I used to find that I only got spam to postmaster, webmaster, admin etc...
Until one day some bastard decided to start selling an email list with every made up name he could think of @(mydomain).com.
At the time I had qgreylist running (It's a simplified version of grey listing which returns a temporary error unless it's had mail from that ip address before in the last coupld of months). This meant that I was getting a mere 300 spams per day, but without that I would have been getting considerably more.
Needless to say, I turned off the catchall, which was quite annoying, as it was useful to just enter (companyname)@(mydomain).com whenever a website asked for my address. Now If I want to do that I have to set up an alias, which is a pain.
I think sometimes they work this stuff out by working out what percentage of GDP is spent by the government. In the UK it works out as something like 52%...
I'm not sure how government borrowing fits into this though...
I think if the chair on Human Rights abuses had to come from a country with a clear record on Human Rights, we'd need to import someone from another planet. Certainly I can't think of a suitable country off the top of my head... Iceland, perhaps?
Perhaps I was being harsh about the university paper - but at my university most of the journalists were actually students who would write occasional articles perhaps in this case it was different. You have to draw the line somewhere - is someone who writes the occasional paragraph for a monthly church newsletter a member of 'the press'?
You also say that they don't have the right to break the law, to which I would say... depends.
Sometimes a journalist has to take risks.
Yes, and that risk is that they may get caught and prosecuted. They don't deserve any special treatment just because they are journalists.
I'm sorry, but being a member of the 'press' (In this case reporting for a university paper) does not give you the right to break the law. You're confusing it with the right to free speech.
They were well within their rights to report on the situation, but they did not have the right to break the law. They have been prosecuted for the latter, not the former.
I think the compilation by the IHVs is a very good idea. It means that the driver can optimise in the best way for the card.
If you remember figures starting coming out about very poor performance with nVidia hardware and Half-Life 2 a while back. If HL2 had been OpenGL, nVidia could have tweaked their driver to workaround the suboptimal way Valve was driving their hardware, presumably to the benefit of the frame rate. ATI could have done the same thing.
Truly spoken like someone who has never written a commercial game.
People often seem to assume that if you write an OpenGl game, there'll be very little work in making a port for another OS. That may be the case if you're writing some free thing that you can download from Sourceforge but when people are actually paying for a product, there's this little thing called 'Quality Assurance' that gets in the way.
Basically, as well as porting your program over, you'd have to test it on a wide variety of machines for all the distributions you support. This takes a long time whatever OS you're running. You've also then got to fix all those niggly little isses while at the same time ensuring you don't break the setup for any of the other machine/graphics card/driver/distribution combinations you've got.
It's easy to say it's easy - it's not easy to do it.
Religion? Yeah, whatever. You seem to forget that Slashdot is primarily concerned with free, open software and user rights.
I think more accurately: 'News for nerds, stuff that matters'.
Editors who won't edit? You'd be angry if they put in their two cents, right?
Personally I think the article was worth posting, but you have to admit the writeup on Slashdot of the article was idiotic. If the Slashdot 'editors' really did edit, they wouldn't have let such a bunch of half-cocked logic get through.
No, we've got free software (which, as stated, he probably wasn't using), and Apple, which does satisfy their customers, plus one other un-named player who doesn't. Since Sowell seems to be unsatisfied, and isn't blaming free software, who is left?
Who's left are the thousands of other companies and people who write commercial software. Windows does run software written by companies other than Microsoft, you know...
Surely you can figure that out by yourself.
It's evident that I can, whether you are capable of figuring it out seems to be another matter...
"I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!"
Per-lease. So now we've basically got a world of free software and Microsoft software and that's it? What the hell has this got to do with the freeness or otherwise of the software? Microsoft is not even mentioned in the article!
I have received SMS spam, but unlike email, it costs the sender money, thereby limiting the scale of the abuse.
The scam that has been turned up recently over here in the UK has been targetting schoolchildren. You get an SMS saying that someone fancies you, or something like that. You reply, and get hit for a 1.50 ($3) charge. However, the regulations were recently changed to prevent this kind of thing - IIRC, you're not allowed to send an SMS that doesn't explicitly state if the reply is going to cost more than normal.
Actually, I use fu@bar.com more, but still reply on the ol' Darth Vader address as well. Often when programs insist you fill in your details on installation they'll find they've got the Dark Lord himself as a user...
Yes, it says that the Free Editions are released under the GPL and QPL. But if you'd looked on the Licensing Overview page, you'd note that there is no Free Edition for Windows.
It's only not free if you intend to create non-free programs with it.
It's not free for the Windows version, even if you want to create a free program that will run on Windows, which is why the original poster said crossplatform.
Which is why they've been having huge problems with their vanes recently
To be honest from my reading of their work, they've had a lot less trouble with their vanes than with their multiple rocket system.
I read a post by Carmack reckoning that they were losing about 2% of their thrust to the vanes, which doesn't seem that bad, and they appear to be happy with it.
I think the biggest advantage they see with their vanes is that they are considerably more responsive than turning the rockets on and off, where you have to wait for the solenoid to move and the resulting spurt of peroxide to catalyse before you get any effect.
I wouldn't really class Jon's team as close. Sure, they're definitely getting there, but the highest controlled flight they've done was only 131 feet high with a subscale model. Several of the other teams could have done the same thing and we'd never know about it - its just that Armadillo are very open about their progress.
Actually, that's one of the things I really admire about Armadillo Aerospace - they've kept very little to themselves - anybody with some money, patience and skill could get going quite quickly by learning from the Armadillo website.
I wonder what information he has displayed on that control panel, and what computer system they have displaying it? I mean, is there a specialist Aeronautics Display OS out there or does it run on QNX or RTLinux?
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8K! 8K!? I would have sold my right bollock to have 8K! Why, I had to do with 1K and I thought it was the best thing since Star Wars Action figures!
'ridiculize'?
Christ, did anybody on Slashdot ever go to school?
I used to find that I only got spam to postmaster, webmaster, admin etc...
Until one day some bastard decided to start selling an email list with every made up name he could think of @(mydomain).com.
At the time I had qgreylist running (It's a simplified version of grey listing which returns a temporary error unless it's had mail from that ip address before in the last coupld of months). This meant that I was getting a mere 300 spams per day, but without that I would have been getting considerably more.
Needless to say, I turned off the catchall, which was quite annoying, as it was useful to just enter (companyname)@(mydomain).com whenever a website asked for my address. Now If I want to do that I have to set up an alias, which is a pain.
He has an honorary knighthood, which is bestowed upon non-British citizens.
You are only get the honorific 'Sir' if you have a knighthood.
I think sometimes they work this stuff out by working out what percentage of GDP is spent by the government. In the UK it works out as something like 52%...
I'm not sure how government borrowing fits into this though...
That should be one pound (sterling) more expensive...
Damn Slashdot and it's denial of non-dollar currencies...
I don't suppose the weak dollar is doing you much good. I imagine many things will start getting more expensive if the dollar continues like this.
Certainly when you compare GBP to USD - $15 now only works out as about 1 more expensive than $10 two years ago...
I think if the chair on Human Rights abuses had to come from a country with a clear record on Human Rights, we'd need to import someone from another planet. Certainly I can't think of a suitable country off the top of my head... Iceland, perhaps?
Perhaps I was being harsh about the university paper - but at my university most of the journalists were actually students who would write occasional articles perhaps in this case it was different. You have to draw the line somewhere - is someone who writes the occasional paragraph for a monthly church newsletter a member of 'the press'?
You also say that they don't have the right to break the law, to which I would say... depends.
Sometimes a journalist has to take risks.
Yes, and that risk is that they may get caught and prosecuted. They don't deserve any special treatment just because they are journalists.
I'm sorry, but being a member of the 'press' (In this case reporting for a university paper) does not give you the right to break the law. You're confusing it with the right to free speech.
They were well within their rights to report on the situation, but they did not have the right to break the law. They have been prosecuted for the latter, not the former.
I think the compilation by the IHVs is a very good idea. It means that the driver can optimise in the best way for the card.
If you remember figures starting coming out about very poor performance with nVidia hardware and Half-Life 2 a while back. If HL2 had been OpenGL, nVidia could have tweaked their driver to workaround the suboptimal way Valve was driving their hardware, presumably to the benefit of the frame rate. ATI could have done the same thing.
Truly spoken like someone who has never written a commercial game.
People often seem to assume that if you write an OpenGl game, there'll be very little work in making a port for another OS. That may be the case if you're writing some free thing that you can download from Sourceforge but when people are actually paying for a product, there's this little thing called 'Quality Assurance' that gets in the way.
Basically, as well as porting your program over, you'd have to test it on a wide variety of machines for all the distributions you support. This takes a long time whatever OS you're running. You've also then got to fix all those niggly little isses while at the same time ensuring you don't break the setup for any of the other machine/graphics card/driver/distribution combinations you've got.
It's easy to say it's easy - it's not easy to do it.
IIRC, There was a boxed version of Quake III and it sold very poorly.
Actually, he has a point.
Religion? Yeah, whatever. You seem to forget that Slashdot is primarily concerned with free, open software and user rights.
I think more accurately: 'News for nerds, stuff that matters'.
Editors who won't edit? You'd be angry if they put in their two cents, right?
Personally I think the article was worth posting, but you have to admit the writeup on Slashdot of the article was idiotic. If the Slashdot 'editors' really did edit, they wouldn't have let such a bunch of half-cocked logic get through.
No, we've got free software (which, as stated,
he probably wasn't using), and Apple, which
does satisfy their customers, plus one other
un-named player who doesn't.
Since Sowell seems to be unsatisfied, and isn't blaming free software, who is left?
Who's left are the thousands of other companies and people who write commercial software. Windows does run software written by companies other than Microsoft, you know...
Surely you can figure that out by yourself.
It's evident that I can, whether you are capable of figuring it out seems to be another matter...
"I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!"
Per-lease.
So now we've basically got a world of free software and Microsoft software and that's it? What the hell has this got to do with the freeness or otherwise of the software? Microsoft is not even mentioned in the article!
Every time you write 'your' instead of 'you're', a kitten kills a Jesus.
I have received SMS spam, but unlike email, it costs the sender money, thereby limiting the scale of the abuse.
The scam that has been turned up recently over here in the UK has been targetting schoolchildren. You get an SMS saying that someone fancies you, or something like that. You reply, and get hit for a 1.50 ($3) charge. However, the regulations were recently changed to prevent this kind of thing - IIRC, you're not allowed to send an SMS that doesn't explicitly state if the reply is going to cost more than normal.
Actually, I use fu@bar.com more, but still reply on the ol' Darth Vader address as well. Often when programs insist you fill in your details on installation they'll find they've got the Dark Lord himself as a user...
Yes, it says that the Free Editions are released under the GPL and QPL. But if you'd looked on the Licensing Overview page, you'd note that there is no Free Edition for Windows.
IT'S FREE!
It's only not free if you intend to create non-free programs with it.
It's not free for the Windows version, even if you want to create a free program that will run on Windows, which is why the original poster said crossplatform.
Your wish is trolltechs command.
Well, no it's not. There is no free edition of Qt for Windows. If you want to develop a program that will run on Windows, you'll need to buy it.
If you can't do Windows, it kind of throws out the whole crossplatform thing.
Which is why they've been having huge problems with their vanes recently
To be honest from my reading of their work, they've had a lot less trouble with their vanes than with their multiple rocket system.
I read a post by Carmack reckoning that they were losing about 2% of their thrust to the vanes, which doesn't seem that bad, and they appear to be happy with it.
I think the biggest advantage they see with their vanes is that they are considerably more responsive than turning the rockets on and off, where you have to wait for the solenoid to move and the resulting spurt of peroxide to catalyse before you get any effect.
I wouldn't really class Jon's team as close. Sure, they're definitely getting there, but the highest controlled flight they've done was only 131 feet high with a subscale model. Several of the other teams could have done the same thing and we'd never know about it - its just that Armadillo are very open about their progress.
Actually, that's one of the things I really admire about Armadillo Aerospace - they've kept very little to themselves - anybody with some money, patience and skill could get going quite quickly by learning from the Armadillo website.
This is an interesting picture.
I wonder what information he has displayed on that control panel, and what computer system they have displaying it? I mean, is there a specialist Aeronautics Display OS out there or does it run on QNX or RTLinux?