Would you be capable of filtering all of China's net access using off the shelf boxes and some custom software, or would it need some specialised network hardware?
Are Cisco for (an obvious) example, supporting this censorship through hardware and/or software?
So this argument is rubbish. I suspect they will not ever supply a proper mapping, otherwise it would just be used by ODF, and make OOXML even more redundant than it already is.
Umm, no that's totally false. Novell bought Ximian in August, 2003. That isn't anywhere near the MS deal if you can't do the arithmetic.
Novell faltering really started when Jack Messman was pushed aside by the shareholders for trying to focus too heavily on Linux on the desktop. IMO the MS deal was more about leveraging Novell's extensive IP to make some nice hard cash than anything else from the Novell side of things. That is why Miguel and presumably other technical people weren't particularly involved in it, just the lawyers and accountants. Novell is a technology company but is ruled by HR and the accountants a bit too much (one of the reasons I left).
It's nice to hear Miguel say it probably wasn't the wisest of moves, actually.
I'm not sure that's right either. I've contributed to free software mostly because it gives me something to do. e.g. TV is too boring. Programming is interesting. This whole 'scratch to itch' thing was something ESR simply made up, and people ran with it. Scratching an itch is writing a 50 line Perl script you never look at again. Writing a kernel isn't scratching an itch, finding that perfect O(1) scheduler isn't scratching an itch - you're not doing it to solve a problem you have yourself - if you're not getting paid to do it, you're doing it because it's your idea of fun and entertainment, proving it can be done (or specifically you can do it, mostly to yourself), etc.
I usually don't care much if I use anything I write myself, and actually find it a bit annoying if other people use it too much - even if that is good for the ego. But that's just me, everyone's different. Some people like user-end apps with lots of users and perfecting the experience for example. For me it's definitely the process of finding solutions to problems that is the interesting bit, not the end result (particularly if it ends in years of maintenance for whining users).
The 'doing a good thing' does happen but it's mostly incidental. If i'm going to be playing with stuff for fun, may as well let other people have it if they like. The alternative is that it stays on your hdd till you upgrade your machine, or you go to the effort to productise it and try to make money from it - and not everyone cares to go that route. GPL is a nice fit since you can just chuck it out there and maybe it'll have a life of its own, but nobody will be able to 'steal it' either.
I'm talking about free-time contributions here - being paid is different. Being paid is just another job really, even if it might be quite a good one if you're lucky. And a lot of stuff these days is paid for, directly or indirectly.
Umm, ini files are not human readable - they are really fucked at as soon as you need more than a few simple key-value pairs.
Programmers use xml because it saves them the hassle of writing a robust config file parser. Well it saves them writing the actual text parsing part at least - you still have to write a parser. It's mostly a quick and lazy solution that is rarely designed properly anyway so it often makes things worse.
Plus now you need to know a whole new 'xml format' for every bloody application, add in namespacing and funky entity encoding rules and it isn't very human readable either.
It's just more lies, just trying to justify the coming mess to shareholders. I mean that statement is so obviously complete and utter rubbish, and everyone with 1/2 a brain and a bit of experience knows it is. And he's has plenty of both. So he knows he's lying as well.
Buying Yahoo is more about getting rid of competitors. With no Yahoo MS only has 1 large competitor left. And if they can't buy it, they'll just (try to) destroy it with more FUD and lies. A few users will be a nice benefit, but nothing more. They will scuttle any competing tech (search, mail, e-commerce, chat) and mess up all of the non-MS based stuff left. They will not be able to retain much of the engineering talent he's talking about.
It is not a technology or customer acquisition, it is just another anti-competitive move. As such it is unlikely the eu regulators will approve it anyway, although the us one seem to be in their pay. MS advance the argument that it provides a bigger competitor to google, but nobody should buy that - anti-competitive laws are there to protect consumers and every company, not just ms's ability to compete.
Well sure developers use tools they write all the time... if they are development tools.
The problem is of course, 'professional' artists don't know how to code (on the whole), so they can hardly be the main developers.
Oddly enough, all professional programmers do know how to code (well, should), so can make useful code contributions to tools they use in their spare time, if they so wish.
Any CS or CSE course will have cover GUIs and computer graphics at some point. Even research software needs to interact with humans in some way or another.
But there is just no point learning any particular toolkit in too much depth. Particularly the ones with integrated gui designers or systems. Fashions and versions change too fast for it to be worth it. We used some obscure hp toolkit - never seen it since. But they all basically work the same at some level.
You've gotta be kidding. Or just ignorant of what else is out there.
Visual studio is one of the buggiest, slowest, most unpleasant pieces of development software I've ever had the misfortune of being forced to use. And I used to think gdb was slow and buggy. For the last 2 years i've been using vs2k5 on the most specced out pc i've ever had access to too - although it doesn't feel like that when i'm using visual studio.
Have you actually ever used anything else properly? Or are you just one of those ms fanboi 'developers! developers! developers!' who wank off to every bit of ms tech released, shit or otherwise?
Toys like visual studio are fine if you're writing MyFunDatabase, but out in the real world, it's closed-system 'integration' just gets in the way of doing your job.
Well I guess that's the difference between a professional and not.
Hmm, so they have a non-linear medium which transmits em waves at different speeds.
The send it two waves at different frequencies, which mix - which presumably produces a beat frequency.
The combined wave travels at the same speed... (i couldn't be bothered rtfa, but this is the impression i get from the comments)
This is somehow an event horizon?
Sounds more like some funky wave-matter interaction to my untrained ears (just like having a medium with non-linear transmission properties does). Or even something simpler to do with the beat frequency. Probably has all sorts of useful applications, but it really doesn't sound like studying black holes is one of them.
Even this is a (much) better effort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house (e.g. compare the practicality of that with the pointless previous disney 'house of the future', given they have a similar vintage).
Yes it is utterly absurd that they're focusing on technology over-load. They should be focusing on improved construction techniques, heating and cooling design, water and waste collection and recycling (rainwater tanks, composting toilet), improved lighting (daylight from sun, night from low-energy), it goes on and on...
There is a world of interesting and exciting things that could make a real difference out there. Instead it's full of computers which probably wont work properly and big screen tv's. Big bloody deal - there's nothing great or earth changing about that, and with technology moving so fast it will rapidly become so dated it will just become a quaint joke like their last effort.
This is right on the money...
The only way these charlatans manage to survive is to continually attempt to get media coverage implying they are relevant.
The OSI is like those shysters who sell people deeds to plots of land on the Moon - their only worth is proportional to how dumb and gullible you are.
Source code licenses are nothing more than tools. Each license should fit the particulars of that developer or company's needs or plans for their work. Trying to hijack that process to further your own nutty ideological goals is pathetic.
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Yeah really ... M$ farts and it's on the front page of slashdot yet again.
Whats happened around here lately - almost seems to be becoming an M$ advocacy site.
Would you be capable of filtering all of China's net access using off the shelf boxes and some custom software, or would it need some specialised network hardware?
Are Cisco for (an obvious) example, supporting this censorship through hardware and/or software?
see comment 3.
So this argument is rubbish. I suspect they will not ever supply a proper mapping, otherwise it would just be used by ODF, and make OOXML even more redundant than it already is.
Well we used to, but the Howard Battlers consider intellectual achievement work of The Devil, so it became unfashionable.
It means a region suited to and used for growing wheat. Based mainly on geography and climate. Flat open areas with little rainfall in summer.
Often, but not always associated with sheep. As in 'wheat and sheep country'. Both do well in similar climates.
It's really quite simple, and a simple google search shows both in common usage, and even that they aren't just colloquial Australian phrases either.
Umm, no that's totally false. Novell bought Ximian in August, 2003. That isn't anywhere near the MS deal if you can't do the arithmetic.
Novell faltering really started when Jack Messman was pushed aside by the shareholders for trying to focus too heavily on Linux on the desktop. IMO the MS deal was more about leveraging Novell's extensive IP to make some nice hard cash than anything else from the Novell side of things. That is why Miguel and presumably other technical people weren't particularly involved in it, just the lawyers and accountants. Novell is a technology company but is ruled by HR and the accountants a bit too much (one of the reasons I left).
It's nice to hear Miguel say it probably wasn't the wisest of moves, actually.
Mate, it's just another laptop. What's so revolutionary about that?
Sounds like advertising to me.
I do like thinkpads myself, but the only thing revolutionary about the X300 to me is it's exorbitant price.
I'm not sure that's right either. I've contributed to free software mostly because it gives me something to do. e.g. TV is too boring. Programming is interesting. This whole 'scratch to itch' thing was something ESR simply made up, and people ran with it. Scratching an itch is writing a 50 line Perl script you never look at again. Writing a kernel isn't scratching an itch, finding that perfect O(1) scheduler isn't scratching an itch - you're not doing it to solve a problem you have yourself - if you're not getting paid to do it, you're doing it because it's your idea of fun and entertainment, proving it can be done (or specifically you can do it, mostly to yourself), etc.
I usually don't care much if I use anything I write myself, and actually find it a bit annoying if other people use it too much - even if that is good for the ego. But that's just me, everyone's different. Some people like user-end apps with lots of users and perfecting the experience for example. For me it's definitely the process of finding solutions to problems that is the interesting bit, not the end result (particularly if it ends in years of maintenance for whining users).
The 'doing a good thing' does happen but it's mostly incidental. If i'm going to be playing with stuff for fun, may as well let other people have it if they like. The alternative is that it stays on your hdd till you upgrade your machine, or you go to the effort to productise it and try to make money from it - and not everyone cares to go that route. GPL is a nice fit since you can just chuck it out there and maybe it'll have a life of its own, but nobody will be able to 'steal it' either.
I'm talking about free-time contributions here - being paid is different. Being paid is just another job really, even if it might be quite a good one if you're lucky. And a lot of stuff these days is paid for, directly or indirectly.
Well its in the right country for it. I never saw people waiting for up to an hour or more just to get into a restaurant before I went to Boston.
Umm, ini files are not human readable - they are really fucked at as soon as you need more than a few simple key-value pairs.
Programmers use xml because it saves them the hassle of writing a robust config file parser. Well it saves them writing the actual text parsing part at least - you still have to write a parser. It's mostly a quick and lazy solution that is rarely designed properly anyway so it often makes things worse.
Plus now you need to know a whole new 'xml format' for every bloody application, add in namespacing and funky entity encoding rules and it isn't very human readable either.
It's just more lies, just trying to justify the coming mess to shareholders. I mean that statement is so obviously complete and utter rubbish, and everyone with 1/2 a brain and a bit of experience knows it is. And he's has plenty of both. So he knows he's lying as well.
Buying Yahoo is more about getting rid of competitors. With no Yahoo MS only has 1 large competitor left. And if they can't buy it, they'll just (try to) destroy it with more FUD and lies. A few users will be a nice benefit, but nothing more. They will scuttle any competing tech (search, mail, e-commerce, chat) and mess up all of the non-MS based stuff left. They will not be able to retain much of the engineering talent he's talking about.
It is not a technology or customer acquisition, it is just another anti-competitive move. As such it is unlikely the eu regulators will approve it anyway, although the us one seem to be in their pay. MS advance the argument that it provides a bigger competitor to google, but nobody should buy that - anti-competitive laws are there to protect consumers and every company, not just ms's ability to compete.
Well sure developers use tools they write all the time ... if they are development tools.
The problem is of course, 'professional' artists don't know how to code (on the whole), so they can hardly be the main developers.
Oddly enough, all professional programmers do know how to code (well, should), so can make useful code contributions to tools they use in their spare time, if they so wish.
Yeah sure it does. Probably just less visibly because they are a mostly insignificant player compared to ms in the os space.
MS is just more overtly nasty when it comes to levereging their monopoly to force people to use their technology too.
Apple fans actually enjoy their sodomising from Father Jobs.
Any CS or CSE course will have cover GUIs and computer graphics at some point. Even research software needs to interact with humans in some way or another.
But there is just no point learning any particular toolkit in too much depth. Particularly the ones with integrated gui designers or systems. Fashions and versions change too fast for it to be worth it. We used some obscure hp toolkit - never seen it since. But they all basically work the same at some level.
You've gotta be kidding. Or just ignorant of what else is out there.
Visual studio is one of the buggiest, slowest, most unpleasant pieces of development software I've ever had the misfortune of being forced to use. And I used to think gdb was slow and buggy. For the last 2 years i've been using vs2k5 on the most specced out pc i've ever had access to too - although it doesn't feel like that when i'm using visual studio.
Have you actually ever used anything else properly? Or are you just one of those ms fanboi 'developers! developers! developers!' who wank off to every bit of ms tech released, shit or otherwise?
If you're using a slower computer you don't need to run a profiler to tell you that your code is slow ... it's just slow!
Toys like visual studio are fine if you're writing MyFunDatabase, but out in the real world, it's closed-system 'integration' just gets in the way of doing your job.
Well I guess that's the difference between a professional and not.
Hahhaa.
Now that's a real joke!
High quality toolchain? Visual studio?
Sorry, it isn't, but when you grow up you might learn that.
Do they really look like geysers to anybody? Wouldn't they be more columnar, or conical?
... 2 years ago, same story - with a cometary conclusion:
If anything it looks like the solar corona, or a comet perhaps?
ahh, here we go
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=1797
Or perhaps just those with less tolerance to alcohol will perish?
Hmm, so they have a non-linear medium which transmits em waves at different speeds.
... (i couldn't be bothered rtfa, but this is the impression i get from the comments)
The send it two waves at different frequencies, which mix - which presumably produces a beat frequency.
The combined wave travels at the same speed
This is somehow an event horizon?
Sounds more like some funky wave-matter interaction to my untrained ears (just like having a medium with non-linear transmission properties does). Or even something simpler to do with the beat frequency. Probably has all sorts of useful applications, but it really doesn't sound like studying black holes is one of them.
Even this is a (much) better effort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house (e.g. compare the practicality of that with the pointless previous disney 'house of the future', given they have a similar vintage).
...
Yes it is utterly absurd that they're focusing on technology over-load. They should be focusing on improved construction techniques, heating and cooling design, water and waste collection and recycling (rainwater tanks, composting toilet), improved lighting (daylight from sun, night from low-energy), it goes on and on
There is a world of interesting and exciting things that could make a real difference out there. Instead it's full of computers which probably wont work properly and big screen tv's. Big bloody deal - there's nothing great or earth changing about that, and with technology moving so fast it will rapidly become so dated it will just become a quaint joke like their last effort.
Pretty sad it takes someone to 'discover' a fix for such an issue.
This sort of thing should've been coded in from the start (is it in rsync?).
i/o / cpu decoupling is known issue with known and simple solutions (although linux doesn't make it as easy as it could).
The OSI is like those shysters who sell people deeds to plots of land on the Moon - their only worth is proportional to how dumb and gullible you are.
Source code licenses are nothing more than tools. Each license should fit the particulars of that developer or company's needs or plans for their work. Trying to hijack that process to further your own nutty ideological goals is pathetic.