College acceptance rates might be higher but a huge reason for it is that private high schools are selective. Does that stat also include community colleges and regional universities where have a pulse and a HS diploma pretty much the only requirement?
Public schools have to take everyone, including those that will never even apply for college.
Sadly, the installer is not part of the F/OSS program and no license that I can think of makes injecting malware via the installer a license violation.
The problem is that Sourceforge, and other sites, are using OSS projects to spread malware.
Maybe GPLv4 will have a "third party sites can't inject malware into the download" clause. What Sourceforge is doing is far more harmful than 'Tivoization'
Seriously, an anti-Sourceforge/Download.com open source license is needed.
I have never read anything where Linus is acting inappropriately. Sure he likes to rant, but when he is wrong, he will admit it.
He is even kind to clueless newbies who try to lecture him on the "evils" of goto on LKML.
His best rants are condemning breaking user space and hurting usability. But for every post that makes the news, there are at least 1000 that don't, because Linus isn't some rabid douche.
The kernel gets has so many contributors from around the world that he has to draw the line in a very explicit manner else people like Kay Sievers will keep submitting broken patches.
If anything he is usually pretty restrained, compared to project managers of big companies. The only difference is that development of the Linux kernel is in full public view.
Linus doesn't seem to be setting the direction of the Kernel.
As long as the commit isn't total crap and is something that belongs in a kernel, and is submitted during a merge window, he will merge it. At least, that is how I view it as an outsider.
The Linux kernel is mostly written by huge corporations with divergent interests. There is no way Linus can herd them.
With that definition, no license is truly free since every single one of them have conditions.
BSD, MIT, they all have conditions, although much lighter than GPL.
However, the GPL ensures that no one can take rights away from you, regardless of where you get the code. BSD and MIT-like licenses do not guarantee that.
The reciprocity clause is the main reason why the Linux kernel has thrived despite so have many different corporate interests pulling at it.
You might do better arguing where you consider where the line is rather than putting up a misleading statement.
It appears that you are advocating anarchy, which doesn't really work in any setting with more than 1 person.
Yeah, just like their heads span when people left them when they decided to both raise fees and drop all decent programming by going streaming only
When did this happen? They still offer DVD's by mail and the last quarterly report that I looked at, admittedly about two years ago, DVD's by mail generated more revenue and had a much higher profit margin. something like 8 times more profitable.
When they announced that they were going to spin off DVD's, their stock went from ~300 to ~50 in a short period of time, so they nixed that stupid idea in a hurry.
Yeah, what is worse is that some people actually think that a signed SSL certificate is a certification of the safety of website.
Every once in a while I read about some idiot that thought the website was safe because it had a signed SSL cert and gets all bent out of shape because the https site infected his computer and the CA should have not issued the certificate before testing out the website for him.
If they need revenue there are other ways to go about it without using sleazy tactics.
Wikipedia exists with zero ads.
It can be done.
I block all ads and honestly, there is nothing I will be missing if those sites/services shut down.
Even if I didn't block them, I wouldn't click on them and if they annoyed me they would go on my blacklist of things never to buy. I have blacklisted all products from companies solely based on their ads annoying me. I don't base my purchasing decisions on ads anyway. I have no moral, ethical or legal obligation to look at ads, click on them or buy anything because of them.
There is always someone that will do it better. If they can't stay in business without using ads than good riddance. That is the market telling them they aren't wanted or needed.
Sad thing is that any mobo I could buy that would fit my 3Ghz Core Duo was either used or new but lacking in too many features and massively expensive.
It ran everything I needed smooth as silk. That was a sad day
The old machine: EVGA 750i mobo Nvidia chipset 3 Ghz core duo EVGA 580 GTX video card 8 GB 1066 Mhz DDR2 1 TB SATA WB Black HD. X-Fi Titanium sound card
The only thing I disliked is that it was very noisy with the mobo fan, 5 case fans(2 in front/top 1 in back), the monstrous GPU aftermarket cooler and the two fans on the video card. It was annoyingly loud and still ran hot.
I was planning on keeping it for a few more years. For the people wondering why so many are holding on to older machines is because they still run most modern software just fine. No one sane upgrades for the sake of it. The time when a machine started struggling after two years is long gone and is one of the reasons why so many desktop makers are struggling today.
With no viable and reasonably-priced mobo replacement available, I bit the bullet and built a new machine.
EVGA Z97 FTW mobo Intel i5 3.5 Ghz processor EVGA 960 GTX Superclocked video card Gskill 8 GB 2400 Mhz DDR3 RAM 3x 1TB SATA 3 WD Black HD EVGA 650W supernova gold PSU X-Fi Titanium sound card - The only part I recycled. Older hardware is worth more today than it was when I bought it. Selling off the old PSU, GPU, RAM and CPU paid for a good chunk of my new computer..
With an Antec case this cost me around $850 and got The Witcher 3 for free and $80 worth of annoying mail in rebates.
Yeah, benchmarks are much faster but aside from games, there is no noticeable performance increase for day to day usage(including running VirtualBox instances) but the fact that the PSU and video card fans rarely turn on and the mobo doesn't have a fan is a huge plus. I don't think I have have heard the PSU fan ever turn on and the GPU fan only turns on when the card hits 61 C.
The CPU is using its stock heatsink/fan which is very quiet. I only have two case fans and the case has sound-proofing.
My machine is very quiet, I rarely hear anything coming from the box.
It also runs significantly cooler than my old rig.
IE sucks as always doesn't run on anything but Windows. Anyone else remember the Linux IE version, now that was bad!
Maybe the new browser from the old CEO of Opera won't suck but I am not holding my breath.
Voting with your feet and moving to a different browser is like voting in an election, all there is on the ballot is various levels of evil and incompetence.
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College acceptance rates might be higher but a huge reason for it is that private high schools are selective. Does that stat also include community colleges and regional universities where have a pulse and a HS diploma pretty much the only requirement?
Public schools have to take everyone, including those that will never even apply for college.
Those cables have no value.
They are a scam.
Pick any other cable at random and the odds are that they are equal quality to monster.
Sadly, the installer is not part of the F/OSS program and no license that I can think of makes injecting malware via the installer a license violation.
The problem is that Sourceforge, and other sites, are using OSS projects to spread malware.
Maybe GPLv4 will have a "third party sites can't inject malware into the download" clause. What Sourceforge is doing is far more harmful than 'Tivoization'
Seriously, an anti-Sourceforge/Download.com open source license is needed.
x/0, where x!=0 is always undefined.
Since infinity is not a number saying that x/0 is +/- infinity is nonsensical.
0/0 is indeterminate.
n/0, where n!=0 is undefined.
Infinity is not a number, so it would never make sense when dividing rational numbers.
Not too pile on, but you seem to have failed arithmetic class.
True, but those patches sometimes do get through Linus.
I have never read anything where Linus is acting inappropriately. Sure he likes to rant, but when he is wrong, he will admit it.
He is even kind to clueless newbies who try to lecture him on the "evils" of goto on LKML.
His best rants are condemning breaking user space and hurting usability. But for every post that makes the news, there are at least 1000 that don't, because Linus isn't some rabid douche.
The kernel gets has so many contributors from around the world that he has to draw the line in a very explicit manner else people like Kay Sievers will keep submitting broken patches.
If anything he is usually pretty restrained, compared to project managers of big companies. The only difference is that development of the Linux kernel is in full public view.
Linus doesn't seem to be setting the direction of the Kernel.
As long as the commit isn't total crap and is something that belongs in a kernel, and is submitted during a merge window, he will merge it. At least, that is how I view it as an outsider.
The Linux kernel is mostly written by huge corporations with divergent interests. There is no way Linus can herd them.
The man was far more interesting than the character he played.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
RMS hates business.
Citation needed.
Go read his stuff on FSF. He is not against business, he is against business practices that he finds unethical. That is a huge difference.
If RMS hated business, he would have put a no selling software clause in the GPL.
With that definition, no license is truly free since every single one of them have conditions.
BSD, MIT, they all have conditions, although much lighter than GPL.
However, the GPL ensures that no one can take rights away from you, regardless of where you get the code. BSD and MIT-like licenses do not guarantee that.
The reciprocity clause is the main reason why the Linux kernel has thrived despite so have many different corporate interests pulling at it.
You might do better arguing where you consider where the line is rather than putting up a misleading statement.
It appears that you are advocating anarchy, which doesn't really work in any setting with more than 1 person.
I don't know why people don't understand that about Apple after all this time.
Apple is Dell/Samsung with its own OS.
Yeah, just like their heads span when people left them when they decided to both raise fees and drop all decent programming by going streaming only
When did this happen? They still offer DVD's by mail and the last quarterly report that I looked at, admittedly about two years ago, DVD's by mail generated more revenue and had a much higher profit margin. something like 8 times more profitable.
When they announced that they were going to spin off DVD's, their stock went from ~300 to ~50 in a short period of time, so they nixed that stupid idea in a hurry.
Does anyone who actually needs graphics performance use the integrated graphics in any CPU?
PHP is a significant barrier for existing projects.
Look at the pile of crap that is Wordpress or any PHP CMS for that matter.
Ask Facebook how much money and time they have spent trying to hack around PHP's many warts.
Anyone using PHP is a non-programmer by definition.
You are misusing that saying.
What it means it that a good craftsman knows not to use substandard tools.
A good programmer knows not to use substandard languages like PHP.
I love that it exists because it is an easy and accurate resume filter. PHP on it? Delete it!
Yeah, what is worse is that some people actually think that a signed SSL certificate is a certification of the safety of website.
Every once in a while I read about some idiot that thought the website was safe because it had a signed SSL cert and gets all bent out of shape because the https site infected his computer and the CA should have not issued the certificate before testing out the website for him.
If they need revenue there are other ways to go about it without using sleazy tactics.
Wikipedia exists with zero ads.
It can be done.
I block all ads and honestly, there is nothing I will be missing if those sites/services shut down.
Even if I didn't block them, I wouldn't click on them and if they annoyed me they would go on my blacklist of things never to buy. I have blacklisted all products from companies solely based on their ads annoying me. I don't base my purchasing decisions on ads anyway. I have no moral, ethical or legal obligation to look at ads, click on them or buy anything because of them.
There is always someone that will do it better. If they can't stay in business without using ads than good riddance. That is the market telling them they aren't wanted or needed.
Sad thing is that any mobo I could buy that would fit my 3Ghz Core Duo was either used or new but lacking in too many features and massively expensive.
It ran everything I needed smooth as silk. That was a sad day
The old machine:
EVGA 750i mobo Nvidia chipset
3 Ghz core duo
EVGA 580 GTX video card
8 GB 1066 Mhz DDR2
1 TB SATA WB Black HD.
X-Fi Titanium sound card
The only thing I disliked is that it was very noisy with the mobo fan, 5 case fans(2 in front/top 1 in back), the monstrous GPU aftermarket cooler and the two fans on the video card. It was annoyingly loud and still ran hot.
I was planning on keeping it for a few more years. For the people wondering why so many are holding on to older machines is because they still run most modern software just fine. No one sane upgrades for the sake of it. The time when a machine started struggling after two years is long gone and is one of the reasons why so many desktop makers are struggling today.
With no viable and reasonably-priced mobo replacement available, I bit the bullet and built a new machine.
EVGA Z97 FTW mobo
Intel i5 3.5 Ghz processor
EVGA 960 GTX Superclocked video card
Gskill 8 GB 2400 Mhz DDR3 RAM
3x 1TB SATA 3 WD Black HD
EVGA 650W supernova gold PSU
X-Fi Titanium sound card - The only part I recycled. Older hardware is worth more today than it was when I bought it. Selling off the old PSU, GPU, RAM and CPU paid for a good chunk of my new computer..
With an Antec case this cost me around $850 and got The Witcher 3 for free and $80 worth of annoying mail in rebates.
Yeah, benchmarks are much faster but aside from games, there is no noticeable performance increase for day to day usage(including running VirtualBox instances) but the fact that the PSU and video card fans rarely turn on and the mobo doesn't have a fan is a huge plus. I don't think I have have heard the PSU fan ever turn on and the GPU fan only turns on when the card hits 61 C.
The CPU is using its stock heatsink/fan which is very quiet. I only have two case fans and the case has sound-proofing.
My machine is very quiet, I rarely hear anything coming from the box.
It also runs significantly cooler than my old rig.
Is this a joke?
I am not entitled to say what can or can not be displayed on a device that I paid for?
Corporations Über Alles
91% unhappy?
They might as well pipe those to /dev/null.
It has the same effect.
There isn't a single good browser any more.
All the FF forks suck in various ways.
Seamonkey blows and is under control of Mozilla.
Chrome is nothing but spyware.
IE sucks as always doesn't run on anything but Windows. Anyone else remember the Linux IE version, now that was bad!
Maybe the new browser from the old CEO of Opera won't suck but I am not holding my breath.
Voting with your feet and moving to a different browser is like voting in an election, all there is on the ballot is various levels of evil and incompetence.