Actually, when people are being aware of how they're mistreated, and protest it loudly (enough for others to notice), I don't think they qualify as being sheeple. Well, maybe except those who still buy sony music.
I stopped buying music-cds altogether when one of them installed crap on my winbox.
On the other hand, if you completely ignore self-discipline, alzheimers won't really change your way of life. Oh well, I'd better get back to...... whatever i was doing..
Actually, one of the main features of the walking-stick/cane is that it helps detect features just above ground level, such as curbs and stairs. A band wrapped around the head would help against trees and walls, but not against the curb.
MicroSoft subsidizes training. DirectX is the native API to the OS on most peoples computers. Microsoft has experienced technical writers publish books about DirectX the day it comes out. OpenGL books are being written mostly by developers, which aren't always good technical writers. Microsoft managed to mastermind OpenGL standard development to halt to a freeze for several years, they no longer hold the same influence.
My opinion: OpenGL is a more logical language, with a few features that are far better. OpenGL makes me happy, no clue why, but I enjoy coding up against it, DirectX makes me concentrate and for some reason, I never manage to dispose properly of all my "managed" objects in DirectX. That being said, one thing i like about directX is DirectView. OpenGL + Cg makes me happy
My captcha was porters, proving that there is not necessarily a direct link between what you write and what captcha you get:P (to me a porter is a beer)
Most of the games i've bought the last 5 years have been games i bought solely for online use, the exception is civilization (all:D). it's just more fun when other people are involved -like sex (oh wait, this is slashdot).
then take a look at it at the original story
It's actually a solid state hydrogen peroxide H2O2, it is the steam that drives powers the mechanics.
I guess it could be considered rocketry in that it's solid to gas transition. Also, it's what the astronauts use in spacewalk jetpacks
Better known by it's the Executive Executive Summary: The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history [Note A]. This should be required reading for people wanting to use Windows Vista for their media center
This really was a no-brainer non-issue from the start. It's obvious that ID are proponents of open software. The dosbox forums were not half-way as upset as slashdot. ID-software started fixing this, even before the/. article hit the frontpage.
Nothing to see here, or for that matter in the previous article, move along.
Your real problem is that you're a gamer and you run Vista.
Vista isn't ready for gaming, even though Microsoft has been touting it as the next big kick in graphics, they haven't kept up with the rest of the things that make a gaming session. This is one of the reasons, a lot of people call vista an unfinished product.
Next is, get a proper I.M. client then you won't ever mess with buddy-lists ingame again.
Last, Vista's only two remaining features from the original design are the new user interface (very nice) and DRM. To me that says it has to look nice and lock you down hard.
Funny, I don't even have a grudge against Vista, just against people who use it without realizing what it is. DRM is a great technology for locking down important company assets and i think it'll help reduce industrial espionage once companies realize how to use it.
And yet another reason was that HTML was based on the older and more immense SGML language, where as XHTML was to be based on XML, which provided a more simplified rework of SGML.
It appears the author doesn't know that xml is a subset of sgml
Unless you speak Danish, y'all don't speak the same language as us in the DK.
I guess my point was that I think, whether or not the language is in your primary language, matters. Then i further speculated that it matters more for Citations than it does for acceptance.
But you're right, measuring the quality of an article by the amount of citations is often useless. Measuring by what they cite can be even worse.
I'd make the guess that language matters more for citation than for acceptance. Acceptance only evaluates the scientific merits, citation requires the paper to have given the citing person insight.
I'd love to see this compared with british statistics, and possibly french (since the majority of non-english journals i know are french)
Ok, i guess i have to reply by now. I wrote "This might have been discovered earlier". I did not write "This would have been discovered earlier".
I deliberately chose the first of those two sentences! Because I'm not that horribly stupid to believe that it's infallible, just that it has one more(imo decent) station it can be caught at.
I considered the first post like this to be flamebait, i marginally consider your post flamebait, but here I am biting. Next time, you read something, remember to read all the words, most of them mean something.
It's a driver installation, so the ordinary user doesn't/can't do it.
However, it's a proprietary driver, that you need to install to use the printer, so if that's the printer you have people install it, expecting it not to create security holes. This might have been discovered earlier, if it weren't for the closedness of the source.
My guess is that it happened due to a coder writing the driver so, it requires root to use it. Then trying to guess which programs requires the driver, then setting those to run as root. Silly, but easy to do.
Sounds like it was done without peer review, so i guess they only have one guy writing their linux drivers.. So why is it proprietary? well some places printers are encouraged(required) by law (enforcement) to leave secret and invisible watermarks. If it isn't done in the printer, it's done in the driver, if it's open, it'll be removed.
well, it might be, if you say private data, since it's no longer your private data, but your shared data afterwards. Thus you lose privacy.
So while the data isn't stolen, Your privacy is, but i guess that's splitting hairs.
So someone got the idea
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to seperate userinterface from operating system..
I mean, the article has a nice list of things you can do instead of upgrading to Vista, however the main principle that is highlighted has been logic to most developers for decades: 1. Seperate logic from userinterface 2. Seperate into small logical components
3. you achieve better programs which are easier to maintain and upgrade. (which is often as good as profit)
i've done this plenty of times, to several different keyboards (ps2, usb, whatnot)
my brother does it. as long as you rinse it properly to get rid of the soap, and then give it some time to dry, it'll be fine.
some keyboards are based on several layers of transperent sheets for connecting the keys. if that's the case, it's an advantage to seperate the layers slightly, to get more air through.
This doesn't only apply to keyboards, but to all electronics, you can wash them if you remember to rinse them, and give them time to dry. Also, never do it with a battery still attached, it's the electricity AND the stuff OTHER than water that kills the electronics.
Just for shits and giggles, i just went to time warner to read the contracts(different for cali and rest of the us)...
I'm glad that i don't have to put up with the crap that you guys do.
Seriously, i think contracts like this would be made more humane,
If consumers took the time to call them and ask, what each clause of a contract meant, before purchase.
I'm curious as to how much, of the stuff they put in the contract, would be thrown out in a courtroom?
in the contract or at very least in the sale, they promise you a certain bandwidth, if they can't deliver what they promise you don't need to pay what you promised.
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Actually, when people are being aware of how they're mistreated, and protest it loudly (enough for others to notice), I don't think they qualify as being sheeple.
Well, maybe except those who still buy sony music.
I stopped buying music-cds altogether when one of them installed crap on my winbox.
On the other hand, if you completely ignore self-discipline, alzheimers won't really change your way of life. .. .. whatever i was doing..
Oh well, I'd better get back to..
Ooooh, a shiny new game!
Actually, one of the main features of the walking-stick/cane is that it helps detect features just above ground level, such as curbs and stairs. A band wrapped around the head would help against trees and walls, but not against the curb.
MicroSoft subsidizes training.
:P (to me a porter is a beer)
DirectX is the native API to the OS on most peoples computers.
Microsoft has experienced technical writers publish books about DirectX the day it comes out.
OpenGL books are being written mostly by developers, which aren't always good technical writers.
Microsoft managed to mastermind OpenGL standard development to halt to a freeze for several years, they no longer hold the same influence.
My opinion:
OpenGL is a more logical language, with a few features that are far better.
OpenGL makes me happy, no clue why, but I enjoy coding up against it, DirectX makes me concentrate and for some reason, I never manage to dispose properly of all my "managed" objects in DirectX. That being said, one thing i like about directX is DirectView.
OpenGL + Cg makes me happy
My captcha was porters, proving that there is not necessarily a direct link between what you write and what captcha you get
Most of the games i've bought the last 5 years have been games i bought solely for online use, the exception is civilization (all :D).
it's just more fun when other people are involved -like sex (oh wait, this is slashdot).
This could possibly make it a lot easier to change between different naming conventions.
:) Though it would be a shame to end a perfectly good flamewar...
possibly even do cross convention linking.
I now have a new uni-project i care about
maybe i should implement it in emacs.
then take a look at it at the original story It's actually a solid state hydrogen peroxide H2O2, it is the steam that drives powers the mechanics.
I guess it could be considered rocketry in that it's solid to gas transition. Also, it's what the astronauts use in spacewalk jetpacks
Better known by it's the Executive Executive Summary:
The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history [Note A].
This should be required reading for people wanting to use Windows Vista for their media center
This really was a no-brainer non-issue from the start. /. article hit the frontpage.
It's obvious that ID are proponents of open software.
The dosbox forums were not half-way as upset as slashdot.
ID-software started fixing this, even before the
Nothing to see here, or for that matter in the previous article, move along.
Whoever modded this offtopic have no clue, and hasn't read 1984.
please mod parent up
Your real problem is that you're a gamer and you run Vista.
Vista isn't ready for gaming, even though Microsoft has been touting it as the next big kick in graphics, they haven't kept up with the rest of the things that make a gaming session. This is one of the reasons, a lot of people call vista an unfinished product.
Next is, get a proper I.M. client then you won't ever mess with buddy-lists ingame again.
Last, Vista's only two remaining features from the original design are the new user interface (very nice) and DRM. To me that says it has to look nice and lock you down hard.
Funny, I don't even have a grudge against Vista, just against people who use it without realizing what it is.
DRM is a great technology for locking down important company assets and i think it'll help reduce industrial espionage once companies realize how to use it.
The purpose of this text is to highlight the subject.
I guess that's a trick that's usable by all that requires signed code.
Find a weakness in something that's signed, and have that execute your code.
Makes me think about the dvd player in my kitchen.
you can do that already, You run it with apache and firefox.
Unless you speak Danish, y'all don't speak the same language as us in the DK.
I guess my point was that I think, whether or not the language is in your primary language, matters. Then i further speculated that it matters more for Citations than it does for acceptance.
But you're right, measuring the quality of an article by the amount of citations is often useless.
Measuring by what they cite can be even worse.
I'd make the guess that language matters more for citation than for acceptance.
Acceptance only evaluates the scientific merits, citation requires the paper to have given the citing person insight.
I'd love to see this compared with british statistics, and possibly french (since the majority of non-english journals i know are french)
Ok, i guess i have to reply by now.
I wrote "This might have been discovered earlier".
I did not write "This would have been discovered earlier".
I deliberately chose the first of those two sentences!
Because I'm not that horribly stupid to believe that it's infallible, just that it has one more(imo decent) station it can be caught at.
I considered the first post like this to be flamebait, i marginally consider your post flamebait, but here I am biting.
Next time, you read something, remember to read all the words, most of them mean something.
It's a driver installation, so the ordinary user doesn't/can't do it.
However, it's a proprietary driver, that you need to install to use the printer, so if that's the printer you have people install it, expecting it not to create security holes.
This might have been discovered earlier, if it weren't for the closedness of the source.
My guess is that it happened due to a coder writing the driver so, it requires root to use it.
Then trying to guess which programs requires the driver, then setting those to run as root. Silly, but easy to do.
Sounds like it was done without peer review, so i guess they only have one guy writing their linux drivers..
So why is it proprietary? well some places printers are encouraged(required) by law (enforcement) to leave secret and invisible watermarks.
If it isn't done in the printer, it's done in the driver, if it's open, it'll be removed.
well, it might be, if you say private data, since it's no longer your private data,
but your shared data afterwards. Thus you lose privacy.
So while the data isn't stolen, Your privacy is, but i guess that's splitting hairs.
to seperate userinterface from operating system..
I mean, the article has a nice list of things you can do instead of upgrading to Vista,
however the main principle that is highlighted has been logic to most developers for decades:
1. Seperate logic from userinterface
2. Seperate into small logical components
3. you achieve better programs which are easier to maintain and upgrade. (which is often as good as profit)
i've done this plenty of times, to several different keyboards (ps2, usb, whatnot)
my brother does it. as long as you rinse it properly to get rid of the soap,
and then give it some time to dry, it'll be fine.
some keyboards are based on several layers of transperent sheets for connecting the keys.
if that's the case, it's an advantage to seperate the layers slightly, to get more air through.
This doesn't only apply to keyboards, but to all electronics,
you can wash them if you remember to rinse them, and give them time to dry.
Also, never do it with a battery still attached, it's the electricity AND the stuff OTHER than water that kills the electronics.
Just for shits and giggles, i just went to time warner to read the contracts(different for cali and rest of the us)...
I'm glad that i don't have to put up with the crap that you guys do.
Seriously, i think contracts like this would be made more humane,
If consumers took the time to call them and ask, what each clause of a contract meant, before purchase.
I'm curious as to how much, of the stuff they put in the contract, would be thrown out in a courtroom?
a shame parent didn't make it to first post...
what you pay for then stop paying for it.
in the contract or at very least in the sale, they promise you a certain bandwidth, if they can't deliver what they promise you don't need to pay what you promised.