many today seem focused on Linux not because its GPLed but because its what everyone else is using.
Have you ever wondered why "everyone else" is focussed on it?
You conject that it is not because of the GPL, but I don't see any reasoning. I love the BSD license as well (most all of my software is licensed thusly); but you can't really argue against the success of GNU licensed products.
Well, you can... but you don't seem to make a compelling argument...
Does Joe User redline his car and then wonder why the engine siezed? Does Joe User turn on the lawn irrigation and leave it on 24x7 and wonder why the basement is flooded? Does Joe User plug a heirchical tree structure of power strips together and then wonder why a breaker tripped (or worse)?
I'm sure that thare are some people that do all the above, but most humans are intelligent enough to learn not to do that. The same can be expected in the computing world. The hopeless cases will always underperform, to their detriment; the rest will learn and survive without problems.
The central repository approach will never provide 100% coverage. I'm sure you've read the complaints about Debian release process, but I just point out that even they have 3rd Party "backports". Also, I read that Fedora 4 conflicts with the Sun Java RPM, apparently for ideological rather than customer-driven reasons.
For that reason, you can install JDK or most any other binary package wherever you choose to install it. You can download the.bin jdk from Sun and put it in your home directory if you like. Firefox will automatically install plugins such as Flash in your home directory. They behave much like Windows binaries in that many (such as Eclipse or Netbeans) will look for updates when they launch, independently of the OS' package management system. It's really quite nice. OSX is similar; if you have 2 users, they can have 2 different versions of Shockwave/Flash installed for Safari (~/Library).
It's not all-or-nothing.
(B) Most malware doesn't require elevated privileges to perform it's evil deeds anyway.
Agreed; although there is a certain class of malware that requires admin privileges (net snoops, GUI snoops [oops! Windows has absolutely no protection on that front], driver mods/low-level I/O), so it's not a waste of time to do this.
I disagree. Having the password prompt gives the user the power to decide when elevated privileges are required. If a user disregards this power, then that is their fault. On OSX, I get prompted about once a month for the admin password, and it's usually when I run Software Update. If I were simply browsing the web and a trojan sheet came down, asking for the administrator password to continue, it would obviously be a phishing attack. I've trained my users to not check the "remember my password" in email/web applications -- people aren't stupid. People don't "always want to be in charge of their computer", including myself.
Just because a security tool can be defeated, doesn't mean it's worthless. Redhat/GNOME's approach may not be perfect, but I'll take that over code signing any day (which is the "ultimate solution" to your quandry).
Last time I went to USENIX (2003) it was about 50/50 Powerpoint and others. Some used Apple's Keynote, and some used Openoffice.org.
Of course, the best presentations didn't have slides at all. They used real examples, when appropriate and actually spoke, instead of reading slides. The keynote by Neal Stephenson was that way.
I'm an engineer married to an RN. We have 2 boys, so my anecdotal evidence says geek genes trump nurse genes.
My wife was talking to a geneticist at her hospital last week; she was explaining that we had 2 children and that we were done (we aren't going to try for a girl). He told her that the odds of getting the opposite gender after the first two being the same gender is only 30%. I'm not sure if that's true, but it's what he said. So, if you have 2 girls first, then you only have a 30% chance of having a boy on the third try, even though the overall average is close to 50%.
Wipeout 2097 is much better than Wipeout 3 or Wipeout Fusion. The latter two relied way to much on powerups as opposed to racing skill. Wipeout Pure is better, I must admit; but I can't play that on a big screen with a good stereo system (plus the music pretty much sucks on Pure).
Wipeout XL doesn't work on the PS2 from the start of the game. If you win all the beginning tracks, you never gain access to Rapier or higher. Once I had a saved game that was made on the PS1, it did work.
When is this "joke" going to die?
I suppose the human brain is geared toward pattern recognition and set creation as a sort of organizational system; but I would hope that geeks would strive to break with such generalizations instead of engendering them. Slashdot is a group of individuals, no more, no less. To continute to characterize, accuse, and deride them as a monolithic group is just (well) Not Funny.
Bah.
Well, you should be able to run Win32 apps as quickly as you did on your 32-bit version of XP. As 64-bit apps make an appearance, they should run just fine alongside their elder bretheren. I wonder if we'll see the marketing blitz for "Win64" or "Certified for 64-bit Windows" applications this time around. When Microsoft moved from win16 to win32, everyone had to upgrade all their apps to take advantage of Windows 95, Win32S and NT 3.5. It was quite a money grab for the application developers; many simply had to re-compile against the 32-bit libraries and do some minor tweaks to release their preemptive-enabled applications. People bought it up.
New Paintshop Pro 64! Now able to address 16TB of RAM! J00 need it!!
As someone who has patents on laser radar methods that are about to expire. I can say I have no idea if people are using my techinuqes in their product or not.
Why do you have the patent? Is it to produce such devices? Is it to extort money from others that come up with the same idea independently, simply because you patented it first? Are you working on a device to realize your ideas?
The patent system is supposedly designed to protect inventors during an incubation period. This supposedly fosters innovation, new products, new investment and the real end-goal, new taxes. If you file a patent, and then worry about others potentially using it without your permission 19 years later... well, I simply disagree that this is the 'limited monopoly' that the founders envisioned.
It sounds more like a lottery ticket, which this suit reeks of.
Unfortunately, a normal user can install any browser plugin that they want to. Running as root would simply allow the user to install plugins for other users as well. For the curious, you can install them in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins (among other locations). Running as a normal user will not prevent your box from becoming a zombie, unless you have some kick-ass SELinux rules in place.
Arizona is on standard mountain time year-round; probably so that people can actually go outside during the summer evenings before they have to go to bed.
Remember, we can't let the terrorists win! We must go on with our "free" lives as if nothing happened on 9/11. The only problem seems to be that the government didn't heed their own advice... If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Yes, this is the Book of Abraham, it's available at the LDS website if anyone is interested in reading it. I hadn't heard about the funeral book, just that Joseph Smith acquired some Egyptian papyri and that he translated it.
Maybe you should investigate that. It's quite interesting.
I'm an "Ex Mormon", or more accurately, a former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was a missionary, on-my-honor Eagle scout and all.
Absolutely not. The Church stays strictly out of politics, except where a serious moral issue is involved, and then only the moral at issue is taught, but the vote and the law is up to the members individually.
Explain Ezra Taft Benson's affilation with the Birch sociecty then; not to mention his political appointments. How about the bank that Joseph Smith founded to print money? Who was the governer of Navoo? What about the law of consecration and Brigham Young's confescation of all wealth (or the Nation of Deseret, for that matter)?
But this is not Church mandate or policy. It's up to the members.
Including a majority of the Utah state government, of course. What of a church that routinely gets such perks as the land swap for the "reflecting pool" in downtown Salt Lake (complete with a censoship zone); or how about the temple ceremony, in which members swear to uphold their leaders on penalty of death? Here are some quotes by the church's prophets, seers and revelators on the subject.
On the contrary, the Church is only homogenous in that we share certain core beliefs.
Wow, that list doesn't even scratch the surface of what I was taught while growing up in the church:
All religions apart from Mormonism are an "abomination" in the sight of God
People of "dark skin" were less valiant in the pre-existence, so God cursed them in this life
American Indians are really errant Jews, who lost the gospel when they rebeled against God
There are three levels of heaven, and you can only get to the highest level by practicing polygamy; then you will be a God and have your own planet
John the Beloved and the Three Nephites are eternal beings that roam the planet, even today, doing the work of God (and the prieshood needed to be restored through Joseph Smith... why exactly?)
And on, and on, and on. Some good books include Krakauer's "Banner under Heaven", Lason's "By his own Hand, on Papyrus", and Palmer's "Insider's View of Mormon Origins".
To be fair, the church has changed dramatically over the past 50 years, and it continues to evolve into a more mainstream puritanical protestant sect (I bet Joseph Smith is rolling in his grave). Most of the members are people of high quality; heck, all my extended family are still members. They are generally great people to know, associate with and love. Despite that, I just get ruffled when the church portrayed as something that it really isn't; I did enough of that on my 2-year mission with the ultra-simplistic 6 discussions.
If you are interested in apologetic responses to any of the above, feel free to visit the FAIR website.
Yes, you could code all of that into make/gcc; but you could also simply do:
make 2>&1 >./make.out
less make.out
From there you have full regexp searching; you can back-step as far as you want, etc. If you want to get tricky, you can even do cool things such as:
((make | tee make.out) 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 | tee -a make.out) 2>/dev/null
Which will save all output to 'make.out' and only put errors on the screen. See Linux I/O Redirection Tutorial, which is really just a Bash tutorial, for more information. The very nice aspect of this is that it applies to all commands, not just make/gcc.
Simply because software vendors aren't using 1980's business practices to fund development, does not imply that all software developers will need to be unemployed/working tech support. There are more sophisticated ways of getting things done other than the traditional boxed-software-retail model. Look at contributors to the Linux kernel; almost all of them have very healthy salaries for doing what they do. If the Gimp puts Photoshop out of business, then something is very wrong with Adobe's model, not the open-source alternative.
The salaries of CTOs/CEOS is a separate issue. I agree that it needs to be addressed before we get to the "class war" that is the inevitable outcome.
Where were your parents while this was happening? You were both minors, and ultimately they were responsible for controlling your actions towards your brother.
You obviously don't have a younger brother. Parents can't be there all the time. I'm the oldest of 4.
This unfairly favors out-of-state drivers, too, who will not be subjected to the tax, as they wouldn't have the GPS monitor in their car. What's the state going to do - hand them out at the border?
Actually, California is in a fairly unique position. If they mandate that all cars sold in California have this device, then manufacturers may simply install they across the board (like Catalytic converters, for example, which started in California). I suppose it could be a part of the registration process as well.
Regardless, it stinks. What is California going to do when smokers stop smoking, or go casual? Attempt to increase revenue by charging an overall "chemical happiness" tax? This proposal sounds like they have scared legislatures who don't want to give up their Hummers and limosenes.
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RTFA; the summary is spot-on. I agree that it's a ridiculous idea, but the "However, this is slashdot" crap is way beyond old...
Have you ever wondered why "everyone else" is focussed on it?
You conject that it is not because of the GPL, but I don't see any reasoning. I love the BSD license as well (most all of my software is licensed thusly); but you can't really argue against the success of GNU licensed products.
Well, you can... but you don't seem to make a compelling argument...
I'm sure that thare are some people that do all the above, but most humans are intelligent enough to learn not to do that. The same can be expected in the computing world. The hopeless cases will always underperform, to their detriment; the rest will learn and survive without problems.
For that reason, you can install JDK or most any other binary package wherever you choose to install it. You can download the .bin jdk from Sun and put it in your home directory if you like. Firefox will automatically install plugins such as Flash in your home directory. They behave much like Windows binaries in that many (such as Eclipse or Netbeans) will look for updates when they launch, independently of the OS' package management system. It's really quite nice. OSX is similar; if you have 2 users, they can have 2 different versions of Shockwave/Flash installed for Safari (~/Library).
It's not all-or-nothing.
(B) Most malware doesn't require elevated privileges to perform it's evil deeds anyway.Agreed; although there is a certain class of malware that requires admin privileges (net snoops, GUI snoops [oops! Windows has absolutely no protection on that front], driver mods/low-level I/O), so it's not a waste of time to do this.
I disagree. Having the password prompt gives the user the power to decide when elevated privileges are required. If a user disregards this power, then that is their fault. On OSX, I get prompted about once a month for the admin password, and it's usually when I run Software Update. If I were simply browsing the web and a trojan sheet came down, asking for the administrator password to continue, it would obviously be a phishing attack. I've trained my users to not check the "remember my password" in email/web applications -- people aren't stupid. People don't "always want to be in charge of their computer", including myself.
Just because a security tool can be defeated, doesn't mean it's worthless. Redhat/GNOME's approach may not be perfect, but I'll take that over code signing any day (which is the "ultimate solution" to your quandry).
Of course, the best presentations didn't have slides at all. They used real examples, when appropriate and actually spoke, instead of reading slides. The keynote by Neal Stephenson was that way.
My wife was talking to a geneticist at her hospital last week; she was explaining that we had 2 children and that we were done (we aren't going to try for a girl). He told her that the odds of getting the opposite gender after the first two being the same gender is only 30%. I'm not sure if that's true, but it's what he said. So, if you have 2 girls first, then you only have a 30% chance of having a boy on the third try, even though the overall average is close to 50%.
Wipeout 2097 is much better than Wipeout 3 or Wipeout Fusion. The latter two relied way to much on powerups as opposed to racing skill. Wipeout Pure is better, I must admit; but I can't play that on a big screen with a good stereo system (plus the music pretty much sucks on Pure).
Wipeout XL doesn't work on the PS2 from the start of the game. If you win all the beginning tracks, you never gain access to Rapier or higher. Once I had a saved game that was made on the PS1, it did work.
When is this "joke" going to die? I suppose the human brain is geared toward pattern recognition and set creation as a sort of organizational system; but I would hope that geeks would strive to break with such generalizations instead of engendering them. Slashdot is a group of individuals, no more, no less. To continute to characterize, accuse, and deride them as a monolithic group is just (well) Not Funny. Bah.
That new Tomb Raider game is da bomb. Laura Croft is a hotty.
New Paintshop Pro 64! Now able to address 16TB of RAM! J00 need it!!
Why do you have the patent? Is it to produce such devices? Is it to extort money from others that come up with the same idea independently, simply because you patented it first? Are you working on a device to realize your ideas? The patent system is supposedly designed to protect inventors during an incubation period. This supposedly fosters innovation, new products, new investment and the real end-goal, new taxes. If you file a patent, and then worry about others potentially using it without your permission 19 years later... well, I simply disagree that this is the 'limited monopoly' that the founders envisioned.
It sounds more like a lottery ticket, which this suit reeks of.
What are "free copies of Macromedia" and how do you do professional image editing with them? How did you get modded "Insightful"?
Unfortunately, a normal user can install any browser plugin that they want to. Running as root would simply allow the user to install plugins for other users as well. For the curious, you can install them in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins (among other locations). Running as a normal user will not prevent your box from becoming a zombie, unless you have some kick-ass SELinux rules in place.
Arizona is on standard mountain time year-round; probably so that people can actually go outside during the summer evenings before they have to go to bed.
Remember, we can't let the terrorists win! We must go on with our "free" lives as if nothing happened on 9/11. The only problem seems to be that the government didn't heed their own advice... If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Maybe you should investigate that. It's quite interesting.
Joseph Smith actually married a 14 year-old named Helen Mar Kimball.
Absolutely not. The Church stays strictly out of politics, except where a serious moral issue is involved, and then only the moral at issue is taught, but the vote and the law is up to the members individually.
Explain Ezra Taft Benson's affilation with the Birch sociecty then; not to mention his political appointments. How about the bank that Joseph Smith founded to print money? Who was the governer of Navoo? What about the law of consecration and Brigham Young's confescation of all wealth (or the Nation of Deseret, for that matter)?
But this is not Church mandate or policy. It's up to the members.Including a majority of the Utah state government, of course. What of a church that routinely gets such perks as the land swap for the "reflecting pool" in downtown Salt Lake (complete with a censoship zone); or how about the temple ceremony, in which members swear to uphold their leaders on penalty of death? Here are some quotes by the church's prophets, seers and revelators on the subject.
On the contrary, the Church is only homogenous in that we share certain core beliefs.
Wow, that list doesn't even scratch the surface of what I was taught while growing up in the church:
- All religions apart from Mormonism are an "abomination" in the sight of God
- People of "dark skin" were less valiant in the pre-existence, so God cursed them in this life
- American Indians are really errant Jews, who lost the gospel when they rebeled against God
- There are three levels of heaven, and you can only get to the highest level by practicing polygamy; then you will be a God and have your own planet
- John the Beloved and the Three Nephites are eternal beings that roam the planet, even today, doing the work of God (and the prieshood needed to be restored through Joseph Smith... why exactly?)
- Joseph Smith could translate a common Egyptian Funeral Book, to find that it contained extensive writings by father Abraham
- Homosexuality is a disase that you must suffer for (I wonder when the 1978-esque "oops, my bad, blacks can have the priesthood now" gay revelation will come). Masturbation is almost as bad.
And on, and on, and on. Some good books include Krakauer's "Banner under Heaven", Lason's "By his own Hand, on Papyrus", and Palmer's "Insider's View of Mormon Origins".To be fair, the church has changed dramatically over the past 50 years, and it continues to evolve into a more mainstream puritanical protestant sect (I bet Joseph Smith is rolling in his grave). Most of the members are people of high quality; heck, all my extended family are still members. They are generally great people to know, associate with and love. Despite that, I just get ruffled when the church portrayed as something that it really isn't; I did enough of that on my 2-year mission with the ultra-simplistic 6 discussions.
If you are interested in apologetic responses to any of the above, feel free to visit the FAIR website.
From there you have full regexp searching; you can back-step as far as you want, etc. If you want to get tricky, you can even do cool things such as:
Which will save all output to 'make.out' and only put errors on the screen. See Linux I/O Redirection Tutorial, which is really just a Bash tutorial, for more information. The very nice aspect of this is that it applies to all commands, not just make/gcc.You obviously don't have a younger brother. Parents can't be there all the time. I'm the oldest of 4.
Firefox 1.0 / Fedora Core 3
Actually, California is in a fairly unique position. If they mandate that all cars sold in California have this device, then manufacturers may simply install they across the board (like Catalytic converters, for example, which started in California). I suppose it could be a part of the registration process as well.
Regardless, it stinks. What is California going to do when smokers stop smoking, or go casual? Attempt to increase revenue by charging an overall "chemical happiness" tax? This proposal sounds like they have scared legislatures who don't want to give up their Hummers and limosenes.