Of course he was a replicant. He dreamt of unicorns, and the cop made him little unicorns. What other conclusions where there to draw? What other purpose could possibly be served by those scenes?
In my opinion, making Deckard the new breed of replicant was beautiful. It added so much to the plot, and made you reconsider his actions and the plight of the short-life replicants. Quite brilliant.
It's disappointing to me that the current standard of Hollywood movies has resulted in fans who need absolutely everything spelled out to them.
Hi there, as an owner of a basic TNT, my perspective on the nVidia issue is how it will affect my next video adapter purchase. I presently favor the GForce of course, but if nVidia is going to make it difficult for the XFree86 people I will reassess my position.
I would like to partake in some lobbying action to let nVidia know that their closed-source approach is going to hurt them if they are unable to make the drivers work with X in a streamlined and efficient way. I don't mind closed source drivers per se, but I do mind any policy which will inhibit or complicate the functionality of my Linux system.
Is there a coordinated effort to lobby nVidia, or some specific person in that company I can email? I worry about the email approach a little because we have no way of knowing whether or not some auto-delete filter is in place.
As someone who shifted to Linux-Mandrake from Redhat due to compilation optimizations and the various improvements made by the Linux-Mandrake team, I was flabergasted by the atrocious installer program in 7.0. Apart from the dreadful choice of colors, 'expert' mode is the most labour intensive install configurator I have ever seen. At this time I have ceased recommending Linux-Mandrake to any of my customers.
Do you think the low quality of this install program is due to the fact that its developers lacked the feedback typical of OSS development, and how quickly is this application going to be overhauled?
That it folks. I've been using this version on my dual PII 450 with 2.2.14 for the past half-hour without a single crash. Goodbye netscape you dog. Netscape/AOL should be ashamed. This pre-alpha build of Mozilla is a better browser and it's all I'm going to use from now on.
Thanks team for working so hard. I love this. I'm beyond words to describe how wonderful it feels to have such a great open source internet client. M15 is going to blow them all out of the water.
The truly hilarious thing about this page is that about everything it says is in fact quite mythical. An apt title. Microsoft has merely collected it's FUD myths together in one place.
This is great work. Just think what will happen when the SGI big memory project is ready. Check out http://oss.sgi.com/projects/bigmem/. Wow. Two big memory solutions. I just don't know which to choose. Oh. Hang on. I don't have four *fricking* gigabytes of RAM....
No doubt there are many proprietry components used in the development of Star Office. If the suite was open source, then either these components would also have to be open sourced, or there would have to be a lot of work put in to replace them with open source equivalents.
This would be a similar venture to Netscape open sourcing Mozilla. The question is, will this project (if it eventuates) suffer from community and developer apathy in the same way as the Mozilla project?
everybody knows what a prolific contributer you are to the community. How much time to you spend each day hacking to produce as much as you do. And have improved hacking tools reduced the amount of time you must spend at the console, or just allowed you to produce that much more?
As far as I can see, the lawless Internet has many happy years before it. All that needs to be done is to put in place a system (which has so far not been necessary), which bounces A.C. posts accross a large number of different servers, each of which is in a different country:o) Make it so that each applies some kind of obfuscation/encryption en route such that there is no way to tell if the same message has passed in and out of the same server multiple times. You could make it even better by splitting the message up into segments and sending them on different routes before being reassembled and sent by some predetermined final relay server.
Imagine the cost of tracking the originator of some document which has crossed thousands of International borders in hundreds of little pieces!:o) The servers would gravitate towards countries less likely to sign big international treaties, and those in countries with excellent obscure languages and kooky legal systems.
Workable laws are some way off (I'd say a hundred years or so), and I don't really like the kind of crap that AP's so often spout, but nobody should feel afraid to speak on the 'net. The culture of Internet users already understand that much of what they read on the Internet is to be taken with a grain of salt.
The thing is that we in New Zealand are heading in the same direction as everyone else. Full time connections (for example through the Saturn cable modem service) are going to become the norm. Telecom is perfectly aware of the drift away from telephone only services, to such things as cable (Saturn) and ADSL (Telecom!). Why would they do this now? Surely they only need to wait a year or so before the extra demand on telephone lines starts to decrease as these other services take over. I really think their motivation for this move needs to be examined.
Like other members of the Enterprise crew, he's pretty immortal now. Needless to say, how many years will pass before there is an instance in time where he's not being seen, talked about, read about, or thought about.
Well, I for one was not aware that NT supported FAT32 at all. I have just built (reluctantly) an NT machine with Service Pack 5 (the latest) and there's no mention of support for FAT32.
It would have been nice if the article mentioned the recent open sourcing of XFS, which eats NTFS and Ext2fs for breakfast. Oh, and I've heard rumours of an upcoming Ext3fs. Any word on its capabilities?
Well I for one would love to see support for antialiasing. I run 1280x1024 on a 17" monitor and notice a huge difference between text and graphics with and without antialiasing. I don't understand what the big resistance against it is all about. Just imagine if Linus, Raster or Miguel listened to the nay-sayers. Personally I think it would be a great addition to the capabilities of XFree86, and I'm surprised there's been no attempt to impliment it.
Will the modular approach of 4.0 make such implimentation possible?
I don't care about remote shutdown of software at all - if you bought it, you agreed to the license and serves you right if you violate the terms.
I don't care about requiring permission for pass-along - if a software company wants to spend millions of dollars overseeing and enforcing this, whilst at the same time alienating their customers, well go for it.
I *do* care about the reverse engineering clause. All of you in the US need to LOBBY against this NOW. The whole open source community has utterly relied on reverse engineering to produce software which supports a large variety of hardware and interoperability with other software. Your graphics adapter drivers, your sound drivers, your SCSI drivers, your TV card drivers may all well be the result of reverse engineering. Take that away and what do you have?
Remember Halloween I? That paper identified the possible strategy of closing and obfuscating protols and file types to prevent the open source community from having access to them. If we can't work with the rest of the world all the progress of the past ten years will be lost.
Outlawing reverse engineering will mean the end of working with MS filesystems, exchanging files with MS (and other) programs, communicating with computers which use closed protocols.
This scares the you-know-what out of me, and it should do the same for you too.
Indeed. I read about the device about a year ago also in the british New Scientist magazine. According to that article (and common sense), the non-lethal aspect of the weapon is subject to which wattage/frequency is used. Thus you could set it to simply disable an opponent, cause them pain, kill them, etc. Gee I love the way Star Trek is leading us into the future:o) "Set your phasers to stun!"
(We have the bridge and other bits and pieces from the original series in our local museum at the moment (in Wellington, NZ). We also have props from the new series and I have to say I was greatly ammused to see a real needle-less injection device (probably _inspired_ by Star Trek) which is now in use by medical practitioners.)
Hmmm, I know it's just cruelty to you guys, but playing mp3s (stored across NFS) uses less than 1% of my system CPU time, and 3% of my RAM (X11amp I'm talking of here). Needless to say, I can do all kinds of cool things whilst listening to completely uninterrupted music. Like I can have five smooth Mesa screensavers running in windows, be compiling the latest Gnome CVS, writing emails, playing with the GIMP and Blender, etc.
But hey, it's no fun for me to just brag about my dual processor beastie. I also wanted to suggest a point that surely it would be cheaper to upgrade your computer than it would be to get all that mp3 specific hardware? I mean, for US $800 we build dual Celeron boards running at 450MHz (or 504MHz if you wanna match a dual PIII 500) _with_ 128MB RAM. Now that's top of the line. Surely you could get a Pentium 200 or a low end PII second hand for a couple of hundred dollars?
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Open source projects have far greater flexibility than closed source applications. With tens, hundreds, or even thousands of hackers learning the code, and providing additions and optimizations, then you will end up with a better quality product.
I do think that this isn't actually a very good project idea though. It seems to me that the creator of BOCHS, an extremely slow emulator which is unlikely to be useful for anything, has just seen his hopes and dreams for the project completely blown out of the water by a vastly superior product. I am rather suspicious of his motivations in setting up an open source project which aims to do little more than undermine the vmWare product, and thus vmWare's market.
If we want to be constructive, we should be instead lobbying vmWare, promoting the benefits of making their product open source on the Linux platform. Personally I have little use for the product unless they can get games working well (though I suspect the game companies will catch on to the value of the Linux market before that happens).
If the Linux community can't convince vmWare to free up the source code to their product - even for non-commercial use only (a really good idea guys), then perhaps they would like to reconsider their asking price for non-commercial use. Even without source code, providing the product freely to thousands of Linux users will gain great exposure and thousands of bug reporters.
If they opened up the source, then they might get some really useful help with getting DirectX applications working well.
A bit of a burble, but I think I made all the right noises.
Be careful about this project - what's the guys real motivation? If he loved open source so much, why didn't he free up the source to BOCHS?
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Of course he was a replicant. He dreamt of unicorns, and the cop made him little unicorns. What other conclusions where there to draw? What other purpose could possibly be served by those scenes?
In my opinion, making Deckard the new breed of replicant was beautiful. It added so much to the plot, and made you reconsider his actions and the plight of the short-life replicants. Quite brilliant.
It's disappointing to me that the current standard of Hollywood movies has resulted in fans who need absolutely everything spelled out to them.
I completely agree also. How about a policy of "when it says so on http://www.mozilla.org, THEN it's out". So simple. So very simple...
Hi there, as an owner of a basic TNT, my perspective on the nVidia issue is how it will affect my next video adapter purchase. I presently favor the GForce of course, but if nVidia is going to make it difficult for the XFree86 people I will reassess my position.
I would like to partake in some lobbying action to let nVidia know that their closed-source approach is going to hurt them if they are unable to make the drivers work with X in a streamlined and efficient way. I don't mind closed source drivers per se, but I do mind any policy which will inhibit or complicate the functionality of my Linux system.
Is there a coordinated effort to lobby nVidia, or some specific person in that company I can email? I worry about the email approach a little because we have no way of knowing whether or not some auto-delete filter is in place.
As someone who shifted to Linux-Mandrake from Redhat due to compilation optimizations and the various improvements made by the Linux-Mandrake team, I was flabergasted by the atrocious installer program in 7.0. Apart from the dreadful choice of colors, 'expert' mode is the most labour intensive install configurator I have ever seen. At this time I have ceased recommending Linux-Mandrake to any of my customers.
Do you think the low quality of this install program is due to the fact that its developers lacked the feedback typical of OSS development, and how quickly is this application going to be overhauled?
That it folks. I've been using this version on my dual PII 450 with 2.2.14 for the past half-hour without a single crash. Goodbye netscape you dog. Netscape/AOL should be ashamed. This pre-alpha build of Mozilla is a better browser and it's all I'm going to use from now on.
Thanks team for working so hard. I love this. I'm beyond words to describe how wonderful it feels to have such a great open source internet client. M15 is going to blow them all out of the water.
Good work Justin! Neither the reputation of yourself or /. has been harmed because of your swift retraction and apology. Well done!
The truly hilarious thing about this page is that about everything it says is in fact quite mythical. An apt title. Microsoft has merely collected it's FUD myths together in one place.
You're right. Big thanks Andrea and Gerhard. That's some fine hacking. You is good people.
This is great work. Just think what will happen when the SGI big memory project is ready. Check out http://oss.sgi.com/projects/bigmem/. Wow. Two big memory solutions. I just don't know which to choose. Oh. Hang on. I don't have four *fricking* gigabytes of RAM....
No doubt there are many proprietry components used in the development of Star Office. If the suite was open source, then either these components would also have to be open sourced, or there would have to be a lot of work put in to replace them with open source equivalents.
This would be a similar venture to Netscape open sourcing Mozilla. The question is, will this project (if it eventuates) suffer from community and developer apathy in the same way as the Mozilla project?
Hi there Alan,
everybody knows what a prolific contributer you are to the community. How much time to you spend each day hacking to produce as much as you do. And have improved hacking tools reduced the amount of time you must spend at the console, or just allowed you to produce that much more?
TIA,
Paul Dorman.
Wellington, New Zealand.
As far as I can see, the lawless Internet has many happy years before it. All that needs to be done is to put in place a system (which has so far not been necessary), which bounces A.C. posts accross a large number of different servers, each of which is in a different country :o) Make it so that each applies some kind of obfuscation/encryption en route such that there is no way to tell if the same message has passed in and out of the same server multiple times. You could make it even better by splitting the message up into segments and sending them on different routes before being reassembled and sent by some predetermined final relay server.
:o) The servers would gravitate towards countries less likely to sign big international treaties, and those in countries with excellent obscure languages and kooky legal systems.
Imagine the cost of tracking the originator of some document which has crossed thousands of International borders in hundreds of little pieces!
Workable laws are some way off (I'd say a hundred years or so), and I don't really like the kind of crap that AP's so often spout, but nobody should feel afraid to speak on the 'net. The culture of Internet users already understand that much of what they read on the Internet is to be taken with a grain of salt.
Let them have it! :o)
With the capacity for real time MPEG-2 encoding and the nice integration of this box, wouldn't it be fun to hack for other purposes :o)
The thing is that we in New Zealand are heading in the same direction as everyone else. Full time connections (for example through the Saturn cable modem service) are going to become the norm. Telecom is perfectly aware of the drift away from telephone only services, to such things as cable (Saturn) and ADSL (Telecom!). Why would they do this now? Surely they only need to wait a year or so before the extra demand on telephone lines starts to decrease as these other services take over. I really think their motivation for this move needs to be examined.
Like other members of the Enterprise crew, he's pretty immortal now. Needless to say, how many years will pass before there is an instance in time where he's not being seen, talked about, read about, or thought about.
Ain't aging a bitch though.
Well, I for one was not aware that NT supported FAT32 at all. I have just built (reluctantly) an NT machine with Service Pack 5 (the latest) and there's no mention of support for FAT32.
It would have been nice if the article mentioned the recent open sourcing of XFS, which eats NTFS and Ext2fs for breakfast. Oh, and I've heard rumours of an upcoming Ext3fs. Any word on its capabilities?
Well I for one would love to see support for antialiasing. I run 1280x1024 on a 17" monitor and notice a huge difference between text and graphics with and without antialiasing. I don't understand what the big resistance against it is all about. Just imagine if Linus, Raster or Miguel listened to the nay-sayers. Personally I think it would be a great addition to the capabilities of XFree86, and I'm surprised there's been no attempt to impliment it.
Will the modular approach of 4.0 make such implimentation possible?
Paul.
Good job nVidia. Gee, someone must have read the really convincing letter I sent them the other day ;o)
I don't care about remote shutdown of software at all - if you bought it, you agreed to the license and serves you right if you violate the terms.
I don't care about requiring permission for pass-along - if a software company wants to spend millions of dollars overseeing and enforcing this, whilst at the same time alienating their customers, well go for it.
I *do* care about the reverse engineering clause. All of you in the US need to LOBBY against this NOW. The whole open source community has utterly relied on reverse engineering to produce software which supports a large variety of hardware and interoperability with other software. Your graphics adapter drivers, your sound drivers, your SCSI drivers, your TV card drivers may all well be the result of reverse engineering. Take that away and what do you have?
Remember Halloween I? That paper identified the possible strategy of closing and obfuscating protols and file types to prevent the open source community from having access to them. If we can't work with the rest of the world all the progress of the past ten years will be lost.
Outlawing reverse engineering will mean the end of working with MS filesystems, exchanging files with MS (and other) programs, communicating with computers which use closed protocols.
This scares the you-know-what out of me, and it should do the same for you too.
Indeed. I read about the device about a year ago also in the british New Scientist magazine. According to that article (and common sense), the non-lethal aspect of the weapon is subject to which wattage/frequency is used. Thus you could set it to simply disable an opponent, cause them pain, kill them, etc. Gee I love the way Star Trek is leading us into the future :o) "Set your phasers to stun!"
(We have the bridge and other bits and pieces from the original series in our local museum at the moment (in Wellington, NZ). We also have props from the new series and I have to say I was greatly ammused to see a real needle-less injection device (probably _inspired_ by Star Trek) which is now in use by medical practitioners.)
Hmmm, I know it's just cruelty to you guys, but playing mp3s (stored across NFS) uses less than 1% of my system CPU time, and 3% of my RAM (X11amp I'm talking of here). Needless to say, I can do all kinds of cool things whilst listening to completely uninterrupted music. Like I can have five smooth Mesa screensavers running in windows, be compiling the latest Gnome CVS, writing emails, playing with the GIMP and Blender, etc.
But hey, it's no fun for me to just brag about my dual processor beastie. I also wanted to suggest a point that surely it would be cheaper to upgrade your computer than it would be to get all that mp3 specific hardware? I mean, for US $800 we build dual Celeron boards running at 450MHz (or 504MHz if you wanna match a dual PIII 500) _with_ 128MB RAM. Now that's top of the line. Surely you could get a Pentium 200 or a low end PII second hand for a couple of hundred dollars?
MINDCRAFT, INC. SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS CONTAINED HEREIN, NOR FOR
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE FURNISHING, PERFORMANCE, OR USE OF
THIS MATERIAL.
Open source projects have far greater flexibility than closed source applications. With tens, hundreds, or even thousands of hackers learning the code, and providing additions and optimizations, then you will end up with a better quality product.
I do think that this isn't actually a very good project idea though. It seems to me that the creator of BOCHS, an extremely slow emulator which is unlikely to be useful for anything, has just seen his hopes and dreams for the project completely blown out of the water by a vastly superior product. I am rather suspicious of his motivations in setting up an open source project which aims to do little more than undermine the vmWare product, and thus vmWare's market.
If we want to be constructive, we should be instead lobbying vmWare, promoting the benefits of making their product open source on the Linux platform. Personally I have little use for the product unless they can get games working well (though I suspect the game companies will catch on to the value of the Linux market before that happens).
If the Linux community can't convince vmWare to free up the source code to their product - even for non-commercial use only (a really good idea guys), then perhaps they would like to reconsider their asking price for non-commercial use. Even without source code, providing the product freely to thousands of Linux users will gain great exposure and thousands of bug reporters.
If they opened up the source, then they might get some really useful help with getting DirectX applications working well.
A bit of a burble, but I think I made all the right noises.
Be careful about this project - what's the guys real motivation? If he loved open source so much, why didn't he free up the source to BOCHS?
You'd think they would think ahead wouldn't you :o) Perhaps they should find some nice mirrors for these pages...