One thing is evident from this story: neither the Slashdot editor (Timothy), or the submitter (assuming the rubbish as not added by the editor) or most Slashdot commentators have the slightest idea what a CDN is.
They will rewrite your HTML if you pay them to do it, and you configure your site and DNS to use their services. Got that?
Citation needed: what proportion of websites that have enough volume to use a CDN use an off the shelf CMS? I know that many have heavy in-house development, or use a framework (the BBC uses Catalyst, severak newspapers use Django) which means they will control the HTML output.
and all of the major CMSs have some... sub-optimal code.
Even if you are right, only some of the HTML is generated by the CMS, most will come from your own templates.
It's inevitable in code written by volunteers around the world with no real central co-ordination and decision making
Proportion of volunteer developers on FOSS CMSs? Are people writing code because they need it for their work, or to drum up business really volunteers? Is it true that there are problems with desicion making - most projects seem to have someone, or some small group in control.
The way things are going it will soon have to be acceptable in any community at all. British standards of freedom of speech for Americans today, Saudi standards of obscenity for us all tomorrow.
Why is Dawkins bothering to debate him at all? It sounds like it gives Choudary free publicity, while giving Dawkins a chance to reinforce his own prejudices.
1) immaculate conception != virgin birth 2) why have an unnecessary and irrelevant religious reference at all? It looks like an attempt to put flamebait in the summary (again).
1) virgin birth != immaculate conception 2) why the completely unnecessary religious reference? It looks like yet another attempt to insert flamebait in the summary.
Do you realise that a lot of information that people need to do their jobs comes as PDFs? Broker's research (especially when emailed to clients), regulations for particular industries, all kinds of other stuff.
Flash is not often critical, but I am sure there are examples out there.
You are doing what is easy rather than doing it right. Have you considered installing a different PDF reader? Even different Flash players (if what your users need will work with them)? What about providing a few kiosk machines that are regularly wiped (if nothing else works)? If its going to take time to roll out solutions, have you thought about how to give priority to the people who needed it most?
It is a lot more like Wireshark than it is like most Firefox add-ons - say Tre Style Tabs or Taboo (which are my current favourites).
You woul presumably argue the that Internet Explorer is more like MS Word (because they both run on the same platofrm) than like Konqueror (because they perform the same function).
A lot of effort has gone into making Linux user friendly. I refuse to try and help friends who run Windows any more because it so damn hard to fix things, or even get things working. These days its Windows that needs config files edited or registry settings changed, while Linux (Mandriva at any rate) tends to be fairly easy to configure - for example to change the hosts file or MTU.
The last time I tried to install software on Windows, I carefully followed instruction for three different applications to do the same thing, and one of them worked. On Linux, I just opened the package manager, searched, and clicked/
The article is talking about using unicode, not a proprietary format. Do you think it likely that future text editors will be able to handle ASCII but not UTF-8?
Not really, Qt is LGPL licensed and you can switch from GPL to LGPL licensing (according to the FAQs) so the worst case is that you have to follow the LGPL as far as the Qt libraries do.
As Qt is licensed per developer, they would presumably be covered when working from home as well.
You do not have kids do you? I can assure you that the cumulative cost of a two year old, starting from the first pre-natal medical costs, including lost work and productivity, food, drink, accommodation, etc. is considerable.
Unlike computers, kids get more expensive every year, and there are laws about getting them to do useful work.
The underlying problem is that the courts are too expensive, especially for things like libel, so why not deal directly with that?
Also, when you set up a mechanism like this, it will probably be used more by the rich than the general public.
The Magna Charta says "To no one will we deny justice". That means we should all have access to the same justice, not a cheap system anyone can use, with the rich getting the option of a luxury version.
But they didn't have to be the one spending 20h+ trying to rescue what was left after 50+ different virus and adware fighting over the control of the computer. It's the same with getting their account hacked, it not their problem (they think), it's mine.
It would be there problem if you did not make it yours.
Its amazing how willing people are to volunteer free support for Windows. If they are not paying you tell them to ask MS for help.
There is a huge difference between asking people not to copy and redistribute a CD (or even a downloaded file) and asking them not to read pages on a public website.
The other thing your missing, is that objecting to DRM does not mean you are claiming that no-one will copy stuff if you remove the DRM. It is about consumer rights to backup material they have paid for, the inconvenience it causes paying customers, etc.
There are some very good text books around. Of course, the best text book may not be the one recommended, so having your text books paid for would only discourage people from looking for better alternatives. In fact its bundling in order to eliminate competition.
Yes, the article is rubbish. In fact, I think the article is a troll.
There are no hugely exciting ideas in office suites. There are some good ideas that could be more widely used, but users have shown they do not want to do anything new (e.g. using something like Lyx instead of a word processer, or not using a spreadsheet as a database or an development platform).
Other than that, office suites are boring because they are a solved problem. They all do much the same in much the same way. They might need some incremental improvements, but they do not need radical now ideas.
Now, I am in the process of replacing the hard drive in my netbook with an SSD because we _do_ regularly boot it up, run Firefox for five minutes to check something and then shut it down
Why not just put it to sleep/suspend to RAM instead of shutting down?
Slashdot Mirror
One thing is evident from this story: neither the Slashdot editor (Timothy), or the submitter (assuming the rubbish as not added by the editor) or most Slashdot commentators have the slightest idea what a CDN is.
They will rewrite your HTML if you pay them to do it, and you configure your site and DNS to use their services. Got that?
The rest of the time they are using a CMS,
Citation needed: what proportion of websites that have enough volume to use a CDN use an off the shelf CMS? I know that many have heavy in-house development, or use a framework (the BBC uses Catalyst, severak newspapers use Django) which means they will control the HTML output.
and all of the major CMSs have some ... sub-optimal code.
Even if you are right, only some of the HTML is generated by the CMS, most will come from your own templates.
It's inevitable in code written by volunteers around the world with no real central co-ordination and decision making
Proportion of volunteer developers on FOSS CMSs? Are people writing code because they need it for their work, or to drum up business really volunteers? Is it true that there are problems with desicion making - most projects seem to have someone, or some small group in control.
I don't believe it. Next you will try to tell me that Microsoft did not invent spreadsheets word-processors and windowing OSes.
Because one makes a profit, so its only fair that the profit should be shared.
Look back to the origins of copyright law: the Statue of Queen Ann was passed to give authors a cut of profits printers made from their work.
The way things are going it will soon have to be acceptable in any community at all. British standards of freedom of speech for Americans today, Saudi standards of obscenity for us all tomorrow.
Why is Dawkins bothering to debate him at all? It sounds like it gives Choudary free publicity, while giving Dawkins a chance to reinforce his own prejudices.
1) immaculate conception != virgin birth
2) why have an unnecessary and irrelevant religious reference at all? It looks like an attempt to put flamebait in the summary (again).
1) virgin birth != immaculate conception
2) why the completely unnecessary religious reference? It looks like yet another attempt to insert flamebait in the summary.
You have just illustrated why people badmouth IT.
Do you realise that a lot of information that people need to do their jobs comes as PDFs? Broker's research (especially when emailed to clients), regulations for particular industries, all kinds of other stuff.
Flash is not often critical, but I am sure there are examples out there.
You are doing what is easy rather than doing it right. Have you considered installing a different PDF reader? Even different Flash players (if what your users need will work with them)? What about providing a few kiosk machines that are regularly wiped (if nothing else works)? If its going to take time to roll out solutions, have you thought about how to give priority to the people who needed it most?
It is a lot more like Wireshark than it is like most Firefox add-ons - say Tre Style Tabs or Taboo (which are my current favourites).
You woul presumably argue the that Internet Explorer is more like MS Word (because they both run on the same platofrm) than like Konqueror (because they perform the same function).
Then you should be happy - its consistently crap.
Who is trying to keep it that way?
A lot of effort has gone into making Linux user friendly. I refuse to try and help friends who run Windows any more because it so damn hard to fix things, or even get things working. These days its Windows that needs config files edited or registry settings changed, while Linux (Mandriva at any rate) tends to be fairly easy to configure - for example to change the hosts file or MTU.
The last time I tried to install software on Windows, I carefully followed instruction for three different applications to do the same thing, and one of them worked. On Linux, I just opened the package manager, searched, and clicked/
I don't particularly like Google as a company.
Compared to Microsoft!
The article is talking about using unicode, not a proprietary format. Do you think it likely that future text editors will be able to handle ASCII but not UTF-8?
Not really, Qt is LGPL licensed and you can switch from GPL to LGPL licensing (according to the FAQs) so the worst case is that you have to follow the LGPL as far as the Qt libraries do.
As Qt is licensed per developer, they would presumably be covered when working from home as well.
You do not have kids do you? I can assure you that the cumulative cost of a two year old, starting from the first pre-natal medical costs, including lost work and productivity, food, drink, accommodation, etc. is considerable.
Unlike computers, kids get more expensive every year, and there are laws about getting them to do useful work.
The underlying problem is that the courts are too expensive, especially for things like libel, so why not deal directly with that?
Also, when you set up a mechanism like this, it will probably be used more by the rich than the general public.
The Magna Charta says "To no one will we deny justice". That means we should all have access to the same justice, not a cheap system anyone can use, with the rich getting the option of a luxury version.
But they didn't have to be the one spending 20h+ trying to rescue what was left after 50+ different virus and adware fighting over the control of the computer. It's the same with getting their account hacked, it not their problem (they think), it's mine.
It would be there problem if you did not make it yours.
Its amazing how willing people are to volunteer free support for Windows. If they are not paying you tell them to ask MS for help.
There is a huge difference between asking people not to copy and redistribute a CD (or even a downloaded file) and asking them not to read pages on a public website.
The other thing your missing, is that objecting to DRM does not mean you are claiming that no-one will copy stuff if you remove the DRM. It is about consumer rights to backup material they have paid for, the inconvenience it causes paying customers, etc.
Actually, the patent for the wheel was granted in Australia
Slot machines clearly a are a lot more important: they need to be trusted to make money.
I am not saying I endorse that view: its what is implied by the people who choose to check one more thoroughly than the other.
There are some very good text books around. Of course, the best text book may not be the one recommended, so having your text books paid for would only discourage people from looking for better alternatives. In fact its bundling in order to eliminate competition.
Yes, the article is rubbish. In fact, I think the article is a troll.
There are no hugely exciting ideas in office suites. There are some good ideas that could be more widely used, but users have shown they do not want to do anything new (e.g. using something like Lyx instead of a word processer, or not using a spreadsheet as a database or an development platform).
Other than that, office suites are boring because they are a solved problem. They all do much the same in much the same way. They might need some incremental improvements, but they do not need radical now ideas.
Now, I am in the process of replacing the hard drive in my netbook with an SSD because we _do_ regularly boot it up, run Firefox for five minutes to check something and then shut it down
Why not just put it to sleep/suspend to RAM instead of shutting down?
lower vm.swappiness
If I reduce vm.swappiness from the default 60 to 10 the problem goes away, although I am not running anything as demanding as Octave.