To push your point a little more. I bought a 802.11g netgear card. I put it in. I booted Ubuntu from the LiveCD to check the support. It automatically detected the card and connected me to the nearest open WAP. Far far more painless than the Windows equivalent.
The majority of people are too stupid to not just go with the populace. They want to be presented new music. They don't actively find it. RIAA is going nowhere.
Sony did not install a "rootkit". Sony installed crappy DRM with security holes. They both created completely hidden directories to save people from themselves (regardless of personal intention). There really is very little difference.
I don't understand why that wasn't formatted right, it was set to plain text:
OK, seeing as how this is Slashdot let me load your post into vim and make a run through the standard few corrections to translate for the majority slashdot crowd: :%s/hook up with/masterbate to/g :%s/woman/german fetish video/g :%s/in the room/on my computer in my mom's basement/g :%s/who was strikingly attractive last night/a picture of a sweet transvestite from transexual, Transylvania/g :%s/have her arm draped over me/point out how pathetic I really am/g :wq
OK, seeing as how this is Slashdot let me load your post into vim and make a run through the standard few corrections to translate for the majority slashdot crowd::%s/hook up with/masterbate to/g:%s/woman/german fetish video/g:%s/in the room/on my computer in my mom's basement/g:%s/who was strikingly attractive last night/a picture of a sweet transvestite from transexual, Transylvania/g:%s/have her arm draped over me/point out how pathetic I really am/g:wq
NTFS read support works great. Write support is limited to existing files where the write operation don't change the file size. FAT32 sucks. And MS will never sell a driver for linux, you kidding? I use ext2 without any problems. On a tangent, I think what open source needs is a single installer (per platform) auto updated cross-platform set of OS plugins, popular app plugins, and popular apps: crossplatform filesystem (ext3?), crossplatform gui (wxWidgets and SDL??), crossplatform video and audio codecs (the ogg Theora / Vorbis), xplat browser (Firefox), xplat email and calendaring (Mozilla Lightning when finished), and office software (openoffice), etc. Since its hard to get users to install anything so make it easy by letting them install it all from one place at one time. Maybe port synaptic and apt-get to all those platforms with a default set of options checked, and have it auto update from repositories for Windows and Mac OS X.
Exactly. The article is also extremely condescending towards open source in general:
The effort will help put open-source development on a par with commercial software efforts, Park said. "The open-source community does not have access to those kinds of tools, so we are trying to correct that to some extent," he said.
Yeah, great. So instead of remedying the problem with a one time contribution to form an open source code checking project they pump even more money into a commercial closed-source product.
This could be a boon for open-source security, said Stacey Quandt, an analyst with Aberdeen Group. "The benefit for open source is that it enables it to be up to date with commercial technology innovation," she said.
This sounds more and more like pure negative propoganda against open source. As in without the help from these stupid ass companies open source cannot be competitive.
At the same time, proprietary software stands to gain as well, Quandt said. "While these efforts will help secure open-source software, the improvement in Coverity's tools can be used to also improve the security of proprietary software," she said.
But the real winner is Coverity, Quandt said. The company's technology is based on Stanford research, and Stanford's Engler is closely affiliated with the business.
So an open source code analysis tool could not be used by proprietary companies? Its evident that the winner here is Coverity and the loser here is the tax payer.
I am a huge Simpson's freak, and I have had a similar experience with my wife as well (gotta love 'em) where she came to the same conclusion. They really have become too formulaic. And this is coming from a very big fan. There are maybe 2 or 3 instances of comedy in a show, and the plots are usually so far out there that it just doesn't appeal to the common man anymore. They need to get their act together. I don't care if they have done every possible combination of events known to man. They need to start thinking again. Also, the artistry has really to started to suffer as well. In the "good ole' days" emotion was depicted with shadows, dreamy backgrounds, cheerful music, and exaggerated emotions that only a cartoon can portray. Now the series never seam to leave their standard illumination. There are no more dramatic shadows, everything is flat as a pancake, its uninspired artistry gone awry. Simpsons as a recognizable paralell dimension can easily be saved. Deep down everybody wants the characters in the town of Springfield to get their soul back, but its up to the writers and artists as to whether that will ever happen.
Really? I've never really thought doing stuff like that in Linux was that complicated. Care to post some examples of equivalent commands in both (I haven't used ZFS, I just watched one of their demo videos, and read their site)?
I'm suing you because you stole my: 1. Step 1 2. Step 2 3. ????? 4. Profit!... template idea. Seriously, thought processes can and do evolve simultaneously given similar environments. And communal usage of an idea almost always only helps the industry progress.
I'll just save everybody the hassle of going there: SPE - Stani's Python Editor. IMHO, this is by far the best open source free python editor. It blew me away. It is even nice for designing GUIs since it comes with wxGlade. Although, it does still have a few quirks, it is very usable.
Eminem???? You don't think Eminem is manufactured....... hahaha ROFLMAO. First of all rap as a musical form consists of repeating a couple well recognized samples/beats and either bragging or whining about random crap that has little to no relevance to anything REAL at all. If I wanted to listen to that kind of drivel I would take all my incomplete MP3 downloads, concatenate them together, and then overlay a sample of my wife griping at me. Eminem is fake. Oh he was raised on the mean streets, but he's got a heart of gold as far as his kid goes. Give me a f*ing break. Short story: Eminem can whine to a beat, music execs like white people acting like black people, and there isn't a single rich rapper alive who doesn't use an extremely artifical "I hate you, f*er" attitude. Plllleeeeeaaaasssee.
How do we even know that this really is Linus Torvalds to begin with? An email to a mailing list could EASILY be spoofed. And just to throw in my oppinion, I'm a programmer and "Linux Power User", if I really wanted balls to the wall configurability, I just drop down to a terminal. For every single other instance in the universe Gnome works, works well, and is not cluttered by crap I might use once every 10,000 years. It does have some short comings, but they appear to be getting addressed so I frankly don't give a crap what this guy says. And now I can't wait for the next scheduled release.
Well, I'm sure they'll cut them off based on IP address. But seriously, I don't see why Austrailians really need the internet for porn. Australia's government seems to be the biggest pussy on Earth. And I thought America was too PC.
Thats your logical leap, not mine (implications aside). But I do agree, to a more fuzzy extent, since you can do things to reduce uncertainty with source that you cannot do without.
Re: Religion Just pointing out the truly flawed argument that exists regarding blind faith. All of existence is blind faith. Whether it originate from scientist, father, teacher, doctor, god, or your own two eyes (blind as they really may be). Your reality is just faith in your observations and your second-hand observations.
Re: Open Source Position Lets say your run a programming business. If somebody comes up to you and says they can program, do you hire them on the spot? No. You qualify them. You deduce the scope of his knowledge using things like certifications, demonstrations, questionaires, and so on. You reduce uncertainty. That is all that open source is, a verifiable reduction of uncertainty.
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Anyone dishing out that much money for a video card is indeed a masochist.
To push your point a little more. I bought a 802.11g netgear card. I put it in. I booted Ubuntu from the LiveCD to check the support. It automatically detected the card and connected me to the nearest open WAP. Far far more painless than the Windows equivalent.
The majority of people are too stupid to not just go with the populace. They want to be presented new music. They don't actively find it. RIAA is going nowhere.
Yeah, Nintendo this Nuke's for you.
So its like analog?
Sony did not install a "rootkit". Sony installed crappy DRM with security holes. They both created completely hidden directories to save people from themselves (regardless of personal intention). There really is very little difference.
I don't understand why that wasn't formatted right, it was set to plain text:
:%s/hook up with/masterbate to/g
:%s/woman/german fetish video/g
:%s/in the room/on my computer in my mom's basement/g
:%s/who was strikingly attractive last night/a picture of a sweet transvestite from transexual, Transylvania/g
:%s/have her arm draped over me/point out how pathetic I really am/g
:wq
OK, seeing as how this is Slashdot let me load your post into vim and make a run through the standard few corrections to translate for the majority slashdot crowd:
OK, seeing as how this is Slashdot let me load your post into vim and make a run through the standard few corrections to translate for the majority slashdot crowd: :%s/hook up with/masterbate to/g :%s/woman/german fetish video/g :%s/in the room/on my computer in my mom's basement/g :%s/who was strikingly attractive last night/a picture of a sweet transvestite from transexual, Transylvania/g :%s/have her arm draped over me/point out how pathetic I really am/g :wq
NTFS read support works great. Write support is limited to existing files where the write operation don't change the file size. FAT32 sucks. And MS will never sell a driver for linux, you kidding? I use ext2 without any problems. On a tangent, I think what open source needs is a single installer (per platform) auto updated cross-platform set of OS plugins, popular app plugins, and popular apps: crossplatform filesystem (ext3?), crossplatform gui (wxWidgets and SDL??), crossplatform video and audio codecs (the ogg Theora / Vorbis), xplat browser (Firefox), xplat email and calendaring (Mozilla Lightning when finished), and office software (openoffice), etc. Since its hard to get users to install anything so make it easy by letting them install it all from one place at one time. Maybe port synaptic and apt-get to all those platforms with a default set of options checked, and have it auto update from repositories for Windows and Mac OS X.
I am a huge Simpson's freak, and I have had a similar experience with my wife as well (gotta love 'em) where she came to the same conclusion. They really have become too formulaic. And this is coming from a very big fan. There are maybe 2 or 3 instances of comedy in a show, and the plots are usually so far out there that it just doesn't appeal to the common man anymore. They need to get their act together. I don't care if they have done every possible combination of events known to man. They need to start thinking again. Also, the artistry has really to started to suffer as well. In the "good ole' days" emotion was depicted with shadows, dreamy backgrounds, cheerful music, and exaggerated emotions that only a cartoon can portray. Now the series never seam to leave their standard illumination. There are no more dramatic shadows, everything is flat as a pancake, its uninspired artistry gone awry. Simpsons as a recognizable paralell dimension can easily be saved. Deep down everybody wants the characters in the town of Springfield to get their soul back, but its up to the writers and artists as to whether that will ever happen.
Really? I've never really thought doing stuff like that in Linux was that complicated. Care to post some examples of equivalent commands in both (I haven't used ZFS, I just watched one of their demo videos, and read their site)?
It just seems like a mixture of LVM, RAID, and any journaled filesystem. Except ZFS is patent crippled, so I doubt it'll ever happen.
That doesn't look good to any business other than a software security business. To every other business it just looks like cockiness.
I'm suing you because you stole my: ... template idea. Seriously, thought processes can and do evolve simultaneously given similar environments. And communal usage of an idea almost always only helps the industry progress.
1. Step 1
2. Step 2
3. ?????
4. Profit!
I'll just save everybody the hassle of going there: SPE - Stani's Python Editor. IMHO, this is by far the best open source free python editor. It blew me away. It is even nice for designing GUIs since it comes with wxGlade. Although, it does still have a few quirks, it is very usable.
I wonder if the ole' governator has some Microsoft stock.
You're right. I suppose the rap I am talking about is more the applied science.
Eminem???? You don't think Eminem is manufactured....... hahaha ROFLMAO. First of all rap as a musical form consists of repeating a couple well recognized samples/beats and either bragging or whining about random crap that has little to no relevance to anything REAL at all. If I wanted to listen to that kind of drivel I would take all my incomplete MP3 downloads, concatenate them together, and then overlay a sample of my wife griping at me. Eminem is fake. Oh he was raised on the mean streets, but he's got a heart of gold as far as his kid goes. Give me a f*ing break. Short story: Eminem can whine to a beat, music execs like white people acting like black people, and there isn't a single rich rapper alive who doesn't use an extremely artifical "I hate you, f*er" attitude. Plllleeeeeaaaasssee.
This is probably the single best piece of advice I've seen on slashdot. Mod this WAY up!
How do we even know that this really is Linus Torvalds to begin with? An email to a mailing list could EASILY be spoofed. And just to throw in my oppinion, I'm a programmer and "Linux Power User", if I really wanted balls to the wall configurability, I just drop down to a terminal. For every single other instance in the universe Gnome works, works well, and is not cluttered by crap I might use once every 10,000 years. It does have some short comings, but they appear to be getting addressed so I frankly don't give a crap what this guy says. And now I can't wait for the next scheduled release.
Well, tell Microsoft to open up their source. And then maybe somebody might defend it.
Well, I'm sure they'll cut them off based on IP address. But seriously, I don't see why Austrailians really need the internet for porn. Australia's government seems to be the biggest pussy on Earth. And I thought America was too PC.
Thats your logical leap, not mine (implications aside). But I do agree, to a more fuzzy extent, since you can do things to reduce uncertainty with source that you cannot do without.
Re: Religion
Just pointing out the truly flawed argument that exists regarding blind faith. All of existence is blind faith. Whether it originate from scientist, father, teacher, doctor, god, or your own two eyes (blind as they really may be). Your reality is just faith in your observations and your second-hand observations.
Re: Open Source Position
Lets say your run a programming business. If somebody comes up to you and says they can program, do you hire them on the spot? No. You qualify them. You deduce the scope of his knowledge using things like certifications, demonstrations, questionaires, and so on. You reduce uncertainty. That is all that open source is, a verifiable reduction of uncertainty.