Please understand correctly on what the author is banking. Free means 0(zero) dollar(or any other currency) price tag for the end user to obtain software and to obtain the license to run it. Or the price of the medium + shipping fee to obtain software.
> If everyone went to the bank and asked to empty their account, the bank couldn't do it. It's not like it... It the bank would have told you that everyone can empty their account at the same time, than it would be same. Let alone the bank would have some problems but the main strain would be on the money printing facility(content provider).
The ISP's LIE to ordinary folks all the time(about available bandwidth), and sometimes don't even bother stating the truth in the contract itself. They are getting what they asked for.
Hmm....... If I want to watch a holywood movie in it's original language I have 2 choices: fly to the nearest english speaking country and watch/buy it there or illegally download it. And what if I want to see it on a big screen in a cinema?......
We in Lithuania had a stalemate in GSM operators. Up until Tele2 came in to the market we had one of the highest prices for services, now they are 10 times lower. And the fact is that we now have 15% more phone numbers issued than the resident population.
Those 2 novels have only one thing in common: they create an imaginary world that you may(at your own will) be plunged into while reading.
And to be precise both started out as a bedtime story for a child:) Comparing HP book 1 and book 7 is same as comparing The Hobbit to LotR, first one is a children's book the other one is nothing like it.
And yeah, the amount of work JRR Tolkien put into LotR is in no way equal to what JK Rowling put into HP. Just the fact of count of languages that are used in books I think is enough to prove that point.
I agree that MSO is a superior product to OO.o. But in interoperability it sucks HARD. I mean Excel 2003 has problems with reading its OWN CSV format... Reporting features, advanced graphs and so on are great in Excel, but working in a very large company I had little need of any of that functionality. I mean, I know that Excel has a "pivot view"(or something that has a similar name), but I have been never able to find it. Otherwise OO.o handles all my document writing, presentation and reporting needs perfectly. I get my data from 20 different data sources(databases,CVS files, etc).
Yeah sharing documents is a b***h, but if you work in a big company I would advise on looking @ IBM's Workplace, witch has ODF support. Or you can write a piece of software that would handle ODF, I mean ODF is no OOXML. Unzip and use the XML!
> client crashes my PC's sound system drivers so badly that my machine blue screens. MOST Slashdot people would reflexively blame Microsoft for that
I wouldn't lame MS for that. BUT I had times where a game crashes and my resolution and other display setting go nuts. I mean falling back to 16 colors and 600x400 on my 1280x1024 LCD. That is when I blame MS for not correctly handling program crashes, I mean they write an OS that HAS to manage processes(I believe that that is the intend of an OS).
Yeah. You can also do physical computations, but you do not call it mathematics do you? And BTW a lot of other sciences are using mathematics, and some have math a core part of them. But still physics is physics and the amount of math is appropriate for physics.
I have studied advanced math and I can tell that it's all about analysis. I'd say that Computer Science(or better Computational Science) should consist of logic, Boolean algebra and so on.... And should be a separate science.
> This guy just doesn't seem to understand what math is. Substituting theory of computation with his "theory of expressions" just > shifts focus on another field of math.
Yeah... And biology is another field of chemistry, witch in it's own turn is another field of physics. Should I continue? In essence all sciences relate closely and some are "offsprings" of others.
No longer true. It's not the same as surgeon -> anatomy, its more like physicist -> philosophy (since physics was created by philosophy). So are all physicists excellent philosophers?
>This is just another stupid generalization. There are some areas where you can do good computer science without math. There are > other areas where you absolutely need mathematics. For example, you cannot do scientific computing without mathematics. Broad > generalizations like this for a wide spread field just shows the ignorance/narrow mind of the author.
Totally NOT. You could describe what do you mean by scientific computing? If you mean physics calculations and similar, than no the person(CS guy) has no need to know that science. It's the same as a programmer creating an accounting app does not need to have a BS in accounting. I am for sciences to stick to their nature, and CS has came out of mathematics and physics, but is not in essence mix of math + physics.
I agree generally to your statements. But...... I do not agree that deep understanding of mathematical analysis is required in CS. Algebra in general is a MUST in CS. Creating encryption algorithm does not involve CS until implementation part, and implementation is definitely is NOT mathematics.
>> Sales, marketing and distribution is horrendously expensive and gets a far bigger chunk of the budget then R&D. Newsflash! Distribution is in FACT part of marketing. And Marketing also touches R&D, giving it input in for of assumed/collected/calculated requirements.
FYI Most countries implement the law. In my home country(part of EU) IP law was forever in accordance with EU directives. I expect that UK has the same law implemented. Only political directives are contested.
And yes there is EU law, its just not enforceable unless ratified/implemented by country parliaments. Ever heard of EU parliament?
And BTW looking at.h files if considered reverse engineering.
Please, please, please..... Remember that neither Poland nor Czech Republic are in the center of this "debacle". You are not the ones that someone will listen to. US uses your oppinion as a reason, although they don't really care, since you don't elect Bush or Putin.
>> Our brains are massively parallel, but we do not consciously attend to more than a couple of things at a time.
I can eat, talk and think at the same time, all are pretty conscious actions.
And BTW, most of our brains parallelism is wasted on sensing, try to see if you pinch yourself in two different places, will you only feel one of them?
Jokes that are true are funny, those that are lies are NOT. Specially when you are not using metaphores as in: "read the PostgreSQL manual eight times". If you tried to read at least once, you would see that it came long way in 2 years.
Problem is that most of MySQL developers/admins are gently speaking "baboons with SQL".(Thanks to PHP) MySQL gave freedom to be reckless and the developers used it to full advantage. So it ends up in fact that MySQL has no or little quality developers and admins, that understand all the RDBMS principles and data constraints/integrity.
First of all: You are a deeply deluded person.
Communism - read the Communist manifesto, and stop equating communism with authoritarianism. One is an economic term, as opposed to capitalism, another is form of rule, opposed to democracy.
As for the killing of journalists, although I agree that that is appalling, please remember that this is a step forward. In mid 90-s, although you consider that the top of Russian democracy, you could get shot if you said the wrong word on the street. So I consider this an improvement, over the unsupported anarchic democracy of Jetsin era.
PS: If you think that Russia has no grounds on witch to "dislike" US, remember that in the beginning(1991) Russia was hugely pro US, and instead of friendship US gave Russia "the finger"(in political and diplomatic terms).
And BTW, those ex-soviet nuclear and other weaponry/hazardous science scientists wouldn't have been picked up by Irans, Pakistans and others.
Do you even know how many Indians go into CS just because their family does it or its the only place to get a job?
So please you would be killing the prospects in US of those that are passionate-professionals who don't have a degree, like me!
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Bandwidth increase by flushing the toilet!
Please understand correctly on what the author is banking.
Free means 0(zero) dollar(or any other currency) price tag for the end user to obtain software and to obtain the license to run it.
Or the price of the medium + shipping fee to obtain software.
> If everyone went to the bank and asked to empty their account, the bank couldn't do it.
It's not like it...
It the bank would have told you that everyone can empty their account at the same time, than it would be same.
Let alone the bank would have some problems but the main strain would be on the money printing facility(content provider).
The ISP's LIE to ordinary folks all the time(about available bandwidth), and sometimes don't even bother stating the truth in the contract itself. They are getting what they asked for.
Hmm....... If I want to watch a holywood movie in it's original language I have 2 choices: fly to the nearest english speaking country and watch/buy it there or illegally download it.
And what if I want to see it on a big screen in a cinema?......
Disruptive provider IS a must!
We in Lithuania had a stalemate in GSM operators.
Up until Tele2 came in to the market we had one of the highest prices for services, now they are 10 times lower.
And the fact is that we now have 15% more phone numbers issued than the resident population.
I'm more interested in:
Was the hit critical?
Those 2 novels have only one thing in common: they create an imaginary world that you may(at your own will) be plunged into while reading.
:)
And to be precise both started out as a bedtime story for a child
Comparing HP book 1 and book 7 is same as comparing The Hobbit to LotR, first one is a children's book the other one is nothing like it.
And yeah, the amount of work JRR Tolkien put into LotR is in no way equal to what JK Rowling put into HP.
Just the fact of count of languages that are used in books I think is enough to prove that point.
So true.
Guilt has to be proven and innocence has to be defended.
I agree that MSO is a superior product to OO.o. ...
But in interoperability it sucks HARD. I mean Excel 2003 has problems with reading its OWN CSV format
Reporting features, advanced graphs and so on are great in Excel, but working in a very large company I had little need of any of that functionality.
I mean, I know that Excel has a "pivot view"(or something that has a similar name), but I have been never able to find it.
Otherwise OO.o handles all my document writing, presentation and reporting needs perfectly.
I get my data from 20 different data sources(databases,CVS files, etc).
Yeah sharing documents is a b***h, but if you work in a big company I would advise on looking @ IBM's Workplace, witch has ODF support.
Or you can write a piece of software that would handle ODF, I mean ODF is no OOXML. Unzip and use the XML!
> client crashes my PC's sound system drivers so badly that my machine blue screens. MOST Slashdot people would reflexively blame Microsoft for that
I wouldn't lame MS for that. BUT I had times where a game crashes and my resolution and other display setting go nuts. I mean falling back to 16 colors and 600x400 on my 1280x1024 LCD. That is when I blame MS for not correctly handling program crashes, I mean they write an OS that HAS to manage processes(I believe that that is the intend of an OS).
Yeah. You can also do physical computations, but you do not call it mathematics do you?
And BTW a lot of other sciences are using mathematics, and some have math a core part of them. But still physics is physics and the amount of math is appropriate for physics.
I have studied advanced math and I can tell that it's all about analysis.
I'd say that Computer Science(or better Computational Science) should consist of logic, Boolean algebra and so on....
And should be a separate science.
> This guy just doesn't seem to understand what math is. Substituting theory of computation with his "theory of expressions" just
> shifts focus on another field of math.
Yeah... And biology is another field of chemistry, witch in it's own turn is another field of physics.
Should I continue?
In essence all sciences relate closely and some are "offsprings" of others.
No longer true. It's not the same as surgeon -> anatomy, its more like physicist -> philosophy (since physics was created by philosophy). So are all physicists excellent philosophers?
>This is just another stupid generalization. There are some areas where you can do good computer science without math. There are
> other areas where you absolutely need mathematics. For example, you cannot do scientific computing without mathematics. Broad
> generalizations like this for a wide spread field just shows the ignorance/narrow mind of the author.
Totally NOT.
You could describe what do you mean by scientific computing?
If you mean physics calculations and similar, than no the person(CS guy) has no need to know that science.
It's the same as a programmer creating an accounting app does not need to have a BS in accounting.
I am for sciences to stick to their nature, and CS has came out of mathematics and physics, but is not in essence mix of math + physics.
I agree generally to your statements.
But...... I do not agree that deep understanding of mathematical analysis is required in CS.
Algebra in general is a MUST in CS.
Creating encryption algorithm does not involve CS until implementation part, and implementation is definitely is NOT mathematics.
>> Sales, marketing and distribution is horrendously expensive and gets a far bigger chunk of the budget then R&D.
Newsflash!
Distribution is in FACT part of marketing.
And Marketing also touches R&D, giving it input in for of assumed/collected/calculated requirements.
FYI Most countries implement the law.
.h files if considered reverse engineering.
In my home country(part of EU) IP law was forever in accordance with EU directives.
I expect that UK has the same law implemented.
Only political directives are contested.
And yes there is EU law, its just not enforceable unless ratified/implemented by country parliaments. Ever heard of EU parliament?
And BTW looking at
Please, please, please..... Remember that neither Poland nor Czech Republic are in the center of this "debacle". You are not the ones that someone will listen to.
US uses your oppinion as a reason, although they don't really care, since you don't elect Bush or Putin.
>> Our brains are massively parallel, but we do not consciously attend to more than a couple of things at a time. I can eat, talk and think at the same time, all are pretty conscious actions. And BTW, most of our brains parallelism is wasted on sensing, try to see if you pinch yourself in two different places, will you only feel one of them?
Jokes that are true are funny, those that are lies are NOT. Specially when you are not using metaphores as in: "read the PostgreSQL manual eight times".
If you tried to read at least once, you would see that it came long way in 2 years.
Problem is that most of MySQL developers/admins are gently speaking "baboons with SQL".(Thanks to PHP)
MySQL gave freedom to be reckless and the developers used it to full advantage.
So it ends up in fact that MySQL has no or little quality developers and admins, that understand all the RDBMS principles and data constraints/integrity.
First of all: You are a deeply deluded person. Communism - read the Communist manifesto, and stop equating communism with authoritarianism. One is an economic term, as opposed to capitalism, another is form of rule, opposed to democracy. As for the killing of journalists, although I agree that that is appalling, please remember that this is a step forward. In mid 90-s, although you consider that the top of Russian democracy, you could get shot if you said the wrong word on the street. So I consider this an improvement, over the unsupported anarchic democracy of Jetsin era. PS: If you think that Russia has no grounds on witch to "dislike" US, remember that in the beginning(1991) Russia was hugely pro US, and instead of friendship US gave Russia "the finger"(in political and diplomatic terms). And BTW, those ex-soviet nuclear and other weaponry/hazardous science scientists wouldn't have been picked up by Irans, Pakistans and others.
Do you even know how many Indians go into CS just because their family does it or its the only place to get a job? So please you would be killing the prospects in US of those that are passionate-professionals who don't have a degree, like me!
"Nobody needs transactions" - MySQL team. But I'll guess I'll be that nobody.