They're trying to eat with two spoons, and this is not the prettiest way to eat, especially if someone feeds you. The fella giving you money may decide you're too greedy and cut off your food supply for good.
That metaphor was like a trainwreck, that kept going and going long after it should have stopped after the first comma and slammed into your point causing carnage, causing passersby to avert their eyes in horror.
Indeed, reprocessing spent uranium is the best solution, both from a commercial and an environmental standpoint. However, re-enriching uranium is banned under international treaty, since the uranium could then be used to make nuclear weapons. Yet another example of why sometimes there are non-technical considerations in a seemingly technical problem.
On the contrary, snooping is an excellent preventative tool. My father went that route, and it put the fear of God in my brothers and me. (Of course, later on it turned out that he was bluffing about how much he could really tell... but it was a very effective bluff.)
That might be true if there was zero transaction cost to firing and hiring people.
However, in the real world, it doesn't quite work that way, especially when you're talking about industries that require skilled workers. For one, it takes effort to seek out qualified workers, so companies will only do this if they really need more workers and they think that they will continue to do this in the future. For another, firing employees damages goodwill, so companies are rightly reluctant to do it when not necessary.
If companies really operated like you suggest, there would be a constant stream of hirings and firings of engineers and middle managers from week-to-week, as demand and earnings projections change.
It used to be that only good/popular games were made into movies...
Sure, there was a buzz surrounding Dungeon Siege at launch-time, but everyone who bought it realized within a few days that it was completely shallow.
Dungeon Siege was like a stone dropped into a lake. It caused a moderate splash, then it completely disappeared. If someone's making a movie based on this, it just shows that it's too easy to make movies.
In other news, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a computer has a potential security flaw. Does it have a keyboard? What's that? It does have a keyboard! Why, someone could just walk in and START ACCESSING YOUR COMPUTER by simply typing on it.
If you living alone (or you trust the people you live with), then the walls of your house are your "security." If your home is that insecure, I'd be more worried about someone walking away with your big screen TV than fooling around on your computer.
Even if there are many people who could theoretically access your computer, don't most modern operating systems require users to log on? Sure, some systems allow you to disable password requirements, but that's your own choice if you want to trade security for convenience.
That'd mean that a single G5 would account for more than 1/3 of the electricity consumption of an "average sized home." To be fair, at home you generally don't count climate control as part of the cost of owning a computer. If you just bought an air conditioner to keep your computer room cool, I'm sure that the AC + the desktop would suck up quite a bit of juice.
As a bonus, hopefully this could see a standard p2p system developed and maybe ported to Linux - then I could get rid of my Windows partition completely.
You haven't heard of LimeWire (a Gnutella client), then?
Wow... I can't imagine keeping Windows on a machine just to run a p2p program. (But then, you Linux guys aren't big on ease-of-use, are you?:P)
You just have each node use a different starting point, continuing until it hits the 4,2,1 loop, and ensure that when a node picks a new starting point it doesn't pick one that has already been picked by another node.
I don't think anyone would patch me if a security hole was found...
I know you were joking, but that isn't quite true due to the wonders of retroviralgene therapy. This is actually a somewhat viable technology now, having first been successfully demonstrated by Alain Fischer in 1999 to treat a group of children with X-SCID (better known as "bubble boy syndrome"). (However, there admittedly remain certain obstacles to gene therapy's widespread application. Damned bureaucrats!)
Some people have said that Valve has included GPLed code in the Half Life 2 code. Dunno as to whether this is true, but I'd like to point out that while this is technically not kosher, I suspect that a lot of places do it -- as long as it's out by release time, I very much doubt that anyone will complain.
They're talking about the Havok physics engine. Two things:
1. It's LGPL, not GPL
2. Valve is using the Havok physics engine under a commercial license, so it's legit.
I don't see why they stored the source on a computer connected to the internet in the first place
Geeze, where do YOU work, the CIA? Maybe in paranoid-spook land you consider commiting your code to memory every night and destroying all copies "common sense." However, most people don't. The assumption is if you're sitting behind your corporate firewall, you're safe. (And if the IT department is doing its job, then you are.)
The truth is, no matter how good security is, it's almost impossible to defend against an inside job. Just ask the chaps down at Los Alamos. So, there's very little point in a corporations like Valve taking great lengths to secure themselves against what is just one possible vector for an information leak.
The person was probably talking about bits of the Havok engine, which is used in HL2. (Although the Havok engine is actually released under the LGPL, not the GPL.) Now, before anyone starts shooting his mouth off about "stolen GPL'd code" in Half-Life 2, Valve purchased a commercial license for the Havok engine, so there's no foul play here.
My sentiments exactly. If he can't run with the big dogs, well, that's what "n00b servers" are for. If he's really so sensitive (and such a sore loser) that there're no severs on the net that can accomodate him, maybe he's playing the wrong games.
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They're trying to eat with two spoons, and this is not the prettiest way to eat, especially if someone feeds you. The fella giving you money may decide you're too greedy and cut off your food supply for good.
That metaphor was like a trainwreck, that kept going and going long after it should have stopped after the first comma and slammed into your point causing carnage, causing passersby to avert their eyes in horror.
Indeed, reprocessing spent uranium is the best solution, both from a commercial and an environmental standpoint. However, re-enriching uranium is banned under international treaty, since the uranium could then be used to make nuclear weapons. Yet another example of why sometimes there are non-technical considerations in a seemingly technical problem.
Snooping is a VERY bad idea.
On the contrary, snooping is an excellent preventative tool. My father went that route, and it put the fear of God in my brothers and me. (Of course, later on it turned out that he was bluffing about how much he could really tell... but it was a very effective bluff.)
OpenOffice? Buggy? No more so than MS Office.
How about making use of micropayments so that sender's account is charged some nominal amount that goes into receiver's account?
How about not? Of all of the proposed solutions to the spam problem, micropayments are the worst.
This deserves to be immortalized as one of the great gaming epics.
Better start saving those posts soon... wouldn't want the story to vanish forever...
I was a fan until I saw revolutions.
You're more dedicated than me -- I stopped being a fan when I saw Reloaded.
Any bittorrent link to the mac version?
However, in the real world, it doesn't quite work that way, especially when you're talking about industries that require skilled workers. For one, it takes effort to seek out qualified workers, so companies will only do this if they really need more workers and they think that they will continue to do this in the future. For another, firing employees damages goodwill, so companies are rightly reluctant to do it when not necessary.
If companies really operated like you suggest, there would be a constant stream of hirings and firings of engineers and middle managers from week-to-week, as demand and earnings projections change.
"Naked petrified girls?" You'd think that for $2 billion, you'd at least be able to hire some living flesh-girls...
It used to be that only good/popular games were made into movies... Sure, there was a buzz surrounding Dungeon Siege at launch-time, but everyone who bought it realized within a few days that it was completely shallow. Dungeon Siege was like a stone dropped into a lake. It caused a moderate splash, then it completely disappeared. If someone's making a movie based on this, it just shows that it's too easy to make movies.
In other news, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a computer has a potential security flaw. Does it have a keyboard? What's that? It does have a keyboard! Why, someone could just walk in and START ACCESSING YOUR COMPUTER by simply typing on it. If you living alone (or you trust the people you live with), then the walls of your house are your "security." If your home is that insecure, I'd be more worried about someone walking away with your big screen TV than fooling around on your computer. Even if there are many people who could theoretically access your computer, don't most modern operating systems require users to log on? Sure, some systems allow you to disable password requirements, but that's your own choice if you want to trade security for convenience.
Hey grandpa, they let you have laptops at the nursing home?
Maybe his satorical advice was actually satyrical. *ducks*
Um, because not everyone knows how to do that?
That'd mean that a single G5 would account for more than 1/3 of the electricity consumption of an "average sized home." To be fair, at home you generally don't count climate control as part of the cost of owning a computer. If you just bought an air conditioner to keep your computer room cool, I'm sure that the AC + the desktop would suck up quite a bit of juice.
You haven't heard of LimeWire (a Gnutella client), then? Wow... I can't imagine keeping Windows on a machine just to run a p2p program. (But then, you Linux guys aren't big on ease-of-use, are you? :P)
You just have each node use a different starting point, continuing until it hits the 4,2,1 loop, and ensure that when a node picks a new starting point it doesn't pick one that has already been picked by another node.
I don't think anyone would patch me if a security hole was found...
I know you were joking, but that isn't quite true due to the wonders of retroviral gene therapy. This is actually a somewhat viable technology now, having first been successfully demonstrated by Alain Fischer in 1999 to treat a group of children with X-SCID (better known as "bubble boy syndrome"). (However, there admittedly remain certain obstacles to gene therapy's widespread application. Damned bureaucrats!)
They're talking about the Havok physics engine. Two things:
1. It's LGPL, not GPL
2. Valve is using the Havok physics engine under a commercial license, so it's legit.
Geeze, where do YOU work, the CIA? Maybe in paranoid-spook land you consider commiting your code to memory every night and destroying all copies "common sense." However, most people don't. The assumption is if you're sitting behind your corporate firewall, you're safe. (And if the IT department is doing its job, then you are.)
The truth is, no matter how good security is, it's almost impossible to defend against an inside job. Just ask the chaps down at Los Alamos. So, there's very little point in a corporations like Valve taking great lengths to secure themselves against what is just one possible vector for an information leak.
The person was probably talking about bits of the Havok engine, which is used in HL2. (Although the Havok engine is actually released under the LGPL, not the GPL.) Now, before anyone starts shooting his mouth off about "stolen GPL'd code" in Half-Life 2, Valve purchased a commercial license for the Havok engine, so there's no foul play here.
Ever hear atonal music?
I suppose it might be music, but only in the sense that paint thrown on a wall by a monkey is "art," and Slashdot articles are "news."
[i]So why is it that the telcos keep getting nailed and we dont hear anything about Comcast...[/i] 'Cause Comcast folded like a paper napkin.
My sentiments exactly. If he can't run with the big dogs, well, that's what "n00b servers" are for. If he's really so sensitive (and such a sore loser) that there're no severs on the net that can accomodate him, maybe he's playing the wrong games.