Do you really think that Jon-Motherfucking-Carmack is underhandedly trying to increase his fame and popularity by writing some _winmodem_drivers_ for linux? What is he going to be remembered for, in the end? Not some drivers. It is idiotic of you to think he could be doing this for any type of personal gain. I bet he can even afford to by a real hardware modem, and doesn't even need these drivers to use the internet (well, I think he has a T-1, so it's not such a problem for him), so it'a gotta be purely altruistic.
Why don't you find a bridge to hide under and assault thoue who try to cross.
Nevermind that the intent of writing winmodem drivers for linux is to UN-stifle the poor people who are stuck with a winmodem they can't get to work under a decent, law abiding operating system? I mean, c'mon, how many of us DON'T know someone who got bitten by the "it's a modem for only $30 at Frys" bug???
now _that's_ frightening. I thought microsoft was the worst imaginable entity to trust to write my operating system, but you proved me wrong. If the U.S. gov't made an OS, you KNOW they'd find a way to make it closed source.
One possibility, and I'm not claiming Apple is supporting this, would be to have multiple bitmaps for different sizes, and interpolate between them for intermediate scales.
I used to be a Mac Programmer, and there has been an architecture for multiple icon bitmaps for different sizes (and color depths) since the Mac II (the first color capable, cpu-seperate-from-monitor mac). Apple has supported this strategy in the past. And they are not idiots when it comes to interface design. In fact, I have to say they are the best I've seen (though I use linux 99% of the time, and hope to make an equal or better interface for linux myself), and it would shock me if they didn't have some provision for using smaller versions of insanely huge 128x128 icons.
classic... I write "this post _is_ off topic", referring to the original post (marked "flamebait"), and _my_ post gets marked as off topic. Once a post has taken a discussion thread off of a main topic, subsequent replies to the now-off-topic-topic should not also be marked off-topic. Dammit. And that original post should have been marked as off-topic, not flamebait. Meta-Moderators, give me justice!
You should have your own topic dedicated to discussing the pros and cons of your open source drew barrymore and natalie portman. This post _is_ off topic, but I would like to see more of it on slashdot. and get an account! You're funny enough to deserve one.
if an invention can be found by a computer executing a detrministic program, then it shouldn't be patentable. Any existing patent should be revoked.
Really? I could write a pretty simple program to print out every possible string with 100,000 characters or less, and it would probably write out more than a few patents. Would that invalidate them?
except that if "pretty much all the evidence linked to a crime could end up being encrypted", they don't know if I'm "doing anything wrong" unless they ALREADY HAVE broken my encryption.
pretty far from there not being any reason for them to want to see what I've been reading or writing.
not that that makes it ok. if they can do their best to access my _PRIVATE_ data, I can do my best to keep that data private. as a programmer (and someone who knows where GPG is), I expect to win.
I coded exclusively in C/C++ for many years, until I taught myself perl and CGI. The first things I fell in love with were the use of hashes as a built-in data type. Then the simplicity of the scalar-array-hash data model, and it's power. I am not a strong data typing fetishist. Perl is by far my favorite language. For nearly anything, it is worth it to me to be able to rapidly develop and evolve my code, magnitudes faster than C/C++ for the same application.
I think the strongest reason for the success of Perl is CPAN. If C/C++ had a _single_ worldwide library of free modules, all of which were open source, with no arguments amoung programmers as to which was _the_ archive, it would be much easier to use for every application. If I want to do some complicated thing in perl, I know that almost every part of the task will have already been implemented in perl by someone and it will be up on CPAN. All I have to do is write the glue code, and the occasional module myself. It is this community spirit that keeps perl so easy to use.
Perl is the best language for my programming needs. It's fast enough, incredibly easy and reliable, conceptually simple (meaning the solution to a problem in perl doesn't usually stray far from the description of the problem), and widely used and supported.
C/C++ has it's uses, but surely not anything involving string manipulation, and html is written as a string.
THe only reason no one has put these conservative freaks out of their misery is they're not worth the bullet, and they do have a point from time to time.
Listen man, they are NOT going to change things, regardless of how many letters you write them. If you write to your senator and ask him to take a pay cut, is he going to? No, it's not in his best interests. Neither is it in his best interests to decrease his (aka the government's) power over you. Writing ain't going to accomplish shit.
Just about every government in history has grown corrupt over time, and the citizens have had to endure ever increasing abuse from their government until they simply could not take it anymore and had to step in and take some of their power BACK.
This country is long overdue for a revolution. The people taking your rights are not going to stop, regardless of how nicely we ask. I think the time to ask nicely is long since past.
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Each person decides whether he is a victim or not. Obviously, you are too complacent to take any action. Perhaps others are not..
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We often see good law abiding citizens being robbed and/or killed for drug money.
we also often see "good law abiding citizens" being robbed and/or killed for food money. Food is EVIL. Let's outlaw it.
You ignorant fuck. Robbing and killing are illegal in and of themselves. There is no need to prosecute the people who are "good law abiding citizens" except for their drug habits. That is the only effect of having laws specifically against drug use. The people who also commit other crimes can easily be prosecuted for those crimes.
If I use encryption, I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". And I don't need some silly american law to back that up, I have a self-enforcing mathematical law to do that for me. "My" government has made privacy on the internet illegal for me, and the reasons that they have to are "secret" aka private. If I don't get any privacy, they don't either. Citizens are more important than govenment, in the same way that workers are more important than managers. Fuck the laws. I have a constitutional right to privacy, and the fact that I have a newfangled way to do it doesn't make them eligible to take that right away. Crypto laws are a sham, we all know it.
Well, unfortunately, all the money I have to spare to have forcibly taken by me by my govenment has been taken up by federal taxes. I usually end up giving 10 to 20 times as much to the US as I do to California, though California gives me ALL the benefits I might hope to recieve for paying taxes. There needs to be a tax revolution where people give their local govenments enough money to be independent, and screw the feds.
You probably agree with me, but we DON'T need ANY sort of government control of information. I'd trust the judgment of a 20 sided die to raise my kid more than an elected official in this era anyway.
all the 'parties' *cough* string themselves up in front of us with clever lies intended to make us think they are our best friends. This is bullshit as you well know.
Um - for the democrats and republicans, I'd completely agree. They are overinflated public opinion windsocks who routinely make idiotic and nation-destructive decisions. But do you really believe that it is impossible for a group of people to get together who all believe the same thing, and are simultaneously sick of this bullshit? I don't see it happening en masse, but it IS possible. See french revolution. I think there are parties out there who at least deserve to be given a shot. Instead of throwing your vote away (either on a republican or democrat who everyone assumes will win by inertia, or by not voting at all), why not check out the other parties and see if there is a candidate, however unpopular, who you actually agree with? Don't be complacent and depressed, do something. I'm a registered libertarian and I truly believe what they are looking to create is much better than what we have. I'm not saying you should vote libertarian, you may be of a different belief set than me. Check out all viewpoints, some of them don't suck.
the democrat-republican monopoly is very, very similar to the microsoft one: useless tech support when things go wrong, 50x more effort spent on marketing than producing good results, permanent overwhelming control over their customers takes precedence over quality.
Censorship always violates freedom of speech unless it is self censorship (in which case, it is an extension of freedom of speech). Obviously, if you are forced to censor yourself that is not constitutional.There are those time and place restrictions that allow different organizations to regulate when and where you can do certain things, like protests and the like.
I'm sorry, I almost understood, could you be a little less clear? These "different" organizations have no right to censor what I say, or prevent me from gaining free access to the speech of others would would wish me to hear it. The first amendment promises me this, and your ignorance and the people who people like you elect do not have any right to take this freedom away from me.
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no, Linux = Microsoft isn't a message either. It's an assignment.
Do you really think that Jon-Motherfucking-Carmack is underhandedly trying to increase his fame and popularity by writing some _winmodem_drivers_ for linux? What is he going to be remembered for, in the end? Not some drivers. It is idiotic of you to think he could be doing this for any type of personal gain. I bet he can even afford to by a real hardware modem, and doesn't even need these drivers to use the internet (well, I think he has a T-1, so it's not such a problem for him), so it'a gotta be purely altruistic.
Why don't you find a bridge to hide under and assault thoue who try to cross.
Nevermind that the intent of writing winmodem drivers for linux is to UN-stifle the poor people who are stuck with a winmodem they can't get to work under a decent, law abiding operating system? I mean, c'mon, how many of us DON'T know someone who got bitten by the "it's a modem for only $30 at Frys" bug???
now _that's_ frightening. I thought microsoft
was the worst imaginable entity to trust to
write my operating system, but you proved me
wrong. If the U.S. gov't made an OS, you KNOW
they'd find a way to make it closed source.
For national security reasons, of course.
One possibility, and I'm not claiming Apple is supporting this, would be to have multiple bitmaps for
different sizes, and interpolate between them for intermediate scales.
I used to be a Mac Programmer, and there has been an architecture for multiple icon bitmaps for different sizes (and color depths) since the Mac II (the first color capable, cpu-seperate-from-monitor mac). Apple has supported this strategy in the past. And they are not idiots when it comes to interface design. In fact, I have to say they are the best I've seen (though I use linux 99% of the time, and hope to make an equal or better interface for linux myself), and it would shock me if they didn't have some provision for using smaller versions of insanely huge 128x128 icons.
I have three words for you:
jour nal ing
i'm through
that's ok. I'd trade guns for drugs any day.
classic... I write "this post _is_ off topic", referring to the original post (marked "flamebait"), and _my_ post gets marked as off topic. Once a post has taken a discussion thread off of a main topic, subsequent replies to the now-off-topic-topic should not also be marked off-topic. Dammit. And that original post should have been marked as off-topic, not flamebait. Meta-Moderators, give me justice!
You should have your own topic dedicated to discussing the pros and cons of your open source drew barrymore and natalie portman. This post _is_ off topic, but I would like to see more of it on slashdot. and get an account! You're funny enough to deserve one.
oh shut up. The whole world is a clockwork orange chair these days.
ahh.... cut 'im some slack. He's just as much as
a slashdotter as you are.
if an invention can be found by a computer executing a detrministic program, then it shouldn't be patentable. Any existing patent should be revoked.
Really? I could write a pretty simple program to print out every possible string with 100,000 characters or less, and it would probably write out more than a few patents. Would that invalidate them?
except that if "pretty much all the evidence linked to a crime could end up being encrypted", they don't know if I'm "doing anything wrong" unless they ALREADY HAVE broken my encryption.
pretty far from there not being any reason for them to want to see what I've been reading or writing.
not that that makes it ok. if they can do their best to access my _PRIVATE_ data, I can do my best to keep that data private. as a programmer (and someone who knows where GPG is), I expect to win.
It's IANA.pl, obviously. It turns out they were just a huge buggy perl script all this time.
I coded exclusively in C/C++ for many years, until I taught myself perl and CGI. The first things I fell in love with were the use of hashes as a built-in data type. Then the simplicity of the scalar-array-hash data model, and it's power. I am not a strong data typing fetishist. Perl is by far my favorite language. For nearly anything, it is worth it to me to be able to rapidly develop and evolve my code, magnitudes faster than C/C++ for the same application.
I think the strongest reason for the success of Perl is CPAN. If C/C++ had a _single_ worldwide library of free modules, all of which were open source, with no arguments amoung programmers as to which was _the_ archive, it would be much easier to use for every application. If I want to do some complicated thing in perl, I know that almost every part of the task will have already been implemented in perl by someone and it will be up on CPAN. All I have to do is write the glue code, and the occasional module myself. It is this community spirit that keeps perl so easy to use.
Perl is the best language for my programming needs. It's fast enough, incredibly easy and reliable, conceptually simple (meaning the solution to a problem in perl doesn't usually stray far from the description of the problem), and widely used and supported.
C/C++ has it's uses, but surely not anything involving string manipulation, and html is written as a string.
THe only reason no one has put these conservative freaks out of their misery is they're not
worth the bullet, and they do have a point from time to time.
They are worth the bullet.
Listen man, they are NOT going to change things, regardless of how many letters you write them. If you write to your senator and ask him to take a pay cut, is he going to? No, it's not in his best interests. Neither is it in his best interests to decrease his (aka the government's) power over you. Writing ain't going to accomplish shit.
Just about every government in history has grown corrupt over time, and the citizens have had to endure ever increasing abuse from their government until they simply could not take it anymore and had to step in and take some of their power BACK.
This country is long overdue for a revolution. The people taking your rights are not going to stop, regardless of how nicely we ask. I think the time to ask nicely is long since past.
Each person decides whether he is a victim or not. Obviously, you are too complacent to take any action. Perhaps others are not..
we also often see "good law abiding citizens" being robbed and/or killed for food money. Food is EVIL. Let's outlaw it.
You ignorant fuck. Robbing and killing are illegal in and of themselves. There is no need to prosecute the people who are "good law abiding citizens" except for their drug habits. That is the only effect of having laws specifically against drug use. The people who also commit other crimes can easily be prosecuted for those crimes.
that's true. In this country at least, money == freedom.
If I use encryption, I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". And I don't need some silly american law to back that up, I have a self-enforcing mathematical law to do that for me. "My" government has made privacy on the internet illegal for me, and the reasons that they have to are "secret" aka private. If I don't get any privacy, they don't either. Citizens are more important than govenment, in the same way that workers are more important than managers. Fuck the laws. I have a constitutional right to privacy, and the fact that I have a newfangled way to do it doesn't make them eligible to take that right away. Crypto laws are a sham, we all know it.
Well, unfortunately, all the money I have to spare to have forcibly taken by me by my govenment has been taken up by federal taxes. I usually end up giving 10 to 20 times as much to the US as I do to California, though California gives me ALL the benefits I might hope to recieve for paying taxes. There needs to be a tax revolution where people give their local govenments enough money to be independent, and screw the feds.
You probably agree with me, but we DON'T need ANY sort of government control of information. I'd trust the judgment of a 20 sided die to raise my kid more than an elected official in this era anyway.
all the 'parties' *cough* string themselves up in front of us with clever lies intended to make us think they are our best friends.
This is bullshit as you well know.
Um - for the democrats and republicans, I'd completely agree. They are overinflated public opinion windsocks who routinely make idiotic and nation-destructive decisions. But do you really believe that it is impossible for a group of people to get together who all believe the same thing, and are simultaneously sick of this bullshit? I don't see it happening en masse, but it IS possible. See french revolution. I think there are parties out there who at least deserve to be given a shot. Instead of throwing your vote away (either on a republican or democrat who everyone assumes will win by inertia, or by not voting at all), why not check out the other parties and see if there is a candidate, however unpopular, who you actually agree with? Don't be complacent and depressed, do something. I'm a registered libertarian and I truly believe what they are looking to create is much better than what we have. I'm not saying you should vote libertarian, you may be of a different belief set than me. Check out all viewpoints, some of them don't suck.
the democrat-republican monopoly is very, very similar to the microsoft one: useless tech support when things go wrong, 50x more effort spent on marketing than producing good results, permanent overwhelming control over their customers takes precedence over quality.
Censorship always violates freedom of speech unless it is self censorship (in which case, it is an extension of freedom of speech). Obviously, if you are forced to censor yourself that is not constitutional.There are those time and place restrictions that allow different
organizations to regulate when and where you can do certain things, like protests and the like.
I'm sorry, I almost understood, could you be a little less clear? These "different" organizations have no right to censor what I say, or prevent me from gaining free access to the speech of others would would wish me to hear it. The first amendment promises me this, and your ignorance and the people who people like you elect do not have any right to take this freedom away from me.