I've seen studies -- better, more serious studies -- that proved, at least to my satisfaction, that different people have different "schedules". Some are more efficient in the morning, some in the afternoon, some in the evening; some are more creative in the... well, you get the picture.
I think the fact that people have different patterns should already have become scientific "common sense"; I'm surprised that anyone can still be doing idiotic "research" like this, lumping everyone on the same baseline.
Maybe they could have been around one million years before us, but are stuck somewhere between Mesopotamia and Rome.
You know... I wanted to come here and make a funny quip about the double meaning of "between" there. Something like: "Oh, like Greece?" But then I realised, you know, Greece actually IS "between" Mesopotamia and Rome in the historical sense as well, so the joke wouldn't really work...
Replacing reiserfs with NTFS would be like replacing a TV show with a sports car. You may argue the merits of either, but what they're good at is completely unrelated.
It doesn't matter how many places reiserfs is default. It's a somewhat specialised file system, and I still recommend it if you have lots and lots of small files. I'm positively puzzled by this discussion... the author seems to think there's some kind of competition for "the new linux FS"? Well, even if there was, reiserfs isn't a contender and hasn't been for a long time, so, really... wtf?
Bundling is a well-known problem to the adoption of open source operating systems
Yeah, so is piracy. We've known this for years. Slashdot alone has dozens of articles on the subject ranging back about 10 years, including corporations being selective of how strongly they pursue depending on whether they're trying to grow into a given market. Yawn.
I thought about something like this recently, and decided against it, because Firefox is very memory-inefficient, and seems to (I may be wrong) leak more than Harry Potter spoilers. So while it sounds interesting, I wonder if I could really run it, in practice, without having to log out every day or so to release memory.
As many other commenters correctly pointed out, most supporters of either Free or Open Source software don't oppose copyrights. Some, specially in the Free camp, defend reforming them, but not abolishing. There is, yes, a small group that seriously opposes copyright; yours truly included. But it's a tiny minority, which means, even if the article was right -- which is a far cry from reality -- it would be hardly interesting.
And then, he misses the main point: to us copyright-opposers, copylefts are a way to subvert copyrights. It's elegant and useful to use something you oppose in favour of your cause. A copyleft license uses the (IMO broken) legal structure of copyright to enforce a "contract" that stands for almost the opposite values of copyright. That's a work of beauty.
Yes, if copyright was suddenly abolished, all my copylefts would become void. No duh. They would also become unnecessary, because the status quo would then be exactly what I wanted it to be.
Although I'm a very satisfied dvorak user, I can't really tell from experience whether or not it's more efficient than querty. The thing is, I never learnt to touch-type on qwerty (very shameful thing to say for someone who was a programmer for 15 years before making the switch). I was a bad typist, 2 fingers, 4 in a good day, but I was so fast that way that I could never be bothered to learn to do it properly. So I decided to go dvorak; since I'd need to learn to type all over again, I could take the chance to learn touch-typing. Not that I needed to be faster (although I actually am now), but most importantly, I was getting pretty serious RSI. So now I'm typing at twice my previous speed or more, my fingers don't hurt so much anymore, and my wrists don't hurt at all. That was reason enough for me to switch. But is it all because of dvorak, or just because I relearnt everything? No clue. And I don't care either:-)
Depends on what you consider "relevant". Free Software people measure success by being able to run a completely free system (which nowadays means DRM-free for example). Doesn't matter if only 15 people in the whole world exercise that freedom, only that it exists. Do we want millions, preferrably everyone, doing it? Yes, but it's not a measure of success. Having a complete free system used by a few is higher on the scale than an almost-complete one used by the whole world.
As usual, this has been reported before. The only change is that Eurotech is now announcing a seemingly bogus "price". But it doesn't look like the product actually exists, or will ever -- this sounds like investor-trap vapourware. Not that I don't like it; if Eurotech actually intends to produce it, which I doubt it, then I wish them all the luck and will probably buy one.
I'd like to make public my support and thanks for the pirate party. If you get elected, I might make a point of emigrating to Sweden, although the cold might be a bit too much for me. Someone needs to start fighting the "copyright" FUD politically; it seems even here on slashdot, most fools seem to have been brainwashed by that particular kool-aid.
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I've seen studies -- better, more serious studies -- that proved, at least to my satisfaction, that different people have different "schedules". Some are more efficient in the morning, some in the afternoon, some in the evening; some are more creative in the... well, you get the picture.
I think the fact that people have different patterns should already have become scientific "common sense"; I'm surprised that anyone can still be doing idiotic "research" like this, lumping everyone on the same baseline.
Maybe they could have been around one million years before us, but are stuck somewhere between Mesopotamia and Rome.
You know... I wanted to come here and make a funny quip about the double meaning of "between" there. Something like: "Oh, like Greece?" But then I realised, you know, Greece actually IS "between" Mesopotamia and Rome in the historical sense as well, so the joke wouldn't really work...
bummer. Damn Alexander.
...this research was published, right?
So that's what they mean when they say "travellers from Afar". I always suspected that was somewhere in Africa.
New shortcut key? Ctrl-PgDn has been around forever, in fact it's what I use, because there's also Ctrl-PgUp.
Making Ctrl-Tab show a "filmstrip" makes it more similar to Alt-Tab, and much more useful for switching to tabs that are farther away.
"Insightful"? Really? In what way?
Thanks for saving my precious time, you said everything I wanted to post.
Does it involve getting famous as a "guitar hero" and then becoming a complete @$$#013 as the fame goes to your head?
What the man said. IIRC, I started getting "backscatter" in 1997 or 98.
Replacing reiserfs with NTFS would be like replacing a TV show with a sports car. You may argue the merits of either, but what they're good at is completely unrelated.
It doesn't matter how many places reiserfs is default. It's a somewhat specialised file system, and I still recommend it if you have lots and lots of small files. I'm positively puzzled by this discussion... the author seems to think there's some kind of competition for "the new linux FS"? Well, even if there was, reiserfs isn't a contender and hasn't been for a long time, so, really... wtf?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Foster_(comics)
Interesting idea. Didn't Sony try that a few years ago?
come on, doesn't anybody here read comics? CBR? Wizard? Wow.
What, upgrading ships from combustion engines to sail? You kids and your newfangled fancy stuff! Next thing you'll be wanting oars!
nn? Who modded this "insightful"? Lay off the booze...
> Have any developers here successfully lobbied their company to stop or cut back on 'cowboy coding' and adopt best practices?
I tried and I tried and I tried. Now I'm about to vote with my feet; after a given point, it becomes the only sane alternative.
> This is a fairly serious accusation; anyone else have first-hand experiences that would back this up?
Indeed.
After the Google->Baidu situation, I got fed up and started pumping all my DNS usage through tor-dns-proxy.
Bundling is a well-known problem to the adoption of open source operating systems
Yeah, so is piracy. We've known this for years. Slashdot alone has dozens of articles on the subject ranging back about 10 years, including corporations being selective of how strongly they pursue depending on whether they're trying to grow into a given market. Yawn.
I thought about something like this recently, and decided against it, because Firefox is very memory-inefficient, and seems to (I may be wrong) leak more than Harry Potter spoilers. So while it sounds interesting, I wonder if I could really run it, in practice, without having to log out every day or so to release memory.
A device to let software communicate with hardware? Cool! Why don't we call it a "computer"?
As many other commenters correctly pointed out, most supporters of either Free or Open Source software don't oppose copyrights. Some, specially in the Free camp, defend reforming them, but not abolishing. There is, yes, a small group that seriously opposes copyright; yours truly included. But it's a tiny minority, which means, even if the article was right -- which is a far cry from reality -- it would be hardly interesting.
And then, he misses the main point: to us copyright-opposers, copylefts are a way to subvert copyrights. It's elegant and useful to use something you oppose in favour of your cause. A copyleft license uses the (IMO broken) legal structure of copyright to enforce a "contract" that stands for almost the opposite values of copyright. That's a work of beauty.
Yes, if copyright was suddenly abolished, all my copylefts would become void. No duh. They would also become unnecessary, because the status quo would then be exactly what I wanted it to be.
Although I'm a very satisfied dvorak user, I can't really tell from experience whether or not it's more efficient than querty. The thing is, I never learnt to touch-type on qwerty (very shameful thing to say for someone who was a programmer for 15 years before making the switch). I was a bad typist, 2 fingers, 4 in a good day, but I was so fast that way that I could never be bothered to learn to do it properly. So I decided to go dvorak; since I'd need to learn to type all over again, I could take the chance to learn touch-typing. Not that I needed to be faster (although I actually am now), but most importantly, I was getting pretty serious RSI. So now I'm typing at twice my previous speed or more, my fingers don't hurt so much anymore, and my wrists don't hurt at all. That was reason enough for me to switch. But is it all because of dvorak, or just because I relearnt everything? No clue. And I don't care either :-)
Depends on what you consider "relevant". Free Software people measure success by being able to run a completely free system (which nowadays means DRM-free for example). Doesn't matter if only 15 people in the whole world exercise that freedom, only that it exists. Do we want millions, preferrably everyone, doing it? Yes, but it's not a measure of success. Having a complete free system used by a few is higher on the scale than an almost-complete one used by the whole world.
I came to /. just to see the stargate jokes... it's great not to be disappointed for once ;-)
As usual, this has been reported before. The only change is that Eurotech is now announcing a seemingly bogus "price". But it doesn't look like the product actually exists, or will ever -- this sounds like investor-trap vapourware. Not that I don't like it; if Eurotech actually intends to produce it, which I doubt it, then I wish them all the luck and will probably buy one.
I'd like to make public my support and thanks for the pirate party. If you get elected, I might make a point of emigrating to Sweden, although the cold might be a bit too much for me. Someone needs to start fighting the "copyright" FUD politically; it seems even here on slashdot, most fools seem to have been brainwashed by that particular kool-aid.