Yes, for some reason, office suites feel that they have to inculde everything. Most people don't need 90% of the features in there, or could get by without them if they weren't there. Also, putting tools where they shouldn't be makes things harder. You can draw a picture in Word, Powerpoint, Excel and every other app. Why not have 1 app for drawing, and then the ability to place that drawing in each of the other apps.
Except in the case with MS, you paid to get software that fails. If you use open source, and don't pay for support, at least you didn't spend money to have software that fails.
That is a little tricky, but i'm sure it wouldn't take long to for someone to write a library so that nobody ever has to use MYSQL's library. That could probably be released under the BSD License so that we wouldn't even have to worry about all this stuff. I think that MYSQL has been a little underhanded in this way. Hard to believe that they have gotten so popular in the open source community with such restrictions in place. If they really start enforcing it, maybe everyone will switch to postgresql.
There probably wouldn't be anything to patent. Since MySQL is open source, all the IP has been in the public eye for many years. This pretty much rules out the idea that any of it is patentable.
Just because your software uses something that's GPL, doens't mean that you have to release all your source code. If you have an app which accesses an opensource database, or is hosted on an opensource web server, then you are not required to release your code. If you decide to release/create a database app or a webserver, and use the code from MySQL or Apache, then you are bound by the GPL. Simply using an open source project, even writing code that accesses an open source project, does not bind you to releasing your code under the GPL. If that were the case, all software coded on linux would have to be Open source.
Maybe we should be able to override the OS so that no matter what icon the executable file says it wants to display, the OS always shows an icon clearly depicting the fact that the file is an executable.
What's interesting is that apart from pornography, i'm not aware of any rating system for books, nor any rules or guidelines to follow for who gets access to which books. A child could go into a library and check out just about any book. It's all electronic now, so nobody would even know they were checking out the book, unless they bothered to look through the records. There's probably a lot of books out there that discuss topics too mature for many children, but we don't see any ratings on these. Not only that, I can't even remember the last time I saw a book that was banned, as it's often frowned upon. What brings all this attention to movies, and games, yet lets books slip through without any rating system at all?
Yes, it is pretty graphic, but I think it almost needs to be to get the point accross. Alex was a pretty screwed up kid, and they thought they could cure him by removing his free will to do as he wanted to. I think that a lot of people see the beatings and the rapes and the drug use and don't see the real social commentary that the movie is trying to make. However, I think the violence is necessary in order to get the point of the movie accross.
The reason you see a lot of parents who don't educate their kids is because they have come to rely on the government to do it for them. So many rules have been instituted to protect the children that the parents often feel that they don't have to worry about it, they let the authorities handle it. I played a lot of wolfenstein when I was younger, and my parents knew I did, but they didn't stop me because it didn't really have a negative effect on me. I'm sure had they noticed that I was getting really violent, that they would have done something to stop it.
It's kind of like Nintendogs. Taking care of a dog properly is way more work than real people are willing to do. Yet Nintendogs makes it fun. And for Chibi-robo, cleaning the house isn't fun, unless you're doing it as a 4-inch tall robot.
I've noticed lot of video games go out of print, and are never made again. Even some really good games. Try finding bomberman generations, not on ebay, and you'll see what I mean. It happens a lot with music too.
The windows encryption back door wouldn't work against the smart suspects either, because they would be using something open source, which they know doesn't have any back doors. For all the dumb people using default windows encryption, it will work perfectly. They'll be able to brute force the password, and access all the data on the drive, after making a backup copy for evidence in case the machine was booby trapped to delete all the data.
You want a backdoor to windows 2000? Copy the password files from one computer to another. All the accounts will be overwritten. The administrator password will now be what ever is on the computer the password files were copied from.
Couldn't they just brute force the password? Assuming that the password was under 15 characters (most cases), and the information was valuable enough, they could do it. A lot easier than brute forcing the 256-bit encryption or whatever it is they are using.
I don't understand where this is coming from. I use firefox on a daily basis, often with > 10 tabs open at a time. Very rarely does my memory consumption go beyone 100 mb. Granted, even the 60 MB it ususally takes up is a lot for a web browser, i'm not seeing anything close to what everyone else is seeing. I think it has to do with some extension these people are using. I have a few installed, but I don't use adblock. Could that be the culprit? I have flashblock, so most flash stuff doesn't get loaded, could that be it? Either way, I think it's something to do with specific configurations. Not something that's built into the default firefox. Especially with people talking about Firefox taking up 700 MB.
I don't know if anybody else figure this one out, but there was a way to change some config file in Wolfenstein such that it would play the voices through the PC speaker. Just about any change would do, as far as I could figure. The sounds effects weren't that good, but it was a lot better then hearing the beeps you were accustomed to on the PC Speaker.
Yeah, sometimes selecting tons of units was the best way to take out large structures quickly. If you have 100 X attacking 1 Y, then that Y is going to be destroyed pretty fast, no matter how strong y was. Also, getting all your units to move towards the enemy base at once was hard if you could only have 12 selected at a time.
Yes, I just got it on the weekend, and already is one of my favourite games of all time. Maybe it's just because it's an original game unlike most of the other stuff out there. With most other games you can describe it by saying "It's like X, only with better Y", or "it's like X, only instead of Y you do Z" With chibi-robo, and games like animal crossing, it's not like that, because they are quite unlike other games i've seen before.
If you didn't buy the apple care, then it's probably only covered for defects in workmanship, which doesn't include lightning strikes. If you throw your monitor out the window, it isn't covered. Although you could probably contact your insurance company to get it replaced.
Yeah, but in Animal Crossing, if you left your town alone too long then weeds would be all over the place, and roaches would infest your house. And all the towns people would be very mad at you. It took more than a couple minutes to clean up the whole mess. You pretty much had to play it every day, and still, it was a very popular game.
But my point still stands. How many parts of KDE become unusable once you remove Konquerer? The browser/ HTML rendering engine is an important part of any modern Desktop. The real question is, how deep does the browser tie into the actual OS/Kernel? If the browser is just a component that lets you render HTML/CSS/JS, then it's probably doing just what a browser is supposed to do. Certain linux packages require certain desktop libraries (KDE,Gnome) to be installed in order to function. IE is a different beast altogether because it goes much deeper than the application level, right into the OS level causing lots of security problems.
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Yes, for some reason, office suites feel that they have to inculde everything. Most people don't need 90% of the features in there, or could get by without them if they weren't there. Also, putting tools where they shouldn't be makes things harder. You can draw a picture in Word, Powerpoint, Excel and every other app. Why not have 1 app for drawing, and then the ability to place that drawing in each of the other apps.
Except in the case with MS, you paid to get software that fails. If you use open source, and don't pay for support, at least you didn't spend money to have software that fails.
That is a little tricky, but i'm sure it wouldn't take long to for someone to write a library so that nobody ever has to use MYSQL's library. That could probably be released under the BSD License so that we wouldn't even have to worry about all this stuff. I think that MYSQL has been a little underhanded in this way. Hard to believe that they have gotten so popular in the open source community with such restrictions in place. If they really start enforcing it, maybe everyone will switch to postgresql.
There probably wouldn't be anything to patent. Since MySQL is open source, all the IP has been in the public eye for many years. This pretty much rules out the idea that any of it is patentable.
Just because your software uses something that's GPL, doens't mean that you have to release all your source code. If you have an app which accesses an opensource database, or is hosted on an opensource web server, then you are not required to release your code. If you decide to release/create a database app or a webserver, and use the code from MySQL or Apache, then you are bound by the GPL. Simply using an open source project, even writing code that accesses an open source project, does not bind you to releasing your code under the GPL. If that were the case, all software coded on linux would have to be Open source.
Maybe we should be able to override the OS so that no matter what icon the executable file says it wants to display, the OS always shows an icon clearly depicting the fact that the file is an executable.
What's interesting is that apart from pornography, i'm not aware of any rating system for books, nor any rules or guidelines to follow for who gets access to which books. A child could go into a library and check out just about any book. It's all electronic now, so nobody would even know they were checking out the book, unless they bothered to look through the records. There's probably a lot of books out there that discuss topics too mature for many children, but we don't see any ratings on these. Not only that, I can't even remember the last time I saw a book that was banned, as it's often frowned upon. What brings all this attention to movies, and games, yet lets books slip through without any rating system at all?
Yes, it is pretty graphic, but I think it almost needs to be to get the point accross. Alex was a pretty screwed up kid, and they thought they could cure him by removing his free will to do as he wanted to. I think that a lot of people see the beatings and the rapes and the drug use and don't see the real social commentary that the movie is trying to make. However, I think the violence is necessary in order to get the point of the movie accross.
The reason you see a lot of parents who don't educate their kids is because they have come to rely on the government to do it for them. So many rules have been instituted to protect the children that the parents often feel that they don't have to worry about it, they let the authorities handle it. I played a lot of wolfenstein when I was younger, and my parents knew I did, but they didn't stop me because it didn't really have a negative effect on me. I'm sure had they noticed that I was getting really violent, that they would have done something to stop it.
It's kind of like Nintendogs. Taking care of a dog properly is way more work than real people are willing to do. Yet Nintendogs makes it fun. And for Chibi-robo, cleaning the house isn't fun, unless you're doing it as a 4-inch tall robot.
I've noticed lot of video games go out of print, and are never made again. Even some really good games. Try finding bomberman generations, not on ebay, and you'll see what I mean. It happens a lot with music too.
The windows encryption back door wouldn't work against the smart suspects either, because they would be using something open source, which they know doesn't have any back doors. For all the dumb people using default windows encryption, it will work perfectly. They'll be able to brute force the password, and access all the data on the drive, after making a backup copy for evidence in case the machine was booby trapped to delete all the data.
You want a backdoor to windows 2000? Copy the password files from one computer to another. All the accounts will be overwritten. The administrator password will now be what ever is on the computer the password files were copied from.
Couldn't they just brute force the password? Assuming that the password was under 15 characters (most cases), and the information was valuable enough, they could do it. A lot easier than brute forcing the 256-bit encryption or whatever it is they are using.
What makes you think that a company can't make money from opensource software? Do you think all the people at Redhat are working for free?
I don't understand where this is coming from. I use firefox on a daily basis, often with > 10 tabs open at a time. Very rarely does my memory consumption go beyone 100 mb. Granted, even the 60 MB it ususally takes up is a lot for a web browser, i'm not seeing anything close to what everyone else is seeing. I think it has to do with some extension these people are using. I have a few installed, but I don't use adblock. Could that be the culprit? I have flashblock, so most flash stuff doesn't get loaded, could that be it? Either way, I think it's something to do with specific configurations. Not something that's built into the default firefox. Especially with people talking about Firefox taking up 700 MB.
Or he could have had 512 + 128 + 64 + 4 ? I'm not sure of any system that accepts both 512 meg chips and 4 meg chips, but surely it's possible.
I don't know if anybody else figure this one out, but there was a way to change some config file in Wolfenstein such that it would play the voices through the PC speaker. Just about any change would do, as far as I could figure. The sounds effects weren't that good, but it was a lot better then hearing the beeps you were accustomed to on the PC Speaker.
Yeah, sometimes selecting tons of units was the best way to take out large structures quickly. If you have 100 X attacking 1 Y, then that Y is going to be destroyed pretty fast, no matter how strong y was. Also, getting all your units to move towards the enemy base at once was hard if you could only have 12 selected at a time.
Yes, I just got it on the weekend, and already is one of my favourite games of all time. Maybe it's just because it's an original game unlike most of the other stuff out there. With most other games you can describe it by saying "It's like X, only with better Y", or "it's like X, only instead of Y you do Z" With chibi-robo, and games like animal crossing, it's not like that, because they are quite unlike other games i've seen before.
If you didn't buy the apple care, then it's probably only covered for defects in workmanship, which doesn't include lightning strikes. If you throw your monitor out the window, it isn't covered. Although you could probably contact your insurance company to get it replaced.
But we all know how well security through obscurity works. Why ruin a perfect system.
The games that I love over the years include
Simcity, Original/2000
Descent, All Versions
Wolfenstein
Zelda, all versions
Mario, All versions
Mario Party All Versions
Animal Crossing
Chibi-Robo
Those are the ones I can name off the top of my head.
Yeah, but in Animal Crossing, if you left your town alone too long then weeds would be all over the place, and roaches would infest your house. And all the towns people would be very mad at you. It took more than a couple minutes to clean up the whole mess. You pretty much had to play it every day, and still, it was a very popular game.
But my point still stands. How many parts of KDE become unusable once you remove Konquerer? The browser/ HTML rendering engine is an important part of any modern Desktop. The real question is, how deep does the browser tie into the actual OS/Kernel? If the browser is just a component that lets you render HTML/CSS/JS, then it's probably doing just what a browser is supposed to do. Certain linux packages require certain desktop libraries (KDE,Gnome) to be installed in order to function. IE is a different beast altogether because it goes much deeper than the application level, right into the OS level causing lots of security problems.