In theory, an application should be self-contained. That's what the OS is for. That interference from other applications and a changing OS interface make this hard in the current climate just proves what a piece of shit Windows is as an OS.
Hell, the way I hear people going on in the Games section, we might as well return to programming the bare hardware. In terms of stability and compatibility, things might even improve!
No, it does not. The two smoking guns that the denialists bring up are not smoking, and not guns at all:
There was a call for a boycott of a single journal, because it's editor insisted on publishing provably bad papers over the objections of the peer reviewers.
There was a throwaway comment about two papers up for the IPCC AR4 report, given without context. That the comment was throwaway and not meant in earnest or not followed up upon is also proven, by the very fact that both papers were referenced in the AR4 report.
Stop parroting the denialist blogs. It makes you look stupid.
Since when is it the responsibility of Linux driver writers to port their drivers to a different kernel?
The source is out there. If the BSD folks want to have open-source drivers, let them port it. They are the ones who have the need and the knowledge of their kernel architecture after all.
[ATI releasing specs] hasn't lead to someone creating high quality free drivers for ATI cards.
Are you kidding? The radeonhd driver is just fine. It doesn't support all chipsets 100% just yet, but the ones that are supported work great. Unless of course you define 'high quality' as 'highest framerates possible and damn the stability of the system' like nVidia fanbois tend to do.
In case you hadn't noticed, ACPI is a fairly crucial part of the system on a laptop. Unless you enjoy getting your legs fried and no battery lifetime at all. And yes, nVidia's power-saving functions are severely broken. Last time I tried the official driver on a laptop, I found out I had to run a uniprocessor kernel to get any support for ACPI at all. If you think giving up half your CPU is a good trade, I have only one description for you: fanboi.
Yeah right. It's those evil hardware manufacturers pushing poor Microsoft to give away its trademark for free. Go pull the other one, it's got bells on.
If you are going to be pedantic: light cannot be projected onto the sky. It can be projected onto clouds of course, but the sky is otherwise transparent to visible light.
Yeah, the Apple fanbois are out in force today. Nokia's interface design has warts, to be sure, but the general S60 interface is derived from the old non-smartphone interface that has been carried on phones ever since GSM became popular (one navigation key, one select key, one cancel key). Compared to Siemens or Sony-Ericsson, the Nokia interface isn't non-intuitive at all, and since the majority of European phone users are used to these interfaces, S60 isn't a big change.
So the Apple fanbois like your parent are obviously talking about things they know nothing of. What else is new.
[codec support] can be painlessly compensated by 3rd party software. One download, 2 minutes to install and after that it works pretty much flawlessly.
Yeah, so? It takes the same amount of effort on Linux. Add a repository from a country with no silly patent laws, start your package manager, two clicks, download, install, done.
I'm still in that camp even though Debian just rolled out PulseAudio in unstable. I was surprised to see it running and not have any issues at all. The general wailing and gnashing of teeth seems to be a bit over the top from this end. about half a year back it occasionally didn't play nice with things like Flash and Skype, but apparently that is now fixed too.
And as for anime, when I see the hell my Windows using friends have to go through to manage their codecs and matching video players, I'm glad I have mplayer available.
May I point out that land in the floodplain of a major river is prime real estate the world over? Egypt and the Nile, the Netherlands on the Rhine-Meuse floodplain, New Orleans on the Mississippi, they all share the same characteristics:
High-quality agricultural land.
A navigable river to facilitate trade.
Great site for a port.
The major difference seems to be that the Americans seem to be unable to concede that, yes Virginia, sometimes letting the government spend tax dollars on a project is a good idea. Of all the major floodplains in the world, it seems that New Orleans is the only one that has such a mismanaged defense against flooding.
It's fairly obvious the water management in NO is messed up. If they rely on undersized levees to keep away hurricane-caused flooding, someone is doing it wrong. And I would say it is the ones who specced out the levees in the first place.
Bullshit. The levees in NO are lighter than the Dutch dike system. And yet the Dutch dike system is expected to merely handle a catastrophic storm/tide combination every few millennia. If NO has much more violent weather, and their levees are lighter than Dutch dikes, those responsibile for building and maintaining the levees are to blame when they do break.
Actually, they did. In 1953, some 1800 people drowned when storms combined with a high tide ripped through the dikes. Some people died in England too.
The difference is, the government took a good look at the dike system, and decided it wasn't up to scratch. Cue a massive program of dike improvements and dams to shorten the coastline, and we're expected to be safe from catastrophic floods for millennia.
Now, if you compare the dikes around the Dutch polders to the levees in New Orleans, it becomes clear where to put the blame. The Netherlands, having a much smaller chance of catastrophic climate events (like a surge tide during storm) has much heavier dikes than the levees at NO. So NO is woefully underprepared. And who is responsible for that?
Just present anyone who doesn't hold a cookie with the permission screen. Either your site is so good that people will consent to the cookie to make the nagging go away, or your site is shit, and people will stop visiting it now it starts nagging because it can't make money anymore from selling their tracking habits.
Either way, the public wins. I applaud this law heartily.
How can that be? The only way to distribute to me is under the GPL. The GPL says I get the source on request. If I don't get the source, I have been damaged, as according to the license I have a right to it. I have standing to sue. It really is that simple.
Now, if my distributor does not tell me the binary is GPL, and I find out later it is, I have at least a cause to sue for having been sold a misrepresented product (this would be fraud, I presume). Whether or not that means I still get to exercise my GPL rights is an open question. I would say yes though; distribution to me would imply that the distributor accepted the terms of the license (otherwise it would be a straight copyright violation). The terms of the license say that anyone with a copy of the binary can ask for source. I have a copy of the binary, so...
No. Whoever distributes binaries to me can only do so under the GPL. So if I don't get source, I get to sue my immediate upstream distributor. It's right there in the compliance guidelines linked to in TFA.
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In theory, an application should be self-contained. That's what the OS is for. That interference from other applications and a changing OS interface make this hard in the current climate just proves what a piece of shit Windows is as an OS.
Hell, the way I hear people going on in the Games section, we might as well return to programming the bare hardware. In terms of stability and compatibility, things might even improve!
Mart
Erm. They do. Just not on all chipsets yet, as I already said. When was the last time you checked? Last century?
Mart
No, it does not. The two smoking guns that the denialists bring up are not smoking, and not guns at all:
Stop parroting the denialist blogs. It makes you look stupid.
Mart
Yes, well, it also doesn't prove Phil Jones kicks puppies.
Here's the facts: you assert that papers are repressed. The papers are in fact referenced.
That you then start to retreat into goal post moving and arguments from ignorance proves that you are either dishonest or just plain stupid.
Mart
And yet both papers were cited in the AR4 report.
Mart
Since when is it the responsibility of Linux driver writers to port their drivers to a different kernel?
The source is out there. If the BSD folks want to have open-source drivers, let them port it. They are the ones who have the need and the knowledge of their kernel architecture after all.
Mart
Are you kidding? The radeonhd driver is just fine. It doesn't support all chipsets 100% just yet, but the ones that are supported work great. Unless of course you define 'high quality' as 'highest framerates possible and damn the stability of the system' like nVidia fanbois tend to do.
Mart
In case you hadn't noticed, ACPI is a fairly crucial part of the system on a laptop. Unless you enjoy getting your legs fried and no battery lifetime at all. And yes, nVidia's power-saving functions are severely broken. Last time I tried the official driver on a laptop, I found out I had to run a uniprocessor kernel to get any support for ACPI at all. If you think giving up half your CPU is a good trade, I have only one description for you: fanboi.
Mart
Yeah right. It's those evil hardware manufacturers pushing poor Microsoft to give away its trademark for free. Go pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Mart
Two words: Vista Ready.
Mart
If you are going to be pedantic: light cannot be projected onto the sky. It can be projected onto clouds of course, but the sky is otherwise transparent to visible light.
Yeah, the Apple fanbois are out in force today. Nokia's interface design has warts, to be sure, but the general S60 interface is derived from the old non-smartphone interface that has been carried on phones ever since GSM became popular (one navigation key, one select key, one cancel key). Compared to Siemens or Sony-Ericsson, the Nokia interface isn't non-intuitive at all, and since the majority of European phone users are used to these interfaces, S60 isn't a big change.
So the Apple fanbois like your parent are obviously talking about things they know nothing of. What else is new.
Mart
Yeah, so? It takes the same amount of effort on Linux. Add a repository from a country with no silly patent laws, start your package manager, two clicks, download, install, done.
Mart
I'm still in that camp even though Debian just rolled out PulseAudio in unstable. I was surprised to see it running and not have any issues at all. The general wailing and gnashing of teeth seems to be a bit over the top from this end. about half a year back it occasionally didn't play nice with things like Flash and Skype, but apparently that is now fixed too.
And as for anime, when I see the hell my Windows using friends have to go through to manage their codecs and matching video players, I'm glad I have mplayer available.
Mart
May I point out that land in the floodplain of a major river is prime real estate the world over? Egypt and the Nile, the Netherlands on the Rhine-Meuse floodplain, New Orleans on the Mississippi, they all share the same characteristics:
The major difference seems to be that the Americans seem to be unable to concede that, yes Virginia, sometimes letting the government spend tax dollars on a project is a good idea. Of all the major floodplains in the world, it seems that New Orleans is the only one that has such a mismanaged defense against flooding.
Mart
It's fairly obvious the water management in NO is messed up. If they rely on undersized levees to keep away hurricane-caused flooding, someone is doing it wrong. And I would say it is the ones who specced out the levees in the first place.
Mart
Bullshit. The levees in NO are lighter than the Dutch dike system. And yet the Dutch dike system is expected to merely handle a catastrophic storm/tide combination every few millennia. If NO has much more violent weather, and their levees are lighter than Dutch dikes, those responsibile for building and maintaining the levees are to blame when they do break.
Mart
Actually, they did. In 1953, some 1800 people drowned when storms combined with a high tide ripped through the dikes. Some people died in England too.
The difference is, the government took a good look at the dike system, and decided it wasn't up to scratch. Cue a massive program of dike improvements and dams to shorten the coastline, and we're expected to be safe from catastrophic floods for millennia.
Now, if you compare the dikes around the Dutch polders to the levees in New Orleans, it becomes clear where to put the blame. The Netherlands, having a much smaller chance of catastrophic climate events (like a surge tide during storm) has much heavier dikes than the levees at NO. So NO is woefully underprepared. And who is responsible for that?
Mart
Stupid question.
Just present anyone who doesn't hold a cookie with the permission screen. Either your site is so good that people will consent to the cookie to make the nagging go away, or your site is shit, and people will stop visiting it now it starts nagging because it can't make money anymore from selling their tracking habits.
Either way, the public wins. I applaud this law heartily.
Mart
If it wants to set a (non-sessionn) cookie? Yes. Next question, please.
Mart
Ahum.
rootpw: If set, sudo will prompt for the root password instead of the password of the invoking user. This flag is off by default.
Now why don't take your corporate shilling ass out of here?
Mart
I am still not convinced. However, it's been 17 years since I last took Civil Law, and:
Mart
How can that be? The only way to distribute to me is under the GPL. The GPL says I get the source on request. If I don't get the source, I have been damaged, as according to the license I have a right to it. I have standing to sue. It really is that simple.
Now, if my distributor does not tell me the binary is GPL, and I find out later it is, I have at least a cause to sue for having been sold a misrepresented product (this would be fraud, I presume). Whether or not that means I still get to exercise my GPL rights is an open question. I would say yes though; distribution to me would imply that the distributor accepted the terms of the license (otherwise it would be a straight copyright violation). The terms of the license say that anyone with a copy of the binary can ask for source. I have a copy of the binary, so...
Mart
No. Whoever distributes binaries to me can only do so under the GPL. So if I don't get source, I get to sue my immediate upstream distributor. It's right there in the compliance guidelines linked to in TFA.
Mart
Erm, no?
As an end-user, I have the right to request source. If my distributor refuses, I definitely have standing to sue.
Mart