What are you a spammer? I think it's great that someone takes the time to report abuse like that. I never need to since my ISP seems to have great spam filtering... but I would if it became annoying enough.
Of course, you don't remember the net before the marketeers and their flocks of slop-sucking sheep came, so to you it must seem perfectly natural.
You're talking about using a disassembler on the binary, right? Those produce rather hard to read but decipherable assembler code. Just getting the source in C (or even the original source in assembly with comments if the author cares not for cross-platform portability) would be at least 10 times easier.
But there is a huge difference between machine code (1's and 0's) and assembly language. There are only a very few highly strange people that can glean any meaning at all from machine code.
If you're writing software purely for the love of doing so, just release it anonymously as public domain... in later years, after getting a better contract or deciding to strike out on your own, you can just pretend to discover it on the internet and use it in GPL/BSD/proprietary software with your name on it.
Dude, I work in a hospital. The firmware on the monitoring systems is reasonable. Almost everything else (financial, scheduling, even pharmaceutical) is the buggiest most bloated crap you're ever likely to see.
It's pretty sad... our main system is basically a Pick (that's right, Pick!) emulation layer running on top of HP-UX. It's horrible.
Warmonger? Have you never heard the saying "Never burn bridges behind you" as a metaphor for not pissing off the people you work for when you move on to another job? Maybe English isn't your first language or this metaphor isn't common in your country...
there is such an outpouring of extreme negative reaction here!
Nobody is forcing anyone to or demanding that anyone relinquish their software patents. Bruce is merely assembling some highly respected scientists in the field to explain why they think software patents are wrong and bad for the industry and ask that they release them.
Jesus, you'd think they were demanding their first-born children at gunpoint by the way some of you are reacting.
Well I was assuming that the extreme high altitude of the Blackbird coupled with its speed would ensure that the missle would run out of fuel before reaching its target. I'm assuming that there is no real flight ceiling on a missle since they are rocket powered (?)
The other followup post mentioned something about 3 high-altitude Migs being theoretically able to bring down a Blackbird. I'll buy that, but the original post was about getting radar lock with a single Swedish Viggen...
Everytime we see a post from Taco that contains a link to a QuickTime video we hear him whining "Of course, it doesn't work in Linux so I can't see it." Yet, whenever there's an article about Diablo Taco is right there chiming in "Oh I can't wait. Oh Diablo2 is great, I can't stop playing."
I can't believe I just noticed this... I just lost about a metric ton of respect for CmdrTaco. Not because he uses Windows (hell, I still play Baldur's Gate), but because he pretends he doesn't when he feels like sounding righteous.
Yes I know this was posted by Hemos, but just do a/. search for Diablo and you'll see what I mean about CmdrTaco.
This is not meant to be flamebait or a troll... just the truth. If I'm wrong please correct me.
After reading the comment and the posted replies at Kuroshin (or however you spell it), I think you are overreacting. They are disorganized and maybe a bit ignorant of how these things work, but a cooperative (which is their goal) is not a charity, and they have merely been stating their intentions to donate profits. I work for a non-profit organization myself. The CEO still drives a brand new jeep, it's not like we're all paupers.
I also wouldn't suggest that anyone "Give them money" but why not buy something? If they have a product for sale and you use a credit card and you never get it, well your credit card company will withhold payment for you. As for all this whining about free advertising, I don't understand why no one complained about all the Transmeta hype here, or the announcements of Nvidia's latest video cards...
Of course, if their webserver worked at all I might be able to form a more concrete opinion.
Oh, by the way, recoup means recover your investment (break even), not profit on your investment.
I think Open* is a bit too broad of a term to effectively trademark. What about OpenBSD? If they want to trademark OpenGL that's fine, but if they want to force everyone with Open in their name to change, well fuck 'em. They just lost a potential customer, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I can't imagine engineers being that petty, management maybe, lawyers definitely.
True enough, I have an unfortunate prejudice against lawyers through my dealings with a couple scumbags. I do know one who is really cool, though. Really down to earth fellow, works some pro bono cases, very intelligent.
I concede that this may not be the lawyers' idea, but I suspect it might be.
These companies really need to reign in their IP lawyers before they do permanent damage to their reputation.
I mean, do you really think the CEO or Chief Engineer of SGI gives a shit if some uses Open or GL in the name of their project? Especially if it's free? But these lawyers don't have to listen to them if it's a public company... all they have to do is play on the fears of the stockholders and the executives are powerless to stop them.
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What are you a spammer? I think it's great that someone takes the time to report abuse like that. I never need to since my ISP seems to have great spam filtering... but I would if it became annoying enough.
Of course, you don't remember the net before the marketeers and their flocks of slop-sucking sheep came, so to you it must seem perfectly natural.
You're talking about using a disassembler on the binary, right? Those produce rather hard to read but decipherable assembler code. Just getting the source in C (or even the original source in assembly with comments if the author cares not for cross-platform portability) would be at least 10 times easier.
But there is a huge difference between machine code (1's and 0's) and assembly language. There are only a very few highly strange people that can glean any meaning at all from machine code.
It's not done yet... not even version 1. Compare it to IE 2.0 and then talk trash.
If you're writing software purely for the love of doing so, just release it anonymously as public domain... in later years, after getting a better contract or deciding to strike out on your own, you can just pretend to discover it on the internet and use it in GPL/BSD/proprietary software with your name on it.
Dude, dissing Slackware as "not-modern" is like putting a big neon sign on your head that says "I'm a newbie!"
all Americans shower every day
You've never been to a Grateful Dead show have you? Hell, I've been know to skip a day now and then (but it's always at least 5 times a week).
I hear they used to have to practically force James Dean into the shower. :)
AI seems a little reckless when your talking about ripsaw-wielding, flame-throwing robots, many of which can move a lot faster than you can run...
I'm sure injuries would be rare, considering how smart the builders are. But geeks also tend to be absent minded, and mistakes could be lethal.
"Hey is this thing on?" BZZZZZ CHOP-CHOP-CHOP FWOOOOSH (sizzle-sizzle) "Medic!"
Point.
I was just giving a common justification for the use of monolithic kernels.
Dude, I work in a hospital. The firmware on the monitoring systems is reasonable. Almost everything else (financial, scheduling, even pharmaceutical) is the buggiest most bloated crap you're ever likely to see.
It's pretty sad... our main system is basically a Pick (that's right, Pick!) emulation layer running on top of HP-UX. It's horrible.
Warmonger? Have you never heard the saying "Never burn bridges behind you" as a metaphor for not pissing off the people you work for when you move on to another job? Maybe English isn't your first language or this metaphor isn't common in your country...
Sheesh.
there is such an outpouring of extreme negative reaction here!
Nobody is forcing anyone to or demanding that anyone relinquish their software patents. Bruce is merely assembling some highly respected scientists in the field to explain why they think software patents are wrong and bad for the industry and ask that they release them.
Jesus, you'd think they were demanding their first-born children at gunpoint by the way some of you are reacting.
Monolithic kernels are simply easier to build and it follows that the less code you have the fewer bugs you will have.
Also the way that microkernels have many subsystems that they need to send/receive messages from adds another layer of complexity.
Well I was assuming that the extreme high altitude of the Blackbird coupled with its speed would ensure that the missle would run out of fuel before reaching its target. I'm assuming that there is no real flight ceiling on a missle since they are rocket powered (?)
The other followup post mentioned something about 3 high-altitude Migs being theoretically able to bring down a Blackbird. I'll buy that, but the original post was about getting radar lock with a single Swedish Viggen...
after which you can fire your missle and head home
You might as well head home because the missle will never catch up with its target. :^)
Everytime we see a post from Taco that contains a link to a QuickTime video we hear him whining "Of course, it doesn't work in Linux so I can't see it." Yet, whenever there's an article about Diablo Taco is right there chiming in "Oh I can't wait. Oh Diablo2 is great, I can't stop playing."
I can't believe I just noticed this... I just lost about a metric ton of respect for CmdrTaco. Not because he uses Windows (hell, I still play Baldur's Gate), but because he pretends he doesn't when he feels like sounding righteous.
Yes I know this was posted by Hemos, but just do a /. search for Diablo and you'll see what I mean about CmdrTaco.
This is not meant to be flamebait or a troll... just the truth. If I'm wrong please correct me.
Oh we have plenty of supersonic bombers... and the Blackbird flies 3 times faster than any of them.
After reading the comment and the posted replies at Kuroshin (or however you spell it), I think you are overreacting. They are disorganized and maybe a bit ignorant of how these things work, but a cooperative (which is their goal) is not a charity, and they have merely been stating their intentions to donate profits. I work for a non-profit organization myself. The CEO still drives a brand new jeep, it's not like we're all paupers.
I also wouldn't suggest that anyone "Give them money" but why not buy something? If they have a product for sale and you use a credit card and you never get it, well your credit card company will withhold payment for you. As for all this whining about free advertising, I don't understand why no one complained about all the Transmeta hype here, or the announcements of Nvidia's latest video cards...
Of course, if their webserver worked at all I might be able to form a more concrete opinion.
Oh, by the way, recoup means recover your investment (break even), not profit on your investment.
Oh yes the aboriginal observations of an ancient tribe of desert shepherds... very convincing.
How is it any more valid than, for example, my pet theory that the Universe was created by the sneeze of a gigantic cosmic platypus?
Are you talking about http://mi-net.dynup.net/ ? I just ran it through http://validator.w3.org/ and got loads of errors.
Opera isn't very forgiving of bad HTML, sorry.
Being a new web author you should really spend more time at http://www.w3.org .
What did they spell out clearly? That the patch may not work and you may still be vulnerable to exploits? Really? Sounds unusually honest.
I think Open* is a bit too broad of a term to effectively trademark. What about OpenBSD? If they want to trademark OpenGL that's fine, but if they want to force everyone with Open in their name to change, well fuck 'em. They just lost a potential customer, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I can't imagine engineers being that petty, management maybe, lawyers definitely.
The lawyers aren't always the Evil Inside...
True enough, I have an unfortunate prejudice against lawyers through my dealings with a couple scumbags. I do know one who is really cool, though. Really down to earth fellow, works some pro bono cases, very intelligent.
I concede that this may not be the lawyers' idea, but I suspect it might be.
These companies really need to reign in their IP lawyers before they do permanent damage to their reputation.
I mean, do you really think the CEO or Chief Engineer of SGI gives a shit if some uses Open or GL in the name of their project? Especially if it's free? But these lawyers don't have to listen to them if it's a public company... all they have to do is play on the fears of the stockholders and the executives are powerless to stop them.
You're right, it's more of a software platform.
Oh man, that 2 directions bit almost made me squirt coffee out of my nose. heheheh