Are you sure you understand the meaning of the word essential? WordPress made it to version 2.3 without this information... that doesn't sound very essential to me.
You probably meant "convenient" or "useful for monetizing."
"unsuccessful development efforts have cost approximately $4.8 billion since the 1980s."
Yeah? Unsuccessful nation building efforts have cost the U.S. approximately $500 billion since 2003. If congress really wants to conserve money I think they know where to look.
Unfortunately Microsoft killed WebDAV for everybody. They're so good at that it's scary.
Now, according to Jeremy Allison, CIFS seems to be the best way to share stuff. I think he's right. At least, I can't think of any more reliable cross-platform file share technology.
But their drivers are utter crap. I've owned a couple micro-ITXes and none of them ran well, either Linux or Windows. Via just says things like, "well, try not to DMA much." Or quietly push out a bugfix bios three years late. They claim that many of their drivers are open source and then steadfastly refuse to release source. Fiona, just because you promise to release source in 4 months, that doesn't mean you can claim they're open source today. And really, given Via's abysmal past performance at opening source (no a shim plus a binary blob is NOT open), I wouldn't hold my breath.
I'll never buy Via again, no matter how small they make their boards. It's a crying shame because, really, their hardware is just gorgeous.
From TFA, on how the deal can be GPLv2-legal and still wrong:
If you're screwing over some of your major suppliers by following what your lawyers see as the letter of a license, not the good faith intent of the license, then you can't expect those suppliers to say "well done, you really tricked us on that one.....".
Novell forks up Linux by having a poor vision, even worse followthrough, and positioning themselves to be used as a tool for Microsoft. Novell's leadership has always been poor but in the past few months it's really sunk to new lows.
- By opening up the Ximian connector for Exchange?
Garbage code. Nobody used it then, nobody uses it now. Furthermore, Novell killed off Hula so now it's up to Zimbra and Scalix to compete with Exchange. Those companies are in nowhere near as good a position as Novell to compete with Microsoft. You've got to admit, Novell has completely forked up their email platform. What are they going to do, beg customers to stay on NetMail for a few more years?
- By refining KDE and making it a pleasant environment>?
Of all the companies refining KDE, Novell is very low on the list. They spend a lot more time refining Gnome.
- By making SuSE a distro which requires very little (since 10.1 NO) tweaking to get to real work in a heterogeneous environment?
Knoppix did this years before. All major distros do it now. This is hardly groundbreaking material.
- By making the installation process so easy it's actually enjoyable?
Who doesn't nowadays? Also no big deal.
- By submitting many, many valuable patches to the kernel?
Really? Other than ifolder, what? Even Robert Love doesn't appear to work on the kernel anymore. Novell seems to be entirely userspace nowadays. Who is Novell's equivalent of Dave Jones? What patches are Novell working on today?
- By submitting many, many valuable patches to OpenOffice.org?
I'd be a lot more impressed if those patches went into Gnome Office or KOffice. Helping Microsoft to push OpenXML doesn't count for much in my book you know.
- By making ReiserFS journaling actually work?
Who cares? Reiser3 is long since dead, Reiser4 isn't here yet. Thankfully, Novell has finally admitted that pushing that dead horse for so long was a mistake.
Open your eyes. Novell has been working hard, yes, but (other than with the Gnome Desktop, where they contribute huge) they have thus far utterly failed to make any sort of dent in the industry. It's a shame, and I hope they turn it around. Unfortunately, this Microsoft deal is putting pressure on them to be even more marginal...
Try it. I think you'll find you're wrong. On any post-1980s compiler both techniques will either produce the exact same code or, if one is slower, then it's the union that's causing the register to spill. Since nobody uses unions, nobody really optimizes for them but, believe you me, C compilers optimize the hell out of pointers.
And, the address-of operator implies no such thing if it's optimized away (and it is). Maybe you were thinking of the volatile keyword?
Wired: You built your business upon data donated in good faith by your users.
Steve: blah opnion blah done before Ti Kan blah.
Wired: To charge them for the data that they sent in? Doesn't that seem wrong?
Steve: blah blah investors market blah FreeDB still exists..
Wired: But you forced the community to produce FreeDB as a last-ditch resort. It was a needless duplication of a huge amount of work.
Steve: blah not greed blah GPL blah blah.
I read that whole smarmy article hoping that we'd finally get a decent answer. No dice. It's just a bunch of wandering by a guy who has gone to the McNamara school of interviewing ("don't answer the question you were asked, answer the question you wish you were asked"). But it's easy enough to counter this trick: just keep asking the question that you want answered.
Most people in the U.S. can't use Fon's service anyway. Between this and handing out stock options to blogging pundits in return forakindword, they seem to be a pretty shady company.
This is the single best suggestion I've seen on Slashdot in a long time. I hope someone will contact the Bash maintainers for this. (I would do it myself but I've dealt with them in the past and it left a real bitter taste in my mouth...)
I really feel for the guys on Linux or Mac who have absolutely no way of testing sites on IE.
I test on IE on my Linux box all the time. Sure, the fonts are fairly different so it's not good for final layout but it's awesome for discovering if pages render correctly and way easier than keeping a full-time VMWare session running.
Firefly, yeah... I spent $13.00 on Copper Blue by Sugar because they claimed that it was like Massive Attack. Bleah, puke. It was my first proof that all these computer-based recommendation systems suck serious ass. And so did Firefly.
FIDO was social networking back in the day. And it was real networking too.
"encouraging top-posting, which is widely considered bad form among the experts."
Tell me, please, who you would consider to be an expert on top-posting.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of paging through 4 pages of quotes before I can read what you have to say. And I don't much like it when you trim other people's writing -- this necessarily changes their meaning, usually along the agenda of the person doing the trimming.
Discussing top-posting appears to have a Vim vs. Emacs futility to it.
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Are you sure you understand the meaning of the word essential? WordPress made it to version 2.3 without this information... that doesn't sound very essential to me.
You probably meant "convenient" or "useful for monetizing."
To clarify, http://khaaan.com/
"unsuccessful development efforts have cost approximately $4.8 billion since the 1980s."
Yeah? Unsuccessful nation building efforts have cost the U.S. approximately $500 billion since 2003. If congress really wants to conserve money I think they know where to look.
Unfortunately Microsoft killed WebDAV for everybody. They're so good at that it's scary.
Now, according to Jeremy Allison, CIFS seems to be the best way to share stuff. I think he's right. At least, I can't think of any more reliable cross-platform file share technology.
Sigh.
Because they want everybody on the planet to have their own google.com account? Let's see if they start pitching this soon: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApp s.html
But their drivers are utter crap. I've owned a couple micro-ITXes and none of them ran well, either Linux or Windows. Via just says things like, "well, try not to DMA much." Or quietly push out a bugfix bios three years late. They claim that many of their drivers are open source and then steadfastly refuse to release source. Fiona, just because you promise to release source in 4 months, that doesn't mean you can claim they're open source today. And really, given Via's abysmal past performance at opening source (no a shim plus a binary blob is NOT open), I wouldn't hold my breath.
I'll never buy Via again, no matter how small they make their boards. It's a crying shame because, really, their hardware is just gorgeous.
From TFA, on how the deal can be GPLv2-legal and still wrong:
If you're screwing over some of your major suppliers by following what your lawyers see as the letter of a license, not the good faith intent of the license, then you can't expect those suppliers to say "well done, you really tricked us on that one.....".
Except that Red Hat doesn't have a newbie in charge. Expect them to be a LOT more clueful than Hovespian.
Novell forks up Linux by having a poor vision, even worse followthrough, and positioning themselves to be used as a tool for Microsoft. Novell's leadership has always been poor but in the past few months it's really sunk to new lows.
- By opening up the Ximian connector for Exchange?
Garbage code. Nobody used it then, nobody uses it now. Furthermore, Novell killed off Hula so now it's up to Zimbra and Scalix to compete with Exchange. Those companies are in nowhere near as good a position as Novell to compete with Microsoft. You've got to admit, Novell has completely forked up their email platform. What are they going to do, beg customers to stay on NetMail for a few more years?
- By refining KDE and making it a pleasant environment>?
Of all the companies refining KDE, Novell is very low on the list. They spend a lot more time refining Gnome.
- By making SuSE a distro which requires very little (since 10.1 NO) tweaking to get to real work in a heterogeneous environment?
Knoppix did this years before. All major distros do it now. This is hardly groundbreaking material.
- By making the installation process so easy it's actually enjoyable?
Who doesn't nowadays? Also no big deal.
- By submitting many, many valuable patches to the kernel?
Really? Other than ifolder, what? Even Robert Love doesn't appear to work on the kernel anymore. Novell seems to be entirely userspace nowadays. Who is Novell's equivalent of Dave Jones? What patches are Novell working on today?
- By submitting many, many valuable patches to OpenOffice.org?
I'd be a lot more impressed if those patches went into Gnome Office or KOffice. Helping Microsoft to push OpenXML doesn't count for much in my book you know.
- By making ReiserFS journaling actually work?
Who cares? Reiser3 is long since dead, Reiser4 isn't here yet. Thankfully, Novell has finally admitted that pushing that dead horse for so long was a mistake.
Open your eyes. Novell has been working hard, yes, but (other than with the Gnome Desktop, where they contribute huge) they have thus far utterly failed to make any sort of dent in the industry. It's a shame, and I hope they turn it around. Unfortunately, this Microsoft deal is putting pressure on them to be even more marginal...
Try it. I think you'll find you're wrong. On any post-1980s compiler both techniques will either produce the exact same code or, if one is slower, then it's the union that's causing the register to spill. Since nobody uses unions, nobody really optimizes for them but, believe you me, C compilers optimize the hell out of pointers.
And, the address-of operator implies no such thing if it's optimized away (and it is). Maybe you were thinking of the volatile keyword?
Wired: You built your business upon data donated in good faith by your users.
Steve: blah opnion blah done before Ti Kan blah.
Wired: To charge them for the data that they sent in? Doesn't that seem wrong?
Steve: blah blah investors market blah FreeDB still exists..
Wired: But you forced the community to produce FreeDB as a last-ditch resort. It was a needless duplication of a huge amount of work.
Steve: blah not greed blah GPL blah blah.
I read that whole smarmy article hoping that we'd finally get a decent answer. No dice. It's just a bunch of wandering by a guy who has gone to the McNamara school of interviewing ("don't answer the question you were asked, answer the question you wish you were asked"). But it's easy enough to counter this trick: just keep asking the question that you want answered.
Wired, you let him off the hook easy.
Most people in the U.S. can't use Fon's service anyway. Between this and handing out stock options to blogging pundits in return for a kind word, they seem to be a pretty shady company.
This is the single best suggestion I've seen on Slashdot in a long time. I hope someone will contact the Bash maintainers for this. (I would do it myself but I've dealt with them in the past and it left a real bitter taste in my mouth...)
I really feel for the guys on Linux or Mac who have absolutely no way of testing sites on IE.
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I test on IE on my Linux box all the time. Sure, the fonts are fairly different so it's not good for final layout but it's awesome for discovering if pages render correctly and way easier than keeping a full-time VMWare session running.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Pag
Firefly, yeah... I spent $13.00 on Copper Blue by Sugar because they claimed that it was like Massive Attack. Bleah, puke. It was my first proof that all these computer-based recommendation systems suck serious ass. And so did Firefly.
FIDO was social networking back in the day. And it was real networking too.
Rrrrabr!
...and get splinters in its tongue? I think not.
Damn that's an insightful post. What's it doing on Slashdot?
You're expecting him to spend at least a day, maybe two, just to win a $1200 computer?
If he really wants to call a big bluff, why doesn't "daring" fireball at least put up some decent stakes?
Dual core? By this rationale I have a 36-core car. It's a beowulf cluster on 4 wheels!
Not if you want to use xgl.
Fooled by your post, dumbass. If you do this all the time, why don't you post an example? Otherwise, you're just a sad lying sack of shit.
Cheese sandwiches can be utilized in some nefarious way by some nefarious person. Therefore, cheese sandwiches have been made illegal!
"encouraging top-posting, which is widely considered bad form among the experts."
Tell me, please, who you would consider to be an expert on top-posting.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of paging through 4 pages of quotes before I can read what you have to say. And I don't much like it when you trim other people's writing -- this necessarily changes their meaning, usually along the agenda of the person doing the trimming.
Discussing top-posting appears to have a Vim vs. Emacs futility to it.
Have you considered the energy requirements for your proposal?? Unless you get free power from somewhere, I think you'll find it's pretty unrealistic.