It was a simple reference to Intel trying to expand into the embedded market where the ARM architecture rules. (More info on ARM - wikipedia is down atm so google cache is here.
You should perhaps read a book called Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter if you haven't already, which develops and expands that theory. It's *starting* to get a bit old at the moment but it's still absolutely fascinating.
I sort of gave a chuckle when it said "Windows Only". Like when they tried to make a Linux version of Nero, even if they made a Linux version of this or Winamp or whatever, it'll be just too little too late. I don't think there's any way it'll be as good as Amarok.
Just curious, how do you handle drying the walls and floors of the bathroom? It must have an amazing ventilation system to stop huge amounts of humidity...
Why do you say that? Perhaps you should read up to find out what oxidation actually means. Just because it has that "ox" in it doesn't mean that it's directly related to Oxygen.
Anyway the answer to your question is no, it won't be floating in the air, it'll be coated on the toilet.
I doubt that piracy will stop at all, it's just moving onto different areas. I seriously think that these anti-piracy measures actually reduce sales by putting all sorts of crap in your way just to play a game that you bought! When it's not only easier to download a game off bit-torrent or whatever but you actually get a better product when doing so, something's seriously fucked up.
One of my maths lecturers talked about how they graphed a degrees of seperation of maths papers, where connections in the graph would be where the people collaborated on a paper. He was split from Albert Einstein by 3 degrees as I remember.
I doubt it's exactly the same - I mean it doesn't look the same from my end looking at your picture, though I say this without having used Mac OSX enough to remember the file selector! The main complaint with the GTK file selecter is that for some inane reason you can't manually type in the filename in the load file dialogue. Sometimes the GTK group make some absolutely idiotic decisions in the name of "user friendliness" where "user friendliness" seems to be equivalent in their minds to "taking out all of the features" (Not too long ago Linus Torvalds did a nice flame on this topic). So what then happens when you have a thousand pictures simply named 1.jpg to 1000.jpg and you want 346.jpg? With this file selector you literally cannot just type in 346.jpg, you must use the list to select it. From what I hear Mac OSX, though it's user friendly, still tries to be powerful as well, and admittedly I'm just assuming if they did something so idiotic as this people would be saying something about it.
To start off with I want to say I agree with you, but I'll just give a bit on why it's like that. Gimp is based off GTK+ (the Gimp Tool Kit) which is the basis for Gnome. Though yeah, the GTK has a horrific file selection browser that's supposedly designed to be "user friendly", Gimp doesn't actually have all that much to do with it and GTK is pretty well separate from Gimp now so you shouldn't blame Gimp but GTK.
The chap you responded to believes that because he believes copyright law is wrong, that those violating it on a grand scale are actually commiting "civil disobedience" and should be celebrated as heros and let free. Notably, he is a leech on the P2P networks, downloading from others but blocking incoming connections from fear of enforcement; a P2P leaf node
Do I? Am I?
All I was trying to say (ahem I admit albeitly badly) was that I thought that even though yes they knew it was illegal I'm sure they wouldn't have expected to be put into gaol for copyright infringement, let alone being extradited to another country! The $6.5 million is just an estimate and it didn't even come at a cost to the copyright holders - it cost possible potential sales not actual ones. I'm also saying that I personally don't think it's right to send someone to gaol in another country away from their friends and family for copyright infringement. I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished, but lets keep things in perspective here.
If you want a summary of my position on different issues so you can be properly holier-than-thou on me: I'm for copyright, against patents, for creative commons (I quite like having people be able to use my work non-commercially without having to go through the asking permission copyright crap), against "piracy" (within reason, I'm not against abandonware), for internet distribution, against drm. Any more questions?
So if you and some friends jaywalk across the road then lie about it if a police asks you if you jaywalked, not only have you broken the law but you also took measures to conceal your activities! You should go to gaol for a few years for such a horrific crime! You knew that jaywalking is illegal!
I've got news for you mate, just because it's law doesn't mean it's *right*, and just because a kid broke the law doesn't mean you should ruin his life for it.
You did read his definition didn't you? It said "function and composition ". What you said is just duplicating function, but not composition. It's most definitely concerned with internals - reverse engineering means taking apart the product and trying to duplicate it exactly - clone it. Which is most certainly not what wine is. Do you really think that if you compared the Wine source code and the Windows source code they'd be exactly the same? Wine is not a clone, it is an implementation.
(On the same thread AMD didn't reverse engineer Intels chip either for the same reasons)
As I understand it the essence of Wine is reverse engineering the Windows DLLs.
You might understand it that way, but you'd be wrong. All Wine does is implement the published API of Windows using Linux commands. Absolutely no reverse engineering is done.
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And the three "screenshots" that are supposedly of KDE are actually mockups from KDE Artists not actual screenshots of the dev version!
Can anyone tell if there are any actual screenshots in that bunch? I'm having a bit of trouble finding them.
They had to find *some* way of explaining it to George Bush.
It was a simple reference to Intel trying to expand into the embedded market where the ARM architecture rules. (More info on ARM - wikipedia is down atm so google cache is here.
You should perhaps read a book called Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter if you haven't already, which develops and expands that theory. It's *starting* to get a bit old at the moment but it's still absolutely fascinating.
Colt manufactures guns. Man opens fire in public with a Colt pistol. Who's at fault? The shooter, of course.
Haven't you been reading the summary? It's the victim's fault for not wearing a bullet proof vest!
My god! A serious case of Godwin's Law takes hold after only 20 mins! I wonder what the record for Slashdot is?
And then when the revenue stream drops slightly, that cliffhanger in the last episode that you were waiting to complete? Forget about it.
I think there should be another 50 point entry for "Stating that everyone who does not believe in your theory is a crackpot".
Is the binary Big Indian or Little Indian?
I sort of gave a chuckle when it said "Windows Only". Like when they tried to make a Linux version of Nero, even if they made a Linux version of this or Winamp or whatever, it'll be just too little too late. I don't think there's any way it'll be as good as Amarok.
This is a great advertisement for Novell here - their servers have lasted something like ten minutes already after posting 4 videos on Slashdot!
Just curious, how do you handle drying the walls and floors of the bathroom? It must have an amazing ventilation system to stop huge amounts of humidity...
Why do you say that? Perhaps you should read up to find out what oxidation actually means. Just because it has that "ox" in it doesn't mean that it's directly related to Oxygen.
Anyway the answer to your question is no, it won't be floating in the air, it'll be coated on the toilet.
This is actually a follow-up to a previous article.
I doubt that piracy will stop at all, it's just moving onto different areas. I seriously think that these anti-piracy measures actually reduce sales by putting all sorts of crap in your way just to play a game that you bought! When it's not only easier to download a game off bit-torrent or whatever but you actually get a better product when doing so, something's seriously fucked up.
One of my maths lecturers talked about how they graphed a degrees of seperation of maths papers, where connections in the graph would be where the people collaborated on a paper. He was split from Albert Einstein by 3 degrees as I remember.
So what would I recommend? Well, if you're using Linux, I can think of at least ten things better but XMMS would probably be my favorite.
I'm waiting for someone to suggest Amarok for Linux. It's most definitely the best player I've ever used.
I doubt it's exactly the same - I mean it doesn't look the same from my end looking at your picture, though I say this without having used Mac OSX enough to remember the file selector! The main complaint with the GTK file selecter is that for some inane reason you can't manually type in the filename in the load file dialogue. Sometimes the GTK group make some absolutely idiotic decisions in the name of "user friendliness" where "user friendliness" seems to be equivalent in their minds to "taking out all of the features" (Not too long ago Linus Torvalds did a nice flame on this topic). So what then happens when you have a thousand pictures simply named 1.jpg to 1000.jpg and you want 346.jpg? With this file selector you literally cannot just type in 346.jpg, you must use the list to select it. From what I hear Mac OSX, though it's user friendly, still tries to be powerful as well, and admittedly I'm just assuming if they did something so idiotic as this people would be saying something about it.
To start off with I want to say I agree with you, but I'll just give a bit on why it's like that. Gimp is based off GTK+ (the Gimp Tool Kit) which is the basis for Gnome. Though yeah, the GTK has a horrific file selection browser that's supposedly designed to be "user friendly", Gimp doesn't actually have all that much to do with it and GTK is pretty well separate from Gimp now so you shouldn't blame Gimp but GTK.
The chap you responded to believes that because he believes copyright law is wrong, that those violating it on a grand scale are actually commiting "civil disobedience" and should be celebrated as heros and let free. Notably, he is a leech on the P2P networks, downloading from others but blocking incoming connections from fear of enforcement; a P2P leaf node
Do I? Am I?
All I was trying to say (ahem I admit albeitly badly) was that I thought that even though yes they knew it was illegal I'm sure they wouldn't have expected to be put into gaol for copyright infringement, let alone being extradited to another country! The $6.5 million is just an estimate and it didn't even come at a cost to the copyright holders - it cost possible potential sales not actual ones. I'm also saying that I personally don't think it's right to send someone to gaol in another country away from their friends and family for copyright infringement. I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished, but lets keep things in perspective here.
If you want a summary of my position on different issues so you can be properly holier-than-thou on me: I'm for copyright, against patents, for creative commons (I quite like having people be able to use my work non-commercially without having to go through the asking permission copyright crap), against "piracy" (within reason, I'm not against abandonware), for internet distribution, against drm. Any more questions?
So if you and some friends jaywalk across the road then lie about it if a police asks you if you jaywalked, not only have you broken the law but you also took measures to conceal your activities! You should go to gaol for a few years for such a horrific crime! You knew that jaywalking is illegal!
I've got news for you mate, just because it's law doesn't mean it's *right*, and just because a kid broke the law doesn't mean you should ruin his life for it.
X2 and X3 - the best space sims that have come out for a (relatively) *very* long time.
You did read his definition didn't you? It said "function and composition ". What you said is just duplicating function, but not composition. It's most definitely concerned with internals - reverse engineering means taking apart the product and trying to duplicate it exactly - clone it. Which is most certainly not what wine is. Do you really think that if you compared the Wine source code and the Windows source code they'd be exactly the same? Wine is not a clone, it is an implementation.
(On the same thread AMD didn't reverse engineer Intels chip either for the same reasons)
As I understand it the essence of Wine is reverse engineering the Windows DLLs.
You might understand it that way, but you'd be wrong. All Wine does is implement the published API of Windows using Linux commands. Absolutely no reverse engineering is done.