It used to be mostly an American phenomena (who did Apple bribe to get in to all those schools?). The new Apple white design thing with slick OS has made Macs a populear choice in Europe as well. This of course is happening at the same time as proprietary Windows apps loose terrain every day. As long as you don't play games most people can use whatever platform they want, be it Mac or FreeBSD or Ubuntu...
Let's take your thought a bit further; I assume wikipedia has some sort of clean interface for retrieving information. China could create a wikiproxy which would "balance" the views presented in the data it retrievs. Everyone will be happy -- the wikimedia foundation will have their principles in order and the Chinese government can provide lots of free (as in beer) censored content. A win-win situation. Never mind the chinese public...
And the patent examiners, despite what you may have heard, are pretty tough about claims like this, too.
I can agree with you that the biggest problem is not the examiners, it's their guidlines. However, the PTO is crying out for more funds, so that they can do a better job at examining applications. Well hello, maybe you wouldn't get so many freaking applications if you didn't read them while loosly holding a stamp saying "granted".
Minix was (is) an operating system designed to be used for educational purposes. In addition Tannenbaum uses it to prove his point about mikrokernels. Torvalds got the idea of making your own unix from having used minix.
While I agree with you that Gallery 2 is hardly groundbreaking, I find your bashing a bit harsh. Some people, maybe you're one of them, have a tendency to always try to find whatever is wrong with everything. To the extent that it seems like Gallery has hurt you in the past or something.
Yes, lets all just toss it away due to a few minor errors. Certainly can't learn anything from a book with a binary calculation error and a wrong link.
Interesting. I had the exact same experience at the College University I'm working at now. My first paycheck only came bacause I myself made sure all the right things where being done.
Well, RMS has always called his operating system GNU. At some point the combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel became populear and everyone called this Linux. This led to RMS saying (paraphrase): "Ok, keep calling it Linux then, but please include GNU in the name".
I don't see how this qualifies as constantly changing the name.
> You obviously never spent the better portion of > your free time using Telix to connect to single > or multi-line BBS.
Da-ah, everyone knows that the real l33t people used Terminate. Telix is for l00zers.
Seriousely though, the BBS community was great. Since in most countries local calls were cheaper than long distance calls, the BBS community in an area consisted of a fairly small number of people and you really got to know each other. This, compared to the fact that BBSes was used by a rather small percentage of the population, resultet in lots of small communities all over the world.
I see that sipX is in fact just a LGPL'ed sipxchange (pingtel corp.). sipxchange is quite possibly one of the messiest software products ever to have been created. Please look another way:)
Why would I want to do it so complicated? I can record the binary data representing your fingerprint and use that. Replay attacks have been around for ages.
I only need a physical representation of your biometric data if one assumes that the system with Analog to Digital Converters and all won't be compromised. What a silly idea. Every security system which is based on control over the equipment failes sooner or later.
They are comparing one piece of code with another piece of code. They are not saying that the two pieces of code serve the same purpose. This is common in code quality comparisons.
Also - Where on earth did you see that they compared absolute values? They are looking at numbers of bugs per line.
Why won't people ever understand that different package formats is not the problem. Packages are configured and compiled to go with the other packages for that specific version of that specific distribution. It does not help squat to have the possibility to install packages from different versions and/or distros.
As I saw in another comment further up - treat each version of each distro as a separate OS and you won't have problems. If you want to install software not packaged in your version of your distro - compile it from source and you are a happy user. Even happier once you discover that your version of your distro often has packages for the dependencies your new, source-based software have.
I don't get it (seriousely, I'm not American). Is it the fact that they're ripping a flag apart? Flagburning is not prohibited in the USA, and this can not be any worse. Or is it the fact that the borders are more open than some would want?
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It used to be mostly an American phenomena (who did Apple bribe to get in to all those schools?). The new Apple white design thing with slick OS has made Macs a populear choice in Europe as well. This of course is happening at the same time as proprietary Windows apps loose terrain every day. As long as you don't play games most people can use whatever platform they want, be it Mac or FreeBSD or Ubuntu...
Let's take your thought a bit further; I assume wikipedia has some sort of clean interface for retrieving information. China could create a wikiproxy which would "balance" the views presented in the data it retrievs. Everyone will be happy -- the wikimedia foundation will have their principles in order and the Chinese government can provide lots of free (as in beer) censored content. A win-win situation. Never mind the chinese public...
...but then it was posted on slashdot and the crowd killed my enthusiasm.
Yup, this is especially valid since Trustix has been around since the late 90's.
I can agree with you that the biggest problem is not the examiners, it's their guidlines. However, the PTO is crying out for more funds, so that they can do a better job at examining applications. Well hello, maybe you wouldn't get so many freaking applications if you didn't read them while loosly holding a stamp saying "granted".
It didn't occur to you that he might get grotesque quantities of instructions for a different architecture than he is using?
Minix was (is) an operating system designed to be used for educational purposes. In addition Tannenbaum uses it to prove his point about mikrokernels. Torvalds got the idea of making your own unix from having used minix.
Yup, I don't see why people bother with testing and training, whether it's for space missions or going to war.
Hehe, but it is, it is I tell ya.
While I agree with you that Gallery 2 is hardly groundbreaking, I find your bashing a bit harsh. Some people, maybe you're one of them, have a tendency to always try to find whatever is wrong with everything. To the extent that it seems like Gallery has hurt you in the past or something.
No no no - the _other_ foot. You were supposed to get up on the _other_ foot.
I've just finished creating the worlds first working fusion reactor, but hey, whats the fuzz - others have thought of it before me.
Hint: Look for the irony
Yes, lets all just toss it away due to a few minor errors. Certainly can't learn anything from a book with a binary calculation error and a wrong link.
Maybe because they can use it for other chips than CPUs, maybe they can sell the technology to others, maybe they have other plans...
Interesting. I had the exact same experience at the College University I'm working at now. My first paycheck only came bacause I myself made sure all the right things where being done.
Well, RMS has always called his operating system GNU. At some point the combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel became populear and everyone called this Linux. This led to RMS saying (paraphrase): "Ok, keep calling it Linux then, but please include GNU in the name". I don't see how this qualifies as constantly changing the name.
> You obviously never spent the better portion of
> your free time using Telix to connect to single
> or multi-line BBS.
Da-ah, everyone knows that the real l33t people used Terminate. Telix is for l00zers.
Seriousely though, the BBS community was great. Since in most countries local calls were cheaper than long distance calls, the BBS community in an area consisted of a fairly small number of people and you really got to know each other. This, compared to the fact that BBSes was used by a rather small percentage of the population, resultet in lots of small communities all over the world.
Hey, he has a counter on his page. Incrementing pretty fast at the moment :-)
I see that sipX is in fact just a LGPL'ed sipxchange (pingtel corp.). sipxchange is quite possibly one of the messiest software products ever to have been created. Please look another way :)
Why would I want to do it so complicated? I can record the binary data representing your fingerprint and use that. Replay attacks have been around for ages.
I only need a physical representation of your biometric data if one assumes that the system with Analog to Digital Converters and all won't be compromised. What a silly idea. Every security system which is based on control over the equipment failes sooner or later.
RTFA. Read the slashdot ingress even.
They are comparing one piece of code with another piece of code. They are not saying that the two pieces of code serve the same purpose. This is common in code quality comparisons.
Also - Where on earth did you see that they compared absolute values? They are looking at numbers of bugs per line.
And your point is that these projects came out of Linux?
Why won't people ever understand that different package formats is not the problem. Packages are configured and compiled to go with the other packages for that specific version of that specific distribution. It does not help squat to have the possibility to install packages from different versions and/or distros.
As I saw in another comment further up - treat each version of each distro as a separate OS and you won't have problems. If you want to install software not packaged in your version of your distro - compile it from source and you are a happy user. Even happier once you discover that your version of your distro often has packages for the dependencies your new, source-based software have.
Out of 762 eBay feedbacks, he's got 99,9% positive ratings.
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Here is his eBay member profile:
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All the comments are like this: "I don't know how it can be any better! Excellent,, fast, done! A++++=".
What does he do...
I don't get it (seriousely, I'm not American). Is it the fact that they're ripping a flag apart? Flagburning is not prohibited in the USA, and this can not be any worse. Or is it the fact that the borders are more open than some would want?
...and *what music*. Most - annoying - song - ever.