Really? You really think you could tell them what tools to use building your house? Only by choosing a different team maybe. No matter if paid or no we're part of community, payments is just a way to manage scarce resources like time or materials.
In a proper community people's jobs are specialized. If you hire someone to build a house for you you don't tell him tools from which manufacturer to use in construction, likewise you don't tell which initsystem/DE a distro maintainer should use, or which IDE/editor/compiler a developer should use.
The problem is that users can't be allowed to decide which desktop environment or init system to use. They can only request particular features and then developers decide which DEs or whatever to use to implement them. That's the only way it can work. Otherwise you'll have no developers and maintainers, period. And who will implement stuff then?
It's nothing different from other European countries. For example, Russia itself long time ago lost its old capital, Kiev, to invaders from Poland and Lithuania. Stuff like that will keep happening until concept of nationality and national state is fully obsolete.
I don't see a problem here. But oil overall oil will deplete soon enough and the best alternative is solar IMO. You can draw large amounts of power with solar panels alone, probably enough for a computer.
Is there even any difference between republicans and democrats anymore? They both are merely vehicles though which companies rule US, communicating their desires via lobbies backed with contributions. They're like old USSR communist party, only instead of one "party of power" they made two.
Well, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever then. It is obvious that any current contributors would be most interested in working on it future, more than any other potential contributor. In fact, OP said that he's going to continue his work in this very thread thus answering my question. His issue was loss of company support due to him no longer working there.
You gotta be kidding. Prison for life just for network intrusion? Most murders would warrant less than that. It's just another over the top law, like anti-blasphemy in Islam countries. No place for them in this century. Punishment must be according to the crime, and there's no way you could do something deserving a life sentence using computer hacking alone.
Even if it's illegal, counterfeiting isn't a term applicable here. It's violation of USB spec, nothing more. Counterfeiting involves deceit by definition, but device vendors definitely knew they're getting not an FTDI device but a replacement that can serve same function.
And how this applies to this particular situation? I just don't see. Emulating another device's interface is done all the time for sake of interoperability.
Was there even counterfeiting? If they just made own chips with the same interface then it's not counterfeiting. At most violation of USB spec, maybe not even that. TFA doesn't provide much details about this.
Wouldn't a retired person have a lot of time on their hands to contribute to the project? Or it's customary in your country for all people at retirement age to perform ritual suicide?
There's just no way it could be true. Default gentoo profile uses openrc(thus systemd profile would get less testing), and it takes some effort to convert default openrc install into systemd one. As someone who is using systemd with gentoo I can attest to that. The only way to implode systemd now would be to make another competing better init system(sysvinit with some bash clusterfuck bolted on doesn't qualify as init system anymore).
The author definitely doesn't understand science. It's not merely experimentation, but also ability to derive inner workings of the world without direct observation. Experimentation is part of it but you also need to figure out what is behind the results you get and choose correct experiments in the first place. Without this you can't discover things such as quarks and general relativity. They were theoretically predicted and only then found with appropriate experiments.
Yes, the bloated pigware Sun/Oracle has put into Solaris is against the Unix philosphy and bad. I speak as Sun Certified Systems Engineer with 24 years experience in Solaris/SunOS. Happy?
But linux distros have grown huge piles of bash cruft around sysvinit too in those years.. I don't think systemd would be more complicated. More like less so.
That's the reason for distros wanting to adopt it. It's not possible to something as simple as an if block in a shell script without risking to do something subtly wrong and unportable.
then does it apply to SMF in Solaris and launchd in MacOS too? I don't remember anyone asserting those to be going against unix philosophy based on having a service management facility..
Well, I admit there are some talented people that might end up in US through H1B, but they'll be an exception rather the rule. You wouldn't be one of them for sure. Arrogance is a mark of incompetence.
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Really? You really think you could tell them what tools to use building your house? Only by choosing a different team maybe. No matter if paid or no we're part of community, payments is just a way to manage scarce resources like time or materials.
In a proper community people's jobs are specialized. If you hire someone to build a house for you you don't tell him tools from which manufacturer to use in construction, likewise you don't tell which initsystem/DE a distro maintainer should use, or which IDE/editor/compiler a developer should use.
The problem is that users can't be allowed to decide which desktop environment or init system to use. They can only request particular features and then developers decide which DEs or whatever to use to implement them. That's the only way it can work. Otherwise you'll have no developers and maintainers, period. And who will implement stuff then?
It's nothing different from other European countries. For example, Russia itself long time ago lost its old capital, Kiev, to invaders from Poland and Lithuania. Stuff like that will keep happening until concept of nationality and national state is fully obsolete.
You're very naive if you think that USSR's communist party was unified. Only on paper maybe.
I don't see a problem here. But oil overall oil will deplete soon enough and the best alternative is solar IMO. You can draw large amounts of power with solar panels alone, probably enough for a computer.
Is there even any difference between republicans and democrats anymore? They both are merely vehicles though which companies rule US, communicating their desires via lobbies backed with contributions. They're like old USSR communist party, only instead of one "party of power" they made two.
that the biggest part of their entertainment value is in cracking the DRM.
Other people would be even less interested in working on it for free than you so my point stands.
Well, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever then. It is obvious that any current contributors would be most interested in working on it future, more than any other potential contributor. In fact, OP said that he's going to continue his work in this very thread thus answering my question. His issue was loss of company support due to him no longer working there.
Who? Potential contributors they're looking for you mean? Your reply is in wrong place then.
You gotta be kidding. Prison for life just for network intrusion? Most murders would warrant less than that. It's just another over the top law, like anti-blasphemy in Islam countries. No place for them in this century. Punishment must be according to the crime, and there's no way you could do something deserving a life sentence using computer hacking alone.
Even if it's illegal, counterfeiting isn't a term applicable here. It's violation of USB spec, nothing more. Counterfeiting involves deceit by definition, but device vendors definitely knew they're getting not an FTDI device but a replacement that can serve same function.
It's the other way around. Driver doesn't support those non-FTDI devices. Those non-FTDI devices support the driver.
And how this applies to this particular situation? I just don't see. Emulating another device's interface is done all the time for sake of interoperability.
Was there even counterfeiting? If they just made own chips with the same interface then it's not counterfeiting. At most violation of USB spec, maybe not even that. TFA doesn't provide much details about this.
All of them? Not a single free day to maintain a project they could maintain while they had jobs? Unlikely.
or are close to retirement.
Wouldn't a retired person have a lot of time on their hands to contribute to the project? Or it's customary in your country for all people at retirement age to perform ritual suicide?
Just like Brainfuck is a pretty good programming language..
There's just no way it could be true. Default gentoo profile uses openrc(thus systemd profile would get less testing), and it takes some effort to convert default openrc install into systemd one. As someone who is using systemd with gentoo I can attest to that. The only way to implode systemd now would be to make another competing better init system(sysvinit with some bash clusterfuck bolted on doesn't qualify as init system anymore).
The author definitely doesn't understand science. It's not merely experimentation, but also ability to derive inner workings of the world without direct observation. Experimentation is part of it but you also need to figure out what is behind the results you get and choose correct experiments in the first place. Without this you can't discover things such as quarks and general relativity. They were theoretically predicted and only then found with appropriate experiments.
Qt Quick maybe? There are db bindings in qt too, and visual GUI editor..
Yes, the bloated pigware Sun/Oracle has put into Solaris is against the Unix philosphy and bad. I speak as Sun Certified Systems Engineer with 24 years experience in Solaris/SunOS. Happy?
But linux distros have grown huge piles of bash cruft around sysvinit too in those years.. I don't think systemd would be more complicated. More like less so. That's the reason for distros wanting to adopt it. It's not possible to something as simple as an if block in a shell script without risking to do something subtly wrong and unportable.
then does it apply to SMF in Solaris and launchd in MacOS too? I don't remember anyone asserting those to be going against unix philosophy based on having a service management facility..
Well, I admit there are some talented people that might end up in US through H1B, but they'll be an exception rather the rule. You wouldn't be one of them for sure. Arrogance is a mark of incompetence.