No intentional reference here to PS3/XBox360 designs here, but I can see how games would benefit from SMT or SMP design more than many problems. Large AI systems in video games could be created if you had enough processors to handle the calculations while letting others handle graphics and audio calls.
A good physics model with semi-intelligent opponent AI would be fun to implement on a 32-way desktop system.
This is a very good reason for all such public-benefit software systems to be open as well as all related research.
Unless we all have the scientific data on how to accurately detect alcohol via breath analysis and know the correct algorithms, we can't possibly defend against improperly working units.
Tab completion can be done by point-and-click from a CLI if given some time to implement properly.
Write out "ip" and have the pop-up list show "addr dev route..." and you click route then "add del show..." pops up and you click show then double-tap for enter.
That's probably the original design, but the batteryless version is more marketable. Once they've made good money off it, they'll release version 2 with the battery:-).
Having common "official" languages is useful, Canada even has two at only 35 million people.
That said, I prefer diversity -- being able to communicate with each other should be on the basis of learning each others' language, not submitting to a state-sponsored one.
If Microsoft wants to create a new standard and publish it and leave the patents open to OSS projects for licensing (one-time costs are fine by me as well -- but no limit on users), that's fine.
If they want to create something that requires Windows or another OS for me to use it on a platform agnostic medium (the Internet), that's bad.
HTML should render in all browsers on all platforms -- but it doesn't have to be the same. Browsers have always had slight differences and some even support the blink tag.
These JavaScript extensions should be implementable by the MS IE crew in no time really... to my way of thinking at least. Nobody's stopping them.
You walk up to your house with a few grams of weed, your door won't unlock.
Trying to pass a transport truck down a hill so you aren't stuck behind him up the next hill, your car's governor kicks in and keeps you limited to 55mph so you can't go by (leading to more people passing up the hills and causing more low-visibility accidents on short hills).
Your wife, who's pregnant, calls on your cell phone to tell you to go home and get her because she thinks she might be in labor and your car shuts down because you're trying to talk on your cell phone while driving.
As you swerve to avoid an accident that just happened in front of you, your car reports you for an illegal double lane change.
Cruising down the street on your brand new mountain bike with its new knobby tires the street turns on the spike-belt feature at the stop sign because your tires aren't road-regulation causing you to wipe out.... etc.
Lets assume for a moment that users care more about their browser than their operating system and that they're more concerned about having the latest and best IE version than whether they run Win98 or XP or 2k for that matter. If this is true (and among home users, I'm betting it is), then Microsoft just bought itself a bunch of XP upgrades at $100+ a piece by not releasing IE7 for older versions of Windows.
Sounds like product tying to me -- if indeed IE6 is buggy and criminally error-prone, someone might decide that a lawsuit vs. Microsoft is worthwhile.
As a minor extension to that thought, part of the problem is because they aren't around other smart people enough.
When I was IQ tested in grade 4, they tossed me into a 'gifted' class one day a week to learn additional more challenging ideas (and then have to go home and catch up on my homework).
I'd thought I was smart till I met my new 170+ IQ classmate who could finish multi-section logic puzzles (bob bought a pizza and a drink, lucy had the coke from mcdonalds, etc.) without using the squares to do the eliminations. She'd read the list and think for a moment and then blurt out that "George had Pepsi of course."
Being around other smart people helps immensely when it comes to understanding your own limitations.
People who make cultural things like music and books have *limited* rights to them for a *limited* time, they said so in your legal history class.
You took one, right?
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However, a lot of McVoy's support of the kernel developpers also contributed to BitMover's ability to support such working groups at all. BitMover learned from this "free" client.
I'd have to agree -- I was more than willing to recommend that my partners and I check out BitMover for source control in-house, until he started mouthing off on the kernel list.
Guess what McVoy, lots of us read the Kernel Traffic summaries who aren't necessarily involved. I don't like companies with bad attitudes, period.
While I have no evidence to suggest that OpenVPN actually has any such bugs, many crypto software bugs have been highly obscure even in well-designed packages. Consider the with/without compression issues for PGP/SSH in the past, or initialization vector selection issues, or how memory is handled (protection, swapping, etc.)
Getting crypto right requires a lot of thought, that's all. I'm sure OpenVPN works well for you, but I'll stick to ipsec for now.
No offence intended, but I'll stick to security systems designed by experts. "Borrowing" techniques from experts is great, but its a far cry from being one.
Consider that the average person rewiring their own home often doesn't know of the dangers of having polarity reversed on outlets despite knowing how to use a screwdriver and knowing that grounding is important.
Consider that those who do know about polarity issues might not know about the heat dissipation limitations of various sizes of box for the wires causing potential house fires.
Those who are aware of heat dissipation issues of 1-gang boxes (and those are rare) often still run wiring through insulation or ventilation systems without proper jacketing.
There are a *lot* more mistakes to be made in large number cryptography and security software than there are in wiring a house.
What's wrong with storing every new item in a table and disallowing updates? Use triggers to give yourself quick "current" views of the data if you wish.
"Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'."
I'm not a big RMS fan, but here's where I'd disagree with you -- how GM engineers their engines and why may be none of my business, but being allowed to tear it apart and replace parts myself for my own use should be a basic right. If I then want to tell others what I did to my GM engine to make it better, so they can do it to theirs, that should be fine too.
Technically, I'd be justified selling it myself and making the profit instead, since its *mine*, I have *Copyright* on it, and they have no rights to it whatsoever.
That's right -- no rights.
See, under the GPL, if you violate the requirements thereof, you lose *all* rights not given you under Copyright (which would be none).
Speaking of pick up and play -- I hope someone has decided to make a "fastload" type feature that installs some of the executable portions of the game from the disc onto the included hard drives in these devices for instant load times.
By the time my PS2 loads a game, I've often gotten into the show on TV.
I've been ranting for a few years about making a wireless storage device just for storing my data. That said, I'd envisioned something more like "hang around your neck" wireless... maybe with a memory stick option.
I just want to be able to store more data arbitrarily from any of my other devices to a standard central device.
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No intentional reference here to PS3/XBox360 designs here, but I can see how games would benefit from SMT or SMP design more than many problems. Large AI systems in video games could be created if you had enough processors to handle the calculations while letting others handle graphics and audio calls.
A good physics model with semi-intelligent opponent AI would be fun to implement on a 32-way desktop system.
I'd say that's a pretty good summarization of why the rest of us should never manage localized versions this way.
This is a very good reason for all such public-benefit software systems to be open as well as all related research.
Unless we all have the scientific data on how to accurately detect alcohol via breath analysis and know the correct algorithms, we can't possibly defend against improperly working units.
-- I often have low blood sugar.
Tab completion can be done by point-and-click from a CLI if given some time to implement properly.
..." and you click route then "add del show ..." pops up and you click show then double-tap for enter.
Write out "ip" and have the pop-up list show "addr dev route
Just a thought.
That's probably the original design, but the batteryless version is more marketable. Once they've made good money off it, they'll release version 2 with the battery :-).
There's nothing wrong with diversity.
Having common "official" languages is useful, Canada even has two at only 35 million people.
That said, I prefer diversity -- being able to communicate with each other should be on the basis of learning each others' language, not submitting to a state-sponsored one.
If Microsoft wants to create a new standard and publish it and leave the patents open to OSS projects for licensing (one-time costs are fine by me as well -- but no limit on users), that's fine.
... to my way of thinking at least. Nobody's stopping them.
If they want to create something that requires Windows or another OS for me to use it on a platform agnostic medium (the Internet), that's bad.
HTML should render in all browsers on all platforms -- but it doesn't have to be the same. Browsers have always had slight differences and some even support the blink tag.
These JavaScript extensions should be implementable by the MS IE crew in no time really
I'd rather see (and yes, I've considered doing it partly myself) a custom build of Firefox for E17 and its related technologies.
Imlib2 can do some nice stuff, its small and fast and already uses GL acceleration when possible.
With HTML its easy -- set the standard in your header and then validate when you publish.
If your HTML doesn't validate, you aren't following the standard you claim to follow.
Thus all the websites with "...-transitional" headers.
You walk up to your house with a few grams of weed, your door won't unlock.
... etc.
Trying to pass a transport truck down a hill so you aren't stuck behind him up the next hill, your car's governor kicks in and keeps you limited to 55mph so you can't go by (leading to more people passing up the hills and causing more low-visibility accidents on short hills).
Your wife, who's pregnant, calls on your cell phone to tell you to go home and get her because she thinks she might be in labor and your car shuts down because you're trying to talk on your cell phone while driving.
As you swerve to avoid an accident that just happened in front of you, your car reports you for an illegal double lane change.
Cruising down the street on your brand new mountain bike with its new knobby tires the street turns on the spike-belt feature at the stop sign because your tires aren't road-regulation causing you to wipe out.
Lets assume for a moment that users care more about their browser than their operating system and that they're more concerned about having the latest and best IE version than whether they run Win98 or XP or 2k for that matter. If this is true (and among home users, I'm betting it is), then Microsoft just bought itself a bunch of XP upgrades at $100+ a piece by not releasing IE7 for older versions of Windows.
Sounds like product tying to me -- if indeed IE6 is buggy and criminally error-prone, someone might decide that a lawsuit vs. Microsoft is worthwhile.
This has been a feature of qmail (not gmail) since the beginning(although with hyphens, not plus signs).
I'm assuming gmail just picked it up for convenience -- I use something similar myself (see address above).
As a minor extension to that thought, part of the problem is because they aren't around other smart people enough.
When I was IQ tested in grade 4, they tossed me into a 'gifted' class one day a week to learn additional more challenging ideas (and then have to go home and catch up on my homework).
I'd thought I was smart till I met my new 170+ IQ classmate who could finish multi-section logic puzzles (bob bought a pizza and a drink, lucy had the coke from mcdonalds, etc.) without using the squares to do the eliminations. She'd read the list and think for a moment and then blurt out that "George had Pepsi of course."
Being around other smart people helps immensely when it comes to understanding your own limitations.
Wouldn't it be fun to convince some college chef school pre-grads to cook at highschool cafeterias? :-)
I'm seeing a reality TV series already.
Who sees the kids for 8 hours a day? The system.
Who sees them for maybe 4 hours when they're not going out, playing sports or sleeping each night? The parents.
I blame parents for a lot too, but the education system at the least bears much responsibility for the state of our children.
People who make cultural things like music and books have *limited* rights to them for a *limited* time, they said so in your legal history class.
You took one, right?
However, a lot of McVoy's support of the kernel developpers also contributed to BitMover's ability to support such working groups at all. BitMover learned from this "free" client.
I'd have to agree -- I was more than willing to recommend that my partners and I check out BitMover for source control in-house, until he started mouthing off on the kernel list.
Guess what McVoy, lots of us read the Kernel Traffic summaries who aren't necessarily involved. I don't like companies with bad attitudes, period.
While I have no evidence to suggest that OpenVPN actually has any such bugs, many crypto software bugs have been highly obscure even in well-designed packages. Consider the with/without compression issues for PGP/SSH in the past, or initialization vector selection issues, or how memory is handled (protection, swapping, etc.)
Getting crypto right requires a lot of thought, that's all. I'm sure OpenVPN works well for you, but I'll stick to ipsec for now.
No offence intended, but I'll stick to security systems designed by experts. "Borrowing" techniques from experts is great, but its a far cry from being one.
Consider that the average person rewiring their own home often doesn't know of the dangers of having polarity reversed on outlets despite knowing how to use a screwdriver and knowing that grounding is important.
Consider that those who do know about polarity issues might not know about the heat dissipation limitations of various sizes of box for the wires causing potential house fires.
Those who are aware of heat dissipation issues of 1-gang boxes (and those are rare) often still run wiring through insulation or ventilation systems without proper jacketing.
There are a *lot* more mistakes to be made in large number cryptography and security software than there are in wiring a house.
What's wrong with storing every new item in a table and disallowing updates? Use triggers to give yourself quick "current" views of the data if you wish.
"Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'."
I'm not a big RMS fan, but here's where I'd disagree with you -- how GM engineers their engines and why may be none of my business, but being allowed to tear it apart and replace parts myself for my own use should be a basic right. If I then want to tell others what I did to my GM engine to make it better, so they can do it to theirs, that should be fine too.
Technically, I'd be justified selling it myself and making the profit instead, since its *mine*, I have *Copyright* on it, and they have no rights to it whatsoever.
That's right -- no rights.
See, under the GPL, if you violate the requirements thereof, you lose *all* rights not given you under Copyright (which would be none).
They're breaking federal law. Get over it.
Speaking of pick up and play -- I hope someone has decided to make a "fastload" type feature that installs some of the executable portions of the game from the disc onto the included hard drives in these devices for instant load times.
By the time my PS2 loads a game, I've often gotten into the show on TV.
*Fast* load times, please?
I've been ranting for a few years about making a wireless storage device just for storing my data. That said, I'd envisioned something more like "hang around your neck" wireless ... maybe with a memory stick option.
I just want to be able to store more data arbitrarily from any of my other devices to a standard central device.