That what you're talking about is commonly called teleconferencing. Teleconferencing-capable apps often (and should!) include a text messaging capability, or at least voice support.
But when people start bitching that their instant messaging application, whose purpose is to convey packet-sized bits of text in realtime, doesn't support TELECONFERENCING, that I start to think people have things a little backward.
Never mind that AOL, yahoo and MSN are all piggybacking on MS Netmeeting components, which exists stand-alone or integrated into MSN the opposite way. I really don't think netmeeting support should be high on the GAIM feature list, especially when you can just start a gnome-meeting session on the side to accomplish the same task.
When did webcam support become a requisite feature of _instant messaging_???
Was that when some attention-starved sluts starting showing off their boobs... or when cell phone companies started tacking CCDs onto their gadgets so you could spend $5 on data fees uploading blurry pictures in your mobile IM session?
Actually, I'd like to know (mentioned earlier)...
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What about his endings he likes, or how he feels is the proper way for a story to end. I think he might have some strong feelings about this, or maybe he has a unique persepective on things since he must grow very close to the worlds he meticiously creates. I'd like him to share this.
Why is it that PowerQuest or any of those other tools are not able to do differentials or backup the system drive or do anything remotely useful like Dantz has managed to do with your technology?
Well I stayed away from them from the get-go.
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1) Obvious they are just reprovisioning their PowerEdge servers. 2) Powering it with Windows NT 5.2 with some bullshit Microsoft-supplied NAS configuration patches. I mean, how retarded is that? All the loveliness of a full-blown windows install with half the ability to configure it properly... it's the worst of both worlds. 3) NOBODY USES WINDOWS FOR FILE-SERVING. I mean, I suspect even Microsoft knows that. They call DFS a filesystem, but it's nothing like that. It's implemented by just storing UNC paths in AD... so you can arrange some (anything-else-but Windows) boxes using Samba and use DFS to patch it up on the client side.::shakes head::
mmmmm... no... that's not why it's touchy about hardware.
Linux is first and foremost an operating system for x86 and x86_64. Now because x86 isn't the most demanding architecture out there, anything you implement on there easily maps to features of other popular architectures (SPARC, PPC, s390, IA64).
The problem is that the drivers are largely written by kernel developers, and that's about it (with the exception of some lovely folks at Intel, HP, Creative and NVidia). Because of this, you only get what's been tackled. So anything new and shiny is unlikely to be supported unless it so happens to be using an already-tackled chipset, then you've just got to update some PCI or USB ids in some obscure header file to make sure it's going to be detected.
OSX rocks at hardware detection because either it works on OSX, or it doesn't. There is no other more popular OS on that architecture that a hardware manufacturer would write drivers for or test first. And the oh so helpful OSX compatibility logo on the box of whatever doo-dad you want at Fry's pretty much prevents any confusion. Get it?
I'd want this to happen more than anybody else. But here's the problem with MacOSX on x86.
You'd reach a difficult spot. 1) You wouldn't have any of the third party MacOSX apps, because they're all compiled for PPC. It'd be a bitch and a half waiting for all those companies to recompile and test in the new environment. Plus all those hardware developers that tout MacOSX compatibility on their drivers would have to backpedal and re-release.kos for Darwin on x86... not pretty.
2) You're on x86... but you can't run any Windows or *nix binaries. (Windows? needs win32. Linux/FreeBSD? wrong object format, wrong C library) Linux and FreeBSD can be emulated easily... but Windows is much tougher. I assume a port of Wine world come out quite quickly... and Apple may even rebrand it as a product. (Sort of like Konqueror -> Safari) But then you get the attention of Microsoft in a big way and they could come down HARD on the Wine project or Mono or anyone who provides a transparent way to run Windows software outside of Windows.
And you can forget about Microsoft porting it's own productivity suites to MacOSX/x86... why help a competitor?
So you'd have a real nice OS, which doesn't let you run any third party software. Basically you'd choose it over FreeBSD or Linux just to run the Apple productivity suites and enjoy an even smaller set of hardware support.
...and then showing us later at lunchtime. It's always when we least expect it, because it looks like he's just checking out his schedule or something.
Dell has been promising for about 3 months now (I've seen "beta" sales presentations) to come out with a line of fiber-channel and SCSI-attached S-ATA arrays. But they keep pushing it back, probably because they know the margins are higher on the SATA-based NAS and full SCSI arrays.
We gave up and bought about 14 nStors. Never been happier.
While Dantz is _the_ Mac backup software company, the reason why EMC is interested is because Retrospect for Windows is the only software with the exception of Veritas that can back up live NTFS filesystems, with or without Volume Shadow Copy support.
Hmmm... which teachers were those? The ones who keep shirts with Che Guevara underneath their street clothes... the ones who shut the door to the classroom quietly, then don furry caps with a star and sickle... the ones who march the students around the courtyard and have the body address him as Comrade!?
Jesus fucking Christ, would you get a clue? What is it with people and equating non-conservative with communism... hell, equating getting an education with communism.
When was the last time you've actually been around a college campus anyway? If anyone is spreading little-c or big-c communism, it's the students themselves, not teachers.
This bug can check for existance, but it can't check contents. For that, you'd need to have a form, but forms are handled specially for how data can get in them to prevent that sort of thing (and you can't "read" from a loaded image with javascript to populate a form).
I think the DoS is the nasty part, however. Really there needs to be a sort of contextual protocol permissions check somewhere. Like that only file:// pages can load file:// without user intervention... (this limited to Navigator and Mail). And that the file:// protocol handler on *nix does a sanity check on file type too...
That I'm sure can be handled in nsLocalFile.cpp trivially and would at least prevent a DoS.
Re:You are proving my point here.....
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What? While it may be true, that doesn't means CFCs aren't a major (or equilibrium-imbalancing) factor.
Look, it's very simple. CFCs are not water soluable. So they diffuse evenly through the atmosphere. Once they hit the poles, the increased abundance of nitric (or sulphiric?) acids present in the atmosphere at those temperatures causes the CFCs to break down. The free chlorine has an immediate effect on nearby ozone molecules. Hence the effect is most prevelant in the upper stratosphere near the poles. Industrial areas also introduces nitrates into the atmosphere that have the same effect, but these areas also produce ozone that compensates.
This is college chemistry, not gradeschool knowledge..
And what companies with a powerful lobby are you aware of that would benefit, or would have benefited 20 or more years ago, by having the EPA promote irresponsible policies? You need to have some evidence of this before you can start claiming conspiracy.
It's worse than those alternative/free energy quacks who claim the oil industry is colluding to keep them from succeeding.
That doesn't change the fact that freon IS bad for the ozone layer.
It's just that DuPont chose to withhold that knowledge until such time that it was profitable for them.
Similarly, most REAL climatologists agree that we are fucking up our climate system. There is no secret cabal of companies who stand to profit from this knowledge. I knew this stuff when I was in first grade, published in books about the fucking Solar System (specifically comparing Venus's fate to Earth if our trends did not reverse)... what kind of monetary advantage would the researchers and publishers of that book have back in the early 80s? Seriously?
It's the 3rd world countries who are now realizing they can make us look bad and gain a leg up on us who are now exploiting the fact that we didn't sign the Kyoto treaty. They weren't shipping our schools money 20 years ago for oceanographers and climatologists to come up with these findings.
Try making sure that 1) you're using ALSA drivers 2) Your OSS-Free emulation driver allows for multiplexing (ala Direct X). So that way artsd and Wolfenstein can play nice together.
...your muscles repeatedly contract and relax to maintain the position of your limbs. You're "applying force" but you're doing no work. Muscles are a bad example; they do work even when no output work can be done. Wind doesn't work like muscles... it pushes with kinetic energy only. It hits something solid, and it changes direction. It loses some energy to the acceleration, but that's it.
...to the total article submission frequency distribution.
Well, I think Timothy recently posts more than Mike, but that's historical data so trends are hidden.
Which makes me doubt it's some kind of conspiracy... I don't blame the editors, Roland always servers up a juicy morsel compared to the other dredge I'm sure fills their submission queues.
But I think if it gets to be the point where every one of these articles is consistently full of off-topic replies complaining about the article submitter, maybe Taco will cut him off.
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if ATRAC3(plus) didn't suck shit.
Typical not-invented-here closed-format Sony bullshit, and it sounds shitty too.
That what you're talking about is commonly called teleconferencing. Teleconferencing-capable apps often (and should!) include a text messaging capability, or at least voice support.
But when people start bitching that their instant messaging application, whose purpose is to convey packet-sized bits of text in realtime, doesn't support TELECONFERENCING, that I start to think people have things a little backward.
Never mind that AOL, yahoo and MSN are all piggybacking on MS Netmeeting components, which exists stand-alone or integrated into MSN the opposite way.
I really don't think netmeeting support should be high on the GAIM feature list, especially when you can just start a gnome-meeting session on the side to accomplish the same task.
When did webcam support become a requisite feature of _instant messaging_???
Was that when some attention-starved sluts starting showing off their boobs... or when cell phone companies started tacking CCDs onto their gadgets so you could spend $5 on data fees uploading blurry pictures in your mobile IM session?
What about his endings he likes, or how he feels is the proper way for a story to end. I think he might have some strong feelings about this, or maybe he has a unique persepective on things since he must grow very close to the worlds he meticiously creates. I'd like him to share this.
Why is it that PowerQuest or any of those other tools are not able to do differentials or backup the system drive or do anything remotely useful like Dantz has managed to do with your technology?
1) Obvious they are just reprovisioning their PowerEdge servers. ::shakes head::
2) Powering it with Windows NT 5.2 with some bullshit Microsoft-supplied NAS configuration patches.
I mean, how retarded is that? All the loveliness of a full-blown windows install with half the ability to configure it properly... it's the worst of both worlds.
3) NOBODY USES WINDOWS FOR FILE-SERVING. I mean, I suspect even Microsoft knows that. They call DFS a filesystem, but it's nothing like that. It's implemented by just storing UNC paths in AD... so you can arrange some (anything-else-but Windows) boxes using Samba and use DFS to patch it up on the client side.
mmmmm... no... that's not why it's touchy about hardware.
Linux is first and foremost an operating system for x86 and x86_64. Now because x86 isn't the most demanding architecture out there, anything you implement on there easily maps to features of other popular architectures (SPARC, PPC, s390, IA64).
The problem is that the drivers are largely written by kernel developers, and that's about it (with the exception of some lovely folks at Intel, HP, Creative and NVidia). Because of this, you only get what's been tackled. So anything new and shiny is unlikely to be supported unless it so happens to be using an already-tackled chipset, then you've just got to update some PCI or USB ids in some obscure header file to make sure it's going to be detected.
OSX rocks at hardware detection because either it works on OSX, or it doesn't. There is no other more popular OS on that architecture that a hardware manufacturer would write drivers for or test first.
And the oh so helpful OSX compatibility logo on the box of whatever doo-dad you want at Fry's pretty much prevents any confusion.
Get it?
I'd want this to happen more than anybody else. But here's the problem with MacOSX on x86.
.kos for Darwin on x86... not pretty.
You'd reach a difficult spot.
1) You wouldn't have any of the third party MacOSX apps, because they're all compiled for PPC. It'd be a bitch and a half waiting for all those companies to recompile and test in the new environment. Plus all those hardware developers that tout MacOSX compatibility on their drivers would have to backpedal and re-release
2) You're on x86... but you can't run any Windows or *nix binaries. (Windows? needs win32. Linux/FreeBSD? wrong object format, wrong C library)
Linux and FreeBSD can be emulated easily... but Windows is much tougher. I assume a port of Wine world come out quite quickly... and Apple may even rebrand it as a product. (Sort of like Konqueror -> Safari)
But then you get the attention of Microsoft in a big way and they could come down HARD on the Wine project or Mono or anyone who provides a transparent way to run Windows software outside of Windows.
And you can forget about Microsoft porting it's own productivity suites to MacOSX/x86... why help a competitor?
So you'd have a real nice OS, which doesn't let you run any third party software. Basically you'd choose it over FreeBSD or Linux just to run the Apple productivity suites and enjoy an even smaller set of hardware support.
Sigh.
...and then showing us later at lunchtime. It's always when we least expect it, because it looks like he's just checking out his schedule or something.
ARRRGH!
Dell has been promising for about 3 months now (I've seen "beta" sales presentations) to come out with a line of fiber-channel and SCSI-attached S-ATA arrays. But they keep pushing it back, probably because they know the margins are higher on the SATA-based NAS and full SCSI arrays.
We gave up and bought about 14 nStors. Never been happier.
While Dantz is _the_ Mac backup software company, the reason why EMC is interested is because Retrospect for Windows is the only software with the exception of Veritas that can back up live NTFS filesystems, with or without Volume Shadow Copy support.
I don't think you know what it means.
Well, either that or your an asshat. Probably the latter.
And don't you go writing off my criticism to not living in New York City. My whole fucking family is from New York, and most of them still live there.
indoctrinated by communist teachers
Hmmm... which teachers were those? The ones who keep shirts with Che Guevara underneath their street clothes... the ones who shut the door to the classroom quietly, then don furry caps with a star and sickle... the ones who march the students around the courtyard and have the body address him as Comrade!?
Jesus fucking Christ, would you get a clue? What is it with people and equating non-conservative with communism... hell, equating getting an education with communism.
When was the last time you've actually been around a college campus anyway? If anyone is spreading little-c or big-c communism, it's the students themselves, not teachers.
This bug can check for existance, but it can't check contents. For that, you'd need to have a form, but forms are handled specially for how data can get in them to prevent that sort of thing (and you can't "read" from a loaded image with javascript to populate a form).
I think the DoS is the nasty part, however. Really there needs to be a sort of contextual protocol permissions check somewhere. Like that only file:// pages can load file:// without user intervention... (this limited to Navigator and Mail). And that the file:// protocol handler on *nix does a sanity check on file type too...
That I'm sure can be handled in nsLocalFile.cpp trivially and would at least prevent a DoS.
What? While it may be true, that doesn't means CFCs aren't a major (or equilibrium-imbalancing) factor.
Look, it's very simple. CFCs are not water soluable. So they diffuse evenly through the atmosphere. Once they hit the poles, the increased abundance of nitric (or sulphiric?) acids present in the atmosphere at those temperatures causes the CFCs to break down. The free chlorine has an immediate effect on nearby ozone molecules. Hence the effect is most prevelant in the upper stratosphere near the poles. Industrial areas also introduces nitrates into the atmosphere that have the same effect, but these areas also produce ozone that compensates.
This is college chemistry, not gradeschool knowledge..
And what companies with a powerful lobby are you aware of that would benefit, or would have benefited 20 or more years ago, by having the EPA promote irresponsible policies? You need to have some evidence of this before you can start claiming conspiracy.
It's worse than those alternative/free energy quacks who claim the oil industry is colluding to keep them from succeeding.
Such bullshit.
That doesn't change the fact that freon IS bad for the ozone layer.
It's just that DuPont chose to withhold that knowledge until such time that it was profitable for them.
Similarly, most REAL climatologists agree that we are fucking up our climate system. There is no secret cabal of companies who stand to profit from this knowledge. I knew this stuff when I was in first grade, published in books about the fucking Solar System (specifically comparing Venus's fate to Earth if our trends did not reverse)... what kind of monetary advantage would the researchers and publishers of that book have back in the early 80s? Seriously?
It's the 3rd world countries who are now realizing they can make us look bad and gain a leg up on us who are now exploiting the fact that we didn't sign the Kyoto treaty. They weren't shipping our schools money 20 years ago for oceanographers and climatologists to come up with these findings.
Don't be an idiot.
Try making sure that 1) you're using ALSA drivers 2) Your OSS-Free emulation driver allows for multiplexing (ala Direct X). So that way artsd and Wolfenstein can play nice together.
Seriously.
Why post anon?
...your muscles repeatedly contract and relax to maintain the position of your limbs. You're "applying force" but you're doing no work. Muscles are a bad example; they do work even when no output work can be done. Wind doesn't work like muscles... it pushes with kinetic energy only. It hits something solid, and it changes direction. It loses some energy to the acceleration, but that's it.
...to the total article submission frequency distribution.
Well, I think Timothy recently posts more than Mike, but that's historical data so trends are hidden.
Which makes me doubt it's some kind of conspiracy... I don't blame the editors, Roland always servers up a juicy morsel compared to the other dredge I'm sure fills their submission queues.
But I think if it gets to be the point where every one of these articles is consistently full of off-topic replies complaining about the article submitter, maybe Taco will cut him off.
Please, moderate this up.
But I, a subscriber, will NOT be posting anonymously as I say this loudly and often...
I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE IF THE EDITORS NEVER POST ANOTHER ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE ARITCLE AGAIN
Also, I hope Roland gets SARS and dies.
Please mod up.
These is my entire thoughts on this whole article: FUCK PIQUEPAILLE
Eastern seaboard. As in, east of the Appalachians.
I'll vote for this feline friend!!!