I suspect once this idea gets out it really will be the year of the linux desktop!
2008 is gonna be the year of Windows, OS X, SuSE and Ubuntu on the desktop!
Seriously, though, it seems that what he's calling the difference between SuSE and Ubuntu is actually the difference between KDE and GNOME. At a minimum, it's the difference between their default desktop configurations. I'm not sure I'd trust this guy as a Linux expert, however "well-known" he may be.
Watching pro athletes ("athletes", in this case, in the ESPN2 sense), everything looks misleadingly easy, and the people I'm thinking of got crushed in a way that certainly looked easy. Against normal players, yeah, I'm sure you're right that it could work if done well.
Anyway, all this reinforces the point that modeling poker is *hard*.
In poker you have a finite number of cards, that are a lot smaller than the permutation of moves in chess or checkers.
First of all, moderators, this is mistaken, not "Flamebait".
Second, you're correct that the cards are trivial to calculate. The betting process in poker is what's much more difficult to model.
Watching it occasionally on ESPN, I see people who are presumably good enough to be on television doing things that are completely insane. (Why the hell would anyone go all-in with unsuited 8-3?!?) It seems like the problem here might be the helplessness of artificial intelligence in the face of natural stupidity.
If you'd ever been a lifeguard, you'd definitely see the value of a way to track kids who have wandered off. Reconnecting little kids and parents (or older siblings) is about 40% of what you do on a normal beach, and I can't imagine how much there is on a zoo-like beach like this.
One of the problems is Apple has no interest in keeping a GPL'd webkit fully functioning with tidy entry/exits for whatever proprietary things Apple wants to add.
Huh? How do you get that from a story about Apple providing such an attractive fork that everyone, including the original authors, is switching to it?
The piece you quoted refers to a squabble about changes to Webkit being difficult to port to KHTML. Which, as the article notes, has been long resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
Most of what I was thinking of is verbal, not online, but here's a quick example:
If you're looking for a really poor opinion piece by someone who doesn't understand biology, followed by a bunch of even less informed comment, try Human evolution has stalled, over at Kuro5hin. You thought I was going to say Slashdot, didn't you!
If a convenience store gives you too much change, you're under no obligation to correct the mistake.
I'm not sure that's correct. Certainly the general policy under US law is that you're not allowed to exploit obvious errors on a business' part (e.g. obviously mislabeled merchandise).
Sure, I get that. I just thought it was funny that the people who fly into a frothing racist rage at any mention of India are suddenly cheerleading for immigrant programmers when their beloved Google comes into question.
But since you're insisting on having a thoughtful discussion of this instead: I submitted a story a few weeks ago on what I thought was an interesting response to Google -- auction off H1-Bs. If the issue is *really* ultra-specialized positions that can't be properly filled with Americans, then let the people who need them the most put their money behind that need. It makes no sense to have this huge vat of interchangeable first-come-first served visas.
While that's theoretically true, it's funny to see everyone here rushing to embrace the "American programmers are incompetent! We need more immigrants, now!" position if that's what it takes to defend Google's honor.
Don't tell me that the presence of an in-browser password manager has anything to do with the strength of the password....Don't tell me that an in-browser password manager stops people from using the same password everywhere.
You're right. The real advantage of the password manager is that it's the only reasonable alternative to writing down all of those unique, complex, constantly changing passwords.
I wonder what it would look like if we also plotted the funding allocated to the NSF alongside the number of papers published.
As the second sentence of the link says, this happened at a time when the NSF and NIH budgets were receiving steep *increases*! Subsequent funding caps and cuts haven't helped, I'm sure, but certainly aren't an issue for these numbers.
Also not an issue: the various bogeymen of politics and climate change. Putting aside that we're talking about the Clinton era, the overwhelming majority of scientists and engineers don't work on climate change or evolution, although reading some of the comments here you'd think that's all researchers do.
Pandora and Live365 both stop streamripping as any reasonable person understands it. Obviously blocking any possible "recording" isn't possible and it's FUD to suggest that that's what at issue.
And half the distros in your list are either irrelevant or quickly headed there.
The "There are too many distros!" argument made sense eight years ago, when there were a lot of commercial distributions fighting for shelf space (remember that?) and people thought there was going to be a market for proprietary Linux desktop software. The problem has been receding for years, even if the theoretical number of distros grows. We'll be down to Red Hat and clones, Ubuntu and Debian in a couple of years. (And I speak as a Red Hat-at-work, Gentoo-at-home user.)
I understand that, and it's why I use GMail, but wouldn't use the OS-level thing. (If I voluntarily used Windows at all, which I don't.) But that's a tradeoff between privacy and benefit, not the distinction between Evil and Not Evil that the OP is presenting this as.
In all seriousness, though, I'm surprised that the prior art angle hasn't gotten more enraged attention here. Come to think of it, wasn't Eazel planning an almost identical scheme back in the "1999 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!" days?
While the rest of the economy maintains some kind of pretense of "ethics", Microsoft seem to have decided that not a single rule counts.
Mining your data to generate targeted ads is how GMail works. It's how all Google online apps are ultimately going to work. And anything Google does is by definition Not Evil, so I don't see what the problem is.
If anything, you guys should be up in arms about how Google has obvious prior art on this "invention".
So the analog hole doesn't mean anything. They want to prevent direct digital ripping of the music on the station.
Exactly. Pandora already restricts streamripping. Live365 already restricts streamripping. IIRC, last.fm does, as well. This won't affect anything I listen to.
Unless I'm missing something, neither the linked article nor the article it links suggest analog recording is what's at issue here. It seems to be pure FUD on the part of the submitter.
An update in Vista breaking something rather major... qualifies as both news... and something that matters... It quite firmly belongs on slashdot, thanks.
And the fact that it's not actually true pretty much seals the deal!
How often are you idiots complaining that you'd love to support the artist but you have to steal music and movies because [whatever inane reason]? Surely all you generous patrons of the arts will be jumping at the chance to belatedly pay!
I found myself wondering if Oodle could have avoided the ban.
If I'm understanding correctly, craigslist has terms of service, and Oodle was systematically violating them. That's their right, whether there's a formal copyright violation or not.
I'd never heard of Oodle, but craigslist is notoriously easygoing and their terms (you can run searches but not mirror the whole damn thing) seem reasonable, so I think the way Oodle could have avoided the ban is by not pissing Craig off.
Furthermore, to the degree that one wants to see major players support Linux, inventing ways to use changes in the GPL to screw Microsoft for peripheral involvement in Linux support seems completely counterproductive. Obviously, as far as the army of screeching morons at Groklaw is concerned, damaging Microsoft is more important than anything else. But for real computer users, this seems like a huge step backwards.
Besides, if it turns out that some convoluted trickery in the GPL really does wind up costing Microsoft some money, is that "innovation" worth taking pride in?
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2008 is gonna be the year of Windows, OS X, SuSE and Ubuntu on the desktop!
Seriously, though, it seems that what he's calling the difference between SuSE and Ubuntu is actually the difference between KDE and GNOME. At a minimum, it's the difference between their default desktop configurations. I'm not sure I'd trust this guy as a Linux expert, however "well-known" he may be.
Anyway, all this reinforces the point that modeling poker is *hard*.
First of all, moderators, this is mistaken, not "Flamebait".
Second, you're correct that the cards are trivial to calculate. The betting process in poker is what's much more difficult to model.
Watching it occasionally on ESPN, I see people who are presumably good enough to be on television doing things that are completely insane. (Why the hell would anyone go all-in with unsuited 8-3?!?) It seems like the problem here might be the helplessness of artificial intelligence in the face of natural stupidity.
If you'd ever been a lifeguard, you'd definitely see the value of a way to track kids who have wandered off. Reconnecting little kids and parents (or older siblings) is about 40% of what you do on a normal beach, and I can't imagine how much there is on a zoo-like beach like this.
You're certainly raking in the karma. God help us if Bruce Perens ever catches onto this trick!
Huh? How do you get that from a story about Apple providing such an attractive fork that everyone, including the original authors, is switching to it?
The piece you quoted refers to a squabble about changes to Webkit being difficult to port to KHTML. Which, as the article notes, has been long resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
I'm not sure that's correct. Certainly the general policy under US law is that you're not allowed to exploit obvious errors on a business' part (e.g. obviously mislabeled merchandise).
But since you're insisting on having a thoughtful discussion of this instead: I submitted a story a few weeks ago on what I thought was an interesting response to Google -- auction off H1-Bs. If the issue is *really* ultra-specialized positions that can't be properly filled with Americans, then let the people who need them the most put their money behind that need. It makes no sense to have this huge vat of interchangeable first-come-first served visas.
While that's theoretically true, it's funny to see everyone here rushing to embrace the "American programmers are incompetent! We need more immigrants, now!" position if that's what it takes to defend Google's honor.
You're right. The real advantage of the password manager is that it's the only reasonable alternative to writing down all of those unique, complex, constantly changing passwords.
You should hear what scientists have to say when their work is linked here and you idiots helpfully "critique" it...
As the second sentence of the link says, this happened at a time when the NSF and NIH budgets were receiving steep *increases*! Subsequent funding caps and cuts haven't helped, I'm sure, but certainly aren't an issue for these numbers.
Also not an issue: the various bogeymen of politics and climate change. Putting aside that we're talking about the Clinton era, the overwhelming majority of scientists and engineers don't work on climate change or evolution, although reading some of the comments here you'd think that's all researchers do.
It's puzzling.
Pandora and Live365 both stop streamripping as any reasonable person understands it. Obviously blocking any possible "recording" isn't possible and it's FUD to suggest that that's what at issue.
The "There are too many distros!" argument made sense eight years ago, when there were a lot of commercial distributions fighting for shelf space (remember that?) and people thought there was going to be a market for proprietary Linux desktop software. The problem has been receding for years, even if the theoretical number of distros grows. We'll be down to Red Hat and clones, Ubuntu and Debian in a couple of years. (And I speak as a Red Hat-at-work, Gentoo-at-home user.)
I'm having an unrewarding enough day that even jealousy as pathetic as this is vaguely gratifying.
In all seriousness, though, I'm surprised that the prior art angle hasn't gotten more enraged attention here. Come to think of it, wasn't Eazel planning an almost identical scheme back in the "1999 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!" days?
Mining your data to generate targeted ads is how GMail works. It's how all Google online apps are ultimately going to work. And anything Google does is by definition Not Evil, so I don't see what the problem is.
If anything, you guys should be up in arms about how Google has obvious prior art on this "invention".
Exactly. Pandora already restricts streamripping. Live365 already restricts streamripping. IIRC, last.fm does, as well. This won't affect anything I listen to.
Unless I'm missing something, neither the linked article nor the article it links suggest analog recording is what's at issue here. It seems to be pure FUD on the part of the submitter.
Sure, until now. But with vi running on my coffee table, things are going to change around here!
And the fact that it's not actually true pretty much seals the deal!
How often are you idiots complaining that you'd love to support the artist but you have to steal music and movies because [whatever inane reason]? Surely all you generous patrons of the arts will be jumping at the chance to belatedly pay!
Ummm, that'd be the point. He was (apparently) trying to drive down the cost of Wild Oats to make the acquisition cheaper.
If I'm understanding correctly, craigslist has terms of service, and Oodle was systematically violating them. That's their right, whether there's a formal copyright violation or not.
I'd never heard of Oodle, but craigslist is notoriously easygoing and their terms (you can run searches but not mirror the whole damn thing) seem reasonable, so I think the way Oodle could have avoided the ban is by not pissing Craig off.
Besides, if it turns out that some convoluted trickery in the GPL really does wind up costing Microsoft some money, is that "innovation" worth taking pride in?