It used to be, Mozilla was one of the more "reputable" open source projects. I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but it sounds like they've had a pretty rough week. Coupled with the announcement to cancel future releases of the Mozilla suite and the announcements abotu IE7, this could tarnish Mozilla's reputation. Obviously, normal projects miss deadlines and drop releases with large flaws all the time. But Open Source being what it is, when it has these kinds of problems they tend to be more high-profile. Hopefully everyone will look past this and continue to recognize that the Mozilla tools beat the pants off of Microsoft's.
Yes, but GNU is developed using a core-team model of development, whereas Linux and Mozilla are more along the lines of everybody send in patches and make this thing better. That is, I'm taking about Open Source as a development model, not as a freedom to change and redistribute.
This has several interesting possibilities. Consider the unrelated idea of code signing, so you can decide who to trust and to what degree you want to trust them (i.e., what permissions you want the signed code to have). Now think about that again in terms of biometrics. Imagine the compiler requiring a DNA karyotype to operate. All of your software will be genetically traceable back to you!
It's far-fetched, but I still wouldn't put it past Microsoft.
You'd think you'd be able to smooth out mouse input in software.
You could. But, with all the crap people are stuffing into the GUI these days, it probably makes sense to keep a load off the CPU for other purposes. This way you can also hook up multiple devices, one for those with tremors and one for others. No sweat, no spending hours dicking with conf files or control panels, nothing.
The Mozilla project is possibly the oldest "Open-source" (in terms of ESR's bazaar model etc) project apart from the Linux kernel itself, and as such was one of the major success stories in the movement's early period. How do you see ending the timeline for the core suite affecting the visibility and reputation of open-source projects in general? And what do you consider to be the likelihood that, without any sort of "direction" from the core suite, the projects with factionalize and fork due to political or other contentions?
The problem is that they imply that spidering is only ever used for DoS attacks, which patently isn't true. Unless, of course, you think that being linked to by Google is a DoS attack.
Does it bother anyone else that they imply that spidering is related to DDoS and botnets?
Note that DDoS attacks are not limited to web servers, virtually any service available on the Internet can be the target of such an attack. Higher-level protocols can be used to increase the load even more effectively by using very specific attacks, such as running exhausting search queries on bulletin boards or recursive HTTP-floods on the victim's website. Recursive HTTP-flood means that the bots start from a given HTTP link and then follows all links on the provided website in a recursive way. This is also called spidering.
Any time I see this sort of obvious attempt to build paranoia, it makes me suspicious of the whole article.
The FPGA is clocked at 90 MHz and is 3-5 times faster in raytracing then a Pentium4 CPU with 30 times more MHz.
That's ridiculous. Everyone on slashdot surely knows by now that the only reliable way to compare processor speeds across architecures is to compare clock speed!
This gives me an idea. We should google-bomb the link with "Star Wars Episode 3" and variants thereof (Star Wars Episode III) and see if we can deflect people from the actual film. Tell your friends!
No true compiler does this. A compiler compiles a high level language (C, fortran, etc) into assembly language format. The assembler (which is distributed with gcc) then assembles the assembly instructions into machine code.
Then, the linker links the machine code from the assembler to the system libraries and the head and tail files, and turns the whole thing into an executable program.:-)
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You can look at C++ doing everything with macro definitions. That is, one can overload function arguments, operators, and things, but the price for this is that the compiler has to translate all of these things that have the same name in code to things with different names in object files. Overloaded operators are typically pretty quick, since they don't involve much overhead, but things like templates slow compiling down a lot: it has to find every place where the function is called with different arg types, and create a "binary" function that appropriately changes the function and its instructions as necessary. So other, run-time-ish OO languages like Objective-C compile faster, but they do suffer a slight performance hit in comparison to C++. You pays your money and you takes your choice, I guess.
The original environment was built from NetBSD/ppc, and currently builds off of FreeBSD (apparently they're helping out with the FreeBSD/ppc port too, but that's just hearsay). Anyway, Apple doesn't really derive any code beyond OpenSSH from OpenBSD. The "BSD Community" is not nearly as tightly knit as you seem to think, despite sharing code.
That said, Apple ought to at least offer a heavily discounted XServe RAID to them. It might foster a stronger relationship between Apple and OpenBSD, and who knows--it could lead to a "Hardened" OS X based on OpenBSD.
Are you sure you don't mean, "And to the law, which they spend much of their hard-earned (yeah, right) profits on buying"? Get serious. Corporations haven't been for the benefit of all for at least a century, and don't know of any cases in recent memory of corporations having their charter revoked for wrongdoing.
Given that we've gotten up to, what is it, 90 years now, it won't be long until 100 years is perfectly acceptable. The Supreme Court has already said that a part in the Constitution about a "reasonable" amount of time doesn't mean anything. Congress is against us, the Supreme Court is against, and if the President cares about the issue at all he's probably against us too.
People mod things as over/underrated, rather than using the normal mods, because all other moderations can be meta-moderated. This way you can never lose mod privileges for bad mods, while costing people karma at the same time! Yay!
This reminds me of the bit in Enemy of the State where the government operatives take the lingerie store security footage, and then use their computer to "rotate the camer 90 degrees." And on top of that, they then see something in the bag that wouldn't have been at all detectable from the actual camera's angle.
It's pretty silly to suppose that this thing will be able to generate a 3-D representation of a scene without without getting highly-detailed footage of everything from every angle. Otherwise, it would just be a completely bogus modelling system to pull a fast one on people who don't know any better. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, although the original crime scene evidence photos don't show it, when you look rotate the angle and look at the far side of the desk, the defendent's fingerprints are clearly visible"
I heard it once remarked that the Silmarillion oughtn't be made into a feature film, but rather fake documentary-type thing. You know, stock footage of elven soldiers preparing for war, home movies of Beren and Luthien, and after-the-fact interviews with the few people who survived and stayed in Middle-Earth. I can see it now:
Sauron: "Well, Morgoth (or Melkor, as he liked to be called) wasn't so much of a bad chap. Sure, he wreaked havoc across Middle-Earth and caused the Two Trees to wilt, but he wasn't *evil*... just misunderstood. He only wanted to be loved and respected. *sniff* He used to call me, 'kid.' 'Take care of yourself, kid' he'd say. I still miss him sometimes. *sniff*"
Tom Bombadil: "Truth be, I missed the whole Dagor Bragollach bit. Heard it was quite the battle. I got meself these new yellow boots, though. I just wished they matched my jacket..."
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It used to be, Mozilla was one of the more "reputable" open source projects. I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but it sounds like they've had a pretty rough week. Coupled with the announcement to cancel future releases of the Mozilla suite and the announcements abotu IE7, this could tarnish Mozilla's reputation. Obviously, normal projects miss deadlines and drop releases with large flaws all the time. But Open Source being what it is, when it has these kinds of problems they tend to be more high-profile. Hopefully everyone will look past this and continue to recognize that the Mozilla tools beat the pants off of Microsoft's.
Hi, have you heard of Donald Knuth?
Yes, but GNU is developed using a core-team model of development, whereas Linux and Mozilla are more along the lines of everybody send in patches and make this thing better. That is, I'm taking about Open Source as a development model, not as a freedom to change and redistribute.
It's far-fetched, but I still wouldn't put it past Microsoft.
My first thought was, "1337"...
You could. But, with all the crap people are stuffing into the GUI these days, it probably makes sense to keep a load off the CPU for other purposes. This way you can also hook up multiple devices, one for those with tremors and one for others. No sweat, no spending hours dicking with conf files or control panels, nothing.
The Mozilla project is possibly the oldest "Open-source" (in terms of ESR's bazaar model etc) project apart from the Linux kernel itself, and as such was one of the major success stories in the movement's early period. How do you see ending the timeline for the core suite affecting the visibility and reputation of open-source projects in general? And what do you consider to be the likelihood that, without any sort of "direction" from the core suite, the projects with factionalize and fork due to political or other contentions?
The problem is that they imply that spidering is only ever used for DoS attacks, which patently isn't true. Unless, of course, you think that being linked to by Google is a DoS attack.
Note that DDoS attacks are not limited to web servers, virtually any service available on the Internet can be the target of such an attack. Higher-level protocols can be used to increase the load even more effectively by using very specific attacks, such as running exhausting search queries on bulletin boards or recursive HTTP-floods on the victim's website. Recursive HTTP-flood means that the bots start from a given HTTP link and then follows all links on the provided website in a recursive way. This is also called spidering.
Any time I see this sort of obvious attempt to build paranoia, it makes me suspicious of the whole article.
Great! Now we can have our games implement special relativity as a part of the game physics! Think of the possibilites.
That's ridiculous. Everyone on slashdot surely knows by now that the only reliable way to compare processor speeds across architecures is to compare clock speed!
This gives me an idea. We should google-bomb the link with "Star Wars Episode 3" and variants thereof (Star Wars Episode III) and see if we can deflect people from the actual film. Tell your friends!
There's always Episode 3: A Lost Hope. He's given.... special treatment.
Then, the linker links the machine code from the assembler to the system libraries and the head and tail files, and turns the whole thing into an executable program. :-)
You can look at C++ doing everything with macro definitions. That is, one can overload function arguments, operators, and things, but the price for this is that the compiler has to translate all of these things that have the same name in code to things with different names in object files. Overloaded operators are typically pretty quick, since they don't involve much overhead, but things like templates slow compiling down a lot: it has to find every place where the function is called with different arg types, and create a "binary" function that appropriately changes the function and its instructions as necessary. So other, run-time-ish OO languages like Objective-C compile faster, but they do suffer a slight performance hit in comparison to C++. You pays your money and you takes your choice, I guess.
That said, Apple ought to at least offer a heavily discounted XServe RAID to them. It might foster a stronger relationship between Apple and OpenBSD, and who knows--it could lead to a "Hardened" OS X based on OpenBSD.
But probably not.
Are you sure you don't mean, "And to the law, which they spend much of their hard-earned (yeah, right) profits on buying"? Get serious. Corporations haven't been for the benefit of all for at least a century, and don't know of any cases in recent memory of corporations having their charter revoked for wrongdoing.
Given that we've gotten up to, what is it, 90 years now, it won't be long until 100 years is perfectly acceptable. The Supreme Court has already said that a part in the Constitution about a "reasonable" amount of time doesn't mean anything. Congress is against us, the Supreme Court is against, and if the President cares about the issue at all he's probably against us too.
People mod things as over/underrated, rather than using the normal mods, because all other moderations can be meta-moderated. This way you can never lose mod privileges for bad mods, while costing people karma at the same time! Yay!
Your mother surely isn't a lexicographer.
This reminds me of the bit in Enemy of the State where the government operatives take the lingerie store security footage, and then use their computer to "rotate the camer 90 degrees." And on top of that, they then see something in the bag that wouldn't have been at all detectable from the actual camera's angle.
It's pretty silly to suppose that this thing will be able to generate a 3-D representation of a scene without without getting highly-detailed footage of everything from every angle. Otherwise, it would just be a completely bogus modelling system to pull a fast one on people who don't know any better. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, although the original crime scene evidence photos don't show it, when you look rotate the angle and look at the far side of the desk, the defendent's fingerprints are clearly visible"
Does anyone have a digital music device that plays OOG files?
I heard it once remarked that the Silmarillion oughtn't be made into a feature film, but rather fake documentary-type thing. You know, stock footage of elven soldiers preparing for war, home movies of Beren and Luthien, and after-the-fact interviews with the few people who survived and stayed in Middle-Earth. I can see it now: Sauron: "Well, Morgoth (or Melkor, as he liked to be called) wasn't so much of a bad chap. Sure, he wreaked havoc across Middle-Earth and caused the Two Trees to wilt, but he wasn't *evil*... just misunderstood. He only wanted to be loved and respected. *sniff* He used to call me, 'kid.' 'Take care of yourself, kid' he'd say. I still miss him sometimes. *sniff*" Tom Bombadil: "Truth be, I missed the whole Dagor Bragollach bit. Heard it was quite the battle. I got meself these new yellow boots, though. I just wished they matched my jacket..."
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