True. But it is safe to say that the early shutdown is very controversial. There are still very few, if any, tv sets to buy that can receive the digital signal by itself. You need a box containing a digital receiver that translates the broadcasted signal before it is received by the tv. Of course, this means that vcr recorders need their own box, and programmatic recording is ruined. I think it was much to early to take this step. Especially since Sweden is such a small market and there is no big demand for tv sets that use the chosen broadcast standard.
I think it is fair to say that the step from analog to digital in this case was motivated by political considerations. The former minister of culture, Marita Ulvskog, was responsible for the decision. Not market forces or customer / viewer demand.
Because when people blow up pipelines in Iraq today it is called terrorism. Why should it be called something different when someone else did it (note: in peacetime) 30 years ago?
But is it really so? Is human exploration the second step? Looking at history, it was the first step. And the next step was robotic exploration. Also, as some other poster here mentioned, predictions of the future often misses important points. Human exploration is surely more exciting, but perhaps it is not rational compared to robotic in the end. A hundred years ago, people did not predict the computer. What robotics will be able to accomplish in 20 years may boggle the mind, who knows. And if that is the case, will you still regard robotic exploration as the first step only?
Is there anything in particular that motivates the jump in major version, or is it just a marketing thing? I purchased 9.3 - will 10.0 bring me anything that is new and interesting, or just more recent packages of the same software?
For example, exactly how is the faster boot process accomplished? Are there new configuration modules in Yast? New features in package managment? New freedesktop standards implemented, new LSB standards implemented.. what is really interesting about this release, what should make me jump to upgrade?
Even before the beta, I think yahoo has offered great features that gmail does not have. For example, they have the personal address service, which lets me send and receive email on my domain but using their servers. That is a huge benefit, since that makes me free to switch email provider if i feel like it - I own the domain and therefore I own my email address. This service is not free, but it is worth it. For me, that feature is more important than labels, conversations, POP access or what have you
Has anyone noticed that most new keyboards from Microsoft and Logitech have a new the layout? The nsert/delete/home/end/page up/page down keys are rearranged, one of them is missing and another one is twice as big. Why?
Both result sucks. A bdtter result would be to show a page showing the history of the letter "a", or something. Tell me - WHY is Apple a relevant hit in this search?
You are comparing apples with oranges. PGP signs the message, not the envelope. It is not very useful for mail servers - it is aimed at sender and recipient. The following quote (from Yahoo) regarding S/MIME applies to PGP as well:
S/MIME was developed for user-to-user message signing and encryption and by design should be independent of the sending and receiving servers. We believe that DomainKeys should be a natural server-to-server complement to S/MIME and not a replacement. Additionally, since S/MIME is used by many security-conscious industries, we need to ensure that the two technologies can work together without breaking each other. Finally, S/MIME is not yet supported by many of the email services, client software, and server software used across the Internet, and in Yahoo!'s opinion, that standardization effort would be much more difficult than the standardization of DomainKeys.
I know, I know, benchmarks are not everything, but it would be interesting if they could have run nbench on their new shiny macs so we had some reference to compare it with.
Apache is the most common web server around. But Apache on its own does not deliver content. Apache + Linus is not news any more. Apache and web servers in general are commodities today. On top of Apache a content management system runs for sure. It would be more intresting to read how this system works, if it is proprietary or free, etc.
Which manufacturer has the best performance / noise ratio? I don't care if one chip runs twice as fast if it requires twice as loud fans. Is AMD better than Intel or the opposite, in this regard?
As far as concerns over "computer faults" go; the Airbus computer consists of (IIRC) 7 processors, which all vote to determine what to do. If a given processor disagrees or starts acting wonky, it gets rebooted. Each of these 7 processors is running different code, based on different designs, by different teams of software engineers. The only thing they have in common is that they were developed from the same requirements.
That sounds really interesting. Do you have a source?
I got a Mac at work a few weeks ago, a Powerbook G4 or something, probably about one year old. I have never been into Macs, but since the Mac is also a Unix I can get work done. I work with Java development and use emacs, Firefox, some terminal I don't remember the name of and regular java tools such as ant etc. After about a month, I must say I am not particularily impressed. Probably that is because I have not found the best ways to work with the Mac. Sometimes I am not allowed to browse directories I know are there. Switching application windows ("alt-tabbing") is more complicated than on Windows or KDE, since certain windows can only be switched to within the application (such as Firefox). Expose is nice but not as effective I think. Windows expand differently and unpredictively. Applications such as emacs crash quite frequently, compared to Linux where it never happens. And so on...
I learned Linux the hard way, from -95 onwards, and I don't have as much time nowadays for these things. I don't have time to hunt down every little tip on the web to get the most out of Mac, but if someone have high quality links to share, I would appreciate it. There must be more to the Mac experience than I have seen, right?
GPL refers to derived work. It is foolish to believe that text that written in a word processor is a derived work from the font that is used. Written text is not derived from a font. Text is derived from thought processes in the author's brain. Chage the font - the message will still come across, the message is there even without the font. The font has nothing to do with the text, whether it is distributed with the document or not. It has as much to do with the content in the document as the color of the reader's glasses.
I have heard that fonts hold a special position when it comes to copyright legislation. Visual appearance of fonts can not be copyrighted, but font names can be.
This is a layman rumour, don't take my word for it, but since GPL builds upon copyright legislation, it could mean that the GPL license does not hold in this case.
The further Ubuntu diverges from Debian, the less benefit they'll receive from the huge amount of work that goes into Debian development. Ubuntu's rapid growth has been entirely because they've had such an excellent base upon which to build, but if they diverge too far from Debian they will lose that advantage and will have to do all of the work themselves, at which point their progress will slow dramatically.
That could happen. But actually, more likely is the opposite. Right now it is Ubuntu that has the slick user experience. It is Debian that is lacking. Debian risks being obsoleted just as XFree86, if it does not deliver what users want. And with users, I mean users. Not developers. Just like the Debian social contract says.
If your linux box is a desktop machine you are wasting lots of energy. And if everyone had your usage habits, that would add up. If Linux can not match Windows with fast boot time, then it does not deserve to become a major desktop OS.
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In the show, it looks like you build all the stuff yourself. However, in reality, how much is delegated to assistants never shown on screen?
True. But it is safe to say that the early shutdown is very controversial. There are still very few, if any, tv sets to buy that can receive the digital signal by itself. You need a box containing a digital receiver that translates the broadcasted signal before it is received by the tv. Of course, this means that vcr recorders need their own box, and programmatic recording is ruined. I think it was much to early to take this step. Especially since Sweden is such a small market and there is no big demand for tv sets that use the chosen broadcast standard.
I think it is fair to say that the step from analog to digital in this case was motivated by political considerations. The former minister of culture, Marita Ulvskog, was responsible for the decision. Not market forces or customer / viewer demand.
Because when people blow up pipelines in Iraq today it is called terrorism. Why should it be called something different when someone else did it (note: in peacetime) 30 years ago?
Hey, if you love Barry Lyndon, how can you have missed the humor in the very first scenes there?
But is it really so? Is human exploration the second step? Looking at history, it was the first step. And the next step was robotic exploration. Also, as some other poster here mentioned, predictions of the future often misses important points. Human exploration is surely more exciting, but perhaps it is not rational compared to robotic in the end. A hundred years ago, people did not predict the computer. What robotics will be able to accomplish in 20 years may boggle the mind, who knows. And if that is the case, will you still regard robotic exploration as the first step only?
I think Microsoft has succeeded well in their attempt to provide this shell. I found these comparisons interesting:
In monad:
msh> get-childitem | sort-object extension | select extension | where { $_.extension.length -eq 4 }
In ruby:
Dir["*"].map {|x| File.extname(x) }.sort.find_all {|x| x.length == 4 }
At least for me the former is easier to understand.
Indexing all the world's information would be kind of stealing too.
Is there anything in particular that motivates the jump in major version, or is it just a marketing thing? I purchased 9.3 - will 10.0 bring me anything that is new and interesting, or just more recent packages of the same software? For example, exactly how is the faster boot process accomplished? Are there new configuration modules in Yast? New features in package managment? New freedesktop standards implemented, new LSB standards implemented.. what is really interesting about this release, what should make me jump to upgrade?
Can you write a webserver with a turing complete language if there is no access to for example the network interface within the language?
Even before the beta, I think yahoo has offered great features that gmail does not have. For example, they have the personal address service, which lets me send and receive email on my domain but using their servers. That is a huge benefit, since that makes me free to switch email provider if i feel like it - I own the domain and therefore I own my email address. This service is not free, but it is worth it. For me, that feature is more important than labels, conversations, POP access or what have you
Looks like ESR will turn out to be the worst nightmare of the open source movement too.
Has anyone noticed that most new keyboards from Microsoft and Logitech have a new the layout? The nsert/delete/home/end/page up/page down keys are rearranged, one of them is missing and another one is twice as big. Why?
Both result sucks. A bdtter result would be to show a page showing the history of the letter "a", or something. Tell me - WHY is Apple a relevant hit in this search?
S/MIME was developed for user-to-user message signing and encryption and by design should be independent of the sending and receiving servers. We believe that DomainKeys should be a natural server-to-server complement to S/MIME and not a replacement. Additionally, since S/MIME is used by many security-conscious industries, we need to ensure that the two technologies can work together without breaking each other. Finally, S/MIME is not yet supported by many of the email services, client software, and server software used across the Internet, and in Yahoo!'s opinion, that standardization effort would be much more difficult than the standardization of DomainKeys.
I know, I know, benchmarks are not everything, but it would be interesting if they could have run nbench on their new shiny macs so we had some reference to compare it with.
Apache is the most common web server around. But Apache on its own does not deliver content. Apache + Linus is not news any more. Apache and web servers in general are commodities today. On top of Apache a content management system runs for sure. It would be more intresting to read how this system works, if it is proprietary or free, etc.
Which manufacturer has the best performance / noise ratio? I don't care if one chip runs twice as fast if it requires twice as loud fans. Is AMD better than Intel or the opposite, in this regard?
That sounds really interesting. Do you have a source?
I got a Mac at work a few weeks ago, a Powerbook G4 or something, probably about one year old. I have never been into Macs, but since the Mac is also a Unix I can get work done. I work with Java development and use emacs, Firefox, some terminal I don't remember the name of and regular java tools such as ant etc. After about a month, I must say I am not particularily impressed. Probably that is because I have not found the best ways to work with the Mac. Sometimes I am not allowed to browse directories I know are there. Switching application windows ("alt-tabbing") is more complicated than on Windows or KDE, since certain windows can only be switched to within the application (such as Firefox). Expose is nice but not as effective I think. Windows expand differently and unpredictively. Applications such as emacs crash quite frequently, compared to Linux where it never happens. And so on...
I learned Linux the hard way, from -95 onwards, and I don't have as much time nowadays for these things. I don't have time to hunt down every little tip on the web to get the most out of Mac, but if someone have high quality links to share, I would appreciate it. There must be more to the Mac experience than I have seen, right?
GPL refers to derived work. It is foolish to believe that text that written in a word processor is a derived work from the font that is used. Written text is not derived from a font. Text is derived from thought processes in the author's brain. Chage the font - the message will still come across, the message is there even without the font. The font has nothing to do with the text, whether it is distributed with the document or not. It has as much to do with the content in the document as the color of the reader's glasses.
I have heard that fonts hold a special position when it comes to copyright legislation. Visual appearance of fonts can not be copyrighted, but font names can be.
This is a layman rumour, don't take my word for it, but since GPL builds upon copyright legislation, it could mean that the GPL license does not hold in this case.
That could happen. But actually, more likely is the opposite. Right now it is Ubuntu that has the slick user experience. It is Debian that is lacking. Debian risks being obsoleted just as XFree86, if it does not deliver what users want. And with users, I mean users. Not developers. Just like the Debian social contract says.
Does Python have any equivalence of Java servlets? What support is there in the Python standard libraries for writing web applications?
If your linux box is a desktop machine you are wasting lots of energy. And if everyone had your usage habits, that would add up. If Linux can not match Windows with fast boot time, then it does not deserve to become a major desktop OS.
Tax dollars? You are way off here...