Bill Gates could end up in jail, since most of the software runs on windows... he could be blamed for all the spyware and malware that turns a regular pc into a kiddie porn server, since said software installs so easily on windows, so MS is not taking "reasonable care" to prevent this from happening.
So finally MS could be forced to give a fuck about security.
This is precisely what I was thinking. This guy reminds me of a character in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which I'm sure is based on some academic moron Neal knew in real life... the professor talking about the information superhighway, asking if it would have off-ramps in the ghettos... and then Randy explodes and tells him he's an idiot. I've also known a couple of guys who never leave academia but think they can start talking about all this stuff they've never really experienced. Well I haven't made robots or anything but I sure as hell know that whether they should eat or excrete will be determined by function alone; they won't eat just because someone says it's philosophically better if they do...
he's not the real guy, he's an impostor. Come on, you really believe the names you see on posts? it's like that Miguel de Icaza user, he's also an impostor.
yeah but it would be very easy for the enemy to send a spy to flash her boobs at him, causing an erection and thus making it a lot harder to aim at anything but the boobs
I don't remember any mention that windows didn't have a command line. But I think he talked about how windows is a graphical operating system, in the sense that the GUI is completely tied to the OS, and if you want a command line, you can run it on top of the GUI, when it should be the other way around, like on Linux, where you run the GUI on top of the command line.
Honestly, if you have a windows server, after you configure it, why do you need it to run the GUI? but you can't turn it off... and remote sessions like telnet or ssh suck in Windows.
Mac OS apparently has the same problem, but I think it shouldn't be hard to get rid of the GUI for a server. You can boot OS without GUI if you press S while booting, and although it leaves you in single-user mode, if you make a script to start all the netinfo services and additional stuff, you get a working server without the GUI.
I saw on the news that some dolphins were found inland. I think that intelligence is not a decisive factor in a creature's survival when an event of this magnitude comes.
They integrated the more UNIX program into Office, as an option instead of scrolling (for those who say that GUI's are for wimps, etc).
They were going to use less but they had some licensing issues, so they had to pay SCO $699 for a more license. But don't worry, I hear the design allows for other programs to be used instead of more so if you already have a SCO license you can use less.
I think there is a simple answer to this particular case.
Rosegarden works a lot with sound and MIDI. It's built on top of the Linux audio architecture (ALSA). ALSA is free software, so Rosegarden can use it and still be free software.
On Windows, Rosegarden would have to use whatever API Windows has for audio, and that's not free software. Maybe there is a license conflict that prohibits the Rosegarden developers from having code that calls that windows API, or maybe they just don't want to call a non-free audio API.
I just read that page. It starts OK but then it becomes a little radical... saying that porting something to Solaris will only help Sun seems a bit extreme to me.
I can easily imagine people in a situation where they need a certain open source library to work on Solaris and they have no other choice. They can't install Linux on the machine because it's not theirs to control, maybe there are some other apps running there that are solaris-only. Or they developed their own app on Linux but it turns out this particular client wants it running on Solaris, period. So porting a library to Solaris so they can run their app will help these particular team, and if the library is GPL, they have to contribute back any changes they make that allow the library to run on Solaris. The author of said library might then decide not to publish those changes because he thinks porting his lib to solaris is sabotage and only helps Sun.
Disclaimer: I have contributed to a couple of open source projects, and even have a couple of my own on SF. I don't know if I could code my way out of a soggy paper bag, though, since that's a hardware problem:)
Probably synthetic diamonds, you know, the ones made in high-pressure ovens that cost about $50 and are the bigger than a fist, and are great for this kind of stuff. There was an article on Wired a while back, which I think was also mentioned in/. about this technology. But since nanotech is being mentioned this time, then probably now the diamond dust is being created by nanobots?
Is this some kind of reference to Neal Stephenson's Age of Diamonds? The feed was the way nanotech was controlled by the Victorians, and the seed was the way to free it from that control... I know this is offtopic but a post about real nanotech mentioning SED vs FED was just... strange.
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Is this a shameless plug of some kind? I mean, comparing NetBeans to Eclipse and saying that these two points give NetBeans an advantage, doesn't make sense to me.
Eclipse is pure java, too. Oh, unless you don't consider SWT to be pure java, and you prefer to have pure java Swing rather than the much nicer and faster SWT... so what if it's using the native OS interface instead of its own? I see that as an advantage, in any case.
Eclipse can use Ant to build a project. I don't know if it's the latest version, but for all basic purposes, the version included is good enough. I don't know if there's an Eclipse plugin that automatically updates build.xml or lets you handle it in a graphical way, but I think ant build files are meant to be hand edited, anyway. You can use XML buddy inside Eclipse to validate the XML.
And that stuff about using the NetBeans platform, sounds like the stuff Eclipse includes now with 3.0, where you can build your SWT apps using the same objects that make up the Eclipse IDE.
You're right, I got confused. They're functions. But like you say, you just ignore the return value and execute the function by doing a 'select function(param1, param2)' and that's it. You can define a function that returns void, like in C, so that's practically a stored procedure (except that to execute it you still have to do 'select function()'. Functions in PostgreSQL can even return rows (at least in version 7.4 which I'm using, you can return a row). Outbound parameters are not yet supported, I hope they include that feature for version 8.
Of course you can do that. But it's a complex transaction, not very efficient. You have to insert, select, then delete, just to get a new value, instead of just selecting it from a sequence... and yes, you can write a function that inserts, selects, deletes and finally returns the selected value, so that you only have to select from the function, but internally it's doing the same thing...
Don't forget stored procedures. MySQL doesn't support them (I think the new version is going to, though). On PostgreSQL you have their own SP language or you can write the procedures in C... also, I think transaction support is not as good in MySQL as in other databases, but I don't know for sure.
Oh, and sequences. MySQL has the auto increment property for a field, but doesn't have sequences that can be independent of a table.
I talked to some tech people from a smart card company a couple of months ago and from what I understood, a regular smart card reader can read SIM cards, as long as you have the software for it... which now you have...
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Yes, well, they're probably using Gnome. Should have gone with KDE instead, or WindowMaker to save memory for the synths.
Be thankful it doesn't just have a command line, or we would be bitching about the default shell used (bash vs tcsh vsh zsh etc).
Bill Gates could end up in jail, since most of the software runs on windows... he could be blamed for all the spyware and malware that turns a regular pc into a kiddie porn server, since said software installs so easily on windows, so MS is not taking "reasonable care" to prevent this from happening.
So finally MS could be forced to give a fuck about security.
My wife is a lawyer, does that help?
This is precisely what I was thinking. This guy reminds me of a character in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which I'm sure is based on some academic moron Neal knew in real life... the professor talking about the information superhighway, asking if it would have off-ramps in the ghettos... and then Randy explodes and tells him he's an idiot.
I've also known a couple of guys who never leave academia but think they can start talking about all this stuff they've never really experienced. Well I haven't made robots or anything but I sure as hell know that whether they should eat or excrete will be determined by function alone; they won't eat just because someone says it's philosophically better if they do...
he's not the real guy, he's an impostor. Come on, you really believe the names you see on posts? it's like that Miguel de Icaza user, he's also an impostor.
Or....
Bill Gates is a bald cat and a pinky-in-mouth away from being dr. evil
yeah but it would be very easy for the enemy to send a spy to flash her boobs at him, causing an erection and thus making it a lot harder to aim at anything but the boobs
Honestly, if you have a windows server, after you configure it, why do you need it to run the GUI? but you can't turn it off... and remote sessions like telnet or ssh suck in Windows.
Mac OS apparently has the same problem, but I think it shouldn't be hard to get rid of the GUI for a server. You can boot OS without GUI if you press S while booting, and although it leaves you in single-user mode, if you make a script to start all the netinfo services and additional stuff, you get a working server without the GUI.
I saw on the news that some dolphins were found inland. I think that intelligence is not a decisive factor in a creature's survival when an event of this magnitude comes.
And yet it's a common mistake in many companies to "reward" a programmer by making him project manager...
They were going to use less but they had some licensing issues, so they had to pay SCO $699 for a more license. But don't worry, I hear the design allows for other programs to be used instead of more so if you already have a SCO license you can use less.
I think there is a simple answer to this particular case.
Rosegarden works a lot with sound and MIDI. It's built on top of the Linux audio architecture (ALSA). ALSA is free software, so Rosegarden can use it and still be free software.
On Windows, Rosegarden would have to use whatever API Windows has for audio, and that's not free software. Maybe there is a license conflict that prohibits the Rosegarden developers from having code that calls that windows API, or maybe they just don't want to call a non-free audio API.
I just read that page. It starts OK but then it becomes a little radical... saying that porting something to Solaris will only help Sun seems a bit extreme to me.
I can easily imagine people in a situation where they need a certain open source library to work on Solaris and they have no other choice. They can't install Linux on the machine because it's not theirs to control, maybe there are some other apps running there that are solaris-only. Or they developed their own app on Linux but it turns out this particular client wants it running on Solaris, period. So porting a library to Solaris so they can run their app will help these particular team, and if the library is GPL, they have to contribute back any changes they make that allow the library to run on Solaris. The author of said library might then decide not to publish those changes because he thinks porting his lib to solaris is sabotage and only helps Sun.
Disclaimer: I have contributed to a couple of open source projects, and even have a couple of my own on SF. I don't know if I could code my way out of a soggy paper bag, though, since that's a hardware problemShit, you're right. Yeah, Diamond Age. Sorry. Oh, and very funny, BTW.
Probably synthetic diamonds, you know, the ones made in high-pressure ovens that cost about $50 and are the bigger than a fist, and are great for this kind of stuff. There was an article on Wired a while back, which I think was also mentioned in /. about this technology. But since nanotech is being mentioned this time, then probably now the diamond dust is being created by nanobots?
Is this some kind of reference to Neal Stephenson's Age of Diamonds? The feed was the way nanotech was controlled by the Victorians, and the seed was the way to free it from that control... I know this is offtopic but a post about real nanotech mentioning SED vs FED was just... strange.
Is this a shameless plug of some kind? I mean, comparing NetBeans to Eclipse and saying that these two points give NetBeans an advantage, doesn't make sense to me.
Eclipse is pure java, too. Oh, unless you don't consider SWT to be pure java, and you prefer to have pure java Swing rather than the much nicer and faster SWT... so what if it's using the native OS interface instead of its own? I see that as an advantage, in any case.
Eclipse can use Ant to build a project. I don't know if it's the latest version, but for all basic purposes, the version included is good enough. I don't know if there's an Eclipse plugin that automatically updates build.xml or lets you handle it in a graphical way, but I think ant build files are meant to be hand edited, anyway. You can use XML buddy inside Eclipse to validate the XML.
And that stuff about using the NetBeans platform, sounds like the stuff Eclipse includes now with 3.0, where you can build your SWT apps using the same objects that make up the Eclipse IDE.
You mean there's going to be a U2 Special Edition Powerbook?
You're right, I got confused. They're functions. But like you say, you just ignore the return value and execute the function by doing a 'select function(param1, param2)' and that's it. You can define a function that returns void, like in C, so that's practically a stored procedure (except that to execute it you still have to do 'select function()'.
Functions in PostgreSQL can even return rows (at least in version 7.4 which I'm using, you can return a row). Outbound parameters are not yet supported, I hope they include that feature for version 8.
Of course you can do that. But it's a complex transaction, not very efficient. You have to insert, select, then delete, just to get a new value, instead of just selecting it from a sequence... and yes, you can write a function that inserts, selects, deletes and finally returns the selected value, so that you only have to select from the function, but internally it's doing the same thing...
Don't forget stored procedures. MySQL doesn't support them (I think the new version is going to, though). On PostgreSQL you have their own SP language or you can write the procedures in C... also, I think transaction support is not as good in MySQL as in other databases, but I don't know for sure.
Oh, and sequences. MySQL has the auto increment property for a field, but doesn't have sequences that can be independent of a table.
I talked to some tech people from a smart card company a couple of months ago and from what I understood, a regular smart card reader can read SIM cards, as long as you have the software for it... which now you have...
The main problem with dogs are the core dumps, which appen rather frequently, and debugging that is not nice.
5.1 audio? Well, I won't be buying any of that. When I watch porn, I don't want to hear ANYTHING behind me!