Most of the 2.14 packages are already in the official portage tree (and, at the moment, hardmasked). According to posts by gentoo devs in the forums, gnome-2.14 will be in ~arch by the end of the week.
And if you can't wait for two days and don't mind a few bugs, you could emerge 2.13.92 from the breakmygentoo overlay...
it was a lot harder to get into trouble with Communist Party doctrine as a pure mathematician than as a physicist (who might wind up using "Jewish physics" like relativity or quantum mechanics)
You are mixing up Communists and Nazis. Nazis banned relativity and quantum mechanics as "Jewish physics". By contrast, Soviet leaders (despite being antisemitic) recognized that Jewish physicists and physics were absolutely vital for building nukes and missiles.
The real reason Soviet physics started to fall behind the West was that
a. an enormous number of talented European Jewish physicists had fled to America in the 1930's, while nobody wanted to flee to Stalin's welcoming arms;
b. for some time in the 1940s-1950s, computer science was considered to be anti-Soviet, which meant that Soviet computer technology (vital for physics!) remained a decade or so behind the West all the way to the end of the Cold War;
c. too large a percentage of Soviet physicists were put to work in the military industrial complex, and many of their discoveries were classified. By contrast, in the post-WW2 West, most physicists tended to do unclassified work in the universities.
T-Mobile does use the same frequencies as in Europe (makes sense, cause in Europe T-Mobile is known as good old Deutsche Telekom) and you can bring your T-Mobile phone across the Atlantic, it's just that you will be killed by roaming charges unless you get a European prepaid SIM card.
But the more obscure facts are the ones with fewer people qualified to write about them and the ones with more people who don't fully understand them, so they are the least trustworthy.
I would disagree. I often look up a mathematical theorem or an algorithm in Wikipedia, and have always been surprised by how accurate it is. The quality of writing might be mediocre compared to planetmath or journal articles, but the basic information is always there and correct. The reason (I suspect) is that most people looking up obscure mathematical topics do so for professional reasons. Morons wanting to enlighten the internet with their idiocy wouldn't even know whtat to search for... So sometimes obscurity is good.
They are putting a lot of attention to Gnome Terminal because, frankly, Gnome Terminal (in Gmome <= 2.12) is horrendously slow (not as bad as the OSX terminal, but far worse than any other Linux terminal emulator). If you are a software developer of any kind, you use the terminal often. And if you are compiling a large project, just having the output scroll in Gnome Terminal can add minutes to your compile time.
Next, as for Ctrl-Alt-F1. Sure, that switches me to the text-only Linux console. But I (1) prefer the high resolution of X; (2) prefer the fact that I can easily switch between a dozen terminal windows in X; (3) use GUI text editors like Gedit and GVim; (4) can't copy/paste stuff from the text-only Linux console to my browser or my text editor -- this is a killer; (5) when I switch between X and console mode, my screen goes blank for a couple seconds (needs to flush the framebuffer) which is inevitable because of the amount of memory on my video card and the fact that the video card needs to be switched switch between two totally different drivers (X and console-mode); and (6) I need unicode fonts in my terminal, and Linux text-mode console only displays a small range of character sets.
A faster, more responsive Gnome Terminal is the feature that I am looking forward to the most in Gnome 2.14.
Beagle is a desktop search tool, like Apple's Spotlight or Google Desktop. It works quite well, but in Gnome 2.12, it's not integrated into the desktop -- ideally, for instance, you would want Beagle integrated into all standard file open dialogs etc. The thing about Beagle is that it's written in C# and runs on Mono (a.net clone). Some people (e.g. Redhat) feel that Microsoft has some patents that could be used to smack down Mono sometime in the future. In order to satisfy all the distros, Gnome is leaving Beagle integration optional in 2.14. Presumably, SuSE and Ubuntu will enable it, while Redhat Enterprise will probably disable it.
If you want to look at XUL from a RAD programming point of view... it closely corresponds to things like Python (with tkinter, PyQt, or pygtk), TCL/TK, Perl (with Gtk2::*) etc. Which is to say, languages and environments which have many of the same issues as Javascript (closures, forgiving syntax, various aspects of functional programming bolted on, and memory leaks galore if you don't know how to use weak references).
I personally would not call Swing RAD. In my experience, it's one of the slowest ways to develop a GUI -- but hey, maybe you are a much better Java developer than me.
First off, JavaScript. It doesn't matter if you can use XUL from other languages because parts of it are implemented in JavaScript. JavaScript is a horrible, horrible language. I recently discovered that JavaScript supports closures - which helped explain the horrible memory leaks I was experiencing with JavaScript. Stuff that was supposed to leave scope didn't because it wound up in a closure. Lisp/Scheme developers know what a closure is. JavaScript developers probably don't.
I suspect that I am feeding a troll, but here goes...
Your comment is much akin to the following:
C is a horrible language -- pointers are too hard
Java is a horrible language -- I can't wrap my mind around object-oriented programming
Perl is a horrible langauge -- regular expressions confuse my poor brain
Lisp is a horrible language -- parentheses terrify me
Python is a horrible language -- I keep on messing up the indentation
Bottom line: if you can't be bothered to learn the grammar of the language you are using -- hell, if you don't find learning new languages and grammatical concepts positively exciting -- perhaps software development is really not for you. You might want to look into becoming a manager.
I used to ski race as a kid...
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...and frankly, this flexible armor sounds great. The reason you want some kind of protection is that you (sometimes in speed events, very often in slalom) run into gates (the plastic poles stuck in the snow that you have to turn around) with various parts of your body. Since you are going fast, and you are wearing a thin aerodynamic racing suit, it hurts like hell. So, if you don't feel like getting hurt, you strap on some plastic shin and arm guards, sort of like an Ancient Greek warrior with his greaves. Anyway, these plastic guards really are not the ideal solution. They chafe (since you are strapping them on tight, and the muscles and skin under the straps are constantly moving). They limit your motions quite a bit. They are, frankly, uncomfortable. And if you are doing speed events, they kill your aerodynamics.
So, as far as I am concerned, flexible armor is totally the way to go. Hopefully FIS won't ban it.
The two processors represent two quite different approaches to getting the most performance. The Pentium M has an enormous cache and good memory bandwidth. The Turion, on the other hand, has much better memory latency as well as AMD's traditionally strong scalar arithmetic.
The benchmarks come down to:
If the code and data fits in Pentium M's cache, Pentium M wins hands down.
For tasks like media encoding, where the problem doesn't fit into PM's cache, Turion wins hands down.
If you are spending much time at 100% CPU usage, Pentium M will give you better battery life.
Oh, and games? Both suck about equally well. If you want to play games, get a desktop.
Adware companies might provide incentive and the hospitals evidently need to secure their networks, too, but culpability lies solely with the two defectives who committed the crime.
Well, not quite. Let's look at an analogous IRL situation. Mob Boss tells a Thug, "If Luigi's warehouse were to, like, accidentally catch on fire, then I might spontaneously give you a monetary gift, *wink wink*". So Thug goes and burns down Luigi's warehouse, and Mob Boss pays him $5000. Then:
Thug goes to prison for committing arson; AND
Mob Boss goes to prison for conspiracy to commit arson; AND
Luigi gets hit with a massive lawsuit from his clients for failing to install a sprinkler system.
You are right that the perpetrators are guilty. However, in this case the adware company and the hospital almost certainly have some criminal and/or civil liability.
English has two "blue" colours as well - what we call blue, and indigo.
Sort of, but no. You are probably referring to Isaac Newton's decomposition of the rainbow (ROYGBIV). Unfortunately, in common usage, "indigo" is associated with "shade of blue". By contrast, "green" is not "shade of blue", and neither is "blue" a "shade of green", so I would call "blue" and "green" linguistically fundamental in English. Now, if you still think that Mr. Newton's labels hold absolute authority over the minds of English speakers, consider, for instance, computer graphics. Computer "blue" (#0000FF) is what Newton called "indigo". What Newton called "blue" (#00FFFF) computer software calls "cyan". In fact, most non-programmers, non-elementary-schoolkids would label the entire range #0000FF, #00FFFF, #000AE0, etc. as "various shades of blue".
To put it another way: "blue" is the sort of word everyone learns before age 5. "Indigo" (along with "azure", "lilac", "periwinkle", and the like) is mostly reserved for artists and interior designers.
Russian doesn't seem to fit this hypothesis. There are words for black, white, red, yellow, green. There are two fundamentally distinct words for blue (roughly, "light blue" and "dark blue" -- to a Russian-speaker, the two colors are fundamentally different, just like green and blue are fundamentally different to an English-speaker). There is a word for brown, a word for orange, and a word for gray. However, the words for "purple" and "pink" (fioletovyj and rozovyj) are only recent borrowings from French -- there are no native roots to describe those basic colors.
Free Software and Marx have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Marx was a social critic who (correctly) surmised that the workers of his day were unfairly exploited, but then used voodoo economics and bad Hegelism to go off on a wild apocalyptic-cult trajectory.
By contrast, Free Software is not a cult, and it is not a "scientific" view of history. It is simply a proposition that one of the inalienable rights of Homo sapiens -- along with the right to free speech, free press, and democratic elections -- is the right to freely use one's computer. (Granted, computer use is not in the usual list, but if Locke, Rousseau, and Jefferson had computers, I am sure they would have put Free Software in the rights of man.)
Marxism belongs to the general category of apocalyptic cults (like belief in rapture and the singularity).
Free Software belongs to the general category of campaigns for a specific rights (like womens' suffrage and the civil rights movement).
First, because it is still a democracy (although Diebold is doing its best to undermine that). And second, because there is no systematic merger of business and government -- rather, certain businesses (RIAA, MPAA, oil, defense, etc) are one of the several special interest groups that the government pays too much attention to. Trial lawyers are another such group. So are fundamentalist Christians. So are mothers who want you to "think of the children". So are the gun-loving folks. So are the anti- and pro-abortion activists. So are the farmers. None of them has a monopoly on government attention - yet.
What you see with Halliburton and Enron is good old-fashioned cronyism and corruption. It's nowhere near the type of horror that most countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East went through sometime in the past 50 years.
Russia suffers from all the problems of a typical poor country.
There are corrupt judges, racist police, numerous and incompetent bureaucrats, politicians who use their office to amass personal fortunes, horrible jails, gangsters who run for parliament to get immunity from persecution, terrorists who blow shit up once in a while, drunk soldiers whose actions only help the terrorist cause, etc. You know, the usual sort of thing. Go to Indonesia or Brazil or any other country in the same income range -- they all have the same problems.
The thing about Russia though is that it has an extremely popular president. The people -- espeicially out in the rurual areas -- love Putin. As a result, Putin and his ex-KGB buddies have managed to push through just the type of laws you would expect from ex-KGB people: taking over mass media, stifling freedom of the press, appointing provincial governors, excluding small parties from the political process, harassing NGO's and outspoken businessmen, etc. Which totally sucks. Hopefully the Russian people will realize that KGB officers do not make good politicians before Putin&Co turn the country into a real police state.
It appears to be about copyright infringement. I am sure the comment was about Open Source P2P software, not ALL Open Source software.
You would think so, but no. This bans all open-source software that could send copyrighted data over the network. In other words: Apache, Samba, Openssh, mozilla/firefox/thunderbird/etc., gaim, KDE's kioslaves, GNOME's gnomevfs -- hell -- this law probably bans even glibc (sockets!) and the Linux kernel (raw packet interface). That's right. FTP clients and servers are banned. CUPS is banned (you can use IPP to transfer arbitrary data to a printer on another machine). BIND is banned (I believe you can tunnel connections over DNS requests).
Basically, any program that can move copyrighted data over the network cannot allow the user to modify its source code.
THESE PEOPLE ARE FSCKING INSANE.
Here is the original French:
Un amendement au projet de loi DADVSI, ayant pour objectif d'assimiler à un délit de contrefaçon, l'édition, la diffusion et la promotion de tout logiciel susceptible d'être utilisé pour mettre à disposition des informations protégées par le droit d'auteur et n'intégrant pas un dispositif de contrôle et de traçage de l'usage privé (mesure technique). Tout logiciel permettant le téléchargement comme certains logiciels de discussion instantané (chat), tout logiciel serveur est concerné (P2P, HTTP, FTP, SSH,...). Cet amendement surréaliste a été rédigé à l'origine par Vivendi Universal, puis retravaillé par plusieurs membres de la commission Sirinelli, une commission du Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Littéraire et Artistique.
Congratulations sir, now I want to claw my eyes out and die. That... squid scene... belongs to the same sanity-destroying category as goatse and tubgirl.
But yeah, early footage of next-gen console games (like Heavenly Sword) destroys any coming game I've seen for the PC.
Well... I looked at the screenshots and frankly I wasn't impressed. Look at character shadows, for instance. (I mean shadows from players and monsters, not just from terrain features). In the first screenshot, it looks like characters cast no shadows; and in the second screenshot the shadows are completely wrong (try matching shadows to the monsters: the leg and arm positions are completely off, the monsters seem to be floating above the ground, etc.) By contrast, Doom3 has nearly perfect shadows. Considering that Doom3 runs on my Geforce 4200, I would have expected HS to do a bit better.
Second, water. HL2 has exceptional water rendering; HS looks to be all-desert (except for a bit of wet in the third screenshot), but if it handled water properly, you would be sure it would have featured prominently in the screenies.
Third, the polygon count on monsters and characters doesn't look too high, compared to HL2 or Doom3.
So, just in terms of graphics quality, HS looks to be nothing exceptional, judging by current PC games. Considering that Xbox Next will have exceptional graphics performance, I am actually amazed that HS graphics are so lackluster.
Look at audio. Used to be raw OSS vs. ESD vs. Arts. Now, OSS is deprecated (in the kernel source), ESD is mostly deprecated, and Arts is beginning to get deprecated -- the new and superior frameworks are raw Alsa, Gstreamer, and Jack.
Look at HTML rendering. There used to be Gecko, KHTML, and various versions of GTKHTML. Now, Gnome 2.10 will start to drop GTKHTML support and replace it all with Gecko.
Look at virtual machines. Every single scripting language had their own. Now, Parrot is attempting to unify the languages. Perl 5.8 (in development), for instance, will drop support for the old VM and will run entirely on Parrot -- and the same future awaits Perl 6, Python, and maybe Ruby.
Look at raster-image handling libraries. There used to be imlib and gdkpixbuf. Now, imlib is pretty much deprecated, the cool kids are switching completely to imlib2, and the Gnome folks are thinking of heavily revising gdkpixbuf.
Lots of things get deprecated over time. How many programs still use motif or gtk1? How many of those are in the process of moving to a better toolkit?
There, you get
{archives}/2005-foo/2005-foo--mainline/2005-foo-ma inline--0.1/ for the 0.1 version of the trunk of project "foo" as developed in 2005. Version 0.33 of the experimental gui branch would be {archives}/2005-foo/2005-foo--expgui/2005-foo-expg ui--0.33/
etc.
Does anyone know if the Google search applicance is affected by this?
No. First of all, the Google Search Appliance crawls over http, and therefore obeys any.htaccess rules your server uses. Second, you can set it up so that users need to authenticate themselves. Third, there are many filters you can set up to prevent it from indexing sensitive content in the first place (except that since any sensitive content the google appliance indexes must already be accessible via an external http connection, one hopes it's not too sensitive).
Search engines let you find stuff! This is precisely why google, yahoo, and all the rest obey robots.txt Personally, I would be amazed if local search engines didn't have their own equivalent of robots.txt that limited the directories they are allowed to crawl.
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Most of the 2.14 packages are already in the official portage tree (and, at the moment, hardmasked). According to posts by gentoo devs in the forums, gnome-2.14 will be in ~arch by the end of the week.
And if you can't wait for two days and don't mind a few bugs, you could emerge 2.13.92 from the breakmygentoo overlay...
it was a lot harder to get into trouble with Communist Party doctrine as a pure mathematician than as a physicist (who might wind up using "Jewish physics" like relativity or quantum mechanics)
You are mixing up Communists and Nazis. Nazis banned relativity and quantum mechanics as "Jewish physics". By contrast, Soviet leaders (despite being antisemitic) recognized that Jewish physicists and physics were absolutely vital for building nukes and missiles.
The real reason Soviet physics started to fall behind the West was that
a. an enormous number of talented European Jewish physicists had fled to America in the 1930's, while nobody wanted to flee to Stalin's welcoming arms;
b. for some time in the 1940s-1950s, computer science was considered to be anti-Soviet, which meant that Soviet computer technology (vital for physics!) remained a decade or so behind the West all the way to the end of the Cold War;
c. too large a percentage of Soviet physicists were put to work in the military industrial complex, and many of their discoveries were classified. By contrast, in the post-WW2 West, most physicists tended to do unclassified work in the universities.
T-Mobile does use the same frequencies as in Europe (makes sense, cause in Europe T-Mobile is known as good old Deutsche Telekom) and you can bring your T-Mobile phone across the Atlantic, it's just that you will be killed by roaming charges unless you get a European prepaid SIM card.
But the more obscure facts are the ones with fewer people qualified to write about them and the ones with more people who don't fully understand them, so they are the least trustworthy.
I would disagree. I often look up a mathematical theorem or an algorithm in Wikipedia, and have always been surprised by how accurate it is. The quality of writing might be mediocre compared to planetmath or journal articles, but the basic information is always there and correct. The reason (I suspect) is that most people looking up obscure mathematical topics do so for professional reasons. Morons wanting to enlighten the internet with their idiocy wouldn't even know whtat to search for... So sometimes obscurity is good.
They are putting a lot of attention to Gnome Terminal because, frankly, Gnome Terminal (in Gmome <= 2.12) is horrendously slow (not as bad as the OSX terminal, but far worse than any other Linux terminal emulator). If you are a software developer of any kind, you use the terminal often. And if you are compiling a large project, just having the output scroll in Gnome Terminal can add minutes to your compile time.
Next, as for Ctrl-Alt-F1. Sure, that switches me to the text-only Linux console. But I (1) prefer the high resolution of X; (2) prefer the fact that I can easily switch between a dozen terminal windows in X; (3) use GUI text editors like Gedit and GVim; (4) can't copy/paste stuff from the text-only Linux console to my browser or my text editor -- this is a killer; (5) when I switch between X and console mode, my screen goes blank for a couple seconds (needs to flush the framebuffer) which is inevitable because of the amount of memory on my video card and the fact that the video card needs to be switched switch between two totally different drivers (X and console-mode); and (6) I need unicode fonts in my terminal, and Linux text-mode console only displays a small range of character sets.
A faster, more responsive Gnome Terminal is the feature that I am looking forward to the most in Gnome 2.14.
Beagle is a desktop search tool, like Apple's Spotlight or Google Desktop. It works quite well, but in Gnome 2.12, it's not integrated into the desktop -- ideally, for instance, you would want Beagle integrated into all standard file open dialogs etc. The thing about Beagle is that it's written in C# and runs on Mono (a .net clone). Some people (e.g. Redhat) feel that Microsoft has some patents that could be used to smack down Mono sometime in the future. In order to satisfy all the distros, Gnome is leaving Beagle integration optional in 2.14. Presumably, SuSE and Ubuntu will enable it, while Redhat Enterprise will probably disable it.
If you want to look at XUL from a RAD programming point of view... it closely corresponds to things like Python (with tkinter, PyQt, or pygtk), TCL/TK, Perl (with Gtk2::*) etc. Which is to say, languages and environments which have many of the same issues as Javascript (closures, forgiving syntax, various aspects of functional programming bolted on, and memory leaks galore if you don't know how to use weak references).
I personally would not call Swing RAD. In my experience, it's one of the slowest ways to develop a GUI -- but hey, maybe you are a much better Java developer than me.
I suspect that I am feeding a troll, but here goes...
Your comment is much akin to the following:
Bottom line: if you can't be bothered to learn the grammar of the language you are using -- hell, if you don't find learning new languages and grammatical concepts positively exciting -- perhaps software development is really not for you. You might want to look into becoming a manager.
...and frankly, this flexible armor sounds great. The reason you want some kind of protection is that you (sometimes in speed events, very often in slalom) run into gates (the plastic poles stuck in the snow that you have to turn around) with various parts of your body. Since you are going fast, and you are wearing a thin aerodynamic racing suit, it hurts like hell. So, if you don't feel like getting hurt, you strap on some plastic shin and arm guards, sort of like an Ancient Greek warrior with his greaves. Anyway, these plastic guards really are not the ideal solution. They chafe (since you are strapping them on tight, and the muscles and skin under the straps are constantly moving). They limit your motions quite a bit. They are, frankly, uncomfortable. And if you are doing speed events, they kill your aerodynamics.
So, as far as I am concerned, flexible armor is totally the way to go. Hopefully FIS won't ban it.
The two processors represent two quite different approaches to getting the most performance. The Pentium M has an enormous cache and good memory bandwidth. The Turion, on the other hand, has much better memory latency as well as AMD's traditionally strong scalar arithmetic.
The benchmarks come down to:
If the code and data fits in Pentium M's cache, Pentium M wins hands down.
For tasks like media encoding, where the problem doesn't fit into PM's cache, Turion wins hands down.
If you are spending much time at 100% CPU usage, Pentium M will give you better battery life.
Oh, and games? Both suck about equally well. If you want to play games, get a desktop.
Adware companies might provide incentive and the hospitals evidently need to secure their networks, too, but culpability lies solely with the two defectives who committed the crime.
Well, not quite. Let's look at an analogous IRL situation. Mob Boss tells a Thug, "If Luigi's warehouse were to, like, accidentally catch on fire, then I might spontaneously give you a monetary gift, *wink wink*". So Thug goes and burns down Luigi's warehouse, and Mob Boss pays him $5000. Then:
Thug goes to prison for committing arson; AND
Mob Boss goes to prison for conspiracy to commit arson; AND
Luigi gets hit with a massive lawsuit from his clients for failing to install a sprinkler system.
You are right that the perpetrators are guilty. However, in this case the adware company and the hospital almost certainly have some criminal and/or civil liability.
English has two "blue" colours as well - what we call blue, and indigo.
Sort of, but no. You are probably referring to Isaac Newton's decomposition of the rainbow (ROYGBIV). Unfortunately, in common usage, "indigo" is associated with "shade of blue". By contrast, "green" is not "shade of blue", and neither is "blue" a "shade of green", so I would call "blue" and "green" linguistically fundamental in English. Now, if you still think that Mr. Newton's labels hold absolute authority over the minds of English speakers, consider, for instance, computer graphics. Computer "blue" (#0000FF) is what Newton called "indigo". What Newton called "blue" (#00FFFF) computer software calls "cyan". In fact, most non-programmers, non-elementary-schoolkids would label the entire range #0000FF, #00FFFF, #000AE0, etc. as "various shades of blue".
To put it another way: "blue" is the sort of word everyone learns before age 5. "Indigo" (along with "azure", "lilac", "periwinkle", and the like) is mostly reserved for artists and interior designers.
Russian doesn't seem to fit this hypothesis. There are words for black, white, red, yellow, green. There are two fundamentally distinct words for blue (roughly, "light blue" and "dark blue" -- to a Russian-speaker, the two colors are fundamentally different, just like green and blue are fundamentally different to an English-speaker). There is a word for brown, a word for orange, and a word for gray. However, the words for "purple" and "pink" (fioletovyj and rozovyj) are only recent borrowings from French -- there are no native roots to describe those basic colors.
Free Software and Marx have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Marx was a social critic who (correctly) surmised that the workers of his day were unfairly exploited, but then used voodoo economics and bad Hegelism to go off on a wild apocalyptic-cult trajectory.
By contrast, Free Software is not a cult, and it is not a "scientific" view of history. It is simply a proposition that one of the inalienable rights of Homo sapiens -- along with the right to free speech, free press, and democratic elections -- is the right to freely use one's computer. (Granted, computer use is not in the usual list, but if Locke, Rousseau, and Jefferson had computers, I am sure they would have put Free Software in the rights of man.)
Marxism belongs to the general category of apocalyptic cults (like belief in rapture and the singularity).
Free Software belongs to the general category of campaigns for a specific rights (like womens' suffrage and the civil rights movement).
Nah, the US is not fascist.
First, because it is still a democracy (although Diebold is doing its best to undermine that). And second, because there is no systematic merger of business and government -- rather, certain businesses (RIAA, MPAA, oil, defense, etc) are one of the several special interest groups that the government pays too much attention to. Trial lawyers are another such group. So are fundamentalist Christians. So are mothers who want you to "think of the children". So are the gun-loving folks. So are the anti- and pro-abortion activists. So are the farmers. None of them has a monopoly on government attention - yet.
What you see with Halliburton and Enron is good old-fashioned cronyism and corruption. It's nowhere near the type of horror that most countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East went through sometime in the past 50 years.
Russia suffers from all the problems of a typical poor country.
There are corrupt judges, racist police, numerous and incompetent bureaucrats, politicians who use their office to amass personal fortunes, horrible jails, gangsters who run for parliament to get immunity from persecution, terrorists who blow shit up once in a while, drunk soldiers whose actions only help the terrorist cause, etc. You know, the usual sort of thing. Go to Indonesia or Brazil or any other country in the same income range -- they all have the same problems.
The thing about Russia though is that it has an extremely popular president. The people -- espeicially out in the rurual areas -- love Putin. As a result, Putin and his ex-KGB buddies have managed to push through just the type of laws you would expect from ex-KGB people: taking over mass media, stifling freedom of the press, appointing provincial governors, excluding small parties from the political process, harassing NGO's and outspoken businessmen, etc. Which totally sucks. Hopefully the Russian people will realize that KGB officers do not make good politicians before Putin&Co turn the country into a real police state.
It appears to be about copyright infringement. I am sure the comment was about Open Source P2P software, not ALL Open Source software.
...). Cet amendement surréaliste a été rédigé à l'origine par Vivendi Universal, puis retravaillé par plusieurs membres de la commission Sirinelli, une commission du Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Littéraire et Artistique.
You would think so, but no. This bans all open-source software that could send copyrighted data over the network. In other words: Apache, Samba, Openssh, mozilla/firefox/thunderbird/etc., gaim, KDE's kioslaves, GNOME's gnomevfs -- hell -- this law probably bans even glibc (sockets!) and the Linux kernel (raw packet interface). That's right. FTP clients and servers are banned. CUPS is banned (you can use IPP to transfer arbitrary data to a printer on another machine). BIND is banned (I believe you can tunnel connections over DNS requests).
Basically, any program that can move copyrighted data over the network cannot allow the user to modify its source code.
THESE PEOPLE ARE FSCKING INSANE.
Here is the original French:
Un amendement au projet de loi DADVSI, ayant pour objectif d'assimiler à un délit de contrefaçon, l'édition, la diffusion et la promotion de tout logiciel susceptible d'être utilisé pour mettre à disposition des informations protégées par le droit d'auteur et n'intégrant pas un dispositif de contrôle et de traçage de l'usage privé (mesure technique). Tout logiciel permettant le téléchargement comme certains logiciels de discussion instantané (chat), tout logiciel serveur est concerné (P2P, HTTP, FTP, SSH,
Gotta love the these animals!
... squid scene ... belongs to the same sanity-destroying category as goatse and tubgirl.
WARNING: NOT SCHOOL/OFFICE SAFE
Congratulations sir, now I want to claw my eyes out and die. That
But yeah, early footage of next-gen console games (like Heavenly Sword) destroys any coming game I've seen for the PC.
Well... I looked at the screenshots and frankly I wasn't impressed. Look at character shadows, for instance. (I mean shadows from players and monsters, not just from terrain features). In the first screenshot, it looks like characters cast no shadows; and in the second screenshot the shadows are completely wrong (try matching shadows to the monsters: the leg and arm positions are completely off, the monsters seem to be floating above the ground, etc.) By contrast, Doom3 has nearly perfect shadows. Considering that Doom3 runs on my Geforce 4200, I would have expected HS to do a bit better.
Second, water. HL2 has exceptional water rendering; HS looks to be all-desert (except for a bit of wet in the third screenshot), but if it handled water properly, you would be sure it would have featured prominently in the screenies.
Third, the polygon count on monsters and characters doesn't look too high, compared to HL2 or Doom3.
So, just in terms of graphics quality, HS looks to be nothing exceptional, judging by current PC games. Considering that Xbox Next will have exceptional graphics performance, I am actually amazed that HS graphics are so lackluster.
Perl 5.8 (in development)
Typo. I meant Perl 5.10
when did you see a featureset dropped in Linux?
Look at audio. Used to be raw OSS vs. ESD vs. Arts. Now, OSS is deprecated (in the kernel source), ESD is mostly deprecated, and Arts is beginning to get deprecated -- the new and superior frameworks are raw Alsa, Gstreamer, and Jack.
Look at HTML rendering. There used to be Gecko, KHTML, and various versions of GTKHTML. Now, Gnome 2.10 will start to drop GTKHTML support and replace it all with Gecko.
Look at virtual machines. Every single scripting language had their own. Now, Parrot is attempting to unify the languages. Perl 5.8 (in development), for instance, will drop support for the old VM and will run entirely on Parrot -- and the same future awaits Perl 6, Python, and maybe Ruby.
Look at raster-image handling libraries. There used to be imlib and gdkpixbuf. Now, imlib is pretty much deprecated, the cool kids are switching completely to imlib2, and the Gnome folks are thinking of heavily revising gdkpixbuf.
Lots of things get deprecated over time. How many programs still use motif or gtk1? How many of those are in the process of moving to a better toolkit?
Was your naming convention inspired by tla (Tom Lord's Arch)?
a inline--0.1/ for the 0.1 version of the trunk of project "foo" as developed in 2005. Version 0.33 of the experimental gui branch would be {archives}/2005-foo/2005-foo--expgui/2005-foo-expg ui--0.33/
etc.
There, you get {archives}/2005-foo/2005-foo--mainline/2005-foo-m
Does anyone know if the Google search applicance is affected by this?
.htaccess rules your server uses. Second, you can set it up so that users need to authenticate themselves. Third, there are many filters you can set up to prevent it from indexing sensitive content in the first place (except that since any sensitive content the google appliance indexes must already be accessible via an external http connection, one hopes it's not too sensitive).
No. First of all, the Google Search Appliance crawls over http, and therefore obeys any
Search engines let you find stuff! This is precisely why google, yahoo, and all the rest obey robots.txt Personally, I would be amazed if local search engines didn't have their own equivalent of robots.txt that limited the directories they are allowed to crawl.