I like the way this attitude (and the same pictures) come around in comments on Apple related stories every now and then on slashdot - I love the irony of people who claim to 'Think Different' making their point by essentially saying "Look at these attractive people - don't you want to be like them? If you use this OS you will be attractive!"
Way to sidestep the global marketing brainwashed groupthink and reject the use of sex to sell products! You certainly are creative and revolutionary. Well done.
Well, the aim is to gather evidence so you can charge them, so the time taken to crack is very much the issue.
The point being that if they're guilty and you release them while you crack their drive, you're not ever going to see them again, so it doesn't particularly matter what you find.
Disclaimer: I don't support the desire to extend the period to 90 days, before I'm flamed - just pointing out the logic in the Police^WGovt's argument. One reason I don't support it is what happens when stronger encryption arrives? You're allowed to detain them until the heat death of the universe? Actually, I'd have thought that 90 days probably wasn't sufficient anyway with current encryption tech available (depending on your own particular govt supercomputer cracker beowulf clusters conspiracy theories, of course).
In Dutch newslogs, it is mentioned now that the rootkit is using parts of the (LGPL) LAME-encoder. So, should their rootkit be open-source then?
Well, no. The LGPL allows you to use the code without having to release your own code. That's the main difference between LGPL and GPL.
However, as the article you quoted mentions (I think!:-) you have to tell people you're using LGPL'd software somewhere, such as a copyright message in the software or text in the manual, etc. Interestingly, if Sony haven't done this, then the LGPL license is presumably revoked, so maybe the EFF will be knocking on Sony's door soon to ask them about, amusingly enough, copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property.
I know that there are a lot of scammers preying on the "for the children" line for charities (not to mention politics) but Gabe and Tycho have never numbered among them.
Yeah, but Gabe did punch a baby once.
(In Gabe's defence, the baby was being kind of a dick.)
Just to add yet another explanation, when I worked for Rediffusion (UK flight simulator manufacturer), this air show crash was discussed during our induction. If I remember correctly, the pilot span down the engines to lower the aircraft, and then tried to power them up again to lift the aircraft out of the descent and fly over the trees. The pilot claimed the system over-rode his desire to power up the engines, causing the crash. (I believe he had already over-ridden some safety mechanism to allow him to perform this descent in the first place.)
However the actual problem was that airliner engines aren't like some awesome fighter jet with afterburner. They take time to spin up - from examining the black box, they determined that at the point the pilot wanted to ascend, even if the engines span up at the maxiumum rate, it was still nowhere near enough to pull the plane out of the descent. Hence, pilot error.
I see.
So you think they rewrote all the Office apps like Excel and Word just because they started bundling them?
If you want to trade wikipedia URLs, then try this...
The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989 at a price of 500 US dollars.
The year 1989 came before the year 1990.
Also:
Word's first general release was for MS-DOS computers on May 2, 1983.
The year 1983 came quite a lot before the year 1990.
In any case, I'm not sure how any of this proves that Mac Office is a completely different codebase to Windows Office. Office is, after all, just a bundling of apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc. Just because some of the apps were released first on Windows (Word), or first on Mac (Excel), or bundled first (Mac Office), doesn't really change the fact that by Office v6, the codebases were unified. As I said, I find it hard to believe that either the Mac or Windows Office teams have re-implemented all the apps since then. Maybe I'm missing something.
You may (repeat may) find it to be an unexpected treat, as I did...
I assume you're being funny. A friend of mine bought the DVD from Amazon US (not available outside US due to copyright reasons), and 3 of us watched it one night, not expecting much.
We were right. I haven't seen many films that are fucking diabolical, but that was one of them. It was unbelievably long, the acting was terrible, the effects quite literally laughable (pretty sure they were all done on the director's laptop). And there was so much walking! I've never seen so much footage of people walking. My friend was asked by his wife what the running time of the movie was, and he said it was about 90 minutes, but that unfortunately the walking time was another 90 minutes.
Re: acting - The main character was, I presume, trying to do an English accent (as were they all, but his was the most execrable). It was pathetic, ranging from 'posh' (I assume that's what he was going for - it sounded like an effete Afrikaans speaker) to 'cockney' - all from the same character, of course, and quite often within the same sentence. To hear him keep saying the word 'tennacles' in the midst of his presumably upper-class speech was perhaps an unexpected treat indeed. The rest of the acting was terrible too. And there's a dinner table scene that is presumably included for comic relief that quite simply beggars belief, it's so bad. So bad.
The director (Hines) was actually quoted re: this film saying that adaptions of books are quite hard, and that unlike what most people think, it's not just a case of changing the past tense to the present. I think that tells you all you need to know about the director, really. Especially as it seemed that about all he actually did do was change the tense.
On the flip side, I saw the Tom Cruise version at the cinema, and I thought it was great. But then I wasn't expecting a slavish adaptation of the book - although I was fairly surprised how closely it did follow the book in various places, even if only in spirit. I went in expecting an entertaining Hollywood version of WotW, and that's what I got.
But my god, the Hines version is bad. Bad director! Bad! Back in your box!
I shall probably not go as far as the little boy who, it is said, disliked a book about Australia that his mother was fond of reading to him at bedtime and finally demanded, "What have you brought that book I don't like being read to out of about Down Under up for?"
(The Harvard joke is further down the same page:-)
There are a bunch of classes you get in a decent CS curriculum that seem very pointless and abstract -- things like Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Algorithms and Data Structures -- but not having that foundational knowledge really hurts.
Seconded. I've lost count of the number of times I've solved problems (my own and other people's) simply because I have some idea what actually happens when you invoke a compiler or linker.
(For the avoidance of doubt, no, I'm not being sarcastic.)
Other than replacing XP's pathetic search feature, it's really alot of nothing.
Well, given that replacing XP's pathetic search feature is the main reason I installed it, yes, I do use it a lot. That's a bit like saying that other than letting you make documents, Word is really alot [sic] of nothing.
So yes, I use it - for searching, in fact. Someone asked me for my CV the other day, so I hit Windows-G, typed CV, and my CV was in the inline results list - easy. Or maybe I remember a friend told me about a piece of software but I can't remember where it was or what the name was, so I hit Windows-G, type in the category of software, and I see the result in a chat history.
I even use it to run programs now. My Start menu is pretty big, so when I want to burn CDs, I hit Windows-G, type 'burn', and Nero is in the list, and I select it to run Nero. It's much faster than navigating my Start menu.
Two caveats:
I don't use the sidebar. It just didn't have enough to interest me/be useful. And even with auto-hide it kept opening when I didn't want it to (e.g. when I use Fitt's Law and chuck the mouse into the top right corner to close an app - the sidebar appears instead). If I wanted to know what the weather was like somewhere in America I suppose it might be useful.
I don't like it when Google take their 'search, don't sort' philosophy too far, and assume no-one will ever be organised in any way. GDS is no problem in this respect, but try Picasa if you have some/all of your photos organised, especially if you use hierarchical folders. It just lists all folders on your system that have photos. But with no context. So you might have a folder called 'Old' in many places, but all you see is lots of 'Old' folders in the list. You can't tell which is 'New York/Old' or 'Family Trip/Old' or 'Club/Old' etc. You can't order them on that basis. Search is good, but sometimes information is already organised, and it's good to use that meta-data too.
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So for most people then, graphics games will beat text-only games? :-)
Way to sidestep the global marketing brainwashed groupthink and reject the use of sex to sell products! You certainly are creative and revolutionary. Well done.
Good thing they changed their image. Changing their actions is probably a lot harder and more expensive :-)
Don't worry - we're on the case!
Fixed that up for ya.
Preview? Foolish child. You'll be expecting spelling and grammar next!
Well, the aim is to gather evidence so you can charge them, so the time taken to crack is very much the issue.
The point being that if they're guilty and you release them while you crack their drive, you're not ever going to see them again, so it doesn't particularly matter what you find.
Disclaimer: I don't support the desire to extend the period to 90 days, before I'm flamed - just pointing out the logic in the Police^WGovt's argument. One reason I don't support it is what happens when stronger encryption arrives? You're allowed to detain them until the heat death of the universe? Actually, I'd have thought that 90 days probably wasn't sufficient anyway with current encryption tech available (depending on your own particular govt supercomputer cracker beowulf clusters conspiracy theories, of course).
Well, no. The LGPL allows you to use the code without having to release your own code. That's the main difference between LGPL and GPL.
However, as the article you quoted mentions (I think! :-) you have to tell people you're using LGPL'd software somewhere, such as a copyright message in the software or text in the manual, etc. Interestingly, if Sony haven't done this, then the LGPL license is presumably revoked, so maybe the EFF will be knocking on Sony's door soon to ask them about, amusingly enough, copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property.
Granted, it's not as convenient as the 6 step process for buying music online, but it works for me.
Yeah, but Gabe did punch a baby once.
(In Gabe's defence, the baby was being kind of a dick.)
Not any more. They kicked our ass, apparently. Something about not being able to steer a ship or something.
However the actual problem was that airliner engines aren't like some awesome fighter jet with afterburner. They take time to spin up - from examining the black box, they determined that at the point the pilot wanted to ascend, even if the engines span up at the maxiumum rate, it was still nowhere near enough to pull the plane out of the descent. Hence, pilot error.
Right. Well done.
I'm sure I speak for many slashdot readers when I say that your statement made me laugh so hard that milk came out of my nose.
Watch out for the tennacles!
And keep an eye out for the horses! You'll swear they're not actually there ;-)
The year 1989 came before the year 1990.
Also:
The year 1983 came quite a lot before the year 1990.
In any case, I'm not sure how any of this proves that Mac Office is a completely different codebase to Windows Office. Office is, after all, just a bundling of apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc. Just because some of the apps were released first on Windows (Word), or first on Mac (Excel), or bundled first (Mac Office), doesn't really change the fact that by Office v6, the codebases were unified. As I said, I find it hard to believe that either the Mac or Windows Office teams have re-implemented all the apps since then. Maybe I'm missing something.
I'd say so, yes.
I read somewhere that the chances of anything actually coming from Mars are like, a million to one or something.
These guys probably do.
I assume you're being funny. A friend of mine bought the DVD from Amazon US (not available outside US due to copyright reasons), and 3 of us watched it one night, not expecting much.
We were right. I haven't seen many films that are fucking diabolical, but that was one of them. It was unbelievably long, the acting was terrible, the effects quite literally laughable (pretty sure they were all done on the director's laptop). And there was so much walking! I've never seen so much footage of people walking. My friend was asked by his wife what the running time of the movie was, and he said it was about 90 minutes, but that unfortunately the walking time was another 90 minutes.
Re: acting - The main character was, I presume, trying to do an English accent (as were they all, but his was the most execrable). It was pathetic, ranging from 'posh' (I assume that's what he was going for - it sounded like an effete Afrikaans speaker) to 'cockney' - all from the same character, of course, and quite often within the same sentence. To hear him keep saying the word 'tennacles' in the midst of his presumably upper-class speech was perhaps an unexpected treat indeed. The rest of the acting was terrible too. And there's a dinner table scene that is presumably included for comic relief that quite simply beggars belief, it's so bad. So bad.
The director (Hines) was actually quoted re: this film saying that adaptions of books are quite hard, and that unlike what most people think, it's not just a case of changing the past tense to the present. I think that tells you all you need to know about the director, really. Especially as it seemed that about all he actually did do was change the tense.
On the flip side, I saw the Tom Cruise version at the cinema, and I thought it was great. But then I wasn't expecting a slavish adaptation of the book - although I was fairly surprised how closely it did follow the book in various places, even if only in spirit. I went in expecting an entertaining Hollywood version of WotW, and that's what I got.
But my god, the Hines version is bad. Bad director! Bad! Back in your box!
So...er, what's your point?
(The Harvard joke is further down the same page :-)
Seconded. I've lost count of the number of times I've solved problems (my own and other people's) simply because I have some idea what actually happens when you invoke a compiler or linker.
(For the avoidance of doubt, no, I'm not being sarcastic.)
It could have been worse. He could have used the word 'incentivize'.
Well, given that replacing XP's pathetic search feature is the main reason I installed it, yes, I do use it a lot. That's a bit like saying that other than letting you make documents, Word is really alot [sic] of nothing.
So yes, I use it - for searching, in fact. Someone asked me for my CV the other day, so I hit Windows-G, typed CV, and my CV was in the inline results list - easy. Or maybe I remember a friend told me about a piece of software but I can't remember where it was or what the name was, so I hit Windows-G, type in the category of software, and I see the result in a chat history.
I even use it to run programs now. My Start menu is pretty big, so when I want to burn CDs, I hit Windows-G, type 'burn', and Nero is in the list, and I select it to run Nero. It's much faster than navigating my Start menu.
Two caveats: