This tool can't possibly ensure that some binary wasn't made by someone who looked at the open source version, and just reimplemented the same ideas.
Um, last time I checked, this is a quite reasonable approach. You can paraphrase your book report in school, you can paraphrase your predecessor's speech, you can take photographs from famous vistas, and you can rewrite your own closed code inspired from Open Source algorithms.
Source code is protected by copyright-- that is, literal or near-literal copies containing the essence of expression. Open Source code doesn't require that reverse engineering must be done in a clinical clean-room black-box methodology. That's kinda the POINT of Open Source: show people how it's done.
I independently decided long ago, according to my own personal faith, that we are currently IN the "sixth day" of creation. As it turns out, others have had the same interpretation. "One day for God is like a thousand years." Israeli physicist Gerald Schroeder's explanation. Perhaps the "seventh day of rest" corresponds to the thousand-year calm described in Revelations.
Windows.ini files are consistent too, but you don't find fanboys harping that they're the best format since the parting of the red sea. The thing that both XML and.ini files lack is any self-documenting: you still need to know what options are supported and what values are useful for those options. XML for configs solves nothing new, and makes things more bloated by far. You move away from human readability/editability and into the realm where only a machine can fathom the format.
Uh, fewer cables and redundant AC/DC converters (wall warts)? Why does every single device need to have a heavy power-processing unit to do the same task of AC/DC conversion? Do it once and make many devices share the low-voltage supply.
I dunno, but there seems to be a whole industry devoted to doing character development in 90 minutes to two hours.
But the thing is, would you pay $59.99 for a game that had been fully explored in two hours? Would you subscribe at $9.95/month for at least six months just to see a two hour game? The cost model is different, and if you've done all the development in a compressed time period, then you're not going to support the cost model.
Movies are "fire and forget" distributions which are aimed at hundreds of millions of tickets. Solo games are "fire and forget" distributions which are aimed at hundreds of thousands of boxes, and may incur sporadic pay-for-clue customer service backend costs. Each online game is a complete service industry with ongoing costs and ongoing evolution of the experience, and a stagnant game is a dead game.
Funny to see someone balk at the "Java 1.5 == Java 5" moniker, while using an operating system that is just as schizophrenic about marketing and version numbers. They shoehorn major releases into point releases just so they don't fuck up their "OS X" goldmine. Tiger should be Mac OS XIV (or at least Mac OS XIII), but that's about as sexy as Pope Benedict in a tiger-print leotard.
The bill also has provisions to ALLOW technologies to skip past nude/violent scenes as the viewer would dictate, instead of how the director had intended. Yes, I'd say that qualifies as being related to "Family Entertainment."
Taxis alone are 10%-15% of cars in Manhattan. If commercial vehicles (passenger and freight) or private limousines find value in the information, they'll invest.
There's been recent talk about new document "tracking" features that require a call home to read, and other stupid "smart data" junk which require a blackbox client. If Adobe expects me to run their spyware on my Linux machine, they have another think coming.
Okay, I'm not a fan nor a foe of the GIMP dev team, but I have to ask the same thing Sven said: how long do you think GimpShop guy is going to keep up a modern version of the modifications? Will there be a GimpShop 2.6? 2.8? 2.10? 3.0? If he has the personal dedication to rewrite GimpShop mods into each "end user" release of the GIMP for just a year, I'll be impressed. Itches fade and some itches aren't worth scratching for long, no matter how many other non-technical users are clamoring for the implementation.
Sven had some good points: if the GimpShop were done "right" with the architectural aids that the GIMP already offers, then the work would be a lot more manageable, and would end up being a long-life supported option, even after the GimpShop guy was no longer itching to keep it up. However, in the one little posting linked, Sven said he got no reply-- it's hard to tell if the GimpShop guy was ignoring Sven for past sleights and attitude, or just didn't get the messages, but either one is pretty believable.
I do think the GIMP development team needs to realize that as the premiere image editing package for the OSS world, that they have a certain obligation that comes with it. Whether you like it or not, you're a role model, so you should act like one. Listen to users who don't code. Do some of the heavy lifting for those users. Incorporate features which interested Photoshop users want. Spend time on doing a few more things in a slightly more leader-compatible way, and drive adoption forward. You can't expect outsiders to become developers in the huge GIMP codebase to scratch their itch, because the key people who have the key feedback are not coders. Approach your userbase with magnanimity and humility instead of arrogance and disapproval.
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We couldn't get it to work. The guy we had working on that went to Google. See what you fellas can do. Ten bucks.
Hm, let's see.
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n : a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)
I guess they're finally starting to make apparent their business model.
ISTR TLAs give ROI over RSI, YMMV, HTH.
Um, last time I checked, this is a quite reasonable approach. You can paraphrase your book report in school, you can paraphrase your predecessor's speech, you can take photographs from famous vistas, and you can rewrite your own closed code inspired from Open Source algorithms.
Source code is protected by copyright-- that is, literal or near-literal copies containing the essence of expression. Open Source code doesn't require that reverse engineering must be done in a clinical clean-room black-box methodology. That's kinda the POINT of Open Source: show people how it's done.
Heh, a somewhat appropriate typo. I think you meant "corporate" propaganda, but "cooperate" points to the conspiracy involved.
I independently decided long ago, according to my own personal faith, that we are currently IN the "sixth day" of creation. As it turns out, others have had the same interpretation. "One day for God is like a thousand years." Israeli physicist Gerald Schroeder's explanation. Perhaps the "seventh day of rest" corresponds to the thousand-year calm described in Revelations.
Windows .ini files are consistent too, but you don't find fanboys harping that they're the best format since the parting of the red sea. The thing that both XML and .ini files lack is any self-documenting: you still need to know what options are supported and what values are useful for those options. XML for configs solves nothing new, and makes things more bloated by far. You move away from human readability/editability and into the realm where only a machine can fathom the format.
I found Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#, but the images appear to have gone stale or something.
Uh, fewer cables and redundant AC/DC converters (wall warts)? Why does every single device need to have a heavy power-processing unit to do the same task of AC/DC conversion? Do it once and make many devices share the low-voltage supply.
"See, there's a warning right on the label - 'Invisible Pedestrian, NOT FOR BLIND KIDS.'" -- Dan Aykroyd, SNL
But the thing is, would you pay $59.99 for a game that had been fully explored in two hours? Would you subscribe at $9.95/month for at least six months just to see a two hour game? The cost model is different, and if you've done all the development in a compressed time period, then you're not going to support the cost model.
Movies are "fire and forget" distributions which are aimed at hundreds of millions of tickets. Solo games are "fire and forget" distributions which are aimed at hundreds of thousands of boxes, and may incur sporadic pay-for-clue customer service backend costs. Each online game is a complete service industry with ongoing costs and ongoing evolution of the experience, and a stagnant game is a dead game.
Funny to see someone balk at the "Java 1.5 == Java 5" moniker, while using an operating system that is just as schizophrenic about marketing and version numbers. They shoehorn major releases into point releases just so they don't fuck up their "OS X" goldmine. Tiger should be Mac OS XIV (or at least Mac OS XIII), but that's about as sexy as Pope Benedict in a tiger-print leotard.
The bill also has provisions to ALLOW technologies to skip past nude/violent scenes as the viewer would dictate, instead of how the director had intended. Yes, I'd say that qualifies as being related to "Family Entertainment."
I don't know what fixed the problem, but Fedora Core 2 had the same issue for me, but it works quite differently (and correctly) in FC3.
And another story just a short time later discusses an increase in website attacks against government servers. Hm...
You know what they say about operas... It ain't over till the fat lady swims.
Slashdot is not a news site. It is a news aggregation and community site.
I think you meant to say it is a press-release aggregation and community site.
Taxis alone are 10%-15% of cars in Manhattan. If commercial vehicles (passenger and freight) or private limousines find value in the information, they'll invest.
There's been recent talk about new document "tracking" features that require a call home to read, and other stupid "smart data" junk which require a blackbox client. If Adobe expects me to run their spyware on my Linux machine, they have another think coming.
what would their response have been if the word instead of blogs would have been "avid scrapbookers" or "special interest groups"?
How about reading Subversion's writeup on why that's not a good idea?
I think you mean "Neverland Security."
It's not a bank. You can't deposit some daylight for a rainy day. Stop calling it "Daylight Savings Time" because that's not what it's called.
Sven had some good points: if the GimpShop were done "right" with the architectural aids that the GIMP already offers, then the work would be a lot more manageable, and would end up being a long-life supported option, even after the GimpShop guy was no longer itching to keep it up. However, in the one little posting linked, Sven said he got no reply-- it's hard to tell if the GimpShop guy was ignoring Sven for past sleights and attitude, or just didn't get the messages, but either one is pretty believable.
I do think the GIMP development team needs to realize that as the premiere image editing package for the OSS world, that they have a certain obligation that comes with it. Whether you like it or not, you're a role model, so you should act like one. Listen to users who don't code. Do some of the heavy lifting for those users. Incorporate features which interested Photoshop users want. Spend time on doing a few more things in a slightly more leader-compatible way, and drive adoption forward. You can't expect outsiders to become developers in the huge GIMP codebase to scratch their itch, because the key people who have the key feedback are not coders. Approach your userbase with magnanimity and humility instead of arrogance and disapproval.