How about you then give us some real choices? I don't like in NYC so I really don't care about who was there then - but the issue is the same across the country. Here, we had a choice between a D who cheated on his taxes and an R who cheated on his wife. Neither had any qualifications that made me feel he had any chance of doing a good job... On state level it wasn't any better and don't get me started on presidential nonsense. One promises to waste money we don't have on war, the other sugarcoats it a little better and says we just have to find a way to pay with money we don't have social programs. In the end, it didn't matter - or do you really think Mittens would act any different to the NSA revelations? We need a choice between black and white (or call it green and red if you're too afraid of being called a racist) - not between ivory and snow! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_white)
I drove a 99 corolla until recently... After I got hit this January by a stoner, I got a 2013 corolla... The enhancements are awesome: I can no longer see cars in my blindspot by simply turning my head - they moved the side support forward by about an inch and a half... The mirrors are an annoying cut-off shape that means I can no longer see the car 2 lanes over in the lower corner of my mirror... For no apparent reason, they raised the plastic in front of the wind screen so I can no longer comfortably see the front of my vehicle when parking... They also raised the trunk lid to the point that the windscreen is substantially smaller and I have poor rear visibility... And my favorite, they moved the cup holders behind the gear shift rather than keeping it in front, so I can't properly shift anymore if I have anything larger than a can in my car... so I can either drive de-hydrated or keep the drink between my legs, both sounds really safe. Oh, and my favorite, they also put a lid on top of the center console storage space just in the right place that I hit my funny bone when shifting into 4th gear.
So explain to me, why do I need to have a wireless car-to-car system if the manufacturer of the vehicle seems hell bent on making the vehicle as hard to drive as possible (they call it modern styling)? It adds to the cost of the car, increases the weight (my car, despite 8 more horses, is almost a second slower 0-60) and the end effect is questionable. There are so many cheaper and better ways to make cars safer...
made things a lot worse. When my oldest (who is actually good at math) went to school, he never got in trouble because he'd get some A's, a few B's and occasionally he'd even get an F... by now, math and other subjects are so dumbed down that any reasonably smart person gets straight A's - and suddenly you're being punished for being too smart... In the end, we need kids to fail more in every way.
I can't remember anyone recently claiming that the US was a democracy... House members voting against what their constituents want, presidents signing clearly unconstitutional bills into law and the supreme court refusing to hear important cases? Just cause the president belongs to the democratic party, doesn't mean our formerly great country is still a democracy...
I like the touch surface but that "simple" window manager is just that. Simple. Too bad that there is a difference between simple and better. Just like a skateboard is simpler than a car doesn't make it more suitable to go to the grocery store with.... After all that talk of "lets increase interactivity because you can't reduce 10 fingers to one x/y coordinate" I think its a little strange that they then go to "lets reduce x/y window layouts to just x"...
In the end it just looks like an effort in changing things just for the sake of change.
Any method you use can be broken. Your only chance is to reduce the likelihood that your site is worth the effort.
Basically, if you use a common solution - no matter of FOSS or commercial - then there will be a thousand other sites that use it too. This attracts attackers because they know when they hack it once, they can re-use it.
However, if you handcode something, no matter how primitive, it likely lasts a lot longer because nobody bothers hacking into your site...
Of course that doesn't work if you have a large site like myspace - there, a single site is worth the effort by itself.
Anyway - then there are two things - a really fast moving animated gif and silly things where you ask people to identify items usually work. I help out with a site that randomly takes five pictures of cats and dogs and it asks you to identify which of the images contains the highest number of kittens... We barely ever get spam through - and that with almost 20K attempted submissions by non-humans a day makes us pretty happy
If your time is so precious, why do you spend so much of it on insults?
Seriously though, the only time a mac beats an HP or Dell on price is in the edge cases - macbook air, fully loaded 8core workstation and so on. But that's not what most people buy. They want the imac, the regular macbook. That's where the volume is and that's where Apple takes their premium.
Very correct information on the laptop, CPU and all - but I believe the article is mainly about the reduced memory usage. Everything (I read the german original) is worded that it stresses the memory usage. The fact that he had the CPU clocked down seemed mostly to demonstrate that the KDE guys didn't reduce the memory usage and as a side effect increased the CPU load dramatically.
>What better way to lure Windows users away than to provide support for the formats their existing documents are probably already in?
Which is fine - if you had any chance of competing. But as you said - large sections are binary. With that in place, you're not much better of than parsing a.doc
it actually makes sense - SuSE and others are already occupied territory. So why bother emphasizing an attack on them? RedHat said they will not partner with M$, so of course the attack is focused on them...
As for them using SuSE switchers as example - the selection of examples is pretty limited. They had to take whatever they could get.
Good enough for me - I just signed up. People always complain that everybody is outsourcing and service is bad and all. Well, here is your chance to put your money where your mouth is. I know I just did.
You haven't been approached yet to look into it, right? Then take a small part of your infrastructure, just a few servers. Add license costs, hardware upgrades and so on. Don't forget porting and an extra admin to do the work. You'll end up with a pretty big number very quickly. Then send it up to your management chain as a proposal for a diversification. Don't mention that you heard rumors about a switch or anything. Just sell it as an idea someone in your department had and you wanted to do a small trial.
Its simple. I helped a friend do it at his company. We took about 10% of the infrastructure - the cost came out to be around 250K in hardware and licenses and about 1.6M for porting. Of course it was denied. Then, a few weeks later the official directive came in and my friend responded with something like "ok, I'm confused. I just got turned down for a small portion, 10% at a little less than 2M, and now you want me to do everything?" Never heard from them again:)
Too bad I can't take credit for that idea - I got it from a bunch of guys that did the same where they worked and their proposal cut the whole talks about a transition short... Important thing is you show you looked at it before you were asked to on your own will. Otherwise you'll just be pushed aside as a Linux fanatic or something like that. But if they see you already looked at it and management already said it is too expensive, things look very different.
Well, you'll always find people that say a code base is a mess when the better word would be different. I have a if statement with out { and } to close it... Is it needed in C++ for a single line? Nope - does it make it clearer and easier to read? Yes to me - and my friend Chris will tell you exactly the opposite...
And on a related note - why rewrite? Can't people ever just go for cleaning something up? No cause then you are just doing mindless reformatting - while if you rewrite, you can claim you make it better, faster, whatever... So of course people will say its better to rewrite...
Finally, all mature code is a mess. If I rewrite it, I concentrate on the core piece of functionality... That is going to be small, lean, pretty and fast... Then the code matures - it gains more features. It gains portability. It is being worked on by many... and suddenly your re-write is no better than the code you set out to replace.
Ok, let me sum this up... Novel makes money selling Linux. They make money off the work of thousands of developers. Novel knew that the community as a whole dislikes M$... they knew that a large portion of OpenSource developers hate M$ with a passion... They enter into a contract with M$ anyway. Some people publicly call them traitors and worse and are now responding to the way Novel disregarded what they wanted. Licenses change and some projects stopped providing RPMS for SuSE. Its just fair - in a community we're in it together. If you do something I don't like, I have the right to do something you don't like. Or in other words, don't piss off the people on who's back you make money.
Web apps run on the server. The client used to be pretty 'dump' - kinda like a dump terminal used to me... Then with all the enhancements (ajax and all) we have more interactivity. More code on the client to solve the problem with redrawing the whole screen each time... Sounds familiar? Maybe I'm just old, but to me:
Window manager == Browser windows and tabs X protocol == HTTP layer X event model == javascript + ajax...
So basically, what the author wants is X Window, he just doesn't know it. All around, a web browser with all the 'new' things is nothing more than a sad replacement for a X server... The only advantage you have is that you can do a little more on the client with javascript...
After Sony said so many times that they will not cut the cost of the PS3 anytime soon, it would be a bad move for them to do it now... Instead they would be better off using the cheaper blue laser diodes for new, cheaper Blu-Ray players. That way, they will still gain market share overall without breaking their word of not dropping the cost much.
> The PPC architecture was not improving _at all_ in performance per watt. Apple's market was growing fastest in the portable space, but it was becoming impossible to keep temperatures and power consumption down with PPC processors.
Dual core 2GHz PPC below 25W isn't an improvement I guess? Look at PA-Semi...
Seriously, this has nothing at all to do with it.. What home user really cares if their PC takes 150W or 180W ? Nobody...
OS patches are easy - we even built our own for patches for some obsolete unix flavors. The tzfile format is well documented and straight forward. Our big issue is java... Whoever designed that piece of sh*t should be shot. They get the time information from the OS - so why not pull the TZ data from the OS too? But no - they rather implement it themselves... The result is beautiful. Oracle installed? You need an extra patch. Informix 10? Another patch. Websphere? Guess what - patch it separately! In the end, we had some boxes that needed 8 or more applications patched in addition to the OS.
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How about you then give us some real choices? I don't like in NYC so I really don't care about who was there then - but the issue is the same across the country. Here, we had a choice between a D who cheated on his taxes and an R who cheated on his wife. Neither had any qualifications that made me feel he had any chance of doing a good job... On state level it wasn't any better and don't get me started on presidential nonsense. One promises to waste money we don't have on war, the other sugarcoats it a little better and says we just have to find a way to pay with money we don't have social programs. In the end, it didn't matter - or do you really think Mittens would act any different to the NSA revelations? We need a choice between black and white (or call it green and red if you're too afraid of being called a racist) - not between ivory and snow! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_white)
Peter.
And deal with the nagging to shift and all that every day? no thanks... I want to drive the car, not get married to it :)
I drove a 99 corolla until recently... After I got hit this January by a stoner, I got a 2013 corolla... The enhancements are awesome: I can no longer see cars in my blindspot by simply turning my head - they moved the side support forward by about an inch and a half... The mirrors are an annoying cut-off shape that means I can no longer see the car 2 lanes over in the lower corner of my mirror... For no apparent reason, they raised the plastic in front of the wind screen so I can no longer comfortably see the front of my vehicle when parking... They also raised the trunk lid to the point that the windscreen is substantially smaller and I have poor rear visibility... And my favorite, they moved the cup holders behind the gear shift rather than keeping it in front, so I can't properly shift anymore if I have anything larger than a can in my car... so I can either drive de-hydrated or keep the drink between my legs, both sounds really safe. Oh, and my favorite, they also put a lid on top of the center console storage space just in the right place that I hit my funny bone when shifting into 4th gear.
So explain to me, why do I need to have a wireless car-to-car system if the manufacturer of the vehicle seems hell bent on making the vehicle as hard to drive as possible (they call it modern styling)? It adds to the cost of the car, increases the weight (my car, despite 8 more horses, is almost a second slower 0-60) and the end effect is questionable. There are so many cheaper and better ways to make cars safer...
Peter.
... does it run emacs?
made things a lot worse. When my oldest (who is actually good at math) went to school, he never got in trouble because he'd get some A's, a few B's and occasionally he'd even get an F... by now, math and other subjects are so dumbed down that any reasonably smart person gets straight A's - and suddenly you're being punished for being too smart... In the end, we need kids to fail more in every way.
Peter.
I can't remember anyone recently claiming that the US was a democracy... House members voting against what their constituents want, presidents signing clearly unconstitutional bills into law and the supreme court refusing to hear important cases? Just cause the president belongs to the democratic party, doesn't mean our formerly great country is still a democracy...
To bring jobs back to the US... put in the internet kill switch, use it once, and all those call center jobs will come right back! :)
I like the touch surface but that "simple" window manager is just that. Simple. Too bad that there is a difference between simple and better. Just like a skateboard is simpler than a car doesn't make it more suitable to go to the grocery store with.... After all that talk of "lets increase interactivity because you can't reduce 10 fingers to one x/y coordinate" I think its a little strange that they then go to "lets reduce x/y window layouts to just x"...
In the end it just looks like an effort in changing things just for the sake of change.
Peter.
Any method you use can be broken. Your only chance is to reduce the likelihood that your site is worth the effort.
Basically, if you use a common solution - no matter of FOSS or commercial - then there will be a thousand other sites that use it too. This attracts attackers because they know when they hack it once, they can re-use it.
However, if you handcode something, no matter how primitive, it likely lasts a lot longer because nobody bothers hacking into your site...
Of course that doesn't work if you have a large site like myspace - there, a single site is worth the effort by itself.
Anyway - then there are two things - a really fast moving animated gif and silly things where you ask people to identify items usually work.
I help out with a site that randomly takes five pictures of cats and dogs and it asks you to identify which of the images contains the highest number of kittens... We barely ever get spam through - and that with almost 20K attempted submissions by non-humans a day makes us pretty happy
Peter.
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Peter.
Sounds like Microsoft will release a new xbox 360 in 2008 then. That way their statment holds true...
Peter.
If your time is so precious, why do you spend so much of it on insults?
Seriously though, the only time a mac beats an HP or Dell on price is in the edge cases - macbook air, fully loaded 8core workstation and so on. But that's not what most people buy. They want the imac, the regular macbook. That's where the volume is and that's where Apple takes their premium.
Peter.
Very correct information on the laptop, CPU and all - but I believe the article is mainly about the reduced memory usage. Everything (I read the german original) is worded that it stresses the memory usage. The fact that he had the CPU clocked down seemed mostly to demonstrate that the KDE guys didn't reduce the memory usage and as a side effect increased the CPU load dramatically.
Peter.
>What better way to lure Windows users away than to provide support for the formats their existing documents are probably already in?
.doc
Which is fine - if you had any chance of competing. But as you said - large sections are binary. With that in place, you're not much better of than parsing a
Peter.
it actually makes sense - SuSE and others are already occupied territory. So why bother emphasizing an attack on them? RedHat said they will not partner with M$, so of course the attack is focused on them...
As for them using SuSE switchers as example - the selection of examples is pretty limited. They had to take whatever they could get.
Peter.
Good enough for me - I just signed up. People always complain that everybody is outsourcing and service is bad and all. Well, here is your chance to put your money where your mouth is. I know I just did.
Peter.
You haven't been approached yet to look into it, right? Then take a small part of your infrastructure, just a few servers. Add license costs, hardware upgrades and so on. Don't forget porting and an extra admin to do the work. You'll end up with a pretty big number very quickly. Then send it up to your management chain as a proposal for a diversification. Don't mention that you heard rumors about a switch or anything. Just sell it as an idea someone in your department had and you wanted to do a small trial.
:)
Its simple. I helped a friend do it at his company. We took about 10% of the infrastructure - the cost came out to be around 250K in hardware and licenses and about 1.6M for porting. Of course it was denied. Then, a few weeks later the official directive came in and my friend responded with something like "ok, I'm confused. I just got turned down for a small portion, 10% at a little less than 2M, and now you want me to do everything?" Never heard from them again
Too bad I can't take credit for that idea - I got it from a bunch of guys that did the same where they worked and their proposal cut the whole talks about a transition short... Important thing is you show you looked at it before you were asked to on your own will. Otherwise you'll just be pushed aside as a Linux fanatic or something like that. But if they see you already looked at it and management already said it is too expensive, things look very different.
Peter.
Well, you'll always find people that say a code base is a mess when the better word would be different. I have a if statement with out { and } to close it... Is it needed in C++ for a single line? Nope - does it make it clearer and easier to read? Yes to me - and my friend Chris will tell you exactly the opposite...
And on a related note - why rewrite? Can't people ever just go for cleaning something up? No cause then you are just doing mindless reformatting - while if you rewrite, you can claim you make it better, faster, whatever... So of course people will say its better to rewrite...
Finally, all mature code is a mess. If I rewrite it, I concentrate on the core piece of functionality... That is going to be small, lean, pretty and fast... Then the code matures - it gains more features. It gains portability. It is being worked on by many... and suddenly your re-write is no better than the code you set out to replace.
Peter.
> Fish hunting? Isn't that fishing?
Not the way Dick Cheney is doing it - just ask Harry Whittington [:)]
Peter.
Ok, let me sum this up... Novel makes money selling Linux. They make money off the work of thousands of developers. Novel knew that the community as a whole dislikes M$... they knew that a large portion of OpenSource developers hate M$ with a passion... They enter into a contract with M$ anyway. Some people publicly call them traitors and worse and are now responding to the way Novel disregarded what they wanted. Licenses change and some projects stopped providing RPMS for SuSE. Its just fair - in a community we're in it together. If you do something I don't like, I have the right to do something you don't like. Or in other words, don't piss off the people on who's back you make money.
Yes, I surely do feel sorry for Novel.
Peter.
Web apps run on the server. The client used to be pretty 'dump' - kinda like a dump terminal used to me... Then with all the enhancements (ajax and all) we have more interactivity. More code on the client to solve the problem with redrawing the whole screen each time... Sounds familiar? Maybe I'm just old, but to me:
...
Window manager == Browser windows and tabs
X protocol == HTTP layer
X event model == javascript + ajax
So basically, what the author wants is X Window, he just doesn't know it. All around, a web browser with all the 'new' things is nothing more than a sad replacement for a X server... The only advantage you have is that you can do a little more on the client with javascript...
Peter.
After Sony said so many times that they will not cut the cost of the PS3 anytime soon, it would be a bad move for them to do it now... Instead they would be better off using the cheaper blue laser diodes for new, cheaper Blu-Ray players. That way, they will still gain market share overall without breaking their word of not dropping the cost much.
Peter.
No dvorak for me - until they start labeling the keys on laptops that way :-)
But to answer the original question - nope - big IT shop here and since I switched to my laptop and back to qwerty, not a single guy using dvorak...
Peter.
> The PPC architecture was not improving _at all_ in performance per watt. Apple's market was growing fastest in the portable space, but it was becoming impossible to keep temperatures and power consumption down with PPC processors.
Dual core 2GHz PPC below 25W isn't an improvement I guess? Look at PA-Semi...
Seriously, this has nothing at all to do with it.. What home user really cares if their PC takes 150W or 180W ? Nobody...
Peter.
OS patches are easy - we even built our own for patches for some obsolete unix flavors. The tzfile format is well documented and straight forward.
Our big issue is java... Whoever designed that piece of sh*t should be shot. They get the time information from the OS - so why not pull the TZ data from the OS too? But no - they rather implement it themselves... The result is beautiful. Oracle installed? You need an extra patch. Informix 10? Another patch. Websphere? Guess what - patch it separately! In the end, we had some boxes that needed 8 or more applications patched in addition to the OS.
Peter.