I'm fairly sure that the farmer would have something to say about that and knowing farmers it is likely he would innitially try saying it by shooting their fancy pants balloon full of holes. Still it would be fun to watch million of pounds worth of balloon shrivel up because of some old farmer with a shot gun.
I'm not convinced that *nix systems are actually that much more secure than Windows systems. In fact I have a feeling that *nix system probably have more holes than Windows systems. The difference is that there are far fewer people looking at breaking *nix systems and there is a greater diversity of systems. I wouldn't be supprised if we saw a serious Linux worm sometime this year simply because Linux is starting to get a bit of an installed base.
While most of the people on/. are certainly very technically savvy there are quite a few people using Linux now that aren't as clued up. I think I have put together quite a secure box now but when I started using Linux a number of years ago I didn't have a clue where to start securing the box. There is no doubt in my mind that Linux is harder to make very secure than Windows but that a fresh install is more secure by default.
Measuring security is diffucult but I can't help thinking the Linux community is becoming a bit complacent about security.
I agree 100%. I have worked on plenty of development jobs where management wanted to use SQL Server (normally) or another big name database because they thought they had a lot of data. Typically we were storing a few hundred products and maybe 10000 orders. I voiced the opinion that that wasn't much data and an OSS database such as Postgres or MySQL would easily handle it. I've never recieved such dirty looks. I think the managers want the prestiege of using a "real" database.
This is a really good argument for letting developers decide the technology rather than managers. Personally I would generally choose Postgres because I like the way it works and I have a good knowledge of it. MySQL would be up there on my list as well. I've used SQL Server (and just about all the other commercial offerings) and found it to be good but over complex for a lot of applications. Any developer that is writting detabase driven apps should be at least familiar with most commercial databases and Postgres and MySQL and able to make a decision about which to use.
No but I have found games that have kept me addicted to a long time (AOE II springs to mind). Ok, the game is really dated now but I still go back to it and have a bash at a multiplayer with my better half now and then. I've bought a couple of the off shoots from this game and none of them have been even close to it. AOM was useless IMHO and AOE III is a slight step backwards in terms of playability from AOE II.
I have a merchant account and while the fees are lower than PP they are still a total rip off. Perhaps it's cheaper on the US side of the pond but over here in the home country (sorry) if you are shifting less than £5000 worth of stock a month you probably would be better off with PP. Having said that, I think a real merchant account makes a business more professional looking so there are some pay backs.
I'm going to go back to dreaming about selling £5k worth of stock in a month.
One decent game that kept me engrossed for hours and hours than 100+ rubbish games that I wish I'd never spent my money on. I suppose the problem for the developers though is tat they want to make a game that is just good enough to make you want to buy more but not so good that you never want to buy another one. It's a tricky problem and personally I think they have been failing badly for a number of years.
The Government is going to attack company websites? What if they knock one off line can the company sue them for damages. Ok the company should be in a position that it can survive the attack but last I heard it wasn't illegal to run servers that can be compromised. This sounds like a really bad idea even for the Government.
Is what he had to breakfast on the third full moon after the winter solstice. How many thousand years has this guy been dead? That's some pretty good detective work.
If someone broke the terms of the GPL by we, as a community, would be all over them and calling them for everything because they broke the terms of the license. I can't for one minute believe that the person that reposted the article had permission from the LA Times and therefore he has broken the terms it was released under. There is no difference in the offence commited.
Just because you don't like the terms it doesn't give you the right to ignore them. If you feel it does give you that right then you have to accept that people also have the right to just ignore the GPL. I suggest if you don't like the terms you register your protest by not reading their articles.
I thought as a community we were really hot on copyright? How could reposting the whole article ever be considered fair use? I understand why it was done but if we want people to respect the copyright of our work we should respect theirs. The fact that they force you to register to read the article is not an excuse to reprint it - it is the cost of reading the article.
I pretty shocked by this but thinking about it seems like the right thing to do but there are still problems to be solved.
There is no way that media companies are ever going to manage to stop P2P or piracy in general. Computers make it too easy to distribute content which has made the content worth a lot less than it was. They might as well accept that people want this and give it to them.
The problem I see with it though is we will end up with a lot of medium quality material because no one will want to invest the effort and money to create good material because the remuneration won't be all that great. After all how do you measure the popularity of something and divide up the money collected from P2P?
I don't see any scope for advertising in the current games market simply because we already pay a premium for games anyway. When I shell out £30 or £40 for a game I simply don't want to see adverts. If the game was of the same quality and £10 then maybe I would accept it. The same sort of thing has happened in the film industry but at least the price of most films has dropped.
Blatant advert alert! I recently put together a page about running XP under Qemu. It's a bit tricky to get working (due to a bug in XP) and dog slow but if you must have XP under Linux this is a solution that works. I use it to test websites in IE.
I thought, when I first heard that Linux wouldn't support GPLv3, that he was simply throwing his teddies out the pram at something that was even written yet. No I hear his reasoning though it sounds like a very good call. GPLv3 sounds like it is loosing sight of what it really set out to achieve. OSS has reached a point where a lot of tech companies are seriously considering using it if not actually already using it. I can't help feeling that the power might have got to RMSs head a little. I'm not a big fan of Linus in particular but he does do a fairly good job of "keeping it real" something that people in powerful of infulental positions seem to lose sight of.
Great, I thought it was just me that couldn't wear earbuds because they hurt after a while. I always thought it was weird that they made my ears hurt as much as they did though because I am fairly sure they weren't pushing hard on any part of my ear. Still the retro whole ear headphones sorted the problem.
WARNING: attempting to swallow this iPod could cause choking and death.
WARNING: wrapping this headphone lead of this iPod around your neck could cause strangulation and death.
WARNING: shooting this iPod at yourself using a mini home made cannon could result in the loss of life.
There are some products that have been released that are just down right dangerous because they do something that most people wouldn't expect. Soft toys that have the eyes attached with what ammounts to nails springs to mind. This guy is a fool though. Anyone stupid enough to not realize that blasting their ear drums with very loud music day in day out is likely to cause long term problems needs more help than money can buy.
I was under the impression that they hand't fully soved the instability problems with the blue emitter (and to a less extent the green) and were therefore relying on encapsulating OLEDs in glass or other oxygen excluding material. Even then I thought the expected life was max 3 years.
fresh vapourware in the morning. Come on - this is a scam. If it isn't a scam than at a minimum it won't be as good as the pictures they are currently showing. The display will fail within a year, the keys will be heavy and nasty and the API will suck.
OLED technology just isn't good enough for this to be viable yet. Maybe, if you were NASA, you could get this keyboard to work but then howmany of us have unlimited piles of cash? To anyone that does happen to have piles of cash to burn please send some my way - thanks.
I dual boot Debian Unstable and Windows XP and I have noticed that FF under Windows feels marginally faster (and a lot more stable). If I get time I'll try and put together a a few tests to see which really is faster. Tests are going to be tricky though because it's difficult to know exactly when the page rendering is finished.
I think the comment you just made could probably be considered slander unless you can back it up with facts. M$ have used some pretty questionable practices in the past but I somehow doubt even they would be as stupid as to intentionally cripple FF. They might make it intentionally difficult to install / use but actually causing it to fail - that would be like giving the FF community a blank cheque.
FYI, I use FF on Debian and I have found it to be generally good but it does suck up memory like it's going out of fashion and occasionally crashes (particularly when it tries to open a movie or sound clip).
Your coming through on FM there. I used to tell everyone to switch to FF now, for the most part, I can't be bothered because as you pointed out it's lost it's edge. If Konqueror wasn't so slow and bad a rendering web pages I would consider switching to that. As a web developer though I am kind of stuck with developing on FF and testing in IE (I find that to be the fastest way to develop). I'm not sure what it is about Konqueror that I like (and the KDE applications in general) but they have a certain innovation that you don't see elsewhere.
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I'm fairly sure that the farmer would have something to say about that and knowing farmers it is likely he would innitially try saying it by shooting their fancy pants balloon full of holes. Still it would be fun to watch million of pounds worth of balloon shrivel up because of some old farmer with a shot gun.
I'm not convinced that *nix systems are actually that much more secure than Windows systems. In fact I have a feeling that *nix system probably have more holes than Windows systems. The difference is that there are far fewer people looking at breaking *nix systems and there is a greater diversity of systems. I wouldn't be supprised if we saw a serious Linux worm sometime this year simply because Linux is starting to get a bit of an installed base.
While most of the people on /. are certainly very technically savvy there are quite a few people using Linux now that aren't as clued up. I think I have put together quite a secure box now but when I started using Linux a number of years ago I didn't have a clue where to start securing the box. There is no doubt in my mind that Linux is harder to make very secure than Windows but that a fresh install is more secure by default.
Measuring security is diffucult but I can't help thinking the Linux community is becoming a bit complacent about security.
I agree 100%. I have worked on plenty of development jobs where management wanted to use SQL Server (normally) or another big name database because they thought they had a lot of data. Typically we were storing a few hundred products and maybe 10000 orders. I voiced the opinion that that wasn't much data and an OSS database such as Postgres or MySQL would easily handle it. I've never recieved such dirty looks. I think the managers want the prestiege of using a "real" database.
This is a really good argument for letting developers decide the technology rather than managers. Personally I would generally choose Postgres because I like the way it works and I have a good knowledge of it. MySQL would be up there on my list as well. I've used SQL Server (and just about all the other commercial offerings) and found it to be good but over complex for a lot of applications. Any developer that is writting detabase driven apps should be at least familiar with most commercial databases and Postgres and MySQL and able to make a decision about which to use.
No but I have found games that have kept me addicted to a long time (AOE II springs to mind). Ok, the game is really dated now but I still go back to it and have a bash at a multiplayer with my better half now and then. I've bought a couple of the off shoots from this game and none of them have been even close to it. AOM was useless IMHO and AOE III is a slight step backwards in terms of playability from AOE II.
I have a merchant account and while the fees are lower than PP they are still a total rip off. Perhaps it's cheaper on the US side of the pond but over here in the home country (sorry) if you are shifting less than £5000 worth of stock a month you probably would be better off with PP. Having said that, I think a real merchant account makes a business more professional looking so there are some pay backs.
I'm going to go back to dreaming about selling £5k worth of stock in a month.
One decent game that kept me engrossed for hours and hours than 100+ rubbish games that I wish I'd never spent my money on. I suppose the problem for the developers though is tat they want to make a game that is just good enough to make you want to buy more but not so good that you never want to buy another one. It's a tricky problem and personally I think they have been failing badly for a number of years.
The Government is going to attack company websites? What if they knock one off line can the company sue them for damages. Ok the company should be in a position that it can survive the attack but last I heard it wasn't illegal to run servers that can be compromised. This sounds like a really bad idea even for the Government.
Is what he had to breakfast on the third full moon after the winter solstice. How many thousand years has this guy been dead? That's some pretty good detective work.
If someone broke the terms of the GPL by we, as a community, would be all over them and calling them for everything because they broke the terms of the license. I can't for one minute believe that the person that reposted the article had permission from the LA Times and therefore he has broken the terms it was released under. There is no difference in the offence commited.
Just because you don't like the terms it doesn't give you the right to ignore them. If you feel it does give you that right then you have to accept that people also have the right to just ignore the GPL. I suggest if you don't like the terms you register your protest by not reading their articles.
to the phrase core dump.
I thought as a community we were really hot on copyright? How could reposting the whole article ever be considered fair use? I understand why it was done but if we want people to respect the copyright of our work we should respect theirs. The fact that they force you to register to read the article is not an excuse to reprint it - it is the cost of reading the article.
I pretty shocked by this but thinking about it seems like the right thing to do but there are still problems to be solved.
There is no way that media companies are ever going to manage to stop P2P or piracy in general. Computers make it too easy to distribute content which has made the content worth a lot less than it was. They might as well accept that people want this and give it to them.
The problem I see with it though is we will end up with a lot of medium quality material because no one will want to invest the effort and money to create good material because the remuneration won't be all that great. After all how do you measure the popularity of something and divide up the money collected from P2P?
I don't see any scope for advertising in the current games market simply because we already pay a premium for games anyway. When I shell out £30 or £40 for a game I simply don't want to see adverts. If the game was of the same quality and £10 then maybe I would accept it. The same sort of thing has happened in the film industry but at least the price of most films has dropped.
Blatant advert alert! I recently put together a page about running XP under Qemu. It's a bit tricky to get working (due to a bug in XP) and dog slow but if you must have XP under Linux this is a solution that works. I use it to test websites in IE.
I thought, when I first heard that Linux wouldn't support GPLv3, that he was simply throwing his teddies out the pram at something that was even written yet. No I hear his reasoning though it sounds like a very good call. GPLv3 sounds like it is loosing sight of what it really set out to achieve. OSS has reached a point where a lot of tech companies are seriously considering using it if not actually already using it. I can't help feeling that the power might have got to RMSs head a little. I'm not a big fan of Linus in particular but he does do a fairly good job of "keeping it real" something that people in powerful of infulental positions seem to lose sight of.
Glad I read to the end I was about to give you a right proper flaming. The problem is tha tview you expressed is actually held by some people.
By 1988 I was stone deaf from listening to my music too loud so I didn't hear anything about it.
Great, I thought it was just me that couldn't wear earbuds because they hurt after a while. I always thought it was weird that they made my ears hurt as much as they did though because I am fairly sure they weren't pushing hard on any part of my ear. Still the retro whole ear headphones sorted the problem.
WARNING: attempting to swallow this iPod could cause choking and death.
WARNING: wrapping this headphone lead of this iPod around your neck could cause strangulation and death.
WARNING: shooting this iPod at yourself using a mini home made cannon could result in the loss of life.
There are some products that have been released that are just down right dangerous because they do something that most people wouldn't expect. Soft toys that have the eyes attached with what ammounts to nails springs to mind. This guy is a fool though. Anyone stupid enough to not realize that blasting their ear drums with very loud music day in day out is likely to cause long term problems needs more help than money can buy.
I was under the impression that they hand't fully soved the instability problems with the blue emitter (and to a less extent the green) and were therefore relying on encapsulating OLEDs in glass or other oxygen excluding material. Even then I thought the expected life was max 3 years.
fresh vapourware in the morning. Come on - this is a scam. If it isn't a scam than at a minimum it won't be as good as the pictures they are currently showing. The display will fail within a year, the keys will be heavy and nasty and the API will suck.
OLED technology just isn't good enough for this to be viable yet. Maybe, if you were NASA, you could get this keyboard to work but then howmany of us have unlimited piles of cash? To anyone that does happen to have piles of cash to burn please send some my way - thanks.
I dual boot Debian Unstable and Windows XP and I have noticed that FF under Windows feels marginally faster (and a lot more stable). If I get time I'll try and put together a a few tests to see which really is faster. Tests are going to be tricky though because it's difficult to know exactly when the page rendering is finished.
I think the comment you just made could probably be considered slander unless you can back it up with facts. M$ have used some pretty questionable practices in the past but I somehow doubt even they would be as stupid as to intentionally cripple FF. They might make it intentionally difficult to install / use but actually causing it to fail - that would be like giving the FF community a blank cheque.
FYI, I use FF on Debian and I have found it to be generally good but it does suck up memory like it's going out of fashion and occasionally crashes (particularly when it tries to open a movie or sound clip).
Your coming through on FM there. I used to tell everyone to switch to FF now, for the most part, I can't be bothered because as you pointed out it's lost it's edge. If Konqueror wasn't so slow and bad a rendering web pages I would consider switching to that. As a web developer though I am kind of stuck with developing on FF and testing in IE (I find that to be the fastest way to develop). I'm not sure what it is about Konqueror that I like (and the KDE applications in general) but they have a certain innovation that you don't see elsewhere.