Sigh. I think you're so wrapped up in music theory and the quotations of a French music snob that you can't see the wood for the trees. Music that's complex but sounds ugly is pointless, and whatever Xenakis says about it is utterly irrelevant - if it sounds crap it is crap. I could compose some music that used all sorts of rythms and every key on my piano, but it would sound awful, and therefore be worthless. Music that's simple but sounds great is great. Music that is complex but grates on everyone's ear is bad. It's as simple as that - and I guess you or the Frenchman you quote simply aren't actually living in the real world. The wittering of a million music snobs does not change this at all.
The number of tones has a lot to do with the complexity of a work, since the most complex work will necessarily be that which doesn't use any tone until it has used the other eleven
What utter rubbish. A simple chromatic scale doesn't repeat a tone until you've used them all but it's hardly 'complex'. You might also want to discover time and rhythm before you go on about a piece's work.
There is only one rule about music, and it's a subjective rule. That rule is that the music must sound good.
If people find Tool sounds good, then it is good (to them at least) regardless of whether music snobs are whining that it is missing five tones. Part of music is not necessarily being too much. For example, many people love blues yet much of it only uses three chords and a pentatonic scale. It doesn't make it anything less - to those who love that kind of music, it obeys the only rule - it sounds good - regardless of what classically educated music snobs think.
In any case with a *single command* you can add the Livna repository, which lets you install DVD players, MP3 players, nVidia 3D drivers, ATi 3D drivers using either the Fedora Core 5 GUI software tool or using yum in a terminal. No desktop Fedora user should be without the Livna yum repository.
Personally, I find FC5 to be one of the best development desktop distributions around. Yes, I've used Ubuntu and it's nice - but for a development desktop, nothing I've used comes close to Fedora Core 5. Not even Windows.
You _hugely_ underestimate what RedHat does for the community. From a previous comment, it's not just Xen, but these are the projects where RedHat is probably THE main contributor:
[quote previous poster] - gcc - glibc - SELinux - udev - Xen (which you mentioned) - GNOME - Many other parts of the kernel - X.org - Fedora Directory Server (bought for millions, open sourced, development continues) - NetworkManager - Dogtail - Open Source Java (gcj and Classpath) - Internationalization (Input Methods, Translation, Localization, etc.) [end quote]
RedHat in particular spend a great deal of money improving gcc. Even if you use BSD rather than Linux, this is extremely important to you. Without a good compiler we are ALL stuffed, and RedHat contributes greatly to gcc. RedHat also contributes greatly to Gnome, putting highly paid developers onto the Gnome project.
If you don't like RedHat very much you probably aren't that well informed about just how much they contribute. Their contributions directly help their competitors, too.
If you're running into RPM dependency hell, you're doing it wrong. For years now, RedHat has included up2date (and with Fedora, yum) which does all the dependency resolution for you. In FC5 there's even a gui tool where you just click on the package and it does everything for you (downloads, resolves dependencies) and it's a single command to add other software repositories such as Livna to get things like DVD players and MP3 players.
I've got a Ubuntu system and a Fedora Core 5 system. It's no more difficult to install software on FC5 than it is on Ubuntu. Fedora provides a simple point-and-drool GUI interface for installing software - just check the checkboxes next to what you want, press Install and it resolves all the dependencies and installs it with no further interaction required. Yum is no harder to use than apt, and yum has been provided certainly since FC2 three years ago. There has been no need to directly use RPMs with Fedora for years, just as you don't deal with deb packages for Debian/Ubuntu directly.
What made Debian great for package management years ago wasn't the deb format (which if you use the raw deb packages, is every bit as awkward as using raw RPMs), it was apt. Fedora has now had yum for years, which is just as easy to use and does all the dependency resolution for you, just like apt.
Good job that RedHat doesn't take on your view of not doing things for others for free...otherwise we wouldn't have their very major contributions to gcc (done by their paid developers) for free, or their major contributions to gnome (done by their paid developers) for free, or CentOS (built from their RHEL source RPMs, provided for free).
Without going into the wrong-ness of the TFA (which has been pointed out by others, so it would be redundant for me to do so), I'll just concentrate on this silly meme that RedHat is somehow Microsoftesque.
This can't be further from the truth. RedHat make _enormous_ contributions to the community *including* their direct competitors. They have paid developers working on GCC - without a vibrant compiler collection, we'd all be stuffed. Their work on gcc goes to directly benefit their competitors. There are many other projects that RedHat contribute paid developer time on - such as Gnome. They don't own these projects - they just provide real, concrete useful contributions from their paid development staff.
Their enterprise distribution isn't closed either - the complete source is available and the good people at CentOS make a free version of RHEL from these sources.
RedHat is still a beacon. Anyone who compares RedHat to Microsoft in this way is just repeating an incorrect meme. Nothing in RedHat's behaviour suggests they are going to change their policy of putting real, paid resources into contributing to _other people's_ projects such as gcc, Gnome, the kernel and many projects that are extremely important to not only Linux but BSD and Apple too. RedHat aren't just a bunch of people who do some packaging and sell the result - they are real contributors to Free software in general.
I don't think you're correct. RedHat doesn't sell an OS - they sell SUPPORT. You can already get RHEL for free - RedHat provide a complete SRPM release for RHEL so you can build it yourself, or if you prefer an easy binary installation path for RHEL but don't want to buy support - then there are a couple of groups who already build RHEL from source - there's CentOS and WBEL at least (and probably more).
Bill Gates is still fundamentally a geek. I doubt he cares that much about whether his hair looks like a rug or not - just so long as it can be managed with a two minute combing in the morning.
No, security is not important because AJAX is asynchronous - security is important because an AJAX app is exposed to unknown users on the public Internet. The security issues with AJAX are the same as with any web application: don't trust any input and validate it before doing anything important with it. The security issues with the Javascript part (things like, but not limited to cross site scripting and sending things to your clients that may be harmful to them) are the same as any other Javascript-using website.
Actually - Linus is vehmently opposed to proprietary drivers in the kernel, and this is one of the reasons Linux will never have a stable ABI. However, he doesn't try and stop you if you want to load a proprietary driver - however, it'll never be part of the mainstream kernel and it will mark your kernel as 'tainted'.
Parallel parking is simply _not difficult_. I used to parallel park my Ford F150 from time to time which is a big sucker, but it really wasn't that hard. I frequently parallel park my current car - it's not difficult to get it into a space much longer than the car.
There aren't any advantages. I used to live in the US, and bought a second hand washer and dryer (which as you'd expect were top loading). They don't wash as well and they use more water. The default size for a top-loader was larger than a front loader, but there's no reason why a front loader couldn't have the same capacity.
The trouble is Virtual Server does not run on Linux - so it can't even compete with VMware Server if your server runs Linux, or Xen if your server runs Linux and you want to run Linux or NetBSD virtual machines.
Nah - I think ghosts are just where the visual system is 'filling in the blanks' usually in conditions of poor lighting. Our eyes aren't actually seeing this nice wide pin sharp image we percieve - in fact, the high resolution parts of our eyes are so small we have to scan a page to read it (only the fovea has any kind of decent resolution). The brain fills in the rest from the fuzzy peripheral vision and interpretation to present this nice pin sharp image we percieve.
Have you ever been looking at something - either something distant, partly hidden or badly lit - convinced it's one thing and then find out it's not? The other week I was walking to my Dad's house at night. I was convinced I was walking towards a man who was bent down putting a collar on his dog. When I got closer the image suddenly resolved into what it actually was - a wheelie bin, some railings and the shadows being cast from a streetlight.
That's all ghosts are - the mind's powerful systems misinterpreting what is being sent by the senses, and presenting something entirely false to the conscious mind. The image you see is extremely convincing of course.
I don't know about doctors, but I often went out with friends from the vet school when I was at university. Vet books are all at least three times as expensive as computing books.
I don't eat grass. However, the sheep in the field behind my house do eat grass. The meadow has no fertilizer or pesticides put down on it, and it is just left with the sheep on it - leading to a diversity of wild plant species especially in the hedgerows which would not be there if it were turned over to crops.
Sheep also simultaneously produce wool for clothing (which I dare say has less environmental impact than making synthetic wool).
Actually, you're both wrong: life expectancy has been increasing all along (in the western world at least), and one instance of a man eating a fatty diet and living to a ripe old age with no heart trouble is about as representitive as the smoker who smoked 40 a day and lived to 90 - it's an anomaly.
Plastics are probably a lot better for us than bare metal, after all, you're not going to get traces of aluminium along with your food (aluminium is a cause of Altzheimer's).
The evidence shows that progress is pushing us FORWARDS about 18 months of life expectency per decade.
The Royal Navy were way ahead of you - they thought that aircraft carriers were redundant in the late 1970s. Then the Falklands War broke out and they discovered otherwise.
I don't have a Windows partition. My system has 2 disks and 3 operating systems installed - but all of them are different versions of Linux. RH8 for testing that things work on older 'legacy' versions, Fedora Core 2 (because I've not bothered upgrading) and Fedora Core 5.
There are games other than GNUchess. Like Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom3, Unreal Tournament, TCE, the various Quakes and of course Oolite:-)
All modern operating systems do demand page loading of executables and use paging space on disk (the swapper). Memory pages are all 4Kbyte on all the CPU architectures we are using at the moment in a personal computer. Therefore, 4Kbyte is probably the ideal size (since now loading a page into memory takes only one read command instead of 8). Making it bigger than 8Kbyte would complicate VMM design (since if you only need to load one page, you now wind up loading two and having to throw one away, or at best, you'd wait twice as long while 8kbyte loads instead of 4kbyte).
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Sigh. I think you're so wrapped up in music theory and the quotations of a French music snob that you can't see the wood for the trees. Music that's complex but sounds ugly is pointless, and whatever Xenakis says about it is utterly irrelevant - if it sounds crap it is crap. I could compose some music that used all sorts of rythms and every key on my piano, but it would sound awful, and therefore be worthless. Music that's simple but sounds great is great. Music that is complex but grates on everyone's ear is bad. It's as simple as that - and I guess you or the Frenchman you quote simply aren't actually living in the real world. The wittering of a million music snobs does not change this at all.
What utter rubbish. A simple chromatic scale doesn't repeat a tone until you've used them all but it's hardly 'complex'. You might also want to discover time and rhythm before you go on about a piece's work.
Forget your missing five tones.
There is only one rule about music, and it's a subjective rule. That rule is that the music must sound good.
If people find Tool sounds good, then it is good (to them at least) regardless of whether music snobs are whining that it is missing five tones. Part of music is not necessarily being too much. For example, many people love blues yet much of it only uses three chords and a pentatonic scale. It doesn't make it anything less - to those who love that kind of music, it obeys the only rule - it sounds good - regardless of what classically educated music snobs think.
In any case with a *single command* you can add the Livna repository, which lets you install DVD players, MP3 players, nVidia 3D drivers, ATi 3D drivers using either the Fedora Core 5 GUI software tool or using yum in a terminal. No desktop Fedora user should be without the Livna yum repository.
Personally, I find FC5 to be one of the best development desktop distributions around. Yes, I've used Ubuntu and it's nice - but for a development desktop, nothing I've used comes close to Fedora Core 5. Not even Windows.
You _hugely_ underestimate what RedHat does for the community. From a previous comment, it's not just Xen, but these are the projects where RedHat is probably THE main contributor:
[quote previous poster]
- gcc
- glibc
- SELinux
- udev
- Xen (which you mentioned)
- GNOME
- Many other parts of the kernel
- X.org
- Fedora Directory Server (bought for millions, open sourced, development continues)
- NetworkManager
- Dogtail
- Open Source Java (gcj and Classpath)
- Internationalization (Input Methods, Translation, Localization, etc.)
[end quote]
RedHat in particular spend a great deal of money improving gcc. Even if you use BSD rather than Linux, this is extremely important to you. Without a good compiler we are ALL stuffed, and RedHat contributes greatly to gcc. RedHat also contributes greatly to Gnome, putting highly paid developers onto the Gnome project.
If you don't like RedHat very much you probably aren't that well informed about just how much they contribute. Their contributions directly help their competitors, too.
If you're running into RPM dependency hell, you're doing it wrong. For years now, RedHat has included up2date (and with Fedora, yum) which does all the dependency resolution for you. In FC5 there's even a gui tool where you just click on the package and it does everything for you (downloads, resolves dependencies) and it's a single command to add other software repositories such as Livna to get things like DVD players and MP3 players.
I've got a Ubuntu system and a Fedora Core 5 system. It's no more difficult to install software on FC5 than it is on Ubuntu. Fedora provides a simple point-and-drool GUI interface for installing software - just check the checkboxes next to what you want, press Install and it resolves all the dependencies and installs it with no further interaction required. Yum is no harder to use than apt, and yum has been provided certainly since FC2 three years ago. There has been no need to directly use RPMs with Fedora for years, just as you don't deal with deb packages for Debian/Ubuntu directly.
What made Debian great for package management years ago wasn't the deb format (which if you use the raw deb packages, is every bit as awkward as using raw RPMs), it was apt. Fedora has now had yum for years, which is just as easy to use and does all the dependency resolution for you, just like apt.
Good job that RedHat doesn't take on your view of not doing things for others for free...otherwise we wouldn't have their very major contributions to gcc (done by their paid developers) for free, or their major contributions to gnome (done by their paid developers) for free, or CentOS (built from their RHEL source RPMs, provided for free).
Without going into the wrong-ness of the TFA (which has been pointed out by others, so it would be redundant for me to do so), I'll just concentrate on this silly meme that RedHat is somehow Microsoftesque.
This can't be further from the truth. RedHat make _enormous_ contributions to the community *including* their direct competitors. They have paid developers working on GCC - without a vibrant compiler collection, we'd all be stuffed. Their work on gcc goes to directly benefit their competitors. There are many other projects that RedHat contribute paid developer time on - such as Gnome. They don't own these projects - they just provide real, concrete useful contributions from their paid development staff.
Their enterprise distribution isn't closed either - the complete source is available and the good people at CentOS make a free version of RHEL from these sources.
RedHat is still a beacon. Anyone who compares RedHat to Microsoft in this way is just repeating an incorrect meme. Nothing in RedHat's behaviour suggests they are going to change their policy of putting real, paid resources into contributing to _other people's_ projects such as gcc, Gnome, the kernel and many projects that are extremely important to not only Linux but BSD and Apple too. RedHat aren't just a bunch of people who do some packaging and sell the result - they are real contributors to Free software in general.
I don't think you're correct. RedHat doesn't sell an OS - they sell SUPPORT. You can already get RHEL for free - RedHat provide a complete SRPM release for RHEL so you can build it yourself, or if you prefer an easy binary installation path for RHEL but don't want to buy support - then there are a couple of groups who already build RHEL from source - there's CentOS and WBEL at least (and probably more).
Bill Gates is still fundamentally a geek. I doubt he cares that much about whether his hair looks like a rug or not - just so long as it can be managed with a two minute combing in the morning.
So - basically they aren't doing anything more innovative that can already be achieved with rsync and hard links.
No, security is not important because AJAX is asynchronous - security is important because an AJAX app is exposed to unknown users on the public Internet. The security issues with AJAX are the same as with any web application: don't trust any input and validate it before doing anything important with it. The security issues with the Javascript part (things like, but not limited to cross site scripting and sending things to your clients that may be harmful to them) are the same as any other Javascript-using website.
Actually - Linus is vehmently opposed to proprietary drivers in the kernel, and this is one of the reasons Linux will never have a stable ABI. However, he doesn't try and stop you if you want to load a proprietary driver - however, it'll never be part of the mainstream kernel and it will mark your kernel as 'tainted'.
Parallel parking is simply _not difficult_. I used to parallel park my Ford F150 from time to time which is a big sucker, but it really wasn't that hard. I frequently parallel park my current car - it's not difficult to get it into a space much longer than the car.
I don't know what the big deal is about.
There aren't any advantages. I used to live in the US, and bought a second hand washer and dryer (which as you'd expect were top loading). They don't wash as well and they use more water. The default size for a top-loader was larger than a front loader, but there's no reason why a front loader couldn't have the same capacity.
The trouble is Virtual Server does not run on Linux - so it can't even compete with VMware Server if your server runs Linux, or Xen if your server runs Linux and you want to run Linux or NetBSD virtual machines.
Nah - I think ghosts are just where the visual system is 'filling in the blanks' usually in conditions of poor lighting. Our eyes aren't actually seeing this nice wide pin sharp image we percieve - in fact, the high resolution parts of our eyes are so small we have to scan a page to read it (only the fovea has any kind of decent resolution). The brain fills in the rest from the fuzzy peripheral vision and interpretation to present this nice pin sharp image we percieve.
Have you ever been looking at something - either something distant, partly hidden or badly lit - convinced it's one thing and then find out it's not? The other week I was walking to my Dad's house at night. I was convinced I was walking towards a man who was bent down putting a collar on his dog. When I got closer the image suddenly resolved into what it actually was - a wheelie bin, some railings and the shadows being cast from a streetlight.
That's all ghosts are - the mind's powerful systems misinterpreting what is being sent by the senses, and presenting something entirely false to the conscious mind. The image you see is extremely convincing of course.
If you liked Elite, try Oolite - a recent open source recreation (now runs on Windows, as well as Mac and Linux). http://oolite.aegidian.org/
I don't know about doctors, but I often went out with friends from the vet school when I was at university. Vet books are all at least three times as expensive as computing books.
I don't eat grass. However, the sheep in the field behind my house do eat grass. The meadow has no fertilizer or pesticides put down on it, and it is just left with the sheep on it - leading to a diversity of wild plant species especially in the hedgerows which would not be there if it were turned over to crops.
Sheep also simultaneously produce wool for clothing (which I dare say has less environmental impact than making synthetic wool).
Actually, you're both wrong: life expectancy has been increasing all along (in the western world at least), and one instance of a man eating a fatty diet and living to a ripe old age with no heart trouble is about as representitive as the smoker who smoked 40 a day and lived to 90 - it's an anomaly.
Plastics are probably a lot better for us than bare metal, after all, you're not going to get traces of aluminium along with your food (aluminium is a cause of Altzheimer's).
The evidence shows that progress is pushing us FORWARDS about 18 months of life expectency per decade.
The Royal Navy were way ahead of you - they thought that aircraft carriers were redundant in the late 1970s. Then the Falklands War broke out and they discovered otherwise.
I don't have a Windows partition. My system has 2 disks and 3 operating systems installed - but all of them are different versions of Linux. RH8 for testing that things work on older 'legacy' versions, Fedora Core 2 (because I've not bothered upgrading) and Fedora Core 5.
:-)
There are games other than GNUchess. Like Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom3, Unreal Tournament, TCE, the various Quakes and of course Oolite
All modern operating systems do demand page loading of executables and use paging space on disk (the swapper). Memory pages are all 4Kbyte on all the CPU architectures we are using at the moment in a personal computer. Therefore, 4Kbyte is probably the ideal size (since now loading a page into memory takes only one read command instead of 8). Making it bigger than 8Kbyte would complicate VMM design (since if you only need to load one page, you now wind up loading two and having to throw one away, or at best, you'd wait twice as long while 8kbyte loads instead of 4kbyte).