Last time I checked, electrons do have a mass, and are therefore "physical" products. Photons, on the other hand, are technically mass-less (Well, we are still not sure about it, but we consider them essentially mass-less, since they ought to be in order to move at the speed of light). So, if you have FTTP, you are technically buying a service, and not a good?
This whole definition is absolutely stupid. Cable television is considered a service too, and you are receiving just a signal. But if you copy the information you received, it becomes a good and gets covered by copyright law?
The only thing that actually works? You mean that the fact that you have some stupid games that were only compiled for windows platforms, somehow makes windows "the only thing that works"? If you use software that you only have binaries for and those binaries are for windows, then it's your own damn fault. Besides, if you consider that a fucking stupid game is one of the things you have to take into account when choosing your operating system, you are obviously not qualified to use a computer. I suggest that you get a gameboy or something.
I hate Apple. And I don't own a single Apple device. Not a computer, not an iphone, and I never will (I only use Free Software). But I was talking about a friend's computer. And what I said was absolutely true. The machine has a 1ghz processor and 1 gb of ram. Try running windows 7 there.
I am not saying that all other operating systems are perfectly secure by default or that they are invulnerable, but windows is absolutely insecure. We have to face that truth.
Microsoft's security record is laughable. And I'm not even talking about particular exploits, bugs can be fixed, I am talking about design. Windows is designed to be insecure. Security was never really taken seriously at microsoft. There are countless techniques to escalate permissions on just about any win platform (Including windows vista and 7). And this are not obscure and complex vulnerabilities. This are simple 50 lines executables that allow you to escalate any process you want with a few clicks.
Just take a look at any of their products, either server or desktop, and their security record will be worse than any competitor. Exchange, SQL, IIS, Explorer, Windows, Office. They allow script execution in crazy places (like a simple text document or spreadsheet).
Windows is insecure for a very good reason: Because there is a huge industry that developed around fixing windows, that industry is so big that it has become the main tool of customer loyalty that microsoft has. Millions, from huge Antivirus companies, to overstuffed IT departments, to your average computer repairman base their economy on Windows flaws. Those guys love windows and all its flaws. I've actually had people telling me "Well, I know it's a piece of crap, but it's what keeps people coming to my shop again and again". Not to mention the computer retailers. Imagine the fall in Dell stock if people didn't have to buy a new computer every 2 years just to run the latest OS? A friend of mine has am iMac from 2001 running the latest OSX. And it runs amazingly well... If people knew they can run a blazingly fast 3D desktop on an 80 dollar atom-based mother+processor combo, newegg would die.
So, no, we didn't loose the security battle, Microsoft won the marketing one.
Yes, that sounds interesting. I believe a simpler way would be color. If all the employees are dressed in a particular color, easily recognizable and not in the material that is going to be cut, let's say, #00FF00, it would be trivial to have a camera on the robotic arm that won't cut if it encounters that color. That sounds like a reasonable, cheap and simple solution.
Actually, it will cut a hot dog. But it won't cut the hot dog if it's grounded. The system is pretty simple, there is a current applied to the blade, if it discharges somewhere, it'll stop. You can't use it to cut very wet wood, or other material with good conductivity.
Regarding the people saying that the collision detection shown in the article is useless because it can't differentiate between a human and a pig, here is what I think:
You can have a robot that has a certain mobility, and a designed space where it can punch/cut/puncture/etc. The robot turns on collision detection when it's out of the designated space. So, you can have a robot that can move from place to place freely with this safety feature on,and still be able to do it's job. If you have a robot that will be cutting fix in a given table, then moving the slices somewhere else, it can travel that path with the safety features on, if it happens to encounter a human (or cables, or anything else), it i will stop, but when the blade is down on the table (in the designated cutting space) the safety feature goes off.
The web is what it is, not what you want it to be. Flash is NOT part of the web. Period. The web is whatever HTML is at a given point. Before HTML5, the web was actual HTML + CSS for Formatting + Javascript for scripting + Images + MJPEG video. That was it. Flash is NOT part of the web. You can download a PDF document from the web. Your browser might allow you to see that PDF document in-line. That doesn't make PDF part of the web. Same thing for Flash. What you are doing is downloading and viewing a file in SWF format with an external program. Your browser just happens to show it in-line and provide some stupid integration. That doesn't make Flash part of the web.
I fully understand how that works. But that has been changing lately. We do our own formats, and if you like it you can use them too. ODF, Ogg, Matroska, Jabber, etc. We are producing our own standard formats and protocols, and using them in Free Software. The rest of the industry can use them if they want to.
Great. You know what, there are also a lot of amazing demos, presentations, etc, written in ASM for the C-64. How come they are not supported on the web? Ah, right,because they are binary executables and have no place on the web. Same thing for Flash. If you can't do it in one of the standard Markup languages or using one of the standard scripting languages for the web, then don't do it. I miss the flexibility of client side CPP + GTK on the web too. That doesn't mean we should allow such executables to work from the web, or that they would be web apps at all.
So standards on the web should be free, but its ok to have proprietary lock in for the iPhone?
It's their product. Don't buy it. Was that so hard?
Standards allow you to choose who you buy from. All of your data is YOURS, and you can transfer it anywhere you want. With open standards, vendor lock-in is very hard to achieve. You can just move all of your stuff away to a new device after all. It is all this gray areas of do-what-you-want-and-patent-it that allow vendor lock-in to exist.
Where Apple should stand is very obvious: Sell your devices just like everyone else, realize the device belongs to the user, remove all the locks, and implement free standards. Not that hard.
Off course, Apple believes that they have a more profitable position made of draconian limitations and patent-encumbered formats. Time will prove them wrong, hopefully.
Apple's post was anti-adobe. This post is Anti-Apple, and pro-Adobe.
How about just putting them where they belong? Apple makes computers. Adobe makes software. We are talking about standards and the web. Any standard on the web should be completely free, period. The best free standard we have so far is HTML5 + Ogg + Theora. Period. The fact that a huge patent troll is saying they've got something against Theora doesn't make Theora any less free. The same thing was said against virtually all Free Software. And to this day, noone has ever been able to remove a Free Software project from us based on patents. Every single patent troll out there has said that they have patents covering everything from drinking water to clicking buttons for 20+ years. And Free Software is still there. Free standards are still there. The has been cases of Privative software stealing code from GPL projects, where the GPL won and this guys had to either arrange a settlement or release their code to be GPL compliant. But there has not been A SINGLE CASE of infringing GPL code loosing a legal battle. So, why are we taking MPEG-LA more seriously than we took SCO? It's the same crap, different smell. Just another troll that we need to ignore until it goes away.
So, Apple, Adobe: Sell your shit and STFU. Regardless of how much you pretend that standards, and the whole industry revolves around you, it doesn't. You're just another company trying to succeed in this market. We will buy your stuff, or we'll buy somebody else's stuff. What you say is not important. And what you pretend to be standards, are NOT. In the meanwhile, we will continue developing Free Open standards, and Free Open software that uses them. We will eventually prevail. We always do.
I am not Spanish, I was born, raised and am living in Argentina.
I am not ignorant. I speak several languages, Spanish is my native tongue, and I can express myself perfectly in Spanish.
I am not racist. Discriminating and recognizing the particularities of a certain country are different things. Mexicans tend to be loud, poorly educated, highly religious, and not very subtle. You can spot them from a mile away.
In South America, there are very well spoken languages. Peru certainly has the most beautiful and correct Spanish in all of South America, and it's even nicer to hear them talk than it is to hear Spaniards. Uruguay and Argentina have a nice spanish too. Yes, we are full of slang, but that's how we speak in the streets. Some of the best writers of the Spanish language were from Argentina (Borges, Cortazar, Arlt, Bioy Casares, and others).
The thing is that North Americans usually don't differentiate the Spanish speakers from one country from the other.
A few weeks ago, on Lost's episode "Ab Aeterno", there was a MAJOR glitch. The first half of the episode was supposed to take place in the 19th century Spain (Tenerife, Islas Canarias). The settings weren't that bad, except for the fact that everyone spoke with a different south american accent. Any decent spanish-speaking actor can speak with an accent from virtually any spanish speaking place. For example, Argentina-Spain co-productions are common, and usually you have Argentinian actors speaking with Spanish accent, or the other way around. Also, the language wasn't proper for the time.
Just imagine that the episode was supposed to happen in the 18th Century London, and that Richard was supposed to be a poor guy from Yorkshire. Now, imagine him speaking with a heavy southern accent (US), and also speaking in a modern way (e.g: "Hey, are you the devil or what? This island is fucking crazy!"). That's how that episode was for anyone that speaks Spanish.
Anyway, I talked about this with several friends that are from the US, and none of them noticed anything strange in the episode.
What I'm trying to say is that you might not notice it certain subtleties, but we do. That doesn't make us racist. You do the same for the differences you can actually spot.
Wrong. Testiculos is the proper word, AKA Testicles. In Spain, they say that someone "Tiene cojones" (literally has balls), as in "is very brave".
The Mexicans don't use that expression that much. Actually, Mexicans don't speak Spanish at all. They speak Mexican, which is a mixture of bad spanish, completely made up words, engrish, plus groins and other guttural sounds.
Wrong. The only people that enter into the invisible-man-in-the-sky-worship business are young males with serious sexual identity issues, and see it as a way to hide their homosexuality (or to stop-being-gay by stopping the fucking altogether). Later, most of them turn into pedophiles. Some of them, succeed within the church, and become part of the ruling elite. They get a lot of benefits, including immunity for their kid-fucking crimes and a very wealthy lifestyle. They all work together to lurk more people into the cult (brainwashed followers translate into more money and power). So, to a young male with no ethics and a huge love for cock, the church sounds like a great alternative. Later, while in the church, they start watching the kids with more love than ever, and suddenly the church is an even better deal.
So, regarding your statement, it's true, the amount of people that want celibacy is at an all time low, but the number of 15-20 year old fags with no ethics whatsoever who wouldn't mind eating some young meat is, sadly, absolutely huge.
It is the manufacturer's duty to develop drivers for your platform. Off course, some kernel developers are nice enough to develop drivers when the companies fail to do so. In that case, the company is still at fault, and there is no way you can blame Ubuntu or the kernel developers for that lack of hardware support. Now that I think of it, you can't blame the company either. They develop their hardware and they have no obligation to provide support to any platform. it is your fault for buying shitty, unfriendly hardware with no GNU/Linux support. Right now, almost all hardware is supported out of the box on GNU/Linux, but even when it wasn't, I didn't have any kind of issues with it, because I check before I buy.
The trolls, the vacuous m$/apple/OS/FS/whatever mindless bashing/fanboys, the crappy editors, and other stuff like that is what's causing the decline of Slashdot.
We are in the year 2010. Thinking just about the technical aspects isn't good enough anymore. What we have learn from RMS (Whether you like him or not) is that hacktivism is very important, if we want to continue hacking happily. Our world is at danger. We are heading towards an Orwellian future of technological mind control and DRMed underpants. Geeks aren't welcome in that reality, except in the role of code-spitting slaves. We are protecting our world, which is as important as playing with it.
I actually don't use that method. I quickly wrote that line for the purpose of the post. I keep my server's/etc and other important dirs on SVN. It is the best way.
NTP is accurate to within 10 milliseconds in any decent connection. Get a really good, stable, low latency connection and hook yourself up to a stratum 1 server and you can cut that number down tenfold...
Can anyone explain what kind of financial application would require bigger accuracy?
I understand that certain scientific experiments require more accuracy than that, but those guys are probably already hooked up to stratum 0 servers directly.
Why on earth would any financial system (yes, even the stock market) require 10ms time accuracy? They were able to rip us off with fucking sand clocks. NTP should be enough for them.
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Last time I checked, electrons do have a mass, and are therefore "physical" products. Photons, on the other hand, are technically mass-less (Well, we are still not sure about it, but we consider them essentially mass-less, since they ought to be in order to move at the speed of light). So, if you have FTTP, you are technically buying a service, and not a good?
This whole definition is absolutely stupid. Cable television is considered a service too, and you are receiving just a signal. But if you copy the information you received, it becomes a good and gets covered by copyright law?
Some consistency would be really really nice.
Excellent then. Services aren't protected by copyright law.
The only thing that actually works? You mean that the fact that you have some stupid games that were only compiled for windows platforms, somehow makes windows "the only thing that works"? If you use software that you only have binaries for and those binaries are for windows, then it's your own damn fault. Besides, if you consider that a fucking stupid game is one of the things you have to take into account when choosing your operating system, you are obviously not qualified to use a computer. I suggest that you get a gameboy or something.
Read my other post.
He's running OSX 10.5.8. There is a patch to make it PowerPC compatible. And It's a G4, not a G3.
The only thing slow is Flash. He's a designer. The other day, he was editing video in it (With a modern version of Final cut).
He's running OSX 10.5.8. There is a patch to make it PowerPC compatible. And It's a G4, not a G3.
I hate Apple. And I don't own a single Apple device. Not a computer, not an iphone, and I never will (I only use Free Software). But I was talking about a friend's computer. And what I said was absolutely true. The machine has a 1ghz processor and 1 gb of ram. Try running windows 7 there.
You are a poor troll. 3/10.
Not at all. You have a big enough mass to still move the needle a little bit.
Don't use Windows. Was that so hard?
I am not saying that all other operating systems are perfectly secure by default or that they are invulnerable, but windows is absolutely insecure. We have to face that truth.
Microsoft's security record is laughable. And I'm not even talking about particular exploits, bugs can be fixed, I am talking about design. Windows is designed to be insecure. Security was never really taken seriously at microsoft. There are countless techniques to escalate permissions on just about any win platform (Including windows vista and 7). And this are not obscure and complex vulnerabilities. This are simple 50 lines executables that allow you to escalate any process you want with a few clicks.
Just take a look at any of their products, either server or desktop, and their security record will be worse than any competitor. Exchange, SQL, IIS, Explorer, Windows, Office. They allow script execution in crazy places (like a simple text document or spreadsheet).
Windows is insecure for a very good reason: Because there is a huge industry that developed around fixing windows, that industry is so big that it has become the main tool of customer loyalty that microsoft has. Millions, from huge Antivirus companies, to overstuffed IT departments, to your average computer repairman base their economy on Windows flaws. Those guys love windows and all its flaws. I've actually had people telling me "Well, I know it's a piece of crap, but it's what keeps people coming to my shop again and again". Not to mention the computer retailers. Imagine the fall in Dell stock if people didn't have to buy a new computer every 2 years just to run the latest OS? A friend of mine has am iMac from 2001 running the latest OSX. And it runs amazingly well ... If people knew they can run a blazingly fast 3D desktop on an 80 dollar atom-based mother+processor combo, newegg would die.
So, no, we didn't loose the security battle, Microsoft won the marketing one.
Yes, that sounds interesting. I believe a simpler way would be color. If all the employees are dressed in a particular color, easily recognizable and not in the material that is going to be cut, let's say, #00FF00, it would be trivial to have a camera on the robotic arm that won't cut if it encounters that color. That sounds like a reasonable, cheap and simple solution.
Actually, it will cut a hot dog. But it won't cut the hot dog if it's grounded. The system is pretty simple, there is a current applied to the blade, if it discharges somewhere, it'll stop. You can't use it to cut very wet wood, or other material with good conductivity.
Regarding the people saying that the collision detection shown in the article is useless because it can't differentiate between a human and a pig, here is what I think:
You can have a robot that has a certain mobility, and a designed space where it can punch/cut/puncture/etc. The robot turns on collision detection when it's out of the designated space. So, you can have a robot that can move from place to place freely with this safety feature on,and still be able to do it's job. If you have a robot that will be cutting fix in a given table, then moving the slices somewhere else, it can travel that path with the safety features on, if it happens to encounter a human (or cables, or anything else), it i will stop, but when the blade is down on the table (in the designated cutting space) the safety feature goes off.
Dude, come on, it's not that hard to get.
The web is what it is, not what you want it to be. Flash is NOT part of the web. Period. The web is whatever HTML is at a given point. Before HTML5, the web was actual HTML + CSS for Formatting + Javascript for scripting + Images + MJPEG video. That was it. Flash is NOT part of the web. You can download a PDF document from the web. Your browser might allow you to see that PDF document in-line. That doesn't make PDF part of the web. Same thing for Flash. What you are doing is downloading and viewing a file in SWF format with an external program. Your browser just happens to show it in-line and provide some stupid integration. That doesn't make Flash part of the web.
I fully understand how that works. But that has been changing lately. We do our own formats, and if you like it you can use them too. ODF, Ogg, Matroska, Jabber, etc. We are producing our own standard formats and protocols, and using them in Free Software. The rest of the industry can use them if they want to.
Great. You know what, there are also a lot of amazing demos, presentations, etc, written in ASM for the C-64. How come they are not supported on the web? Ah, right,because they are binary executables and have no place on the web. Same thing for Flash. If you can't do it in one of the standard Markup languages or using one of the standard scripting languages for the web, then don't do it. I miss the flexibility of client side CPP + GTK on the web too. That doesn't mean we should allow such executables to work from the web, or that they would be web apps at all.
So standards on the web should be free, but its ok to have proprietary lock in for the iPhone?
It's their product. Don't buy it. Was that so hard?
Standards allow you to choose who you buy from. All of your data is YOURS, and you can transfer it anywhere you want. With open standards, vendor lock-in is very hard to achieve. You can just move all of your stuff away to a new device after all. It is all this gray areas of do-what-you-want-and-patent-it that allow vendor lock-in to exist.
Where Apple should stand is very obvious: Sell your devices just like everyone else, realize the device belongs to the user, remove all the locks, and implement free standards. Not that hard.
Off course, Apple believes that they have a more profitable position made of draconian limitations and patent-encumbered formats. Time will prove them wrong, hopefully.
Not just Betamax, but BoIP (Betamax over IP). We all now 350x480 should be enough for everyone.
Apple's post was anti-adobe. This post is Anti-Apple, and pro-Adobe.
How about just putting them where they belong? Apple makes computers. Adobe makes software. We are talking about standards and the web. Any standard on the web should be completely free, period. The best free standard we have so far is HTML5 + Ogg + Theora. Period. The fact that a huge patent troll is saying they've got something against Theora doesn't make Theora any less free. The same thing was said against virtually all Free Software. And to this day, noone has ever been able to remove a Free Software project from us based on patents. Every single patent troll out there has said that they have patents covering everything from drinking water to clicking buttons for 20+ years. And Free Software is still there. Free standards are still there.
The has been cases of Privative software stealing code from GPL projects, where the GPL won and this guys had to either arrange a settlement or release their code to be GPL compliant.
But there has not been A SINGLE CASE of infringing GPL code loosing a legal battle. So, why are we taking MPEG-LA more seriously than we took SCO? It's the same crap, different smell. Just another troll that we need to ignore until it goes away.
So, Apple, Adobe: Sell your shit and STFU. Regardless of how much you pretend that standards, and the whole industry revolves around you, it doesn't. You're just another company trying to succeed in this market. We will buy your stuff, or we'll buy somebody else's stuff. What you say is not important. And what you pretend to be standards, are NOT. In the meanwhile, we will continue developing Free Open standards, and Free Open software that uses them. We will eventually prevail. We always do.
Ah crap! I must have hit the post anonymously box by mistake. That was me. ;)
Oh, and we don't use "vosotros" either, we use
"Ustedes".
Actually, we don't use "Tu" as the second person singular pronoun like you do, we use "Vos".
While a Mexican would say:
Tu eres Latinoamericano.
We would say:
Vos sos Latinoamericano.
Or "Che, boludo, vos sos re sudaca" :P
I am not Spanish, I was born, raised and am living in Argentina.
I am not ignorant. I speak several languages, Spanish is my native tongue, and I can express myself perfectly in Spanish.
I am not racist. Discriminating and recognizing the particularities of a certain country are different things. Mexicans tend to be loud, poorly educated, highly religious, and not very subtle. You can spot them from a mile away.
In South America, there are very well spoken languages. Peru certainly has the most beautiful and correct Spanish in all of South America, and it's even nicer to hear them talk than it is to hear Spaniards. Uruguay and Argentina have a nice spanish too. Yes, we are full of slang, but that's how we speak in the streets. Some of the best writers of the Spanish language were from Argentina (Borges, Cortazar, Arlt, Bioy Casares, and others).
The thing is that North Americans usually don't differentiate the Spanish speakers from one country from the other.
A few weeks ago, on Lost's episode "Ab Aeterno", there was a MAJOR glitch. The first half of the episode was supposed to take place in the 19th century Spain (Tenerife, Islas Canarias). The settings weren't that bad, except for the fact that everyone spoke with a different south american accent. Any decent spanish-speaking actor can speak with an accent from virtually any spanish speaking place. For example, Argentina-Spain co-productions are common, and usually you have Argentinian actors speaking with Spanish accent, or the other way around. Also, the language wasn't proper for the time.
Just imagine that the episode was supposed to happen in the 18th Century London, and that Richard was supposed to be a poor guy from Yorkshire. Now, imagine him speaking with a heavy southern accent (US), and also speaking in a modern way (e.g: "Hey, are you the devil or what? This island is fucking crazy!"). That's how that episode was for anyone that speaks Spanish.
Anyway, I talked about this with several friends that are from the US, and none of them noticed anything strange in the episode.
What I'm trying to say is that you might not notice it certain subtleties, but we do. That doesn't make us racist. You do the same for the differences you can actually spot.
Wrong. Testiculos is the proper word, AKA Testicles. In Spain, they say that someone "Tiene cojones" (literally has balls), as in "is very brave".
The Mexicans don't use that expression that much. Actually, Mexicans don't speak Spanish at all. They speak Mexican, which is a mixture of bad spanish, completely made up words, engrish, plus groins and other guttural sounds.
Wrong. The only people that enter into the invisible-man-in-the-sky-worship business are young males with serious sexual identity issues, and see it as a way to hide their homosexuality (or to stop-being-gay by stopping the fucking altogether). Later, most of them turn into pedophiles. Some of them, succeed within the church, and become part of the ruling elite. They get a lot of benefits, including immunity for their kid-fucking crimes and a very wealthy lifestyle. They all work together to lurk more people into the cult (brainwashed followers translate into more money and power). So, to a young male with no ethics and a huge love for cock, the church sounds like a great alternative. Later, while in the church, they start watching the kids with more love than ever, and suddenly the church is an even better deal.
So, regarding your statement, it's true, the amount of people that want celibacy is at an all time low, but the number of 15-20 year old fags with no ethics whatsoever who wouldn't mind eating some young meat is, sadly, absolutely huge.
And that is Ubuntu's fault how exactly?
It is the manufacturer's duty to develop drivers for your platform. Off course, some kernel developers are nice enough to develop drivers when the companies fail to do so. In that case, the company is still at fault, and there is no way you can blame Ubuntu or the kernel developers for that lack of hardware support. Now that I think of it, you can't blame the company either. They develop their hardware and they have no obligation to provide support to any platform. it is your fault for buying shitty, unfriendly hardware with no GNU/Linux support. Right now, almost all hardware is supported out of the box on GNU/Linux, but even when it wasn't, I didn't have any kind of issues with it, because I check before I buy.
I don't think this is part of the decline of /.
The trolls, the vacuous m$/apple/OS/FS/whatever mindless bashing/fanboys, the crappy editors, and other stuff like that is what's causing the decline of Slashdot.
We are in the year 2010. Thinking just about the technical aspects isn't good enough anymore. What we have learn from RMS (Whether you like him or not) is that hacktivism is very important, if we want to continue hacking happily. Our world is at danger. We are heading towards an Orwellian future of technological mind control and DRMed underpants. Geeks aren't welcome in that reality, except in the role of code-spitting slaves. We are protecting our world, which is as important as playing with it.
I actually don't use that method. I quickly wrote that line for the purpose of the post. I keep my server's /etc and other important dirs on SVN. It is the best way.
NTP is accurate to within 10 milliseconds in any decent connection. Get a really good, stable, low latency connection and hook yourself up to a stratum 1 server and you can cut that number down tenfold ...
Can anyone explain what kind of financial application would require bigger accuracy?
I understand that certain scientific experiments require more accuracy than that, but those guys are probably already hooked up to stratum 0 servers directly.
Why on earth would any financial system (yes, even the stock market) require 10ms time accuracy? They were able to rip us off with fucking sand clocks. NTP should be enough for them.