I love having a simple, unified interface shared by almost all the programs I use.
Well, that might well be true for your own experience of windows, but by jove it isn't according to mine. Being used to the mac, I see no difference between the randomly designed interface of X client apps like xmms xcdroast xine, and windows apps like cubase, wavelab, nero... and all the rest;)
Gnome apps are way easier to figure out. Haven't tried kde enough to judge it.
As for XP performing very well, could you try out a gnome 2.6 system side to side with a winxp install with antivirus running, both firewalled? Which one feels snappier?
The article and the Slashdot summary talk about ultra-wide band while teraherz imaging should be about high frequency, so its difficult to say if those two methods are similar.
AFAIK, if the israeli method uses wide-band (that is a wide interval of frequencies), it should be easier to detect if you are being scanned. Even without resorting to special purpose detectors, such radar scans may interfere with cellphone, sat tv, or wireless transmissions, so the target may know a scan is underway and react.
Hehe I cannot suppress a laugh myself, at the first appearance of Robbie, for the funny way it walks (and i pity the guy who had to walk around with that costume, it must have had some weight).
But Robbie is my fave robot of all times.
First of all, it is well programmed, never hurts a human throughout the film and keeps behaving like a tool without magically acquire emotions or a personality during the movie (HAL, are you listening... er... reading my lips?).
He's never hacked (receives a bypass code from Altaira and accepts it, not bad for a 50 years old movie), his only failure (i can't say more without spoiling the movie) is due to the specifications it was built with.
Also it has a great look (blue neon-like lights which are so fashionable today and the teletype clicks) and a fine sense of humour.
To altaira who says "Robbie, i need a new dress, right away!" he replies "Again?!?".
BTW: you cannot talk about science fiction without having seen this movie.
Next soundcard i'm going to buy will be by a company that actively supports linux or opens up the specifications: a product that can't work with both the OSs i use is a crippled one.
Linux is progressing in many directions, as the installed base gets bigger more companies will look at it, audio card makers included. The number of linux hackers trying to support exotic soundcards will increase too.
Look at Wintel machines: When the PC came out it won the desktop market by being an office machine first. Amigas had better graphics, apple//gs had a built-in multi-channel audio sampler, Mac had the desktop publishing and high end graphics market. Only with the advent of 3D cards and the amiga crisis the pc became also the #1 gamers machine and ubiquitous.
From the overview: There are still significant challenges to face before all these devices can improve our quality of life, such as designing better interfaces with these ever smaller computers.
So the CMI has decided to tackle these challenges and is running several projects such as improved security, more robust networks and power-efficient computer architectures.
IMHO The worst challenges are of commercial nature, not technical. Given enough time and funds, CMI can sure set usability standards for pervasive computing, but manufacturers are likely to ignore or "extend" them to promote their own platform over the competition.
So they can pour that weed-killing chemical with no fear of damaging the golf course. But, what about me? I haven't been genetically reengineered, I guess that too many chemicals around may affect me somehow.
...but now with a plethora of applications developed on the different desktops, incompatible with eachother, there will be no survival of the fittest.
That's right, but only if they are incompatible with each other. I see no reason for these project not to seek interoperability, they're not commercial ones, after all. In fact, the alternative is to write/patch the desktop applications you want to use, which is out of the question for most, if all, projects.
IMHO we are going to see some widely used desktop environments (and a bunch of niche projects) getting more compatible as time goes by.
But in the old mac OS days it was just like that, a folder for every app and one (or more) system folders with (not-very-dynamic) libraries (extensions). Most apps allowed multiple preferences files too, and if they needed a dependent item, they popped up a dialog for the user to locate it, and remembered its position. Installers came later (and I always hated the concept) Not so difficult to concieve, after all.
There is credibility at stake. Microsoft keeps getting in trouble with justice all around the world for business practices that affect the freedom of their customers. People should start wondering if it makes them a viable business partner to base their own vital IT infrastructure on.
There are Morphix tools to customize the iso, and a very handy/deb subdirectory: just master an iso with some.debs inside it and they will be automatically --force installed when morphix boots.
From Slate website: Slate is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language based on Self, CLOS, and Smalltalk. Slate syntax is intended to be as familiar as possible to a Smalltalker...
It also features optional type declaration. The compiler is currently based on Common Lisp.
Your hypothesis would be conceivable for a closed source project where bosses get pissed off when the product is not delivered on schedule, I don't think that Gnome developers have this kind of pressure.
Also, this attack reminds me of the one to the Debian servers, because it occurred just before a Woody release. Let's wait and see what the Gnome team has to say about it.
The fundamentalist christianity that spawned David Koralishen, the anti-abortion assasisnation squads...
The foundation of Christianity is a guy who in his most important speech said "Love your enemies" and "Do not judge and you will not be judged". (Luke 6, NIV)
Almost all Christianity seems to forget about this, though, so your point of view is reasonable after all.
...that I recall, is shown in Forbidden Planet (1956), used by a spaceship crew member looking for information on Dr. Morbius. Gene Roddenberry said he was inspired by this film, as this trivia page says.
You can also see Robby, which is a robot that behaves like a tool without developing his own will and running out of control. Many newer sci-fi adventures are way less mature than this movie.
>from the copyright owner's perspective, eBaying the ROMs and downloading them are the same.
Yes but it should be legal to put the code of a rom you own into an emulator to play the game you own- maybe newer roms feature more license restrictions, surely not the classics from the eighties. Copyright owners do not usually get revenue from second-hand market, nor they should have any right to. Or am i missing something?
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I love having a simple, unified interface shared by almost all the programs I use.
;)
Well, that might well be true for your own experience of windows, but by jove it isn't according to mine. Being used to the mac, I see no difference between the randomly designed interface of X client apps like xmms xcdroast xine, and windows apps like cubase, wavelab, nero... and all the rest
Gnome apps are way easier to figure out. Haven't tried kde enough to judge it.
As for XP performing very well, could you try out a gnome 2.6 system side to side with a winxp install with antivirus running, both firewalled? Which one feels snappier?
The article and the Slashdot summary talk about ultra-wide band while teraherz imaging should be about high frequency, so its difficult to say if those two methods are similar.
AFAIK, if the israeli method uses wide-band (that is a wide interval of frequencies), it should be easier to detect if you are being scanned. Even without resorting to special purpose detectors, such radar scans may interfere with cellphone, sat tv, or wireless transmissions, so the target may know a scan is underway and react.
Hehe I cannot suppress a laugh myself, at the first appearance of Robbie, for the funny way it walks (and i pity the guy who had to walk around with that costume, it must have had some weight). But Robbie is my fave robot of all times. First of all, it is well programmed, never hurts a human throughout the film and keeps behaving like a tool without magically acquire emotions or a personality during the movie (HAL, are you listening... er... reading my lips?). He's never hacked (receives a bypass code from Altaira and accepts it, not bad for a 50 years old movie), his only failure (i can't say more without spoiling the movie) is due to the specifications it was built with. Also it has a great look (blue neon-like lights which are so fashionable today and the teletype clicks) and a fine sense of humour. To altaira who says "Robbie, i need a new dress, right away!" he replies "Again?!?". BTW: you cannot talk about science fiction without having seen this movie.
They do have markers.
You are an impostor. When real grammar nazis meet the sig, they say "Sig Heil" :P
I completely agree.
//gs had a built-in multi-channel audio sampler, Mac had the desktop publishing and high end graphics market.
Next soundcard i'm going to buy will be by a company that actively supports linux or opens up the specifications: a product that can't work with both the OSs i use is a crippled one.
Linux is progressing in many directions, as the installed base gets bigger more companies will look at it, audio card makers included. The number of linux hackers trying to support exotic soundcards will increase too.
Look at Wintel machines: When the PC came out it won the desktop market by being an office machine first. Amigas had better graphics, apple
Only with the advent of 3D cards and the amiga crisis the pc became also the #1 gamers machine and ubiquitous.
They could have shown a somewhat ironic way of accepting the demand of evil Microsoft lawyers: Linbows.
From the overview:
There are still significant challenges to face before all these devices can improve our quality of life, such as designing better interfaces with these ever smaller computers. So the CMI has decided to tackle these challenges and is running several projects such as improved security, more robust networks and power-efficient computer architectures.
IMHO The worst challenges are of commercial nature, not technical. Given enough time and funds, CMI can sure set usability standards for pervasive computing, but manufacturers are likely to ignore or "extend" them to promote their own platform over the competition.
So they can pour that weed-killing chemical with no fear of damaging the golf course. But, what about me? I haven't been genetically reengineered, I guess that too many chemicals around may affect me somehow.
Not to mention that before MsDOS was out there was already Apple DOS (3.1, 3.2, 3.3), so they shouldn't be able to protect it.
...but now with a plethora of applications developed on the different desktops, incompatible with eachother, there will be no survival of the fittest.
That's right, but only if they are incompatible with each other. I see no reason for these project not to seek interoperability, they're not commercial ones, after all. In fact, the alternative is to write/patch the desktop applications you want to use, which is out of the question for most, if all, projects.
IMHO we are going to see some widely used desktop environments (and a bunch of niche projects) getting more compatible as time goes by.
But in the old mac OS days it was just like that, a folder for every app and one (or more) system folders with (not-very-dynamic) libraries (extensions). Most apps allowed multiple preferences files too, and if they needed a dependent item, they popped up a dialog for the user to locate it, and remembered its position. Installers came later (and I always hated the concept) Not so difficult to concieve, after all.
There is credibility at stake. Microsoft keeps getting in trouble with justice all around the world for business practices that affect the freedom of their customers. People should start wondering if it makes them a viable business partner to base their own vital IT infrastructure on.
There are Morphix tools to customize the iso, and a very handy /deb subdirectory: just master an iso with some .debs inside it and they will be automatically --force installed when morphix boots.
And you call them "your own" subliminal CDs?
I wonder what will the rightful owners have to say about that.
The AC parent post probably referred to "procedural baggage" as an obstacle to get advantage of Object Orientation for structuring your code.
It's trivial to code in an imperative fashion with Smalltalk, it's no different than using Python or Java.
From Slate website:
Slate is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language based on Self, CLOS, and Smalltalk. Slate syntax is intended to be as familiar as possible to a Smalltalker...
It also features optional type declaration. The compiler is currently based on Common Lisp.
Your hypothesis would be conceivable for a closed source project where bosses get pissed off when the product is not delivered on schedule, I don't think that Gnome developers have this kind of pressure.
Also, this attack reminds me of the one to the Debian servers, because it occurred just before a Woody release. Let's wait and see what the Gnome team has to say about it.
"Finally DVD-Audio offers CPPM, which is much stronger than CSS for DVD-Video."
IIRC, region codes against the newer EU directives, so I don't think they will make it into Dvd-Audio specs.
The fundamentalist christianity that spawned David Koralishen, the anti-abortion assasisnation squads...
The foundation of Christianity is a guy who in his most important speech said "Love your enemies" and "Do not judge and you will not be judged". (Luke 6, NIV)
Almost all Christianity seems to forget about this, though, so your point of view is reasonable after all.
Search their stupid engine for "GPL" get "SCO: IBM cannot enforce GPL"
And get it as the first result! Unbelievable... Second comes gnu home, forth an actual license page.
Google lists the license first, with gnu home as related second. Third OSI, fourth linux.org.
So, just wonder which search engine i'll keep using...
The idea of "heavy peer review" and "many eyes" doesn't play out in the real world.
So in the real world OSS packages should be considerely less stable than commercial ones. Does that really happen? Not in my experience.
In Italy a DVB-T service (link in Italian) has already been launched by the national TV service: it should remain experimental till the end of 2005.
...that I recall, is shown in Forbidden Planet (1956), used by a spaceship crew member looking for information on Dr. Morbius. Gene Roddenberry said he was inspired by this film, as this trivia page says.
You can also see Robby, which is a robot that behaves like a tool without developing his own will and running out of control. Many newer sci-fi adventures are way less mature than this movie.
>from the copyright owner's perspective, eBaying the ROMs and downloading them are the same.
Yes but it should be legal to put the code of a rom you own into an emulator to play the game you own- maybe newer roms feature more license restrictions, surely not the classics from the eighties. Copyright owners do not usually get revenue from second-hand market, nor they should have any right to. Or am i missing something?