Because if he thinks using propriety software is OK, why is he bothering writing a free kernel at all?
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I'm just fed up of the mess he's made of CD recording, which comes from the bigger mess there is of the whole device layer. The scsi module should be moved up a level, and ide should work under scsi like usb or anything else does. 2.6 is too unstable because of the stupid decision to have all the development in the stable tree. Also, I want my reiser4, if it needs to go up into the VFS layer let it. Anyway, want to start a fork? Fact is there's too much hero-worship of Linus to ever change him in the main kernel tree, or persuade him he needs to change. The whole point of open source is that when he does something really boneheaded (when, not if, everyone makes mistakes) and won't go back on it, we can fork. I think the time to do that is now.
If it looks good enough, why do you care? The whole point of the digital things is they look more realistic than the puppets did. And, though the puppets may seem to have a quaint charm nowadays, they do. Why use the older, inferior technology when you don't have to, unless it's part of the atmosphere you're trying to create? (which is very much not the case with star wars, it's meant to be futuristic, not quaint)
The new one that can integrate with Kontact is called Akregator.
I know. But I prefer knewsticker, with it just scrolling along the panel.
You should always cache your headlines and update them every 40 minutes (or their limit + 5-10 minute window) to avoid getting banned from/.
But you can reload the main html page much faster than that without getting banned, which seems insane. If I'm trying to first post I want to be reloading as frequently as possible, so I'll use the html page, let's say I'm refreshing every second. But this costs slashdot a lot more bandwidth than me just reloading the RSS feed every second, especially since good clients will only get the modification time (and then the feed if it's changed).
What if there were just giant planets inhabitted by slime-mold, or intelligent creatures that just didn't give a damn, and so they never developed useful society?
Then they wouldn't join the republic or do anything movie-worthy. No-one said there weren't planets like that in the star wars universe
Why do these creatures want to form governments anyway. With drastically different evolutionary timelines, one creature has propably evolved past war, another so evolved that all of the others seem more like suitable pets, another so unevolved that it's unaware that the others exist.
Space is big, and we have nowhere near a big enough sample to say that the evolutionary timelines will have been that different. But anyway, even if the majority of creatures have evolved like that, there could easily be enough in a galaxy to need a republic
Why do people in the future right with light sabers?
Because they're the best weapons available
Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?
Because the robots aren't up to scratch. They lost every time it was tried. Didn't you watch the first two movies?
Why do space ships need pilots at the helm rather than computers?
AI is hard. Really hard. They haven't developed good enough computers. The computer assists things, but can't do everything.
Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?
Modern consumer goods are no more reliable than they were 10, 100 or 1000 years ago. Sure you can get really reliable stuff, but price will always win out. And the Falcon is hacked to pieces and back, the equivalent of an overclocked board with a processor too big for it and half the parts are weird and possibly faulty, certainly with unapproved upgrades. If you've ever tried to use such a machine, it goes wrong at least as much as the Falcon does.
Why does C3P0 handle machinery with his hands, rather than some sort of networking?
Because he's not designed as a machinery operator, he's an interpreter and made to look human. So his only way to use machinery is the same way humans do.
When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly?
They've given up on wireless networking, too much insecurity. More seriously, it would have taken a lot of foresight to think of wireless networking in 1977. You can't blame the SW people for not seeing it, did you think of it at that time?
Why does it require physical manipulation?
That's probably a progress indicator. People like them, blinky lights are good but spinny things are better
For that matter, when he's in Cloud City, why does he move so slowly when hacking into that computer, how many bits could he really encode a second through physical manipulation?
Hacking takes time. Today it would probably take you at least 48 hours, unless you get lucky. It's not just a question of sending so many bits and getting access.
Yes, there is a.us, for example I believe the GNAA site is at gnaa.us, or was for a time anyway. The early strict registration rules (you had to be.county.state.us) killed it, by the time they relaxed them it was too late, everyone had gone to.com. Annoyingly, though, this means people assume.com automatically means a US site, I even remember someone here complaining about a.com where prices weren't in dollars.
Your framerate would be awful. Even at 320x240x8bpp with all textures etc. turned down to minimum, no dynamic lighting etc., FPSes running on min-spec machines generally (I haven't played HL2) go at about 5fps. So I think the OP may have grounds for complaint.
The aggregators are better. And I see it as more of offering you a viewing app, expanding their audience by letting people who don't know about it use it. Like some streaming radio sites will offer you their own player, or at least link to winamp. It's not because they want you to use their player, it's so that if you don't know wtf an m3u file is you can still use their service. Same idea here.
Just use knewsticker or whatever, but it won't help you. The crazy thing is slashdot will ban you faster for repeatedly grabbing their RSS feed than for reloading the front page. It's such a tiny amount of data compared to the frontpage I don't see why they do that, but that's slashdot policy.
Hey, Yuri's revenge was good. I'm still amazed that Westwood managed to have three playable armies in Dune 2 but still doesn't bother to have more than two by default in their latest C&C offerings. So yay for the 3-race expansion.
Altruism doesn't imply stupidity. A big movement has arisen among programmers who mostly do it for the fun of it, why won't artists and musicians do the same?
I still play them, and curse the way my sound board will only work if I do so under win98 while my NIC only works with a bart bootdisk. But I play Daggerfall and even X-wing as often as my latest purchases.
It's a bad license, CC attribution-sharealike or Design Science License would be better. You can add bits which aren't allowed to be edited, bits which have to go on the front cover, and plenty of other non-free stuff.
Actually, there's plenty of big important differences between FDL and GPL and you shouldn't put them together. FDL is non-free if you use certain options, and since you can relicense with those options, should only be seen as BSD-like without them.
AIUI DNA's just a bit more durable than RNA and doesn't really have major advantages over it. You can have a perfectly good organism without any DNA, just use RNA for all the stuff and have polyploidy or something to protect you.
I don't think he means it like that, he's pointing out that the amount is relatively small. "$4 million might sound like a lot, but really it's peanuts for NASA".
AIUI the only evidence we have for black holes is that there are objects of the right mass which don't emit any EM radiation. Until we get a better explanation (if we ever do) we assume they're black holes, but the only reason we believe they're black holes, rather than, say, very big lumps of iron, is that the theory suggests anything with that much mass would become one.
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Because if he thinks using propriety software is OK, why is he bothering writing a free kernel at all?
I'm just fed up of the mess he's made of CD recording, which comes from the bigger mess there is of the whole device layer. The scsi module should be moved up a level, and ide should work under scsi like usb or anything else does. 2.6 is too unstable because of the stupid decision to have all the development in the stable tree. Also, I want my reiser4, if it needs to go up into the VFS layer let it. Anyway, want to start a fork? Fact is there's too much hero-worship of Linus to ever change him in the main kernel tree, or persuade him he needs to change. The whole point of open source is that when he does something really boneheaded (when, not if, everyone makes mistakes) and won't go back on it, we can fork. I think the time to do that is now.
That's not enough though. You never know if/when your good company will be bought out by idiots.
And videogames and CDs tend to try and do the same thing when they come over to the UK, charging a pound price the same as the dollar price. Grr.
If it looks good enough, why do you care? The whole point of the digital things is they look more realistic than the puppets did. And, though the puppets may seem to have a quaint charm nowadays, they do. Why use the older, inferior technology when you don't have to, unless it's part of the atmosphere you're trying to create? (which is very much not the case with star wars, it's meant to be futuristic, not quaint)
I know. But I prefer knewsticker, with it just scrolling along the panel.
You should always cache your headlines and update them every 40 minutes (or their limit + 5-10 minute window) to avoid getting banned from /.
But you can reload the main html page much faster than that without getting banned, which seems insane. If I'm trying to first post I want to be reloading as frequently as possible, so I'll use the html page, let's say I'm refreshing every second. But this costs slashdot a lot more bandwidth than me just reloading the RSS feed every second, especially since good clients will only get the modification time (and then the feed if it's changed).
Then they wouldn't join the republic or do anything movie-worthy. No-one said there weren't planets like that in the star wars universe
Why do these creatures want to form governments anyway. With drastically different evolutionary timelines, one creature has propably evolved past war, another so evolved that all of the others seem more like suitable pets, another so unevolved that it's unaware that the others exist.
Space is big, and we have nowhere near a big enough sample to say that the evolutionary timelines will have been that different. But anyway, even if the majority of creatures have evolved like that, there could easily be enough in a galaxy to need a republic
Why do people in the future right with light sabers?
Because they're the best weapons available
Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?
Because the robots aren't up to scratch. They lost every time it was tried. Didn't you watch the first two movies?
Why do space ships need pilots at the helm rather than computers?
AI is hard. Really hard. They haven't developed good enough computers. The computer assists things, but can't do everything.
Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?
Modern consumer goods are no more reliable than they were 10, 100 or 1000 years ago. Sure you can get really reliable stuff, but price will always win out. And the Falcon is hacked to pieces and back, the equivalent of an overclocked board with a processor too big for it and half the parts are weird and possibly faulty, certainly with unapproved upgrades. If you've ever tried to use such a machine, it goes wrong at least as much as the Falcon does.
Why does C3P0 handle machinery with his hands, rather than some sort of networking?
Because he's not designed as a machinery operator, he's an interpreter and made to look human. So his only way to use machinery is the same way humans do.
When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly?
They've given up on wireless networking, too much insecurity. More seriously, it would have taken a lot of foresight to think of wireless networking in 1977. You can't blame the SW people for not seeing it, did you think of it at that time?
Why does it require physical manipulation?
That's probably a progress indicator. People like them, blinky lights are good but spinny things are better
For that matter, when he's in Cloud City, why does he move so slowly when hacking into that computer, how many bits could he really encode a second through physical manipulation?
Hacking takes time. Today it would probably take you at least 48 hours, unless you get lucky. It's not just a question of sending so many bits and getting access.
Yes, there is a .us, for example I believe the GNAA site is at gnaa.us, or was for a time anyway. The early strict registration rules (you had to be .county.state.us) killed it, by the time they relaxed them it was too late, everyone had gone to .com. Annoyingly, though, this means people assume .com automatically means a US site, I even remember someone here complaining about a .com where prices weren't in dollars.
Your framerate would be awful. Even at 320x240x8bpp with all textures etc. turned down to minimum, no dynamic lighting etc., FPSes running on min-spec machines generally (I haven't played HL2) go at about 5fps. So I think the OP may have grounds for complaint.
The aggregators are better. And I see it as more of offering you a viewing app, expanding their audience by letting people who don't know about it use it. Like some streaming radio sites will offer you their own player, or at least link to winamp. It's not because they want you to use their player, it's so that if you don't know wtf an m3u file is you can still use their service. Same idea here.
Just use knewsticker or whatever, but it won't help you. The crazy thing is slashdot will ban you faster for repeatedly grabbing their RSS feed than for reloading the front page. It's such a tiny amount of data compared to the frontpage I don't see why they do that, but that's slashdot policy.
Have you tried using it with what they advertise as being the minimum requirements?
Hey, Yuri's revenge was good. I'm still amazed that Westwood managed to have three playable armies in Dune 2 but still doesn't bother to have more than two by default in their latest C&C offerings. So yay for the 3-race expansion.
Altruism doesn't imply stupidity. A big movement has arisen among programmers who mostly do it for the fun of it, why won't artists and musicians do the same?
I still play them, and curse the way my sound board will only work if I do so under win98 while my NIC only works with a bart bootdisk. But I play Daggerfall and even X-wing as often as my latest purchases.
It's a bad license, CC attribution-sharealike or Design Science License would be better. You can add bits which aren't allowed to be edited, bits which have to go on the front cover, and plenty of other non-free stuff.
Actually, there's plenty of big important differences between FDL and GPL and you shouldn't put them together. FDL is non-free if you use certain options, and since you can relicense with those options, should only be seen as BSD-like without them.
AIUI DNA's just a bit more durable than RNA and doesn't really have major advantages over it. You can have a perfectly good organism without any DNA, just use RNA for all the stuff and have polyploidy or something to protect you.
Even if they have, they can get another one straight away off the PearPC mirrors, unless I'm missing something.
Building a prototype is a lot cheaper than building a factory.
That's no moon, it's a twap!
I don't think he means it like that, he's pointing out that the amount is relatively small. "$4 million might sound like a lot, but really it's peanuts for NASA".
30 characters alphabetical non-dictionary. 20 if you mix in some numbers and one alphanumeric. Probably less if it's completely random ascii.
Why not just not install flash?
AIUI the only evidence we have for black holes is that there are objects of the right mass which don't emit any EM radiation. Until we get a better explanation (if we ever do) we assume they're black holes, but the only reason we believe they're black holes, rather than, say, very big lumps of iron, is that the theory suggests anything with that much mass would become one.