This article is pretty frustrating, as it still gives no answers why Oracle is not a member of ODSL and why they should be? As far as I know Oracle makes database and middleware tools, wich is pretty distinct from operating system kernels. Maybe they require some specific kernel modules to get some better performance in some instances, but does that require them to be a memberof ODSL?
So in the end i think the PR department scored another media exposure without any news.
While I also saw those who did not want us there they were in the minority and typically part of those were no longer in a position to cause harm to others.
That is a really impressive use of statistics you show there. I wonder how things would look if you were not an american invader but a jihadis freedom fighter? Would american-friendly induviduals present themselves to them?
Usually people post their own opinions here, not copied from an MS ad. Sure you can use some of MS' pov, but if you add nothing of your own you are just repeating PR crap, AKA FUD.
That war you refer to happened 61 + years ago. I am much younger than that and I guess so are you. Do I owe you or your country gratitude for its actions back then? What about the first world war, or napoleons wars, or the English - Dutch wars or the Spanish - Dutch wars?
As for the fascists/dictators out there plotting to take over the weak: have a look in your own backyard and judge for yourself how your gouvernment scores on things like militarism, corporatism, rascism, corruption.
If you automatiaclly (or when challenged) assume that your millitary does a good job without questioning every move, then you are an ideal pawn to serve in your fascist state. Good luck with that.
Somehow that 'protecting' is always done in other peoples countries and the death toll is always a lot higher for the recieving party is always order of magnitude higher (most of them innocent bystanders that did not choose to take the risk) than the invading US army (that more or less chose that risk).
Your protection sounds quite similar to the protection by the mafia; both use a lot of needless violence to achieve their illegal goals.
And I am not American nor do I live there, Capice?
So actually you are not one of those plentyfull VS programmers that you can pick up by the dozen at the local community college? ANd you have never worked professionally with this super-easy VS that makes programming so easy that even stupid managers can understand it? Somehow I don't think it is a suprise that you blindly copy MS-FUD. There is no magic bullet when it comes to programming. You cannot develop smart programs with dumb people. You may wish you could, but that is probably because you are one of them.
Yes, I do, although I do not believe in the concept of a 'soul'. I have no pity for people that agreed to get paid to run a certain risk and that risk turns out bad for them.
If all soldiers just walked off and went home, the world would be a beter place. Since the US military is one of the biggest and certainly the most aggressive, the world would certainly be a lot safer if they just went home and did something productive.
But you are free to believe whatever propaganda your ministry of truth washes your brain with. After all you are in the land of the free, aren't you? (And no, i'm not, and I don't know who capt crunch is)
Who cares about some 'identity theft'? Wouldn't that just be what you'd need, assuming that the soul-selling contract is with an individual. Identity theft => no identity => no obligation to hand in your soul.
No it does not. Some hot (or so he thinks) senator is pro-posing with this idea to come over as though on 'peadophiles'. Yes that may be include censorship over any dissent. But the legislation was never intended to made into law. It was intended to whip up a media frenzy and get the sponsor some media attention (positive or negative does not matter). Meanwhile the really nasty stuff that will take away your last rights will be tacked on to some other unrelated bill. There is only so much attention the media can give. If they give it to this jackass they can't give it to important stuff that people really need to know about.
On the other hand, if every respectable media source had a top-five of ' idiot senators of the week', then one might expect a betterment soon enough.
Right, so everytime some polly makes a ridiculous proposal we all should get our panties in a twist? Yes he is screaming a variant of 'think of the children', but unless it is has made some progres in becoming legislation, it is just some political posturing... If only the media would ignore such stupidity, we would see a lot less of it.
It is very nice that this bozo has a (very expensive I read) little program that tries to detect problems when they have already happened. So along comes mr friendly one day (or more?) after the fact to dicipline the programmer? That does not sound like a very positive approach to me. If you want to learn someby something (I hope mr belittle does) it works much better if you have a quick feedback loop, react immediately when something is going wrong, not one weekend later when the programmer has all but forgotten why he did it that way. I agree you cannot use a mr little for such feedback, but unittests and other tests that have to run before the developer can turn in his work can be run automagically. Test are not partial, do not have favorites, and are easy to understand by a programmer. Mr little is probably the opposite. You will either need a pairprogramming or review process to prevent programmers from just disabling the test that fail, but with such a process you will have good software and happy programmers. Mr Little does not make programmers happy. Have a look at aegis, a Configuration management system that can enforce such a process and do a lot of other commonsense things. The 'problem' with aegis is that it does not have a pretty pictures interface, so it's advantages are hard to explain to pointy haired bosses.
Guerrila warfare is already way over the line of using violence or not. Ghandi used none, Castro & Guevarra(sp?) did. Both succeeded, but which outcome do you like more? I am sure you can find a lot of other examples on both sides. The difference between them all, is that violent ones take much more lives than non-violent ones. For me those deaths easily offset the failed non-violent attempts. Civillication is the proces where you agree that each individual is not a soldier/sherrif/judge/politician/fireman/doctor all rolled into one in his own little castle, but that we share those burdens and appoint suitable persons for each job. That means that I trust that the firebrigade will try to save me when I need them, and that the police have caught those burglars before they come to my place. I accept the risk that the firebrigade or police will fail in their task as one of the many risks in life. If you think that playing sherrif, judge and jury for people that tresspass is ok, then I think you are nothing more than barbaric, and you 100% deserve that accidental killing when your neighbor shows you his new gun.
Photoshop I have seldom used, so I know little about that. But I have used the Gimp too often. It always has something that makes me start screaming at my monitor, and that is a very bad sign for any program.
It does not matter that photoshop is hard to learn too, the problem is that it takes too much time to learn the gimp's interface. I don't want to spend 3 weeks learning the gimp, I want it to do what I want when I need it.
If any Gimp developers replies that I am not (in) the intended audience, then she/he does not deserve widespread succes. I heard that there was a new and more friendly editor named xara in town, so I'll be checking that one out soon. They don't have to do that many things right to win me (and a lot of other part-time gimp users) over.
But to tie the diversion to TFA; the problem is most likely caused that FOSS developers are mostly sratching their own itches. So for them it is no problem at all that the interface is hard to understand. They probably won't even notice, because when you have developed the software, you have automatically learned the interface (or molded it to your expectations). And when it gets really bad and it finally is suggested that the interface needs to be totally overhauled, the developers will baulk at it because all of a sudden they will need to unlearn the old interface and learn a new one.
My suggestion how to this problem: make the interface skinnable or plug-able, so that other people can develop a more simple interface. I would love it if I could change the interface behaviour via (menu)->edit->preferences->configure interface, or (menu)->settings->configure interface. And while you are at it, please dump that braindead gnome toolkit for a kde one:P
and maybe in some other more backwards countries it is a civil right too.
At least you understand the intention that originally was the reason to include ownership of firearms, but you are delusional to think that it really will protect you from an oppressive gouvernment. It only means that the police will have better arms when they raid you. Is it legal (and affordable) to privately own the same arms and hardware the army,navy&airforce have? If not, then your point as private arms being a protection against oppressive gouvernment is moot. The point of protection against criminals with guns is moot too: they will just make sure they either have the advantage in arms or agression. You owning a gun is not going to make any criminal decide to stay clean instead.
Another problem you are facing is not only widespread gun ownership, but that combined with a cultural tendency to settle disputes with guns(going back to the days of the wild west?). The chance of a dispute settled with guns ending with death is much greater than say a dispute settled by beating someone up.
and mail server with calendaring integrated right from the start. I want one.
the rest of your comment is somewhat coherent, but with this bit your true colors are shining through. Mail servers handle mail, period. Exchange may handle/maul mail (relaying for the world + his dog) but it's addition of a calendering feature does not mean that proper mailserver should have one. That does not fit the unix way: one program does one thing, and makes sure it is very good at it.
Oh, and outlook does not fid your criteria too: it does not run both on windows and linux (save some wine tricks)...
There are plenty of others that have tried this, and plenty of them failed. A FGPA does have a significantly slower clockspeed and you need to have fairly sophisticated software that can make most of the flexible design. Before this thing came out in most instances it turned out to be cheaper to buy more horsepower and staying on a regular hardwareprogramming path than to risk it with special hard and software. These guys claim their stuff is cheaper than more horsepower and that you get the extra speedboost from the hypertransport (over pci). It clearly is a pr-release that has been regurgitated by a lazy journalist, as I found no or few critical notes, something this product might deserve. for one thing I don't see how they have solved the special software & programmers problem or how they really have taclked the economics of scale: this thing costs a couple of grands, vs a couple of hundres for a amd top notch processor. the regular processor has double cores and runs an order of magnitude faster than the fpga. The scarecity of programmers that can write software for this thing adds another order of magnitude to the wrong side of the equation. Roughly, the fgpa solution must be a thousand times quicker/better than the regular-proc-with-lots-of-horsepower solution. I don't see that happen soon.
OTOH, the rosy images of a computer that can render a pixar animation in a few minutes the next mintes be used as a realtime sound-processing thing or simulate a neural net with as much neurons in it as in the human brain, that makes the geek in me drool. Computer, tell me it isn't so!
The whole Season is greeting you my friend. My name is Khalid Osama Obasha, I am the sone of sultan Ibrahmei II, of the mokassar sultanate. Last year he was murdered in a coup by maoist rebels, which threw our country in a bloody civil war. I believe our problems can be help you secure a better position if you choose to help solve our problems. Just send a small navy cruiser to our coast, and we will make sure it is moderately attacke by the insurgents. This will give you the excuse to attack the headquarers of the insurgenst, conveniently located in the Al-ibrahmei Akhbar mosque. This will generate enough media coverage off all these ant-american terrorist sentiments in the world. If you wish we can also use our police forces to uncover some terrorist counterfeiting rings or whatever your media requires. In return, we ask you to supply us with better arms to crush our opposition. If you still have some doubts, may we remind you that we produce 2% of the worlds oilproducts, so any dissidents in your country can easily blame it on the oil while you guy secure your power.
The article shows that the technology as it is now is too confusing. why would an extra layer of complexity make things better? Instead one should teach to make people learn the indicators: Creditcard companies should mail out phishing spam out themselves, an block every cardnumber they harvest. Lather, rinse, repeat. Only after they show in some test that they have the required knowledge should their cards be reinstated/reissued. Repeat offenders pay a pretty high reissue fee.
(ok the quote is probably not quite correct, pedants can quote the correct version below) Your love for guns blinds you from the obvious: You end up with a country full of losers if you start to use them in a political conflict. Your boxes quote sounds nice, but have you realised it may actually be wrong? Let's take two examples: Sudan & Ukraine. One a bloody civil war, the other a peacefull eviction of a corrupt leader/party. What do you think would have happened if those people in the streets would have been carrying guns? The fact that some folks in your country where pretty bloodthirsty 200 years ago does not mean those words apply now. Maybe 'first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win' is more applicable. Ghandi beat the british too, but without any violence on his part.
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This article is pretty frustrating, as it still gives no answers why Oracle is not a member of ODSL and why they should be? As far as I know Oracle makes database and middleware tools, wich is pretty distinct from operating system kernels. Maybe they require some specific kernel modules to get some better performance in some instances, but does that require them to be a memberof ODSL?
So in the end i think the PR department scored another media exposure without any news.
The only certainties in life are taxes and death, but it seems that it should be ammended for windows users with virus/worm infections.
So, did you pay taxes lately?
That is a really impressive use of statistics you show there. I wonder how things would look if you were not an american invader but a jihadis freedom fighter? Would american-friendly induviduals present themselves to them?
Usually people post their own opinions here, not copied from an MS ad. Sure you can use some of MS' pov, but if you add nothing of your own you are just repeating PR crap, AKA FUD.
That war you refer to happened 61 + years ago. I am much younger than that and I guess so are you. Do I owe you or your country gratitude for its actions back then? What about the first world war, or napoleons wars, or the English - Dutch wars or the Spanish - Dutch wars?
As for the fascists/dictators out there plotting to take over the weak: have a look in your own backyard and judge for yourself how your gouvernment scores on things like militarism, corporatism, rascism, corruption.
If you automatiaclly (or when challenged) assume that your millitary does a good job without questioning every move, then you are an ideal pawn to serve in your fascist state. Good luck with that.
Somehow that 'protecting' is always done in other peoples countries and the death toll is always a lot higher for the recieving party is always order of magnitude higher (most of them innocent bystanders that did not choose to take the risk) than the invading US army (that more or less chose that risk).
Your protection sounds quite similar to the protection by the mafia; both use a lot of needless violence to achieve their illegal goals.
And I am not American nor do I live there, Capice?
So actually you are not one of those plentyfull VS programmers that you can pick up by the dozen at the local community college? ANd you have never worked professionally with this super-easy VS that makes programming so easy that even stupid managers can understand it?
Somehow I don't think it is a suprise that you blindly copy MS-FUD.
There is no magic bullet when it comes to programming. You cannot develop smart programs with dumb people. You may wish you could, but that is probably because you are one of them.
Yes, I do, although I do not believe in the concept of a 'soul'.
I have no pity for people that agreed to get paid to run a certain risk and that risk turns out bad for them.
If all soldiers just walked off and went home, the world would be a beter place. Since the US military is one of the biggest and certainly the most aggressive, the world would certainly be a lot safer if they just went home and did something productive.
But you are free to believe whatever propaganda your ministry of truth washes your brain with. After all you are in the land of the free, aren't you?
(And no, i'm not, and I don't know who capt crunch is)
Who cares about some 'identity theft'? Wouldn't that just be what you'd need, assuming that the soul-selling contract is with an individual. Identity theft => no identity => no obligation to hand in your soul.
Or 43, if you wish for just that bit more out of life the universe and everything...
No it does not. Some hot (or so he thinks) senator is pro-posing with this idea to come over as though on 'peadophiles'. Yes that may be include censorship over any dissent. But the legislation was never intended to made into law. It was intended to whip up a media frenzy and get the sponsor some media attention (positive or negative does not matter).
Meanwhile the really nasty stuff that will take away your last rights will be tacked on to some other unrelated bill. There is only so much attention the media can give. If they give it to this jackass they can't give it to important stuff that people really need to know about.
On the other hand, if every respectable media source had a top-five of ' idiot senators of the week', then one might expect a betterment soon enough.
Right, so everytime some polly makes a ridiculous proposal we all should get our panties in a twist? Yes he is screaming a variant of 'think of the children', but unless it is has made some progres in becoming legislation, it is just some political posturing... If only the media would ignore such stupidity, we would see a lot less of it.
It is very nice that this bozo has a (very expensive I read) little program that tries to detect problems when they have already happened. So along comes mr friendly one day (or more?) after the fact to dicipline the programmer? That does not sound like a very positive approach to me.
If you want to learn someby something (I hope mr belittle does) it works much better if you have a quick feedback loop, react immediately when something is going wrong, not one weekend later when the programmer has all but forgotten why he did it that way. I agree you cannot use a mr little for such feedback, but unittests and other tests that have to run before the developer can turn in his work can be run automagically. Test are not partial, do not have favorites, and are easy to understand by a programmer. Mr little is probably the opposite. You will either need a pairprogramming or review process to prevent programmers from just disabling the test that fail, but with such a process you will have good software and happy programmers. Mr Little does not make programmers happy.
Have a look at aegis, a Configuration management system that can enforce such a process and do a lot of other commonsense things. The 'problem' with aegis is that it does not have a pretty pictures interface, so it's advantages are hard to explain to pointy haired bosses.
Very true indeed. Thoug I do miss some gimp apologists saying that it's all my own fault.
How many 'the gimp sucks' pages are there out there? How many testimonials do the developers need before they change for a more novicefriendly course?
Guerrila warfare is already way over the line of using violence or not. Ghandi used none, Castro & Guevarra(sp?) did. Both succeeded, but which outcome do you like more?
I am sure you can find a lot of other examples on both sides. The difference between them all, is that violent ones take much more lives than non-violent ones. For me those deaths easily offset the failed non-violent attempts.
Civillication is the proces where you agree that each individual is not a soldier/sherrif/judge/politician/fireman/doctor all rolled into one in his own little castle, but that we share those burdens and appoint suitable persons for each job. That means that I trust that the firebrigade will try to save me when I need them, and that the police have caught those burglars before they come to my place. I accept the risk that the firebrigade or police will fail in their task as one of the many risks in life.
If you think that playing sherrif, judge and jury for people that tresspass is ok, then I think you are nothing more than barbaric, and you 100% deserve that accidental killing when your neighbor shows you his new gun.
Photoshop I have seldom used, so I know little about that. But I have used the Gimp too often. It always has something that makes me start screaming at my monitor, and that is a very bad sign for any program.
It does not matter that photoshop is hard to learn too, the problem is that it takes too much time to learn the gimp's interface. I don't want to spend 3 weeks learning the gimp, I want it to do what I want when I need it.
If any Gimp developers replies that I am not (in) the intended audience, then she/he does not deserve widespread succes. I heard that there was a new and more friendly editor named xara in town, so I'll be checking that one out soon. They don't have to do that many things right to win me (and a lot of other part-time gimp users) over.
But to tie the diversion to TFA; the problem is most likely caused that FOSS developers are mostly sratching their own itches. So for them it is no problem at all that the interface is hard to understand. They probably won't even notice, because when you have developed the software, you have automatically learned the interface (or molded it to your expectations). And when it gets really bad and it finally is suggested that the interface needs to be totally overhauled, the developers will baulk at it because all of a sudden they will need to unlearn the old interface and learn a new one.
My suggestion how to this problem: make the interface skinnable or plug-able, so that other people can develop a more simple interface. I would love it if I could change the interface behaviour via (menu)->edit->preferences->configure interface, or (menu)->settings->configure interface. And while you are at it, please dump that braindead gnome toolkit for a kde one :P
and maybe in some other more backwards countries it is a civil right too.
At least you understand the intention that originally was the reason to include ownership of firearms, but you are delusional to think that it really will protect you from an oppressive gouvernment. It only means that the police will have better arms when they raid you. Is it legal (and affordable) to privately own the same arms and hardware the army,navy&airforce have? If not, then your point as private arms being a protection against oppressive gouvernment is moot.
The point of protection against criminals with guns is moot too: they will just make sure they either have the advantage in arms or agression. You owning a gun is not going to make any criminal decide to stay clean instead.
Another problem you are facing is not only widespread gun ownership, but that combined with a cultural tendency to settle disputes with guns(going back to the days of the wild west?). The chance of a dispute settled with guns ending with death is much greater than say a dispute settled by beating someone up.
the rest of your comment is somewhat coherent, but with this bit your true colors are shining through. Mail servers handle mail, period. Exchange may handle/maul mail (relaying for the world + his dog) but it's addition of a calendering feature does not mean that proper mailserver should have one.
That does not fit the unix way: one program does one thing, and makes sure it is very good at it.
Oh, and outlook does not fid your criteria too: it does not run both on windows and linux (save some wine tricks)...
There are plenty of others that have tried this, and plenty of them failed. A FGPA does have a significantly slower clockspeed and you need to have fairly sophisticated software that can make most of the flexible design. Before this thing came out in most instances it turned out to be cheaper to buy more horsepower and staying on a regular hardwareprogramming path than to risk it with special hard and software.
These guys claim their stuff is cheaper than more horsepower and that you get the extra speedboost from the hypertransport (over pci).
It clearly is a pr-release that has been regurgitated by a lazy journalist, as I found no or few critical notes, something this product might deserve. for one thing I don't see how they have solved the special software & programmers problem or how they really have taclked the economics of scale: this thing costs a couple of grands, vs a couple of hundres for a amd top notch processor. the regular processor has double cores and runs an order of magnitude faster than the fpga. The scarecity of programmers that can write software for this thing adds another order of magnitude to the wrong side of the equation.
Roughly, the fgpa solution must be a thousand times quicker/better than the regular-proc-with-lots-of-horsepower solution. I don't see that happen soon.
OTOH, the rosy images of a computer that can render a pixar animation in a few minutes the next mintes be used as a realtime sound-processing thing or simulate a neural net with as much neurons in it as in the human brain, that makes the geek in me drool. Computer, tell me it isn't so!
The whole Season is greeting you my friend.
My name is Khalid Osama Obasha, I am the sone of sultan Ibrahmei II, of the mokassar sultanate. Last year he was murdered in a coup by maoist rebels, which threw our country in a bloody civil war. I believe our problems can be help you secure a better position if you choose to help solve our problems.
Just send a small navy cruiser to our coast, and we will make sure it is moderately attacke by the insurgents. This will give you the excuse to attack the headquarers of the insurgenst, conveniently located in the Al-ibrahmei Akhbar mosque. This will generate enough media coverage off all these ant-american terrorist sentiments in the world. If you wish we can also use our police forces to uncover some terrorist counterfeiting rings or whatever your media requires.
In return, we ask you to supply us with better arms to crush our opposition.
If you still have some doubts, may we remind you that we produce 2% of the worlds oilproducts, so any dissidents in your country can easily blame it on the oil while you guy secure your power.
So you think everyone has one hot-button issue that makes him sign up for a policestate?
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The article shows that the technology as it is now is too confusing. why would an extra layer of complexity make things better?
Instead one should teach to make people learn the indicators: Creditcard companies should mail out phishing spam out themselves, an block every cardnumber they harvest. Lather, rinse, repeat. Only after they show in some test that they have the required knowledge should their cards be reinstated/reissued. Repeat offenders pay a pretty high reissue fee.
(ok the quote is probably not quite correct, pedants can quote the correct version below)
Your love for guns blinds you from the obvious: You end up with a country full of losers if you start to use them in a political conflict. Your boxes quote sounds nice, but have you realised it may actually be wrong? Let's take two examples: Sudan & Ukraine. One a bloody civil war, the other a peacefull eviction of a corrupt leader/party. What do you think would have happened if those people in the streets would have been carrying guns? The fact that some folks in your country where pretty bloodthirsty 200 years ago does not mean those words apply now.
Maybe 'first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win' is more applicable. Ghandi beat the british too, but without any violence on his part.