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Wrong. WINE Is *Not* an Emulator; that is, it is perfectly happy to re-implement the Windows API. And like most code, it can be recompiled on, say, SPARC without too much work.
But the code that calls it needs to be able to execute natively - because WINE Is Not an Emulator. In theory you could run Windows NT Alpha/PowerPC code with the corresponding version of WINE...
Actually that was just my memory. I assume there's some discrepancy with the numbers - between "suspected to have killed" and "killed as a direct result of"
Famously killed 2 people as a result of radiation poisoning. It's also a case study in software design - the software was reused on a model without hardware interlocks; this allowed the machine to get into an inconsistent state where it would deliver something like a hundred times the intended dose.
What the hell kind of comment is that? Take flight. There are two ways to do it - be lighter than air, or equal your weight with thrust.
Unless we find some way to modify gravity, that's it. In that case, the "idea is so critical to [flight that] it cannot be worked around". You can easily make the case that simple physics will allow you to arrive at both solutions.
I'm a student-IT assistant at my university (it's like $40 a week, but I don't have to do anything). Part of this job is handing out infringement notices.
I've only done a few, but I have to say - they're doing these right. First of all, they are sending out DMCA C&Ds (which is an order to remove the infringing material i.e. delete it, and not get caught again), not lawsuits. Second, they have the list of the exact files, infringing products, dates and times, and checksums - all linked to the IP address which has been duly looked up by our IT department (we are, after all, an ISP and bound by the same rules). They actually send the whole thing along as an XML file, with a custom schema
Maybe they're just laying off a bit because it's college students. But they're really being quite reasonable IMHO - and this is coming from someone who did, and does, hate the MPAA/RIAA with the burning passion of a thousand firey suns. No lawsuits, and it effectively boils down to a warning. If it comes to it, they leave discipline to the university (who will cut of 'net access, or worse).
Big media is still a leech, contributing little of value to the creative process - but when they make an accusation, they at least aren't being dicks about it.
I joined Slashdot at 14. But I didn't brag about it - until now, I guess. I'm 18 at the moment, and my UID is relatively low compared to all these newcomers nowadays.
Nobody cares what you think. The guy came here looking for opinions on how to volunteer. Saying "don't volunteer and be selfish instead" is just a dick move.
Haha. You sound like Fox News. You even used the word "elitist". Rathergate? What the hell is that? Does anyone care?
Clearly, you're not the target market for "high quality nuance". The fact that a Republican won in Massachusetts is only interesting because of it's political ramifications.
See, that's why proper journalism exists. Twitter can tell you that Brown won, but a (real) journalist can tell you why, how, and why it's important. Fox, MSNBC or JoeBlog.com can tell me what to think, but a real journalist can explain a situation and let me make up my own mind.
But you seem to prefer being told what to think. It is easier, after all.
They understand that, and I don't think they object. That's why they allow the number of free stories. They're targeting the people who use only the NYTimes for news, as the article makes clear (they figure most of their page views are from a relatively small percentage of their visitors) and they're looking to charge them. If it's $5/mo, they'll gladly pay. Everybody else will just keep using an aggregator like they already are.
If the Democrats are marginally less inclined to asshole-ish behaviour, does that really make them any better?
Well, yes - marginally so. Nobody's seriously suggesting that this two party system leads to anything more than the lesser of two evils, but by being less bad they are (by definition) better. Whether this marginal improvement is enough to win your vote, over something like a third party, is up to you.
I doubt there's a person alive who can substantially change FLOSS development - the tools have been there for nigh on 40 years. If there's a problem I can almost guarantee that someone would've fixed it already.
I suspect documentation and translation would be the biggest help - if you're looking for "bang for your buck^Wtime", go with this.
If it's code you're looking to contribute, I don't think you (or any one person) can really do anything more than incremental improvements. Don't get me wrong, incremental improvements are great - but I imagine they'd get a little demoralizing.
If I were looking to contribute code, I'd try to come up with a reasonably minor but very useful improvement, such as bash's completion - the one that doesn't just list commands or directories, but for example listing emacs when you do "apt-get install ema" (along with supporting a whole host of other commands, like sysctl, tar, ping, and ssh). That's something that makes a big difference and is extremely useful, but it's very possible that one person could do it in a reasonable amount of time.
Mac OS X managed to move from MacOS to a Unix - a far more significant change than anything Windows has done - without breaking much at all. Same with PowerPC to x86.
Backwards compatibility doesn't need to be integral. In fact, it's probably safer if what's been deprecated is made really obvious.
Most would argue that the NYTimes has both original reporting and a better experience. Their website is nice and clean, and they're still one of (if not the) premier newspaper in the world. For example, they broke the NSA wiretapping story.
It would be highly damaging if they were to disappear. It's not like they could just be replaced.
Why not both? I don't trust Drudge or any of that other crap you were talking about, but they do admittedly break the story first. I'll wait to make up my own mind until I read the high-quality nuanced story from the New York Times, or another quality newspaper. They'll reliably talk about the context of the issue, or implications for other news.
That, and the NYTimes is pretty damn fast. I read the article about the GOP winning Massachusetts a full 12 minutes after the race was conceded.
Those are wrong, or at least misleading. AT&T's 2G (called EDGE, 2-300kbps) is as fast as Verizon's 3G. And AT&T has EDGE coverage across it's whole area.
AT&T's 3g coverage (shown in the map) is HSDPA. That's up to theoretically 20mbps, but I've seen real-world speeds of 3mbps/300kbps.
Long story short, Verizon's comparing gold to tin, and poo-pooing AT&T because there's less gold than tin.
It's very interesting to read correspondence between the Framers - but the fact is, only the actual text applies. And the actual text says that a warrant allows governmental search and seizure.
Look, if you're going to screw around at the DNS level - don't. Use a proper transparent proxy that works regardless of what DNS server the user types in. And if you decide to anyway, at least run your own damn DNS server. It's really easy. Mooching off some free, questionable service is *not* a good idea for a business.
Maybe not a single person, but even a relatively small EMS agency can save hundreds of lives a year (for various definitions of 'save'; I'm counting people who probably would die without intervention)
Go to New York, and they save hundreds of people *a day*. At least. That's tens of thousands a year. A single EMT could easily save 400 people a year
Think before you speak. Someone having a life threatening medical problem (trouble breathing, chest pains, possible spinal injury, possible internal bleeding) is a lot more frequent than a Coast Guard emergency. And I have nothing but respect for the Coast Guard - my uncle was in the CG for many years.
But don't pretend EMS doesn't do anything - you make yourself look like an idiot, and a jackass to boot.
So it's indirectly about the horrible crime Hans committed. Since it's because of that that his company has a poor future, and won't be maintaining Reiser for very long.
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Wrong. WINE Is *Not* an Emulator; that is, it is perfectly happy to re-implement the Windows API. And like most code, it can be recompiled on, say, SPARC without too much work.
But the code that calls it needs to be able to execute natively - because WINE Is Not an Emulator. In theory you could run Windows NT Alpha/PowerPC code with the corresponding version of WINE...
tl;dr GP gets it right. WINE won't work.
Actually that was just my memory. I assume there's some discrepancy with the numbers - between "suspected to have killed" and "killed as a direct result of"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Famously killed 2 people as a result of radiation poisoning. It's also a case study in software design - the software was reused on a model without hardware interlocks; this allowed the machine to get into an inconsistent state where it would deliver something like a hundred times the intended dose.
You'd think people would've learned.
Wow. With that level of eloquence and reason, you should be on Fox News
You should check the nmap website. It's been used in countless movies, from Matrix Reloaded to Die Hard 4. In general, they even use it correctly!
What the hell kind of comment is that? Take flight. There are two ways to do it - be lighter than air, or equal your weight with thrust.
Unless we find some way to modify gravity, that's it. In that case, the "idea is so critical to [flight that] it cannot be worked around". You can easily make the case that simple physics will allow you to arrive at both solutions.
I'm a student-IT assistant at my university (it's like $40 a week, but I don't have to do anything). Part of this job is handing out infringement notices.
I've only done a few, but I have to say - they're doing these right. First of all, they are sending out DMCA C&Ds (which is an order to remove the infringing material i.e. delete it, and not get caught again), not lawsuits. Second, they have the list of the exact files, infringing products, dates and times, and checksums - all linked to the IP address which has been duly looked up by our IT department (we are, after all, an ISP and bound by the same rules). They actually send the whole thing along as an XML file, with a custom schema
Maybe they're just laying off a bit because it's college students. But they're really being quite reasonable IMHO - and this is coming from someone who did, and does, hate the MPAA/RIAA with the burning passion of a thousand firey suns. No lawsuits, and it effectively boils down to a warning. If it comes to it, they leave discipline to the university (who will cut of 'net access, or worse).
Big media is still a leech, contributing little of value to the creative process - but when they make an accusation, they at least aren't being dicks about it.
YMMV.
I joined Slashdot at 14. But I didn't brag about it - until now, I guess. I'm 18 at the moment, and my UID is relatively low compared to all these newcomers nowadays.
Yes, that's why I used it as example of scope (do something like bash's completion).
Come talk to me when you feel like saying what's wrong, rather than just using the word "half-assed" a lot.
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By not licensing it?
Nobody cares what you think. The guy came here looking for opinions on how to volunteer. Saying "don't volunteer and be selfish instead" is just a dick move.
Haha. You sound like Fox News. You even used the word "elitist". Rathergate? What the hell is that? Does anyone care?
Clearly, you're not the target market for "high quality nuance". The fact that a Republican won in Massachusetts is only interesting because of it's political ramifications.
See, that's why proper journalism exists. Twitter can tell you that Brown won, but a (real) journalist can tell you why, how, and why it's important. Fox, MSNBC or JoeBlog.com can tell me what to think, but a real journalist can explain a situation and let me make up my own mind.
But you seem to prefer being told what to think. It is easier, after all.
They understand that, and I don't think they object. That's why they allow the number of free stories. They're targeting the people who use only the NYTimes for news, as the article makes clear (they figure most of their page views are from a relatively small percentage of their visitors) and they're looking to charge them. If it's $5/mo, they'll gladly pay. Everybody else will just keep using an aggregator like they already are.
If the Democrats are marginally less inclined to asshole-ish behaviour, does that really make them any better?
Well, yes - marginally so. Nobody's seriously suggesting that this two party system leads to anything more than the lesser of two evils, but by being less bad they are (by definition) better. Whether this marginal improvement is enough to win your vote, over something like a third party, is up to you.
I doubt there's a person alive who can substantially change FLOSS development - the tools have been there for nigh on 40 years. If there's a problem I can almost guarantee that someone would've fixed it already.
I suspect documentation and translation would be the biggest help - if you're looking for "bang for your buck^Wtime", go with this.
If it's code you're looking to contribute, I don't think you (or any one person) can really do anything more than incremental improvements. Don't get me wrong, incremental improvements are great - but I imagine they'd get a little demoralizing.
If I were looking to contribute code, I'd try to come up with a reasonably minor but very useful improvement, such as bash's completion - the one that doesn't just list commands or directories, but for example listing emacs when you do "apt-get install ema" (along with supporting a whole host of other commands, like sysctl, tar, ping, and ssh). That's something that makes a big difference and is extremely useful, but it's very possible that one person could do it in a reasonable amount of time.
Mac OS X managed to move from MacOS to a Unix - a far more significant change than anything Windows has done - without breaking much at all. Same with PowerPC to x86.
Backwards compatibility doesn't need to be integral. In fact, it's probably safer if what's been deprecated is made really obvious.
Most would argue that the NYTimes has both original reporting and a better experience. Their website is nice and clean, and they're still one of (if not the) premier newspaper in the world. For example, they broke the NSA wiretapping story.
It would be highly damaging if they were to disappear. It's not like they could just be replaced.
Why not both? I don't trust Drudge or any of that other crap you were talking about, but they do admittedly break the story first. I'll wait to make up my own mind until I read the high-quality nuanced story from the New York Times, or another quality newspaper. They'll reliably talk about the context of the issue, or implications for other news.
That, and the NYTimes is pretty damn fast. I read the article about the GOP winning Massachusetts a full 12 minutes after the race was conceded.
Those are wrong, or at least misleading. AT&T's 2G (called EDGE, 2-300kbps) is as fast as Verizon's 3G. And AT&T has EDGE coverage across it's whole area.
AT&T's 3g coverage (shown in the map) is HSDPA. That's up to theoretically 20mbps, but I've seen real-world speeds of 3mbps/300kbps.
Long story short, Verizon's comparing gold to tin, and poo-pooing AT&T because there's less gold than tin.
It's very interesting to read correspondence between the Framers - but the fact is, only the actual text applies. And the actual text says that a warrant allows governmental search and seizure.
Maybe VLB... but DVI has been on every computer for at least 4 years, as well as being the format for HDMI.
I'd say DVI is overwhelmingly the format of choice? Trash heap?
You're using OpenDNS for your *company*??
Look, if you're going to screw around at the DNS level - don't. Use a proper transparent proxy that works regardless of what DNS server the user types in. And if you decide to anyway, at least run your own damn DNS server. It's really easy. Mooching off some free, questionable service is *not* a good idea for a business.
Maybe not a single person, but even a relatively small EMS agency can save hundreds of lives a year (for various definitions of 'save'; I'm counting people who probably would die without intervention)
Go to New York, and they save hundreds of people *a day*. At least. That's tens of thousands a year. A single EMT could easily save 400 people a year
Think before you speak. Someone having a life threatening medical problem (trouble breathing, chest pains, possible spinal injury, possible internal bleeding) is a lot more frequent than a Coast Guard emergency. And I have nothing but respect for the Coast Guard - my uncle was in the CG for many years.
But don't pretend EMS doesn't do anything - you make yourself look like an idiot, and a jackass to boot.
So it's indirectly about the horrible crime Hans committed. Since it's because of that that his company has a poor future, and won't be maintaining Reiser for very long.