Too true. Infact this vigilantism is prime material to drive away any sort of commercial acceptance of linux. It's clear that any *appearance* of impropriety is enough for people to start calling for DDos attacks around here. If it were my descision, I'd go with BSD or some other embedded OS. (Yes I know you still need to give credit, though at least I can link to a distributed library without giving out my source) The constant minefield of GPL/LGPL and fanatics that follow are too much to put up with. Makes MS licensing schemes for their embedded OS seem like kindergarden math. Even if I had to pay $10 per device, at least I wouldn't have to put up with this...
Which is my point. There ARE limits to freedom of speech. The founding fathers knew that. It's nothing new. What is protected and what isn't is a matter for the courts to decide. It is and will always be a never ending battle. My problem was that that quote is always brought out as an absolute truism and it's not. Clearly Ben was willing to give up some of his "Freedom" for some "Protection" in the right circumstances.
Of course Benjamin Franklin ALSO said (I'm paraphrasing here) "I would gladly give up my right to slander another if in turn I were to be protected of being slandered." Try reading the book "Fart Proudly" and see what old Ben REALLY said, rather than tiny out of context quotes that are shoved down your throats by a very narrow minded education system. Thruth is usually muych less black and white that most people make it out to be.
Except that the abulity to do this severly hampers performance even when client and server are on the local machine. That one benefit does not overcome the sever limitations that X pins on the local machine. It's not worth even bringin up.
So because it won't work on a 5 year old computer it can be allowed to exist huh?. Lets see you run KDE 2.0 on that same machine! You CAN'T. A single launch of netscrape will bring the system to it's knees. So I guess we better outlaw KDE as well then!
Actually those 100,000 bugs are NOT all "fixed". And every version that has been released has had thousands of open bugs in it. In fact when it (ever) reaches 1.0 it will still probably have hundreds if not thousands of open "bugs". And that's JUST THE BROWSER!!!! Win2k is a browser and about 100x more.
Wasn't that what was slowing down the G4? Since Motorolla have much faster non-altivec chips out for quite a while now. Has the descision just been made to dump it entirely and get a move on with the MHz? Or did they actually find a way to run the altivec engine at 2-3x suddenly? Since it was actually the altivec engine that was able to produce the specialized photoshop filters, one or two of which were 3-4x what they ran on unoptomized intel machines at the same clock speed (And gave Stevie his 4x faster than a pentium claims). They could end up with a chip that is twice as fast MHz wise but even slower using those same photoshop filters.
Soooo there is the freedom of speech, except wherever the law dictates that there is not. Therein lies the problem. In the US we can't pass laws that are unconstitutional. (Well it does happen, but they frequently get struck down when challenged). Here, there is a back door provision saying "YOU ARE ENTIRELY FREE TO SPEAK, except that any law or any moral code can be passed at any time to limit this freedom in any way" So any law can be passed and it is automatically constitutional. They might as well have not even bothered.
And what you apparently haven't thought of is that anyone caught USING a type of encryption without a back door will immediately be arrested as a suspected terrorist! Good luck!
CHEATING?!?!?!? WTF? Delayed loading is GOOD PROGRAMMING PRACTICE! All OSes Delayload DLLs (.sos whatever) by default. Coding even more load on demand into the application is GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD. Cheating indeed. If that's what the Linux community considers cheating then it's no wonder it's in such a foul state:(
Unbiased? Have you even used MFC? MFC is an amazingly thin wrapper around the Win32. In fact TOO thin. Rather than being a completely clean genericly useful set of classes there are conspicuous holes in the functionality of several widgets because they do nothing but wrap the lower level windows GUI functions.
How does this help me use my computer to produce music, layout a magazine or produce commercial art? Believe it or not computers have grown to be a whole lot more than e-mail, news and web. In fact most of those elements themselves are actually anti-productive most of the time. Being productive on a computer requires more than plain text and 5 simple programs...
Well, because this is "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" not "Slashdot: If it's not about linux, Fuck off"? I mean if it IS the second (and it is), then it should probably be said that way.:)
You meant "Cringly is on a troll".
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That article was worthless. He almost even seems to suggest vampiring net badwidth off of a large supplier without their consent. (At least he doesn't mention actually paying for it). The line cost itself seems to be about equal to or slightly less than DSL. All in all it was a waste of bytes. (Much like this reply which would not be necessary if the article had not been posted):)
Intel has sold a compiler for windows for a long time. It can also be integrated into VC++. Though it also costs $399 and most people who buy VC++ for $99 aren't going to pop for another 400 to marginally increase runtimes for most executables. (Though games/video/encryption and other code that can make use of SSE2 would benefit greatly)
I don't like it either. But, it's hard to argue against when you realise that you are the minority. The other 9 out of 10 people are all for stealing anything they can get their hands on and this is the result. I also don't like having to pay taxes to support a police department just because there are so many people that are willing to physically steal anything they want. I also don't like paying taxes to support an army because... well you get the point. It is, and will become common practice because humans as a species are generally corrupt, violent and selfish. If no one stole music and distributed it without permission, this wouldn't happen. Will the lesson be learned? It hasn't in 5000 years of history, it's not about to start now with cd-rs...
I'd hardly call 3x T-1 DL speeds crappy service. The installs are also infinately less painful in the average than DSL install. Even people that complain about their cable modem being slow in the evening are only compleining becuase theyre only DSL speed instead of 10x DSL as usual. AND it's still cheaper! The service was good. "Too good to live" is what you ment to say. Too expensive to maintain for what they were charging. Oh well was great while it lasted.
Because the equipment and maintenence costs, staff costs and bandwidth costs (which is merely the equipment and maintenence costs from upstream) far exceed what they are charging users. Plain and simple. In fact the more users they get, the faster they lose money. Same thing with DSL. Ever wonder why a T-1 costs so much? That's the actual cost of getting that level of service and it's 10-20 times what the cable modem costs an end user. I've been an extatic @home user for almost 5 years now, 3x T-1 DL speeds always, for $29 a month! but of course in the light of reality, that was just way WAY too much to expect to last:(
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vi vs. Emacs. Common enemy visual Studio or Code Warrier. (Or maybe even KDevelop on linux itsef!)
I have never seen anyone in my life editing code in word. If you've seen that you've been to hell...
Too true. Infact this vigilantism is prime material to drive away any sort of commercial acceptance of linux. It's clear that any *appearance* of impropriety is enough for people to start calling for DDos attacks around here. If it were my descision, I'd go with BSD or some other embedded OS. (Yes I know you still need to give credit, though at least I can link to a distributed library without giving out my source) The constant minefield of GPL/LGPL and fanatics that follow are too much to put up with. Makes MS licensing schemes for their embedded OS seem like kindergarden math. Even if I had to pay $10 per device, at least I wouldn't have to put up with this...
It's still odd...
The philosophy is sound reguardless of it's source.
Which is my point. There ARE limits to freedom of speech. The founding fathers knew that. It's nothing new. What is protected and what isn't is a matter for the courts to decide. It is and will always be a never ending battle. My problem was that that quote is always brought out as an absolute truism and it's not. Clearly Ben was willing to give up some of his "Freedom" for some "Protection" in the right circumstances.
Of course Benjamin Franklin ALSO said (I'm paraphrasing here) "I would gladly give up my right to slander another if in turn I were to be protected of being slandered." Try reading the book "Fart Proudly" and see what old Ben REALLY said, rather than tiny out of context quotes that are shoved down your throats by a very narrow minded education system. Thruth is usually muych less black and white that most people make it out to be.
Except that the abulity to do this severly hampers performance even when client and server are on the local machine. That one benefit does not overcome the sever limitations that X pins on the local machine. It's not worth even bringin up.
So because it won't work on a 5 year old computer it can be allowed to exist huh?. Lets see you run KDE 2.0 on that same machine! You CAN'T. A single launch of netscrape will bring the system to it's knees. So I guess we better outlaw KDE as well then!
Actually those 100,000 bugs are NOT all "fixed". And every version that has been released has had thousands of open bugs in it. In fact when it (ever) reaches 1.0 it will still probably have hundreds if not thousands of open "bugs". And that's JUST THE BROWSER!!!! Win2k is a browser and about 100x more.
Wasn't that what was slowing down the G4? Since Motorolla have much faster non-altivec chips out for quite a while now. Has the descision just been made to dump it entirely and get a move on with the MHz? Or did they actually find a way to run the altivec engine at 2-3x suddenly? Since it was actually the altivec engine that was able to produce the specialized photoshop filters, one or two of which were 3-4x what they ran on unoptomized intel machines at the same clock speed (And gave Stevie his 4x faster than a pentium claims). They could end up with a chip that is twice as fast MHz wise but even slower using those same photoshop filters.
Actually Intel believes that it's 20 stage pipeline will top out at 10 Ghz.
Soooo there is the freedom of speech, except wherever the law dictates that there is not. Therein lies the problem. In the US we can't pass laws that are unconstitutional. (Well it does happen, but they frequently get struck down when challenged). Here, there is a back door provision saying "YOU ARE ENTIRELY FREE TO SPEAK, except that any law or any moral code can be passed at any time to limit this freedom in any way" So any law can be passed and it is automatically constitutional. They might as well have not even bothered.
And what you apparently haven't thought of is that anyone caught USING a type of encryption without a back door will immediately be arrested as a suspected terrorist! Good luck!
CHEATING?!?!?!? WTF? Delayed loading is GOOD PROGRAMMING PRACTICE! All OSes Delayload DLLs (.sos whatever) by default. Coding even more load on demand into the application is GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD. Cheating indeed. If that's what the Linux community considers cheating then it's no wonder it's in such a foul state :(
Unbiased? Have you even used MFC? MFC is an amazingly thin wrapper around the Win32. In fact TOO thin. Rather than being a completely clean genericly useful set of classes there are conspicuous holes in the functionality of several widgets because they do nothing but wrap the lower level windows GUI functions.
How does this help me use my computer to produce music, layout a magazine or produce commercial art? Believe it or not computers have grown to be a whole lot more than e-mail, news and web. In fact most of those elements themselves are actually anti-productive most of the time. Being productive on a computer requires more than plain text and 5 simple programs...
Well, because this is "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" not "Slashdot: If it's not about linux, Fuck off"? I mean if it IS the second (and it is), then it should probably be said that way. :)
That article was worthless. He almost even seems to suggest vampiring net badwidth off of a large supplier without their consent. (At least he doesn't mention actually paying for it). The line cost itself seems to be about equal to or slightly less than DSL. All in all it was a waste of bytes. (Much like this reply which would not be necessary if the article had not been posted) :)
The basic version of VC++ is $99 and they were recently (Maybe still) offering a $50 rebate. And this was at CompUSA!
Intel has sold a compiler for windows for a long time. It can also be integrated into VC++. Though it also costs $399 and most people who buy VC++ for $99 aren't going to pop for another 400 to marginally increase runtimes for most executables. (Though games/video/encryption and other code that can make use of SSE2 would benefit greatly)
I don't like it either. But, it's hard to argue against when you realise that you are the minority. The other 9 out of 10 people are all for stealing anything they can get their hands on and this is the result. I also don't like having to pay taxes to support a police department just because there are so many people that are willing to physically steal anything they want. I also don't like paying taxes to support an army because... well you get the point. It is, and will become common practice because humans as a species are generally corrupt, violent and selfish. If no one stole music and distributed it without permission, this wouldn't happen. Will the lesson be learned? It hasn't in 5000 years of history, it's not about to start now with cd-rs...
You mean like updating to the latest linux kernel and wiping out your file system?
Wow, /. has become almost "M$" like in it's ability to actually patch something...
I'd hardly call 3x T-1 DL speeds crappy service. The installs are also infinately less painful in the average than DSL install. Even people that complain about their cable modem being slow in the evening are only compleining becuase theyre only DSL speed instead of 10x DSL as usual. AND it's still cheaper! The service was good. "Too good to live" is what you ment to say. Too expensive to maintain for what they were charging. Oh well was great while it lasted.
Because the equipment and maintenence costs, staff costs and bandwidth costs (which is merely the equipment and maintenence costs from upstream) far exceed what they are charging users. Plain and simple. In fact the more users they get, the faster they lose money. Same thing with DSL. Ever wonder why a T-1 costs so much? That's the actual cost of getting that level of service and it's 10-20 times what the cable modem costs an end user. I've been an extatic @home user for almost 5 years now, 3x T-1 DL speeds always, for $29 a month! but of course in the light of reality, that was just way WAY too much to expect to last :(
As great hyperbole as that is. Apple will have an IE plugin of QT shortly. Thankyoumovealong.