Glad to see that there's some civility on slashdot. I'm impressed that we handled that well. (Insert wisecrack about only in the BSD section can you find nice slashdotters...)
I'm sorry, did I not make that clear? The original poster was under the idea that he wanted the release; I was merely correcting him in that the release tag (_RELEASE) is only slid when changes are made between the inital laying of the tag and before the CDs go gold (which is a very short period of time).
Well, anyhow, I think the OP has enough information to help him now.
I'd like to be able to keep on top of the latest security releases
The RELEASE tag is only slid for security fixes that come out after the release tag is initally laid and before the CDs are gold. In other words, if you really want to keep on top of security issues, you should be tracking -STABLE; but of course with this comes no express or implied guarantee that your tree will build, that everything will work properly, etc. But thankfully, -STABLE tends to be pretty much just that, STABLE, with few exceptions. If you're concerned about the latest security patches, either update STABLE every time there is a security advisory, or apply the patches from -STABLE to your release tree, but that's probably not worth the time. So -STABLE tends to be the best in terms of having security patches applied, but on a colocated box you could run into issues setting it to upgrade automatically (in the rare, but possible event -STABLE is fubared when you cvsup) - but unfortunately you can't have it every way- there's no way to have a guarantee of successful working automatic builds with all of the security patches. That's pretty much true
with any OS.
But you didn't ask that, you asked how to get -RELEASE sources. Open up your supfile and set
the tag to RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE in this case (or RELENG_4_6_0_RELEASE for 4.6, or RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE for 4.0, etc.)
Except when you're classifying computer science faculty and whatnot as math faculty, what are you really getting at? Comparing any such size measurements is foolish- you would have to apply the same definition of what qualifies as teaching math to every school
Here at CMU, it's the "Mathematical Sciences" department. That's because the university classifies math as a science. Other schools do the same thing. I fail to see how that, from an academic perspective, is any different from only having math in your title.
Maybe it's different from an administrative standpoint, but when you've got a faculty working on math and students taking math courses in the school... if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, and if it smells like a duck...
I'm sorry- what do you mean one of a few in the world? What tech/science/engineering oriented school with any reputation doesn't have a mathematical science department & faculty?
Ever play Super Mario Brothers Allstars? Nintendo released ports of SMB, the english version of the Japanese SMB2 (a.k.a. "SMB: The Lost Levels"), SMB2 (based on Doki Doki Panic), and SMB3 for the SNES. Of course, that's not what the article meant, and we both know it, but...
I don't think #3 is an accurate assesment. If you've ever used metal tape with a prosumer or better tape deck, you'd know that the quality is excellent- and when everything is new, it (in my opinion) surpasses CD in quality, let alone mp3. Analog means it doesn't have to pass through a DSP or a DAC to be recorded/played.
The problem with tape is that it degrades with use. New tapes with good decks? No problem at all. DATs are nicer in terms of this in that the quality remains much longer, but then when they do begin to degrade, you're going to notice it (old analog tapes just start sounding progressively worse, they don't drop out).
Silly, since when do two identical products get different barcodes? To have enough barcodes for every atom that you "put your finger on" so to speak, you're really only going to need what, 3 (base 10) digits?
I have lost faith in the slashdot community to engineer barcode systems. Two identical items have identical barcodes, people. For shame.
If you're doing something where you have more than 650 megs of irreplacable data changing on a regular basis, please please please invest in a tape drive. Much more economical and flexible in the long run. But of course, that drive would ONLY be good for backup and restore.
I think there's much truth to television being frequently interstate in nature. Television DXers have proved this point- given the largely unpredictable nature of radio propogation, to affirmatively state that your radio broadcast of any significant (enough for a real, sustainable, marketable audience) strength cannot be received out of state takes a lot of guts. People can (and some do) build really big directional antennas.
I don't see how creating new filesystem is equivilent to deleting all of the files in it. They're really not the same.
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I mean, they couldn't have held out for something more profitable, because this was it. It probably wasn't terribly profitable, but it cost very little for them to do (no advertising and a bad job with distribution... word of mouth got it to interested parties) and was better than nothing.
With classic video games that still have a (relatively) real demand out there, they may be able to hold out for more. It's a very interesting economic problem.
Except when you pay your workers your workers in turn spend money which helps the economy. Slavery is not the best thing for the economy. I don't know where you got that idea at all. There is a huge difference between not paying your workers and paying your workers. The value of labor can indeed be set by the market mechanism; playing with that hurts the global economy, but perhaps for limited benefit.
Let's say we set the minimum wage to $10/hr tomorrow. This will help everyone making less than $10/hr and hurt everyone making more- you really won't want to pay $10 for a big mac. And in turn you will buy less. And in turn the GDP goes down. And in turn the economy suffers, inflation prevails, and unemployment goes up. Marcoeconomically speaking, that is.
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I think a big question is how much the copyright holder should be receiving for each rom. I am not an industry insider, I have no idea what royalties are for video games, but I doubt each copyright holder would be thrilled about only making a few cents per game- especially if they had any Q&A.
$40 divided by 1,000 roms is 4 cents each- and would be much less (2-3 cents) when you account for the cost of providing the compilation itself. Is that fair? It's certainly a far cry from the original poster's $1 per game.
On a side note, I own an infocom text game CD-ROM collection, and it's neat. Really neat. But infocom had long been bankrupt and their assets sold to activision, and text games are far from popular, so they probably didn't have any choice (whereas NES games and newer still have large potential markets)
Except, as much as you may not like it, internatonal trade (labor, in this case) increases the quality of living on a macroeconomic scale for people of both countries. Countries offer cheap labor and in exchange they receive money; this money is then spent (differing marginal propensities to consume and whatnot).
Like it or not, it's basic macroeconomics- free trade benefits the economies of both countries involved. The people it hurts are those who cannot remain economically competitive.
Their goal was to have a bottom line accouting profit in 2003. Many business, especially busines that require many resouces to be developed, only wish to not operate at a terrible loss as the business grows for the first few years of operation. Long-term profits are a goal for every company, but to suggest that short-term profits is a goal for every company neglects that companies must investment to expand and to couneract depreciation.
The only potential problem with antimatter is where to get the antimatter fuel, or how to make it.
Call be a skeptic (or a fool) but I don't think there is any feasible way of getting antimatter because antimatter tends to cancel itself out with matter in our universe, so as far as we know there's no natural way to get enough of it where you want it for power generation. And creating it should take more energy than you would get from cancelling it out, I think, due to the second law of thermodynamics. It certainly wouldn't produce more energy than creating it.
I'm not holding my breath for hydrogen fusion, but I wouldn't be bloody surprised to see a D-T fusion reactor within either my lifetime or the lifetime of my children/granchildren, but if I saw an antimatter reactor any time around I'd... well, I don't know what I'd do, but it would look something like pissing myself. That or an orgasm.
In an open system, entropy may decrease- the entropy of the carbon molecules on Earth decreased with the formation of life. In a closed system, such as the universe, entropy must increase with every reaction.
If we are to discuss the efficiency of hydrogen as a method of storing energy, we must consider it to be a closed system, as otherwise you are not just storing energy from your input to the hydrolysis apparatus, but also harnessing it from some other source (the sun, a hot geyser, etc) and we're no longer talking about power storage but power generation.
As we are discussing power storage and not generation, we need to limit ourselves to a closed system- and on no closed system that I know of (if I remember correctly, I am not a chemist and it's been awhile since I've taken chemistry) can you do X joules of work on a system (to decrease its entropy) and then have the system do 10 joules of work (increasing its entropy) as over the course of the process work had been done and the entropy of the universe didn't increase.
I hope I got all of that straight. In short, I really don't think it's possible to get as much (certainly not more) energy from a storage device than you put in. If you did, you wouldn't really be storing it, but rather finding a new source of it (you'd merely be, say, supplying activation energy).
Consider that for many years to come, hydrogen will be produced by splitting existing petroleum products. Same dependence on foreign oil, same refinery pollution.
I disagree here. Although the hydrolysis of water isn't the most energy efficient way to get hydrogen, if our nation were to get over its fear of nuclear power and adapt nuclear power on a widespread scale it would certainly provide enough energy for hydrolysis to counteract the shrinking supply of petroleum products.
Of course the very long term (for the future of man) solution would be to harness nuclear fusion, of which the fuel seems to be very readily available (even if it requires deuterium) from water (or heavy water).
Looking at the strings in a sOL.EXE binary from windows 98, microsoft claims copyright on Microsoft Solitaire from 1991-1998- leading me to suggest it was developed for windows 3.1 (windows 3.1 being the earliest version of windows that I touched I can attest to the fact that it was there). This makes xsol 3 years older than windows solitaire by my count (source: Solaris manpage)
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Glad to see that there's some civility on slashdot. I'm impressed that we handled that well. (Insert wisecrack about only in the BSD section can you find nice slashdotters...)
Well, anyhow, I think the OP has enough information to help him now.
The RELEASE tag is only slid for security fixes that come out after the release tag is initally laid and before the CDs are gold. In other words, if you really want to keep on top of security issues, you should be tracking -STABLE; but of course with this comes no express or implied guarantee that your tree will build, that everything will work properly, etc. But thankfully, -STABLE tends to be pretty much just that, STABLE, with few exceptions. If you're concerned about the latest security patches, either update STABLE every time there is a security advisory, or apply the patches from -STABLE to your release tree, but that's probably not worth the time. So -STABLE tends to be the best in terms of having security patches applied, but on a colocated box you could run into issues setting it to upgrade automatically (in the rare, but possible event -STABLE is fubared when you cvsup) - but unfortunately you can't have it every way- there's no way to have a guarantee of successful working automatic builds with all of the security patches. That's pretty much true with any OS.
But you didn't ask that, you asked how to get -RELEASE sources. Open up your supfile and set the tag to RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE in this case (or RELENG_4_6_0_RELEASE for 4.6, or RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE for 4.0, etc.)
Have fun!
Bill Joy is an open source god (BSD). Have some respect. Don't make him out to be a big meanie who has never helped anyone.
Except when you're classifying computer science faculty and whatnot as math faculty, what are you really getting at? Comparing any such size measurements is foolish- you would have to apply the same definition of what qualifies as teaching math to every school
Maybe it's different from an administrative standpoint, but when you've got a faculty working on math and students taking math courses in the school... if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, and if it smells like a duck...
I'm sorry- what do you mean one of a few in the world? What tech/science/engineering oriented school with any reputation doesn't have a mathematical science department & faculty?
I just felt like nitpicking a nitpick.
The problem with tape is that it degrades with use. New tapes with good decks? No problem at all. DATs are nicer in terms of this in that the quality remains much longer, but then when they do begin to degrade, you're going to notice it (old analog tapes just start sounding progressively worse, they don't drop out).
Seriously, where do you get off in saying that?
I have lost faith in the slashdot community to engineer barcode systems. Two identical items have identical barcodes, people. For shame.
Not if you buy into the notation that mega is 10^6 and megi is 2^20.
If you're doing something where you have more than 650 megs of irreplacable data changing on a regular basis, please please please invest in a tape drive. Much more economical and flexible in the long run. But of course, that drive would ONLY be good for backup and restore.
I think there's much truth to television being frequently interstate in nature. Television DXers have proved this point- given the largely unpredictable nature of radio propogation, to affirmatively state that your radio broadcast of any significant (enough for a real, sustainable, marketable audience) strength cannot be received out of state takes a lot of guts. People can (and some do) build really big directional antennas.
I don't see how creating new filesystem is equivilent to deleting all of the files in it. They're really not the same.
With classic video games that still have a (relatively) real demand out there, they may be able to hold out for more. It's a very interesting economic problem.
Let's say we set the minimum wage to $10/hr tomorrow. This will help everyone making less than $10/hr and hurt everyone making more- you really won't want to pay $10 for a big mac. And in turn you will buy less. And in turn the GDP goes down. And in turn the economy suffers, inflation prevails, and unemployment goes up. Marcoeconomically speaking, that is.
$40 divided by 1,000 roms is 4 cents each- and would be much less (2-3 cents) when you account for the cost of providing the compilation itself. Is that fair? It's certainly a far cry from the original poster's $1 per game.
On a side note, I own an infocom text game CD-ROM collection, and it's neat. Really neat. But infocom had long been bankrupt and their assets sold to activision, and text games are far from popular, so they probably didn't have any choice (whereas NES games and newer still have large potential markets)
Like it or not, it's basic macroeconomics- free trade benefits the economies of both countries involved. The people it hurts are those who cannot remain economically competitive.
Their goal was to have a bottom line accouting profit in 2003. Many business, especially busines that require many resouces to be developed, only wish to not operate at a terrible loss as the business grows for the first few years of operation. Long-term profits are a goal for every company, but to suggest that short-term profits is a goal for every company neglects that companies must investment to expand and to couneract depreciation.
Call be a skeptic (or a fool) but I don't think there is any feasible way of getting antimatter because antimatter tends to cancel itself out with matter in our universe, so as far as we know there's no natural way to get enough of it where you want it for power generation. And creating it should take more energy than you would get from cancelling it out, I think, due to the second law of thermodynamics. It certainly wouldn't produce more energy than creating it.
I'm not holding my breath for hydrogen fusion, but I wouldn't be bloody surprised to see a D-T fusion reactor within either my lifetime or the lifetime of my children/granchildren, but if I saw an antimatter reactor any time around I'd... well, I don't know what I'd do, but it would look something like pissing myself. That or an orgasm.
If we are to discuss the efficiency of hydrogen as a method of storing energy, we must consider it to be a closed system, as otherwise you are not just storing energy from your input to the hydrolysis apparatus, but also harnessing it from some other source (the sun, a hot geyser, etc) and we're no longer talking about power storage but power generation.
As we are discussing power storage and not generation, we need to limit ourselves to a closed system- and on no closed system that I know of (if I remember correctly, I am not a chemist and it's been awhile since I've taken chemistry) can you do X joules of work on a system (to decrease its entropy) and then have the system do 10 joules of work (increasing its entropy) as over the course of the process work had been done and the entropy of the universe didn't increase.
I hope I got all of that straight. In short, I really don't think it's possible to get as much (certainly not more) energy from a storage device than you put in. If you did, you wouldn't really be storing it, but rather finding a new source of it (you'd merely be, say, supplying activation energy).
I disagree here. Although the hydrolysis of water isn't the most energy efficient way to get hydrogen, if our nation were to get over its fear of nuclear power and adapt nuclear power on a widespread scale it would certainly provide enough energy for hydrolysis to counteract the shrinking supply of petroleum products.
Of course the very long term (for the future of man) solution would be to harness nuclear fusion, of which the fuel seems to be very readily available (even if it requires deuterium) from water (or heavy water).
Except you couldn't get all of it back because the entropy of the universe has to be increasing.
Hope that helped.