After thinking for a while I guess that phone viruses can be as dangerous as computer viruses, imagine a virus that sends itself to every phone in the address book, calls expensive/international numbers, spams a number till it can't be used any more... And I think phone viruses are becoming more and more possible through out the advances in phone technology.
I actually had a similar problem before, my room in the apartment I used to live in had only 2 outlets, I had to use extensions for my countless electronic devices, later, when I moved to my new apartment, I made sure I had many outlets everywhere in my room, even if it was very unlikely to use, just to make sure not to use extensions, I don't worry about cable hassle any more.
with like 40 pics on a single page, and thousands of/.ers clicking every single link they stumble upon, I can see the 500 error page in my crystal ball...
Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software...
By contrast, much of Linux has been built from contributions by numerous unrelated and unknown software developers, each contributing a small section of code...
I site's admin configured the site to forward visitors to the google cache of the site, but if you actually try to debug something, you get back to the real site, poor admin, he thought he could get away from/.ing!
... is that the open source mevement lacks good artists, you know, open source apps are usually well-coded but lack a good GUI, in games, good graphics / sounds greatly affect the gaming experience, so developing a good open source game requires programmers (already available) and artists (aren't there yet unfortunately).
... not including the launch...
for the very first moment I thought it was lunch and wondered how would someone buy a space travel without lunch anyways, and how lunch is supposed to make a 9.5 m$ trip even more expensive, I guess it's time for a nap after hours of programming...
I got your joke, but actually, stuff released at the end of the year are more likely to make it to the top 5,000 list than those released earlier, you know, what's cool now may not be so a couple of months later.
hmm, how on earth did he/she manage to dive into the source code of Quake III while its not open yet? I know the gameplay source code is out, but I doubt that code dealing with how the game detects collisions and deals with physics is game play, or is it?
The physics are calculated on the client and use the framerate as the timer.
I don't believe this is the problem with Doom III, using the frame rate as a timer is the dumbest thing a game programmer can do, because, as already pointed out, fraem rate may vary between clients.
Anyway, check out the Quake / Quake II engines source code, both use real time as a timer.
So I doubt this is the reason behind it, any body has more info or something?
... and hope to be able to allow collections of managed RPM and.deb packages to coexist side-by-side...
I hope that all other distro creators work towards this too, so many packaging formats just confuse new Linux users, and make it even more difficult for Linux to take part in the desktop world.
I'm not an everyday user of Office apps (word processing, spreadsheets...) but I can say that both versions of OpenOffice that I use (Windows, Linux) are pretty stable, I don't remember any of them crashing at all, and as for features, what features are you talking about? Smart tags? Office assistants? OpenOffice team has implemented 90% of the features one may use in an Office suit, the rest of M$ Office features are just crappy IMO.
which is Red Hat's shiny new 'enterprise' version of Linux
Actually, there are three versions of Red Hat Enterprise, WS, ES, and AS, WS is supposed to be a desktop OS, while AS is the most advanced version, WS price starts at 179$, and AS price at 1499$ for the Intel x86 platform.
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After thinking for a while I guess that phone viruses can be as dangerous as computer viruses, imagine a virus that sends itself to every phone in the address book, calls expensive/international numbers, spams a number till it can't be used any more...
And I think phone viruses are becoming more and more possible through out the advances in phone technology.
I actually had a similar problem before, my room in the apartment I used to live in had only 2 outlets, I had to use extensions for my countless electronic devices, later, when I moved to my new apartment, I made sure I had many outlets everywhere in my room, even if it was very unlikely to use, just to make sure not to use extensions, I don't worry about cable hassle any more.
with like 40 pics on a single page, and thousands of /.ers clicking every single link they stumble upon, I can see the 500 error page in my crystal ball...
It's called Open Source, idiot.
actually, this was supposed to be CmdrTaco's nick too.
I'm pretty sure lots are going to submit binaries to test it, it's /. after all ;)
I site's admin configured the site to forward visitors to the google cache of the site, but if you actually try to debug something, you get back to the real site, poor admin, he thought he could get away from /.ing!
... use the phone to connect to the Internet and post comments!
hehe, this slashdot, where you have only 2 choices, either RTFA or GAEP (get an early post) ;)
j/k
real /.ers don't use expensive encryption phones, they do the math themselves, and then encrypt signals by waving a magnet near the phone.
... is that the open source mevement lacks good artists, you know, open source apps are usually well-coded but lack a good GUI, in games, good graphics / sounds greatly affect the gaming experience, so developing a good open source game requires programmers (already available) and artists (aren't there yet unfortunately).
Isn't it clear why? Linux peguin looks quite friendly and isn't harmful at all, BSD daemon on the other hand...
Attention all SCO jokes posters, get ready to update your jokes by the end of the year, thank you.
... me.
... does it run Linux??
... they consider porting the project to Mircosoft Windows[TM], I can only use it under Linux right now.
... not including the launch ...
for the very first moment I thought it was lunch and wondered how would someone buy a space travel without lunch anyways, and how lunch is supposed to make a 9.5 m$ trip even more expensive, I guess it's time for a nap after hours of programming...
I got your joke, but actually, stuff released at the end of the year are more likely to make it to the top 5,000 list than those released earlier, you know, what's cool now may not be so a couple of months later.
hmm, how on earth did he/she manage to dive into the source code of Quake III while its not open yet? I know the gameplay source code is out, but I doubt that code dealing with how the game detects collisions and deals with physics is game play, or is it?
I don't believe this is the problem with Doom III, using the frame rate as a timer is the dumbest thing a game programmer can do, because, as already pointed out, fraem rate may vary between clients.
Anyway, check out the Quake / Quake II engines source code, both use real time as a timer.
So I doubt this is the reason behind it, any body has more info or something?
... and hope to be able to allow collections of managed RPM and .deb packages to coexist side-by-side ...
I hope that all other distro creators work towards this too, so many packaging formats just confuse new Linux users, and make it even more difficult for Linux to take part in the desktop world.
sigh, even those who don't know what SCO is post SCO jokes nowadays.
I'm not an everyday user of Office apps (word processing, spreadsheets ...) but I can say that both versions of OpenOffice that I use (Windows, Linux) are pretty stable, I don't remember any of them crashing at all, and as for features, what features are you talking about? Smart tags? Office assistants? OpenOffice team has implemented 90% of the features one may use in an Office suit, the rest of M$ Office features are just crappy IMO.
Cool, know we know what we're going to see in the next version of OpenOffice.
which is Red Hat's shiny new 'enterprise' version of Linux
Actually, there are three versions of Red Hat Enterprise, WS, ES, and AS, WS is supposed to be a desktop OS, while AS is the most advanced version, WS price starts at 179$, and AS price at 1499$ for the Intel x86 platform.