What he said is "when you cannot compete, you declare yourself open. This masks incompetence.". And "when it is convenient to them companies declare themeselves as open, they use this to their own benefit." And he was referring specifically to Google and companies that he sees use the "openness" as a marketing strategy because they cannot compete otherwise. He is not saying that open source code in general is incompetent or that the word "open" means incompentent. at least not in the quotes that appear in the article..
I dont think they are shutting them up. Because they can always go find some other place to host the website. They probably wanted to avoid the trouble that might come their way, like DOS attacks, or maybe there is really something in the contract that the church violated.
For anyone interested in the topic of happiness you should checkout this book: http://www.happinesshypothesis.com/ There are a few free chapters in there.
There are also places outside the US where people live happy lives. And most of them are less expensive. For example here in Costa Rica, $75000 a year is a lot of money, you would certainly be considered rich, you could live in a fancy house near a nice beach and have money left to visit relatives back in the US now and then. My favorite place in the world is Barcelona. I would be happy to live there and would need around $50k/year.
Please tell me who exactly broke which law? The ISP is not getting closed because of any law-breaking, it is more like the goverment used a tecnicality to close it just because they wanted to. I like to get my news from the Clarin group, I don't see it a as news-controlling monopoly because there are other sources, I just trust Clarin more than the other sources (like Govermennt oficial news). There are some places where there were only 2 ISPs so closing one will lead to a monopoly, how come you don't give a sh*t about that?
I can confirm that indexing can take days. I was never able to fully build the index as after days of waiting I finally figured out how to disable it. I have a dual core laptop from last year with Linux. This was with a very early version just after release and never turned it on again.
The IMAP thing I like to have it on so I don't see it as a problem but I guess they should ask the user at setup.
I have the same situation but I use Linux as primary OS and run windows in a VM. I have a Win98 VM for some old software I use. A "safe" XP VM for some some other software and I make sure not to install anything new on this one. And finally a "junk" XP VM where I play and install all kinds of stuff. Sometimes the "junk" VM messes up so I just delete and copy the "safe" to make a new one.
< You'll probably turn flash blockers on again after a few minutes of browsing.
You may be suprised to know that I do not have any Flash blocker installed and I browse the web just fine. I do see flash stuff here and there but it is not that annoying. I browse sites that have flash apps that I actually like.
That's on the PC, what I would like on the phone is to have the option to see the Flash when I want, like clicking to activate or something. Currently my Nokia does not open them for some reason.
Odd. The few times I've had to explain the concept to anyone, they understood it immediately. "Computers operate in base-2, and a funny result is that kilobytes, megabytes, etc. end up being 1024."
Perhaps that is the point. If you stick to standard definitions there is no need to explain. And it makes no sense that the units would be redefine just because of the way a particular machine works. Why would use of that machine care about that?
The end user and even most professionals in the field will never need to do this kind of math. This might be an issue for people who work with storage and address space but after you are done with that there is no need to worry about binary for the rest of your day and no need to force the rest of the world to redefine units just because it makes your calculations easier.
I disagree. It is not a matter of knowing about math. I should be able to interpret any measurement just by knowing what each unit stands for, I shouldn't need any deeper knowledge about math or history of computing. Because then I will be lost trying to interpret numbers from other fields, from other countries, etc and the whole point of the SI is to have a global standard. Someone somwhere just ignored the proper definition of kilo and redefined it as 1024 and then most of us have continued that mistake. I see no problem in correcting this once and for all. It seems silly that trying to correct the problem would upset people.
I agree with this. I see no reason why I should need to redefine standard units just because internally in some part of the computer numbers are stored in base-2. This is irrelevant for daily work. And if anyone is doing work with storage systems they would know about this and would be able to use any appropriate units but I don't see a need to redefine existing units. It seems embarrasing that this issue has persisted so long that now people wish to perpetuate it just out of habit.
You shouldn't feel bad about not understanding easily all parts of a large code base. I've been programming for over 10 years and there are some systems that are still in production for more than 7 years and I am still in charge of maintenance. When I have to go back and change something it is very difficult, it is almost like someone else programmed it and it is tough to remember how things work. The problem is not that I am dumb now, the problem is I wasnt as good a programmer then and there was no budget/time for decent documentation.
we'd have to give equal footing to leaders from places like Somalia, Sudan, China, Zimbabwe, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. These are places where people do NOT value freedom or human rights.
I think it is important to differentiate between the ordinary people who obviously value freedom and human rights and the current political powers in those coutries who are willing to limit freedom and rights to advance their agenda.
Perhaps you are just trolling but let me reply anyway. This might have helped you pull through but it was just lucky and your advise will not work for everybody. At some point someone will find a person who simply will increase the attacks and if you keep inrceasing your attacks eventually someone will get killed and that is a lose-lose situation. Advice which sometimes will get you killed or in jail is just stupid.
how about when people get the Stop page, so they know they hit a banned domain, they just use a web-based resolver to find out the ip address and add it to/etc/hosts. Eventually someone will post the full list so you can just copy it all and then there is no need to use the DNS.
I have a small company and we have used desktop linux (Mandrake then Mandriva) for about 5 years exclusively. Last version of Windows we used was Win98. So I dont understand the question. Perhaps you meant why is it that some people are not ready to make the switch. But as far as I care it was ready for the desktop 5 years ago.
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What he said is "when you cannot compete, you declare yourself open. This masks incompetence.". And "when it is convenient to them companies declare themeselves as open, they use this to their own benefit." And he was referring specifically to Google and companies that he sees use the "openness" as a marketing strategy because they cannot compete otherwise. He is not saying that open source code in general is incompetent or that the word "open" means incompentent. at least not in the quotes that appear in the article..
It should be noted that "pedo" means fart in Spanish.
I dont think they are shutting them up. Because they can always go find some other place to host the website. They probably wanted to avoid the trouble that might come their way, like DOS attacks, or maybe there is really something in the contract that the church violated.
For anyone interested in the topic of happiness you should checkout this book: http://www.happinesshypothesis.com/ There are a few free chapters in there.
There are also places outside the US where people live happy lives. And most of them are less expensive. For example here in Costa Rica, $75000 a year is a lot of money, you would certainly be considered rich, you could live in a fancy house near a nice beach and have money left to visit relatives back in the US now and then.
My favorite place in the world is Barcelona. I would be happy to live there and would need around $50k/year.
Please tell me who exactly broke which law? The ISP is not getting closed because of any law-breaking, it is more like the goverment used a tecnicality to close it just because they wanted to. I like to get my news from the Clarin group, I don't see it a as news-controlling monopoly because there are other sources, I just trust Clarin more than the other sources (like Govermennt oficial news). There are some places where there were only 2 ISPs so closing one will lead to a monopoly, how come you don't give a sh*t about that?
I can confirm that indexing can take days. I was never able to fully build the index as after days of waiting I finally figured out how to disable it. I have a dual core laptop from last year with Linux. This was with a very early version just after release and never turned it on again.
The IMAP thing I like to have it on so I don't see it as a problem but I guess they should ask the user at setup.
- What if they develop a drone that can feed off sugars, and empty's your kitchen every day? No worries?
I would feed a spy drone some sugar if it kept the terrorists away... gotta keep the terrorists away. that's how they get ya...
If I have to give my sweet away maybe the terrorists have already won?
I am not sure which came first but it is good to hear a second opinion as I don't trust very much what Apple is saying these days.
I have the same situation but I use Linux as primary OS and run windows in a VM. I have a Win98 VM for some old software I use. A "safe" XP VM for some some other software and I make sure not to install anything new on this one. And finally a "junk" XP VM where I play and install all kinds of stuff. Sometimes the "junk" VM messes up so I just delete and copy the "safe" to make a new one.
< You'll probably turn flash blockers on again after a few minutes of browsing.
You may be suprised to know that I do not have any Flash blocker installed and I browse the web just fine. I do see flash stuff here and there but it is not that annoying. I browse sites that have flash apps that I actually like.
That's on the PC, what I would like on the phone is to have the option to see the Flash when I want, like clicking to activate or something. Currently my Nokia does not open them for some reason.
Odd. The few times I've had to explain the concept to anyone, they understood it immediately. "Computers operate in base-2, and a funny result is that kilobytes, megabytes, etc. end up being 1024."
Perhaps that is the point. If you stick to standard definitions there is no need to explain. And it makes no sense that the units would be redefine just because of the way a particular machine works. Why would use of that machine care about that?
The end user and even most professionals in the field will never need to do this kind of math. This might be an issue for people who work with storage and address space but after you are done with that there is no need to worry about binary for the rest of your day and no need to force the rest of the world to redefine units just because it makes your calculations easier.
I disagree. It is not a matter of knowing about math. I should be able to interpret any measurement just by knowing what each unit stands for, I shouldn't need any deeper knowledge about math or history of computing. Because then I will be lost trying to interpret numbers from other fields, from other countries, etc and the whole point of the SI is to have a global standard.
Someone somwhere just ignored the proper definition of kilo and redefined it as 1024 and then most of us have continued that mistake. I see no problem in correcting this once and for all. It seems silly that trying to correct the problem would upset people.
I agree with this. I see no reason why I should need to redefine standard units just because internally in some part of the computer numbers are stored in base-2. This is irrelevant for daily work. And if anyone is doing work with storage systems they would know about this and would be able to use any appropriate units but I don't see a need to redefine existing units. It seems embarrasing that this issue has persisted so long that now people wish to perpetuate it just out of habit.
You shouldn't feel bad about not understanding easily all parts of a large code base. I've been programming for over 10 years and there are some systems that are still in production for more than 7 years and I am still in charge of maintenance. When I have to go back and change something it is very difficult, it is almost like someone else programmed it and it is tough to remember how things work. The problem is not that I am dumb now, the problem is I wasnt as good a programmer then and there was no budget/time for decent documentation.
we'd have to give equal footing to leaders from places like Somalia, Sudan, China, Zimbabwe, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. These are places where people do NOT value freedom or human rights.
I think it is important to differentiate between the ordinary people who obviously value freedom and human rights and the current political powers in those coutries who are willing to limit freedom and rights to advance their agenda.
you get to live another day. Repeat enough times and problem goes away. That worked for me.
Perhaps you are just trolling but let me reply anyway. This might have helped you pull through but it was just lucky and your advise will not work for everybody. At some point someone will find a person who simply will increase the attacks and if you keep inrceasing your attacks eventually someone will get killed and that is a lose-lose situation. Advice which sometimes will get you killed or in jail is just stupid.
This article ... goes to the heart of what can be done, which is teaching social skills. The punishment system doesn't work.
That is fine but what some people are saying, and I agree, is that the ones with defective social skills are the bullies.
It's not the *government* saying that. It's the courts.
South Korea's government is divided into three branches: executive, judicial, and legislative. So yes the courts are part of the government.
how about when people get the Stop page, so they know they hit a banned domain, they just use a web-based resolver to find out the ip address and add it to /etc/hosts. Eventually someone will post the full list so you can just copy it all and then there is no need to use the DNS.
I have a small company and we have used desktop linux (Mandrake then Mandriva) for about 5 years exclusively. Last version of Windows we used was Win98. So I dont understand the question. Perhaps you meant why is it that some people are not ready to make the switch. But as far as I care it was ready for the desktop 5 years ago.
did you imply that accountants are not creative? You should meet mine. He comes up with crazy stuff to avoid taxes!