Which is also why Google wants to take your data out of your hands. Take it off your "insecure" device that could potentially be stolen/steamrolled/bricked at any time and stored securely on their servers where it can be duplicated over the RAID, etc. Let them manage keeping it secure, backed up, and consistent. How far you trust them with it is a whole other matter. But in terms of the safety of my data I'll take the cloud redundancy any day over managing my own backups. I think for the vast majority of computer users in the world, Google's servers are a safer place for storing important files.
Lots of people Dual boot Linux and Windows and they will often switch several times a day.
True, but how often do you have to reboot per day to really take advantage of say, shaving 15-20 seconds off the boot time of Ubuntu.
Even if you reboot hourly in an 8-hour day, you'd gain at most 5 minutes by Ubuntu dropping from a 30 second to 10 second boot. You could even take those 5 minutes to get up, stretch, grab a coffee...
If you need to reboot more often than that and you really feel like Ubuntu is wasting your time to load your desktop, go buy another machine. Or run one of the OS in a virtual machine.
I've never understood the obsession with insanely fast boot times. On instant-on/mobile type devices, sure. But on your desktop? Yes, I want to still boot faster than Windows (for geek reasons of course) but we're already way past that point and acting like the boot speed of Linux is a problem just seems like a waste of time.
You could also collect 10 000 Kurzick Faction and try Eternal Grove instead. As others have pointed out, you need to split up a bit and protect trees instead of turtles but at least the trees aren't walking off somewhere. As others have mentioned, it's not a lot easier with heroes/henches though.
Google tries to pull a Microsoft and splinter the Java platform in a very bad way. Embrace, extend, destroy.
Google hasn't created a java platform to compete with Oracle's. They created a virtual machine that reads in completely different byte code. It just happens that you write the source in Java.
Obviously Oracle is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they want to milk some cash out of the platform, by all means, and why not. It is their platform.
Because it's not their platform. They control the specific technology that was created by Sun. Google's VM is in no way owned by Oracle. Whether or not Java as a language is sufficient to get a judge to support a shakedown will be decided here.
I don't understand why it is OK for Google to fulfill the work of Microsoft though. Why is it good to have multiple, incompatible, versions of the Java platform? Who would gain from that?
Google had to pick a language to use for Android. They picked Java. Java, the language. Not Java, the platform. Google made their own compiler to turn the Java source into Dalvik bytecode, and to run the bytecode. Google could've kept Dalvik/Android to themselves.
Honestly, this can end in many ways, the good one would be that Java stays a viable cross-platform system, and that means Google has to lose.
Really? That's the conclusion you draw? If Google loses, Oracle has the precedence they need to go after everyone who does anything with Java. This includes the openjdk platform.
If Google wins Java has a very uncertain future as a platform. If Oracle wins Java has an uncertain future as a totally free platform, but it has a future as a platform as such.
I agree with the Oracle part of the statement. Your argument is akin to "Linux can never succeed with so many distributions out there. We need one and only one distribution." It doesn't work that way.
Heavily invested in Java, I have no problem paying Oracle for it to stay a viable platform.
How about the fact Google doesn't stop you at all? You can still click to go ahead with the gmail export.
Google is trying to make all the non-Slashdot-Freedom-Fans aware that while Google lets you export your data freely, Facebook doesn't offer the same benefi.ts
Exactly why the Wii is perfect for the casual gamer. They can get into the game without having to learn all the controls. They don't expect to dominate the competition, but just have a little fun.
There are a few games on the Wii that attract a more hardcore gaming crowd. Mario Kart or Monster Hunter Tri, for example offer motion sensor controls but for the players who take the games beyond casual, they always choose to use a Classic Controller or Gamecube. Some Mario Kart tournaments even prevent the players from using the more classic controllers to make it fair for the Wii Wheel players. The Conduit would've been 10x better if we could just use a regular controller, but like the other games it would make it quite unfair for the motion sensor controller users.
Are there an abundance of casual games for the 360/PS3? If so, then Microsoft and Sony might be able to convince Grandma to play. Otherwise, the Wii is cheaper and has the reputation of being more family friendly.
You're right. Your users can choose to buy a product with a licence that grants them more freedom. Your definition of a licence being free is based on what you can do with the license code. For some people, what everyone else can do with the same code is more important.
The users who get your BSD-modified program without the source code to the modifications you made would have fewer freedoms than if you modified a GPL program and were forced to provide your modifications as well.
As one of the gp posters stated:
GPL - more freedom for end users
BSD - more freedom for developers/distributors
This person admits to having engaged in this activity specifically to cause suffering and defending that is not only morally bankrupt but also stupid.
I think this is the important part. If he had said it was just a joke and he didn't mean anything by it and simply apologized to the families, I would hope the courts would've let him off with a warning. Otherwise every person who has ever supplied a link to a shock site (like goatse, etc) or got a +1 Troll/Flamebait should be thrown in jail for it. Seems far too extreme.
For the love of $DEITY, stop recommending Kubuntu, it's an half-assed effort that keeps giving KDE a bad name.
I used to think this too. Especially 8.10 when they moved to KDE 4 far too early (but then again, pretty much all the other distributions did the same).
But Kubuntu 10.04 changed my mind, and I found it worked quite well. I suspect it is mostly due to KDE 4 maturing, but I've used KDE 4 on many other distros (debian, arch, gentoo) and Kubuntu continues to provide its own conveniences. Kpackagekit and the.deb qt installer actually work well and felt like you were installing packages in a "KDE" way. A lot of the tools specific to Ubuntu were also available with kde counterparts (usb-creator and jockey for example). Running Amarok or Konqueror for the first time prompts me to install those evil proprietary packages for things like mp3's and flash.
The 10.10 release was even better. The move to use Rekonq as the default browser (sigh, Konqueror..) was great decision and I like the new kpackagekit even better.
IMHO, all Kubuntu is missing is Ubuntu-One integration. An amarok plugin for browsing the music store. A client for syncing rekonq bookmarks, kontacts, amarok playlist, etc. Oh and the one-click "sync with Ubuntu one" plugin that nautilus has should be written for Dolphin.
It is also cheaper to develop for iOS, because you can buy an iPod touch for $229 with no contract and have the latest handheld hardware. That combined with the simulators in the dev tools is all you need because there is little hardware variation. The SoC in the iPod touch is also in iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV. With Android, you are talking about $500 devices and you'll need a few of them at least.
Except you forgot to mention the cost of buying a Macbook/iMac..both of which are significantly more than $500. And if you really want to test for iPad, you'll need one of those too. Oh and the yearly license, so you have permission to run the apps YOU wrote on the devices YOU bought. I'm an iOS dev, but it is not cheaper to code for iOS.
Android's Dalvik engine is also under a patent suit from Oracle, and HTC is under a patent suit from Apple. On the Apple side you are working with an app platform with 20 year heritage back to NeXT and hardware platform with 10 year heritage back to iPod and 20 years back to Newton. It wasn't just cloned yesterday.
What does heritage have to do with it? I learned Obj-C using the NeXT library and modern iOS programming has nothing to do with those libraries, other than they are both (virtually the only) users of the Obj-C language.
If he's just getting into programming again, I recommend Android. It'll polish his Java skills which he can actually use in other places.
Not to mention the following two world series (1992, 1993).
Toronto Blue Jays beating Atlanta, followed by Philly.
Montreal had a chance to win it the next year...but then the strike.
And yes:-P I am Canadian.
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Which is also why Google wants to take your data out of your hands. Take it off your "insecure" device that could potentially be stolen/steamrolled/bricked at any time and stored securely on their servers where it can be duplicated over the RAID, etc. Let them manage keeping it secure, backed up, and consistent. How far you trust them with it is a whole other matter. But in terms of the safety of my data I'll take the cloud redundancy any day over managing my own backups. I think for the vast majority of computer users in the world, Google's servers are a safer place for storing important files.
Lots of people Dual boot Linux and Windows and they will often switch several times a day.
True, but how often do you have to reboot per day to really take advantage of say, shaving 15-20 seconds off the boot time of Ubuntu.
Even if you reboot hourly in an 8-hour day, you'd gain at most 5 minutes by Ubuntu dropping from a 30 second to 10 second boot. You could even take those 5 minutes to get up, stretch, grab a coffee...
If you need to reboot more often than that and you really feel like Ubuntu is wasting your time to load your desktop, go buy another machine. Or run one of the OS in a virtual machine.
I've never understood the obsession with insanely fast boot times. On instant-on/mobile type devices, sure. But on your desktop? Yes, I want to still boot faster than Windows (for geek reasons of course) but we're already way past that point and acting like the boot speed of Linux is a problem just seems like a waste of time.
You could also collect 10 000 Kurzick Faction and try Eternal Grove instead. As others have pointed out, you need to split up a bit and protect trees instead of turtles but at least the trees aren't walking off somewhere. As others have mentioned, it's not a lot easier with heroes/henches though.
Google tries to pull a Microsoft and splinter the Java platform in a very bad way. Embrace, extend, destroy.
Google hasn't created a java platform to compete with Oracle's. They created a virtual machine that reads in completely different byte code. It just happens that you write the source in Java.
Obviously Oracle is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they want to milk some cash out of the platform, by all means, and why not. It is their platform.
Because it's not their platform. They control the specific technology that was created by Sun. Google's VM is in no way owned by Oracle. Whether or not Java as a language is sufficient to get a judge to support a shakedown will be decided here.
I don't understand why it is OK for Google to fulfill the work of Microsoft though. Why is it good to have multiple, incompatible, versions of the Java platform? Who would gain from that?
Google had to pick a language to use for Android. They picked Java. Java, the language. Not Java, the platform. Google made their own compiler to turn the Java source into Dalvik bytecode, and to run the bytecode. Google could've kept Dalvik/Android to themselves.
Honestly, this can end in many ways, the good one would be that Java stays a viable cross-platform system, and that means Google has to lose.
Really? That's the conclusion you draw? If Google loses, Oracle has the precedence they need to go after everyone who does anything with Java. This includes the openjdk platform.
If Google wins Java has a very uncertain future as a platform. If Oracle wins Java has an uncertain future as a totally free platform, but it has a future as a platform as such.
I agree with the Oracle part of the statement. Your argument is akin to "Linux can never succeed with so many distributions out there. We need one and only one distribution." It doesn't work that way.
Heavily invested in Java, I have no problem paying Oracle for it to stay a viable platform.
Aww darn, I'm out of troll food.
How about the fact Google doesn't stop you at all? You can still click to go ahead with the gmail export. Google is trying to make all the non-Slashdot-Freedom-Fans aware that while Google lets you export your data freely, Facebook doesn't offer the same benefi.ts
Which is why you can use this: http://gpl-violations.org/
Report them.
Exactly why the Wii is perfect for the casual gamer. They can get into the game without having to learn all the controls. They don't expect to dominate the competition, but just have a little fun.
There are a few games on the Wii that attract a more hardcore gaming crowd. Mario Kart or Monster Hunter Tri, for example offer motion sensor controls but for the players who take the games beyond casual, they always choose to use a Classic Controller or Gamecube. Some Mario Kart tournaments even prevent the players from using the more classic controllers to make it fair for the Wii Wheel players. The Conduit would've been 10x better if we could just use a regular controller, but like the other games it would make it quite unfair for the motion sensor controller users.
Are there an abundance of casual games for the 360/PS3? If so, then Microsoft and Sony might be able to convince Grandma to play. Otherwise, the Wii is cheaper and has the reputation of being more family friendly.
You're right. Your users can choose to buy a product with a licence that grants them more freedom. Your definition of a licence being free is based on what you can do with the license code. For some people, what everyone else can do with the same code is more important.
The users who get your BSD-modified program without the source code to the modifications you made would have fewer freedoms than if you modified a GPL program and were forced to provide your modifications as well.
As one of the gp posters stated:
GPL - more freedom for end users
BSD - more freedom for developers/distributors
This person admits to having engaged in this activity specifically to cause suffering and defending that is not only morally bankrupt but also stupid.
I think this is the important part. If he had said it was just a joke and he didn't mean anything by it and simply apologized to the families, I would hope the courts would've let him off with a warning. Otherwise every person who has ever supplied a link to a shock site (like goatse, etc) or got a +1 Troll/Flamebait should be thrown in jail for it. Seems far too extreme.
For the love of $DEITY, stop recommending Kubuntu, it's an half-assed effort that keeps giving KDE a bad name.
I used to think this too. Especially 8.10 when they moved to KDE 4 far too early (but then again, pretty much all the other distributions did the same).
But Kubuntu 10.04 changed my mind, and I found it worked quite well. I suspect it is mostly due to KDE 4 maturing, but I've used KDE 4 on many other distros (debian, arch, gentoo) and Kubuntu continues to provide its own conveniences. Kpackagekit and the .deb qt installer actually work well and felt like you were installing packages in a "KDE" way. A lot of the tools specific to Ubuntu were also available with kde counterparts (usb-creator and jockey for example). Running Amarok or Konqueror for the first time prompts me to install those evil proprietary packages for things like mp3's and flash.
The 10.10 release was even better. The move to use Rekonq as the default browser (sigh, Konqueror..) was great decision and I like the new kpackagekit even better.
IMHO, all Kubuntu is missing is Ubuntu-One integration. An amarok plugin for browsing the music store. A client for syncing rekonq bookmarks, kontacts, amarok playlist, etc. Oh and the one-click "sync with Ubuntu one" plugin that nautilus has should be written for Dolphin.
It is also cheaper to develop for iOS, because you can buy an iPod touch for $229 with no contract and have the latest handheld hardware. That combined with the simulators in the dev tools is all you need because there is little hardware variation. The SoC in the iPod touch is also in iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV. With Android, you are talking about $500 devices and you'll need a few of them at least.
Except you forgot to mention the cost of buying a Macbook/iMac..both of which are significantly more than $500. And if you really want to test for iPad, you'll need one of those too. Oh and the yearly license, so you have permission to run the apps YOU wrote on the devices YOU bought. I'm an iOS dev, but it is not cheaper to code for iOS.
Android's Dalvik engine is also under a patent suit from Oracle, and HTC is under a patent suit from Apple. On the Apple side you are working with an app platform with 20 year heritage back to NeXT and hardware platform with 10 year heritage back to iPod and 20 years back to Newton. It wasn't just cloned yesterday.
What does heritage have to do with it? I learned Obj-C using the NeXT library and modern iOS programming has nothing to do with those libraries, other than they are both (virtually the only) users of the Obj-C language.
If he's just getting into programming again, I recommend Android. It'll polish his Java skills which he can actually use in other places.
Not to mention the following two world series (1992, 1993). Toronto Blue Jays beating Atlanta, followed by Philly. Montreal had a chance to win it the next year...but then the strike. And yes :-P I am Canadian.
Why would Microsoft wait for VMWare to buy Novell, when they could just buy Novell now?
How parent did not get modded funny, I don't know. Maybe the mods are open-minded too.
http://xkcd.com/605/