First and obvious one, you use way less RAM. Second, less services are started, depending if you run a full blown Gnome desktop all the time or if you leave it in the log-in screen.
I never understood why a server needs any kind of GUI. If you really do need any complicated mouse/text/buttons interaction, why not do it over a simple httpd server that services a web site? There are truly a bag load of embedded web servers for every language out there. And for the rest of tasks, like show processes, load times, memory usage, firewall, update the system, etc. a simple command line application is way better.
How about the consumer and unions come together and take unprecedented steps to combat theft by banks and the Wall Street? First they commited fraud in multi-billion dollars, then get the money from the tax payers to not get bankrupt and now forcing the Europe and the USA into a degaced long recession by austerity and anti-labor politics.
Eh, not at all. The aggregators are using their right of fair use to aggregate news. They are not re-posting the original articles under their own name.
That is another example how cooperations are greedy and try to extend copyright at all costs. It depends on what NewsRight will actually do, because TFA doesn't know yet. But maybe then even Slashdot will be required to pay.
It's just beyond me, why the "... 28 co-investors, 30 additional companies taking part, and 800 news websites" are not coming together and start their own news aggregator web site. But than they have to produce something instead to resort to "lawsuits and threats of lawsuits".
If you wonder how to get it in one go: go to the mirrors, there you can use a ftp mirror. If you want to use rsync just do: rsync -rh --progress rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ccc/28C3/webm/*webm. (you must take a mirror with rsync enabled).
We had that in Germany, in the east block. There were people that can go to the police or directly to the Stasi and get suspicion people arrested, their home searched, etc. That leads to nice paranoia, so you can't trust your neighbor or your family anymore. It's some kind of creepy that we go down that road again.
Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people [...] along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR. In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany's population between the ages of 18 and 60.
What is wrong with the current politicians? They are suppose to be have knowledge in history, and they are suppose to abide morally and democracy.
We really need more punishment and accountability for politicians. I'm all for a three-trike system for politicians. After the last strike you cannot do any political work anymore and you lost all your pensions.
What about if the free service will help make them money? There a lot of instances that if you nuke a free service you will hurt your bottom line, so that statement it's not really true "If you truly care about something, pay for it from a provider who has a financial interest in keeping your business".
Also, only because it is important to you, it's not necessary important to the company you pay money to. If you really care about something, do it yourself or rely on a trully open source product with a good community around it.
Super anal-yst. Of course it's missing the most obvious thing. But since you spend your time partying with film celebrities or what ever, it's forgettable.
We are in a very deep recession. The people are worried to buy food or to pay back their mortgage, or pay back their credit card or student loan debs. The Americans were living of their credit cards, savings is now negative for a decade. After the housing bubble busted, many lost their house, and are in deep debs. The wages are stagnant, unemployment is rising. If you follow the financial news, you are not sure if in 10 years you still have your social security or your savings for retirement.
But of course, the number one priorities are a) bail out banks and make sure that Wall Street can still milk the economy without creating anything of value and b) save the new-age mafia cartel, the MAFIAA and the RIAA, with every increasing draconian copyright laws.
Maybe if we stop the War on Wages, we wouldn't be in the mess. Maybe if we increase the wages, like the productivity of workers, they would have money left to spend for stupid movies.
Why does Slashdot article summaries don't show the domain name of the link, like in the comments? For example, if I post something like Awesome Site then you see the domain name and can decide if the site is worth your time. Good that I normally watch the URL where the link goes before clicking on it, otherwise I would waste another 5 minutes.
China makes almost nothing out of assembling Apple's iPads and iPhones [forbes.com]
And in the third corner are the consumers, who just want to read the damn books and just go to the next Torrent site, don't care about copyright anymore because the greedy cooperations have made a farce out of copyright. We just download a 200MBytes Torrent with about 100 e-books and don't give a crap.
You know how to increase competition and profits? Just limit the copyright term back to the good old 7 years (+7 years extension). That would finally open the market, break up the monopolies we have now, and bring the entertainment industry much more profits overall.
I really can't understand how your American people are good with it that you grand one company an unlimited monopol-right to a good. Aren't you all for pro-markets, pro-competition and anti-regulation of markets?
Back to the good old hosts file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file) Maybe we will create cron-jobs again to download the newest hosts file from some trusted source.
Don't blame the software, blame the user. How dare you to have such a bad choice to use a widget that breaks in our latest and greatest software version. Clearly, you should review your choice.
How is this "following the example of Firefox"? I never heard that FF will just update itself to the newest version. It will ask if you want to update. But it will not just update.
It's one thing to ask the user if you want to update, but something totally different if you just do it silently. Sure, you can opt-out and de-install, but it's still horrible. Something like this should always be opt-in.
How would you like if you hate the new ribbon interface in MSOffice, but MS just updates your office to the new one, without asking you?
That update shows that MS can do anything it likes with your computer, and will do it if they think it's a good idea.
What are the "lower-end" systems you are talking about? Because KDE4 runs perfectly good on my "lower-end" systems, like my Atom netbook, my Atom desktop and my small laptop. In fact I don't see any difference between KDE4 and Xfce.
Or you talking about old systems and not "lower-end" systems? If you are really talking about your old PIII that can't handle KDE4 any more, that's not a problem at all.
Why do we need a "sandbox" anyway? For years the application were running perfectly fine on the operation systems we current have. The viruses are only the result of the lack of proper updates of the system and applications (and also some idiotic design decisions like Auto-Run, hide file extensions, login-always-as-admin, etc).
The link-tag works only for the whole document. What I'm talking about are meta-tags that adds to a web page some semantics. Like the author, the content topic, etc. What we current have are only tags for document style and structure.
For example, my whole comment could be enclosed in a author="devent" tag, a content="comment" tag and a topic="Firefox Too Big To Link On..." tag. But we now have only 10 div tags with some ids assign to it, so the CSS can properly style the page.
I think search for new content must be an integral part of the web. It should not rely on a third-party web page, but must be a core feature of the web. Just like name resolution is the core feature of DNS. Need to think more about it, I don't have a solution yet.
For years Flash was pretty dominant in the web, like 99% of the browsers have Flash and if your browser or operating system not support Flash, nobody would use it. But what happened after years of dominance? Nothing at all, even Adobe now ditches Flash. Don't tell you can't build applications with Flash, that are pretty good, or that Flash is a bad technology. Flash is a super technology and you can do with it whatever you like. But after years and years of dominance it's now dying, and it was not used for anything more then annoying ads, file upload, a flash game and some promotion web sites (like for games or film sites).
But now because you can draw some pixels in a CSS canvas, everyone thinks it will transform the web in some magical way. Sure, the new Html5 features will be used, and they are pretty good. But the web will stay in the same state as it was decades ego. That is, isolated web pages with content, without any semantics.
And that's exactly the issue I have with the current development of the Web. We already have perfectly good Operating Systems, but now everyone is trying to make the browser into another operating system. And for what, just to deliver applications through the browser instead through the operating system.
The web foremost purpose is to deliver information. It's a shame that we didn't make any progress in that direction since the first HTML version. It's good that the symptoms of the bad design of the Web are remedied with powerful search engines, or you wouldn't find anything useful. Just try a thought-experiment: What would you do if tomorrow there would be no search engine any more (no Bing, no Yahoo, no Google, no what ever you using)? What would you do with the Web?
The new video tag is somewhat a good beginning. But why there is no author tag, no table-of-content-tag, no index-tag, etc. Good that we have at least the meta-tag so the search engines can have a clue what the site is about.
The web is good for content delivering. That's why "applications" like Wikipedia or all the news- and blog-sites are thriving. It is not for real applications (i.e. games, math-applications, IDEs, etc.) and never will be. We already tried that with Flash, Java Applets, SL. So now we try it again, but this time it will be "magical" because it's all Html5.
I take another wiki format anytime over the stupid WYSIWYG editors. Because WYSIWYG is usually not what you get and all the editors are still very cumbersome and error prune. Check out textile http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/ It's very easy to learn (most you don't have to learn anything), have a very clean syntax and translates good to html.
> Also, this is not a question of using a close source toolkit. This is about whether a company should open source the code that is their primary competitive advantage.
If I'm a potential customer, and I wouldn't touch any closed source toolkits, then to have an open source toolkit is clearly an advantage. I don't know if it would be a "primary" advantage, but an important one.
Anyway,
how is that then different from simple reverse engineer your closed source code, and use the algorithm? Also, if they open up everything except the novel algorithm, it would be very simple to look for the new novel algorithm.
Also, RH is a good example. Their main competitor is open source and free: CentOS. But RH makes good money, and I would argue that they make more money with CentOS around.
If there would be no CentOS, private individuals and small business would just use Debian or Ubuntu. But since there is CentOS, RH have a good base of users which are familiar with RH Enterprise Linux (because CentOS is renamed RH Enterprise Linux), so later the big cooperations are choosing RH and not Debian or Ubuntu.
It's like the piracy and the bundling of Windows with new computers is good for Microsoft. If everyone and their dog is using only Windows because it's free, there is more business users for Windows, too.
Cool, that's possible now? Well, if MS could just update their OS to the "advanced" features, like symlinks and the possibility to open the same file multiple times in different applications.
PS: and you are modded 1, that's why/. mods are for the ass/
I can't speak for anyone else, but I for my self wouldn't even consider using a closed source toolkit. For a company it would be quite crazy to tie ones core business to another company's code. If you don't really do anything really novel, and you already say that they are competitors, you could have an advantage if your offer your software as open source.
Either you give away the source code for free, or the source code is part of the license. In the first case it's free advertisement and in the latter it's a bonus that you have against your competitors.
Also, if you think your algorithms are novel, it's not an easy task to use algorithms in a completely different product.
I'm not quite sure, but if you release your code as GPL, wouldn't the competitor need to release their code as GPL, too, if they are using your algorithms?
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First and obvious one, you use way less RAM. Second, less services are started, depending if you run a full blown Gnome desktop all the time or if you leave it in the log-in screen.
I never understood why a server needs any kind of GUI. If you really do need any complicated mouse/text/buttons interaction, why not do it over a simple httpd server that services a web site? There are truly a bag load of embedded web servers for every language out there. And for the rest of tasks, like show processes, load times, memory usage, firewall, update the system, etc. a simple command line application is way better.
How about the consumer and unions come together and take unprecedented steps to combat theft by banks and the Wall Street? First they commited fraud in multi-billion dollars, then get the money from the tax payers to not get bankrupt and now forcing the Europe and the USA into a degaced long recession by austerity and anti-labor politics.
Btw, are threats of a lawsuit not actually illegal? Isn't that like coercion?
Eh, not at all. The aggregators are using their right of fair use to aggregate news. They are not re-posting the original articles under their own name.
That is another example how cooperations are greedy and try to extend copyright at all costs. It depends on what NewsRight will actually do, because TFA doesn't know yet. But maybe then even Slashdot will be required to pay.
It's just beyond me, why the "... 28 co-investors, 30 additional companies taking part, and 800 news websites" are not coming together and start their own news aggregator web site. But than they have to produce something instead to resort to "lawsuits and threats of lawsuits".
If you wonder how to get it in one go: go to the mirrors, there you can use a ftp mirror. If you want to use rsync just do: rsync -rh --progress rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ccc/28C3/webm/*webm . (you must take a mirror with rsync enabled).
We had that in Germany, in the east block. There were people that can go to the police or directly to the Stasi and get suspicion people arrested, their home searched, etc. That leads to nice paranoia, so you can't trust your neighbor or your family anymore. It's some kind of creepy that we go down that road again.
For more information please read Ministry of State Security of the GDR
Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people [...] along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR. In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany's population between the ages of 18 and 60.
What is wrong with the current politicians? They are suppose to be have knowledge in history, and they are suppose to abide morally and democracy.
We really need more punishment and accountability for politicians. I'm all for a three-trike system for politicians. After the last strike you cannot do any political work anymore and you lost all your pensions.
What about if the free service will help make them money? There a lot of instances that if you nuke a free service you will hurt your bottom line, so that statement it's not really true "If you truly care about something, pay for it from a provider who has a financial interest in keeping your business".
Also, only because it is important to you, it's not necessary important to the company you pay money to. If you really care about something, do it yourself or rely on a trully open source product with a good community around it.
Super anal-yst. Of course it's missing the most obvious thing. But since you spend your time partying with film celebrities or what ever, it's forgettable.
We are in a very deep recession. The people are worried to buy food or to pay back their mortgage, or pay back their credit card or student loan debs. The Americans were living of their credit cards, savings is now negative for a decade. After the housing bubble busted, many lost their house, and are in deep debs. The wages are stagnant, unemployment is rising. If you follow the financial news, you are not sure if in 10 years you still have your social security or your savings for retirement.
But of course, the number one priorities are a) bail out banks and make sure that Wall Street can still milk the economy without creating anything of value and b) save the new-age mafia cartel, the MAFIAA and the RIAA, with every increasing draconian copyright laws.
Maybe if we stop the War on Wages, we wouldn't be in the mess. Maybe if we increase the wages, like the productivity of workers, they would have money left to spend for stupid movies.
Why does Slashdot article summaries don't show the domain name of the link, like in the comments? For example, if I post something like Awesome Site then you see the domain name and can decide if the site is worth your time. Good that I normally watch the URL where the link goes before clicking on it, otherwise I would waste another 5 minutes.
China makes almost nothing out of assembling Apple's iPads and iPhones [forbes.com]
And in the third corner are the consumers, who just want to read the damn books and just go to the next Torrent site, don't care about copyright anymore because the greedy cooperations have made a farce out of copyright. We just download a 200MBytes Torrent with about 100 e-books and don't give a crap.
You know how to increase competition and profits? Just limit the copyright term back to the good old 7 years (+7 years extension). That would finally open the market, break up the monopolies we have now, and bring the entertainment industry much more profits overall.
I really can't understand how your American people are good with it that you grand one company an unlimited monopol-right to a good. Aren't you all for pro-markets, pro-competition and anti-regulation of markets?
I would think that the list of banned addresses is a secret. It's of national security of course. :p
Back to the good old hosts file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
Maybe we will create cron-jobs again to download the newest hosts file from some trusted source.
It would be nice for your readers if you put a link to your site. You got me real interested.
Don't blame the software, blame the user. How dare you to have such a bad choice to use a widget that breaks in our latest and greatest software version. Clearly, you should review your choice.
How is this "following the example of Firefox"? I never heard that FF will just update itself to the newest version. It will ask if you want to update. But it will not just update.
It's one thing to ask the user if you want to update, but something totally different if you just do it silently. Sure, you can opt-out and de-install, but it's still horrible. Something like this should always be opt-in.
How would you like if you hate the new ribbon interface in MSOffice, but MS just updates your office to the new one, without asking you?
That update shows that MS can do anything it likes with your computer, and will do it if they think it's a good idea.
What are the "lower-end" systems you are talking about? Because KDE4 runs perfectly good on my "lower-end" systems, like my Atom netbook, my Atom desktop and my small laptop. In fact I don't see any difference between KDE4 and Xfce.
Or you talking about old systems and not "lower-end" systems? If you are really talking about your old PIII that can't handle KDE4 any more, that's not a problem at all.
Why do we need a "sandbox" anyway? For years the application were running perfectly fine on the operation systems we current have. The viruses are only the result of the lack of proper updates of the system and applications (and also some idiotic design decisions like Auto-Run, hide file extensions, login-always-as-admin, etc).
The link-tag works only for the whole document. What I'm talking about are meta-tags that adds to a web page some semantics. Like the author, the content topic, etc. What we current have are only tags for document style and structure.
For example, my whole comment could be enclosed in a author="devent" tag, a content="comment" tag and a topic="Firefox Too Big To Link On..." tag. But we now have only 10 div tags with some ids assign to it, so the CSS can properly style the page.
I think search for new content must be an integral part of the web. It should not rely on a third-party web page, but must be a core feature of the web. Just like name resolution is the core feature of DNS. Need to think more about it, I don't have a solution yet.
For years Flash was pretty dominant in the web, like 99% of the browsers have Flash and if your browser or operating system not support Flash, nobody would use it. But what happened after years of dominance? Nothing at all, even Adobe now ditches Flash. Don't tell you can't build applications with Flash, that are pretty good, or that Flash is a bad technology. Flash is a super technology and you can do with it whatever you like. But after years and years of dominance it's now dying, and it was not used for anything more then annoying ads, file upload, a flash game and some promotion web sites (like for games or film sites).
But now because you can draw some pixels in a CSS canvas, everyone thinks it will transform the web in some magical way. Sure, the new Html5 features will be used, and they are pretty good. But the web will stay in the same state as it was decades ego. That is, isolated web pages with content, without any semantics.
And that's exactly the issue I have with the current development of the Web. We already have perfectly good Operating Systems, but now everyone is trying to make the browser into another operating system. And for what, just to deliver applications through the browser instead through the operating system.
The web foremost purpose is to deliver information. It's a shame that we didn't make any progress in that direction since the first HTML version. It's good that the symptoms of the bad design of the Web are remedied with powerful search engines, or you wouldn't find anything useful. Just try a thought-experiment: What would you do if tomorrow there would be no search engine any more (no Bing, no Yahoo, no Google, no what ever you using)? What would you do with the Web?
The new video tag is somewhat a good beginning. But why there is no author tag, no table-of-content-tag, no index-tag, etc. Good that we have at least the meta-tag so the search engines can have a clue what the site is about.
The web is good for content delivering. That's why "applications" like Wikipedia or all the news- and blog-sites are thriving. It is not for real applications (i.e. games, math-applications, IDEs, etc.) and never will be. We already tried that with Flash, Java Applets, SL. So now we try it again, but this time it will be "magical" because it's all Html5.
So which one are you talking about?
I take another wiki format anytime over the stupid WYSIWYG editors. Because WYSIWYG is usually not what you get and all the editors are still very cumbersome and error prune. Check out textile http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/ It's very easy to learn (most you don't have to learn anything), have a very clean syntax and translates good to html.
> Also, this is not a question of using a close source toolkit. This is about whether a company should open source the code that is their primary competitive advantage.
If I'm a potential customer, and I wouldn't touch any closed source toolkits, then to have an open source toolkit is clearly an advantage. I don't know if it would be a "primary" advantage, but an important one.
Anyway,
how is that then different from simple reverse engineer your closed source code, and use the algorithm? Also, if they open up everything except the novel algorithm, it would be very simple to look for the new novel algorithm.
Also, RH is a good example. Their main competitor is open source and free: CentOS. But RH makes good money, and I would argue that they make more money with CentOS around.
If there would be no CentOS, private individuals and small business would just use Debian or Ubuntu. But since there is CentOS, RH have a good base of users which are familiar with RH Enterprise Linux (because CentOS is renamed RH Enterprise Linux), so later the big cooperations are choosing RH and not Debian or Ubuntu.
It's like the piracy and the bundling of Windows with new computers is good for Microsoft. If everyone and their dog is using only Windows because it's free, there is more business users for Windows, too.
Cool, that's possible now?
Well, if MS could just update their OS to the "advanced" features, like symlinks and the possibility to open the same file multiple times in different applications.
PS: and you are modded 1, that's why /. mods are for the ass/
I can't speak for anyone else, but I for my self wouldn't even consider using a closed source toolkit.
For a company it would be quite crazy to tie ones core business to another company's code.
If you don't really do anything really novel, and you already say that they are competitors, you could have an advantage if your offer your software as open source.
Either you give away the source code for free, or the source code is part of the license. In the first case it's free advertisement and in the latter it's a bonus that you have against your competitors.
Also, if you think your algorithms are novel, it's not an easy task to use algorithms in a completely different product.
I'm not quite sure, but if you release your code as GPL, wouldn't the competitor need to release their code as GPL, too, if they are using your algorithms?