The parent post was not off topic! Did the stupid moderator even read the article?
"There is also evidence that counterfeiting and piracy are becoming more and more linked to organised crime and terrorist activities because of the high profits and, so far, the relatively low risks of discovery and punishment," the Commission said in a statement.
Also, your history is right for general purposes, but FreeBSD is not exactly a direct descendent of 4.4BSD. It was originally based on 4.3BSD Lite aka Net/2, then later 4.4 Lite (because of legal problems with 4.3 Lite), which was stripped of USL (by then owned by Novell instead of AT&T) code that couldn't be distributed for legal reasons. Again, most (all?) vendors have gone to SVR4-derived OSes which of course did merge several of the BSD extensions into System V. But my point is still that they moved on.
And what did you expect it to cling to? Traditional VMS? Don't forget that FreeBSD IS UNIX. FreeBSD is a direct descendent of the code from the original 4.4BSD. THIS IS UNIX. Love it or leave it.
That's exactly the problem, clinging, the "THIS IS UNIX" attitude. I think most of it is nostalgia.
Traditional Unix is an anachronism. It's stale. Most commercial vendors left BSD behind in the 80s for System V, POSIX,... HP/UX, AIX, IRIX, Xenix/SCO and Solaris are all svr4 based. Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie both moved on from BSD to Plan 9. Bill Joy works for Sun.
Personally I'm looking forward to more interesting stuff like GNU Hurd. There's a whole world of OS development out there and it's not monolithic 1980s BSD.
Yes, ideally you would use the packages instead of the port system unless you have to set compile time options. I just thought emphasizing ports except for extremely technical users was a bad idea, but that is always one of the things touted by FreeBSDers.
I think forklifts might not have the same size and weight constraints as laptops:). Aren't they lead acid? Also, forklift batteries probably cost more than most laptops.
Oh yeah, and the ports system is overrated. I don't want to compile all that stuff. It's kind of a Rube Goldberg thing; just too much going on there. I don't know how a user who wasn't knowledgable about building software could deal with it. BSD init is an anachronism. FreeBSD clings too much to traditional Unix.
I agree that FreeBSD is technically very solid/stable and Linux is too experimental. It's not just the Linux kernel that's experimental either -- building the libraries to support a new version of something can be hell. Some Linux distributions have helped with this. With FreeBSD there is only one distribution, take it or leave it.
I thought FreeBSD was extremely primitive to use compared to Linux. It was like being stuck in a 1980s time warp. It's too server-oriented for what I'm looking for at home and a lot of the BSDness just seems quirky as hell to me.
I find that a lot of low performing code is just shit code, not that it's overly abstract. And I'm not leaving myself out, I've written shit code once or twice.
Have you tried using mock objects? If that's not a familiar term, it just means you create some kind of stub object to test with instead of a real database. Depending on an infrastructure for unit testing can be a pain. Been there, done that, got the database is down t-shirt.
Haven't you noticed that a ton of Linux programs are always "under development" and partially functioning? Linux has a half dozen or more crappy half-working video players. Currently I am using mplayer and that seems to have the best all around support, though apparently not for layer 1 audio (let me know if there's a way to do it). I had to build mplayer from CVS and do some goofy non user-friendly stuff to get support for other codecs (move a directory from ffmpeg, that is just goofy). At one point you had to build part of Wine for the Sorenson codec.
Jamie said what he tried and what he didn't like, which is a lot more than you've offered (a childish write-off with no counter argument).
Yes he's inflammatory but it's his own damned web page, not Linux Video Review Monthly. Maybe you could post what you recommend instead of inane flames next time.
Reading the license plate into an electronic format is much less reliable. I don't know of any system that does it now. I think speed traps are just photographic and don't interpret the image.
An OCR vision system would have to understand plate variations and deal with very difficult lighting conditions. A plate may be obscured or dirty. It would be much harder to conceal a license plate reader. The technology does exist, however. I imagine it is too expensive to deploy. RFID scanners under the pavement would be much cheaper.
Anyway, in my mind there is just a certain principle being violated here.
If implementing technology like this can save one life, I say go for it!
I don't think there's a significant risk of something like that happening. I think there's a big risk of RFIDs used to surreptitiously invade my privacy. I don't want my personal possessions "tracked" for any reason whatsoever, period, end of story.
I've never heard of EuroSETI before today. I don't think it's reputable like SETI.
2. SOHO takes pictures of the Sun and presumably is specially instrumented for this purpose. Does that mean that UFOs are flaming balls of fire?
III. UFO just means that, unidentified flying object. It's too bad it has come to mean something else in the vernacular. I have unidentified stuff in my fridge. How can this unidentified object be flying in space? Doesn't something have to be in an atmosphere to fly, or do we say that asteroids "fly" now?
How many keystrokes on the RPN calculator to do
e^((4+2)/7!) and then e^((4+3)/7!)?
On an algebraic, you would just edit the line. On the RPN you have to reenter the whole thing (unless you are some kind of ROT / PICK/SWAP whiz kid).
I think RPN is cool and I have two HPs, but I never use them.
-Kevin
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I think editors should delete troll posts.
The moderated boards I read have higher signal/noise than slashdot. I think a lot of intelligent people are gone or don't participate in the dicussions here. Slashdot point moderation does not work very well.
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"There is also evidence that counterfeiting and piracy are becoming more and more linked to organised crime and terrorist activities because of the high profits and, so far, the relatively low risks of discovery and punishment," the Commission said in a statement.
-Kevin
-Kevin
That's exactly the problem, clinging, the "THIS IS UNIX" attitude. I think most of it is nostalgia.
Traditional Unix is an anachronism. It's stale. Most commercial vendors left BSD behind in the 80s for System V, POSIX, ... HP/UX, AIX, IRIX, Xenix/SCO and Solaris are all svr4 based. Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie both moved on from BSD to Plan 9. Bill Joy works for Sun.
Personally I'm looking forward to more interesting stuff like GNU Hurd. There's a whole world of OS development out there and it's not monolithic 1980s BSD.
-Kevin
-Kevin
-Kevin
-Kevin
I agree that FreeBSD is technically very solid/stable and Linux is too experimental. It's not just the Linux kernel that's experimental either -- building the libraries to support a new version of something can be hell. Some Linux distributions have helped with this. With FreeBSD there is only one distribution, take it or leave it.
-Kevin
-Kevin
-Kevin
-Kevin
Uh, modern OO principles/agile development/XP/Martin Fowler?
-Kevin
XP is not meant to be applied by good developers.
If the code is well written, there's few need for writing tests
Ha ha ha.
-Kevin
-Kevin
-Kevin
Okay, possibly the humans who made this didn't use planks and strings.
-Kevin
Jamie said what he tried and what he didn't like, which is a lot more than you've offered (a childish write-off with no counter argument). Yes he's inflammatory but it's his own damned web page, not Linux Video Review Monthly. Maybe you could post what you recommend instead of inane flames next time.
-Kevin
An OCR vision system would have to understand plate variations and deal with very difficult lighting conditions. A plate may be obscured or dirty. It would be much harder to conceal a license plate reader. The technology does exist, however. I imagine it is too expensive to deploy. RFID scanners under the pavement would be much cheaper.
Anyway, in my mind there is just a certain principle being violated here.
-Kevin
I don't think there's a significant risk of something like that happening. I think there's a big risk of RFIDs used to surreptitiously invade my privacy. I don't want my personal possessions "tracked" for any reason whatsoever, period, end of story.
-Kevin
10 digits can represent 10 billion phone numbers.
There was an article on area code allocation not too long ago that talked about this problem.
2. SOHO takes pictures of the Sun and presumably is specially instrumented for this purpose. Does that mean that UFOs are flaming balls of fire?
III. UFO just means that, unidentified flying object. It's too bad it has come to mean something else in the vernacular. I have unidentified stuff in my fridge. How can this unidentified object be flying in space? Doesn't something have to be in an atmosphere to fly, or do we say that asteroids "fly" now?
Why is this even taken seriously?
-Kevin
-Kevin
On an algebraic, you would just edit the line. On the RPN you have to reenter the whole thing (unless you are some kind of ROT / PICK /SWAP whiz kid).
I think RPN is cool and I have two HPs, but I never use them.
-Kevin
The moderated boards I read have higher signal/noise than slashdot. I think a lot of intelligent people are gone or don't participate in the dicussions here. Slashdot point moderation does not work very well.
-Kevin
Not that I'd ever buy a Quantum drive, but hey.
-Kevin
-Kevin