How did this get modded funny? This is insightful if anything. The RIAA has demonstrated its inclination to sue any web-based lyrics providers and lyrics search engines.
Simple. Don't store the password in a text file. Put the database login and password in a database. Then put the login and password for that database in another database. And so on.
I think the "all publicity is good publicity" only holds true for fairly obscure products. Everyone knows what Windows is, so I don't think MS has anything to benefit from bad publicity.
And why should every manufacturer have to build their own open source layer (which they need to update with new kernels)? This is about creating a standard open source layer, which will work with all manufacturers. And the manufacturers don't have to worry as much about kernel changes, if they don't actually involve changes in the API.
This is necessary if we ever want Linux to be ready for the desktop. The ability to have driver modules is certainly more advanced than having everything compiled into the kernel, but it's severely lacking in many regards. The module has to be custom made for each kernel, making binary distribution useless because there are 2^100 kernels out there. So unless the manufacturer open sources the driver, they can't make a driver for Linux. Or you could go with an open source interface to a closed source driver.
Here's a sample of what I put up with. I downloaded Agnula Demudi 1.2.1 and installed it with the 2.6 kernel. I was ready to install some Nvidia drivers. But after some searching, I couldn't find any binary driver interfaces compatible with my kernel. Fine, I can compile my own. So I download the interface sources and launch module-assistant. It complains that riva driver support in my kernel conflicts with the nvidia driver, and I need to recompile the kernel. (I then went through the joy of trying to find the hidden demudi sources and figuring out how to patche them and configure them, ultimately failing to compile it, but this is getting away from the topic.) Finally, I said screw it.
You might blame the distro, but it's really the kernel at fault here. Recompiling the kernel to support a driver is NOT something that a user should have to do. Windows does not require you to recompile your kernel to install drivers.
At what point does this kind of behavior become anti-competitive? Selling a product below cost in order to kill a competitor is potentially illegal anti-competitive behavior. Conspiring with other companies to offer a product below cost to kill a competitor is definitely illegal.
As Google is paying for the development of a product that will be offered without charge, and since Google is in competition with Microsoft, this seems very akin to dumping.
Yeah, I know it's Microsoft, but... you'd all be screaming if Microsoft did this kind of thing.
Then again, Microsoft does this all the time. (eg Internet Explorer)
Before you answer, I am aware that there is some stretching of the truth which occurs in marketing the response time. Mathematically, 16ms should be sufficient for running 60fps, which is faster than most people can see anyways. But the 16ms only applies to a specific intensity of white and black under certain circumstances, and it's worse than that for colors so you get ghosting. But surely 3ms is overkill, no?
If you are just trying to solve a problem once and get the answer, it makes far more sense to use the "quickest and easiest path to a working solution". Interpreted languages like Matlab or graphical programming Labview are great for this. You can throw away the code when you are done, and it doesn't matter if the code sucks.
If you are building an application--that has to be maintained. That will be run over and over by many people, so runtime efficiency is more noticable. When you pass off the code to someone else, someone else has to understand it.
I am an engineer, not a software engineer, so most of my code falls under the first category.
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How did this get modded funny? This is insightful if anything. The RIAA has demonstrated its inclination to sue any web-based lyrics providers and lyrics search engines.
Someone tell me why this is news?
Is Seagate paying for this publicity?
Plasma needs to come from somewhere. Even if you have some renewable energy source like a solar panel, eventually you will run out of ions to exhaust.
An engineering degree does not an engineer you make.
If 1.4 million people complained, how many people DIDN'T complain?
Wouldn't it be cool if whoever won this contest turned down the job offer?
Simple.
Don't store the password in a text file. Put the database login and password in a database. Then put the login and password for that database in another database. And so on.
I think the "all publicity is good publicity" only holds true for fairly obscure products. Everyone knows what Windows is, so I don't think MS has anything to benefit from bad publicity.
I, for one, welcome our new immortal, fearless, pilot, rat-brain overlords.
jab must be one of the 133t coders who knows what this qualifier does
AFAIK, it means it isn't static, so it should be cleaned off the stack when the scope ends.
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Somewhere along the line, the computer will develop sentience and decide, "screw this pc, I'm launching nukes".
I bet he feels like an idiot for not getting cash from the deal.
And why should every manufacturer have to build their own open source layer (which they need to update with new kernels)? This is about creating a standard open source layer, which will work with all manufacturers. And the manufacturers don't have to worry as much about kernel changes, if they don't actually involve changes in the API.
This is necessary if we ever want Linux to be ready for the desktop. The ability to have driver modules is certainly more advanced than having everything compiled into the kernel, but it's severely lacking in many regards. The module has to be custom made for each kernel, making binary distribution useless because there are 2^100 kernels out there. So unless the manufacturer open sources the driver, they can't make a driver for Linux. Or you could go with an open source interface to a closed source driver.
Here's a sample of what I put up with. I downloaded Agnula Demudi 1.2.1 and installed it with the 2.6 kernel. I was ready to install some Nvidia drivers. But after some searching, I couldn't find any binary driver interfaces compatible with my kernel. Fine, I can compile my own. So I download the interface sources and launch module-assistant. It complains that riva driver support in my kernel conflicts with the nvidia driver, and I need to recompile the kernel. (I then went through the joy of trying to find the hidden demudi sources and figuring out how to patche them and configure them, ultimately failing to compile it, but this is getting away from the topic.) Finally, I said screw it.
You might blame the distro, but it's really the kernel at fault here. Recompiling the kernel to support a driver is NOT something that a user should have to do. Windows does not require you to recompile your kernel to install drivers.
Anyone who actually has to does that test with a copy machine should have no right to breed.
It's not worth it to the company.
At what point does this kind of behavior become anti-competitive?
... you'd all be screaming if Microsoft did this kind of thing.
Selling a product below cost in order to kill a competitor is potentially illegal anti-competitive behavior.
Conspiring with other companies to offer a product below cost to kill a competitor is definitely illegal.
As Google is paying for the development of a product that will be offered without charge, and since Google is in competition with Microsoft, this seems very akin to dumping.
Yeah, I know it's Microsoft, but
Then again, Microsoft does this all the time. (eg Internet Explorer)
Subscription based licensing will encourage the release of products that don't suck.
Because if the product sucks, nobody will renew the subscription.
In the gaming realm, companies will be encouraged to continually add new content and improve things to keep the game from falling out of favor.
weapons development is science
So is blizzard gonna port starcraft to linux now?
I'd hate to be the guy who gets bitten by mosquitos for some photo or research purposes.
333.3_ fps. Isn't that overkill?
Before you answer, I am aware that there is some stretching of the truth which occurs in marketing the response time. Mathematically, 16ms should be sufficient for running 60fps, which is faster than most people can see anyways. But the 16ms only applies to a specific intensity of white and black under certain circumstances, and it's worse than that for colors so you get ghosting. But surely 3ms is overkill, no?
If you are just trying to solve a problem once and get the answer, it makes far more sense to use the "quickest and easiest path to a working solution". Interpreted languages like Matlab or graphical programming Labview are great for this. You can throw away the code when you are done, and it doesn't matter if the code sucks.
If you are building an application--that has to be maintained. That will be run over and over by many people, so runtime efficiency is more noticable. When you pass off the code to someone else, someone else has to understand it.
I am an engineer, not a software engineer, so most of my code falls under the first category.
do you know what satire means?