AFAIK "tool" is a term commonly used in anthropological fields to refer to "basic" (I'm sure there's a specialized term I'm missing here;-) tools (rock, pole, hammer)?
You're either silly or a troll. The chance of infringing a license is just the same whatever license you release your software (under). If you don't use/link any third-party code you're (essentially hehe) free of any infringement. If you use then you can infringe copyright by releasing code under the public domain just right the same. If you're afraid of being ruthlessly massacrated on/. then just be very careful whose copyrights you infringe on;-)
Also, the "nv" driver is clearly _much_ slower than the proprietary one (on 2D, of course). I say TFA's argument "NVIDIA actively maintains the open source 'nv' driver" is utter bul- err, completely bogus.
And the isn't memory freed/cleaned up when you close the page? Otherwise, by this single fact the only thing you can say is __that page__ has memory leaks.
I couldn't have said it any better. Please mod it "up, and beyond";-) It'll certainly take at least some decades until someone can honestly suggest "code sharing" is hurting the industry (employments)... IT is in sure need of maturity of tools, libraries and frameworks, and the the only people who can be hurt are the people who decide to stay out of the OSS "bandwagon", if anything.
This is honestly not the experience I have with Ubuntu. Granted, I live in Brazil so I installed it on machines ranging from 6 months to 5 years old, not really the latest stuff, and I never have set up wi-fi, but all installations went very very smoothly. And I've been using (and installing and suggesting) Ubuntu since Hoary (and then Breezy, Dapper, Edgy, and some in between). Actually, I don't know why I'm arguing this (maybe because you're already modded +3?:-/ ), but Linux installation and hardware detection has been working for me much better than Windows (my employer is mainly an MS shop) for many years now. Maybe you shouldn't usually expect the very latest hardware to work out-of-the-box on Linux? It's sad this is still the state of affairs, but you know the hardware manufacturers are to blame (the most). You know it, RIGHT?;-)
PS. A user program shouldn't be able to crash the OS, no matter how badly it's written.
(and maybe convincing) but the one thing that disturbs me is that the guy is so interested in debunking the UN report that he fails to realize that the very data he "trusts" shows that only in the last 7 years the global mean temperature raised more than 30% of the whole 20th century! (and the "hockey-stick" in global mean temperature measure is the first "myth" he tries to debunk in the Telegraph).
Oracle doesn't need a Linux distro of its own, it just needs an optimized kernel and then whatever it's their application (Database, AppServer, OIS, etc) _it_ is the distro. It simply doesn't make sense to run anything alongside an Oracle fscking-memory-hog Database in the same server. That's the beauty of Linux/opensource: a commoditized OS/platform.
And what about all the "security studies" sponsored by MS in which only vulnerabilities acknowledge by the own company are counted? Isn't this another shot at making them more misleading yet?
Didn't the guy (hmm, danila... girl?!) even bother checking their advertised Verisign ID? It reports an expired account which points to a completely different site (secure.element5.com - which, BTW claims to be a "software marketing company").
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I have right now 4 tabs (2 slashdot stories, 1 image-bloated site, and this reply) open in Firefox and it's reporting 19,751KB.
Almost everyone gets scared by its initial load (about 18MB), but it just doesn't goes up a lot after it.
BTW, I never observed its memory usage under Linux, but I with my 256MB I run it with another dozen apps without any swapping, and it loads waaaay faster (about 2s! on a Duron 1.2GHz) than on Windows.
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1) In the VCL, 'Text' and and 'Caption' map to the same methods, and they both exis exist as protected fields in TControl. The difference is just for "clearance" of code.
2) In the VCL, you may change position values the whole much makes you happy inside OnCreate and it's ok. There's a lot of code inside TWinControl to insure all properties (that make sense) can be changed even when the window hasn't been created in the underlying GUI API. This is still holds true for most of CLX, but I really experiend lots of racy conditions in Kylix inside the intialization of controls.
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These glitches aren't all Borland's faults. For instance, it seems CLX runs much, much better on Windows than on Linux. IMHO Borland's worst move was to depend on Qt, instead of porting the VCL to a 'C' (not C++) toolkit. That f*cking glue library is the root of all problems. I like Qt very much and it's design looks a lot like VCL's own design, but the version of Qt available at the time - which is 2.3 and is used up today! - is leaps behind the current Qt3.2. But the glue library idea doesn't seem to facilite upgrades... Out of the technical field, Borland's change of pricing was really dumb. There _needs_ to be a basic version which costs no more than US$200; it's what moves small companies in the "accouting software" market. (oh, and that "open" edition is a fiasco)
Last: I hope Lazarus gets "ready" someday. There've been great improvementes lately!
I know I'll get -1 OT for this (so I hope there isn't karma below "bad";) but the parent post deserves more than this '2' score - and the 'Fun' modifier unless you didn't see Balmer's videos...
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You mean... they slashdotted their servers on porpuse :-P
AFAIK "tool" is a term commonly used in anthropological fields to refer to "basic" (I'm sure there's a specialized term I'm missing here ;-) tools (rock, pole, hammer)?
LOL, not at all.
You're either silly or a troll. /. then just be very careful whose copyrights you infringe on ;-)
The chance of infringing a license is just the same whatever license you release your software (under). If you don't use/link any third-party code you're (essentially hehe) free of any infringement. If you use then you can infringe copyright by releasing code under the public domain just right the same. If you're afraid of being ruthlessly massacrated on
Also, the "nv" driver is clearly _much_ slower than the proprietary one (on 2D, of course).
I say TFA's argument "NVIDIA actively maintains the open source 'nv' driver" is utter bul- err, completely bogus.
And the isn't memory freed/cleaned up when you close the page? Otherwise, by this single fact the only thing you can say is __that page__ has memory leaks.
I guess you didn't search very well, or else you would have found cvsnt, which was "a better cvs than cvs" way before svn ever existed.
Here:
http://cvsnt.org/wiki or http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/
I couldn't have said it any better. Please mod it "up, and beyond" ;-)
It'll certainly take at least some decades until someone can honestly suggest "code sharing" is hurting the industry (employments)... IT is in sure need of maturity of tools, libraries and frameworks, and the the only people who can be hurt are the people who decide to stay out of the OSS "bandwagon", if anything.
Maybe because it's much more relevant in Linux, since in Windows and Mac there are more alternatives and more polished alternatives...
I can't help thinking about the number of trolls "squirting" goatse and tubbygirl all around...
Time for someone to set up a BlueFrog-like site/company in the UK? ;-)
This is honestly not the experience I have with Ubuntu. Granted, I live in Brazil so I installed it on machines ranging from 6 months to 5 years old, not really the latest stuff, and I never have set up wi-fi, but all installations went very very smoothly. And I've been using (and installing and suggesting) Ubuntu since Hoary (and then Breezy, Dapper, Edgy, and some in between). :-/ ), but Linux installation and hardware detection has been working for me much better than Windows (my employer is mainly an MS shop) for many years now. ;-)
Actually, I don't know why I'm arguing this (maybe because you're already modded +3?
Maybe you shouldn't usually expect the very latest hardware to work out-of-the-box on Linux? It's sad this is still the state of affairs, but you know the hardware manufacturers are to blame (the most). You know it, RIGHT?
PS. A user program shouldn't be able to crash the OS, no matter how badly it's written.
(and maybe convincing) but the one thing that disturbs me is that the guy is so interested in debunking the UN report that he fails to realize that the very data he "trusts" shows that only in the last 7 years the global mean temperature raised more than 30% of the whole 20th century! (and the "hockey-stick" in global mean temperature measure is the first "myth" he tries to debunk in the Telegraph).
Except that these number are for monthly income...
> -obvious or prior-art patents are routinely granted, and the examiners' incentives encourage this
;-)
The solution is obvious! Invert the thing and give examiners bonuses for each patent they turn down!
Oracle doesn't need a Linux distro of its own, it just needs an optimized kernel and then whatever it's their application (Database, AppServer, OIS, etc) _it_ is the distro. It simply doesn't make sense to run anything alongside an Oracle fscking-memory-hog Database in the same server.
That's the beauty of Linux/opensource: a commoditized OS/platform.
And what about all the "security studies" sponsored by MS in which only vulnerabilities acknowledge by the own company are counted? Isn't this another shot at making them more misleading yet?
Didn't the guy (hmm, danila... girl?!) even bother checking their advertised Verisign ID? It reports an expired account which points to a completely different site (secure.element5.com - which, BTW claims to be a "software marketing company").
Why doesn't anyone in /. ever link to BookPool?
I have right now 4 tabs (2 slashdot stories, 1 image-bloated site, and this reply) open in Firefox and it's reporting 19,751KB. Almost everyone gets scared by its initial load (about 18MB), but it just doesn't goes up a lot after it. BTW, I never observed its memory usage under Linux, but I with my 256MB I run it with another dozen apps without any swapping, and it loads waaaay faster (about 2s! on a Duron 1.2GHz) than on Windows.
1) In the VCL, 'Text' and and 'Caption' map to the same methods, and they both exis exist as protected fields in TControl. The difference is just for "clearance" of code. 2) In the VCL, you may change position values the whole much makes you happy inside OnCreate and it's ok. There's a lot of code inside TWinControl to insure all properties (that make sense) can be changed even when the window hasn't been created in the underlying GUI API. This is still holds true for most of CLX, but I really experiend lots of racy conditions in Kylix inside the intialization of controls.
These glitches aren't all Borland's faults. For instance, it seems CLX runs much, much better on Windows than on Linux.
IMHO Borland's worst move was to depend on Qt, instead of porting the VCL to a 'C' (not C++) toolkit. That f*cking glue library is the root of all problems.
I like Qt very much and it's design looks a lot like VCL's own design, but the version of Qt available at the time - which is 2.3 and is used up today! - is leaps behind the current Qt3.2. But the glue library idea doesn't seem to facilite upgrades...
Out of the technical field, Borland's change of pricing was really dumb. There _needs_ to be a basic version which costs no more than US$200; it's what moves small companies in the "accouting software" market.
(oh, and that "open" edition is a fiasco)
Last: I hope Lazarus gets "ready" someday. There've been great improvementes lately!
I have a simple answer: web page bug! Which seems to be resolved right now...
I know I'll get -1 OT for this (so I hope there isn't karma below "bad" ;) but the parent post deserves more than this '2' score - and the 'Fun' modifier unless you didn't see Balmer's videos...
Just copy the link and paste in your URL bar...