quality. Just all about putting in more money for more enjoyment.
Paying for items in games is silly, but if you enjoy the type of game that is more enjoyable with a better standing and you have more money than time, why spend the sparce resource to get where you want? Why care when others do so?
While true, IE used to(might still, not sure) discard the servers error page if it was less than a certain amount of bytes and instead show its own pretty page.
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but just FYI/clearing up some potential confusion.
I think its more so you can have a "clean" laptop when browsing around wardriving looking up questionable content. Of course none of that app seems to address the fact that you'll have dirty data in your swapfile for potentially long amounts of time. Or the fact that its using IE which is rumored to keep a hidden history file (I won't go into this as I don't have enough facts, but enough googling will point it out. its supposedly a file thats hidden to most of windows that has some browsing history in it)
I certainly agree, but I just take offense to the people that assume all pits are evil because they are pits. Its really no different from racism.
We got him long after he was full grown.
I grew up with a large (200lb) rednose pit. Admittedly he went after a few cats, but thats because its how he was trained, nothing to do with biology -- He was also trained to never hurt his family and he didn't, but if you came into our house and he didn't see one of us with you/invite you in.. Goodluck. The only people he showed any hostility towards were people in uniforms, but you know, being shot in the eye will do that to someone.
All of your arguments to me sound the same as if you were to go around saying the same about blackpeople. They commit so many rapes and murders and burglaries I don't see why anyone would want one in their city. I even know of one who raped a girl, went to jail, and damned if he didnt go back to do it again as soon as he got out. I say we exterminate them all the same way they did in germany with the jews.
Sound pretty racist, absurd, and downright stupid? Yeah, exactly. Don't blame a dog for something similar dogs have done, especially when its 99% of the time the owners fault for not knowing how to train their dog or intentionally training them badly.
As a codemonkey/sysadmin type, in that situation I'd probably have to do the same but certainly would rather be dealing with emails that I can respond to after I've made a good response/thought about it/doublechecked stuff than phonecalls that by their very nature demand instant attention without any ability to control the flow.
While I partially agree (and grew up as one of those people, but somewhat grew out of it), Strategy guides can also be seen as someone that wants to get more out of the game - Say you're stuck on a part of the game and don't have the time to invest to put into getting past it. Why should your game be cut arbitrarily short when you could just read that you're supposed to go back to world1 and pick up an item from behind the desk in the corner.
Gamesharks even more so, though not always used for it - With a memory editor you can do a LOT to extend a games fun. Once you beat a game theres not much replay value, but a few memory rewrites can lead to a really different gameplay experience potentially. Take a look at some of the old streetfighter codes like the classic one that makes the game think you're always on the ground so you can throw midair fireballs and stuff. Lots of fun.
Also, speaking of street fighter, strategy guides for fighting games just make sense. How else are you supposed to learn all the moves let alone remember them? Back in the day when it was just 16 fighters or so they could put them in the manual or side of the arcade cabinet, but in the latest games with dozens of fighters with dozens of moves an combos, you'd practically need the guide if you want to be able to get anywhere.
If they do that then it will be at best an EP and they won't get paid nearly as well, nor will it get the same distribution. I'm not in the industry so I cant give specifics, but take a look at some of Mars Voltas works. Their latest cd is pretty much split arbitrarily so as to be long enough to be a 'real album'. They also have a live cd thats has a good 5 or 6 tracks that are just parts of the last song. Apparently the record companies will screw you over if you don't have enough tracks, even if one is 40+ minutes long
As an aside, Mars Volta is one of the few examples of music that is much better as a cd than as an individual track. You might like Inertiatic on its own, but until you've heard the full cd as a whole you havn't experienced the band.
What if I were to make something impressive in the image manipulation field like Imagemagick or GIMP and try to GPL it, and someone made a website and sold access to online image manip based on it?
Or if you just used "service" as a full run-around of the gpl and have an app that is little more than a frontend to pipe data over the network and have the network return the results (either as data or opcodes to run)
Nah.. Sounds like what you'd use to put movies together on a sega saturn.
I think the best control would be just a nice analog joystick. Further you tilt it, the faster it scrolls. Let it snap to default position and it instantly stops.
Thought about this with fast forwarding on a DVR (which always seems to be the wrong speed), but would work just as well on a keyboard or mouse.
As for smoothscrolling in current tech, the best I've found is just middleclicking in a browser/some documents and pulling the cursor away from that icon it creates. Further away, the faster it scrolls. It's pretty smooth for me, but depends on your driver/mouse settings of course. For that matter, some mice can smoothscroll by default in some apps, but maybe that lack of standardization is the issue.