windows is a very bad example. On my system, NT currently says "Unmountable boot volume" when I try to boot - now what am I supposed to do? And people complain at linux.. jeez.
I've read most of the replies in this thread, and it's scary just how ignorant most people are now. I cringed when I read most of the article, and expected/. to tear this guy apart, and instead I find this... sigh.
"Anyone who thinks that the Schemix team should've implemented Perl, Ruby or Python kernel hooks should just quit crying and do the work themselves"
I haven't seen anyone complaining. And the parent gave a perfect example of people who wanted other languages in gimp, and did write their own instead of "crying".
10 years? Oh wonderful. By my in-head calculations we have 1 year, going by currently trends of no. of deaths doubling each month. There's lots of points to swing it either way - not everyone infected dies, but it could mutate to be worse. As we get close to the 10's millions mark (just over half a year) society will start to collapse, causing the disease to spread faster ( I assume? ) but more doctors and more money will be spent on this.
That is all pretty much exactly what i said:P Lusers have the side affect of dragging in games, hardware support, better ui's, and everything else that you and I said.
There are good users, and then there are whiney lusers. When people say "Linux has to do X for it to be ready for the desktop", 9 times out of 10 they are talking about for the lusers, which contribute nothing at all back.
Thankfully, generally what is good for the lusers are also good for the users and so generally these things get done.
On the one hand I do like having the lusers because they have the side effect of dragging in hardware companies, games, users, and corperate funding. On the other hand they can be demoralising and have a negative affect.
Dealing with the important points first, yes windows talking to each other is a pain in the butt. One things that does help sometimes is force it to be one of the frame types, but force all the machines to it. It tries to autodetect it, but if all the machines on the network autodetect as well, it seems to get confused and unsure...
Or have I just proved your point?:)
It seems very.. funny that you make it sounds like something is broken with me if I'm not interested in that sort of.. crap:)
On that url, I scored 12. "In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher"
I'm not sure what that means;) But I didn't like the questions - But then I never do. One of these days I'm going to write a non-ambiguous test. It always annoys me when they ask ambiguous questions.:)
The thing is, that people judge against themselves. For example, when I was at college, I hung around people who were equally good at computers and math, and so we would talk about our latest projects, and we were always doing stuff at home and then talking about it. When I got to uni, the situation changed, and people seemed to have no enthusiasm, and suddenly I found myself considered fairly seriously arrogant, yet I had not changed. It was a fairly major lesson for me:) (Not to mention that I learnt very quickly not to correct the lecturer. The lecturer always (appeared) to appreciate it, but the other students did not.)
" In 1962 he described it [byte] as "a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel to and from input-output units". The move to an 8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/360 operating system (announced April 1964)."
exactly. And it would work as well, although perhaps with a few more than 10 killings, say 1% of those who did it. If you knew that there was a small chance that the police would kill you for it, would you stop doing it? Damn right you would.
For a long time I've wanted to be able to change the tables in the browser.
Imagine if in konqueror or mozilla you could say hold down ctrl+alt and then when the mouse moves over the edge of a table it changes to a resize arrow, and then you can resize the table. Perhaps even save the changes somehow.
This would be cool for many other things like resizing the headers at the top of a webpage etc.
Btw, this is a reason why the GNU project ask for your copyright. So if you want to give them code under the GPL, you must first show that you do indeed have the copyright for the code, the right to make it GPL. Last thing you want is for a bit of software to become very popular, and then the university turns round and tells everyone they want their program back, because the person who gave it away didn't have the right to.
Hmm that's the worst of all cases IMHO. It's bad enough that people (well.. me) wouldn't contribute to the project, but good enough that it might not be rewritten by someone who would of if it was closed-source..
Digressing a bit... I've been thinking about the camera thing for a while now...
Imagine if for every street, the street got together and bought cameras to watch the street. The tapes were kept secure, but anyone could ask to view them, in front of a committee consisting of anyone wanted to turn up.
What do you think? I was thinking that if I get a house, I might try doing this..
So.. would objective morality want to legalise all drugs?
What if it interferes with the rights of another indirectly? Say anyone that takes a particular type of drug has a 90% chance of getting violent and killing someone. Would you still make the drug illegal, but of course make the person responsible if they did kill someone? Or should the government stop that? (answer from a objective morality point of view as well as your own)
Also, does social security etc go against objective morality?
>I've sent emails to the debian-kde list about prelinking the >Debian KDE packages, but the maintainers didn't seem >interested. Hopefully they will eventually see the light and >start working toward prelinking KDE.
I looked at the discussion on prelinking in Debian, and it's not all such a straight forward issue.
When you have a binary, and run it, it loads all the libraries that the binary uses. When it loads the libraries, it basically puts it into memory, and then tells the binary the memory address of everything in the library. I think this is things like functions, data structures, etc. Anyway, prelinking is when you now modify the binary, and tell it about the particular version of the libraries that it links (say version 1.0.3 or whatever) Now when you run the binary and use that particular version of the library, it loads the library into a specific memory address, and the binary already knows the memory address of all the functions and data structures. This speeds up loading time and saves memory. If the library version changes, then it falls back on the old method.
Now, the trouble is, when you update a library, you must update all the binaries. This means (as far as I see it) either you also update all the appropriate binaries by running prelink again on all the binaries, or you update the packages the binaries are in. The second option would cause libraries to have huge number of dependancies, and would make minor upgrades of libraries horrendous for dial up users. The first option has slightly more subtle problems. The problem is that it means when you update a library, it goes and unpredictably modifies binaries. This plays absolute havoc with things like tripwire, and any kind of security.
This is merely my understanding from 5 mins research, so take it as you will.
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Whatever the missing 90% is, I sure hope it isn't coachroaches.
The rewind branch (bsd-ish - the branch) can't accept code from wine (the 'proper' wine, the one that is now gpl). But wine can take code from rewind.
However, most authors dual license their patches so both branches can use them.
windows is a very bad example.
On my system, NT currently says "Unmountable boot volume" when I try to boot - now what am I supposed to do? And people complain at linux.. jeez.
I've read most of the replies in this thread, and it's scary just how ignorant most people are now. I cringed when I read most of the article, and expected /. to tear this guy apart, and instead I find this... sigh.
What a useless waste of time. How does that expand my knowledge. Anyone can have sex, not everone can make their own distro.
no, the reason it is released is so that people intergrate into programs more, and so more people require faster processors to process this.
What's with the negative attitude, dude?
"Anyone who thinks that the Schemix team should've implemented Perl, Ruby or Python kernel hooks should just quit crying and do the work themselves"
I haven't seen anyone complaining. And the parent gave a perfect example of people who wanted other languages in gimp, and did write their own instead of "crying".
10 years? Oh wonderful.
By my in-head calculations we have 1 year, going by currently trends of no. of deaths doubling each month.
There's lots of points to swing it either way - not everyone infected dies, but it could mutate to be worse. As we get close to the 10's millions mark (just over half a year) society will start to collapse, causing the disease to spread faster ( I assume? ) but more doctors and more money will be spent on this.
"I was just thinking of something like this while taking a shower this morning."
:P
If you're going to lie, you should do so less obviously
Just kidding..
That is all pretty much exactly what i said :P
Lusers have the side affect of dragging in games, hardware support, better ui's, and everything else that you and I said.
There are good users, and then there are whiney lusers.
When people say "Linux has to do X for it to be ready for the desktop", 9 times out of 10 they are talking about for the lusers, which contribute nothing at all back.
Thankfully, generally what is good for the lusers are also good for the users and so generally these things get done.
On the one hand I do like having the lusers because they have the side effect of dragging in hardware companies, games, users, and corperate funding. On the other hand they can be demoralising and have a negative affect.
Dealing with the important points first, yes windows talking to each other is a pain in the butt. One things that does help sometimes is force it to be one of the frame types, but force all the machines to it. It tries to autodetect it, but if all the machines on the network autodetect as well, it seems to get confused and unsure...
:)
.. funny that you make it sounds like something is broken with me if I'm not interested in that sort of.. crap :)
;) But I didn't like the questions - But then I never do. One of these days I'm going to write a non-ambiguous test. It always annoys me when they ask ambiguous questions. :)
:) (Not to mention that I learnt very quickly not to correct the lecturer. The lecturer always (appeared) to appreciate it, but the other students did not.)
Or have I just proved your point?
It seems very
On that url, I scored 12. "In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher"
I'm not sure what that means
The thing is, that people judge against themselves.
For example, when I was at college, I hung around people who were equally good at computers and math, and so we would talk about our latest projects, and we were always doing stuff at home and then talking about it.
When I got to uni, the situation changed, and people seemed to have no enthusiasm, and suddenly I found myself considered fairly seriously arrogant, yet I had not changed. It was a fairly major lesson for me
not unless you do it like in the matrix and just use them for electricity.
In Men In Black, the other guy says "A person is smart, but people are stupid, panicky and predictable".
Or something.
They say that the GPL'ed code has no warrantee because there is no fee.. and then they say you have can charge a fee...
What's going on?
Checking on dictionary.org 1 dictionary says 8bits, 2 says "usually" 8 bits.
I know a lot of books etc do say "8 bits".
Hmm delving deeper:
" In 1962 he described it [byte] as "a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel to and from input-output units". The move to an 8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/360 operating system (announced April 1964)."
exactly. And it would work as well, although perhaps with a few more than 10 killings, say 1% of those who did it. If you knew that there was a small chance that the police would kill you for it, would you stop doing it?
Damn right you would.
Seems like a fair complaint if you are continually parking 6 old trucks along the street.
You compare the right to bear arms to the right to go to a holy site? Interesting..
For a long time I've wanted to be able to change the tables in the browser.
Imagine if in konqueror or mozilla you could say hold down ctrl+alt and then when the mouse moves over the edge of a table it changes to a resize arrow, and then you can resize the table. Perhaps even save the changes somehow.
This would be cool for many other things like resizing the headers at the top of a webpage etc.
Heh, I did this with some software..
Btw, this is a reason why the GNU project ask for your copyright. So if you want to give them code under the GPL, you must first show that you do indeed have the copyright for the code, the right to make it GPL. Last thing you want is for a bit of software to become very popular, and then the university turns round and tells everyone they want their program back, because the person who gave it away didn't have the right to.
Hmm that's the worst of all cases IMHO.
It's bad enough that people (well.. me) wouldn't contribute to the project, but good enough that it might not be rewritten by someone who would of if it was closed-source..
Digressing a bit... I've been thinking about the camera thing for a while now...
Imagine if for every street, the street got together and bought cameras to watch the street. The tapes were kept secure, but anyone could ask to view them, in front of a committee consisting of anyone wanted to turn up.
What do you think? I was thinking that if I get a house, I might try doing this..
So.. would objective morality want to legalise all drugs?
What if it interferes with the rights of another indirectly?
Say anyone that takes a particular type of drug has a 90% chance of getting violent and killing someone. Would you still make the drug illegal, but of course make the person responsible if they did kill someone? Or should the government stop that? (answer from a objective morality point of view as well as your own)
Also, does social security etc go against objective morality?
>I've sent emails to the debian-kde list about prelinking the >Debian KDE packages, but the maintainers didn't seem >interested. Hopefully they will eventually see the light and >start working toward prelinking KDE.
I looked at the discussion on prelinking in Debian, and it's not all such a straight forward issue.
When you have a binary, and run it, it loads all the libraries that the binary uses. When it loads the libraries, it basically puts it into memory, and then tells the binary the memory address of everything in the library. I think this is things like functions, data structures, etc.
Anyway, prelinking is when you now modify the binary, and tell it about the particular version of the libraries that it links (say version 1.0.3 or whatever) Now when you run the binary and use that particular version of the library, it loads the library into a specific memory address, and the binary already knows the memory address of all the functions and data structures.
This speeds up loading time and saves memory.
If the library version changes, then it falls back on the old method.
Now, the trouble is, when you update a library, you must update all the binaries. This means (as far as I see it) either you also update all the appropriate binaries by running prelink again on all the binaries, or you update the packages the binaries are in.
The second option would cause libraries to have huge number of dependancies, and would make minor upgrades of libraries horrendous for dial up users.
The first option has slightly more subtle problems. The problem is that it means when you update a library, it goes and unpredictably modifies binaries. This plays absolute havoc with things like tripwire, and any kind of security.
This is merely my understanding from 5 mins research, so take it as you will.