This, IMHO, shows why binary-based distribution doesn't work.
Most coders just write against API and should not care about binary compatibility. Distro guys aggregate the sources and choose compiler etc. so different parts of an OS are kept self-consistent. All binary updates are managed by a package mgmt. system with so users are less likely to be hit by unstable dependency updates that breaks other parts. Packagers are supposed to test updates and resolve conflicts in a cooperative manner with upstream.
Of course in practice there are shitty packagers just like there are shitty coders, but the mechanism itself is sound. The buffer zone created by distro packagers means much better stability for the end user.
And this cannot be done unless packagers can read source, compile their own versions, and hack along without worrying about being sued into oblivion.
Time for me to delete my social networking accounts methinks
You can't. It's cursed.
I mean, do you honestly believe you are allowed to do that in the first place? As today's business best practice is to bury terms like "we retain the right of owing your data for as long as we are pleased, even if after you 'delete' your account" in the crap known as "the License Agreement", prepare to fight through legal obstacles and win a Pyrrhic victory at the cost of a kidney and a liver before you can really delete all your social-networking accounts, if for some reason you can win at all.
The attractive OEM hardware and software bundle. Factory tested. All hardware and software issues resolved before it ships.
No googling for solutions - it works out of the box or it goes back to the store.
You must be new to computer purchase. Welcome aboard.
I agree. But apparently the WoW player had no idea about how much he would spend on the game. He even actively admitted this in TFA.
Late in TFA he somehow justified (albeit not without reluctance) the spending, but as far as I can see the whole thing was quite far from money wisely spent.
Maybe he really didn't care. Hell, it doesn't seem he's going broke because of this. Then again, why the whining?
OK, next-gen sound weapon: phased array of high-power noise blaster with automated tracking of moving targets. Capable of blowing an individual's head without touching the ones beside her.
The bug-per-line count doesn't really give you a reasonable measure of product stability. A bug in the hotspot code is far likely to be triggered by the end user than one in the rest of the software is.
So why not correlate the bug distribution with profiling data? I don't think this should be too difficult. You don't even need to do the profiling yourselves; when you obtain the source code just ask for the data from developers.
Except of course if you're talking about CSS 2.1, where it is the best. CSS 3 is technically not standardized.
Have you coded a website yourself?
I'm not a full-time web developer but I used to be contracted by a university for web stuff for a while. From my own experience I can tell you IE's support for CSS 2.1 is so shitty that I had to spend 3x extra time writing eye-burning special hacks that shouldn't have been there in the first place. The "main" CSS file of the site, which strictly adhered to W3C CSS 2.1 standard, works perfectly right out of the box for every fricking browser out there except IE. And I had to maintain a whole bunch of "hacked" (still standard-compliant, just plain ugly) CSS files for different versions of IE because each of them sucks its own way.
You can hold on to you claim all the way but the facts gave me a different lesson.
Who are you to define what constitutes "proper English grammar"?
Well, I'm not pushing this question here trying to silence you. In fact I think it's highly likely that you know English much better than I do, for I'm not a native speaker while you are (I guess). It's directed at the general attempt of "revising" languages based on some narrow set of rules. I understand the importance of grammatical rules (would some one possibly please think of the natural-language-processing computer scientists!) but human languages have their own ways beyond "proper rules". Habit, tradition, convenience and consensus are all factors forming the path of a language's evolution.
Natural languages are, well, natural. Just deal with it.
Here's a scientific paper describing how the period/mass/size/etc of the planet was deduced from observation data: http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0241
According to the paper, this planet's orbital semimajor axis (or in plain English, the "average" distance from the planet to the sun) is about 0.0172 astronomical units. Since its sun's temperature is roughly at the level of our Sun (also in the paper), it means the planet is probably a hell much hotter than the Earth...
It is reported by the uptime command (system "load"). When the CPU is busy its weight increases; when you turn it off it weighs exactly zero. That's why they ask you to turn off your laptop when your airplane is taking off: to save oil by reducing weight;)
I was expecting something new in OS security when I was reading the title and first lines of the summary, and I saw the friggin' ASLR and I was like "What? They haven't got *THAT* done?"
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I mean, why are password based auth used in the first place?
And boxes are still being hacked by *bruteforce* attacks?
I thought SSH Public key auth. is so 20th century.
This, IMHO, shows why binary-based distribution doesn't work.
Most coders just write against API and should not care about binary compatibility. Distro guys aggregate the sources and choose compiler etc. so different parts of an OS are kept self-consistent. All binary updates are managed by a package mgmt. system with so users are less likely to be hit by unstable dependency updates that breaks other parts. Packagers are supposed to test updates and resolve conflicts in a cooperative manner with upstream.
Of course in practice there are shitty packagers just like there are shitty coders, but the mechanism itself is sound. The buffer zone created by distro packagers means much better stability for the end user.
And this cannot be done unless packagers can read source, compile their own versions, and hack along without worrying about being sued into oblivion.
You can't. It's cursed.
I mean, do you honestly believe you are allowed to do that in the first place? As today's business best practice is to bury terms like "we retain the right of owing your data for as long as we are pleased, even if after you 'delete' your account" in the crap known as "the License Agreement", prepare to fight through legal obstacles and win a Pyrrhic victory at the cost of a kidney and a liver before you can really delete all your social-networking accounts, if for some reason you can win at all.
You must be new to computer purchase. Welcome aboard.
This gem is the funniest operator I've seen ;)
On the other hand, replace all occurrence of "<=" with "!>" certainly makes tastier linenoises.
I agree. But apparently the WoW player had no idea about how much he would spend on the game. He even actively admitted this in TFA.
Late in TFA he somehow justified (albeit not without reluctance) the spending, but as far as I can see the whole thing was quite far from money wisely spent.
Maybe he really didn't care. Hell, it doesn't seem he's going broke because of this. Then again, why the whining?
See title. 'Nuff said.
Not just 'public forum software'. Every motherfucking kind of software.
You mean, you're working with werelizards? Do they go hhissssshsshhissssing at the moon?
OK, next-gen sound weapon: phased array of high-power noise blaster with automated tracking of moving targets. Capable of blowing an individual's head without touching the ones beside her.
The bug-per-line count doesn't really give you a reasonable measure of product stability. A bug in the hotspot code is far likely to be triggered by the end user than one in the rest of the software is.
So why not correlate the bug distribution with profiling data? I don't think this should be too difficult. You don't even need to do the profiling yourselves; when you obtain the source code just ask for the data from developers.
So, SGI is finally putting Erwin into *real* SGI machines?
Have you coded a website yourself?
I'm not a full-time web developer but I used to be contracted by a university for web stuff for a while. From my own experience I can tell you IE's support for CSS 2.1 is so shitty that I had to spend 3x extra time writing eye-burning special hacks that shouldn't have been there in the first place. The "main" CSS file of the site, which strictly adhered to W3C CSS 2.1 standard, works perfectly right out of the box for every fricking browser out there except IE. And I had to maintain a whole bunch of "hacked" (still standard-compliant, just plain ugly) CSS files for different versions of IE because each of them sucks its own way.
You can hold on to you claim all the way but the facts gave me a different lesson.
Because they are afraid of being sued by some patent troll?
"Linux" a trademark of Linus Torvaldes and that's it. As long as you don't use it as a trademark of *your* product it will be fine.
the patent is about load-balancing, not merely "sharing".
Who are you to define what constitutes "proper English grammar"?
Well, I'm not pushing this question here trying to silence you. In fact I think it's highly likely that you know English much better than I do, for I'm not a native speaker while you are (I guess). It's directed at the general attempt of "revising" languages based on some narrow set of rules. I understand the importance of grammatical rules (would some one possibly please think of the natural-language-processing computer scientists!) but human languages have their own ways beyond "proper rules". Habit, tradition, convenience and consensus are all factors forming the path of a language's evolution.
Natural languages are, well, natural. Just deal with it.
And this one for a discussion about its possible composition and origin: http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3067
Here's a scientific paper describing how the period/mass/size/etc of the planet was deduced from observation data: http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0241
According to the paper, this planet's orbital semimajor axis (or in plain English, the "average" distance from the planet to the sun) is about 0.0172 astronomical units. Since its sun's temperature is roughly at the level of our Sun (also in the paper), it means the planet is probably a hell much hotter than the Earth...
It is reported by the uptime command (system "load"). When the CPU is busy its weight increases; when you turn it off it weighs exactly zero. That's why they ask you to turn off your laptop when your airplane is taking off: to save oil by reducing weight ;)
I was expecting something new in OS security when I was reading the title and first lines of the summary, and I saw the friggin' ASLR and I was like "What? They haven't got *THAT* done?"
Water is wet and Pope is Catholic and men are lazy. nothingtoseeheremovealong
I really want a troll fossil better than a T. Rex or a mammoth...
I wouldn't dare to taste the kind of apple used as a silicon source.
...probably the death of Slashdot?