Well, if it happens, it's you fault alone for picking the BSD license in the first place. No, i'm not bashing BSD (i think it's a oss great license) - but you've got to understand it's entirely possible to happen if you choose to use it.
Having said that, i feel most BSD hackers don't really care much about it - they do it for the love of art, sort of speaking. BSD-licensed code tends to be high quality and used in a lot of places, for some reason (Microsoft TCP/IP stack, f.ex., or atleast it used to).
That reminds me of Gerard Bull, an artillery engenieer - notorious for the alleged design of a "supergun" for Iraq a couple years ago. He was killed, supposedly by the Mosaad.
Anyway, he had a dream of a huge cannon for launching space cargo - either off the atmosphere by itself or with the help of rockets, but with incredible savings in fuel and launch costs. The Iraqies, of course, wanted it for military purposes. IIRC (saw it on tv a good while ago), it could place a payload of 200kg in orbit at US$600/kilo. They actually started building it, until the first Iraq war happened.
Huh? I can't recall how much the window install was, but my latest Opera install (v7.54, on Gentoo, Linux x86) was about 4MB - i think you refer to the Windows install, which includes the Sun Java runtime.
Same here. I found the game plays pretty much the same on both Linux and Windows, but load times on Linux are a fraction of those on Windows. Had similar experiences with Quake 2 & 3 aswell.
Most webcams pick up infrared quite easily, even when most of the times the plastic lens is coated to filter it. Apparently CMOS CCDs are specially sensitive to it.
Modern digital cams also behave this way, but to a lesser degree.
I'm very interested in the Protothreads library sourcecode mentioned in the article - the whole 20 lines of it! Yet, the site is slashdotted and Google doesn't seem able to find it...
Seriously though, i think Alan is more conservative when it comes to thinkering with the kernel, as opposed to Linus, which loves to play with his baby. They both balance out fine, and the result is great.
Every single music/dvd buy i did last year was first a download off P2P. Some of them is stuff i'd never given a chance otherwise.
You're right though. You won't see quality performers sales declining because of downloads - but what's the incentive to buy a Ashlee Simpson CD if you know you'll get tired of it in two weeks?
... you'll use anything else but Kazaa for your P2P needs. Kazaa is spyware ridden crap.
Anyway, this is like blaming Smith & Wesson for people shooting each other in the street.
"The trial primarily focused on the authorization of copyright infringement. Lawyers representing the music industry say Sharman can prevent the transfer of illegal material. It doesnt, it says, because the primary activity of Kazaa users is to infringe copyright."
This is interesting though - can you really tell the difference between "illegal" and "legal" material to be shared on P2P? Other than DRM, that is.
Actually, i always found Alan Cox much more centered and down-to-earth when it comes to (seemingly) big decisions like this. Linus is a great developer, but he's a flawed individual as everyone else; he can be wrong you know....
Even when they're right? Come on, i hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but they're right this time. They deserve to win, and, let's face it, patent-free plugins is great for everyone.
I hate to bash a free (for me, atleast) service as Slashdot, but the amount of dupe stories lately is mind boggling. C'mon, it's not so hard to search the story tree before submitting...
Yes, i completely agree. Anyway, as i see it, whoever becomes influenced in such a situation is an unstable individual in the first place. That's just me though.
The example you cited on the parent post (the "evolution" of values and what's acceptable or not, like in literature) is interesting, but i still think we're dealing with a much more basic moral value than what's acceptable to print on a magazine. Senseless, real violence has been deemed wrong in modern civilizations since forever.
(Half my post dissapeared, for some reason - here's the rest)
That's why (IMHO, of course) you can't get desensitized to violence so easlily with movies or videogames. Yes, watching gory B-Movies is easy with time, but i guarantee the moment you see a real accident you'll feel sick to your stomach. Following your analogy, it would be like getting sick of strawberries by watching pictures of them.
To get used to gore, you have to experience it first hand - doctors do. To get used to violence, the same - probably soldiers are a good example. And even then when you get used, desensitized is a far cry from comitting violent acts just like that - you still have to have be an unstable individual.
I understand your point, but at the end of the day, videogames and movies are "fake" violence. You always know what you're seeing is fake - that's what makes it easy to digest. Now, when you see the result of bombing raids on TV, shootouts, or accidents, they make you feel ill - you know that's the real deal, that it isn't right.
When that boundary is crossed, the effect is pretty much the same as real violence - i saw people getting out of the movies ill in the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, for example. It was too much for them. I was entretained, but the first viewing of that scene was hard. Simply too graphical.
The problem is some people can't tell the difference (either because they have problems or can't understand the difference because it wasn't tought to them) and this it's not fault of their videogames. Such people shouldn't be exposed to violence in the first place, and in the case of kids, it's entirely the parents' responsability.
Why not? If you're a centered, adjusted individual you can be exposed to violence (fictional or not) and not resort to it in real life. People that will resort to violence have problems - videogames have as much to do with it as an action flick or a shotgun picture in a magazine.
I enjoy bloody games - FPSs specially. I love action / gore movies. I practice kickboxing. And you won't see me killing people a-la-GTA3 any time soon.
You're right - they can't (FEC, no FCC) regulate servers outside the US.
It's a flawed law from the start. "The real question is: Would a link to a candidate's page be a problem? If someone sets up a home page and links to their favorite politician, is that a contribution? This is a big deal, if someone has already contributed the legal maximum, or if they're at the disclosure threshold and additional expenditures have to be disclosed under federal law."
That's so awfully close to restrited freedom of speech that it's dangerous - if comments on a blog can be considered "contributions".
You did fine. The days when "Norton" products were any good are long past by. They seem to have him stuffed in position with arms crossed for the photos alone these days.
I would reccomend Avast! antivirus - uses a fraction of the resources of NAV200x, and works quite better too, IMHO. The difference in performance after replacing NAV for A! on my mother's PC was ridiculous.
Not only that, registration is free for personal use.
You can go back to the DOS days when we had antiviruses that worked exactly how it's described on the patent. I wouldn't worry much about it (any sane court would decide there's enough prior art to make it invalid) - but still, the patent system in the US is FUBAR.
Anyway, the parent poster was just being sarcastic. People need to lighten up a bit.
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Well, if it happens, it's you fault alone for picking the BSD license in the first place. No, i'm not bashing BSD (i think it's a oss great license) - but you've got to understand it's entirely possible to happen if you choose to use it.
Having said that, i feel most BSD hackers don't really care much about it - they do it for the love of art, sort of speaking. BSD-licensed code tends to be high quality and used in a lot of places, for some reason (Microsoft TCP/IP stack, f.ex., or atleast it used to).
That reminds me of Gerard Bull, an artillery engenieer - notorious for the alleged design of a "supergun" for Iraq a couple years ago. He was killed, supposedly by the Mosaad.
Anyway, he had a dream of a huge cannon for launching space cargo - either off the atmosphere by itself or with the help of rockets, but with incredible savings in fuel and launch costs. The Iraqies, of course, wanted it for military purposes. IIRC (saw it on tv a good while ago), it could place a payload of 200kg in orbit at US$600/kilo. They actually started building it, until the first Iraq war happened.
Pun aside, you can buy rewriteably CDRs anywhere - they were magneto-optic-based, IIRC. Minidiscs work that way aswell, like a parent poster said.
Huh? I can't recall how much the window install was, but my latest Opera install (v7.54, on Gentoo, Linux x86) was about 4MB - i think you refer to the Windows install, which includes the Sun Java runtime.
Ditto! Gish is the best platform game i've played in ages, and at $20 is a steal.
And i disagree about eye candy, i think it looks damn good, if a bit too dark. The cartoony design of the characters is great.
Same here. I found the game plays pretty much the same on both Linux and Windows, but load times on Linux are a fraction of those on Windows. Had similar experiences with Quake 2 & 3 aswell.
Make that CMOS, not CCDs. Even though CCDs also pick a lot of infrared.
Most webcams pick up infrared quite easily, even when most of the times the plastic lens is coated to filter it. Apparently CMOS CCDs are specially sensitive to it.
Modern digital cams also behave this way, but to a lesser degree.
You = the man...
I'm very interested in the Protothreads library sourcecode mentioned in the article - the whole 20 lines of it! Yet, the site is slashdotted and Google doesn't seem able to find it...
Does anyone know where i could check it out?
C'mon, you know you love the beardy guy!
Seriously though, i think Alan is more conservative when it comes to thinkering with the kernel, as opposed to Linus, which loves to play with his baby. They both balance out fine, and the result is great.
Every single music/dvd buy i did last year was first a download off P2P. Some of them is stuff i'd never given a chance otherwise.
You're right though. You won't see quality performers sales declining because of downloads - but what's the incentive to buy a Ashlee Simpson CD if you know you'll get tired of it in two weeks?
Anyway, this is like blaming Smith & Wesson for people shooting each other in the street.
"The trial primarily focused on the authorization of copyright infringement. Lawyers representing the music industry say Sharman can prevent the transfer of illegal material. It doesnt, it says, because the primary activity of Kazaa users is to infringe copyright."
This is interesting though - can you really tell the difference between "illegal" and "legal" material to be shared on P2P? Other than DRM, that is.
Actually, i always found Alan Cox much more centered and down-to-earth when it comes to (seemingly) big decisions like this. Linus is a great developer, but he's a flawed individual as everyone else; he can be wrong you know....
You might be right...
Even when they're right? Come on, i hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but they're right this time. They deserve to win, and, let's face it, patent-free plugins is great for everyone.
I hate to bash a free (for me, atleast) service as Slashdot, but the amount of dupe stories lately is mind boggling. C'mon, it's not so hard to search the story tree before submitting...
Yes, i completely agree. Anyway, as i see it, whoever becomes influenced in such a situation is an unstable individual in the first place. That's just me though.
The example you cited on the parent post (the "evolution" of values and what's acceptable or not, like in literature) is interesting, but i still think we're dealing with a much more basic moral value than what's acceptable to print on a magazine. Senseless, real violence has been deemed wrong in modern civilizations since forever.
(Half my post dissapeared, for some reason - here's the rest)
That's why (IMHO, of course) you can't get desensitized to violence so easlily with movies or videogames. Yes, watching gory B-Movies is easy with time, but i guarantee the moment you see a real accident you'll feel sick to your stomach. Following your analogy, it would be like getting sick of strawberries by watching pictures of them.
To get used to gore, you have to experience it first hand - doctors do. To get used to violence, the same - probably soldiers are a good example. And even then when you get used, desensitized is a far cry from comitting violent acts just like that - you still have to have be an unstable individual.
I understand your point, but at the end of the day, videogames and movies are "fake" violence. You always know what you're seeing is fake - that's what makes it easy to digest. Now, when you see the result of bombing raids on TV, shootouts, or accidents, they make you feel ill - you know that's the real deal, that it isn't right.
When that boundary is crossed, the effect is pretty much the same as real violence - i saw people getting out of the movies ill in the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, for example. It was too much for them. I was entretained, but the first viewing of that scene was hard. Simply too graphical.
The problem is some people can't tell the difference (either because they have problems or can't understand the difference because it wasn't tought to them) and this it's not fault of their videogames. Such people shouldn't be exposed to violence in the first place, and in the case of kids, it's entirely the parents' responsability.
Why not? If you're a centered, adjusted individual you can be exposed to violence (fictional or not) and not resort to it in real life. People that will resort to violence have problems - videogames have as much to do with it as an action flick or a shotgun picture in a magazine.
I enjoy bloody games - FPSs specially. I love action / gore movies. I practice kickboxing. And you won't see me killing people a-la-GTA3 any time soon.
You're right - they can't (FEC, no FCC) regulate servers outside the US.
It's a flawed law from the start. "The real question is: Would a link to a candidate's page be a problem? If someone sets up a home page and links to their favorite politician, is that a contribution? This is a big deal, if someone has already contributed the legal maximum, or if they're at the disclosure threshold and additional expenditures have to be disclosed under federal law."
That's so awfully close to restrited freedom of speech that it's dangerous - if comments on a blog can be considered "contributions".
You did fine. The days when "Norton" products were any good are long past by. They seem to have him stuffed in position with arms crossed for the photos alone these days.
I would reccomend Avast! antivirus - uses a fraction of the resources of NAV200x, and works quite better too, IMHO. The difference in performance after replacing NAV for A! on my mother's PC was ridiculous.
Not only that, registration is free for personal use.
You can go back to the DOS days when we had antiviruses that worked exactly how it's described on the patent. I wouldn't worry much about it (any sane court would decide there's enough prior art to make it invalid) - but still, the patent system in the US is FUBAR.
Anyway, the parent poster was just being sarcastic. People need to lighten up a bit.
I'm running out of jokes about Episode III. It's amazing, they actually beat me to it every single time!