It would also be more simple if all fish were bass, all plants were grass, all currency were Euros, and all cars were Yugos. Problem is that it wouldn't work.
There's plenty of room for varied DEs and window managers. It's really all about choice, and if you think you can offer a better choice, round up some people, raise a little money, stock the fridge and start coding.
CLI vs GUI is a silly argument. They both clearly have their place. When it comes to dealing with multitudes of devices or computers, the point is it's a lot easier to write a script to do massive numbers of configuration updates instead of having a room full of Phoenician oarsmen clicking away via web-based GUIs. A home router? GUI is fine. An enterprise WiFi access point that a company will have 200 of? CLI is essential.
There is a place for the command line, and there is no doubt, a place for the GUI. The key is using them in the *right place*.
proves there's lots of problems for open source because copyrights fwibble a gwabbit
I believe you've hit the nail on the head.
The problem is that some people want an orange and others want a potato. Unfortunately, being human beings, people who want oranges want potato people to buy their oranges and potato lovers want to impost their spudtastic diet on orange lovers. Governments are created, wars are fought, dynasties fall, and then someone discovers the strawberry and another person the tomato.
Actually, the deletionists have narrowed Wikipedia's value by reducing the number of topics it covers. As a result, knowledge is lost because someone with absolutely no domain knowledge though it was unimportant.
Um. No. Many modern libraries or "frameworks" (newfangled word for library) are OO. Most OSes remain written in classic system programming languages like C and assembly language. In fact, most frameworks start as object oriented wrappers for certain OS calls and cruft up from there.
Actually, Apple's technology gets beat all the time. It's not because Apple isn't good at what they do: it is because other manufacturers design around upgraded or different hardware that is made weeks or months after Apple starts with a new phone design. This is normal in the tech industry. If you start developing in May, and I in August, my product will likely be faster, and/ have features. Apple is no different than anyone else in this regard, so you have a constant parade of new technology leaders through the year - and Apple gets their turn when they come out with a new iPhone or iPad. Then Motorola, Samsung, HTC, or whoever gets their turn. Eventually, it's Apple's turn again.
If you want an example, go back to iPhone 1.0 vs the T-Mobile G-1. The G-1 had all of the features iPhone had (except that multitouch was disabled in software) and a slew of features that iPhone did not have: 3G, SD card reader, GPS, no need to sync with a PC, and a multitasking OS. Then the iPhone 3G came out with features to match. Then came the Moto Droid... and so on.
As for the half baked software stuff, remember Microsoft Windows + a slew of hardware makers absolutely dominated the computer industry and Apple. History is repeating itself, and that's not an indictment of Apple: they make very good products, and are very profitable.
This disaster is serious, but there will be no Chernobyl or Three Mile Island level event, despite an EXTREME earthquake (8.9) and a tsunami. I tend to see that as evidence that the nuclear industry has been extraordinarily careful and safety conscious in designing the facility.
Applying DRM to a compiled binary is not at all problematic so long a source code is made available. There is no issue with DRM implementations in GPL software. That said, DRM is a tool, like a hammer or gun. It can be used for good (ensuring binaries are not tampered with), restricting access to sensitive data, or evil (forcing you to buy that Led Zepplin song again every time you buy a new player). Ultimately the flaw is that DRM relies on an illusion that today's cryptography will protect things forever, when reality is that as computers improve, items protected today become trivial to crack in the future.
We can do pretty much anything* we need to with precision guided conventional weapons. * Except make making victory impossible for the enemy.
FTFY.
Until the other guy doesn't have nukes, you are pretty much stuck with having them. Nukes are largely responsible for preventing the next every 20 years or so ginormous war that was happening up until 1945. While I don't like having stuff around that hand the earth off to the cockroaches, it beats having 50 million people killed in five years every two or three decades.
That the judge is going to have no choice but to toss the case out for jurisdiction. Sony should have filed the case in New Jersey, they know it, and they are simply trying to run up a big legal bill for Hotz. Their strategy could backfire, though because it's not unheard of for federal judges to make the plaintiff pay legal bills for the defense when they are simply using the court to run up bills on the defendant using a theory they know is wrong from day one. Sony will soon have the case tossed, and will have to refile in NJ. Then the lawsuit can really proceed.
Oh, and it speaks volumes as to what kind of human beings run Sony: Hollywood vampires.
The fatal flaw in Microsoft's "tablet" PC was that it was designed around the pen based computing concept. The GUI was optimized for stylus, and most input was done using handwriting recognition that didn't work that well. The result was a miserable user experience and carts at your local hospital that turned a tablet into a desktop, complete with keyboard and mouse.
The current iteration of touch screen designs are vastly easier to work with, but still have some fairly serious limitations... particularly around input. As for the $250 tablet, there are a ton of Android 2.2 based devices that hit your pricepoint and desired features. Oh, and if a smartphone has a camera, it can scan barcodes.
Most often the thing that kills science fiction shows is the assumption on the part of TV executives that because a show has rabid fans, they are willing to watch the show on Friday night or that they are not fans of another more popular show. So the show that starts at a sane time, gets moved around to an unwatchable time. Or episodes are run six months ahead in a different country. Either way, rampant internet piracy breaks out, but the pirate viewers don't count in ratings... which means the viewership drops like a rock. B5 was moved to bad time slots AND had episodes running 3-4 months ahead of the US in Britain...
Note: (I'm one of those people who used to post in the B5 newsgroup, and loved the fact that JMS was always popping in there and answering questions - usenet kept B5 on the air for the last two years) You've got the B5 a copy of DS9 exactly backwards. JMS pitched B5 to Paramount, and they politely did his show concept in the Stat Trek universe. I would not say B5 was a copy of DS9... I'd put it the other way around. Either way, both shows were actually very good...
One has to wonder if this is simply MS going after OpenOffice installs now that the OOo community is distracted and caught up in the LibreOffice fork. MS now can point the finger to Oracle as being just as rotten, if not worse than MS is, and can point out that you are going to have to migrate to LibreOffice anyway, so you can pick your migration poison.
Nah. I knew lots of non-geeks that were right at home with a C:> prompt and were creating non-trivial applications in Dbase and Lotus 1-2-3 (using macros). 1-2-3 in particular did more to wrestle applications out of the MIS department than anything.
Just to get something like WordPerfect running you had to have some rudimentary understanding of how the computer worked and had to have working knowledge of at least 5 DOS commands (Format, Copy, Move, Delete and Cd).
We went on daylight savings time a few years ago... and were expecting that it would change our economy from a classic agrarian model to a modern, service driven powerhouse. All that happened was a rise in sales of coffee, energy drinks and replacement alarm clocks. It's good to see you'uns across the pond imitating good old fashioned Hoosier know how. (and yes, the rustics here say "you'uns" instead of "y'all)
The "App Store" model is broken. There should be a mechanism for including source code where apps are being sold. In some cases, source code is a high value feature. In other cases not. How hard is it to add a "download source link" or including a link to the source code on the email receipt?
Likewise, Microsoft would have been nowhere without Intel's reference designs going to hardware manufacturers and eliminating the need for PC makers to design their own motherboards.
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It would also be more simple if all fish were bass, all plants were grass, all currency were Euros, and all cars were Yugos. Problem is that it wouldn't work.
There's plenty of room for varied DEs and window managers. It's really all about choice, and if you think you can offer a better choice, round up some people, raise a little money, stock the fridge and start coding.
CLI vs GUI is a silly argument. They both clearly have their place. When it comes to dealing with multitudes of devices or computers, the point is it's a lot easier to write a script to do massive numbers of configuration updates instead of having a room full of Phoenician oarsmen clicking away via web-based GUIs. A home router? GUI is fine. An enterprise WiFi access point that a company will have 200 of? CLI is essential.
There is a place for the command line, and there is no doubt, a place for the GUI. The key is using them in the *right place*.
You can turn in your card now. You have *not* used Dolphin.
proves there's lots of problems for open source because copyrights fwibble a gwabbit
I believe you've hit the nail on the head.
The problem is that some people want an orange and others want a potato. Unfortunately, being human beings, people who want oranges want potato people to buy their oranges and potato lovers want to impost their spudtastic diet on orange lovers. Governments are created, wars are fought, dynasties fall, and then someone discovers the strawberry and another person the tomato.
Now, what were we talking about?
Actually, the deletionists have narrowed Wikipedia's value by reducing the number of topics it covers. As a result, knowledge is lost because someone with absolutely no domain knowledge though it was unimportant.
CMU decided that the future is focusing on parallel. Because of the direction of hardware, I think they are on the right track.
Um. No. Many modern libraries or "frameworks" (newfangled word for library) are OO. Most OSes remain written in classic system programming languages like C and assembly language. In fact, most frameworks start as object oriented wrappers for certain OS calls and cruft up from there.
Actually, Apple's technology gets beat all the time. It's not because Apple isn't good at what they do: it is because other manufacturers design around upgraded or different hardware that is made weeks or months after Apple starts with a new phone design. This is normal in the tech industry. If you start developing in May, and I in August, my product will likely be faster, and/ have features. Apple is no different than anyone else in this regard, so you have a constant parade of new technology leaders through the year - and Apple gets their turn when they come out with a new iPhone or iPad. Then Motorola, Samsung, HTC, or whoever gets their turn. Eventually, it's Apple's turn again.
If you want an example, go back to iPhone 1.0 vs the T-Mobile G-1. The G-1 had all of the features iPhone had (except that multitouch was disabled in software) and a slew of features that iPhone did not have: 3G, SD card reader, GPS, no need to sync with a PC, and a multitasking OS. Then the iPhone 3G came out with features to match. Then came the Moto Droid... and so on.
As for the half baked software stuff, remember Microsoft Windows + a slew of hardware makers absolutely dominated the computer industry and Apple. History is repeating itself, and that's not an indictment of Apple: they make very good products, and are very profitable.
If he cared, the deletionists would be gone.
This disaster is serious, but there will be no Chernobyl or Three Mile Island level event, despite an EXTREME earthquake (8.9) and a tsunami. I tend to see that as evidence that the nuclear industry has been extraordinarily careful and safety conscious in designing the facility.
Applying DRM to a compiled binary is not at all problematic so long a source code is made available. There is no issue with DRM implementations in GPL software. That said, DRM is a tool, like a hammer or gun. It can be used for good (ensuring binaries are not tampered with), restricting access to sensitive data, or evil (forcing you to buy that Led Zepplin song again every time you buy a new player). Ultimately the flaw is that DRM relies on an illusion that today's cryptography will protect things forever, when reality is that as computers improve, items protected today become trivial to crack in the future.
falls on deaf ears when people invest time and knowledge in Wikipedia only to have the content deleted.
So the Japanese are Western? No wars in China? Ummmmkay.
We can do pretty much anything* we need to with precision guided conventional weapons.
* Except make making victory impossible for the enemy.
FTFY.
Until the other guy doesn't have nukes, you are pretty much stuck with having them. Nukes are largely responsible for preventing the next every 20 years or so ginormous war that was happening up until 1945. While I don't like having stuff around that hand the earth off to the cockroaches, it beats having 50 million people killed in five years every two or three decades.
That the judge is going to have no choice but to toss the case out for jurisdiction. Sony should have filed the case in New Jersey, they know it, and they are simply trying to run up a big legal bill for Hotz. Their strategy could backfire, though because it's not unheard of for federal judges to make the plaintiff pay legal bills for the defense when they are simply using the court to run up bills on the defendant using a theory they know is wrong from day one. Sony will soon have the case tossed, and will have to refile in NJ. Then the lawsuit can really proceed.
Oh, and it speaks volumes as to what kind of human beings run Sony: Hollywood vampires.
Wow, another KDE4 feature borrowed by Windows...
That's because Scifi.com is not syfy.com.
No, this is simply a wikipedia nazi deleting other peoples stuff because it makes them feel powerful and important.
The fatal flaw in Microsoft's "tablet" PC was that it was designed around the pen based computing concept. The GUI was optimized for stylus, and most input was done using handwriting recognition that didn't work that well. The result was a miserable user experience and carts at your local hospital that turned a tablet into a desktop, complete with keyboard and mouse.
The current iteration of touch screen designs are vastly easier to work with, but still have some fairly serious limitations... particularly around input. As for the $250 tablet, there are a ton of Android 2.2 based devices that hit your pricepoint and desired features. Oh, and if a smartphone has a camera, it can scan barcodes.
Most often the thing that kills science fiction shows is the assumption on the part of TV executives that because a show has rabid fans, they are willing to watch the show on Friday night or that they are not fans of another more popular show. So the show that starts at a sane time, gets moved around to an unwatchable time. Or episodes are run six months ahead in a different country. Either way, rampant internet piracy breaks out, but the pirate viewers don't count in ratings... which means the viewership drops like a rock. B5 was moved to bad time slots AND had episodes running 3-4 months ahead of the US in Britain...
Note: (I'm one of those people who used to post in the B5 newsgroup, and loved the fact that JMS was always popping in there and answering questions - usenet kept B5 on the air for the last two years) You've got the B5 a copy of DS9 exactly backwards. JMS pitched B5 to Paramount, and they politely did his show concept in the Stat Trek universe. I would not say B5 was a copy of DS9... I'd put it the other way around. Either way, both shows were actually very good...
One has to wonder if this is simply MS going after OpenOffice installs now that the OOo community is distracted and caught up in the LibreOffice fork. MS now can point the finger to Oracle as being just as rotten, if not worse than MS is, and can point out that you are going to have to migrate to LibreOffice anyway, so you can pick your migration poison.
Nah. I knew lots of non-geeks that were right at home with a C:> prompt and were creating non-trivial applications in Dbase and Lotus 1-2-3 (using macros). 1-2-3 in particular did more to wrestle applications out of the MIS department than anything.
Just to get something like WordPerfect running you had to have some rudimentary understanding of how the computer worked and had to have working knowledge of at least 5 DOS commands (Format, Copy, Move, Delete and Cd).
We went on daylight savings time a few years ago... and were expecting that it would change our economy from a classic agrarian model to a modern, service driven powerhouse. All that happened was a rise in sales of coffee, energy drinks and replacement alarm clocks. It's good to see you'uns across the pond imitating good old fashioned Hoosier know how. (and yes, the rustics here say "you'uns" instead of "y'all)
The "App Store" model is broken. There should be a mechanism for including source code where apps are being sold. In some cases, source code is a high value feature. In other cases not. How hard is it to add a "download source link" or including a link to the source code on the email receipt?
Likewise, Microsoft would have been nowhere without Intel's reference designs going to hardware manufacturers and eliminating the need for PC makers to design their own motherboards.