1) telling the autodealer he can't charge for add-on parts is the ONLY way to tell him that he can't charge for the car that would stand half a chance in hell of standing up in court 2) if he want to charge for add-on parts anyway, he can PAY YOU to obtain the cars under different terms 3) this analogy is dumb anyway since you can't make perfect copies of cars (or their add-on parts, for that matter) for virtually no cost (less than a cent in some situations, like over a LAN)
Am I the only one who is TIRED of these retarded software-automobile analogies?
4. company releases open source driver (nVidia) 5. company releases detailed specifications (hopefully Matrox, soon) 6. company releases detailed specifications AND has some employees help with development (no one yet that I know of, at least in gfx cards)
Such a device would just 3 times as expensive and probably have lower sound quality than a similar unencrypted one. All the while it offers nothing to consumers who choose to buy encrypted over unencrypted. Sounds like divx to me...
By the same token, in order to have a GNU-free distro, you would either have to write a clean-room C compiler or not include any utility written in C or C++. Parting with perl is slightly inconvenient, but OUCH, that HURTS. Say goodbye to your perl interpreter. Oh, and the kernel, too. Doesn't sounds like much of a distro to me...
Consider Corel WordPerfect for Linux. Surely it didn't cost anywhere near as much to port to Linux as it did to originally develop for Windows? I don't think anyone here is suggesting developing commercial desktop applications for Linux *instead of* Windows, but rather for Linux *in addition to* Windows.
I don't know about you, but I didn't get a whole lot of fear, uncertainty, or doubt from reading this article. But then again, I didn't get any content of any other kind, either... *shrug* (Is my browser broken, or does the article really *end* with statistics? Hello? And these statistics mean...???)
Analogies are only useful to clarify arguments, not support them. Come back when all it takes is a "mv" command to clean graffiti paint off of your house.
This was bound to happen sooner or later. After all, the developers themselves tend not to have these silly "KDE (sux|roolz)! GNOME (roolz|sux)!" attitudes...
A nice, tight little text (or ps or html or whatever) document giving a rundown of how all the pieces of Mozilla fit together and how those pieces work (and of course associating pieces with particular sections of source code) would go a long way in telling people who both know how to write c++ code and actually have a desired change for mozilla in mind where the fuck they're actually supposed to start.
Yes, it would be easier to port lynx to X. I imagine it would be even EASIER to just start from practically nothing and write a browser for X with all the features you wanted. Oh, wait, that's what they did, isn't it...
I think your point number 3 is exactly what this benchmark is supposed to say to the NT zombies who had been recently droning on about how NT is faster than Linux on all hardware configurations about the MindCraft tests.
I admit it! I didn't use the preview button!:( Ok, here's the (hopefully) correct version of my post:
Say I manage to post a page on the new Yahoo! service containing [insert any form of slander against assorted rich and powerful people here] in a completely anonymous manner (the details of how this would be done are really beside the point). What would be the expected outcome of this? Yahoo! might be denying responsibility, but then who is responsible?
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Don't you mean:
1) telling the autodealer he can't charge for add-on parts is the ONLY way to tell him that he can't charge for the car that would stand half a chance in hell of standing up in court
2) if he want to charge for add-on parts anyway, he can PAY YOU to obtain the cars under different terms
3) this analogy is dumb anyway since you can't make perfect copies of cars (or their add-on parts, for that matter) for virtually no cost (less than a cent in some situations, like over a LAN)
Am I the only one who is TIRED of these retarded software-automobile analogies?
He would need a termination clause of some kind in his original BSD license to be able to do that.
I would change those last few categories:
4. company releases open source driver (nVidia)
5. company releases detailed specifications (hopefully Matrox, soon)
6. company releases detailed specifications AND has some employees help with development (no one yet that I know of, at least in gfx cards)
That's why it's so silly to use horsepower like this for static webpages.
Such a device would just 3 times as expensive and probably have lower sound quality than a similar unencrypted one. All the while it offers nothing to consumers who choose to buy encrypted over unencrypted. Sounds like divx to me...
Frontpage for Linux? As in, the editor, not just the extensions for Apache? Got a URL?
By the same token, in order to have a GNU-free distro, you would either have to write a clean-room C compiler or not include any utility written in C or C++. Parting with perl is slightly inconvenient, but OUCH, that HURTS. Say goodbye to your perl interpreter. Oh, and the kernel, too. Doesn't sounds like much of a distro to me...
That page actually is a joke... :)
Consider Corel WordPerfect for Linux. Surely it didn't cost anywhere near as much to port to Linux as it did to originally develop for Windows? I don't think anyone here is suggesting developing commercial desktop applications for Linux *instead of* Windows, but rather for Linux *in addition to* Windows.
You're only supposed to say that when people disagreed with you originally, and I, for one, have a hard time seeing that happening... :)
I don't know about you, but I didn't get a whole lot of fear, uncertainty, or doubt from reading this article. But then again, I didn't get any content of any other kind, either... *shrug* (Is my browser broken, or does the article really *end* with statistics? Hello? And these statistics mean...???)
Analogies are only useful to clarify arguments, not support them. Come back when all it takes is a "mv" command to clean graffiti paint off of your house.
Those statistics indicate NT is waaay to unstable for EDA's multiple week simulation jobs.
It makes little to no difference when crashes are unacceptable in the first place.
Do you laugh at all BSOD's, or just the ones near the end of a 10-12 day simulation? :)
GNOME roolz, you mean. Or perhaps GNOME r00lz. :)
The fact that kde and gnome have agreed on a drag 'n' drop protocol is old news. Look up something called "xdnd."
Isn't it "Pennington"?
This was bound to happen sooner or later. After all, the developers themselves tend not to have these silly "KDE (sux|roolz)! GNOME (roolz|sux)!" attitudes...
Why don't you get an account and at least try to spell "BBC" correctly next time you call someone illiterate?
A nice, tight little text (or ps or html or whatever) document giving a rundown of how all the pieces of Mozilla fit together and how those pieces work (and of course associating pieces with particular sections of source code) would go a long way in telling people who both know how to write c++ code and actually have a desired change for mozilla in mind where the fuck they're actually supposed to start.
Yes, it would be easier to port lynx to X. I imagine it would be even EASIER to just start from practically nothing and write a browser for X with all the features you wanted. Oh, wait, that's what they did, isn't it...
I think your point number 3 is exactly what this benchmark is supposed to say to the NT zombies who had been recently droning on about how NT is faster than Linux on all hardware configurations about the MindCraft tests.
Why not write a sound blaster 16 "driver" that, instead of actually sending data to a sb16, writes it to c:\haha_fuck_you_riaa.wav?
I admit it! I didn't use the preview button! :( Ok, here's the (hopefully) correct version of my post:
Say I manage to post a page on the new Yahoo! service containing [insert any form of slander against assorted rich and powerful people here] in a completely anonymous manner (the details of how this would be done are really beside the point). What would be the expected outcome of this? Yahoo! might be denying responsibility, but then who is responsible?