Well, I don't know how MS does/will/should do it, but Debian Linux doesn't do either of the options you presented.
Intead, when you say "upgrade" it tells you what it would upgrade. If you don't want to upgrade some of the things, you can freeze their version and just upgrade the other things.
Another huge differnce is that because the software is distributed freely, all sorts of applications (not just from one company) are distributed in a consistent way, and you can upgrade any number of them with a single command.
And the final huge difference is with the licensing issue you raise - it's always one of a few licenses (GPL, probably BSD too), and if a program has ugly licensing, well then it's not in Debian in the first place (and their standards on the issue are very high).
Even if this model will never work for some specialized applications with no free alternative, using it for 99% of the programs on a system simplifies your life by about 99%.
Now that XP has been "out there" for a while, does anybody have some war stories?
Does the reliance on incremental development and refactoring rather than a intricate, up-front design really work, or result in a big wad of band-aids?
Is pair programming OK, or do you sometimes get stuck with the nitpicker from hell who has to have every detail his own way?
Is close involvement with the customer good, or does it just give them daily opportunities for endless bright ideas that prevent convergence?
Guess what, Bayesian filtering IS a statistical heuristic applied to word counts.
First you count the occurrances of each word in spam and nonspam. This gives you the probability that spam contains the word, and that nonspam contains the word. Then you use Bayes' theorem to compute the reverse - the probability that, given a message contains a word, it is spam or nonspam. You take the product of this value for all words in the message. Then you normalize so the sum of probability of spam and nonspam equals 1. (This is a so-called "naive bayesian classifier". Somebody might be using a bayesian network with a more complicated structure, but it would still be based on WORD COUNTING as the first step)
Maybe you didn't get my oh-so-funny joke. I was blaming the English for the U.S. use of English units, because it began when the U.S. was an English colony.
I did a project for my master's thesis with wxWindows and liked it alot. I used the OpenGL window successfully. There were some platform incompatibility issues to iron out at times. I would use it again.
If you don't read the fine print, and agree to something, and it burns you, and you complain, you are stupid.
Whenever somebody asks for legal advice on slashdot, everybody says they're an idiot. If that's true, it's equally stupid to consent to anything without hiring a laywer to check the fine print. Which is of course impossible.
Of course the whole setup is completely unequal to begin with; companies dictate all the terms, and a person can't live without dealing with hundreds of companies. Imagine if companies had to hire lawyers to interpret the specific demands of every customer. It would never work unless they just gave it and started signing everything, like individuals have to do now.
Maybe transactions between companies and individuals should have to conform to one of a small number of standard licenses, established in law. Companies could choose which to use, but all would be created by some democratic process. I don't think this would be that bad for companies; they'd all compete by the same set of reasonable rules, instead of a race to the bottom to stay alive by screwing people over more and more.
Yeah, you can still get there by typing dejanews.com.
If they started charging for access, I'd buy a subscription and charge it to my company. I am constantly finding solutions and ideas to do my job in the usenet archive.
It's a shame and somewhat amazing that, as far as I know, there's only one usenet news archive. Maybe some secretive govt. agency has their own and just isn't sharing:)
You might have had a point if he made under a million per year.
We're supposed to believe these people are worth 7-figure salaries, plus huge windfalls now and then, plus golden parachutes, because they're so special that nobody else can do what they do. Personally, I don't see what makes some of them so special, and the worst that ever happens when they screw up is they go from crazy-rich to rich.
Okay, he made a little boo-boo and his pointless merger will cost investors quite a few billion dollars. But that's hardly cause to slap him down to Joint Strategist. What does a Join Strategist make, anyways, a few dozen million dollars per year? Yeah, I know the company is losing money, but we all make mistakes and a guy has to eat and keep the bar in his Leerjet stocked.
Maybe I can't blame them, but this stuff and the subscription requirements are the reasons I won't buy one.
You say providing what's best for the customer will drive them out of business. AFAIC they might as well already be out of business, because their money-grubbing and restrictions make them irrelevant to me.
For me, the big breakthrough was accepting that there is no real definition. Some things are definitely.net, some things are kind of related to.net. Think of words like 'liberal,' 'fair,' etc. Somebody can come up with a definition for.net, but it's likely to be inconsistent with some uses by other authoritative (MS advertising) sources.
Or just disable swap entirely. Virtual memory is an idea whose time has come and gone.
Ram is cheap enough, and the speed difference between ram and disk has grown so great that the idea of putting programs in and out of memory as they run is obsolete.
I have run my linux boxes this way for months with no ill repercussions.
Besides the confusion factor (which is large), 'e'-this and '.com'-that have gone out of style completely. Everybody is mad about their e-stocks dot-bombing, so naming things after the Internet would be dumb now.
There's no point in encrypting the data from an oss game - it's easier just to change the code.
As for man in the middle, that's easy - all the boxes are made by the same party, so just put a key in there during manufacture. Then there's no need to exchange keys subsequently.
You do have a point about CPU usage, except that Internet games have to work with so little bandwidth anyways. And an extra couple milliseconds latency (en/decrypting time) is pretty meaningless on the Internet.
Again, I'm not in favor of closed systems, but there might be a silver lining.
No. Even if the source is closed, someone will generally find a way to intercept the protocol (like the quake aimbot proxy cheats).... Stuff like that... Open source just lets everyone look over and fix vulnerabilities.
Ineresting, but I'll bet a closed box could use encryption to defeat snooping. And unfortunately cheating vulnerabilites aren't bugs that can be fixed (or in other words, with access to the source or executable they can be un-fixed.)
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Intead, when you say "upgrade" it tells you what it would upgrade. If you don't want to upgrade some of the things, you can freeze their version and just upgrade the other things.
Another huge differnce is that because the software is distributed freely, all sorts of applications (not just from one company) are distributed in a consistent way, and you can upgrade any number of them with a single command.
And the final huge difference is with the licensing issue you raise - it's always one of a few licenses (GPL, probably BSD too), and if a program has ugly licensing, well then it's not in Debian in the first place (and their standards on the issue are very high).
Even if this model will never work for some specialized applications with no free alternative, using it for 99% of the programs on a system simplifies your life by about 99%.
Interesting, thanks. You may think nobody read it becasue you posted it AC and it's scored 0, but hopefully somebody will mod it up.
Does the reliance on incremental development and refactoring rather than a intricate, up-front design really work, or result in a big wad of band-aids?
Is pair programming OK, or do you sometimes get stuck with the nitpicker from hell who has to have every detail his own way?
Is close involvement with the customer good, or does it just give them daily opportunities for endless bright ideas that prevent convergence?
Just wondering...
First you count the occurrances of each word in spam and nonspam. This gives you the probability that spam contains the word, and that nonspam contains the word. Then you use Bayes' theorem to compute the reverse - the probability that, given a message contains a word, it is spam or nonspam. You take the product of this value for all words in the message. Then you normalize so the sum of probability of spam and nonspam equals 1. (This is a so-called "naive bayesian classifier". Somebody might be using a bayesian network with a more complicated structure, but it would still be based on WORD COUNTING as the first step)
Why did they have to make the Hulk a cartoon character in a live-action movie? They should have found a new Lou Ferigno instead.
Maybe you didn't get my oh-so-funny joke. I was blaming the English for the U.S. use of English units, because it began when the U.S. was an English colony.
Hey, it's your crappy system, next time you spin off a colony get your units right first.
is a piece of string?
Sounds like a translation into Korean and back, no?
Surely this modded X-Box will be over $200? There's the price of the chip, the labor to install it, and shipping from Australia.
I did a project for my master's thesis with wxWindows and liked it alot. I used the OpenGL window successfully. There were some platform incompatibility issues to iron out at times. I would use it again.
Would somebody please point me to a program with a *nice* UI made with Java Swing? Not a toy, but a news reader or something?
Then again, what percentage of customers will even bother to participate in the recall?
Of course the whole setup is completely unequal to begin with; companies dictate all the terms, and a person can't live without dealing with hundreds of companies. Imagine if companies had to hire lawyers to interpret the specific demands of every customer. It would never work unless they just gave it and started signing everything, like individuals have to do now.
Maybe transactions between companies and individuals should have to conform to one of a small number of standard licenses, established in law. Companies could choose which to use, but all would be created by some democratic process. I don't think this would be that bad for companies; they'd all compete by the same set of reasonable rules, instead of a race to the bottom to stay alive by screwing people over more and more.
If they started charging for access, I'd buy a subscription and charge it to my company. I am constantly finding solutions and ideas to do my job in the usenet archive.
It's a shame and somewhat amazing that, as far as I know, there's only one usenet news archive. Maybe some secretive govt. agency has their own and just isn't sharing :)
We're supposed to believe these people are worth 7-figure salaries, plus huge windfalls now and then, plus golden parachutes, because they're so special that nobody else can do what they do. Personally, I don't see what makes some of them so special, and the worst that ever happens when they screw up is they go from crazy-rich to rich.
Okay, he made a little boo-boo and his pointless merger will cost investors quite a few billion dollars. But that's hardly cause to slap him down to Joint Strategist. What does a Join Strategist make, anyways, a few dozen million dollars per year? Yeah, I know the company is losing money, but we all make mistakes and a guy has to eat and keep the bar in his Leerjet stocked.
You say providing what's best for the customer will drive them out of business. AFAIC they might as well already be out of business, because their money-grubbing and restrictions make them irrelevant to me.
For me, the big breakthrough was accepting that there is no real definition. Some things are definitely .net, some things are kind of related to .net. Think of words like 'liberal,' 'fair,' etc. Somebody can come up with a definition for .net, but it's likely to be inconsistent with some uses by other authoritative (MS advertising) sources.
Ram is cheap enough, and the speed difference between ram and disk has grown so great that the idea of putting programs in and out of memory as they run is obsolete.
I have run my linux boxes this way for months with no ill repercussions.
Besides the confusion factor (which is large), 'e'-this and '.com'-that have gone out of style completely. Everybody is mad about their e-stocks dot-bombing, so naming things after the Internet would be dumb now.
That's what I wanted to say. Drag racing is largely an *engineering* sport, and what's wrong with that?
As for man in the middle, that's easy - all the boxes are made by the same party, so just put a key in there during manufacture. Then there's no need to exchange keys subsequently.
You do have a point about CPU usage, except that Internet games have to work with so little bandwidth anyways. And an extra couple milliseconds latency (en/decrypting time) is pretty meaningless on the Internet.
Again, I'm not in favor of closed systems, but there might be a silver lining.