Monopolies are one of the many failure points. True. They markets have to adhere to common rules. Regulation for sales of firearms, alcohol for minors etc. There have to be bounderies for a free market. But imposed by the society as large not by the companies.
Promoting free market speech may seem a bit wierd for an open source developer. After all im a so called communist. I code for free (hmm, usually). And well, i also use free software for contract work i do. Well, i give and take. And still end up with a competetive advantage over those who dont. Weird. Maybe less money lost in management.
Wouldn't it be a free market if Apple could just do that? If monopolies would act uncontrollably?
No, it wouldnt be a free market, since you are forbidden from selling something. Monopolies try to destroy the free market economy.
And especially the "do not duplicate iPhone functionality" is a really obscene practise. Imagine MS having such a clause for Windows software.
No Opera, Firefox, OOorg.
Personally i consider Apples business practices worse than Microsofts (and that really means something).
And BTW, i'm not an American.
Free market vs Jobs dictatorship.
This was bound to happen, the iTunes situation is growing too similiar to the Windows monopoly.
Now please excuse me while i get some popcorn.
Well, point is everything we used to know was wrong.
Thats empyrical evidence that we are bound to be wrong (or call it a "limited understanding" if you wish).
Actually its pretty boring when you look at it with our current knowledge. Travel outside of our solar system is pretty nonsensical.
Communcation tops at the speed of light. If those limits cannot be broken we will probably never make contact with any alien race (if they exist).
If, on the other hand, a faster than light communication is possible, then the whole seti search is bullshit.
A simple explanation could be that we are just way off, an uninteresting small solar system at the edge of our galaxy. Now come on, who in their right mind would consider coming here?
Hmm, might have aproblem with evolution.
For some reason i havent got any messages since 28.May 11:44 on lkml.
Weird coincidence, guess ill have to to check the mta.
Sorry, but i have to ask.
I'm a subscriber of the lkml. Yeah, i usually delete the msgs after 2 months.
Why cant i find a single of those messages in my own personal copy of the lkml group?
Was this in some kind of subgroup or what?
I got Quake4 at Amazon for 20 euros a couple of years ago.
Actually after playing the torrented version to the end. Decided i liked it and so i bought it.
Well, very much the same thing i already did with Doom1 (except there werent any torrents back then).
It doesn't "just work" on all systems. It works on most, but if you want guaranteed compatibility everything* runs with Windows, even if you have to hunt for some drivers.
How sweet. Do you really believe that?
Just a small list of counter-examples:
Printer not working, now matter how the drivers were installed (wizard,expert,ppds manually), linux worked
Im starting to hear this too often.
Of course there are a lot of language independant coding styles and best practices, but thats only half of the story.
Knowing how to code is about style and grammar. But you need the vocabulary as well. You also need to know the most common APIs, their strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise you wont be able to do anything except some number crunching in memory.
And while its impossible to grok every language there is, having a decent understanding of several languages sure helps, they all have their strength, e.g.
Bash, simple scripts and cron jobs.
Perl, usually use that for regex and when bash would start to become a bit cumbersome.
PHP, small interactive web stuff (where a per-page design method is sufficient)
Java, application development, when development time is a critical factor.
J2EE, larger web applications, that have to be well designed in advance.
C++, application development, when efficiency is the critical factor.
Although i wouldnt recomend C++ as the first language, once you get there pretty much every other language looks more or less like a subset of C++.
Java and C# have a lot more in common than with C++.
You may THINK they are based on C++ and partially you are correct. They both borrow syntax from C++.
But thats where the similarities end. Both Java and C# (bytecode) are are interpreted via a virtual machine. C++ has direct hardware access. Thats a big fundamental difference.
Well, 165m*165m*3.14*15000m*1.2kg/m*m*m equates to more than 1,500,000 tons.
Ok, the 1.2kg/cubicmetre is the density of air at sea level. Assuming the density of air in 15km is pretty close to zero the structure weighs about as much as air, and i seem to survive the air pressure pretty nicely.
the simple fact is we think this particular French Airbus crashed do to design failure, specificity computer related and not human failure and this only strengthens the case for humans to still be able to fully operate complex machines.
The autopilot disengaged at 23:10, 4 minutes before the last automated messages indicating failing cabin pressure were sent by the plane.
I know, maybe i belong to a dying race, but i usually apply common sense.
I would assume Palm would have more reason to file a suit for anti-competive behavior than Apple for filing a suit for violation of the DCMA, if Apple were to intentionally lock out the Pre.
Well, IANAL, but how does the saying go. Need three opinions?
Ask three lawyers.
How is this any different than Opera/Firefox/whatever changing the User-Agent string?
Neither looks like anything complicated nor like anything illegal.
Oh woh, browser war.
The good ol OS wars turned into browser wars.
I dont give a fuck about it. Do i have to open a link in my bookmarks or click a desktop icon?
Just DO something usefull and people will like it (or nor, ok), HTML is just a simple way of tranferring info.
If its really worth it, or you need some special effects, might as well learn to code instead of learning flash.
I mean, whats the difference, imbedded in browser or click run, come on guys, dont know how to code anymore?
Something is still very weird. http://www.asus.co.uk/ redirects to uk.asus.com.
And searching for the 1008ha never links to the page you mentioned.
The itsbetterwithwindows.com site has no disclaimers or anything. There is no indication this site is in any way endorsed by either Asus or MS.
I got a feeling someone is going to get into some real trouble for this.
Apple hasnt made anything i would would give a damn about.
And ever since my experiences with Nokias Softwaremarket i havent even made any mobile apps.
Might as well burn some karma for truth.
This concept is extremely old.
Used both for shareware and demos which could be unlocked via key.
Dont see why it should be patentable just because its now used in an os.
Well, sure.
There is a reason drives have caches, thats behavior introduced with IDE (the I stands for intelligent).
The main difference here is that a) the drive doesnt bluescreen and b) it should have enough power stored to flush the cache (and park the head) in case of power failure.
I'm not ranting about the idea of using caches. Im just opposed to doing it someplace it doesnt belong and where it causes more problems than good.
Also there seems to be a weird assumption here that writing a large block of data actually ends up in one "large row" on the device. This isnt necesarilly the case for a hard drive (the older the drive the more sectors will have been mapped to reserve sectors) and definatly shouldnt be the case for a flash drive which can map sectors even more efficiantly since it doesnt even have a seek time.
One might note, that its excactly this "fixed logical byte mapping to fixed physical byte" isnt a bijection. Even normal hard drives have an amount of reserve blocks, afaik 10-20%. As soon as the drive has troubles reading a block it maps it to a reserve block. This is completely invisible to the the OS, so a hard drive which has worn out 5% of its blocks would still appear brand new (though you may see a performance decrease reading a file written to seemingly consecutive blocks).
The device electronics are the ideal place for such wear leveling algorythms. Sure, its theoreticly possible to place those algorythms in driver level. But then every device would require this knowledge for their drivers. Just think of small and embedded devices for a moment to see why thats a bad idea.
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Monopolies are one of the many failure points. True. They markets have to adhere to common rules.
Regulation for sales of firearms, alcohol for minors etc. There have to be bounderies for a free market. But imposed by the society as large not by the companies.
Promoting free market speech may seem a bit wierd for an open source developer. After all im a so called communist. I code for free (hmm, usually). And well, i also use free software for contract work i do. Well, i give and take. And still end up with a competetive advantage over those who dont. Weird. Maybe less money lost in management.
Wouldn't it be a free market if Apple could just do that? If monopolies would act uncontrollably?
No, it wouldnt be a free market, since you are forbidden from selling something. Monopolies try to destroy the free market economy.
And especially the "do not duplicate iPhone functionality" is a really obscene practise. Imagine MS having such a clause for Windows software.
No Opera, Firefox, OOorg.
Personally i consider Apples business practices worse than Microsofts (and that really means something).
And BTW, i'm not an American.
Free market vs Jobs dictatorship.
This was bound to happen, the iTunes situation is growing too similiar to the Windows monopoly.
Now please excuse me while i get some popcorn.
Well, point is everything we used to know was wrong.
Thats empyrical evidence that we are bound to be wrong (or call it a "limited understanding" if you wish).
Actually its pretty boring when you look at it with our current knowledge. Travel outside of our solar system is pretty nonsensical.
Communcation tops at the speed of light. If those limits cannot be broken we will probably never make contact with any alien race (if they exist).
If, on the other hand, a faster than light communication is possible, then the whole seti search is bullshit.
A simple explanation could be that we are just way off, an uninteresting small solar system at the edge of our galaxy. Now come on, who in their right mind would consider coming here?
Altzheimer Quest - Search for the pants
Hmm, might have aproblem with evolution.
For some reason i havent got any messages since 28.May 11:44 on lkml.
Weird coincidence, guess ill have to to check the mta.
Sorry, but i have to ask.
I'm a subscriber of the lkml. Yeah, i usually delete the msgs after 2 months.
Why cant i find a single of those messages in my own personal copy of the lkml group?
Was this in some kind of subgroup or what?
Medieval UK battles records released online.
Even so i never heard of recording mafia called Medieval it would be kinda fitting.
I like that question. Insightful.
I got Quake4 at Amazon for 20 euros a couple of years ago.
Actually after playing the torrented version to the end. Decided i liked it and so i bought it.
Well, very much the same thing i already did with Doom1 (except there werent any torrents back then).
It doesn't "just work" on all systems. It works on most, but if you want guaranteed compatibility everything* runs with Windows, even if you have to hunt for some drivers.
How sweet. Do you really believe that?
Just a small list of counter-examples:
Thats just a couple of examples that came to mind first. Mind you, ive already worked full time fixing these "imaginary" bugs.
Im starting to hear this too often.
Of course there are a lot of language independant coding styles and best practices, but thats only half of the story.
Knowing how to code is about style and grammar. But you need the vocabulary as well. You also need to know the most common APIs, their strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise you wont be able to do anything except some number crunching in memory.
And while its impossible to grok every language there is, having a decent understanding of several languages sure helps, they all have their strength, e.g.
Bash, simple scripts and cron jobs.
Perl, usually use that for regex and when bash would start to become a bit cumbersome.
PHP, small interactive web stuff (where a per-page design method is sufficient)
Java, application development, when development time is a critical factor.
J2EE, larger web applications, that have to be well designed in advance.
C++, application development, when efficiency is the critical factor.
Although i wouldnt recomend C++ as the first language, once you get there pretty much every other language looks more or less like a subset of C++.
since obviously that means the sober people are responsible for 51% or of the fatal accidents
Java and C# have a lot more in common than with C++. You may THINK they are based on C++ and partially you are correct. They both borrow syntax from C++.
But thats where the similarities end. Both Java and C# (bytecode) are are interpreted via a virtual machine. C++ has direct hardware access. Thats a big fundamental difference.
Well, 165m*165m*3.14*15000m*1.2kg/m*m*m equates to more than 1,500,000 tons.
Ok, the 1.2kg/cubicmetre is the density of air at sea level. Assuming the density of air in 15km is pretty close to zero the structure weighs about as much as air, and i seem to survive the air pressure pretty nicely.
the simple fact is we think this particular French Airbus crashed do to design failure, specificity computer related and not human failure and this only strengthens the case for humans to still be able to fully operate complex machines.
The autopilot disengaged at 23:10, 4 minutes before the last automated messages indicating failing cabin pressure were sent by the plane.
I know, maybe i belong to a dying race, but i usually apply common sense.
I would assume Palm would have more reason to file a suit for anti-competive behavior than Apple for filing a suit for violation of the DCMA, if Apple were to intentionally lock out the Pre.
Well, IANAL, but how does the saying go. Need three opinions?
Ask three lawyers.
How is this any different than Opera/Firefox/whatever changing the User-Agent string?
Neither looks like anything complicated nor like anything illegal.
when IE is down to 66.6%.
Oh woh, browser war.
The good ol OS wars turned into browser wars.
I dont give a fuck about it. Do i have to open a link in my bookmarks or click a desktop icon?
Just DO something usefull and people will like it (or nor, ok), HTML is just a simple way of tranferring info.
If its really worth it, or you need some special effects, might as well learn to code instead of learning flash.
I mean, whats the difference, imbedded in browser or click run, come on guys, dont know how to code anymore?
Something is still very weird.
http://www.asus.co.uk/ redirects to uk.asus.com.
And searching for the 1008ha never links to the page you mentioned.
The itsbetterwithwindows.com site has no disclaimers or anything. There is no indication this site is in any way endorsed by either Asus or MS.
I got a feeling someone is going to get into some real trouble for this.
Apple hasnt made anything i would would give a damn about.
And ever since my experiences with Nokias Softwaremarket i havent even made any mobile apps.
Might as well burn some karma for truth.
This concept is extremely old.
Used both for shareware and demos which could be unlocked via key.
Dont see why it should be patentable just because its now used in an os.
Well, sure.
There is a reason drives have caches, thats behavior introduced with IDE (the I stands for intelligent).
The main difference here is that a) the drive doesnt bluescreen and b) it should have enough power stored to flush the cache (and park the head) in case of power failure.
I'm not ranting about the idea of using caches. Im just opposed to doing it someplace it doesnt belong and where it causes more problems than good.
Also there seems to be a weird assumption here that writing a large block of data actually ends up in one "large row" on the device. This isnt necesarilly the case for a hard drive (the older the drive the more sectors will have been mapped to reserve sectors) and definatly shouldnt be the case for a flash drive which can map sectors even more efficiantly since it doesnt even have a seek time.
One might note, that its excactly this "fixed logical byte mapping to fixed physical byte" isnt a bijection. Even normal hard drives have an amount of reserve blocks, afaik 10-20%. As soon as the drive has troubles reading a block it maps it to a reserve block. This is completely invisible to the the OS, so a hard drive which has worn out 5% of its blocks would still appear brand new (though you may see a performance decrease reading a file written to seemingly consecutive blocks).
The device electronics are the ideal place for such wear leveling algorythms. Sure, its theoreticly possible to place those algorythms in driver level. But then every device would require this knowledge for their drivers. Just think of small and embedded devices for a moment to see why thats a bad idea.