All I can say is that India better hope like hell that Apple doesn't have nukes yet.
Think about it. The mark of the beast. Something placed upon the hand or the head. Impossible to do business without it. Wrought by one who is worshiped as a demigod, but is in fact the antichrist.
If Apple has nukes, it won't just be the end of India.
What we're witnessing here could be the beginning of the end. The iPocalypse itself.
July, 2005, day 3 of the gentoo install. A friend asked me to put it on his iBook, and I have severely underestimated the time it takes for this machine to compile code. I have not slept since the ordeal started. But, at last, I am sitting at a functioning xterm, and am watching as the last few bits of gnome compile. I victoriously initialize one last emerge, after seeing that everything finally appears to be in working order, deciding that it can compile a few bits of additional software while I sleep.
I enter my room just after 1:00 PM and pull back the blankets on my bed, intending to fall asleep before I even hit the pillow. From above, I hear my older brother shout "OH MY GOD, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!". The general area around the power meter, also where the power to the house comes in, had ignited, for what I immediately expect to be an electrical fire.
I don't know what else to say, so I'll just say it: I escaped the blaze, on roughly my 51st hour awake, with a cat in one arm and a fresh gentoo install, still compiling, in the other.
1: Connect to proxy server
2: Visit website
3: Get infected with trojan
4: Trojan phones home, they see the proxy's IP again
5: Disconnect from proxy some time later
6: Trojan phones home again, they see your real IP
7: ???
8: PRISON!
...is like paying airplane manufacturers by weight.
I got the impression that they didn't calculate their pay by lines of code directly. They calculated it by the estimated number of man-hours required to write and debug said code, divided it up into a number of full-time man-years, and multiplied by the average salary.
It's only like paying plane manufacturers by weight if you consider that more planes means more weight.
Open source does not mean open platform, case closed.
Yes... yes it does.
From the Open Source Definition
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution [...]
I mean, technically the OSI doesn't own a trademark on the term or anything, so I don't believe there's anything they can do to enforce the definition, but calling this "open source" is like calling a garbage can a "lunch box".
If I may quote a line from Futurama...
"He's good, alright. But he's no Clem Johnson. And Johnson played back in the days before steroid injections were mandatory." -- Professor Farnsworth
...bittorrent?
It has built in file integrity checking. Simply create a torrent for the files and have the backup source seed. Then periodically check the integrity of the files (many clients can let you force a recheck of file integrity) and it will not only identify corrupt files, but automatically download replacements from the backup.
If you have to add files to the backup, it does require you to make a new torrent. Still, if you set things up right it does prove to be a rather elegant solution, I've used it myself for a few things in the past.
Microwaves ovens work by heating water, and little else. If getting warm caused cancer then blow driers would be death rays, and our own blood liquid doom. By "affect" I believe the earlier poster was referring to something more along the lines of "cause cellular damage" which is something the 2-3 GHz range simply does not have the energy to do. E = hf... not the hardest math to do. I mean, if microwaves had enough energy to cause cancer, then a few photons of visible light would be deadly many times over.
You know, the 38% reduction is a drop in the ocean if you ask me. Selling songs online via file download has, compared to media on a disc, virtually no cost of distribution. So, the industry wants artists to get 4% of the song's cost. The gov't gets about a third. And the industry takes what's left (still probably over 60%). Why, exactly, does the industry feel it deserves (in my rough estimate) 15x the profit the artist gets when all they do, aside from take your money, is point you to a download?
It didn't set his pants aflame, it set them iFlame. It's one of those features that lets you know when it's time to replace your perfectly good but two year old player.
someone needs to make a convincing (read: easier than DX) interface to OpenGL+SDL
Believe it or not there is such an interface. It's just OpenGL and SDL. Compared to those, coding for DX is like a dream...a horrible nightmarish dream from which there is no waking.
Open and shut if there's a mentally competent judge presiding. But given the kind of stuff that's been getting posted lately, I wouldn't want to underestimate the idiocy of some people in the legal system.
in another 2 years we'll get Lazy Lobster, then another 2 until Panzy Penguin.
Seriously though, *buntu is a great OS (set) but, at least for the LTS releases (as they stand a slightly better chance of being used in a business world) ought to have at least slightly more serious names.
out of the 3 iPhones, he'll have to pay 1 as tax, and use 1 more to recoup the losses of his original iPhone he traded, and about 1000 more (or the cash equivilent thereof) when A&AT&T (Apple and AT&T, see what I did there?) find a loophole and sue his ass.
I'm dead serious. OS X is a great example of what a little creative advertising can do. I know I'm over simplifying this, but OS X is basically FreeBSD (if I recall) with a proprietary UI installed on extremely well understood hardware to ensure things "just work"
And look at their market shares. It works. And, when coupled with their similarly simplistic accessories (iPod, iPhone, etc) and further tight integration into the OS, well, they've gotten a bit of traction to say the least.
It's not by any means what I'd consider a significant threat to Microsoft, but it's enough that a quickly growing number of major software applications are available on the platform.
I don't see why the same couldn't be done for linux. As I see it, at this point anyway, your average (competent) distro will do just about anything you want it to, out of the box (or after installing a few restricted packages) and with virtually no configuration--provided you have well supported hardware. If linux were advertised, at least enough outside the server market for more everyday people to become aware of it, then there might be more pressure on hardware manufacturers to release driver source code and/or enough hardware specs to actually write a good driver.
The only thing, and I mean the ONLY thing I see holding linux back right now is a vicious cycle. Hardware manufacturers don't make drivers because too few people run linux. Too little software gets ported to linux because too few people run linux. Too few people run linux because of the lack of familiar software and hardware support (that's not to say that there's any lacking in alternatives for most things).
Basically, what I'm trying to say is, despite my loathe of Dell I think the fact that they sell hardware with Ubuntu pre-installed is potentially the greatest thing which could happen to linux, at least likely from the viewpoint of a typical user. I just wish I saw an Ubuntu notebook or desktop in a Dell advertisement every now and again.
</rant>
All that now said, actual code base work wise...two things: unquestionably legal support for more media formats (too bad there'll probably never be a completely legal way to get dvd css support in the US), and virtualization. The latter I still consider to be in an almost infantile stage, but still very effective when properly configured. We still seem to be lacking in a completely GPL virtualization solution in the mainline kernel that's as intuitive to use as VirtualBox. A sleek KVM frontend would be nice.
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All I can say is that India better hope like hell that Apple doesn't have nukes yet.
Think about it. The mark of the beast. Something placed upon the hand or the head. Impossible to do business without it. Wrought by one who is worshiped as a demigod, but is in fact the antichrist.
If Apple has nukes, it won't just be the end of India.
What we're witnessing here could be the beginning of the end. The iPocalypse itself.
You jest, but... have I got a story for you...
July, 2005, day 3 of the gentoo install. A friend asked me to put it on his iBook, and I have severely underestimated the time it takes for this machine to compile code. I have not slept since the ordeal started. But, at last, I am sitting at a functioning xterm, and am watching as the last few bits of gnome compile. I victoriously initialize one last emerge, after seeing that everything finally appears to be in working order, deciding that it can compile a few bits of additional software while I sleep.
I enter my room just after 1:00 PM and pull back the blankets on my bed, intending to fall asleep before I even hit the pillow. From above, I hear my older brother shout "OH MY GOD, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!". The general area around the power meter, also where the power to the house comes in, had ignited, for what I immediately expect to be an electrical fire.
I don't know what else to say, so I'll just say it: I escaped the blaze, on roughly my 51st hour awake, with a cat in one arm and a fresh gentoo install, still compiling, in the other.
1: Connect to proxy server
2: Visit website
3: Get infected with trojan
4: Trojan phones home, they see the proxy's IP again
5: Disconnect from proxy some time later
6: Trojan phones home again, they see your real IP
7: ???
8: PRISON!
this news bores me.
Sounds like you need to brush up on your Boolean, too.
Let p = "use extensions"
q = "avoid crashes"
r = "use nightlies"
IF (p OR q) THEN ~r
q
Therefore, ~r.
This sounds more like a case of an OR (possibly an implicit XOR?) used when AND was meant.
...is like paying airplane manufacturers by weight.
I got the impression that they didn't calculate their pay by lines of code directly. They calculated it by the estimated number of man-hours required to write and debug said code, divided it up into a number of full-time man-years, and multiplied by the average salary. It's only like paying plane manufacturers by weight if you consider that more planes means more weight.
Open source does not mean open platform, case closed.
Yes... yes it does. From the Open Source Definition
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution [...]
I mean, technically the OSI doesn't own a trademark on the term or anything, so I don't believe there's anything they can do to enforce the definition, but calling this "open source" is like calling a garbage can a "lunch box".
If I may quote a line from Futurama... "He's good, alright. But he's no Clem Johnson. And Johnson played back in the days before steroid injections were mandatory." -- Professor Farnsworth
...bittorrent? It has built in file integrity checking. Simply create a torrent for the files and have the backup source seed. Then periodically check the integrity of the files (many clients can let you force a recheck of file integrity) and it will not only identify corrupt files, but automatically download replacements from the backup. If you have to add files to the backup, it does require you to make a new torrent. Still, if you set things up right it does prove to be a rather elegant solution, I've used it myself for a few things in the past.
I for one welcome our self sustaining indestructible mechanical overlords.
Microwaves ovens work by heating water, and little else. If getting warm caused cancer then blow driers would be death rays, and our own blood liquid doom. By "affect" I believe the earlier poster was referring to something more along the lines of "cause cellular damage" which is something the 2-3 GHz range simply does not have the energy to do. E = hf ... not the hardest math to do. I mean, if microwaves had enough energy to cause cancer, then a few photons of visible light would be deadly many times over.
You know, the 38% reduction is a drop in the ocean if you ask me. Selling songs online via file download has, compared to media on a disc, virtually no cost of distribution. So, the industry wants artists to get 4% of the song's cost. The gov't gets about a third. And the industry takes what's left (still probably over 60%). Why, exactly, does the industry feel it deserves (in my rough estimate) 15x the profit the artist gets when all they do, aside from take your money, is point you to a download?
He-Man!
It didn't set his pants aflame, it set them iFlame. It's one of those features that lets you know when it's time to replace your perfectly good but two year old player.
It's not a few people getting a slice of the pie. One group rapes the pie, then tells us they've eaten it all.
There's still plenty to slice there, I just wouldn't want to eat it.
By that logic, if I've never died before, I am immortal.
Although...the highlander had to die first to become immortal.
I'd trust the highlander more than Canadians.
The geeks shal inherit the earth, right?
I for one welcome our polyhedron dice rolling overloards.
Now mod me +5 Insightful
..did I hear the Final Fantasy "victory" music playing in my head when I first read this.
Only one word can fully describe this situation. w00t!
Believe it or not there is such an interface. It's just OpenGL and SDL. Compared to those, coding for DX is like a dream...a horrible nightmarish dream from which there is no waking.
Or so I'm told.
Open and shut if there's a mentally competent judge presiding. But given the kind of stuff that's been getting posted lately, I wouldn't want to underestimate the idiocy of some people in the legal system.
By an 0rk?
in another 2 years we'll get Lazy Lobster, then another 2 until Panzy Penguin.
Seriously though, *buntu is a great OS (set) but, at least for the LTS releases (as they stand a slightly better chance of being used in a business world) ought to have at least slightly more serious names.
Slightly.
out of the 3 iPhones, he'll have to pay 1 as tax, and use 1 more to recoup the losses of his original iPhone he traded, and about 1000 more (or the cash equivilent thereof) when A&AT&T (Apple and AT&T, see what I did there?) find a loophole and sue his ass.
You know they'll find a loophole.
I mean, it's AT&T!
Advertising.
I'm dead serious. OS X is a great example of what a little creative advertising can do. I know I'm over simplifying this, but OS X is basically FreeBSD (if I recall) with a proprietary UI installed on extremely well understood hardware to ensure things "just work"
And look at their market shares. It works. And, when coupled with their similarly simplistic accessories (iPod, iPhone, etc) and further tight integration into the OS, well, they've gotten a bit of traction to say the least.
It's not by any means what I'd consider a significant threat to Microsoft, but it's enough that a quickly growing number of major software applications are available on the platform.
I don't see why the same couldn't be done for linux. As I see it, at this point anyway, your average (competent) distro will do just about anything you want it to, out of the box (or after installing a few restricted packages) and with virtually no configuration--provided you have well supported hardware. If linux were advertised, at least enough outside the server market for more everyday people to become aware of it, then there might be more pressure on hardware manufacturers to release driver source code and/or enough hardware specs to actually write a good driver.
The only thing, and I mean the ONLY thing I see holding linux back right now is a vicious cycle. Hardware manufacturers don't make drivers because too few people run linux. Too little software gets ported to linux because too few people run linux. Too few people run linux because of the lack of familiar software and hardware support (that's not to say that there's any lacking in alternatives for most things).
Basically, what I'm trying to say is, despite my loathe of Dell I think the fact that they sell hardware with Ubuntu pre-installed is potentially the greatest thing which could happen to linux, at least likely from the viewpoint of a typical user. I just wish I saw an Ubuntu notebook or desktop in a Dell advertisement every now and again.
</rant>
All that now said, actual code base work wise...two things: unquestionably legal support for more media formats (too bad there'll probably never be a completely legal way to get dvd css support in the US), and virtualization. The latter I still consider to be in an almost infantile stage, but still very effective when properly configured. We still seem to be lacking in a completely GPL virtualization solution in the mainline kernel that's as intuitive to use as VirtualBox. A sleek KVM frontend would be nice.
This looks like a job for a rootkit!
Quick, someone call Sony, maybe they can help!