Even if that's true, I think that's irrelevant. Name one anticompetitive action MS took which would have been harder under a more libertarian-capitalist-type government.
I think that's a little simplistic. I'm a socialist, and socialism involves more than just a commitment to working for the common good - good though that is.
Warner Brothers vrs. the author of Harry Potter, who's got the profits?
Uh, good post - but bad example. J. K. Rowling drove a hard bargain and looks set to become the UK's first billionaire author... through merchandising. I think she's making more than enough.
That's actually a fantastic idea... except that he probably wouldn't co-operate unless MSFT open sourced every byte of their software, which is not likely to happen. Still, nice daydream...
So did you actually solve the memory problem? I had exactly the same problem - you just do a guesstimating search for the maximum amount of memory for Linux to grab which doesn't interfere with the graphics card.
I think undocumented hardware could be part of the problem here, I don't know, but that's my guess. Braindead manufacturers don't release sufficiently detailed specs to Linux developers, in the deluded belief that it's needed to prevent competitors stealing their good ideas. (huh, like anyone would want to replicate the crappy PC Chips motherboard graphics chipset I had - especially after it became obselete! - what's the point of secrecy then?).
I would say that developers as well as users are at the caveman stage.
In some cases, yes. Macs freezing up so nothing works when packets are dropped (the horrors of cooperative multitasking!); error messages in all kinds of software that are about as useful as a hole in the head; IE6 for Mac that unpacks and executes programs without asking for confirmation!!. The list goes on...
Somehow she got the idea that just because setting up a web server and a bbs should be easy to do that it actually was easy to do.
But what she wanted to do could be achieved very easily using a webboard provider. No need to actually set it up on a university server - just use an ASP.
You brought up transferring files between computers. This really should be as simple as sending an email
Agreed. IBM's new distributed point-and-click file sharing system (covered on/. recently) could help with this. But standard LAN fileshares (samba etc.) are fairly easy to use, which is something.
Also the ftp protocol is utter crap itself... It's insecure.
Yes... scp is better but it's too slow sometimes - it should have the option to only encrypt the authentication and not the actual data itself.
It doesn't have let you continue a download if you started but got disconnected.
Incorrect, in practical terms. Many current FTP servers and clients (but NOT IE, netscape or mozilla, AFAIK) support resume now.
Ok, but in a single building it would be simpler just to use a "world-readable" directory on a file server, right? So this is really only useful where you've got multiple geographically separate offices, right?
Well, it's certainly better than installing straight away without relying on any user feedback (which is what I usually do, if the preemptive kernel patch is ready).
Do you realise that the web developer who made the admin section accessible via a GET request, without any additional authentication, is the biggest moron here, not the client? You shouldn't rely on people not knowing where your wide-open doors are - lock them!
Both ways are buggy at the the moment. The former sometimes closes the wrong tab. The latter I just tried and it worked, but it also pasted the clipboard contents into the URL bar and went there - which I did not want!
For tight, number crunching loops, they might - but most desktop software spends its time in system libraries (when they do not wait for user input).
There are some cases where mozilla does waste a lot of time, NOT due to slow OS calls. For example, if you have a large mozilla history: Fire up xosview. Go to Tasks:Tools:History in moz. Watch xosview.
Really crappy data structure code can spend a lot of time messing about in userland. mozilla's history-related code is a particularly bad example of this.
But I agree, often it is more helpful to rethink algorithms rather than just crank up the -O level.
Dark, yes. Dead rats, cannibalism (well rat cannibalism anyway), psychopathic rat catchers, the dark force behind the scenes... I think Terry has this idea that kids like dark themes, and I think he has a point.
I bought both and liked both, but I found Amazing Maurice to be both a more fun and a more well-developed story. It was classic pterry, really - I hardly even noticed that it was for kids!:)
And if you have read the books, I don't know. You can pay to see the movie, but don't expect incredible things
Exactly. Anyone who hasn't read the books - don't read them before you go see the movie, read them afterwards for best effect! The movie is great fun, but the book has more satisfying plot and dialog, simply because of the necessary time constraints of the film.
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Now that is a cool analogy to get elementary school kids more interested in computing! I'll have to remember that one. Thanks.:-)
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AbiWord isn't. It's not even at version 1.0 yet.
S/he was correct. S/he was disproving the parent post's claim that "with proprietary software you have someone to sue". Nothing more, nothing less.
Company A can't promise to buy a lot of copies to encourse Company B to add feature X.
No, but they can commission company B to add feature X. What's the problem?
It is a question of businesses and open-source people not speaking the same language.
Funny, opensource.org was started to talk about free software in more businesslike terms.
Uh, good post - but bad example. J. K. Rowling drove a hard bargain and looks set to become the UK's first billionaire author... through merchandising. I think she's making more than enough.
I think undocumented hardware could be part of the problem here, I don't know, but that's my guess. Braindead manufacturers don't release sufficiently detailed specs to Linux developers, in the deluded belief that it's needed to prevent competitors stealing their good ideas. (huh, like anyone would want to replicate the crappy PC Chips motherboard graphics chipset I had - especially after it became obselete! - what's the point of secrecy then?).
In some cases, yes. Macs freezing up so nothing works when packets are dropped (the horrors of cooperative multitasking!); error messages in all kinds of software that are about as useful as a hole in the head; IE6 for Mac that unpacks and executes programs without asking for confirmation!!. The list goes on...
Somehow she got the idea that just because setting up a web server and a bbs should be easy to do that it actually was easy to do.
But what she wanted to do could be achieved very easily using a webboard provider. No need to actually set it up on a university server - just use an ASP.
You brought up transferring files between computers. This really should be as simple as sending an email
Agreed. IBM's new distributed point-and-click file sharing system (covered on /. recently) could help with this. But standard LAN fileshares (samba etc.) are fairly easy to use, which is something.
Also the ftp protocol is utter crap itself... It's insecure.
Yes... scp is better but it's too slow sometimes - it should have the option to only encrypt the authentication and not the actual data itself.
It doesn't have let you continue a download if you started but got disconnected.
Incorrect, in practical terms. Many current FTP servers and clients (but NOT IE, netscape or mozilla, AFAIK) support resume now.
Are you sure? Did you force a fsck? Unless you force a fsck, fsck won't notice there's anything wrong when you reboot.
Surely the proper solution would have been to kill all possible processes before synching.
There are some cases where mozilla does waste a lot of time, NOT due to slow OS calls. For example, if you have a large mozilla history: Fire up xosview. Go to Tasks:Tools:History in moz. Watch xosview.
Really crappy data structure code can spend a lot of time messing about in userland. mozilla's history-related code is a particularly bad example of this.
But I agree, often it is more helpful to rethink algorithms rather than just crank up the -O level.
Exactly. Anyone who hasn't read the books - don't read them before you go see the movie, read them afterwards for best effect! The movie is great fun, but the book has more satisfying plot and dialog, simply because of the necessary time constraints of the film.