I had the opposite experience, mainly with the transition of the Web Browser to Firefox 3/XulRunner 1.9.
Recently, on a RHEL box without access to the Red Hat update site (which was its own issue), but access to the RHEL rpms, using the version of 3.1 that was packaged by Red Hat, everything that was included worked very well (albeit it was releases behind). The upstream Eclipse 3.4 had issues with the Internal Web Browser (due to the fact that my rpm dependencies weren't fixed, and that xulrunner 1.7/1.8/1.9), in that it could not use any internal browsing modules. It never did get fixed, we stopped doing development on that machine (which probably wasnt a good idea in the first place, but whatever).
SAX Parsing is more akin to length-delimiting than character delimiting -- the parser can skip over lots of unused or non-important text based on the registered callbacks. IMHO, you can't neccesarily use DOM parsing when you can populate a class object with a set of SAX parsing events, which seems what the protocol buffers serialization is doing.
Yet their touch table technology isn't owned by them, its a subcontractor. Look up Applied Minds or something, I forget the exact contractor.
Northrop Grumman and all of the large scale defense contractors are moving away from basic R&D into buying small contractors and integration of subcontractor developed technology. To them, there is no money to be had in the 200-500k research, they want multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts. That's why you hear something like this, and its not NOC developing the technology, its NOC being the middle man to small scale (100 person-ish) companies, and branding it with their name just because they had the right ex-lieutenant to get the money instead of the small company.
Was always the best resource for AC related news. It was another gaming site way back in the day before it got bought out by the warcry network, then everyone started using the vnboards at ign.com to talk about the game and the community went way downhill.
That site should still have a content by content recap.
most of the lawyers that work for large defense companies have a security clearance... how do you think they do the legalese of contract writing with secret information for random government customers? The lawyers have to approve everything.
And also, when there is a copyright or patent on work that is done by defense companies that come out of classified research, who do you think writes up and approves the patents? Engineers? No, lawyers do.
actually, i don't use any tools anymore that isn't open source. with closed source stuff, you have no real knowledge, other than trusting the developer, that it isn't jacking up your system or installing some sort of ad-ware or spyware. i have more comfort that if i can build from source myself (or suspect any malicious network behavior) that it isnt doing anything that i don't see and understand.
we call what you are talking about 'shareware', and it is a dying breed.
you dont understand. the problem is that with binary distributions, like the majority of COTS software that the DoD/army buys you usually settle on a version number to do all of the testing with. Say, version 1.1. The rest of the system is built around 1.1 and all of its (intended and unintended) functionality. When there is a problem with the software version, commercial vendors fix the problem in the current version. Say you bought version 1.1 in 1997, there is no way that the company is going to sell you 1.1.88 when they are on version 6.0.
This has nothing to say of the commercial binary distributions that are delivered from companies that are no longer in business... it happens more than you think in the defense industry world. Especially with the late 90's push to buy everything 'COTS'. Say you have version 1.1 of a database layer tool... all of a sudden that company goes out of business, I don't care how 'Mission Critical' the software is, it will never be fixed... since they did not have the source.
What you need to understand is that the source distribution model is going to change. Open source/GPL'ed code or Apache based FOSS software is going to be delivered by a defense contractor (the ones that will still be in business in 7 years i mean) and take complete authority over the delivered code. This is no different than nowadays when defense companies buy multi-million dollar software packages, delivered as binaries, that they have to maintain responsibility for. Sure, they can pass the buck when the software breaks... but when the defense contractor has the source (and hires a competent enough software engineer (not too common)) then they can make the changes themselves.
This is what the person is talking about. It doesnt matter that a Chinaman makes the changes to the code, the DoD/military just needs to trust their vendors to authenticate and take responsibility for their software solutions, in house developed, FOSS or closed binary COTS.
one of my pet peeves is pluralizing codes. its like broadcasting to the world "i do not know what i am talking about!". unless you are talking abuot the interwebnet codes.
I'd consider buying the iPhone if it were a bit smaller. I don't think it will fit in my pocket with my keys very well.
Just to clarify something, you might want to check out the blogs that compare its size to other phones. I replaced my Motorola SLVR with an iPhone and there is no difference in thickness, only the iPhone is about an inch (2 cm) wider than the SLVR. They are both 'candybar' phones, no flip, so it is an apt comparison.
It fits in my pocket with my money clip and keys, with no bulge. However, I don't wear tight emo pants. It also fits very nice in my front shirt pocket.
They also have to show that if they have hundreds of infringing files, then how long would it take to download them all? meaning, assuming they get X kb/second how long would it take to download all of the files from the sharer in question? they should also specify when they considered all the files, what thier average download speed is. if it sucks, then for large collections, it could take *lifetimes* for the RIAA to download all of the infringing material. Lifetimes!
You just need to get the average download speed of thier connections, which should be in the logs of thier download verification for all of the music that they are claiming is infringing. then see how long it took them to verify the subset, then do the calculation.
the thing is, you're not actually storing the data on the phone. its just temp flash memory for files that are stored on your computer. its just like an ipod: the iphone will never be the only place you store information, because they realize that information on your phone is volatile. you could lose your phone at any time, all pertinent information is always stored and kept on a more robust desktop/laptop system.
I'm pretty sure that the people linked from this article are not too reputable**. I'm not sure that they have even thought things through enough to deal with 1) the type of people that sell gold and 2) the lack of any in-game or RL repercussions
Basically, setting up a service to circumvent the Terms of Service for these games (like these Real Money Transfers) is like setting up a service to purchase and distribute illegal RL items like firearms, gambling or narcotics: there isn't going to ever be an official complaint channel to deal with the problems and shit that goes along with them. Ebay has the scamming problems that these are going to deal with, yet they maintain a reputable trading site (even though there are Ebay horror stories). An ebay reputation, while not the end all be all, sure helps when trying to figure out the reputatabilty of a seller and buyer.
There was another website to get around In game character trades set up like 5 years ago when Ebay stopped allowing in-game trades. PlayerAuctions.com or something, I forget. People used it, but it was up to the individual to understand that they might get thier purchased account jacked after 2 months, a year, whenever because these games are set up so that people can always re-set thier password using the original Credit Card and Address. It happened with UO back in the day, multi-thousand dollar accounts reverted back after someone purchased them off ebay. Three months later, what can Ebay, the Purchaser, or even the seller (if it was second hand to them) do? Absolutely nothing.
Damn that tagging system and its inability to standardize semantic tags!! (a little off topic, but this post was flagged as having too few characters per line! I hope adding this to it makes it post... nope, I'll add some more. Seems you can't just post a list. shucks. ahh well here is some more text that should add to the number of characters per line... i wonder how many random sentences i need to write before it lets me post. seems 12 characters per line is too few)
I always think of that hitchiker clip in "Something about Mary" when I hear of these comparisons:
Hitchiker: You heard of this thing the 8-minute abs? Guy: Yeah, sure, 8-minute abs. Yeah, the exercise video. Hitchiker: This is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this. 7-minute abs. Right. Guy: Yes. OK, all right, I see where you're going. Hitchiker: You walk into a video store. There's 8-minute abs and 7-minute abs beside it. Which one are you going to pick? Guy: I'm... I would go for the seven. Hitchiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-minute abs....
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I had the opposite experience, mainly with the transition of the Web Browser to Firefox 3/XulRunner 1.9.
Recently, on a RHEL box without access to the Red Hat update site (which was its own issue), but access to the RHEL rpms, using the version of 3.1 that was packaged by Red Hat, everything that was included worked very well (albeit it was releases behind). The upstream Eclipse 3.4 had issues with the Internal Web Browser (due to the fact that my rpm dependencies weren't fixed, and that xulrunner 1.7/1.8/1.9), in that it could not use any internal browsing modules. It never did get fixed, we stopped doing development on that machine (which probably wasnt a good idea in the first place, but whatever).
SAX Parsing is more akin to length-delimiting than character delimiting -- the parser can skip over lots of unused or non-important text based on the registered callbacks. IMHO, you can't neccesarily use DOM parsing when you can populate a class object with a set of SAX parsing events, which seems what the protocol buffers serialization is doing.
Yet their touch table technology isn't owned by them, its a subcontractor. Look up Applied Minds or something, I forget the exact contractor.
Northrop Grumman and all of the large scale defense contractors are moving away from basic R&D into buying small contractors and integration of subcontractor developed technology. To them, there is no money to be had in the 200-500k research, they want multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts. That's why you hear something like this, and its not NOC developing the technology, its NOC being the middle man to small scale (100 person-ish) companies, and branding it with their name just because they had the right ex-lieutenant to get the money instead of the small company.
Two words, five syllables: iPhone SDK.
If there is a market for voiceovers of the already present textual google directions, then it will be made.
A lot of people still have their $100 rebate from their original priced iPhones. Remember the $500/600 price tags on them? See http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/09/steve-jobs-eats.html to job the memory.
Remember that the credit doesn't count towards itunes purchases, only Apple Store purchases. So I plan on using it towards a 3G phone.
http://ac.warcry.com/
Was always the best resource for AC related news. It was another gaming site way back in the day before it got bought out by the warcry network, then everyone started using the vnboards at ign.com to talk about the game and the community went way downhill.
That site should still have a content by content recap.
most of the lawyers that work for large defense companies have a security clearance... how do you think they do the legalese of contract writing with secret information for random government customers? The lawyers have to approve everything.
And also, when there is a copyright or patent on work that is done by defense companies that come out of classified research, who do you think writes up and approves the patents? Engineers? No, lawyers do.
Two Servos, One Battery!
Do you still take design commentary from D&D legends like Gary Gygax? Or are all of these design decisions based on modern gaming sessions?
PGSql isn't so bad.
actually, i don't use any tools anymore that isn't open source. with closed source stuff, you have no real knowledge, other than trusting the developer, that it isn't jacking up your system or installing some sort of ad-ware or spyware. i have more comfort that if i can build from source myself (or suspect any malicious network behavior) that it isnt doing anything that i don't see and understand.
we call what you are talking about 'shareware', and it is a dying breed.
you dont understand. the problem is that with binary distributions, like the majority of COTS software that the DoD/army buys you usually settle on a version number to do all of the testing with. Say, version 1.1. The rest of the system is built around 1.1 and all of its (intended and unintended) functionality. When there is a problem with the software version, commercial vendors fix the problem in the current version. Say you bought version 1.1 in 1997, there is no way that the company is going to sell you 1.1.88 when they are on version 6.0.
This has nothing to say of the commercial binary distributions that are delivered from companies that are no longer in business... it happens more than you think in the defense industry world. Especially with the late 90's push to buy everything 'COTS'. Say you have version 1.1 of a database layer tool... all of a sudden that company goes out of business, I don't care how 'Mission Critical' the software is, it will never be fixed... since they did not have the source.
What you need to understand is that the source distribution model is going to change. Open source/GPL'ed code or Apache based FOSS software is going to be delivered by a defense contractor (the ones that will still be in business in 7 years i mean) and take complete authority over the delivered code. This is no different than nowadays when defense companies buy multi-million dollar software packages, delivered as binaries, that they have to maintain responsibility for. Sure, they can pass the buck when the software breaks... but when the defense contractor has the source (and hires a competent enough software engineer (not too common)) then they can make the changes themselves.
This is what the person is talking about. It doesnt matter that a Chinaman makes the changes to the code, the DoD/military just needs to trust their vendors to authenticate and take responsibility for their software solutions, in house developed, FOSS or closed binary COTS.
the poetry that i wrote and put up on my geocities page in 1997 was lost, and unrecovereable. it was complete with blinking text and colored fonts.
it wasnt meaningless, but you could sure as hell dismiss it as meaningless crap. i mean crap.
Yes.
I think he knows what he is talking about... and was making a pretty sarcastic joke!
Of course flash isn't standard at all, yet CSS is... and he is saying to use Flash over CSS. Gotta catch that one.
they have stolen the codes!
one of my pet peeves is pluralizing codes. its like broadcasting to the world "i do not know what i am talking about!". unless you are talking abuot the interwebnet codes.
Just to clarify something, you might want to check out the blogs that compare its size to other phones. I replaced my Motorola SLVR with an iPhone and there is no difference in thickness, only the iPhone is about an inch (2 cm) wider than the SLVR. They are both 'candybar' phones, no flip, so it is an apt comparison.
It fits in my pocket with my money clip and keys, with no bulge. However, I don't wear tight emo pants. It also fits very nice in my front shirt pocket.
They also have to show that if they have hundreds of infringing files, then how long would it take to download them all? meaning, assuming they get X kb/second how long would it take to download all of the files from the sharer in question? they should also specify when they considered all the files, what thier average download speed is. if it sucks, then for large collections, it could take *lifetimes* for the RIAA to download all of the infringing material. Lifetimes!
You just need to get the average download speed of thier connections, which should be in the logs of thier download verification for all of the music that they are claiming is infringing. then see how long it took them to verify the subset, then do the calculation.
i think it is because the antenna on the iphone is not cheap, and is waay better than ones that come with any free mobile phone nowadays.
good antenna = no dropped calls, better service, everything.
the thing is, you're not actually storing the data on the phone. its just temp flash memory for files that are stored on your computer. its just like an ipod: the iphone will never be the only place you store information, because they realize that information on your phone is volatile. you could lose your phone at any time, all pertinent information is always stored and kept on a more robust desktop/laptop system.
yeah, i got like 8 phone numbers this weekend, just from girls i started talking to asking about my phone
Blah. I meant to reply to your Cheating the System post.
Man, eldavjohn you sure to have a lot of replies in this thread!
I'm pretty sure that the people linked from this article are not too reputable**. I'm not sure that they have even thought things through enough to deal with 1) the type of people that sell gold and 2) the lack of any in-game or RL repercussions
Basically, setting up a service to circumvent the Terms of Service for these games (like these Real Money Transfers) is like setting up a service to purchase and distribute illegal RL items like firearms, gambling or narcotics: there isn't going to ever be an official complaint channel to deal with the problems and shit that goes along with them. Ebay has the scamming problems that these are going to deal with, yet they maintain a reputable trading site (even though there are Ebay horror stories). An ebay reputation, while not the end all be all, sure helps when trying to figure out the reputatabilty of a seller and buyer.
There was another website to get around In game character trades set up like 5 years ago when Ebay stopped allowing in-game trades. PlayerAuctions.com or something, I forget. People used it, but it was up to the individual to understand that they might get thier purchased account jacked after 2 months, a year, whenever because these games are set up so that people can always re-set thier password using the original Credit Card and Address. It happened with UO back in the day, multi-thousand dollar accounts reverted back after someone purchased them off ebay. Three months later, what can Ebay, the Purchaser, or even the seller (if it was second hand to them) do? Absolutely nothing.
** So who cares what they have to say.
Damn that tagging system and its inability to standardize semantic tags!! (a little off topic, but this post was flagged as having too few characters per line! I hope adding this to it makes it post... nope, I'll add some more. Seems you can't just post a list. shucks. ahh well here is some more text that should add to the number of characters per line... i wonder how many random sentences i need to write before it lets me post. seems 12 characters per line is too few)
I always think of that hitchiker clip in "Something about Mary" when I hear of these comparisons:
...
Hitchiker: You heard of this thing the 8-minute abs?
Guy: Yeah, sure, 8-minute abs. Yeah, the exercise video.
Hitchiker: This is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this. 7-minute abs. Right.
Guy: Yes. OK, all right, I see where you're going.
Hitchiker: You walk into a video store. There's 8-minute abs and 7-minute abs beside it. Which one are you going to pick?
Guy: I'm... I would go for the seven.
Hitchiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-minute abs.