> So the Free Software community is going to produce another FPS.
Where did you get the idea of FPS?
"But the real start will be the first week of February. Only then real decisions will be made on game concept, game design and other targets, although we do know it'll be derived from Project Peach, furry & crazy characters in a forest." http://apricot.blender.org/
> I don't understand why anyone would want to break Microsoft
- Because of the FUD they spread about Linux and open source software - Because they pay a lot of money so people would use their "standards" instead of technically better standards - Because if Microsoft should vanish, the next operating system everyone is using would probably be based on open source (Linux) and other open source applications would follow. In general open source applications are the best thing that can happen to a consumer, because consumer has the power to choose the best software provider, instead of picking the only one. This will cut prices and increase quality of software. - Because their web browser causes a lot of time and money to be wasted, simply because it supports so poorly the standards and yet is most used web browser. -... This would actually be a never ending list, but if I write a long comment, no one would bother to read it, so I better stop here.
> As for backdoors, anybody who is paranoid about this issue will ignore or disbelieve me when I say that there is no backdoor that I am aware of.
I can believe that you don't know, but would they really tell you if there were such backdoors?
> Governments both in the US and elsewhere do this, which suggests that no backdoor is available.
If you had a backdoor which allows you to access remote computers anywhere would you a) Tell everyone that you can do it b) Use some dummy keyloggers and malware to suggests that you can't do it
> It is easy enough to get authorized, all you gotta do is ask and have a good reason.
Do the student's know this? Have you printed papers on the top of the computers that say: "Don't install your own software, if you need something contact me at xxx"?
We had computers at school, but never was I told that I could get some software I want, installed to the computers. Nor did I ever bulieve that it would even been possible.
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> Linux has it's role in the server market, and it's a very important one. But I think it's not still mature enough to compete in high-performance,
Linux is not competing on high-performance computers. It OWNS the high-performance computers. Currently about 85% of the top500 super computers are using Linux: http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/osfam
Exiting vi is quite easy 1. ctrl+z 2. ps aux | grep vi 3. kill [vi's process id] 4. fg 1
I'm still working on how to save the document. I'm currently writing a C program which will create a dump of kernel memory and separate the memory segments used by vi and save the correct parts to a text file.
Next on project list is how to write and edit text using vi. I'm thinking about something like keylogger, which will take keys directly from the keyboard and use some hacked kernel to insert those into vi's memory.
I don't understand why everyone complains that vi is hard to use.
No, you can't pass the Turing test by fooling stupid people with a computer program. That problem is trivially solved. The goal on Turing test is to fool the judge, who knows that there is a 50% chance that you are a computer program. It is much harder.
Extra bonus is given if after the test, Judge no longer knows whether he/she is a human or not.
> Now, if only Open Source developers would somehow garner the attention of human interface design and make thinks vastly more polished and less rickety/designed-for-the-nerdgineer, and if people like myself (non-developers)
I'm an open source developer. Programmer that is. I don't get paid for what I do, nor do I ask to get paid. I would love to be an artist, musician, GUI designer, programmer, tester, everything to be able to make the perfect software but unfortunately I am not. I do the best I can and I don't care whether others help me or not nor am I offended if someone doesn't value the work I do. (I'm not saying that you don't value.)
But do you know why open source applications are not better than they are? Because programmers are pretty much the only people taking part to these projects. If you want better quality, take part to it. There is always something you can do. Marketing, testing, learning how to make a good GUI and using that knowledge, giving feedback, helping users, sorting bug reports. There is a lot of work to be done that could be done by almost anyone, and a very few people doing it. Mostly the ones doing everything are the developers.
I'm not asking you to fix it. I'm asking you to help us to fix it.
Here are some highlights: Tech IE 7 Firefox 1 HTML / XHTML 73% 90% CSS 2.1 56% 88% CSS 3 changes 13% 14% DOM 51% 79% ECMAScript 99% 100%
I could have added Firefox 2 there too, but that would have made IE 7 look ever more bad. And just wait when IE 3 comes out. The version whichs rendering engine they have been working on since Firefox 1.5 was released. IE 7 is marginally better than IE 6, but even very old browsers still beat it.
> Websites and simple web apps must first be compatible, so the problem is not IE7 more than IE6.
The websites are incompatible, because they have been tested using IE.
I'm not talking about complex stuff. I'm talking about links that use \ instead of/. Because of this very small and simple thing, there are websites which images can't be seen using Firefox. If the incorrect non-standard \ would not been accepted by IE, these websites would not exist. And should it be fixed, many of these websites would be fixed really fast.
So the problem is not with the websites, the problem is with IE. IE needs to be fixed or forgotten. Standards don't help if they are not followed.
This is Slashdot. Not even the editors read the articles. There are only 10 people here who read the articles. First is the submitter and the other is you.
He makes very good points, such as: "there are many phenomena that cannot be explained by secular gravity alone, including such mysteries as how angels fly, how Jesus ascended into Heaven, and how Satan fell when cast out of Paradise"
And he also have very good evidence to backup his ideas: "Let's take a look at the evidence," said ECFR senior fellow Gregory Lunsden."In Matthew 15:14, Jesus says, 'And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.' He says nothing about some gravity making them fall--just that they will fall. Then, in Job 5:7, we read, 'But mankind is born to trouble, as surely as sparks fly upwards.' If gravity is pulling everything down, why do the sparks fly upwards with great surety?
> the scientific method is constantly changing, theism is a static world view.
That is actually not true. The church admitted few years ago that Sun is the center of our solar system, not Earth as it was bulieved. Also few years ago in my country, women could operate as priests, which had been long forbidden.
So the theism also evolves. Religion is changed when they notice that people won't tolerate or bulieve the old story any more. First the stories in Bible are literal. After sciense proves them wrong, they became metaphoras or just stories that try to teach us some lesson, or they are simply interpreted differently.
> Where in there am I supposed to find time to sit in front of my machine spending hours debugging code for an OSS project?
"We" have the same amount of time what everyone else has. It is just how we want to spent it.
For example I moved to very close to my current work place when I started working there. It takes about 10 minutes for me to get to work and I don't even have to use a car for that. I save probably 10 hours every week compared to you. That is something like 500 hours every year (+ I save a lot of environment and money at the same time).
I like to think that my skills are too valuable to be wasted in traffic jams every day. I would ever turn down a job, if I couldn't move close enough to it. You obviously have different priorities, which are probably better than mine. But you really can't claim that you would have less time than anyone else. (I also have a wife, child, job and I spent my free time on Slashdot and with open source projects.)
> On some of my machines, I just never installed it. Others, I have removed it. But, it is so damned pervasive that there are some web sites that simply don't work without flash
I repeat what you were already told. Install Flashblock add-on:
What does it do you ask? Well, it does everything you want. It disables all flash by default. You can whitelist a site (like youtube) to always show flash. Or you can simply single click the space where flash would normally be to play it. I seriously suggest that _everyone_ should try it. It is one of those add-ons that make like a lot easier.
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What language is this program supposed to be? I can tell that it won't compile as a C or C++ program.
> why not push the boundaries and research in areas that AREN'T well known?
It is a money issue. Drug companies are companies, their goal is not to cure diseases. Their goal is to make as much money as possible.
Governments should do the research together with other governments and make all their findings in public domain. This would not only make the research process faster and more efficient, it would also be cheaper for the people and a lot of diseases that are currently that researched at all, could be researched. The only problem is that drug companies have a lot of power, so making this happen is nearly impossible. It would require a huge amount of supporters.
Slashdot Mirror
"Start february 2008, until july 2008"
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/apricot-open-game/
> So the Free Software community is going to produce another FPS.
Where did you get the idea of FPS?
"But the real start will be the first week of February. Only then real decisions will be made on game concept, game design and other targets, although we do know it'll be derived from Project Peach, furry & crazy characters in a forest."
http://apricot.blender.org/
> I don't understand why anyone would want to break Microsoft
... This would actually be a never ending list, but if I write a long comment, no one would bother to read it, so I better stop here.
- Because of the FUD they spread about Linux and open source software
- Because they pay a lot of money so people would use their "standards" instead of technically better standards
- Because if Microsoft should vanish, the next operating system everyone is using would probably be based on open source (Linux) and other open source applications would follow. In general open source applications are the best thing that can happen to a consumer, because consumer has the power to choose the best software provider, instead of picking the only one. This will cut prices and increase quality of software.
- Because their web browser causes a lot of time and money to be wasted, simply because it supports so poorly the standards and yet is most used web browser.
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> Maybe not criminals, but millions of gallons of unprotected oil could attract quite a number of terrorists wishing to cause an ecological disaster
You mean greanpeace?
Yeah. You only need to get attacked by a crossbow about 5 times and that monitor has paid itself off.
> As for backdoors, anybody who is paranoid about this issue will ignore or disbelieve me when I say that there is no backdoor that I am aware of.
I can believe that you don't know, but would they really tell you if there were such backdoors?
> Governments both in the US and elsewhere do this, which suggests that no backdoor is available.
If you had a backdoor which allows you to access remote computers anywhere would you
a) Tell everyone that you can do it
b) Use some dummy keyloggers and malware to suggests that you can't do it
> It is easy enough to get authorized, all you gotta do is ask and have a good reason.
Do the student's know this? Have you printed papers on the top of the computers that say: "Don't install your own software, if you need something contact me at xxx"?
We had computers at school, but never was I told that I could get some software I want, installed to the computers. Nor did I ever bulieve that it would even been possible.
> Linux has it's role in the server market, and it's a very important one. But I think it's not still mature enough to compete in high-performance,
Linux is not competing on high-performance computers. It OWNS the high-performance computers. Currently about 85% of the top500 super computers are using Linux:
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/osfam
Thanks for the hint.
;)
I was joking by the way. I don't really use vi
Exiting vi is quite easy
1. ctrl+z
2. ps aux | grep vi
3. kill [vi's process id]
4. fg 1
I'm still working on how to save the document. I'm currently writing a C program which will create a dump of kernel memory and separate the memory segments used by vi and save the correct parts to a text file.
Next on project list is how to write and edit text using vi. I'm thinking about something like keylogger, which will take keys directly from the keyboard and use some hacked kernel to insert those into vi's memory.
I don't understand why everyone complains that vi is hard to use.
> Now isn't that the point of a Turing Test?
No, you can't pass the Turing test by fooling stupid people with a computer program. That problem is trivially solved. The goal on Turing test is to fool the judge, who knows that there is a 50% chance that you are a computer program. It is much harder.
Extra bonus is given if after the test, Judge no longer knows whether he/she is a human or not.
> Now, if only Open Source developers would somehow garner the attention of human interface design and make thinks vastly more polished and less rickety/designed-for-the-nerdgineer, and if people like myself (non-developers)
I'm an open source developer. Programmer that is. I don't get paid for what I do, nor do I ask to get paid. I would love to be an artist, musician, GUI designer, programmer, tester, everything to be able to make the perfect software but unfortunately I am not. I do the best I can and I don't care whether others help me or not nor am I offended if someone doesn't value the work I do. (I'm not saying that you don't value.)
But do you know why open source applications are not better than they are? Because programmers are pretty much the only people taking part to these projects. If you want better quality, take part to it. There is always something you can do. Marketing, testing, learning how to make a good GUI and using that knowledge, giving feedback, helping users, sorting bug reports. There is a lot of work to be done that could be done by almost anyone, and a very few people doing it. Mostly the ones doing everything are the developers.
I'm not asking you to fix it. I'm asking you to help us to fix it.
> but as far as I can see IE7 is reasonably standards compliant, probably around the Firefox 1 mark for most things
Actually IE 7 is better only in CSS 3 basic properties when compared to Firefox 1 (Firefox 2 outbeats IE 7 on that too). For everything else, including the total score for CSS 3, Firefox 1 beats IE 7:
http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary?IE7=on&FX1=on&FX2=on&uas=CUSTOM
Here are some highlights:
Tech IE 7 Firefox 1
HTML / XHTML 73% 90%
CSS 2.1 56% 88%
CSS 3 changes 13% 14%
DOM 51% 79%
ECMAScript 99% 100%
I could have added Firefox 2 there too, but that would have made IE 7 look ever more bad. And just wait when IE 3 comes out. The version whichs rendering engine they have been working on since Firefox 1.5 was released. IE 7 is marginally better than IE 6, but even very old browsers still beat it.
> Websites and simple web apps must first be compatible, so the problem is not IE7 more than IE6.
/. Because of this very small and simple thing, there are websites which images can't be seen using Firefox. If the incorrect non-standard \ would not been accepted by IE, these websites would not exist. And should it be fixed, many of these websites would be fixed really fast.
The websites are incompatible, because they have been tested using IE.
I'm not talking about complex stuff. I'm talking about links that use \ instead of
So the problem is not with the websites, the problem is with IE. IE needs to be fixed or forgotten. Standards don't help if they are not followed.
> If people had bothered to read the ... article
This is Slashdot. Not even the editors read the articles. There are only 10 people here who read the articles. First is the submitter and the other is you.
Rewards could actually increase the ability to learn. So you might have a point there.
He makes very good points, such as:
"there are many phenomena that cannot be explained by secular gravity alone, including such mysteries as how angels fly, how Jesus ascended into Heaven, and how Satan fell when cast out of Paradise"
And he also have very good evidence to backup his ideas:
"Let's take a look at the evidence," said ECFR senior fellow Gregory Lunsden."In Matthew 15:14, Jesus says, 'And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.' He says nothing about some gravity making them fall--just that they will fall. Then, in Job 5:7, we read, 'But mankind is born to trouble, as surely as sparks fly upwards.' If gravity is pulling everything down, why do the sparks fly upwards with great surety?
> the scientific method is constantly changing, theism is a static world view.
That is actually not true. The church admitted few years ago that Sun is the center of our solar system, not Earth as it was bulieved. Also few years ago in my country, women could operate as priests, which had been long forbidden.
So the theism also evolves. Religion is changed when they notice that people won't tolerate or bulieve the old story any more. First the stories in Bible are literal. After sciense proves them wrong, they became metaphoras or just stories that try to teach us some lesson, or they are simply interpreted differently.
> Where in there am I supposed to find time to sit in front of my machine spending hours debugging code for an OSS project?
"We" have the same amount of time what everyone else has. It is just how we want to spent it.
For example I moved to very close to my current work place when I started working there. It takes about 10 minutes for me to get to work and I don't even have to use a car for that. I save probably 10 hours every week compared to you. That is something like 500 hours every year (+ I save a lot of environment and money at the same time).
I like to think that my skills are too valuable to be wasted in traffic jams every day. I would ever turn down a job, if I couldn't move close enough to it. You obviously have different priorities, which are probably better than mine. But you really can't claim that you would have less time than anyone else. (I also have a wife, child, job and I spent my free time on Slashdot and with open source projects.)
> On some of my machines, I just never installed it. Others, I have removed it. But, it is so damned pervasive that there are some web sites that simply don't work without flash
I repeat what you were already told. Install Flashblock add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
What does it do you ask? Well, it does everything you want. It disables all flash by default. You can whitelist a site (like youtube) to always show flash. Or you can simply single click the space where flash would normally be to play it. I seriously suggest that _everyone_ should try it. It is one of those add-ons that make like a lot easier.
What language is this program supposed to be? I can tell that it won't compile as a C or C++ program.
Yeah, only girl he knows is his mother.
> if Mozilla won't cut the relationship, someone can fork a version
We already have quite a lot of forks: Flock, GNU IceWeasel, Portable Edition, Netscape 9, Swiftfox, Swiftweasel, Miro, Songbird, XeroBank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceWeasel
> I'd be too tempted to program it to act like Gir...
Gir?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gir_Cattle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIR_(Invader_Zim)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_Infantry_Regiment
> why not push the boundaries and research in areas that AREN'T well known?
It is a money issue. Drug companies are companies, their goal is not to cure diseases. Their goal is to make as much money as possible.
Governments should do the research together with other governments and make all their findings in public domain. This would not only make the research process faster and more efficient, it would also be cheaper for the people and a lot of diseases that are currently that researched at all, could be researched. The only problem is that drug companies have a lot of power, so making this happen is nearly impossible. It would require a huge amount of supporters.