You're right. Mac OS X is a perfect example of the merging of the two worlds: Apple and GNU. Mac OS X is a significant thing for GNU software because the basis of the OS is Unix, just like Linux. Ergo, GNU software can be easily ported to Mac OS X and vice versa. Which means that programs like OpenOffice.org and Evolution now have another OS that they will run under.
Definitely. Just because most of his work was done in the past doesn't mean that he doesn't continue to work today. He just changed the direction his skills went.
Remember the Transmeta Crusoe? Linus was hired to work on that processor. Now he's been permitted to take a leave of absence and go work at the OSDL, where he can write code for the 2.7 kernels.
You're right. The reason why people are upset is because of the Sahafist misinformation campaign that has been raging ever since Vivendi first contradicted VALVe about the Sept 30 release date. I've seen gamers in the halflife2.net and halflifesource.com forums who are very angry about this PR disaster and would forsake the game mainly because of the way the delays and the cracking of VALVe was handled.
There are a lot of whiners attached to this story. But not everyone is whining for the sake of whining, they're whining because VALVe and Vivendi weren't up front to begin with.
You're right. VALVe knows that if the crackers are able to crack the game and start running rampant over MP and Steam, it would be the end of the game. No one would play it, no one would buy it and it would die an early, messy death.
From what I've been reading at www.halflife2.net and www.halflifesource.com, a lot of people are slowly but surely becoming disillusioned with HL2. More and more gamers are giving up on VALVe and Vivendi because of the nasty, messy way this PR disaster has been handled by both companies, with misinformation, speculation and contradictory statements coming forth at unpredictable times.
A lot of other games like UT2004, Max Payne 2 and Call of Duty are coming out for Christmas. DOOM 3, based on rumors of a fully working game, sans a musical library, might be out January 2004. If HL2 can't get itself into shape in time for Christmas, then no one will buy it. And what could have been one of the greatest games to ever be played will probably fade into history.
That would be a good idea. Until some 3l33t h@XoR d00d cracks the protocol used by the mail servers to cummunicate and starts seeding false positives to allow spam to get through them.
And you probably will. Soon its presence will become habitual and you will no longer notice it and allow it to annoy you.
Like I said, spammers do this because they think they can make money. Right now, they DO make money spamming people. If they don't make any money, why would they do it? Because they enjoy/.ing mail servers?
So if I follow your logic, does this mean that the reason why spam is so bad is because we are actively trying to defend against it? All of the effort that people spend writing spam software and spam filters and patches to MTAs to implement spam-catching frameworks is actually helping increase the amount of spam "out there"?
Following your logic further, you are implying that if we get rid of our spam filters and actively try to unsubscribe from the supposed "lists" that our e-mail addresses have gotten onto, spam levels will drop?
No flames intended, but that doesn't sound very logical to me. Can you provide any evidence to support this theory?
You have a point. In the early days of spam, I'm certain that replying to spam would definitely get your address marked as alive. Nowadays, though, spammers have so many addresses and are sending so much spam that I highly doubt that they could deal with any replies to the crap they send out. And even if they do get a reply, they have so many other addresses to cycle through that they probably at best ignore it, and at worst might actually mark it as valid.
I agree with you. Does anybody have linkage to a Web site that actually explores this?
....the more I realize that no amount of technology or legislation is ever going to completely eradicate spam from our lives. More and more it seems to me that the only way we can get rid of spam is through educating the next generation of Internet users to ignore it.
Spammers spam because they make money. Educate people to ignore spam, and the spammers don't make money. Bingo, no more spam!
I know it sounds like a pipe dream, but what other options are there?
I think the entire situation has reached the point of useless posturing, where no matter what the people who what the hell they're talking about, SCO will always have a glib answer that doesn't make any sense.
Sooner or later they'll wither up and die, but not after their backers have milked it for all it's worth.
I remember HyperCard as well. It was big in Australian public school systems; I went to a winter camp thing for a couple of weeks where you could create very interesting presentations using HyperCard. It was quite a lot of fun.
You're right, actually. But I'm sure that with the loose cannon tactics the RIAA is so fond of, sooner or later your prediction will come true, and some rich kid's parents will get sued.
Let's just hope they get pissed off enough to actually try to take it to court and get the subpoenas shot down.......
It means they don't know how much $$$ they're going to force the RIAA to use as a maximum value, but that the gov't, seemingly moving at the pace of a crawling baby (as opposed to a snail), will figure it out soon.
Those are stamped discs, not burned discs. Stamped discs are made using a radically different process where the pits and grooves on a DVD are actually built up in layers and stamped onto the backbone of the disc (the plastic part). Stamped dual-layer DVDs have existed for some time now; Phillips is saying that they invented burnable dual-layer DVDs.
I think the biggest barrier to BlueRay is the fragility of the discs. The discs used by the BlueRay drives are very delicate because of the way they are manufactured, in order to work with a blue laser technology. IIRC, the discs thus have to be encased in cartridges, like old Sun SCSI CD-ROMs used to use.
People probably see that as a barrier to adoption, because instead of a thin disc you now have a big bulky cartridge. It will probably take a while to either get rid of that requirement or get rid of the stigma surrounding encased CDs.
This latest DVD burning technology will undoubtedly be quite expensive, for both the drives and the media. Especially the media, since it will probably take Phillips a while to manufacture enough media for these devices.
OTOH, it will certainly make it easier for the home movie crowd.
The problem is that if they hadn't, M$ would have found a way to lock it up and prevent anyone from ever using it. Putting it in the public domain allows other OSes like Linux, Mac OS and the BSDs to utilize it.
You're using an old version of mplayer. I'm using rathann's mplayer-0.91-2 packages from http://ftp.falsehope.com/home/rathann/mplayer with the faad2 codec and ALSA sound support added via rpmbuild, and it works fine for me.
The AMD64 core uses a 40-bit physical memory address space, which is 1 Terabyte. It also uses a 48-bit virtual memory address space, which is 256 Terabytes.
A full 64-bit physical memory address would allow for 16 Exabytes of memory.
Damn! You stole my thunder; I was going to post this benchmark.
I think the biggest con of the FX51 is that soon it will be orphaned because of the 940pin -> 939pin change, which will allow that particular core to use normal DDR400 memory instead of registered ECC DDR400 memory.
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You're right. Mac OS X is a perfect example of the merging of the two worlds: Apple and GNU. Mac OS X is a significant thing for GNU software because the basis of the OS is Unix, just like Linux. Ergo, GNU software can be easily ported to Mac OS X and vice versa. Which means that programs like OpenOffice.org and Evolution now have another OS that they will run under.
This is a Good Thing.
Maybe that's why he's so influential. He released a product that anybody can modify.....
Definitely. Just because most of his work was done in the past doesn't mean that he doesn't continue to work today. He just changed the direction his skills went.
Remember the Transmeta Crusoe? Linus was hired to work on that processor. Now he's been permitted to take a leave of absence and go work at the OSDL, where he can write code for the 2.7 kernels.
IMO Linus deserved number 4.
You're right. The reason why people are upset is because of the Sahafist misinformation campaign that has been raging ever since Vivendi first contradicted VALVe about the Sept 30 release date. I've seen gamers in the halflife2.net and halflifesource.com forums who are very angry about this PR disaster and would forsake the game mainly because of the way the delays and the cracking of VALVe was handled.
There are a lot of whiners attached to this story. But not everyone is whining for the sake of whining, they're whining because VALVe and Vivendi weren't up front to begin with.
You're right. VALVe knows that if the crackers are able to crack the game and start running rampant over MP and Steam, it would be the end of the game. No one would play it, no one would buy it and it would die an early, messy death.
From what I've been reading at www.halflife2.net and www.halflifesource.com, a lot of people are slowly but surely becoming disillusioned with HL2. More and more gamers are giving up on VALVe and Vivendi because of the nasty, messy way this PR disaster has been handled by both companies, with misinformation, speculation and contradictory statements coming forth at unpredictable times.
A lot of other games like UT2004, Max Payne 2 and Call of Duty are coming out for Christmas. DOOM 3, based on rumors of a fully working game, sans a musical library, might be out January 2004. If HL2 can't get itself into shape in time for Christmas, then no one will buy it. And what could have been one of the greatest games to ever be played will probably fade into history.
And that would be a terrible tragedy, IMHO.
You have a point. But how easily do you overcome the inertia of the current setup to dismantle the monopoly and create a properly competitive market?
That would be a good idea. Until some 3l33t h@XoR d00d cracks the protocol used by the mail servers to cummunicate and starts seeding false positives to allow spam to get through them.
And you probably will. Soon its presence will become habitual and you will no longer notice it and allow it to annoy you.
/.ing mail servers?
Like I said, spammers do this because they think they can make money. Right now, they DO make money spamming people. If they don't make any money, why would they do it? Because they enjoy
So if I follow your logic, does this mean that the reason why spam is so bad is because we are actively trying to defend against it? All of the effort that people spend writing spam software and spam filters and patches to MTAs to implement spam-catching frameworks is actually helping increase the amount of spam "out there"?
Following your logic further, you are implying that if we get rid of our spam filters and actively try to unsubscribe from the supposed "lists" that our e-mail addresses have gotten onto, spam levels will drop?
No flames intended, but that doesn't sound very logical to me. Can you provide any evidence to support this theory?
You have a point. In the early days of spam, I'm certain that replying to spam would definitely get your address marked as alive. Nowadays, though, spammers have so many addresses and are sending so much spam that I highly doubt that they could deal with any replies to the crap they send out. And even if they do get a reply, they have so many other addresses to cycle through that they probably at best ignore it, and at worst might actually mark it as valid.
I agree with you. Does anybody have linkage to a Web site that actually explores this?
....the more I realize that no amount of technology or legislation is ever going to completely eradicate spam from our lives. More and more it seems to me that the only way we can get rid of spam is through educating the next generation of Internet users to ignore it.
Spammers spam because they make money. Educate people to ignore spam, and the spammers don't make money. Bingo, no more spam!
I know it sounds like a pipe dream, but what other options are there?
I think the entire situation has reached the point of useless posturing, where no matter what the people who what the hell they're talking about, SCO will always have a glib answer that doesn't make any sense.
Sooner or later they'll wither up and die, but not after their backers have milked it for all it's worth.
Here is the start of a thread on the NANOG mailinglist:
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http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg14917
Just goes to show how pissed people really are.....
I remember HyperCard as well. It was big in Australian public school systems; I went to a winter camp thing for a couple of weeks where you could create very interesting presentations using HyperCard. It was quite a lot of fun.
You're right, actually. But I'm sure that with the loose cannon tactics the RIAA is so fond of, sooner or later your prediction will come true, and some rich kid's parents will get sued.
Let's just hope they get pissed off enough to actually try to take it to court and get the subpoenas shot down.......
It means they don't know how much $$$ they're going to force the RIAA to use as a maximum value, but that the gov't, seemingly moving at the pace of a crawling baby (as opposed to a snail), will figure it out soon.
The cynic in me wonders why he's doing this.....
Those are stamped discs, not burned discs. Stamped discs are made using a radically different process where the pits and grooves on a DVD are actually built up in layers and stamped onto the backbone of the disc (the plastic part). Stamped dual-layer DVDs have existed for some time now; Phillips is saying that they invented burnable dual-layer DVDs.
I think the biggest barrier to BlueRay is the fragility of the discs. The discs used by the BlueRay drives are very delicate because of the way they are manufactured, in order to work with a blue laser technology. IIRC, the discs thus have to be encased in cartridges, like old Sun SCSI CD-ROMs used to use.
People probably see that as a barrier to adoption, because instead of a thin disc you now have a big bulky cartridge. It will probably take a while to either get rid of that requirement or get rid of the stigma surrounding encased CDs.
This latest DVD burning technology will undoubtedly be quite expensive, for both the drives and the media. Especially the media, since it will probably take Phillips a while to manufacture enough media for these devices.
OTOH, it will certainly make it easier for the home movie crowd.
The problem is that if they hadn't, M$ would have found a way to lock it up and prevent anyone from ever using it. Putting it in the public domain allows other OSes like Linux, Mac OS and the BSDs to utilize it.
You're using an old version of mplayer. I'm using rathann's mplayer-0.91-2 packages from http://ftp.falsehope.com/home/rathann/mplayer with the faad2 codec and ALSA sound support added via rpmbuild, and it works fine for me.
Not quite.
The AMD64 core uses a 40-bit physical memory address space, which is 1 Terabyte. It also uses a 48-bit virtual memory address space, which is 256 Terabytes.
A full 64-bit physical memory address would allow for 16 Exabytes of memory.
Damn! You stole my thunder; I was going to post this benchmark.
I think the biggest con of the FX51 is that soon it will be orphaned because of the 940pin -> 939pin change, which will allow that particular core to use normal DDR400 memory instead of registered ECC DDR400 memory.
Unpleasant for who? SCO, or Linux?