Why does this nonsense keep coming up (and worse yet, get modded up)? Programming is one of the best paid professions in India. Things cost on average 8 times less here than in the US (its called "purchasing power parity".) So on an average programmer's salary of Rs. 40,000 per month you can live very comfortably.
Why does the link for Chennai go to some stupid commercial site (which is already slashdotted)? A much better place learn about the city is the wikipedia entry for Chennai
Sorry, but Qt bindings are available in a lot of languages. Probably less than Gtk, but "with GTK you get a choice, QT you only get C++" is far from true.
And it does matter. The Gtk and Qt event loops aren't compatible (don't know the exact details since I haven't used Qt), so it isn't a trivial matter to take a Gtk program and make it use Qt. On the other hand, the differences aren't irreconcilable (attested to by the existence of WxWindows etc.) so maybe it isn't such a big deal.
A significant proportion (I've heard estimates of 98%) of the matter that you consist of right now wasn't part of you this time last year.
Possibly, but I'm not sure what that would mean. At the lowest level, if all of your hydrogen atoms are replaced over time by other hydrogen atoms, you still remain exactly what you were.
I'm not going to argue about that, but just point out that it is a very strong statement, and that most people would disagree with you. Anyone who believes in the non-triviality of human consciousness must also believe that there is a notion of identity of humans which is more fundamental than that of a ship. I am myself undecided on the issue, and tend to deemphasize human consciousness, "self-awareness" etc.
This becomes even more obvious when you consider that replacing elementary particles is a no-op.
The guy who wrote it, Tirthaji, was a fraud. Every word and every claim in the book reg. the history is fabrication. The math is also pure junk and utterly useless.
Seriously. I did a term paper on it last year. You don't have to take my word, of course: read this article by Prof. S. G. Dani, School of Mathematics, Tata Inst. of Fundamental research (the premier research inst. in India.) There's also a much more detailed version.
Unfortuntely, the book fits the political ideology of the current Hindu-fascist government in power in India, and so they've been promoting it big time.
I see they're going to implement native widgets (as an option). While the cross-platform UI is great in terms of minimizing coding effort, I always found the "users want a standard look across platforms" argument a little ridiculous.
This is more than a cosmetic issue. Mozilla has the OK and cancel buttons in dialog boxes in the "wrong order" compared to the rest of my desktop, and so I frequently find myself hitting the wrong button by reflex. I also run into bugs in the mozilla widgets all the time. Try middle-clicking on the scroll bar of a textarea widget (under X): its supposed to absolute-reposition the scrollbar; it does that, but in addition pastes the clipboard into the textarea! Another benefit of native widgets would be to decrease memory usage, since the widget libs in memory would be shared.
Apparently one of the nonprofits they are partnering with is wikipedia. It isn't mentioned in the NY times story, but some other news sites talk about it. I think that makes a lot of sense.
Yahoo mail throws some huge animated ads at you. Mozilla blocks them for me of course, but the average person suffers them. If google can combine targeted text advertising with email (like by analyzing the content of the email) then maybe they can offer some serious competition. The article hints at something like that.
I remember reading about a year ago on one of the google related stories here on slashdot, that the reason google has been very successful is that they've done one thing and done it well, rather than trying to be a portal and integrate everything. Specifically, one poster said that if google ever offered an email service (and implying that that's an unlikely possibility) he'd ditch google for searching and google would soon degenerate into just another website with a Dubious Business Model. Follow up posters agreed with that comment. So, the time has come now. I ask the people who felt that way last year, are you sticking to your decision/analysis? If not, what has changed?
IMHO, the rant doesn't say anything new. We all know SMTP is fundamentally broken; a permanent solution to spam would require discarding or significantly modifying it. And defending an economic model doesn't mean justifying the ethics of it. Eolas has a sound money making scheme, does that mean we like them?
The email system (and bandwidth on the internet in general) is sort of like communism. Things are fine if everyone behaves themselves and respects others' rights etc. It can work well for small communities. But obviously humans are greedy. So when the internet grows big you get into all these problems. Laws make the problem worse, because if you outlaw an economically sound model you start seeing the totalitarian side of communism.
Could we have designed a mail protocol which cannot be abused in this way? Sure: mails are kept on a server for which the sender pays until the receiver decides whether or not to view it (or a timeout elapses). Just the reverse of SMTP. I won't go into the details, it has been discussed at length on/. before. But is it practically feasible at this stage to switch to such a system? That's an entirely different question.
True diversity, Charney said, would require thousands of different operating systems, which would make integrating computer systems and networks virtually impossible.
But this is exactly what open source buys you! The diversity of thousands of operating systems. Several distros, several versions of each, custom configurations, choices in every application space... put all these together and you increase diversity a thousandfold. Easily. There's really a powerful analogy between open source and biological structures, because the code is out there in the wild. Splitting, mutating, recombining. Forking, patching, merging. No two systems are exactly alike. A software ecosystem. Enormous complexity and diversity, enormous robustness and strength, extremely high rate of progress. Linus often makes analogies to evolution when explaining kernel hacking. That's no coincidence.
Diversity != incompatibility. One standard, many implementations. What the M$ guy says is pure FUD.
They seem to have changed it since the last time they saw it. The earlier version said "We are really going to get you fired!" or something like that with a NSFW picture. Now it shows you a different picture every time. The one I was talking about is still there, you'll have to reload a few times.
Note that opera on linux identifies by default as MSIE/Windows. Also I don't know what google's "5% - other" means. Perhaps some of that is linux but not correctly identified?
Its ironic that one of the vulnerabilities is a buffer overflow.
Let me also point out...
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that work on integrating kde with OO.o is moving forward. This isn't just a look-n-feel thing, mind you, its much deeper than that. Details in the link.
Only rank beginners (say less than a couple months into chess) ever play to mate. Its obvious who's going to win long before mate happens. To continue playing is a waste of both players' time, not to mention an insult to the opponent's intelligence.
they just play out an opening move.
I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. Grandmasters do an enormous amount of research into finding new moves in openings. They don't "memorize" them. There are five volumes of the ECO chess encyclopedia, and that just covers the basics!
and whoever has the upper hand at the end takes the game
No of course they don't. This is simply false, period. Why do you think there are things called "middlegame" and "endgame"??
Its sad that because most moderators aren't chess players, anyone can write ridiculous BS and get modded up "+5, interesting".
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Why does this nonsense keep coming up (and worse yet, get modded up)? Programming is one of the best paid professions in India. Things cost on average 8 times less here than in the US (its called "purchasing power parity".) So on an average programmer's salary of Rs. 40,000 per month you can live very comfortably.
- A Chennai resident
And it does matter. The Gtk and Qt event loops aren't compatible (don't know the exact details since I haven't used Qt), so it isn't a trivial matter to take a Gtk program and make it use Qt. On the other hand, the differences aren't irreconcilable (attested to by the existence of WxWindows etc.) so maybe it isn't such a big deal.
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You're free to do whatever with your stock, of course, but the facts beg to disagree with your assessment that its bad times for red hat:
Investors Love Linux: Red Hat Stock Is Red Hot After Upbeat Earnings, Sales Report
Possibly, but I'm not sure what that would mean. At the lowest level, if all of your hydrogen atoms are replaced over time by other hydrogen atoms, you still remain exactly what you were.
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I'm not going to argue about that, but just point out that it is a very strong statement, and that most people would disagree with you. Anyone who believes in the non-triviality of human consciousness must also believe that there is a notion of identity of humans which is more fundamental than that of a ship. I am myself undecided on the issue, and tend to deemphasize human consciousness, "self-awareness" etc.
This becomes even more obvious when you consider that replacing elementary particles is a no-op.
Nope. This is a logical fallacy called the Paradox of the heap.
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The same question could be asked about this baby :)
Of course we can't yet do brain transplants, so I guess one can say its the same person as long as its the same brain.
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The guy who wrote it, Tirthaji, was a fraud. Every word and every claim in the book reg. the history is fabrication. The math is also pure junk and utterly useless.
Seriously. I did a term paper on it last year. You don't have to take my word, of course: read this article by Prof. S. G. Dani, School of Mathematics, Tata Inst. of Fundamental research (the premier research inst. in India.) There's also a much more detailed version.
Unfortuntely, the book fits the political ideology of the current Hindu-fascist government in power in India, and so they've been promoting it big time.
This is more than a cosmetic issue. Mozilla has the OK and cancel buttons in dialog boxes in the "wrong order" compared to the rest of my desktop, and so I frequently find myself hitting the wrong button by reflex. I also run into bugs in the mozilla widgets all the time. Try middle-clicking on the scroll bar of a textarea widget (under X): its supposed to absolute-reposition the scrollbar; it does that, but in addition pastes the clipboard into the textarea! Another benefit of native widgets would be to decrease memory usage, since the widget libs in memory would be shared.
Its nice they've been listening to their users.
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Apparently one of the nonprofits they are partnering with is wikipedia. It isn't mentioned in the NY times story, but some other news sites talk about it. I think that makes a lot of sense.
Else we'd be meeting all the time travelers from the future
I remember reading about a year ago on one of the google related stories here on slashdot, that the reason google has been very successful is that they've done one thing and done it well, rather than trying to be a portal and integrate everything. Specifically, one poster said that if google ever offered an email service (and implying that that's an unlikely possibility) he'd ditch google for searching and google would soon degenerate into just another website with a Dubious Business Model. Follow up posters agreed with that comment. So, the time has come now. I ask the people who felt that way last year, are you sticking to your decision/analysis? If not, what has changed?
I wonder if they've seen the proof of the impossibility of obfuscating programs?
The email system (and bandwidth on the internet in general) is sort of like communism. Things are fine if everyone behaves themselves and respects others' rights etc. It can work well for small communities. But obviously humans are greedy. So when the internet grows big you get into all these problems. Laws make the problem worse, because if you outlaw an economically sound model you start seeing the totalitarian side of communism.
Could we have designed a mail protocol which cannot be abused in this way? Sure: mails are kept on a server for which the sender pays until the receiver decides whether or not to view it (or a timeout elapses). Just the reverse of SMTP. I won't go into the details, it has been discussed at length on /. before. But is it practically feasible at this stage to switch to such a system? That's an entirely different question.
Wikipedia entry on LiveCD
Diversity != incompatibility. One standard, many implementations. What the M$ guy says is pure FUD.
s/they saw it/I saw it
They seem to have changed it since the last time they saw it. The earlier version said "We are really going to get you fired!" or something like that with a NSFW picture. Now it shows you a different picture every time. The one I was talking about is still there, you'll have to reload a few times.
But that was OK, they didn't show the nipple.
They didn't, but you can see it here.
Note that opera on linux identifies by default as MSIE/Windows. Also I don't know what google's "5% - other" means. Perhaps some of that is linux but not correctly identified?
Its ironic that one of the vulnerabilities is a buffer overflow.
that work on integrating kde with OO.o is moving forward. This isn't just a look-n-feel thing, mind you, its much deeper than that. Details in the link.
No, but you can find a mate.
GMs don't even play to mate anymore
Only rank beginners (say less than a couple months into chess) ever play to mate. Its obvious who's going to win long before mate happens. To continue playing is a waste of both players' time, not to mention an insult to the opponent's intelligence.
they just play out an opening move .
I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. Grandmasters do an enormous amount of research into finding new moves in openings. They don't "memorize" them. There are five volumes of the ECO chess encyclopedia, and that just covers the basics!
and whoever has the upper hand at the end takes the game
No of course they don't. This is simply false, period. Why do you think there are things called "middlegame" and "endgame"??
Its sad that because most moderators aren't chess players, anyone can write ridiculous BS and get modded up "+5, interesting".