3. Sharpen your support staff up, stress test systems, and run many queries through support to allow for writing a problem solving database to ensure that when people actually pay for service, they get it.
Alot about unified sound drivers falls back to the specific hardware driver it calls.
Also for simple things like SetMuteOn() you really don't need more than that. When ALSA is just passing a bit to another driver, theres really not much that can be said about the bit flipping function except that it flips a bit called name and passes it down the chain.
Its a text transport medium. Files are ground up into text and stuck in it. It is inefficient at best, and doesn't change the nature of the medium at all.
Sadly while theres plenty to rant about, theres only so many times one person can rant on the same thing before it gets stale and starts needing a guy and two robots to talk over it.
Also I can't know everything and will end up shooting myself in the foot more times than I have feet. Coupled with my disinterest in spewing negativity all the time (or at least on a regular schedule), I'm not sure its a great idea.
Some sorta RantDot site would be pretty cool though, might need a matchmaker style article ranking system though.
When I see kB I assume it means a lazy shift finger, when I see KiB I assume it means the person is braindamaged or evil.
I think they should call the 10^3 KBs something like "old professors shouldn't be using computers because they can't learn new tricks anyway KBs".
The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Leave my 2^10 KBs alone, change yours instead, tack an L for lame in front of your cretinous 10^3 KBs and let the computer users have a size unit that doesn't wobble around randomly.
How the feck would you like it if each hour was now 2% shorter because the pope says so, and now theres an extra half hour at midnight, and we need to throw out all of our old clocks, rewrite lots of software, revise many schedules, alter time based formulas (after a few more NASA projects blow up and crash and stuff), etc. Of course some people think its insane and try clinging to the old ways, and now hours are utterly untrustworthy measurements.
Actually, the traditional KB doesn't get a leap half-hour and we have to deal with the computing equivlent of a 51 week year, complete with lunatics shouting "hey, its your fault you don't rotate your clock 7.2 degrees every day!"
Sorry, the difference between standard hammer brands and the difference between 3-D rendering packages are nowhere near approaching similar.
The defaults, input methods, rendering techniques, etc can "color" renderings in such a way that with a few packages you can generally tell what was used.
Its more like, hey, this house looks like they used a rivet gun instead of a hammer and nails. That one next door was made entirely of plaster. Whoa, is that a blob of nanites building that house over there!?
I wasted my time on it, and I could nitpick it until there was less than nothing left, but I'm not crying out that I want those hours of my life back.
2001: A Space Travesty is pure rot. This is the results of 7 years of effort and there is stuff worth seeing in it. Given that I paid so see the former and this is free, I'm not panning it. (I'll rate it 4 out of 10, which puts it above half of what hollywood puts out in my book)
Actually, I don't know the tech behind phasers, but its probably alot more unreal than plasma and particle beams. They also did the warp thing, which is so far total Sci Fi even in B5 terms. If they had to actually dock with B5 (oops, what crazy tech do they use to propel themselves?) then run around punching everyone in the station out that'd fly as having their physics invalidated.
Actually shields have been demonstrated in B5 from an alternate universe of sorts before, They might actually be owed that (then they can deal with the elder races instead of picking on an immobile tin-can).
The B5 ships still need to break inertia to do the turns, which is less than breaking inertia to change velocity, but still quite significant (and forward movement is helped by those big-ass thrusters on the back). And the crew feels 100% of it when it happens.
I wanted to see more Star Trek console explosions. I swear, a character sneezes and the things blow.
Thats assuming you only go alone. Last theater trip I want to cost $21, ignoring the 6 dollar popcorn.
Also, arguably better than 6 buck used purchases. By-mail rentals from NetFlix or GreenCine (guess my preference, though speed drops off as you get farther from the california bay area) can knock the prices for movie viewing down to $2 per.
Like it's so hard to take on a B5 ship with a Trek ship. Omegas don't even have real gravity generation let alone shields or a torpedo or anything.
"We're under attack, lets beam ourselves to the planet to save ourselves... Wait, we don't have that either. Oh look, they're just showing off with that maneuvering, if theres time left I'm going to kill myself to spite them!"
I'm insulted that it was even brought up in the summary if thats all there is...
You don't seem to understand, that just because someone say, lets you in their house to take a dump, doesn't give you the right to start reorganizing their bookshelves. If you want to have control of the environment you take a dump in, get your own damn toilet, and put it in your own damn house.
And less metaphorically, even if you had the source to gmail (which seems kinda like it was developed by google from the start) you could be denied knowledge of wether they send copies of your emails to bigbrother or delete every other incoming message on the fly because configuration files are not source code, and again it ain't your house so just deal with it (and get your fat grubby paws out of their goddamn fridge, or like, ask!).
The fact is that web services make the web surfer the user of the program, not the webmaster.
I think you're wrong. The user of a program is the one that downloads installs/authorizes code execution on their system.
The owners of a website use a web server and web apps to deliver output to the persons browsing the site. The people browsing the site have no authority over the software other than is granted by the owner of the web site.
Likening use of HTTP to linking a library is wrong, and IMO idiotic.
It will be backed by legalese (though a human friendly dialect where possible), since last I understood the nature of a license is legal, and they want to be legally clear and unambigous about their license. Again, feel free to prove otherwise.
Yes there are many incompatible OSS licenses already. The problem is that making more licenses for shits and giggles is a bad idea, and over time will be an extra burden at the very least.
They *are* creating a feeble version of that requirement. As it is backed by much legalese it is very dangerous and is very likely to cause problems in the future.
Its not a good excuse to revise the GPL, and fixing or tuning it later will create a fourth version of the GPL.
After there are enough incompatible versions of the GPL, how much do you expect to see left of OSS? Licensing gridlock will ensue and the much feared and preached against reinvention of the wheel will be forced. I'd love for you to prove to me wrong on this though.
I don't believe the point is moot. Copyright belongs to the person who wrote that code, and that person should have say about how that code gets licensed. Less psychotic or more grubby licensing may be desired, but denied because of runaway licensing in some software that was supposed to be Not Evil(tm) to it's users.
Websites that do this don't clearly run counter to the intention of the GPL as I support it.
The website is the user of the program, the people browsing it are recieving content generated by that program, they are not running it, it is not their program, they have no rights to expect anything from the site except for what is given to them. According to the configuration of the website by the rightful user of that software, what is offered by the site may be very little, or may infact offer source code for all software running the site.
Expanding the GPL to force source disclosure to anyone who recieves the output of GPL code is absolutely unreasonable.
"Why does this music CD include a copy of Linux and a music generation program?"
"Why has my entire radio program been GPLed for playing one song that shouldn't have been sanely be considered GPLed?"
I'm not sure why client side javascript generated by a GPL program must be encumbered by GPL, unless that code is actually specifically part of the GPLed program to begin with, In which case that may extend GPL to other bits of code not originally GPLed but bundled with the GPLed javascript by the page.
Nastiness taken further, I take an exerpt of some of the textual content of that page and put in in a book I write.
Because it vastly complicates a simple ruleset that already does a great job at forbidding the unavailability of source code to applications you use.
When this ruleset is extended partially to include recieving output of a program as a basis for the right to have its source code, the option for much worse loopholes is created. Loopholes which will terrify and drive away developers, especially when that one loophole is expanded to cover disclosure avoidance loopholes.
Simply put, its the gateway from which a huge mess will sprawl forth. (And I'm curious how they'll handle taking a snippet of GPL3 code from an app with the upload "feature" and putting it into GPL2 code. Nevermind basic concerns about an upload feature which cannot be removed may pose as a great means to DoS a site, or the ruleset that explains throughout the various possibilities what throttling options are available and to what extent....etc...)
Slashdot Mirror
(free, as in free beer)
Free as in "Some jerk is sitting right outside my brewery with his Star-Trek gizmos replicating my beer and giving it away, I'll sue!"
3. Sharpen your support staff up, stress test systems, and run many queries through support to allow for writing a problem solving database to ensure that when people actually pay for service, they get it.
Sounds like a solid plan.
Alot about unified sound drivers falls back to the specific hardware driver it calls.
Also for simple things like SetMuteOn() you really don't need more than that. When ALSA is just passing a bit to another driver, theres really not much that can be said about the bit flipping function except that it flips a bit called name and passes it down the chain.
*shrug*
Why is realtime a requirement?
Its a text transport medium. Files are ground up into text and stuck in it. It is inefficient at best, and doesn't change the nature of the medium at all.
Sadly while theres plenty to rant about, theres only so many times one person can rant on the same thing before it gets stale and starts needing a guy and two robots to talk over it.
Also I can't know everything and will end up shooting myself in the foot more times than I have feet. Coupled with my disinterest in spewing negativity all the time (or at least on a regular schedule), I'm not sure its a great idea.
Some sorta RantDot site would be pretty cool though, might need a matchmaker style article ranking system though.
My flamebait time!
When I see kB I assume it means a lazy shift finger, when I see KiB I assume it means the person is braindamaged or evil.
I think they should call the 10^3 KBs something like "old professors shouldn't be using computers because they can't learn new tricks anyway KBs".
The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Leave my 2^10 KBs alone, change yours instead, tack an L for lame in front of your cretinous 10^3 KBs and let the computer users have a size unit that doesn't wobble around randomly.
How the feck would you like it if each hour was now 2% shorter because the pope says so, and now theres an extra half hour at midnight, and we need to throw out all of our old clocks, rewrite lots of software, revise many schedules, alter time based formulas (after a few more NASA projects blow up and crash and stuff), etc. Of course some people think its insane and try clinging to the old ways, and now hours are utterly untrustworthy measurements.
Actually, the traditional KB doesn't get a leap half-hour and we have to deal with the computing equivlent of a 51 week year, complete with lunatics shouting "hey, its your fault you don't rotate your clock 7.2 degrees every day!"
Sorry, the difference between standard hammer brands and the difference between 3-D rendering packages are nowhere near approaching similar.
The defaults, input methods, rendering techniques, etc can "color" renderings in such a way that with a few packages you can generally tell what was used.
Its more like, hey, this house looks like they used a rivet gun instead of a hammer and nails. That one next door was made entirely of plaster. Whoa, is that a blob of nanites building that house over there!?
Coupled with the worst costume in the movie by an order of magnitude.
... I'm going home ..world."
They should have suckered Christopher Walken to play Londo in this.
[Hair looking like someone set off a bomb on his forehead he does the standard calmly pissed off thing]
"Screw you guys
I wasted my time on it, and I could nitpick it until there was less than nothing left, but I'm not crying out that I want those hours of my life back.
2001: A Space Travesty is pure rot. This is the results of 7 years of effort and there is stuff worth seeing in it. Given that I paid so see the former and this is free, I'm not panning it. (I'll rate it 4 out of 10, which puts it above half of what hollywood puts out in my book)
Actually, I don't know the tech behind phasers, but its probably alot more unreal than plasma and particle beams. They also did the warp thing, which is so far total Sci Fi even in B5 terms. If they had to actually dock with B5 (oops, what crazy tech do they use to propel themselves?) then run around punching everyone in the station out that'd fly as having their physics invalidated.
Actually shields have been demonstrated in B5 from an alternate universe of sorts before, They might actually be owed that (then they can deal with the elder races instead of picking on an immobile tin-can).
"Insolent." -- Kosh
The B5 ships still need to break inertia to do the turns, which is less than breaking inertia to change velocity, but still quite significant (and forward movement is helped by those big-ass thrusters on the back). And the crew feels 100% of it when it happens.
I wanted to see more Star Trek console explosions. I swear, a character sneezes and the things blow.
Know where I can find one?
Thats assuming you only go alone. Last theater trip I want to cost $21, ignoring the 6 dollar popcorn.
Also, arguably better than 6 buck used purchases. By-mail rentals from NetFlix or GreenCine (guess my preference, though speed drops off as you get farther from the california bay area) can knock the prices for movie viewing down to $2 per.
Like it's so hard to take on a B5 ship with a Trek ship. Omegas don't even have real gravity generation let alone shields or a torpedo or anything.
"We're under attack, lets beam ourselves to the planet to save ourselves... Wait, we don't have that either. Oh look, they're just showing off with that maneuvering, if theres time left I'm going to kill myself to spite them!"
I'm insulted that it was even brought up in the summary if thats all there is...
All I read looks like pure Star Trek spoofage, except it the Slashdot article.
Tell me I'm not downloading this for nothing...
RTFA ... or even RTFCs.
You don't seem to understand, that just because someone say, lets you in their house to take a dump, doesn't give you the right to start reorganizing their bookshelves. If you want to have control of the environment you take a dump in, get your own damn toilet, and put it in your own damn house.
And less metaphorically, even if you had the source to gmail (which seems kinda like it was developed by google from the start) you could be denied knowledge of wether they send copies of your emails to bigbrother or delete every other incoming message on the fly because configuration files are not source code, and again it ain't your house so just deal with it (and get your fat grubby paws out of their goddamn fridge, or like, ask!).
The fact is that web services make the web surfer the user of the program, not the webmaster.
I think you're wrong. The user of a program is the one that downloads installs/authorizes code execution on their system.
The owners of a website use a web server and web apps to deliver output to the persons browsing the site. The people browsing the site have no authority over the software other than is granted by the owner of the web site.
Likening use of HTTP to linking a library is wrong, and IMO idiotic.
It will be backed by legalese (though a human friendly dialect where possible), since last I understood the nature of a license is legal, and they want to be legally clear and unambigous about their license. Again, feel free to prove otherwise.
Yes there are many incompatible OSS licenses already. The problem is that making more licenses for shits and giggles is a bad idea, and over time will be an extra burden at the very least.
They *are* creating a feeble version of that requirement. As it is backed by much legalese it is very dangerous and is very likely to cause problems in the future.
Its not a good excuse to revise the GPL, and fixing or tuning it later will create a fourth version of the GPL.
After there are enough incompatible versions of the GPL, how much do you expect to see left of OSS? Licensing gridlock will ensue and the much feared and preached against reinvention of the wheel will be forced. I'd love for you to prove to me wrong on this though.
I don't believe the point is moot. Copyright belongs to the person who wrote that code, and that person should have say about how that code gets licensed. Less psychotic or more grubby licensing may be desired, but denied because of runaway licensing in some software that was supposed to be Not Evil(tm) to it's users.
Websites that do this don't clearly run counter to the intention of the GPL as I support it.
The website is the user of the program, the people browsing it are recieving content generated by that program, they are not running it, it is not their program, they have no rights to expect anything from the site except for what is given to them. According to the configuration of the website by the rightful user of that software, what is offered by the site may be very little, or may infact offer source code for all software running the site.
Expanding the GPL to force source disclosure to anyone who recieves the output of GPL code is absolutely unreasonable.
"Why does this music CD include a copy of Linux and a music generation program?"
"Why has my entire radio program been GPLed for playing one song that shouldn't have been sanely be considered GPLed?"
And so forth.
I'm not sure why client side javascript generated by a GPL program must be encumbered by GPL, unless that code is actually specifically part of the GPLed program to begin with, In which case that may extend GPL to other bits of code not originally GPLed but bundled with the GPLed javascript by the page.
Nastiness taken further, I take an exerpt of some of the textual content of that page and put in in a book I write.
There has to be a line where it stops.
Because it vastly complicates a simple ruleset that already does a great job at forbidding the unavailability of source code to applications you use.
...etc...)
When this ruleset is extended partially to include recieving output of a program as a basis for the right to have its source code, the option for much worse loopholes is created. Loopholes which will terrify and drive away developers, especially when that one loophole is expanded to cover disclosure avoidance loopholes.
Simply put, its the gateway from which a huge mess will sprawl forth. (And I'm curious how they'll handle taking a snippet of GPL3 code from an app with the upload "feature" and putting it into GPL2 code. Nevermind basic concerns about an upload feature which cannot be removed may pose as a great means to DoS a site, or the ruleset that explains throughout the various possibilities what throttling options are available and to what extent.