Hey! I read water meters for a living, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, I think that's probably the biggest stumbling block to remote meter reading! All those unionized meter readers who would suddenly be out of work.
Better keep the meter readers un-ionized, I for one wouldn't want any negative substances in my drinking water...
I thought they would be doing something KDE-specific to compress even more. For example, if the QT library were an extension of X, you wouldn't have to send the widgets to the server as bitmaps.
On the other hand, if this is not limited to KDE, it's even better:)
I think wheel mice in general have something in common with vaginas, if only because of the middle-finger motion over the cli^Wwheel. I guess it's only fair if you also have a joystick...
By the way, 'mus' is Swedish for 'mouse', but for some strange reason it's also slang for 'vagina'.
My feeling is that if it's a *FREE* service (meaning you don't pay Google anything to use Gmail) then no, you shouldn't be free to use whatever third party software you choose.
That sounds a little illogical to me, because of the following counterexamples:
GNU/Linux is Free (more free than Google/Gmail) and it's quite open about new software and extensions, unlike..
...Windows, which you have to pay for, yet provides much more limited options.
Google has a philosophy of doing no evil, which makes sense given that they depend on Free software.
IMHO the only valid reason for going against third party notifiers is Google's ad system, which is a major source of revenue for them.
Does anyone else see this as extrodinary that MSNBC did not spin a story towards microsoft for the first time. Its a good step for them, perhaps I should start looking at their news coverage again.
It's not the first MSNBC story to question the superiority of Microsoft:
Tomorrow (Friday, August 26, 2004) here in Indonesia
Do you count dates differently in Indonesia? Is it because you are closer to the international date line?
Here in Europe, this Friday is the 27th and the tongue is in the cheek.
It was thirteen years ago today Col. Torvalds let the source away. We've been going in and out of drives but we guarantee to raise uptimes.
So may I introduce to you the hack you've known for all these years Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band!
We're Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band, we hope you will enjoy the code. Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band, just hack and let the evening go!
Col. Torvalds' Linux Col. Torvalds' Linux Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band!
It's wonderful to post here, it's certainly no troll. You're such a loyal userbase, we'd like to merge your code with us, we'd love to grep your/home.
I don't really want to freeze the code, but I thought you might like to know this release is going to fix the root and we want you all to patch for good.
So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy's fear Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band!
``After all, they can't accept (or perhaps can't grasp) a service/quality based market.''
I think they grasp it rather well. Instead of shipping a software package that needs a system administrator to work well, they ship software that any idiot can work with, and they handle all the issues for you. Not enough features? Not secure enough? Not enough "seen on the net" buzzwords? Don't worry, it will all be fixed in the next release. Just sit back and relax.
You're kidding, right? Microsoft is constantly promising an idiot-proof operating system, but I have yet to see it deliver. You still need to be rather knowledgeable with computers to protect yourself from dangers online and local crashes.
The main problem with Microsoft isn't that the products have technical problems, because all software has. The problem is that MS is not honest about the problems and the responsibility/knowledge/experience needed to cope with them.
The READ.ME clearly states which version of Linux is required. It's some funky 2.6.8-rc2-mmsomething. I for one wait for Reiser4's inclusion in the vanilla tree. Meanwhile I'm testing XFS and JFS too see how they stack up against Reiser3 (which I've used without problems since early 2001).
It's not. There are two decimal points so it cannot be a decimal number.
Linux and many other software projects use a set of integers for version numbering. So, for example, after 2.4.99 comes 2.4.100 because 99 and 100 are consecutive integers.
So true, it's not even funny. I think the last big demand for COBOLers was in the Y2K problem, and the next similar event could be the unix time overflow in 2038.
You can write PERL that is completely illegible, or you can write PERL that looks just like C++ with extra $, @, and % strewn about. It's all up to who is writing it and what coding standards they have to live up to (if any).
That's exactly the problem of Perl, having more than one way to do one thing. It's fine when you're the only one who reads your code. People tend to learn a subset of Perl that does everything. But what if you're collaborating with other people who know a different subset, and generally a different coding style?
Of course style can be enforced, like the Linux or GNU guidelines for writing C. But at that point you could just as well make the language itself clear and consistent, which is just what Python does.
They do make it easy to download the movies by giving out 3Mb/s, but they do hinder the sharing of the content by capping ups at 128Kb/s.
This may be true where you live, but not everywhere. For example university students often have symmetric connections. Besides, technical limitations are often the reason for asymmetric connections:
ADSL is limited to 8M down / 1M up in the spec. One reason behind this is that consumer systems can only transmit at certain limited power into public networks. This regulation has nothing to do with file sharing, its origins go back a long way before P2P.
Cable TV was originally intended as a one-way medium. Thus the repeater amplifiers were built one-way. For cable internet, the providers have had to add return capacity into the repeaters, which is not simple or cheap; again the capacity is limited by technology.
At least here in Finland, several ISPs realize that there are legitimate uses for uploading, and don't treat their customers as drooling consumers. Thus it's possible to get the full rate of ADSL, for example.
You see... due to the unique way the BBC is funded (In other words rip off everyone in the UK who owns anything with a tuner in it) this means that us licence paying Brits are paying for this (Admittedly cool) technology to be provided to everyone. Screw that... you want access to it abroad? Pay.
What about the Britons who don't own tuners and thus don't pay any licences?
I remember returning TV licencing forms when I lived there a few years ago. I never paid a penny as I didn't have a TV set.
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Oops, it seems you got the wrong link, here's the correct one for The Bible.
Seriously, I think that's probably the biggest stumbling block to remote meter reading! All those unionized meter readers who would suddenly be out of work.
Better keep the meter readers un-ionized, I for one wouldn't want any negative substances in my drinking water...
Wikipedia tells that it makes no difference if the abbreviation in question is an initialism or not. What matters is the pronunciation.
On the other hand, if this is not limited to KDE, it's even better :)
Acronyms are a special kind of abbreviation that you can pronounce as a word: for example BASIC, NATO, LASER.
Hence your sig, I presume :)
By the way, 'mus' is Swedish for 'mouse', but for some strange reason it's also slang for 'vagina'.
That sounds a little illogical to me, because of the following counterexamples:
IMHO the only valid reason for going against third party notifiers is Google's ad system, which is a major source of revenue for them.
Thus it rewrites the domain parts of URLs from anything.slashdot.org to slashdot.org.
I for one would gladly pay to support opensource software development, particularly when the option is to channel the same amount of money to Redmond.
It's not the first MSNBC story to question the superiority of Microsoft:
(Posting with IE under Gentoo, and I miss the tabs :)
Do you count dates differently in Indonesia? Is it because you are closer to the international date line? Here in Europe, this Friday is the 27th and the tongue is in the cheek.
I think they grasp it rather well. Instead of shipping a software package that needs a system administrator to work well, they ship software that any idiot can work with, and they handle all the issues for you. Not enough features? Not secure enough? Not enough "seen on the net" buzzwords? Don't worry, it will all be fixed in the next release. Just sit back and relax.
You're kidding, right? Microsoft is constantly promising an idiot-proof operating system, but I have yet to see it deliver. You still need to be rather knowledgeable with computers to protect yourself from dangers online and local crashes.
The main problem with Microsoft isn't that the products have technical problems, because all software has. The problem is that MS is not honest about the problems and the responsibility/knowledge/experience needed to cope with them.
To me it sounds like an admission that Windows is slow to boot, and Linux is fast.
The READ.ME clearly states which version of Linux is required. It's some funky 2.6.8-rc2-mmsomething. I for one wait for Reiser4's inclusion in the vanilla tree. Meanwhile I'm testing XFS and JFS too see how they stack up against Reiser3 (which I've used without problems since early 2001).
http://everything2.org/?node=gabber
It's not. There are two decimal points so it cannot be a decimal number.
Linux and many other software projects use a set of integers for version numbering. So, for example, after 2.4.99 comes 2.4.100 because 99 and 100 are consecutive integers.
So true, it's not even funny. I think the last big demand for COBOLers was in the Y2K problem, and the next similar event could be the unix time overflow in 2038.
That's exactly the problem of Perl, having more than one way to do one thing. It's fine when you're the only one who reads your code. People tend to learn a subset of Perl that does everything. But what if you're collaborating with other people who know a different subset, and generally a different coding style?
Of course style can be enforced, like the Linux or GNU guidelines for writing C. But at that point you could just as well make the language itself clear and consistent, which is just what Python does.
It has 'business' in it, therefore it couldn't have been cool ;)
This may be true where you live, but not everywhere. For example university students often have symmetric connections. Besides, technical limitations are often the reason for asymmetric connections:
At least here in Finland, several ISPs realize that there are legitimate uses for uploading, and don't treat their customers as drooling consumers. Thus it's possible to get the full rate of ADSL, for example.
and we pronounce linacs as 'linacs'.
It's probably been said before, but turning GTK+ into an X extension instead of a client library would be great.
What about the Britons who don't own tuners and thus don't pay any licences?
I remember returning TV licencing forms when I lived there a few years ago. I never paid a penny as I didn't have a TV set.