making an idiotic comment, ignoring the obvious meaning of the statement, does not make you look clever or bright. It does quite the opposite of that, in fact.
Yes, but look at all the distributions of linux, each with their advocates. In many cases, there isn't one clearly advocated piece of software for the solution, except, maybe OpenOffice (now with LibraOffice, that may no longer be the case), and Firefox.
Users don't want to have to make that decision. It's what do I use at work, what is being recommended by a large majority? In Linux, not much.
It's a great setup for the the mobile device, where there isn't much of a comfortable choke-hold, and where Linux has been embraced by only one huge vendor, but outside of that, there are other, more "comfortable" options for the general user.
Linux is good to great for the server, good for the power user, and not so good for the desktop/notebook user.
I think part of the issue/annoyance is that the most vocal crowd tends to be the face of a group. In this case, the crowd is the "You are doing [X] with your computer and not using Linux? What's wrong with you, obviously Linux is the best choice for [X]!"
Is there anywhere in the OSS community where cutting the number of options in half would produce a monoculture?
Admittedly there is only one Linux kernel, heavily modified, but you could add the BSD Kernels and Hurd to make up for that.
With desktop environments, a dime a dozen would be highway robbery.
There are a few that stand out in any of the areas, but in general, a bit more cooperation probably would help more than hinder. Getting rid of the ideological and dick-waving flame wars of who's project is the best solution for a given problem, and seeing (and in some cases, combining) the strengths of the competition (or even, in some cases, merging products) moreso than is done now, would probably help.
Some of the issues is that there are too many choices, which most users don't want. They want what works, and on average case, does best, not three tools that do about the same thing, but only handle a small part of that "thing" the best.
The turbo buttons on PCs of the 90s weren't magic, but they worked. If you really need an explanation of why/how, slashdot may not be the best place on the net for you. Have you tried digg or/b/? they may be more suited for individuals of your... needs.
More a reply to your sig, in particular, the last book... You like alien pornos?
You may be the one who referenced him last week or the week before, but if not, I'd recommend Alistair Reynods, since your other books suggest you can live with sci-fi lacking porn.
None of this is "my employer". My employer requires everything I do in the scope of my work become public domain. I'm cool with this.
And, you are assuming that the employer asserting their ownership is the final say in the matter. The person who posted the topic didn't say if he or she did this outside of employ, and brought it in because it fit, in which case, the employer does not have the right to do what they did. It really depends on if the person developed the stuff using personal or company time, and also, if it was developed, at least in part, prior to the person joining the company.
Count your blessings, you learned about assumptions...
Apple acts as a standard monopoly, even if they don't technically have one. I'd have to say, yeah, they are more abusive than Google.
When I consider the big companies - Apple, Google, MS, Oracle, I'd have to say that Google is the only one that only moderately bothers me, rather than downright frightens me.
IANAL, but the MIT license states, in no uncertain terms, that it may not be stripped.
Copyright (c)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Emphasis mine. They are explicitly prohibited from stripping the license, they may only add additional licenses beyond that.
I don't want to play with the engine, and I still prefer my Thrive to an iPad2
Similar internals, swappable battery if it goes bad (meaning I don't have to send it back), better screen, and a less abusive company (Google or Toshiba), lower price.
Of course, it has a shorter battery life, but for me, that's not a huge drawback. There's nothing about "messing with the internals" that gives it a huge desire for me. Oddly enough, if I wanted something to write programs on, or mess with the internals of, I'd go for a Windows or non-android Linux tablet.
I'm just glad to have a job, which I wouldn't have, were it strictly a Republican rule for an extended period of time. So, yeah, I'll take the tax hit.
Then again, I'd probably be stuck on welfare/disability if it were a Democrat rule, which would also suck.
I can safely say, I'm happy to have a mix, those two groups fighting each other lets the American population have some defense against their predation.
The sad thing is. Both parties do it, and it is an injustice to the American people. It's nothing more than two groups of greedy bastards trying to get money and power at the expense of the sheeple who won't do anything about it.
Umm... The unemployment numbers have always been garbage. The length of time that unemployment could be collected has been increased, so the numbers went up.
The Republicans would drop it to a month, and the numbers would be down to a couple of percent, and they'd say "Look how we improved things! Low unemployment!" while people are jobless, starving in the streets.
Where's the one example? There's no mention here of cost. Also, how multipurpose is the Dragon? The shuttle was meant as a LEO swiss-army-knife, not necessarily the cheapest, but it could do what was necessary for LEO tasks.
And for all we know, NASA isn't paying that much, in part, because the DRAGON was already funded, and the manufacturers were more interested in recouping part of the cost than the whole cost. if anything it's more of an example of cooperation being financially viable. Two separate goals, one project, each side gets what they want for a bit less than they would have.
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making an idiotic comment, ignoring the obvious meaning of the statement, does not make you look clever or bright. It does quite the opposite of that, in fact.
Yes, but look at all the distributions of linux, each with their advocates. In many cases, there isn't one clearly advocated piece of software for the solution, except, maybe OpenOffice (now with LibraOffice, that may no longer be the case), and Firefox.
Users don't want to have to make that decision. It's what do I use at work, what is being recommended by a large majority? In Linux, not much.
It's a great setup for the the mobile device, where there isn't much of a comfortable choke-hold, and where Linux has been embraced by only one huge vendor, but outside of that, there are other, more "comfortable" options for the general user.
Linux is good to great for the server, good for the power user, and not so good for the desktop/notebook user.
I think part of the issue/annoyance is that the most vocal crowd tends to be the face of a group. In this case, the crowd is the "You are doing [X] with your computer and not using Linux? What's wrong with you, obviously Linux is the best choice for [X]!"
Is there anywhere in the OSS community where cutting the number of options in half would produce a monoculture?
Admittedly there is only one Linux kernel, heavily modified, but you could add the BSD Kernels and Hurd to make up for that.
With desktop environments, a dime a dozen would be highway robbery.
There are a few that stand out in any of the areas, but in general, a bit more cooperation probably would help more than hinder. Getting rid of the ideological and dick-waving flame wars of who's project is the best solution for a given problem, and seeing (and in some cases, combining) the strengths of the competition (or even, in some cases, merging products) moreso than is done now, would probably help.
Some of the issues is that there are too many choices, which most users don't want. They want what works, and on average case, does best, not three tools that do about the same thing, but only handle a small part of that "thing" the best.
I think he means it's a continuation of the same fight seen often enough before.
I'd rather agree. Competition is good, but too much can hurt things. A bit more cooperation would not be bad.
I believe you have to fill out form AK-47 or M-16, and file it with the appropriate user.
The turbo buttons on PCs of the 90s weren't magic, but they worked. If you really need an explanation of why/how, slashdot may not be the best place on the net for you. Have you tried digg or /b/? they may be more suited for individuals of your... needs.
Add a "turbo" button.
More a reply to your sig, in particular, the last book... You like alien pornos?
You may be the one who referenced him last week or the week before, but if not, I'd recommend Alistair Reynods, since your other books suggest you can live with sci-fi lacking porn.
Or MacOS, FreeBSD...
None of this is "my employer". My employer requires everything I do in the scope of my work become public domain. I'm cool with this.
And, you are assuming that the employer asserting their ownership is the final say in the matter. The person who posted the topic didn't say if he or she did this outside of employ, and brought it in because it fit, in which case, the employer does not have the right to do what they did. It really depends on if the person developed the stuff using personal or company time, and also, if it was developed, at least in part, prior to the person joining the company.
Count your blessings, you learned about assumptions...
Apple acts as a standard monopoly, even if they don't technically have one. I'd have to say, yeah, they are more abusive than Google.
When I consider the big companies - Apple, Google, MS, Oracle, I'd have to say that Google is the only one that only moderately bothers me, rather than downright frightens me.
IANAL, but the MIT license states, in no uncertain terms, that it may not be stripped.
Copyright (c)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Emphasis mine. They are explicitly prohibited from stripping the license, they may only add additional licenses beyond that.
I don't want to play with the engine, and I still prefer my Thrive to an iPad2
Similar internals, swappable battery if it goes bad (meaning I don't have to send it back), better screen, and a less abusive company (Google or Toshiba), lower price.
Of course, it has a shorter battery life, but for me, that's not a huge drawback. There's nothing about "messing with the internals" that gives it a huge desire for me. Oddly enough, if I wanted something to write programs on, or mess with the internals of, I'd go for a Windows or non-android Linux tablet.
Then will the next week in his parents basement be considered a real honeymoon?
I believe it gets a call-out in one or more of the stories in Galactic North as well.
Damn you greenfly.
A charged wire on the outside of the button will fix that.
That XKCD was the first thing I thought when reading TFS...
Have you considered anger management?
Your four year old isn't likely to have drunken parties, or sneak behind the rack with his/her significant other for a little "alone time"...
So, I think I'd trust the four year old more.
I did not expect a reference for that author here.
Excellent choice.
(Alistair Reynolds, for those who aren't familiar)
I'm just glad to have a job, which I wouldn't have, were it strictly a Republican rule for an extended period of time. So, yeah, I'll take the tax hit.
Then again, I'd probably be stuck on welfare/disability if it were a Democrat rule, which would also suck.
I can safely say, I'm happy to have a mix, those two groups fighting each other lets the American population have some defense against their predation.
And the republicans do the same thing.
The sad thing is. Both parties do it, and it is an injustice to the American people. It's nothing more than two groups of greedy bastards trying to get money and power at the expense of the sheeple who won't do anything about it.
Umm... The unemployment numbers have always been garbage. The length of time that unemployment could be collected has been increased, so the numbers went up.
The Republicans would drop it to a month, and the numbers would be down to a couple of percent, and they'd say "Look how we improved things! Low unemployment!" while people are jobless, starving in the streets.
Where's the one example? There's no mention here of cost.
Also, how multipurpose is the Dragon? The shuttle was meant as a LEO swiss-army-knife, not necessarily the cheapest, but it could do what was necessary for LEO tasks.
And for all we know, NASA isn't paying that much, in part, because the DRAGON was already funded, and the manufacturers were more interested in recouping part of the cost than the whole cost. if anything it's more of an example of cooperation being financially viable. Two separate goals, one project, each side gets what they want for a bit less than they would have.