I am using FF/TB but why is every tiny update or new version candidate worth a seperate news article? Why should anyone care when people do not even know what the difference to the previous tiny update or release candidate is? Why not save your breath/bits for the time when the actual release is there?
Employers who think they should be able to tell their employees how to dress deserve the back-bone-less insecure incompetent little shits they will get. If you let somebody else decide what your wear you haven't made the step that others made when growing up from the time their parents told them.
And those insecure little shits are usually those who also have the nerve to complain about other people's clothes.
While it does not explicitly state the ID will be taught, there are several hints that this will indeed be the case and given the history of what already *has* been decided there, it would just be a consistent decision. "In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena." sounds scary, but I agree that it would be interesting to see the actually whole text of what has been decided there.
That statement is simply false when it is supposed to mean "intelligent design". Intelligent design is an attempt to disguise creationism in scientific way to those who do not know what science and the scientific method really mean. ID is not science, it does not even have a proper scientifc thesis.
Yes, showing problems with evolution (or any other scientific theory) would be a good thing to teach in school. It would be something that is obligatory would the school actually teach students what science is all about.
But teaching ID will just help to actually mislead about what science is. ID is not any more science than all the other creationist babble.
I do not know whether school in Kansas actually ever did teach science, but including ID will definitely make this task impossible.
The main problem with "intelligent design" is that it comes disguised as science while violating most requirements for a scientific field of study. So teaching ID at schools essentially means misleadings students about what science is really about. Teaching ID is another step towards a scholl that teaches belief systems, not scientifically established theories or facts. This kind of teaching will establish the impression among students that it does not really matter how you come to conclusions, that the only thing that counts is ones's believe or faith that something is true.
That is only one step from what happens in religious schools like we knew from Taleban Afghanistan: that only one faith is the real true one.
Kansas makes a democratic decision about teaching themselves back into the middle age. As somebody not living there I don't really care. Except that I am sure that this kind of ignorance and stupidity can occur everywhere on this planet, not just in Kansas. And that thought is indeed scary.
The biggest problem with Linux, which *might* be related to licensing issues are hardware drivers. Companies do not provide hardware drivers and this will become more and more of a problem, because increasingly, the internals of hardware will be protected by patents, copyright laws and licenses so that third party drivers are either impossible or illegal.
The question is: why do hardware vendors not provide drivers for Linux? My assumption is that this is not *only* because of a small market share of Linux. It is also because it is very hard to provide closed-source proprietary drivers. I am not sure what the legal issues are, but I suspect that the GPL prevents this to a large extend (depending on where in the system the driver would have to be included). This becomes an even bigger problem with stuff like DRM -- there is no way how Linux will be able to play music or movies (especially HDTV movies) in the future unless there is a way to get DRM and proprietary ways to protect content into to the OS. But as it looks, there is no way to do this which is compatible with the GPL.
For me personally all this does not matter really because I use my OS for different things. But for a large part of the consumer market ink printers, USB devices etc. have to work on their computer and they expect to be able to view their DVDs with it -- legally. I am not sure if it is possible to come up with a way to do this that is compatible with the GPL, but I must say I have a bad feeling about it.
Wow, a single lonely hero sacrificing everything in trying to save the lives of hundreds of passangers while all other involved parties, including his former company, the Airbus consortium, the Austrian government, the Austrian courts, several experts and probably a lot of others just do everything to cover this up to kill their future customers as soon as possible. He is obviously the only person on the planet who is right here and all others are either wrong or even part of the huge conspiracy.
but I would prefer to hear that they finally come up with a Laptop that *fully* and *flawlessly* works with Linux, and a pre-installed Linux distro that fully and flawlessly supports all the hardware (ACPM, drivers for operating the WLAN with WEP encryption, all the function keys work as intended, legal and working software for playing DVDs and music, etc). *That* would be news that would really wake me up.
As long as there is a market for selling copy protected CDs, companies will do that. If people are dumb enough to let companies impose all those restrictions on them and still buy the crap, complain to the idiots who do that. This is not much different to why you do not get a decent tasting apple in any supermarket: people will buy the nice looking, crappy tasting ones and that is why the do not sell anything else.
Apart from the fact that one needs a lot of elictricity to get tat wonderful "fuel" hydrogen and that electricity has to come from somewhere, it is bullshit that the burning does not produce "any harmful emittents": since hydrogen flames are very hot, quite a lot of NOx is produced and if the water is not distilled/deionized but ordinary tap water, chances are that electrolysis will set free the chlorine that is present in some of the often naturally occuring chlorides and also in some of the substances sometimes added articifially to preserve the water.
that many who are enthusiastic about the speed and ease of Dvorak layouts simply make that experience because they actually *did make* and effort to learn proper typing with that layout, but probably never made a similar effort with QWERTY.
Without knowing the study in detail it is exremely difficult to comment, but from what I could read in the news article, there could be a crucial and severe flaw in the study: simply counting vulnerabilites won't tell anything about how critical they are, how easy they can be exploited etc. With opensource apps there is a tendency that many vulnerabilities get reported which are low risk while the number of real vulnerabilites in closed source systems is probably only known to core developers and a few hackers, who won't tell us.
unless I absolutely have to stay there. These people come from countries that have much bigger problems. I come from a central European country that has less violence, less cameras, and most importantly, less idiotic paranoia. Because making use of people's paranoia is really what all this is about. And if you are really concerned about crime, fight the causes fir the crimes, not the symptoms.
No - I do not want to put myself into a high-security jail for the small chance of a criminal getting caught in the rare case that I could become the victim of a criminal. And I'd rather see the money spent to remove the cause of the crimes instead of curing the symptoms in such an inhumane way.
Last time I travelled there I hated it - cameras everywhere, warnings about 24 hour surveillance everywhere, signs and warnings about what you are or are not allowed to do everywhere. If they enjoy that, ok, but for me it was terrible. Wouldn't want to live in a country like that.
This article is nothing more than an attempt to get a free ad for corporate software that only runs on MS. Visualization of multidimensional data is nothing new at all - especially not for that money. There are hundreds of software products out there with similar non-existing innovation level - will we get similar crap ads for those too?
We really had enough of it already. For more than 50 years these people keep telling us that the breakthrough is just around the corner. They still have got nothing except a lot of hitech-waste and many many articles in popular science magazines. This has cost billions of dollars. Invest the same money into researching renewable energies and feasable alternatives to oil and you will be more successful. The "dream" of fusion energy is an now an anachronism from the times where people thought everything was solvable by hightech and big machines. Stop the madness - it already had been going on for too long.
They should make this offer in Europe too - it seems the number of people using Linux is even bigger here. I also think it is a shame that self-pronounced Linux supporter IBM still does not do this and still only offers (even "recommends") Microsoft products for their laptops (though I am running various versions of Suse Linux on various IBM Thinkpads now for years). It is really about time that hardware vendors stop forcing us to buy something that at least some will only throw away and replace by something else.
Thank you for your posts - they are clear and informative. What puzzles me most is the huge support of swpats by the comission, or rather the technocrats who are responsible for what is going on there. I would have thought that it is a reflection of the majority of conservative and neo-liberal governments, but even Germany is pro - how can the pro swpat lobbying be that effective? It seems to be so obvious that the only way for EU to compete is exactly to find an alternative to the monopolist (like they did many years ago when they broke the Boeing monopoly with the Airbus consortium.
That Linux is more costly to support is a myth that is often repeated but not getting more true by repeating. In all the cases I have been involved with Linux has been much cheaper and much more easy to support. Where does this myth come from?
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I am using FF/TB but why is every tiny update or new version candidate worth a seperate news article? Why should anyone care when people do not even know what the difference to the previous tiny update or release candidate is? Why not save your breath/bits for the time when the actual release is there?
Ad-supported or money-supported, I won't use Windows, thanks.
Employers who think they should be able to tell their employees how to dress deserve the back-bone-less insecure incompetent little shits they will get. If you let somebody else decide what your wear you haven't made the step that others made when growing up from the time their parents told them.
And those insecure little shits are usually those who also have the nerve to complain about other people's clothes.
While it does not explicitly state the ID will be taught, there are several hints that this will indeed be the case and given the history of what already *has* been decided there, it would just be a consistent decision.
"In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena." sounds scary, but I agree that it would be interesting to see the actually whole text of what has been decided there.
That statement is simply false when it is supposed to mean "intelligent design". Intelligent design is an attempt to disguise creationism in scientific way to those who do not know what science and the scientific method really mean. ID is not science, it does not even have a proper scientifc thesis.
Yes, showing problems with evolution (or any other scientific theory) would be a good thing to teach in school. It would be something that is obligatory would the school actually teach students what science is all about.
But teaching ID will just help to actually mislead about what science is. ID is not any more science than all the other creationist babble.
I do not know whether school in Kansas actually ever did teach science, but including ID will definitely make this task impossible.
The main problem with "intelligent design" is that it comes disguised as science while violating most requirements for a scientific field of study. So teaching ID at schools essentially means misleadings students about what science is really about. Teaching ID is another step towards a scholl that teaches belief systems, not scientifically established theories or facts. This kind of teaching will establish the impression among students that it does not really matter how you come to conclusions, that the only thing that counts is ones's believe or faith that something is true.
That is only one step from what happens in religious schools like we knew from Taleban Afghanistan: that only one faith is the real true one.
Kansas makes a democratic decision about teaching themselves back into the middle age. As somebody not living there I don't really care. Except that I am sure that this kind of ignorance and stupidity can occur everywhere on this planet, not just in Kansas.
And that thought is indeed scary.
The biggest problem with Linux, which *might* be related to licensing issues are hardware drivers. Companies do not provide hardware drivers and this will become more and more of a problem, because increasingly, the internals of hardware will be protected by patents, copyright laws and licenses so that third party drivers are either impossible or illegal.
The question is: why do hardware vendors not provide drivers for Linux? My assumption is that this is not *only* because of a small market share of Linux. It is also because it is very hard to provide closed-source proprietary drivers. I am not sure what the legal issues are, but I suspect that the GPL prevents this to a large extend (depending on where in the system the driver would have to be included). This becomes an even bigger problem with stuff like DRM -- there is no way how Linux will be able to play music or movies (especially HDTV movies) in the future unless there is a way to get DRM and proprietary ways to protect content into to the OS. But as it looks, there is no way to do this which is compatible with the GPL.
For me personally all this does not matter really because I use my OS for different things. But for a large part of the consumer market ink printers, USB devices etc. have to work on their computer and they expect to be able to view their DVDs with it -- legally. I am not sure if it is possible to come up with a way to do this that is compatible with the GPL, but I must say I have a bad feeling about it.
Wow, a single lonely hero sacrificing everything in trying to save the lives of hundreds of passangers while all other involved parties, including his former company, the Airbus consortium, the Austrian government, the Austrian courts, several experts and probably a lot of others just do everything to cover this up to kill their future customers as soon as possible. He is obviously the only person on the planet who is right here and all others are either wrong or even part of the huge conspiracy.
but I would prefer to hear that they finally come up with a Laptop that *fully* and *flawlessly* works with Linux, and a pre-installed Linux distro that fully and flawlessly supports all the hardware (ACPM, drivers for operating the WLAN with WEP encryption, all the function keys work as intended, legal and working software for playing DVDs and music, etc). *That* would be news that would really wake me up.
As long as there is a market for selling copy protected CDs, companies will do that. If people are dumb enough to let companies impose all those restrictions on them and still buy the crap, complain to the idiots who do that. This is not much different to why you do not get a decent tasting apple in any supermarket: people will buy the nice looking, crappy tasting ones and that is why the do not sell anything else.
The article (both the ./ and the original one) are nothing more than an ad.
Who actually wants this here?
Apart from the fact that one needs a lot of elictricity to get tat wonderful "fuel" hydrogen and that electricity has to come from somewhere, it is bullshit that the burning does not produce "any harmful emittents": since hydrogen flames are very hot, quite a lot of NOx is produced and if the water is not distilled/deionized but ordinary tap water, chances are that electrolysis will set free the chlorine that is present in some of the often naturally occuring chlorides and also in some of the substances sometimes added articifially to preserve the water.
that many who are enthusiastic about the speed and ease of Dvorak layouts simply make that experience because they actually *did make* and effort to learn proper typing with that layout, but probably never made a similar effort with QWERTY.
obligatory link on the topic.
Without knowing the study in detail it is exremely difficult to comment, but from what I could read in the news article, there could be a crucial and severe flaw in the study: simply counting vulnerabilites won't tell anything about how critical they are, how easy they can be exploited etc. With opensource apps there is a tendency that many vulnerabilities get reported which are low risk while the number of real vulnerabilites in closed source systems is probably only known to core developers and a few hackers, who won't tell us.
Actually, it does not infer anything about the non-windows/mac versions, but nevermind.
Read comment 158 in that bug description.
unless I absolutely have to stay there. These people come from countries that have much bigger problems. I come from a central European country that has less violence, less cameras, and most importantly, less idiotic paranoia. Because making use of people's paranoia is really what all this is about. And if you are really concerned about crime, fight the causes fir the crimes, not the symptoms.
No - I do not want to put myself into a high-security jail for the small chance of a criminal getting caught in the rare case that I could become the victim of a criminal. And I'd rather see the money spent to remove the cause of the crimes instead of curing the symptoms in such an inhumane way.
Last time I travelled there I hated it - cameras everywhere, warnings about 24 hour surveillance everywhere, signs and warnings about what you are or are not allowed to do everywhere. If they enjoy that, ok, but for me it was terrible. Wouldn't want to live in a country like that.
This article is nothing more than an attempt to get a free ad for corporate software that only runs on MS. Visualization of multidimensional data is nothing new at all - especially not for that money. There are hundreds of software products out there with similar non-existing innovation level - will we get similar crap ads for those too?
We really had enough of it already. For more than 50 years these people keep telling us that the breakthrough is just around the corner. They still have got nothing except a lot of hitech-waste and many many articles in popular science magazines. This has cost billions of dollars. Invest the same money into researching renewable energies and feasable alternatives to oil and you will be more successful. The "dream" of fusion energy is an now an anachronism from the times where people thought everything was solvable by hightech and big machines. Stop the madness - it already had been going on for too long.
They should make this offer in Europe too - it seems the number of people using Linux is even bigger here. I also think it is a shame that self-pronounced Linux supporter IBM still does not do this and still only offers (even "recommends") Microsoft products for their laptops (though I am running various versions of Suse Linux on various IBM Thinkpads now for years). It is really about time that hardware vendors stop forcing us to buy something that at least some will only throw away and replace by something else.
Thank you for your posts - they are clear and informative. What puzzles me most is the huge support of swpats by the comission, or rather the technocrats who are responsible for what is going on there. I would have thought that it is a reflection of the majority of conservative and neo-liberal governments, but even Germany is pro - how can the pro swpat lobbying be that effective? It seems to be so obvious that the only way for EU to compete is exactly to find an alternative to the monopolist (like they did many years ago when they broke the Boeing monopoly with the Airbus consortium.
That Linux is more costly to support is a myth that is often repeated but not getting more true by repeating. In all the cases I have been involved with Linux has been much cheaper and much more easy to support. Where does this myth come from?