we should rid finally ourselves of Wagner, whose #1 fan was, after all, Adolf Hitler.
Now I'm gonna have to call shenanigans here. Robert Wagner was, like, 3 years old when Hitler was appointed Reichskanzler. That's WAAAAY too young to have a fan club. Really.
On the other hand, the Osborne II never ran the risk of spontaneously inducing nuclear fusion in ambient atmosphere. (I don't even wanna imagine the heat output of 80 cores, even with the relentless march of technology.)
Similarly, if a device is phsyically not possible to modify, fine. But if I'm merely prohibited from doing so by some bullshit DRM just to appease some company's business plan, I'm going to be pissed about it!
And there are those extreme zealots who claim that hardware design choices that prohibit reprogramming are inherently anti-Free. Like the use of a mask-programmed ROM instead of flash memory storage for open-source firmware. They will paint this decision not in terms of any legitimate technical or economic criteria but only in terms of "zomgwtfhax I can't reprogram this device with my uber l33t modified GPL5'd new kernal! GPL VIOLATION GPL VIOLATION SUE SUE SUE".
So, what about it? A hardware designer chooses non-reprogrammable storage to host software from a Free sources, and complies with all other requirements of the license. Does some putz call the mask ROM a DRM device and call out the FSF Police?
You wanna see great unification? Visit a PvP WoW server. The only great unity is that the hundreds of skeletons laying on the ground after a huge world PvP event look alike (mostly).
Characters die messily and unfairly dozens of times a day because they're the wrong race in the wrong neighborhood. It's no more unified than real-life race relations, except that there's less social inhibition on race murder and hate crime, because "it's just a game".
You do understand that JRR didn't write The Silmarillion to impress you, right?
He wrote it to flesh out the backstory of the world he "co-created" (his words, to express how God was intrinsically part of the creative process--he was a devout Christian). That's why it reads like the Old Testament: In Ea, it IS the Old Testament!
What you're really saying, is "use version control discipline", hypothetically independent of the tool. That's the real point, one I've seen made elsewhere in this topic. The submitter is asking for tools, but really I think he's asking for process advice.
The tool won't make you do the smart things you talk about--tagging, change tracking, etc. Every tool can be circumvented, pencil-whipped, or otherwise reduced to "going through the motions".
The real advice here: come up with your project management goals and philosophy, then decide on methods and select tools to support those goals and philosophy.
That said, I've used and liked subversion myself. But the temptation to bypass the onerous parts of the process is always there. We developers are a lazy bunch, aren't we?
In my day, we had ASR-33's and our only bulk storage was paper tape! And we were grateful!
Canary roll paper and oiled 8-level punch tape FTW! The school network administrator was a Western Union guy! My fingers still haven't gotten over a keyboard with a throw length over half an inch and key pressure requirement measured in POUNDS.
You should have seen my teacher when he discovered I'd "wasted" (his words) 45 feet of teletype paper playing STARTREK.
So if 110 million of us replace 197 bulbs each, we'd all have FREE ENERGY! Whoot!
And it's a teensy tiny hop to 200 light bulbs each, at which point we're using NEGATIVE ENERGY! Yow! Screw 'em in, disconnect from the grid, and start powering the household from your FREE ELECTRICITY! Sign me UP!
Inbound traffic can be filtered using the OS-supplied firewall (yes, even under Windows).
Most personal firewall products predate the awe-inspiring wonderfullness which is the Windows Firewall. And architecturally, 3rd party software firewalls are comparable to the "integrated" Windows one. (What, you think maybe Microsoft is giving their own firewall developers better hooks into the OS than 3rd-party developers have? While MS has that history, I think they're being too closely watched after numerous high-profile antitrust rulings to get away with it now.)
The only advantage MS's firewall has is... it's included outta-the-box, and enabled by default (after XP SP2).
Again, in theory, the outbound protection can be useful, if the "asking for permission to connect" behavior involves a clueful user. A mouse-monkey mashing the "ok" button for every request pretty well defeats that. So the number one limitation to a useful technical security feature? St00pid lusers. Again.
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Because X.400 isn't at all accepted, anywhere, and never was ;-)
There, corrected that typo for you.
we should rid finally ourselves of Wagner, whose #1 fan was, after all, Adolf Hitler.
Now I'm gonna have to call shenanigans here. Robert Wagner was, like, 3 years old when Hitler was appointed Reichskanzler. That's WAAAAY too young to have a fan club. Really.
for mouse-cleaners to join telephone sanitizers and hairdressers on the Golgafrinchem "B" Ark?
If the shoe fits...
By the way, you didn't answer the question.
On the other hand, the Osborne II never ran the risk of spontaneously inducing nuclear fusion in ambient atmosphere. (I don't even wanna imagine the heat output of 80 cores, even with the relentless march of technology.)
and that change this fast, we're gonna need bigger tubes!
Similarly, if a device is phsyically not possible to modify, fine. But if I'm merely prohibited from doing so by some bullshit DRM just to appease some company's business plan, I'm going to be pissed about it!
And there are those extreme zealots who claim that hardware design choices that prohibit reprogramming are inherently anti-Free. Like the use of a mask-programmed ROM instead of flash memory storage for open-source firmware. They will paint this decision not in terms of any legitimate technical or economic criteria but only in terms of "zomgwtfhax I can't reprogram this device with my uber l33t modified GPL5'd new kernal! GPL VIOLATION GPL VIOLATION SUE SUE SUE".
So, what about it? A hardware designer chooses non-reprogrammable storage to host software from a Free sources, and complies with all other requirements of the license. Does some putz call the mask ROM a DRM device and call out the FSF Police?
We are talking about the kind where you become a relatively low-impedence fuse for a very, very brief moment.
The human body: A large 1/2 watt 100-ohm resistor that fails very messily.
You wanna see great unification? Visit a PvP WoW server. The only great unity is that the hundreds of skeletons laying on the ground after a huge world PvP event look alike (mostly).
Characters die messily and unfairly dozens of times a day because they're the wrong race in the wrong neighborhood. It's no more unified than real-life race relations, except that there's less social inhibition on race murder and hate crime, because "it's just a game".
Preview button FTW.
I've found my new sig.
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Dude, that's waaaay too complex.
You do understand that JRR didn't write The Silmarillion to impress you, right?
He wrote it to flesh out the backstory of the world he "co-created" (his words, to express how God was intrinsically part of the creative process--he was a devout Christian). That's why it reads like the Old Testament: In Ea, it IS the Old Testament!
Oh yeah, and get off my lawn!
Not until you can say it in Proto-Indo-European.
Good old anachronistic ASCII Pr0n.
"The American Standards Association (ASA, later to become ANSI) first published ASCII as a standard in 1963." -- Wikipedia
Just as long as Cyrano Jones doesn't wind up firing first.
What you're really saying, is "use version control discipline", hypothetically independent of the tool. That's the real point, one I've seen made elsewhere in this topic. The submitter is asking for tools, but really I think he's asking for process advice.
The tool won't make you do the smart things you talk about--tagging, change tracking, etc. Every tool can be circumvented, pencil-whipped, or otherwise reduced to "going through the motions".
The real advice here: come up with your project management goals and philosophy, then decide on methods and select tools to support those goals and philosophy.
That said, I've used and liked subversion myself. But the temptation to bypass the onerous parts of the process is always there. We developers are a lazy bunch, aren't we?
In my day, we had ASR-33's and our only bulk storage was paper tape! And we were grateful!
Canary roll paper and oiled 8-level punch tape FTW! The school network administrator was a Western Union guy! My fingers still haven't gotten over a keyboard with a throw length over half an inch and key pressure requirement measured in POUNDS.
You should have seen my teacher when he discovered I'd "wasted" (his words) 45 feet of teletype paper playing STARTREK.
Good times, good times...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
World of Starcraft will make hearing "Nuclear launch detected!" a much more personal experience.
So if 110 million of us replace 197 bulbs each, we'd all have FREE ENERGY! Whoot!
And it's a teensy tiny hop to 200 light bulbs each, at which point we're using NEGATIVE ENERGY! Yow! Screw 'em in, disconnect from the grid, and start powering the household from your FREE ELECTRICITY! Sign me UP!
Technically, not "stolen", since Blizz owns both.
But yes, lots of the iconography is WC3 recycled. Unsurpisingly, since WoW is the sequel (in storyline, if not spirit) to WC3.
Look close enough, and you'll find WC2 and even original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans graphics (or at least icons inspired by those from that game).
Reuse at its finest. (Whether I am being ironic or sincere is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Wow indeed. LARP meets nethack.
I hope thay have purple LEDs. I wanna play the Wizard of Yendor.
I'm worried that it might be some kind of stealth GNAA troll.
Inbound traffic can be filtered using the OS-supplied firewall (yes, even under Windows).
Most personal firewall products predate the awe-inspiring wonderfullness which is the Windows Firewall. And architecturally, 3rd party software firewalls are comparable to the "integrated" Windows one. (What, you think maybe Microsoft is giving their own firewall developers better hooks into the OS than 3rd-party developers have? While MS has that history, I think they're being too closely watched after numerous high-profile antitrust rulings to get away with it now.)
The only advantage MS's firewall has is... it's included outta-the-box, and enabled by default (after XP SP2).
Again, in theory, the outbound protection can be useful, if the "asking for permission to connect" behavior involves a clueful user. A mouse-monkey mashing the "ok" button for every request pretty well defeats that. So the number one limitation to a useful technical security feature? St00pid lusers. Again.
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World