i am for anything that removes the public from dependence on fossil fuel, especially arab\middleeast fuel, i think out dependence on arab oil is why those arabs are so damn cocky they think they can get away with anything since we are dependant on their oil, well the USA & the west need to QUIT buying middleeast oil and let the arabs economy be humbled...
Probably offtopic, but the whole mid-east oil dependency reminds me of a love/hate relationship: you cannot live together and you cannot quit either . And you are right: if this relationship ends, both sides will probably be better off. Currently it is bad on the Arabs because of American interests push a foreign culture onto their own. It is bad for Americans because they are being hated for that and the Sept 11 events show how bad it has become.
I certainly hope my country does not become central to American interests - we got enough home-bred problems to deal with...
Perhaps it would have been more informative if they stored each of the three components' rating and gave you a gauge to choose the rating formula that suits you?
It would be interesting to see the top20 when setting both Vision and Presition to 4, and Adrenaline to 2...
I've lately noticed a lot of non-offensive, ontopic posts being moderated down as trolls, offtopic, or flamebait lately.
Especially this topic, where I noticed two posts about XP moderated down as trolls when they were merely funny... Either the moderator does not know what a troll is or they are trolls themselves, generating offtopic posts like this present one:).
Definition of trolling: The practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited.
I do not see it generating a lot of flames and serious responses, as everyone but the moderators see it as a joke:).
Definition of trolling: The practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited.
I do not see it generating a lot of flames and serious responses, as everyone but the moderators see it as a joke:).
At a friend's advice, I installed xine on my celeron 450 with Mandrake 8.1 and it was quite slow and blocky playing DivX4 movies off the HDD. I remember I was quite disappointed... then I tried MPlayer.
It rocked. MPlayer played my DivX's very smoothly and offered much better quality than Microsoft's media player on a P3-1GHz WinXP box at work. I suspect that it does some nifty post-processing to remove the blocks, whatever it is, it beats the hell out of all the windows video players I tried.
It says " There's a mostly empty opengl implementation of the low level graphics code. Might be fun to complete. Although I doubt it would be nearly as fast as D3D or Glide, you never know."
using less bloaty software production methods... using more tight, sleek assembly code instead of fat, saggy Visual Basic.
umm.. not defending VB here, but since you were talking about number of lines, wouldn't assembly code be like twice the line count in VB since you'd have to explicitly move stuff into registers, into memory, push parameters to the stack on function calls and the like?
Exactly, now that they freed him (note that they claimed to have freed Sklyarov in order to pursue the company he works for) I believe the govt can hush the whole thing up, wait for spirits to calm down and do it again.
If you kick a wooden door long enough it will break.
You, Sir, seem to be the person who believes technology would solve the basic human problems. Believe me, it does not. When TV was to become mainstream it was predicted it would end war and famine.
Please do yourself a favour, find the "Watchbird" story by Robert Sheckley and read it. It might save you a lot of trouble.
On another hand, maybe you are just one of those adequacy.org lads who seem to enjoy twisting facts and committing logical fallacies...
You seem to forget the fact that, unlike Yahoo, TV is used widely by billions of people _every day_, and is an authoritative and powerful informational source, forming the mindset and worldview of very many people.
I find it frightening to know such a tool as mass-media to suddenly have grown feedback tentacles.
Maybe I am an old, reactionary fool who likes to think centralized media should serve the cause of spreading information and knowledge and finds the news on TV superficial and sensational.
But imagine a scenario where centralized media becomes a tool with _feedback_, able to profile Joe Schmoe's reactions to the new political campaign, and the general response to the war-of-the-month news coverage...thus not only forming public opinion but also being able to monitor the efficiency of the process. In the wrong hands, this can be disastrous.
Oh man the article is the most finely crafted piece of FUD I ever saw.
First. The author does not mention the current state of things. We have a PC software monopoly running gangster practices - a heavyweight that would not allow programmers to develop and sell their software anyway. There are very few successful software companies able to sell what they created, in a world where patents and copyrights and proprietary protocols will deny you every right at information. Hell, and even take away "consumer freedom" (think Microsoft again) by pushing their proprietary OS down PC users' throat.
Second. The author makes an alleged motive for the FSF which he cannot prove.
This distorts the whole picture - suddenly we are in an ideal world with the evil FSF to take away our "flerbage".
Congratulations to Eric for twisting the facts and letting the people see the "obvious answer"!
Now to RealityMaster's post:
Shall I say again, if you think corporations give a flying duck about you and your rights, you are stupid. Plain as that.
If you think a corp. would think before stealing your code if they had enough weight to crush you as an independent developer, you are stupid twice. The world is not the "ideal nice place" Eric wants you to believe. If you still believe Eric then go code your great little application which won't sell - or hurry up and go donate all your code to Sun. Or Microsoft. Or Adobe. I am sure they will pat you on the head.
I hate to bring this to you but writing software for sale piece by piece is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It requires a lot of inspiration, hard work, years of usability testing - during which you have to buy clothes, feed your family etc. If you think the only barrier to getting rich by selling packaged code is GPL then I sympathize. Really.
"But someone's mere act of issuing software under a proprietary license doesn't change my flerbage."
Dear Eric,
No it doesn't. Unless they:
a) sell it with your PC and you have to AGREE with the LICENSE by default and pay for it even if you don't want it.
b) they force on you upgrades that you do not want
c) they might be sending your personal details to XYZ and there is nothing you can do about it - you cannot even legally reverse-engineer it to see what the particular piece of software is doing.
Now you'd say, but we got alternative OS. Where would that OS be if not RMS and those who wrote it in the first place?
Please. I am getting tired of things being taken out of context and presented in a "would-be" ideal world.
--- "There is no such thing as an insignificant contribution."
If you look a little while behind there WAS a better alternative to win 3.11/95 for the PC - OS/2 developed by Intel. It did not crash nearly as often as M$ OSes. It is now discontinued. So much proof for the "better product wins" idea.
Unfortunately manipulation and deceit wins these days.
That is called FRAUD and is a federal criminal offense and gets you in JAIL. By contrast, Microsoft can pay off anything as long as is not a criminal offense and they do so anytime they can pull it off. Maybe you should study the past, then you will be able to look into the future.
Once again you proved yourself to be narrow-minded and near-sighted. But somehow I am not surprised.
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i am for anything that removes the public from dependence on fossil fuel, especially arab\middleeast fuel, i think out dependence on arab oil is why those arabs are so damn cocky they think they can get away with anything since we are dependant on their oil, well the USA & the west need to QUIT buying middleeast oil and let the arabs economy be humbled...
Probably offtopic, but the whole mid-east oil dependency reminds me of a love/hate relationship: you cannot live together and you cannot quit either . And you are right: if this relationship ends, both sides will probably be better off. Currently it is bad on the Arabs because of American interests push a foreign culture onto their own. It is bad for Americans because they are being hated for that and the Sept 11 events show how bad it has become.
I certainly hope my country does not become central to American interests - we got enough home-bred problems to deal with...
It would be interesting to see the top20 when setting both Vision and Presition to 4, and Adrenaline to 2...
Especially this topic, where I noticed two posts about XP moderated down as trolls when they were merely funny... Either the moderator does not know what a troll is or they are trolls themselves, generating offtopic posts like this present one :).
Definition of trolling: The practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited.
I do not see it generating a lot of flames and serious responses, as everyone but the moderators see it as a jokeDefinition of trolling: The practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited.
I do not see it generating a lot of flames and serious responses, as everyone but the moderators see it as a jokeAt a friend's advice, I installed xine on my celeron 450 with Mandrake 8.1 and it was quite slow and blocky playing DivX4 movies off the HDD. I remember I was quite disappointed... then I tried MPlayer.
It rocked. MPlayer played my DivX's very smoothly and offered much better quality than Microsoft's media player on a P3-1GHz WinXP box at work. I suspect that it does some nifty post-processing to remove the blocks, whatever it is, it beats the hell out of all the windows video players I tried.
: ))
your mileage may vary...
Can anyone comment on this?
Yeah, but inheritance is not one of them : ((((
The post above looks very much like the ones on adequacy.org, both in style and content.
umm.. not defending VB here, but since you were talking about number of lines, wouldn't assembly code be like twice the line count in VB since you'd have to explicitly move stuff into registers, into memory, push parameters to the stack on function calls and the like?
Check this out:
http://ndi.sourceforge.net/
http://ndi.sourceforge.net/principles.html
However, current technology is not up to such initiatives yet - still needs a few years.
Exactly, now that they freed him (note that they claimed to have freed Sklyarov in order to pursue the company he works for) I believe the govt can hush the whole thing up, wait for spirits to calm down and do it again.
If you kick a wooden door long enough it will break.
Well perhaps a troll hacked his account to post such nonsense... it certainly smells like a troll to me.
You, Sir, seem to be the person who believes technology would solve the basic human problems. Believe me, it does not. When TV was to become mainstream it was predicted it would end war and famine.
Please do yourself a favour, find the "Watchbird" story by Robert Sheckley and read it. It might save you a lot of trouble.
On another hand, maybe you are just one of those adequacy.org lads who seem to enjoy twisting facts and committing logical fallacies...
You seem to forget the fact that, unlike Yahoo, TV is used widely by billions of people _every day_, and is an authoritative and powerful informational source, forming the mindset and worldview of very many people.
I find it frightening to know such a tool as mass-media to suddenly have grown feedback tentacles.
Maybe I am an old, reactionary fool who likes to think centralized media should serve the cause of spreading information and knowledge and finds the news on TV superficial and sensational.
But imagine a scenario where centralized media becomes a tool with _feedback_, able to profile Joe Schmoe's reactions to the new political campaign, and the general response to the war-of-the-month news coverage...thus not only forming public opinion but also being able to monitor the efficiency of the process. In the wrong hands, this can be disastrous.
Please go read the GPL and come back when you're done.
Oh man the article is the most finely crafted piece of FUD I ever saw.
First. The author does not mention the current state of things. We have a PC software monopoly running gangster practices - a heavyweight that would not allow programmers to develop and sell their software anyway. There are very few successful software companies able to sell what they created, in a world where patents and copyrights and proprietary protocols will deny you every right at information. Hell, and even take away "consumer freedom" (think Microsoft again) by pushing their proprietary OS down PC users' throat.
Second. The author makes an alleged motive for the FSF which he cannot prove.
This distorts the whole picture - suddenly we are in an ideal world with the evil FSF to take away our "flerbage".
Congratulations to Eric for twisting the facts and letting the people see the "obvious answer"!
Now to RealityMaster's post:
Shall I say again, if you think corporations give a flying duck about you and your rights, you are stupid. Plain as that.
If you think a corp. would think before stealing your code if they had enough weight to crush you as an independent developer, you are stupid twice. The world is not the "ideal nice place" Eric wants you to believe. If you still believe Eric then go code your great little application which won't sell - or hurry up and go donate all your code to Sun. Or Microsoft. Or Adobe. I am sure they will pat you on the head.
I hate to bring this to you but writing software for sale piece by piece is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It requires a lot of inspiration, hard work, years of usability testing - during which you have to buy clothes, feed your family etc. If you think the only barrier to getting rich by selling packaged code is GPL then I sympathize. Really.
"But someone's mere act of issuing software under a proprietary license doesn't change my flerbage."
Dear Eric,
No it doesn't. Unless they:
a) sell it with your PC and you have to AGREE with the LICENSE by default and pay for it even if you don't want it.
b) they force on you upgrades that you do not want
c) they might be sending your personal details to XYZ and there is nothing you can do about it - you cannot even legally reverse-engineer it to see what the particular piece of software is doing.
Now you'd say, but we got alternative OS. Where would that OS be if not RMS and those who wrote it in the first place?
Please. I am getting tired of things being taken out of context and presented in a "would-be" ideal world.
--- "There is no such thing as an insignificant contribution."
Ah! this must be why I get to read all these stupid and incompetently written "news" reports :)
--- " Routines are comfortable, comfort is a rut, ruts lead to failure. Failure is not an option."
Why, at some point what you read will be in your computer's RAM, decoded so you can view it on screen. Why not take a memory dump?
I bet crackers who are used to crack copy protection schemes will find tons of possible ways to disable the time limit.
As a simple scheme:
existing code:
cmp time_passed, 10*60*60
jge time_expired
; continue normal loop
replace with:
cmp time_passed, 10*60*60
nop
nop
; continue normal loop
But what a nice way to set someone up for 10 years in jail! just plant evidence of TAMPERING with the time constraints...
Btw how is the clock ticking? I bet there is a way to "freeze" the book and read it forever?
If you look a little while behind there WAS a better alternative to win 3.11/95 for the PC - OS/2 developed by Intel. It did not crash nearly as often as M$ OSes. It is now discontinued. So much proof for the "better product wins" idea.
Unfortunately manipulation and deceit wins these days.
On another note, in a way M$ is different than AT&T. The money it has, in a country where money is god. Now, that's scary.
Once again you proved yourself to be narrow-minded and near-sighted. But somehow I am not surprised.