Actually, Half-life did do something new. It had a story line. It was the first FPS that did that and a great in-depth one at that. It really was a fundamental shift in how FPS's were done and what was expected from them from that point forward. And Half-life 2 was a great continuation of that.
(Quotes are paraphrases) (Yes, I have emails to back this up and CTV and Global has on-line articles to corroborate the facts below)
A while back at the University of Winnipeg some delinquent wrote that (s)he would "shoot this place up" on a specific date at a specific time. After that, the University's President Lloyd Axworthy said that "Universities are under attack." Which is rather an embarrassing statement. There is a profound difference between bad things happening AT Universities and bad thing happening TO Universities. Universities are certainly NOT under attack.
They at least planned the typical impotent measures. Namely, more CCTV, bag checks, etc. Nothing that would actually improve security. Worse yet, I personally emailed them not only telling them of this, but I provided recent real world examples of these measures not working. Point of fact, the answer that I got from Lesely Thomson (Senior Executive Officer & Advisor to the President) was that (exact quote) "we will now have a new "normal" and we are in the process of establishing that." You know, mandatory bag checks at entrances that create bottlenecks enough to create proverbial fish in barrel. Nice work.
But, here's a kicker. The same things were happening at Brandon University (and I believe that the University of Manitoba as well). All of this and the President of the Student Unions at both BU and the UofW were quoted as happy with the reaction and found it completely appropriate. I was also still subscribed to the UWMSSA mailing list and its President encouraged co-operation of these nonsensical measures. I'd expect better from a Math person given the high level of critical thought required in that discipline. I also cc'd both UofW student reps and got zero replies from them (at least that I saw).
The entire episode was a ridiculous over reaction with profoundly negative impacts for our future. One of the pillars of society, our educational institutions, had fallen that day. When the world of education and critical thought can't use what it apparently teaches... such things are so very disturbing.
Anyone that's into tech and actually knows what's going on is typically just being used. It's not that it's our age, it's that the jock, et al has learned to use us in a new way i.e. we're still doing there homework. It's just that the homework in question is not that Math assignment any more, but rather producing a "point and click" solution to turn that mkv into a PS3 friendly mp4 among other things. And a lot of us do it because it puts us into the spot-light for a couple seconds. Me, when someone HAS become abusive, I told them to go fuck themselves and figure it out for themselves. Of course being followed up by someone else that actually volunteers to figure something out for the jock ass-hole.
This writer seems to be confused about what being a geek actually means. It's not that one uses facebook, but rather that one could program it him/her-self. Perhaps this guy should actually look into things and think about it before publishing it next time.
1) Strongly encrypt the data via your favourite method
2) Setup an Sftp with a user name/strong password for the consultant*
3) Send the user name/strong password to him/her via email (PGP/GPG)
4) Keep the login log in a very safe place, along with any other email exchange, keys, etc that show the transfer has occurred and by whom.
* If you want to have a even better "paper" trail, have them send you the IP of the host that they will be logging in from and limit access to just that host. Also have make sure that this IP is verifiable owned by the consultant firm. Keep the verification.
If all of the above is done, you have made sure that the login has been done through the only *one* IP allowed (owned by the consultant firm), through a login that only one person has. So, any fuck-ups are there's and there's alone.
But, if possible, I'd also require them to keep the data encrypted and only decrypted for use, preferable not to a HDD (ram disk). Not to mention any other mechanism that you can think of. Also make sure that the paper work requires any and all requirement to be applicable to any subcontractors as well as any of the subcontractors subcontractors, etc. Because, these consulting firms have a rather poor track record of keeping this data secure. And if they don't do it, and bad things happen, there is legal recourse on your part (as well as possibly the people who's data it is).
This isn't the US nor is it the EU, it's Canada. And the CRTC is here to protect consumers, etc. And guess what. They actually do there job some of the time. Welcome to a country where corruption isn't total in government orgs (at least yet).
Wow, how don't you get it? I see I have to spell it out for you:
1. People are NOT paid to report witches... sorry "hate crimes" 2. Conviction in a court of law requires relevant evidence (yes, here too) 3. No property was confiscated and used as "payment" for the judges, torturers, executioners, etc. nor will it be.
i.e. You got this idea in your head about commissions that doesn't apply here. Your analogy is embarrassing wrong.
AGAIN, this commission is being investigated for its practices (this didn't happen in the Inquisition), the people are against it (again, this didn't happen in the Inquisition), etc and will likely be shut-down.
I also pointed out there there is a fundamental flaw in your statement: "The problem is that as soon as you start paying a group of people to go out and prosecute others - whether they're prosecuting them on charges of heresy, witchcraft, or "hate" - you're pretty much guaranteeing that innocent people are going to be harmed."
That point being that the Police, and the larger picture, the justice system as a whole fits that your criteria for the reason why the commission shouldn't exist. Your argument is flawed at all points in all directions.
Sure, it shouldn't exist and I stated as much. It'll also, more than likely, be shut-down if only due to this fiasco. But, using flawed arguments to "forward" that claim hardly helps.
Your argument is absolutely laughable. Case and point: Police, or more generally, the justice system. You've also ignored the ONGOING investigations by POLICE *against* this group. Get a fucking clue.
1) The National Post is NOT a tabloid. Sure, it might be fairly right-wing. But, a tabloid it is not.
2) I'll prefix this with I'm a Canadian who disagrees with such "hate crime" laws. But, they are well intended. They were made to rid easy spread of things like the KKK ideology. Unfortunately, they were implemented not in a way that would keep free speech but "outlaw" spread of "terrorist" ideals. That is, if that's even possible, which IMO, it isn't.
3) Anyone here that read both The National Post's/article/ and The Seattle Times OPINION piece will note that The National Post's article has actual information in it (including some background) and The Seattle Times opinion piece has little to no journalistic value. Not that this is an uncommon situation when comparing Canadian journalism and US "journalism."
4) The Seattle Times doesn't even allude to the fact that there is extreme opposition to these laws; MP's are quite outspoken about them ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE (not to mention the police investigation into the Commission's tactics). All this yet there is worse things going on within the US over the past couple years. But, I guess because this isn't in the name of terrorism it's "bad" whereas the prejudice against "foreigners" in the US is "good" because it helps prevent "terrorism." Sorry, but you don't get to criticise how other countries deal with issues (especially when attempts to fix the situation are going on) when your country is doing the same, in different ways, and worse.
First off, you seem to not know what that thread was about. I suggest that you read it before making any other comments that suggest that you haven't a clue as to what was discussed.
Secondly, his beliefs have changed significantly over time. It's just that the changes are viewed by his followers as still "in the spirit" of his previous views. If you would have been involved in that thread, or even had read it, you would have seen his position change significantly even in that short period of time.
You see, the problem with his opinions is that they are very context sensitive. He'll take a point of view that allows him to "win" an argument. Then later on, when that point of view works against him, he'll say that people misinterpreted him ignoring quotes and requests for explanation side stepping the issue by ignoring the issue itself.
Trust me, I've had conversation(s) with him before, and he completely ignores any questions that the answers would work against him. He'll even ignore further requests at answering the questions. It's extremely frustrating to have non-discussions that go like this:
Me: You said "quote 1" and now you say "quote 2". These contradict each other. RMS: You're misquoting me. You're taking "quote 1" out of context. Me: We were talking about x then and we are talking about x now. How is that taking it out of context? RMS: --- talks about something else --- Me: Please answer the question. RMS: --- continues along another line --- Me: Seriously, just answer the question. RMS:...
You get the point.
Third, this didn't have anything to do with Theo's moving or unmoving attitude. It had everything to do with RMS spreading FUD about OpenBSD then RMS coming on misc@ and picking a fight. He's done that before to the Subversion project among others.
In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane. After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby, so we have an accurate story of the events.
This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone. He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful influence which he could use so falsely.
We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our
Threads aren't the problem. It's the retarded programmer that hasn't a clue as to how to use them that is the problem. It's like blaming guns for people shooting each other.
Want threads to be safe? How about having enough grey matter to protect shared vars, etc with a mutex/semaphore/etc. Or how about making a thread only variable (man pthread_key_create, pthread_[get,set]specific). Hell, how about the crazy idea of keeping track of ones data flow.
This sort of ridiculous thinking is only keeping us from getting the power out of our machines that we could. It's time people suck it up and learn to deal with REALITY. Multi-core/Multi-processor machines are only getting more so. To ignore that is just plain profound stupidity. Stop complaining and just learn how to do it.
Well, at least there are some people out there that know how to think:
There is a very good reason why the release focus is the way it is this time. It all started with this email with RMS trolling on the misc@ list (ended up being around an 800 email thread with RMS proving what a nutter he is):
""" OK, there was the problem of relicensing of a driver for the Linux kernel """
Which people made him aware of, which should have been concerning to him because how that ended up would have negatively impacted his OS. But, his answer to people was to leave him alone on that matter. As in, he'll use any technique, no matter how shady to promote and further his own goals.
""" but they should begin to work together instead of beginning a war """
Kinda hard when RMS works to license everything under the "you either license it all under our license or you can't work with us" GPL. Which, btw, is incompatible with the BSD. There's also the fact that he's been quoted as saying that he'd rather see all programmers be taxi drivers having all code free (using his NON-dictionary definition) than having any proprietary software at all.
Rather hard to work with someone when they are completely uncompromising. Seriously, read the thread. It tells of a *very* unstable person.
... always just went to a Pub (note I did NOT say bar) played pool and chatted (basements work too). There was also Math drinking games.
2-Player "21":
Deal out 1/2 deck each both players take 2 cards place face down on table flip cards over at the same time using basic arithmetic on the 4 number, first person to calculate 21 from them wins/gets the point/ the other person has to drink/whatever (we used slapping the table as a "buzz in") repeat
I have Cogeco as well and they do indeed throttle it. Though it doesn't seem to be all the time, but they definitely do do it. It almost seems as though they have a defective traffic analyser that catches you... sometimes. Or perhaps it's an "If bandwidth of the total network exceeds a certain amount then do it (perhaps to random people, random number of them)" type thing.
But, I have also noticed that, from time to time people have problems connecting to me and myself to them. Nothing like have a 0kbps upstream with a couple dozen people on in the swarm and zero connections... for hours.
I also take exception with there tech support, which needs to be called when one gets a "24 hr suspension" for going over ones limit. Nothing like getting condescended to by some mental midget that couldn't reason his/her way out of a wet paper bag. No that's not a lot of throughput. If you want, I can show you a lot of throughput though.
- Contribute to the continued development of the product by purchasing commercial licenses from Ext. This option secures you the right to distribute your application under the license terms of your choice.
- Contribute to the Open Source community by placing your application under an Open Source license (e.g. GPL v3). This option secures all users the rights to obtain the application's full source code, modify it, and redistribute it.
"""
So, all that someone needs to do if they use this lib without paying for it is distributing it under an open source license. Please note that the BSD, X/MIT, Artistic, etc licenses are ALL open source licenses and ARE legitimate licenses to use under these terms NOT only the [l]gpl's.
... that I don't think that people will notice. I mean, with the crap that's on today people are used to sub-standard programming. And that's given story centric shows. So, if you're masochistic, try imagining the raging pieces of crap that are product centric.
Nonsense! This can even been seen to be so in an active thread that has even something as low as a dozen participants. What happens is that people stop to read post and start to skim them. Then after some time, they just stop reading certain people's which gets worse as time goes on. Then there's the people that come into the conversation "late" which exceedingly rarely read what has been posted before they post; they typically just read the last couple and then jump in.
Basically, what you have in an "everyone can speak up" newspaper/etc is nothing being said because any one person is drown out from the crowd. There'll be a disturbing signal to noise ratio. It's a kind of, the power of the internet is that everyone has a voice, but the weakness of the internet is that everyone has a voice.
I've been around since pre-popular internet and what I've seen in is the crackpots getting a voice, people trust what they read, and those crackpots create new crackpots downward spiral. Things were MUCH better when people listened to the experts instead of denying what they say and cherry picking there data (and getting away with it because there are so many of them agreeing with each other).
But, then again, you are using this cherry picking nonsense in this post. Don't want to read/listen to bad non-journalism? Don't. Switch on to something else. Yes, it does exist. In the US, when I lived there, the PBS channels had news programs that were fairly decent. In Canada there is CBC: Sunday and in the UK there is the BBC or the Independent. If you're in Germany, you could pretty much pick one (Spiegel has an on-line English version http://www.spiegel.de/international/).
You're comparing apples and oranges. There is a Grand Canyon of a difference between something Academic and something practical.
Also, the peer review system is known to have flaws. But, that is why there is the existence of retractions. To say that this is true so what is on Wikipedia is just as good is false and misleading. Those journal articles were written by people who know the subject area and have gone through a peer review process. On the other hand, Wikipedia was written by someone and edited by others with zero restriction.
""" The students don't know how to do research; therefore, we need to teach them. """
This is actually a really *really* bad move. It is the high-schools job to teach this to a degree and the Universities job *at most* to give some sort of handout specifying what acceptable sources are.
All that doing what you're suggesting at the University level is going to prove, is that high-schools can get away with being excessively poor at educating students. No worries, the Universities will pick up the slack. Not to mention the fact that teaching this at University wastes the University's already scarce resources and time. Not just the Universities though, but the students as well.
How much time and resources must be wasted and education delayed before the Universities finally get a pair and draw a line in the sand. Basically, what should be going on, is the Universities should produce a document that specifies what it assumes from students and tell the high-schools about it. Not only that, but point to it and place the blame where it squarely belongs when problems arise (with the high-schools). How fast do you think a fix will happen when a bunch of angry parents that just spent 10k for tuition realise that there kid wasn't even remotely prepared for University have a little chat with there local high-school? Ten thousand dollars and years of wasted time tends to bring a fair bit of tenacity.
All of you point out BS on the funding issue yet 1) LARGE amounts people don't go to college because of funding issues and 2) don't point to any student loans programs.
Also, there wasn't even ONE comment on my other points. It's a kind of attempt at discrediting someone based on a corner case that's seen more and more today. It's nonsense and is indicative of an undereducated populace.
World? I hope that your version of "world" ends at the US boarder. Because, when I worked in IT in Canada it didn't matter one bit who you were. In fact, the shop I worked for had two women programmers and a guy programmer that was legally blind. There was also about an even split between French and English people and a couple had an appearance like they had some Aboriginal blood in them. I'll also note that in interviews for later jobs, this diversity didn't seem unique.
2) There IS socio-economic relation between poverty and Blacks in the US.
3) There IS basically ZERO students loans programs in the US.
4) Stop applying your life experience to a country in which it does NOT apply.
5) I am Canadian.
But a question. Did these people that "moved on and did something with their lives" go on into the games industry? Because, that is what we're talking about after all.
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Actually, Half-life did do something new. It had a story line. It was the first FPS that did that and a great in-depth one at that. It really was a fundamental shift in how FPS's were done and what was expected from them from that point forward. And Half-life 2 was a great continuation of that.
It is assumed that you know that you run it through BOINC. Though that topic is in the "Getting Started" section in Help:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=start
Also, all the projects available is right on there front-page.
Can't know anything without registering, eh?
(Quotes are paraphrases)
(Yes, I have emails to back this up and CTV and Global has on-line articles to corroborate the facts below)
A while back at the University of Winnipeg some delinquent wrote that (s)he would "shoot this place up" on a specific date at a specific time. After that, the University's President Lloyd Axworthy said that "Universities are under attack." Which is rather an embarrassing statement. There is a profound difference between bad things happening AT Universities and bad thing happening TO Universities. Universities are certainly NOT under attack.
They at least planned the typical impotent measures. Namely, more CCTV, bag checks, etc. Nothing that would actually improve security. Worse yet, I personally emailed them not only telling them of this, but I provided recent real world examples of these measures not working. Point of fact, the answer that I got from Lesely Thomson (Senior Executive Officer & Advisor to the President) was that (exact quote) "we will now have a new "normal" and we are in the process of establishing that." You know, mandatory bag checks at entrances that create bottlenecks enough to create proverbial fish in barrel. Nice work.
But, here's a kicker. The same things were happening at Brandon University (and I believe that the University of Manitoba as well). All of this and the President of the Student Unions at both BU and the UofW were quoted as happy with the reaction and found it completely appropriate. I was also still subscribed to the UWMSSA mailing list and its President encouraged co-operation of these nonsensical measures. I'd expect better from a Math person given the high level of critical thought required in that discipline. I also cc'd both UofW student reps and got zero replies from them (at least that I saw).
The entire episode was a ridiculous over reaction with profoundly negative impacts for our future. One of the pillars of society, our educational institutions, had fallen that day. When the world of education and critical thought can't use what it apparently teaches... such things are so very disturbing.
Anyone that's into tech and actually knows what's going on is typically just being used. It's not that it's our age, it's that the jock, et al has learned to use us in a new way i.e. we're still doing there homework. It's just that the homework in question is not that Math assignment any more, but rather producing a "point and click" solution to turn that mkv into a PS3 friendly mp4 among other things. And a lot of us do it because it puts us into the spot-light for a couple seconds. Me, when someone HAS become abusive, I told them to go fuck themselves and figure it out for themselves. Of course being followed up by someone else that actually volunteers to figure something out for the jock ass-hole.
This writer seems to be confused about what being a geek actually means. It's not that one uses facebook, but rather that one could program it him/her-self. Perhaps this guy should actually look into things and think about it before publishing it next time.
... I what people seem not to get/missed.
1) Strongly encrypt the data via your favourite method
2) Setup an Sftp with a user name/strong password for the consultant*
3) Send the user name/strong password to him/her via email (PGP/GPG)
4) Keep the login log in a very safe place, along with any other email exchange, keys, etc that show the transfer has occurred and by whom.
* If you want to have a even better "paper" trail, have them send you the IP of the host that they will be logging in from and limit access to just that host. Also have make sure that this IP is verifiable owned by the consultant firm. Keep the verification.
If all of the above is done, you have made sure that the login has been done through the only *one* IP allowed (owned by the consultant firm), through a login that only one person has. So, any fuck-ups are there's and there's alone.
But, if possible, I'd also require them to keep the data encrypted and only decrypted for use, preferable not to a HDD (ram disk). Not to mention any other mechanism that you can think of. Also make sure that the paper work requires any and all requirement to be applicable to any subcontractors as well as any of the subcontractors subcontractors, etc. Because, these consulting firms have a rather poor track record of keeping this data secure. And if they don't do it, and bad things happen, there is legal recourse on your part (as well as possibly the people who's data it is).
Your English is very good citizen 808140. I imagine your loyalty will be rewarded as well. What Province of China are you from?
This isn't the US nor is it the EU, it's Canada. And the CRTC is here to protect consumers, etc. And guess what. They actually do there job some of the time. Welcome to a country where corruption isn't total in government orgs (at least yet).
"""
They can even help themselves by selling a server or two to speed up the process.
"""
That's called fraud.
Wow, how don't you get it? I see I have to spell it out for you:
1. People are NOT paid to report witches... sorry "hate crimes"
2. Conviction in a court of law requires relevant evidence (yes, here too)
3. No property was confiscated and used as "payment" for the judges, torturers, executioners, etc. nor will it be.
i.e. You got this idea in your head about commissions that doesn't apply here. Your analogy is embarrassing wrong.
AGAIN, this commission is being investigated for its practices (this didn't happen in the Inquisition), the people are against it (again, this didn't happen in the Inquisition), etc and will likely be shut-down.
I also pointed out there there is a fundamental flaw in your statement: "The problem is that as soon as you start paying a group of people to go out and prosecute others - whether they're prosecuting them on charges of heresy, witchcraft, or "hate" - you're pretty much guaranteeing that innocent people are going to be harmed."
That point being that the Police, and the larger picture, the justice system as a whole fits that your criteria for the reason why the commission shouldn't exist. Your argument is flawed at all points in all directions.
Sure, it shouldn't exist and I stated as much. It'll also, more than likely, be shut-down if only due to this fiasco. But, using flawed arguments to "forward" that claim hardly helps.
Get it now?
Your argument is absolutely laughable. Case and point: Police, or more generally, the justice system. You've also ignored the ONGOING investigations by POLICE *against* this group. Get a fucking clue.
1) The National Post is NOT a tabloid. Sure, it might be fairly right-wing. But, a tabloid it is not.
/article/ and The Seattle Times OPINION piece will note that The National Post's article has actual information in it (including some background) and The Seattle Times opinion piece has little to no journalistic value. Not that this is an uncommon situation when comparing Canadian journalism and US "journalism."
2) I'll prefix this with I'm a Canadian who disagrees with such "hate crime" laws. But, they are well intended. They were made to rid easy spread of things like the KKK ideology. Unfortunately, they were implemented not in a way that would keep free speech but "outlaw" spread of "terrorist" ideals. That is, if that's even possible, which IMO, it isn't.
3) Anyone here that read both The National Post's
4) The Seattle Times doesn't even allude to the fact that there is extreme opposition to these laws; MP's are quite outspoken about them ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE (not to mention the police investigation into the Commission's tactics). All this yet there is worse things going on within the US over the past couple years. But, I guess because this isn't in the name of terrorism it's "bad" whereas the prejudice against "foreigners" in the US is "good" because it helps prevent "terrorism." Sorry, but you don't get to criticise how other countries deal with issues (especially when attempts to fix the situation are going on) when your country is doing the same, in different ways, and worse.
First off, you seem to not know what that thread was about. I suggest that you read it before making any other comments that suggest that you haven't a clue as to what was discussed.
...
Secondly, his beliefs have changed significantly over time. It's just that the changes are viewed by his followers as still "in the spirit" of his previous views. If you would have been involved in that thread, or even had read it, you would have seen his position change significantly even in that short period of time.
You see, the problem with his opinions is that they are very context sensitive. He'll take a point of view that allows him to "win" an argument. Then later on, when that point of view works against him, he'll say that people misinterpreted him ignoring quotes and requests for explanation side stepping the issue by ignoring the issue itself.
Trust me, I've had conversation(s) with him before, and he completely ignores any questions that the answers would work against him. He'll even ignore further requests at answering the questions. It's extremely frustrating to have non-discussions that go like this:
Me: You said "quote 1" and now you say "quote 2". These contradict each other.
RMS: You're misquoting me. You're taking "quote 1" out of context.
Me: We were talking about x then and we are talking about x now. How is that taking it out of context?
RMS: --- talks about something else ---
Me: Please answer the question.
RMS: --- continues along another line ---
Me: Seriously, just answer the question.
RMS:
You get the point.
Third, this didn't have anything to do with Theo's moving or unmoving attitude. It had everything to do with RMS spreading FUD about OpenBSD then RMS coming on misc@ and picking a fight. He's done that before to the Subversion project among others.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6278881818.html
http://fitz.blogspot.com/2007/07/stallman-shoots-free-software-movement.html
Among others.
Fourthly, you're going to have to explain to me how the below describes a stable person (i.e. clicking links in posts helps):
http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43
"""
We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man who is a lot like Naomi Campbell.
In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane. After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby, so we have an accurate story of the events.
This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone. He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful influence which he could use so falsely.
We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our
Threads aren't the problem. It's the retarded programmer that hasn't a clue as to how to use them that is the problem. It's like blaming guns for people shooting each other.
Want threads to be safe? How about having enough grey matter to protect shared vars, etc with a mutex/semaphore/etc. Or how about making a thread only variable (man pthread_key_create, pthread_[get,set]specific). Hell, how about the crazy idea of keeping track of ones data flow.
This sort of ridiculous thinking is only keeping us from getting the power out of our machines that we could. It's time people suck it up and learn to deal with REALITY. Multi-core/Multi-processor machines are only getting more so. To ignore that is just plain profound stupidity. Stop complaining and just learn how to do it.
Well, at least there are some people out there that know how to think:
http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/
There is a very good reason why the release focus is the way it is this time. It all started with this email with RMS trolling on the misc@ list (ended up being around an 800 email thread with RMS proving what a nutter he is):
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119730630513821&w=2
You should also read the comment on the lyrics page. It's just under the picture in the left column:
http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43
"""
OK, there was the problem of relicensing of a driver for the Linux kernel
"""
Which people made him aware of, which should have been concerning to him because how that ended up would have negatively impacted his OS. But, his answer to people was to leave him alone on that matter. As in, he'll use any technique, no matter how shady to promote and further his own goals.
"""
but they should begin to work together instead of beginning a war
"""
Kinda hard when RMS works to license everything under the "you either license it all under our license or you can't work with us" GPL. Which, btw, is incompatible with the BSD. There's also the fact that he's been quoted as saying that he'd rather see all programmers be taxi drivers having all code free (using his NON-dictionary definition) than having any proprietary software at all.
Rather hard to work with someone when they are completely uncompromising. Seriously, read the thread. It tells of a *very* unstable person.
... always just went to a Pub (note I did NOT say bar) played pool and chatted (basements work too). There was also Math drinking games.
2-Player "21":
Deal out 1/2 deck each
both players take 2 cards place face down on table
flip cards over at the same time
using basic arithmetic on the 4 number, first person to calculate 21 from them wins/gets the point/ the other person has to drink/whatever (we used slapping the table as a "buzz in")
repeat
But, if it's anything like Blade 2...
I have Cogeco as well and they do indeed throttle it. Though it doesn't seem to be all the time, but they definitely do do it. It almost seems as though they have a defective traffic analyser that catches you... sometimes. Or perhaps it's an "If bandwidth of the total network exceeds a certain amount then do it (perhaps to random people, random number of them)" type thing.
But, I have also noticed that, from time to time people have problems connecting to me and myself to them. Nothing like have a 0kbps upstream with a couple dozen people on in the swarm and zero connections... for hours.
I also take exception with there tech support, which needs to be called when one gets a "24 hr suspension" for going over ones limit. Nothing like getting condescended to by some mental midget that couldn't reason his/her way out of a wet paper bag. No that's not a lot of throughput. If you want, I can show you a lot of throughput though.
From http://extjs.com/company/dual.php :
"""
we require that you do one of the following:
- Contribute to the continued development of the product by purchasing commercial licenses from Ext. This option secures you the right to distribute your application under the license terms of your choice.
- Contribute to the Open Source community by placing your application under an Open Source license (e.g. GPL v3). This option secures all users the rights to obtain the application's full source code, modify it, and redistribute it.
"""
So, all that someone needs to do if they use this lib without paying for it is distributing it under an open source license. Please note that the BSD, X/MIT, Artistic, etc licenses are ALL open source licenses and ARE legitimate licenses to use under these terms NOT only the [l]gpl's.
... that I don't think that people will notice. I mean, with the crap that's on today people are used to sub-standard programming. And that's given story centric shows. So, if you're masochistic, try imagining the raging pieces of crap that are product centric.
Nonsense! This can even been seen to be so in an active thread that has even something as low as a dozen participants. What happens is that people stop to read post and start to skim them. Then after some time, they just stop reading certain people's which gets worse as time goes on. Then there's the people that come into the conversation "late" which exceedingly rarely read what has been posted before they post; they typically just read the last couple and then jump in.
Basically, what you have in an "everyone can speak up" newspaper/etc is nothing being said because any one person is drown out from the crowd. There'll be a disturbing signal to noise ratio. It's a kind of, the power of the internet is that everyone has a voice, but the weakness of the internet is that everyone has a voice.
I've been around since pre-popular internet and what I've seen in is the crackpots getting a voice, people trust what they read, and those crackpots create new crackpots downward spiral. Things were MUCH better when people listened to the experts instead of denying what they say and cherry picking there data (and getting away with it because there are so many of them agreeing with each other).
But, then again, you are using this cherry picking nonsense in this post. Don't want to read/listen to bad non-journalism? Don't. Switch on to something else. Yes, it does exist. In the US, when I lived there, the PBS channels had news programs that were fairly decent. In Canada there is CBC: Sunday and in the UK there is the BBC or the Independent. If you're in Germany, you could pretty much pick one (Spiegel has an on-line English version http://www.spiegel.de/international/).
You're comparing apples and oranges. There is a Grand Canyon of a difference between something Academic and something practical.
Also, the peer review system is known to have flaws. But, that is why there is the existence of retractions. To say that this is true so what is on Wikipedia is just as good is false and misleading. Those journal articles were written by people who know the subject area and have gone through a peer review process. On the other hand, Wikipedia was written by someone and edited by others with zero restriction.
Guess which resource is better?
"""
The students don't know how to do research; therefore, we need to teach them.
"""
This is actually a really *really* bad move. It is the high-schools job to teach this to a degree and the Universities job *at most* to give some sort of handout specifying what acceptable sources are.
All that doing what you're suggesting at the University level is going to prove, is that high-schools can get away with being excessively poor at educating students. No worries, the Universities will pick up the slack. Not to mention the fact that teaching this at University wastes the University's already scarce resources and time. Not just the Universities though, but the students as well.
How much time and resources must be wasted and education delayed before the Universities finally get a pair and draw a line in the sand. Basically, what should be going on, is the Universities should produce a document that specifies what it assumes from students and tell the high-schools about it. Not only that, but point to it and place the blame where it squarely belongs when problems arise (with the high-schools). How fast do you think a fix will happen when a bunch of angry parents that just spent 10k for tuition realise that there kid wasn't even remotely prepared for University have a little chat with there local high-school? Ten thousand dollars and years of wasted time tends to bring a fair bit of tenacity.
All of you point out BS on the funding issue yet 1) LARGE amounts people don't go to college because of funding issues and 2) don't point to any student loans programs.
Also, there wasn't even ONE comment on my other points. It's a kind of attempt at discrediting someone based on a corner case that's seen more and more today. It's nonsense and is indicative of an undereducated populace.
World? I hope that your version of "world" ends at the US boarder. Because, when I worked in IT in Canada it didn't matter one bit who you were. In fact, the shop I worked for had two women programmers and a guy programmer that was legally blind. There was also about an even split between French and English people and a couple had an appearance like they had some Aboriginal blood in them. I'll also note that in interviews for later jobs, this diversity didn't seem unique.
1) This is about something in the US NOT Canada.
2) There IS socio-economic relation between poverty and Blacks in the US.
3) There IS basically ZERO students loans programs in the US.
4) Stop applying your life experience to a country in which it does NOT apply.
5) I am Canadian.
But a question. Did these people that "moved on and did something with their lives" go on into the games industry? Because, that is what we're talking about after all.