Re:Planet of the apes...
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Itanium Problems
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Yes, but the radical change was in the 20 years from 1960 to 1980. That was when computing made the leap from punchcards and discrete logic to ICs and magnetic storage. The last 20 years have been spent making incremental improvments to the same x86 architecture.
Don't forget ScummVM (Lucasarts adventure game engine). I think it's the only way to get Day of the Tentacle, and the Monkey Island games to work with modern versions of windows.
This worm copies itself as c source code, then compiles itself with the host computer's gcc. If you have Apache, ssl, and gcc installed then cpu architecture isn't going to save you.
Also to troll (sorry) what use email encryption if a virus can send the contents of your inbox + personal files to everyone in your address book?
<paranoia mode="tinfoil beanie"> Or one that just mails your private keyring back to black helicopter command. It would save the NSA millennia of computer time if they could just steal keys instead of having to crack them all. If it only stole one file and then deleted itself, few users would even notice it. </paranoia>
Microsoft denies responsibility for anything it's software does, Okay...
Disclaimer of warranties. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Microsoft and its suppliers provide to you the OS Components, and any (if any) support services related to the OS Components ("Support Services") as is and with all faults; and Microsoft and its suppliers hereby disclaim with respect to the OS Components and Support Services all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, including, but not limited to, any (if any) warranties, duties or conditions of or related to: merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, lack of viruses, accuracy or completeness of responses, results, workmanlike effort and lack of negligence. Also there is no warranty, duty or condition of title, quiet enjoyment, quiet possession, correspondence to description or non-infringement. The entire risk arising out of use or performance of the OS Components and any Support Services remains with you.
What about the GPL?
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
The only difference I see is that Microsoft can use a shift key, whereas RMS has a stuck CAPS LOCK.
Re:multilingual programmability what ?
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KDE Adopting Mono
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You must be new here... Slashdot is a pro-GNOME site. You will never see an objective look at KDE here (or GNOME either). Every story will have some little (usually untrue) cheap shot at KDE (like this one does). If you want to know what's up with KDE, go read the dot. If you want to hear a bunch of GNU zealots foam and froth about how KDE and Qt are the next Microsoft, read Slashdot.
That's why you have a dummy account that you can "su" to when you want to run untrusted executables from the internet or some strange email attachment. Then all you lose is the dummy's home (hopefully nothing in there but the trojan itself!)
The dock adapter has ADB ports. That means that the dock connector has ADB pins in it somewhere. With a little digging on google, and a little (more) hardware hacking, it would be possible to add an external ADB port to the picture frame. (as well as SCSI I think, so you could mount the picture frame as a drive on your other Mac (or Linux box). Wouldn't that be neat!)
How many home users truly need pre-emptive multitasking?
Anyone who wants their MP3s to play without skipping whenever they scroll down a page in netscape, anyone who wants to do something other than watch progress bars crawl while copying files, anyone who wants to use the computer for other things while 3d studio renders in the background.
"Multitasking" in the MultiFinder sense is important, sometimes the apps know what a better division of resources is than the OS does.
That's nice, assuming your apps are all perfectly written. The problem is when an app crashes in an infinite loop, the OS never gets a chance to recover.
I would rather have a machine that crashes occasionally rather than one that I don't understand how to use.
That's your opinion. Good thing Apple was smart enough not to bet the corporate farm on a few stick-in-the-mud users who would be just as happy if Apple kept shipping System 7.x on Mac LCs for the forseeable future.
development seems to of moved on quite rapidly from a small distro that didn't do a lot to one that is almost complete.
The porting was quick because it's... not really porting. Internally, the Xbox is just a normal wintel PC, celeron CPU, NVidia graphics, ATA hard drive, etc. Once the kernel boots, and drivers exist for the graphics chipset, it's pretty trivial to throw everything else on.
Sounds like you are some sort of bigot. The Christian Right is not telling its followers to go out and kill people, anyway....except the ones that perform abortions
Why on earth would anyone start to hammering in texts into a worddocument when there will be no paper-version of the document, ever? There is no need for a wordprocessor to share information, on the contrary. <rant> That's true, but people will keep using.doc for everything, because windows encourages it. Word documents can be previewed in (i)expolrer, viewed as thumbnail icons, and do pretty much anything that html and text can do on Linux, but with better formatting. The average user sees word.doc as the be-all-and-end-all of text storage, because they look pretty good and are easy to create. Office reinforces this impression by giving dire warnings about loss of formatting when you try to export a word.doc to any other format.
The reason should be obvious. MS Word.doc (specifically Word version $LATEST on Windows $LATEST) is the source of Bill Gates' market power. It is the One Ring that binds the business world to Microsoft, and the engine that drives it's upgrade treadmill. No company dares ditch word, because they would be unable to communicate with clients and vendors who use it. Better yet, as soon as one of their clients gets a newer version of word, they have to buy it too, if they want to keep reading their orders. </rant>
It's like "Zaibatsu" (though surely someone who knows Japanese will correct me on how different the words really are; I have heard them used interchangeably, but only by Americans speaking English, and do not know Japanese). See also this game: (//www.angelfire.com/games3/errantknight/zaibats u/ )
Well, I don't know *that* much Japanese, but I'll try...
The zaibatsu were powerful financial and business cartels that formed during the Meiji period (1880s-ish to 1945) The defining characteristic was that zaibatsu were family-owned, usually by rich and powerful members of the samurai class. During the American occupation after WWII, the huge holding companies that glued the pieces of the zaibatsu together were liquidated and sold off piecemeal. During the 1960s and 1970s, similar huge mega-conglomerates emerged again. These are the kieretsu. The main difference is that they are (mostly) publicly traded companies, not dominated by any one family like the zaibatsu were. Mitsubishi(*) was one of the biggest zaibatsu, and is now one of the biggest kieretsu. Judging the success of trying to break up the zaibatsu is left as an exercise to the reader;-)
(*) "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds" in Japanese. Look at their logo... Now I'm blatantly karma whoring, huh
The GNU GPL anticipates this issue, and explicitly states in section 7:
For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
That's true, but as long as you are not charging for the product, that's alright. If some group who downloads your software starts charging for it, they are in violation of the patent, not you. You still comply with the GPL clause requiring the software be redistributable without paying patent royalties as long as you personally aren't charging for it. I think you're in the clear, but IANAL, YMMV, and other disclaimers apply.
It's not the $.75 per encoder that's going to kill the free players. It's the $60,000 minimum per licensee per year. It's going to take a little more than couch change to keep XMMS in business for another year.
The BBS dropped shortwave service [savebbc.org] to North America and the Pacific in 2001, but I do agree their Internet streaming is worthwhile.
SSSSShhhhhh!!! Don't tell my shortwave radio that!!
I can pick up the BBC World Service most nights around 11.8MHz. Sorry I can't get much more precise than that, it's a very old radio and the tuning drifts. Anyone in the southern U.S. should be able to find it just by scanning around near the middle of the 25-meter band, it's a very strong signal.
Blockquoth the LGPL: Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Library specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Library does not specify a license version number, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. The normal GPL says the same thing. There are no EULA backdoors that allow them to change the license of installed software (like MS is doing). The license only changes if you (the user) want it to. If the FSF goes off their collective rocker and releases a GPL that requires you to install back orifice on your home PC and give them the password, you are free to tell them to piss off and keep using all your current software under version 2 of the GPL.
Are you saying that it is better to use the phrases "citizen", "man", "land", etc. rather than the alternatives you name, and if so, why?
Because being a "citizen" implies that you are involved in government, and take an active role. A "resident" just lives here, but has no say in matters of government. Calling citizens "taxpayers" is even worse, as it implies that the only contribution they can make to government is through taxes. If more Americans were citizens instead of just residents and taxpayers, maybe the U.S. government wouldn't be in the sad state it is now.
As for vehicles vs. cars and firearms vs. guns, I don't know what that's all about...
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but the radical change was in the 20 years from 1960 to 1980. That was when computing made the leap from punchcards and discrete logic to ICs and magnetic storage. The last 20 years have been spent making incremental improvments to the same x86 architecture.
Don't forget ScummVM (Lucasarts adventure game engine).
I think it's the only way to get Day of the Tentacle, and the Monkey Island games to work with modern versions of windows.
This worm copies itself as c source code, then compiles itself with the host computer's gcc. If you have Apache, ssl, and gcc installed then cpu architecture isn't going to save you.
Also to troll (sorry) what use email encryption if a virus can send the contents of your inbox + personal files to everyone in your address book?
<paranoia mode="tinfoil beanie">
Or one that just mails your private keyring back to black helicopter command. It would save the NSA millennia of computer time if they could just steal keys instead of having to crack them all. If it only stole one file and then deleted itself, few users would even notice it.
</paranoia>
What about the GPL?
The only difference I see is that Microsoft can use a shift key, whereas RMS has a stuck CAPS LOCK.
You must be new here...
Slashdot is a pro-GNOME site. You will never see an objective look at KDE here (or GNOME either). Every story will have some little (usually untrue) cheap shot at KDE (like this one does). If you want to know what's up with KDE, go read the dot. If you want to hear a bunch of GNU zealots foam and froth about how KDE and Qt are the next Microsoft, read Slashdot.
That's why you have a dummy account that you can "su" to when you want to run untrusted executables from the internet or some strange email attachment. Then all you lose is the dummy's home (hopefully nothing in there but the trojan itself!)
The dock adapter has ADB ports. That means that the dock connector has ADB pins in it somewhere. With a little digging on google, and a little (more) hardware hacking, it would be possible to add an external ADB port to the picture frame. (as well as SCSI I think, so you could mount the picture frame as a drive on your other Mac (or Linux box). Wouldn't that be neat!)
How many home users truly need pre-emptive multitasking?
Anyone who wants their MP3s to play without skipping whenever they scroll down a page in netscape, anyone who wants to do something other than watch progress bars crawl while copying files, anyone who wants to use the computer for other things while 3d studio renders in the background.
"Multitasking" in the MultiFinder sense is important, sometimes the apps know what a better division of resources is than the OS does.
That's nice, assuming your apps are all perfectly written. The problem is when an app crashes in an infinite loop, the OS never gets a chance to recover.
I would rather have a machine that crashes occasionally rather than one that I don't understand how to use.
That's your opinion. Good thing Apple was smart enough not to bet the corporate farm on a few stick-in-the-mud users who would be just as happy if Apple kept shipping System 7.x on Mac LCs for the forseeable future.
Bwahhahaha - no clear answer! My humor shatters me!
Your puns pane me.
development seems to of moved on quite rapidly from a small distro that didn't do a lot to one that is almost complete.
The porting was quick because it's... not really porting. Internally, the Xbox is just a normal wintel PC, celeron CPU, NVidia graphics, ATA hard drive, etc. Once the kernel boots, and drivers exist for the graphics chipset, it's pretty trivial to throw everything else on.
sources?
"Apple-Evil-Proprietary-Boot"?
It's called "Open Firmware" and it's a documented standard. MacOS hasn't booted from a proprietary ROM since the days of NuBus (*shudder*).
Sounds like you are some sort of bigot. The Christian Right is not telling its followers to go out and kill people, anyway. ...except the ones that perform abortions
Why on earth would anyone start to hammering in texts into a worddocument when there will be no paper-version of the document, ever? There is no need for a wordprocessor to share information, on the contrary. .doc for everything, because windows encourages it. Word documents can be previewed in (i)expolrer, viewed as thumbnail icons, and do pretty much anything that html and text can do on Linux, but with better formatting. The average user sees word .doc as the be-all-and-end-all of text storage, because they look pretty good and are easy to create. Office reinforces this impression by giving dire warnings about loss of formatting when you try to export a word .doc to any other format.
.doc (specifically Word version $LATEST on Windows $LATEST) is the source of Bill Gates' market power. It is the One Ring that binds the business world to Microsoft, and the engine that drives it's upgrade treadmill. No company dares ditch word, because they would be unable to communicate with clients and vendors who use it. Better yet, as soon as one of their clients gets a newer version of word, they have to buy it too, if they want to keep reading their orders.
<rant>
That's true, but people will keep using
The reason should be obvious. MS Word
</rant>
It's like "Zaibatsu" (though surely someone who knows Japanese will correct me on how different the words really are; I have heard them used interchangeably, but only by Americans speaking English, and do not know Japanese). See also this game:s u/ )
;-)
(//www.angelfire.com/games3/errantknight/zaibat
Well, I don't know *that* much Japanese, but I'll try...
The zaibatsu were powerful financial and business cartels that formed during the Meiji period (1880s-ish to 1945) The defining characteristic was that zaibatsu were family-owned, usually by rich and powerful members of the samurai class. During the American occupation after WWII, the huge holding companies that glued the pieces of the zaibatsu together were liquidated and sold off piecemeal. During the 1960s and 1970s, similar huge mega-conglomerates emerged again. These are the kieretsu. The main difference is that they are (mostly) publicly traded companies, not dominated by any one family like the zaibatsu were. Mitsubishi(*) was one of the biggest zaibatsu, and is now one of the biggest kieretsu. Judging the success of trying to break up the zaibatsu is left as an exercise to the reader
(*) "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds" in Japanese. Look at their logo... Now I'm blatantly karma whoring, huh
The GNU GPL anticipates this issue, and explicitly states in section 7:
For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
That's true, but as long as you are not charging for the product, that's alright. If some group who downloads your software starts charging for it, they are in violation of the patent, not you. You still comply with the GPL clause requiring the software be redistributable without paying patent royalties as long as you personally aren't charging for it. I think you're in the clear, but IANAL, YMMV, and other disclaimers apply.
This also works for very warm stuff. Liquid lead at 600 degrees (Celcius of course) for example.
Yes, but with hot lead, it's the outer layers of your skin evaporating, not the lead! That sounds slightly more painful IMHO.
Did you read the page, or are you just spewing?
It's not the $.75 per encoder that's going to kill the free players. It's the $60,000 minimum per licensee per year. It's going to take a little more than couch change to keep XMMS in business for another year.
You (or rather your company) is too cheap to spring for a hardware RAID card, but they'll pay for *fibre channel* drives??!?
Do they also buy the execs private jets because there's no money in the budget for cars?
Slashdot needs a "-1: yet another ranting jackass" moderation button...
The BBS dropped shortwave service [savebbc.org] to North America and the Pacific in 2001, but I do agree their Internet streaming is worthwhile.
SSSSShhhhhh!!! Don't tell my shortwave radio that!!
I can pick up the BBC World Service most nights around 11.8MHz. Sorry I can't get much more precise than that, it's a very old radio and the tuning drifts. Anyone in the southern U.S. should be able to find it just by scanning around near the middle of the 25-meter band, it's a very strong signal.
Blockquoth the LGPL:
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Library specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Library does not specify a license version number, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
The normal GPL says the same thing. There are no EULA backdoors that allow them to change the license of installed software (like MS is doing). The license only changes if you (the user) want it to. If the FSF goes off their collective rocker and releases a GPL that requires you to install back orifice on your home PC and give them the password, you are free to tell them to piss off and keep using all your current software under version 2 of the GPL.
But it does not look like "news for the nerds".
I disagree. It may not be "news for linux geeks", but most of Megatokyo's fans are nerds. Thus, news regarding Megatokyo is "news for nerds".
Are you saying that it is better to use the phrases "citizen", "man", "land", etc. rather than the alternatives you name, and if so, why?
Because being a "citizen" implies that you are involved in government, and take an active role. A "resident" just lives here, but has no say in matters of government. Calling citizens "taxpayers" is even worse, as it implies that the only contribution they can make to government is through taxes. If more Americans were citizens instead of just residents and taxpayers, maybe the U.S. government wouldn't be in the sad state it is now.
As for vehicles vs. cars and firearms vs. guns, I don't know what that's all about...