As a matter of fact, XOrg on my laptop is worse than XFree - fact.
I use KDE 3.4, whose packages are available from the experimental branch (you just have to add the alioth repository and then apt-get -t experimental kdebase kdemultimedia, etc. Google the KDE wiki, it's all there) and run just fine.
if you avoid doing dist-upgrade every other night, sid is actually pretty stable. With the introduction of "experimental" as the bleeding-edge branch, packages landed in sid are pretty much safe for everyday use. Heck, I even run KDE 3.4 from the experimental packages, and only the Kaffeine multimedia player (a 0.6 application, still very young) is crashing every once in a while. I only upgrade applications for security reasons (e.g. Firefox 1.0.4, already in Sid), don't usually do mass-upgrades,and I'm absolutely fine:)
as Debian derivatives go, Knoppix and its "children" (Kanotix, etc) are much better. Better HW recognition, better multimedia support, better package management (straight from Sid) etc.
The only notable feature of Ubuntu is the artwork. Nice to see that, in a strong self-declared "no-bullshit" community, a bit of eye-candy is still privileged over technical merits.
That's not true either. I used to live in godforsaken Preston (North-West England), and when I experienced a faulty telephone line on a sunday morning it was fixed by 4 PM; they even updated me every two hours via text-messages on my mobile phone. Outstanding service, if you ask me.
But alas, I'm from Italy, and Telecom Italia used to be the worst possible Old Telco in western Europe for landline services, so maybe it's just me.
You know what? You are right. Now, given that Azureus is OSS, and BitTorrent is OSS, and pretty much any other BT client is OSS, why don't YOU get started and use your C++ m4d sk1llZ to dig into their code and then build up this "required" application?
Otherwise, please shut up and be grateful to the Azureus team.
His blog post looks carefully crafted to state a point: "web-based applications are better".
One would expect such enthusiasm from a person that has just been hired from a *web-based* company, it's perfectly natural. But I wouldn't take his word at face value.
I don't think MS changed their shipping practices very much in the last 10 years (say, after Win95); if possible, they tried to shorten the release cycle in order to (surprise) earn more from the Windows/Office franchises. So, how come this guy hadn't been converted in 1998, or even in 2003, but only now?... just when (the coincidence!) a web-based company got enough money to hire him...
To me, this guy seems like a common shark. An engineer-type of shark, but still a simple shark. It's easy to say your last employer was a dick; try to tell something bad about your _current_ employer. He used to do it 5 years ago; I wonder what did he do when the horrible idea of Win-IE integration was unmasked for the security nightmare that is. Did he then criticize his employer, or even himself?
Ads too annoying? Change your information sources. This has already happened: remember that we used to love Altavista, then everybody switched over to Google because it was ad-free... We used to love portals, then they went ad-crazy, and we switched to a number of different tools (aggregators, google, etc). Sometimes down the line, one has to think "Is the information on this site worth all the hassle?". The more they push ads down our throat, the more we will look for (or build) alternatives... just think about RIAA's "success" against p2p.
I know the slashdot crowd is more on the "free trade, whatever it takes" side, but...
The EU should (IMHO) decide that this kind of practices won't be tolerated, and that, if you want to sell the same product in the EU and elsewhere at hugely different prices, then you have to MANIFACTURE the good inside the EU. This way, you are still free to rip off us Europeans, but you have to at least employ a decent amount of people, thus pumping some money back in our economy.
MEPs are elected, and by the way a new European general election is due this year. Hope that french people won't forget "Ms. Vivendi", but I must say I'm sceptic. Not because they are French, but because I am Italian (we have the worst politicians you can find east of Haiti, and we quietly keep electing them for 60 years running...)
It seems to me that the suggested syntax for generics simply moves the pain from casting at retrieval time to casting at declaration time. That is, dynamic typing is still far away. Sigh.
For an industry in deep crisis like the music one, even that 0.03% means something.
But well, if they can't understand the problem is not piracy but simply evolution, they are not worthy enough to survive the 21st century. After all, we managed to live 4000 years without "music biz" and "mickey mices"...
I'm sorry, but it's not true. The Bush administration has scrapped all the treaty that could have been scrapped when it comes to military proliferation. Nukes are only a small part. The Moscow treaty was a small cookie for Russia for having scrapped the more restrictive 1971 treaty about missile proliferation.
The post-9/11 anthrax came from american laboratories, as reported from the NY Times, because USA is the only big state still active in developing banned chemical weapons (exploiting a loophole in related treaties).
I'm not surprised that you, as americans, know less on your military policy than almost everyone else in the world: the huge media system is so happy to go at war (event that builds careers and increase viewers), it doesn't bother to mention these 'small' details...
The problem is, it's not a matter of just allowing "text-only" browsers to correctly display your page; your pages should "make sense" from a semantical point of view, thus allowing semantic interpreters (such as browsers for blind persons and so on) to easily and correctly parse them.
e.g. put the "title" attribute in your anchors, consider accesskeys, validate your xhtml, etc etc.
TCPA is not a great deal for the company that created iPod. Apple future is not in personal computing; it's in small, intelligent and useful appliances. Apple will shine in building those, because of all its experience in human interface design. That kind of market needs to be free of expand and find its own standards, without limitation imposed by the TCPA concepts.
And don't forget that this way, "thinking different", they revamped themselves. They just can't afford to be "confused" with all the other manufacturers. They are Apple, they are always special, you buy that concept, not just their miserable processors:)
You must consider the context: it's the Financial Times speaking. They are not looking for the public good, they simply talk business to business-minded people.
Why businessmen choose Linux? 1 - Concern about IT spending (at least for SMEs this is the big factor). 2 - Concern about relying on a monopolist, high-price oriented company (Microsoft as much as the old proprietary Unix producers). 3 - Concern about relying on a monopolist, fixed-price oriented, *american* company...
If you read the article, you'll find these and not much more, because the FT reader doesn't want anything other (well, maybe some tits would be appreciated).
... Apple should give a try to this "BluePod" concept before burying itself under the "portable video" idea. I mean, nobody really ever wanted video-capable cellphones (ready from almost 5 years) basically because watching coloured stuff moving on a oh-so-small screen isn't exactly a great experience. A video-iPod wouldn't be different.
Apple is great in "thinking different", opening new markets. The "TabletPC" or "portable video" concepts are old things that no one still proved profitable.
Might I suggest that anyone stupid enough to give Icann $50,000 with the nothing in return but a 'we'll think about it' from a notoriously unaccountable organisation
You're missing the point: Icann has wrote on the wall its "will swallow for money". Basically, it's the announcement of what many people was thinking from the start: the only way you can support your interests and ideas inside ICANN is paying. Someone could say it's "corruption". Now this is going to be the official way of dealing with ICANN.
If OSX really is the "killerapp" everyone thinks it is, and the Mac userbase is going to grow, we'll se more and more shitty software ported to it... will hardcore Apple users be happy of this?:)
The amount of paper wasted by magazines and newspapers in the 20th century was enormous. Still, without Gutenberg's revolution you would probably still think the earth is a plate.
To be pure is impossible: we're just humans.
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Fact is, The Well was full of writers and journalists and media-gurus-to-be. From this POV, it was probably the first community recognized as such by the official culture establishment.
Ask Titanium owners what it means to have a wireless device built deep into a metal-case pc... obviously the signal is less powerful and reliable. So who really wants a good wi-fi net will buy other hardware anyway.
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As a matter of fact, XOrg on my laptop is worse than XFree - fact. I use KDE 3.4, whose packages are available from the experimental branch (you just have to add the alioth repository and then apt-get -t experimental kdebase kdemultimedia, etc. Google the KDE wiki, it's all there) and run just fine.
if you avoid doing dist-upgrade every other night, sid is actually pretty stable. With the introduction of "experimental" as the bleeding-edge branch, packages landed in sid are pretty much safe for everyday use. Heck, I even run KDE 3.4 from the experimental packages, and only the Kaffeine multimedia player (a 0.6 application, still very young) is crashing every once in a while. I only upgrade applications for security reasons (e.g. Firefox 1.0.4, already in Sid), don't usually do mass-upgrades ,and I'm absolutely fine :)
as Debian derivatives go, Knoppix and its "children" (Kanotix, etc) are much better. Better HW recognition, better multimedia support, better package management (straight from Sid) etc.
The only notable feature of Ubuntu is the artwork. Nice to see that, in a strong self-declared "no-bullshit" community, a bit of eye-candy is still privileged over technical merits.
That's not true either. I used to live in godforsaken Preston (North-West England), and when I experienced a faulty telephone line on a sunday morning it was fixed by 4 PM; they even updated me every two hours via text-messages on my mobile phone. Outstanding service, if you ask me. But alas, I'm from Italy, and Telecom Italia used to be the worst possible Old Telco in western Europe for landline services, so maybe it's just me.
Yeah, it's "whose". 1) "Whose" -> "of someone" 2) "Who's" -> short for "who is" 3) "Who'se" -> ??? PROFIT!!
You know what? You are right. Now, given that Azureus is OSS, and BitTorrent is OSS, and pretty much any other BT client is OSS, why don't YOU get started and use your C++ m4d sk1llZ to dig into their code and then build up this "required" application? Otherwise, please shut up and be grateful to the Azureus team.
His blog post looks carefully crafted to state a point: "web-based applications are better". One would expect such enthusiasm from a person that has just been hired from a *web-based* company, it's perfectly natural. But I wouldn't take his word at face value. I don't think MS changed their shipping practices very much in the last 10 years (say, after Win95); if possible, they tried to shorten the release cycle in order to (surprise) earn more from the Windows/Office franchises. So, how come this guy hadn't been converted in 1998, or even in 2003, but only now?... just when (the coincidence!) a web-based company got enough money to hire him... To me, this guy seems like a common shark. An engineer-type of shark, but still a simple shark. It's easy to say your last employer was a dick; try to tell something bad about your _current_ employer. He used to do it 5 years ago; I wonder what did he do when the horrible idea of Win-IE integration was unmasked for the security nightmare that is. Did he then criticize his employer, or even himself?
Ads too annoying? Change your information sources. This has already happened: remember that we used to love Altavista, then everybody switched over to Google because it was ad-free... We used to love portals, then they went ad-crazy, and we switched to a number of different tools (aggregators, google, etc). Sometimes down the line, one has to think "Is the information on this site worth all the hassle?". The more they push ads down our throat, the more we will look for (or build) alternatives... just think about RIAA's "success" against p2p.
I know the slashdot crowd is more on the "free trade, whatever it takes" side, but... The EU should (IMHO) decide that this kind of practices won't be tolerated, and that, if you want to sell the same product in the EU and elsewhere at hugely different prices, then you have to MANIFACTURE the good inside the EU. This way, you are still free to rip off us Europeans, but you have to at least employ a decent amount of people, thus pumping some money back in our economy.
MEPs are elected, and by the way a new European general election is due this year. Hope that french people won't forget "Ms. Vivendi", but I must say I'm sceptic. Not because they are French, but because I am Italian (we have the worst politicians you can find east of Haiti, and we quietly keep electing them for 60 years running...)
... for the things remaining the same.
It seems to me that the suggested syntax for generics simply moves the pain from casting at retrieval time to casting at declaration time. That is, dynamic typing is still far away. Sigh.
For an industry in deep crisis like the music one, even that 0.03% means something.
But well, if they can't understand the problem is not piracy but simply evolution, they are not worthy enough to survive the 21st century. After all, we managed to live 4000 years without "music biz" and "mickey mices"...
I'm sorry, but it's not true. The Bush administration has scrapped all the treaty that could have been scrapped when it comes to military proliferation. Nukes are only a small part. The Moscow treaty was a small cookie for Russia for having scrapped the more restrictive 1971 treaty about missile proliferation. The post-9/11 anthrax came from american laboratories, as reported from the NY Times, because USA is the only big state still active in developing banned chemical weapons (exploiting a loophole in related treaties). I'm not surprised that you, as americans, know less on your military policy than almost everyone else in the world: the huge media system is so happy to go at war (event that builds careers and increase viewers), it doesn't bother to mention these 'small' details...
The problem is, it's not a matter of just allowing "text-only" browsers to correctly display your page; your pages should "make sense" from a semantical point of view, thus allowing semantic interpreters (such as browsers for blind persons and so on) to easily and correctly parse them. e.g. put the "title" attribute in your anchors, consider accesskeys, validate your xhtml, etc etc.
For further things, take a look at Dive Into Accessibility, a really good book.
It is the son of a powerful General, the son of the most powerful black american ever, the son of a GOP big man. He's "born to do it" :)
TCPA is not a great deal for the company that created iPod. Apple future is not in personal computing; it's in small, intelligent and useful appliances. Apple will shine in building those, because of all its experience in human interface design. That kind of market needs to be free of expand and find its own standards, without limitation imposed by the TCPA concepts.
:)
And don't forget that this way, "thinking different", they revamped themselves. They just can't afford to be "confused" with all the other manufacturers. They are Apple, they are always special, you buy that concept, not just their miserable processors
You must consider the context: it's the Financial Times speaking. They are not looking for the public good, they simply talk business to business-minded people.
Why businessmen choose Linux?
1 - Concern about IT spending (at least for SMEs this is the big factor).
2 - Concern about relying on a monopolist, high-price oriented company (Microsoft as much as the old proprietary Unix producers).
3 - Concern about relying on a monopolist, fixed-price oriented, *american* company...
If you read the article, you'll find these and not much more, because the FT reader doesn't want anything other (well, maybe some tits would be appreciated).
... Apple should give a try to this "BluePod" concept before burying itself under the "portable video" idea. I mean, nobody really ever wanted video-capable cellphones (ready from almost 5 years) basically because watching coloured stuff moving on a oh-so-small screen isn't exactly a great experience. A video-iPod wouldn't be different.
Apple is great in "thinking different", opening new markets. The "TabletPC" or "portable video" concepts are old things that no one still proved profitable.
Might I suggest that anyone stupid enough to give Icann $50,000 with the nothing in return but a 'we'll think about it' from a notoriously unaccountable organisation
You're missing the point: Icann has wrote on the wall its "will swallow for money". Basically, it's the announcement of what many people was thinking from the start: the only way you can support your interests and ideas inside ICANN is paying. Someone could say it's "corruption". Now this is going to be the official way of dealing with ICANN.
If OSX really is the "killerapp" everyone thinks it is, and the Mac userbase is going to grow, we'll se more and more shitty software ported to it... will hardcore Apple users be happy of this? :)
The amount of paper wasted by magazines and newspapers in the 20th century was enormous. Still, without Gutenberg's revolution you would probably still think the earth is a plate. To be pure is impossible: we're just humans.
Probably, the "wellers" are more rumorous ;)
Fact is, The Well was full of writers and journalists and media-gurus-to-be.
From this POV, it was probably the first community recognized as such by the official culture establishment.
Ask Titanium owners what it means to have a wireless device built deep into a metal-case pc... obviously the signal is less powerful and reliable. So who really wants a good wi-fi net will buy other hardware anyway.
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802.11 isn't ethernet
Well, ask Microsoft. They have the last word on which of their files is *really* good.
If you try to act as "MD5 certification authority" for Windows without asking them, they will probably (and reasonably, after all) complain.
(btw, I'm very happy the FS community is doing something smart to improve security standards)