Utter rubbish. I've installed and used the binary NVIDIA drivers for years on multiple different machines with all kinds of different NVIDIA cards and they all worked fine.
Isn't the human brain supposed to be equivalent to a supercomputer running at about ~100 teraflops? And if so, shouldn't this computer be smarter than us?
In Star Trek TNG 2x09 Data was quoted at having a total memory capacity of somewhere around 90 petabytes with a total linear computational speed of 60 trillian operations per second.
One would say this supercomputer is already more than twice as smart as Data!
I'm in a similar situation. Debian just wasn't cutting it for me on the Desktop. Took too much effort to keep it running smoothly and the outdated packages in unstable even were really beginning to piss me off. I'm not fond of Ubuntu, for no particularly good reason. So I went with Fedora. I've had a very pleasent experience with it so far.
Debian is still my choice of distro for a server though. I hope they work out their organizational problems.
Did you send a reply back stating, or better yet actually showing, legitimate uses? Game patches, legal multimedia distribution (Red vs. Blue for example), and so forth...
A similar thing which happened to the story submitter happened to me once. My ISP got a call from the RIAA that someone was sharing loads of music online. So my ISP just looked for the biggest bandwidth user and shut them off. Well, that someone they shut off was me. But I wasn't the one sharing music. I was seeding Knoppix. A phone call to my ISP quickly resolved the situation.
2) It runs on old crappy hardware, so no, you won't need to go and buy an Nvidia 69999FX-eXtreme to run it
That comment shows just how out of touch Linux developers are with the rest of the world. "Crappy hardware"? Ha, that hardware is newer/faster than 80% of the typical user. Don't for a second believe that everyone has the latest and greatest bleeding-edge computer like all your basement-dwelling, videogame-addicted peers. Most people are using P2/P3 systems with ~400-600 MHz processors, 64-128 MB ram, 10GB HDD, built-in video without acceleration. If you want to design for hardware that will be common 5 years from now, fine... but don't be disappointed that folks try this stuff and give it a bad name simply because they don't have the CPU resources to fully appreciate it.
WTF? And you expect Longhorn's version of this to run on hardware like that? Get back under your bridge.
18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Rules
Copyright (C) 2005 Leonid A. Broukhis, Simon Cooper, Landon Curt Noll and Peter Seebach.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, education or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from the contest judges.
Obfuscate: tr.v. -cated, -cating, -cates. 1. a. To render obscure.
b. To darken. 2. To confuse: his emotions obfuscated his
judgment. [LLat. obfuscare, to darken : ob(intensive) +
Lat. fuscare, to darken < fuscus, dark.] -obfuscation n.
obfuscatory adj.
GOALS OF THE CONTEST:
* To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program under the rules below.
* To show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way.
* To stress C compilers with unusual code.
* To illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language.
* To provide a safe forum for poor C code.:-)
The 18th IOCCC contest window is:
| 21-Mar-2005 00:00 UTC to 22-May-2005 23:59:59 UTC
RULES:
To help us with the volume of entries, we ask that you follow these rules:
1) Your entry must be a complete program.
2) The size of your program source must be <= 4096 bytes in length.
The number of characters excluding whitespace (tab, space,
newline, formfeed, return), and excluding any ; { or } immediately
followed by whitespace or end of file, must be <= 2048.
3) Submissions should be performed using the instructions outlined at,
| http://www.ioccc.org/2005/submit
4) If your entry is selected as a winner, it will be modified as follows:
Your 'build' instructions will be incorporated into a
makefile. If your build instructions *is* a makefile then
it should be portable and usable from within a master
makefile.
Your program source will be renamed using an identifier of
our choice (usually your family name or anonymous) followed
by an optional digit, followed by '.c'
Your entry will be compiled into a file with the above name
minus the '.c'.
If your entry requires that a build file exist, state so in
your entry's remark section. The makefile will be arranged to
execute a build shell script containing the 'build'
information. The name of this build shell script will be your
entry's title, possibly followed by a digit, followed by '.sh'.
If needed, your entry's remarks should indicate how your entry
must be changed in order to deal with the new filenames.
5) The build file, the source and the resulting executable should be
treated as read-only files. If your entry needs to modify these files,
it should make and modify a copy of the appropriate file. If this
occurs, state so in your entry's remarks.
6) Your program source must be able to be compiled cleanly by an ANSI C
compiler, or if there are any compile errors, they must be documented
in the "remarks" section of your submission.
7) The program must be of original work. All submitted programs are
are thereby put in the public domain. All explic
I must say, well done. Sometimes putting up with these little sociological hiccups can be rewarding. Sure, you're right, for every story like yours there are dozens more people who get screwed, but that's a risk you take when you sign up for these silly schemes. Nevertheless, you beat the odds. Congratulations!
Hehe, yeah, thanks. I like that too. The reason for that is I like Debian as a distro better than Redhat, but I think Redhat's artwork is awesome. So I just did some scripting and aliening to get my GNOME and KDE Bluecurved. You can do it on your own Debian install using my installer
The word "internet" being in IE's name is quite a bit helpful for IE as well. Consider people who don't read anything they don't have to and barely read anything that they do. Consider bad spellers, and especially dyslexic people. I've encountered MANY people with poor literacy who (instinctively?) tend to pick IE when presented with a choice between FF and IE on a desktop because of the word "internet" in the name.
In this very same group of people on desktops with only a FF icon, I've heard questions like "where's internet?" not realizing FF is a web browser. I even know people who don't know what a web browser is, or even that IE's name contains the word "explorer" as well. They only want "internet".
Putting "internet" in IE's name was a superb marketing decision in terms of brainwashing.
I am a regular seeder of Enterprise and according to the worldwide statistics I've seen, BT Enterprise distribtues no more than tens of thousands of episodes each week out of the millions of fans who watch it on regular TV.
That is a tiny, tiny percentage of the total viewership, and let's not forget that not every TV viewer has a Nielsen box and are thus not counted in the ratings that TV networks find oh so holy. And let's also not forget that a very large percentage of the Bit Torrent users are people who wouldn't be watching the show anyway because it isn't broadcasted in their country.
Really, Bit Torrent is having a negligbile effect on SciFi ratings.
Seriously, I feel like I've contributed to bloating of the numbers. Every weekday for the last YEAR, I've had to download Firefox, sometimes twice, at work because the machines we use do a daily system restore, and I have no access to make perma changes. This means I've downloaded Firefox at least several hundred times. I doubt I'm the only person whose done things like this too.
Restricting WINE users' ability to run Office is blatantly anti competitive tacts. Such tactics are what led to their monopoly. Such tactics are the kinds of things strictly prohibited by antitrust laws.
If I legally own a copy of office and I want to reverse engineer the API it uses to run so I can run it on another operating system, I have the right to do so. MS shouldn't be allowed to discriminate in this manner.
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Yeah. Cause that proves a lot. Look at all the people who've had problems installing various Linux distros. They must all suck too! *rolls eyes*
Utter rubbish. I've installed and used the binary NVIDIA drivers for years on multiple different machines with all kinds of different NVIDIA cards and they all worked fine.
One would say this supercomputer is already more than twice as smart as Data!
You watch out now. Once we make Omega, Captain Janeway will try to blow it up on us.
You've got it all wrong:
Mac OS 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS 10.5 Lion
Mac OS 10.6 Bear
Mac OS 10.7 Oh My!
I'm in a similar situation. Debian just wasn't cutting it for me on the Desktop. Took too much effort to keep it running smoothly and the outdated packages in unstable even were really beginning to piss me off. I'm not fond of Ubuntu, for no particularly good reason. So I went with Fedora. I've had a very pleasent experience with it so far.
Debian is still my choice of distro for a server though. I hope they work out their organizational problems.
I would if I could, but faced with dialup or the only broadband ISP in my area, there is no choice.
Uh, is there something wrong with liking both shows?
Unfortunately I can't submit it because it's bash, not C.
Full text of rules.txt
I must say, well done. Sometimes putting up with these little sociological hiccups can be rewarding. Sure, you're right, for every story like yours there are dozens more people who get screwed, but that's a risk you take when you sign up for these silly schemes. Nevertheless, you beat the odds. Congratulations!
Hehe, yeah, thanks. I like that too. The reason for that is I like Debian as a distro better than Redhat, but I think Redhat's artwork is awesome. So I just did some scripting and aliening to get my GNOME and KDE Bluecurved. You can do it on your own Debian install using my installer
Kethinov wonders if Kasparov uses KDE in Kremlin.
I wonder how long until stock Debian catches up. I don't use Ubuntu. :(
The word "internet" being in IE's name is quite a bit helpful for IE as well. Consider people who don't read anything they don't have to and barely read anything that they do. Consider bad spellers, and especially dyslexic people. I've encountered MANY people with poor literacy who (instinctively?) tend to pick IE when presented with a choice between FF and IE on a desktop because of the word "internet" in the name.
In this very same group of people on desktops with only a FF icon, I've heard questions like "where's internet?" not realizing FF is a web browser. I even know people who don't know what a web browser is, or even that IE's name contains the word "explorer" as well. They only want "internet".
Putting "internet" in IE's name was a superb marketing decision in terms of brainwashing.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
I am a regular seeder of Enterprise and according to the worldwide statistics I've seen, BT Enterprise distribtues no more than tens of thousands of episodes each week out of the millions of fans who watch it on regular TV.
That is a tiny, tiny percentage of the total viewership, and let's not forget that not every TV viewer has a Nielsen box and are thus not counted in the ratings that TV networks find oh so holy. And let's also not forget that a very large percentage of the Bit Torrent users are people who wouldn't be watching the show anyway because it isn't broadcasted in their country.
Really, Bit Torrent is having a negligbile effect on SciFi ratings.
Then you should "learn fast" that this is common damn knowledge. I think it's safe to say everyone knows OS X does this.
Seriously, I feel like I've contributed to bloating of the numbers. Every weekday for the last YEAR, I've had to download Firefox, sometimes twice, at work because the machines we use do a daily system restore, and I have no access to make perma changes. This means I've downloaded Firefox at least several hundred times. I doubt I'm the only person whose done things like this too.
Restricting WINE users' ability to run Office is blatantly anti competitive tacts. Such tactics are what led to their monopoly. Such tactics are the kinds of things strictly prohibited by antitrust laws.
If I legally own a copy of office and I want to reverse engineer the API it uses to run so I can run it on another operating system, I have the right to do so. MS shouldn't be allowed to discriminate in this manner.