This sets a bad precedent as companies will have a tight privacy policy to lure people in, then they will turn around and change it so they can sell the information. Privacy policies are quickly becoming useless, me thinks.
Since I no longer will shop at Amazon thanks to their patents, and now this, do you think they will provide a way for our information to be removed? After all, I submitted my information long before they decided to change their privacy policy.
The thing that makes Linux Unix-like (libc, shell tools, etcetera) is the GNU System, which was started in 1983, but doesn't appear anywhere in the chart.
Are you refering to HURD? If so, it branches off at page seven of the PDF right in the middle of the page.
They compared the bleeding edge postgres (7.0) with the old-as-heck mysql (3.22) - they're now up to revision *22* of the development series for mysql - that's a pretty huge amount of changes. I would have been much more impressed with this if they had ran the comparison between 3.23.22 and 7.0.
Postgres 7.0 is the current stable release. According to http://www.mysql.com/downloads, MySQL v3.22 is the current stable release and v3.23 is the current beta release of MySQL. Given that, I can't blame them for not testing a stable product versus a beta product.
Even if there have been "a pretty huge amount of changes" as you state, it's still marked as a beta product. As for myself, I wouldn't use a beta product in a production environment until it's been marked as stable by the developers, no matter how stable other people might say it is. That's why I use MySQL v3.22 right now. If something is marked beta, there is more than likely a reason for it. It would be irresponsible of me to risk using it and risk losing customer's data. I'm sure other businesses and individuals can't afford to take those risks with their data either.
Why do people keep talking about the Gnutella source code? Is it really that important? The protocol is freely available now and there are a lot of Gnutella clients for different platforms. What's the big deal to have the source code to the original Gnutella?
So is the Postal Service prepared to store all of that spam for the millions of email addresses that will be ignored by their owners but constantly spammed? This sounds like a waste of an idea. There are already free email services such as Hotmail. This would have been news had it happened in the pre-Hotmail era. Now it's a waste of taxpayer money.
A lot of these abbreviations seem to have simple pronounciations that come about. SCSI being pronounced as "scuzzy" being one. I've heard a lot of people pronounce SDMI as "sodomy" and others pronouncing it as "sid my." Is there a correct pronounciation?
Great. Once again the major labels fuck things up for everyone. There's a lot of music available via Napster that isn't on the major labels. Don't they have a say in this? Where the fuck are the independent labels in all of this? Why shut down Napster instead of having Napster block the music by the major labels?
Everyone loses now. The people promoting their music from major labels. The music that I won't be able to try out otherwise. Who fucking cares if people are downloading Britney Spears songs. They hear that shit on the radio anyway. What about all the music that doesn't make it to the radio? I enjoy searching for songs, then adding people to my hotlist to see what other kind of music they listen to. It's like the Amazon "people that bought this also got this CD" situation but better. I see songs by people I have never even heard of all the time. The best part is that I can hear the whole song and learn about someone new. That's really important to me before I try to hunt down a CD that might not even be carried by Amazon or any other major retailer. Not to mention the amount of money that I am going to have to plunk down before I even get to listen to the whole CD.
What a shame. For both the major labels dominating the whole situation and the smaller labels failing to stand up and be counted.
SoftImage only distributes Toonz. The people who wrote it are Digital Video S.r.l. is based in Rome. They also have quite a lot of information about the product on the Toonz area of the site.
It looks like it's also being ported to Windows 2000. I found this under the history section.
IIRC, Toonz is a digital compositing and ink & paint system for cel animators. It allows an animator to import a series of drawings from either files or via a scanner with a document feeder. Once imported or scanned, Toonz finds the edges of lines that you have drawn and thickens them up a bit. You can then composite cels much like you do in traditional 2D cel animation and assemble your characters over your backgrounds.
You can also set fill points for your drawings that fill in closed areas such as a characters body or face, etc. These fill points can be animated over time via keyframes.
This won't be a cheap product, BTW. Expect to pay SGI prices.
So what software is available for it? This is going to be about useless unless there is some useful software ported to it. I doubt that we are going to see Maya, SoftImage, or any Discreet Logic tools on it anytime soon. Granted, big companies like Digital Domain and ILM can dedicate some programmers to porting in house tools, but why would they want to? For the same amount that it would cost them to pay for the developers time, they can buy a couple more SGIs. I'll be curious to see what the future brings for this product.
I would think that if he doesn't release the last part of the novel that the community of writers on the net would have great fun completing it for him. Then you can take your pick of several endings.
I'd probably pay a lot just to see all of those variations.
In addition even if 90% of isps can be persuaded to implement it, there are enough that will disregard it and the attacks will surely continue.
Yeah, but if you are lucky enough to get 90% of them to implement this, then it probably wouldn't be hard to refuse traffic to/from the other 10% until they lceaned up their act. Getting that first 90%, though. That'd be tough.
I can't get ot the FAQ to check on this, but I wonder if this is approved by the SETI@Home people. If not, they might disallow blocks coming from these units.
The reason that I mention this is because the SETI@Home people have already pointed out that several folks have modified their clients to get more speed. Because of this the SETI people couldn't guarantee that the results would be correct so they didn't accept data from those clients.
Is there a chance the same thing could happen here?
I thought distributed.net's purpose was to see how much can be done with people's spare processor cycles and such. Building dedicated hardware for it somewhat defeats the purpose.
The SETI@Home project has nothing to do with distributed.net.
In the time that it took them to write that complaint, that contributed exactly zero to anything, they could have been using their 'vast' web standards knowledge to help create test cases for open bugs on the Mozilla project. So much for WaSP participating.
Microsoft was a unix systems house back when they produced DOS, and many features of DOS were modelled from Unix.
Close. Microsoft has never been a Unix shop. Microsoft modelled those features from CP/M, not Unix. They also bought DOS from an individual for, I believe, $50k and began enhancing it rather than designing something from scratch. Just think, all those bad design decisions from that one person many years ago still affect so many people today.
This is kinda off-topic, but I remember about six to twelve months ago that some people were going to rewrite all of the Unix commands (cat, ls, chmod, and others) in Perl. Has anyone else heard of this project? Does anyone know what happened to that idea? I thought it was interesting, at least.
Remind anyone of jamie's story about age restriction on Soldier of Fortune in British Columbia?
Not really. Jamie ended up ranting the entire time about the fact that he was vegan and didn't like the idea of killing and eating animals. Not much to do with the age restrictions issue there.
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This sets a bad precedent as companies will have a tight privacy policy to lure people in, then they will turn around and change it so they can sell the information. Privacy policies are quickly becoming useless, me thinks.
Since I no longer will shop at Amazon thanks to their patents, and now this, do you think they will provide a way for our information to be removed? After all, I submitted my information long before they decided to change their privacy policy.
Great, now Mircosoft will make hardware will all of the quality, reliability, and openness that we have come to expect from them. Er... :-/
Even if there have been "a pretty huge amount of changes" as you state, it's still marked as a beta product. As for myself, I wouldn't use a beta product in a production environment until it's been marked as stable by the developers, no matter how stable other people might say it is. That's why I use MySQL v3.22 right now. If something is marked beta, there is more than likely a reason for it. It would be irresponsible of me to risk using it and risk losing customer's data. I'm sure other businesses and individuals can't afford to take those risks with their data either.
There is also Open Patents where some guy is creating a GPL-like patent-pool structure for patents.
Why do people keep talking about the Gnutella source code? Is it really that important? The protocol is freely available now and there are a lot of Gnutella clients for different platforms. What's the big deal to have the source code to the original Gnutella?
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So is the Postal Service prepared to store all of that spam for the millions of email addresses that will be ignored by their owners but constantly spammed? This sounds like a waste of an idea. There are already free email services such as Hotmail. This would have been news had it happened in the pre-Hotmail era. Now it's a waste of taxpayer money.
A lot of these abbreviations seem to have simple pronounciations that come about. SCSI being pronounced as "scuzzy" being one. I've heard a lot of people pronounce SDMI as "sodomy" and others pronouncing it as "sid my." Is there a correct pronounciation?
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Oops. I meant to say "Everyone loses now. The people promoting their music from independent labels." Sorry about that.
Great. Once again the major labels fuck things up for everyone. There's a lot of music available via Napster that isn't on the major labels. Don't they have a say in this? Where the fuck are the independent labels in all of this? Why shut down Napster instead of having Napster block the music by the major labels?
Everyone loses now. The people promoting their music from major labels. The music that I won't be able to try out otherwise. Who fucking cares if people are downloading Britney Spears songs. They hear that shit on the radio anyway. What about all the music that doesn't make it to the radio? I enjoy searching for songs, then adding people to my hotlist to see what other kind of music they listen to. It's like the Amazon "people that bought this also got this CD" situation but better. I see songs by people I have never even heard of all the time. The best part is that I can hear the whole song and learn about someone new. That's really important to me before I try to hunt down a CD that might not even be carried by Amazon or any other major retailer. Not to mention the amount of money that I am going to have to plunk down before I even get to listen to the whole CD.
What a shame. For both the major labels dominating the whole situation and the smaller labels failing to stand up and be counted.
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It looks like it's also being ported to Windows 2000. I found this under the history section.
You can also set fill points for your drawings that fill in closed areas such as a characters body or face, etc. These fill points can be animated over time via keyframes.
This won't be a cheap product, BTW. Expect to pay SGI prices.
So what software is available for it? This is going to be about useless unless there is some useful software ported to it. I doubt that we are going to see Maya, SoftImage, or any Discreet Logic tools on it anytime soon. Granted, big companies like Digital Domain and ILM can dedicate some programmers to porting in house tools, but why would they want to? For the same amount that it would cost them to pay for the developers time, they can buy a couple more SGIs. I'll be curious to see what the future brings for this product.
I'd probably pay a lot just to see all of those variations.
The reason that I mention this is because the SETI@Home people have already pointed out that several folks have modified their clients to get more speed. Because of this the SETI people couldn't guarantee that the results would be correct so they didn't accept data from those clients.
Is there a chance the same thing could happen here?
In the time that it took them to write that complaint, that contributed exactly zero to anything, they could have been using their 'vast' web standards knowledge to help create test cases for open bugs on the Mozilla project. So much for WaSP participating.
What are you talking about? I have a potato powered web server. :-)
This is kinda off-topic, but I remember about six to twelve months ago that some people were going to rewrite all of the Unix commands (cat, ls, chmod, and others) in Perl. Has anyone else heard of this project? Does anyone know what happened to that idea? I thought it was interesting, at least.