This guy is gushing over a closed proprietary product that isn't even supported on the desktop he's alleged to use.
How does that work exactly?
It's because Novell is in the process of being bought, and he's hoping to get Canonical to hire him to replace Matt Asay, who left in December (didn't even last the whole year). So what better way than to rant about linux user interfaces - Shuttleworth's current hobby-horse.
Flash is the poster child of proprietary technology
Flash and flex are completely open source. Download the sdk from adobe, and you can write flash and flex programs with nothing more than vi and a shell to run the compiler.
What's NOT opensourced is Adobe's tools. Not the same thing. You don't need a clicky-pointy interface to make flash swf files.
Good points. Of course, if we're keeping score, the big winner is actually RedHat, who makes more revenue (and profit) than all the other distros combined.
Re: Mono: I'm running 11.3 and there's no mono on either my laptop or my desktop. Just go to the package manager and remove the mono base library, and everything it depends on will also be removed:-)
Re: No kernel source on DVD: The DVD includes lots of desktops, lots of software, lots of tools, lots of applications, lots of servers,... and lots of languages. The kernel source for 11.3 is 334.5 megs. Most people don't need to compile a kernel any more. Including everything that's available from the OpenSUSE repositories would make it a multi-dvd download; including the source as well would just make it even bigger.
One of my previous thoughts about how updates are performed apparently has been addressed in this release. Instead of downloading updates and additions sequentially, multiple updates will be grabbed simultaneously, which should make updating quicker.
Re: Boxed sets don't include a complete development environment, including kernel, etc.: You can always build a distro that contains exactly what you want: https://build.opensuse.org/...
No indicator is perfect, and SuSE actually encourages people to do in-place upgrades over the net (change the repositories, upgrade), not full re-installs. SuSE also offers downloadable CDs as well, and these too will also let you download additional packages, same as everyone else.
It is what it is - another data point:-) Unless you want to go back to the spyware that Ubuntu tried to slip in with the canonical-census package...
The subducting basalt and sediment are normally rich in hydrous minerals and clays. During the transition from basalt to eclogite, these hydrous materials break down, producing copious quantities of water, which at such great pressure and temperature exists as a supercritical fluid. The supercritical water, which is hot and more buoyant than the surrounding rock, rises into the overlying mantle where it lowers the pressure in (and thus the melting temperature of) the mantle rock to the point of actual melting, generating magma. These magmas, in turn, rise, because they are less dense than the rocks of the mantle.
If both plates remained the same density, they wouldn't be able to slip one over the other. They'd be like two fat people in a WalMart aisle, trying to get past each other, but going nowhere. Venus is a good example of a planet where there's no water, so no plate movement.
Really bad definition, since it would ban pretty much all physical contact, include those same stupid politicians shaking hands during elections, or doctors setting broken bones, or you wiping your kid's runny nose.
I'm pretty sure doctors need to be licensed in order to legally practice medicine.
But they would have had to get a separate license for "manipulating the body of another person" aka "massage". Like I said, a really dumb proposal.
Good point, but the same can also be said about distros like OpenSUSE that let you do an in-place upgrade over the net. The way I figure it, we won't get absolute numbers (after all, one download probably equals more than one install), but the ratios should be a start...
1. select count(*) from bugstore where bug_level='critical';
2. 2914 rows selected
3. update bugstore set bug_level=non_critical where bug_level='critical' limit 2900;
4. "select count(*) from bugstore where bug_level='critical';
5. 14 rows selected
Okay, I'm joking, but you get the idea. It's like the lawyer who said he didn't care if the customer negotiated his hourly rate down, as long as HE controlled the clock.
I'm glad you like the idea... as for the credit, if you want to give credit, that's fine. Barbara Hudson, with either a link back here or to the site in my profile (xmlsucks.com), works for me:-)
Looking at your blog, I noticed a third option missing in the logic of the death penalty, and a slight boo-boo:
1. The death penalty does reduce crime^Wmurder rates.
2. The death penalty has no effect on crime^Wmurder rates.
3. The death penalty increases murder rates.
You are comparing murder rates, not overall crime stats, wrt whether the country has a death penalty or not.
Now on option # 3 - the death penalty might increase murder rates, since people who've already killed have less incentive not to kill again, even if they haven't yet been caught for the original murder.
You also sort of mixed the two here:
Is capital punishment a significant enough deterrent to capital crimes?”. In other words, does having and handing out the death penalty frighten criminals into not becoming criminals?
These are two separate questions. One concerns the correlation between capital punishment and one specific crime (murder), the other the correlation between capital punishment and criminal behavior in general.
It also ignores euthanasia (/me dons flame-retardant panties), which can be classified as a separate category of crime, a homicide, or not a crime depending on jurisdiction and circumstance.
The second question, I guess/hope, will be looked at in one of your follow-up articles, as you hinted at the bottom of that one:-)
I grant you distrowatch is far from perfect, but it's a better indication than none at all. If you know a better way to compare, I'm all ears.
Grab the torrents for each distro, and see how many people are downloading it at any one time. Maintain totals over the year, and that should give you a half-decent number. You'd be surprised at how OpenSUSE and Fedora are still quite active even late in their release cycles.
The problem with distrowatch numbers is they don't tell you how many people actually do installs, how many people keep their installs, etc. It's just a record of page hits.
For example, I've been using OpenSUSE since 9x... and I didn't hit distrowatch even for that.
So, I went over to distrowatch, and it gives the OpenSUSE number as ~1200. Right now, I see 1,300 seeders and 2,200 leechers off the i586 and x86_64 dvd torrents, for a total of 3,500 - that's well over the number of people even looking at the ubuntu link, never mind actual downloads.
No, they went to the hospital 3 time zones away the next day. They were probably planning on visiting California anyway - maybe to try to have sex with the buzzards in Death Valley or something... you'd have to ask them. The story makes clear that their problems didn't end when they finally returned to Russia, either.
Subduction takes a lot less than a few billion years. Also, as another poster points out, under pressure, water lowers the melting point of the rock, allowing it to flow.
If you think that's bad, there was a debate a few decades ago that went on about the law prohibiting sex with dead people.
One legislator pointed out that could be interpreted differently from the obvious intent - like "my [spouse] is dead in the sack", as opposed to deceased.
So they wasted time debating the differences between "dead" and "deceased", instead of just rewording it...
Or like the municipal bylaw up here that tried to ban massage parlours, by defining "massage" as "the manipulation of another person's body" and making it a crime for "someone who is not licensed to practice massage." Really bad definition, since it would ban pretty much all physical contact, include those same stupid politicians shaking hands during elections, or doctors setting broken bones, or you wiping your kid's runny nose.
They were tourists, not residents of Florida. Tourists have been known to travel from place to place, and I guess after their little escapade, they were in a hurry to leave Florida, since if they had gone to a Florida hospital, they would have been arrested.
It's in the paragraph immediately under the part I quoted:
Had the two not fled from Florida quickly enough, they would have had to face the law they had breached.
California *probably* doesn't have a law about sex with porcupines (Note to self - ask Charlie Sheen).
No url shortener - I quoted part of the article I linked to.
Though I *did* leave out this part out, since it wasn't really on topic
Obviously, the two learned nothing from the story of the Russian man who in January lost half of his penis after trying to force a raccoon into oral sex.
Absolute crackpottery, insanity, delusional sci-fi jism. You're a lunatic.
No, lunatics want to colonize the moon.
The asteroid belt is the better bet because of the better availability of raw materials, and the much shallower (practically non-existent) gravity well for transfers between locations in the belt.
Find a rock with decent tensile strength, have bots hollow it out, spin it up, and we can live on the inside surface at 1g - that's a lot healthier than 1/6 g on the moon. And the surface area available from all those small chunks greatly exceeds the total land area of both the earth and moon combined.
Anton, 32, and Yevgeny, 30, residents of St. Petersburg, were spending their vacation in the United States with a group of friends, Life.ru website reports.
At some point in their journey, the two got hold of a booklet listing the weirdest US laws. Since they were in Florida, their attention was drawn to a Florida law prohibiting sex with porcupines.
After a good deal of whiskey, the Russians felt curious about what might have prompted the law, and went in search of the animal.
Within one hour, a porcupine was found, and Anton and Yevgeny were drunk and brave enough to take off their pants and approach it.
The next morning, both were standing at the Cedars Sinai clinic in Los Angeles, where amazed doctors plucked porcupine needles from their penises.
I'd want those for colonizing the asteroid belt. That's where the real action is going to be if we ever decide to do anything. Don't need much energy to get out of the individual planetoid's gravity well, hollow them out for living space and raw materials, and we could even experiment with small-scale "ring-worlds".
Superheated water is required for plate subduction. It acts as a lubricant. It's one of the reasons why injecting water into wells to recover more oil triggers earthquakes. Even geothermal power generation can cause it.
Molten lead won't do it, if only because it won't flash into steam when the pressure is partially released, and blast out new channels, causing even more movement, more sudden pressure drops, and more steam, until the plate slips enough to release the pent-up strain.
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This guy is gushing over a closed proprietary product that isn't even supported on the desktop he's alleged to use.
How does that work exactly?
It's because Novell is in the process of being bought, and he's hoping to get Canonical to hire him to replace Matt Asay, who left in December (didn't even last the whole year). So what better way than to rant about linux user interfaces - Shuttleworth's current hobby-horse.
Flash is the poster child of proprietary technology
Flash and flex are completely open source. Download the sdk from adobe, and you can write flash and flex programs with nothing more than vi and a shell to run the compiler.
What's NOT opensourced is Adobe's tools. Not the same thing. You don't need a clicky-pointy interface to make flash swf files.
Good points. Of course, if we're keeping score, the big winner is actually RedHat, who makes more revenue (and profit) than all the other distros combined.
Re: Mono: I'm running 11.3 and there's no mono on either my laptop or my desktop. Just go to the package manager and remove the mono base library, and everything it depends on will also be removed :-)
Re: No kernel source on DVD: The DVD includes lots of desktops, lots of software, lots of tools, lots of applications, lots of servers, ... and lots of languages. The kernel source for 11.3 is 334.5 megs. Most people don't need to compile a kernel any more. Including everything that's available from the OpenSUSE repositories would make it a multi-dvd download; including the source as well would just make it even bigger.
One of my previous thoughts about how updates are performed apparently has been addressed in this release. Instead of downloading updates and additions sequentially, multiple updates will be grabbed simultaneously, which should make updating quicker.
Re: Boxed sets don't include a complete development environment, including kernel, etc.: You can always build a distro that contains exactly what you want: https://build.opensuse.org/ ...
There's an even better way than that - measuring the number of unique IPs which hit the update servers to download security and bug fix updates.
Opensuse has done this for years: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Statistics
That's pretty neat! Can we get the same figures from other distros.
It is what it is - another data point :-) Unless you want to go back to the spyware that Ubuntu tried to slip in with the canonical-census package ...
If both plates remained the same density, they wouldn't be able to slip one over the other. They'd be like two fat people in a WalMart aisle, trying to get past each other, but going nowhere. Venus is a good example of a planet where there's no water, so no plate movement.
You are, of course, correct about the term "homicide". Thanks for the correction.
Really bad definition, since it would ban pretty much all physical contact, include those same stupid politicians shaking hands during elections, or doctors setting broken bones, or you wiping your kid's runny nose.
I'm pretty sure doctors need to be licensed in order to legally practice medicine.
But they would have had to get a separate license for "manipulating the body of another person" aka "massage". Like I said, a really dumb proposal.
Good point, but the same can also be said about distros like OpenSUSE that let you do an in-place upgrade over the net. The way I figure it, we won't get absolute numbers (after all, one download probably equals more than one install), but the ratios should be a start ...
Good luck getting it down to 15...
That's easy.
1. select count(*) from bugstore where bug_level='critical';
2. 2914 rows selected
3. update bugstore set bug_level=non_critical where bug_level='critical' limit 2900;
4. "select count(*) from bugstore where bug_level='critical';
5. 14 rows selected
Okay, I'm joking, but you get the idea. It's like the lawyer who said he didn't care if the customer negotiated his hourly rate down, as long as HE controlled the clock.
Looking at your blog, I noticed a third option missing in the logic of the death penalty, and a slight boo-boo:
You are comparing murder rates, not overall crime stats, wrt whether the country has a death penalty or not.
Now on option # 3 - the death penalty might increase murder rates, since people who've already killed have less incentive not to kill again, even if they haven't yet been caught for the original murder.
You also sort of mixed the two here:
These are two separate questions. One concerns the correlation between capital punishment and one specific crime (murder), the other the correlation between capital punishment and criminal behavior in general.
It also ignores euthanasia (/me dons flame-retardant panties), which can be classified as a separate category of crime, a homicide, or not a crime depending on jurisdiction and circumstance.
The second question, I guess/hope, will be looked at in one of your follow-up articles, as you hinted at the bottom of that one :-)
There's no simple answer, as your stats show.
Wait a few days - the opensuse numbers will climb. Not everyone downloads the first day.
I grant you distrowatch is far from perfect, but it's a better indication than none at all. If you know a better way to compare, I'm all ears.
Grab the torrents for each distro, and see how many people are downloading it at any one time. Maintain totals over the year, and that should give you a half-decent number. You'd be surprised at how OpenSUSE and Fedora are still quite active even late in their release cycles.
It works for the **AAs.
For example, I've been using OpenSUSE since 9x ... and I didn't hit distrowatch even for that.
So, I went over to distrowatch, and it gives the OpenSUSE number as ~1200. Right now, I see 1,300 seeders and 2,200 leechers off the i586 and x86_64 dvd torrents, for a total of 3,500 - that's well over the number of people even looking at the ubuntu link, never mind actual downloads.
No, they went to the hospital 3 time zones away the next day. They were probably planning on visiting California anyway - maybe to try to have sex with the buzzards in Death Valley or something ... you'd have to ask them. The story makes clear that their problems didn't end when they finally returned to Russia, either.
Subduction takes a lot less than a few billion years. Also, as another poster points out, under pressure, water lowers the melting point of the rock, allowing it to flow.
I guess I never really appreciated how lonely it could get during the Russian winter...
"Hello, my name is Peggy."
One legislator pointed out that could be interpreted differently from the obvious intent - like "my [spouse] is dead in the sack", as opposed to deceased.
So they wasted time debating the differences between "dead" and "deceased", instead of just rewording it ...
Or like the municipal bylaw up here that tried to ban massage parlours, by defining "massage" as "the manipulation of another person's body" and making it a crime for "someone who is not licensed to practice massage." Really bad definition, since it would ban pretty much all physical contact, include those same stupid politicians shaking hands during elections, or doctors setting broken bones, or you wiping your kid's runny nose.
It's in the paragraph immediately under the part I quoted:
California *probably* doesn't have a law about sex with porcupines (Note to self - ask Charlie Sheen).
Don't click on those URL shorteners!
No url shortener - I quoted part of the article I linked to.
Though I *did* leave out this part out, since it wasn't really on topic
Mentioned on slashdot.
Absolute crackpottery, insanity, delusional sci-fi jism. You're a lunatic.
No, lunatics want to colonize the moon.
The asteroid belt is the better bet because of the better availability of raw materials, and the much shallower (practically non-existent) gravity well for transfers between locations in the belt.
Find a rock with decent tensile strength, have bots hollow it out, spin it up, and we can live on the inside surface at 1g - that's a lot healthier than 1/6 g on the moon. And the surface area available from all those small chunks greatly exceeds the total land area of both the earth and moon combined.
...because I refrain from sex with porcupines and hedgehogs. And I didn't even have to RTFA.
You mean like these 2 Russians
I'd want those for colonizing the asteroid belt. That's where the real action is going to be if we ever decide to do anything. Don't need much energy to get out of the individual planetoid's gravity well, hollow them out for living space and raw materials, and we could even experiment with small-scale "ring-worlds".
Molten lead won't do it, if only because it won't flash into steam when the pressure is partially released, and blast out new channels, causing even more movement, more sudden pressure drops, and more steam, until the plate slips enough to release the pent-up strain.