Is this the kind of stability the FOSSies offered as an "alternative" to Microsoft Office? I'm willing to bet MS Office will outlive OO.o by quite a longshot.
p>It looks like the Team OpenOffice, e.V. guys are publishing alarmist material in order to raise money. That is a standard fundraising technique. What about the children, the baby seals, the environment? Who will save them now that the big bad oil companies/loggers/tech corporations that are out to get them. Send money now or the kitten dies.
Children, baby seals, the environment and kittens do not believe in freedom. They take your freedoms away from you. Bad kitty.
As someone who lives in Japan, that doesn't surprise me one bit. MOST Japanese people are extremely honest, they may borrom your umbrella from the stand at the convenience store if it's pouring out but they'll return it on the next day.
And if they borrow your umbrella when it's raining, what are you supposed to use? That does not sound "extremely honest" to me. An honest person would 1)ask before borrowing and 2) if given permission, always return it.
Does that mean I should shut up and not point out deficiencies in hopes that someone will fix them?
- If you don't use the software, we'll never know if it really works at all.
- If you don't submit bug reports, they may never know it's broken.
- If you can contribute code or a suggestion as to what the problem is or what a fix might be, that's even better.
- If it's critical for you and so you have developed a fix and are willing to share, that's better still.
The beauty of FOSS is that you have a wide range of opportunities to participate in making the code better from being an enthusiastic user to becoming a member of the dev team. While I am not a coder, I am a technical writer and have contributed to the documentation of several FOSS projects, I have submitted bug reports and have supported some projects with cash donations.
The beauty of the freedom of speech is that you can bitch and complain about anything you want and the rest of us are free to ignore you as we see fit.
This however is one of those situations where there is no doubt what so ever that rather than just whining about it, he could have done something useful about it. The drivers aren't THAT complex in the first place. If he is so confident that it has these problems then surely he has documented when they occur as proof, which means fixing them should be fairly trivial as well.
So the kernel devs get bug reports for the VirtualBox driver?
Just forward the bug reports upstream to the VirtualBox devs. How hard is it to write a script to do that?
And if they don't get bug reports, how will they know their stuff is broken?
But in the end, I quit just like I did with Facebook a year ago. Social Networking is fucking boring when the people being the most social are retards.
You are being too kind to many of them and too harsh on the truly retarded.
I was annoyed when they took away the +Hoyt option from my gmail.com interface and moved it to google.com.
And how to use some of the features is not obvious, at least to me.
A friend has commented that it appears to him that G+ is populated by Linux users and photography enthusiasts. Perhaps G+ is better targeted to specialty communities than grandmothers and the unwashed masses.
But the deification of Jobs has begun. He will become an "iCon for the 21st Century" (even though we still have 90 more years to go and something just might happen to eclipse his contribution). People will forget that he was difficult to work for and not a particularly pleasant person to be around. They'll forget that he didn't invent the things that he became known for (the mouse, MP3 players, smart phones, etc.). Forget the bad; embellish the good.
Of course, there are the fanbois who talk about Jobs death just because it's "the thing" to do. Then there seems to be a large percentage of the population that enjoy the collective public grief experience: they have no real relationship to the deceased, but they leave flowers and pictures and hold vigils and weep and wail. Then there are those that see this as an opportunity to become "part" of something bigger that they will ever be. And then there are those, like Stallman, that see it as an opportunity to advance their own agenda.
Steve Jobs had good business and design sense, had success with a particular business model that had failed for many others (including Tandy, Yahoo and AOL) and led a creative team to achieve something notable. But he offered little, if anything, that was truly original. Even the keynote phrase of his famous Stanford speech was borrowed (with attribution from the Whole Earth Catalog).
Gave us "Better Stuff"? Certainly, but nothing new there. Nothing original to see. Move along citizen. Move along.
Essentially, when we reward for high scores (instead of focusing on improving actual learning), we get these kinds of decisions and further reinforcement of counterproductive outcomes.
The highly broken culture of education continues in a downward spiral.
I've always tried to treat my employees fairly. I treat them like thinking adults. I give them clear rules and instructions and try to give them as much authority and discretion as they can handle. I have yet had one make a mistake that could not be fixed or a mistake that was so serious the world ended; I look at mistakes as part of the learning process. I also realize that their world does not revolve around my business and I do show appreciation to them for the work they do, the service they provide my customers and the value in cooperating with and helping the other employees all get the job done together. I've had employees work for me over 20 years and some as little as 30 minutes. Some think I'm a great boss and some (like the one I had put in jail for stealing from me) think I'm an asshole and they probably all are more or less correct.
But this guy sounds like a total douchebag. And I doubt he will learn anything from this incident other than to not put things in writing.
Blame the lawyers and the French . Mandrake sounded very cool, but a lawsuit was threatened . Then they bought Connectiva. They should have bought a better name.
But LibreOffice makes them look smart by comparison.
Mod up parent. Right on the money. And the real problem with Phoronix isn't the multipage layout but the nonexistent content.
They have plenty of content: extended introductions, lots of graphs, oodles of irrelevant tests, observations on the irrelevant tests and obscure, confusing conclusions.
And the adverts ARE the content, so turn AdBlock off you thieving bastages.
Slashdot Mirror
Done in one.
Is this the kind of stability the FOSSies offered as an "alternative" to Microsoft Office? I'm willing to bet MS Office will outlive OO.o by quite a longshot.
And you can still buy brand-new buggy whips.
Your point?
p>It looks like the Team OpenOffice, e.V. guys are publishing alarmist material in order to raise money. That is a standard fundraising technique. What about the children, the baby seals, the environment? Who will save them now that the big bad oil companies/loggers/tech corporations that are out to get them. Send money now or the kitten dies.
Children, baby seals, the environment and kittens do not believe in freedom. They take your freedoms away from you. Bad kitty.
It does have a crappier name, though. Maybe if OO.o dies, The Document Foundation can use the trademark.
What's wrong with Lee Bray Office?
Mrs. Bray says her little boy stands for free dumb.
As someone who lives in Japan, that doesn't surprise me one bit. MOST Japanese people are extremely honest, they may borrom your umbrella from the stand at the convenience store if it's pouring out but they'll return it on the next day.
And if they borrow your umbrella when it's raining, what are you supposed to use? That does not sound "extremely honest" to me. An honest person would 1)ask before borrowing and 2) if given permission, always return it.
Does that mean I should shut up and not point out deficiencies in hopes that someone will fix them?
- If you don't use the software, we'll never know if it really works at all.
- If you don't submit bug reports, they may never know it's broken.
- If you can contribute code or a suggestion as to what the problem is or what a fix might be, that's even better.
- If it's critical for you and so you have developed a fix and are willing to share, that's better still.
The beauty of FOSS is that you have a wide range of opportunities to participate in making the code better from being an enthusiastic user to becoming a member of the dev team. While I am not a coder, I am a technical writer and have contributed to the documentation of several FOSS projects, I have submitted bug reports and have supported some projects with cash donations.
The beauty of the freedom of speech is that you can bitch and complain about anything you want and the rest of us are free to ignore you as we see fit.
This however is one of those situations where there is no doubt what so ever that rather than just whining about it, he could have done something useful about it. The drivers aren't THAT complex in the first place. If he is so confident that it has these problems then surely he has documented when they occur as proof, which means fixing them should be fairly trivial as well.
So the kernel devs get bug reports for the VirtualBox driver?
Just forward the bug reports upstream to the VirtualBox devs. How hard is it to write a script to do that?
And if they don't get bug reports, how will they know their stuff is broken?
A little cooperation goes a long way.
It is not possible for /. articles to be taken less seriously.
They could be re-posted on 4chan.
Get him a girlfriend.
An intelligent, hot, geek girlfriend.
Problem solved.
But in the end, I quit just like I did with Facebook a year ago. Social Networking is fucking boring when the people being the most social are retards.
You are being too kind to many of them and too harsh on the truly retarded.
I was annoyed when they took away the +Hoyt option from my gmail.com interface and moved it to google.com.
And how to use some of the features is not obvious, at least to me.
A friend has commented that it appears to him that G+ is populated by Linux users and photography enthusiasts. Perhaps G+ is better targeted to specialty communities than grandmothers and the unwashed masses.
The will call the new captive service "hipster" and it will wear skinny jeans, appeal to the clueless masses.
But the deification of Jobs has begun. He will become an "iCon for the 21st Century" (even though we still have 90 more years to go and something just might happen to eclipse his contribution). People will forget that he was difficult to work for and not a particularly pleasant person to be around. They'll forget that he didn't invent the things that he became known for (the mouse, MP3 players, smart phones, etc.). Forget the bad; embellish the good.
Of course, there are the fanbois who talk about Jobs death just because it's "the thing" to do. Then there seems to be a large percentage of the population that enjoy the collective public grief experience: they have no real relationship to the deceased, but they leave flowers and pictures and hold vigils and weep and wail. Then there are those that see this as an opportunity to become "part" of something bigger that they will ever be. And then there are those, like Stallman, that see it as an opportunity to advance their own agenda.
Steve Jobs had good business and design sense, had success with a particular business model that had failed for many others (including Tandy, Yahoo and AOL) and led a creative team to achieve something notable. But he offered little, if anything, that was truly original. Even the keynote phrase of his famous Stanford speech was borrowed (with attribution from the Whole Earth Catalog).
Gave us "Better Stuff"? Certainly, but nothing new there. Nothing original to see. Move along citizen. Move along.
I'm not exactly fan of Apple, but Richard Stallman has no merits to basically say he's glad Steve Jobs is dead.
So that's why Stallman quoted somebody to say "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone."?
English. Do you speak it? Obviously not.
So I should say your statements are the one without merits.
You might as well admit you did not RTFA.
Alfie Kohn's body of work makes good reading for a sensible approach to education based on how kids actually learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Kohn
In this instance, his book "Punished by Rewards" is required reading.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=alfie+kohn&x=0&y=0
Essentially, when we reward for high scores (instead of focusing on improving actual learning), we get these kinds of decisions and further reinforcement of counterproductive outcomes.
The highly broken culture of education continues in a downward spiral.
Anything with the word "post-apocalyptic" in it seems dated, shopworn and boring and reeks of Mel Gibson.
I've always tried to treat my employees fairly. I treat them like thinking adults. I give them clear rules and instructions and try to give them as much authority and discretion as they can handle. I have yet had one make a mistake that could not be fixed or a mistake that was so serious the world ended; I look at mistakes as part of the learning process. I also realize that their world does not revolve around my business and I do show appreciation to them for the work they do, the service they provide my customers and the value in cooperating with and helping the other employees all get the job done together. I've had employees work for me over 20 years and some as little as 30 minutes. Some think I'm a great boss and some (like the one I had put in jail for stealing from me) think I'm an asshole and they probably all are more or less correct.
But this guy sounds like a total douchebag. And I doubt he will learn anything from this incident other than to not put things in writing.
But they are French, so they will insist on direct translation of all French idioms.
I'm waiting for Firefox 23, so it will be the same version as emacs. I'm guessing it will be released around Christmas.
So long dumbass Firefox developers, I'm switching to Chrome.
I'm waiting for Firefox 23, so it will be the same version as emacs. I'm guessing it will be released around Christmas.
So long dumbass Firefox developers, I'm switching to Chrome.
Also excellent at having a gay-sounding name.
Blame the lawyers and the French . Mandrake sounded very cool, but a lawsuit was threatened . Then they bought Connectiva. They should have bought a better name.
But LibreOffice makes them look smart by comparison.
I agree. Mandriva is a very newbie-friendly, easy to install and configure distro.
PLF.zarb.org provides lots of patent-encumbered software, but there is a lot in the CONTRIB repositories.
Has great hardware detection and their sysadmin tools are very easy to use/understand.
I've used the LAMP-task RPM before and it requires minimal post-install configuration.
Mod up parent. Right on the money. And the real problem with Phoronix isn't the multipage layout but the nonexistent content.
They have plenty of content: extended introductions, lots of graphs, oodles of irrelevant tests, observations on the irrelevant tests and obscure, confusing conclusions.
And the adverts ARE the content, so turn AdBlock off you thieving bastages.
I know what a frame is, but it sounds specious to me.
You need to upgrade your graphics card. Get more frames per second.
No, you need to stop implicating other people for your own crimes.
And they want their game back.