and then Microsoft FUD-machine will turn up and say, 'you see, we have said that Linux is a virus, the Linux terrorist has definitely infected by it'... sigh...
the point is, RISC does not implies there are less instructions for you to use on the processor. What RISC actually means is that most instructions can be finished in one clock cycle (LOAD and STORE may be an exception) and all instructions are register based (as pointed out in sibling comment). Since all of its instructions are register-based, it can finish in one cycle (memory fetching takes definitely more than one cycle, compare your CPU clock to (effective) memory clock) and more importantly, it does not need to have messy instruction set which allows you to have four different type of source/destination combination (register -> register, memory -> register, register -> memory and memory -> memory).
the Supreme Court's lack of action could embolden
other software companies to prohibit reverse
engineering or take away other fair use rights
allowed under copyright law by including such prohibitions in an end user license agreement
that is horrible, why that EULA which I have never signed by me (just checked on that little I agree radio button) has given so much power, even to override copyright laws?
Does this implicates that manufacturer can put ANY terms in the EULA?
imagine this:
10. all your base belongs to us when you have installed software
and then the salesman of the software company knock the door of you home and say: 'all your base belongs to us, hands up!'
i agree with you, this time Microsoft is lucky since this worm does not make use of code defects. Certainly the quality of code from Microsoft is questionable, but that does not means when can blame Microsoft everytime when we meets a worm/virus/what-so-ever.
The point I am trying to make here (and the grandparent post) is that we should curse/blame Microsoft when we should (and evangelise alternatives too), while maintaining our rationale so we can judge whether it is Microsoft's fault or not. Or else we are just like some people hardselling alternative OS mindlessly.
ok, it seems that many of you put out your argument against microsft again...
but, before you do so, think twice, is this worm (or others) really have to do with microsoft? i mean, is the fault lies in microsoft? My opinion on this is that the fault lies on user this time, it is because the worm does not use exploit or other bugs in the OS itself, but exploit the lack of knowledge which normal computer users suffer from.
If the fault is on the user side, why should we blame Microsoft on this? If all a sudden Linux become so accessible to user that all people on this planet knows how to use it, and then they received a email with a shell script containing rm -rf/ (assuming the user runs as root:)), should we blame on Linux?
I think we should take more effort to educate more computer user than to blame microsoft everytime. (yea, I know sometimes we should blame on Microsoft, but not everytime)
What makes us laugh out loud is the QBASIC book review. I am not laughing at the language itself (this will start a flamewar), but I think that the book QBASIC for dummies is a little pointless.
this book will not have much use to experienced QBASIC programmer
seasoned programmer can pickup another language quickly, learning language syntax is not that hard
i have not heard of anybody uses QBASIC as a starter language nowadays
Question of the day: What is the point of having the book review here?
[quote]
My reasons are, support for scheduling, and the fact that it looks nicer and will make a good impression on friends who aren't Linux users but are interested in Linux.
[/quote]
I just use the email feature of Evolution only, so I want to move to mutt for speed reason.:)
[quote]
That said, though, I'd like to retain "compatibility" with Mutt if at all possible, so that I can use Mutt to read new or old mail without interfering with the operation of Evolution.
[/quote]
Since Evolution stores mail in standard mbox format, I guess it will not be hard for you to do a mailbox which is readable by both Evolution and mutt.
we still have many things to do to evangeliszed the use of MNG (imagine p0rn ad with full alpha transparency! sigh...) before we can get a full-blown replacement for GIF. Remember newbies will definitely say: `Wow! GIF does animation but PNG does not, PNG is a crap.' Regardless whether GIF has LZW patent or not.
Personally I have used Ximian Evolution before, and I think that it is pretty easy to use (i.e. very gentle learning curve).
However, during my waiting for the GTK2 version of Evolution, I have switched to mutt for various reasons:
I am tired of waiting it to fire up (~5-10 seconds on my P2 350MHz)
I wanna try something new
More powerful:)
Most importantly, I know that text-based oriented interface is faster to use when you are on it
My thinking is that GUI applications aids people to migrate to Linux (who wanna invest half a month to learn before you know how to check your inbox?). As users has built up more and more knowledge on Linux (kernel + applications), s/he will start looking at alternatives (possibly text-oriented interface) which suits his/her needs better.
This will also answer those comments like:
GUI is useless
real men use mutt/[insert your favorite text-based mail client here]
Although I am using mutt now, without Evolution, I will not even know how to use mutt now. I appreciate a newer version being released, although I know I will not use it.
... will use its annual developers conference to showcase this summer's product offerings, sources tell AppleInsider.
... What the press release did not say is that this first developer release of Panther would be demonstrated by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, on the company's new line of Power Mac G5 desktop computers.
... According to sources, Apple plans to make the Power Mac G5 available to the public following their introduction on June 23rd....
> "Do you read PC Gamer?" > "No, I run Linux." > Y'know, the money you save by not buying Windows > and Office will more than pay for your 2 game > consoles of choice. Or, if your two consoles of > choice are out of stock, you could just get an > X-box.
<quote>
The newly installed robot is finishing two pilot projects, scanning books published by Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information and...
</quote>
while most of/.ers think that `my basement have plenety of them, just trash'em', here is why:
many artifacts of museum used to be very common, yes, those computers may be very common now, how about in next 10 years? next 100 years? What is common now may not be common (or even rare) in the future.
you have computers in your basement, what if you need to move to another living space? will you take them with you? What will they end up the day when you died? I guess most of the stuff in your basement now will end up in landfill.
a systematic way to preserve artifacts is a good thing, even if somebody-has-them-already. Who knows when will disaster come? Having a copy is always a good thing. (remember the raided museum in Bagdad?)
why not protect'em when you can?
p.s. no my apartment does not have basement:)
in fact dups on/. is sent with the evil bit on and is intended as a test for you guys, if you have the appropriate support for evil bit, you should not be able to see dups!
ugh... it seems that i should file a bug to report this to my OS vender and tell them to have this feature properly supported so I won't receive any dup again...
Slashdot Mirror
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
the upcoming slashdot headline: A Real Living With Virtual FUD and Stupid Licenses
and then Microsoft FUD-machine will turn up and say, 'you see, we have said that Linux is a virus, the Linux terrorist has definitely infected by it'... sigh...
is it because FUD-generating-marketing-machine of SCO is off on Sunday? heh....
> Please give one counterexample.
try plot the binary data of the audio file to BOTH sides of a piece of paper :)
na... by current slashdot definition, you gotta use png to free you music :)
the point is, RISC does not implies there are less instructions for you to use on the processor. What RISC actually means is that most instructions can be finished in one clock cycle (LOAD and STORE may be an exception) and all instructions are register based (as pointed out in sibling comment). Since all of its instructions are register-based, it can finish in one cycle (memory fetching takes definitely more than one cycle, compare your CPU clock to (effective) memory clock) and more importantly, it does not need to have messy instruction set which allows you to have four different type of source/destination combination (register -> register, memory -> register, register -> memory and memory -> memory).
and then when you turn to page 36, ah ha... the page has a full page advertisment of the software only
and then you think, where the .... is paragraph 3, line 7, word 2?
i agree with you, this time Microsoft is lucky since this worm does not make use of code defects. Certainly the quality of code from Microsoft is questionable, but that does not means when can blame Microsoft everytime when we meets a worm/virus/what-so-ever.
The point I am trying to make here (and the grandparent post) is that we should curse/blame Microsoft when we should (and evangelise alternatives too), while maintaining our rationale so we can judge whether it is Microsoft's fault or not. Or else we are just like some people hardselling alternative OS mindlessly.
ok, it seems that many of you put out your argument against microsft again...
but, before you do so, think twice, is this worm (or others) really have to do with microsoft? i mean, is the fault lies in microsoft? My opinion on this is that the fault lies on user this time, it is because the worm does not use exploit or other bugs in the OS itself, but exploit the lack of knowledge which normal computer users suffer from.
If the fault is on the user side, why should we blame Microsoft on this? If all a sudden Linux become so accessible to user that all people on this planet knows how to use it, and then they received a email with a shell script containing rm -rf / (assuming the user runs as root :)), should we blame on Linux?
I think we should take more effort to educate more computer user than to blame microsoft everytime. (yea, I know sometimes we should blame on Microsoft, but not everytime)
What makes us laugh out loud is the QBASIC book review. I am not laughing at the language itself (this will start a flamewar), but I think that the book QBASIC for dummies is a little pointless.
Question of the day: What is the point of having the book review here?
QBASIC is dying, but QBASIC for dummies will live forever!
[quote]
My reasons are, support for scheduling, and the fact that it looks nicer and will make a good impression on friends who aren't Linux users but are interested in Linux.
[/quote]
I just use the email feature of Evolution only, so I want to move to mutt for speed reason. :)
[quote]
That said, though, I'd like to retain "compatibility" with Mutt if at all possible, so that I can use Mutt to read new or old mail without interfering with the operation of Evolution.
[/quote]
Since Evolution stores mail in standard mbox format, I guess it will not be hard for you to do a mailbox which is readable by both Evolution and mutt.
when will SCO becomes an obligatory joke?
GIF supports animation, but it is not supported in PNG.
I know with MNG, you can do animation plus all advantages of PNG. However in reality, not many people are using MNG yet, which make the support for MNG almost non-existant (even our favorite browser has removed support for MNG due to resignation of its maintainer, at least for now)
we still have many things to do to evangeliszed the use of MNG (imagine p0rn ad with full alpha transparency! sigh...) before we can get a full-blown replacement for GIF. Remember newbies will definitely say: `Wow! GIF does animation but PNG does not, PNG is a crap.' Regardless whether GIF has LZW patent or not.
until GIF gives us more than Alpha channel with more than 1 bit :)...
Personally I have used Ximian Evolution before, and I think that it is pretty easy to use (i.e. very gentle learning curve).
However, during my waiting for the GTK2 version of Evolution, I have switched to mutt for various reasons:
My thinking is that GUI applications aids people to migrate to Linux (who wanna invest half a month to learn before you know how to check your inbox?). As users has built up more and more knowledge on Linux (kernel + applications), s/he will start looking at alternatives (possibly text-oriented interface) which suits his/her needs better.
This will also answer those comments like:
Although I am using mutt now, without Evolution, I will not even know how to use mutt now. I appreciate a newer version being released, although I know I will not use it.
... According to sources, Apple plans to make the Power Mac G5 available to the public following their introduction on June 23rd. ...
[/quote]what are the `sources'?
/* this code is broken! */ /* XXX why the hack can this code be broken if we have copied this from SCO? */
> "Do you read PC Gamer?"
> "No, I run Linux."
> Y'know, the money you save by not buying Windows
> and Office will more than pay for your 2 game
> consoles of choice. Or, if your two consoles of
> choice are out of stock, you could just get an
> X-box.
"Do you play X-box?"
"No, I run Linux."
"Do you play PS2?"
"No, I run Linux."
"Do you have life?"
"No, I run Linux."
<quote> ...
The newly installed robot is finishing two pilot projects, scanning books published by Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information and
</quote>
It means they have scanned this this this this and this?
Will they be available online for reading? :)
while most of /.ers think that `my basement have plenety of them, just trash'em', here is why:
many artifacts of museum used to be very common, yes, those computers may be very common now, how about in next 10 years? next 100 years? What is common now may not be common (or even rare) in the future.
you have computers in your basement, what if you need to move to another living space? will you take them with you? What will they end up the day when you died? I guess most of the stuff in your basement now will end up in landfill.
a systematic way to preserve artifacts is a good thing, even if somebody-has-them-already. Who knows when will disaster come? Having a copy is always a good thing. (remember the raided museum in Bagdad?)
why not protect'em when you can?
p.s. no my apartment does not have basement :)
in fact dups on /. is sent with the evil bit on and is intended as a test for you guys, if you have the appropriate support for evil bit, you should not be able to see dups!
ugh... it seems that i should file a bug to report this to my OS vender and tell them to have this feature properly supported so I won't receive any dup again...