I read the blog post (yes, I know reading the actual articles is unusual for Slashdot, I'm sorry), and as I see it Shuttleworth's point is mostly that Debian should focus on the work on the unstable branch because, plainly, that's what working best.
Maybe he's right. Debian's never been succesful at meeting the scheduled release dates. If Ubuntu is capable of delivering better desktop releases, and in soon perhaps also better server releases, then what's the point of struggling and perpertually flamewaring to do the same inside Debian? Food for thought. Maybe a Debian developer would like to comment on that?
By the way, he openly admits that the unstable branch is vital for Ubuntu which could explain why he thinks that it is better to focus on it.
Public transportation is only a small part of the picture. And the image you paint of European politics frankly does not have much to do with reality. I live in Denmark, it's certainly not true here. The number of large roads is increasing, not decreasing. But the Danish emissions have improved anyway.
About Kyoto: even if the targets are missed by some countries, it's still much better than doing nothing. It's not black and white. You are deluding yourself.
Rain coat? Nowadays you can get a nice, thin suit that you put on top of your other clothes. No reason to be wet just because it rains and you are on bicycle.
This is just weird. Why would online music be any different from music bought on a cd?
In Denmark you pay 25% tax (it's called MOMS) whenever you buy something as a consumer, whether it is goods or services (say a visit by a plumber). I believe many other European contries have something similar.
It's the Danish conspiracy. Eventually all computers will be programmed in a Danish programming language - then WORLD DOMINATION! Just wait till your defense systems start responding to the code that can be implicitly read between the lines...
... because this thinking doesn't dovetail with the image of americans that the world has grown comfortable with, namely that we're overwhelmingly mouth-breathing troglodytes, while the rest of the world consists of polished, cosmopolitan, urbane, well-manicured people.
You forgot that the women over here are much hotter, too.
Interesting, but isn't extrapolating 11 years just a bit too long time to be meaningful? 11 years is enough time for another technology to pop up and be mass-marketed. Even if this does not happen, do you have any idea of the uncertainty of the estimate?
Once OSS programmers will stop puking dialogues at my face with [yes] [no] [cancel] buttons at every occasion, that will be the time I might consider GNOME or KDE a usable desktop*
I'm glad to inform you that you can start considering rightnow, then.
It's good for you that you have seen the light. However, you fail to understand that others have seen it too. GNOME has gone through major simplifications over the last few years.
I am confident it will surpass Mac OS X in due time - because Apple does not really get it: closed source software is not as competitive in the long run. You can't beat the constant helpful hammering of people all around the world when it comes to this kind of software.
That's a silly remark. Pastry and all the other research networks have all been tested as much as possible. People have run simulations, tested them on clusters and analysed them theoretically. With limited resources available there is only so much you can do as a researcher.
Did it occur to your that when you open a web page, you're filling those buffers with data? You are naive if you think Mozilla does not have security holes. In fact, they find some themselves from time to time as you would know if you followed their news.
It's the same with email. It is likely that there are exploits in your email client, too. You are not secure just because Ubuntu does not open any ports to the outside world.
Heck, a couple of months ago I read about a hole in Eye of Gnome (the image viewer for Gnome). Someone could send you an image, and it would let them into your box.
I believe GNU/Linux is more secure because the Unix culture is more focused on security, but noone is safe.
You are missing the fact that this is free software. Noone has stopped working on nice free alternatives just because the Wine folks are doing what they do.
Besides, you forget legacy applications. All the major pieces for ordinary desktop users are already in place on GNU/Linux. The only thing preventing enterprises from switching is legacy Windows applications. This is why Wine is absolutely a plus.
Sigh. You are reading too much into that sentence. New technology can benefit from new inventions, new algorithms. Chances are your operating system isn't using the same scheduling algorithms that an older version of it was using ten years ago.
Does the invention of better algorithms make the old scheduling algorithms flawed? No. Is your operating system scheduling things better? Probably.
Maybe this new technology will be good enough to replace at least some uses of TCP. Maybe it will not. But if you had actually followed some of the links, you would probably have learned something (I assume that you don't, because, yes, TCP has some flaws over high-speed links).
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I'm not sure they actually want to replace TCP. BUT the important thing is that they provide an open standard (and they are writing RFCs, remember) - then everyone and their mother can write an implementation.
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I read the blog post (yes, I know reading the actual articles is unusual for Slashdot, I'm sorry), and as I see it Shuttleworth's point is mostly that Debian should focus on the work on the unstable branch because, plainly, that's what working best.
Maybe he's right. Debian's never been succesful at meeting the scheduled release dates. If Ubuntu is capable of delivering better desktop releases, and in soon perhaps also better server releases, then what's the point of struggling and perpertually flamewaring to do the same inside Debian? Food for thought. Maybe a Debian developer would like to comment on that?
By the way, he openly admits that the unstable branch is vital for Ubuntu which could explain why he thinks that it is better to focus on it.
Public transportation is only a small part of the picture. And the image you paint of European politics frankly does not have much to do with reality. I live in Denmark, it's certainly not true here. The number of large roads is increasing, not decreasing. But the Danish emissions have improved anyway.
About Kyoto: even if the targets are missed by some countries, it's still much better than doing nothing. It's not black and white. You are deluding yourself.
Rain coat? Nowadays you can get a nice, thin suit that you put on top of your other clothes. No reason to be wet just because it rains and you are on bicycle.
This is just weird. Why would online music be any different from music bought on a cd?
In Denmark you pay 25% tax (it's called MOMS) whenever you buy something as a consumer, whether it is goods or services (say a visit by a plumber). I believe many other European contries have something similar.
It transfers files automatically. So it's more convenient.
Opera is the stand out -- in the rain. Opera has Opera Software, but Opera Software is a tiny 230-person company.
:-)
Only an American would call a 230-person company tiny. Here in Denmark, and I guess in Norway too, a 230-person IT company is at least mid-range.
Maybe small compared to Google, but not small in any absolute sense.
It's the Danish conspiracy. Eventually all computers will be programmed in a Danish programming language - then WORLD DOMINATION! Just wait till your defense systems start responding to the code that can be implicitly read between the lines...
... because this thinking doesn't dovetail with the image of americans that the world has grown comfortable with, namely that we're overwhelmingly mouth-breathing troglodytes, while the rest of the world consists of polished, cosmopolitan, urbane, well-manicured people.
You forgot that the women over here are much hotter, too.
Interesting, but isn't extrapolating 11 years just a bit too long time to be meaningful? 11 years is enough time for another technology to pop up and be mass-marketed. Even if this does not happen, do you have any idea of the uncertainty of the estimate?
In Victoria (where Melbourne is), they are even more tough. As soon as I cross the border to Vic, I don't speed at all.
Cool. So it actually works.
There's a complete C++ wrapper of GTK+, it's called gtkmm.
Hahahaha! Best Slashdot joke this week! :-D
Once OSS programmers will stop puking dialogues at my face with [yes] [no] [cancel] buttons at every occasion, that will be the time I might consider GNOME or KDE a usable desktop*
I'm glad to inform you that you can start considering right now, then.
It's good for you that you have seen the light. However, you fail to understand that others have seen it too. GNOME has gone through major simplifications over the last few years.
I am confident it will surpass Mac OS X in due time - because Apple does not really get it: closed source software is not as competitive in the long run. You can't beat the constant helpful hammering of people all around the world when it comes to this kind of software.
That's a silly remark. Pastry and all the other research networks have all been tested as much as possible. People have run simulations, tested them on clusters and analysed them theoretically. With limited resources available there is only so much you can do as a researcher.
Why, are you asking why?
Because we want more babes at work, of course!
Did it occur to your that when you open a web page, you're filling those buffers with data? You are naive if you think Mozilla does not have security holes. In fact, they find some themselves from time to time as you would know if you followed their news.
It's the same with email. It is likely that there are exploits in your email client, too. You are not secure just because Ubuntu does not open any ports to the outside world.
Heck, a couple of months ago I read about a hole in Eye of Gnome (the image viewer for Gnome). Someone could send you an image, and it would let them into your box.
I believe GNU/Linux is more secure because the Unix culture is more focused on security, but noone is safe.
You are missing the fact that this is free software. Noone has stopped working on nice free alternatives just because the Wine folks are doing what they do.
Besides, you forget legacy applications. All the major pieces for ordinary desktop users are already in place on GNU/Linux. The only thing preventing enterprises from switching is legacy Windows applications. This is why Wine is absolutely a plus.
Maybe you could give them a hand? :-)
Could you please explain why it is ridiculous with public transportation BETWEEN major American cities?
Sigh. You are reading too much into that sentence. New technology can benefit from new inventions, new algorithms. Chances are your operating system isn't using the same scheduling algorithms that an older version of it was using ten years ago.
Does the invention of better algorithms make the old scheduling algorithms flawed? No. Is your operating system scheduling things better? Probably.
Maybe this new technology will be good enough to replace at least some uses of TCP. Maybe it will not. But if you had actually followed some of the links, you would probably have learned something (I assume that you don't, because, yes, TCP has some flaws over high-speed links).
I'm not sure they actually want to replace TCP. BUT the important thing is that they provide an open standard (and they are writing RFCs, remember) - then everyone and their mother can write an implementation.
You're welcome. We all learn something new each day.
We throw money to Kingswood waren each year, and every so often they come out with a box that does some amazing things. They all play croquet too.
Croquet? Really? Sounds like a nice bunch of fellows!
Mmmmmmh, cave exploration, mmmmmmhh.
Oh, I forgot. This is Slashdot! You wouldn't know. Sorry about that, folks.