The dotcom bubble didn't really affect that much to the rest of the economy. It didn't bring banks down (banks weren't able to build their assets on top of the bubble), it didn't bring other sectors down. I remember some economist saying that it was a good example of a "good bubble" - a bubble that happens in only one sector and doesn't affect anything else.
Tyrants? If USA would have a tyrant, he would have supporters and detractors. In such cases letting population have firearms without restriction only makes easier to provoke a really bloody civil war.
The regulation vs deregulation discussion is stupid. There are things that need to be regulated (banks shouldn't be allowed to play casino with my money) and there are things that need to be deregulated. Good politics is about choosing wisely between them. Dumb politicians who claim that regulating/deregulating everything will solve all problems only mess everything up.
Except that they do share his concerns. Not the version fragmentation problem, but the "lack of hardware uniformity" problem. Software testing in android is already hard, because the same software can work differently depending on some subtle hardware difference, so you need to test in different devices. It's not the end of the world, windows programmers were able to make programs for the hardware nightmare that the PC world is, but it's not nice.
ChromeOS is basically a Linux distro that only has a browser. The Chrome browser is the desktop shell, it can't be minimized and it has a small systray with battery and network icons instead of maximize/minimize buttons. And that's it (really).
I agree with the guy from TFA, ChromeOS is not interesting because...well, the average Linux distro can also browse the web and nobody is adopting it massively because of that. IMO ChromeOS is only getting attention because people believes that everything that comes from Google is cool. But when I tried ChromeOS, I experience the same sensation I had when I tried Wave. Why use ChromeOS, which is just a browser, when you can use Android which also has a browser and it also has a lot of cool Android apps and games?
I've been told that the DDOS to Mastercard affected for a while to their 3d-secure authentication servers, ie, it stopped mastercard from being able to do online transactions, which is certainly part of their core bussiness.
The cables have revealed that the spanish National High Court was influenced by US diplomatics to drop some cases that were embarassing for the US. I think it's far more embarassing for us than for USA.
Wikileaks has announced that they will publish leaks related to the russian government. But, as other have already said, language is probably a huge barrier.
The strategic position of the U.S. is being degraded because of what the U.S. does (above all, USA might not be able to buy good military equipment in the future due to the economic problems caused by unnecesary wars). Wikileaks is helping the U.S to maintain its strategic position - by encouraging them to behave well in the world.
For a long time QT was closed source. Then they opensourced it, but only under the GPL license. That pretty much forced comercial distros to ship the only viable toolkit with a sane license (but insane internal architecture) - Glib/GTK. Using Gnome instead of KDE was reasonable for them I suppose. QT was relicensed to LGPL very recently, so I will take a lot of time to change the status quo - if that ever happens.
Time? You are late. ATI has been releasing specs and employing engineers to write opensource drivers for some time already. I haven't bought a Nvidia GPU for years, and I have no plans to do it in the future.
Well, just take a look. Novell was one of the companies that invented networking, so they have stuff that probably every modern OS is infringing. Active Directory very probably infringed some of them (that probably was one of the reasons why Microsoft signed a patent agreement with them). Just some examples:
XFS recently implemented a new journaling subsystem that should speed up metadata-intensive operations. Once they turn it on, it will gain even more performance (and Ext4 is also getting many scalability improvements)
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The dotcom bubble didn't really affect that much to the rest of the economy. It didn't bring banks down (banks weren't able to build their assets on top of the bubble), it didn't bring other sectors down. I remember some economist saying that it was a good example of a "good bubble" - a bubble that happens in only one sector and doesn't affect anything else.
Also, Bill Clinton managed to get the debt under control. Which is an impressive achievement in USA.
You might be right, the LHC and the Tevatron might be useless. But we turning them off will not help to decide the outcome.
everyone's going all budget cuts crazy
Except the military budget. If someone manages to classify the Tevatron as a weapon and get it managed by the MoD, it won't be canceled.
Tyrants? If USA would have a tyrant, he would have supporters and detractors. In such cases letting population have firearms without restriction only makes easier to provoke a really bloody civil war.
Note that the performance advantages of that change are zero. It's an aesthetical thing, so distros are not in eager of shipping it.
The old system made it so the little guy wouldn't even think about it.
In contrast, with the new system you allow big boys to squeeze out your money just to get the illusion that the spreads don't exist.
4chan is also NSFH. Not safe for home.
The regulation vs deregulation discussion is stupid. There are things that need to be regulated (banks shouldn't be allowed to play casino with my money) and there are things that need to be deregulated. Good politics is about choosing wisely between them. Dumb politicians who claim that regulating/deregulating everything will solve all problems only mess everything up.
It's just me, or Google is failing at everything that is not their core bussiness of search & ads?
Except that they do share his concerns. Not the version fragmentation problem, but the "lack of hardware uniformity" problem. Software testing in android is already hard, because the same software can work differently depending on some subtle hardware difference, so you need to test in different devices. It's not the end of the world, windows programmers were able to make programs for the hardware nightmare that the PC world is, but it's not nice.
ChromeOS is basically a Linux distro that only has a browser. The Chrome browser is the desktop shell, it can't be minimized and it has a small systray with battery and network icons instead of maximize/minimize buttons. And that's it (really).
I agree with the guy from TFA, ChromeOS is not interesting because...well, the average Linux distro can also browse the web and nobody is adopting it massively because of that. IMO ChromeOS is only getting attention because people believes that everything that comes from Google is cool. But when I tried ChromeOS, I experience the same sensation I had when I tried Wave. Why use ChromeOS, which is just a browser, when you can use Android which also has a browser and it also has a lot of cool Android apps and games?
Mariadb, Drizzle...there are already enought mysql forks.
Opensource has the best security auditors: crackers.
I've been told that the DDOS to Mastercard affected for a while to their 3d-secure authentication servers, ie, it stopped mastercard from being able to do online transactions, which is certainly part of their core bussiness.
So far there hasn't been anything really damning about them
It has, but its fine that you feel happy thinking the contrary.
The cables have revealed that the spanish National High Court was influenced by US diplomatics to drop some cases that were embarassing for the US. I think it's far more embarassing for us than for USA.
Wikileaks has announced that they will publish leaks related to the russian government. But, as other have already said, language is probably a huge barrier.
The strategic position of the U.S. is being degraded because of what the U.S. does (above all, USA might not be able to buy good military equipment in the future due to the economic problems caused by unnecesary wars). Wikileaks is helping the U.S to maintain its strategic position - by encouraging them to behave well in the world.
Lol. It's not like Iran don't know that Arabia Saudi is an USA ally and wants to nuke them. The situation is not going to be worse than already is.
Iceland has its own currency, Europe can't let the Euro zone break down.
For a long time QT was closed source. Then they opensourced it, but only under the GPL license. That pretty much forced comercial distros to ship the only viable toolkit with a sane license (but insane internal architecture) - Glib/GTK. Using Gnome instead of KDE was reasonable for them I suppose. QT was relicensed to LGPL very recently, so I will take a lot of time to change the status quo - if that ever happens.
Time? You are late. ATI has been releasing specs and employing engineers to write opensource drivers for some time already. I haven't bought a Nvidia GPU for years, and I have no plans to do it in the future.
Well, just take a look. Novell was one of the companies that invented networking, so they have stuff that probably every modern OS is infringing. Active Directory very probably infringed some of them (that probably was one of the reasons why Microsoft signed a patent agreement with them). Just some examples:
Method and apparatus for network file recovery
Firewall system for quality of service management
Methods, data stores, data structures, and systems for electronic identity
System and method for automically authenticating a user in a distributed network system
Method and apparatus for proxy authentication
Secure intranet access
System and method for synchronizing database information
They even have some UI patents: Method for automatically resizing a child window
And some weird OS functionality Method and apparatus for mapping page table trees into virtual address space
Of course they are stupid, but god knows what can a good lawyer firm do with them.
More importantly, Novell owns a LOT of patents related to networking, directory services and things like that.
XFS recently implemented a new journaling subsystem that should speed up metadata-intensive operations. Once they turn it on, it will gain even more performance (and Ext4 is also getting many scalability improvements)