I thought the article was focusing more on takeing closed source products open.
I think it could be a matter of IBM and HP and other people have figured out there is more money in selling hardware and support and less money in software. It also seems that you could pay for software development with the advertising budget, if people are using your free software you would look more appealing when they need support or more hardware by the simple fact that if you made it you could support it best.
Google should screen against illegal activities in the country of origin.
I don't think google should add any extra screening automatically. I would prefer it if they sent dmca notification style letters to start the screening process. Would it be possible to craft the reporting interface that would run a moddified diff (one that can render video and compare the two or whatever the audio equivelent would be) that looked for similarities to a known good sample provided by the organization claiming copyright and the offending url.
I still use hotmail. If a website says that they need a valid email address I give them my hotmail address. It helps to keep the spam from my other accounts. As long as you log in and clear your mail often enough it will stay active. It also gives me another protocol to use inside of gaim
You keep bringing up waterskiing, And I have the perfect soultion. We need to add a tax to fuel prices to subsidize the creation of non flat lakes so that boats will no longer be nessecary for water skiing.
That would work, but I was trying to point out the scale of the problem. Unless there is some technical reason that the colors have to be red and green, why can't they say we will use your machine if you just change the colors.
Maybe since this is slashdot people mught understand my point better if I use a car analogy. Suppose I go to a group of automotive engineers and say I want a car that can cruise at mach 1 and I get 5 back. Of the 5 I get back 4 of them have parts that break upon reaching the speed of sound and the fifth has a red exterior and green seats. I would reject the first 4 because they don't do what I wanted them to do. car number 5 can be sent to a paint shop and get the seats reupholstered (future cars could probably be ordered with the proper color scheme).
Where I vote the person that assigns the computer walks you through a few setup screens to get the computer to the point where you are able to vote.
If the only problem with the machine is the colour scheme, Would it be too hard to put a theme menu on the screen before you start that will let you choose from a handfull of prebuilt themes or at leasts prompts for a background colour and a font colour.
the reason you might have to try many oss projects before you find a good one is that places like sourceforge and other big oss places never seem to drop any abandoned projects so they sit around popping up in search results. My theory is that all software starts off bad and gets better over time. Bad closed source is harder to find because they don't release until they think they can sell it or they go out of buisness and nobody is allowed to spread it.
Water cooling is nice, but you need a fairly deep pond/lake nearby to do it well.
The first area listed is Northern michigan, How much water do you need. The great Lakes have 6 quadrillion U.S. gallons worth of water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes.
You seem to be thinking like I was when I first read about this problem. but I think I have a better way of addressing who we are replying to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205731&cid=167 86251 hyperlinks are easier to follow than trying to count as the number of comments rise.
Looking around a local chevrolet dealership, I have noticed theese eighth-inch stereo mini-plugs of which you speak in the standard radios. I don't think it is on all of the radios but the number has been going up recently.
and a mechanism for crossfading the audio between spots to handle the case where people run it right up to the wire. You need a switcher for the video---the ability to quickly change from one foreground full-screen video window to another without any glitching.
Unless I am misunderstanding your post it sounds like you are trying to do all of this in real time. To me it seems like the issues you point out only happen when you are transitioning between video feeds. Could you use a fifo for continous playback without switching media players, as long as you can find an encoder that can work faster than real time you could have the encoder start when the fifo starts to get low.
Instead of a flat $10,000 why not $1000 dollars a day with the first five days free, this way if the problem is fixed in 5 days you don't get any money , but still get the credit you wanted. If microsoft decides it takes 120 days then they pay $115,000.
If $1000 a day seems a little high I would agree to a multi-tiered pay scale based on severity, with the clause that if I later find a way to use the same vulnerability to do worse than what I came up with it would retroactively move me up the scale.
If all you are worried about is compile time, the samba team have come up with distcc and ccache for distributed compiling and a compiler cache respectively. Using this set up a network with four computers with four cores would be able to use 16 cores with make -j 16 for a faster first time compile. The recompile would be faster because the compiler would only have to compile the parts that would actually change.
I don't code for a living, but it does seem to speed up gentoo when I am playing with emerge.
If you ask google it says that it is an issue with the acpi and windows and usb. I was able to install windows 2000 without problems, vista as well. Google told me there was a problem with acpi and usb that would give the xp installer problems. Last night I was able to get xp to install after enableing legacy stuff in the bios and not using my usb mouse.
You stated that the driver disc helps after you install windows, and you are correct on that; However, you responded to a someone that said installing windows was a PITA by saying the driver disc would help after the installation which is no use if the problem is getting xp to install
I just bought a asus a8n32-sli deluxe on 8/01/06 and have failed at my atempts to install XP. I was able to install Win2k, kubuntu, and gentoo. Can you explain how the "driver cd" will help if the XP installer cd refuses to run?
I have a samsung sch-a630 that uses CDMA on Verizon's network. Since Verizon uses cdma you should be able to use any of the phones that samsung claims are verizon phones. http://samsung.com/products/mobilephones/verizon/i ndex.asp I would suggest asking a Virgin Mobile representitive if they would be willing to activate a phone from that list before you buy it, I have heard on slashdot talk of vendor locked phones that will not let you switch networks.
I built a computer to attend a lan party I went to last weekend and I still have not managed to get XP to install, but so far all of the linux distributions I have tried seem to work. Ubuntu 6.06 32 bit as a live cd, Kubuntu 6.06 64 bit both live and installed, I think I have installed gentoo compiled for 64 bit (I was able to ssh in to the box to see that it had finished compiling but on rebbot sshd was not running so I will know when I get home if it works.).
I prefer linux to windows but every year or so I install windows to get my gaming fix or to test microsoft betas. Before I tried XP I had Vista running but found the games that we were going to play had video issues. I did manage to put Windows 2000 on it with no problems in time for the lan party.
You state that you could not get X to work at any resolution which to me implies that you could get to the command line and at least try to solve your problem while booted directly into the operating system. My windows problem is IMO a little worse, most of the time the install goes directly to a black screen and hangs after it does the hardware auto-detection, the few times I have managed to get the installer to a usable state when it reboots at the end it goes directly to a black screen and stays there.
Why not? I propose you hire a buch of interns scattered all over and put the cd inside nested pre paid envelopes using an inverted traveling salesman optimazation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman_pr oblem(optimized for the slowest route). Instruct each intern to remove the outer envolpe and send it out again. Give each intern a stack of envelopes in the event they need to return a cd instead of the usual task of preparing the cd for the next leg of its journey. If you have enough interns they can be instructed to throw away any cd that has no forwarding envelopes left.
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I thought the article was focusing more on takeing closed source products open.
I think it could be a matter of IBM and HP and other people have figured out there is more money in selling hardware and support and less money in software. It also seems that you could pay for software development with the advertising budget, if people are using your free software you would look more appealing when they need support or more hardware by the simple fact that if you made it you could support it best.
I still use hotmail. If a website says that they need a valid email address I give them my hotmail address. It helps to keep the spam from my other accounts. As long as you log in and clear your mail often enough it will stay active. It also gives me another protocol to use inside of gaim
You keep bringing up waterskiing, And I have the perfect soultion. We need to add a tax to fuel prices to subsidize the creation of non flat lakes so that boats will no longer be nessecary for water skiing.
That would work, but I was trying to point out the scale of the problem. Unless there is some technical reason that the colors have to be red and green, why can't they say we will use your machine if you just change the colors.
Maybe since this is slashdot people mught understand my point better if I use a car analogy. Suppose I go to a group of automotive engineers and say I want a car that can cruise at mach 1 and I get 5 back. Of the 5 I get back 4 of them have parts that break upon reaching the speed of sound and the fifth has a red exterior and green seats. I would reject the first 4 because they don't do what I wanted them to do. car number 5 can be sent to a paint shop and get the seats reupholstered (future cars could probably be ordered with the proper color scheme).
Where I vote the person that assigns the computer walks you through a few setup screens to get the computer to the point where you are able to vote.
If the only problem with the machine is the colour scheme, Would it be too hard to put a theme menu on the screen before you start that will let you choose from a handfull of prebuilt themes or at leasts prompts for a background colour and a font colour.
according to marketplace free beer is not free http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/12/2 9/PM200612295.html
the reason you might have to try many oss projects before you find a good one is that places like sourceforge and other big oss places never seem to drop any abandoned projects so they sit around popping up in search results. My theory is that all software starts off bad and gets better over time. Bad closed source is harder to find because they don't release until they think they can sell it or they go out of buisness and nobody is allowed to spread it.
If i did my math right that would be 459.651343 libraries of congress
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc79.htm
You seem to be thinking like I was when I first read about this problem. but I think I have a better way of addressing who we are replying to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205731&cid=167 86251 hyperlinks are easier to follow than trying to count as the number of comments rise.
The magic number you speak of seemed to occur on 18:09 Wednesday 08 November 2006 (#16777215) about rumsfeld stepping down.4 9&cid=16777215
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2055
when I went searching for that magic comment id I found that as soon as a comment number higher than 16777215 threads would stop.
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Looking around a local chevrolet dealership, I have noticed theese eighth-inch stereo mini-plugs of which you speak in the standard radios. I don't think it is on all of the radios but the number has been going up recently.
If Ballmer had jailhouse rock on his zune would that mean the commercial will feature ballmer dancing with a wooden chair rather then throwing it?
Would it mean that they have to stop the jihad while they throw the evil thing off of the end of the world?
z y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Cra
Instead of a flat $10,000 why not $1000 dollars a day with the first five days free, this way if the problem is fixed in 5 days you don't get any money , but still get the credit you wanted. If microsoft decides it takes 120 days then they pay $115,000.
If $1000 a day seems a little high I would agree to a multi-tiered pay scale based on severity, with the clause that if I later find a way to use the same vulnerability to do worse than what I came up with it would retroactively move me up the scale.
If all you are worried about is compile time, the samba team have come up with distcc and ccache for distributed compiling and a compiler cache respectively. Using this set up a network with four computers with four cores would be able to use 16 cores with make -j 16 for a faster first time compile. The recompile would be faster because the compiler would only have to compile the parts that would actually change.
I don't code for a living, but it does seem to speed up gentoo when I am playing with emerge.
http://distcc.samba.org/
http://ccache.samba.org/
If you ask google it says that it is an issue with the acpi and windows and usb. I was able to install windows 2000 without problems, vista as well. Google told me there was a problem with acpi and usb that would give the xp installer problems. Last night I was able to get xp to install after enableing legacy stuff in the bios and not using my usb mouse.
You stated that the driver disc helps after you install windows, and you are correct on that; However, you responded to a someone that said installing windows was a PITA by saying the driver disc would help after the installation which is no use if the problem is getting xp to install
I just bought a asus a8n32-sli deluxe on 8/01/06 and have failed at my atempts to install XP. I was able to install Win2k, kubuntu, and gentoo. Can you explain how the "driver cd" will help if the XP installer cd refuses to run?
I have a samsung sch-a630 that uses CDMA on Verizon's network. Since Verizon uses cdma you should be able to use any of the phones that samsung claims are verizon phones. http://samsung.com/products/mobilephones/verizon/i ndex.asp I would suggest asking a Virgin Mobile representitive if they would be willing to activate a phone from that list before you buy it, I have heard on slashdot talk of vendor locked phones that will not let you switch networks.
I built a computer to attend a lan party I went to last weekend and I still have not managed to get XP to install, but so far all of the linux distributions I have tried seem to work. Ubuntu 6.06 32 bit as a live cd, Kubuntu 6.06 64 bit both live and installed, I think I have installed gentoo compiled for 64 bit (I was able to ssh in to the box to see that it had finished compiling but on rebbot sshd was not running so I will know when I get home if it works.).
I prefer linux to windows but every year or so I install windows to get my gaming fix or to test microsoft betas. Before I tried XP I had Vista running but found the games that we were going to play had video issues. I did manage to put Windows 2000 on it with no problems in time for the lan party.
You state that you could not get X to work at any resolution which to me implies that you could get to the command line and at least try to solve your problem while booted directly into the operating system. My windows problem is IMO a little worse, most of the time the install goes directly to a black screen and hangs after it does the hardware auto-detection, the few times I have managed to get the installer to a usable state when it reboots at the end it goes directly to a black screen and stays there.
Why not? I propose you hire a buch of interns scattered all over and put the cd inside nested pre paid envelopes using an inverted traveling salesman optimazation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman_pr oblem(optimized for the slowest route). Instruct each intern to remove the outer envolpe and send it out again. Give each intern a stack of envelopes in the event they need to return a cd instead of the usual task of preparing the cd for the next leg of its journey. If you have enough interns they can be instructed to throw away any cd that has no forwarding envelopes left.