Considering the internal problems that have recently been reported about Debian, this is even weirder a selection. I thought SuSE was a shoo-in as well.
Look at what Flash has done for amateur animators. 99% of that stuff is shit anyway, but it's the remaining 1% that really gets the attention.
Granted, live-action videos are different than cartoons. But I'll be willing to bet that there will be at least something interesting to come out of this.
At best, the "Linux on the desktop" goal is to have enough users so that everyone sees it as a primary platform. There needs to be enough users that it becomes economically viable to always consider a native Linux port for any application.
But of course, people like the author don't understand the concept of coexistence.
This has gotten so out of hand that someone might just need to drag Linus himself away from his busy schedule to clarify this. Get it straight from the horse's mouth.
The XGI drivers are 2D-only; you still have to use the binary library provided by XGI for 3D.
This sucks, too, because the performance of the XGI Volari V8 is comparable to a Radeon 9600 or Geforce 5700. And I'm sure that their drivers suck, so there's probably more performance in them. And it's dirt cheap, too. A 256MB card comes in at just under $100, and a 128MB card at $85.
Most of the passes in the Gutmann wipe are designed to flip the bits in MFM/RLL encoded disks, which is an encoding that modern hard disks do not use.
In a followup to his paper, Gutmann said that it is unnecessary to run those passes because you cannot be reasonably certain about how a modern hard disk stores data on the platter. If the encoding is unknown, then writing random patterns is your best strategy.
In particular, Gutmann says that "in the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data... For any modern PRML/EPRML drive, a few passes of random scrubbing is the best you can do".
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (X) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves (X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? (X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses [hey, it's Microsoft... they've probably already submitted the patent...] ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
in contrast to the last time I experimented with Linux on PPC (about a year ago) and found that there was no up-to-date JVM or SDK. (But perhaps I missed something.)
Whose fault is that? Is it ours for not petitioning Sun hard enough to do something which probably (correct me if I'm wrong) requires no more than a simple recompile? Is it our fault for not being able to reverse engineer everything in sight?
grab older tracks that had been deleted and hence weren't making the record companies any money
Actually, 2/3 of the industry's profits are from artists' back catalog. Source
download tracks they owned on vinyl because they didn't have the time to rip them
A large portion of back catalog sales are because people who owned an album on vinyl are repurchasing them on CD. And then buying them again when a "remastered" edition comes out. And buying it yet again on a "greatest hits" collection, then the box set, ad nauseum. George Lucas took a large page from the recording industry's book.
There was a great article a while back in The Economist that talked about all this, I can't for the life of me find a link though. It was my original source for the first fact I stated.
This is exactly why I think that the the Berne Convention (and now TRIPs) needs to be restrained. Life + 50 is way too much in the context of the current pace of life brought about by technology.
That they can sell the same tracks to the same people multiple times is terrible. (Remastering and rereleasing should be terms for a new copyright on the release, I think.)
This is not the 1880's. Victor Hugo may have been right for throwing his hissy fit in his time, but those conditions which have resulted from that process are absolutely unacceptable, in terms of the allowed ownership of modern culture, which attempts to flourish despite the harsh restrictions.
I couldn't think of a better phrase. I guess there's supposed to be a bit of sarcasm in that. I've seen such expressions used for shorter periods of time. I'm cranky and tired. [insert your own excuse here.]
Linux is not even on the radar screen for midsize businesses. The survey involved over 1,400 executives of companies with annual revenue around $250 to $500 million.
For those whose mail/news clients interpreted JavaScript, a window.alert() infinite loop on a newsgroup was not very funny, even on April Fools' Day. I have first-hand experience with this.
Slashdot Mirror
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Cutler
Why do you thing they hired Cuttler?
You have some factual errors in your post, but we get the idea.
I for one find it extremely humorous every time I hear some Windows user come along and ask for good imaging software.
I've got my eye on this one:
p ecifications.html
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/iaudio/m3/info_s
Considering the internal problems that have recently been reported about Debian, this is even weirder a selection. I thought SuSE was a shoo-in as well.
Look at what Flash has done for amateur animators. 99% of that stuff is shit anyway, but it's the remaining 1% that really gets the attention.
Granted, live-action videos are different than cartoons. But I'll be willing to bet that there will be at least something interesting to come out of this.
The point never has been to obliterate Windows.
At best, the "Linux on the desktop" goal is to have enough users so that everyone sees it as a primary platform. There needs to be enough users that it becomes economically viable to always consider a native Linux port for any application.
But of course, people like the author don't understand the concept of coexistence.
This has gotten so out of hand that someone might just need to drag Linus himself away from his busy schedule to clarify this. Get it straight from the horse's mouth.
The XGI drivers are 2D-only; you still have to use the binary library provided by XGI for 3D.
This sucks, too, because the performance of the XGI Volari V8 is comparable to a Radeon 9600 or Geforce 5700. And I'm sure that their drivers suck, so there's probably more performance in them. And it's dirt cheap, too. A 256MB card comes in at just under $100, and a 128MB card at $85.
XGI needs to be told that this isn't enough.
This list is more helpful IMO:
http://start.at/modem
I just got out of a six-hour meeting, so I'm a bit senseless. But I see no one has posted this yet, so:
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(X) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
(X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses [hey, it's Microsoft... they've probably already submitted the patent...]
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
in contrast to the last time I experimented with Linux on PPC (about a year ago) and found that there was no up-to-date JVM or SDK. (But perhaps I missed something.)
Whose fault is that? Is it ours for not petitioning Sun hard enough to do something which probably (correct me if I'm wrong) requires no more than a simple recompile? Is it our fault for not being able to reverse engineer everything in sight?
That they can sell the same tracks to the same people multiple times is terrible. (Remastering and rereleasing should be terms for a new copyright on the release, I think.)
This is not the 1880's. Victor Hugo may have been right for throwing his hissy fit in his time, but those conditions which have resulted from that process are absolutely unacceptable, in terms of the allowed ownership of modern culture, which attempts to flourish despite the harsh restrictions.
I couldn't think of a better phrase. I guess there's supposed to be a bit of sarcasm in that. I've seen such expressions used for shorter periods of time. I'm cranky and tired. [insert your own excuse here.]
Linux is not even on the radar screen for midsize businesses. The survey involved over 1,400 executives of companies with annual revenue around $250 to $500 million.
That's midsize?!
a personality disorder (don't remember which one) :)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
ADD (for what it's worth)
depression
I know I won't win the grand prize, though. Let's see who does.
For those whose mail/news clients interpreted JavaScript, a window.alert() infinite loop on a newsgroup was not very funny, even on April Fools' Day. I have first-hand experience with this.
Other than being generally messy, nothing.
Then it will start looking like the newsgroup hierarchy.
I can't stop laughing at it!
Dude, that's Correllian corvette. That's been around since the beginning. If you look at it from the top, it looks more like a hammer than a phallus.
Somebody cue Ackbar.
Intel just stretched it a bit
A bit? Williamette had ~10 stages, Northwood had ~20 stages, and Prescott had ~30 stages. That's hardly "a bit."
A waiter tried to beat the crap out of a group of friends of mine in the parking lot when they tried that stunt.