*sigh* I'm trying to draw the distinction here between FREE and DEMOCRATIC. They are not the same thing. Just because you can fork a project at will (FREE) doesn't give you a vote in how the original project is run (DEMOCRATIC). Let's be honest with ourselves here... while most foss is FREE, it isn't DEMOCRATIC at all.
Forking a project isn't democratic at all. It may be free, but it's not democratic. Maybe you should tell your government you don't agree with them and that you're just going to set up your own... think they'll go along?
So this is "change", then, huh? Seriously, just because Bush started it (if he did, I haven't a clue) doesn't make it OK for Obama to support it (or any other president).
Of course he did. Politicians "call on" groups and/or individuals to do things all the time.
Note that I have no knowledge of anything related to the incident, and indeed this is the first I've heard of it, but the fact that a politician of ANY party (I'm not affiliated with a party, and likely never will be) called on anyone to do anything is not an indication of honesty or high morals.
So wait... Flash is a great platform, except for on nearly all the computers in the world, where it's not very good, and it's nonexistent on the most popular smart phone in the world, and won't be available on the iPad, and given Apple's stance on it, may not last long on OSX, but hey, it works great in Linux.
Yeah, that's a glowing endorsement. Let's all develop for Flash!
It's better than ATRAC too, so hey, it must be one of the best, right? Right??
Regardless, it's lossy, therefore indisputably of less than optimal quality. Whether it's the best of the *LOSSY* codecs, seems to be a matter of opinion. There are at least as many "against" opinions as "for" opinions for any given bitrate.
Even though [Vorbis and Theora] could technically be implemented with any container, everybody expects them in ogg.
That's because if someone used Vorbis or Theora, they've already made the decision to give up quality in the name of ideology. That decision having been made, of course they're going to go all the way and use the Ogg container.
PNG is not a competitor to JPG, it's a competitor to GIF. The feature set is superior (really only one thing mattered, the alpha transparency), and it was unencumbered by the unisys patent. That's why it succeeded.
The GPS satellites aren't geosynchronous. They orbit at about 20 thousand kilometers up. The satellites know where *they* are, and they tell you that, along with a quite precise time signal. Based on the differences between the "time" from several different satellites, you can triangulate your position from the satellites.
1) There doesn't seem to be that many developers that trust PayPal. 2) There doesn't seem to be that many users that trust PayPal. 3) There doesn't seem to be that many users who trust random developers.
I don't see how this can work out well, and if it somehow does, it'll be proof of what I've believed all along: the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
Only because there's no money in it. Believe me, as soon as there were millions of naive users getting applications from some package manager, the Comet Cursors of the world won't be far behind.
Again, it's bullshit, and no amount of quoting Brooks or other./ users will make it true. Having worked for more than ten years in the commercial software industry, I can say that there are those who care, and those who don't. People who write open source software don't love it because it's open source, they do it because they love it. I happen to get paid to do it, but that doesn't mean I love it any less than the next guy.
a developer working toward a fixed financial reward is not sufficiently motivated to produce quality code.
Bullshit. A developer working toward a fixed financial reward is NOT NECESSARILY sufficiently motivated, but neither is a developer working toward a non-monetary reward.
We all have our own thresholds of motivation, and some of us doing it for cash also just happen to love it and do it well because of that.
The "design problem" you speak of was in the third-party software, not the kernel. It's NEVER been ok for software to assume it's running as administrator, even if that was the norm.
Files being locked instead of writeable by admins is indeed inconvenient... that's why Windows machines need reboots for things that Linux machines don't... but that's hardly a design flaw that causes security issues.
I don't know about Ring 0 not being protected from Ring 1, but that sounds... unlikely... to me. Are you referring to a specific issue, or...? Either way, I was under the understanding that modern versions of Windows only use Ring 0 and Ring 3.
Not a single software package that I run needs admin rights (er, well, Mass Effect does, I think, but is that MS' fault?) and certainly Microsoft's software doesn't. Would you care to back up your assertion with a single concrete example?
Windows uses the same networking that any other modern OS uses. Even if it might still have NetBIOS running, it's hardly necessary, and it runs over TCP/IP nowdays (and has for a long time).
A lack of testing isn't a design flaw, it's a process flaw. Still a flaw, but we're talking design flaws here. Any number of Linux (or MacOS, or BSD, or...) kernel bugs "should just never have happened" as well. In a perfect world, none of them would...
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So the performance-critical always-accessed stuff on cheap slow storage, and the rarely-used stuff on fast expensive storage.
I like your style.
*sigh* I'm trying to draw the distinction here between FREE and DEMOCRATIC. They are not the same thing. Just because you can fork a project at will (FREE) doesn't give you a vote in how the original project is run (DEMOCRATIC). Let's be honest with ourselves here... while most foss is FREE, it isn't DEMOCRATIC at all.
Forking a project isn't democratic at all. It may be free, but it's not democratic. Maybe you should tell your government you don't agree with them and that you're just going to set up your own... think they'll go along?
So Cuba is a democracy, because you're free to jump on a boat, paddle to an uninhabited scrap of land somewhere, and set up your own society?
So wait, any "contribution" that doesn't agree with the beliefs of the reigning elite (biggest contributors) is detracting from the project?
Sounds like democracy to me...
So this is "change", then, huh? Seriously, just because Bush started it (if he did, I haven't a clue) doesn't make it OK for Obama to support it (or any other president).
Of course he did. Politicians "call on" groups and/or individuals to do things all the time.
Note that I have no knowledge of anything related to the incident, and indeed this is the first I've heard of it, but the fact that a politician of ANY party (I'm not affiliated with a party, and likely never will be) called on anyone to do anything is not an indication of honesty or high morals.
So wait... Flash is a great platform, except for on nearly all the computers in the world, where it's not very good, and it's nonexistent on the most popular smart phone in the world, and won't be available on the iPad, and given Apple's stance on it, may not last long on OSX, but hey, it works great in Linux.
Yeah, that's a glowing endorsement. Let's all develop for Flash!
It's better than ATRAC too, so hey, it must be one of the best, right? Right??
Regardless, it's lossy, therefore indisputably of less than optimal quality. Whether it's the best of the *LOSSY* codecs, seems to be a matter of opinion. There are at least as many "against" opinions as "for" opinions for any given bitrate.
Even though [Vorbis and Theora] could technically be implemented with any container, everybody expects them in ogg.
That's because if someone used Vorbis or Theora, they've already made the decision to give up quality in the name of ideology. That decision having been made, of course they're going to go all the way and use the Ogg container.
PNG is not a competitor to JPG, it's a competitor to GIF. The feature set is superior (really only one thing mattered, the alpha transparency), and it was unencumbered by the unisys patent. That's why it succeeded.
The GPS satellites aren't geosynchronous. They orbit at about 20 thousand kilometers up. The satellites know where *they* are, and they tell you that, along with a quite precise time signal. Based on the differences between the "time" from several different satellites, you can triangulate your position from the satellites.
Every time a Steam game has asked me for a CD-Key the little Steam overlay has always been there providing it exactly when it was needed.
Sometimes it's even pre-filled-in. Neat.
Admittedly it's been a long long time, but the dongles I've seen were parallel... you only had one port. USB hubs are cheap and easy to get.
I'm a PC gamer. I spent $600 on my computer, and I "drop" $150 on a video card every 2-3 years.
My guess is that I'm more typical than your example.
I never claimed to have worked more years than you.
That said, why is my anecdote insufficient, while your assertion is to be taken as fact?
At least I have ONE example to back up my claim.
Because noone else has ever built an ARM-based SoC, amirite?
It's worse than you know:
1) There doesn't seem to be that many developers that trust PayPal.
2) There doesn't seem to be that many users that trust PayPal.
3) There doesn't seem to be that many users who trust random developers.
I don't see how this can work out well, and if it somehow does, it'll be proof of what I've believed all along: the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
Having a "custom CPU" is not an advantage. It just means that it's overpriced becase you're missing the economy of scale.
Only because there's no money in it. Believe me, as soon as there were millions of naive users getting applications from some package manager, the Comet Cursors of the world won't be far behind.
Again, it's bullshit, and no amount of quoting Brooks or other ./ users will make it true. Having worked for more than ten years in the commercial software industry, I can say that there are those who care, and those who don't. People who write open source software don't love it because it's open source, they do it because they love it. I happen to get paid to do it, but that doesn't mean I love it any less than the next guy.
a developer working toward a fixed financial reward is not sufficiently motivated to produce quality code.
Bullshit. A developer working toward a fixed financial reward is NOT NECESSARILY sufficiently motivated, but neither is a developer working toward a non-monetary reward.
We all have our own thresholds of motivation, and some of us doing it for cash also just happen to love it and do it well because of that.
Reporting a bug is pretty easy in MS-land: http://connect.microsoft.com/
You get to vote on issues, comment, see responses from engineers, etc. Kinda like you'd expect.
The "design problem" you speak of was in the third-party software, not the kernel. It's NEVER been ok for software to assume it's running as administrator, even if that was the norm.
Files being locked instead of writeable by admins is indeed inconvenient... that's why Windows machines need reboots for things that Linux machines don't... but that's hardly a design flaw that causes security issues.
I don't know about Ring 0 not being protected from Ring 1, but that sounds... unlikely... to me. Are you referring to a specific issue, or ...? Either way, I was under the understanding that modern versions of Windows only use Ring 0 and Ring 3.
Not a single software package that I run needs admin rights (er, well, Mass Effect does, I think, but is that MS' fault?) and certainly Microsoft's software doesn't. Would you care to back up your assertion with a single concrete example?
Windows uses the same networking that any other modern OS uses. Even if it might still have NetBIOS running, it's hardly necessary, and it runs over TCP/IP nowdays (and has for a long time).
A lack of testing isn't a design flaw, it's a process flaw. Still a flaw, but we're talking design flaws here. Any number of Linux (or MacOS, or BSD, or ...) kernel bugs "should just never have happened" as well. In a perfect world, none of them would...