More like the requirements were lax: the DRM must not be entirely trivial to defeat, but beyond that, it doesn't gain them any money to have stronger DRM, or lose them to have weaker. So while Apple wouldn't have complained about completely effective, unbeatable DRM, they wouldn't have had that as a goal, and wouldn't be willing to put forth the required effort to get that.
Um, this is Slashdot. The editors have every right to remove your comments, or only display a portion of them. You can write stuff here and have it never see the light of day.
If it were a street corner, then you could talk about free speech. But it's private property.
One major benefit that most functional languages provide is automatic parallelization. C++ can't support that, even if you are programming in a functional style, unless you use a framework like OpenMP.
You could say the same of Canonical or Red Hat -- they might implement something and later find out that there's a Microsoft-owned patent covering their work. The difference is, with Novel, only the end users get screwed, not the producer.
Just go with Groovy on Grails. It scales to about a hundred users, whereas Rails only scales to sixty. And it's object-to-database rather than database-to-object, so it doesn't confuse those poor Java developers.
Monorail with C# as the back-end language. And Brail for the views. It lets you write the views PHP-style, not just tags, which is a fair bit more natural. And yes, it does run on Linux.
What Linus is ignoring is that nobody's distributing a kernel with NDISWrapper and binary drivers using NDISWrapper. Now all that's left is copyright, and I have every right to make closed-source modifications to Linux, so long as I don't distribute those modifications.
So Linus isn't allowing everything the license allows; he's just using his position for politics. Whether that's right or not, regular people are getting screwed.
They're developing it. They can put in code to pause that behavior under certain conditions that they can control. And they can arrange it in a cryptographically secure way:
1. Try to download a cryptographic key from a particular directory. 2. If that succeeds, try decrypting a certain text with the key. 3. If that text matches the expected result, disable the DoS code. 4. If the DoS code is active, download the entire contents of the shareaza site a few times and delete it.
Consistency is a serious problem with politicians. I've tried tenderizers, week-long marinades, cutting the meat into parchment-thin slices... Probably the only thing that's come close to working is shaving the meat as thin as possible and then putting it in a balsamic vinegar marinade for a couple days. Then it's gamy, not boot leather.
Desert Storm was a hit-and-run, along with reinforcing an ally state the size of New Jersey. Urgent Fury was an attempt to keep a government infrastructure in place, not to create a new one, and on an island maybe a third the size of Long Island.
Al Qaeda has the resources to cut undersea cables? The easiest way to do it would be a waterproof casing for a bomb, but you'd have to find exactly where the cables are, and that's not easy. Fifty feet off and nothing happens. With GPS, you have an accuracy of fifty feet unless you've got a military decoder. So you end up having to carpet bomb the ocean floor. By now, the US media would be burbling over with news of these cables having been destroyed by bombs, indicating terrorists.
The US certainly has the necessary resources to carry out this attack. Many first-world countries do. If you could steal a rich first-world university's underwater gear and had people who figure out how it works, you could probably manage it, but getting to Iran, Egypt, and Qatar in a few days and cutting their cables -- well, you'd need several teams working on it.
I don't see the relationship between these countries, but that's more betraying my ignorance.
Suppose a big company is considering deploying Lotus Notes on Linux.Would'nt it make more sense for them to hire a couple of open-source developers to modify existing open-source apps? It would make more sense to use unmodified open source apps. Get a Jabber server and pidgin for IM, a mail server and standard email client, and use web apps for any custom needs. Most client stuff is available crossplatform, or with supporting applications on multiple platforms.
It would seem to be cheaper and better in the long run for companies to develop their own customizations of exisitng apps. However,i've never used Lotus Notes personally.They might well provide some functionality that would make the decision to buy it worthwhile. Problem with modified versions is long-term support. You need someone to come in for maybe four weeks a year to keep your modifications up to date with recent releases of the source project.
Notes offers an application platform as well, which you wouldn't get with what you suggest. You can go with server-side stuff (pretty much everything I've seen in Notes could have done that); if you really want client-side code, you should best go with Java or Mono.
A few months ago, Notes 7 on Linux took 3GB hard disk space and 1GB RAM. I wonder if this is still the case. If so, IBM won't have customers using Linux flocking to Notes, or vice versa.
Up until, well, the last year or so, medical software went like this: An entire hospital payed over twenty million to one organization. That organization provided an integrated solution for all the hospital's needs. It took five years to get it installed and working, and no part of it worked particularly well. All the staff that might interact with it is also required to attend training sessions for the software. The individual departments have no say in the purchase, and a lot of them refuse to use it.
And there are only a few such organizations, and since they charge so much, hospitals are reluctant to admit defeat and switch to someone else.
Really, it's prime time to start offering subscription-based software to these hospitals, starting with individual departments and working your way up. Of course, if you're holding their essential data, they might not be so happy.
I tried using Windows as my desktop, but it wasn't up to par. At least as a desktop environment. No edge detection, no 'always on top', only one taskbar, pretty much no applets for it by default, and those that are available are reputedly spyware. GNOME is years ahead of the Windows graphical shell.
Windows applications, on the other hand...they're much more numerous and backed by more cash. There are applications available for Windows that are better than their best Linux equivalents, and this is more the rule than the exception in the desktop market.
Not so. If I go to their offices and get an application on the off chance they're hiring, or have a friend working there who mentions they have a position available, or see a less cryptic ad somewhere, they won't fault me for it. If I happen to see the ad linked here as well, there's no reason for me to connect the two.
Prime example: Deus Ex Invisible War. Sure, there were alternatives and different factions you could support, but there was no point. No friends, for one. You supported a faction by doing their bidding, but they did nothing to support you after that. Why not? It'd have been too labor-intensive to do that. Too many map modifications depending on what choices you'd made. Too many voice actors. Too many extra maps for each side.
Of course, if you're willing to put in the extra time and effort, you can come up with a great game. I think. Or you be clever with your writing and hide the lack of choice.
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More like the requirements were lax: the DRM must not be entirely trivial to defeat, but beyond that, it doesn't gain them any money to have stronger DRM, or lose them to have weaker. So while Apple wouldn't have complained about completely effective, unbeatable DRM, they wouldn't have had that as a goal, and wouldn't be willing to put forth the required effort to get that.
Um, this is Slashdot. The editors have every right to remove your comments, or only display a portion of them. You can write stuff here and have it never see the light of day.
If it were a street corner, then you could talk about free speech. But it's private property.
On the contrary! If you are quite knowledgeable in C++, it will only take you a few years to learn C++.
One major benefit that most functional languages provide is automatic parallelization. C++ can't support that, even if you are programming in a functional style, unless you use a framework like OpenMP.
You could say the same of Canonical or Red Hat -- they might implement something and later find out that there's a Microsoft-owned patent covering their work. The difference is, with Novel, only the end users get screwed, not the producer.
Hey, C#'s pretty good, too.
Just go with Groovy on Grails. It scales to about a hundred users, whereas Rails only scales to sixty. And it's object-to-database rather than database-to-object, so it doesn't confuse those poor Java developers.
Monorail with C# as the back-end language. And Brail for the views. It lets you write the views PHP-style, not just tags, which is a fair bit more natural. And yes, it does run on Linux.
What Linus is ignoring is that nobody's distributing a kernel with NDISWrapper and binary drivers using NDISWrapper. Now all that's left is copyright, and I have every right to make closed-source modifications to Linux, so long as I don't distribute those modifications.
So Linus isn't allowing everything the license allows; he's just using his position for politics. Whether that's right or not, regular people are getting screwed.
They're developing it. They can put in code to pause that behavior under certain conditions that they can control. And they can arrange it in a cryptographically secure way:
1. Try to download a cryptographic key from a particular directory.
2. If that succeeds, try decrypting a certain text with the key.
3. If that text matches the expected result, disable the DoS code.
4. If the DoS code is active, download the entire contents of the shareaza site a few times and delete it.
$150 is worth at least five hours of most people's time, and that's cheap as Windows goes. And it's
His flickr collection is rarely viewed, making it a remote possibility that his photos were loosed on some unsuspecting individual.
Consistency is a serious problem with politicians. I've tried tenderizers, week-long marinades, cutting the meat into parchment-thin slices... Probably the only thing that's come close to working is shaving the meat as thin as possible and then putting it in a balsamic vinegar marinade for a couple days. Then it's gamy, not boot leather.
Desert Storm was a hit-and-run, along with reinforcing an ally state the size of New Jersey. Urgent Fury was an attempt to keep a government infrastructure in place, not to create a new one, and on an island maybe a third the size of Long Island.
Al Qaeda has the resources to cut undersea cables? The easiest way to do it would be a waterproof casing for a bomb, but you'd have to find exactly where the cables are, and that's not easy. Fifty feet off and nothing happens. With GPS, you have an accuracy of fifty feet unless you've got a military decoder. So you end up having to carpet bomb the ocean floor. By now, the US media would be burbling over with news of these cables having been destroyed by bombs, indicating terrorists.
The US certainly has the necessary resources to carry out this attack. Many first-world countries do. If you could steal a rich first-world university's underwater gear and had people who figure out how it works, you could probably manage it, but getting to Iran, Egypt, and Qatar in a few days and cutting their cables -- well, you'd need several teams working on it.
I don't see the relationship between these countries, but that's more betraying my ignorance.
However,i've never used Lotus Notes personally.They might well provide some functionality that would make the decision to buy it worthwhile. Problem with modified versions is long-term support. You need someone to come in for maybe four weeks a year to keep your modifications up to date with recent releases of the source project.
Notes offers an application platform as well, which you wouldn't get with what you suggest. You can go with server-side stuff (pretty much everything I've seen in Notes could have done that); if you really want client-side code, you should best go with Java or Mono.
A few months ago, Notes 7 on Linux took 3GB hard disk space and 1GB RAM. I wonder if this is still the case. If so, IBM won't have customers using Linux flocking to Notes, or vice versa.
They're at least saying the right things. Either they care enough about me to do stuff for me, or they at least care enough about me to lie to me.
Up until, well, the last year or so, medical software went like this:
An entire hospital payed over twenty million to one organization. That organization provided an integrated solution for all the hospital's needs. It took five years to get it installed and working, and no part of it worked particularly well. All the staff that might interact with it is also required to attend training sessions for the software. The individual departments have no say in the purchase, and a lot of them refuse to use it.
And there are only a few such organizations, and since they charge so much, hospitals are reluctant to admit defeat and switch to someone else.
Really, it's prime time to start offering subscription-based software to these hospitals, starting with individual departments and working your way up. Of course, if you're holding their essential data, they might not be so happy.
I tried using Windows as my desktop, but it wasn't up to par. At least as a desktop environment. No edge detection, no 'always on top', only one taskbar, pretty much no applets for it by default, and those that are available are reputedly spyware. GNOME is years ahead of the Windows graphical shell.
Windows applications, on the other hand...they're much more numerous and backed by more cash. There are applications available for Windows that are better than their best Linux equivalents, and this is more the rule than the exception in the desktop market.
Medieval weaponsmiths were paid to produce stuff that could punch through scale mail. That? It'd be a terrible bruise.
I could shoot out someone's eye with that, but I could do it with a compound bow with a fifteen pound draw.
In an interview doing a coding problem, and I suddenly bark out to the interviewer: "Quick, recite the man pages for fopen(3) and open(3)!"
If they aren't giving me a reasonable coding environment for the practice problems, I may as well fix it.
And your link should have been thedailywtf.com. Yours goes to some Christian site that has no coding section.
Not so. If I go to their offices and get an application on the off chance they're hiring, or have a friend working there who mentions they have a position available, or see a less cryptic ad somewhere, they won't fault me for it. If I happen to see the ad linked here as well, there's no reason for me to connect the two.
That just leaves algorithmic analysis to reduce the time to crack an N-bit password to less than 2**N.
Prime example: Deus Ex Invisible War. Sure, there were alternatives and different factions you could support, but there was no point. No friends, for one. You supported a faction by doing their bidding, but they did nothing to support you after that. Why not? It'd have been too labor-intensive to do that. Too many map modifications depending on what choices you'd made. Too many voice actors. Too many extra maps for each side.
Of course, if you're willing to put in the extra time and effort, you can come up with a great game. I think. Or you be clever with your writing and hide the lack of choice.