IBM has done more for Linux (and by extension, open source) than their contributed lines of code indicates. Their backing of Linux has done more to help elevate Linux in the awareness of enterprise customers than anything Sun, RedHat, or Novell has done.
I'm not sure how important any of that is, but it's unfair to claim that IBM's contribution to Linux is insignificant.
My experience has been that a new battery that gives 3 hours up uptime gives 2 hours after a year and less than an hour after 3 years. Of course, our laptops are used mostly when docked, so we don't cycle our batteries as often as we could.
How much training have you received in using the apps that you use 90% of the time?
Just curious.
I don't know anyone who has received formal training in how to use their email client, web browser, word processor, or presentation software. If they don't know how to do something, they simply ask peer who does.
I got a Dell D630 a short while ago. It took about 15 minutes to wipe windows and get up and running in Gentoo. It took longer than that to get all the apps I wanted installed, but the apps I *needed* (fvwm, ssh, xterm, vim, firefox) were usable within the first 15 minutes.
I started using Gentoo maybe 5 years ago. I do remember having to set aside an afternoon whenever I got a new machine, but those days are long gone.
It only applies at the beginning of statements, so it doesn't interferre with function arguments, list elements, or just about anything else that you're likely to want to control the indentation of.
I have never experienced productivity gains in my experiments with Eclipse (the only IDE I've messed with since turbo C++).
In addition to that, in the handful of times I've been on teams with a mix of IDE users and nonusers, the IDE users have always been the least productive team members. The IDEs are clearly not to blame, but it is interesting to me that it is the less capable developers who use IDEs while the more capable developers tend to ignore them.
I understand that a capable developer making use of a powerful IDE is probably a wonder to behold, but I've just never seen it. In my admittedly narrow experience, IDEs are simply crutches for mediocre developers.
The entire "pro-choice" objection to the "pro-life" argument begs the question. It assumes a priori that the fertilized egg is not sufficiently a person to deserve rights, which if true obviously invalidates the pro-life objection that it is sufficiently a person to deserve rights.
For the pro-choice argument to "beg the question", it would have to be something like this: premise--the fertilized egg does not deserve rights (for whatever reason) premise--some other premises.... conclusion--the fertilized egg does not deserve rights
To beg the question, the argument must assume the conclusion as a premise.
I'm pretty sure the pro-choice argument is structured more like this: premise--the fertilized egg does not deserve sufficient rights to undermine the mother's rights to her own body premise--some other premises, perhaps conclusion--the mother has the right to decide to abort the pregnancy if she chooses.
Not saying this is a good argument, but it is valid (at least in regards to "begging the question").
I can't speak to the religious issues surrounding the death penalty, but the death penalty, once we accept that some people will not be rehabilitated and will always pose a danger to society, makes a lot of sense.
Holy crap! If you think a developer needs 16G of RAM, you're NUTS!
Graphic artists and people editing videos need that kind of RAM, but a developer doesn't. I've got 2G of RAM in my machine and according to top, that's about twice what I use (and most of that is firefox and evolution). Granted, I don't use a heavy-weight IDE, but I hardly think Eclipse would require 14G of RAM to function (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Actually, the GPL forbids restricting other people's freedom.
It does no such thing. It conditionally grants freedoms that are otherwise forbidden by copyright law.
Isn't that restricting the freedom of the person who wants to restrict other peoples freedoms?
This isn't hard.
The GPL guarantees that the recipient of the software has specific rights. In order for the recipient to be guaranteed those rights, the GPL places an obligation on the distributor. The distributor accepts this obligation because without the GPL, the distributor can't distribute the software without violating copyright.
So what is your complaint about the new location bar?
I switched to Firefox 3 some time ago, and I've never bothered to notice the differences (which means that the new behavior doesn't bother me or get in my way).
create a chroot in a directory that has nothing of value. rm won't know that '/' isn't the real '/' of your machine. If it has protections built in, they should trigger.
The nice thing about unix utilities is that they all take and can all produce text output. That means you can combine them in ways that the designers didn't anticipate.
Once you start passing objects around, mixing and matching tools in new ways becomes far more difficult unless the objects somehow remain generic.
Please tell me that Microsoft engineers were clever enough to think of a way to allow the same inventiveness that the unix tools allow.
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Why do you think that IBM would quit pushing Linux in the data center?
IBM has done more for Linux (and by extension, open source) than their
contributed lines of code indicates. Their backing of Linux has done
more to help elevate Linux in the awareness of enterprise customers
than anything Sun, RedHat, or Novell has done.
I'm not sure how important any of that is, but it's unfair to claim that
IBM's contribution to Linux is insignificant.
My experience has been that a new battery that gives 3 hours up uptime gives 2 hours after a year and less than an hour after 3 years. Of course, our laptops are used mostly when docked, so we don't cycle our batteries as often as we could.
If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. Hope you like your current job.
What was their response to that?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Why can't it be undone? Don't new laws get written all the time that undo or modify old laws?
How much training have you received in using the apps that you use 90% of the time?
Just curious.
I don't know anyone who has received formal training in how to use their email client, web browser, word processor, or presentation software. If they don't
know how to do something, they simply ask peer who does.
I got a Dell D630 a short while ago. It took about 15 minutes to wipe windows and get up and running in Gentoo. It took longer than that to get all the apps I wanted installed, but the apps I *needed* (fvwm, ssh, xterm, vim, firefox) were usable within the first 15 minutes.
I started using Gentoo maybe 5 years ago. I do remember having to set aside an afternoon whenever I got a new machine, but those days are long gone.
Could you use an ion beam to give these materials a net charge?
Any object with a net charge would experience drag from the Earth's magnetic field, speeding it's eventual demise in the Earth's atmosphere.
Does anyone have an idea how quickly frozen water sublimates in a vacuum?
It's possible that any ice chunks would turn to water vapor fast enough to not pose a problem for other orbiting objects.
You'll never notice it.
Seriously.
It only applies at the beginning of statements, so it doesn't interferre with function arguments, list elements, or just about anything else that you're likely to want to control the indentation of.
I have never experienced productivity gains in my experiments with Eclipse (the only IDE I've messed with since turbo C++).
In addition to that, in the handful of times I've been on teams with a mix of IDE users and nonusers, the IDE users have always been the least productive team members. The IDEs are clearly not to blame, but it is interesting to me that it is the less capable developers who use IDEs while the more capable developers tend to ignore them.
I understand that a capable developer making use of a powerful IDE is probably a wonder to behold, but I've just never seen it. In my admittedly narrow experience, IDEs are simply crutches for mediocre developers.
The entire "pro-choice" objection to the "pro-life" argument begs the question. It assumes a priori that the fertilized egg is not sufficiently a person to deserve rights, which if true obviously invalidates the pro-life objection that it is sufficiently a person to deserve rights.
For the pro-choice argument to "beg the question", it would have to be something like this:
premise--the fertilized egg does not deserve rights (for whatever reason)
premise--some other premises....
conclusion--the fertilized egg does not deserve rights
To beg the question, the argument must assume the conclusion as a premise.
I'm pretty sure the pro-choice argument is structured more like this:
premise--the fertilized egg does not deserve sufficient rights to undermine the mother's rights to her own body
premise--some other premises, perhaps
conclusion--the mother has the right to decide to abort the pregnancy if she chooses.
Not saying this is a good argument, but it is valid (at least in regards to "begging the question").
I can't speak to the religious issues surrounding the death penalty, but the death penalty, once we accept that some people will not be rehabilitated and will always pose a danger to society, makes a lot of sense.
Holy crap! If you think a developer needs 16G of RAM, you're NUTS!
Graphic artists and people editing videos need that kind of RAM, but a developer doesn't. I've got 2G of RAM in my machine and according to top, that's about twice what I use (and most of that is firefox and evolution). Granted, I don't use a heavy-weight IDE, but I hardly think Eclipse would require 14G of RAM to function (please correct me if I'm wrong).
So what's your beef with Python?
Can anyone give an explanation for why bills are printed this way?
I bet that was hard to type.
Use and distribution are distinct concepts.
"Distribution" is not a subset of "Use".
Actually, the GPL forbids restricting other people's freedom.
It does no such thing. It conditionally grants freedoms that are otherwise forbidden by copyright law.
Isn't that restricting the freedom of the person who wants to restrict other peoples freedoms?
This isn't hard.
The GPL guarantees that the recipient of the software has specific rights. In order for the recipient to be guaranteed those rights, the GPL places an obligation on the distributor. The distributor accepts this obligation because without the GPL, the distributor can't distribute the software without violating copyright.
What patent protections do you receive if you use BSD over GPL?
I'm pretty sure you don't get any.
Please explain how I missed your point.
So what is your complaint about the new location bar?
I switched to Firefox 3 some time ago, and I've never bothered to notice the differences (which means that the new behavior doesn't bother me or get in my way).
create a chroot in a directory that has nothing of value. rm won't know that '/' isn't the real '/' of your machine. If it has protections built in, they should trigger.
I'm not sure I see that as an advantage.
The nice thing about unix utilities is that they all take and can all produce text output. That means you can combine them in ways that the designers didn't anticipate.
Once you start passing objects around, mixing and matching tools in new ways becomes far more difficult unless the objects somehow remain generic.
Please tell me that Microsoft engineers were clever enough to think of a way to allow the same inventiveness that the unix tools allow.
I guess I'm not certain what you're saying here...is powershell better than the shell scripting that is available in Linux?
Are you making your comparison strictly against sh/bash/tcsh or are you including perl/python/etc?