Unfortunately, the Linux answer has not been very appealing to the market
And why? IMO, it's just because there is no commercial driving force behind any distro. Because the major competitor behind a distro is just... the other distros.
Of course, this is ultimatly good. But who is it good for? The geeks and people that have enough free time to keep up, of course. Technically it is also very good. But the blind mass of people? Thay couldn't care less.
And aas a matter of fact, "linux marketting" is just science fiction.
There ya go! This is the core of the Linux problem. Everyone sees Linux vs. Windows, and in this battle, I have little doubt Linux would win. But that's just not what it's all about. Linux is a kernel, not an OS. The problem is the Linux OSes fragmentation. There is not one, but many Linuxes fighting for the crown, and this is weakening their common kernel: Linux.
If only SuSe, Red Hat, Debian and Mandrake could just agree on some STANDARDS !!! For crying out loud, everyone is bashing microsoft for not adopting an "open" standard (actually plenty of them) but the key distros cannot even agree on a common way to distribute and install an application. How can anyone blame Microsoft when the exact same idiocy is happenning in their supposedly "perfect" open-source world?
So, all Google needs to do to get back to "quality" is to stop counting any pages from those hosting sites.
So simple. I wonder why they didn't make it already... Maybe because they are not stupid? If the problem was that simple, do you think nobody would have implemented it?
Indexing the web is a trivial task. Qualifying the results of a query is another matter, and one that has an infinite number of answers.
To look at my house from the sky? Sounds like a lot of fun, but I doubt about the long-term use of such a thing for me and my family. This is not an app, this is a gadget.
These are screeners DVD, not for 'average joe'. I see no issue in this move, which actually makes a lot of sense. This is B2B, not B2C as when they release the real DVD.
You just can't grasp the concept that an instance of Firefox may have some value, that it may be providing a service of its own (as opposed to the Firefox install)? Then I can't explain it to you.
I was joking too, but it's still a good analogy. Depriving you of an instance of Firefox is still denying you an access to a service. And yes, 'service' has to be use in the common sense of the word, not in the sense 'daemon'.
The biggest service of all is life. You can be denied the service 'right leg' but you still have the service life. So if you are in a cab accident, you can still use the cab service, true, but this does not mean you haven't been deprived of another service: An available cab !!!
These analogies are really stupid, but I still love them!!!:D
But to get back to the point: You can be denied the service of your Firefox instance, which is somewhat painful if you had 16 tabs opened doing stuff (uploading files, etc...)
So there is still a denial of service, even if it is only for one instance of FF.
Did you read my previous post? Where does it say that anything has to be a service? It says that it deprives the users of a service. And it is a service that Firefox does every time I click somewhere, every time it renders a page, etc...
From your wikipedia article: "A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users"
Well, this seems to be an attack that cause a loss of the Firefox service to the user using it. Anything else?
What I meant to say is that I will never see VoIP as a technology I have to handle. For me, nothing has changed. Same old phone/answering machine. Same number. Same service.
Here in France, the problem is different. Every DSL ISP is providing you with a "box" (freebox, neufbox, aolbox, etc...) that includes: 1. A DSL modem. Unlimited bandwidth (the closest to the DSLAM the better) Up to 20MB/s if you are lucky enough. I get 6MB dn / 600KB up. 2. A phone plug. You can plug any regular phone to it. landline national calls are free, others incredibly cheap: US is EUR0.03/minute !!! 3. A TV-out (scart + optical out) with ~25 channels (actually 100 but only ~25 are worth something).
Plus, when you subscribe to kick out the old national operator, you can transfer your landline number to the box.
All that costs me EUR30/month. I don't see VOIP anywhere close to me with such a service.
The RIAA labels does not represent the artists. They represents the artists AND their own interests. As often with this kind of organisation, their own interests tend to take precedence on the artist's interests. Even more so when their direct revenues are directly related to the artist's revenue. And the more they try to "improve" the artist condition, the more they can claim out of the artisit generated revenue.
So no, the labels do not represent the artist even if they claim so often enough. The artist is not completely out of the equation, but their own interests are way ahead of the game here.
I am not talking about what Epson claims, but about what I have noticed and what I have read on third party independant reviews. What Epson claims is - at best - anecdotic.
These options are tools for developpers and are on many occasions useful on servers. So what you are telling me is that EVERY language is bad because you can debug it. What user in his right mind would like to debug an application? So every program in the whole world must be evil, because it has options no end-user would use.
You need to open up. The fact that you CAN cap the memory allocation of a JVM is not a drawback. It is a feature, albeit one that isn't all that usefull for desktop end users. Does that makes Java a bad programming language? Nope.
Manual memory management controls on a desktop application are a Bad Thing When using it, most certainly. When programming it, not sure. So why should developers be deprived of something you don't like? Why don't you want JVMs be usefull for everyone?
for the same reason that manual fuel/air mixture controls are a Bad Thing on a consumer automobile ALL electronic cars have a slot somewhere where a garage can plug a computer and tune your fuel/air mixture. So all cars that use electronic fuel/air mixing are as evil as Java from your point of view: You can tweak them manually. Of course, if nobody tweaks them, they work out of the box, just as Java does.
Tell me, have you seen Java making many inroads to the desktop computing market? Well, that must be because you can tweak the JVM's memory management. For sure.
AFAIK, longevity of recent inkjet (at least for Epson) is as good as traditional photo print nowadays. Cost is the same (as with regular inkjet printing), as they did not 'add' a new ink, but that 'changed' the regular ink to a long lasting one.
But printing at home is more a convenience when you need a print quickly. Nothing beats that, for the same (approx) quality as regular prints. For mass production (like your summer pics) online services are just great.
What I just described to you are options you can pass to the JVM on startup. As with every option, they are optional, so you can just forget about them all and let the JVM deal with it on its own.
Apparently, you are just against the word 'java', so any kind of argumentation is pointless as it will always be evil for you. Fine, just use whatever you see fit, but don't bother Java programmers with pointless remarks.
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Unfortunately, the Linux answer has not been very appealing to the market
And why? IMO, it's just because there is no commercial driving force behind any distro. Because the major competitor behind a distro is just... the other distros.
Of course, this is ultimatly good. But who is it good for? The geeks and people that have enough free time to keep up, of course. Technically it is also very good. But the blind mass of people? Thay couldn't care less.
And aas a matter of fact, "linux marketting" is just science fiction.
There ya go! This is the core of the Linux problem. Everyone sees Linux vs. Windows, and in this battle, I have little doubt Linux would win. But that's just not what it's all about. Linux is a kernel, not an OS. The problem is the Linux OSes fragmentation. There is not one, but many Linuxes fighting for the crown, and this is weakening their common kernel: Linux.
;)
If only SuSe, Red Hat, Debian and Mandrake could just agree on some STANDARDS !!! For crying out loud, everyone is bashing microsoft for not adopting an "open" standard (actually plenty of them) but the key distros cannot even agree on a common way to distribute and install an application. How can anyone blame Microsoft when the exact same idiocy is happenning in their supposedly "perfect" open-source world?
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So Google and the Googlebar is evil as well... (of course, only when pagerank is enabled, but still)
So, all Google needs to do to get back to "quality" is to stop counting any pages from those hosting sites.
So simple. I wonder why they didn't make it already... Maybe because they are not stupid? If the problem was that simple, do you think nobody would have implemented it?
Indexing the web is a trivial task. Qualifying the results of a query is another matter, and one that has an infinite number of answers.
To look at my house from the sky? Sounds like a lot of fun, but I doubt about the long-term use of such a thing for me and my family. This is not an app, this is a gadget.
These are screeners DVD, not for 'average joe'. I see no issue in this move, which actually makes a lot of sense. This is B2B, not B2C as when they release the real DVD.
or (4) for being a smarty-pants and pointing out that this clause of the OSTG license was written by someone who couldn't count up to 4... errr.
Well, that's an interesting comment for someone that can't count up to 5... Because they seem to be able to count up to 4 allright.
Don't mistake Microsoft and the /. editors. Microsoft didn't say anything about Africa. Slashdot did in the story title.
;)
So according to your statement, "If anything - this shows the level of stupidity at Slashdot."
You sound like they've never done anything stupid before...
You just can't grasp the concept that an instance of Firefox may have some value, that it may be providing a service of its own (as opposed to the Firefox install)? Then I can't explain it to you.
I was joking too, but it's still a good analogy. Depriving you of an instance of Firefox is still denying you an access to a service. And yes, 'service' has to be use in the common sense of the word, not in the sense 'daemon'.
I love these analogies:
:D
The biggest service of all is life. You can be denied the service 'right leg' but you still have the service life. So if you are in a cab accident, you can still use the cab service, true, but this does not mean you haven't been deprived of another service: An available cab !!!
These analogies are really stupid, but I still love them!!!
But to get back to the point: You can be denied the service of your Firefox instance, which is somewhat painful if you had 16 tabs opened doing stuff (uploading files, etc...)
So there is still a denial of service, even if it is only for one instance of FF.
Did you read my previous post? Where does it say that anything has to be a service? It says that it deprives the users of a service. And it is a service that Firefox does every time I click somewhere, every time it renders a page, etc...
From your wikipedia article:
"A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users"
Well, this seems to be an attack that cause a loss of the Firefox service to the user using it. Anything else?
What I meant to say is that I will never see VoIP as a technology I have to handle. For me, nothing has changed. Same old phone/answering machine. Same number. Same service.
My DSL provider is handling it all for me.
Correction: It is not "all ISPs" but "a heck of a lot of ISPs".
Here in France, the problem is different. Every DSL ISP is providing you with a "box" (freebox, neufbox, aolbox, etc...) that includes:
1. A DSL modem. Unlimited bandwidth (the closest to the DSLAM the better) Up to 20MB/s if you are lucky enough. I get 6MB dn / 600KB up.
2. A phone plug. You can plug any regular phone to it. landline national calls are free, others incredibly cheap: US is EUR0.03/minute !!!
3. A TV-out (scart + optical out) with ~25 channels (actually 100 but only ~25 are worth something).
Plus, when you subscribe to kick out the old national operator, you can transfer your landline number to the box.
All that costs me EUR30/month. I don't see VOIP anywhere close to me with such a service.
Don't ask a company to go out of business for you.
The RIAA labels does not represent the artists. They represents the artists AND their own interests. As often with this kind of organisation, their own interests tend to take precedence on the artist's interests. Even more so when their direct revenues are directly related to the artist's revenue. And the more they try to "improve" the artist condition, the more they can claim out of the artisit generated revenue.
So no, the labels do not represent the artist even if they claim so often enough. The artist is not completely out of the equation, but their own interests are way ahead of the game here.
I am not talking about what Epson claims, but about what I have noticed and what I have read on third party independant reviews. What Epson claims is - at best - anecdotic.
These options are tools for developpers and are on many occasions useful on servers. So what you are telling me is that EVERY language is bad because you can debug it. What user in his right mind would like to debug an application? So every program in the whole world must be evil, because it has options no end-user would use.
You need to open up. The fact that you CAN cap the memory allocation of a JVM is not a drawback. It is a feature, albeit one that isn't all that usefull for desktop end users. Does that makes Java a bad programming language? Nope.
Manual memory management controls on a desktop application are a Bad Thing
When using it, most certainly. When programming it, not sure. So why should developers be deprived of something you don't like? Why don't you want JVMs be usefull for everyone?
for the same reason that manual fuel/air mixture controls are a Bad Thing on a consumer automobile
ALL electronic cars have a slot somewhere where a garage can plug a computer and tune your fuel/air mixture. So all cars that use electronic fuel/air mixing are as evil as Java from your point of view: You can tweak them manually. Of course, if nobody tweaks them, they work out of the box, just as Java does.
Tell me, have you seen Java making many inroads to the desktop computing market?
Well, that must be because you can tweak the JVM's memory management. For sure.
If someone gets sued by the RIAA it's not because the RIAA wants to sue them, it's because the artist they represent wants them to
The RIAA does NOT represent the artists. They represent the record labels, and this is a BIG difference.
I agree with the AC
You don't know what you're getting into here...
AFAIK, longevity of recent inkjet (at least for Epson) is as good as traditional photo print nowadays. Cost is the same (as with regular inkjet printing), as they did not 'add' a new ink, but that 'changed' the regular ink to a long lasting one.
But printing at home is more a convenience when you need a print quickly. Nothing beats that, for the same (approx) quality as regular prints. For mass production (like your summer pics) online services are just great.
Having it be something I have to think about
What I just described to you are options you can pass to the JVM on startup. As with every option, they are optional, so you can just forget about them all and let the JVM deal with it on its own.
Apparently, you are just against the word 'java', so any kind of argumentation is pointless as it will always be evil for you. Fine, just use whatever you see fit, but don't bother Java programmers with pointless remarks.