See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?i d=73097
RPM has been broken for years. RedHat's official answer seems to be that you should just delete and re-create the RPM database every time you use RPM, if necessary. (It was on a system I had.)
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. The RUP contains many excellent ideas, and depending on the size of your project you may want to do part of it or even all of it. However, you don't need any of the Rational tools to use the RUP; just get one of the books. I particularly like The Unified Software Development Process by Jacobson, Booch and Rumbaugh.
Of course it doesn't warn you every time you buy a song, that would be annoying.
The information about how the iTunes Music Store works is right there on Apple's web site: "You can burn individual songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for your personal use, listen to songs on an unlimited number of iPods and play songs on up to five Macintosh computers or Windows PCs."
That's no more obscure than the tiny small print hidden away on the bottom of many software boxes.
To be competitive, you have to offer your immoral investors better returns than other companies. The reason I call them immoral is because, by and large, the stock market investors do not consider any other metric except money.
Technically that makes them 'amoral', not 'immoral'. Some specific things they do may be immoral, but they do so because their motivations are amoral.
Funny, I had the opposite problem. I posted information about someone that the person himself published on his own pages, and the Abuse team deleted my account. (See sig link.)
The second you download your first album and you realize that you can't play it on a portable device other than a CD player you wonder if you shouldn't just go out and get that iPod so that you can continue to get your music legally... Most people would think it really sucks to pay $10 for an album and then not be able to listen on the go without burning to a CD and then re-ripping to WAV>MP3.
That's nothing... if you go out and buy a copy of Half-Life 2, suddenly you find you have to buy a Windows PC to use it! Sure, maybe you can go through the hassle of Linux and Wine and Cedega and whatever, but it really sucks.
The big "danger" though is that you are relying on a comapny to store your data for you, and that company can be sold and your data destroyed or used for purposes that you did not intend at any time.
Actually, LiveJournal can and will deny you access to your own data if they feel like it, without the company being sold. They've already done it to a number of people.
Unless you do this, you are not a citizen of the United States and you therefore do not have the responsibilities or rights of US citizen. [...] There's your answer.
Yeah, pity it's wrong. In fact, the Bill of Rights is held to apply to everyone, even non-citizens. Of course, that's not what people like Ashcroft and Gonzales want you to believe.
Voicemail is a very simple application, and the impact if it breaks is minimal. In addition, the telephone system is high reliability compared to anything Internet-related.
Webmail isn't universally loved. It survives because there are enough places where people aren't allowed a decent mail client. And again, loss of service isn't a big deal. Even so, people often scream about unannounced changes, like Microsoft shutting out POP3, and complain about Yahoo Mail downtime all the time. Imagine if your entire system was as reliable as Yahoo Mail. (Then again, if you're a Windows user, you may not need to imagine.)
Car leasing is a bad counterexample, because the leased vehicle isn't silently upgraded on someone else's schedule. If you came back to the car park to find that your leased BMW 5 series had been quietly upgraded to an SUV with more features without you asking, I expect you'd swear off leasing for life. There's also the issue that leasing works for many people because they can't afford to buy.
I'm the author the article. The "network is the computer" was a false start because the bandwidth was not there.
No, it was a false start because it was a dumb idea.
People don't want to pay subscription fees for software. If they did, we'd see a ton of software being sold month-by-month, with remote activation via Internet. There's no technical block to doing so, and there hasn't been in over a decade. The problem is that whenever someone tries it, nobody outside of the business world is interested.
People don't want to be at the mercy of the cable company or the phone company. We're talking about the two companies the average person probably hates most, and now you're offering them a way to make their entire computer system totally dependent on the whims of the corporate behemoths they hate?
People don't want ever-increasing prices. Look at how the cable company jacks up subscription rates several times a year. Who wants that for all the software they run?
Network connections aren't reliable enough. Ask DSL users if they want their entire computer to turn into a doorstop every time the DSL is slow or out.
People don't want the upgrade treadmill. If you buy your software by subscription from an ASP, you get upgrades when they decide. And of course, the upgrades may break things, make your PC slower, or even outright fail to run. That's why people don't upgrade their OS, don't install new Windows patches, and don't upgrade their applications. They've been burnt before. If it ain't broke, they don't want it fixed.
Computers aren't fast enough. Thanks to the ever-increasing bloat of software, editing a text file today is slower than it was in 1987, when my 16MHz Atari ST system could smooth-scroll (pixel by pixel) at 64 lines per second running Tempus on a large soft-wrapped text file. My Linux box can't even seem to line-scroll that fast in vim. Hence, there's always a need to make PCs faster, and given a network computer, the easiest way to make it a shitload faster is by adding a hard disk, installing the software locally, and removing the network latency delays.
In short, the minor benefits of Network Computing don't outweigh the enormous costs and liabilities. It isn't going to happen in a free market. It only happens (sometimes) in business because PHBs impose it on everyone regardless of cost/benefit analysis.
"federal officials are developing government-wide identification card standards for federal employees and contractors to prevent terrorists, criminals and other unauthorized people from getting into government buildings and computer systems."
So how will Bush-appointed felons like John Poindexter get into their offices?
Well, I recently watched a documentary about the autobahn system, and unfortunately there's a lot more you have to do than just removing the speed limits.
The road has to be engineered to support high speeds and safety. That means strict limits on curvature and slope. (Not a problem in Texas, I imagine, but it wouldn't work in Pennsylvania.)
The autobahn has a massive expensive monitoring system with cameras and sensors, and police stationed for rapid response.
The road itself is built better--thicker, stronger and smoother.
All of this costs serious money--Germany spends twice as much per km on autobahn as America spends on interstate, and of course there's a lot more km of interstate. Meanwhile, even in Austin the whining over the possibility of road tolls is deafening. So forget about removing speed limits, at least as far as Texas is concerned.
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The Bush administration has already escaped into a faith-based parallel universe, as our own reality-based universe wasn't to their liking.
Where do those stats categorize people like me, who paid for accounts but had them deleted by abusive admins?
So, is there a non-broken implementation of the RPM tool? If not, what's the point of your quibble?
You mis-parsed the comment. It was alluding to specific platforms which are both legacy platforms and sucky.
See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?i d=73097
RPM has been broken for years. RedHat's official answer seems to be that you should just delete and re-create the RPM database every time you use RPM, if necessary. (It was on a system I had.)
Never mind the teenage girls, where will the poor trolls go now that the community that nurtures them is gone?
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. The RUP contains many excellent ideas, and depending on the size of your project you may want to do part of it or even all of it. However, you don't need any of the Rational tools to use the RUP; just get one of the books. I particularly like The Unified Software Development Process by Jacobson, Booch and Rumbaugh.
It already has a Word plugin, you dumbass.
In fact, one of my major issues with the Rational suite is that last time I looked it was heavily reliant on Word.
Try finding decent online documentation for SWT.
Of course it doesn't warn you every time you buy a song, that would be annoying.
The information about how the iTunes Music Store works is right there on Apple's web site: "You can burn individual songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for your personal use, listen to songs on an unlimited number of iPods and play songs on up to five Macintosh computers or Windows PCs."
That's no more obscure than the tiny small print hidden away on the bottom of many software boxes.
Technically that makes them 'amoral', not 'immoral'. Some specific things they do may be immoral, but they do so because their motivations are amoral.
Funny, I had the opposite problem. I posted information about someone that the person himself published on his own pages, and the Abuse team deleted my account. (See sig link.)
I think the Abuse team just lack competence.
If you use LAME instead of the iTunes MP3 encoder, you can have all your music in MP3 *and* have better quality than AAC at the same bit rates.
That's nothing... if you go out and buy a copy of Half-Life 2, suddenly you find you have to buy a Windows PC to use it! Sure, maybe you can go through the hassle of Linux and Wine and Cedega and whatever, but it really sucks.
I should sue Microsoft! Oh, wait...
Actually, LiveJournal can and will deny you access to your own data if they feel like it, without the company being sold. They've already done it to a number of people.
Policy? Anyone who tries to post anything informative or intelligent eventually pisses someone else off, and gets stomped by the "Abuse" team, who seem to think that troll rights are more important than the rights of paying users who contribute interesting content. I know several people who left LJ for other systems.
Read the article linked to in my .signature before you consider spending money on LiveJournal.
Yeah, pity it's wrong. In fact, the Bill of Rights is held to apply to everyone, even non-citizens. Of course, that's not what people like Ashcroft and Gonzales want you to believe.
(I am not a lawyer, but the National Lawyer's Guild are.)
(a) Read what I wrote. "...outside of the business world".
(b) I'm on a planet where there was massive uproar over Microsoft's switch to their new subscription-based licensing, and in fact they had to give in and change the terms several times.
If your game stops working, the impact is minimal. At worst, you have to get a life.
If your entire PC stopped working, the impact would be major.
Hence the success of leased MMORPGs can't really be used to prove that leased OSs and office suites will work.
Voicemail is a very simple application, and the impact if it breaks is minimal. In addition, the telephone system is high reliability compared to anything Internet-related.
Webmail isn't universally loved. It survives because there are enough places where people aren't allowed a decent mail client. And again, loss of service isn't a big deal. Even so, people often scream about unannounced changes, like Microsoft shutting out POP3, and complain about Yahoo Mail downtime all the time. Imagine if your entire system was as reliable as Yahoo Mail. (Then again, if you're a Windows user, you may not need to imagine.)
Car leasing is a bad counterexample, because the leased vehicle isn't silently upgraded on someone else's schedule. If you came back to the car park to find that your leased BMW 5 series had been quietly upgraded to an SUV with more features without you asking, I expect you'd swear off leasing for life. There's also the issue that leasing works for many people because they can't afford to buy.
No, it was a false start because it was a dumb idea.
People don't want to pay subscription fees for software. If they did, we'd see a ton of software being sold month-by-month, with remote activation via Internet. There's no technical block to doing so, and there hasn't been in over a decade. The problem is that whenever someone tries it, nobody outside of the business world is interested.
People don't want to be at the mercy of the cable company or the phone company. We're talking about the two companies the average person probably hates most, and now you're offering them a way to make their entire computer system totally dependent on the whims of the corporate behemoths they hate?
People don't want ever-increasing prices. Look at how the cable company jacks up subscription rates several times a year. Who wants that for all the software they run?
Network connections aren't reliable enough. Ask DSL users if they want their entire computer to turn into a doorstop every time the DSL is slow or out.
People don't want the upgrade treadmill. If you buy your software by subscription from an ASP, you get upgrades when they decide. And of course, the upgrades may break things, make your PC slower, or even outright fail to run. That's why people don't upgrade their OS, don't install new Windows patches, and don't upgrade their applications. They've been burnt before. If it ain't broke, they don't want it fixed.
Computers aren't fast enough. Thanks to the ever-increasing bloat of software, editing a text file today is slower than it was in 1987, when my 16MHz Atari ST system could smooth-scroll (pixel by pixel) at 64 lines per second running Tempus on a large soft-wrapped text file. My Linux box can't even seem to line-scroll that fast in vim. Hence, there's always a need to make PCs faster, and given a network computer, the easiest way to make it a shitload faster is by adding a hard disk, installing the software locally, and removing the network latency delays.
In short, the minor benefits of Network Computing don't outweigh the enormous costs and liabilities. It isn't going to happen in a free market. It only happens (sometimes) in business because PHBs impose it on everyone regardless of cost/benefit analysis.
So how will Bush-appointed felons like John Poindexter get into their offices?
Well, I recently watched a documentary about the autobahn system, and unfortunately there's a lot more you have to do than just removing the speed limits.
The road has to be engineered to support high speeds and safety. That means strict limits on curvature and slope. (Not a problem in Texas, I imagine, but it wouldn't work in Pennsylvania.)
The autobahn has a massive expensive monitoring system with cameras and sensors, and police stationed for rapid response.
The road itself is built better--thicker, stronger and smoother.
All of this costs serious money--Germany spends twice as much per km on autobahn as America spends on interstate, and of course there's a lot more km of interstate. Meanwhile, even in Austin the whining over the possibility of road tolls is deafening. So forget about removing speed limits, at least as far as Texas is concerned.
VIA Antaur has hardware support for MPEG decoding. Yes, a 1GHz VIA C3 plays MPEG-4 just fine.