Well, with 'low-end' hardware, I would think that people would be more likely to use fast and light window managers than use one of the enormous desktop environments. Gnome and KDE aren't targetted to the slow pentium/486 systems. (Neither are the latest incarnations of Windows, which will choke a moderate system just as effectively as Gnome/KDE).
Of course, I'm in agreement that for the 'full-featured' desktop, Windows tends to run better/faster. That's definately been my experience.
(I use blackbox, so the issue is moot for me as well.)
Yet another case of consumers who think that their contracts shouldn't apply to them. Honestly, when are people going to get it into their heads that when they sign something, they'll be expected to keep their end of the deal? I'd think a lot more of their 'privacy concerns' if they didn't stand to weasel out of payments of thousands of dollars by bringing this suit.
Besides, that method of calculating affects people at every karma level
How so? as long as you're not at the cap, +1 -1 will have the intended effect. Only when you get to 50 points will you get the strange slashdot math.
Actually, I think the best way to stop all the complaining would be to simply hide the karma values from the users. There's really no need to know the numerical value beyond 25. (Or should that be 24?) It would probably also remove some of the incentive for all us karma whores.
Why should they bother? After all, the only use for karma > 25 is for bragging, anyway. It's not like spending a day or two at karma = 49 is going to hurt you.
Don't bother with metaphors on Slashdot; people won't get them. (So far, all three replies to this missed the point of the one you gave.) People: he's not saying that deep linking itself is analogous to breaking and entering. He's saying that saying that 'deep linking is legal because it can be prevented' makes as much sense as saying 'breaking and entering is legal because it can be prevented.' Please stop trying to extend the analogy in a way that wasn't intended.
Well, by that standard, an awful lot of a standard Linux distribution isn't commercial-ready either. (Not that I would disagree with that, of course -- but the point still stands.)
According to this program, a little calculator program I've occasionally worked on in my spare time over the last couple years would have cost $ 85,659 to develop. (At the money that I was making as a co-op, roughly 3 years, full-time.) Another project, which my two roommates and I have been working on for most of the last year, again in our spare time, is reported to be $ 1,877,009.
So either I'm doing enough work to be worth several hundred thousand dollars a year, or this thing is complete nonsense.
And just how much does the Forestry Service have to do differently in the forests when campers are around? Assuming the campers are reasonably clean...
Well, they have to put out all the fires, for a start;) (In my area, there have recently been two large fires, both human-caused). And I'm sure that the cleanup costs are not negligible, either -- in any campsite with even moderate use, people trash it. That's just how it goes.
However, in most places, you have to pay for parking and campsites. So those who use the forests more do pay extra.
Software libre is not about this. Yeah, RMS rants about how it would be nice if copyrights did not exist, but I don't think he would want to be in such a world.
So you're saying that you know what RMS wants better than RMS does??? RMS probably knows what he wants. He just won't admit it.
Well -- falling from an airplane and landing on your head isn't very healthy, either, but I don't think that you could call it poisonous. Just because it's bad for you doesn't make it "poison". So yeah, I wouldn't call oxygen poisonous.
A similar price reduction is usually not seen with most CDs. This is indicative of a monopoly.
I don't see why. The value of the content on a CD doesn't drop over time; however, since the game industry is fueled by games with the most advanced graphics (iow, whatever's flashiest), their value does drop as time passes. The price drop (or lack of it) has to do with the nature of the content, not of the industry.
I think that the reason is that the editors are extremely critical, paranoid, and alarmist when it comes to DMCA and anything related... and yet, by drooling over anything that comes from these companies, they prove that they really don't care all that much. Many people look at Slashdot to see what the tech community thinks of things -- and what they see by looking at the front page is that we're all talk.
If/. wasn't so prominent, or if it was only in the comments, I don't think it would matter much. As it is, however, they deserve to be called on it as often as it comes up.
There's no reason CVS can't be improved, or alternative efforts such as subversion put on the fast track. By choosing bitkeeper over these alternatives, Linux kernel development is missing an important opportunity to focus talent into these free tools. Some would argue that this is socially irresponsible, and I agree.
In other words, you would like the technical aspects of kernel development to be dictated by political concerns, rather than technical ones. That's the kind of thinking that suits RMS and PHBs, not kernel developers.
He's already stated that he will use a free alternative which is as good as BitKeeper. Should Linus have to put the kernel on hold and develop such a thing, just to please RMS?
He whines for the entire article about stuff about Linux that he doesn't like -- the name, the use of Bitkeeper, the "non-free" parts of the kernel... if he's so down on Linux, then why doesn't he get the FSF in gear and finish up the HURD? Then he can wander off into his fantasy world and leave us alone.
Oh, I also found it amusing that he complained of the "silly excuses and straw men," and yet failed to address the two most important reasons (IMHO) not to say "GNU/Linux": that (1) the operating system isn't all GNU, and by his logic everyone should get a mention, and (2) it sounds incredibly stupid.
How did you manage to crash linux? perhaps you just crashed kde or gnome, but you surely didnt make the kernel crash if you were using redhat.
If you haven't crashed Linux, then you obviously haven't used it that much. Kernel panics are a dime a dozen, even with the stock Red Hat kernel. (At work, I had some trouble with SMP systems and the SCSI driver that was included with Red Hat; we had to compile our own with a patched kernel to get it working.)
Yeah, once you get all your hardware set up and so forth, it's generally rock-solid (my computer hasn't crashed in months.) But if you claim that 'never crashing' is a virtue of Linux, and then people actually try it, they'll just write you off as fanatic who doesn't know what he's talking about.
Hm. A cursory search for educational stuff on sourceforge (looking at the first page or two of results), came up with about five packages that I would consider relevant, with maybe two or three of those being actual educational programs, the others being utilities of some sort or another. (Most of the results were for things like LAME, for which 'educational' means educational for the programmer). In other words, the shelves seem pretty bare.
Here on/., we're a bunch of geeks who liked school, knew exactly the failings of the educational software we used, and often have extensive training (and excess knowledge) on a variety of subjects. And yet, everyone decides to write more text editors, MP3 encoding front-ends, and so forth. Schools aren't going to completely move to free software until the applications that they need.
Anyway, I suppose I can't complain (too much), because I'm not working on anything to improve the situation. Anybody have any suggestions as to where someone studying physics could lend a hand?
Well, it seems to me that the correct way to parse that sentence is to attach the 'or better' to iMacs, not the entire list -- so if you'd like to argue that an iMac is better than an AMD, then you're all set.
If someone actually goes after you for copyright infringement, there's already provisions for heavy penalties in place. The reason why you generally don't have to obey the DMCA and copyright laws is that generally nobody's watching, not that it's somehow 'safe' to do so. I don't see how a licensing requirement is suddenly going to dramatically increase enforcement.
I completely agree with the parent -- after all, your principles obviously don't mean a whole lot if you only stand by them when you don't have anything to lose.
Since when are "applications that don't squeeze the last drop of performance out of a system" not qualified as real programming? For the most part, remember, CPU speed isn't the big bottleneck that it used to be; the overhead involved in using C++, in most instances, isn't particularly important, even in gaming.
Now, the whole 'C++ is better than C' notion is rather silly (of course, since you were replying to a troll, it's not like anyone was claiming it anyway), but stop slinging the FUD about. It's not a matter of one is slow, and one is fast -- it's a matter of picking the right tool for the job.
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Of course, I'm in agreement that for the 'full-featured' desktop, Windows tends to run better/faster. That's definately been my experience.
(I use blackbox, so the issue is moot for me as well.)
Yet another case of consumers who think that their contracts shouldn't apply to them. Honestly, when are people going to get it into their heads that when they sign something, they'll be expected to keep their end of the deal? I'd think a lot more of their 'privacy concerns' if they didn't stand to weasel out of payments of thousands of dollars by bringing this suit.
How so? as long as you're not at the cap, +1 -1 will have the intended effect. Only when you get to 50 points will you get the strange slashdot math.
Actually, I think the best way to stop all the complaining would be to simply hide the karma values from the users. There's really no need to know the numerical value beyond 25. (Or should that be 24?) It would probably also remove some of the incentive for all us karma whores.
Why should they bother? After all, the only use for karma > 25 is for bragging, anyway. It's not like spending a day or two at karma = 49 is going to hurt you.
Don't bother with metaphors on Slashdot; people won't get them. (So far, all three replies to this missed the point of the one you gave.) People: he's not saying that deep linking itself is analogous to breaking and entering. He's saying that saying that 'deep linking is legal because it can be prevented' makes as much sense as saying 'breaking and entering is legal because it can be prevented.' Please stop trying to extend the analogy in a way that wasn't intended.
Well, by that standard, an awful lot of a standard Linux distribution isn't commercial-ready either. (Not that I would disagree with that, of course -- but the point still stands.)
So either I'm doing enough work to be worth several hundred thousand dollars a year, or this thing is complete nonsense.
Well, they have to put out all the fires, for a start
However, in most places, you have to pay for parking and campsites. So those who use the forests more do pay extra.
So you're saying that you know what RMS wants better than RMS does???
RMS probably knows what he wants. He just won't admit it.
Right. They have absolutely no choice but to blow up a bunch of innocent people.
Well, there goes all the security of being able to find your gay porn when you want it.
Well -- falling from an airplane and landing on your head isn't very healthy, either, but I don't think that you could call it poisonous. Just because it's bad for you doesn't make it "poison". So yeah, I wouldn't call oxygen poisonous.
You're suggesting that the Slashdot editors check someone's spelling and grammer?!? Please tell me that you're joking.
I don't see why. The value of the content on a CD doesn't drop over time; however, since the game industry is fueled by games with the most advanced graphics (iow, whatever's flashiest), their value does drop as time passes. The price drop (or lack of it) has to do with the nature of the content, not of the industry.
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In other words, you would like the technical aspects of kernel development to be dictated by political concerns, rather than technical ones. That's the kind of thinking that suits RMS and PHBs, not kernel developers.
He's already stated that he will use a free alternative which is as good as BitKeeper. Should Linus have to put the kernel on hold and develop such a thing, just to please RMS?
Oh, I also found it amusing that he complained of the "silly excuses and straw men," and yet failed to address the two most important reasons (IMHO) not to say "GNU/Linux": that (1) the operating system isn't all GNU, and by his logic everyone should get a mention, and (2) it sounds incredibly stupid.
Silly troll.
If you haven't crashed Linux, then you obviously haven't used it that much. Kernel panics are a dime a dozen, even with the stock Red Hat kernel. (At work, I had some trouble with SMP systems and the SCSI driver that was included with Red Hat; we had to compile our own with a patched kernel to get it working.)
Yeah, once you get all your hardware set up and so forth, it's generally rock-solid (my computer hasn't crashed in months.) But if you claim that 'never crashing' is a virtue of Linux, and then people actually try it, they'll just write you off as fanatic who doesn't know what he's talking about.
For somebody who supposedly supports 'freedom', he certainly tries hard to force everyone to do things his way.
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Anyway, I suppose I can't complain (too much), because I'm not working on anything to improve the situation. Anybody have any suggestions as to where someone studying physics could lend a hand?
Well, it seems to me that the correct way to parse that sentence is to attach the 'or better' to iMacs, not the entire list -- so if you'd like to argue that an iMac is better than an AMD, then you're all set.
If someone actually goes after you for copyright infringement, there's already provisions for heavy penalties in place. The reason why you generally don't have to obey the DMCA and copyright laws is that generally nobody's watching, not that it's somehow 'safe' to do so. I don't see how a licensing requirement is suddenly going to dramatically increase enforcement.
I completely agree with the parent -- after all, your principles obviously don't mean a whole lot if you only stand by them when you don't have anything to lose.
Now, the whole 'C++ is better than C' notion is rather silly (of course, since you were replying to a troll, it's not like anyone was claiming it anyway), but stop slinging the FUD about. It's not a matter of one is slow, and one is fast -- it's a matter of picking the right tool for the job.