The whole point of UTF-8 is that it can silently be inserted in places that were designed to handle ASCII. So no, there is no way for something which is handling latin1 to know that what you gave it is actually UTF8 and therefore not legal.
If you're right in your implied assumption that XML would save the day and make backwards compatibility easy to maintain (and I'm not really sure this is true), then it sounds like you need to get started on refactoring the Blender code concerned with file saving and loading. Surely it can't be that hard can it? Or is it really easier to write the whole thing from scratch that one part of it?
what do you do when the current design stands in the way of a new feature you want to add?
Refactor the relevant parts of the application. It's not a closed debate, but Joel Spolsky has a good starting essay on why rewriting is usually a really, really stupid idea.
Usually inexperienced coders come to a large existing application and find it's really hard to understand. In their heads is a simplistic picture of the parts of the requirements they understand, and they assume that can be turned directly into code. But in any real application there are usually hundreds of other parts that have been worked on and revised multiple times by others.
Note this is not saying "don't rewrite anything". Sure, rewrite *parts* of your application, using the experience you gained from it, and after designing it properly, and reusing the parts of the code that don't have a problem, and looking at the existing code for answers to problems. Just not everything at once.
What a horrendous website. Doesn't even bother to categorise music by genre. (Yes, I know that genres are subjective, but at least they give you an idea where to start). Instead there is an enormous list of obscure record labels and bizarre categories like "arts and crafts music"?
Interesting. Has the main parts of Linux distributions (i.e kernal, KDE, Gnome code) been thoroughly worked through to use secure APIs in the same way?
The suggestion that Microsoft will use activation to "force" upgrades is supported by neither historical experience, nor reasonable speculation. It is the epitomy of paranoid fantasy.
Wow cool! I always wanted one of those:)
You have a point, about Windows 98. Still, XP is their first activated product so we don't really know. The end of life disabling of activation is only a vague comment so far - I guess it is not in their license?
Does anyone else find it extremely tasteless that we entertain ourselves with games about war in the Middle East, at the same time as real people are actually being killed and injured in real fighting there?
If I were an Iraqi, I would probably think: what a bunch of smug, thoughtless bastards.
Isn't it inevitable? Do you really think that Microsoft will keep XP activation around forever? Especially once they drop "support" I would assume they would take the approach that activation is part of that. Of course they would be very sorry that you could no longer activate your software, but, well, it isn't supported any more is it?
How do you identify your legitimate customers ?
That's his point - he doesn't. He treats everyone like a legitimate customer, which is what he feels is ethically correct. I for one agree.
I think you drank the Kool-Aid. You read what you wanted to hear into her words.
"Copyright protection is a foundation of innovation" means "we need to protect our IP-based industries at all costs". "Copyright law should work to ultimately protect the best interests of consumers". Everyone knows that the best interests of consumers is to have lots of big hollywood movies to choose from.
It's pretty obvious the intention if you read the first paragraph, where she makes it clear that the big concern is all that money rolling in.
Indeed, in fact in a small sensor more megapixels is usually worse because the individual pixels can collect less light and so noise becomes worse.
What would be good is if Fujifilm's high sensitivity CCD (as in the F30) was integrated into phones. That is perfect for the kind of low-light photos camera-phones get used for.
Amusing that CNet (that bastion of photographic expertise) kept commenting positively on how "vibrant" the N95 photo was. Obviously the Nokia boosts the colours artificially, to make the photo look more exciting, even though the colours are not that strong in reality. Of course, they invalidate their entire results by not making any comment (let alone measurements or reference photos) on how close the photos were to the real colours.
But the interesting thing is what this says about people - the average person doesn't care much about realism, they want a nice looking photo regardless, and if the phone adjusts things artificially to make it look "better" then that might actually be the right thing to sell more phones. It's kind of an extension of the point and click idea.
Do not fear, my Silent Brother. I have already joined the ranks long ago. Bought many things of Quiet PC and Ascent. (How do you know about this? Fellow kiwi?). But reason had - for a moment - prevailed, you just reminded me that I had not yet achieved Nirvana.
Hm, nice game, but yeah the performance is horrendous. All that CPU just to draw a few lines and circles in 2D. Once there's a little bit more going on in the game, it drops down to quite low framerates. Perhaps its doing software transparency as well...
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Sure - I didn't say there were no killings under Lenin. I said AFTER Stalin. However things under Lenin were nowhere near as bad as they got under Stalin.
Anyway, either way it's clear that the USSR changed radically over time, and the prevailing US view of this monolith Stalinist state from beginning to end is silly and dangerous. It's particularly unhelpful now when Russia is changing further, in new territory again.
So the Russians keep saying. "We need a strong leader". No, you need a MORAL leader first. Please Russians, stand up and vote this kind of stuff down, we don't want to see you fall back into another totalitarian disaster.
Slaves in work camps? You're thinking of Stalin times, 1930's to 50's. After Stalin died things got a LOT better - there were no mass killings for one. I don't think the US realises how radically the USSR changed during the time it existed. It was messy and dangerous but somewhat functional under Lenin; brutal under Stalin; Kruschev denounced Stalin and changed direction radically; then it gradually relaxed until there was not the heart to continue forcing it to exist. Discussing the Soviet Union as if it has always been that same entity from WW2 is pointless.
Interesting, thanks. Or not that interesting - just another buffer overflow exploit in code that doesn't validate it's input fully.
Observations: If DEP/the NX/XD bit was actually turned on on Vista or XP by default, this would have no effect. Bit dissappointing that Firefox falls for this too. I REALLY DON'T WANT Firefox to support animated cursors....
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The whole point of UTF-8 is that it can silently be inserted in places that were designed to handle ASCII. So no, there is no way for something which is handling latin1 to know that what you gave it is actually UTF8 and therefore not legal.
It's difficult to see how posting about a closed-source app to a discussion about open source apps, is helpful.
In fact it looks a lot like promotion.
If you're right in your implied assumption that XML would save the day and make backwards compatibility easy to maintain (and I'm not really sure this is true), then it sounds like you need to get started on refactoring the Blender code concerned with file saving and loading. Surely it can't be that hard can it? Or is it really easier to write the whole thing from scratch that one part of it?
what do you do when the current design stands in the way of a new feature you want to add?
Refactor the relevant parts of the application. It's not a closed debate, but Joel Spolsky has a good starting essay on why rewriting is usually a really, really stupid idea.
Usually inexperienced coders come to a large existing application and find it's really hard to understand. In their heads is a simplistic picture of the parts of the requirements they understand, and they assume that can be turned directly into code. But in any real application there are usually hundreds of other parts that have been worked on and revised multiple times by others.
Note this is not saying "don't rewrite anything". Sure, rewrite *parts* of your application, using the experience you gained from it, and after designing it properly, and reusing the parts of the code that don't have a problem, and looking at the existing code for answers to problems. Just not everything at once.
What a horrendous website. Doesn't even bother to categorise music by genre. (Yes, I know that genres are subjective, but at least they give you an idea where to start). Instead there is an enormous list of obscure record labels and bizarre categories like "arts and crafts music"?
It also sets the exposure according to the first image and holds it there, so the images are consistent.
Interesting. Has the main parts of Linux distributions (i.e kernal, KDE, Gnome code) been thoroughly worked through to use secure APIs in the same way?
Indeed. From here, Canada looks like what the US should be, but hasn't been for some time (if ever).
150 millibits per month really is pathetic! They could at least let you have a full bit. Those bastards.
The suggestion that Microsoft will use activation to "force" upgrades is supported by neither historical experience, nor reasonable speculation. It is the epitomy of paranoid fantasy.
:)
Wow cool! I always wanted one of those
You have a point, about Windows 98. Still, XP is their first activated product so we don't really know. The end of life disabling of activation is only a vague comment so far - I guess it is not in their license?
Does anyone else find it extremely tasteless that we entertain ourselves with games about war in the Middle East, at the same time as real people are actually being killed and injured in real fighting there?
If I were an Iraqi, I would probably think: what a bunch of smug, thoughtless bastards.
IF that ever happens,
Isn't it inevitable? Do you really think that Microsoft will keep XP activation around forever? Especially once they drop "support" I would assume they would take the approach that activation is part of that. Of course they would be very sorry that you could no longer activate your software, but, well, it isn't supported any more is it?
How do you identify your legitimate customers ?
That's his point - he doesn't. He treats everyone like a legitimate customer, which is what he feels is ethically correct. I for one agree.
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I think you drank the Kool-Aid. You read what you wanted to hear into her words.
"Copyright protection is a foundation of innovation" means "we need to protect our IP-based industries at all costs".
"Copyright law should work to ultimately protect the best interests of consumers". Everyone knows that the best interests of consumers is to have lots of big hollywood movies to choose from.
It's pretty obvious the intention if you read the first paragraph, where she makes it clear that the big concern is all that money rolling in.
Indeed, in fact in a small sensor more megapixels is usually worse because the individual pixels can collect less light and so noise becomes worse.
What would be good is if Fujifilm's high sensitivity CCD (as in the F30) was integrated into phones. That is perfect for the kind of low-light photos camera-phones get used for.
Amusing that CNet (that bastion of photographic expertise) kept commenting positively on how "vibrant" the N95 photo was. Obviously the Nokia boosts the colours artificially, to make the photo look more exciting, even though the colours are not that strong in reality. Of course, they invalidate their entire results by not making any comment (let alone measurements or reference photos) on how close the photos were to the real colours.
But the interesting thing is what this says about people - the average person doesn't care much about realism, they want a nice looking photo regardless, and if the phone adjusts things artificially to make it look "better" then that might actually be the right thing to sell more phones. It's kind of an extension of the point and click idea.
Do not fear, my Silent Brother. I have already joined the ranks long ago. Bought many things of Quiet PC and Ascent. (How do you know about this? Fellow kiwi?). But reason had - for a moment - prevailed, you just reminded me that I had not yet achieved Nirvana.
Yeah, it's not perfectly silent. It is still slightly audible in a quiet room. However, it is a very low, non-intrusive rush of air.
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Dammit... now you've made me listen to it... I need quieter!! And I was thinking of upgrading too
How about Zalman? They still make 300W supplies which I can still buy here in NZ.
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These are quiet and fairly efficient (75% full load).
Hm, nice game, but yeah the performance is horrendous. All that CPU just to draw a few lines and circles in 2D. Once there's a little bit more going on in the game, it drops down to quite low framerates. Perhaps its doing software transparency as well...
Planning to get sued by WSJ?
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?%20id=110007
Sure - I didn't say there were no killings under Lenin. I said AFTER Stalin. However things under Lenin were nowhere near as bad as they got under Stalin.
Anyway, either way it's clear that the USSR changed radically over time, and the prevailing US view of this monolith Stalinist state from beginning to end is silly and dangerous. It's particularly unhelpful now when Russia is changing further, in new territory again.
So the Russians keep saying. "We need a strong leader". No, you need a MORAL leader first.
Please Russians, stand up and vote this kind of stuff down, we don't want to see you fall back into another totalitarian disaster.
Slaves in work camps? You're thinking of Stalin times, 1930's to 50's. After Stalin died things got a LOT better - there were no mass killings for one.
I don't think the US realises how radically the USSR changed during the time it existed. It was messy and dangerous but somewhat functional under Lenin; brutal under Stalin; Kruschev denounced Stalin and changed direction radically; then it gradually relaxed until there was not the heart to continue forcing it to exist.
Discussing the Soviet Union as if it has always been that same entity from WW2 is pointless.
Interesting, thanks. Or not that interesting - just another buffer overflow exploit in code that doesn't validate it's input fully.
Observations: If DEP/the NX/XD bit was actually turned on on Vista or XP by default, this would have no effect.
Bit dissappointing that Firefox falls for this too. I REALLY DON'T WANT Firefox to support animated cursors....