I think the phrasing of it in terms of changes of policy confuses what is a real point.
Look at the hatred that used to be directed towards TrollTech because they only gave Qt away for free instead of Free or free Free or something. Look at the hatred that gets directed towards Miguel de Icaza for whatever it is people are enraged at him for now. I remember when the FSF finished copying pico they issued a statement about how the pico/pine people were "worse than Microsoft". People and companies who are 95% in line with the ideology get much more abuse than those who are on a whole other page.
It's true that there's nothing unusual about it, though -- all religions behave that way.
Well for starters, your pet name for a programming language is not something you should continuously use while in a job interview. Basically what it tells the interviewer is that you really have very little experience with it, and probably have never heard it spoken before.
I'm not sure why you got modded down so vigorously for this. It's "redundant" in the sense that it should be obvious to any socially functional human being, but it still seems to be news here.
This has the same problem that XDrive had in 1995 and Eazel had in 1999: storage and networks have evolved at a pace where the latter is expensive and the former is cheap. The amount of storage you can efficiently access is just a fraction of a normal hard drive. If things had worked out differently, and we'd had DSL with 25 meg hard drives, it would have been completely different.
This is useful for w4r3z and child porn, nothing else.
In the sense that the defendant might create enough FUD to confuse a jury -- sure, he might well find that. Something that makes a meaningful difference? I very much doubt it. He didn't fail that test on top of Everest or inside a sauna.
I'd guess that that was his plan all along, that as with the previous cases the company wouldn't provide the source code. He can still look for some lack of bounds checking or what-have-you, or find a GOTO and bring in one of the experts from here to explain how GOTOs make your code magically not work.
No way is there a meaningful bug. Those things are calibrated constantly and someone would have noticed it. Unless he got pulled over at midnight on January 1, 2000 or something like that.
Now indie snobs will have a genuine reason to gripe when their favorite dreary crap picks up a larger audience! It'll actually cost them money instead of just snobbery rights about how they were fans before whatever single got radio play...
Yeah, kinda like how no one would ever say "price point" in cases where "price" would convey the same information. ("Sony's failing because they make the PS3's price point too high.")
That's not what "price point" means. Sony is failing because their price is set above attractive price points.
Anyway, nowadays everyone says "Sony's failing because they make the PS3 SKU's price point too high." Where are you writing from -- two weeks ago?
Yes, it requires a bit of a priori knowledge in some places (pun intended).
Umm, what pun?
Incidentally, the New Yorker is one of the most prestigious magazines in the world (albeit prestige derived much more from its past authorial and editorial quality than from anything it has now). I'm not sure why you and the submitter seem to think it's some sort of printed-out blog.
Ah, I see -- thanks! I read an article about sous vide in the Amtrak magazine (I think it featured the place you mentioned in your other post) on a long, slow ride from Boston to DC with nothing to eat but Amtrak hot dogs and frozen pizzas. I'd have rushed off to the restaurant immediately upon arrival if the train hadn't come in at 1 am.
There's something about a joint of beef, roast for 10 hours at 55 degrees, that is hard to imagine until you've tried it...
I puzzled over how cold your home must be if you can cook at 55 degrees (and my wife always complains because I keep the thermostat at 60!) before realizing you meant 55 C!
Here in Fahrenheit Land, we call cooking like that "barbecue" and it's long familiar to even the lowliest hillbilly. But as you say, it's hard to imagine how good it is until you've tried it.
On the other hand, the notion that dividing total population by total land area gives a meaningful value for "density" as it relates to providing services or infrastructure is at least as broken.
One of these recent squabbles had someone insisting that Japan isn't densely populated. Well, it's not, -- if you assume that those people are evenly distributed across all the islands, including Hokkaido and a bunch of isolated volcanic rocks.
There'd be Olympic medalists and ex-porn actresses in your sections, retired musicians joining your lab, grad students selling their screenplays and quitting the lab...
The thing that made the dot-com bubble unique was that it affected damn near every corner of the industry...
Also, unprofitable CD-ROM startups never had their stocks traded heavily by greedy, clueless retail investors. Developers lost their jobs and institutional investors lost their money but it didn't affect the general public the way the collapse of pets.com or eToys did.
Since investors have (temporarily) learned their lesson, the eventual shakeout 2.0 isn't going to affect anyone outside the industry.
Even the most cursory reading (TM) of the summary would indicate that Acer does sell Linux systems elsewhere. As Dell is discovering, trying to please the Linux zealot community by doing X mostly gets you abuse for not doing Y and Z ("...because their a bunch of M$ shills!") and complaints that doing X is a GPL violation.
"Publically held corporations exist to make stockholders money, not to do research "because it's cool." Period."
Yah, like Microsoft, right?
Cool company versus Microsoft:
I'm not sure what your point is. Microsoft does far, far more "because it's cool" basic research than Apple does, while Apple makes money for their stockholders. And I'm saying that as an Apple fan (and stockholder).
For one thing, he knows that the default desktop environment in Suse is not KDE, it is a very customized version of GNOME.
No, I hadn't known that. Is it really "massive re-engineering" to get it to work like the Ubuntu default? I hadn't objected to his point about package management, which certainly is a major barrier between one distro and another, but had thought that customizing a GNOME or KDE desktop is easily within the capacity of any IT department that's going to be capable of subsequently maintaining it. If that's not the case for Novell's version, then I'm mistaken.
The whole point is that he is NOT a Linux expert, just like the other 99% of us out here in userland.
No, but he's a CIO publicly holding forth on the suitability of one Linux over another for certain applications based on the failure to understand that you can change the desktop environment! Maybe I'm a Linux snob but that seems like a striking lack of understanding. It's not like he was complaining about the lack of some obscure functionality and I chimed in with "its fixed in CVS so stop spredding FUD you M$ a$troturfer"!
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Look at the hatred that used to be directed towards TrollTech because they only gave Qt away for free instead of Free or free Free or something. Look at the hatred that gets directed towards Miguel de Icaza for whatever it is people are enraged at him for now. I remember when the FSF finished copying pico they issued a statement about how the pico/pine people were "worse than Microsoft". People and companies who are 95% in line with the ideology get much more abuse than those who are on a whole other page.
It's true that there's nothing unusual about it, though -- all religions behave that way.
I'm not sure why you got modded down so vigorously for this. It's "redundant" in the sense that it should be obvious to any socially functional human being, but it still seems to be news here.
They don't remotely mean the same thing. (Putting aside that you then go on to demand that more words mean the same thing.)
This is useful for w4r3z and child porn, nothing else.
In the sense that the defendant might create enough FUD to confuse a jury -- sure, he might well find that. Something that makes a meaningful difference? I very much doubt it. He didn't fail that test on top of Everest or inside a sauna.
I took a look at your website but only learned that you're (here's a shock) a Ron Paul supporter.
No way is there a meaningful bug. Those things are calibrated constantly and someone would have noticed it. Unless he got pulled over at midnight on January 1, 2000 or something like that.
Sorry, I'm missing the part where he's not absolutely correct...?
Now indie snobs will have a genuine reason to gripe when their favorite dreary crap picks up a larger audience! It'll actually cost them money instead of just snobbery rights about how they were fans before whatever single got radio play...
That's not what "price point" means. Sony is failing because their price is set above attractive price points.
Anyway, nowadays everyone says "Sony's failing because they make the PS3 SKU's price point too high." Where are you writing from -- two weeks ago?
On the other hand, his solution was to buy the expensive indemnification insurance he was promoting. How did that work out for you?
Umm, what pun?
Incidentally, the New Yorker is one of the most prestigious magazines in the world (albeit prestige derived much more from its past authorial and editorial quality than from anything it has now). I'm not sure why you and the submitter seem to think it's some sort of printed-out blog.
Actually, they show a sharp drop in the percentage of female CS grads. I'd bet that the number is way up since 1985.
Slashdot, as always, does its part to demonstrate that men aren't so great at math either...
Ah, I see -- thanks! I read an article about sous vide in the Amtrak magazine (I think it featured the place you mentioned in your other post) on a long, slow ride from Boston to DC with nothing to eat but Amtrak hot dogs and frozen pizzas. I'd have rushed off to the restaurant immediately upon arrival if the train hadn't come in at 1 am.
I puzzled over how cold your home must be if you can cook at 55 degrees (and my wife always complains because I keep the thermostat at 60!) before realizing you meant 55 C!
Here in Fahrenheit Land, we call cooking like that "barbecue" and it's long familiar to even the lowliest hillbilly. But as you say, it's hard to imagine how good it is until you've tried it.
One of these recent squabbles had someone insisting that Japan isn't densely populated. Well, it's not, -- if you assume that those people are evenly distributed across all the islands, including Hokkaido and a bunch of isolated volcanic rocks.
I know, but even that should cut down on the avalanche at least somewhat.
Link to the paper. I submitted this as a story and didn't want to bomb Cell's servers if it hit the main page...
I'd guess that your thermostat is miscalibrated, Dr. Maxwell.
There'd be Olympic medalists and ex-porn actresses in your sections, retired musicians joining your lab, grad students selling their screenplays and quitting the lab...
Also, unprofitable CD-ROM startups never had their stocks traded heavily by greedy, clueless retail investors. Developers lost their jobs and institutional investors lost their money but it didn't affect the general public the way the collapse of pets.com or eToys did.
Since investors have (temporarily) learned their lesson, the eventual shakeout 2.0 isn't going to affect anyone outside the industry.
Even the most cursory reading (TM) of the summary would indicate that Acer does sell Linux systems elsewhere. As Dell is discovering, trying to please the Linux zealot community by doing X mostly gets you abuse for not doing Y and Z ("...because their a bunch of M$ shills!") and complaints that doing X is a GPL violation.
Yah, like Microsoft, right?
Cool company versus Microsoft:
I'm not sure what your point is. Microsoft does far, far more "because it's cool" basic research than Apple does, while Apple makes money for their stockholders. And I'm saying that as an Apple fan (and stockholder).
No, I hadn't known that. Is it really "massive re-engineering" to get it to work like the Ubuntu default? I hadn't objected to his point about package management, which certainly is a major barrier between one distro and another, but had thought that customizing a GNOME or KDE desktop is easily within the capacity of any IT department that's going to be capable of subsequently maintaining it. If that's not the case for Novell's version, then I'm mistaken.
No, but he's a CIO publicly holding forth on the suitability of one Linux over another for certain applications based on the failure to understand that you can change the desktop environment! Maybe I'm a Linux snob but that seems like a striking lack of understanding. It's not like he was complaining about the lack of some obscure functionality and I chimed in with "its fixed in CVS so stop spredding FUD you M$ a$troturfer"!