It'll probably be safe again when MS comes up with a PS3-compatible Windows 8... or 9. Albeit, by the time that happens, we'll probably be running PS6, with no alternative OS, or a hacked PS5 running YellowDog.
2 birds, 1 very expensive stone. It would probably cost a great deal of money to build tunnels, evacuate out almost all the air, and maintain that low atmosphere. Sure, it might save some energy of running the train, but the money and resources needed to do this would greatly outweigh any benefit. We are almost certainly much better off investing in other ways of producing or saving energy.
And build trains that can run in such conditions with a bunch of safety concerns akin to those you have when you're building an aircraft. But, I think it's a great idea, still.
Oil and coal are cheap. But they also create problems. I think a good solution deserves to have money thrown at it.
If the "bad aroma" of advertising on nearly every web page a person has seen on any browser isn't a problem, I doubt that most people would worry about it.
Back in those days, every other free (as in beer) app had some form of advertising built in. At any time, I had at least three of those. It was quite normal.
No-one cares what Firefox is/was called. This isn't a `branding` issue - it's a `pissing off users with adverts` issue. A lot of people clearly remember it - there are many alternatives in software and no reason to keep popping back to see if something still sucks.
I find it funny that people were 'annoyed' by Opera ads. It's not like it was forcing you to use it or anything. And you knew beforehand it was ad-supported. I downloaded Opera, knowing it displays ads, and knowing that at that time it was normal to have a few freeware products around that were ad-supported, and I enjoyed Opera's features and speed ignoring the ads. IIRC, the ads were fairly small, as big as maybe one extra toolbar or two. It wasn't much of a deal when you considered the fact that it had integrated e-mail, chat, etc. I used most of those features and was quite satisfied.
If it is the page's fault, then they should render wrong in FF/IE/etc, not just Opera.
From my own experience, it's been VERY difficult to break Opera. It mostly boils down to Opera being a bit more strict towards errors in the code, and other browsers are generally more accommodating. But an error is still an error, and it's the designer/developer's responsibility to fix it. There are probably some rare cases when only Opera has a bug not present in other browsers, but I've never seen that happen myself.
Actually you'll find that what you're talking about isn't capitalism, but protectionism.
At first I was going to say that it's just an evolved form of capitalism. Capitalism changes with time, and this is just a logical step. But then I realized that this is simply not true. Capitalisms evolved into different forms in different countries. What we're talking about is a highly localized form of protectionism. It's a form of evolved capitalism in the States, that does not (as of this writing) appear elsewhere. This level of hostility towards open-source, in interest of protecting potential revenue, is unheard of outside the States.
All I said was that development should be tax-free. When I said "related activities", I didn't mean things like tech support, selling, and otherwise profiting from the product itself. I mean stuff like hosting the software online, organizing events for developers, developer's hours worked on open-source product(s), sponsorship of an open-source product... Making money should still fall under taxable activities.
I just fucked around with trying to get Linux running on one of my computers.
Here's how it goes when I fuck around with running Linux:
1) pop in the install disc, and it boots cleanly into a nice menu 2) select "Space invaders" and play for a while, just for kicks 3) reboot and select "Install" 4) go through a few screens, partitioning, package selection, yada yada 5) system asks me to edit some conf files, and I do, set root password 6) reboot 7) install my favourite x, y, and z, set up my user account, password, confirm password
What? It only takes around an hour? Yes, an hour's work installing everything. Rinse, repeat, on my laptop, and the other laptop.
Thing is, I do this once in two years, and only when I get bored with the current distro, and want to try new things. Otherwise, I don't even need to do all this.
As with everyone who's got problems with Linux, and thinks Linux must suck because of that: Linux does work for some people. Really. I think it's actually good that unfortunate people like you can still use an alternative, like Windows or OSX.
Honestly, open source drivers for hardware for which the specs have been released almost always work as good if not better than the ones the company makes themselves.
There's one notable exception: ADM/ATI Radeon HD series. Catalyst has been a PITA on cutting-edge distros (because they seldom support the latest X server releases), and the OSS drivers are far behind, despite the specs being in the open. To be fair, the release of specs was a bit delayed, and AMD does spare a few devs to work on the open-source drivers. My guess is that they'll eventually drop Catalyst for Linux and let OSS drivers replace it. Probably cheaper for them that way.
Meanwhile, nVidia doesn't release the specs, but they do have quality closed-source drivers.
If the government was in charge of operating systems, we'd still be using govdos 5.0...
Depends on the gov't. Japanese had a pretty good chance with TRON, but it was... well... not politically correct for them to have a government-sponsored real-time operating system for industry and SOHO.
Instead we have hundreds of thousands very bright and highly educated (in both Law and Mathematics) people engaged in not doing anything truly productive, but helping others navigate through the complexities of the multi-volume tax codes...
A bit off the topic, but... The complexity would kill itself if bright and highly educated people like you would simply stop allowing it to survive instead, and start doing something more productive, courtesy of free will.
Companies involved in open-source projects generally intend to profit from it. It's not a charitable donation but a marketing strategy.
Profits should be taxed, though. Nobody's arguing that. I meant something more along the lines of developer hours put into open-source, sponsorship of outside developers working on open-source, direct donations...
It's time to drag corporations* into the modern age, even if they're kicking and screaming the entire way.
It's just that the users will be the one that will be kicking and screaming. One of my colleagues was unable to play videos from YouTube, was frustrated, but assumed that there's no way of doing that. She didn't notice the (a) continue to video link, (b) upgrade to one of these comment. Someone should upgrade the users first.:D
Yeah, it looks like any impact will be extremely minimal, at least in the very short term. The only way we'll ever be rid of this thrice cursed browser is when enough company execs can't get their daily fill of kitten jumping into box videos and start asking their IT guys why.
IIRC, support for IE6 will be phased from most (if not all) Google services including Google Apps, Gmail, etc. So there's still a good chance. Also, this now gives an excuse for a lot of people, preferably including other big players, to do the same, which will hopefully happen sooner than later.
Of course, we all know it does, it say to supress it with violence.
It is mildly amusing that you see yourself as multiple people.
Tolerance for differing opinions, even when they are backed by scientific experiments and/or mathematical proofs has never been high in socialist parties.
Bluehost asked me for a photo ID to enable this service. Sent them a scanned copy, and never got SSH. Tried tech support, they never replied. I've heard there aren't many cases like this, but it can happen.
Decent logging/statistics generation
Long time ago, I was using Servage. It had Python support, so I tried various voodoo to get Django up and running (there was a blog post somewhere that said it can be done). The only problem was logging. They run their Apaches on clusters, and their admin told me that logs from various apps end up in the same log files (or something like that), so I can't find out what went wrong with my particular app. I don't know if that makes sense, or they don't know what they're talking about, but the bottom line was I couldn't troubleshoot my app.
CPanel can be the bane of your existence or your friend
Servage has their own control panel, and it works ok. It has a file manager that can unzip/untar files upon upload, etc. Very handy when you can't use FTP (e.g, you're behind a firewall that only allows HTTP[S]).
FTP Access
One should be very careful about FTP. It's a possible security hole, if the connection is not encrypted. I've got a few friends that were burned by this. They were the target of eavesdropping and the attackers got their passwords, modified their PHP files and included some nasty javascript on their pages.
Stay away from Microsoft Live and small Mom-and-Pop type outfits.
Sometimes (not a rule), there are decent small start-ups that offer competitive prices and good service. The only way to know if they are good is to actually find out what their users think. In some cases this can be an advantage, because such companies usually have admins also do the tech support. They can afford to do that because there aren't many users. It's only logical that as they get more users, they might introduce tech support, but it's a great thing to actually get personal feedback from people, who know the setup well.
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It'll probably be safe again when MS comes up with a PS3-compatible Windows 8... or 9. Albeit, by the time that happens, we'll probably be running PS6, with no alternative OS, or a hacked PS5 running YellowDog.
Oracle for people who care more about their data then about the budget. :)
2 birds, 1 very expensive stone. It would probably cost a great deal of money to build tunnels, evacuate out almost all the air, and maintain that low atmosphere. Sure, it might save some energy of running the train, but the money and resources needed to do this would greatly outweigh any benefit. We are almost certainly much better off investing in other ways of producing or saving energy.
And build trains that can run in such conditions with a bunch of safety concerns akin to those you have when you're building an aircraft. But, I think it's a great idea, still.
Oil and coal are cheap. But they also create problems. I think a good solution deserves to have money thrown at it.
If the "bad aroma" of advertising on nearly every web page a person has seen on any browser isn't a problem, I doubt that most people would worry about it.
Back in those days, every other free (as in beer) app had some form of advertising built in. At any time, I had at least three of those. It was quite normal.
No-one cares what Firefox is/was called. This isn't a `branding` issue - it's a `pissing off users with adverts` issue. A lot of people clearly remember it - there are many alternatives in software and no reason to keep popping back to see if something still sucks.
I find it funny that people were 'annoyed' by Opera ads. It's not like it was forcing you to use it or anything. And you knew beforehand it was ad-supported. I downloaded Opera, knowing it displays ads, and knowing that at that time it was normal to have a few freeware products around that were ad-supported, and I enjoyed Opera's features and speed ignoring the ads. IIRC, the ads were fairly small, as big as maybe one extra toolbar or two. It wasn't much of a deal when you considered the fact that it had integrated e-mail, chat, etc. I used most of those features and was quite satisfied.
Parent is modded funny, but hes right.
If it is the page's fault, then they should render wrong in FF/IE/etc, not just Opera.
From my own experience, it's been VERY difficult to break Opera. It mostly boils down to Opera being a bit more strict towards errors in the code, and other browsers are generally more accommodating. But an error is still an error, and it's the designer/developer's responsibility to fix it. There are probably some rare cases when only Opera has a bug not present in other browsers, but I've never seen that happen myself.
What I mean by this is, on their 24Mbit plan, I would get no higher than about 200Kbytes per second
OMG. I usually get those speeds downstream on a 2Mbps connection. Upstream, I get much less, though, because we can only go 256Kbps up.
Actually you'll find that what you're talking about isn't capitalism, but protectionism.
At first I was going to say that it's just an evolved form of capitalism. Capitalism changes with time, and this is just a logical step. But then I realized that this is simply not true. Capitalisms evolved into different forms in different countries. What we're talking about is a highly localized form of protectionism. It's a form of evolved capitalism in the States, that does not (as of this writing) appear elsewhere. This level of hostility towards open-source, in interest of protecting potential revenue, is unheard of outside the States.
That looks possessive to me, not plural; the grammar is fine (or am I missing something?).
Grammar's wrong, but he got the point across, which counts.
All I said was that development should be tax-free. When I said "related activities", I didn't mean things like tech support, selling, and otherwise profiting from the product itself. I mean stuff like hosting the software online, organizing events for developers, developer's hours worked on open-source product(s), sponsorship of an open-source product... Making money should still fall under taxable activities.
I just fucked around with trying to get Linux running on one of my computers.
Here's how it goes when I fuck around with running Linux:
1) pop in the install disc, and it boots cleanly into a nice menu
2) select "Space invaders" and play for a while, just for kicks
3) reboot and select "Install"
4) go through a few screens, partitioning, package selection, yada yada
5) system asks me to edit some conf files, and I do, set root password
6) reboot
7) install my favourite x, y, and z, set up my user account, password, confirm password
What? It only takes around an hour? Yes, an hour's work installing everything. Rinse, repeat, on my laptop, and the other laptop.
Thing is, I do this once in two years, and only when I get bored with the current distro, and want to try new things. Otherwise, I don't even need to do all this.
As with everyone who's got problems with Linux, and thinks Linux must suck because of that: Linux does work for some people. Really. I think it's actually good that unfortunate people like you can still use an alternative, like Windows or OSX.
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
Intel has provided open source drivers and specs for their graphics hardware for several years now.
Too bad their cards aren't as good as their intentions, though. But those drivers do work very well for me and my laptop.
Honestly, open source drivers for hardware for which the specs have been released almost always work as good if not better than the ones the company makes themselves.
There's one notable exception: ADM/ATI Radeon HD series. Catalyst has been a PITA on cutting-edge distros (because they seldom support the latest X server releases), and the OSS drivers are far behind, despite the specs being in the open. To be fair, the release of specs was a bit delayed, and AMD does spare a few devs to work on the open-source drivers. My guess is that they'll eventually drop Catalyst for Linux and let OSS drivers replace it. Probably cheaper for them that way.
Meanwhile, nVidia doesn't release the specs, but they do have quality closed-source drivers.
If the government was in charge of operating systems, we'd still be using govdos 5.0...
Depends on the gov't. Japanese had a pretty good chance with TRON, but it was... well... not politically correct for them to have a government-sponsored real-time operating system for industry and SOHO.
Instead we have hundreds of thousands very bright and highly educated (in both Law and Mathematics) people engaged in not doing anything truly productive, but helping others navigate through the complexities of the multi-volume tax codes...
A bit off the topic, but... The complexity would kill itself if bright and highly educated people like you would simply stop allowing it to survive instead, and start doing something more productive, courtesy of free will.
Companies involved in open-source projects generally intend to profit from it. It's not a charitable donation but a marketing strategy.
Profits should be taxed, though. Nobody's arguing that. I meant something more along the lines of developer hours put into open-source, sponsorship of outside developers working on open-source, direct donations...
It would be cool if companies involved in open-source development would not have to pay taxes for related activities.
It's time to drag corporations* into the modern age, even if they're kicking and screaming the entire way.
It's just that the users will be the one that will be kicking and screaming. One of my colleagues was unable to play videos from YouTube, was frustrated, but assumed that there's no way of doing that. She didn't notice the (a) continue to video link, (b) upgrade to one of these comment. Someone should upgrade the users first. :D
Why not just register *ie*.(com|info|org|net)
Simply put, the H.264 Codec
Hardware support for H.264 comes to mind...
Yeah, it looks like any impact will be extremely minimal, at least in the very short term. The only way we'll ever be rid of this thrice cursed browser is when enough company execs can't get their daily fill of kitten jumping into box videos and start asking their IT guys why.
IIRC, support for IE6 will be phased from most (if not all) Google services including Google Apps, Gmail, etc. So there's still a good chance. Also, this now gives an excuse for a lot of people, preferably including other big players, to do the same, which will hopefully happen sooner than later.
And industry driven HTML5 standards :(
Oh yeah. I'm not particularly fond of that one. Although some of the things they are talking about will be great, like offline data storage.
Yes, excepting that this issue is talking about the bug in image editors.
Keep reading the article; this problem exists in web browsers as well.
GGP is talking about image editors. It's not even a "problem" in web browsers.
Of course, we all know it does, it say to supress it with violence.
It is mildly amusing that you see yourself as multiple people.
Tolerance for differing opinions, even when they are backed by scientific experiments and/or mathematical proofs has never been high in socialist parties.
Then you must be from a socialist party.
SSH access
Bluehost asked me for a photo ID to enable this service. Sent them a scanned copy, and never got SSH. Tried tech support, they never replied. I've heard there aren't many cases like this, but it can happen.
Decent logging/statistics generation
Long time ago, I was using Servage. It had Python support, so I tried various voodoo to get Django up and running (there was a blog post somewhere that said it can be done). The only problem was logging. They run their Apaches on clusters, and their admin told me that logs from various apps end up in the same log files (or something like that), so I can't find out what went wrong with my particular app. I don't know if that makes sense, or they don't know what they're talking about, but the bottom line was I couldn't troubleshoot my app.
CPanel can be the bane of your existence or your friend
Servage has their own control panel, and it works ok. It has a file manager that can unzip/untar files upon upload, etc. Very handy when you can't use FTP (e.g, you're behind a firewall that only allows HTTP[S]).
FTP Access
One should be very careful about FTP. It's a possible security hole, if the connection is not encrypted. I've got a few friends that were burned by this. They were the target of eavesdropping and the attackers got their passwords, modified their PHP files and included some nasty javascript on their pages.
Stay away from Microsoft Live and small Mom-and-Pop type outfits.
Sometimes (not a rule), there are decent small start-ups that offer competitive prices and good service. The only way to know if they are good is to actually find out what their users think. In some cases this can be an advantage, because such companies usually have admins also do the tech support. They can afford to do that because there aren't many users. It's only logical that as they get more users, they might introduce tech support, but it's a great thing to actually get personal feedback from people, who know the setup well.