While I'm not going to disagree with your other points,
I value what little privacy I have remaining, and I should not have to carry a piece of plastic just to fricking travel.....
where/how would you travel without your "piece of plastic" now, even if they didn't check it at the airports? I suppose if you were going to travel somewhere that you knew you weren't going to drive the entire time you were there, had plenty of cash, and weren't planning on buying any alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc. at any point during your trip, maybe you could travel without needing an ID. but what's the point?
a spell checker with all of the spare cpu cycles in the world won't help someone who doesn't care.
in this case, duel is spelled coorectly, it's just the wrong word....
I have a spell in checker, It came with my PC. It plainly marks four my revue Mist takes I can not sea. I ran this poem threw it, I'm shore your please to no Its letter perfect inn it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew.
i like the "SPACE=CONTINUE" message on the bottom of the screen. What would the point of continuing be at this point? in that screenshoot, it looks like the bootloader failed. So I'm guessing that continue really means reboot, because from that point, there's not really anything else you can do.
talk about cryptic. this must be from the same guy who brought us "keyboard missing. hit f1 to continue." i hate to tell you guys, but it's not the 1980's anymore. you can be a little more descriptive with your error messages.
both my wife and one of my business partners were getting them on a regular basis for a long time- at least three times a week, sometimes multiple times per day. the two of them both had the same laptop and same driver versions as me, and i never had any problems with mine. the error message always said something about a driver error, but they must have spent a year upgrading to every new driver that was released without ever fixing the problem. finally, after sp1 came and went without fixing the problem, i conviced my wife to use the 'classic' look instead the 'xp' look (the only difference i could ever figure out between my laptop and theirs) and the problem went away. my busines partner, on the other had, refused to believe that was what was causing the errors, although i think he did eventually switch.
so, is the broadcast flag really struck down, or is this like when the eu parliament 'ordered' the comission to restart the sw patent process and they went ahead with it anyway? something like this has enough industry support behind it that i doubt the big shots are just going to say "well, you win some, you lose some" and walk away from it....
i see a lot of people asking what good this does google other than as a way to harvest your personal information. while that may be true, if i had to bet, i'd guess that their purpose here is as a way to fight search spammers.
by indexing the results of real requests, they eliminate the problem of cheaters attempting to serve different responses to googlebot than they do to real visitors. it actually makes it much harder to even tell google has anything to do with it. on top of that, it gives them a new weighting metric to add to page rank. besides just knowing how many pages link to a page, they also get a useful measurement of how many people visit a page and all the pages linking to it. google has figured out how to use real thinking people to accomplish what has turned out to be one of the harder tasks for a machine to perform- distinguishing real data from spam.
redo the whole windowing system into something that is NOT X,
I think at this point for every user linux would gain by ditching X, they would lose an existing user. I might have agreed with you 2 or 3 years ago, when X was stagnating badly under the XFree86 team. Now that it is starting to make significant progress once again under X.org, it's become clear to many people that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with X that cannot be fixed.
The biggest problem with replacing X is that everything in Linux uses it. If you replace X with something better, you would need to provide an X compatibility layer so that all of the existing applications work, or no one would use it. Apple could get away with burying X because: a) they didn't have to worry about supporting any existing apps that ran on it. b) they were a large company that could afford to write or license a full suite of applications for their own display api. And even then they still have X compatibility.
Besides that, if you really were going to ditch X for something completely new, by the time you implement an entirely new system, including all of the features that people want to keep from X, plus all of the new features people want, plus add X compatibility for existing apps... you might has well have just added the new features you wanted to X and saved yourself an awfl lot of work.
Of course I agree that Linux could use a lot more effort in getting things to "Just Work", but I don't see replacing X as being necessary or even helpful towards making that happen. And while you are free to decide that Linux is not suitable for you to use on the desktop, personally I (and a great many others) find that Linux, with all it's warts, is still more suitable than anything else for desktop use. As for gaming, well, I guess that depends what games you want to play.
maybe because there is no open standard with open source drivers? yes, for most people, this would meet the same goal. my guess is the people behind the project have the talent (or access to the talent) to design a card themselves, and feel, as many other people do, that the chance that the various commercial vendors to agree upon and implement such a standard is slim to none.
as someone pointed out earlier, this is a letter to the editor regarding another article they printed, not a full article. letters to the editor have to be short and sweet, or they don't get published.
whether that makes the article slashdot worthy i suppose is up to the reader, but out of about 10 stories on the front page right now, this is one of two that i bothered to read, so at least some people thought it worthwhile.
People who want to run a stable release do not want a "floating" update or to stay current. They want a set of packages that do not change so that the apps they are running will run consistently and there is no need to worry about a new version of a dependency breaking some functionality they are depending on. THAT is the key quality of Debian.
While it's great that somebody who set up their debian server over three years ago has had to upgrade any of their software in the meantime, i'm sure there are a lot of people who might have considered installing debian stable on their servers in the last year or two that might have liked slightly more modern versions of (for example) postgresql (version in debian stable is over three years old), apache (almost four years old), or php (also over three years old).
i mean, it's not like there have been any significant updates to any of those applications in the last three years....
i've fired guns several hundreds of times in my life. i have killed a few pigeons and other farm pests, but mostly i've only 'killed' little clay disks, sheets of paper, etc. in other words, about 95% of the times i've used a gun, i never intended to kill anything.
the times i was intending to kill, i was killing barnyard disease carriers.
The worst is every oracle db runs on some expensive production environment hardware. Every MySQL db runs on a cheap PC. Until this is changed, oracle is stuck as the industry standard.
What are you smoking? I've seen oracle running on compaq proliant pentium pro systems, and i've worked with mysql installations running on sun enterprise 5000's. Oracle is not the industry standard because it runs on bigger hardware. Oracle is the industry standard because even though it is the biggest pain in the ass to use and administer, it provides a level of reliability, scalability, and functionality not found anywhere else. MySQL doesn't even come close.
That's not to say that MySQL doesn't have its uses, but I think it's a little bit insane to suggest that all the experts should quit working on real databases and work on MySQL instead.
i was under the impression that this had been known for some time. when i saw the headline i thought that they were distributing some new gpl ripoff, not something that has been discussed for (almost) as long as the cherryOS mess.
We're just end users, and if we can get a little bit of performance for free, well why not.
i wouldn't exactly call it free when you spend more time recompiling all of your applications than you could ever save running them. i'm not saying this to troll, i've been using the ports system on freebsd since before gentoo existed. if you're using gentoo because you are familiar with it, and like the way it works, great. i just can't help but be amused by gentoo users that talk about the performance improvements they get from spending half the time they are using their computer compiling things.
One bad sign: the phishing attacks I see are getting (on average) more professional in their phrasing -- it used to be easy to toss out the trawlers based on their spelling alone.
i'll be worried when i start seeing attacks imitating places that i actually have accounts at. other than paypal, i don't think a single one out of the thousands of phishing attacks i've received has tried to imitate a bank or institution that i actually do business with.
maybe it's just me, but i would think that when people see hundreds of emails coming from places they've never done businesss with in their life, they might be a little suspicious when they see one that's almost exactly the same except with their bank's logo on it, no matter how well written. or am i expecting too much of the average person?
This is not particularly news. Some "blogger" discovers something because he never bothered to ask and screams something about the sky is falling.
I would say it's especially not news, since he first of all states that he doesn't even have one of these devices, and he doesn't appear to really understand exactly what is happening and how it affects the final picture quality. Just another nitwit who got his panties in a bunch over something he read online that he doesn't really understand that doesn't affect him anyway.
Well thats your ARMY for ya fuck nut! If your pissed then be pissed at the dipshits who can't put out a clean PDF not those who may unredact and read it.
he never actually said who he was pissed at- he may very well be more pissed off at the idiots who put the information out there than the people who published the information. after all, it's not like this is the first time our government has made this mistake. (you'd think they would learn after the first 1 or 2 or 5 times.) if it were me, that's definitely who i would be pissed at.
and no i wasn't over there, but i have several good friends who were, and it's not too hard for me to imagine that i might have been had my financial situation in college been a little different.
FreeBSD's the only other OSS system I've ever seen do this;
I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD doesn't actually do this. I know it didn't the last time I really dug through the rc scripts (late in the 4.x line) and if they've implemented it in 5.x I haven't noticed yet.
However, it's pretty damned good for the times where you want a machine to parse your config files and present them in a nice GUI format.
I would argue that an.ini style file is much easier for both machinesand humans to parse. writing a config parser for an apache like config file is trivial in just about any language (i've written several in C) whereas parsing xml at the very least adds external library dependencies and often is much harder to implement as well.
But honestly, when was the last time you edited anything more than the most trivial.ini or.cfg file by hand? Your MTA? Apache? Samba? BIND? Crontab? Inetd? Initd? IPFW/PF?
all of the above, actually. except inetd which i haven't used in years. i don't think i've ever even tried to configure inetd. add to that bash, vim, mplayer, postgres, imapd, samba, and even gnome and nautilus when the graphical configuration tools choked on me. i did use the graphical tools in redhat back when i was new to linux, but quickly gave up on them because for all but the most trivial tasks they were harder to use than editing the config files by hand.
now, i fully expect that i'm probably more the exception here than the rule, and i also know i'm not really apple's target audience, but either way, what's easier to parse for a human is easier to parse for a machine, and having implemented both ways, i see no compelling reason to use xml for configuration files for at least 90% of applications, unless one of your goals is to intentionally make hand modifications to the configuration files more difficult. (*cough*GNOME*cough*)
Once photorealism and realistic movement are achieved, what then? The current driving forces for new purchases will then disappear, so ability to innovate not technically but in game themes and in storytelling and in player interation will become the new frontier.
Yes, because the remarkable success hollywood has had with realistic special effects has forced their focus from technical innovation to story telling and character development...
You don't have to worry about whether AND has precedence over EQUALS
If you parenthesize properly, you don't have to worry about this. or, as larry wall put it: "when in doubt, parenthesize. at the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi."
while i haven't read too much about this case in particular, based on some of spitzer's previous involvements, i'd guess that he's suing because in order to prosecute you have to have a burden of evidence in order to bring a case against a defendent. on the other hand, you can sue for just about anything. by suing, he can make their life, financially and otherwise, pretty miserable for some time, regardless of whether he really has any ground for winning the suit. to prosecute them in a criminal court it would be much more difficult to get the same results.
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While I'm not going to disagree with your other points,
I value what little privacy I have remaining, and I should not have to carry a piece of plastic just to fricking travel.....
where/how would you travel without your "piece of plastic" now, even if they didn't check it at the airports? I suppose if you were going to travel somewhere that you knew you weren't going to drive the entire time you were there, had plenty of cash, and weren't planning on buying any alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc. at any point during your trip, maybe you could travel without needing an ID. but what's the point?
a spell checker with all of the spare cpu cycles in the world won't help someone who doesn't care.
in this case, duel is spelled coorectly, it's just the wrong word....
I have a spell in checker,
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mist takes I can not sea.
I ran this poem threw it,
I'm shore your please to no
Its letter perfect inn it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
i like the "SPACE=CONTINUE" message on the bottom of the screen. What would the point of continuing be at this point? in that screenshoot, it looks like the bootloader failed. So I'm guessing that continue really means reboot, because from that point, there's not really anything else you can do.
talk about cryptic. this must be from the same guy who brought us "keyboard missing. hit f1 to continue." i hate to tell you guys, but it's not the 1980's anymore. you can be a little more descriptive with your error messages.
both my wife and one of my business partners were getting them on a regular basis for a long time- at least three times a week, sometimes multiple times per day. the two of them both had the same laptop and same driver versions as me, and i never had any problems with mine. the error message always said something about a driver error, but they must have spent a year upgrading to every new driver that was released without ever fixing the problem. finally, after sp1 came and went without fixing the problem, i conviced my wife to use the 'classic' look instead the 'xp' look (the only difference i could ever figure out between my laptop and theirs) and the problem went away. my busines partner, on the other had, refused to believe that was what was causing the errors, although i think he did eventually switch.
not always. only blue neon makes the car faster. other colors will actually slow you down.
so, is the broadcast flag really struck down, or is this like when the eu parliament 'ordered' the comission to restart the sw patent process and they went ahead with it anyway? something like this has enough industry support behind it that i doubt the big shots are just going to say "well, you win some, you lose some" and walk away from it....
i see a lot of people asking what good this does google other than as a way to harvest your personal information. while that may be true, if i had to bet, i'd guess that their purpose here is as a way to fight search spammers.
by indexing the results of real requests, they eliminate the problem of cheaters attempting to serve different responses to googlebot than they do to real visitors. it actually makes it much harder to even tell google has anything to do with it. on top of that, it gives them a new weighting metric to add to page rank. besides just knowing how many pages link to a page, they also get a useful measurement of how many people visit a page and all the pages linking to it. google has figured out how to use real thinking people to accomplish what has turned out to be one of the harder tasks for a machine to perform- distinguishing real data from spam.
redo the whole windowing system into something that is NOT X,
I think at this point for every user linux would gain by ditching X, they would lose an existing user. I might have agreed with you 2 or 3 years ago, when X was stagnating badly under the XFree86 team. Now that it is starting to make significant progress once again under X.org, it's become clear to many people that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with X that cannot be fixed.
The biggest problem with replacing X is that everything in Linux uses it. If you replace X with something better, you would need to provide an X compatibility layer so that all of the existing applications work, or no one would use it. Apple could get away with burying X because:
a) they didn't have to worry about supporting any existing apps that ran on it.
b) they were a large company that could afford to write or license a full suite of applications for their own display api.
And even then they still have X compatibility.
Besides that, if you really were going to ditch X for something completely new, by the time you implement an entirely new system, including all of the features that people want to keep from X, plus all of the new features people want, plus add X compatibility for existing apps... you might has well have just added the new features you wanted to X and saved yourself an awfl lot of work.
Of course I agree that Linux could use a lot more effort in getting things to "Just Work", but I don't see replacing X as being necessary or even helpful towards making that happen. And while you are free to decide that Linux is not suitable for you to use on the desktop, personally I (and a great many others) find that Linux, with all it's warts, is still more suitable than anything else for desktop use. As for gaming, well, I guess that depends what games you want to play.
maybe because there is no open standard with open source drivers? yes, for most people, this would meet the same goal. my guess is the people behind the project have the talent (or access to the talent) to design a card themselves, and feel, as many other people do, that the chance that the various commercial vendors to agree upon and implement such a standard is slim to none.
as someone pointed out earlier, this is a letter to the editor regarding another article they printed, not a full article. letters to the editor have to be short and sweet, or they don't get published.
whether that makes the article slashdot worthy i suppose is up to the reader, but out of about 10 stories on the front page right now, this is one of two that i bothered to read, so at least some people thought it worthwhile.
People who want to run a stable release do not want a "floating" update or to stay current. They want a set of packages that do not change so that the apps they are running will run consistently and there is no need to worry about a new version of a dependency breaking some functionality they are depending on. THAT is the key quality of Debian.
While it's great that somebody who set up their debian server over three years ago has had to upgrade any of their software in the meantime, i'm sure there are a lot of people who might have considered installing debian stable on their servers in the last year or two that might have liked slightly more modern versions of (for example) postgresql (version in debian stable is over three years old), apache (almost four years old), or php (also over three years old).
i mean, it's not like there have been any significant updates to any of those applications in the last three years....
at best , guns kill for food at worst guns kill.
wow, talk about a narrow view.
i've fired guns several hundreds of times in my life. i have killed a few pigeons and other farm pests, but mostly i've only 'killed' little clay disks, sheets of paper, etc. in other words, about 95% of the times i've used a gun, i never intended to kill anything.
the times i was intending to kill, i was killing barnyard disease carriers.
The worst is every oracle db runs on some expensive production environment hardware. Every MySQL db runs on a cheap PC. Until this is changed, oracle is stuck as the industry standard.
What are you smoking? I've seen oracle running on compaq proliant pentium pro systems, and i've worked with mysql installations running on sun enterprise 5000's. Oracle is not the industry standard because it runs on bigger hardware. Oracle is the industry standard because even though it is the biggest pain in the ass to use and administer, it provides a level of reliability, scalability, and functionality not found anywhere else. MySQL doesn't even come close.
That's not to say that MySQL doesn't have its uses, but I think it's a little bit insane to suggest that all the experts should quit working on real databases and work on MySQL instead.
i was under the impression that this had been known for some time. when i saw the headline i thought that they were distributing some new gpl ripoff, not something that has been discussed for (almost) as long as the cherryOS mess.
then again, this is slashdot...
someobdy's making that up. nothing compiles kde quickly.
We're just end users, and if we can get a little bit of performance for free, well why not.
i wouldn't exactly call it free when you spend more time recompiling all of your applications than you could ever save running them. i'm not saying this to troll, i've been using the ports system on freebsd since before gentoo existed. if you're using gentoo because you are familiar with it, and like the way it works, great. i just can't help but be amused by gentoo users that talk about the performance improvements they get from spending half the time they are using their computer compiling things.
One bad sign: the phishing attacks I see are getting (on average) more professional in their phrasing -- it used to be easy to toss out the trawlers based on their spelling alone.
i'll be worried when i start seeing attacks imitating places that i actually have accounts at. other than paypal, i don't think a single one out of the thousands of phishing attacks i've received has tried to imitate a bank or institution that i actually do business with.
maybe it's just me, but i would think that when people see hundreds of emails coming from places they've never done businesss with in their life, they might be a little suspicious when they see one that's almost exactly the same except with their bank's logo on it, no matter how well written. or am i expecting too much of the average person?
This is not particularly news. Some "blogger" discovers something because he never bothered to ask and screams something about the sky is falling.
I would say it's especially not news, since he first of all states that he doesn't even have one of these devices, and he doesn't appear to really understand exactly what is happening and how it affects the final picture quality. Just another nitwit who got his panties in a bunch over something he read online that he doesn't really understand that doesn't affect him anyway.
Well thats your ARMY for ya fuck nut! If your pissed then be pissed at the dipshits who can't put out a clean PDF not those who may unredact and read it.
he never actually said who he was pissed at- he may very well be more pissed off at the idiots who put the information out there than the people who published the information. after all, it's not like this is the first time our government has made this mistake. (you'd think they would learn after the first 1 or 2 or 5 times.) if it were me, that's definitely who i would be pissed at.
and no i wasn't over there, but i have several good friends who were, and it's not too hard for me to imagine that i might have been had my financial situation in college been a little different.
FreeBSD's the only other OSS system I've ever seen do this;
I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD doesn't actually do this. I know it didn't the last time I really dug through the rc scripts (late in the 4.x line) and if they've implemented it in 5.x I haven't noticed yet.
However, it's pretty damned good for the times where you want a machine to parse your config files and present them in a nice GUI format.
.ini style file is much easier for both machinesand humans to parse. writing a config parser for an apache like config file is trivial in just about any language (i've written several in C) whereas parsing xml at the very least adds external library dependencies and often is much harder to implement as well.
.ini or .cfg file by hand? Your MTA? Apache? Samba? BIND? Crontab? Inetd? Initd? IPFW/PF?
I would argue that an
But honestly, when was the last time you edited anything more than the most trivial
all of the above, actually. except inetd which i haven't used in years. i don't think i've ever even tried to configure inetd. add to that bash, vim, mplayer, postgres, imapd, samba, and even gnome and nautilus when the graphical configuration tools choked on me. i did use the graphical tools in redhat back when i was new to linux, but quickly gave up on them because for all but the most trivial tasks they were harder to use than editing the config files by hand.
now, i fully expect that i'm probably more the exception here than the rule, and i also know i'm not really apple's target audience, but either way, what's easier to parse for a human is easier to parse for a machine, and having implemented both ways, i see no compelling reason to use xml for configuration files for at least 90% of applications, unless one of your goals is to intentionally make hand modifications to the configuration files more difficult. (*cough*GNOME*cough*)
The only code that (we know) managed to "migrate" was already shown to have originated from BSD
or was contributed by caldera employees....
Once photorealism and realistic movement are achieved, what then? The current driving forces for new purchases will then disappear, so ability to innovate not technically but in game themes and in storytelling and in player interation will become the new frontier.
Yes, because the remarkable success hollywood has had with realistic special effects has forced their focus from technical innovation to story telling and character development...
You don't have to worry about whether AND has precedence over EQUALS
If you parenthesize properly, you don't have to worry about this. or, as larry wall put it:
"when in doubt, parenthesize. at the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi."
while i haven't read too much about this case in particular, based on some of spitzer's previous involvements, i'd guess that he's suing because in order to prosecute you have to have a burden of evidence in order to bring a case against a defendent. on the other hand, you can sue for just about anything. by suing, he can make their life, financially and otherwise, pretty miserable for some time, regardless of whether he really has any ground for winning the suit. to prosecute them in a criminal court it would be much more difficult to get the same results.