I don't think Google has squared away its policy of zero-tolerance account deletion for things that it doesn't like (e.g. false accusations of child porn) and your paying for their service. I've stopped using Google+ because I don't want all my Android contacts and my saved maps to disappear one day. Since there's no customer service, I don't feel the risk is warranted.
Be careful calling libertarians' bluff. Until relatively recently, none other than Alan Greenspan (an Ayn Rand acolyte) maintained that government should have little or no role in policing fraud [moneyshow.com]:
I'm curious, have you ever called the police on somebody for a bad eBay transaction?
Surely you've done your homework on relative economic growth rates of Somalia when compared to its neighbors in the first decade of the century. Right?
And Libya? Huh? Surely you meant somewhere else...
Wouldn't or a dead project be more likely to have issues leading to, I can't get this to work?
I wasn't clear - the issues from the users of the berlios system (the developers who use it for hosting) not the users of the code/projects.
But you're right - I imagine the admins of any of these systems get inappropriate support requests from end users they have to spend time redirecting as well.
A black light normally doesn't really look like anything. I see a bright blue light instead, only in one eye.
Seriously? I've always seen 'black' lights as bright 'blue'. I could see a few near-UV spectrum lines in the spectrometers in high school chemistry class that other kids couldn't see but I thought blacklights weren't near-UV.
If this is what the OP is talking about, I don't think there are many advantages. I can see a bit better at night than the average human, but that's within the range of normal anyway. I seem to have fewer cones than average too, so I just figured it was more rods.
The devs didn't dismiss these memory leak problems. They couldn't reproduce them. I have never been able to do it either.
Yeah, right. Tell you what - let's find out who the correct developer is to look at this, then we'll post a Slashdot story talking about what town he's in, and we'll have 40 people bring over machines that exhibit this problem for him to work with.
. When it finishes it frequently disables plugins due to compatibility issues.
Even better - if there are no compatibility issues, it sits there waiting for you to click 'OK' instead of going about its job of reloading your tabs.
Yes, even if an upgrade is totally successful, you're forced to babysit the upgrade. I guess we should be grateful we don't have to dismiss a "Congratulations!" dialog...
so the fact it unloads that memory later but not immediately might be counting for it... IDK.
That's right in theory - in practice it tends to forget to unload the memory in many cases. Perhaps that a problem caused by extensions but there are no tools available to isolate that case that a normal person can use, and those who can use them have no interest in doing so.
Firefox is great because of its extensions, yet its developers want absolutely nothing to do with them, it seems like.
Give us independent tabs, so the browser doesn't freeze every time I open half a dozen bookmarks at once.
IIRC, the RFE for multi-threading the UI has been languishing for nearly a decade. Mozilla has an "it's hard, we're going to work on low-hanging fruit" attitude about it.
In the interim, Google has seen this, dismissed Mozilla, built their own browser without these deficits, and now Mozilla is spending all their efforts trying to duplicate the low-hanging fruit to make them look more like Chrome.
I doubt there's any reason to believe this won't be better in another decade given current attitudes. The only question is whether Mozilla can survive with this sort of management for another decade. Hint: people are defecting for Chrome for usability.
What's the main resource drain in such a project? Would deleting (or exporting) the 8000 or so orphaned projects have kept BerliOS afloat in the first place?
Probably not - things like storage, web servers, etc. are pretty easy to maintain in a constant fashion. What scales is answering, "I can't get this to work," sorts of questions and those grow as a function of only the number of active projects.
Yes, you can do some cool things with linux. Including switching out the userspace pretty quickly. That's all that this looks like. The kernel isn't changing, from the looks of it.
Yeah, Xen will be able to do this pretty soon, but the required features to make this worth doing (e.g. PCI hotplug) are just getting integrated now. Check back in a year - it wouldn't surprise me to see a slick GUI to switch over to Windows to play games or run a science instrument or whatever kids use it for these days.
So a company with the bargaining power of Amazon makes a new product, and can't get the price down $10 more?
$10 over is perfect. In 3 months it'll be break-even, in 6 months it'll be $20 under. They have additional revenue streams and were able to introduce the very best product now instead of waiting until after Christmas.
they could easily make earlier android version work on "low end" smartphones.
That's a fine technical solution. I think this is more seller's remorse (their soul to Microsoft).
Nokia: we'd like to pay $5 per phone for a Windows license. Microsoft: no, $15. Nokia: fine, we'll just go build Android phones then Microsoft: no, we own patents on Android. See our list of licensees. Nokia: OK, we'll use Meltemi Microsoft: WTF? Nokia: our in-house lightweight linux Microsoft: oh, um, we have a basket of patents against linux Nokia: let's see them Microsoft: OK, how about $5.05 per phone?
The low end prices don't tell much of the story with the NBN.
If that's the low-end, it is telling. I can get those kinds of prices here from our greedy dualopolies, without caps (USD ~= AUD these days), and that's the undercutting provider.
I hear all the prices in Australia have gone through the roof in the last decade - perhaps it's relative?
That this unprecedented warming is natural and just happened to correspond with AGW.
It's a circular argument. The offered set point for when anthropogenic global warming (AGW) kicked in is when the climate started to warm. The actual data from the seabeds is that the CO2 emissions from human fossil fuel use started to be measurable in the 1830's.
Why didn't AGW start in the 1830's? Because there wasn't enough of it to cause warming until the temperature records started to increase significantly.
How much CO2 emission is required to start the climate warming? "I dunno, let's look at the charts."
What do the models tell us? "That this much CO2 will cause AGW." How were those models developed? "Based on the charts."
See? It's honest-to-goodness begging the question. Maybe AGW happens to be correct despite the sloppy method. One side says, "we're all gonna burn in 'Hell on Earth' if we're right." The other side says, "I'm not spending $300T on that bet."
As an attempt to isolate the variables people look to other planets. They see warming there. That's a reasonable indication that there's a common cause, though no proof that AGW isn't happening too.
In the end it's a business decision, but one that affects everybody, one way or the other. We can't predict the future with confidence, but we can control our behavior in the present. Making moral decisions now is the best we can do.
I'd also be inclined to question: how much do you really need to destroy this data?
Right, that's the real question - "is the data worth the cost of recovery?" Nobody will use a probe microscope to try to recover your porn collection. Keys to a popular CA, perhaps.
Then again, a whack with a hammer is incredibly cheap insurance.
Since Giant MR it's been very hard to read overwritten blocks without probe microscopy ($$$) but since automatic block re-allocation it's been approximately impossible to overwrite all your blocks. SMART Secure Erase is supposed to, but Seagate, for one, will refuse to give you a list of which drives implement it. Even if you're a "Seagate Partner".
Clearly we should not do war research because there is no payoff.
AlphaDog would make a great wilderness rescue tool, or even a recreational vehicle. But our society values killing brown people in far-off lands who supposedly hate us for our freedoms more than rescuing hurt hikers.
The money funneled to DARPA could be redirected to these sorts of efforts for peaceful work today. An amount on the order of the entire personal income tax goes to the military industrial complex - imagine if people kept that money how much would be available for philanthropy.
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You can't just copy the mail over with IMAP?
I don't think Google has squared away its policy of zero-tolerance account deletion for things that it doesn't like (e.g. false accusations of child porn) and your paying for their service. I've stopped using Google+ because I don't want all my Android contacts and my saved maps to disappear one day. Since there's no customer service, I don't feel the risk is warranted.
Be careful calling libertarians' bluff. Until relatively recently, none other than Alan Greenspan (an Ayn Rand acolyte) maintained that government should have little or no role in policing fraud [moneyshow.com]:
I'm curious, have you ever called the police on somebody for a bad eBay transaction?
Why, there's Somalia, and Libya, and...
Surely you've done your homework on relative economic growth rates of Somalia when compared to its neighbors in the first decade of the century. Right?
And Libya? Huh? Surely you meant somewhere else...
Wouldn't or a dead project be more likely to have issues leading to, I can't get this to work?
I wasn't clear - the issues from the users of the berlios system (the developers who use it for hosting) not the users of the code/projects.
But you're right - I imagine the admins of any of these systems get inappropriate support requests from end users they have to spend time redirecting as well.
Is there a berlios to github migration script?
A black light normally doesn't really look like anything. I see a bright blue light instead, only in one eye.
Seriously? I've always seen 'black' lights as bright 'blue'. I could see a few near-UV spectrum lines in the spectrometers in high school chemistry class that other kids couldn't see but I thought blacklights weren't near-UV.
If this is what the OP is talking about, I don't think there are many advantages. I can see a bit better at night than the average human, but that's within the range of normal anyway. I seem to have fewer cones than average too, so I just figured it was more rods.
The devs didn't dismiss these memory leak problems. They couldn't reproduce them. I have never been able to do it either.
Yeah, right. Tell you what - let's find out who the correct developer is to look at this, then we'll post a Slashdot story talking about what town he's in, and we'll have 40 people bring over machines that exhibit this problem for him to work with.
If that's too oldschool, we'll upload VM images.
. When it finishes it frequently disables plugins due to compatibility issues.
Even better - if there are no compatibility issues, it sits there waiting for you to click 'OK' instead of going about its job of reloading your tabs.
Yes, even if an upgrade is totally successful, you're forced to babysit the upgrade. I guess we should be grateful we don't have to dismiss a "Congratulations!" dialog...
so the fact it unloads that memory later but not immediately might be counting for it... IDK.
That's right in theory - in practice it tends to forget to unload the memory in many cases. Perhaps that a problem caused by extensions but there are no tools available to isolate that case that a normal person can use, and those who can use them have no interest in doing so.
Firefox is great because of its extensions, yet its developers want absolutely nothing to do with them, it seems like.
Give us independent tabs, so the browser doesn't freeze every time I open half a dozen bookmarks at once.
IIRC, the RFE for multi-threading the UI has been languishing for nearly a decade. Mozilla has an "it's hard, we're going to work on low-hanging fruit" attitude about it.
In the interim, Google has seen this, dismissed Mozilla, built their own browser without these deficits, and now Mozilla is spending all their efforts trying to duplicate the low-hanging fruit to make them look more like Chrome.
I doubt there's any reason to believe this won't be better in another decade given current attitudes. The only question is whether Mozilla can survive with this sort of management for another decade. Hint: people are defecting for Chrome for usability.
What's the main resource drain in such a project? Would deleting (or exporting) the 8000 or so orphaned projects have kept BerliOS afloat in the first place?
Probably not - things like storage, web servers, etc. are pretty easy to maintain in a constant fashion. What scales is answering, "I can't get this to work," sorts of questions and those grow as a function of only the number of active projects.
the cheap Kindle is for people who really wanted a Kindle but didn't want to spend $399
Good point - that's on the order of what, a dozen novels to break even over paper?
Yes, you can do some cool things with linux. Including switching out the userspace pretty quickly. That's all that this looks like. The kernel isn't changing, from the looks of it.
Yeah, Xen will be able to do this pretty soon, but the required features to make this worth doing (e.g. PCI hotplug) are just getting integrated now. Check back in a year - it wouldn't surprise me to see a slick GUI to switch over to Windows to play games or run a science instrument or whatever kids use it for these days.
I suppose the closest analogy would be selling a Linux laptop with nVidia drivers preinstalled, which would be violating the GPL.
Why wouldn't that fall under the system libraries exception?
See, there you go with useful information instead of knee-jerk reactions again.
So a company with the bargaining power of Amazon makes a new product, and can't get the price down $10 more?
$10 over is perfect. In 3 months it'll be break-even, in 6 months it'll be $20 under. They have additional revenue streams and were able to introduce the very best product now instead of waiting until after Christmas.
they could easily make earlier android version work on "low end" smartphones.
That's a fine technical solution. I think this is more seller's remorse (their soul to Microsoft).
Nokia: we'd like to pay $5 per phone for a Windows license.
Microsoft: no, $15.
Nokia: fine, we'll just go build Android phones then
Microsoft: no, we own patents on Android. See our list of licensees.
Nokia: OK, we'll use Meltemi
Microsoft: WTF?
Nokia: our in-house lightweight linux
Microsoft: oh, um, we have a basket of patents against linux
Nokia: let's see them
Microsoft: OK, how about $5.05 per phone?
In my imagination anyway.
The low end prices don't tell much of the story with the NBN.
If that's the low-end, it is telling. I can get those kinds of prices here from our greedy dualopolies, without caps (USD ~= AUD these days), and that's the undercutting provider.
I hear all the prices in Australia have gone through the roof in the last decade - perhaps it's relative?
Do you have any idea how much military-funding-created stuff is now available to the public?
Do you know how much richer society would be if WWII had actually ended? Rich societies invent things.
That's where your flying cars are. ~
No it doesn't; this is a flat out strawman argument. (i.e. lie).
No, it's an allusion to Crichton's argument.
That this unprecedented warming is natural and just happened to correspond with AGW.
It's a circular argument. The offered set point for when anthropogenic global warming (AGW) kicked in is when the climate started to warm. The actual data from the seabeds is that the CO2 emissions from human fossil fuel use started to be measurable in the 1830's.
Why didn't AGW start in the 1830's? Because there wasn't enough of it to cause warming until the temperature records started to increase significantly.
How much CO2 emission is required to start the climate warming? "I dunno, let's look at the charts."
What do the models tell us? "That this much CO2 will cause AGW." How were those models developed? "Based on the charts."
See? It's honest-to-goodness begging the question. Maybe AGW happens to be correct despite the sloppy method. One side says, "we're all gonna burn in 'Hell on Earth' if we're right." The other side says, "I'm not spending $300T on that bet."
As an attempt to isolate the variables people look to other planets. They see warming there. That's a reasonable indication that there's a common cause, though no proof that AGW isn't happening too.
In the end it's a business decision, but one that affects everybody, one way or the other. We can't predict the future with confidence, but we can control our behavior in the present. Making moral decisions now is the best we can do.
I'd also be inclined to question: how much do you really need to destroy this data?
Right, that's the real question - "is the data worth the cost of recovery?" Nobody will use a probe microscope to try to recover your porn collection. Keys to a popular CA, perhaps.
Then again, a whack with a hammer is incredibly cheap insurance.
Since Giant MR it's been very hard to read overwritten blocks without probe microscopy ($$$) but since automatic block re-allocation it's been approximately impossible to overwrite all your blocks. SMART Secure Erase is supposed to, but Seagate, for one, will refuse to give you a list of which drives implement it. Even if you're a "Seagate Partner".
Clearly we should not do war research because there is no payoff.
AlphaDog would make a great wilderness rescue tool, or even a recreational vehicle. But our society values killing brown people in far-off lands who supposedly hate us for our freedoms more than rescuing hurt hikers.
The money funneled to DARPA could be redirected to these sorts of efforts for peaceful work today. An amount on the order of the entire personal income tax goes to the military industrial complex - imagine if people kept that money how much would be available for philanthropy.
No, because without the current setup, those channels would likely be much, much, much more expensive per subscriber than they are.
Perhaps. You want cheaper and better?
Leave it up to the market, and everything will be lowest common denominator. Everything.
So, pay-TV channels don't exist, right?