The problem is, is that this seems like a few bad apples ruining it for everyone else. This happens all the time in real life. DVDs are encrypted because they figured people would copy them unfairly. And some people do. The problem is that it makes them harder for everyone else to use in the process. The question then becomes how much protection is too much? If they blocked out editing of all wikipedia content then it would kind of defeat the purpose of the entire website. If however they only choose to block editing of certain articles that get a lot of false information in them to get a political agenda across (either way) then, it's probably a good thing that articles are not wide open for everyone to edit.
How do you actually prove that a binary release is compiled from GPLd code. Could enough changes were made to the code base, such that the functionality wasn't changed, but that it was hard to tell wether they rewrote something from scratch with the same functionality?
That Is True. I wonder if Linus could stop them from putting out something called Linux because he owns the trademark. They could still use the Kernel, as per the GPL, but they wouldn't be allowed to call it Linux because Linus wouldn't give them the rights to use that name. Kind of like how CentOS is just Redhat with all the Redhat TM taken out. How does the GPL deal with this stuff. If someone is allowed to take your code and tweak it, and redistribute it, are they required to take out all the TM because they don't really own the Trademark? As far as I'm aware, you don't have to ask anybody to make your own Linux distro and release it. Has the Linux trademark become diluted because so many different people are using it?
I remember when they first came out with DVD drives for computers I saw a few reviews in magazines, and most of them were saying, sorry, no screen shot, because the included software blocked the ability to take screen shots somehow. Which really sucks for those trying to do a review and push the product. Yeah, we'd like to show you how nice these new DVD's look, but they won't let us. I'm sure you'll see a lot of this smae stuff again with the new HD formats.
They've already done it. With the new HD-DVD and BluRay players, they still have the analog jacks, but the movies can contain flags such that only standard definition content is output when using the analog jacks. They will be able to control which content it put out on which jacks. Even some digital outputs won't be able to get HD content. Only HDMI, which is absent on quite a few HDTVs.
Yeah, but back in the tripod/geocities days with no templates and no server side includes, it was the only way to get any kind of code reuse. Otherwise you'd have to copy that left hand column into every one of your pages, and not forget a single one. Then when you wanted to make a small change, you'd have to change it across all your pages.
Yeah, Like I should be required to have all this trusted computing junk on my computer if all I want to do is write an email. You can run windows XP on a Pentium 1 with 128 Megs of ram, and a half meg video card if you want to. You probably shouldn't but you still can. I could see a lot of people getting really mad when they go out to buy the new version of windows only to find out that it won't run on their very recently bought computer. I just bought a computer, and it probably won't be supported by Vista, because I think it's missing some of the features.
Ah yes, but often the same culture will be encountered in the work place. If you can't handle 4 years in school with these people, what makes you think you can handle 30 years of working with these people. If they quit because they don't like other students in the program that's their own downfall. I knew a few girls who go along quite well with the guys, and I also know some who switched to other programs because really, it just wasn't their thing, and they were getting into computers just cause they thought they could make a lot of money.
And that was only 6 scholarships. How is that even going to affect the balance. I know schools in canada have tons of teachers graduating and 6 more men wouldn't make much of a difference.
But with boys it's different. My parents told me daily to get off the computer and go outside. I didn't need encouragement to know it was something that I wanted to do. I learned most of the stuff I know about computers on my own, by tinkering and reading manuals. If someone is truly interested, they don't need someone guiding them the entire way. Sure it would probably help, but it's not necessary or sufficient. I'm sure that 90% of computer programmers felt quite a bit of pressure from peers and adults about not going into computers, but they did it anyway, because it was something they were interested in.
You obviously don't use Zip.ca. If you put a movie on your list, there's no telling when it will come. Unless you mark it as ASAP. But you can only have 2 movies on ASAP at a time, so you have to keep on going back, every time something goes off ASAP. And even stuff that's sufficiently popular will stay on ASAP for a month. So it's quite common that movies don't come for a year, especially if you don't put it on ASAP.
Maybe he should go to school then. I know I enjoyed programming a lot in university. Maybe he already has a degree, but that doesn't mean he can't take more courses. Classes do have deadlines, and often you can be more creative in school than you can be on the job site. Maybe he should be working on his masters or something.
The fifth element? Seriously? It's not a bad movie, but definitely not something I'd buy a new player for. Maybe if they got LOTR or the original star wars trilogy. Maybe they should put out some new movies on Blu-Ray.
What's funny is you just posted a comment about how messed up the moderation system is, and yet you get modded up to +5 for pointing out the flaws, and supporting Bill Gates. Guess it's not as messed up as you thought it was.
If the hardware is pretty much the same, then how come Sony is putting uber-expensive cell processors that nobody knows how to program for? If MS hardware gets the same power, is cheaper, and is easier to develop for, then doesn't that make the 360 a lot better?
I actually developed my key layout playing the original Descent. Once you figure out a control scheme that works for a game that actually has 6 degrees of freedom, it usually scales pretty well to other "3-D" games.
I would have to say that every software company is based around Intellectual property. First there's knowledge of the code, and then there's the knowledge how to support and use the sotware. That is all any of these companies have. If Google open sourced all their code, how long would it take because some other company (MS perhaps), bought a bunch of servers, and started hosting a search engine that worked just as well as Google's. How long after MS open sourced (for real) their Windows code, would somebody come and start selling (or giving away) a completely compatible OS. This would significantly hurt their bottom line. Maybe businesses would still buy windows for accountability and support, but most home users don't get much accountability and support right now with windows, so why would they pay for it?
Where I work, a lot of what we do is trying to reduce the LOC. Things are often written just to get them out the door, and then they are often never looked at again, because it just works. We find it useful to go over the old code and try to consolidate things, and reduce the amount of code, in order to make maintenance easier, and to make bugs less likely.
No, that would make the executable pretty huge, especially considering how often I would call a function such as this. And because the program crashes anyway, It wouldn't be run more than once, so not like inlining it would have a performance increase.
When IE 7 is released, it may be a little better than Firefox. Although I don't really see any real differences. The existence of the web developer extension is enough to keep me using Firefox 99% of the time. But in about 6 months, firefox will be all caught up, and MS will still be 5 years from releasing IE 8. Do you remember how long it took between IE 6 and IE 7?
I believe that he was more pointing towards ATI employees submitting reports about Nvidia drivers crashing. After receiving the requisite number of crash reports for losing certification (100's of thousansds probably), it would be impossible to go back and verify even a small percentage of the crash reports. Also, what about overclockers, or people running with bad memory chips (happens more often than you think). Their computers may crash more often than they should, and the problem may appear to be with some driver, but it's probably due to bits flipping when they shouldn't.
It seems to come up every couple months in the media (at least). Stories about how people are browsing pron on their work computer. I mean, come on, how stupid can you be? How bad is your job? And these aren't low ranking secretaries (although i'm sure it happens). Most of the time when you hear about it on the local news, it's high ranking city officials. Not that pron is evil or anything, but it's not something that you should be looking at on office hours. Is it really that common for people to do this? I mean, I've never been sitting at my desk, typing up a TPS report, and thought hey, I'd really like to look at some porn right now.
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The problem is, is that this seems like a few bad apples ruining it for everyone else. This happens all the time in real life. DVDs are encrypted because they figured people would copy them unfairly. And some people do. The problem is that it makes them harder for everyone else to use in the process. The question then becomes how much protection is too much? If they blocked out editing of all wikipedia content then it would kind of defeat the purpose of the entire website. If however they only choose to block editing of certain articles that get a lot of false information in them to get a political agenda across (either way) then, it's probably a good thing that articles are not wide open for everyone to edit.
How do you actually prove that a binary release is compiled from GPLd code. Could enough changes were made to the code base, such that the functionality wasn't changed, but that it was hard to tell wether they rewrote something from scratch with the same functionality?
That Is True. I wonder if Linus could stop them from putting out something called Linux because he owns the trademark. They could still use the Kernel, as per the GPL, but they wouldn't be allowed to call it Linux because Linus wouldn't give them the rights to use that name. Kind of like how CentOS is just Redhat with all the Redhat TM taken out. How does the GPL deal with this stuff. If someone is allowed to take your code and tweak it, and redistribute it, are they required to take out all the TM because they don't really own the Trademark? As far as I'm aware, you don't have to ask anybody to make your own Linux distro and release it. Has the Linux trademark become diluted because so many different people are using it?
I remember when they first came out with DVD drives for computers I saw a few reviews in magazines, and most of them were saying, sorry, no screen shot, because the included software blocked the ability to take screen shots somehow. Which really sucks for those trying to do a review and push the product. Yeah, we'd like to show you how nice these new DVD's look, but they won't let us. I'm sure you'll see a lot of this smae stuff again with the new HD formats.
They've already done it. With the new HD-DVD and BluRay players, they still have the analog jacks, but the movies can contain flags such that only standard definition content is output when using the analog jacks. They will be able to control which content it put out on which jacks. Even some digital outputs won't be able to get HD content. Only HDMI, which is absent on quite a few HDTVs.
Yeah, but back in the tripod/geocities days with no templates and no server side includes, it was the only way to get any kind of code reuse. Otherwise you'd have to copy that left hand column into every one of your pages, and not forget a single one. Then when you wanted to make a small change, you'd have to change it across all your pages.
Yeah, Like I should be required to have all this trusted computing junk on my computer if all I want to do is write an email. You can run windows XP on a Pentium 1 with 128 Megs of ram, and a half meg video card if you want to. You probably shouldn't but you still can. I could see a lot of people getting really mad when they go out to buy the new version of windows only to find out that it won't run on their very recently bought computer. I just bought a computer, and it probably won't be supported by Vista, because I think it's missing some of the features.
Ah yes, but often the same culture will be encountered in the work place. If you can't handle 4 years in school with these people, what makes you think you can handle 30 years of working with these people. If they quit because they don't like other students in the program that's their own downfall. I knew a few girls who go along quite well with the guys, and I also know some who switched to other programs because really, it just wasn't their thing, and they were getting into computers just cause they thought they could make a lot of money.
And that was only 6 scholarships. How is that even going to affect the balance. I know schools in canada have tons of teachers graduating and 6 more men wouldn't make much of a difference.
But with boys it's different. My parents told me daily to get off the computer and go outside. I didn't need encouragement to know it was something that I wanted to do. I learned most of the stuff I know about computers on my own, by tinkering and reading manuals. If someone is truly interested, they don't need someone guiding them the entire way. Sure it would probably help, but it's not necessary or sufficient. I'm sure that 90% of computer programmers felt quite a bit of pressure from peers and adults about not going into computers, but they did it anyway, because it was something they were interested in.
You obviously don't use Zip.ca. If you put a movie on your list, there's no telling when it will come. Unless you mark it as ASAP. But you can only have 2 movies on ASAP at a time, so you have to keep on going back, every time something goes off ASAP. And even stuff that's sufficiently popular will stay on ASAP for a month. So it's quite common that movies don't come for a year, especially if you don't put it on ASAP.
Maybe he should go to school then. I know I enjoyed programming a lot in university. Maybe he already has a degree, but that doesn't mean he can't take more courses. Classes do have deadlines, and often you can be more creative in school than you can be on the job site. Maybe he should be working on his masters or something.
But he didn't say flaking off, he just said discoloured. As long as the paint is still there, it's still protecting.
The fifth element? Seriously? It's not a bad movie, but definitely not something I'd buy a new player for. Maybe if they got LOTR or the original star wars trilogy. Maybe they should put out some new movies on Blu-Ray.
What's funny is you just posted a comment about how messed up the moderation system is, and yet you get modded up to +5 for pointing out the flaws, and supporting Bill Gates. Guess it's not as messed up as you thought it was.
If the hardware is pretty much the same, then how come Sony is putting uber-expensive cell processors that nobody knows how to program for? If MS hardware gets the same power, is cheaper, and is easier to develop for, then doesn't that make the 360 a lot better?
I actually developed my key layout playing the original Descent. Once you figure out a control scheme that works for a game that actually has 6 degrees of freedom, it usually scales pretty well to other "3-D" games.
Was it really only worth 100,000 EUR? Seems kind of cheap to me. That's only equivalent in coding time to 2 guys over 1 year.
I would have to say that every software company is based around Intellectual property. First there's knowledge of the code, and then there's the knowledge how to support and use the sotware. That is all any of these companies have. If Google open sourced all their code, how long would it take because some other company (MS perhaps), bought a bunch of servers, and started hosting a search engine that worked just as well as Google's. How long after MS open sourced (for real) their Windows code, would somebody come and start selling (or giving away) a completely compatible OS. This would significantly hurt their bottom line. Maybe businesses would still buy windows for accountability and support, but most home users don't get much accountability and support right now with windows, so why would they pay for it?
Or you could just use GAIM for windows.
Where I work, a lot of what we do is trying to reduce the LOC. Things are often written just to get them out the door, and then they are often never looked at again, because it just works. We find it useful to go over the old code and try to consolidate things, and reduce the amount of code, in order to make maintenance easier, and to make bugs less likely.
No, that would make the executable pretty huge, especially considering how often I would call a function such as this. And because the program crashes anyway, It wouldn't be run more than once, so not like inlining it would have a performance increase.
When IE 7 is released, it may be a little better than Firefox. Although I don't really see any real differences. The existence of the web developer extension is enough to keep me using Firefox 99% of the time. But in about 6 months, firefox will be all caught up, and MS will still be 5 years from releasing IE 8. Do you remember how long it took between IE 6 and IE 7?
I believe that he was more pointing towards ATI employees submitting reports about Nvidia drivers crashing. After receiving the requisite number of crash reports for losing certification (100's of thousansds probably), it would be impossible to go back and verify even a small percentage of the crash reports. Also, what about overclockers, or people running with bad memory chips (happens more often than you think). Their computers may crash more often than they should, and the problem may appear to be with some driver, but it's probably due to bits flipping when they shouldn't.
It seems to come up every couple months in the media (at least). Stories about how people are browsing pron on their work computer. I mean, come on, how stupid can you be? How bad is your job? And these aren't low ranking secretaries (although i'm sure it happens). Most of the time when you hear about it on the local news, it's high ranking city officials. Not that pron is evil or anything, but it's not something that you should be looking at on office hours. Is it really that common for people to do this? I mean, I've never been sitting at my desk, typing up a TPS report, and thought hey, I'd really like to look at some porn right now.