I run Firefox on Windows. Does this mean FF is not actually as free as its made out to be!?!?!
This is terrible! Now it has more bugs than IE, is less secure than IE! What next? They'll be telling me it is saturating my ISPs bandwidth causing them to throttle my connection, and downloading bittorrents bringing about the end of the Internet as we know it! Stop using Firefox everybody.
Notice that rule 2 is already ignored by the MS Office team...
Rule 2: Use common controls and common dialogs Use common controls and common dialogs to achieve an accessible, high-quality, and consistent UI in your application. Don't spend time rebuilding standard UI components
If you think about putting a cartoon cat in a mincer, its funny. If you think about putting a real cat in a mincer, its sick.
Its nothing to do with the distinction between thinking about things, and doing them - but all about the context with which you think within your head.
On the other hand... the BSD licence gave us proper networking. If TCP/IP hadn't been licenced as it was, perhaps I'd be typing this using some bastardised version of IPX, or NetBEUI. Sometimes, the BSD licence is good because it allows the underlying concept to be used everywhere, by everyone for every purpose. In the case of the BSD netowrk code, the benefits of getting everyone to use it has allowed a commonality to networks that benefits us all.
Now, proprietary versions is not something that can be fixed by the GPL (as you can still release different versions - look at all the forked projects out there). Sure, you can see the code, but who really will work to put them together again. With the BSD licence, you get different problems, but for some things, it ends up working out much better for everyone.
BTW, companies dropped Unix in favour of Windows (NT) because it was significantly cheaper, while still being reliable (NT remember). Linux may win out, but only because it too is cheaper - not for any other reason.
Well, its kind of like comparing GPLv3 to GPLv2 seems to be very similar to comparing GPLv2 to BSD - its all about end-user freedoms. Forget whichever one you like for the moment please.
In the case of GPLv2 v BSD, the issue is that one forces you to re-release your source, whereas the other allows you to do whatever you like with it.
With GPLv3 v GPLv2, the issue is that one forces you to stop using DRM features, whereas the other allows you to do whatever you like with this kind of code.
So, I think that its a matter of how much restrictions of freedom you like to impose upon your end-users. The linux devs seem to be saying that they agree with the GPLv2 ones because, whilst restrictive, those restrictions are necessary for the benefit of the F/OSS society. They do not like GPLv3 because the restrictions go too far beyond that and seek to impose its will for reasons that are not strictly necessary.
I almost like to compare it to Communism - Leninist policies were about freedoms, egalitarianism, and sharing the wealth; Stalinist policies were about telling you what you should think. In Soviet Russia, they use GPLv4:-) (I hope all that made sense, my excuse is one beer too many if it didn't)
Ok, so there's a new linux-powered DVR out (available at ThinkGeek, of course...) but how does it compare to the very-available and very-stable Topfield?
It runs Linux, and they have released an API for creating plugin modules (called TAPS). Check out the forum at toppy.org.uk for more info.
I don;t know about that - I think pair programming is great. think:
What do you need to pair progam? development software, check. monitor, keyboard, check. coffee, check. newspaper check. Right, divvi that up between the pairs evenly, you get the software and PC, I get the coffee and newspaper. See how pair programming works?:-)
because these things are hard for someone who is a beginner. Someone who doesn't know a loop from a variable will not be able to do more than look at examples for Second Life scripting, make mistakes, and give up.
As for Java, please. You probably don't know how bad your 'elegant' code is. Come back to it in 5 years and see if you still agree that learning basic, or C, or enough assembler wouldn't have been a good idea. The point of these is to provide a foundation - so that it doesn't matter which language is cool when the child hits the workforce, he'll have enough knowledge about how computer systems and program logic, and programming techniques work, that he'll be able to pick up any language. Teach them Java, they'll only know java.
While ignoring the US system of 'Justice' is probably something Americans should do too, especially when it concerns implausibly large damages payouts, I think Spamhaus will need a lawyer or two. I refer the honourable anti-spam heroes to a similar case of fairness, justice and all-round puppy-like agreements.
No offence, but your analogies suck. I'm not even really disagreeing that these people were unwise to give out that sort of information on first contact with a complete stranger, but two wrongs don't make a right. The guy is a dick, plain and simple.
True.. I'd say a good analogy that might make people sit up a bit is if the ad was from a white woman looking for black men for sex, then post the replies and see what kind of civil liberties issues kick up a major furore. It pointless to speculate further though - you're right the guy is an unpleasant person, immature in his acts (it does seem like a childish prank - something adults will grow out of as they learn other people exist as entities like themselves and deserve to be treated like themselves).
The thing I take away from this is the number of responses to the article that say he was right to do what he did - the world is a nasty place as it is, in *my* naivete, I would like to think that the online community is filled with the better, more intelligent, more sensible and decent group of society. Shows how wrong I can be sometimes.
Good luck convincing people some though - the nuclear industry has spent years and a lot of money spreading the story that burning stuff throws vast quanities of radioactive waste up in the air to get into the lungs of children
Really? I'd have thought they'd want to spread the opposite message. No wonder people don't want Nuclear in their back yards!
not really. The windows task scheduler works on the principle that every process with the same priority gets equal share of the CPU. Now, if 1 app wants 100% of the CPU then it's going to be asking for it and using as much of its time slices as it can get, other apps get the same (if they want it - obviously most apps sit there twiddling their virtual thumbs waiting for the user, the disk, the network, etc). So if 2 apps want 100% each (as when you start an app whilst another is well busy) then they will each get 50%.. and take twice as long to do whatever it was they were doing, thus appearing to slow down user responsiveness.
Usually the foreground app (ie window) gets a little bit extra so it makes Windows *more* responsive, but again, that doesn't help you if you're waiting for an app to start (as it'll be in the background...)(you can turn this feature off if you like - system control panel to make it more server like).
So, with the system proposed, the starting app would not start any quicker - it would still want 75% of the CPU, as would the running app. The only benefit would be that the CPU had 25% time to sit there doing nothing. If you think you could use another app while those 2 fought over their 75% CPU resources, think that the app you want to use is also limited to 75% (and assuming you make it work and not sit mostly idle) it would be grabbing CPU time away from the 2 original apps, making them slower still.
If you want more response, give 1 app a lower priority and Windows will leave it for a while until the higher priority app goes idle. I do not recommend doing this for explorer.exe:-)
Incidentally, Linux uses a weighted round-robin scheduler (windows uses a plain one that gives equal time to all runnign aps of the same priority) that gives less time to apps the more they use the CPU, this is probably why you feel Linux is more responsive - an interactive app will spend more of its time waiting for the user, so when it does need to do something, it is given a larger amount of time than its peers. If you use it a lot though, you'd find it gets slower over time. (so if you have a text editor and a compiler running, the text editor gets more CPU time when it wants it, but if you set the editor to do a lengthy 100% CPU task, you'd find its responsiveness was not as good when it was finished).
yes, but read the comments for reasons why Linux thread scheduling algorithm is superior to Windows, and that on a *proper* multi user system hourglasses are never ever seen, and why in Soviet Russia your poor performance results in you being squished into an hourglass by Ms Portman.:-)
I'd suggest a stopwatch. The trouble with what you're after is that as the computer is spinning its hourglass its actually working on your behalf. If you had a better app that wasn't quite so single-threaded, then you'd be happier, but the app itself wouldn't go any quicker.
You could use CPU usage, because with a faster CPU, the app would perform its work quicker too so all in all, you'd get more done in less time. Given its single-threaded, no-UI-response, I think the CPU will probably be at 100% while its processing the commands anyway, so you can log perfmon graph of CPU usage and see exactly when the computer is processing them. On a faster computer, the 100% plateaus will be shorter, and should show an obvious time difference. If CPU is not doing it, try network I/O, bytes per second, (or memory paging...) to get the same kind of results.
You can set perfmon logging to a file and then view the file as a graph by loading it back into perfmon.
Having said that, I'm pretty sure the Marxist post was ironic. In which case: hilarious! Rise up, ye proleteriat, and seize your rightful means of production! With your help we will recreate the glorious days of the Soviet Union
This is the thing I'd love to see - more apps integrating with a LDAP user db. I hink it would enhance a lot of applications (and I'm thinking all those PHP web-based things) if they all used a single-signon sourced from a LDAP directory instead of rolling their own user login system every time.
sounds like they need a moderating system in their mailing lists (wouldn't work, they'd need to change to a forum), and perhaps some meta-moderators to get rid of the trolls and other unhelpful 'contributors'.
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and only if tyou use IE6. If you have IE7 beta installed, you're safe.
I run Firefox on Windows. Does this mean FF is not actually as free as its made out to be!?!?!
This is terrible! Now it has more bugs than IE, is less secure than IE! What next? They'll be telling me it is saturating my ISPs bandwidth causing them to throttle my connection, and downloading bittorrents bringing about the end of the Internet as we know it! Stop using Firefox everybody.
(sheesh!)
absolutely. They want to hear "Ubuntu sux0rs, replace with Fedora Core" :-)
Notice that rule 2 is already ignored by the MS Office team...
Rule 2: Use common controls and common dialogs
Use common controls and common dialogs to achieve an accessible, high-quality, and consistent UI in your application. Don't spend time rebuilding standard UI components
If you think about putting a cartoon cat in a mincer, its funny. If you think about putting a real cat in a mincer, its sick.
Its nothing to do with the distinction between thinking about things, and doing them - but all about the context with which you think within your head.
On the other hand... the BSD licence gave us proper networking. If TCP/IP hadn't been licenced as it was, perhaps I'd be typing this using some bastardised version of IPX, or NetBEUI. Sometimes, the BSD licence is good because it allows the underlying concept to be used everywhere, by everyone for every purpose. In the case of the BSD netowrk code, the benefits of getting everyone to use it has allowed a commonality to networks that benefits us all.
Now, proprietary versions is not something that can be fixed by the GPL (as you can still release different versions - look at all the forked projects out there). Sure, you can see the code, but who really will work to put them together again. With the BSD licence, you get different problems, but for some things, it ends up working out much better for everyone.
BTW, companies dropped Unix in favour of Windows (NT) because it was significantly cheaper, while still being reliable (NT remember). Linux may win out, but only because it too is cheaper - not for any other reason.
Well, its kind of like comparing GPLv3 to GPLv2 seems to be very similar to comparing GPLv2 to BSD - its all about end-user freedoms. Forget whichever one you like for the moment please.
:-) (I hope all that made sense, my excuse is one beer too many if it didn't)
In the case of GPLv2 v BSD, the issue is that one forces you to re-release your source, whereas the other allows you to do whatever you like with it.
With GPLv3 v GPLv2, the issue is that one forces you to stop using DRM features, whereas the other allows you to do whatever you like with this kind of code.
So, I think that its a matter of how much restrictions of freedom you like to impose upon your end-users. The linux devs seem to be saying that they agree with the GPLv2 ones because, whilst restrictive, those restrictions are necessary for the benefit of the F/OSS society. They do not like GPLv3 because the restrictions go too far beyond that and seek to impose its will for reasons that are not strictly necessary.
I almost like to compare it to Communism - Leninist policies were about freedoms, egalitarianism, and sharing the wealth; Stalinist policies were about telling you what you should think. In Soviet Russia, they use GPLv4
Ok, so there's a new linux-powered DVR out (available at ThinkGeek, of course...) but how does it compare to the very-available and very-stable Topfield?
It runs Linux, and they have released an API for creating plugin modules (called TAPS). Check out the forum at toppy.org.uk for more info.
I don;t know about that - I think pair programming is great. think:
:-)
What do you need to pair progam? development software, check. monitor, keyboard, check. coffee, check. newspaper check.
Right, divvi that up between the pairs evenly, you get the software and PC, I get the coffee and newspaper. See how pair programming works?
because these things are hard for someone who is a beginner. Someone who doesn't know a loop from a variable will not be able to do more than look at examples for Second Life scripting, make mistakes, and give up.
As for Java, please. You probably don't know how bad your 'elegant' code is. Come back to it in 5 years and see if you still agree that learning basic, or C, or enough assembler wouldn't have been a good idea. The point of these is to provide a foundation - so that it doesn't matter which language is cool when the child hits the workforce, he'll have enough knowledge about how computer systems and program logic, and programming techniques work, that he'll be able to pick up any language. Teach them Java, they'll only know java.
While ignoring the US system of 'Justice' is probably something Americans should do too, especially when it concerns implausibly large damages payouts, I think Spamhaus will need a lawyer or two. I refer the honourable anti-spam heroes to a similar case of fairness, justice and all-round puppy-like agreements.
Having 650,000 people chasing around doing things that do not need to be done is *not* good for the economy
:-)
I don't know, all those project managers spend their salaries, helping to keep the economy afloat...
No offence, but your analogies suck. I'm not even really disagreeing that these people were unwise to give out that sort of information on first contact with a complete stranger, but two wrongs don't make a right. The guy is a dick, plain and simple.
True.. I'd say a good analogy that might make people sit up a bit is if the ad was from a white woman looking for black men for sex, then post the replies and see what kind of civil liberties issues kick up a major furore. It pointless to speculate further though - you're right the guy is an unpleasant person, immature in his acts (it does seem like a childish prank - something adults will grow out of as they learn other people exist as entities like themselves and deserve to be treated like themselves).
The thing I take away from this is the number of responses to the article that say he was right to do what he did - the world is a nasty place as it is, in *my* naivete, I would like to think that the online community is filled with the better, more intelligent, more sensible and decent group of society. Shows how wrong I can be sometimes.
Good luck convincing people some though - the nuclear industry has spent years and a lot of money spreading the story that burning stuff throws vast quanities of radioactive waste up in the air to get into the lungs of children
Really? I'd have thought they'd want to spread the opposite message. No wonder people don't want Nuclear in their back yards!
And while I'm dreaming I'd like a pony . . .
you mean like Microsoft Pony (tm) ?
(that's a google cache URL, not goatse, honest).
Hmm. has anyone looked up Scott McNealy on this, or other, websites?
It [VB.NET] is not the spawn of evil you tried to present it either, though.
:-)
Yes, but VB programmers are
oh, and C# programmers who think that they are the only ones who can write 'clean', maintainable, wonderfully object oriented code.
How about: "What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? "
:-)
If they answer 11 metres per second, then they're obviously African or Asians and so can be denied entry to your site.
not really. The windows task scheduler works on the principle that every process with the same priority gets equal share of the CPU. Now, if 1 app wants 100% of the CPU then it's going to be asking for it and using as much of its time slices as it can get, other apps get the same (if they want it - obviously most apps sit there twiddling their virtual thumbs waiting for the user, the disk, the network, etc). So if 2 apps want 100% each (as when you start an app whilst another is well busy) then they will each get 50%.. and take twice as long to do whatever it was they were doing, thus appearing to slow down user responsiveness.
:-)
Usually the foreground app (ie window) gets a little bit extra so it makes Windows *more* responsive, but again, that doesn't help you if you're waiting for an app to start (as it'll be in the background...)(you can turn this feature off if you like - system control panel to make it more server like).
So, with the system proposed, the starting app would not start any quicker - it would still want 75% of the CPU, as would the running app. The only benefit would be that the CPU had 25% time to sit there doing nothing. If you think you could use another app while those 2 fought over their 75% CPU resources, think that the app you want to use is also limited to 75% (and assuming you make it work and not sit mostly idle) it would be grabbing CPU time away from the 2 original apps, making them slower still.
If you want more response, give 1 app a lower priority and Windows will leave it for a while until the higher priority app goes idle. I do not recommend doing this for explorer.exe
Incidentally, Linux uses a weighted round-robin scheduler (windows uses a plain one that gives equal time to all runnign aps of the same priority) that gives less time to apps the more they use the CPU, this is probably why you feel Linux is more responsive - an interactive app will spend more of its time waiting for the user, so when it does need to do something, it is given a larger amount of time than its peers. If you use it a lot though, you'd find it gets slower over time. (so if you have a text editor and a compiler running, the text editor gets more CPU time when it wants it, but if you set the editor to do a lengthy 100% CPU task, you'd find its responsiveness was not as good when it was finished).
yes, but read the comments for reasons why Linux thread scheduling algorithm is superior to Windows, and that on a *proper* multi user system hourglasses are never ever seen, and why in Soviet Russia your poor performance results in you being squished into an hourglass by Ms Portman. :-)
I'd suggest a stopwatch. The trouble with what you're after is that as the computer is spinning its hourglass its actually working on your behalf. If you had a better app that wasn't quite so single-threaded, then you'd be happier, but the app itself wouldn't go any quicker.
You could use CPU usage, because with a faster CPU, the app would perform its work quicker too so all in all, you'd get more done in less time. Given its single-threaded, no-UI-response, I think the CPU will probably be at 100% while its processing the commands anyway, so you can log perfmon graph of CPU usage and see exactly when the computer is processing them. On a faster computer, the 100% plateaus will be shorter, and should show an obvious time difference. If CPU is not doing it, try network I/O, bytes per second, (or memory paging...) to get the same kind of results.
You can set perfmon logging to a file and then view the file as a graph by loading it back into perfmon.
Having said that, I'm pretty sure the Marxist post was ironic. In which case: hilarious! Rise up, ye proleteriat, and seize your rightful means of production! With your help we will recreate the glorious days of the Soviet Union
In Soviet Russia, copy right is wrong?
This is the thing I'd love to see - more apps integrating with a LDAP user db. I hink it would enhance a lot of applications (and I'm thinking all those PHP web-based things) if they all used a single-signon sourced from a LDAP directory instead of rolling their own user login system every time.
If only more apps used it...
If I may rephrase that comment in terms the average slashdotter will be more comfortable with,
"RTFM n00b".
thank you.
sounds like they need a moderating system in their mailing lists (wouldn't work, they'd need to change to a forum), and perhaps some meta-moderators to get rid of the trolls and other unhelpful 'contributors'.