the Romans won many battles by simply laying siege and letting people starve to death (can you find an instance of the United States Army laying siege and waiting for people to starve to death?).
North Korea? It hasn't worked yet but that's the basic attempt.
No, collaboration is key. Competition is irrelevant.
The Internet could easily exist with just government agencies involved (and did for many years).
The Internet is larger due to private interests, but that competition is not necessary nor a major factor in its existence. Their forced cooperation would in no way negatively affect the Internet's existence, only possible profiteering by the companies involved.
Anything except system libraries needed... and some such other exceptions.
That's probably where PHP itself fits in.
As for interpreted languages, things are even fuzzier. An interpreted program calls another interpreted piece of code, does running in the same interpreter make them one piece of code? Using an API certainly does not in the case of system libraries, but I doubt WordPress qualifies as 'system library', unless you see the website as a system.
As a logic puzzle, if I told you to insert "i=i+j;" on line 3832 of a Copyrighted source file, you'd be modifying source, not me. I'd be telling you how to do it, but not doing it myself. Would there be a Copyright violation if you distributed the changed source file? Sure. What if we all just told each other how to change it?
Welcome to diff format, and the legal issue. If I tell you how to change something and you do the changing, then you're bound by the GPL. If I never distribute my changes at all, I'm not bound by it.
Personally however, I think any judge would see through that and realize that the electronic ability to distribute only the modified part of a work doesn't change the intent to distribute a modified work itself.
Themes in Wordpress aren't plugins like the image set you use in say Gtk theming, but actual modifications to the source at some level.
This isn't scary, it isn't unique or strange, its just a basic understanding of what you're doing. If you're modifying someone's GPL'd code, your diffs are under the GPL.
... just like the software that was originally modified and received for free under the same terms.
Why should anyone else get to hide their modifications to free software when they didn't have to pay for the original software itself? There's a huge cost savings in leveraging existing code, but you don't get to turn that into magical profits without working out a new license arrangement with the original author.
See MySQL, Zope, Ogre3D and others for excellent examples.
I only wish I could find a source download on their site. Even a "what we're doing" guide. Downloading the ISO and reverse-engineering what they're doing with cuneiform and exactimage doesn't seem nearly as productive, especially when I'd rather implement this on an existing server than boot a special piece of hardware with it.
You're right, and the terminology difference matters to some people (like me). Bloatware would be the shopping list app I saw that was over 6MB on the Android Market. 6MB for a shopping list app huh? Try 600KB and I might bite.
You've twice called it better without any testing showing that it is, and all implications so far being that it isn't.
The literal net was because you've been trapped in some reality distortion field. The name calling started by the forking group (claiming Snort was dead) which I'm sure anyone would take offence to.
To be argumentative, there's no implicit need for competition in open source. Its open source. Just submit patches. There's no implicit benefit to the competition either, since its typically a waste of resources to re-implement code that works.
Again, this is a huge waste of resources. Public resources that are supposedly tight. If some college kid wants to write a fresh IDS for fun, let him. If some private company wants to invest in making a new IDS to improve appliances they sell, go for it. But for public money to be spent on a pointless endeavour that doesn't improve the landscape at all is wasteful and ignorant.
I was going to say something exactly along these lines.
I do a lot of driving for work, all over Ontario (Canada). I use a Tomtom 630 (previously had a 720) for most of my navigation. I update regularly and have a yearly map subscription to keep up-to-date with changing roads and speeds.
What's the difference? My Tomtom would never send me down a major street in Toronto during rush hour. Why not? Because it has average speeds for each road stored in the map data based on day of week and time of day. It knows that this road is faster on average than this other road at this time of day. With the FM antenna, I also get the live traffic updates as I pass through relevant areas.
On several occasions I've plugged the same destination into my Tomtom and my Android phone. The navigation directions on my Tomtom are almost always smarter. On rare occasion, Google takes a slightly shorter-by-optimal-speed route, but the actual time to destination is usually what the Tomtom predicted instead. In general I find the Tomtom's algorithms much more intelligent (although the 720 was much dumber, not having average road-speeds).
I read an excellent blog post by a game designer involved with Black back in the day (on the PS2). One of the things he discussed was how making guns sound 'realistic' wasn't nearly as appealing as making them sound 'good'.
In the end, you've got to decide whether you're making a sim or not. Gran Turismo 5 has nearly to-the-inch accuracy for track designs and very exacting car physics modelling. Burnout Paradise does not. Many would argue the latter is more fun (although i personally play both).
Do Burnout cars handle like real cars? Only in the way that cartoon people look like real people. Certain features are exaggerated, and others are over-simplified but the result is an appealing car-like metaphor that's familiar and fun to drive.
I'm from a demi-northern bit of Canada, so my grandfather and uncle brought me out to learn how to sight a rifle and squeeze off rounds carefully at a young age. Of course, they were kinder and started me on a.22 lol.
I've always considered camping sniper hatred to either be immaturity on the part of the recipient (stop running around in the open in a predictable way) or stupidity in level design (no area should be 'perfect' for camping from).
There are games in which camping as a sniper is very dangerous, and will likely get you killed by skilled enemies, and in those, take the risks and good luck to you. SOCOM comes to mind, so does MAG. In both, a smart sniper drops a claymore on the access route behind them before camping though.
Holding the phone with your left or right hand while talking without a headset/earpiece has a lot more to do with left or right brain bias than handedness.
Steve Jobs sold a phone that when held "normally" with one hand loses substantial signal quality.
Most phones when held "normally" do not. Some phones also lose some signal quality when held in specific ways, but of course this doesn't affect most people as they don't hold their phones in those strange and unusual ways.
There was a nice sticker on the back of my last Nokia flip phone that said "do not cover this area" in a spot where i would never have had my hand anyway.
Steve Jobs' "lie" as the GP puts it is claiming that this is a common problem with most handsets when it isn't. The problem being "holding the phone normally substantially affects reception."
Multi-threading a stream isn't implicitly better. A lot of the work for analyzing a packet stream needs to be single-threaded anyway (or have a lot of locks, eliminating multi-thread benefits) because the packets are coming in one at a time.
Even if you were to break up the incoming packets into streams, then spawn or call a worker thread to handle each stream independently, you'd quickly become resource-bound (due to large numbers of simultaneous streams).
This isn't even remotely like KDE vs. Gnome. Neither is a fork of the other, and there were political issues as well.
"Up" was a fantastic movie in 3D with an engaging story and credible characters. Sure, it wasn't Casa Blanca or the Ten Commandments, but not much is.
As for Avatar, its one of the few movies I've seen in my life where audiences consistently applauded at the ending. Obviously it engaged people the way art is supposed to do.
Movies are an art form. Some art sucks, some is good, but nobody will ever agree on which is which. My wife still thinks "Dude, where's my car?" was a great movie, and that the "Lord of the Rings" was boring for example.
If 3D lets an artist do something more engaging to certain audiences, then more power to them. 3D is no more a gimmick than stained glass windows.
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I think the obvious ending is that we're not supposed to know.
I think its quite obvious the director wanted to have a good 'hehe, I'm not telling' inside joke with his audience, and I'm good with that.
Your version is just one possibility of how things may have turned out. The truth is, we weren't told.
North Korea? It hasn't worked yet but that's the basic attempt.
Their reply is inept and as bad as I'd expected.
They want me to wade through a fully functional CD to find their various customized configuration files and figure out which bits they changed.
Load Knoppix disc, load OCR disc, do full diff on mounted contents? Not my idea of fun.
They can post an actual "here's what we did" or I'll just ignore it.
Or maybe actually posting real model numbers would make your anecdote relevant, like I did.
No, collaboration is key. Competition is irrelevant.
The Internet could easily exist with just government agencies involved (and did for many years).
The Internet is larger due to private interests, but that competition is not necessary nor a major factor in its existence. Their forced cooperation would in no way negatively affect the Internet's existence, only possible profiteering by the companies involved.
Anything except system libraries needed ... and some such other exceptions.
That's probably where PHP itself fits in.
As for interpreted languages, things are even fuzzier. An interpreted program calls another interpreted piece of code, does running in the same interpreter make them one piece of code? Using an API certainly does not in the case of system libraries, but I doubt WordPress qualifies as 'system library', unless you see the website as a system.
As a logic puzzle, if I told you to insert "i=i+j;" on line 3832 of a Copyrighted source file, you'd be modifying source, not me. I'd be telling you how to do it, but not doing it myself. Would there be a Copyright violation if you distributed the changed source file? Sure. What if we all just told each other how to change it?
Welcome to diff format, and the legal issue. If I tell you how to change something and you do the changing, then you're bound by the GPL. If I never distribute my changes at all, I'm not bound by it.
Personally however, I think any judge would see through that and realize that the electronic ability to distribute only the modified part of a work doesn't change the intent to distribute a modified work itself.
Themes in Wordpress aren't plugins like the image set you use in say Gtk theming, but actual modifications to the source at some level.
This isn't scary, it isn't unique or strange, its just a basic understanding of what you're doing. If you're modifying someone's GPL'd code, your diffs are under the GPL.
... just like the software that was originally modified and received for free under the same terms.
Why should anyone else get to hide their modifications to free software when they didn't have to pay for the original software itself? There's a huge cost savings in leveraging existing code, but you don't get to turn that into magical profits without working out a new license arrangement with the original author.
See MySQL, Zope, Ogre3D and others for excellent examples.
I only wish I could find a source download on their site. Even a "what we're doing" guide. Downloading the ISO and reverse-engineering what they're doing with cuneiform and exactimage doesn't seem nearly as productive, especially when I'd rather implement this on an existing server than boot a special piece of hardware with it.
You're right, and the terminology difference matters to some people (like me). Bloatware would be the shopping list app I saw that was over 6MB on the Android Market. 6MB for a shopping list app huh? Try 600KB and I might bite.
Entertaining true story about American censorship on TV:
You seem to forget that the Internet is an Internet, not an intranet.
If these companies don't cooperate, it ceases to be the Internet at all.
Cooperation is KEY to the Internet's existence. It is not and was not designed to be a private enterprise.
You've twice called it better without any testing showing that it is, and all implications so far being that it isn't.
The literal net was because you've been trapped in some reality distortion field. The name calling started by the forking group (claiming Snort was dead) which I'm sure anyone would take offence to.
To be argumentative, there's no implicit need for competition in open source. Its open source. Just submit patches. There's no implicit benefit to the competition either, since its typically a waste of resources to re-implement code that works.
Again, this is a huge waste of resources. Public resources that are supposedly tight. If some college kid wants to write a fresh IDS for fun, let him. If some private company wants to invest in making a new IDS to improve appliances they sell, go for it. But for public money to be spent on a pointless endeavour that doesn't improve the landscape at all is wasteful and ignorant.
I saw these a while back: adult toilet version and baby version
I was going to say something exactly along these lines.
I do a lot of driving for work, all over Ontario (Canada). I use a Tomtom 630 (previously had a 720) for most of my navigation. I update regularly and have a yearly map subscription to keep up-to-date with changing roads and speeds.
What's the difference? My Tomtom would never send me down a major street in Toronto during rush hour. Why not? Because it has average speeds for each road stored in the map data based on day of week and time of day. It knows that this road is faster on average than this other road at this time of day. With the FM antenna, I also get the live traffic updates as I pass through relevant areas.
On several occasions I've plugged the same destination into my Tomtom and my Android phone. The navigation directions on my Tomtom are almost always smarter. On rare occasion, Google takes a slightly shorter-by-optimal-speed route, but the actual time to destination is usually what the Tomtom predicted instead. In general I find the Tomtom's algorithms much more intelligent (although the 720 was much dumber, not having average road-speeds).
I read an excellent blog post by a game designer involved with Black back in the day (on the PS2). One of the things he discussed was how making guns sound 'realistic' wasn't nearly as appealing as making them sound 'good'.
In the end, you've got to decide whether you're making a sim or not. Gran Turismo 5 has nearly to-the-inch accuracy for track designs and very exacting car physics modelling. Burnout Paradise does not. Many would argue the latter is more fun (although i personally play both).
Do Burnout cars handle like real cars? Only in the way that cartoon people look like real people. Certain features are exaggerated, and others are over-simplified but the result is an appealing car-like metaphor that's familiar and fun to drive.
I'm from a demi-northern bit of Canada, so my grandfather and uncle brought me out to learn how to sight a rifle and squeeze off rounds carefully at a young age. Of course, they were kinder and started me on a .22 lol.
I've always considered camping sniper hatred to either be immaturity on the part of the recipient (stop running around in the open in a predictable way) or stupidity in level design (no area should be 'perfect' for camping from).
There are games in which camping as a sniper is very dangerous, and will likely get you killed by skilled enemies, and in those, take the risks and good luck to you. SOCOM comes to mind, so does MAG. In both, a smart sniper drops a claymore on the access route behind them before camping though.
Hey Steve, this phone's great, did you know it runs Linux really smooth?
*ducks chair*
Best new Internet meme in ten years maybe.
Bigger GEE BEEs. lol. Still love that video.
Saved myself an MP4 copy on my HTC phone to show people :)
Holding the phone with your left or right hand while talking without a headset/earpiece has a lot more to do with left or right brain bias than handedness.
You're obviously being a troll but I'll bite.
Steve Jobs sold a phone that when held "normally" with one hand loses substantial signal quality.
Most phones when held "normally" do not. Some phones also lose some signal quality when held in specific ways, but of course this doesn't affect most people as they don't hold their phones in those strange and unusual ways.
There was a nice sticker on the back of my last Nokia flip phone that said "do not cover this area" in a spot where i would never have had my hand anyway.
Steve Jobs' "lie" as the GP puts it is claiming that this is a common problem with most handsets when it isn't. The problem being "holding the phone normally substantially affects reception."
Multi-threading a stream isn't implicitly better. A lot of the work for analyzing a packet stream needs to be single-threaded anyway (or have a lot of locks, eliminating multi-thread benefits) because the packets are coming in one at a time.
Even if you were to break up the incoming packets into streams, then spawn or call a worker thread to handle each stream independently, you'd quickly become resource-bound (due to large numbers of simultaneous streams).
This isn't even remotely like KDE vs. Gnome. Neither is a fork of the other, and there were political issues as well.
"Up" was a fantastic movie in 3D with an engaging story and credible characters. Sure, it wasn't Casa Blanca or the Ten Commandments, but not much is.
As for Avatar, its one of the few movies I've seen in my life where audiences consistently applauded at the ending. Obviously it engaged people the way art is supposed to do.
Movies are an art form. Some art sucks, some is good, but nobody will ever agree on which is which. My wife still thinks "Dude, where's my car?" was a great movie, and that the "Lord of the Rings" was boring for example.
If 3D lets an artist do something more engaging to certain audiences, then more power to them. 3D is no more a gimmick than stained glass windows.